The Original "No Kings" Protest

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The French Revolution in 1789 is often regarded as a watershed moment in world history with the violent removal of King Louis XVI and his family from power. Despite its romantic portrayal, this was one of the ugliest and most savage revolts that was covered by blood and feces wall-to-wall. We breakdown what caused the events to set in motion and end with Louis and Marie Antoinette's unpleasant fate. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history 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.
0:13.8	Welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:15.3	I'm your host for the week.
0:16.1	Dan Register joined, as always, but Rob Fox.
0:18.4	How's it going?
0:19.2	Happy Father's Day to me as a dog dad.
0:25.0	As we record this, drops a day later, but I just want to congratulate myself on being a father.
0:30.3	Right, right, right, right. Anything new with you? No. Okay. Same old, same old. Good. I have to rely on you today heavily.
0:38.1	Okay.
0:38.4	I need your Les Miz.
0:40.2	Oh, perfect.
0:41.8	Because today we're talking about the French Revolution.
0:44.9	Okay.
0:45.2	Well, that happened during a different time, but I don't care.
0:47.6	I don't even know what Le Miz is.
0:51.2	Le Miz took place during a smaller revolution in the 1840s in France.
0:55.3	Cool.
0:56.1	I am not going to defend myself for that.
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:58.3	Nor should do.
0:59.0	I don't want to know what Le Miz is in detail.
1:03.3	Like, I just want to know that it exists.
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