The Media Has Always Sucked With Guest Producer Jack Mandaville

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Everyone hates the modern media, but when did the modern American media actually form? The invention of cable news? The Yellow Journalism of the late 19th Century? The answer is much older, and it’s all Mexico’s fault. (Sort of. Not really at all, actually.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Softcore History.
0:08.0	What is up?
0:09.0	Welcome back to Softcore History.
0:10.0	I am your host for the week, Rob Fox. I'm sitting here with three white claws in front of me at 11 a.m. on a Saturday
0:17.5	we usually record on a Monday but I will be in Hawaii early this week for a wedding. So yeah, we're doing it on a
0:26.0	fucking Saturday morning and Dan's upset about it. Dan's mad. I won't talk
0:31.8	about it. Yeah, won't even say anything.
0:34.0	It took him that long to even decide that he didn't want to talk about it.
0:37.0	All the hate and visceral is just there and just kind of
0:40.0	boozed out of him, like, I don't want to talk about it.
0:42.0	I'm sorry, I'm going to the tropical island to go to a wedding of one of my best friends
0:45.7	and I want to miss like a good chunk of work.
0:49.0	It's too get paid for it.
0:50.4	It was crazy.
0:51.2	I don't even know we could take off you didn't know we had
0:53.7	vacation days we don't we do and we don't we don't they don't like it no but
1:00.7	whatever it's three day I don't go anywhere any other time. Like I literally this is my only
1:06.3	Midweek trip until probably Christmas again.
1:09.8	Whoa to be fair. I am taking off next Friday.
1:12.5	Where are you going?
1:13.3	I'm going to sleep tap.
1:14.5	Or I'm starting my sleep time.
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