Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Robert sits down with Katy Stoll to talk about The Great Oom, America's first Yoga cult leader, and precursor to all the wonderful abusive yoga cults of today.
(2 part series)
Footnotes:
- https://www.amazon.com/Great-Oom-Improbable-Birth-America/dp/B004KAB528
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-what-he-wanted
- https://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2014/01/bikram-choudhury-yoga-sexual-harassment
- https://www.gq.com/story/yoga-guru-bikram-choudhury
- https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/yoga-to-the-people-scandal-what-went-wrong.html
- https://archive.is/02CTY#selection-763.0-767.586
- https://www.history.com/news/yoga-vivekananda-america
- https://archive.org/details/greatoomimprobab0000love/page/20/mode/2up
- https://www.npr.org/2010/05/09/126610671/the-great-oom-yogas-wild-ride-to-respectability
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30101/americas-first-yoga-scandal
- https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-yoga-guru-bikram-choudhury-now
- https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/10827/bishnu-ghosh
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, behind the bastards? |
| 0:37.0 | Oh my god, it's a podcast about the worst people in all of history. |
| 0:42.0 | With me, Robert Evans, the worst podcaster in all of history. |
| 0:47.0 | That's not fair. |
| 0:49.0 | You're right, you're right, you're right. |
| 0:51.0 | There's definitely worse. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:53.0 | I could think of several, like off top, there's definitely way worse. |
| 0:59.0 | That's good. |
| 1:00.0 | That's good. |
| 1:01.0 | I finally got you to, got you to praise me on air, Sophie. |
| 1:05.0 | That was all wonderful. |
| 1:06.0 | That was, that was, that was the long con. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm like, you're not the worst one, congrats. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | What pride praise? |
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