Jonesin' for Jonestown- Ep. 1: The "Happy" Beginnings
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In their first episode, Ash tells Dawn about the beginnings of The People's Temple (hint: it was originally called something much sillier), and how it looked really groovy and progressive at first! Ash talks about how she probably would have joined, and tries very hard, but unsuccessfully, to get Dawn to join the TSFU cult.
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-Sources:
- Forty years after the Jonestown massacre, a new book chronicles the deep ties between the depraved cult leader Jim Jones and prominent Democratic politicians. | City Journal (city-journal.org)
- Jonestown - Wikipedia
- https://www.hulu.com/series/truth-and-lies-jonestown-paradise-lost-fd3b83b5-35dc-4089-bd74-a11b1697ee86
- https://www.amazon.com/Undaunted-Surviving-Jonestown-Summoning-Fighting/dp/1503903605
- https://www.amazon.com/Road-Jonestown-Jones-Peoples-Temple/dp/1476763828
- https://www.lesliewagnerwilson.org/
- https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=28703
- https://time.com/6120017/jonestown-massacre-survivors/
- https://time.com/longform/jonestown-aftermath/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | He actually changes it to the People's Temple for a reason, what we'll find out later. |
| 0:06.0 | But he originally called his church Community Unity, which is fun, right? |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Community. |
| 0:13.3 | She's Unity. |
| 0:14.4 | Together. |
| 0:15.3 | What community you're going to get taken, though? |
| 0:19.2 | Because, right? |
| 0:19.6 | Look at how immediately you made a joke out of it. |
| 0:22.2 | Rude. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, it's too cute. |
| 0:23.6 | It rhymes and it's too cute. |
| 0:25.4 | Pentecostal, you're like, I'm not even sure what that means, but it sounds like fucking hot and scary. |
| 0:30.8 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:35.0 | That's so fucked up presents. That's so fucked up presents |
| 0:38.1 | That so fucked up presents |
| 0:40.3 | That so fucked up for fun. |
| 0:48.3 | You're fun. |
| 0:50.1 | No, stop it. |
| 0:51.0 | It's fun. |
| 0:51.7 | No, it's fun. |
| 0:52.6 | Listen. |
| 0:53.2 | No, stop it. |
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