53: Wild Wild Country Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series)

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Another bonkers cult-doc, you guys!

Attend the tale of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a guru who rose to prominence in India in the nineteen-seventies, and collapsed into infamy in Oregon the decade after. But actually forget about him because everybody knows this shit is actually allllllllllll about his Lieutenant, er personal secretary, Sheela. In episodes 1 and 2, we watch in…horror? Confusion? as this band of religious lunatics? Chosen people? Weirdos? take over the small town of Antelope, Oregon (population 50) and try to build a community of thousands in the wilderness. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit doesn’t go great, you guys.

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0:27.0	Slack.com slash DHQ. You guys, I saw a flying cockroach on the subway. We live in a swamp.
0:35.7	I hate it. I ran down that platform so fast, but then I kept my eye on it and then I lost
0:42.2	it and I was like, well, now it's on me and in my mouth, obviously. Like, that there's
0:47.2	no other place for it to be, but on me, right? Like, it's on me right now. I think the
0:59.2	the Oregon locals would be like cockroaches. That's what I'd call the Russian issues.
1:03.2	Oh, yeah. Because they came from out of nowhere in drones and you couldn't get rid of them.
1:09.2	I've got some complicated feelings. I've got some complicated feelings that are not
1:13.3	straightforward. All right. Well, it's a cult. So we'll start there.
1:18.3	Girl, before we get to the episode, we just kind of let the people know more about the
1:21.3	Patreon. You guys, the staircase. I'm telling you. I'm announcing it right now. You guys,
1:26.1	we booked the hooker. We are interviewing Perent Walgomat. He's coming up in like episode
1:32.3	six or something. He's the, like, the star witness for the prosecution. And we booked him.
1:37.8	Is he the one where the, where Michael was like, he said what? I think that was a different
1:42.4	hooker. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But Brent is very cool. He's got his own like big brother podcast.
1:47.4	Amazing. We've been communicating on social media. He seems really fun. He's going to spill the tea.
1:51.4	Let's do it. It's going to be live on our Patreon feed. If you want to see our other bonus content
1:56.0	on our Patreon feed, for example, our interview with Asian McLean Chapman or Robbie a
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