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Jun 2025
1h 7m

The Wild, Murderous Rampage of the Zizia...

The Underworld Podcast
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When cops arrested a group of masked, black-robed protesters at a California campsite in 2019, most folks thoughts they’d caught some eccentric but harmless members of the Bay Area’s niche rationalist movement. But over the next few years the group would rally around its charismatic leader, Ziz LaSota, tearing across North America on a rampage of robbery and ... Show More
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