The Bruck Podcast

"Bruck" is an Orcadian word that means "junk", but in a "one man's trash is another man's treasure" sort of way. On the Bruck Podcast, an object sparks a memory, and that memory inspires a story. Bruck episodes always pay at least a few moments of homage to Orkney - a disproportionately fascinating archipelago off of Scotland's north coast - while covering topics ranging from travel to history, food to espionage, strategy to science, all with a propensity toward fascinating locales that start with the letter "O".

Operation Alchemy, Episode 002: Project Harray 03/12/2025

Operation Alchemy, Episode 001: Overview 02/19/2025

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 06 - Dissecting Jodorowsky's Dune 02/12/2025

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 05 - Scorcese Versus the MCU 01/22/2025

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 04 Bonus - Salvaging Into Darkness 01/15/2025

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 04 - Consuming Star Trek as an Adult 01/07/2025

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 03 - Salvaging a Galactic Starcruiser 12/31/2024

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 02 - The Legend of Cliff Stoll 12/24/2024

Bruck Nerd Rants, Episode 01 - Remembering the Zombie War 10/28/2024

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 012: Remembering the Most Orcadian Man in the World 02/26/2024

Bruck Podcast, Episode 022: Mustelid Evangelist 10/09/2022

Bruck Podcast, Episode 021: The Accidental Patron Saint 09/15/2022

Bruck Podcast, Episode 020: The Big Tent 02/27/2022

Bruck Podcast, Episode 020: The Big Tent Audio Selections: Orchestral selection: 1812 Overture Bagpipe selection: The Gordon Highlanders, "Cock of the North" Closing theme: "The Black Woods Jig" by Mirka Scripture References: "Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, 'Jesus, Master, have pity on us!' When he saw them, he said, 'Go, show yourselves to the priests.' And as they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him - and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?' Then he said to him, 'Rise and go; your faith has made you well.'" - Luke 17:11-19 "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." - Lamentations 3:21-23 "For no one is cast off by the Lord forever." - Lamentations 3:31 "At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked person, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself." - Ezekiel 3:16-19 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:17-20 "The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." - John the Baptist, Matthew 3:10 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell." - Matthew 5:21-22 "When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” - Matthew 8:10-12 "And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." - Matthew 12:31-32 "Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” [...] Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.” Matthew 15:10-11, 15-20 "Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, 'Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.' Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, 'Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.' He answered, 'I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” The woman came and knelt before him. 'Lord, help me!' she said. He replied, 'It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.' 'Yes it is, Lord,' she said. 'Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.' Then Jesus said to her, 'Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.' And her daughter was healed at that moment." - Matthew 15:21-28 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector." - Matthew 18:15-17 "When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, 'Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.' Jesus replied: 'A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, "Come, for everything is now ready." But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, "I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me." Another said, "I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me." Still another said, "I just got married, so I can't come." The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, "Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame." '"Sir," the servant said, "what you ordered has been done, but there is still room." Then the master told his servant, "Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet."'" - Luke 14:15-23 "(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)" Romans 2:14-15 "So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law's requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker." Romans 2:26-27 "A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person's praise is not from other people, but from God." Romans 2:28-29 "Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." 1 Peter 3:15-16 /episode/index/show/bruck/id/22268036

Bruck Podcast, Episode 019A: The House that Ibadhism Built Extra 12/20/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 7 12/15/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 6 12/08/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 5 12/01/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 4 11/24/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 3 11/17/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 2 11/10/2021

Bruck Presents: The Orkneyinga Saga, Part 1 11/03/2021

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 011: Apex Predator 09/15/2021

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 010: A Much Wilder Country 08/29/2021

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 010: A Much Wilder Country "I love bitches. Many of them." - Hi, I'm Tom, and you're listening to a special edition of the Bruck Podcast. In mid-1981, an enigmatic and incendiary guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh relocated from his ashram in Poona, India, eventually settling at a remote ranch in North Central Oregon. With designs on establishing a religious commune, what followed were four years of conflict between the guru and his followers on the one hand, and the local populace on the other, which culminated with the biggest act of bioterrorism in American history. When the dust finally settled, the guru had been effectively deported from America, his ruthless personal secretary and several of her key lieutenants were either serving time in a federal prisons or evading arrest, and a handful of his followers were liquidating the commune's assets. Rajneesh eventually re-branded himself as "Osho", and died in January of 1990 under questionable circumstances. Nearly four decades later, Oregon's Rajneeshee crisis had devolved into one more forgotten episode in American history. Every now and again, an interview or documentary would bubble up, most of them from strictly Oregonian sources, for the consumption of Oregonians. Then, in early 2018, Netflix released a six part documentary entitled Wild Wild Country, which leveraged both archival footage and new interviews to highlight the four-year-long standoff. The documentary became an overnight blockbuster, even inspiring a Saturday Night Live sketch. Wild Wild Country served as an adequate primer on the crisis, its background, and its immediate aftermath. However, while the documentary introduced the crisis to a new generation of Americans - and reintroduced it to many Oregonians - the documentary erred on the side of fairness. Instead of acting as responsible moderators, the filmmakers - directors McClain and Chapman Way, and producers Mark and Jay Duplass - handed a microphone to the late guru's secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, and his attorney, Philip Niren Toelkes, and let their testimony go more or less unchallenged. Later in 2018, I watched an : "To me, the core of the story is about that fear of the 'other', is, this small conservative town watching this religious force come in, and their way of life, and being afraid of them, and digging their heels in, because they don't understand them. Likewise, the Rajneeshees being sort of fearful of these sort of small town, conservative people who were reluctant to them, and profiling them. And I was like, 'Well, this is as relevant in 2018 as anything I've seen,' so that really, that sealed it for me." - Mark Duplass, WWC Executive Producer "Both sides claim that they're heroes, and both sides say that the other side is pure evil. For each of these sides in this documentary, they see it as clearly black and white, and right and wrong... You'll hear Rajneeshees say, like, 'We just wanted to build this utopian paradise, and we bought sixty-four thousand acres in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon desert, and we just wanted to be left alone.' And you'll kind of hear the Antelopians say that, 'Well, we were a town of forty people, and we just kind of wanted to be left alone, too.' But kind of as you work your way through, you see these two groups, they never really make compromises, they just each kind of go farther and farther away from each other, until it becomes just a full-on war in the state of Oregon." - Maclain Way, WWC Director "It's almost like there was this weird opportunity where they might have been able to get along earlier in the story, maybe, but that cultural divide was just, they weren't really, it just wasn't about building bridges between these two communities." - Maclain Way, WWC Director "One thing I found kind of interesting was actually the similarities between the two groups. Antelope was a frontier town that was built by settlers, they built their own village of what they wanted; I would say it's ninety-nine percent Christians who live in this community, they built their version, they have their church in the middle of the town. And the Rajneeshees kind of have the same spirit, it was almost like this extreme libertarian group that believed in, we don't need support from others, you build yourself up by your own bootstraps, they embraced capitalism. So, kind of looking at them forty years later, it was interesting for me to see, wow, there's a lot more similarities here between these two groups than I think that they'd like to recognize or realize." - Chapman Way, WWC Director When I heard this, I couldn't help but conclude that these outsiders had gotten the overarching narrative completely wrong. My suspicions were confirmed a year later when I visited The Dalles, the site of the aforementioned bioterrorism attack, and met a relative of one of the public officials who was poisoned during a prior trip to the commune. She told me that the filmmakers' failure to call Sheela out for her lies had quickly led her to turn the documentary off. The documentary advanced no shortage of erroneous or misleading claims - for example, the commune was physically incapable of producing enough food to feed dozens, let alone hundreds or thousands, of residents, nor was their community free from venereal disease. Like a game of telephone, these erroneous points were then proliferated through podcasts and other digital media outlets. So, as an Oregonian - and, in fact, an Oregonian whose relative's name was on Ma Anand Sheela's hit list - I decided to produce an Oregonian rebuttal to Wild Wild Country. Instead of nitpicking, I decided to focus on the five biggest misconceptions advanced by the filmmakers. Released to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the guru's arrival in Oregon, this is A Much Wilder Country, a special episode of the Bruck Podcast. * * * Myth #1: The local, state, and federal governments, and the entire population of Oregon, harassed the Rajneeshees from the very beginning. The Evidence: It's important to remember that the Rajneeshees didn't just appear in Oregon; rather, they'd left India in a hurry because years of alleged tax evasion, prostitution, narcotics trafficking, and a variety of other behavior had earned them a reputation that caught up with them almost immediately. Unfortunately, the relatively cordial early weeks deteriorated rapidly as the Rajneeshees' reverted to the behavior they'd resorted to in India. Let's look at a few different cases. First, there's Margaret Hill, who was Mayor of Antelope when the Rajneeshees initiated their takeover, and who was eventually ousted by Ma Prem Kavido when the Rajneeshees consolidated their takeover of the Antelope city council. In a contemporary interview, Mrs. Hill insisted that when the Rajneeshees arrived, they were welcome, and seen as something of a novelty. "When they first came, they were truly welcome to the community. They were different, and anyone who's different is, is looked at a lot. We were interested in them, but basically, it wasn't until they really started throwing their weight around." Hill reiterated this in a 2012 documentary by Oregon Public Broadcasting. "Someone said that a cult had bought the Muddy. We sort of joked about it, y'know. 'How 'bout that, we'll have our own cult!'" Local opposition commenced, and grew more contentious, as the Rajneeshees resorted to hostile tactics in an effort to overcome the problems they had created for themselves. Regional and county officials held out even longer. Central Oregon officials saw the Rajneeshees as a source of much-needed revenue, since they were spending the sannyasins' money like drunken sailors in the course of turning the derelict ranch into a religious commune. Here's a clip from that same 2012 OPB documentary, featuring former news videographer Milt Ritter: "There were all these offices just dedicated to, y'know, making blueprints and, y'know, getting vendors, with pipe and lumber and gravel, and so when they came in and started buying large amounts of building materials, that helped a lot of companies." Another source on this is Les Zaitz, an investigative journalist who covered events at the Ranch, and who appeared on the Think Out Loud program on Oregon Public Broadcasting in 2011, thirty years after the guru fled India for the States. "As I was looking through the archives of state Governor Vic Atiyeh, who was in office, Republican, at the time the commune was in existence, in early 1982 and on through that year, he was getting literally dozens of letters from business owners from Central Oregon to Portland, praising the Rajneeshees, and underscoring what a financial asset these folks were to the Oregon economy. You have to remember, at this time Oregon was in the depths of a severe repression... Excuse me, recession, and so people writing million dollar checks were very attractive to business folks. So they were, for a time, a considerable source of income. And then that changed as their financials tightened up." Oregon's late Attorney General, Dave Frohnmayer, confirmed this in a German documentary that I've refrained from excerpting on the grounds that it's over-dubbed in German. After Wild Wild Country premiered, some co-workers and I met over lunch to discuss our reactions. We subsequently learned that one of the people who attended that lunch is the granddaughter of the non-sanyassin who spent several years working as the commune's electrician. We later learned that the oldest guy in our organization had worked at an electronics store, sold the commune all of their audio/visual equipment, and even got to meet the guru himself. The Rajneeshees also established a questionable relationship with one Wasco County commissioner by buying fifty head of his cattle; and cultivated a relationship with Jefferson County District Attorney Mike Sullivan - heard in the following clip from KATU TV's Town Hall program - who is, ironically, believed to be one of the first victims of their bioterrorism efforts. "Jack, I think you know at the present time, communication has broken down between the parties, and I'm trying to get some of the people together, and maybe you'll discuss that or address that issue later. And rather than put me in either corner, at this time, I'd really rather direct my efforts at maybe establishing some lines of communication to resolve some conflicts." - Even the feds got in on the action. John Mathis, the representative from the Justice Department's Federal Mediation Service, who was dispatched to orchestrate a settlement between the Rajneeshees and the local community, ended up acting as a de facto informant to Rajneeshpuram mayor Krishna Deva, one of Ma Anand Sheela's key lieutenants. Operator: Can I have the number you're calling from? Krishna Deva: Four-eight-nine, nine-two-three-three. Operator: Thank you, go ahead. Krishna Deva: Hello! John Mathis: Hello. Krishna Deva: Good morning. John Mathis: Morning, how are you? Krishna Deva: Cold! John Mathis: Are you where we... ? Krishna Deva: Yeah, it's cold out here at this pay phone. John Mathis: Okay, let me tell you something: they are after Sheela. Krishna Deva: Who's they? John Mathis: All the way up. Wednesday, there's gonna be a major meeting... Involving... Senators, U.S. attorney, prosecutors... - One prominent Sannyasin, Shannon Jo Ryan, even managed to score a trip to the White House early in the group's Oregon phase. There were other examples. Members of the commune's so-called "Peace Force" were allowed to attend Oregon's police academy, build and maintain an armory of heavy weapons, and access police databases. In March of 1983, Ma Anand Sheela was allowed to lead Rajneeshee prayers in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. In April of 1983, Oregon Geology magazine - the official magazine of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries - announced an Oregon Association of Engineering Geologists field trip to Rajneeshpuram. In direct opposition to Wasco County officials' permissive attitude toward crimes committed by Rajneeshees, the hotel bomber (who shall be mentioned presently) was prosecuted aggressively and apprehended after his abscondment. For a significant portion of the crisis, the Antelope townspeople and the surrounding ranchers felt that they were more or less on their own. The authorities didn't begin to intervene until the Rajneeshees had broken so many state and federal laws that the problems could no longer be ignored. According to one Antelope resident: "I have tried in every way possible to get either federal officials, state officials, and our county officials didn't seem to care at all. No one cared what happened to us. No one would listen." Just as an aside, that's one of several clips excerpted from a documentary called "Fear is the Master", which was originally produced in 1983 before receiving an update and re-release in late 1985. It was clearly made by folks who opposed the Rajneeshees on religious grounds, and the film makes what turned out to be some fair comparisons between the guru and People's Temple leader Jim Jones, as well as some exaggerated comparisons between Bhagwan and Adolf Hitler. However, the film features a number of clips and interviews that don't seem to appear anywhere else. Most notable among these is footage of Sheela at an Antelope school board meeting, claiming that a local husband and father had committed suicide because his wife, who was in attendance at the school board meeting, had been cheating on him. Sheela goes on to state that her children should know what kind of mother is raising them. In an interview in "Fear is the Master", the woman categorically denies the accusations against her and her husband. It's one of the most savage displays of Sheela's shocking behavior that I've ever seen, and the Way Brothers must have known about it, because they pulled a couple of video clips from the documentary. Why It's Important: Surviving Rajneeshees insinuate that they encountered an "us against the world" situation from their first weeks in Oregon. In fact, they had been run out of India on a variety of charges, and their propensity for running afoul of the law continued almost immediately upon their arrival en masse in the United States. The local community, the local authorities, the State of Oregon, and the federal government tried to leave the Rajneeshees to their own devices, and it was the Rajneeshees who created the problems, not vice versa. * * * Myth #2: After an unidentified Oregonian terrorist bombed the Hotel Rajneesh, Sheela and her cronies saw no other option but to procure weapons, demonstrate the sanyassins' proficiency in their use, and threaten retaliation. The Evidence: The perpetrator of the attack against the Hotel Rajneesh was Stephen Paul Paster, and Portland police literally caught him in the act. Paster nearly blew his hand off in the attack, so there was very little question as to his guilt. Having visited Rajneeshpuram with two accomplices and found it to be rather heavily guarded, Paster seemingly decided to detonate a cache of three pipe bombs at the Hotel Rajneesh in Portland. He was apprehended and charged, immediately. Paster's wife posted bail, at which point Paster absconded. He was re-arrested several months later in Colorado, then tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. So, who was Stephen Paul Paster? First, he was a Californian, not an Oregonian. Second, rather than being the sort of conservative Christian that the producers seem comfortable criticizing in their documentary, Paster was a convert from Judaism to Islam, and a suspected member of an early Islamist terrorist organization known at Jamaat al Fuqra, or "Assembly of the Impoverished". The group was specifically known for attacking Indian interests, and Paster remains the leading suspect in the bombing of two religious sites in Seattle in 1984. Paster was released after serving four years of a twenty year sentence, and is believed to have fled to Lahore, Pakistan, where he allegedly teaches guerrilla warfare to terrorist operatives. That's the most important piece of this; but there are more. One name that was conspicuously absent from Wild Wild Country was Hugh Milne. Under the name Swami Shivamurti, or Shiva for short, Milne was one of Bhagwan's earliest disciples. He left the Rajneeshee community in November of 1982, and published a tell-all book in 1987. Milne is worth noting in this context because he established Bhagwan's own praetorian guard force, known as the "Samurais", years before the relocation from India to Oregon. Then, during the Summer of 1982, the Rajneeshees contracted with a company called Project Centurion to provide executive security during the ranch's first summer festival. One member of the security detail, Steven Sobel, subsequently reported that he was repeatedly asked about weapons and tactics. "They wanted the show of force so that anyone who had the idea that possibly assassinate Bhagwan, or do harm to him, would not, would not think about it so readily if he saw the weapons that we had... They definitely were very interested, when I was there, in the use and the tactical use of instinctive shooting, of certain things that one learns in the military." According to a in The Oregonian, arms procurement escalated after the hotel bombing, but had begun in earnest months before. Why It's Important: The documentary implies a sort of moral equivalency between Oregonians and the Rajneeshees. However, despite plenty of anti-social behavior that seems to border on justified in retrospect, I've only ever encountered evidence that a single Oregonian ever fired so much as a shot in anger against the Rajneeshees, and that this was more or less a warning shot. Instead, the Rajneeshees treated the bombing as an opportunity to further shore up their growing arsenal. The Rajneeshees arrived paranoid, got more paranoid, and attempted to achieve their objectives through violence on several occasions. According to former KEZI journalist Scott Miller... "It was a bit of a shock at first for most of us when we saw these things being brandished the way they were, and it was sending a message, but I think this is their poor understanding of [public relations], you know. I mean, what message was it really sending? They may have thought it was sending a message that, 'Don't mess with us.' What it was really sending as a message was these people are crazy and dangerous." * * * Myth #3: Having entered a long period of public silence prior to leaving India for the United States, the guru finally broke that silence after Sheela and her cronies left the ranch. The Evidence: Bhagwan actually broke his silence in October of 1984, right around the time that the two-pronged plan to poison the people of The Dalles, and to import homeless people and register them to vote, failed to swing the Wasco County election. The Sannyas Wiki records that Bhagwan , and he had resumed some level of media availability no later than September of 1985. For example, an interview entitled Bhagwan: Oregon Seeing Red aired on Rogers Cablesystems in East Multnomah County on September 12th, 1985; Sheela's abrupt departure took place either the next day, or the day after, depending upon the source you consult. Here's a clip from that interview. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: "All colors are my favorite except red." Interviewer: "Do you see a lot of red around here?" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: "Your tie." Interviewer: "Why do these people like you so much? Why are you so appealing?" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: "I'm also wondering." There's actually a really awkward video clip in which Ma Prem Isabel, the commune's Public Relations director, reads a question about Sheela's conduct to Bhagwan during one of his evening appearances. Here's the audio from that... /episode/index/show/bruck/id/20127101

Bruck Podcast, Episode 019: The House that Ibadhism Built 08/11/2021

Bruck Podcast, Episode 018: Guest of the Sultan 07/28/2021

Bruck Podcast, Episode 017: Afoot in the Desert 07/07/2021

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 009: Updates II 07/03/2021

Bruck Podcast Special Episode 008: R-TRNRD 12/24/2020

Bruck Podcast, Episode 016A: Special Reconnaissance Extra 11/30/2020

Bruck Podcast, Episode 016: Special Reconnaissance 11/21/2020

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