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The Invincible Cowboy Mercenary Oil Baron

Softcore History

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Fredrick Russell Burnham experienced one of the most insane and eventful lives in all of human history. From tracking Geronimo and getting into family feuds in the Wild West to fighting in multiple wars in South Africa and stopping an American President from getting assasinated, Burnham was a decorated hero who sought out adventure and eventually found good fortune for his trouble.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Rob Foxhttps://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regesterhttps://www.instagram.com/danregester/ https://twitter.com/dan_regester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are now listening to Softcore History.

0:15.5

Hello and welcome in to SoftCore History.

0:19.5

I'm your host for the week, Damidgester joined as always by Rob Fox.

0:23.8

Thanks for having me back. Thanks for me back. It's your show. Been a while. Yeah. It's nice that

0:29.6

you've slid in and decided to, you know, take up hosting duties. I'm more like a behind the scenes

0:35.1

kind of guy. Yeah. Well, literally. You are the behind

0:37.9

the scenes guy. I do all of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So me actually talking on the podcast, it's additional.

0:43.9

It's a bonus, yeah. And I'm proud of you. I wrote it an episode, but you're more than capable

0:50.4

to handle it yourself. Yeah, I got it uh let's get it going we have no guess

0:55.0

this week no yeah so no one to introduce you to man show just a boys boys date boys night

1:00.6

i missed you it's fine no i'm uh it's been a couple days yeah this is gonna be a big week for me

1:06.1

the kids and wife are going out of town i'm just just going to fucking do nothing. It's going to be. Bachelor Rob? Glorious. Michael get drunk at the Mexican restaurant across the highway from my house. I like that. Walk there? It's a real shithole. Get smoked on the way back? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll drive. I would rather risk a DUI than getting hit by an 18-wheeler. Just trying to run across like six lanes? Yeah, fuck that. It's, it's, yeah, it's like five lanes and it's, it's, there's no way. In the middle of the night, no fucking way. He died doing what he loved, playing Frogger drunk. Yeah, I don't love doing that at all. I actually have a friend. I have a attorney brother who was literally hit by an 18 wheeler. He survived? He did. He was walking on the side of the highway, trying to get to white. Oh, so he got clipped? Like a mirror? No, it, he got hit. It's apparent, according to the police, it threw him like a hundred feet.

2:02.9

Did he stick to land in?

2:07.4

Apparently because it had been raining that night and the grass was wet, that... Softened the blow.

2:08.4

Yes. And I was like, where he got hit didn't make any sense because it was like no one in

2:13.4

their right mind at Mizzou would be walking there except for one reason and it was really weird

2:18.7

I was like how drunk were you and he's like I don't remember anything like from like 8 p.m. on and I was

2:23.9

like we and this is like three in the morning he's like yeah I was like were you this is how people

2:29.9

fall into the river in Austin were you walking to White Castle Because White Castle is like in the fucking hood in Columbia.

2:37.0

And he was like, I think so.

2:39.7

Sometimes it just calls to you.

2:41.1

On the side of the highway.

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