Flavor Aid
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Sep 15, 2026
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I didn't break the law.
Charlie HoupertHOST
And a decade later, in a jungle in Guyana, Jim Jones persuaded nearly 1,000 people to drink Flavor Aid laced with cyanide.
Charlie HoupertHOST
More recently, Keith Raniere's Nxivm secretly branded and enslaved women, many of whom were recruited by female friends already in the group.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it truly haunts me to this day how many people I brought in, my friends and family, who in turn brought in their friends and family through leveraged trust.
Michael ShureGUEST
But it wasn't Kool-Aid.
Michael ShureGUEST
It was Flavor-Aid in Jonestown in Miami.
Michael ShureGUEST
So when you drink the Kool-Aid.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Michael speaks the hashtag truth.
RoGUEST
To be
KrissHOST
fair, it was Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid.
KrissHOST
To be
RoGUEST
fair, it was
JoeHOST
sugar.
JoeHOST
No, it was the Flavor-Aid.
SarahHOST
See?
JoeHOST
Flavor-Aid man.
SarahHOST
Okay, so...
JoeHOST
Oh, ow.
Jeff GuinnGUEST
And I ask him, you know, all these years later, we're just sitting at his house in California.
Jeff GuinnGUEST
On the day that Jones said, "We're all gonna do this together," it, uh, they didn't drink Kool-Aid, of course, it was Flavor Aid-
Marcus ParksHOST
Of course
Jeff GuinnGUEST
... with cyanide, but tell them they're gonna do that.
5 MINS LATER
Jeff GuinnGUEST
Yeah, you'll suck up to Hearst and the Hearst family, but that's because that'll make the newspapers treat us more favorably, and we can help needy people even more.
Marcus ParksHOST
Sure.
Marcus ParksHOST
I mean, so during that time in San Francisco, like, uh, I know that Jim Jones, um, he ran the Flavor Aid test twice, right? Like, where he told every-
Jeff GuinnGUEST
He ran it once, once in San Francisco.
Astrid PizarroGUEST
[laughs]
Jamie AppsHOST
He had a packet of Flavor Aid, which is notoriously what Jim Jones used during the Jonestown massacres to make the cyanide drink, and then he also had a ski mask which was like Ted Bundy's-
Astrid PizarroGUEST
Mm.
Astrid PizarroGUEST
Interesting
Gunner HalifaxVOICE_ACTOR
You're gonna get the Kool-Aid of clone goop? Oh, no, that's way too expensive.
Gunner HalifaxVOICE_ACTOR
We're gonna get the Flavor-Aid of clone goop.
Gunner HalifaxVOICE_ACTOR
Okay.
Gunner HalifaxVOICE_ACTOR
We're getting great value clone dust.
Joseph Scott MorganHOST
Before he forced, in his own way, all of his followers down there in South America to drink the Kool-Aid, which, by the way, wasn't actually Kool-Aid.
Dave MackHOST
It was actually Flavor-Aid.
Dave MackHOST
It was Kool-Aid's cheaper stepbrother.
Dave MackHOST
I mean, they couldn't even go all out and buy Kool-Aid.
Dave MackHOST
It's like, that's what bothers me.
Dave MackHOST
Drink the Flavor-Aid.
Dave MackHOST
Come on, get the marketing right.
Dave MackHOST
But look, Jim Jones had those people in the palm of his hand, and they gave away the most important parts of themselves and their children to a madman in the jungle.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
And I
Dawn BrodyHOST
was like, I understand the penis and the vagina situation.
Dawn BrodyHOST
But how does it get in there? And you were like, wow.
Dawn BrodyHOST
And you explained it, and then I explained it to Melby.
24 MINS LATER
Dawn BrodyHOST
And he was rallying his people together.
Dawn BrodyHOST
He had elder housing.
Dawn BrodyHOST
He looked at the housing situation.
Dawn BrodyHOST
especially for older black women.
GrahamHOST
Dude, I cannot wait for
Jonas BarnesHOST
the fucking Flavor Aid massacre that's going to happen at the end of that fucking show.
Jonas BarnesHOST
I'm so excited.
GrahamHOST
I unapologetically love these kind of
1 HR 31 MINS LATER
Jonas BarnesHOST
Um, somebody gets bit by an animal and it does things to that person.
Jonas BarnesHOST
Like that's, that's as much as I will say.
Jonas BarnesHOST
Um, but it's, it's actually really solid, um, for physical media, just because of what today is, um, happy Texas chainsaw massacre day guys.
Jonas BarnesHOST
Uh, so I'm going to go ahead and do this one.
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