Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Cult Leader Early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

You're listening to a morbid network podcast.

Hello and welcome to episode five of Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry.

We made it. We made it past four, less than six. We made it to five. But really, I do want to thank you guys so much. You guys have been sharing it so much since the beginning. And like even still you guys are sharing it.

And I seriously can't even tell you how much it makes me smile, like how happy it makes me when you guys tag me in your stories that you're listening to it. It's wild and it's cool. And I'm trust me super humbled by this whole process because podcasting is such like an unfamiliar territory to me.

So it's been super fun. And I really appreciate you guys being patient with me while I kind of get through like this learning curve. I'm sure it sounds awkward at times. But at the end of the day, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

So let's get straight into it. A while back, I asked you guys on my personal Instagram at Spencer Henry to send me some conspiracy theories that you truly believe in.

The ones that you thought like would be realistic or at least there's some sort of probability that it happened. And one of the main ones that I got sent to me over and over again was this mattress firm conspiracy.

And I had never heard of this conspiracy before. And so I went down, you know, the deep hole of the interwebs just searching for all the details about this. So to save you some googling, here's the basic gist of it.

People were noticing, I think it all started out on like a Reddit thread as everything does. And a lot of you were saying, you know, oh, the if you look on like a map within this square radius.

There's five of them. Why would there be so many on like this little tiny area and other areas. There's just like massive amounts of them so close together within such close proximity.

What is like the whole point of this? Like a lot of people online were saying, you know, it's like it's a conspiracy. They're a friend for some money laundering scheme or something.

And I know that the CEO did announce those rumors a while back and he was like, listen, we bought out some of our competitors and as part of that, we ended up opening locations closer to other locations.

It doesn't all really add up, but that's the basic gist of it. It's kind of one of those things that isn't really a thing, but it gets blown into a thing.

But who fucking knows, even if they were laundering money, they weren't doing a real good job. This front because apparently they weren't selling enough mattresses.

But I read an article today before recording this that was talking about the Casper mattress. I might allow to sit. Yeah, I can say that putting them out of business because, you know, a lot of people are just ordering their mattresses online and they're getting them shipped to them in these boxes now.

So people aren't going out and shopping for mattresses the way that they used to. But anyways, this isn't a podcast about fucking mattresses. This is the podcast about fuck and cold. So let's go on July 31st, 1978, 39 year old cult leader, a manual David drove a borrowed truck out to a canyon in Utah and committed suicide by filling the vehicle with carbon monoxide.

This was really just the tip of the iceberg though. It's what happened two days after the discovery of his body that shook Utah and became one of the largest murders he was science in its history.

Originally Warren Charles Bruce Longo, we'll talk about his name change later. He was born in 1938 and he was raised by a wealthy doctor and a loving mom in Yonkers, New York.

After graduating high school, he in 1956 joins the Marine Corps and then during his time in the Marine Corps is when his whole life really started to change.

He met friends in the Marine Corps who talked to him about the LDS church and just two years later he had fully converted and embraced the religion as his own throwing himself into positions within the church.

So he just kind of goes full fucking fledged into this religion. 1960 he goes on his first mission and so if you're not familiar with the religion, at a certain point you go out on these missions and I think it's kind of like you're coming of age, going into adulthood type situation.

...