The Spy Who Shagged BP

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Moe Berg was a defense-first journeyman catcher for the Dodgers, White Sox, Indians, and Red Sox who faced the likes of Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. He also had multiple Ivy League degrees and was such a trusted spy for the OSS during World War II that FDR personally sent him on missions. But above all, he was kind of a weird guy.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this and sports shows on the higher tier.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.
0:14.7	What is up?
0:15.8	Welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:17.3	I am your host for the week.
0:18.6	Rob Fox joined, as always, by Dan Regester. It is that weird
0:22.7	in-between time, Christmas, New Year's. Nobody knows what day it is. Nobody knows what they're
0:30.1	supposed to be doing. It's the best time of the year. Oh, it's great. I aspire to live my
0:35.0	entire life like that. You're in the in-between.
0:38.2	This is purgatory in real life.
0:40.3	It's wonderful.
0:41.6	It's magical.
0:41.9	Nobody's really working.
0:43.0	It's what I imagine like a celebrity schedule is like.
0:46.6	Or unemployed.
0:48.0	Well, yeah, either.
0:48.7	I've been living this for six months now.
0:50.4	I chose the glass half full example, but yeah, I guess either way. My life doesn't
0:55.8	change much. This is what I go through every day. It's just like, it's like the taking a dump
1:02.7	part of the year where it's like if I'm on the toilet, no one can bother me. So you're just
1:07.2	scrolling your phone for a week on the toilet. Yeah. That's a good representation of what this is.
1:12.1	And it's, I love it.
1:13.9	It's my favorite part of the year by far.
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