The Ugly Duckling Had a Trash Personality

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Never meet your heroes? How about never try to be friends with your fans. Charles Dickens found this out the hardest way possible when he let his fanboy and fellow famous author Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling) stay at his house for what was supposed to be a two-week visit. Five weeks later the Danish fairy tale author had exhausted the Dickens family with his aggressively socially awkward personality and bizarre Danish customs.

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0:37.0	This week on Softcore History, we're talking about a famous feud absolutely no one has ever
0:43.2	heard of.
0:44.5	Victorian era authors Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Anderson met randomly at a party in the
0:50.5	1840s and had a friendship that lasted over a decade, despite only one of them
0:56.7	wanting to be a part of it. All of this culminated in the worst five weeks of Charles Dickens'
1:04.0	life when Hans Christian Anderson came to visit him in England. This is the story of how one celebrity pissed off another celebrity in the 1800s to no end.
1:21.0	Welcome to Softcore History.
1:25.2	What is up?
1:26.8	Welcome back to Softcore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, and I'm
1:32.1	feeling great, feeling excited. Joined as always by Dan Regester. I'm feeling hot. Feeling hot. Is it the
1:38.6	lights? Could be the lights, but it could also be me coming off the couch rolling on 191 after 10 years of not bowling
1:45.7	oh boy no big deal we'll save that for the patreon the the the the civilians don't want to hear
1:51.7	this shit that's an athlete right there yeah yeah 200 is perfect 300 300 oh but i fucked up on the
1:59.4	that's not that impressive i fucked up on the ninth friend still bow's not that impressive. I fucked up on the ninth frame.
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