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Religious Cult
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The premise
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In a candlelit chamber packed with hooded followers, an uneasy cult member asks his friend Rick when their group became so strange. Rick insists it is merely eccentric, but together they trace the slow slide from matching softball T-shirts to robes, living on the grounds, a ban on visitors, Uzi training and renaming the planets, each step introduced so gradually that nobody objected. Painted figures drift past mid-conversation, the congregation breaks into a cheerful hymn about an alien they hope will bring an army, and the pair blame it all on Bill's promotion to high prophet, just before a hooded attendant summons them to Bill the Most High, who turns out to be a stuffed mountain goat in a top hat.
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When did this cult get so weird?
I'd say our cult's a bit eccentric.
Guess it was pretty weird when we had to rename the planets.
Script
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- 00:19
Cult Member
Hey Rick, hey Rick,
- 00:25
Rick
yeah,
- 00:26
Cult Member
can Can I ask you something?
- 00:29
Rick
Yeah, sure.
- 00:30
Cult Member
When did this cult get so weird?
- 00:35
Rick
What do you mean?
- 00:36
Cult Member
I mean, this cult, it's just, it's not like how we started, you know?
- 00:42
Rick
I don't mind it.
- 00:43
Cult Member
Well, I'm not saying I mind it. I'm just saying that, you know, it's gotten a little, mm, lately.
- 00:51
Rick
I'd say our cult's a bit eccentric.
- 00:53
Cult Member
Okay, so we're on the same page. You're just using the word eccentric. But when did it start being like that, you know? It wasn't always like this.
- 01:03
Rick
Yeah, you're right.
- 01:05
Cult Member
I think it was when they started making us all wear the same T-shirts. I think that's when it started.
- 01:12
Rick
Well, that was for the softball tournament.
- 01:14
Cult Member
Yeah, well, that's how they ushered it in, but then it became ropes.
- 01:17
Rick
I like the ropes. The ropes are fun.
- 01:19
Cult Member
Yeah, the ropes are fun. I'm just... It's just not normal, you know?
- 01:24
Rick
The ropes aren't that weird.
- 01:26
Cult Member
Okay, the robes aren't that weird, but you know what? It's not even about the robes. It's just there's something really off about this group, and I can't put my finger on it.
- 01:35
Rick
you You don't don't even play softball anymore.
- 01:51
Cult Member
I know. And what's with training us how to shoot Uzis? I don't need to know how to shoot an Uzi. We haven't played softball in, like, four years.
- 01:59
Rick
That's how this group works, though. They start you out playing softball. Then all of a sudden you need to wear the T-shirts all the time. Then you have to live on grounds. Then no one can come and visit. It's very, it's very gradual, this group.
- 02:11
Rick
Guess it was pretty weird when we had to rename the planets.
- 02:14
Cult Member
Yeah, that was weird. It's like we're a bunch of Mormons or something.
- 02:17
Rick
Hey, we are not, like, the Mormons.
- 02:19
Cult Member
Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you could see how in a couple of years...
- 02:23
Well, there's an alien coming! And he's a real swell guy! And I hope he brings an army! And I hope we don't die! Hoorah!
- 02:31
Rick
Like that song, man. I've been singing that song for I don't know how many years. I don't know what it means.
- 02:36
Cult Member
Who wrote that song?
- 02:38
Rick
Bill.
- 02:38
Cult Member
You know, that's when things started to get weird. Once Bill got promoted to high profit, some cuckoo stuff started going on.
- 02:45
Rick
I don't know. Bill's a good leader.
- 02:47
Bill the Most High will see you now.
- 02:54
Cult Member
It's just weird, man.
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