Hey there. On last week's show, we aired a conversation with the directors of the new Netflix documentary miniseries, Wild Wild Country.

We had to cut it way down to fit into the radio show, but here in the podosphere, we're pretty much unrestricted by the constraints of time and space.

So here's that interview again, only much, much more of it.

When the six-part documentary series Wild Wild Country came out on Netflix last month. It was like a blast from an

unremembered past. I'm here in one of the largest ranches in the northwest. Today, it's Rajneesh

because a prominent Indian guru and his followers bought it. Back in the early 80s, thousands of followers

of the Indian guru Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh

descended on an Oregon ranch the size of Tallahassee, Florida to found their utopia.

The Rajneeshis had millions of dollars and a lifestyle based on meditation,

consciousness-raising, and free love. It was all irresistible to their

young American and European followers, and increasingly alarming to their closest neighbors in the

tiny town of Antelope, population 40. What followed was an epic struggle between the Rajneeshis and every level of government.

That struggle involved elections, a relentless media campaign, arson, a mass poisoning

political assassination attempts, and the recruitment of more than 5,000 homeless people from around the country.

McLean and Chapman Way directed Wild Wild Country. Hey, welcome to O'TEM.

Thanks, Bob. Thanks for having us. We're excited. Thanks for having us on, Bob.

This is a wild, wild story. A quirky religious movement gets pushed out of India and buys a $6 million

dollar Oregon ranch to accommodate its peaceful, perfect society. They build their own streets,

waterworks, public transportation, shopping centers, houses, police force, even an airstrip,

and pretty soon have the attention of the entire world.

And they really like the color red. Who were these people? Yeah, so this is Chapman speaking.

A very controversial Indian guru named Bhagwan Roshinish, who was really one of the first gurus to kind of blend

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