How.to.Become.a.Cult.Leader.S01E04.1080p.HEVC.x265-MeGusta Movie Subtitles

00:00:10,468 --> 00:00:14,[narrator] You've seen how leading a cult
can provide some serious benefits.

00:00:14,848 --> 00:00:16,[cheering]

00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:17,[narrator] S***x,

00:00:17,475 --> 00:00:18,drugs,

00:00:19,602 --> 00:00:21,even a little rock and roll.

00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,But sadly,
the honeymoon doesn't always last.

00:00:26,943 --> 00:00:30,When people join a cult, it's so exciting,

00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,but once you're in
and everything starts to stabilize,

00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:38,that's the time when you maybe
start to see, "Something's off here."

00:00:41,332 --> 00:00:44,[narrator] When you feel the odds
shifting against you,

00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:47,there is one proven way
to turn the game around...

00:00:47,589 --> 00:00:48,[shouts]

00:00:48,590 --> 00:00:49,... raise the stakes.

00:00:50,425 --> 00:00:52,That's where the apocalypse comes in.

00:00:54,512 --> 00:00:59,It is much easier to control people
when there's some kind of imminent danger.

00:00:59,476 --> 00:01:03,They're not gonna question you
when they think the world's about to end.

00:01:04,272 --> 00:01:05,[explodes]

00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:08,[narrator] Take it
from Marshall Applewhite,

00:01:08,568 --> 00:01:11,known to his followers as "Do."

00:01:11,863 --> 00:01:15,He and his partner Bonnie Nettles,
known as "Ti,"

00:01:15,784 --> 00:01:18,earned decades of devotion
by promising to lead

00:01:18,787 --> 00:01:22,members of their group
Heaven's Gate off planet Earth

00:01:23,041 --> 00:01:26,and towards eternal life
at the edge of the galaxy.

00:01:28,046 --> 00:01:32,We are now so programmed
to so easily accept death,

00:01:32,467 --> 00:01:34,but there are alternatives.

00:01:35,261 --> 00:01:37,[narrator] Climb aboard their spacecraft

00:01:37,347 --> 00:01:41,and let Do reveal how to stop worrying
about the end of the world

00:01:41,726 --> 00:01:44,and make it work for you.

00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,Advertise your product or brand here
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00:01:57,283 --> 00:01:59,Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles,

00:01:59,828 --> 00:02:02,better known as Ti and Do,

00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:05,combined Christianity, New Age mysticism,

00:02:05,750 --> 00:02:08,and a healthy dose of science fiction

00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:11,to convince their followers
to drop out of society

00:02:11,798 --> 00:02:15,and prepare for a one-way
interstellar trip to eternity.

00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:19,They g***t to the point
where they convinced the members

00:02:19,097 --> 00:02:22,that they were not human beings,

00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:25,that they were originally
from this other world.

00:02:25,603 --> 00:02:27,[narrator] It didn't happen overnight.

00:02:28,523 --> 00:02:31,When we think about Heaven's Gate,
we think about the ending in '
00:02:31,734 --> 00:02:33,with the mass suicides,

00:02:33,236 --> 00:02:37,but they began back in the '70s.
They have about 20 years of history.

00:02:38,449 --> 00:02:40,[narrator] Let's take it back
even further.

00:02:47,417 --> 00:02:50,[Benjamin] Marshall Herff Applewhite
was born in 1932 in Texas.

00:02:50,378 --> 00:02:53,His father was a very successful
Presbyterian minister.

00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:59,Much of the focus was on redemption,
getting saved, salvation, and so forth.

00:03:00,096 --> 00:03:02,Herff grew up
wanting to be like his father,

00:03:02,307 --> 00:03:05,wanting to live a meaningful life
and see meaning in his life.

00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:09,[narrator] At first, he thought
that meaning was musical theater.

00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:12,He was a performer,

00:03:12,108 --> 00:03:13,he was a music teacher.

00:03:13,985 --> 00:03:15,He was quite handsome.

00:03:15,862 --> 00:03:19,[Janja] He had a great head of hair
and blue eyes.

00:03:19,490 --> 00:03:22,[narrator] But it turned out
he was fated for even greater pursuits.

00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:25,In the early 1970s,

00:03:25,914 --> 00:03:29,he began to experience
a series of disconcerting

00:03:29,584 --> 00:03:31,religious spiritual experiences.

00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:36,[Benjamin] He thought he heard voices,
he thought he felt some sort of calling.

00:03:36,674 --> 00:03:39,He had this sense
that he had something to do

00:03:39,469 --> 00:03:43,and had a purpose beyond
just merely teaching music in Texas.

00:03:48,519 --> 00:03:51,[Janja] Bonnie was a die-hard New Ager.

00:03:51,356 --> 00:03:53,She already had a practice

00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:58,of leading seances
and doing astrology charts.

00:03:58,821 --> 00:04:00,She read his chart,

00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,and she determined that Herff's fate
was intertwined with hers.

00:04:05,453 --> 00:04:07,From the beginning,
they saw themselves as destined

00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:10,to create something new, special, radical.

00:04:14,587 --> 00:04:17,They drove around the country
trying to figure out

00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:21,what the meaning of life was,
what their purpose in life was.

00:04:22,470 --> 00:04:24,[narrator] They discovered
they shared a destiny

00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:27,to witness the end of days
described in the Bible.

00:04:29,143 --> 00:04:31,But instead of Jesus
coming to save the righteous,

00:04:32,021 --> 00:04:35,Marshall and Bonnie envisioned
a different form of salvation.

00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:38,They believed salvation
was on board a UFO,

00:04:38,987 --> 00:04:43,and the elect would be lifted up
and sail off into the literal heavens,

00:04:43,491 --> 00:04:44,into outer space,

00:04:44,951 --> 00:04:47,while the rest of us
would be left behind to be recycled,

00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:49,for our planet to be destroyed.

00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,[narrator] And when you discover
a truth this powerful,

00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:57,you can't keep it to yourself.

00:04:57,964 --> 00:05:03,They have this sense of personal destiny
and vision to carry out the mission.

00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:04,[David] "We have the key."

00:05:04,887 --> 00:05:06,[narrator] Love the confidence,

00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:08,but how do you convince people
you're for real?

00:05:15,481 --> 00:05:18,Being a visionary
means seeing things others can't.

00:05:19,277 --> 00:05:20,Embrace that gift.

00:05:20,945 --> 00:05:22,Cult leaders say, in some ways,

00:05:22,947 --> 00:05:27,"I or we are the prophet.
We know the truth."

00:05:27,577 --> 00:05:31,It's hard for the mere mortal
to really understand God's plan,

00:05:31,414 --> 00:05:34,but the cult leader
understands God's plan.

00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:36,Everyone else is living in the dark.

00:05:37,253 --> 00:05:39,[narrator] It's up to you
to light up the darkness,

00:05:40,256 --> 00:05:42,which is exactly what Bonnie and Marshall,

00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:45,Ti and Do, set out to do.

00:05:45,261 --> 00:05:48,We have the most potent truth

00:05:49,557 --> 00:05:53,that could be conveyed to any mind.

00:05:57,523 --> 00:05:59,[narrator] When the pair started out,

00:05:59,150 --> 00:06:01,their intergalactic predictions
should've been catnip

00:06:01,944 --> 00:06:03,for the sci-fi crowd.

00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:05,[Benjamin] In the 1970s,

00:06:05,323 --> 00:06:09,there were lots of folks
interested in UFOs, ufology, sightings,

00:06:09,952 --> 00:06:12,questions about crashes of flying saucers.

00:06:13,081 --> 00:06:16,There were real scientists,
real government leaders,

00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:20,military leaders, who did think
UFOs were not fringe, were very real.

00:06:20,546 --> 00:06:22,[narrator] Yet in their first year,

00:06:22,757 --> 00:06:25,Applewhite and Nettles' recruiting efforts
brought them a whopping

00:06:26,886 --> 00:06:27,one follower.

00:06:30,306 --> 00:06:33,But if at first
your truth doesn't catch on,

00:06:33,184 --> 00:06:35,you might just need more pizzazz.

00:06:36,270 --> 00:06:37,[upbeat music playing]

00:06:38,272 --> 00:06:40,[narrator] In spring of 1975,

00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,Ti and Do arrive
in the San Fernando Valley

00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:46,to give a talk
to a group of New Age enthusiasts.

00:06:49,283 --> 00:06:51,Over 80 people attend the meeting.

00:06:53,663 --> 00:06:56,But the two don't make
much of an impression

00:06:56,958 --> 00:06:59,until Do shares his newest revelation.

00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:01,In fact,

00:07:02,463 --> 00:07:05,Do is not Marshall Herff Applewhite,

00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,[Benjamin] Do is a Next Level alien
from outer space.

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