The Real Indiana Jones Was Good Will Hunting Meets Jurassic Park

Softcore History

Comedy, History, Improv

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Roy Chapman Andrews, the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones, led a series of expeditions to the Gobi Desert in China and famously first discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs. Andrews also died almost a dozen times while fighting off bandits, a horde of poisonous snakes, and a boat-hating whale.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.RSVP knowing you’ve got the perfect look all wedding season long from Indochino. Go to Indochino.com and use code SOFTCORE to get 10% off any purchase of $399 or more.1stphorm.com/softcorehistory Free shipping on all orders over $75 when you use the link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:07.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History. I'm your host for the week to Amber Jester and I am joined as always by Rob Fox and Jake
0:13.5	Goldman what's up boys. Hello I'm back baby nice and tan yeah I was in a sunny
0:19.7	place I was in the keys this place this is a sunny place. This place is it's fun going from like
0:25.6	98 heat index 104 in the keys with like 100% humidity. Yeah. Heat index 108 almost no humidity it's I just want to kill myself
0:37.0	and just like being inside of a toast rub and it's fucking between your tan your facial hair
0:42.0	currently with the mustache. Yeah and your outfit you kind of look like Ron McGill
0:47.4	He's that again the Miami Zoo guy. I do you are all khaki with the ten You do look like you work at a fucking zoo right now. So subscribe to us on YouTube.
0:57.0	Actually, that was totally intentional. I kind of love the like Park Ranger zoo. It's a great look. Yeah, that's the best uniform. It's it's so laid back feeling. It's all like light and airy invented to for heat.
1:09.6	I mean if you know. Crocodile Hunter. Yeah, no I was just from the land of they have crocodiles in the keys too by the way
1:15.9	salt water crocks yeah this is the deadliest ones and North American crocodiles
1:19.6	these are actually a little bit more docile though okay Because they're not like South American crocodiles.
1:24.1	They're in Mexico, saltwater crocks.
1:26.0	Those are the ones that, and in Central America,
1:27.7	those are the ones that will rip you to fucking shreds.
1:31.3	Like an alligator will kill you by dragging you under
1:34.9	and maybe eat like your hand or something like that.
1:37.0	A saltwater crock will rip you limb from a fucking limb.
1:40.7	They are the ones you don't want to deal.
1:42.2	There was like a story of some kid in Guatemala who was just playing in a river. He was doomed from that start. Yep, yeah. And the
1:47.5	The crock, born in Guatemala, yeah. The crock just popped up, bit his head, rolled, ripped his head right off in front of his parents, and
1:57.0	Holy shit. Yeah, nice. It was, I mean, it was like a C-Nod-Dry spark. Actually, Saltwater Crocks were the ones from the Japanese episode I did
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