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This episode profiles the wild up bringing of Jim Baker better known as "Father Yod" and how he ended up in California starting one of the country's first health food restaurants on Sunset Strip before he started a cult. Jim would later found a spiritual commune in the Hollywood Hills known as the Source Family and of course, front a psychedelic rock band.
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