Last Update on the Left - Episode 1 - Lord RayEl Revisited

Summary

Last Update on the Left - Episode 1: Lord Rael Revisited

Released on April 21, 2025

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Introduction

In the inaugural episode of "Last Update on the Left," hosts Henry Zabrowski and Ed Larson embark on a journey to revisit and update listeners on intriguing topics previously covered by "The Last Podcast on the Left." This new series aims to delve deeper into past subjects, providing fresh insights and developments. The premiere episode focuses on the enigmatic cult leader, Lord Rael, a figure the hosts originally explored over a decade ago.

Background on Lord Rael

Real Identity and Early Life

Lord Rael, whose real name is Raymond Howard (later adopting the alias Raymond Elwood Lear), emerged as a controversial figure with claims of divine authority. Before his transformation into Lord Rael, Raymond was involved with the Guardian Angels, a vigilant group established in Chicago during the 1970s.

Notable Quote:

[02:13] Ed Larson: "Raymond Lear is actually not his real name."

[02:19] Henry Zabrowski: "Is it Raymond Elwood Lear?"

Formation of the Cult

Raymond's descent into cult leadership began around 2011-2012 when he proclaimed himself the Messiah, asserting control over natural phenomena like weather. His initial foray into online platforms, primarily Facebook during its early mainstream usage, facilitated the growth of his following. The cult, though initially small, expanded through strategic infiltration of Raymond's Facebook groups, allowing the hosts to gather internal information about his operations.

Notable Quote:

[02:29] Ed Larson: "We found out his real name is Raymond."

Timeline of Lord Rael's Activities

Move to Baja California

Facing legal challenges in the United States, including a warrant for his arrest related to past criminal activities (such as kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and assaulting his mother), Lord Rael relocated to Baja California, Mexico, where his cult continued to grow albeit under strained conditions.

Notable Quote:

[12:19] Henry Zabrowski: "Cabo's incredible, though. I mean, if you're going to go to a place for a cult, Cabo is."

Expansion into Jerusalem

In 2016, Lord Rael's cult moved to Jerusalem, seeking validation for their Messiah claims through religious prophecies. They interpreted astronomical events, like a heart-shaped sunspot and a blood moon, as divine signs affirming their mission.

Notable Quote:

[26:15] Henry Zabrowski: "Okay, that's good. Yeah, that's my favorite. For what must be done, must be done."

Torah Codes and "The Return of Christ"

Lord Rael authored a book titled "The Return of Christ", which heavily emphasizes Torah codes—a form of numerology believed to reveal hidden messages within the Hebrew scriptures. The book claims that these codes validate Rael's messianic status and correct alleged inaccuracies in modern Bible translations.

Notable Quote:

[27:28] Henry Zabrowski: "This is the official blurb of the Return of Christ."

Introduction of God Coin

In 2017, anticipating the rise of cryptocurrency, Lord Rael introduced God Coin, a digital currency purported to be backed by gold and silver. Marketed as the sole authorized currency of the new kingdom, it was intended to eliminate financial crimes through traceable transactions.

Notable Quote:

[35:38] Henry Zabrowski: "This is another scam. All these guys, all these Christians are starting to find the Bitcoin now."

Predictions and COVID-19

Lord Rael made bold predictions, declaring COVID-19 as a sign of the impending end times. Despite his proclamations, the pandemic's prolonged nature did not align with his foretold timeline, leading to skepticism among his followers and a decline in his cult's prominence.

Notable Quote:

[31:00] Ed Larson: "But remember, for you, it's today. For us, it's 1312. Thirteen years ago."

Recent Developments

Arrests and Operational Decline

By 2016, members of the clergy associated with Lord Rael's cult were arrested in Jerusalem for illegal activities, including stalking rabbis and causing public disturbances. These legal troubles, coupled with unmet prophecies, led to a decline in the cult's activities and online presence.

Notable Quote:

[30:31] Henry Zabrowski: "Oh, dude, this is hilarious. The whole preface by Captain Richard Ruff of this whole thing is very, very funny."

Impact of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the cult's operations, disrupting their plans to capitalize on the crisis as a precursor to the apocalypse. The inability to meet predictions and financial strains from failed ventures like God Coin contributed to the cult's diminishing influence.

Notable Quote:

[44:22] Marcus Parks: "Speaking of which, on June 16, 2016, three months after they arrived, members of the clergy were arrested in Jerusalem."

Online Withdrawal and Refund Demands

Post-pandemic, Lord Rael's online presence became sparse, with social media channels inactive for over two years. Disillusioned followers have initiated petition sites demanding refunds for their investments in the cult's ventures, reflecting widespread discontent.

Notable Quote:

[50:10] Henry Zabrowski: "There is a care to some petition site that is trying to getting Raymond Lord Rael Lear to show up or shut up."

Discussion and Insights

Throughout the episode, hosts Zabrowski and Larson dissect the rise and fall of Lord Rael's cult, highlighting the psychological manipulation and strategic use of modern technology in cult operations. They draw parallels between Rael's methodologies and historical cult leaders like Jim Jones, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and skepticism.

Notable Quote:

[29:20] Henry Zabrowski: "Another member of the corrupt media. Yes, we could."

Conclusion

As of the episode's recording in 2025, Lord Rael remains an elusive figure, presumed to be residing in Mexico away from the reach of law enforcement. His cult has largely dissipated, leaving behind a trail of failed prophecies and financially damaged followers. The hosts express anticipation for future updates, promising to continue tracking Rael's movements and activities.

Notable Quote:

[50:46] Ed Larson: "You guys gotta read the return of Christ. I'm looking at this right now. I can't believe we didn't have all."

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Final Thoughts

"Last Update on the Left" successfully revives interest in the Lord Rael saga, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the cult's history, ideological shifts, and eventual decline. Through detailed analysis and engaging discussions, Zabrowski and Larson shed light on the mechanisms of cult leadership and the enduring human fascination with charismatic figures.

Transcript

[Henry Zabrowski]

That's when the cannibalism started. Last Update on the Left.

[Ed Larson]

Welcome to the new show, ladies and gentlemen.

[Henry Zabrowski]

What?

[Ed Larson]

This is a new show? No, it's the first new show that we've done in a while. And guess what? The new show, hell of a lot like the old show.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Welcome to Last Update on the Left.

[Henry Zabrowski]

We are going in this new series based entirely on this magical rectangle in your hand. Only on the app, bitches. Is that good?

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I can't say serving content anymore.

[Ed Larson]

No. You. Oh, did you. Did you already use it all up on our makeover mandate?

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, my Lord. Did I? Yes, we really expanded that. Hi, I'm Henry Zabrowski.

[Marcus Parks]

I'm Ed Larson. I'm super excited for the new show. This is going to help me out. I feel like I'm fucking a decade behind you all. And so I need this and so personally.

[Henry Zabrowski]

But for the new show, we were tasked with our lords and masters and our advertising companies to say, hey, like, what if you do something fun and different? We're like, what if it's sort of. And what we'll do is this thing will update old episodes, old topics that we have not like. Like that have been years since we've now, like, we can relook at it in kind of a concise, fun that I hope that you like.

[Ed Larson]

Well, some. Ed, as you say, Ed, you know, you're. You feel like you're a decade behind in some cases. These. We're talking about stuff that we spoke of 12 years ago.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Long time ago.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Today's episode, in fact, the one that we're starting off with, was something that we first talked about, and I'm pretty sure 2012.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Pretty certain.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. 2011. 2012, Lord Raya.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Now, Eddie, you don't know who Lord Rael is?

[Marcus Parks]

I know a little bit. I remember y'all had some weird beef when we were back at the creek.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

I remember you guys always yelling at him. And I remember seeing a couple videos.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes.

[Marcus Parks]

The old live shows and stuff.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yes. Now, just first of all, primer. Raymond Lear is his real name.

[Ed Larson]

Raymond Lear is actually not his real name.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Is it Raymond Elwood Lear?

[Ed Larson]

It is Raymond Howard.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, God.

[Marcus Parks]

Raymond Howard.

[Ed Larson]

Whatever. But that's one of the updates that we found out. We found out his real name is Raymond.

[Henry Zabrowski]

How? That's incredible. Lord Royale is incredible. Cult leader, I'm going to say, of a boutique cult.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

That started, you know, in the United States of America. Moved to Mexico. But where we get involved is somewhere around 2012 we were. We found Lord Rael. I was listening to coast to Cost Am and I heard somebody call in during the open line section where they were like, you will all face the wrath of Lord Rael. And I looked it all up and I found that there was this man, this very fat, dumpy, bad man that believed that he had control over the weather and that he came from a UFO over Israel. And we started talking about him. And then this is back when Facebook was something that normal people use.

[Ed Larson]

It was fine. It was fun.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It was almost fun. And we had a group like, you know, our Facebook group we were like involved in all the time.

[Ed Larson]

Well, it was a very small. It was like less. I think it was like 500 people at that point. We knew a lot of the. Like, we ended up meeting a lot of these people. We ended up becoming friends with some of them, still friends with to this day. Like, it was a very cool little group. And this group infiltrated the Lord Rael Facebook group.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So Lord Rales, because it started with them trying to sneak into our Facebook groups. And then the mods, like, would catch them and then they would create. Because Lord Rael on his Facebook group, they would do these really long, ecumenical style names that were really funny, like Archduke, blah, blah, blah, which you're going to hear a couple today. And they. So our people would make fake ones and get all the dirt on them and then just send us all of the stuff from the inside of his cult.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. And because it's one of those, like, very. It's one of those harmless cults, like completely and totally harmless.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, so far.

[Ed Larson]

So far.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And mostly it's. Well, it is harmful to a lot of their credit scores and I think it's also truly harmful to any sort of regular employment.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Now is it a sexy, sexy call?

[Ed Larson]

Well, we. We definitely had some questions about that when they moved to Baja California, because it seemed like when they moved Baja California, because it was very small here in America.

[Marcus Parks]

It's because I really knew Baja Blast.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. I mean, he looks like, dude, this.

[Ed Larson]

Is before Baja Blast.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Lord Royal looks like he trains for a marathon using Baja.

[Ed Larson]

And so they moved from America. And there it's very simple. Where like this guy, Lord Rael. Rael is a truncation of the name Raymond Elwood, which is. That's his. Elwood is his middle name. I think he changed his name to Raymond Lear, but he was born Raymond Howard. But Rael is a truncation of it. About 10 people started following him and he started putting out these videos he started putting out, like after a massively destructive weather event, he would put out a video saying, I was the cause behind that. Because nobody is believing that I am the new Messiah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I am the messiah. Higher.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

But what he did, like the Jackson, Mississippi, remember the Jackson Tornadoes, Missouri tornadoes, He took full credit for that.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And the reason why he decided to destroy the city of Joplin, Missouri was because people were calling him fat on YouTube. This is the main issue with Lord Rael, which is why it was so fun to engage with Lord Rael because he is a petty God.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And he, he loves his body and he doesn't want you to roast him at all. So there's no way he's going to get remotely upset about the fact that he looks like if Cherry Garcia was a person.

[Marcus Parks]

Lord Rolo.

[Ed Larson]

And we're going to get to the update. For the longest time, the only footage, the only video footage of Lord Rael was a five second clip of him riding on a horse. Yes. In his full. Because he has a costume and every. He has very long gray hair, a big beard and he wears.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He's grown into the Messiah look. Now he's all gray.

[Ed Larson]

Well, he's all gray because he used.

[Henry Zabrowski]

To dye the beard and the hair.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

But he can't afford it anymore.

[Ed Larson]

But he's also real fat now. Like, he is so fat.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He's really. That must have been a strong horse. And I will say there's nothing wrong with it.

[Ed Larson]

No, no.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Because I actually think weirdly looks good.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I love, I think it's. I think he looks better with some meat on his bones.

[Ed Larson]

When he was skinny, he looked like a criminal because hey, guess what? He was a criminal.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Ye.

[Ed Larson]

He was arrested. This is just incredible stuff. He, him and his mother went and kidnapped his ex girlfriend and kept her hostage using furry handcuffs. And then finally, either she got away or they let her go. One of the two. And so Ray and his mother like fled to a local gym. I don't know why they went to the gym.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's the only time he ever went to the gym.

[Marcus Parks]

That's where they had a shower.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, yeah. The why. The why.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

And so they went there and they called the police to try to get ahead of the story. They called the police and they're like, no, no, this woman kidnapped us. She was assaulting us.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Larson]

And he was.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I knew then I was the victim of a sexual assault.

[Marcus Parks]

Used handcuffs from Spencers.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes, Lord Spencer, my maid saints. The one that protects me from my own mother.

[Ed Larson]

This was before he was Lord Rael. This was a couple of years before. And the funny thing about it is that no one really knows how the Lord Rael thing started. Like, where he started from. You know, how he got followers. He just appeared on YouTube one day. Like, he appeared on YouTube with this, like, message to the world saying that I am the Lord God. And then people start calling him fat, making fun of him. My favorite is his second video is it starts with him going.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, he's so sad. Do we play any of it? Yeah, so we can get into his talking. Here we go. Yeah, this is it. Yeah, this is what I said. This is his. This is his new video. So you can kind of hear what he saw, what we're dealing with.

[Marcus Parks]

Okay.

[Henry Zabrowski]

This is sanctuary.

[Marcus Parks]

Sanctuary. It's because he looks like Quasimodo, brothers and sisters.

[Kelly Patrick]

And that is what you are, my brothers and sisters.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Whoa. He dropped the British.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, he dropped it.

[Kelly Patrick]

I have a love for the people at this table in this room that I cannot properly express.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It looks like your mom's boyfriend that you don't want to have anything to do with.

[Kelly Patrick]

And I have a thankfulness.

[Marcus Parks]

Is he filming this on a black.

[Kelly Patrick]

For what all of you have done through some very trying times. This has been an amazing year in so many ways. We have. We have come so close to our goal.

[Marcus Parks]

I've gone from double D to double.

[Kelly Patrick]

E. We can see more than just the light at the end of the tunnel. We can see home.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Shut up. Shut up. Just shut the upper. He's gotten so fat.

[Ed Larson]

Doesn't fit.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, he's got George Lucas neck.

[Ed Larson]

But this is Lord Rael today. Yes. Or at least this is Lord Rael four years ago.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Jesus Christ.

[Ed Larson]

All right.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Or get this nonsense.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Oh, no, it's. It is total nonsense. But that's.

[Henry Zabrowski]

That's vamping.

[Ed Larson]

That's one of the things that we found fascinating about this guy is like, where did he come from? How. Because it was early days when the Internet was becoming ubiquitous, when it was becoming, like, a part of every everyday life all the time.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Imagine imaginary world where they gave you money to make web series.

[Ed Larson]

But that's what you know, because Henry was the one that brought it to us. Is that it was an Internet cult. Yeah, it was just an Internet cult. And if I remember correctly, I think that they were decentralized for a while. Like, everybody was just sort of all over America. He was in Chicago doing his thing. I think he had, like, one guy, and then when they finally got together, that was in Baja Mexico. And that, I think, is where some of the sexy stuff started. Because they started getting defectors. Because that's what happens when the sexy stuff starts. People get their feelings hurt.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. People get their feelings hurt real bad. And we did have one guy, like, one of our Facebook group members did end up talking to one of the defectors.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes.

[Ed Larson]

And then he eventually return to the cult and stop talking.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So when we last left the cult so you could go find her old episode, Lord Rael actually don't even know where the fuck it is. Somewhere in the ether.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it's episode something. Something in the first hundred episodes.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So, yeah, we don't even fucking listen to that stuff. Because I was like many, many lifetimes ago.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. But remember, for you, it's today. For us, it's 1312. Thirteen years ago.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes.

[Ed Larson]

Imagine who you think about who you were 12, 13 years ago. Some of you were like 9 years old.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, it's strange. It's really very strange. But now what we've learned is that. So now we left him in 2012.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

When he was sort of like, we were. He was actively engaging. Oh, yeah. Wow. Episode 78.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, there we go.

[Henry Zabrowski]

But we. He had some. Obviously we kind of covered it lightly and, like, even now, we're still kind of only picking up the bits and pieces we could find about him. But, you know, like. So let's take us from there. We know when really when we were talking about Lord Rael, it was when he had just moved to Baja. He had brought a small group of people from America to Baja, Mexico, where they were living in, like, a shanty town.

[Marcus Parks]

Because he was he the guy who let the dogs out.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He actually. He might.

[Ed Larson]

Well, part of the reason why they went to Baja, Mexico, is because he was. He had a warrant out for his arrest. Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Cabo's incredible, though. I mean, if you're going to go to a place for a cult, Cabo is. I mean, it's not too bad.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it's not too bad at all. So we're going to pick back up in 2012.

[Marcus Parks]

Okay.

[Ed Larson]

After. Right after we had our episode in 2012. And we're just going to kind of go through a timeline here.

[Henry Zabrowski]

All right.

[Ed Larson]

Of what has happened with Lord Rael and his followers up until a couple of years ago.

[Marcus Parks]

Can I ask a quick question?

[Ed Larson]

Of course.

[Marcus Parks]

How many followers did he have?

[Ed Larson]

Like seven, I want to say.

[Marcus Parks]

What are we even talking.

[Henry Zabrowski]

There was a period of time he.

[Marcus Parks]

Probably was a birthday party. Is that a cult?

[Henry Zabrowski]

But when it wasn't like, localized. He had probably. I'd say his biggest. He might have had a hundred people, probably. Like, there was a. There was a big chunk of people that were just on the Facebook group kind of. I think that there was a larping section.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Where people were kind of having fun, engaging with all of it on the Internet. And that kind of the drama that would come out of it. I think people like to deal with it. But then once it became physicalized and he brought people to Baja, it shrunk because obviously it wasn't great. They went down. There was poor conditions where they were. They weren't getting a lot of food. I imagine that you had to go and you have to deal with. You are meeting Lord Rael on Facebook. But then when you go to Baja, Mexico, you meet Raymond.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And you have.

[Marcus Parks]

Raymond can't afford the bottled.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, no, no, no. Raymond is not. He is not ready.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Oh, and this is one other thing that I forgot that we definitely must, you know, put into play before we start on the current timeline. He claims to be protected by the Knights Templar.

[Marcus Parks]

Oh, my God.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Again?

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, yeah, again. Coming back from the. The Anders Brevik series that recently did. Yeah. But the funny thing is that you can only become a Knights Templar. You must await an email. And then once you have the email, then you may become a protector of Rael.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Do you think that it's one of those where out they saw the male demon and that's why they thought the Knights Templar was satanic.

[Ed Larson]

Well, the other thing, too, is that in. When he was in Chicago. You remember the Guardian Angels in New York?

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Guardian Angels were a group of people who got together in the 70s.

[Marcus Parks]

They had the hats.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. They were a vigilante group that were like, you know, beret, all that. They had uniforms. But there were also chapters in other cities, and there was a Chicago chapter because like. Like, I mean, he seriously is. He's Raymond Elwood from Chicago.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, he's from Chicago.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. And he was in the Guardian Angels. And there's someone who was doing some investigation on Lord Rael got a hold of one of the Guardian angels that Raymond Lear worked with. Henry, I want you to read this. Chicago man's estimation.

[Henry Zabrowski]

His name is Raymond Nelwood. He was my boss in the Guardian Angels. I started in 81. The Knights came to him after that UFO did what it did to Jerusalem. He had no clue what's happening to him. They did this to fool us. It's the Knights Templar. I was A member of them. When I met Raymond again, he is a host. No shit. He has a colostomy bag. He got it years ago when he was abusing drugs. He has a big history.

[Ed Larson]

He has a big history.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So that's. So Raymond Elwood.

[Marcus Parks]

Imagine someone with a colostomy bag trying to stop you from doing a crime.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Hold on, hold on.

[Ed Larson]

And lastly, before we get into the current timeline, he claimed to be like a high ranking Freemason at one point before he was Lord Rael.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, sure.

[Ed Larson]

But the same guy who investigated him looked up like. I mean, he was able to get ahold of like some Masonic records. Like when Raymond Elwood was supposedly a part of the Freemasons. And Raymond Elwood was suspended for non payment of dues.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, because you can't make God pay dues.

[Ed Larson]

Because he said, I was blackballed from the Freemasons for trying to tell the truth.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So funny being black.

[Marcus Parks]

Secret society coming out just to be like, this guy is not part of us.

[Henry Zabrowski]

We're not supposed to really disclose our membership, but that fat fuck has got nothing to do with us. We actually are looking for. Honestly, Zendaya, we're looking. Trying to get our hands on some zoomers. Sydney Sweeney, please.

[Ed Larson]

And the reason why we keep doing that voice and why it's so different from the one that you just heard. He used to speak in this accent. He used to roll his. Like, I am Lord Ryan.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I'm trying to find the OG videos or. Because remember his YouTube channel? Here it is. I'm sending this to you right now, Rob. This is the. This is the fifth seal video when he did. Because remember his. His YouTube channel is Christ has Returned.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, yeah. Christ has Returned. The other thing about him is that they don't really release all that often except for obsessive videos about the Torah codes.

[Henry Zabrowski]

They love the Torah codes. There's a lot of people. I'm kind of fascinated by the Torah codes.

[Ed Larson]

It's interesting.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I was talking about it with. Because Jake Young was staying at my house.

[Ed Larson]

We're talking Jake Young from Wizard and the Bruiser.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes. We were talking about the tunnels underneath the synagogue in New York.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And you're kind of talking about. That whole concept of. It was very, very interesting because he was talking about the concept of like the schism that was happening in that. That specific group.

[Ed Larson]

Sure.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And how one of it was kind of this offshoot of an extreme group that believed a former rabbi, like, he was such a good dude and they liked him so much. Eventually they began to think that he was a messiah. And then there was. Because he told all of them he was the only one who knew the secret name of God, and he could. Or this is from back in the day. And so the secret name of God gave him all these powers because that's in Torah. So they have this idea, there's like this super, super, super secret name.

[Marcus Parks]

Jehovah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

That's not it.

[Ed Larson]

No, that ain't it.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Any Jay Z doesn't even know that Yahweh either. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like, it is literally a. It. A very secret name. And so they. But that toy. I also find Torah codes to be fascinating.

[Ed Larson]

Well, Torah codes is a. If I'm understanding this correctly, I might be wrong on this, but it. It is assigning numerical values to letters and the Torah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's numerology.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it's numerology. And by assigning these numerical values, you can figure out secret messages.

[Henry Zabrowski]

You ever see PI?

[Ed Larson]

Yes.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Remember how they talk about how they're trying to find the secret name for God in PI? Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Very Jewish movie.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes, they do that.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's. That's the Torah codes. And these people are obsessed with the Torah codes.

[Kelly Patrick]

Okay, my children, you are growing weary of the weight. You tire of the struggle against the unworthy, the wanton, and the wicked. You wish me to enact my final judgment upon them, not own the rights to this and be done with it. I do not blame you for this.

[Ed Larson]

It still only has 8, like, 8.8 thousand views.

[Kelly Patrick]

Very soon. But not until more of them have tasted the suffering that they have wrought upon those who have royally served me. Not until the martyrs have completed their tasks.

[Marcus Parks]

Excuse me while I microwave.

[Kelly Patrick]

Just a bit longer, my children. What's must be done must be done.

[Ed Larson]

For what must be done, must be done.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Must be done. Done.

[Ed Larson]

Okay, that's good. Yeah, that's my favorite. For what must be done, must be done.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Someone bring me my sweatpants.

[Ed Larson]

I hear the ding of the microwave, but wait for. I must wait an additional three minutes for it to cool down.

[Henry Zabrowski]

What must pierce the bed of the Mac and cheese to let out all of the steam inside before it burns your precious tongue.

[Ed Larson]

All right, let's get to the timeline. What the fuck this guy has been up to since we covered him in 2012. He appointed Cardinal Richard Ruff as prime cleric of the International Congregation of Lord Rayale. Richard Ruff.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yep. Dick Ruff.

[Ed Larson]

Dick Ruff. Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, Dick Ruff.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, Dick Ruff.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Like a guy who died standing next to John Holmes.

[Ed Larson]

Yep. Dick Ruff has been his right hand man forever. Like, that's been the guy that. He's the true believer. The guy that's never faltered in following Lord Riel.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Hi, my name is Penis Soft. Dick Ruff's my brother.

[Ed Larson]

And so from 2012 to like 2015, not a lot happened.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, he was taking a break. I think he was taking it easy down in Baja. He was down in Baja. He might have been contemplating giving it.

[Ed Larson]

All up, maybe for three years, but.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He just kind of. I feel like they coasted. It's weird because the Baja contingent is still around.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, yeah, very much so. They're still all there. Oh, we're going to talk about weirdly.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Successful in that way.

[Ed Larson]

We're going to talk about the travels of these people. Because they don't stay in Baja.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No.

[Ed Larson]

In 2015, Richard Ruff was revealed through the Torah code. And this was something that he wrote himself. Revealed to be the reincarnation of Moses.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

He creates Torah codes using the keys to the Bible, its software that he created himself. Sells it for $99.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Ooh, that's it. To find out the secrets of the Torah.

[Ed Larson]

99 bucks. That's all. That's it. It's been verified to be fake by independent rabbis. But he will also create codes to defame anyone who challenges his authority. Anyone who says that he's full of shit. He can make up codes to say that the Torah says they're wrong.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Hey, that's a fucking. That's the power. That's his actual skill.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

That is less than $10 a commandment.

[Ed Larson]

But in 2016, they moved from Baja to Jerusalem.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. This is wild. This is a whole sidestep. Maybe he might have been looking around to see where they were going to go next because obviously they're not welcome anywhere they go.

[Ed Larson]

No.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Like whatever the crew would be like, they're not super welcome because they're very difficult.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah. It's like if. When you pretend to be a God, it's like a bad thing or something.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's just hard to keep up.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. People don't like it. And so once they moved to Jerusalem, they of course started seeing signs everywhere. Because they're looking for signs everywhere.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And it's Jerusalem.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it's Jerusalem.

[Henry Zabrowski]

If you're going to look for religious iconography. Yeah, it's the. It's their tourism district.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I put the whale in Wailing wall.

[Ed Larson]

So in 2016, there was a big sunspot. And this sunspot, this is ripe for them. This is so the sunspot took the shape of a heart which fulfilled a secret Catholic prophecy of the Sacred Heart of Christ. And they took that as a sign because it occurred about two weeks after they arrived in Jerusalem. Which tells them, hey, we're on the right track here. Because Ray and. Because that was one of the things that we really debated in our episode, if I remember correctly, if Ray and Richard Ruff are in on it together.

[Henry Zabrowski]

See, this is a. It's so hard with cult leaders because he's been in character for a long time and we always kind of even. I remember one of the first times we really had that significant debate was during the Jonestown episodes.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

We were talking about, like, how far outside is a cult leader? Like, how far foot do you have to keep out to know that you're. What plot line you're keeping the crew on? And I do think they are in it together now. Now upon re looking at it, I think that because he's obviously found a way to make a living.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Being Lord Rael. And so he must have some base. And he's obviously. I'm just gonna put it out there. Not the detail guy.

[Ed Larson]

No.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So I think he needs it. He needs support. It is a lot for him. I don't know if he's doing it all on his own.

[Ed Larson]

He needs a wrangler. He needs a wrangler because that's what every cult leader needs, is you need a wrangler.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, you got the enforce. Got the. The hand of the king.

[Ed Larson]

Like Jim Jones had like four wranglers.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Did they kill like a senator or something?

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, they killed a senator. Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

That was just his. That was the rank and file that killed the senator.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes.

[Ed Larson]

As far as the people in Guyana itself, like he had a few women that were just these die hard ride or die. Like they're. They're fucking. They did anything that he said. And of course there's debate as to how far Jim Jones kept them away from his ultimate plan. But there's also, you know, some theories or at least because that's the thing with Jim Jones. You can really only theorize what was going through his head. Oh, of course. And it's very possible that he got so far away from anybody that he lost the thread completely.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. I think.

[Ed Larson]

And he just this paranoid, like all the drugs, all the paranoia, everything, and just. And having so much power over so many people in such an isolated place that he just lost it. He, you know, they killed the senator. They knew, like he knew that the game was up for him. And so he. Since he was so. He had this group of people that was so behind him, they were able to force. Because that's the thing about Jonestown is that most of those people were forced to drink the flavor Aid slash Kool Aid.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It was, by the way, they had a gun to the back of their heads.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, I listened to the whole thing once just like out of like just sheer curiosity and it was depressing.

[Ed Larson]

No, I've listened to it multiple times. I have it on vinyl.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, there you go. He loved was actually their wedding song. It was a long ceremony.

[Ed Larson]

It very much was. And so on May 24, 2016, this is about two months after they arrive in Jerusalem. An unscheduled egg shaped blood moon appeared above Jerusalem, fulfilling clot in his eyeballs that fulfilled a secret Catholic prophecy called the Red Egg. And according to the Return of Christ, which by the way, the Return of Christ is the book that Lord Rael wrote, which we didn't have time to read, unfortunately.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Just didn't want to buy it. I just didn't want to give him any money.

[Ed Larson]

This plus the sunspot further confirmed and validated the sacred heart of Christ prophecy, which again proves. Hey, we're doing the right thing.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I'm looking at this now. You can't even really get the book.

[Marcus Parks]

No. I imagine they're all gone.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, I think that he just. Oh, no, because you know why? It's by Angelus Domino.

[Ed Larson]

Angelus Domino? Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

That's another one of his terms.

[Ed Larson]

He has many different aliases. One of them is Angelus Domini.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Here we go. This is the. This is the official blurb of the Return of Christ. This book provides an all encompassing truth with undeniable evidence Christ has returned and is walking the earth today. From reports of Christ descending over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The UFO over Jerusalem.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

To a plethora of prophecies being fulfilled within the Abrahamic faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and many other ancient beliefs.

[Ed Larson]

The Red Egg, the heart, so on.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And so with the intriguing Torah code verified by mathematical statistics, the Bible secrets are now being revealed. As computers decode the ancient scriptures revealing the identity of the Messiah, multiple corrections are provided to errors that have crept up into modern Bibles, including simple translation errors, alterations of scriptures and outright deceptions.

[Marcus Parks]

So he doesn't believe in the Bible?

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, he said. Well, his version of it. And this was written by Cardinal Richard Ruff? Yes.

[Marcus Parks]

It's like Taylor, you know, it's just like, you know, the Bible wasn't going well for Rael. So he's. He's got Rael's version, of course, but.

[Ed Larson]

Well, because he has. It's the same thing that so many cult leaders say over the years. Like, I talk to God. The Pope doesn't talk to God, The Pope is a false prophet, The Pope is a fraud. I'm the one.

[Marcus Parks]

I agree with him there.

[Ed Larson]

Well, of course, but I'm the. He says, I'm the one that talks to God and I'm the one that says what the Bible should really say. Because, you know, the Bible has gone through so many translations over the years that it's, you know, so much of its meaning has changed from the original text. And so he can say whatever the fuck he wants to say. He can say that when it was translated from this version to the King James version, this was lost in translation. And what it really means is what I say it means. And of course, what he says it means, means always feeds back into what is best for him.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, of course. And this, I love this. The, the forward of. I'm looking at this now. This would lead to. The guy who wrote the forward is a guy named John Griffin ii, who's the director and founder of UINI Research. And he looks like a penis. Weenie research, it might be. Weenie research, it might be. But he said that he was like the co author of this book, Richard Ruff, who also chose to delve into controversial subjects that most would avoid. He risked his social and professional reputation by publicly posting his research for the public and other experts to review, as any true transparent and honest researchers often do.

[Ed Larson]

Wow.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's just, I think that's just because it's in the book, I think. Oh, yeah, it's coming hard for a lot of Jewish concepts.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, that's what, that's usually how it happens.

[Marcus Parks]

That goes over well in Jerusalem.

[Henry Zabrowski]

They just like.

[Ed Larson]

Speaking of which, on June 16, 2016, three months after they arrived, members of the clergy were arrested in Jerusalem.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

They were reported to have stayed there illegally, threatened the state of Israel, stalked rabbis and generally causing a nuisance.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, they love that over there.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, dude, this is hilarious. The whole preface by Captain Richard Ruff of this whole thing is very, very funny. Is that it? He was taken. He said that he himself, when he was working on Bible codes in his own way, he plugged in the name Raymond Lear into his own Bible code computer program. And the first thing that came up is the words, he is the Messiah.

[Ed Larson]

Wow.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, buddy.

[Ed Larson]

Well, after they got arrested in Jerusalem, like it almost went from harmless to Mass suicide because authorities were contacted by family members of the cult who got word from members of the cult that they were planning a mass suicide because Lord Raelle did not show up for Purim where he was allegedly going to be announced as Messiah as foretold by Cardinal Kelly Patrick via what else but the Torah codes?

[Henry Zabrowski]

I find it interesting that it was. Purim was the holiday he chose.

[Ed Larson]

He chose Purim again and again. Is it Purim or Purim? Purim. Yeah. He chose Purim again and again and again as his special day.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, it says that it's a very. He loves this day. I know that it's like, it's like a celebratory celebration. Yeah, celebratory. People wear costumes, streams a lot. But would you. It's a major holiday, right?

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, I mean they're all. They all are.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. Well somewhere you go look, they have like there's levels one.

[Marcus Parks]

It's not too serious. You don't have to fast or anything.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, it's like a fun one.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Well, the day that all of his people were arrested, Lord Rael tweeted denial was bad enough. Now you persecute my saints, my torrent, my torrents. Tolerance has been exceeded.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Dude, you guys gotta read the return of Christ. I'm looking at this right now. I can't believe we didn't have all. Raymond Elwood Lear. This is. He wrote, he writes in the third person. Raymond Elwood Lear was conceived during the blood moon Tetrad that occurred in alignment with the Hebrew feast calendar. He was conceived in the blood moon eclipse that fell on the Hebrew holiday of Sukkot and then thus was being brought into this world just after the reunification of Jerusalem. His father, his biological father was Collins, a Rosicrucian of the famous Collins dynasty which is directly descended from King David. There is much speculation on the Internet about the Jewish Collins bloodline being the top occult Illuminati family. We maintain that what it actually makes it special is its direct Davidic lineage. And it says here he was born to the humans. Ruth Ellis Smith. But he said mostly he was born in the streets of Chicago where he find himself fighting far more than just well armed street gang.

[Marcus Parks]

He was born by. He didn't mean the blood moon eclipse, he meant the blood moon eclair.

[Ed Larson]

Of course. And also in Chicago before he was Lord Rael, he had like four failed runs for office.

[Henry Zabrowski]

This is what it says.

[Ed Larson]

He's a libertarian.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He was working for the Guardian Angels and the public saw him as the only incorruptible man in Chicago.

[Ed Larson]

Wow.

[Marcus Parks]

Wow, what years was that?

[Ed Larson]

90S. Like early to mid-90s. Yeah, yeah. As you can see, he's getting a little older.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, but he's got to be in his 60s.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Somewhere around there. Yeah, but, but by the way, speaking, you know I mentioned the Pope earlier. On July 20, 2017, he did lay claim to Vatican City. It is, it is his.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's coming for him. Yeah, yeah. So don't get in his way. He's coming for it.

[Marcus Parks]

You know what? Give it to him.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, new management.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Dude, I actually forgot about this, that he was like somewhat involved with the, the murder or something with his stepfather because they said that he came for his stepfather, killed his mother. And he said they. Because that's why he left America. He said he jailed both him and his elderly mother on false charges, all to keep him out of office. And he said his false persecution and imprisonment were prophesied in Matthew, blah, blah, blah. But that's why, according to him, Raymond was then, quote unquote, secretly removed from the US and during January of 2011, he was kept in, quote, the international zone between the US and Mexico. That doesn't exist. There is no neutral area.

[Marcus Parks]

Even like on top of the wall.

[Ed Larson]

It does not exist.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, yeah, you are one or the other, depending on the butt cheek. Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Well, in 2017, we all know what was becoming real big that year. Cryptocurrency.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh yeah.

[Ed Larson]

So on August 2016, 2017, Rael publicly declared possession of Earth's gold and silver and introduced a new monetary instrument called God Coin.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And yeah, God Coin.

[Ed Larson]

God Coin is in favor of a universal gold and silver backed currency system that provides abundance for all who are found worthy, along with providing a social safety net that will prevent falling into poverty. According to Lord Rayale's website, God. God Coin. It is the only authorized currency of the new kingdom. That's godcoin Gold.

[Henry Zabrowski]

This is, this is another scam. All these guys, all these Christians are starting to find the Bitcoin now. Yeah, it's like a new scam. And he's doing it. He actually kind of got way early on it. I'll say this for Lord Rael, he understood the power of the Internet early.

[Ed Larson]

He did.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And then he could build a sustainable niche, like boutique culture that can make him have a living. That's all you need on the Internet.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, that's what they say is that being there's. Being early though is worse than being late always. Yeah. If you're too early, you might as well have not Done anything at all.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, people talk about us because they say they always find the corpses of pioneers, the footsteps of others on their back.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

But on his website, when he talks about God coin and how big it's going to be, he says dominion is not subtle. God coin would be the only authorized canoe currency of the new kingdom. Very soon, buying and selling will not occur without accepting the new coin of the of the realm. It's the mark. He fully admits that it is the mark of the beast, but in a good way.

[Henry Zabrowski]

In a good way.

[Ed Larson]

The mark of the beast. It says, for a very long time, Christians have been preaching that the mark of the beast was something evil and something to be avoided at all costs. They did not know what they were speaking of. The second beast of Revelation 13 is Lord Rael.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Whoa.

[Ed Larson]

And any true theologian knows that the Bible uses the word beast to describe leaders, not to disparage them. So the Lord is called the lamb. The lamb is a beast. Therefore the mark of the beast is a good thing. And he says it is the Lord who creates a monetary system that eliminates crime by tracking and tracing all financial transactions, thus removing the ability to commit money based crimes. And without the ability to commit crimes motivated by money, no more crime.

[Marcus Parks]

There you go. Get rid of it.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes, that's easy to do.

[Marcus Parks]

Also, lambs aren't beasts. No, they're in goats or, you know.

[Ed Larson]

Maybe goat's a beast. Yeah, yeah. What rough beast?

[Marcus Parks]

Even like a sheep. Is it a beast?

[Ed Larson]

No. Yeah, sheep is not a beast. No.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Do I buy this paperback of the Return of Christ?

[Ed Larson]

Paperback?

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, buddy, you can get it in print. Do I buy this? Do I have this in my home?

[Marcus Parks]

No.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Do I give this out for gifts at Christmas? That.

[Marcus Parks]

Oh my God.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Do I give you money?

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah, it's definitely a great white elephant.

[Henry Zabrowski]

All of the purchasers are his followers.

[Ed Larson]

Of course.

[Henry Zabrowski]

They're all like reviews and they put their little like. Because they all have little badges that they put on it. Wow.

[Ed Larson]

I mean, he's gonna get a notification that you bought it. Yeah, he's gonna know.

[Marcus Parks]

Let's definitely get it sent to the P.O. box.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, he's gonna get an email and he's just gonna go kaching.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Another. Yes. Another member of the corrupt media. Yes, we could. One fish taco for me. One, two fish tacos for me.

[Ed Larson]

And by the way, if you want God coin, the only way you can earn God Coin is by working for the Crown, or Crown licensed private company. Oh, yeah. So it is. He's very much looking at this as a theological dictatorship. The currency will be valid for all legal purchases, including purchasing leaves from the Tree of Life to remain alive and healthy while in service to the Crown Town.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So he's just gonna be like, from Michael's.

[Ed Larson]

I think, because basically what he's doing is he's creating, like, Disney bucks.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Where you can. You have to buy Disney bucks to get. When you got. Get into Disney. So you can buy stuff at Disney.

[Marcus Parks]

Yes.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Yeah. And. But they're more expensive, but then it's actually worth.

[Ed Larson]

Yes, exactly. So, Raymond Elwood.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, this book is all Torah codes.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, yeah. You don't want that.

[Henry Zabrowski]

This Tor code shit's stupid.

[Marcus Parks]

What is it? Just not ones and zeros.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's just all saying. It's all him proving all of his various. It's what he's doing. It's like some information. But most of this is straight up just his proof that the things that he say are going to happen, happen.

[Marcus Parks]

Is it written left to right?

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, he can't do that. But this came out fucking right before COVID hit.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it did. But by the way, Kelly Patrick that I mentioned earlier, he has a LinkedIn where he lists the entire corporate structure of the Lord Rael empire. Richard Ruff is CEO, Kelly Patrick is coo, and the CTO Chief technical officer is Bishop Samuel Grenier, who was the Scottish judo champion in 1980.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes, that's right. I thought they had a judo judo champion. They also had an NFL player for a hot second.

[Ed Larson]

There was a very. Actually. Oh, man.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Fridge.

[Ed Larson]

No, he was an American, like, NFL player who came out like, Lord Rale was Adam Waymark for, like, just a little bit. He was like, on espn.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes. Adam Waymo was this guy. This was back in the day, 2014.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Because Adam, this guy came out and said, like, hey, Lord Rael is the Messiah. I follow Lord Rael now. And he got fucking cut.

[Marcus Parks]

Then he headbutted the wall.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes. This is according to Adam Wayma. I have joined with the unstoppable force who remains victorious. Christ Jesus Yeshua, Lord Rael, God Jehovah, I am. He is everything you want him to be because he loves you all so much. It's all in caps. I can't even explain his love. You can only experience it. You guys wonder how I do it? I think I'm good for my standards today. It smiles from Christ Jesus who stretches me. Oh, glory to him. Cut.

[Ed Larson]

Like, what was he with? The Vikings?

[Henry Zabrowski]

Seahawks.

[Ed Larson]

Seahawks. Yeah. I'm not very minor player, but, yeah, I think it was.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

I never heard of him.

[Ed Larson]

I think it was his rookie year too. So it's just like he is his.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. Because he left the. He left the scouting combine.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Oh, yeah.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Because he said he could leave the scouting combine and then when he left, his defiance would be met. It's Lord Royal said that they will then definitely put you on the Seahawks. And then what's hard is that if you're not at the combine, though. Yeah. You can't be seen by the Seahawks.

[Marcus Parks]

I mean, what's wrong with Rael? This was money.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

He left there.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's because he's still. It's these. It's just weird. He's bad at it.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He's not good at it.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. That is the thing is that he had a really good idea and really bad execution. Like that was his biggest problem. He just doesn't know how to execute. By the way, what is the jubilee birthday? Is that 75?

[Henry Zabrowski]

I believe the Jubilee birthday is 50. I believe it's 50.

[Marcus Parks]

I'm excited.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yes. 50.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, 50. So. Okay. He's actually not. Not that old.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I mean, I think he might be lying.

[Ed Larson]

He might be like. He said he turned 50 in 2018.

[Marcus Parks]

No way.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

Fucking guy.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, he looks like shit. I don't think he's taking care of himself.

[Ed Larson]

No. And in 2018, the Gary, Indiana parole district Facebook page posted a wanted poster of Raymond Elwood for absconding parole.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Larson]

And on January 10, 2019, Lord Ryel issued his Pentecost address to the world and announced, the end begins now. 2018, 28, 2019, 29.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, that was the last time. And then he was really ramping up again.

[Marcus Parks]

He was kind of right on that one.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, he was. Well, he was ramping up. This is what's hard is that like if you just keep saying it, eventually something bad is going to happen.

[Marcus Parks]

Did he claim that Covid was him?

[Ed Larson]

Yes. We'll get to that here in a second.

[Marcus Parks]

Okay.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, and this is a funny one. On February 27, 2019, they said this guy, Michael Har, he self realized that he was the cult's returned prophet Elijah. Wow. Real self realized that on his 32nd birthday. He's been a part of the cult since 2016. Previously, the cult's Elijah, Oprah had been the Elijah before.

[Henry Zabrowski]

She's so hard to book. Yeah, Popra. Yes. That's what she's gotta do.

[Ed Larson]

And on Purim 2019, Raymond Lear was anointed King of Kings in Rosarito, Mexico at the Hotel Calafia did you actually.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Did you see that on Pay Per View or. No, I didn't check it out. I was too busy getting my dick sucked by this old man in the cavern.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, and I. I didn't. I forgot this. Kelly Patrick is a woman. She was revealed as the bride of Christ through a Torah code.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Whoa.

[Ed Larson]

The Torah code is indeed, she is the bride. Kelly Pete.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So they actually. So he says that the Torah code, like, knows people's specific names.

[Ed Larson]

It knows the Torah code, knows everything.

[Henry Zabrowski]

So you can go and spit. It'll be like, henry, get the poster of the day. Like, if what I want. If I wanted to find out what I'm gonna eat.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

That day I just go to the Torah and I just like flip through a bunch of numbers.

[Ed Larson]

I think you get. I think it's that. I think you can do anything with it. At least they do anything with it.

[Marcus Parks]

Kelly Patrick was a bishop, correct?

[Ed Larson]

Yes.

[Marcus Parks]

That's more progressive than the Catholic Church.

[Ed Larson]

It is.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I know, I know. There's again, broken clock.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, well, the big thing about these guys is if we can go to 2020. On January 10, when the CDC announced that the coronavirus pandemic had begun, it was exactly one year. And this is actually true, exactly one year after Lord Rael said that the end begins now.

[Henry Zabrowski]

But then it's funny because it, it. If it was 368 days, it would not have worked because it was three was like the. The year mark. He, you know, he's just like, yes, that's it. That's the way it's. I was kind of hoping we'd see a weird star or Biden would fall down last minute.

[Marcus Parks]

Fucking.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It's been a year. It has been a year.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. It was a fucking buzzer beater.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Do you think he knows it? He knew it, like from his life. Like, iPhone photo memories. Oh my God, it has been a year.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, wow. And from there on, like, they just kept saying, yeah, Covid was us. Covid was us. This is what they're saying. Like, Covid was the sign. Covid is the. You know, that that is the sign that the end has begun. And he, you know, and the more people that died, the happier he was.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yes.

[Ed Larson]

Like he got psyched when 4,500 people died in India in one day.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Well, it's because then he's just like, like, now we reap the benefits. And it's like, it still hasn't paid out.

[Marcus Parks]

Kiss the holy Pangolin.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Have you ever eaten bat? Yes. Oh, come closer. This Bat's coughing.

[Ed Larson]

And you may not be surprised to hear that he is anti vax.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No. Why? Yeah, why?

[Ed Larson]

But he's. The funny thing is, they're also anti testing.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

They refuse to even test for COVID 19.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not. He's really not into it, but he would go and like. He got baptized. He got re. Baptized.

[Ed Larson]

He got. He got re. Baptized in the Catholic Church? No, in the ocean.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh.

[Ed Larson]

It is the funniest baptism I've ever seen. It is Lord Rael who is, like. When I say he's fat, like, I mean, he has one of those incredible, massive Santa Claus bellies.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, it's the bad fat. It's the we. It's what I have.

[Ed Larson]

It's just this huge, gigantic belly. These four guys take him out into the ocean. It's sunset, and one of them is holding, like, a flashlight to make sure that the iPhone they're filming it on captures the whole thing. And Lord Rael, of course, as we heard, he has dropped the British accent completely.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I think he's just. Is this, like. This is just not. I can't do this.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. And then he lies down in the ocean. The fucking waves come over him. And you can tell he's struggling to get up. He's like a turtle on his back.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah. Especially once he's wet. It's great.

[Ed Larson]

And it takes three guys to get him back up again.

[Henry Zabrowski]

You know, like when they have to move a dolphin. Yeah, that's how it felt.

[Marcus Parks]

First they started to roll him back into the ocean, and they're like, no.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, bring him back. He's a guy. Also, the. What's funny? This is a little note. Okay. If you're gonna do a big Cult ceremony and you're gonna film it, and you want to appear mysterious and inscrutable, this is a little tip I'm gonna give you Steam your linen. I don't take you. I'm for. Unfortunately. I'm sorry. All right. And I understand this phenomena because every single time we get an email about us mispronouncing something, and then we get like, an email where you've, like, you've stopped everything. You've stopped the whole episode that we've done, like, 25, 30 hours of work on, just because there we mispronounce the thing, and then you don't, like, listen to the rest of it. Right. Like, I understand that now because I'm watching the Cult video and all of this. The sheets are obviously fresh from packaging.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

And it's like, you gotta steam out these creases.

[Marcus Parks]

Gotta steam out.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I see the Kmart. You know, I mean, I don't see. There is no. I'm not getting Mormon tabernacle vibes from this. No.

[Ed Larson]

Oh, and I also. I forgot to mention that his mother was said to be a direct descendant of Joseph Smith, who was also, you know, the Mormon prophet. Yeah. And today Richard Ruff and Michael Har, who, remember, remember, he's the Elijah. They run social media and most of the operations. They have a few Facebook groups active. They have Ray Elite Teachings, the International Congregation of Lord Rael, and the Torah Codes group. They also have YouTube channels, but the YouTube channels haven't posted anything in two years.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, everything's kind of. Ever since COVID It seems like the post Covid thing really kind of crushed them. I feel like they saw an opportunity to make it big during 2020, and then it just didn't take.

[Marcus Parks]

Do you think there's a chance he's dead?

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, no, not yet. He's still alive.

[Ed Larson]

No, they're gonna.

[Marcus Parks]

I mean, how would we know? It's not like it's gonna be in the news.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I guess not.

[Ed Larson]

I actually.

[Henry Zabrowski]

I don't know. I actually feel like we know if you.

[Marcus Parks]

I feel like somebody would call you.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Somebody in this if I looked it up, because he's. He has people over, you know, so there's no way. There's not somebody.

[Marcus Parks]

Do you still have a warrant? Probably.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

He's involved with. He's involved. It sounds like he's kind of semi involved with the murder.

[Marcus Parks]

Where do you think he is now?

[Ed Larson]

Mexico Again, definitely he's going to be. He's going to die in Mexico.

[Marcus Parks]

Okay.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Definitely.

[Ed Larson]

He's never coming back to the United States because it's the thing. He does have enough. He still has online followers too, who give him money. Like he has a lot of them or relatively a lot of them.

[Marcus Parks]

What are we talking, like 2100, I'd.

[Ed Larson]

Say, you know, that probably come in.

[Marcus Parks]

And out enough to survive in Mexico.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah. And their places actually. Actually pretty nice. Yeah. Like the. At least it was. The first Baja place that they got was pretty nice. Like, nicer than you would think they would have.

[Henry Zabrowski]

There is a care to some petition site that is trying to getting Raymond Lord Rael Lear to show up or shut up. Basically saying, if the world's not gonna end, I want my money back. Wow, that's incredible.

[Ed Larson]

So, hey, guys. That is our first update episode.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah, yeah, we got it in. We got in there. We're gonna have a bunch of other ones. Yeah. Now we're gonna be doing a ton this whole year. Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

We're gonna have 40 of these episodes this year.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Marcus Parks]

I'm very excited. This is gonna be great for me, by the way. Yeah, dude, I actually do, like, appreciate this because I need to. I need all the references.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, no, no, you're gonna get all of them, man.

[Henry Zabrowski]

No, he, He. Honestly, this is hopefully. Let's see what happens here. He was try. He tried to abduct several. Several women. He had a phony CIA badge. He poses a US Senator to a woman. He tried to hire somebody else to help him kidnap another woman. And then he also. He was arrested for attacking his ex wife. Yeah. Which is what he said. That the cops drugged her and put these implanted memories into her head.

[Marcus Parks]

Is going to believe that he's a senator.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Dummies. Unfortunately. Or so. That's unfair. It's the people that are really, really broken.

[Ed Larson]

I mean, really, really, really broken. I mean, if you saw a picture of him back when he was Raymond Lear, like, he looked like. I mean. I mean, yeah, he did look like a criminal, but I also only saw pictures of him in mug shots.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Yeah.

[Ed Larson]

But he could maybe pass himself off as somebody, you know, some sort of congressman.

[Henry Zabrowski]

But you remember he was delivered here by the UFO over Israel. Have you ever seen that? Yeah. If you look UFO over Jerusalem, him.

[Marcus Parks]

No, I haven't.

[Henry Zabrowski]

You go take a look at it.

[Marcus Parks]

I will.

[Henry Zabrowski]

A lot of people have obviously debunked it.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah.

[Henry Zabrowski]

But it's very interesting.

[Ed Larson]

Yeah, it's been.

[Henry Zabrowski]

It has been thoroughly debunked, but it's good.

[Marcus Parks]

I like it. Yeah, the iron dome would have blown it out.

[Ed Larson]

All right, well, thank you all very much for listening and we'll see y'all next time.

[Henry Zabrowski]

See you next time. Bye.

[Ed Larson]

Bye. See you soon.

[Henry Zabrowski]

Lord Rael, thank you for enjoying the last update on the left. You can find other shows that you'll enjoy from the last podcast network on LastPodcast on the left dot com. See you there.