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Dwight York and the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors Cult Cold Open: What do you get when you combine a pathologically lying sociopath, pedophilia, some tenants of Islam, an Egyptian theme park, dreams of becoming a disco/r&b star, lots of hard to understand quasi- religious UFO teachings, concubines, and so many dildos? You get Dwight York and the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors Cult. Born in 1945, Dwight York would grow up to become a cult leader. Like most cult leaders, he abused his followers in a variety of ways. Using the language of the Islamic, separatist, black nationalist groups around him, York found a way to build a community in Brooklyn that he controlled by giving them incense and his terribly written books to sell, then enforcing a lifestyle on them where they had to live separately from their families and basically devote all their time to making York some cult money. While they worked for him, Dwight York was often having sex with their wives. And not secretly. Part of the price you paid to be in this false prophet’s cult - to live on this maniac’s Egyptian compound. Later, he’d be having sex with their children as well. He did try and keep that a secret but many knew about it. And still later, he’d even be having sex with his own children. Dwight York was a demented, perverted bastard with one Helluva of gift forspitting out a LOT of crazy bullshit that somehow made sense to the hundreds of people who trusted him with their lives. And for a while - he did kind of seem trustworthy. His buildings in Bushwick were some of the few in a rough portion of Brooklyn that weren’t riddled with crime, drug use, and violence Of course, inside their walls - life was not so crime free. The man once known as “Dwight York” was already likely abusing children and abusing followers while expanding his cult empire. He soon bought property in the Catskills, where the child-fucking took off full-force. He’d basically escape upstate whenever he wanted to have relations with a van full of teenage “Backstreet Girls,” given that name because they hung out in his Bushwick recording studio, Backstreet. After far too many years of this, the Feds finally started snooping around, and Dwight got nervous. York would then move again - and get way, WAY off the grid. He’d move his whole cult way down south to rural Putnam County, Georgia, where he’d drop the act of being a Muslim prophet and start preaching that he was a celestial being sent from Planet Rizq to save a select group of his followers. He even preached about the anunnaki. Space Lizards! He went hard on Ancient Aliens lore long before it was cool. He even preached about giants. And he got real, REAL into ancient Egypt too. Started dressing like a Pharaoh. He had some big pyramid replicas built. And a Sphinx. There is so much insanity packed into this story. So many fake names. So many fake stories that Dwight York made up about himself to convince people to follow him. Thank God— today’s horrible tale does kind of have a good ending. The bad guy does a LOT of bad stuff. So much. BUT - he does get caught in the end and punished for his crimes. Dwight York would eventually see justice. Way too late for so many victims, but, better late than never I guess, right? In 2004, York would be convicted of numerous counts of child molestation and violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. He’s still serving his 135 year sentence. A sentence that should have been even longer. Maybe like a 1,000 years. York's case was reported as the largest prosecution for child molestation ever directed at a single person in the history of the United States, both in terms of total number of victims and total number of incidents. He’s seventy-five as of this recording, and has over 115 years to go, so, REAL unlikely he’ll ever get out. Unless he’s the Egyptian alien he’s claimed to be. Telling such a messed up story. So many horrific facets to it— from York’s belief system that preached that black people are genetically and morally superior to other races, to widespread childhood molestation, to the fact that so many people wasted so many years of their lives falling for York’s preposterous lies. Are you ready to go full CULT! CULT! CULT!? Let’s get into Dwight York and the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors on this week’s Egyptian, alien, polygamist, ludicrous, black supremacist, I wish I could visit this guy in prison just so I could punch him in the face so, so many times edition, of Timesuck. PAUSE TIMESUCK INTRO I. Welcome! A.Happy Monday: Happy Monday, Meat sacks! Welcome first time listener! Welcome back longtime listening meat sack… to the Cult of the Curious. We’re a very easy cult to be a member of. I don’t have pamphlets you have to read. Don’t have any meetings you have to attend where I’ll start bending your mind and preparing to pressure you to say goodbye to your current social circle, sell your belongings, and then give the money to me and come live on my compound where you’ll be my cult slave…. This cult is mostly just about sharing crazy tales you can listen to at your leisure. And boy do I have a VERY entertaining episode to share with you today… after a few quick announcements. I’m Dan Cummins, the Suck Master, Whipple Product Tester, Lucifina Lady Ween Fluffer, Dog the Bounty Hacker tech advisor, Servant of Nimrod, and you’re listening to Timesuck. B.Merch: New, very culty Hail Nimrod tee now in the store at Bad Magic Merch dot com. Got kind of a Bible School vibe to it. Feels right for this episode somehow. C.Charity: Want to give a quick thank you to our Patreon Space Lizards for allowing us to donate $14,000 to https://supportsurfside.org/ - a hardship fund just established by the Miami Heat basketball team to help those impacted by the devastating building collapse in Surfside, Florida this past June 24th. A twelve-story residential building with 136 units partially collapsed and the search for missing residents continues. Please head to https://supportsurfside.org/ to learn more. And that’s it for announcements. Flew through them today! D.Segue to Topic: And now we’re off to explore the wild tale of a cult with a leader as sexually insatiable as Fred and Rose West from two episodes ago. The man of many names born as Dwight D York, would molest hundreds of children. Hundreds. Almost all were members of his cult. For many years, he split up families, sexually abused women and children, took people’s money, time - took everything from them - and made them live in terrible living quarters working twelve-hour days, all to support him while he lived like a god with a literal harem composed by the end of mostly underage girls to attend to his every need. York preached a version of Islam - at least initially - but he’d never live the kind of modest, pious Islamic lifestyle that he preached about and forced his followers to abide by. When he got tired of being a Muslim prophet, he switched it up and started talking a bunch of Ancient Alien, Egyptian jibber jabber. It’s unbelievable what kind of crazy pills he was able to get his followers to swallow. His greatest gift may have been for pageantry and costuming. He knew that people loved to go all in on an idea— whether it was Islam or ancient Egypt. And he knew that if he got them excited enough and fully immersed in the current idea, they’d kind of forget this new idea wasn’t anything like the original idea they signed up for. He took things a lot farther than some of the other batshit cult leaders we’ve covered - like the Children of Thunder or the Angel’s Landing Cult. Dwight York was more on the level of Tony and Susan Alamo. He had his followers build him a giant, theme-park type complex on almost five hundred acres in Putnam County, Georgia, named Tama- Re, where followers from all over the country flocked to spend Tama- Re money with Dwight York’s face on it. He sold his followers on the idea that he’d built them their own sovereign nation inside the state of Georgia. Which, um, you can’t do. Uncle Sam kind of frowns on folks establishing sovereign nations inside his borders - most countries don’t really care for that. But York got his followers to believe the lie. That was he greatest gift - selling lies. Making the impossible seem possible. He was scary good at that. This crazy horse shit went on for over twenty years. Almost thirty. Dude ran an insane cult for more years than Michael Jordan played basketball - and that counts high school, college, AND the NBA…. even the strange Washington Wizards years. And during that time, York hurt hundreds of people, emotionally, financially, and physically. So much nonsense to unpack today. If you’re a first time listener, and you don’t find this story entertaining, you truly might as well go find a different podcast now because the crazy ass stories I tell don’t get a lot more captivating than this one….
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