Episode 5: The Followers

Bundyville: The Remnant

Oregon Public Broadcasting

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4.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Bundyville, a ghost town high in the Arizona mountains that used to be home to 200 people, most of them named Bundy. Find out how this family history has helped attract anti-government activists from around the country to Cliven Bundy’s cause. The episode also discusses the white privilege and double standards that have allowed far-right extremists inspired by the Bundys to become more bold in their actions.

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0:00.0	Armed anti-government protesters hauling on militia members from around the country to join them.
0:07.3	So you said you told one of my colleagues you're willing to take a bullet for this guy?
0:10.8	I took a note to defend the Constitution of the United States.
0:14.1	You want to pick on somebody? Come pick on me.
0:23.3	Okay, so...
0:24.8	We are currently outside St. George, Utah on a gravel road.
0:35.6	When we went to Bunty Ranch, we gave Clive a chance to tell his side of the story.
0:40.8	And he did. He told us about nuclear fallout and government overreach.
0:46.1	And he told us about his grandkids.
0:48.0	And it is 5.30 in the morning.
0:53.0	Uh, what's our plan, Leah?
0:56.0	Well, really it's 4.30 in the morning.
0:59.0	4.30, 5.30.
1:01.0	We got a sense of the world according to Clive in.
1:04.5	And the kind of society he'd like to see in Nevada.
1:08.0	And it's basically a radical libertarian utopia.
1:11.5	No environmental regulations, no federal oversight.
1:15.5	No one telling you what to do.
1:18.5	The crazy thing is this place used to exist out on the Arizona desert.
1:23.5	It's called Bundyville.
1:25.5	And we're going there.
1:26.5	We're going to drive for 60 miles on this BLM 1069.
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