TAM! It's got the code. It's going to launch.

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's how all the files are the whole park. It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

The eagle one.

The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

An online prophet that claims to be God, a murder in the Alabama woods, a child holding a shotgun in the middle of a camp,

reptilians, urine

therapy, the American South police violence conspiracy, robot birds, the uniquely American

black esoteric tradition.

Y'all, this week, I don't even know where to start.

It's a big and surreal story about a New Age movement that spread through live streams.

Its followers are decentralized, driven by belief, rather than any organizing principle,

and at the center of it all is a prophet who claims to be God and is sitting in jail on

some pretty serious charges.

With me here today to walk us through all of this complicated and surreal story is

Motherboard Senior Staff writer Anna Merlin

and editorial director Tim Marchman. Their new story about it is, quote, an online prophet

claims to be God. His followers keep getting arrested. Tim, Anna, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having us. I think more accurately, he claims to be a god.

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