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Edition. It's Wednesday, May 2, 2018. On today's show, Wild Wild Country is a wild wild documentary on Netflix.

You've probably been word of mouth toward it already, but if not, we're going to talk about

it tells the improbable story of the Bhaguan Sri Rajniz as they set themselves up out in Oregon.

And then comedians either kill or bomb, which you think Michelle Wolf did at the White House

Correspondence Dinner says a lot about you and your positioning in 2018.

And finally, what is up with YouTube?

We ask Slates on Justin Peters.

Joining me today is Sl's editor Julia Turner. Hello

Julia. Hello. And of course Slate's film critic Dana Stevens.

Hi Dana. Hey Stephen. Wild Wild Country is a six-part documentary on Netflix.

It's a deep dive back into the story of Bhagwan Sri Rajnish, the Indian guru and spiritual leader,

or whatever you want to call him, cult leader, fraud, who created his own religion, then relocated

his rapidly growing commune to the middle of rural Oregon.

There he not only purchased outright 64,000 acre parcel of land to create his own self-sufficient city state but began to

take over the local political apparatus.

What begins is a somewhat simple, actually quite complex in many ways, land use dispute, grows into a truly astonishing tale of

Enlightenment, free love, palace intrigue, human frailty, double dealing, even poisoning, and finally, the nature of power itself it's directed by Chapman and

McLean Way it's on Netflix as I said and the voice we're gonna hear on this

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