The Sword Wielding Lunatic Of WWII

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jack Churchill was an eccentric British Army officer who brought a Scottish broadsword, long bow, and set of bagpipes onto the front lines of World War II. He led Commando missions taking entire towns and escaped from SS concentration camps...twice. Alex Buscemi joins the show to talk about this mad lad.

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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:14.8	Welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:16.7	I'm your host for the week.
0:17.5	Dan Register joined, as always, with Rob Fox.
0:19.7	Hello.
0:20.8	And very special
0:22.5	returning guest, Alex Bouchemi, aka Bouch. Cheers. Straight from the pool. Yeah, I completely forgot
0:30.4	about this thing. And I was drinking at a pool. This is a Sunday. It's Memorial Day.
0:35.4	Memorial. Well, tomorrow's Memorial Day, right? Yeah, but this is
0:38.1	Memorial Day weekend, yeah. And so I was Trigger at the pool and completely forgot. And then
0:42.8	I had to get an Uber here because I'm sufficiently buzzed. That's what I like to hear. Keep it
0:48.9	coming. Yeah. So if I'm not making any sense or I don't follow a story at all,
0:54.0	buddy, that's what they want from you.
0:55.9	I hope so.
0:56.8	That's what they, that's what they came to listen to.
0:59.9	Was.
1:00.1	One of our more successful episodes is when I got hammered for a thousandth review.
1:06.1	And I didn't make it through.
1:07.8	No.
1:08.8	You had to like go throw up?
1:11.1	No. I think I got hiccups, though. No. You had to go throw up? No.
1:11.8	I think I got hiccups, though.
	...

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