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Listener discretion is Robin. This is Jackie.

And today's episode is part two, much awaited part two, mind you, of the Order of the Solar Temple from our cult series.

Which is exciting.

It is, and I have to be completely honest.

We got a few requests for this particular cult and I wasn't really excited about it. I was like, all right, well, you know, they just seem kind of like you're run of the mill and now I think they are my absolute personal favorite.

I love history and it's just so much, so in-depth.

And surprisingly, as you will hear,

there are structural ties to Nixium, which I did not realize, and so that's kind of cool in it,

you know, in itself.

I mean, cults are going to cult, right?

Cults are going to cult.

So let's get some housekeeping out of the way really quickly before we get into that.

First guys, people have messaged, people have emailed, and they're like, why are your episodes taking so long?

I mentioned it in the first episode of our Lori Valo,

the audio series that we did with Special Guest Brittany,

but let me just lay, give you a little bit more information.

So on November 2nd, my mother suffered a stroke

and she went into the hospital.

Basically, long story short, here we are in December 1st.

Both of my parents are in a care facility and now they have contracted COVID.

Yeah.

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