I guess there's a fine line between a cult and just a nice intentional community, right?

Like the first act of every movie about a cult, you're like, oh, that's so nice.

I would totally live there.

And then you're like, oh, wait, no, never mind.

Maybe that, just like the first act and the third act

have been switched in this case. So Andy, I just have to add one thing, because we couldn't do a bonus episode dealing with

Mel Liman without talking about how they decided to protest Watergate.

Did you come across that while reading about this?

I don't know.

Phil us in.

Oh, so Mark Frishet and a few other of Lyman's devotees decided that they would rob a bank

as a protest against Richard Nixon and Watergate. And Frhette said we just reached the point

where all that the three of us really wanted to do was hold up a bank because banks

are federally insured robbing that bank was a way of robbing Nixon.

And besides, standing where they were with a gun, cleaning out a teller's cage, that's about as

fucking honest as you can get, man.

And then after they ended up in Jill, they decided to protest more by

mounting an in-prison play called The White House transcripts.

And I believe one of the Lyman family members, Christopher Thine, died in a shootout with cops during

the burglary. So yeah, the Lyman family could get very very very very dark very quickly.

And one other weird thing I got to mention about Lyman and or more so about Mindfuckers is that

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