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The livestreamed downfall of alleged cult Carbon Nation
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- Crime & justice
Eligio Bishop, also known as NatureBoy, started out with a pretty simple purpose – dump the system he was currently in, one that systemically harmed him throughout his life, and trade it for a future off-grid in the tropics. Soon, others started joining and the group began livestreaming their idyllic lives throughout Latin America. But then, things got darker: NatureBoy ended up in prison. Rolling Stone writer David Peisner joins Crime Story to unpack the story of Eligio Bishop, and the world that got built around him. You can read his article "Inside Carbon Nation," he...
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This is a CBC podcast. Nature Boys live streaming this whole sort of incident and just sort of decides to up the drama. And essentially cast them as like these righteous victims of what's happening. And it ends up, you know, he's saying, we won't get off the bus, we're not signing anything,
and you're gonna have to use violence to take us off this bus. And so eventually they do. Elio Bishop had a way of tapping into people's deepest anxieties and offering what felt like a lifeline.
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