Heaven's Gate

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite(1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) until their deaths.^[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.^[2]^[3]

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0:00.0	All right.
0:02.3	So we're doing a show about a mass suicide this week.
0:06.9	I'm thinking we should have Eli sit this one out.
0:09.2	What do you guys think?
0:10.2	Yes.
0:11.2	Yeah.
0:12.2	That's all we need to go to.
0:13.2	Yeah.
0:14.2	Yeah.
0:15.2	Yeah.
0:16.2	Actually, I took care of that already.
0:17.2	I told Eli I booked a best friend's spa weekend in Russia and I paid Dave girl to pretend
0:19.3	he's me.
0:20.3	Eli's not going to be back for at least a few more days at this point.
0:22.6	All right.
0:23.6	Perfect.
0:24.6	Perfect.
0:25.6	Nice work.
0:26.6	So we'll just skip the part with Eli doing his, you know, typical like over the top crazy
0:29.6	behavior related to the theme of the episode and we can just like start the show.
0:33.2	Sounds good.
0:34.2	Yeah.
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