You Expect Me To Fly This Elevator?

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The Elevator Operator Strike of 1945 was spurred by a desire for higher wages and better treatment after the end of World War 2. So, naturally, the building owners just switched to automatic elevators. But that wasn’t easy either, it turned out, because everyday people were terrified of operating an elevator without any training. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:11.0	I am your host Rob Fox and I am joined as always by I'll start with Jake. Hey what's
0:18.6	up man not much good to see you I like your reptile print shirt. Yes it is a Florida Gator shirt. It's an old school Steve Spurrier throwback. So I got it for game day I would have preferred the actual
0:35.4	reptile print from your uniforms like two or three years the A&M game in 2017
0:39.8	is that what it was yeah no those were god-awful Joe and one of those actually he got one of those right when they came out why
0:45.1	wouldn't you they're the worst you know they're so bad that they'll one day be like a
0:49.6	dope throwback to it like people will be like it'll be like so gross that people want it if we would have won that game if we would have won that game
0:58.3	against Texas A&M people would have been clamoring for us to wear it every every
1:02.5	fucking game.
1:03.5	Oh did you lose? We lost in it. Yeah we lost in the uniform. I just remember the
1:05.9	uniform. Yeah. But yeah, no. I am wearing this pillow. I'm also wearing it
1:10.7	because I am a supporter of the Draco reptilian overlords.
1:14.7	I'm trying to signal to them.
1:16.0	Yeah, we're talking about Reptile Overlords before they all live under the Denver
1:19.4	Airport or something like that.
1:20.6	Oh, well, yeah, of one of many places. I mean, obviously you have the
1:24.6	lost continent of Lameuria between Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
1:30.0	Yes. Draco reptilions ran that.
1:32.0	For anyone that needs to know more about Draco reptilions, check out the documentary Above Majestic.
1:37.0	I tried to make Dan watch it.
1:39.0	Dan across from me.
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