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🗓️ 6 March 2023
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It was 1978, and the effortlessly handsome Hoyt Richards was a 16-year-old football talent summering in Nantucket. Chasing girls and free beer was about all on this young boy’s mind. So when he meets a man on the beach who was rumored to throw great parties, Hoyt thinks nothing of it.
Little did Hoyt know…he had just come face-to-face with a budding cult leader that would take his life in a direction he never could’ve dreamed.
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0:00.0 | So at the crack it on, I called the cab and had it meet me at like 4 a.m. and I had to, |
0:11.4 | as I'm escaping, I'm literally scavenging it, trying to keep minimum sound. |
0:17.7 | And then I, I get to the precipice and I had to, you know, I go down the mountain and |
0:23.3 | it's about a mile and a half down the road to get to the place where the cab's going |
0:26.9 | to meet me. |
0:27.9 | It's a decent drop and it's dark as hell. |
0:32.5 | And then I just started to run and you know, even if it's like when you're running, you |
0:36.1 | think someone's maybe, you know, you start hearing things, you're like, someone's coming |
0:38.7 | after. |
0:39.7 | But I bolted. |
0:40.7 | It was like a prison break. |
0:44.5 | Holy Mother, cult leader, we're back. |
0:56.5 | Tyler, we're back. |
0:57.5 | Can you even believe it? |
0:59.5 | I actually cannot Liz. |
1:01.2 | It has been a solid year. |
1:03.0 | You guys, we have missed you. |
1:06.6 | It has been a journey to get here, but we did it. |
1:10.7 | Season two of Wasayana Cult. |
1:12.9 | Yes, we took a year off, hardly anything to pat ourselves on the back over Liz, but we |
1:17.4 | are back. |
1:18.7 | Now before we get into the show, we want to thank you, our fans for your undying support. |
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