From DEA agent to Q-pilled martial arts cult leader, Jeffrey Prather teaches gun katas, claims to be trained by an Apache and believes he's fighting the deepstate. He was also accused of sexually assaulting two women participating in his "Warriorschool" about a decade ago. We speak to Maddy, a woman who participated in the cult between the ages of 14 and 17, even going through a bizarre initiation ritual. Today she is 30 and wondering why Prather can continue operating freely in Tucson, Arizona (and around the world).
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Not trying to get the whole crowd together, but just your group that you came with.
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Make sure you have So this is exactly like I was saying, the QAnon Warlord was always going to be pathetic, mostly ineffective, and, you know, absolutely out of his mind, but also really worrying because, you know, this guy has access to so many firearms and so many people train under him.
In all of his classes and follow him in a cult-like manner as well.
So he has, he has real like entourage.
He's not like Ron Watkins who's just like, you know, living in the middle of nowhere.
He's very dangerous, but he also has a big pocket full of armbands of many different colors that he's just switching out multiple times throughout the day so he's never infiltrated.
That's right, codes like from that movie, Saving Private Ryan.
Yeah, he's referencing Save a Private Ride.
He's also referencing the fact that Pence unfollowed Trump, like this is like high school drama, like who unfollowed who on Insta.
It's also true that Prather is an author.
He wrote two books, one of them entitled Chase, Terror on the Border, Fact-Based Fiction by an Ex-DEA Agent, and the other is called Initiation, Boys are Born, Men are Trained, My Journey with an Apache Medicine Man.
Here's an excerpt of the blurb for the second book.
Training with the descendants of Cochise and Geronimo, Praetor discovers that, though boys and girls are born, men and women must be trained in the rigors of adulthood.
He learns that we are defined by our duties to others.
Further, we are all connected by an invisible realm of luminous energy, and if we access these etheric meridians, we can direct divine power through us to protect The part that really jumped out to me was where he's talking about how men, and specifically women, must be trained in the rigors of adulthood.
Incredibly creepy from a guy who, you know, is kind of like preying on his cult following and through his courses on young women.
Maddie is a 30-year-old woman from Australia who was involved with Geoffrey Prather's Warrior School between the ages of 14 and 17.
She got in touch with us after we covered Prather on a Twitch stream and provided us proof of her identity and involvement with his organization.
So, thanks so much for speaking to us and welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having me.
Could you start by just telling us a little bit about your life around the time that you got involved with Warrior School and how it came up for you?
Yeah.
You know, I was 14, I was young, and I desperately wanted to be a ninja.
I was googling places that had ninjutsu in the name and just found a dojo and went.
I'd been at the dojo for a little while and ended up going to a training at a senior teacher's house in the countryside with everyone else at the dojo.
And turned out we weren't there for training martial arts, we were training in something else.
And so you're 14 at the time.
So did your, were your parents like, Oh, you're going to do kind of extracurricular martial arts stuff?
I had some fairly like hands-off parents.
So they would just be like, okay, well, you, you seem like a pretty intelligent little kid.
Like you've got stuff going on.
And I had an elder sister who was with me, so I'd convinced her to drive me to this ninja dojo.
And she was there too.
So they were like, well, you know, if your elder sister's there as well, she's eight years older than me.
So she would have been what, 22 at the time?
Right.
So you walk into your first warrior school session with her and what's it like?
It starts off as much less crazy than you think it is.
Making kind of general statements that the way we live in modern society isn't the best and maybe other cultures have things to teach us, which I was kind of already into because I was studying a martial art.
Like, I was like, let's see what else is out there.
And being more in touch with nature and being powerful and making our own decisions in life and Maybe that modern society wasn't offering us enough initiation and training to be an adult.
And that all kind of sounded pretty good.
Especially when you're 14, you're like, oh, that's sweet.
There is definitely something I'm missing because the world is crazy because I'm 14.
And so there was immediately a spiritual element there, even though you had come in to learn moves, like the kind of first course was already around this stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
It was very like, well, you've been training your body in martial arts and now we're going to talk about like our minds and how that relates to our world.
And because a lot of martial arts is like, while you are doing physical things, is the way you're thinking about movement.
And a lot of martial arts do have a bit of a spiritual aspect, which I don't think a lot of people, they don't talk about as much.
Yeah, no, of course.
I mean, I got interested in judo.
I remember reading Jigoro Kano's texts and stuff like that.
And of course, there's a spiritual element to that.
Have you ever watched the movie Equilibrium?
No.
So it's a movie in which Christian Bale does what they call a gun kata, which is essentially a kind of martial art with guns.
It's sort of like Matrix adjacent, right?
Did it come out before the Matrix or after, Julian?
I can't remember.
It's after.
It's after.
It's like 2002, I think.
Right.
I mean, that's what it reminded me of.
Like, were there guns in the first session or is that something that comes later?
By the time that you guys have seen it, it's evolved a fair bit.
Like, obviously, I live in Australia, so guns are, like, pretty illegal here, unless you have, like, very intense government documentation.
Like, if you're a farmer, you can have a gun, but that's about it.
So, like, that was not a part.
So it was very much just talking about the spiritual.
Back then, it was very based on that Geoffrey Prather apparently had trained under Apache warriors, and there was a lot of talking about how much foundation he had, how much he'd kind of been like, you know, that white saviour man of being like, he'd been adopted by the tribe, he'd been let all know all their secret teachings.
It was a lot more of a discussion about that.
And so they, it kind of blended like a bit of our, our martial arts was already a bit spiritual, and then just pushing that into being like, okay, well, this other, this is other warrior kind of type that is Apache, and then let's talk about what they have to teach us.
Guns were not really brought into it at all, because we don't have access to them.
But I did know that he specialized in doing gun martial arts.
He came out to Australia at one point and trained us in our martial arts, and then was like, I'm going to show you all my real-world capacities.
This is what you would do against a gun.
And all of us are kind of standing around being like, in what world are we going to fight against a handgun?
This is Australia, mate!
So basically he had his own kind of compound and training ground where he would be there a lot of the time and there was also these training for military types and stuff like that.
Correct.
Self-defense training.
Yeah.
And then there was of course this mix of his own kind of cult spirituality and martial art that also had weapons.
And then what happened is what he founded was expanded to places like Australia where you attended your first course.
Correct.
So his influence is international.
He trained a lot of people who lived in Japan, and where the base of our martial art is, and a lot of those people were fairly high up, and then they trained other people who lived in Japan, and then they went back home to their own countries, so I would not be surprised if it spread to, like, Brazil, or other countries, or France, or... this is probably a lot more... has a lot longer tentacles than you would think.
I can see some parallels to NXIVM, too, where there are huge segments that are mostly kind of like a multi-level marketing kind of scam or a kind of self-improvement thing.
Then there's this, like, some more legitimate stuff buried in there, and then there's like a core of basically secrecy and abuse.
A hundred percent, yeah.
In a lot of martial arts, you are having to suspend belief because, you know, you're coming in with your normal world expectations of, like, I shouldn't be punched in the face.
But in martial arts, you're kind of sometimes like, to get better, I'm occasionally going to have to get punched in the face, and it's going to feel wrong.
And which is kind of a perfect breeding ground for a cult, because you're having to constantly be like, this feels a bit wrong, but it must be the correct thing to do.
Because someone who I trust to help me in certain ways is helping me in this other way.
I'll just have to ignore my natural feeling of being like, oh, this is a bit off.
And so you stuck around for three years, and as part of the martial art, you took part in this kind of initiation ritual.
I guess my first question about the initiation ritual is, by the time you did it, did you already feel like, shit, I might be in a cult?
I definitely felt that these people believed a lot more than I did.
I grew up in a fairly non-religious family, so I'm kind of used to accepting that other people have religious beliefs that I don't, and that's fine for them.
And part of me had just been like, well, maybe this is just their religious beliefs, and that's fine for them.
But then I'm not sure whether it was like I had not eaten and we were supposed to be dancing all night in this vigil for warriors coming home and had exercised for a long time and it was in a different place, but I started having some visual hallucinations and I was like, well, maybe this Well, maybe this shit is legit.
Like, I don't know.
The secrecy of it felt important.
Like, that you had to not tell anyone else, otherwise it might be like a glass ball.
Like, it might get broken if you mentioned it to someone who wasn't a part of it, because they wouldn't understand.
There was a part of the initiation, you sent me some pictures, and it's really quite visually impressive.
It's basically a group of women in these kind of, um, in these clothes, but you're covered with white Since I reached out to you guys, I've tried really hard to think about what was happening at that point in time, and I, for the life of me, cannot remember why we were- I remember it being ice cold.
We'd been outside over, I would say, winter, and just had cold stuff thrown at our faces.
Kind of looking at it now, and I'm like, wow, this is kind of a bit gross.
Why are we standing around covered in white clunky stuff?
The one thing that struck me as well from the photos is that Jeffrey was present that day.
Correct, yeah.
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