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🗓️ 11 November 2025
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In 1920s Los Angelos Mother May Otis Blackburn and her daughter Ruth Wiland Rizzio headed a cult that promised understandid, salvaion and so much hidden treasure, but the devout wouldn't be showered with riches and gold, instead they would live a life of secrecy, forced marriages, rituals and baking people in an oven.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast, that's not your history class, |
| 0:14.8 | with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and Reader of Books. |
| 0:21.0 | And at my show in London on Saturday night, I forgot, I forgot that. |
| 0:28.6 | I do this every week, sometimes twice a week depending on how much I'm recording. |
| 0:33.8 | But I forgot the whole bit after Delicious Friends. because I was like, hello delicious friends. |
| 0:41.8 | And then I was like, oh, if you don't know me, that's going to sound like a weird thing to say. |
| 0:48.2 | And so I was like, oh, in the beginning of my podcast, I say this thing. |
| 0:51.6 | And then I could not remember the light. |
| 0:56.8 | Like what? In my defense, I say this thing. And then I could not remember the light. Like what? In my defence, |
| 1:05.0 | I was very tired. It was, it was a calamity of errors, but I had been to an awards, a business awards event the night before. We didn't win, but I was there the night before and I left about 2 o'clock in the morning |
| 1:12.6 | and then I had to leave at like 7 for my flight and then my bus broke down and then my flight |
| 1:23.4 | I had to change my flights because my bus I had to had to change buses. And then when I got to London, |
| 1:28.0 | the, like the pod thing and the airport wasn't working, so I had to take the shuttle bus, |
| 1:32.9 | which then made it even later. And then when I was on the tube, the tube got diverted and I had to |
| 1:39.0 | change tubes. It was just one thing after another. But yeah, it was a very busy weekend and I had a great time in London and if the other palace would like to have me back ever, I would love to come back and be there. It was such a fun time. It was such a good show and I'd love to come back because I'd, it was like such a good atmosphere and everyone was so |
| 2:04.0 | lovely. |
| 2:04.6 | And at one point, I'm talking to women about whims. |
| 2:06.7 | It was a really, really good time. |
| 2:08.9 | But I know what you're thinking. |
| 2:10.2 | You're thinking, Katie, quit your jabber jabber in fact me. |
| 2:14.8 | In fact you, I will. |
| 2:16.1 | But first, we've got to get our source on. |
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