75 - Guns and God: David Koresh's Waco Siege

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Feb. 28th, 2018 will mark the 25th anniversary of the ATF raiding the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas, setting off a 51 day armed standoff between federal agents and militant Christian fanatics. Over 80 people would die, most in the final day of the siege when a fire would burn the compound to the ground, killing nearly all of the men, women, and children still inside. Tanks versus citizens. Armed agents versus armed zealots. Religious freedom versus gun laws and the age of consent. And behind all of this madness? David Koresh. A self-proclaimed prophet, polygamist, and pedophile. We get real weird today as we go full-cult on Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you today by by the socially conscious on-line fantastic mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuck to get $125 off AND a free pillow as part of their President's Day sale that starts NOW and lasts until Feb. 28th. Support fellow Timesucker who lost his home and belongings in a recent flood. Here's the GoFund link - please help if you can! https://www.gofundme.com/cf6quh-help-the-campbells Wanna be a Space Lizard"? Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	February 28, 2018, less than 10 days from this recording will mark the 25th anniversary of the
0:05.6	ATF rating of the branched divinity and compound in Waco, Texas, setting off a 51-day armed standoff
0:12.4	between federal agents and militant Christian fanatics. Over 80 people would die, most in the
0:17.7	final day of the siege when a fire would burn the compound to the ground, killing nearly all of the
0:22.9	men, women, and children still inside. This siege was televised live across America day after
0:29.7	day for almost two months. Tanks versus citizens, armed agents versus armed zealots,
0:36.4	religious freedom versus gun laws, and the age of consent. And behind all this madness,
0:41.8	one David Kuresh, a self-proclaimed prophet and leader of a small rural Texas religious sect,
0:48.0	a seventh day Adventist offshoot, a man who transitioned from a rural Texas high school dropout
0:53.5	to a man who convinced lawyers and college professors that he was a prophet of God and that God
0:58.4	had also ordained that David should not only sleep with these men's wives, but that he should
1:03.0	also get their wives pregnant and not allow their husbands to ever sleep with them or any other
1:08.6	woman ever again. We get weird, real weird today as we go full cult and not to good cult to the
1:16.0	curious kind today on Time Suck. Happy Monday, Mother Suckers, Heidi Ho Space Lizards.
1:31.6	I'm Dan Cummins, AKA Prof. Nimrod, AKA Brother of Bojangles, the Master Sucker, the puppet
1:36.6	master of Chickatilo, and this is Time Suck. Welcome to your weekly taste of the cult of the
1:42.3	curious. We're learning something new is actually fun. We're history, meets humor. We're insanity
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