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Speaker 3: That was a commercial Allan and his teammate comparing himself

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Speaker 3: it's his god complex that may help me finally solve

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Speaker 3: Alan died. I'm running out of time. It's my last

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Speaker 3: My investigation has taken me into the depths of Allan's past.

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Speaker 3: I've looked into whether Saffold's was or ever could be viable.

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Speaker 4: I had a guy that was a CEO stealing from

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Speaker 3: This is Leah Wheatolta, the ex FBI agent turned private

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Speaker 4: Any donations if they're in the States, any donations, if

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Speaker 3: Hang on. This is the first time I've considered this.

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Speaker 3: Up until this point, I've been focusing my efforts on

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Speaker 3: Alan might have bought with it. But is it possible

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Speaker 3: the forty nine million dollars that hundreds of investors entrusted

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Speaker 3: to Alan might actually have been given away? I'm Alex

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Speaker 3: Turner Cohen, a finance and investigative reporter from news dot com.

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Speaker 3: Are you and you're listening to the Missing forty nine million?

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Speaker 3: This is the final episode False Profit.

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Speaker 5: I've been involved in a few not for profit groups

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Speaker 3: This is Jaimar and Covids. We've briefly heard from him before.

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Speaker 3: He's a Safe Worlds investor who put ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: now well into his seventies. Flint's always been a big

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Speaker 3: David isn't just a commentator, though, he has real influence

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Speaker 6: For those who don't know me, I'm a conservative. What

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Speaker 3: Last year, Flint opposed Australia's Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which

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Speaker 6: I don't believe in big government, big business, big unions

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Speaker 3: It seems like Allan himself was a fan of David's,

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Speaker 3: I contact David to ask him about Alan and I

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Speaker 3: Learne invested some money in Safeworlds. But he doesn't have

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Speaker 8: Hello, missus Rehinhant, David, it's lovely to hear of you.

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Speaker 8: So should I start with my Thatcher quotes? She said

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Speaker 3: But it was broadcast through Safeworld's TV. So did Alan

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Speaker 3: This is the AI program we've been using throughout the

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Speaker 11: It just doesn't make sense to have been able to

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Speaker 10: The election of Donald Trump is good news for public

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Speaker 10: listing and IPO in America. Financial investment regulations have seriously

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Speaker 10: I am therefore very bullish about the US economy in

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Speaker 10: the next twelve months. After that depends on what Trump

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Speaker 10: Best wishes for a great twenty seventeen for us all

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Speaker 3: Twenty seventeen was Trump's first year as US president, but

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Speaker 14: The purpose of this video is to advise key decision

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Speaker 14: true AI works in nineteen ninety nine. If America embraces

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Speaker 3: This seems wildly ambitious and maybe egotistical, the idea that

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Speaker 3: trying to strike a deal. This is Ai Allan again,

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Speaker 10: We are talking with Phonoscope in Houston, Texas about a

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Speaker 3: Phonoscope is a major telco company in Houston, one of

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Speaker 10: We reached the basis of an agreement with Phonoscope. Basically,

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Speaker 10: The big plus with our vision is that we are

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Speaker 3: Phonoscope and its chief exec Lee Cook, never answered my questions,

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Speaker 3: so I keep looking. Phonoscopes made a few minor political

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Speaker 10: Phonoscope is working with us to establish the Tea Party

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is big. The Tea Party were a hand

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Speaker 3: grenade thrown into US politics. Its name comes from one

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Speaker 3: fueled the baseless racist conspiracy theory that Obama was secretly

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Speaker 3: Another memorable moment for the Tea Party was when one

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Speaker 3: about abortion. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body

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Speaker 15: It may be the biggest political movement in years, Thousands

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Speaker 15: the Tea Party, and while it may be growing, it's

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Speaker 16: Tea Party supporters were once considered to be on the

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Speaker 17: I think it's gonna be the best political story to

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Speaker 18: There's a lot of energy and it's really.

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Speaker 19: Remarkable in some polls, I'm not sure you should trust them,

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Speaker 1: The media got this one hundred percent wrong, right.

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Speaker 11: This is not miners versus Tea Party. The Tea Party

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Speaker 3: And does that matter to this story? Well, yes, because

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Speaker 10: Would provide assistance to the American Tea Party network. Across America.

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Speaker 10: About fifty Tea Party groups have indicated their interest to

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Speaker 3: Here's another of Allan's emails.

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Speaker 10: Tomorrow I fly to Michigan for a week of talks

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Speaker 3: Allan was also editing videos of Sarah Palin for the

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Speaker 20: Supporters of Congressman Ron Paul back in December two thousand

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Speaker 21: Who's the father of the Tea Party? It's Ron Paul.

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Speaker 3: I contact Ron Paul to ask if he'd ever met Allan.

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Speaker 3: this story gets really shady. There's this phenomenon known as

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Speaker 3: dark money.

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Speaker 18: People can contribute money to the political system without disclosing

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Speaker 18: who they are, and so that's dark money. There are

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Speaker 18: a lot of people who would like politicians to do

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Speaker 18: things that are not popular, that are not necessarily in

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Speaker 18: the public's interest, and they don't want to be seen.

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Speaker 18: So it's important to know who's helping people get away

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Speaker 18: because they are probably going to owe those people a favor.

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Speaker 3: This is Russ Choma, an investigative reporter from US publication

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Speaker 3: Mother Jones based in Washington, DC. He speaks to me

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Speaker 3: on a video call after he's put his kids to bed,

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Speaker 3: lifting the lid on the sordid underbelly of American political donations.

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Speaker 18: Corporations are allowed to give an unlimited amount of money

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Speaker 18: to these groups called super PACs, and immediately we had

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Speaker 18: the influx of these sort of anonymous corporations giving money

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Speaker 18: to the superPAC. It would just be a corporation set

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Speaker 18: up at a PO box in the middle of nowhere,

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Speaker 18: and all of a sudden, this corporation, which hadn't existed

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Speaker 18: three weeks before, had half a million dollars and it

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Speaker 18: was now free to spend it on the election. Another

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Speaker 18: route that quickly became obvious that people who didn't want

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Speaker 18: their identities closed was the use of nonprofits. When you

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Speaker 18: donate to a nonprofit of any kind in the United States,

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Speaker 18: you're allowed to be anonymous with your donations.

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Speaker 3: Dark money has become huge in recent years. In the

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Speaker 3: two years leading up to the twenty twelve US election,

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Speaker 3: two billion dollars of dark money was spent mainly on

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Speaker 3: TV and online at I know Alan Metcalf could be

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Speaker 3: business savvy when it mattered, so I asked us whether

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Speaker 3: it would be possible for an Australian to try something

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Speaker 3: like this.

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Speaker 18: The US law is very very clear you must be

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Speaker 18: a US citizen or a Green card holder to donate money.

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Speaker 18: But again we come back to this problem where if

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Speaker 18: you can donate money without revealing your identity, who knows

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Speaker 18: if you're American. And of course, of course there's money

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Speaker 18: coming from overseas, we have no idea if it's coming

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Speaker 18: from Australia, if it's coming from Russia, if it's coming

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Speaker 18: from elsewhere. So yeah, it is, I mean, it is

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Speaker 18: definitely a concern.

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Speaker 3: What do you remember about the Tea Party's ability to

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Speaker 3: raise dark money?

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Speaker 18: The Tea Party of one of the first examples of

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Speaker 18: dark money where money was coming into the system and

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Speaker 18: we didn't know why, and it was having powerful influence.

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Speaker 18: But the powerful influence they had was extremely disruptive and

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Speaker 18: really did change in a lot of ways the tone

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Speaker 18: of where the country was going. And I think it

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Speaker 18: was a precursor to a lot of the issues that

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Speaker 18: we currently have.

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Speaker 3: Ron Paul had his own super pack called Endorsed Liberty,

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Speaker 3: and I find a picture online from twenty twelve showing

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Speaker 3: Alan at a convention hosted by another superpack called Freedom Works,

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Speaker 3: which was itself linked to the Tea Party. Alan was

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Speaker 3: photographed seated at a long table along with several other attendees.

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Speaker 3: Here's one of the campaign's Freedom Works spent its money.

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Speaker 22: On influential conservative advocacy group in super pac Freedom Works

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Speaker 22: is under internal investigation. Among topics of the inquiry a

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Speaker 22: video produced under supervision of Freedom Works featuring a scene

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Speaker 22: of simulated sex with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 22: Two female interns were asked to act out a sex scene.

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Speaker 22: Most bizarrely, the scene itself apparently depicts an intern wearing

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Speaker 22: a panda suit simulating oral sex on another intern wearing

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Speaker 22: a Hillary Clinton mask.

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Speaker 3: Freedom Works managed to raise twenty three million dollars the

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Speaker 3: year Allan attended the event ahead of the twenty twelve

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Speaker 3: US election. With all that money, it was hailed as

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Speaker 3: a major factor in turning Tea Party protesters into a

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Speaker 3: national political force. I ask the leaders of Freedom Works

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Speaker 3: if they ever worked with Alan. Frustratingly, they never respond,

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Speaker 3: and Freedom Works shut down earlier this year in May

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. It's another dead end, but not all

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Speaker 3: hope is lost. When I update Russ the American political

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Speaker 3: reporter where I'm ating my investigation. He tells me something else.

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Speaker 18: A lot of the money involved with American politics is

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Speaker 18: a scam, which is probably a particular just to you

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Speaker 18: guys as well, A very very common thing in American

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Speaker 18: politics is they find someone who is rather naive, who

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Speaker 18: has a lot of money, who believes that if they

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Speaker 18: donate money, they'll get something, and then the money just

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Speaker 18: gets pocketed. We call these things scam packs. And the

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Speaker 18: hallmark of a scam pack is it raises, say a

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Speaker 18: million dollars saying that they are going to advocate for

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Speaker 18: the rights of elderly veterans, and the reason million dollars.

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Speaker 18: At the end of the day, they'll spend three thousand

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Speaker 18: dollars on supporting a political candidate. And it's just basically

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Speaker 18: a way to make money disappear. The people who run

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Speaker 18: these packs raise money and then just buy themselves a

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Speaker 18: fancy car or a house or something like that. There

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Speaker 18: is a distinct possibility that he was being scammed by

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Speaker 18: people who were not being honest themselves.

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Speaker 3: In the case of Allan metcalf, Russ thinks it's entirely possible,

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Speaker 3: and I think so too. There would be a certain

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Speaker 3: poetic justice to it that Alan might have been conned

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Speaker 3: by another con artist. But beyond what I've done, it's

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Speaker 3: hard to know how I can look further into this.

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Speaker 3: And then Leo we TLTA, the ex FBI agent who's

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Speaker 3: been guiding me, comes up with a lead.

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Speaker 4: One other thought is that he was very religious. I

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Speaker 4: would be interested to see did he give money to

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Speaker 4: charity or to his church or anything like that, because

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Speaker 4: that will typically move you up in the ranks of

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Speaker 4: an organization like that as well. So it kind of

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Speaker 4: becomes like a good way to hope money.

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Speaker 3: And several shareholders also say this might be something worth

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Speaker 3: looking at.

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Speaker 13: His religiosity was becoming more and more profound. I think

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Speaker 13: he was probably getting more comfortable with it.

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Speaker 17: I think it maybe has gone into the church as

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Speaker 17: far as if Allan donated a lot of money to

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Speaker 17: a church or a religious organization. Now that I think

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Speaker 17: about it, it's quite possible because he was a man

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Speaker 17: of faith.

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Speaker 3: So I go back to the beginning to Alan's funeral.

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Speaker 3: I tried contacting the bishop who led his church service,

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Speaker 3: Barry Cunnington.

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Speaker 23: Alan was way above politics. Alan introduced me to safe

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Speaker 23: Well's television and for that time eternally grateful. Alan is

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Speaker 23: carrying a great gift, a gift that can bless the world,

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Speaker 23: and he's left that gift behind.

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Speaker 3: Bishop Barry, who read that out as his eulogy to Alan,

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Speaker 3: is now a retired senior minister from the Tent of Promise.

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Speaker 3: It's a church in the Lockyer Valley outside Brisbane. Bishop

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Speaker 3: Barry was on the Safe World's advisory board, but he

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Speaker 3: claimed he never put any money into the Safe World's project.

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Speaker 3: Barry's Tent of Promised Church had its status as a

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Speaker 3: charity revoked because it failed to lodge financial reports two

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Speaker 3: years in a row, so I can't check its donation history,

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Speaker 3: though the bishop did tell me he never received a

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Speaker 3: donation from Allan or Safeworlds. We communicate over email. Here's

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Speaker 3: a voice actor reading out his words for your information.

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Speaker 7: I first met mister Allan Metcalf through a friend who

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Speaker 7: introduced us at a church in Tweedhead's, New South Wales,

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Speaker 7: which I was pastoring. Mister Metcalf wanted to meet me

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Speaker 7: because he needed pastoral help. At that time. I also

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Speaker 7: met his wife, Mary Metcalf. I discovered that he and

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Speaker 7: his wife were in need of personal ministry support. I

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Speaker 7: had no prior knowledge of the Safe World's business venture

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Speaker 7: or the status of the business. Soon after that early

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Speaker 7: time of meeting mister and Missus Metcalfe, I received a

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Speaker 7: telephone call that Allan had passed away from heart failure,

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Speaker 7: sadly a common cause of death for those under extreme stress.

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Speaker 7: Mary Missus metcalf then asked me if I would be

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Speaker 7: prepared to serve her and her family in taking Allan's funeral,

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Speaker 7: which I did as a way of assisting her and

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Speaker 7: her family through the time of her grief. While there

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Speaker 7: is life, there is hope, and I'm aware that Missus

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Speaker 7: Mary Metcalfe is still occupied looking for a buyer. Safe

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Speaker 7: Worlds is a startup company and those investing were well

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Speaker 7: aware of that, knowing the risks. It reminds me of

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Speaker 7: a casino. Is it the builder and owner of the

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Speaker 7: casino or the gambler who is at fault? I say both.

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Speaker 3: That brings me up short. Is it really fair to

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Speaker 3: call the investors in Safe Worlds gamblers? Yes, they lost

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Speaker 3: their money, but couldn't we call them victims? Or maybe

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Speaker 3: you could call them people of faith who believe what

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Speaker 3: Alan told them. That they were making a smart financial decision,

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Speaker 3: that Safe Worlds really would be bigger than Google. Allan

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Speaker 3: was also a man of faith, but he didn't seem

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Speaker 3: to be a regular church goer. Bishop Barry said they'd

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Speaker 3: only met a handful of times right near the end

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Speaker 3: of his life. Then I remember reading an email while

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Speaker 3: I was trawling through Allen's relationship with the Tea Party.

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Speaker 3: He said two church leaders were coming to these meetings

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Speaker 3: in the US with him.

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Speaker 10: Doctor Ron Jensen, who has extensive connections with the Christian

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Speaker 10: Church and mission programs throughout America and the world, and

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Speaker 10: Nancy Houston Hanson from the Capstone Legacy Foundation will attend

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Speaker 10: this meeting to provide support.

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Speaker 3: Nancy Hanson is the chief executive of Capstone Legacy Foundation,

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Speaker 3: a national nonprofit Christian organization based in Philadelphia. I can

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Speaker 3: see Nancy has made several personal donations to the Republican

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Speaker 3: Party over the years. Nancy and her group, Capstone Legacy Foundation,

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Speaker 3: don't respond to my questions. But then there's the other

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Speaker 3: person Alan mentioned in that email who was going to

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Speaker 3: these Tea Party catch ups with him, doctor Ron Jensen.

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Speaker 3: We actually heard from Ron in the very first episode

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Speaker 3: when he spoke at Alan's funeral.

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Speaker 23: I truly believe he was a genius, and I trust

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Speaker 23: the history of books will prove that.

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Speaker 9: To be the case.

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Speaker 3: Ron is a Safe World shareholder and he was also

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Speaker 3: on the advisory board. But when I ask him, he

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Speaker 3: won't give me any information about these tea party meetings.

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Speaker 3: So I do some more digging. He says he's served

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Speaker 3: as the president of Campus Crusade's International Schools of Theology.

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Speaker 3: Campus Crusade is a megachurch originating from the US, but

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Speaker 3: also with influence in Australia and elsewhere all over the world.

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Speaker 3: Alan actually mentioned this church organization to Tarlie Joy Grace,

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Speaker 3: the Safewold's employee I met in episode three. She saw

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Speaker 3: Alan's Christian beliefs right up close.

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Speaker 21: Alan was your really dodgy sort of Pendecostal. The thing

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Speaker 21: with Pendecostals is they really get caught up in hype

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Speaker 21: and your big fancy music and feel good talks, and

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Speaker 21: the biggest thing about them is prosperity doctrines. So basically,

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Speaker 21: if you give lots of money to the church, then

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Speaker 21: God will make you rich. And Alan in some ways

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Speaker 21: was a bit like that, except for US employees was

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Speaker 21: If you give all your time to me, to my business,

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Speaker 21: gold will make you rich. Alan claimed he was like

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Speaker 21: best mates with the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ

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Speaker 21: Bill Bright.

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Speaker 3: Bill Bright was an evangelist who started Campus Crusade in

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty two in part to combat communism. He was

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Speaker 3: also a staunch Republican. He died in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 3: but like Alan, he lives on eternally through the web.

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Speaker 3: Here he is to explain.

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Speaker 19: Since eighteen forty four, I've had the privilege of bringing

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Speaker 19: a lot of happiness into this world by sharing the

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Speaker 19: Lord Jesus Christ the tens of thousands of students and

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Speaker 19: lay people around the world. We talk about chraze to

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Speaker 19: all who will listen. You have the privilege of participating

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Speaker 19: with our loving Lord in the fulfillment of his great

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Speaker 19: commission in this generation.

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Speaker 3: The great commission is Christians carrying out Jesus's instruction to

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Speaker 3: spread the Word of God around the world. Bill Wright

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Speaker 3: certainly achieved this goal. His megachurch, now renamed to Crewe,

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Speaker 3: has a presence in more than two hundred countries, and

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Speaker 3: Alan seemed to have the same inner drive.

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Speaker 10: In nineteen eighty nine, I first met the late doctor Bright,

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Speaker 10: and he told me about the Great Commission and said,

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Speaker 10: when you build that system, you must use it to

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Speaker 10: complete the Great Commission. I have been inspired to build

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Speaker 10: Safe Worlds for this purpose ever since. He said to me, Alan,

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Speaker 10: if God's hand is in your work, it will happen.

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Speaker 3: So essentially, Alan had an ulterior motive for his whole

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Speaker 3: Safe World scheme. It wasn't just to create a new

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Speaker 3: tech company, but to help spread his beliefs. I wasn't

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Speaker 3: able to get anyone from the megachurch to talk to me.

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Speaker 3: But if what Alan's saying is true, then we really

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Speaker 3: do end up right where we started, with Alan talking

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Speaker 3: about Safe World's almost divine purpose. This is Mary, his wife,

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Speaker 3: speaking at his funeral, which you heard right back at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of episode one.

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Speaker 24: I prayed to God when I was fifteen to send

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Speaker 24: me a husband who would be a kindred spirit, a

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Speaker 24: visionary who would not be afraid. God answered my prayers

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Speaker 24: in abundance to send me Alan Metcalf.

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Speaker 3: Only from what I've found in this investigation, Alan's divine

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Speaker 3: purpose seemed to get mixed up with conservative policy spreading

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Speaker 3: the word of people like Pauline Hanson Gina Reinhardt, Ron Paul,

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Speaker 3: the Tea Party, and Donald Trump. If so, then yeah,

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Speaker 3: Alan really did do what he set out to with

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Speaker 3: Safe Worlds to change the world, but not in the

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Speaker 3: way anyone, including me and his hundreds of investors ever expected.

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Speaker 3: At least some of their money, the missing forty nine

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Speaker 3: million seems to have been spent building and promoting and

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Speaker 3: traveling to help establish a technology Alan used to benefit

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Speaker 3: those on the conservative extremes of Australian and US politics,

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's his legacy. By helping spread their message,

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Speaker 3: by working so closely with the Tea Party, by trying

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Speaker 3: to work with the first Trump administration, he helped in some

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Speaker 3: small way for what will happen this November, when Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump will stand again for election as US President, and

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Speaker 3: if he wins, will become the most powerful man on earth.

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Speaker 3: Is the final resting place of the missing forty nine million.

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Speaker 3: As simple and yet as crazy as that that one

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Speaker 3: Australian con man helped pave the way for Trump's rise

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Speaker 3: to power, or tried to.

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Speaker 6: Let's see if this guy's got what he claims he's got.

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Speaker 17: This could change the world. He claimed that it could

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Speaker 17: be the savior of the world if it all turned out.

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Speaker 2: Right for him and for us.

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Speaker 17: He was very protective of it. He always said, if

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Speaker 17: it got in the wrong hand, it could destroy the world.

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Speaker 2: Safe world will change the world.

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Speaker 10: Because it's the outsiders who changed the world, and it'll

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Speaker 10: make a real and lasting difference.

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