Episode 397: Heaven's Gate Part I - A Cabo or a Wabo

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🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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On this, our very first redux of a subject, we begin the story of one of the most famous and misunderstood suicide cults of the nineties: Heaven's Gate. Join us on this first episode as we cover the early lives of founders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, as well as how the theology of the Hale-Bopp hitchhikers developed over the years.

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0:59.7	All right guys, so this is a big moment for us. Oh yeah? This is a big story.
1:05.3	Mm-hmm. And so before this, I just want to, before we even begin this whole saga, I just want to
1:10.7	reach out to anybody that is in. I'm not going to even use the word cult, right? Because you're not in a
1:15.7	cult. You're in a group. Well, that's reverse psychology. You're in a class.
1:22.4	With quotation marks. Well, but a difference between a class and a cult is you can leave the class
1:25.9	when the bell rings and then you're like, see a next Tuesday professor. So we know that the people
1:30.8	I'm talking to do not know that. Oh, we'll just keep that between us. Yeah, yeah. So
1:35.2	yeah, you're having fun class. You love the way first. You meet new people. You love having,
1:39.8	you love being in the yeast room. You love being in the fiber hut. You love it.
1:45.6	Well, and I get it. Space Jesus. Mm-hmm. Sounds fucking rad. Yeah. I get it. But as soon as it gets
1:52.8	to the point and I mean this where he says that you got to cut off your balls. Uh-oh. And he's
1:59.0	saying this to you. You're looking in his eyes and you love your ball cutted teacher and he's been
2:03.9	nothing but good to you this entire time. Right. And he's telling you got to lose the nuts
2:08.5	in order to meet space Jesus. I'm going to tell you right now. You can meet space Jesus
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