Zealot 9: Jonestown with Lorin Pickup

Zealot

Jo Thornely

Comedy

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jo Thornely talks to Lorin Pickup about the cult that started with a Brylcreem messiah and ended with one of the biggest mass suicides of all time: Jonestown.

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0:00.0	Sell it. See this is why no one should ever be nervous about doing this podcast.
0:17.0	It's a shambles.
0:19.0	I love it. That's Lauren Pickup. That's her actual surname. Stop asking.
0:25.0	Who am I Joe? You're a good friend of mine and we agreed one time way back when none of our friends were going to get married.
0:36.0	Yeah, that's true.
0:38.0	That we would just do it so we would get the party.
0:40.0	Yeah, because we needed to get to a wedding together and then we're like we would have
0:44.4	would have the best wedding ever.
0:45.8	We would we decided we would register at Lickoland and Neverland and
0:50.3	and eBay.
0:52.1	It's kind of we're kind of making an accidental mockery because we're
0:55.6	heterosexual ladies getting married to each other when our gay friends can't.
1:01.3	Yes, which is ridiculous. Our gay friends can't. Yes.
1:03.0	Which is ridiculous.
1:04.0	It is so ridiculous.
1:06.0	Speaking of ridiculous, I think we should chat about a cult.
1:10.0	Oh, come on, let's...
1:12.0	It didn't come here to fuck spider, did he?
1:15.0	I'm not here for a haircut.
1:17.0	Do you know, whenever anyone offers me a drink, I say,
1:20.0	I'm not here for a haircut, and then I went to my hairdresser and they offered me a drink!
1:25.0	I didn't know what to say.
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