Throughout the podcast interview, Keegan expanded on how the alleged cult god started — and even confessed that he ponied up quite a bit of money to put together this space for what he revealed were veterans of the Occupy Wall Street movement. “Looking back, it was insane,” he admitted. “I was putting down tens of thousands of dollars, but we opened it up and spent three years and really did build an amazing friend group. We went through something really significant from 2014 to 2017.”
Keegan also had to discuss the fact that, in the aforementioned Vice story, the whole place gave off the unmistakable energy of a cult. The report details how an unnamed man referred to as Third Eye served as some sort of official greeter for the organization and also said he was part of the “inner circle,” describing Keegan as the leader whose word was law. So how did Keegan address those issues?
“I probably should have had a little bit more media training at the time,” Keegan told the “Pod Meets World” hosts. “They just really created a very interesting, colorful story and put it together… we really just got together and did a Sunday thing. We did almost 1,000 events in three years and it was actually really hard. It was really beneficial to a lot of people, I still hear about it now, where people are like, ‘That was such a great time.'”
