Hey everyone, welcome to Paint Shade with Erin Martin, the podcast where we talk about reality

TV and we get a little bit culty. Well, I am going to get a lot bit culty today because

I have Michelle Likowski from the Jenny McCarthy show and the great fantastic, wonderful podcast,

never tell your stories, which she just started recently. I have her with me to talk about

Jonestown and American Tragedy. It was a short documentary or it was a short date line episode

actually that was on in mid-July and I've linked it up to the Facebook page but if you search

Jonestown and American Tragedy you can find it linked up pretty much everywhere and you can

watch it from any device. You don't need to go to your TV to find it on demand. Daintlined it a

really, really interesting job of covering the Jonestown tragedy in a new and interesting way.

Now many of you might have known before the story that went on with the congressmen and the

reporters who went down to Jonestown and actually, you know, pretty much came under attack,

let's say. We're going to get more into more detail as we cover it together in my conversation

with Michelle but they came under attack and several of them were actually murdered and it's

sparked then what Jim Jones would call the mass suicide, which I would term a mass murder of his

followers resulting in over 900 deaths, 300 of whom were tragically children. This happened in 1978

and incidentally this happened, I want to say, six to eight months after my own parents left our

cult, the co-boo, the Church of Bible understanding. And if you listen to my first few podcasts, you hear

my story about that, how my parents joined this group. Of course they didn't know it was a

cult, they didn't call it a cult, they just thought it was a religious group and they lived

communally much like Jonestown, although they didn't live in another country and thank God nothing

tragic like that ever occurred and never occurred to the two its people after they left either.

However, the leader was equally as nuts as they all are, as all cult leaders are, equally as

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