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Softcore History

Modern History's First Great Sex Cult

Softcore History

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.91.2K 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

Transcript

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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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