498: The Secrets of the Twelve Tribes Cult
True Crime Obsessed
True Crime Obsessed
4.2 • 35.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
TICK TOCK IT'S CULT O'CLOCK!! Are you looking for to join a secretive group that makes you give up all your worldly possessions, works you like a freaking dog for absolutely no money, doesn't let you go to the hospital when you're sick AND DYING, and encourages you to physically abuse your children in truly evil ways? WELL HAVE WE GOT THE CULT FOR YOU!! Welcome to the Twelve Tribes, a "religious group for those who hate religion!" Apparently, if you love The Grateful Dead, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THIS CULT. Come get crazy with us as we LITERALLY LOSE OUR MINDS over this one!
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| 0:00.0 | This one's a tough one. Yeah, it sure is. It sure is. Remember, like, last week or whenever we did the last people magazine investigators? I'm like, I love the series. Can we do more? I know. And then I, like, sobbed into my Cheerios all morning watching this one. I do remember that. Yeah, this was not the easiest episode we've done. It was not. It was not. Hi, Julian Betivale. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, join the Facebook group, please. We've been asking you for nine years. If it's like taking you this long to sort of be like, should I or shouldn't I? I'm going to go ahead and say, please do it. And if you've already said no, sorry for asking again. You know what? We're going to keep asking, though. That's just the price of doing business. But there's like almost 60,000 people in the group, like make friends, talk about the episodes, talk about your dogs. Go find like safe community on the internet. We've got a moderator named Sosh. You make sure the rules are followed and everybody is really nice. It's a really safe place to like go and check in once a day or whatever. Yeah. You can also do that on our Discord server. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | The Discord, |
| 0:56.6 | tell them how that works again. |
| 0:57.8 | It's a server and it has a bunch of channels and everyone's really nice and we just like talk and hang out and you can talk about the episodes or you can talk about other things. Like everything has a specific channel. It's a little more organized, I guess. I was going to say, it's like the more organized version of the Facebook group, which is why it doesn't work for it. |
| 1:10.3 | I need chaos. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, no. |
| 1:11.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:12.3 | No, Discord is not like that. |
| 1:13.5 | No, it's like the more organized version of the Facebook group, which is why it doesn't work for... I need chaos. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, no. |
| 1:11.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:12.3 | No, Discord is not like that. |
| 1:13.4 | No, it's very, very organized. |
| 1:16.3 | Girl, tell them what we're talking about today. So this is called The Secrets of the Twelve Tribes cult. It's on HBO Max and Discovery Plus. |
| 1:22.8 | And at the very top, we get the on-screen text saying that this episode involves disturbing allegations of abuse against children. |
| 1:27.4 | Viewer discretion is advised could not agree more. |
| 1:29.9 | I'm going to also say disturbing. top we get the on-screen text saying that this episode involves disturbing allegations of abuse against children. Viewer discretion as advised could not agree more. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm going to also say disturbing descriptions of abuse against children. |
| 1:33.9 | So take care when watching. This is not one for like in the car with the kids. |
| 1:37.4 | No. |
| 1:38.5 | We went from zero to 60. We just started wailing away on the kids. |
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