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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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This week, meet Jim Picariello, who, in the early ’90s as a hopeful college kid hyped up on way too much coffee, thought he was signing up for a meditation class… and ended up in a tech-driven, enlightenment-seeking, quasi-Buddhist spiritual cult. Yeah… this one was a new one for us too.
Led by Frederick Lenz - aka Rama - aka Zen Master Rama - aka the most spiritually enlightened dude who could glow gold - shapeshift into Egyptian gods, and… also totally needed your entire paycheck in order to - oh wait, hmm, we forgot… but we’re sure it was very spiritually necessary.
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| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
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| 0:53.3 | The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts, the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates. |
| 1:09.5 | I have taught meditation to over half a million people. I have helped a lot of people out. I have taught meditation to over half a million people. |
| 1:12.6 | I have helped a lot of people out. |
| 1:14.6 | I have worked 18, 19, 20-hour days trying to do anything I can to help people succeed in life. |
| 1:20.6 | And sometimes people are very generous and they say, Jesus, I've made all this money. |
| 1:25.6 | Let me help you out. |
| 1:41.8 | You know, Liz, do you think our listeners have noticed that our show follows a similar structure usually? |
| 1:46.2 | I mean, which in the world of storytelling, if there's anything good about a cult story, |
| 1:49.0 | is it follows a perfect three-act structure. |
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