Episode 311 - Bhagwan Rajneesh: The Rolls-Royce Driving Sex Guru
RedHanded
Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In July 1981, the 40 residents of Antelope, Oregon watched on in bemusement as their rural village was descended upon by an Indian guru and thousands of his followers.
Little did they know at the time, that these maroon-robed chanting hippies and their money-loving spiritual leader would go on to overthrow the local government, attempt wide-scale voter fraud, plot to fill a plane with explosives and eventually, carry out the most significant act of bioterrorism in US history.
This is the real story of Bhagwan Rajneesh, and how he managed to amass a global following of devotees who were ready to do anything for him…
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| 0:46.8 | I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Red-handed. |
| 0:49.8 | Where I am, Sruti. So Sruti. I've got the mortgage sweats. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, the mortgage mobs. The dreaded mortgage measles. |
| 0:58.8 | Whatever we want to call them. Basically, I was just saying Hannah, being self-employed is great |
| 1:03.3 | until you want a mortgage. And then banks are like, sorry, what? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. Yeah. You do what? For who? |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah. You want now? Murder. Get out. And yeah, it's just a fucking nightmare. |
| 1:17.1 | But all is in hand, interest rates are going up this evening. Surprise, surprise. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. My mortgage advisor was like, |
| 1:24.6 | I know we said we had at least a hit, but could you get me all of these things |
| 1:28.3 | immediately? And then I emailed my accountant and then I got an out of office and I was like, |
| 1:35.9 | but anyway, it's being handled. Yeah, I believe. |
| 1:38.7 | Something that's not being handled. That's a terrible segue. I can't do it. I couldn't |
| 1:43.1 | segue into this. Something that was handled terribly was the Netflix documentary World World |
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