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Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
It was only a matter of when this would be discussed. Not If. Sometimes I’ll say to my family drink the kool aid or some friends. I was probably a bit too young to know about it though.
A company I used to work for switched to Agile, which is a horrible workflow. They had a person come in to explain the method to us and she kept saying she "Drank the Kool-Aid" for Agile. Not the best choice phrase. Agile ended up making the company close down lmao
My grandma in the 70's loved this guy. She tried to convince my granpa that they should join his church and my grandpa said "that guy is a crazy bullshitter, we're no joing his church".
My dad was part of the clean up. The only time he said anything about it was when I was 11 or 12 on a drive out of town, we were listening to the radio and they had just announced the Mecca hostel collapse. I said something like “wow 75 people all dead in such a small area” and he quietly responded with “I’ve seen something like that once the smell was the worst of it all” it wasn’t until I was a few years older that my mom told me that he was part of the clean up. Whenever something about Jim jones is brought up he’ll either walk away or change the subject immediately.
The photos of the site post-massacre are horrific. What your dad seen with his own eyes would define have been enough to scar anyone. Peace and love to him, and to you.
You can still get grape flavor aid but its hard to find. I thought i would google if you could get it. What i might be seeing is leftover stock and they may have silently discontinued it at some point recently. And here i was told there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Potato. Joe Potato. Drink up! LOL! Heaven's Gate. Third Reich. The Bagwan. Mormons. Scientologists. Democrats. Stop Oil. The Doomsday Sandwich Board Speed Bumps in the Road.
@@zacharymcmillan2788 George Carlin - "Have you listened to someone? And you listened to them some more and realized they were full of shit? There is that moment... Ah-huh. Ah-huh. Ah-huh. Yep! Full of shit!"
It's also theorized he was a communist that tried to get the soviet union to support his cause but even the ussr rejected him saying he was out of control
I had to _make_ myself watch this one. I was attached to the AF security team when talks with the Guyanese about what to do with the bodies fell through *the second time.* By this time, they'd run out of body bags. 19 years old, and my first operational deployment involved 4 days in the Guyanese jungle with a shotgun to keep the critters off the corpses. 4 days. With 900 dead, decomposing bodies in that climate. I still have nightmares and an irrational, seething anger when somebody jokes about it. Until now. Thank you Dank.
Yeah no being that close to the aftermath of what happened it makes complete sense why youd be pissed off when someone made fun of the dead people you slaved away four days protecting and watching over
Thank you for your service, Sir. I don't know what else to say. Sounds like a horrible experience. For everyone. The most ominous part to me isn't that a crazy guy was charismatic, but that so many people went along with him. May you sleep well from now on Sir.
My family had two cousins who only didnt go because they missed the plane. Decided to stay after that, and came to their senses after what happened in Jonestown.
I remember seeing a thing on the survivors. There were several who lived in town away from the commune. They heard about what was going on in Jonestown and were told to kill themselves and most were like “wtf you talking about”.
To kind of quote wendigoon, it's frustrating on a cosmic level how people like Jones decided to ruin the lives of hundreds in such a horrific way all because they can't play god anymore
@@criffermaclennan I'd bet Honestly though I just hope that bastard is rotting in Hell where he belongs for the stuff he pulled and how he got so many people to kill themselves
@@quinnholloway5400 The fanatics are always the ones that break the tenets of their own religion the most. For example, how many radical Islamic groups will literally murder homosexuals just for existing, then fuck each other in the ass when they're bored
We were taught that JJ was a preacher who went mad and lumped in with all the rest of the right wing evangelicals. It was not until years later that I found out he was really a left wing socialist who went nuts. I feel like the teachers in my schools should have led with that part of the story.
Ever wonder how many that are called right wing are actually leftwing? Remember, NAZI is german for National Socialist workers party. That definitely is leftist on the socialist and workers party.
What is that comment suppose to imply? It sounds like you're against lefitists and are low-key trying to demonise them. Generalisation of groups is not factually correct and is not moral either. A group of more than 50 members cannot be generalised. That's like me saying all right-wingers are slavery-pro nutjobs who're all racist/sexist/ect. It's plainly not true. And before anyone tries with this angle, no I'm not a leftist, I don't like being in a group or labelled.
I thought the same thing. "I'm just joking" is a way for people to test the waters and boundaries. Usually it's just people learning to be friendly with each other but occasionally it's someone figuring out how far they can go with you.
Same reason Islamic terrorists due mock execution and mock beheading videos with captives, conditions them to think they can get through by going along with it. Some slaughterhouses use an animal that passes through the premises everyday unharmed and gets fed at the end to lead the rest in to their doom, often called a "judas goat". Jones just made people into their own Judas goat.
The horrifying moment at the end of the tape, for me, is that a human adult had planned this slaughter, was happy with the outcome and selected a pleasant song to wrap up the event as if everything was fine. Evil. No remorse. No hesitation. Pure selfish cruelty and malignant devastation. Control. Power. Zero Empathy, plus this monster enjoys nice music. Gross.
This isn't really what happened though. The music is from a previous recording that Jim Jones taped over. He recorded on the fast setting which is why the music is so slow and creepy sounding. It's at half speed. The end of the recording happens before the adults die but the music keeps going. We don't hear the end which apparently was chaotic and involved several people being shot. Listening to the tape without this context gives the impression that they died quietly while Jones silently looks on listening to creepy music
Emphasis on cyanide not being a instant painless death: people that somehow survive it describe it like their entire bodies being filled with lava, especially at the site of ingestion
It's true. From Willie Brown to Kamala Harris, there's an odd through-line to current era politics (and particularly Californian politics) that intersects directly with Jones' time working with them.
Not just fun but legitimately engaging and thought-provoking. The intricate breakdown of some of these figures early lives, irrelevant yet fascinating tidbits, and random bits of hearsay from witnesses/survivors just adds to the videos what so many educators lack in the classroom.
kinda sad Dank doesn't address the People's Temple Basketball team survived because they were playing an away game, always been a fun fact to a horrific story
A lot of people don’t realize it, one of the players was Jones son Jim Jr whose young wife and infant child perished at Jonestown. But definitely surprised that Dank didn’t mention it
Not exactly a fun fact, given that the basketball team had heard that over 900 people died to the poisoning, and having someone you believed in as some true leader of freedom who showed unconventional love ending up killing the vast majority of Jonestown's residents and then offed himself at the end.
My grandfather had a fishing buddy who was there during the cleanup of Jonestown. Shit that man saw during the aftermath of Jim's order to drink the Kool Aid gave me chills while he talked about it. The fact that one man convinced that many people of that level of devotion through slick words and knowledge is horrifying, both in the capability of and the ease of doing so.
I wouldn't say it was that easy. Bare in mind this mad lad had to constantly keep people interested and unaware of how manipulated they were. It's incredible, and whilst their deaths seem like it was easy for him to carry out, It takes a lot of will and insanity to get people to that point.
Interestingly, I watched a documentary on this years ago. Jones’ son who was at a basketball game representing the cult that day felt that it is unlikely that his father shot himself as he felt his father was too cowardly. He felt it was more likely that the security team did it when Jones failed.
Small fact, Jones was so cheap that he recorded over a tape of music they had on hand, which is why you hear the weird background music. The song at the end is "I'm sorry" by The Delfonics.
One of the things that still gets me is how much political and media protection Jim Jones had. One of his advocates is still serving in congress today! I'm amazed that all of the people who were raving leftist of the 70s went on to have successful political careers, and even served as the speaker of the house. His story really black pills people on American politics.
Particularly politics in California, which now has tent cities in Los Angeles and online “poop maps” guiding people safely through the sidewalks of San Francisco.
The biggest black pill is the una bombers manifesto. Reading it now years later makes me wonder if he was really crazy or just saw through all the BS. Back then we all thought he is just insane, but so much of the stuff he talked about are reality now.
@@spiritmatter1553 Tent cities are because of the 9th Circuit Court that ruled it was a Constitutional right to sleep wherever one pleases. No one has challenged this yet. Also they'll be moved along when enough rich people complain.
@@lainiwakura1776 Oh I'm sure that all those people sold their homes and took up living in tents on the streets because that's been their life long dream, and prior to this they were held back only by supreme court not having ruled that they can. Do you and the muppet that thumbed up your post have an actual working brain?
An uncle of mine was the pilot of the plane that transported the bodies of the Jonestown Massacre home. He never really talks about it but the most I've heard him say is that he can never get the smell out of his head or the sight of the cargo hold...
Wym bro he was a communist since the beginning, and political extremists always do this kinda shit. They scare you with a lie, convince you they have the solution and break your soul if you question them. Dude just looked at all of our governments and applied it to a social justice movement like people today are doing.
About the song at the end of the tape; someone pointed out in the comments of one video of it, "I'm Sorry" by The Delfonics (1968) was being played. It was being played at half-speed, hence the demonic groans. It's just the distorted vocals.
kind of clever from a psychological and tactical standpoint. marxism already functions like a cult so draping it in religious iconography was just streamlining the process.
Honestly I would love to see a video where someone just changes the name of Jim Jones and presents his story chronologically, just to see how many people really appreciate him, before they realize exactly who he is. Also, I said 'Hasan' the same moment Dank said it, made me laugh for a minute and a half straight.
I kid you not: I ended up doing a high school presentation on Jonestown. I remember listening to the death tape for the project and being fucking shook by it. Absolute madman.
Glad you mentioned Jones' close connections to the Californian Democrat party. It's worth mentioning he knew both Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein, as well as Milk and Moscone and Jimmy Carter's sister.
@@CrispyWater4SaleOh no they were. They believed black people had a right to access white people's everything and force integration and interaction against white people's will. That's pretty supremacist. I'm tired of this false narrative that the "civil rights movement" was anything but strong armed tyranny forcing whites into something they didn't want. Whites have a right to segregate themselves if they wish to, as does everyone.
I'm pretty blown away by now, how much crazy shit happened during the 70s. Jonestown, The Ant Hill Kids, The Andes plane crash. That decade seemed to be pretty intense to say the least.
i'm fully convincedd that the entire decade of the 70s was under some kind of curse. even photographs from the time have an unnerving tone in them that's very difficult to describe other than just being "off"
@@HaartieeTRUE he's been known to partake. I genuinely dunno why he wouldn't like it though, he's clever enough to get it, and there's even a trap on the show !
There is but they do everything possible to stay alive and avoid it as long as possible usually jim just got hunted down because he murdered a politician
Fonda was also involved with her then senator husband. She talked on their shortwave broadcasts. Her involvement was kept on the down-low, and her code name was...messiah.
@@hermaeusmora2945 I listened to the whole damm thing a couple years ago. It's not so much a series on Jonestown and more Jonestown + the contextualisation of the social climate of the America he lived in...with the latter taking up more of the series than Jones and his cult Such a shame the creator kind of became a bit of a right wing loony...he's the closest anyone's come to Dan Carlin works IMO
The entire story of jonestown is so insane and well documented im surprised dankula managed to keep the video just under 2 hours. Apart from heavens gate, its probably the most well documented case of a crazy cult going out with a bang, or in this case, with a punch. Hoping for a madlads on Osho in the future.
there's a great Philion video on Osho that I thoroughly enjoyed. I had no idea how nuts that whole thing was, and I still see people quoting that bastard
@@BurghezulDjentilom didn't know that, I'll def check it out. And yeah, the whole Osho commune stuff is insane, to this day the Osho org guys claim the whole terrorist cell thing was done by a fringe group but you can just tell stuff was going crazy and Osho himself knew of it all but prob was too high off his rockers and driving his royces to even care. @brumslybrumbino9516 Didn't watch it, but now that you mentioned I'll have a look The whole Osho thing is really interesting cause it's a clear example of how stuff could have gone incredibly bad for everyone but somehow didn't (well, hundreds of people didn't end up dead, at least), although it was still shady as all hell. It's also interesting how Osho changed his ideas and behavior along the years, going from "Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed are dumb I'm the new messiah" to "oh I'm like this new age philosopher pls buy my book" in the span of a decade.
Yo. The untold part of the story that personally I think is important is: What the hell is up with Leo Ryan? Yeah, he got killed. But how the crap did he inspect the premises and find that everything was just peachy keen? If Jones hadn't freaked, Ryan would've allowed this nightmare hell-town to continue.
RIP to all those who died or were injured due to this madness. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (Leo Ryan’s aide at that time) has been to my mother’s home a few times about 15 years ago while running for congress. I don’t like her politics but she was very kind.
Dan Mitrione is a very interesting character deeply tied to this story and is rarely brought up when mentioning Jonestown. Neither is the fact that "Jonestown" wasnt the first Jonestown Jim had made. The welcome sign at the entrance even calls it Jonestown II.
What a great way to tell us that you've slept through most if not all of your history lessons. There have always been horrible tyrants, many way worse than this guy. Only someone with blinders on can believe that this doesn't sound like something tribal human apes would come up with in real life.
Normally, it is communist dictators who cause this kinda evil shit. Like that time Soviat Russia set up a place full of wrong thinkers, and people quickly turned to cannablism in order to survive...
The sheer insanity that there were parents willing to squirt literal poison into their own children's mouth genuinely breaks my heart. As a father this just breaks both my brain and my heart knowing this happened. Of all the insane disturbing and disgusting mad lads ive watched, this one really hits me the hardest.😢
I mean, the entire world went nuts for two years and shoved an improperly tested poison into their kids arms. They sacrificed the mental health and education of their kids. Somehow these same people don't have the self awareness to realize they can also fall for the most ridiculous of propaganda. Is Jonestown really all that far beyond the pale.
Yep, same here. Watched a documentary called, 'Korea: The Forgotten War' or something similar. It was on at about 7:30 pm on one of those shitty digital channels. In it, there is footage of a woman running from American soldiers, throwing her baby off a cliff and then jumping after, all because she believed the propaganda that American soldiers were literally cannibalistic vampires, come to torture and eat them. I remember the clip just flashing on the screen for about 3 seconds and I'd never felt tears literally gushing from my eyes before that moment.
Hahaha nice. I worked at liquor store and a guy named Jim Jones came in and I looked at his ID and he goes, "If you ask me if I mix this with Kool-Aid, I'm leaving" 😂
I had no idea they were communists. Now the whole shit show makes sense. Amazing how 1:1 what happened with other communists around the world. His end was just more direct then most communists. So sad for the children.
That's by design. You're also not supposed to learn that he had connections with all the Democrat politicians in San Francisco including the mayor and the Congressional representatives. One of those being Nancy Pelosi.
I had never read or heard a detailed description of the Jonestown massacre before this. I have never been brought so close to sickness or tears by a RUclips video before. And the joke at the end... I never thought I would laugh so hard at something so profoundly fucked. This episode was a ride.
Hey kid, I was 13 when this shit went down and my parents were new born again Christians dragging me through all kinna church shit including another cult surfacing called 'The Way' Looking back, I know it was just them not being able to handle their drugs if choice or their jobs. Fast forward, Mom's fine, dad's gone after a long run, and the kids are 29:34 alright!
The tragedy is so horrific it seems removed from reality. It makes it possible to make jokes. And many jokes have been made. You should listen to audio of that last white night if you really wanna be traumatized. It's harrowing to say the least. The only thing to take away from this is that it hasn't happened again any where close to the scale of Jonestown. That we know of at least.
There's a full audio recording of the entire massacre. I've listened to the whole thing. It's exactly what you'd expect it to be. Lots of distressed sounding people, crying children, all followed by silence. You literally hear all of them die.
First I'll say, best complete telling of Jonestown I've ever encountered. Truly well done Mark. Being around at that time and close to where what went down in the states happened, I remember the building climate of what lead up to the "mass ending" of the members. It wasn't like the general public didn't know he was a psycho and dangerous to his followers and others. Jones was a topic at the time. Later, the attack at the airport was all over the news and the aerial footage of the dead at the compound was also. There was a lot of cult stuff happening in the 60s and 70s. In the summer of 69 we had the Manson murders happen not 70 miles/96 kilometers away. My own parents at the time made efforts to tell me to stay away from the people of a certain cult based in our area. When people like me say the 70's were a wild time, we're not just talking about disco.
Lots of serial killers were afoot in the 70s, too. A lot of airline hijackings also took place back then, as there were literally no laws against it at the time.
Wanna go down a nice rabbit hole? Look into how many of those serial killers and cults had government connections. Not just "known to law enforcement" but some were active informants. Get a little deeper and check out the satanic panic, then follow the trail of government involvement there. The Finders is a good place to start.
@@spiritmatter1553the 70’s was a decade full of disillusionment, disenfranchisement, nihilism and a whole lot of other things that seemed to bring out the craziest and worst things in people. I’m noticing a similar thing happening here today. I feel like in many ways, this country has returned to where it was in the 70’s. High Inflation, A Recession, Crises in the Middle East, a Botched Withdrawal from a foreign country by the US Military, high Oil prices and insanely hot weather, people are at each others throats, people are extremely alienated, disillusioned and disenfranchised, people are losing faith in the government and the system. Things have returned to where it was in the 70’s. If you truly want an example of this, look up the “I’m Mad as Hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” scene from the 1976 movie Network.
Whenever I was younger I was always confused as to why cults always seem to be dominated by the college-educated. Now that I'm older and have seen how the college-educated-leftists actually act and think, I now understand why they join colts.
College just teaches you how to fall in line in a Corporate Structure. Being taught to Obey "those that know better" is a pretty useful existing trait in potential cultists.
In fairness to Hyacinth Thrash, not only was she in her 70's, she was working the same 12 hour days and being woken up in the middle of the night for a year.
The audio of the Final Sermon from Jones is something I listened to years ago due to morbid curiosity. It haunts me, still. Also: I left a comment to help combat the Algorithm Menace! I’m doing my part, too!
I remember this story so well. I was in college. There were lots of cults, gurus, alternative belief communes in those years. It wasn’t uncommon to hear of parents abducting their children from some whack-a-doodle commune to have them “deprogrammed.” Even those of us raised on remote farms and ranches were warned of the dangers. Whatever happened to the Hare Krishnas? They used to haunt airports, handing out flowers to travellers.
The Hare Krishnas had a much less dramatic fate: They literally annoyed people so fucking much that the government made it illegal to solicit at airports and other such travel areas.
They are still around. I occasionally come across them as there is a centre in my city; even attended a couple of gatherings. Gave me an interesting insight into the seduction of music and chanting.
@@lonalxaiathat's a harsh thing to say about the cult members who were persuaded into ending themselves by an actual devil. Maybe have some empathy for the innocents?
@@lonalxaia I'm certain that God shows mercy and forgiveness and that's a Christian value so to have no empathy for dead innocent children. That doesn't sound like a Christian value at all. The kind of narrative that fake christians like you preach of zero forgiveness, zero empathy, no mercy, that's not Christian that's Satanic and I hope you find Jesus in your heart someday.
I can't believe that Hubbard basically claimed that aliens drove in spaceships that looked like a boeing jetliner... and a surprising number of people with more or less full mental faculties didn't slowly back away while holding laughter I'm just gonna make my own cult. We worship Froda, the holder of the "individual ring". He drives a car similar to the flintstones, but actually he's an alien from a galaxy in the outer regions of the known universe, and no one can truly be cool and wise without understanding his teachings. For more info, please pay me.
@@spiritmatter1553 Ehhh well, I'd say any posessions on this planet are meaningless in our destination: Isengardia. So I don't really want any money. That said, mantaining a church is hard and costly and Froda won't heed our call until we're a big group of spiritually enlightened beings, so a Level I membership would be $400. Welcome to the first level of enlightenment, here's a book about Froda. Only 29 levels left to be ready for the next level... of existence :D
@@unocualqu1era Unlike every other cult that's been formed, this one sounds dope as hell. Do I get my flinstones foot-powered car before or after payment?
@@lordpumpkinhead265 To get your own flinstones foot-powered car, you need to reach level 3 enlightenment, it's not just a random requirement, it's necessary so that you can start to learn to drive it like it's mean to be driven, and reach [REDACTED] once your training is complete. But fear not! We do gatherings at random cities every month where everyone can get in the foot-powered car, so you can get in it for free (and if the Master of Legs likes you enough, she'll let you drive!) so just stay in touch for these opportunities :D
The death tape is very graphic and intense. The difference between fiction and reality is very clear listening to this. I couldnt finish it. Mostly because i dont think its a mentally healthy experience. Knowing it exist, and that this happened, on the other hand, i believe is important for a clearer perspective of the world we share, for me at least. All the darkness we let into our minds, eventually overclouds all joy in life. Treat your mind with repsect.
I hate my morbid curiosity but love the fact you went all in on telling this story. Most that cover this in the past go from upbringing to lead up your massacre so this was really well done 👏
Great video dank, I was stationed at Dover AFB, one of our civilian Contractors was also stationed and he said nearly every poor bastard who worked in the airfield was tasked to help the morgue staff unloading bodys from the cargo planes. Also the Morgue in base has a plaque of conflicts/loss of life with numbers from the place, the 918 from Jonestown is there along with many others
I've been to the hanger were they bodies were kept and the shear size of that building to be completely full and over flowing with the bodies is genuinely staggering. I was told you saw those dark blue buses rolling into the base nonstop. People still have bad memories about that.
It's actually quite astonishing how many people would drink the kool aid. No matter how many deaths have been had by this sort of thing, a lot of people today still drink it....just not the poison varieties.
It actually makes me uncomfortable how "drank the kool-aid" has become lexicon. Yes, it's darkly humorous, and a cautionary tale, but I think anyone who has heard the children dying on the 'death tape' would find it's almost blaise useage in modern discourse a bit disgusting. I suspect everyone is a little too divorced from the origins of the phrase.
Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
I almost didn't watch this, because I thought "I've seen enough about Jim Jones, what else could there be?". But goddamn, this was by far more in depth and detailed than anything else I've ever watched about it. I'm genuinely shocked at all the new things I learned here.
The parallels between Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Venezuela to Jonestown is uncanny. It’s like they didn’t have an entire government to bankrupt before falling into disarray. Just themselves.
The final tape is legitimately the worst thing I've ever heard, and you are dead right about the last moments of the tape has such an evil menacing atmosphere to it, that it would make the most devout Skeptic believe in the existence of The Devil.
I was excited when I found it on RUclips, I love the one that play's footage of everyday life on the compound including the aftermath filmed by the police. It taught me not to take the easy route of insemination, the people may seem nice, kind and friendly but that's how they reel you in.
I don’t want to listen to this tape, but curiousity’s telling me to do it. The words that You and Dank said makes me imagine what kind of horrid shit what had happened in that camp.
Imagine being one of his former classmates and hearing about the massacre. "Jim Jones? Why is that name familiar? Oh shit, that was that really creepy kid at school. Yeah, I can see that."
@@devoteeofmediocrity821 Most people can tell when they're dealing with an insane person. That's why cults have to target people in vulnerable points in their lives, because those are people who are willing to ignore their instincts
I couldn't stay away from the audio, not having known that it even existed.. Jesus Christ, it's absolutely gutwrenching, and I agree with Dank that Jim Jones truly deserves his own circle of Hell for what he put those poor children through
@@DaughterCesar If listening serves something more than ghoulish curiosity, and you've got a coroner's/mortician's constitution for the lugubrious, give it a listen. Otherwise, Dank's not wrong when he says there's something of the devil's presence looming in the ambience towards the end of it. I can guarantee that you'll know what is meant by that (and it *will* stay with you), even if you're not usually someone to frame things in the theological.
I have had a love-hate relationship with Dankula’s style of presentation. But after that Steins Gate comment in the opener it is now a firm love. A man of such bravery deserves our reverence.
What i find most fascinating about Jim Jones is the fact that people dont realize the tactics he used, and how they use that same tactic to gain an audience. Fortunately, I dont think we have to worry about MovieBob pulling the same stuff. He'd probably drink the kool-aid before handing it all out
His name being included in the most factual yet unremarkable way is the ultimate slap in his face, if you believe the "soul" lives on after physical deletion; it's the ultimate "kick in the nards" to his ego. That, and historical accuracy, is what makes me approve of his name being included amongst the rest.
Absolutely, he'd rather be 'legend', which is why the death tape even exists, so listing him as just one unremarkable name among hundreds is the ultimate denial of that.
This video was epic. I've seen a lot on this turd, but I loved this video. The delivery, level of info, just enough comedy while still being serious. This entire series is gold.
Congratulations Dank on 1 Million Subscribers!! After years of craziness always pushing ahead you deserve it! So glad you chose to use your amazing story telling gift to create awesome content in both the mad lad and Scottish mythology series. So happy happy for you and as always look forward whats next. Best wishes!
It really has to be stressed how thankful I am that Dank did the correct thing and emphasized just how much communism was critical to this event. So many histories of Jonestown purposefully skip this fact and try to lump in Jones with the conception that his cult was somehow "right wing" because they were religious. Because the propaganda never ends.
Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
Jim Jones almost ensured I was never born. My great-grandmother snatched my grandma (a devoted pentacostal, and follower of Jones in Indy) and mom up off the bus-stop before the bus to California pulled out of the station.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE CRAZIEST COINCIDENCE EVER. Yestarday i was watching your heavens gate video and i went to look to see if you made a video on jonestown. I was shocked when i saw you hadnt made one since you often cover cults and jonestown is probably the most infamous cult. LITERALLY THE NEXT DAY YOU POST THIS!!! Life is crazy.
I highly recommend the podcast series on Jonestown called “God’s Socialist” from Martyrmade. It goes really deep, and devoted whole episodes to the context of civil rights and black panthers followed by the descent into radical revolutionary lunacy with the Weather Underground and SLC, peppered in throughout the Jonestown narrative to offer context. It’s unbelievably wild. Other than that, this is the best content there is on Jonestown online I’m convinced
This same premise for a video would actually be really good for a video on Mao given his ability to essentially rile up the masses to do whatever he wanted during the Cultural Revolution.
@@Noperarethe Chinese people didn’t trust him. It was the Chinese children and teenagers. If you look at the cultural revolution, most of the redguards were in middle school. They went along because Mao convinced them that they would be heroes for their deeds. He played into their innocence and naïveté
@@Noperaremakes you wonder if their supposedly huge iq is even real just because youre good at math and science doesnt mean you arent capable of committing horrible atrocity’s over again
They didn't. The cultural revolution happened because Mao was about to be demoted. He avoided it by rallying brainwashed youth into the red guards...which would even fight each other for purity. The army had to step in. The red guards are seen as a somewhat lost generation. Sending them to farm labour wasn't a bad idea.
I remember that incident. We had moved to Lubbock, TX in 1976 when I was in the middle of the 3rd grade. I remember hearing about this almost non-stop for several days. It was all over TV. But as a kid, I really didn't know the back story or the history. You did a commendable job! I will have to say that as a "foreigner" you're dropping U.S. specific culture/politics references like an American. I don't know how you keep up with another countries crap, but good on ya.
In any given situation, just think of the most braindead thing you could possibly do to make it as bad as possible and then realize that the most intelligent journalist on Earth would have no trouble coming up with something infinitely worse.
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Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
"MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER PLEASE"
Do an episode on Varg Vikernes and the whole Norwegian black metal scene in the early 90s. It would be pure kino
It was only a matter of when this would be discussed. Not
If. Sometimes I’ll say to my family drink the kool aid or some friends. I was probably a bit too young to know about it though.
A company I used to work for switched to Agile, which is a horrible workflow. They had a person come in to explain the method to us and she kept saying she "Drank the Kool-Aid" for Agile. Not the best choice phrase. Agile ended up making the company close down lmao
Say what you will about him, but he was one of the world’s best boxers. He knocked out 900+ people with one punch.
Fuck man that’s dark
Hahah
Take your like and go.
@@tony_5156 too soon?
this is the kind of content I come to the comments for
So what you're saying is, he's the real life One Punch Man
My grandma in the 70's loved this guy. She tried to convince my granpa that they should join his church and my grandpa said "that guy is a crazy bullshitter, we're no joing his church".
Your grandpa was based (and a life saver)
Grandpa was wise.
Wow you exist due to your grandads good sense
There's a reason a man should be the head of the household.
Grandpa was a smart man
My dad was part of the clean up. The only time he said anything about it was when I was 11 or 12 on a drive out of town, we were listening to the radio and they had just announced the Mecca hostel collapse. I said something like “wow 75 people all dead in such a small area” and he quietly responded with “I’ve seen something like that once the smell was the worst of it all” it wasn’t until I was a few years older that my mom told me that he was part of the clean up. Whenever something about Jim jones is brought up he’ll either walk away or change the subject immediately.
Jesus, that's heavy. Must've been hard for him to move past that.
@@329linkdose anyone really get over something like that !
Wow. I'd likely act the same.
The photos of the site post-massacre are horrific. What your dad seen with his own eyes would define have been enough to scar anyone. Peace and love to him, and to you.
I don't blame him
He likely wanted to keep himself from thinking about that entire situation as much as possible
The biggest victim here is Kool-Aid, who has been taking the bullets for Flavor-Aid for over 50 yrs.
Truth.
@@winterborn735
Lmao true 😂
You can still get grape flavor aid but its hard to find. I thought i would google if you could get it.
What i might be seeing is leftover stock and they may have silently discontinued it at some point recently.
And here i was told there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Tried it one time in here netherlands what a trash what that
The scariest thing isn't that Jones was nuts, it's that people believed him.
Potato. Joe Potato. Drink up! LOL! Heaven's Gate. Third Reich. The Bagwan. Mormons. Scientologists. Democrats. Stop Oil. The Doomsday Sandwich Board Speed Bumps in the Road.
He would have had a very successful career as a politician nowadays
Anyone can be manipulated. *Anyone.* That's why we have to be careful
"It is far easier to hoodwink someone than to convince them that they've been hoodwinked." - Mark Twain -
@@zacharymcmillan2788 George Carlin - "Have you listened to someone? And you listened to them some more and realized they were full of shit? There is that moment... Ah-huh. Ah-huh. Ah-huh. Yep! Full of shit!"
I'm completely unsurprised to learn that Jim Jones was a door-to-door monkey salesman.
It's also theorized he was a communist that tried to get the soviet union to support his cause but even the ussr rejected him saying he was out of control
He also had a pet chimpanzee believe or not.
@@ghanttchart2851 That's a really messed up way to refer to his adopted son
@@bustavonnutznah 💀
Hey man, I've been looking everywhere for a dancing stoner monkey.
I had to _make_ myself watch this one. I was attached to the AF security team when talks with the Guyanese about what to do with the bodies fell through *the second time.* By this time, they'd run out of body bags. 19 years old, and my first operational deployment involved 4 days in the Guyanese jungle with a shotgun to keep the critters off the corpses. 4 days. With 900 dead, decomposing bodies in that climate. I still have nightmares and an irrational, seething anger when somebody jokes about it. Until now.
Thank you Dank.
Thank you for your service.
You have my sympathy, and my prayers.
Yeah no being that close to the aftermath of what happened it makes complete sense why youd be pissed off when someone made fun of the dead people you slaved away four days protecting and watching over
Holy sh... this comment should be pinned to the top. Incredible.
Thank you for your service, Sir. I don't know what else to say. Sounds like a horrible experience. For everyone. The most ominous part to me isn't that a crazy guy was charismatic, but that so many people went along with him. May you sleep well from now on Sir.
My family had two cousins who only didnt go because they missed the plane. Decided to stay after that, and came to their senses after what happened in Jonestown.
Your cousins dodged one massive bullet
I remember seeing a thing on the survivors. There were several who lived in town away from the commune. They heard about what was going on in Jonestown and were told to kill themselves and most were like “wtf you talking about”.
That's God saving them
@hereisapictureofabroom they dodged one punch bro, come on now.
get it, the punch, eh, eh?
ill see myself out
@@imgrindin"I'll see myself out" **big sip**
Video got contexed, Dankula finally gotten the Parental Advisory seal of approval. Good shit.
ublock origin no more context
ReVanced Extended - no context spam here either. 🤷♂️
@@interstellarsurfer I got it “encyclopedia Britannica” or some shite
Gotta love a context warning on a video about a man who convinced over 900 people to kill themselves. What other context is necessary?
He often covers terrible events, but this one is just mainstream for America.
To kind of quote wendigoon, it's frustrating on a cosmic level how people like Jones decided to ruin the lives of hundreds in such a horrific way all because they can't play god anymore
I love Wendigoon, but the irony of him saying that as a youth pastor is not lost on me.
@@Owen2108 how is that ironic if you don't mind me asking
@@ThatAllSeeingEyeHe calls it “ironic” because he thinks religion is evil. Probably one of those insufferably dogmatic atheists.
@@Owen2108 Not really ironic at all considering the only thing your average Youth Pastor kills on a regular basis is any sense of decent fashion.
@@chipsdubbo4861and a trust in men forever in many teenage females in the congregation…
The fact there's an actual audio recording of their demise is both fascinating and chilling in equal measure.
I refuse to listen to it honestly
Too upsetting :(
@quinnholloway5400 totally respect that....all I'll aay is that jones is seriously cold through it all
@@criffermaclennan I'd bet
Honestly though I just hope that bastard is rotting in Hell where he belongs for the stuff he pulled and how he got so many people to kill themselves
@quinnholloway5400 if there is a hell, jones is surely there...religious fanaticism has a lot to answer for.
@@quinnholloway5400 The fanatics are always the ones that break the tenets of their own religion the most. For example, how many radical Islamic groups will literally murder homosexuals just for existing, then fuck each other in the ass when they're bored
We were taught that JJ was a preacher who went mad and lumped in with all the rest of the right wing evangelicals. It was not until years later that I found out he was really a left wing socialist who went nuts. I feel like the teachers in my schools should have led with that part of the story.
Not just your schools, all teachers and their unions are leftist now.
Ever wonder how many that are called right wing are actually leftwing? Remember, NAZI is german for National Socialist workers party. That definitely is leftist on the socialist and workers party.
I mean, given the politics that are heavily prevalent in academia, it's no surprise that they left that part out.
But you know that they fucking wouldn't, not when they continue the 100-years-plus lionization of our first tyrant.
What is that comment suppose to imply? It sounds like you're against lefitists and are low-key trying to demonise them. Generalisation of groups is not factually correct and is not moral either.
A group of more than 50 members cannot be generalised. That's like me saying all right-wingers are slavery-pro nutjobs who're all racist/sexist/ect.
It's plainly not true.
And before anyone tries with this angle, no I'm not a leftist, I don't like being in a group or labelled.
The reason he would claim the wine is poison when it isn’t was to see how his followers would react. He was conditioning them for the real thing.
I thought the same thing. "I'm just joking" is a way for people to test the waters and boundaries. Usually it's just people learning to be friendly with each other but occasionally it's someone figuring out how far they can go with you.
It's just a prank, bro!
@@SiriusSphynxlike when Joe Rogaine called Stephen Crowder "Fukface" then tried to pass it off as friendly banter
Safe and effective
Same reason Islamic terrorists due mock execution and mock beheading videos with captives, conditions them to think they can get through by going along with it.
Some slaughterhouses use an animal that passes through the premises everyday unharmed and gets fed at the end to lead the rest in to their doom, often called a "judas goat". Jones just made people into their own Judas goat.
The horrifying moment at the end of the tape, for me, is that a human adult had planned this slaughter, was happy with the outcome and selected a pleasant song to wrap up the event as if everything was fine. Evil. No remorse. No hesitation. Pure selfish cruelty and malignant devastation. Control. Power. Zero Empathy, plus this monster enjoys nice music. Gross.
This monster only succeeded because people will willing to do his bidding. Willful blindness is a recipe for suicide
I heard the tape myself and wondered how to interpret it. But the idea that this maniac played music to celebrate the murder of his flock...
I agree with dank on this one, the devil was there at the end of that tape, smiling at all the damned souls that Jones collected for him.
That's socialism for you.
This isn't really what happened though. The music is from a previous recording that Jim Jones taped over. He recorded on the fast setting which is why the music is so slow and creepy sounding. It's at half speed. The end of the recording happens before the adults die but the music keeps going. We don't hear the end which apparently was chaotic and involved several people being shot. Listening to the tape without this context gives the impression that they died quietly while Jones silently looks on listening to creepy music
Emphasis on cyanide not being a instant painless death: people that somehow survive it describe it like their entire bodies being filled with lava, especially at the site of ingestion
Jones had a huge impact on California politics that still persists today.
Well Feinstien just died so maybe the connection is finally severed.
@@aaronjustice9020 pelosi is still alive and kicking so i would say not quite yet
@@aaronjustice9020 You forgot Newsom?
It's true. From Willie Brown to Kamala Harris, there's an odd through-line to current era politics (and particularly Californian politics) that intersects directly with Jones' time working with them.
@@lancebaylis3169I thought I heard about this. How was jones connected to these guys?
This is genuinely some of the best educational content on youtube, if only all teachers made it this fun studying historical figures
Not just fun but legitimately engaging and thought-provoking.
The intricate breakdown of some of these figures early lives, irrelevant yet fascinating tidbits, and random bits of hearsay from witnesses/survivors just adds to the videos what so many educators lack in the classroom.
Dank being based as shit also helps
And I don't need to write a 5 page essay after watching the video that helps.
The thick Scottish accent doesn't hurt a bit.
@@pintolerance785Well, you do now. Get to work young man, or wahmen, or otherkin, or whatever else you kids are into these days 😁
kinda sad Dank doesn't address the People's Temple Basketball team survived because they were playing an away game, always been a fun fact to a horrific story
A lot of people don’t realize it, one of the players was Jones son Jim Jr whose young wife and infant child perished at Jonestown. But definitely surprised that Dank didn’t mention it
Not exactly a fun fact, given that the basketball team had heard that over 900 people died to the poisoning, and having someone you believed in as some true leader of freedom who showed unconventional love ending up killing the vast majority of Jonestown's residents and then offed himself at the end.
Did they win?
@@devoteeofmediocrity821 I bet it was bittersweet.
Jim Jones is a real example of, "Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
🤣😭🤣
Well, they might’ve if they hadn’t been injected with cyanide
Ouch...
I don't get it.
@@rydz656I think because he gave the kids koolaid so…
"This isnt lean, in fact everyone who drank it ended up prone" is such a good line
More of a joke you make among close friends and not publicly when there are people still alive who lost loved ones in the event.
@@RedTail1-1 You're taking this way too far, it was all funny then you show up. More of a bias you keep to yourself
My grandfather had a fishing buddy who was there during the cleanup of Jonestown. Shit that man saw during the aftermath of Jim's order to drink the Kool Aid gave me chills while he talked about it. The fact that one man convinced that many people of that level of devotion through slick words and knowledge is horrifying, both in the capability of and the ease of doing so.
I wouldn't say it was that easy. Bare in mind this mad lad had to constantly keep people interested and unaware of how manipulated they were. It's incredible, and whilst their deaths seem like it was easy for him to carry out, It takes a lot of will and insanity to get people to that point.
Not Kool aid. It was "Flavor-Aid" a cheap knockoff
*Flavour Aid
@@col.cottonhill6655Kool-Aid is the cheap soft drink knock off. Flavor Aid is the cheaper soft drink knock off.
@@oz_jones we don't spell flavor with a U. Not in 'Merica
Interestingly, I watched a documentary on this years ago. Jones’ son who was at a basketball game representing the cult that day felt that it is unlikely that his father shot himself as he felt his father was too cowardly. He felt it was more likely that the security team did it when Jones failed.
Damn, if his son thought that about him one can only wonder what their relationship was like
@@nexusthenormie5578 I think he saw his father for what he was. Jim Jones was a cowardly and weak man.
Shivers crept up my spine when you said something was present at the end of the recording. Absolute ice in my veins. This was evil. No doubt
Pretty much 1:1 the experience of hearing it, then.
Could be the sound of evil. . . Could be a mic to close to someone dying passed out
so a slowed down classic song gives you creeps. okay...
@@sodapop83it’s almost like context escapes your small mind
@@proudsaiyanprince2651 Jim Jones apparently recorded over a tape that already had music on it.
Small fact, Jones was so cheap that he recorded over a tape of music they had on hand, which is why you hear the weird background music. The song at the end is "I'm sorry" by The Delfonics.
Damn, that's quite of sardonic
I didn't know you liked the delfonics
@@Billcarsonstobaccobox I'm sorry.
One of the things that still gets me is how much political and media protection Jim Jones had. One of his advocates is still serving in congress today! I'm amazed that all of the people who were raving leftist of the 70s went on to have successful political careers, and even served as the speaker of the house. His story really black pills people on American politics.
Particularly politics in California, which now has tent cities in Los Angeles and online “poop maps” guiding people safely through the sidewalks of San Francisco.
The biggest black pill is the una bombers manifesto. Reading it now years later makes me wonder if he was really crazy or just saw through all the BS. Back then we all thought he is just insane, but so much of the stuff he talked about are reality now.
@@spiritmatter1553 Tent cities are because of the 9th Circuit Court that ruled it was a Constitutional right to sleep wherever one pleases. No one has challenged this yet. Also they'll be moved along when enough rich people complain.
@@lainiwakura1776 Oh I'm sure that all those people sold their homes and took up living in tents on the streets because that's been their life long dream, and prior to this they were held back only by supreme court not having ruled that they can.
Do you and the muppet that thumbed up your post have an actual working brain?
its very sad. And if you entertain anything that goes against the crazy left you get labeled immediately. @@spiritmatter1553
An uncle of mine was the pilot of the plane that transported the bodies of the Jonestown Massacre home. He never really talks about it but the most I've heard him say is that he can never get the smell out of his head or the sight of the cargo hold...
They should have cremated them on site IMO.
Jones’ life is a perfect example of “had us in the first half, not gonna lie”
For sure a funnier start to life then most madlads have
Nah, commies gonna commie
Wym bro he was a communist since the beginning, and political extremists always do this kinda shit. They scare you with a lie, convince you they have the solution and break your soul if you question them. Dude just looked at all of our governments and applied it to a social justice movement like people today are doing.
i mean, if your an idiot.
selling monkeys and fighting against racism is good, if only he did that for the rest of his life.
About the song at the end of the tape; someone pointed out in the comments of one video of it, "I'm Sorry" by The Delfonics (1968) was being played. It was being played at half-speed, hence the demonic groans. It's just the distorted vocals.
Oh man, I’ve been looking forward to the Jim Jones episode. The man single-handedly ended hippie communes in the US
What a man
@user-bm1rh1yk6t I'd say Charles Manson had more to do with discrediting hippies.
@user-bm1rh1yk6teither way just like right wing militia communes they had feds blending in as “one of us man”
Well him and Charles Manson and his batshittery
Helter- Skelter???
"So Jones was basically a 21st century Anglican". I almost busted a gut on that one!
Jones really took Marx's "Religion is the opium of the masses" quite seriously
kind of clever from a psychological and tactical standpoint. marxism already functions like a cult so draping it in religious iconography was just streamlining the process.
Marxism is itself a religion.
Honestly I would love to see a video where someone just changes the name of Jim Jones and presents his story chronologically, just to see how many people really appreciate him, before they realize exactly who he is.
Also, I said 'Hasan' the same moment Dank said it, made me laugh for a minute and a half straight.
I'm gonna steal your video idea.
@@Kodeb8 Go right ahead my guy.
Through in a few modern cultural references and I guarantee you could be talking about any number of real-life people
All the kids buying Myna cookies to support Pokimane.
I'd had a similar thought about hitlers early life. Just make it with fictional countries or something.
Nearly 2 hours of Mad Lads, very nice.
Very deserving.
Bruh, 1:58 is like almost 2 hours. This is like 1.7 hours.
@olivere5497 still one of the longest in a bit.
1.7 hours is nearly 2 hours lol. Do you not get the concept of rounding?
Sod the mug of coffee and sandwich, I'll be back later with 4 tins and a kebab for this!
A toast, to Jones becoming a good communist.
Like any good communist, though, a bunch of innocent people had to die too
Every time a commie perishes, a horde of angels get their wings.
Every time a communist dies, an aborted baby gets its wings@@MikeHunt-zy3cn
@@MikeHunt-zy3cnagreed.
Better dead than red, ladies and gentlemen.
I think the elderly lady that survived by sleeping was able to stay asleep, because of the lack of sleep she had been receiving for the past year.
I had a band in high school called "Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Kids". Terrible name, it reminds me of that tragedy.
It’s a great name for a hardcore band. Was it hardcore?
They didn't drink Kool aid. They used a cheap knock off called Flavor-Aid.
@@leonardticsay8046 death metal, but close enough.
I'm laughing at the band name. Am I a bad person? :) it sounds hilarious
"The worst part about Jones was the hypocricy"
I kid you not: I ended up doing a high school presentation on Jonestown. I remember listening to the death tape for the project and being fucking shook by it. Absolute madman.
Hope you didn't present the tape to the class. That'd be a very quick and easy suspension speed run.
@@pintolerance785 it wasn't the tape that got him suspended it was after the presentation when he tried to hand out flavor-aid to his classmates
@@pintolerance785 showing up dressed as Mr Jones himself did not help my case lol
@@loveshankme Now THAT'S how you capture an audience!
@@loveshankme You got huge balls lmao
Glad you mentioned Jones' close connections to the Californian Democrat party. It's worth mentioning he knew both Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein, as well as Milk and Moscone and Jimmy Carter's sister.
Don't forget his links to the black panthers and other black supremacists
@@ryostu1the black panthers weren't a black supremacist group but the modern day revamped one today is.
Having connections doesn't really mean much of anything honestly
@@CrispyWater4Salemajor cope lmao yes it does
@@CrispyWater4SaleOh no they were. They believed black people had a right to access white people's everything and force integration and interaction against white people's will. That's pretty supremacist. I'm tired of this false narrative that the "civil rights movement" was anything but strong armed tyranny forcing whites into something they didn't want. Whites have a right to segregate themselves if they wish to, as does everyone.
I'm pretty blown away by now, how much crazy shit happened during the 70s. Jonestown, The Ant Hill Kids, The Andes plane crash. That decade seemed to be pretty intense to say the least.
i'm fully convincedd that the entire decade of the 70s was under some kind of curse. even photographs from the time have an unnerving tone in them that's very difficult to describe other than just being "off"
All the serial killers etc.
The 70s definitely are some odd years ngl.
A lot of crazy dark stuff happened back then.
Especially in america.
"Raid has done more for content creators on RUclips than RUclips ever has"
- Gandhi
Dank obviously works for CERN. No other reason to dislike Stein's Gate
That, or its a case of extreme copium overdose.
@@HaartieeTRUE he's been known to partake. I genuinely dunno why he wouldn't like it though, he's clever enough to get it, and there's even a trap on the show !
Steins;Gate is what I’d call a denpa-like/denpa-lite, and denpa is a solidly love it or hate it genre.
@@BurghezulDjentilom🤨 What does that last part have to...
Jim makes me hope there's a hell for absolute demons like him to burn in forever
There is but they do everything possible to stay alive and avoid it as long as possible usually jim just got hunted down because he murdered a politician
I'm goin!
Commies aren't human beings, they don't get judged like us.
He's a typical communist after all.
It is funny in all of the lionization of Harvy Milk no one ever mentions that he was one of Jim Jones's biggest fans and advocate.
He’s akin to a martyr like figure in the LGBT community so no surprise it’s never mentioned
those social checks still went to the cult members (i mean jones) regularly even tho they left for guyana because milk adored what they stood for
Fonda was also involved with her then senator husband. She talked on their shortwave broadcasts. Her involvement was kept on the down-low, and her code name was...messiah.
Harvey also "liked to order from the kids menu".
They also gloss over his preying upon children
I'm not even sure 2 hours is enough to even cover the depth of batshit this story has to it
There is hundreds of hours of recordings and videos, would take weeks......... I would actually watch it. Lol
especially the CIA and communist connections too
More than enough.
Martyrmade Podcast...did a several part series on Jim Jones, last episode is like 8 hours.
@@hermaeusmora2945 I listened to the whole damm thing a couple years ago. It's not so much a series on Jonestown and more Jonestown + the contextualisation of the social climate of the America he lived in...with the latter taking up more of the series than Jones and his cult
Such a shame the creator kind of became a bit of a right wing loony...he's the closest anyone's come to Dan Carlin works IMO
The entire story of jonestown is so insane and well documented im surprised dankula managed to keep the video just under 2 hours. Apart from heavens gate, its probably the most well documented case of a crazy cult going out with a bang, or in this case, with a punch.
Hoping for a madlads on Osho in the future.
Osho, Rolls Royce's best customer
What did you think of the Wild Wild Country documentary on netflix?
There's a Down The Rabbit Hole on it, but it's been reuploaded on someone else's channel
there's a great Philion video on Osho that I thoroughly enjoyed. I had no idea how nuts that whole thing was, and I still see people quoting that bastard
@@BurghezulDjentilom didn't know that, I'll def check it out. And yeah, the whole Osho commune stuff is insane, to this day the Osho org guys claim the whole terrorist cell thing was done by a fringe group but you can just tell stuff was going crazy and Osho himself knew of it all but prob was too high off his rockers and driving his royces to even care.
@brumslybrumbino9516 Didn't watch it, but now that you mentioned I'll have a look
The whole Osho thing is really interesting cause it's a clear example of how stuff could have gone incredibly bad for everyone but somehow didn't (well, hundreds of people didn't end up dead, at least), although it was still shady as all hell. It's also interesting how Osho changed his ideas and behavior along the years, going from "Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed are dumb I'm the new messiah" to "oh I'm like this new age philosopher pls buy my book" in the span of a decade.
Yo. The untold part of the story that personally I think is important is: What the hell is up with Leo Ryan? Yeah, he got killed. But how the crap did he inspect the premises and find that everything was just peachy keen? If Jones hadn't freaked, Ryan would've allowed this nightmare hell-town to continue.
Dont do insane amounts of mind altering drugs when your a cult leader and youll usually be fine but somehow they never get that part of the memo
He was a Democrat, fill in the blanks from there.
@Patrikstar24 it sure explains why he didn't bring a security detail with him.
@@Patrikstar24 He saw communism working as intended, and said "Carry on, comrade."
Almost a thousand people wanted to stay, but likely he would have changed his tune as soon as the ones leaving got on US soil and could speak freely.
RIP to all those who died or were injured due to this madness.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (Leo Ryan’s aide at that time) has been to my mother’s home a few times about 15 years ago while running for congress. I don’t like her politics but she was very kind.
Dan Mitrione is a very interesting character deeply tied to this story and is rarely brought up when mentioning Jonestown. Neither is the fact that "Jonestown" wasnt the first Jonestown Jim had made. The welcome sign at the entrance even calls it Jonestown II.
Just googled this after reading your comment. Thanks for sharing.
Jonestown is one of those things that is so comically evil and horrific that it feels like something only possible in fiction
It proves the old saying, truth is stranger than fiction.
What a great way to tell us that you've slept through most if not all of your history lessons.
There have always been horrible tyrants, many way worse than this guy. Only someone with blinders on can believe that this doesn't sound like something tribal human apes would come up with in real life.
Normally, it is communist dictators who cause this kinda evil shit. Like that time Soviat Russia set up a place full of wrong thinkers, and people quickly turned to cannablism in order to survive...
@@raifthemad: Ghengis Khan killed 10% of the Earth's population during his lifetime....
@raifthemad
I don't think tribal human apes could make Flavoraid
Hell yeah, I think we have all been waiting for this one. Hopefully Waco and Ruby Ridge will not be far behind.
Dankula did not kill himself.
I thought he's already done Branch Davidians??
@@Soyuz2578I think you're thinking of the Wendigoon video. They do very similar content
The sheer insanity that there were parents willing to squirt literal poison into their own children's mouth genuinely breaks my heart. As a father this just breaks both my brain and my heart knowing this happened. Of all the insane disturbing and disgusting mad lads ive watched, this one really hits me the hardest.😢
I think the worst bit was the woman who cut her children's throats.
Most parents want to kill their kids at one point or another. Your false piousness is not fooling anyone.
I mean, the entire world went nuts for two years and shoved an improperly tested poison into their kids arms. They sacrificed the mental health and education of their kids. Somehow these same people don't have the self awareness to realize they can also fall for the most ridiculous of propaganda.
Is Jonestown really all that far beyond the pale.
Yep, same here. Watched a documentary called, 'Korea: The Forgotten War' or something similar.
It was on at about 7:30 pm on one of those shitty digital channels.
In it, there is footage of a woman running from American soldiers, throwing her baby off a cliff and then jumping after, all because she believed the propaganda that American soldiers were literally cannibalistic vampires, come to torture and eat them.
I remember the clip just flashing on the screen for about 3 seconds and I'd never felt tears literally gushing from my eyes before that moment.
My step grandfather was named jim jones and loved kool-aid. Always made jokes about it.
Hahaha nice. I worked at liquor store and a guy named Jim Jones came in and I looked at his ID and he goes, "If you ask me if I mix this with Kool-Aid, I'm leaving" 😂
@@burpostockings lol
@@burpostockings ...I bet he mixed it with Flavor Aid instead.
@@RT-qd8ylhe used barrels of grape flavor-aid, it was cheaper than kool-aid.
@@jailcatjones3250 Very surprising from a commie.
I had no idea they were communists. Now the whole shit show makes sense. Amazing how 1:1 what happened with other communists around the world. His end was just more direct then most communists. So sad for the children.
That's by design. You're also not supposed to learn that he had connections with all the Democrat politicians in San Francisco including the mayor and the Congressional representatives. One of those being Nancy Pelosi.
As of today, belivers of the free market conform the largest death cult of the planet
There's a big reason why that important context is airbrushed out.
you'll find that most evil nutters are c*mmunists. if not that, they're simply another brand of socialist/ gnostic religion
@@Tronathon242"that wasn't real Communism" would be the inevitable response from progressive cultists.
I had never read or heard a detailed description of the Jonestown massacre before this. I have never been brought so close to sickness or tears by a RUclips video before. And the joke at the end... I never thought I would laugh so hard at something so profoundly fucked. This episode was a ride.
Hey kid, I was 13 when this shit went down and my parents were new born again Christians dragging me through all kinna church shit including another cult surfacing called 'The Way'
Looking back, I know it was just them not being able to handle their drugs if choice or their jobs.
Fast forward, Mom's fine, dad's gone after a long run, and the kids are 29:34 alright!
The tragedy is so horrific it seems removed from reality. It makes it possible to make jokes. And many jokes have been made. You should listen to audio of that last white night if you really wanna be traumatized. It's harrowing to say the least. The only thing to take away from this is that it hasn't happened again any where close to the scale of Jonestown. That we know of at least.
The end 😂🤦♂
There's a full audio recording of the entire massacre. I've listened to the whole thing. It's exactly what you'd expect it to be. Lots of distressed sounding people, crying children, all followed by silence. You literally hear all of them die.
@@jazzfeline5970 How many times did you listen to it before you shared it with someone else? What would Jesus do??
First I'll say, best complete telling of Jonestown I've ever encountered. Truly well done Mark. Being around at that time and close to where what went down in the states happened, I remember the building climate of what lead up to the "mass ending" of the members. It wasn't like the general public didn't know he was a psycho and dangerous to his followers and others. Jones was a topic at the time. Later, the attack at the airport was all over the news and the aerial footage of the dead at the compound was also. There was a lot of cult stuff happening in the 60s and 70s. In the summer of 69 we had the Manson murders happen not 70 miles/96 kilometers away. My own parents at the time made efforts to tell me to stay away from the people of a certain cult based in our area. When people like me say the 70's were a wild time, we're not just talking about disco.
Lots of serial killers were afoot in the 70s, too. A lot of airline hijackings also took place back then, as there were literally no laws against it at the time.
@@spiritmatter1553 I think it might be better to say "no precautions against it."
Wanna go down a nice rabbit hole?
Look into how many of those serial killers and cults had government connections.
Not just "known to law enforcement" but some were active informants.
Get a little deeper and check out the satanic panic, then follow the trail of government involvement there. The Finders is a good place to start.
@@spiritmatter1553the 70’s was a decade full of disillusionment, disenfranchisement, nihilism and a whole lot of other things that seemed to bring out the craziest and worst things in people.
I’m noticing a similar thing happening here today.
I feel like in many ways, this country has returned to where it was in the 70’s.
High Inflation, A Recession, Crises in the Middle East, a Botched Withdrawal from a foreign country by the US Military, high Oil prices and insanely hot weather, people are at each others throats, people are extremely alienated, disillusioned and disenfranchised, people are losing faith in the government and the system.
Things have returned to where it was in the 70’s.
If you truly want an example of this, look up the “I’m Mad as Hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” scene from the 1976 movie Network.
Whenever I was younger I was always confused as to why cults always seem to be dominated by the college-educated. Now that I'm older and have seen how the college-educated-leftists actually act and think, I now understand why they join colts.
2020 destroyed may last glimmer of faith that, "In the end people cannot seriously be THAT stupid."
I'd prefer to joins the Cowboys or 49ers, but I get your point 😂
ok furry
Now that you mention it, I do wonder what political group is the most likely to join a cult.
College just teaches you how to fall in line in a Corporate Structure. Being taught to Obey "those that know better" is a pretty useful existing trait in potential cultists.
A 2 hour documentary on JONESTOWN FUCK YES
In fairness to Hyacinth Thrash, not only was she in her 70's, she was working the same 12 hour days and being woken up in the middle of the night for a year.
The audio of the Final Sermon from Jones is something I listened to years ago due to morbid curiosity. It haunts me, still. Also: I left a comment to help combat the Algorithm Menace! I’m doing my part, too!
I remember this story so well. I was in college. There were lots of cults, gurus, alternative belief communes in those years. It wasn’t uncommon to hear of parents abducting their children from some whack-a-doodle commune to have them “deprogrammed.” Even those of us raised on remote farms and ranches were warned of the dangers. Whatever happened to the Hare Krishnas? They used to haunt airports, handing out flowers to travellers.
Huh i guess having increased security did something good for airports aside from wasting peoples time
The Hare Krishnas had a much less dramatic fate: They literally annoyed people so fucking much that the government made it illegal to solicit at airports and other such travel areas.
They are just not allowdd to sing there anymore.
They are still around. I occasionally come across them as there is a centre in my city; even attended a couple of gatherings. Gave me an interesting insight into the seduction of music and chanting.
Didn't they just mutate into the assholes who block traffic so a bunch of cars idle "for the environment?" Same bunch of idiots.
jimmy carter held a dinner in honor of Jones for his help with his campaign
he was also very close with john wayne gacy. I'm starting to think that carter is a very poor judge of character
He was in on it. Read Dave McGowen
Jones was from Indiana and his temple was doomed.
Underrated comment tbh
Lmao. You win.
Gem
Shocked this doesn't have thousands of likes
Indiana jones
I knew one day he would do this one.
Ever since he did his special on Aum Shimrikio, I have been hoping for this one!
@@ChristianHill-ep2ho ok
@@ChristianHill-ep2ho well I'll be. With a comment like that you sure sound like a super cool kid
I gave the Jonestown tape a listen and Dankula wasn't lying when he said it sounded like the devil talking.
The devil has taken their souls.
@@lonalxaiathat's a harsh thing to say about the cult members who were persuaded into ending themselves by an actual devil. Maybe have some empathy for the innocents?
@@pintolerance785 I know it's harsh and is hard as it sounds but in the bible it does say to not worship false idols.
@@lonalxaia I'm certain that God shows mercy and forgiveness and that's a Christian value so to have no empathy for dead innocent children. That doesn't sound like a Christian value at all. The kind of narrative that fake christians like you preach of zero forgiveness, zero empathy, no mercy, that's not Christian that's Satanic and I hope you find Jesus in your heart someday.
We need an L Ron Hubbard episode. Not quite the crazy ending of Jim Jones yet, but still batshit crazy.
I can't believe that Hubbard basically claimed that aliens drove in spaceships that looked like a boeing jetliner... and a surprising number of people with more or less full mental faculties didn't slowly back away while holding laughter
I'm just gonna make my own cult. We worship Froda, the holder of the "individual ring". He drives a car similar to the flintstones, but actually he's an alien from a galaxy in the outer regions of the known universe, and no one can truly be cool and wise without understanding his teachings. For more info, please pay me.
@@unocualqu1eraHow much is a Level I membership?
@@spiritmatter1553 Ehhh well, I'd say any posessions on this planet are meaningless in our destination: Isengardia. So I don't really want any money. That said, mantaining a church is hard and costly and Froda won't heed our call until we're a big group of spiritually enlightened beings, so a Level I membership would be $400.
Welcome to the first level of enlightenment, here's a book about Froda. Only 29 levels left to be ready for the next level... of existence :D
@@unocualqu1era Unlike every other cult that's been formed, this one sounds dope as hell. Do I get my flinstones foot-powered car before or after payment?
@@lordpumpkinhead265
To get your own flinstones foot-powered car, you need to reach level 3 enlightenment, it's not just a random requirement, it's necessary so that you can start to learn to drive it like it's mean to be driven, and reach [REDACTED] once your training is complete.
But fear not! We do gatherings at random cities every month where everyone can get in the foot-powered car, so you can get in it for free (and if the Master of Legs likes you enough, she'll let you drive!) so just stay in touch for these opportunities :D
The death tape is very graphic and intense. The difference between fiction and reality is very clear listening to this. I couldnt finish it. Mostly because i dont think its a mentally healthy experience. Knowing it exist, and that this happened, on the other hand, i believe is important for a clearer perspective of the world we share, for me at least.
All the darkness we let into our minds, eventually overclouds all joy in life. Treat your mind with repsect.
I hate my morbid curiosity but love the fact you went all in on telling this story.
Most that cover this in the past go from upbringing to lead up your massacre so this was really well done 👏
that steins;gate take is fucking nuclear, dankula.
I spit out my cereal 😂
I'm just glad I'm not alone in that opinion 😅
I don't get it.
@@RipleysSanatoriumIn the camp of it being good or bad?
There are few things in this life that put a smile on my face faster than Dank saying the words "It is.. in fact... your boy..."
Drain a smile*
I love how he says like the name of an old friend.
It is our boy. And he paid for Dank’s girls.
[15+]
I demand a paternity test.
Great video dank, I was stationed at Dover AFB, one of our civilian Contractors was also stationed and he said nearly every poor bastard who worked in the airfield was tasked to help the morgue staff unloading bodys from the cargo planes. Also the Morgue in base has a plaque of conflicts/loss of life with numbers from the place, the 918 from Jonestown is there along with many others
I've been to the hanger were they bodies were kept and the shear size of that building to be completely full and over flowing with the bodies is genuinely staggering. I was told you saw those dark blue buses rolling into the base nonstop. People still have bad memories about that.
It's actually quite astonishing how many people would drink the kool aid.
No matter how many deaths have been had by this sort of thing, a lot of people today still drink it....just not the poison varieties.
It's still poison. It just kills you different.
What’s wrong with kool aid 😘🍷👌😍
@@benclark4823They drank a poisoned drink that was a cheap knockoff of Kool-Ade. I think it was called Flavor-Ade. (Sp?)
@@spiritmatter1553 yep, this incident is where the phrase "Don't drink the kool-aid" comes from
It actually makes me uncomfortable how "drank the kool-aid" has become lexicon. Yes, it's darkly humorous, and a cautionary tale, but I think anyone who has heard the children dying on the 'death tape' would find it's almost blaise useage in modern discourse a bit disgusting. I suspect everyone is a little too divorced from the origins of the phrase.
Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
Dude was a negative billionaire.
I almost didn't watch this, because I thought "I've seen enough about Jim Jones, what else could there be?". But goddamn, this was by far more in depth and detailed than anything else I've ever watched about it. I'm genuinely shocked at all the new things I learned here.
The parallels between Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Venezuela to Jonestown is uncanny. It’s like they didn’t have an entire government to bankrupt before falling into disarray. Just themselves.
IDK, i think that this time the US tryied to save them not anhilate them.
Altought in the case of China the US is going bankrupt themselves,...
there's a lot of MAGA comparisons too. Trump's personality cult scares me.
@@noahjohnson935
Does it make you feel strong to deflect anything that slightly offends you to Trump? How cute.
@@VespasianJudea nah, just saying what I see. Ain't offended, just stating the obvious from my perspective.
@@noahjohnson935😂 I see we have been partaking in the cool aid.
The final tape is legitimately the worst thing I've ever heard, and you are dead right about the last moments of the tape has such an evil menacing atmosphere to it, that it would make the most devout Skeptic believe in the existence of The Devil.
I have the death tape on my Spotify playlist haha
@@DenethordeSade.90
You sound like a complete F-Slur.
I was excited when I found it on RUclips, I love the one that play's footage of everyday life on the compound including the aftermath filmed by the police.
It taught me not to take the easy route of insemination, the people may seem nice, kind and friendly but that's how they reel you in.
@@DenethordeSade.90 Yeah, you look the type.
I don’t want to listen to this tape, but curiousity’s telling me to do it.
The words that You and Dank said makes me imagine what kind of horrid shit what had happened in that camp.
Imagine being one of his former classmates and hearing about the massacre.
"Jim Jones? Why is that name familiar? Oh shit, that was that really creepy kid at school. Yeah, I can see that."
I think about that with Ted Kaczynskis Harvard class.
Now this remind me of that autobiographical graphic novel about how the writer used to be one of Jeffery Dahmer's classmates.
He would’ve been a popular kid, not creepy.
@@devoteeofmediocrity821 Most people can tell when they're dealing with an insane person. That's why cults have to target people in vulnerable points in their lives, because those are people who are willing to ignore their instincts
My grandma was a teacher in the 1970’s. She had a student whose aunt and cousins died at Jonestown. Very sad event.
I couldn't stay away from the audio, not having known that it even existed.. Jesus Christ, it's absolutely gutwrenching, and I agree with Dank that Jim Jones truly deserves his own circle of Hell for what he put those poor children through
A piece of me wants to watch it but I don’t know if I can handle listening to those children
@@DaughterCesar If listening serves something more than ghoulish curiosity, and you've got a coroner's/mortician's constitution for the lugubrious, give it a listen.
Otherwise, Dank's not wrong when he says there's something of the devil's presence looming in the ambience towards the end of it. I can guarantee that you'll know what is meant by that (and it *will* stay with you), even if you're not usually someone to frame things in the theological.
No he doesn’t. He needs a job application there. He’d fit right in with the other demons.
It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever listened to
Ok I have listened to the tape and Jesus Christ
I have had a love-hate relationship with Dankula’s style of presentation. But after that Steins Gate comment in the opener it is now a firm love. A man of such bravery deserves our reverence.
Aren't many people I would wish horrific unending pain upon but ole Jimmy is definitely one of them.
Just in case anyone here ever wants to visit, Guyana doesn't have tigers but it does have jaguars which are legit man-eaters.
What i find most fascinating about Jim Jones is the fact that people dont realize the tactics he used, and how they use that same tactic to gain an audience. Fortunately, I dont think we have to worry about MovieBob pulling the same stuff. He'd probably drink the kool-aid before handing it all out
His name being included in the most factual yet unremarkable way is the ultimate slap in his face, if you believe the "soul" lives on after physical deletion;
it's the ultimate "kick in the nards" to his ego.
That, and historical accuracy, is what makes me approve of his name being included amongst the rest.
Absolutely, he'd rather be 'legend', which is why the death tape even exists, so listing him as just one unremarkable name among hundreds is the ultimate denial of that.
Modern Leftist: “Right winger terrorists have caused the most deaths of Americans!”
People’s Temple: “hold my koolaid comrade.”
Democratic Party: "Amateurs. We're over six hundred thousand and counting."
@@Activated_Complex Still pissy about losing their slaves 200 years ago.
That war was started by the North not the South because they were pissed about losing 80% of tax revenue and 70% of the GDP. @@Activated_Complex
Republicans: *looks at the war on terror, Vietnam, 1980s AIDS epidemic*
@derpsternium8334 Not the AIDS epidemic lmao
If you want to take it up the butt that's on you and not anyone else's fault.
This video was epic. I've seen a lot on this turd, but I loved this video. The delivery, level of info, just enough comedy while still being serious. This entire series is gold.
Congratulations Dank on 1 Million Subscribers!! After years of craziness always pushing ahead you deserve it! So glad you chose to use your amazing story telling gift to create awesome content in both the mad lad and Scottish mythology series. So happy happy for you and as always look forward whats next. Best wishes!
When Jones re-awoke, the big red men with horns said: “don’t worry, the hooks & peelers are props.”
Every time I hear John Lennon’s “Imagine,” I vision the Borg.
It really has to be stressed how thankful I am that Dank did the correct thing and emphasized just how much communism was critical to this event. So many histories of Jonestown purposefully skip this fact and try to lump in Jones with the conception that his cult was somehow "right wing" because they were religious. Because the propaganda never ends.
Say what you will, but Jones gave one of the best performances of the International that I’ve ever heard. What a legendary guy.
Yeah, really knocked his audience dead.
@@lmno567he took “knock em dead”literally
@@lmno567fr fr. No cap, he is proof that CHAZ could have worked if the government didn’t get involved.
Do a madlads epsiode on French man Jerome Kervial, this man was at one point the poorest man on Earth with a net worth of -$6.8 Billion. How this happened is a story to tell!
stop saying "cap". LIE is the same amount if letters and everyone over 15 thinks you're a derp. @@konradcurze8176
Jim Jones almost ensured I was never born. My great-grandmother snatched my grandma (a devoted pentacostal, and follower of Jones in Indy) and mom up off the bus-stop before the bus to California pulled out of the station.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE CRAZIEST COINCIDENCE EVER. Yestarday i was watching your heavens gate video and i went to look to see if you made a video on jonestown. I was shocked when i saw you hadnt made one since you often cover cults and jonestown is probably the most infamous cult. LITERALLY THE NEXT DAY YOU POST THIS!!! Life is crazy.
I was watching his ant farm vid the same day this dropped lol
I highly recommend the podcast series on Jonestown called “God’s Socialist” from Martyrmade. It goes really deep, and devoted whole episodes to the context of civil rights and black panthers followed by the descent into radical revolutionary lunacy with the Weather Underground and SLC, peppered in throughout the Jonestown narrative to offer context. It’s unbelievably wild. Other than that, this is the best content there is on Jonestown online I’m convinced
I've been waiting for this!
Now for Waco to round it out, and Ruby Ridge to really drive the govt fuckup angle home.
I've only heard a small excerpt of the Jonestown recording and it is absolutely the most unsettling thing I've ever heard.
This same premise for a video would actually be really good for a video on Mao given his ability to essentially rile up the masses to do whatever he wanted during the Cultural Revolution.
The way chinese people completely forgot the great leap forward disaster and blindly trust Mao just 4 years laters.
@@Noperarethe Chinese people didn’t trust him. It was the Chinese children and teenagers. If you look at the cultural revolution, most of the redguards were in middle school. They went along because Mao convinced them that they would be heroes for their deeds. He played into their innocence and naïveté
@@Noperaremakes you wonder if their supposedly huge iq is even real just because youre good at math and science doesnt mean you arent capable of committing horrible atrocity’s over again
They didn't. The cultural revolution happened because Mao was about to be demoted. He avoided it by rallying brainwashed youth into the red guards...which would even fight each other for purity. The army had to step in. The red guards are seen as a somewhat lost generation. Sending them to farm labour wasn't a bad idea.
If you wanna see Mao's zedong, there's video of him swimming in the Yellow River. Naked. Floating on his back.
It's hilarious, but kinda traumatic.
I remember that incident. We had moved to Lubbock, TX in 1976 when I was in the middle of the 3rd grade. I remember hearing about this almost non-stop for several days. It was all over TV. But as a kid, I really didn't know the back story or the history. You did a commendable job! I will have to say that as a "foreigner" you're dropping U.S. specific culture/politics references like an American. I don't know how you keep up with another countries crap, but good on ya.
"And the reporter gave the "Help us" note to Jones."
I hate reporters so God damn much
He helped kill a thousand communists with his actions. Give him a medal.
Thats reporter should be named.
In any given situation, just think of the most braindead thing you could possibly do to make it as bad as possible and then realize that the most intelligent journalist on Earth would have no trouble coming up with something infinitely worse.