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Lights Out

126: Shoko Asahara: Japan’s Deadliest Cult Aum Shinrikyo & The 1995 Tokyo Gas Attacks

Lights Out

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, News, History

4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Writer/Producer: Austin
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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Lights Out Podcast.

0:18.1

I'm your host Josh and today I'm going to be covering what I believe to be one of the

0:22.9

most dangerous cults to ever exist, the Deadly Om Shinricio Cult, as well as the 1995 Tokyo

0:32.9

Seren gas attacks.

0:36.4

If you're wondering what Om Shinricio stands for, it basically means religion of truth

0:43.4

or supreme truth.

0:45.4

And to be quite honest, this cult was perhaps one of the most ambitious cults of all time.

0:52.4

Om Shinricio's main goal was to end the world as we know it.

0:57.8

And the man leading this Deadly Cult is none other than their blind and charismatic leader,

1:04.3

Shoko Asahara, who actually came from humble beginnings, but then rose to become one of

1:11.8

the worst domestic terrorists that Japan has ever seen.

1:17.8

And before we get into today's episode, I quickly wanted to thank everybody for the feedback

1:23.2

on last week's episode with my new co-host, improducer Austin.

1:30.8

Thank you all so much for all the kind words and welcoming him to the show and better yet.

1:36.4

Telling me that you actually like hearing his voice because I was very, very picky about

1:41.2

who I was going to bring onto the show.

1:44.0

And I want to make sure that whoever it was really matched the vibe and really played

1:51.0

well with my voice.

1:53.7

So I'm very happy that you guys enjoyed him so much.

1:57.0

Unfortunately, he will not be joining me full time until the new year, as he has to move

2:03.6

from Michigan to Colorado.

2:06.1

And so there's a bit of a process there with that.

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