The King Of Louisiana

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Huey Long was one of the most radical and powerful politicians in American history. Between his time as both the governor of Louisiana and senator he completely steamrolled his enemies and changed the state entirely during the Great Depression.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. Download thePrizePicks app today and use code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! That’s code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! PrizePicks. It’s good to be right.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.
0:14.9	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:18.9	I'm your host for the week.
0:19.8	Damage Esther, joined as always by Robert Fox.
0:22.1	What's going on?
0:23.7	We are a little worse for the wear.
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.5	Yeah.
0:27.5	Me, I'm more so,
0:28.4	I think I'm more so from illness than from hangover
0:32.3	because I had pumped my stomach full of meat
0:34.6	before I went out drinking.
0:36.3	Although,
0:36.6	tough way to open up the
0:37.8	episode with the local events. Uh, yeah, we were not out drinking at Buford's. Uh, so don't worry
0:45.1	about that. We went south. You way south, yeah. So, yeah, thoughts with everybody that was affected
0:50.7	at Buford's. I've been there so many times. A lot.
0:54.5	It's like a huge sports bar.
0:56.2	Beauforts and in its previous iteration, steampunk.
0:59.7	Yeah.
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:01.2	I've been to that bar a bunch of times.
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