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Hello, this is David Weinberg. If

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you've enjoyed The Superhero Complex, you

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should check out another podcast from

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the team's at Novel and I Heart Radio,

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deliver Us from Irville. It's

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hosted by journalists Jesse Hyde,

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and it tells the story of a group of Mormon

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dreamers who founded a town in

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the Mexican desert in the nineteen forties.

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They wanted to build the closest thing to paradise

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you could find on Earth, But

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when the founding family's son, Irville

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LeBaron, tried to wrestle control

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of the community, their utopia

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turned into a murderous cult. Irville

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and his followers evolved this cult

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into a sophisticated crime family,

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a wild kind of mafia, operating

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unseen for decades, robbing

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banks, stealing cars, and smuggling

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drugs with a Mexican cartel. As

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time passed, they enacted a series

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of ever more elaborate fascinations

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following a blueprint laid out by

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Irville LeBaron's Opus, the

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Book of the New Covenants. In

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the show, Jesse, the host, speaks

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to the reporters and cops who tried to hunt

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them down and bring them to justice. Survivors

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of their attacks, as well as insiders

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who grew up within this crime family.

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Many of the interviewees have never spoken

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about this publicly before, and the

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show includes previously unheard

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archive recordings from the heart of

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the cult. Coming up next

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is the first episode. If you want to hear

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more, search deliver Us

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from Irville on the I Heart Radio

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app, Apple podcasts,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.