A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:

• Veronica sends off a DNA test to find out who’s her daddy.

• A rich white boy of Neptune has supposedly joined a cult - and become much nicer as a result?

• Veronica infiltrates the supposed cult - and starts getting sucked in herself?

• And what’s happened to darling Keith’s poor precious face???

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 9: Drinking the Kool-Aid, and get stuck into such mysteries as: can the Mooncalf Collective cult/commune be so bad if it has de-douchified a rich BroNiner? Whatever happened to waterbeds? Should people kool it with the Kool-Aid jokes? And why anyone would be so cagy about a load of poinsettias??

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-09.

This episode was edited and mixed by Zach McNees; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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