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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Alright Matt, so let's take a quick second and let's talk about a podcast that we think |
0:09.9 | everybody is really gonna love. |
0:13.5 | In the mid 2000s James Arthur Ray was a charismatic self-help guru who promised his followers |
0:20.9 | a path to wealth and happiness, but not all who followed him finished their journey. |
0:28.4 | This is the story told in a new crime miniseries from Wondry called Guru, the dark side of |
0:35.3 | enlightenment. |
0:37.4 | James Arthur Ray wasn't really well known until he was in that movie The Secret, and |
0:43.5 | then was a guest on Oprah's TV show a few times. |
0:47.4 | Soon after that, thousands of people started attending his seminars and he was pegged |
0:53.4 | to be the next great self-help guru. |
0:56.8 | That's right, but what many didn't know was about his more extreme methods, methods |
1:06.2 | that pushed his pupils to their limits, giving some the transformative life experience that |
1:11.6 | they dreamed of, but killing others. |
1:15.5 | So we're about to play you a brief clip from the show. |
1:19.3 | But while you're listening or run after you listen, go subscribe to Wondry's new |
1:23.9 | miniseries Guru, the dark side of enlightenment. |
1:27.4 | You can find them on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening to us right |
1:32.5 | now. |
1:33.9 | Or you can binge all six episodes ad free right now on the Wondry app, but the easiest |
1:38.9 | way to do that is go down in our show notes and there is a link that you can click and |
1:44.3 | it'll take you right over there. |
1:46.1 | So go check them out and listen to Guru, the dark side of enlightenment. |
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