How To Become A Cult Leader -megusta S01E04 Subtitles

At 00:00:10,468, Character said: [narrator] You've seen how leading a cult
can provide some serious benefits.

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At 00:00:14,848, Character said: [cheering]

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At 00:00:16,266, Character said: [narrator] S***x,

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At 00:00:17,475, Character said: drugs,

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At 00:00:19,602, Character said: even a little rock and roll.

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At 00:00:22,480, Character said: But sadly,
the honeymoon doesn't always last.

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At 00:00:26,943, Character said: When people join a cult, it's so exciting,

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At 00:00:30,280, Character said: but once you're in
and everything starts to stabilize,

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At 00:00:33,867, Character said: that's the time when you maybe
start to see, "Something's off here."

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At 00:00:41,332, Character said: [narrator] When you feel the odds
shifting against you,

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At 00:00:44,294, Character said: there is one proven way
to turn the game around...

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At 00:00:47,589, Character said: [shouts]

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At 00:00:48,590, Character said: ... raise the stakes.

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At 00:00:50,425, Character said: That's where the apocalypse comes in.

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At 00:00:54,512, Character said: It is much easier to control people
when there's some kind of imminent danger.

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At 00:00:59,476, Character said: They're not gonna question you
when they think the world's about to end.

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At 00:01:04,272, Character said: [explodes]

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At 00:01:06,566, Character said: [narrator] Take it
from Marshall Applewhite,

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At 00:01:08,568, Character said: known to his followers as "Do."

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At 00:01:11,863, Character said: He and his partner Bonnie Nettles,
known as "Ti,"

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At 00:01:15,784, Character said: earned decades of devotion
by promising to lead

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At 00:01:18,787, Character said: members of their group
Heaven's Gate off planet Earth

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At 00:01:23,041, Character said: and towards eternal life
at the edge of the galaxy.

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At 00:01:28,046, Character said: We are now so programmed
to so easily accept death,

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At 00:01:32,467, Character said: but there are alternatives.

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At 00:01:35,261, Character said: [narrator] Climb aboard their spacecraft

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At 00:01:37,347, Character said: and let Do reveal how to stop worrying
about the end of the world

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At 00:01:41,726, Character said: and make it work for you.

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At 00:01:57,283, Character said: Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles,

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At 00:01:59,828, Character said: better known as Ti and Do,

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At 00:02:02,122, Character said: combined Christianity, New Age mysticism,

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At 00:02:05,750, Character said: and a healthy dose of science fiction

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At 00:02:08,294, Character said: to convince their followers
to drop out of society

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At 00:02:11,798, Character said: and prepare for a one-way
interstellar trip to eternity.

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At 00:02:15,844, Character said: They g***t to the point
where they convinced the members

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At 00:02:19,097, Character said: that they were not human beings,

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At 00:02:22,142, Character said: that they were originally
from this other world.

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At 00:02:25,603, Character said: [narrator] It didn't happen overnight.

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At 00:02:28,523, Character said: When we think about Heaven's Gate,
we think about the ending in '97

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At 00:02:31,734, Character said: with the mass suicides,

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At 00:02:33,236, Character said: but they began back in the '70s.
They have about 20 years of history.

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At 00:02:38,449, Character said: [narrator] Let's take it back
even further.

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At 00:02:47,417, Character said: [Benjamin] Marshall Herff Applewhite
was born in 1932 in Texas.

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At 00:02:50,378, Character said: His father was a very successful
Presbyterian minister.

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At 00:02:53,840, Character said: Much of the focus was on redemption,
getting saved, salvation, and so forth.

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At 00:03:00,096, Character said: Herff grew up
wanting to be like his father,

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At 00:03:02,307, Character said: wanting to live a meaningful life
and see meaning in his life.

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At 00:03:06,060, Character said: [narrator] At first, he thought
that meaning was musical theater.

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At 00:03:10,023, Character said: He was a performer,

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At 00:03:12,108, Character said: he was a music teacher.

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At 00:03:13,985, Character said: He was quite handsome.

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At 00:03:15,862, Character said: [Janja] He had a great head of hair
and blue eyes.

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At 00:03:19,490, Character said: [narrator] But it turned out
he was fated for even greater pursuits.

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At 00:03:23,745, Character said: In the early 1970s,

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At 00:03:25,914, Character said: he began to experience
a series of disconcerting

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At 00:03:29,584, Character said: religious spiritual experiences.

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At 00:03:31,920, Character said: [Benjamin] He thought he heard voices,
he thought he felt some sort of calling.

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At 00:03:36,674, Character said: He had this sense
that he had something to do

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At 00:03:39,469, Character said: and had a purpose beyond
just merely teaching music in Texas.

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At 00:03:48,519, Character said: [Janja] Bonnie was a die-hard New Ager.

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At 00:03:51,356, Character said: She already had a practice

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At 00:03:53,900, Character said: of leading seances
and doing astrology charts.

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At 00:03:58,821, Character said: She read his chart,

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At 00:04:00,240, Character said: and she determined that Herff's fate
was intertwined with hers.

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At 00:04:05,453, Character said: From the beginning,
they saw themselves as destined

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At 00:04:07,830, Character said: to create something new, special, radical.

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At 00:04:14,587, Character said: They drove around the country
trying to figure out

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At 00:04:17,924, Character said: what the meaning of life was,
what their purpose in life was.

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At 00:04:22,470, Character said: [narrator] They discovered
they shared a destiny

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At 00:04:24,931, Character said: to witness the end of days
described in the Bible.

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At 00:04:29,143, Character said: But instead of Jesus
coming to save the righteous,

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At 00:04:32,021, Character said: Marshall and Bonnie envisioned
a different form of salvation.

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At 00:04:36,401, Character said: They believed salvation
was on board a UFO,

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At 00:04:38,987, Character said: and the elect would be lifted up
and sail off into the literal heavens,

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At 00:04:43,491, Character said: into outer space,

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At 00:04:44,951, Character said: while the rest of us
would be left behind to be recycled,

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At 00:04:47,954, Character said: for our planet to be destroyed.

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At 00:04:53,001, Character said: [narrator] And when you discover
a truth this powerful,

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At 00:04:55,795, Character said: you can't keep it to yourself.

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At 00:04:57,964, Character said: They have this sense of personal destiny
and vision to carry out the mission.

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At 00:05:03,136, Character said: [David] "We have the key."

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At 00:05:04,887, Character said: [narrator] Love the confidence,

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At 00:05:06,639, Character said: but how do you convince people
you're for real?

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At 00:05:15,481, Character said: Being a visionary
means seeing things others can't.

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At 00:05:19,277, Character said: Embrace that gift.

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At 00:05:20,945, Character said: Cult leaders say, in some ways,

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At 00:05:22,947, Character said: "I or we are the prophet.
We know the truth."

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At 00:05:27,577, Character said: It's hard for the mere mortal
to really understand God's plan,

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At 00:05:31,414, Character said: but the cult leader
understands God's plan.

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At 00:05:34,500, Character said: Everyone else is living in the dark.

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At 00:05:37,253, Character said: [narrator] It's up to you
to light up the darkness,

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At 00:05:40,256, Character said: which is exactly what Bonnie and Marshall,

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At 00:05:42,842, Character said: Ti and Do, set out to do.

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At 00:05:45,261, Character said: We have the most potent truth

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At 00:05:49,557, Character said: that could be conveyed to any mind.

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At 00:05:57,523, Character said: [narrator] When the pair started out,

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At 00:05:59,150, Character said: their intergalactic predictions
should've been catnip

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At 00:06:01,944, Character said: for the sci-fi crowd.

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At 00:06:03,863, Character said: [Benjamin] In the 1970s,

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At 00:06:05,323, Character said: there were lots of folks
interested in UFOs, ufology, sightings,

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At 00:06:09,952, Character said: questions about crashes of flying saucers.

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At 00:06:13,081, Character said: There were real scientists,
real government leaders,

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At 00:06:16,334, Character said: military leaders, who did think
UFOs were not fringe, were very real.

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At 00:06:20,546, Character said: [narrator] Yet in their first year,

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At 00:06:22,757, Character said: Applewhite and Nettles' recruiting efforts
brought them a whopping

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At 00:06:26,886, Character said: one follower.

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At 00:06:30,306, Character said: But if at first
your truth doesn't catch on,

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At 00:06:33,184, Character said: you might just need more pizzazz.

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At 00:06:36,270, Character said: [upbeat music playing]

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At 00:06:38,272, Character said: [narrator] In spring of 1975,

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At 00:06:40,400, Character said: Ti and Do arrive
in the San Fernando Valley

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At 00:06:43,569, Character said: to give a talk
to a group of New Age enthusiasts.

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At 00:06:49,283, Character said: Over 80 people attend the meeting.

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At 00:06:53,663, Character said: But the two don't make
much of an impression

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At 00:06:56,958, Character said: until Do shares his newest revelation.

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At 00:07:00,420, Character said: In fact,

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At 00:07:02,463, Character said: Do is not Marshall Herff Applewhite,

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At 00:07:05,800, Character said: [Benjamin] Do is a Next Level alien
from outer space.

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