David Berg

What wins games? A great closer.

Give me David Berg, UCLA.

Single season record holder in saves, 24 in that 2013 UCLA championship run, a 0.92 ERA that season over 78 innings.

This is just a slam dunk.

Daniela was not just thrown into the mean girl hellscape of a 4,000 student Houston high school, but straight into the academic deep end.

Our history classes were David Berg wrote a book called 7,000 Years of World History, where he put down his version of world history.

And that's what we studied and like copied from.

And that was all of the history that I knew when I had to take two history tests in high school.

Yeah.

That works.

So you have to remember, okay, David Berg died in 1994 and Karen Zerbe, his secretary turned longtime partner, she took over as leader.

Of course,

Then it took them about another 50 years to find their head guy.

And what Donald Trump did is he showed up, he did the same thing that David Berg did in the 60s.

He showed up in a time of cults, because cults always pop up in times of social turmoil.

And then he collected them all into his cult of personality, right? Like this is the cult of Donald Trump, MAGA.

Listen and read the Word, and the Word of God is alive.

And if anything, what I can say is coming from the family in the past, the family, the letters, the children of God, and all the Moses David letters, those endless, endless, endless reams and reams and reams of dreams and prophecies and political discourse.

Some of it completely wrong, by the way.

Like some of it absolutely, like in retrospect, off.

We have done a few episodes on the Children of God, and oddly enough and sadly enough, each one gets just worse than the one prior.

Now, Children of God was led by a very traumatized and deranged pedophile named David Berg.

David Berg, we've said that name before.

He was born in 1919 into a family of professional evangelists.

Now, her mother, I did a little deep dive into her background because I was curious.

Never underestimate the power of the lead singer.

So, this guy's name, Mr. Krooner, is Homer Emanuel Berg.

Yes, this is David Berg's father.

It's an intriguing choice, given that there's so many more well-known biblical characters.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon.

So why do we bless our boys to be like these two not so well-known brothers? Up until Ephraim and Manasseh, all biblical brothers suffered from destructive hatred and poisonous rivalry.

Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, and then there was Joseph and his brothers, those brothers who hated Joseph so intensely, they threw him deep into the ground.

She read all of Cartwright's work on the case in Texas Monthly as the case unfolded.

She also read Run, Brother, Run, a memoir of Murder in My Family by David Berg, the brother of Harrelson's first hit.

And she read various news accounts as the cases rolled through the 1980s.

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