From the Nike sneakers in Rancho Santa Fe to the salad bars in The Dalles to the salt mines of Mount Fuji... we examine the mechanisms of cults to answer the ultimate question... is MAGA a cult?

Most listeners will not get to the final chapter. The ones who do will leave with a tool they did not have when they began.

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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) The Dark History of Cults for a Long Sleepless Night
(00:00:24) Is MAGA a Cult. The Pattern That Answers the Question
(00:09:28) Heaven's Gate, the Nikes, and 39 Dead in Rancho Santa Fe
(00:35:44) Charles Manson, Spahn Ranch, and the Night on Cielo Drive
(01:00:15) Jim Jones, Jonestown, and 918 Dead in the Guyanese Jungle
(01:33:56) Order of the Solar Temple, Holograms, and an Infant Staked
(01:48:28) David Berg and the Children of God's 223,989 Encounters
(02:02:55) Scientology, Xenu, the E-Meter, and the IRS Infiltration
(02:22:52) Synanon, the Rattlesnake in the Mailbox, and Chuck Dederich
(02:40:58) Aum Shinrikyo and the 1995 Sarin Attack on the Tokyo Subway
(03:03:52) David Koresh, the 51-Day Waco Siege, and 76 Dead in Texas
(03:27:17) NXIVM, the Bronfman Millions, and the Branding Iron in Albany
(03:51:17) Rajneeshpuram, 93 Rolls-Royces, and the Oregon Salad Bar Attack
(04:14:27) 11 Cults, One Pattern, and the Question Before You Sleep

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75 years of mutual destruction. 13 American presidents. 2 Iranian Supreme Leaders. Not a single decade of peace.

Tonight, I walk you through the entire seventy-five-year history of the United States and Iran in one continuous documentary. From a phone call in Washington in 1953, to a coup in Tehran one summer night in August, to the long quiet years of the Shah's restoration, to a wall climbed at an embassy in autumn, to a desert where eight Americans died for nothing, to a Bible delivered with a planeload of missiles, to a passenger plane shot from the sky, to a windowless room in Vienna where a deal was signed and another room in Washington where it was torn up, to a pair of black sedans on an airport access road in Baghdad, to a young woman who would not survive a hijab inspection.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Where Are You Listening From Tonight
(00:00:10) A Phone Call in 1953 That Bought a 73-Year War
(00:02:53) Soleimani, a Hellfire, and a Ring on His Right Hand
(00:06:54) Mossadegh's Pyjamas and the Oil Iran Refused to Surrender
(00:22:19) The Shah Restored, Atoms for Peace, and a Nuclear Seed
(00:37:32) 444 Days: The Embassy Wall Climbed at 10:30 AM
(00:49:56) Reagan Armed Iraq Then Sold Iran Missiles in Secret
(01:03:46) Iran Air 655, 290 Dead, and the Apology That Never Came
(01:14:23) Khatami's Open Hand, Axis of Evil, and the Door Slammed Shut
(01:26:46) Stuxnet, Unit 8200, and the First Cyberweapon in History
(01:37:28) The JCPOA Signed in Vienna, Torn Up in Washington
(01:48:31) Soleimani Killed, Mahsa Amini, and the 2024 Missile Strike
(02:01:32) 75 Years of Miscalculation, For a Restless Mind Tonight

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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times. Everyone knows the quote.

But what does weakness actually look like when it sits on a throne, runs a corporation, or commands an army?

Tonight, fourteen true stories spanning two thousand years prove that the most dangerous thing in the world is not a strong enemy — it is a weak leader.

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