Zealot 8: Heaven's Gate with Russ Tainton
Zealot
Jo Thornely
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Does everything that we get? Sell it. G'd say thorny how I am pretty good do you want to talk about a |
| 0:26.7 | cult sure thing yeah yeah yeah that's I'm so glad you said yes. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, I wouldn't it be awful if I said this, nah, I could. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I would have been the shortest episode ever, but I still would have posted it, I think. |
| 0:39.0 | Fair enough. |
| 0:40.0 | Which one? Which one do you want to talk about? Tell me your stupid name. |
| 0:46.0 | Tell me your stupid name. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I thought it'd be nice to talk about Heaven's Gate. |
| 0:52.0 | I thought so too, because that's the one I've been reading about. Me too. |
| 0:57.0 | My guest today is Russ Tainton and he's a singer, songwriter, and Dickhead. |
| 1:03.0 | As our friend Frosty refers to it, a triple threat. |
| 1:08.0 | Thanks, Frost, appreciate that. |
| 1:10.0 | Yep. Because you are a Dickhead. |
| 1:11.0 | True. |
| 1:12.0 | It's why we're friends. Yeah. Why Heavensgate? |
| 1:16.9 | Uh, I think this was probably my first encounter with cults when I first heard about the |
| 1:24.6 | spoiler alert the mass suicide that happened in yeah the mid 90s we're going to |
| 1:31.3 | be talking about suicide. |
| 1:33.0 | But it's not, it's not, you can't talk away about Heaven's Gate suicide in the same way that you talk about other suicides I think because of the circumstances |
| 1:46.4 | and because of the attitude towards everyone that did. |
| 1:50.3 | I don't even think they were brainwashed. I think they were they believed what they believed and they thought they were doing |
| 1:57.6 | The happiest most joyous |
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