Speaker 1: Also media a welcome back to the podcast that this
Speaker 1: is part three of our episodes on Queen Romana.
Speaker 2: Dig Youelo of Canada. Uh and you know, Canadians, thank
Speaker 2: you for letting us talk about your your monarch. You know,
Speaker 2: your your your leader that I know you all love
Speaker 2: and respect and I hope that we're being you know,
Speaker 2: positively deferential towards towards your your great ruler. You know,
Speaker 2: it's I'm sorry, it's just so sad that Canada has
Speaker 2: to deal with having this crazy person run their country.
Speaker 2: You know, can you imagine really like having like a
Speaker 2: crazy asshole in charge of your country? Just like, thank god,
Speaker 2: the just a Canada problem, Jesus.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It's okay, guys, you'll get your shit together one of
Speaker 2: these days, like we have in the Americas like us.
Speaker 2: I guess you're in the Americas too. Whatever anyway, too
Speaker 2: in by Greenland. All right, right, So August twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one to December twenty twenty one were very busy times
Speaker 2: for the Queen of Canada. She hits like, you know,
Speaker 2: like her peak at least, this is when Christine Startechi says,
Speaker 2: she hits her peak number of followers, which is like
Speaker 2: seventy something thousand on telegram now at this point in time,
Speaker 2: because inflation is a problem, and because the economies not
Speaker 2: doing great, and because her followers haven't been paying their bills,
Speaker 2: she's focused a lot on, like the fine on providing
Speaker 2: like what would look like lifelines to the finances of
Speaker 2: her people. She's got like these grocery pages that are
Speaker 2: supposed to like help her followers like purchase groceries, find
Speaker 2: groceries that they can like afford, and stuff she's issuing
Speaker 2: like decrees eliminating taxes and credit card debt. And she's
Speaker 2: issue doing like fake money, and it's unclear how this
Speaker 2: is supposed to work. It's like a promissory note that
Speaker 2: you can print out from a downloadable template with like
Speaker 2: instructions that says you can use this money wherever you are.
Speaker 2: They're payable by the Kingdom of Canada. She also describes
Speaker 2: this as working basically the same as like money at
Speaker 2: the at like the Canadian Tire Company, which like is
Speaker 2: is this company that like sells I think mostly used tires,
Speaker 2: and they have their own like fake company currency, right
Speaker 2: that like you can use for stuff within if you're
Speaker 2: paying for other products you can like accumulate it. A
Speaker 2: lot of businesses do this, and that's kind of which
Speaker 2: makes it very unclear how is this supposed to work?
Speaker 2: Who is supposed to accept this right? Like what is
Speaker 2: the and that's actually never made clear to me. These
Speaker 2: promisory notes. I'll pull one up for I'll do a
Speaker 2: screen share so you can you can see what these
Speaker 2: fucking things look like.
Speaker 3: Real groceries. We made up money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the idea is like they're supposed
Speaker 2: to find, well, it looks like a check.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks it looks.
Speaker 2: Kind of like a check. It's a promisory note. You
Speaker 2: get to write your own number in, so it's a
Speaker 2: blank check for all of your all of your followers.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's really unclear to me how even her followers were
Speaker 2: supposed to believe this stuff worked. But obviously like it
Speaker 2: doesn't of course not. But you do have people like
Speaker 2: printing these out and she issues them when she's as
Speaker 2: they're driving around, they're stopping in towns and they're meeting
Speaker 2: up with like whatever followers they have in these individual towns,
Speaker 2: and she's handing these out to people, you know, so
Speaker 2: I think some of them just believe like, eventually, when
Speaker 2: this is valued, I'll finally be rich. You know. It's
Speaker 2: that's part of the whole big idea that like, uh,
Speaker 2: there's a change coming and it's going to completely alter
Speaker 2: my financial situation, and that that makes you kind of
Speaker 2: want to have.
Speaker 3: To believe her. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she continues making decrees. This is like the primary
Speaker 2: way that she interacts with her followers, and as Sartagi writes,
Speaker 2: the Kingdom of Canada was guided by three basic laws.
Speaker 2: Quote number one, if you kill, you will be killed.
Speaker 2: Number two, if you kill and mass commit genocide crimes
Speaker 2: against humanity, we will take out your family and your
Speaker 2: DNA strain. We'll go back to that in a second.
Speaker 3: Three. War in division are unlawful.
Speaker 2: So if you commit crimes, we're gonna kill your family
Speaker 2: and your DNA strain.
Speaker 3: War in division are unlawful. I thought you was telling
Speaker 3: us to kill the doctors. Yeah, that's the Yeah, you
Speaker 3: got to kill the doctors. But you can't divide people.
Speaker 3: Prop that's unlawful. No dividing people.
Speaker 2: Kill all the doctors and the nurses, and the school
Speaker 2: divisions and the business, but don't divide people, you know.
Speaker 3: Don't cut off your DNA strand again.
Speaker 4: YEA, feel like that's got to be a translation issue
Speaker 4: because I'm like, I don't think do you you might
Speaker 4: actually mean that because you're an alien.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: She does describe her office, the Royal Office of Queen Romana,
Speaker 2: to be the highest court in the land, and thus
Speaker 2: all Canadian lawyers are now defunct because they have their
Speaker 2: members of the British Accreditation Registry as opposed to, you know,
Speaker 2: the real judicial system that she, I guess hasn't gotten
Speaker 2: around to building yet, you.
Speaker 3: Know, commits a bit homie. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So in January of twenty twenty two, Romana's like tour
Speaker 2: of Canada really takes off in a big way. She's
Speaker 2: got about a dozen followers. She's got a group of
Speaker 2: RVs and they start traveling, you know, initially into like
Speaker 2: downtown Ottawa, but after that point they just kind of
Speaker 2: continue going right, Like she's meeting people at various small towns.
Speaker 2: She's expanding her conception of like what's you know, my
Speaker 2: powers are. She's making declarations as to martial law, and
Speaker 2: they're just kind of like driving constantly.
Speaker 3: She's taking it.
Speaker 2: She's taken in six figures at this point, well over
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty thousand dollars in donations. It's unclear
Speaker 2: exactly how, but that's what's got to pay for everything,
Speaker 2: because they're RVs are not cheap to drive, right, and
Speaker 2: she's got to continue like paying for that. She's got
Speaker 2: to pay for uniforms for her people, as we'll talk about,
Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of there's a lot of expenses.
Speaker 3: Due to this. So who who's who?
Speaker 2: She's got like seventy thousand people on telegram, so some things.
Speaker 2: Some of them are getting our money, you know, and
Speaker 2: it only takes a few. And she's also got a
Speaker 2: couple of her followers that are in person followers. She's
Speaker 2: completely soaking, like they're signing over everything to her, right,
Speaker 2: like she's she's doing that thing too.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: As twenty twenty two goes along, she's the road trip
Speaker 2: Queen of Canada. She's issuing these these declarations, but she
Speaker 2: starts to expand what she's offering her followers, because you know,
Speaker 2: grocery lists and fake money only go so far. What
Speaker 2: people really want is magical powers. And in August of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, she announces that she has started teaching
Speaker 2: her followers powers to her followers.
Speaker 3: She gets on.
Speaker 2: Basically, she makes a video saying that like, I've started
Speaker 2: teaching people, you know, given an intensive class and how
Speaker 2: people can think like me and act like commander in chief.
Speaker 2: So I'm teaching them all how to run a country
Speaker 2: if that's ever necessary. I'm teaching them how to like
Speaker 2: take hostages and negotiate, which is not a great sign
Speaker 2: for your cult. Per Christine Starteghi. Didulo also said she's
Speaker 2: teaching her core followers how to cloak and uncloak themselves
Speaker 2: and how to use high level technologies, including five G
Speaker 2: that Digito claims will allow her trainees to see through
Speaker 2: the walls of buildings and homes. She contends that all
Speaker 2: science fiction movies and television series are disclosures, documentaries, and diaries.
Speaker 2: Both the television series Star Trek and the movie The
Speaker 2: Tomorrow War seems to have had an unusually strong influence
Speaker 2: on Digitlo. The Tomorrow War is her life storyline. Perhaps
Speaker 2: have you ever seen The Tomorrow War?
Speaker 3: No? No one did, No one did.
Speaker 2: I'm sure someone in the audience to watch The fucking
Speaker 2: Tomorrow War, but statistically you didn't.
Speaker 3: No idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Great, great, It's a twenty twenty one sci fi movie
Speaker 2: starring Chris Pratt in which soldiers from the future come
Speaker 2: back to the present day to warn humanity that in
Speaker 2: the future we're losing a war against alien invaders, and
Speaker 2: so they need to draft the whole present day military
Speaker 2: to go back to the future and fight them.
Speaker 3: And then when we run out.
Speaker 2: Of present day military, they just start drafting regular people
Speaker 2: to go to the future.
Speaker 4: I think I purposefully said watch this.
Speaker 3: Nah, they don't sound good. I was like, anything to
Speaker 3: watch this, I know on board. But you lost me
Speaker 3: at Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you lost me at Chris.
Speaker 2: So it grossed about twenty million dollars in theaters from
Speaker 2: a budget of two hundred million or so. So it
Speaker 2: does not do well. People are People Are like the
Speaker 2: writer and director of this movie are dragged out into
Speaker 2: the street and shot in downtown Hollywood.
Speaker 3: It is such a failure.
Speaker 2: But Queen Romana loves this movie because she idolizes the
Speaker 2: Queen Alien like the bad guy of the movie. I think,
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this fucking movie. But the aliens are
Speaker 2: called the White Spikes, and the Queen of the White
Speaker 2: Spikes is stronger than all of the males of her species,
Speaker 2: and Ramana seems to really really vibe with this, Okay.
Speaker 2: Sarteeshi ties this movie to Romana's belief in something called
Speaker 2: DNA X, which she describes as God's tool that she
Speaker 2: plans to release to every living all caps I AM
Speaker 2: in the world to go back to that weird little
Speaker 2: cult that we started this with. Dang, I don't know
Speaker 2: what this means as best as I can tell, I
Speaker 2: think because the original I Am movement was based on
Speaker 2: this guy, this fucking dude hundreds of years ago who'd
Speaker 2: claimed to be immortal and all knowing because of magic,
Speaker 2: and the im movement was like, no, there's all these
Speaker 2: it's actually like this divine there's this set of tactics
Speaker 2: that you can find. It is still quasi a cult,
Speaker 2: and she's taking basically those claimton saying no, no, it's
Speaker 2: not the occult. You can have all of these powers
Speaker 2: by alien DNA technology.
Speaker 3: That will make you look walk and all knowing. Right.
Speaker 2: I think that's the gist of it. It's a little
Speaker 2: unclear to me exactly what she believes because it's silly,
Speaker 2: but that's because what's the handle, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, because what the hell?
Speaker 2: Two is spent largely on the road and a caravan
Speaker 2: of RVs, one of which was gifted to her and
Speaker 2: several of which were printed. The exact makeup of her
Speaker 2: COLT shifts rapidly at this point. For one thing, formerly
Speaker 2: loyal members don't last forever, right, Like, people find this
Speaker 2: and think that it's a good idea, and then she
Speaker 2: starts to be a crazy asshole to them, and eventually
Speaker 2: they have enough and they're like, this isn't fun anymore,
Speaker 2: and they belki.
Speaker 4: It right, other people get what I need the water
Speaker 4: turned on, Okay, right.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of not having watering. Yeah, So people will leave,
Speaker 2: but other people will come in. So there's kind of
Speaker 2: and it's never large. The in person following is never
Speaker 2: bigger than like much bigger than like a dozen people,
Speaker 2: but there is some like people will leave, people will
Speaker 2: come in. That's sort of happening, right. She's also purging
Speaker 2: people for making mistakes periodically, which keeps the numbers down.
Speaker 2: She has at this point by the time twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two rules around her followers have uniforms. These are generally
Speaker 2: white button up shirts with the Queen Romana logo and
Speaker 2: blastened on them. Often adorned with official medals that she
Speaker 2: awarded in her capacity as Canadian Commander in Chief, right, like,
Speaker 2: and these are because like the question whenever you've got
Speaker 2: one of these people handing out medals is like.
Speaker 3: Okay, what kind of metals are these? Are you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Are these fake military medals? Are these like bottle calfs?
Speaker 2: Like what are we looking at here? And as best
Speaker 2: as I can tell, I think that these are, at
Speaker 2: least from what I have read. And I think this
Speaker 2: is mac Lamoreau who made this claim, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's right. These are like mostly boy scout medals like
Speaker 2: these are like boy Scout awarts.
Speaker 5: Love it, love it, change nothing, it's it's it's good stuff. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 5: how come nobody in this whole situation was like can
Speaker 5: I meet a like a prince or like like you
Speaker 5: ain't got no like accountant like this whole like I
Speaker 5: ain't never met nobody else in this kingdom?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like does anybody work for you?
Speaker 2: You're the only one who believes you're the queen? And
Speaker 2: I guess the people who live in this RV and
Speaker 2: the handful of folks that we meet traveling, you know, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: None of them are a part of your court, Like who, yeah,
Speaker 5: where's the rest of your administration?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the rest of this doesn't feel like a
Speaker 2: government again. That's that gets down to the hole. I
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of like play acting. You know,
Speaker 2: it takes you to tango with something like this. I
Speaker 2: do want to show you, guys these uniforms because they're
Speaker 2: not as elaborate as they might sound. From what I
Speaker 2: it's mostly she's just got people wearing like white shirts
Speaker 2: with fucking metals and stuff on them. But yeah, like
Speaker 2: those and those are as soon as I saw peopre like, yeah,
Speaker 2: those do look like boy Scout metals. Look like boy
Speaker 2: Scout metals.
Speaker 3: That's not a uniform, and those are boy Scout medals. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're just all dressed in white.
Speaker 6: They look a little look like a golf caddies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they look like he's got his all access pass on,
Speaker 4: like and you can see behind him.
Speaker 2: As an r V that has like meet and greet
Speaker 2: her Majesty Queen Romana, YadA YadA YadA like that. This
Speaker 2: is this is how they drive around their Their RVs
Speaker 2: are also billboards. He's got his finger pointed up at
Speaker 2: the sky, which is a thing that all of her
Speaker 2: followers do. I think they took this from this is
Speaker 2: a thing in like the Muslim world, like you'll see,
Speaker 2: like it basically means that, like, you know, God's in
Speaker 2: charge right all right, Like that's the idea at him.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's what it means to her
Speaker 2: for her followers to.
Speaker 3: Do that, but they are.
Speaker 2: That is the gesture they're doing, and that's I'm sure
Speaker 2: that's where it can imagine must have just seen it
Speaker 2: on TV or something and liked it.
Speaker 3: Dang, imagine being that guy and then now you're like,
Speaker 3: that's on the internet forever.
Speaker 2: That's on the internet forever. You in this uniform with
Speaker 2: like whatever fucking id she made for you hanging around
Speaker 2: your neck and your boy Scout awards for being the
Speaker 2: best special boy in the cult whatever. Damn, Like one
Speaker 2: day that's he's Because the guy in this is pretty young.
Speaker 2: He looks like he's in his twenties, maybe thirty. Like
Speaker 2: if he doesn't have kids, he very well might one
Speaker 2: day and some day they're gonna find that, Hey, dad,
Speaker 2: are you in a uniform? What are these awards? Is
Speaker 2: that Let's say the Queen of Canada's RV. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you a story about the time Dad made a mistake.
Speaker 2: Queen did youulo was incredibly is incredibly serious about her schedule,
Speaker 2: and one of the worst things you can do if
Speaker 2: you really want to get kicked out of this cult,
Speaker 2: the easiest way to do it is to cost her time,
Speaker 2: because that is a capital offense. Corey, one of her
Speaker 2: form inner circle members, lost his position after a series
Speaker 2: of minor errors, including booking an RV to be picked
Speaker 2: up at five pm instead of four pm. The Queen
Speaker 2: called this treason and threatened to have him executed. She'd
Speaker 2: done this numerous times before, and mac Lamora notes that
Speaker 2: the methods varied from quote being shot in the head
Speaker 2: or thrown from a helicopter. So she's saying, like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to have my men shoot you in the head.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw you out of a helicopter because you
Speaker 2: made me wait an hour to get in my new
Speaker 2: RV that you rented.
Speaker 3: Forticulous. I am royalty. Yeah, I need to borrow this RV. Right.
Speaker 2: She justifies these punishments to the rest of our followers
Speaker 2: by saying, nobody controls my timeline. Anybody that screws up
Speaker 2: my timeline is going to be tried for treason and
Speaker 2: shot in the head.
Speaker 3: Except for.
Speaker 2: Right, they might have more control over your timeline here,
Speaker 2: but you know who won't have you tried for treason
Speaker 2: and shot in the head?
Speaker 3: Prop hey better not better not sponsored this podcast.
Speaker 2: Very rarely have people shot in the head, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say never. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: say never. Might be doing an ad. They've definitely had
Speaker 2: some people shot in the head, you know.
Speaker 6: But can you stop naming brands.
Speaker 2: Please, Sophie one knows they've had some people shot in
Speaker 2: the head. It's fine, we don't. We all keep drinking
Speaker 2: the soda. It's okay.
Speaker 3: The soda can literally clean your car battery and we
Speaker 3: still drink it.
Speaker 1: Please believe the name of the brand.
Speaker 2: No, don't know what it is when when prompt said
Speaker 2: it eats car batteries, now you have to keep the bit.
Speaker 2: But still anyway, here's ads and we're back. You're killing me, Yeah, baby,
Speaker 2: we might and everybody.
Speaker 3: Just like I mean you, you're doing numbers. We might.
Speaker 4: We might want that that sponsor money. Though they did
Speaker 4: invent the visual description as.
Speaker 2: So as I noted earlier, Corey and Daisy were foundational
Speaker 2: cult members. Romana wouldn't have gotten this crazy train off
Speaker 2: the ground without them, and this did not stop her
Speaker 2: from abusing them relentlessly. The people you are most reliant
Speaker 2: on are the people you're going to be most shitty
Speaker 2: on if you're this kind of cult leader.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And in fact, the fact that they were so useful
Speaker 2: and key may have encouraged her to abuse them. Maybe
Speaker 2: she felt kind of insecure that she needed them so much,
Speaker 2: and she she was really trying to keep them beaten down.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know, but the two were doing a lot.
Speaker 2: They went from managing her telegram channels to becoming her bodyguard,
Speaker 2: mechanic and secretary. Daisy was also the Royal Bank account,
Speaker 2: setting up fundraisers and taking donations on behalf of the Queen.
Speaker 2: Didulo made impossible demands regularly to these people, and whenever
Speaker 2: money came up short or the built in limitations of
Speaker 2: technology thwarted her, whims of the moment, she would bully Daisy,
Speaker 2: who later said the abuse was NonStop. It was never ending,
Speaker 2: no proper meals, you know, no sleep, she continued, She
Speaker 2: did care. She said, if you work for the Queen,
Speaker 2: you work for the queen, you volunteered to be here.
Speaker 2: Why are you complaining? And like she's got a little
Speaker 2: bit of a point, She's she's got a little a point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like why do you have to be here? You knew
Speaker 2: what you were You should have known what you were
Speaker 2: getting into with this this dumb bullshit, Like come on now,
Speaker 2: like you know what you were getting into?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6: We have any idea how old this married couple Daisy
Speaker 6: and I've forgotten the name of.
Speaker 2: Guessing they were mature adults, probably in middle aged. Maybe
Speaker 2: we'll pass it a decent number of but they're not all.
Speaker 2: Some of them are pretty young. I don't actually know
Speaker 2: they're they're like age range, but you know they're they're
Speaker 2: old enough to know better. Yeah, yeah, sure. So during
Speaker 2: her months with the Queen, Daisy estimates that she lost
Speaker 2: between ten and fifteen pounds. Mark Lammereau, who interviewed a
Speaker 2: number of former followers, describes the degree of troll the
Speaker 2: Queen exercised over the day to day lives of her
Speaker 2: immediate tribe as pretty extensive. People would have to ask
Speaker 2: her for permission to even shower, which she periodically denied
Speaker 2: some individuals for days at a time.
Speaker 6: And why is that a Thingermber, It's pretty normal cult leaders.
Speaker 2: It's control over their bodies, over even like their ability
Speaker 2: to clean themselves. You're you're practicing, you know.
Speaker 3: You're in such closing in the RV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Such close quarters and your punishment as that everybody has
Speaker 6: to smell, numbers and stink.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy. Well she's not.
Speaker 2: She's the the r V where the people stay. It's
Speaker 2: different from the Queen's r V.
Speaker 3: True of Oh I forgot, she got the royal RV.
Speaker 2: Okay, she sometimes had a separate RV just to use
Speaker 2: as a bathroom.
Speaker 3: This lady has figured some out.
Speaker 2: Uh huh again, she is living well based on her
Speaker 2: previous life. She's doing really good.
Speaker 4: In relation to Yeah, but that's weird. Body control about smell.
Speaker 4: I feel like I would want people to smell amazing
Speaker 4: in front of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm royal. If I'm royal, it's three showers a day, y'all.
Speaker 2: C Yes, it's just about exercise and control. If you
Speaker 2: can get them to do that, you can get them
Speaker 2: to do anything, you know. True, and Romana spends most
Speaker 2: despite claiming that she's she's taking back Canada.
Speaker 3: She's the rightful ruler.
Speaker 2: All of her time has spent managing her followers, this
Speaker 2: very small number of in person. That's what she does
Speaker 2: her most of them right, right, And that's most of
Speaker 2: her work is keeping these people busy, you know, keep
Speaker 2: these people too busy and too beaten down to leave
Speaker 2: or to realize that like they're in, like how fucked
Speaker 2: up the situation. Is part of how she does this
Speaker 2: is she she hands up every morning. The day starts
Speaker 2: with her gathering everyone together and issuing them their tasks
Speaker 2: for the day. And we're talking a mix of stuff,
Speaker 2: like we're all living in RV's, so there's waste tanks
Speaker 2: that have to be emptied, there's water tanks they have
Speaker 2: to be refilled, there's food that has to be purchased.
Speaker 2: But there's also bullshit work, like we need new signs
Speaker 2: for the vehicles. I need someone to print out a
Speaker 2: bunch of these fake money things to hand out at
Speaker 2: the next stop. Right, And she's the point of this
Speaker 2: is there's some stuff that has to get done. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of busy work. What's most important, though, is
Speaker 2: that she's keeping everyone busy all day. People would regularly
Speaker 2: work sixteen hours at a time. But she's keeping the
Speaker 2: busy doing mostly bullshit tasks or like petty work tasks
Speaker 2: that they don't get anything done.
Speaker 3: They're not there.
Speaker 2: They came here to be part of this crusade to
Speaker 2: fix Canada, and all they're doing is like maintaining the
Speaker 2: caravan and handling bullshit work for her, printing stuff out
Speaker 2: or making new signs or whatever and so. And this
Speaker 2: is something former members will say, It's like I felt
Speaker 2: like I worked all the time and nothing ever got done.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you're just running a how cold? Running a
Speaker 3: Kinko's just too.
Speaker 2: Basically you think you think about it, this isn't so
Speaker 2: unique to her. It's it's shabbier and sadder because this
Speaker 2: is just like ten people or twelve people living in
Speaker 2: a series of RVs. But that's what scientology is, right,
Speaker 2: that's the whole point. And you have, yeah, you have
Speaker 2: the Sea Org and you have all these people, these
Speaker 2: auditors doing It's that you have petty work and tasks
Speaker 2: to keep the people who are full time members of
Speaker 2: the cult constantly working, right, You want them always using
Speaker 2: up their energy, otherwise they're going to put that energy
Speaker 2: towards maybe realizing that they're in a fucking cult, you know.
Speaker 2: And Didulo's goal was to make sure everyone's exhausted and
Speaker 2: working all the time so they don't have time to
Speaker 2: plot against her. One good example of this would be
Speaker 2: the account of a cult member who claims Romana made
Speaker 2: her wake up at four am to turn on her
Speaker 2: hotel coffee maker. She would do stuff like this, demand
Speaker 2: people do very basic tasks for her. Yeah, that shouldn't
Speaker 2: even be necessary, just because it's an exertion. It's her
Speaker 2: use exercise and control.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, that's that's that's some bully gang stuff right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, life inside the cult on the road sounds like
Speaker 2: living hell to me. Here's one description of how Romana
Speaker 2: liked to start off their days. Per an article advice quote,
Speaker 2: every morning, at six or seven am, the queen would
Speaker 2: play her favorite song, disco supergroup bony m smash hit Rasputant,
Speaker 2: about the well endowed Russian mystic of the same name. Often,
Speaker 2: the funky vibes would last an hour. Once Didjulo played
Speaker 2: Rasputant for the entire duration of a ten hour drive
Speaker 2: while her staff just sat and listened. Her followers even
Speaker 2: recorded their own version of the song with lyrics about her, and.
Speaker 3: It's the worst anti ever, Like, yeah, oh man.
Speaker 2: It's all like ten hours a fucking rasp buttant and
Speaker 2: I love that song. It's a great, it's a great.
Speaker 2: It's a banger of a hit, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: But ten hours of that and her obsession with it
Speaker 2: is so weird. Like there's a I'll pull up, there's
Speaker 2: a like you should actually hear her followers version.
Speaker 3: Of Respue Me Too. I was going to be my
Speaker 3: next request.
Speaker 2: So if you want to, if you listen in check
Speaker 2: in to the QAnon Anonymous episodes.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think it's the second one about Ramana that has
Speaker 2: with mac Lamreau that as the actual audio of the song.
Speaker 2: I don't want us to get copyright struck, and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of worried that we might, especially what with the
Speaker 2: Netflix thing going on. So I'm just gonna actually sing
Speaker 2: you the lyrics, So you're gonna get to listen to
Speaker 2: me sing yes as best as I can recall in
Speaker 2: tune to the original song resputin by Boney m Okay,
Speaker 2: Are we ready?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, there lives a fearless Queen Romana.
Speaker 3: Did you low?
Speaker 2: She may seem quite small, but she's oh so powerful.
Speaker 2: When communists a mess to subjugate her peeps, She's summoned
Speaker 2: allied forces to obliterate. Queen Romana lives for we the people. Strong,
Speaker 2: benevolent and just. She's discreet, lee waking, sleeping people, daily
Speaker 2: building trust. Rah Rah Romana, Precious Queen of Canada. She's
Speaker 2: taken names and she's kicking ass. Rah Rah Romana, Precious
Speaker 2: Queen of Canada. Please hop on board or get off
Speaker 2: the bus. And there's a lot more to it. There's
Speaker 2: a fun line. She's liberating earth with wisdom and with grace.
Speaker 2: But if her RV's rockin', she is dancing late, That's
Speaker 2: that's weird. That's a weird line to that's weird in them.
Speaker 2: Kind of makes me wonder if there's some weird sex
Speaker 2: stuff going on.
Speaker 3: I don't know. But yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, Yeah, beautiful stuff, beautiful stuff. We all love
Speaker 2: to see people repurposing Boney M's work for the good
Speaker 2: of the world.
Speaker 3: Yes, so, as you might expect.
Speaker 2: Hearing hours and hours of the song raspute and played
Speaker 2: over and over again. Even though that song's kind of
Speaker 2: a banger, might lead some people in the colt to
Speaker 2: wonder like, well, as Corey put it, oh my fucking lord,
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
Speaker 3: What the hell?
Speaker 2: Yes, she's yelling we got a war people, time to
Speaker 2: get up and dancing around like a lunatic. So this
Speaker 2: start does start to wear short on some people. The
Speaker 2: ridiculousness is kind of hard to continue to uh stretch
Speaker 2: your sense of disbelief towards. One former member of the
Speaker 2: group told Weiss that one day he took one of
Speaker 2: their RVs out to do errands, like there were parts
Speaker 2: that they needed to pick up, I think for like
Speaker 2: their streaming rig. They needed to get food for dinner,
Speaker 2: so this was stuff he needed to do. But he
Speaker 2: didn't get Queen Romana's permission beforehand, like he didn't double
Speaker 2: check with her. I can take the RV out, I
Speaker 2: have to go on an errand, and she exploded at him,
Speaker 2: relieving him of duty, alongside the members who had left
Speaker 2: in the RV with him, just firing a bunch of
Speaker 2: her cult members and saying, you can't split up the
Speaker 2: convoy otherwise our military is.
Speaker 3: Going to shoot you.
Speaker 2: Okay, where where's the military that's going to shoot you?
Speaker 3: When the military?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, what military? And the former member who
Speaker 2: gets kicked out is that guy named Cowan who was
Speaker 2: He was disturbed at how distraught one of the one
Speaker 2: of the cult members was that she fires that like this,
Speaker 2: he's kind of I think done with it at this
Speaker 2: point when she fires him, he's like.
Speaker 3: Good, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: But this lady's like losing her mind, weeping and stuff.
Speaker 2: Quote she really thought it was her destiny to be there.
Speaker 2: And I think that that's gets that really gets something important.
Speaker 2: I try to emphasize a few times. Some people are
Speaker 2: begging to be in a cult, right. They are desperate
Speaker 2: for any kind of meaning, right, yea, even this, even
Speaker 2: something that it's something, it's more meaningful, go to work
Speaker 2: and pay your bills, right yeah, anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something important. Nah.
Speaker 4: That's now we're getting at something because to weep for
Speaker 4: about this rather than being like, yeah, this game is trash.
Speaker 2: This is this was fucked up from the beginning, and
Speaker 2: it just it's said, there's something like almost physically painful
Speaker 2: to some people at being cut off from this when
Speaker 2: you finally found it, right, when you finally found the
Speaker 2: thing that gives you a sense of belonging and you
Speaker 2: get kicked out of it, like that's.
Speaker 3: Like losing a limb.
Speaker 2: Cohen, though, is you know, he's fed up by the
Speaker 2: time he gets fired, and so he takes his personal
Speaker 2: video and recording equipment with him. He's one of the
Speaker 2: guys who knew how to do things, who joined the
Speaker 2: Cold and the Queen is not happy about this. She
Speaker 2: gets on telegram, she declares him a thief. She claims
Speaker 2: he's kidnapped other staff who left with him. She posts
Speaker 2: videos of Cohen along with his picture and links to
Speaker 2: his social media. She calls him a devil worshiper, and
Speaker 2: she sentences him to death, and her followers, you know,
Speaker 2: attack him with as much zealousness as they attacked all
Speaker 2: of the other enemies of the group.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One follower posted, he will not survive what is coming.
Speaker 2: Another added that Cohen was quote a fan of Satan
Speaker 2: and a trader, and another wrote maybe he should be
Speaker 2: the first to hang publicly for all the other traders
Speaker 2: to see what to expect. So that's kind of a
Speaker 2: blister of at least things that are adjacent to death threats.
Speaker 3: And all Cohen could.
Speaker 2: Do was sort of hunker down to avoid the storm.
Speaker 2: I didn't answer a single phone call, but my phone
Speaker 2: was constantly blowing up with telegram messages and text messages.
Speaker 2: Then a few people found my personal Facebook page and
Speaker 2: commented randomly on some posts. One of them like a
Speaker 2: six year old woman who looks really nice, and she
Speaker 2: was like, you it will burn what, Well, it's just
Speaker 2: the amount of rage when you tell people like this
Speaker 2: your bullshit game that has become the entire core of
Speaker 2: your like life.
Speaker 3: This is all the only thing that excites you.
Speaker 2: This is like, this is your friend group, this is
Speaker 2: you're addicted to this, and this guy doesn't believe it.
Speaker 2: He left even though he actually just got fired. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you get enraged, and a part you're kind of taking
Speaker 2: out your anger at the rest of the world on
Speaker 2: this person because at some level they all know this
Speaker 2: isn't real, right, and that makes them pissed. So, as
Speaker 2: you might get from some of this, Romana's not wildly
Speaker 2: loyal to her cult members, and in fact, she is
Speaker 2: so unsatisfied with the quality of her first band of
Speaker 2: cult members that she fires them all. This is one
Speaker 2: of my favorite things about her story. It also kind
Speaker 2: of hints at the weird resilience of her grift. From
Speaker 2: what I can tell, it sounds like the breakdown started
Speaker 2: because she was planning to extend her road trip into
Speaker 2: the United States and a desperate attempt to avoid going
Speaker 2: back to her normal life and to try to get
Speaker 2: some of that American money.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But some of her followers, including Cordy and Daisy,
Speaker 2: had children, and we're like, well, we're just going to
Speaker 2: Ottawa and then you like wanted to drive around for
Speaker 2: a few months, and we were down with that, but
Speaker 2: we can't do this forever. And so Raman is like, well,
Speaker 2: if you have kids, simply have moved them in with
Speaker 2: your family and then abandon them for the cause. And
Speaker 2: a few of her followers have kids and they're like, what, Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't think that's what we were doing.
Speaker 4: This yu guys abandoned shit out man, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: So this is all coming to a head as the
Speaker 2: caravan makes its way into Newfoundland, which is not a
Speaker 2: heavily populated part of Canada, and they're kind of in
Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere of Newfoundland, which is itself kind
Speaker 2: of the middle of nowhere. And the day after she
Speaker 2: makes everyone listen to Rasputin for ten hours while driving
Speaker 2: through the middle of nowhere Canada, right, they're stopped, they're
Speaker 2: all tired. She probably keeps them up late, and then
Speaker 2: she wakes everyone up early, playing her fucking rasputant song
Speaker 2: and yelling about how there's a war on and says, everyone,
Speaker 2: skip breakfast, we got to start driving right now. And
Speaker 2: Corey and Daisy have finally had enough and they closed
Speaker 2: the door in her face and they're like, no, we're
Speaker 2: going to sleep, like we're not getting up yet and
Speaker 2: we're gonna eat, and Queen Didulo just leaves them. She
Speaker 2: abandons almost it sounds like pretty much all of her
Speaker 2: staff two thousand miles away from her homes, takes the
Speaker 2: RVs so that's like rent cars to get home, and
Speaker 2: declares them traders and warns them to watch your backs right,
Speaker 2: just leaves them in Newfoundland.
Speaker 3: Traiders all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's smelling her own stuff way too much, man. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you know, not long after that, in August of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, Queen Didulo carries out her next major
Speaker 2: real world endeavor. This is in a town called Peterborough,
Speaker 2: where she has gotten been convinced for a while and
Speaker 2: been ranting for a while about like the police in
Speaker 2: Peterborough and how they're enforcing COVID mandates and whatnot. They're
Speaker 2: they're corrupt, We're gonna do a citizens erect all that
Speaker 2: good stuff, right Like that's this is all kind of
Speaker 2: like and it's a little hard for me to tell,
Speaker 2: like why she focuses specifically on this small town. I
Speaker 2: think maybe some of it is just that, like, well,
Speaker 2: this was like a small enough town that maybe she
Speaker 2: thought it would work. Some of it is that one
Speaker 2: of her followers, this guy Frank Curtin, lives in the
Speaker 2: town and he starts like he organizes like a mass
Speaker 2: event to do a citizen arrest of all these police.
Speaker 2: So I think it may have just been that, like
Speaker 2: she had a follower who was like, no.
Speaker 3: It'll work if we do it here.
Speaker 2: You know they have there's this they've got this meme
Speaker 2: going on that's like they're calling the police chief the
Speaker 2: retire borough police chief, because they're trying to get him
Speaker 2: to retire and threatening to arrest him if he doesn't.
Speaker 2: To quote from Sarteghi's piece about Frank Curtin. Curtin is
Speaker 2: one of Digulo's most art and supporters and provides a
Speaker 2: useful example of an active agent curtain came to believe
Speaker 2: in Digulo's ideas after parting ways with his employer a
Speaker 2: part approximately one year before the Peterborough event. Problems between
Speaker 2: Curtin and his employer. When his employer received funds from
Speaker 2: the government to boost the manufacturing of hand sanitizer as
Speaker 2: part of the fight against COVID nineteen. Curtin considered this
Speaker 2: government funding suspicious. He believes that COVID nineteen is fake
Speaker 2: and that his employer had collected that money illegally. These
Speaker 2: conspiratorial beliefs then allegedly led to Curtain's departure from the company.
Speaker 2: After leaving the company, Curtin began regularly serving Digelos ceased
Speaker 2: and desist orders to public officials. He then specifically targeted
Speaker 2: Police Chief Scott Gilbert of the Peterborough Police Department. Curtin
Speaker 2: was upset about not receiving from the police Chief Gilbert
Speaker 2: what Gilbert deemed to be an appropriate response to his
Speaker 2: complaint about his employer's supposed illegal activities. Curtin recorded himself
Speaker 2: serving a cease and desist order upon Chief Gilbert and
Speaker 2: posted the video on his YouTube channel. Right, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a really good example of how these kind
Speaker 2: of things snowball, right, this is not a guy who's
Speaker 2: living with the caravan. He starts just serving her cease
Speaker 2: and assists, but she's following him. He's posting as he's
Speaker 2: in the telegrams, he's putting these up. He's talking about
Speaker 2: a corrupt the police are. Roman is like, oh, this
Speaker 2: might be useful. So she starts some memes about retire,
Speaker 2: you know, the police chief, and we're going to arrest
Speaker 2: all of them, and it just becomes an increasing thing
Speaker 2: to her followers. And this kind of makes it inevitable
Speaker 2: that there's going to be a showdown in Peterborough, right,
Speaker 2: Like they're gonna have to do something there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, This goes from funny to annoying to like, okay,
Speaker 4: you have to stop, yeah.
Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, And we're gonna talk about what happened next,
Speaker 2: but first, ads, we're back. So this guy, Frank Curtin
Speaker 2: has becoming gotten you know, as a result of getting
Speaker 2: fired and losing his mind over like COVID stuff, both
Speaker 2: lost his job and is increasingly becoming unhinged. He's fallen
Speaker 2: into this rabbit hole of didulo stuff, and he's gotten
Speaker 2: obsessed with Chief Gilbert, his town's police chief. He's posting
Speaker 2: videos about how like there's this plane that he'll see
Speaker 2: flying every now and then that he believes the police
Speaker 2: chief is flying above his house to like fuck with
Speaker 2: him specif. So this is not a well man, right,
Speaker 2: This is really not a well man. And he's incredibly
Speaker 2: angry about like the vaccines and the police are showing
Speaker 2: up at like vex to protect vaccine sites because of
Speaker 2: crazy people like Frank Curtin, right, And so this all
Speaker 2: comes to a head in August of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: which is when Queen Didulo's caravan shows up in Peterborough
Speaker 2: for her next major real world endeavor. She's gathered around
Speaker 2: forty of her followers and she's told them these officers
Speaker 2: and their chief are all complicit in COVID crimes and
Speaker 2: we're going to arrest them. And so they show up
Speaker 2: in this town and she attempts to arrest the entire
Speaker 2: police department. Frank Curtin starts by announcing today we are
Speaker 2: going to turn the members of the Peterborough Police Station
Speaker 2: over to the US Special Forces military, the Canadian military,
Speaker 2: and the Global Military Alliance will pick them up once
Speaker 2: we detain them. The who, well, it makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense problem. It's the US Special Forces military, regular military.
Speaker 2: They're not involved, but the regular Canadian military is involved
Speaker 2: them of course, the Global Military Alliance. They're all going
Speaker 2: to show up after we arrest them. They can't arrest
Speaker 2: the cops themselves, all the militaries in the world, they
Speaker 2: don't have to. We the people do that, but then
Speaker 2: they'll detain them once we the people have detained them.
Speaker 2: In response, the police use one of the most dastardly tricks.
Speaker 2: Right These people show up outside of the police station.
Speaker 2: They say they're going to arrest them, and the cops
Speaker 2: lock the door, just like, eh, not dealing.
Speaker 3: With this right now. Let's see if they go away.
Speaker 3: I'm almost all.
Speaker 2: Today, so Didilo is reduced for a while to heckling
Speaker 2: them over a bullhorn, demanding the police turn themselves in. Eventually,
Speaker 2: the police reinforcements arrive. One man tells them they're under arrest,
Speaker 2: and the cops are like, no, I mean, like, you're
Speaker 2: actually under arrest.
Speaker 3: We are are the cops. We have like the guns
Speaker 3: and stuff. Yeah, you're just got to be guys. Were
Speaker 3: really some RVs behind you? Yeah, but you're not cops.
Speaker 2: You are definitely not cops. The Guardian summarizes what happened next.
Speaker 2: Speaking to supporters over a megaphone, Digitlo fired up the
Speaker 2: small crowd, but fled to her RV when scuffles with
Speaker 2: the police. Bagan and some of her disciples were arrested.
Speaker 2: She was somebody who was boosting this effort and was
Speaker 2: very much in favor of it until it went south,
Speaker 2: in which case she threw all of her followers under
Speaker 2: the bus. She's very big on self preservation, clearly, a
Speaker 2: quote from one of the observers. Yeah, six people were arrested,
Speaker 2: two with assaulting a police officer, but there were no
Speaker 2: charges for the queen, and so her mery road trip continued.
Speaker 2: She gathered another gaggle of a dozen or so followers.
Speaker 2: Together she bought a sixty two thousand dollars RV with
Speaker 2: some of the donated money, and had another RV donated
Speaker 2: to the cause. Wow, and she attempted at this point.
Speaker 2: I do think though she's starting to see it's expensive
Speaker 2: to drive around all the time. I want to settle somewhere,
Speaker 2: but I can't get I still am not willing to
Speaker 2: go back to my normal life, which is when she
Speaker 2: finds a small town called Richmond in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: and she finds this because one of the guys who
Speaker 2: lives in the town has bought Richmond had a school.
Speaker 2: But it's a very small town, right, and it's one
Speaker 2: of those things. The school becomes defunct, you know, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think because they're just like, aren't enough people to
Speaker 2: keep it going. Yeah, and there's this local guy who's
Speaker 2: become a follower of her cult, or at least a
Speaker 2: partial follower of her cult, who buys, who's like purchased
Speaker 2: the school and the land that it's on, and he
Speaker 2: invites them to come over and like move in basically like, hey,
Speaker 2: like you can live in this old school that I
Speaker 2: technically own and live in Richmond, this tiny ass, little
Speaker 2: small tan candid like a good life.
Speaker 3: Don't sound royal fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a mix of problems. For one thing,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of people in town who believe her, so,
Speaker 2: like at least one Richmond resident told W five News
Speaker 2: that her father stopped paying his bills because Digulo said so.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people are just unhappy about it.
Speaker 2: For one thing, Yeah, they've been kicked out of at
Speaker 2: least one town prior to this where like they showed
Speaker 2: up and were trying to set up shop there, and
Speaker 2: like the mayor and a bunch of the local residents
Speaker 2: had it out from and like ran them out of
Speaker 2: town by banking it a really uncomfortable place for them
Speaker 2: to live. Yeah, and they try to do that in Richmond.
Speaker 2: A lot of people do. There's a lot of complaints,
Speaker 2: there's local government meetings about it. But they're not quite
Speaker 2: able to kick them out of Richmond with the speed
Speaker 2: that they want to because in part they have a
Speaker 2: really good thing going. They have this whole school that
Speaker 2: they can live in that they're turning into like their
Speaker 2: government headquarters. So they don't they don't want to.
Speaker 4: Go yeah right, Yeah, they got some progress.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 2: I think there's also she's starting to lose followers by
Speaker 2: this point, she's not at her height. So I think
Speaker 2: there's this understanding that like, well, I may be near
Speaker 2: the end of this scrift from the beginning, and I
Speaker 2: want to settle down somewhere where like we've got a
Speaker 2: stable place to live and whatnot. Like maybe that's the
Speaker 2: and man's who's the guy who's bought them to the
Speaker 2: property is also just kind of somebody who's he's like
Speaker 2: a right wing crank who hates COVID nineteen vaccine, and
Speaker 2: so some of this is just I think he hates
Speaker 2: everyone around him and wants to piss them off. Yes,
Speaker 2: this is a huge issue in Richmond for a while, right,
Speaker 2: there's protests. Some people do go a little bit overboard
Speaker 2: and being paranoid about the cult too, but I understand
Speaker 2: basically they don't want these people fucking up their little down, right,
Speaker 2: that's weird. And she starts making claims and the cult
Speaker 2: as that like, well, there's a lot of us. If
Speaker 2: we all become residents, you know, we can vote in
Speaker 2: local elections and shift the elections they're kind of doing,
Speaker 2: like what that cult and Antelope, Oregon did that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Wild Wild Country died. Yeah they're talking about it. Right,
Speaker 2: So this also really pisses off people like I don't
Speaker 2: want my tiny town to be taken over here by
Speaker 2: these weird assholes, right, Yeah, it just sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of shitty. So you know, this goes on for
Speaker 2: I think like a year and change, and it only
Speaker 2: really hit there's like kind of an inflection point that
Speaker 2: came recently where a bunch of them got arrested very recently,
Speaker 2: Like this is yeah, yeah, fucking finally right in September,
Speaker 2: like the fall of twenty twenty five, she gets arrested,
Speaker 2: and it's it's kind of some bullshit. She doesn't get
Speaker 2: arrested for any of the actual like really fucked up
Speaker 2: shit that she does. Yeah she arrested, Yeah, right, Like
Speaker 2: she gets arrested. It's that it's just like they don't
Speaker 2: arrest her for the actual bad stuff. They arrest her
Speaker 2: for like intimidating four people, including a police officer, and
Speaker 2: uh like basically for intimidating people in town as opposed
Speaker 2: to be the time she tried to get people killed
Speaker 2: or tried to all those police arrested, or got people
Speaker 2: to stop paying their bills. It's like kind of like
Speaker 2: witness intimidation. Almost ed you for being weird. They rested
Speaker 2: her for being weird, and she's you know, she live
Speaker 2: streams the arrest. There's this satisfying moment where the officers
Speaker 2: are like, leave the phone here.
Speaker 3: Under her arrest.
Speaker 2: They part of what it prompted the the RCMP to
Speaker 2: rate in the first place was that there were pictures
Speaker 2: of guns from inside the property. But they turned out
Speaker 2: to be replica handguns. I don't know how far this
Speaker 2: case is going to go. There's a good chance she
Speaker 2: gets fucked over just because she is representing herself, which
Speaker 2: is a bad decision. So she might go herself over here.
Speaker 2: But the charges aren't super crazy, right, Like she's not
Speaker 2: getting charged with most of the actual bad cult leader stuff.
Speaker 2: Maybe she'll successfully fund raise off of this. We don't
Speaker 2: really know where things are going to go from here, right,
Speaker 2: But no, there's not a body count other than that cat.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a pretty tame story, right, It's just I
Speaker 2: thought it was fun. I thought we'd all have some
Speaker 2: fun man.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, like you don't make fun of like
Speaker 4: people who fall into colts because, like you said, you
Speaker 4: know glasshouses and stones and all that you know.
Speaker 3: And then on.
Speaker 4: The other hand, it's like, bro, you stop paying your
Speaker 4: utilities and that wasn't I feel like I can make
Speaker 4: fun of you for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now there is a nice little PostScript to this cult
Speaker 2: because we don't know what's gonna happen with Romana. But
Speaker 2: I do want to talk for just a second about
Speaker 2: the King of America David Carlson.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, please.
Speaker 2: Because he did crop up a year or two ago,
Speaker 2: and people started talking to him, and at first he
Speaker 2: was very positive towards Romana, and then he kind of
Speaker 2: soured on her and he started making it clear like, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't say she was the queen. I said she
Speaker 2: was like in the running to be the queen. Like
Speaker 2: she might be right, that's not what I'm say. Had
Speaker 2: a break right, And there's a I want to read.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna read the start of this this Vice
Speaker 2: article about him because it has a really funny opening.
Speaker 2: Wearing a Florida Gators T shirt, an Arizona man in
Speaker 2: his mid forties attempts to convince the hundreds of thousands
Speaker 2: of conspiracy theorists watching his laptop live stream that he's
Speaker 2: the real leader of the United States. King David Carlson
Speaker 2: explains that he still has a few million people to
Speaker 2: take out before he's finally done with his plan installing
Speaker 2: QAnon kings and queens around the.
Speaker 3: World, around the world. Great.
Speaker 2: He claims, they've replaced Joe Biden was taken out on
Speaker 2: election day. We've replaced sheriffs and other leaders you know,
Speaker 2: and where we and he's been appointing a lot of kings.
Speaker 2: He's appointed a king to the Kingdom of Britain, which
Speaker 2: I think already has a king. Is king's the Kingdom
Speaker 2: of Sweden, which I think already has a king. There's
Speaker 2: a King of New Zealand, which I don't think had
Speaker 2: a king.
Speaker 3: He was Maori.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a Minister of North Carolina. There's a
Speaker 2: Queen Helen Edwards of the Kingdom of Australia. And then
Speaker 2: there's her Excellency Karen Minister of New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Obviously. Oh these guys are They're so wonderful, man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're great. This is fun. They're great.
Speaker 2: My favorite is that since Queen Romana has fallen out
Speaker 2: of the King's favorite, she's no longer the Queen of Canada,
Speaker 2: but he has appointed a new Queen of Canada, the
Speaker 2: bec woman who was a follower of Queen Romana and
Speaker 2: wrote a fan poem about her, but has now been
Speaker 2: appointed the real Queen of Canada. And so I guess
Speaker 2: took the throne and a coup of some sort.
Speaker 3: This is great, yeah, and there's a great I'm gonna
Speaker 3: show you.
Speaker 2: The last thing I'll show you is I want to
Speaker 2: show you the Royal Seal of I think who we
Speaker 2: can all agree is a better pick for Queen of Canada,
Speaker 2: Queen Charmaine. And I just I just love this. I
Speaker 2: love this Queen, Queen Charmain of Canada. First of her name,
Speaker 2: it's like a pink log with a with a very
Speaker 2: air brushed face of a blonde wild Queen Charmain's Yeah,
Speaker 2: natural laws, zero politics, royal decrees, benevolent monarchy.
Speaker 3: It's like if mar.
Speaker 6: A Lago face and Toddler's and tiaras.
Speaker 3: This is, this is she does on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Who shouldn't be on Instagram keeping all them filters on
Speaker 4: her face?
Speaker 2: Yep ye wow, Queen Charmaine, thanks for sharing, Robert Well,
Speaker 2: I know for for my part, I now have am
Speaker 2: declaring my allegiance to Queen Charmaine.
Speaker 3: You know I will take.
Speaker 2: Let's do it, all right, Queen Charmaine. It is everyone
Speaker 2: all right, as long as as long as I can shower. Listen,
Speaker 2: sure she looks like she showers.
Speaker 3: All I gotta say is.
Speaker 4: Listen to politics, but please politics prop with more.
Speaker 3: It is foolishness. Oh my gosh, mm hmm, my lord,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you for this. I needed this really refreshing.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Robert.
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Speaker 4: Go to hell.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I say that sometimes.
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