Episode 442: Which Brings Us Back to Doh!

What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Show Notes Episode 442: “Which Brings Us Back to DOH!”

Part One of Packing a Purple Shroud

This week Host Dave Bledsoe asks the bartender to float him one last drink because later he will be leaving to join a Mothership located near Uranus. (He was still giggling when the bouncer dragged him out.) On the show this week we turn back to 1997 when a group of religious enthusiasts made big news for their unorthodox travel plans! We are talking about Heaven's Gate!

Along the way we discover that Dave once tried to join a Wiccan coven because he thought he would see chicks naked. (They turned him down because they had no desire to see Dave naked.) Then we meet Marshall Herff Applewhite, a gentle soul born in the wrong place and time, also the wrong planet. We follow Herff on his journey toward enlightenment, by which we mean we watch him struggle with being gay. Herff struggles would eventually lead him to his cosmic destiny in the form of a middle aged Registered Nurse who was into astrology and aliens. (Everyone has a soulmate.) Together the two would join together to become The Two, Bo and Peep and Ti and Do. (Yes, like the song.) When we are done you will have the backstory you need to understand (OK not understand, but be informed about) the origins of the Heaven’s Gate Cult.

Our Sponsor this week is The Temple of Dave Ascendant, we may not save your soul, but at least you get to keep your dick and balls. We open with Lewis Black close withEdgard Roock who metals up on old classic.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

General background information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate:_The_Cult_of_Cults

Wikipedia Heaven’s Gate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)

Wikipedia Fourth Great Awakening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Great_Awakening

Eyes on Glory: Pied Pipers of Heaven's Gate

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/28/us/eyes-on-glory-pied-pipers-of-heaven-s-gate.html?sec=health&pagewanted=1

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