The Meanest Mormon in History

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Porter Rockwell was many things. A man with three wives and twenty-one children, a lawman, and one of the OG Mormons. But above all he was the early Mormon church’s muscle. Their enforcer. And he had no compunction about killing for church leaders like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.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. 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.
0:14.2	What is up? Welcome back to SoftCore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan Regester. If you're hearing
0:22.4	this right now, we could be dead. We don't know. We have no idea. We're recording this early,
0:28.5	Storm of the Century coming in. I'm going to schedule it for its normal release time.
0:35.4	And who knows? Yeah. Now if you're a new listener, you might be thinking yourself, oh, do they live in Chicago or something
0:42.6	like that?
0:43.1	Where the storm's really bad?
0:46.1	No.
0:47.1	Well, the storm's actually not hit in Chicago.
0:49.5	But those cold is, I guess, yeah.
0:51.6	The cold doesn't matter there.
0:53.0	It's getting bad.
0:53.7	It's getting a tree exploding cold.
0:55.1	We're getting less than an inch of ice.
0:59.4	So the entire state will shut down.
1:02.3	Of Texas.
1:03.3	The power will go out.
1:04.6	Yep.
1:05.7	It'll break into chaos, anarchy.
1:08.4	And everyone will have to fend for themselves.
1:10.1	The Thunderdome is coming over the temperature briefly dropping below.
1:15.7	Below freezing.
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