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It features children in distress. It's from a historical event. It's real audio. I tried to be respectful of not just the people featured in that audio, but listeners who might not want to hear that, but it's in here.

And I know it bothered me,

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Down into the middle of the party's The cool, we're the cool, we're up the bad. They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart oh, you know.

Oh, and the me.

And the game.

Oh, The world, the kingdom's toughest violence and the violence shall take it by force.

If we can't live in peace, we have been so terribly betrayed.

We have been so terribly betrayed.

But we tried and as Jack Beam often said, I don't know where he said right this moment. Where's Jack? He said, if it's only worked one day, it was worthwhile. Oh, 40 minutes. 40 minutes after recording that, the man speaking, Jim Jones and the people applauding his followers who called

themselves the People's Temple would all be dead. The audio comes from a cassette tape recovered afterward by the FBI.

See Jim Jones recorded his sermons, and because he did, we have a record of the conversation and deliberation that took place before the people having that conversation and engaging in that deliberation came to a group consensus that nine hundred and nine people about 300 of them children would do as

Jim Johns had asked them to do. Together force all their children to drink grape, flavor aid, poisoned with sedatives and cyanide.

And then, as a group, pour another cup, and drink it themselves. Mother, mother, mother, mother, please.

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