Hello and welcome back to the Psychlegal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about

popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist.

And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And this week we are doing something a little different.

We're experimenting. So we are covering Waco American Apocalypse on Netflix. This is a

three-part Netflix documentary. So today in this episode, we are only going to be covering

episode one. Usually when we do these documentaries, we watch all the episodes together and do it as

one one long episode for the show. usually when we do these documentaries, we watch all the episodes together and do it as one,

one long episode for the show.

And we thought, well, let's take our time and really deep dive and see, see how this goes.

So this is three parts.

So we'll know by the end of the three parts how this is working out for us.

Well, hopefully it'll be interesting.

I think it takes, I mean, there's clearly an hour's worth of material here just in the first episode.

So, yeah, this is one of those things where, yeah, you don't want to have to rush through it.

And there's just a lot here and a lot going on.

Yeah.

So before we dive into everything, I'm going to read a brief synopsis of the first episode.

So like I said, so the first episode is called In the Beginning, dot, dot, dot.

So the first episode opens by recounting the initial

violent confrontation between U.S. federal agents and the Branch Dividian Religious sect at the

Mount Carmel compound near Waco, Texas. In early 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,

and Explosives, the ATF, obtained a warrant to search the compound and arrest

...