This Is Sparta!

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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King Xerxes launched a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC to avenge his father's failures a decade before. The massive Persian army of over 100,000 men was met by Leonidas and his force of 300 Spartans (and roughly 7,000 other soldiers) at a pass in Thermopylae. This three day stand turned the Spartans into martyrs and a rallying cry for the Greek city states. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Download thePrizePicks app today and use code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! That’s code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! PrizePicks. It’s good to be right.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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Softcore History.
0:17.5	I'm your host of the week, Damagesester, joined as always by Robert Fox.
0:20.7	What is going on?
0:22.9	Hey, what's up, man? Not much, not much. It's at the end of a long-ass weekend.
0:28.5	Have to keep you in check. Your mom told me to. She told you to make me stop saying the F word so many
0:36.3	times. In order to get an extra listener, aka your mom, you got to stop cursing.
0:41.2	I got to stop cursing so much because she's old and she listened to one episode of the
0:46.9	podcast and now it just plays.
0:49.1	She was not old.
0:49.8	How dare you?
0:51.3	She's a wonderful young lady.
0:53.3	She mentally, I want to be that sharp at 70.
0:56.1	Would you even guess she was in her 70s? No, not at all. Yeah. It's incredible. Now, my dad is
1:01.0	three years older and you would be like, oh, he's 80. He's crumbling. That's sad generation,
1:07.2	though. Yeah. That's what smoking a cigar a day for 50 years will get you.
1:12.5	My dad didn't even smoke. Still had to get a lung removed. Yeah, but he was, his job was to
1:17.3	inhale chemicals for a little bit. Yeah. Breathing in all the camps. Yeah. Yeah. So really our dad's
1:22.4	aged the same way. While he dumped in the fluoride to our water. Yeah. To numb our brains.
1:27.3	He kept our teeth strong, but at what cost?
1:29.6	At what cost?
1:31.6	Today's a fun episode, though.
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