18: Episode 18: Don't Drink The Kool Aid

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we're breaking down the enormous tragedy that was Jonestown. Jim Jones founded the People's Temple in 1954 and after quickly gaining a large following, promised members they would start their very own socialist utopia in South America. What should have been a paradise turned into a living hell when Jim Jones descended quickly into a drug fueled paranoia. Members soon realized leaving Jonestown wasn't an option and what Jim Jones described as a revolutionary suicide, was actually a mass murder.

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0:00.0	I'm Alex and this is not today. We did it. We got our microphones working. Oh we're recording. We are
0:27.0	our microphones working. Oh we're recording. Amazing. We are live. We're live and it took us a damn in it because half an hour.
0:36.0	Oh my God it took so long because my microphone didn't want to work.
0:40.0	We tried all the things unplugging,ging it back in turning it off turning back on
0:43.8	restarting it praying flipping every switch on the last one oh my god it's fine we're
0:50.0	here you know what the problem was? It was plugged into the wrong
0:53.1	wrong port. Different ports.
0:56.9	Anyway, we're here and everything's good and fine and dandy. You know what I mean?
1:00.8	Dandy. Yes, sure.
1:02.3	Yep. Are you excited for the story this week? You know what I mean? Dandy. Yes, sure.
1:02.5	Yep.
1:03.5	Are you excited for the story this week?
1:05.0	Yeah, um, yeah, I, uh, you've spent a lot of time researching it and I kind of know
1:15.0	the gist, but I don't really know any of the details. Yeah, I'm excited to learn.
1:16.3	Yeah, I mean it's a really well known story and I did spend a lot of time researching but also like
1:21.7	there's so much,'s insane so it is it's Jonestown we're
1:27.0	talking about Jonestown yeah and it's it's a it's a nut it's nuts you know it is nuts and you put the way you put it like put it in a perspective for me like it was the biggest
1:40.4	excuse me it was the biggest, uh, not like artificial mass death
1:49.7	uh, before 9 11. Yeah, something like, what, how did you say? Yeah, I mean, that's exactly right. It's just, it was the biggest, you know, mass killing that wasn't due to natural causes before 9-11. It was huge. It was a really big number of people that died and we're going to talk about it because it's crazy, but there were a few survivors.
2:07.0	So, okay. Yeah, I mean obviously. Right, right? We're talking about it. Some people survived. For sure, yeah.
2:13.5	But what would, like I'm just thinking,
2:15.3	like what is a non-artificial mass death,
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