Greetings, Earthlings, Earthlings, and welcome to the Moms and Murder Podcast.

This is, yes, this is the Moms and Murder Podcast. We have a different intro there. Everybody says they want a different intro until we do a different intro. And then they're like, no, not like that. What are you guys doing? So, hi, everybody. It's me, Mandy. And of course, my lovely co-host, Melissa,

is here with us today for this very, very crazy episode that we have. Hello, Melissa. What is going on?

This episode, this story has me just feeling all out of sorts. I am concerned. This feels

like an intervention. I don't know what's going on. Wow. Yes, this story is truly something else.

You've never heard of it. I've never heard of it. I came across it like looking for new stories. Wow. Just wow. Yeah, that's all you can say. I had no idea until I really started diving in that this was going to be as crazy of a story as it has turned out to be. So I am super duper excited to get right into it this week and just waste

no time. We don't have anything important to say anyway. You are coming in hot this episode.

I love it. Hey, I'm just trying to hit all those, hit all those points. Get right to the point.

That's what we're doing here today. All right. So as we said, you know, we haven't even really gotten started. And I already think this

is going to be one of our favorite episodes that we've ever covered or one of our favorite cases

that we've ever covered because it truly is stranger than fiction. We've joked on the show before

about my love of silly conspiracy theories. And it's not that I believe in them.

I just like reading about different ones, and I find them fascinating and fun to follow.

If anything, it can be great material for a laugh or for a good joke.

Some of these conspiracy theories out there are so ridiculous, though, that I really can't

imagine anyone actually believing in them. But today's story proves that there are people out there are so ridiculous, though, that I really can't imagine anyone actually believing in them.

But today's story proves that there are people out there with some bizarre beliefs, and these

people manage to find like-minded followers, and then, boom, next thing you know, you've got a cult.

It's like the perfect recipe, really.

Yeah. Seriously. So, you know, I'm sure the steps to that process are a lot more detailed, but in our story today, ending up in a cult was the end result for a man named Stephen Minio. And just what kind of cult was this? The kind that fears reptilians and the new world order that the reptilians are allegedly ushering in. So when I said this might be one of my favorite episodes of the podcast, I meant that it's

because I get to take this opportunity to explain a little about these specific conspiracy

beliefs and how they pertain to this very bizarre case we have to share today.

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