Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Rachel Dretzin. Through personal accounts, "Keep Sweet" reveals the incredible events leading to the 2011 life sentence of Warren Jeffs, the self-professed prophet of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In a dramatic raid at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, which generated headlines around the world, law enforcement and Child Protective Service agents uncovered stunning evidence of systemic sexual, physical and psychological abuse. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind
0:19.2	your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.
0:22.6	On today's episode, we take a closer look
0:25.1	at the Netflix documentary series,
0:27.5	Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey.
0:30.4	We knew we were different.
0:32.0	The way that we dressed was were different. The way that we're dressed was obviously different and in my family and in the culture I grew up in I was taught that we were the one and only true people of God on the whole face of the earth and we believed in
0:46.2	polygamy. Today we're talking to director Rachel Dretzen. For decades
0:51.8	members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
0:56.0	practiced an extreme form of Mormonism, one in which men need to take multiple wives to achieve eternal salvation.
1:04.4	When their leader Rulan Jeffs died in 2002, his son Warren took the reins of the FLDS.
1:11.2	The group's practices of polygamous marriages and underage brides accelerated, while Jeff
1:16.1	spilled a secluded ranch where he took members children.
1:19.8	But with the help of former members of the church, women forced into arranged marriages while they were
1:24.8	children, the law finally caught up with him.
1:29.4	Keep sweet, pray and obey, paints a disturbing picture of the modern subjugation of women and the effects of tyrannical
1:36.6	control dressed up as religious obedience.
1:40.0	It presents many women who fled their underage marriages and the outsiders who work to expose
1:45.1	the FLDS's illegal actions.
1:47.8	You don't know any better until you get away from it, and getting away from it is the hard part.
1:55.0	It happens to everybody eventually.
1:58.0	You will come around and see the light and go, what the fuck?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Netflix, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Netflix and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.