Modern History's First Great Sex Cult

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Agapemonites were a Victorian religious cult that checked all the boxes. A leader who thought he was God and also immortal and needed multiple wives? Check, check, and check. A way to separate idiots from their money and possessions? Check. A creepy compound with high walls? Check. But even for a relatively early modern cult Henry Prince and his followers found some fun (see: horrible) ways to make their mark on the history of cults.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.Go to GhostBed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 50% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, Pillows & More) –plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in America.Head to FACTORMEALS.com/softcore50 and use code softcore50 to get 50% off. Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/https://twitter.com/RobFoxThreehttps://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/https://twitter.com/dan_regester Jake Goldman https://www.instagram.com/jakewgoldman/https://twitter.com/JakeWGoldman 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	What is up?
0:09.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:10.8	I am your host for the week, Rob Fox. I'm joined as always by Dan Regester and
0:17.0	Jake Goldman. How we doing guys?
0:19.0	Oh, it's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day to be alive Rob day. It's daytime. Yeah. I
0:25.0	Bradley see you guys when the sun's up anymore. It's gonna be the first show we've done in a long time where Rob sober.
0:31.2	I don't feel great about it. I have a little hung over.
0:34.4	I'm a little hung over too actually. So there is that. Are you a little afraid
0:38.4	you're not going to quite bring it as you typically do? Yeah that's what I'm worried
0:42.0	about that. I don't really know how to be on a podcast unless I'm like two beers deep.
0:47.1	Drinking is your crutch.
0:48.8	It's more than that.
0:50.8	It's called an addiction.
0:51.8	Yeah. It's not funny addiction. Yeah.
0:53.0	It's not funny.
0:54.0	A crutch helps you stand.
0:56.0	The drinking is like the foundation.
0:58.0	It's the concrete slab of Rob's career. I sit on a throne of empty bottles.
1:04.8	Like a wizard. It's got a staff. Like a iron throne with just shitty beer bottles.
1:11.5	The keystone throne? Yeah, yeah. No, you're just at Wrigleyville stacking cup. with just
1:13.6	that wiggly-ville stacking cups sliding through urinal troughs
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