Jonesin' for Jonestown- Ep. 3: The Unravelling
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
The People's Temple members who go to Guyana first soon find out just how hard that jungle is to clear and how much effort and time it will take to grow crops to sustain the congregation. Meanwhile, back in California, Jones makes Jonestown out to be a paradise with propoganda videos that he ordered the members in Guyana to make. He also starts introducing a lot of talk about sacrifice and death at this point. And when a defaming article comes out about him, he quickly moves the rest of the congregation to what would become their Guyanese jungle hell.
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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 | The workers lost multiple pounds per day in sweat. |
| 0:05.7 | They were getting foot fungus, extreme sunburned and blisters, and, oh, this part grossed me out so much. |
| 0:13.1 | Worm larva and other bugs often attached themselves to the workers while they were out in the fields. |
| 0:21.9 | That's real nasty. |
| 0:23.1 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:28.2 | That so fucked up presents. |
| 0:32.0 | That's so fucked up presents. |
| 0:34.0 | That's so fucked up presents. Okay. So, but, so for the SoFaFaults or Presents. |
| 0:41.4 | So here we go. |
| 0:43.0 | As we say in the biz, the show must go on, right? |
| 0:47.5 | Right. |
| 0:48.0 | That's what she said, according to your shirt. |
| 0:50.2 | That is. |
| 0:51.0 | That is what she said. |
| 0:52.3 | So, hey, everybody. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome back to That So Fucked Up Presents, Jones and for Jones Town. |
| 0:59.0 | That So Fugged Up is a spinoff series of That's So Fucked Up. |
| 1:02.6 | You know what the deal is. |
| 1:03.7 | Hopefully you're listening to both shows. |
| 1:05.9 | If you don't by now, go find out. |
| 1:08.5 | So this season, we are exploring Mr. Jim Jones and the Jones Town Massacre. So if you |
| 1:18.6 | haven't yet listened to episodes one and two, make sure to go and do that because it's pretty |
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