WEBVTT - Is JFK Jr. Still Alive?

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<v Speaker 1>John F. Kennedy Jr. Was the son of John F. Kennedy,

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<v Speaker 1>President of the United States. Tragically, jfk Jr. Was killed

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<v Speaker 1>in a plane crash in Or was he Yes, he was,

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<v Speaker 1>of course he was. But what if he wasn't? What

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<v Speaker 1>if he were about to re emerge as the vice

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<v Speaker 1>president of Donald Trump, who, by the way, is still

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<v Speaker 1>the president. Sounds crazy, it is. In fact, it's one

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<v Speaker 1>of the wilder conspiracies I've heard in my seven years

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<v Speaker 1>covering Trump rallies. You're probably familiar with my daily show

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<v Speaker 1>segments Jordan Clapper Fingers the Pulse Emmy nominated twice, lost twice,

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<v Speaker 1>where I chat with Trump supporters at rallies. We are

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<v Speaker 1>not a call. It's an American ideal that we treat

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<v Speaker 1>women with respect. You gotta give me the back of

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<v Speaker 1>that show one more time. That's too much fun. Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>that bitch. We don't even see the irony of it.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you're into conspiracy theories, then there's nothing that

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<v Speaker 1>comes close to a Trump rally. What's on your back?

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<v Speaker 1>Q flag? One of those crazy people are fine and

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<v Speaker 1>commulaw are not legitimate. What's a cute whole thing that

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<v Speaker 1>Trump would be reinstated at President never looked. If you

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<v Speaker 1>go online, there's a whole list of pedophile symbols. Really, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like Woodstock, except everyone there thinks Jimmy Hendrix is

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<v Speaker 1>a holograph. Normally, when one of these conspiracy theories comes up,

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<v Speaker 1>I have to respond then moved past it because we're

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<v Speaker 1>shooting a piece for TV and we have to say

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<v Speaker 1>somewhat focused. But this is a podcast, we don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to stay focused at all. So I'm finally diving into

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<v Speaker 1>some of the most incredible conspiracy theories that have been

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<v Speaker 1>pitched to me at Trump Rallies by America's most imaginative minds.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Jordan Clapper Fingers, the Conspiracy and All new

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<v Speaker 1>limited series podcast from the Daily Show. So, folks, come

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<v Speaker 1>on down from your grassy knolls and let's dig in.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about John F. Kennedy Jr. But to help

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<v Speaker 1>me do that, I want to bring in our first guest,

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<v Speaker 1>Will Summer Wills, of politics reporter for The Daily Beast.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got a book coming out in February called Trust,

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<v Speaker 1>The Plan, The Rise of Q and On and the

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<v Speaker 1>Conspiracy that unhinged America. Well, welcome to Jordan clapper fingers

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<v Speaker 1>the conspiracy. I'm excited to have you on. You are

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<v Speaker 1>here to help me walk through an understand what is

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<v Speaker 1>going on in this world of John F. Kennedy Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>And I will say this. I I go out on

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<v Speaker 1>the road and I start hearing people talking about JFK Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>And initially I'm thinking, you know, they're talking about JFK.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a long history of conspiracies with JFK. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm putting together that as JFK Jr. And then I

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<v Speaker 1>start to see signs up. I start to see bumper

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<v Speaker 1>stickers that have him as vice presidential Kennedy to Donald Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>And then a month or so back, I go to

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<v Speaker 1>a rally in the Midwest and I'm hearing sweet old

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<v Speaker 1>grandmother's talk about John F. Kennedy Jr. And I can't

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<v Speaker 1>make head or tails of it? Can you? Can? You

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<v Speaker 1>set out a little bit of this began? What do

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<v Speaker 1>we need to know? Sure? So, I mean, this is

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<v Speaker 1>really bizarre. As you noted, I mean the origins of

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<v Speaker 1>this are within Q and on Um. Of course, there

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<v Speaker 1>was the this figure Q who was giving these anonymous clues.

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<v Speaker 1>And then at one point in teen Q sort of

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<v Speaker 1>vanished for a month on the forums where the clues

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<v Speaker 1>came out, and then someone named Are shows up and

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<v Speaker 1>starts saying, you know, all of this is really about

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<v Speaker 1>JFK Jr. And so that's kind of where the where

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<v Speaker 1>it begins. And eventually Q comes back and kind of

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<v Speaker 1>says like this JFK JUNI yourself is garbage. You know

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<v Speaker 1>what have You've been tricking all my people? Um, But

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<v Speaker 1>the JFK Junior stuff really starts there with this idea

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<v Speaker 1>that JFK Jr. Faked his death to take on the

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<v Speaker 1>deep state and help Donald Trump sort of bring about

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<v Speaker 1>this sort of Q and on utopia. There's a conspiracy

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<v Speaker 1>inside the conspiracy, it's a it's a it's a conspiracy

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<v Speaker 1>to ducan right now exactly. It's sort of a splinter faction,

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<v Speaker 1>and you get this situation where, like the kind of

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<v Speaker 1>the mainline Q and On people will often be like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, Like, you know, I believe all this

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<v Speaker 1>Pizza Gate stuff. I believe this about Hillary Clinton, but

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<v Speaker 1>these JFK Junior people are embarrassing us. They just believe

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<v Speaker 1>totally stupid stuff. That's the dynamic you want there, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're like, oh my god, can we just go back

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<v Speaker 1>to serious things like talking about how the Democrats drink

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<v Speaker 1>baby's blood and all this JFK Junior stuff. We're losing credibility.

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<v Speaker 1>People were losing credibility. Put your tidfoil heads back on

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<v Speaker 1>and let's march. Yeah. I mean basically they're saying, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>these JFK Junior people are almost like a government meant

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<v Speaker 1>to embarrass Q and on. But really this belief has

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<v Speaker 1>in JFK Jr has persisted ever since. So so what

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<v Speaker 1>was ours intention in this situation? Like initially that JFK

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<v Speaker 1>Jr one is alive, so perhaps he faked his death.

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<v Speaker 1>And two he's aligning himself with Donald Trump. It feels

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<v Speaker 1>like there's four steps there that I'm even a hard

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<v Speaker 1>time connecting why JFK Jr. And let's start with why

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<v Speaker 1>he's alive and why that should matter? Sure, so the

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<v Speaker 1>arc that is presented by R, and I want to

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<v Speaker 1>point out here that R is the letter after Q,

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<v Speaker 1>and so that's sort of the explanation for them, is

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<v Speaker 1>it or is it will? Your mainstream elitist alphabet says

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<v Speaker 1>it's the letter after Q. But I have I only

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<v Speaker 1>if you're moving forward through time, But that's a whole

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<v Speaker 1>another podcast exactly. So, So the the sort of the

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<v Speaker 1>story that's laid out is that John F. Kennedy, the

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<v Speaker 1>father is killed by the deep State, you know, in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty three. JFK Jr. Sees this and says, oh, man,

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<v Speaker 1>the Deep State might come for me, and I want

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<v Speaker 1>to get revenge on them for murdering my father. And

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<v Speaker 1>so for years he builds up this relationship with Donald Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, because they were both sort of these New

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<v Speaker 1>York socialite figures. There are pictures of them together, and

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<v Speaker 1>so this is used to suggest that they were like

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<v Speaker 1>best buddies. Then in this storyline, JFK Jr. Fax his

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<v Speaker 1>death in this plane crash to sort of go undercover

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<v Speaker 1>and sort of lay the groundwork for the Q and

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<v Speaker 1>On journey and eventually emerge. For a while they thought

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<v Speaker 1>he was going to replace Mike Pence in on the

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<v Speaker 1>ticket and that he would sort of kind of helped

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<v Speaker 1>Trump and sort of get this final revenge on the

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<v Speaker 1>Deep State. So in this world they see JFK Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>Is faking his own death to exist undercover and wait

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<v Speaker 1>for the right time, still maintaining a relationship with Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump throughout all of this, or did or did Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump just come about and become sort of an avatar

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<v Speaker 1>for JFK Jr's ascension. Yeah, that that's a great question.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean a lot of it is a little contradictory

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<v Speaker 1>and not super thought out. Uh you know that might

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<v Speaker 1>be surprise you right now. But but basically, the the

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<v Speaker 1>idea is that, you know, back in the nineties or

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<v Speaker 1>the eighties, they kind of cut this deal and they said,

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump said, man, this stuff is really messed up,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. And then and JFK Jr. Said tell me

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<v Speaker 1>about it. You know, they shot my dad, and so

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<v Speaker 1>then they sort of teamed up and JFK Jr. Winning

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<v Speaker 1>to hide it. Tell me about it. They shot my dad.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, Yeah, you're right, this is messed up. Let

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<v Speaker 1>me let me run for president a few decades from

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<v Speaker 1>now and make this thing happen. You're helping me connect

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<v Speaker 1>that circle. If it's a circle. What I'm confused about.

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<v Speaker 1>I go out there, JFK. Fame Slee not a Republican

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<v Speaker 1>um John F. Kennedy Jr. At least from my perspective,

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<v Speaker 1>New York elite, not political, but somebody who is a

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<v Speaker 1>magazine magnate and Seinfeld character uh doesn't exactly match up

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<v Speaker 1>as the type of person that this often far right

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<v Speaker 1>group would would align themselves with. What why Why did

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<v Speaker 1>they see this potential in in somebody who's so outside

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<v Speaker 1>of the norm, you know, I think that's a great question.

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<v Speaker 1>And what is the emotional residence of JFK Jr. Why

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<v Speaker 1>is why is the JFK Jr they fixate on rather

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<v Speaker 1>than another celebrity who died in the nineties. So the

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<v Speaker 1>I think the answer to it is that when we

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<v Speaker 1>think about the Q and on believer, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>in particularly the people who go for the JFK Junior stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>they're usually baby boomers, and I think the JFK assassination

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<v Speaker 1>had a huge sort of emotional impact on them. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think also JFK Jr. Was sort of seeing those

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<v Speaker 1>this very like prominent baby boomer um, sort of an

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<v Speaker 1>avatar of his generation, and so that way, I think

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<v Speaker 1>there is this kind of this very emotional connection to

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<v Speaker 1>him in a way that there that there wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 1>with another celebrity. I think also the idea of JFK

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<v Speaker 1>as like the last good Democrat is something that has

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<v Speaker 1>persisted among Republicans even before Q and On this idea

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<v Speaker 1>of kind of this popular martyred president UM and Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it terrible that you know LBJ in the in

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<v Speaker 1>the sixties took being a democrat into such an awful direction.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think JFK himself still has a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>residents with Republicans and Q and On believers. So I

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<v Speaker 1>think there's a lot of kind of like emotions tied

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<v Speaker 1>up in all that. When you look back on JFK conspiracies,

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<v Speaker 1>does it seem quaint? Does it seems sort of like

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<v Speaker 1>the initial modern conspiracy theory that Americans have sort of

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<v Speaker 1>built a mythos around. I mean, I think obviously we've

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<v Speaker 1>had conspiracy theories throughout American history, but the Kennedy assassination

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<v Speaker 1>is such a sort of an epical one that I

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<v Speaker 1>think gets a lot of people into conspiracy theories, and

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<v Speaker 1>it is certainly, I think the biggest and the richest

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<v Speaker 1>one to dive into in modern history. It also sort

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<v Speaker 1>of brings everything full circle incorporating Kennedy, Q and On.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this um it's sort of a super conspiracy theory

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<v Speaker 1>or a mega conspiracy theory that where you can sort

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<v Speaker 1>of get whatever you want out of it, and so

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<v Speaker 1>we see a lot of Kennedy conspiracy theorists drawn into it.

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to a guy who was a really big

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<v Speaker 1>Q and On leader, and he had for decades been

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<v Speaker 1>just like a f K crank. I mean, he was

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<v Speaker 1>going to all these conventions stuff like that, and then

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<v Speaker 1>Q and On arrives and he says, oh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I can sort of incorporate my Kennedy beliefs into Q

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<v Speaker 1>and On and sort of broad in my worldview and

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<v Speaker 1>and see more of the world explained to me in

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<v Speaker 1>that way. Um So I do think that's an aspect

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<v Speaker 1>of it as well. It's it's interesting. I think what

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people miss is just how fun conspiracies are.

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<v Speaker 1>They They are engaging, especially if you're on a computer.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the most fun things you can do is

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<v Speaker 1>go down that rabbit hole and and also come away

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<v Speaker 1>with something that empowers you because you feel like you

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<v Speaker 1>know something somebody else doesn't. I I did a job

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<v Speaker 1>down in Dallas a decade ago, and I was walking

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<v Speaker 1>through the Grassy Knoll multiple times right there there in

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<v Speaker 1>daily plaza, and people would approach you and they would

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<v Speaker 1>tell you things that you should know and shouldn't know,

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<v Speaker 1>And so there was it was like a cottage industry

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<v Speaker 1>for conspiracy theorists to give small little tours, take you

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<v Speaker 1>to places that they tell you what what happened and

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<v Speaker 1>what they're not telling you. And it's easy to get

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<v Speaker 1>wrapped up in that. And you see the people starting

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<v Speaker 1>to develop um uh you know, not only mindsets out

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<v Speaker 1>of it, but it gives them importance. It gives them

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<v Speaker 1>in some cases a job, but it makes them important

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<v Speaker 1>in that little place. And I start to see that

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<v Speaker 1>pop up at some of these Trump rallies that I

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<v Speaker 1>go to, seeing people who now own part of these

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<v Speaker 1>little conspiracies and they become many celebrities at these rallies

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<v Speaker 1>that we see and looking at this JFK Jr. Coming

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<v Speaker 1>back as part of UH, there's been discussions of his

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<v Speaker 1>reappearance and there's been groups, one group called Negative forty

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<v Speaker 1>eight who has staged events waiting for his um return.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you tell us a little bit about Negative forty eight? Sure? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>So Negative forty eight is a group that is is

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<v Speaker 1>very convinced that JFK, not only JFK Jr, but but

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<v Speaker 1>Kennedy at JFK himself UH and all sorts of sort

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<v Speaker 1>of a bevy of other beloved deceased celebrities are are.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not that they're gonna come back to life, but

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<v Speaker 1>they've sort of been in in inclusion, they've been in hiding,

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<v Speaker 1>and that they're gonna come back and and sort of

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<v Speaker 1>usher in this Q and on world. The reason they're

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<v Speaker 1>called negative forty eight is because they this is kind

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<v Speaker 1>of hard to explain, dude, to someone who's that really

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<v Speaker 1>deeven it, but essentially they believe in this thing called

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<v Speaker 1>jim Atria where they assign numerical values to letters and

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<v Speaker 1>then they derive meaning from that A equals one, be

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<v Speaker 1>equals too, and so on. But essentially they would say,

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<v Speaker 1>like Jordan Klepper twenty trust the plan twenty uh make

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<v Speaker 1>America great Again twenty five and they just sort of

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<v Speaker 1>speak in this language that doesn't really make sense to

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<v Speaker 1>anyone outside of it, but they they see importance in

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<v Speaker 1>these numbers and in these these coincidences, and so from

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<v Speaker 1>there they essentially kind of whipped themselves up into believing

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<v Speaker 1>these things like JFK Jr. Is coming back. I found

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<v Speaker 1>out what Jamatria was real quick. One of the rallies

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<v Speaker 1>I went to when a woman kind of walked me

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<v Speaker 1>through this. She brought out a Gematria calculator and started

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<v Speaker 1>typing in my name, typing in Trump's name, and connecting

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<v Speaker 1>all sorts of numbers. It was it was wild, It

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<v Speaker 1>was real fun. You can kind of make anything makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>They're type it in the calculator. You get these numbers.

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<v Speaker 1>And so Michael Jackson's last concert was this is it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to you know what that means? Do you? I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what that means. So one thirteen means not true.

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<v Speaker 1>So Michael Jackson that wasn't his last concert, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>a lie. It's not necessarily conspiratorial thing, although it's used

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<v Speaker 1>in that sense. It's correct me if I'm wrong. It's

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<v Speaker 1>essentially a mathematical way of turning letters into numbers, and

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<v Speaker 1>religions have been using this for centuries just to try

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<v Speaker 1>to find and try to derive meeting, trying to look

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<v Speaker 1>deeper into biblical texts and what have you. And I

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<v Speaker 1>thought that was a key component when I talked to

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<v Speaker 1>this woman, because the way she talked about Gematrium, it

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<v Speaker 1>was beyond this conspiracy. It's fun. I have power because

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<v Speaker 1>I have knowledge. It was also I'm serving a biblical character.

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<v Speaker 1>There's religion attached to this, and I think that's where

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<v Speaker 1>the real danger comes here, where you have people who

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<v Speaker 1>are serving UH, serving religion and serving God through this fun,

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<v Speaker 1>little weird game that they play, and then deciding that

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<v Speaker 1>Aaliyah is going to appear alongside Michael Jackson and perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>UH and jfk Jr. All at once Obama clarify who's

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<v Speaker 1>still alive. J jfk Jr. Still alive. Jfk Jr. Still alive.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think jfk Jr. Is gonna try and expose

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<v Speaker 1>globalist because they killed his father. We're talking about Tupac's

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<v Speaker 1>coming back, Robin Williams is coming back Aliyah. As you mentioned,

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<v Speaker 1>sort of pick your favorite dead celebrity, and so what

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<v Speaker 1>happened was these folks descended on Dallas where they thought

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<v Speaker 1>there was going to be sort of the dead Celebrities parade,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're milling around and they're seeing like a homeless

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<v Speaker 1>guy and they're like, I think that's Robin Williams. And

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<v Speaker 1>then everyone's like, oh, yeah, that's a Robin Williams and

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<v Speaker 1>so on, and a lot of these guys. I mean, look,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure. These guys are super up on like

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<v Speaker 1>Tupac for example, and there there's I think that's Tupac.

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<v Speaker 1>You all these guys, I think that's Biggie. Uh And

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<v Speaker 1>and it's sort of this. You can see they're sort

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<v Speaker 1>of going into this world where like nothing bad ever happens.

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<v Speaker 1>No no one ever dies of a drug overdose or

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<v Speaker 1>a suicide. Um. The other thing I would add is

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<v Speaker 1>that they think a lot of dead celebrities were murdered,

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<v Speaker 1>uh or went into hiding, like JFK Jr. Faked their

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<v Speaker 1>deaths because they were gonna blow the lid off the cabal.

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<v Speaker 1>So like the the late dj of Echi, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he faked his death. All these kind of people, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>just you know, Whitney Houston. But they're all coming back

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<v Speaker 1>at this big moment. And you can see these people

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<v Speaker 1>who have just particularly this when they were kind of

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<v Speaker 1>million around Dallas for months, just the amount of their

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<v Speaker 1>own lives and their own like hearts that they've invested

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<v Speaker 1>into into it. You know, they're just you know, headed

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<v Speaker 1>for a brick wall when eventually they realized none of

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<v Speaker 1>it's happening. It's just predominantly white people who live in

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<v Speaker 1>a bubble walking around Dallas thinking they see Tupac everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's really that's to fuck. Do you really

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<v Speaker 1>know who Tupac is? And you think that guy's tu

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<v Speaker 1>fuck and biggie they are. These are diametrically opposed on

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<v Speaker 1>many levels. But I bet you're seeing it as the

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<v Speaker 1>same person who's going into a subway. Well, they would

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<v Speaker 1>do these live streams where they would say, like, didn't

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<v Speaker 1>y'all see that dead rapper? Like they wouldn't know any names,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and they kind of have this game and

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<v Speaker 1>telephone to figure it out. I'm not going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a conspiracist or anything like that, but I just watched

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<v Speaker 1>the movie last week with Robin Williams in it. It

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<v Speaker 1>was called Man of Man of the Year. And guess

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<v Speaker 1>what they had election fraud back then? The machines that

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<v Speaker 1>are switching to doing electronically and they were counting wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>Because this is a documentary, No, it's just a movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Are there any lessons we can take from Morcan mindy? No,

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<v Speaker 1>it should be pointed out they've they pointed to people

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<v Speaker 1>specifically JFK Jr. As there's been a man who's gone

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<v Speaker 1>to multiple rallies stands behind Donald Trump, and that's JFK Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>I went to see pack and I saw him there

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<v Speaker 1>as well, and he's taken selfies because he's also JFK Junior.

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<v Speaker 1>So some people aren't just abstract apparitions. They are actually

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<v Speaker 1>humans that they point to and say, you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>is who you are. Yeah, I'm actually I was just

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<v Speaker 1>texting with him. So, so his name is is Vincent

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<v Speaker 1>Fuska and he is this like Trump super fan. In

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<v Speaker 1>the lead up to in the election, he had this

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<v Speaker 1>van kind of festooned with Trump paraphernalia, and so he

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<v Speaker 1>kind of ends up becoming because he's a big Trump fan.

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<v Speaker 1>He's behind him at a lot of rallies when the

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<v Speaker 1>JFK Junior stuff starts happening. And this guy, I should say,

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<v Speaker 1>looks nothing like JFK Jr. He dresses, uh, he wears

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<v Speaker 1>like a big fedora. He's very scruffy guy. He wears

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<v Speaker 1>like like a big suit coat. And so, to be clear,

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<v Speaker 1>JFK Jr. Was a stylish man, and yeah, it could

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<v Speaker 1>only be assumed that that style mixed with privilege and

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<v Speaker 1>wealth would have led him into the modern era. Not

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<v Speaker 1>choosing to wear a fedora. Yes, yes, thank you. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe in the nineties, you know, but but now no,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think so. And so yeah, earlier, early swing day,

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<v Speaker 1>big big bad voodoo Daddy would have had a fedor up.

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<v Speaker 1>There would have been a lot of college kids who

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to look like JFK Junior who could pull off

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<v Speaker 1>a a door off. But modern JFK Jor No, no

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<v Speaker 1>freaking way, no way. And so so he's standing behind

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<v Speaker 1>Trump and when the JFK Junior stuff starts happening, people go, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>my gosh, I think that's JFK Jr. Behind Trump. And

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<v Speaker 1>then there was like a blonde woman nearby and they said,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's JFK Junior's wife, and so they I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>they kind of get going. But the wild thing to

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<v Speaker 1>me about it is this guy doesn't come out and say, hey, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not JFK Junior'll leave me alone. He goes, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>who's to say. And so I've seen this guy maybe

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<v Speaker 1>seven or eight times, and he'll be out a rally

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<v Speaker 1>or something and people go, oh, j K Jr. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we want pictures. And then I say to him, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>you want to tell me about how everyone thinks you're

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<v Speaker 1>jfk Jr. Obviously not, and he goes, oh, I'd love

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<v Speaker 1>to talk to you later, how about in an hour

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<v Speaker 1>let me catch I'm just so busy today, but I'm

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<v Speaker 1>in town. You know you have my number. Let's talk later.

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously never gets back to me. I talked to this

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<v Speaker 1>one woman who was like, oh, posing for all these

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<v Speaker 1>selfies with him, and I said, you know that's not

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<v Speaker 1>jfk Jr. Right, And she's like, haven't you ever heard

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<v Speaker 1>of Hollywood? Haven't you heard visual effects? Haven't ever of Medeia.

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<v Speaker 1>You know it's you know they I mean, they're really

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<v Speaker 1>deep in Tyler Perry as evidence. It's a it's a

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<v Speaker 1>smart move. And I give Vincent props. I tell you,

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<v Speaker 1>if somebody stops me on the street and says, Joel McHale,

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<v Speaker 1>I love you in community, I don't correct him. Nope,

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<v Speaker 1>that's let them think that. Let them live their own reality.

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<v Speaker 1>As Americans, we have every right to live our own reality.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's in the Constitution somewhere somewhere deep. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>there's there's a dark side to some of this, because

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<v Speaker 1>I will say what. I talked to the woman who

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<v Speaker 1>was into Jamatrium, and she was a part of this

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<v Speaker 1>Negative forty eight group. They show up in Dallas, they

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<v Speaker 1>wait in Dallas for JFK Jr. To arrive, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they stay there for months and months on and and

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<v Speaker 1>their stories of families who are losing loved ones to

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<v Speaker 1>this conspiracy mindset, and people are sending money to these

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<v Speaker 1>The leader pratsman I believe, Um, Like, what are some

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<v Speaker 1>of the dark sides of believing in these weird fantasies? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm mean, so you know, Q and I have talked

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<v Speaker 1>to so many people who have lost family and friends

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<v Speaker 1>to Q NON And when you talk about something as

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<v Speaker 1>extreme as Negative forty eight to sort of that faction,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean you're talking about people who have essentially given

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<v Speaker 1>up their lives at this point. I mean, it's like

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<v Speaker 1>they've joined kind of like a traveling commune or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, they're saying in this hotel room

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<v Speaker 1>for months at a time, which is not cheap. They're

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<v Speaker 1>kind of pooling all their funds. At one point, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>there were a bunch of like little toddlers, little kids involved,

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<v Speaker 1>which you know, it's not great for them to be

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<v Speaker 1>roaming around looking for tupac or whatever. Um and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to one guy who whose wife had He

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<v Speaker 1>thought he had a you know, totally fine, normal marriage,

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<v Speaker 1>and then she just says, oh, yeah, I'm gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>to this Trump rally. Well, as it turned out, she

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<v Speaker 1>was going to join negative forty eight and then just vanishes.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know it is he's seeing her in these

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<v Speaker 1>videos and stuff, and he's like, what is happening in

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<v Speaker 1>my family? There's no evidence she's ever coming back, you know,

0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.520
<v Speaker 1>all this kind of stuff. I mean, it is really

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<v Speaker 1>really grim stuff. This is a poor guy. You just

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<v Speaker 1>you see about homing like my wife she left me

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<v Speaker 1>for k Jr. It's I get. It's what a successful

0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.919
<v Speaker 1>man and he's in through a lot. You know, he's died,

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<v Speaker 1>he's come back. Um, he's living at this man Vincent.

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<v Speaker 1>He's trying to pull off Fedoras in modern times. It's

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<v Speaker 1>it's difficult. It's a bold decision. Yeah, Patty's found love,

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<v Speaker 1>but she's left me alone. We're gonna pause it right there,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll be right back. Welcome back to Jordan's Clapper Fingers.

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<v Speaker 1>The conspiracy. I want to bring in Professor Joe Uzinski,

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<v Speaker 1>political scientists and conspiracy theory expert at the University of

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<v Speaker 1>Miami who followed the JFK Junior gathering in Dallas. Joe, welcome,

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for having me. So, Joe, we got Will summer here.

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<v Speaker 1>We've been going down this JFK JR wormhole, rabbit hole, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever hole you want to call it, we're in it. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>You've you've looked at what's happening and what continues to

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<v Speaker 1>happen in Dallas. Uh. From your perspective, what's going on

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<v Speaker 1>down there? So you have people that probably have a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of psychological issues. Maybe they're pro own to delusions,

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<v Speaker 1>they're prone to believing things in spite of evidence, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's what got them to this point. And this is fanciful.

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<v Speaker 1>It's fun for them. They're probably enjoying it. But it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't shock me to hear the things that Will is

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<v Speaker 1>talking about. I mean, there are families, and I get

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<v Speaker 1>emails from these families once in a while, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the sun disappeared, or you know one family member you

0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:27.800
<v Speaker 1>know got into a conspiracy theory. Now they can't even

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<v Speaker 1>talk to the person. And there isn't much I can

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<v Speaker 1>say to these families other than I'm not that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of doctor. I mean, there's nothing I can do for

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<v Speaker 1>this sort of stuff, and I sympathize and empathize with them,

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<v Speaker 1>but um, there isn't much you can do. What makes

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<v Speaker 1>people predisposed to believe conspiracy theories in the first place?

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<v Speaker 1>Why why did they go and seek them out? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the answer is going to be a little bit unsatisfying,

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<v Speaker 1>but this is where we are, and that is that

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<v Speaker 1>some people, more than others, have a worldview in which,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they over to the window when they wake

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<v Speaker 1>up in the morning, they look out and they see

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<v Speaker 1>stuff and they say, oh, that must be caused by

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<v Speaker 1>a conspiracy, you know, being driven by people who I

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<v Speaker 1>already don't like. And the question becomes, well, where does

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<v Speaker 1>that come from? And the answer is, we don't know yet.

0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:18.160
<v Speaker 1>We just know that it exists, and we know that, Um,

0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.440
<v Speaker 1>some people are just really prone to it. So it's

0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.399
<v Speaker 1>not the beliefs themselves, it's not the ideas. It's that

0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.040
<v Speaker 1>it's people that have a very thick set of lenses.

0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:30.240
<v Speaker 1>So when they come into contact with these ideas, it's

0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.760
<v Speaker 1>just easy for them to say, yeah, that must be true.

0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.680
<v Speaker 1>You know, America, it's not a new thing to believe

0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:38.880
<v Speaker 1>in conspiracy theories. It's not a new thing to have,

0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.640
<v Speaker 1>perhaps a warped sense of reality. We are the country

0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.000
<v Speaker 1>that gave you the Salem Witch Trials, were always looking

0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.600
<v Speaker 1>for weird ways of which to perceive what's happening around us. Um,

0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:53.720
<v Speaker 1>how serious is the situation we're living in now? Is

0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:57.040
<v Speaker 1>this is this an aberration? Is this is this something

0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:00.119
<v Speaker 1>that social media has one created or two is just

0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.080
<v Speaker 1>reflecting what's already been happening out there, and we're blown

0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:08.560
<v Speaker 1>it into Uh, we're it's it's overblown our perspective on it. Yeah,

0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, I mean look, as you said, I mean,

0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.600
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories have been with us throughout American history, as

0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:15.239
<v Speaker 1>going back to the witch Trials. I mean, there's really

0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.560
<v Speaker 1>rich history of it's sort of each kind of big

0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:20.120
<v Speaker 1>pivot moment in the United States of a conspiracy theory

0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.960
<v Speaker 1>is really abounding. Um. At the same time, I think

0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.880
<v Speaker 1>what's unique about the moment we're in is number one, Uh,

0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.119
<v Speaker 1>social media, as you mentioned, which I think helps people

0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.520
<v Speaker 1>with this kind of conspiratorial mindset connect with one another.

0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:33.879
<v Speaker 1>The way I think of it is, if you think

0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:36.480
<v Speaker 1>of like the Kennedy assassination, in order to find some

0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.199
<v Speaker 1>like minded people, you would have to maybe print a zine,

0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.080
<v Speaker 1>send letters, go to a convention, stuff like that, and

0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:43.879
<v Speaker 1>then everyone on your block would be saying like if

0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.359
<v Speaker 1>you're a nut or whatever. Um. Whereas now these people

0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.119
<v Speaker 1>can just go online and and find like minded people,

0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.560
<v Speaker 1>reinforce their beliefs, and find new recruits really really easily. Uh.

0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:55.160
<v Speaker 1>The other thing I would say is we've at least

0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:56.800
<v Speaker 1>I think, in modern history, we haven't seen this kind

0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.119
<v Speaker 1>of conspiratorial thinking embraced by so many politicians, to the

0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:01.919
<v Speaker 1>point where we have members of Congress who believe in

0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:04.320
<v Speaker 1>Q and on and have supported it. Recently, Donald Trump

0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.280
<v Speaker 1>is posting really explicit pro q and on videos. So

0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.240
<v Speaker 1>in that way, I think it really helps mainstream these

0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:11.639
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories in a way that we haven't had before.

0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.159
<v Speaker 1>I love thinking that in the old days, you at

0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:18.600
<v Speaker 1>least had to learn how to produce a zine, Like

0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.680
<v Speaker 1>there's something to the stereotype of like, well you had

0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.040
<v Speaker 1>to cut out letters and you actually had to build

0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:26.920
<v Speaker 1>a board and connect it with straightly here and there,

0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.119
<v Speaker 1>And it's like no, literally, there's a certain buy in

0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.520
<v Speaker 1>that that buys you. Now you can do that's all online.

0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.600
<v Speaker 1>You don't even have to go to hobby lobby to

0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:35.679
<v Speaker 1>buy the ship. You can do it on the internet,

0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:39.240
<v Speaker 1>the buy and it's so low. Uh, Joe, I wonder

0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.560
<v Speaker 1>where do you see the threat level of something like this.

0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:45.400
<v Speaker 1>It's it's it's with politicians. So to me, I don't

0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:49.359
<v Speaker 1>think people have changed all that much over time. If anything,

0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.200
<v Speaker 1>we're believing conspiracy theories as much as we did ten

0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:57.680
<v Speaker 1>twenty thirty years ago. Um, what's different now is not

0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:01.520
<v Speaker 1>just Trump, but particularly Trump and other people who want

0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.560
<v Speaker 1>to do what Trump has done. So when you have

0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:09.600
<v Speaker 1>people who can act on conspiracy theories with a monopoly

0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:13.040
<v Speaker 1>of authoritative force, when you have people who already have

0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:18.680
<v Speaker 1>large audiences because they're politicians, transmitting these things, Um, that's

0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:20.240
<v Speaker 1>going to reach a lot of people, and it's going

0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.399
<v Speaker 1>to influence a lot of people. Like any of us

0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:26.159
<v Speaker 1>could go on to social media and spurred out whatever

0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:28.680
<v Speaker 1>stupid conspiracy theory we want. Doesn't mean anyone's going to

0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.359
<v Speaker 1>pay attention, right, It doesn't mean anyone's gonna care or

0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.840
<v Speaker 1>even look at it. But if Trump does it, that's

0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:40.000
<v Speaker 1>a very different ballgame, right, And when you have people

0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:44.960
<v Speaker 1>who have political power engaging in this, that's incredibly dangerous.

0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:48.640
<v Speaker 1>And if you look back through history the times where

0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.600
<v Speaker 1>we have, you know, the worst episodes of conspiracy theorizing,

0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.199
<v Speaker 1>it's usually because of politicians getting involved in acting on

0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:00.400
<v Speaker 1>it in some way. Is it possible to put these

0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:02.600
<v Speaker 1>ideas back in the box? Can you roll this back?

0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:05.800
<v Speaker 1>You know, I recently was out talking to people about

0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:09.320
<v Speaker 1>the election and election deniers, and so much is based

0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:11.520
<v Speaker 1>on this idea of as soon as you have doubt

0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:14.080
<v Speaker 1>and you see it through a lens of doubt and

0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.760
<v Speaker 1>mistrust everywhere, it almost doesn't matter what's going to happen

0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:20.120
<v Speaker 1>in the next election, you're going to see it. It's

0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:23.280
<v Speaker 1>going to be there. Are we already hardwired these brains

0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:27.120
<v Speaker 1>to see and distrust so many things that there will

0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:29.679
<v Speaker 1>not be a turning back that even though somebody like

0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:32.760
<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump might wield so much power and be able

0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:34.560
<v Speaker 1>to direct it in certain ways, that we've sort of

0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:38.000
<v Speaker 1>already infected a generation with this mindset. Well, there's already

0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:41.240
<v Speaker 1>people who who think that no matter what, right after

0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:45.200
<v Speaker 1>any election, there's about you know, of the country who

0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:49.639
<v Speaker 1>think it was rigged why because they lost? Right? So

0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:53.159
<v Speaker 1>as in politics is and sports, who complains after the

0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:56.800
<v Speaker 1>football game? Now it's the losing team, right, So that's

0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:01.280
<v Speaker 1>sort of normal after every election. What's abnormal right now

0:27:01.440 --> 0:27:05.000
<v Speaker 1>is that you have the losing candidates saying it was rigged.

0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:06.960
<v Speaker 1>I was cheated, and going on and on and on

0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:09.959
<v Speaker 1>about it and pulling in the whole of the conservative

0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:14.679
<v Speaker 1>media and lots of allies in Congress. So now you

0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:17.679
<v Speaker 1>have sort of a full court press of people saying

0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.480
<v Speaker 1>it's rigged, it's rigged, it's rigged. So that's why you

0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:26.520
<v Speaker 1>have between sixty and of Republicans saying was rigged against them,

0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.560
<v Speaker 1>rather than the normal that might have otherwise said it

0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:34.439
<v Speaker 1>was rigged just for the fact that they lost. How

0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:37.240
<v Speaker 1>close are we to having six year and eight of

0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:41.639
<v Speaker 1>the GOP believe JFK Jr. Is coming back? Is that

0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.040
<v Speaker 1>is that weeks or months away? I think that would

0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:45.840
<v Speaker 1>be a tougher one to pull off. I mean, Trump

0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:47.800
<v Speaker 1>has a lot of influence, so if he got behind

0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:51.240
<v Speaker 1>a conspiracy theory repeatedly for a long period of time,

0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:54.040
<v Speaker 1>he could make people buy in. And if it's something

0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:57.320
<v Speaker 1>like election fraud, he can pull that off because those

0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.399
<v Speaker 1>ideas are always around. But sometimes you'll come out with

0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:03.080
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories that just don't influence anyone. I mean I'm

0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:07.080
<v Speaker 1>not aware of a lot of Ted Cruz, Dad Kill JFK.

0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:11.280
<v Speaker 1>Truther's out there, even though he pushed that, you know,

0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.000
<v Speaker 1>six or seven years ago. I mean, it just didn't

0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:16.879
<v Speaker 1>take off. But I think if you go after ideas

0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:19.840
<v Speaker 1>that people are sort of already inclined towards, I mean,

0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.040
<v Speaker 1>he can do a lot of damage that way. Yeah,

0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:25.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think we are all inclined to the

0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:29.119
<v Speaker 1>idea of wanting Aaliyah to be back in our lives again.

0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:32.679
<v Speaker 1>We want another classic album, we want that redemption. I

0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:35.359
<v Speaker 1>think that's on the cosp if if he if he

0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:37.479
<v Speaker 1>even nudges us in that direction, I think we all

0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:39.920
<v Speaker 1>buy tickets immediately to the next concert, whether or not

0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:41.880
<v Speaker 1>she appears or not. I mean, we think that Q

0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:44.400
<v Speaker 1>and on stuff is wacky and crazy and where do

0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:46.560
<v Speaker 1>people come up with these ideas? But I mean we

0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:49.360
<v Speaker 1>lived through the eighties. I mean there was massive Satanic

0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:53.280
<v Speaker 1>panics during that time. Satan was everywhere, and even Oliver

0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:57.600
<v Speaker 1>Stone's JFK movie, which was you know, a popular movie

0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:02.160
<v Speaker 1>was about the pedophile deep going after the President the

0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:05.760
<v Speaker 1>United States. I mean Joe Pesci played the defrac pedophile priest.

0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.400
<v Speaker 1>So even the basic idea behind Q and on is

0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:12.480
<v Speaker 1>not new. I mean, all of this stuff is recycled

0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:16.040
<v Speaker 1>and rehashed, and it's largely the same people believing the

0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:19.040
<v Speaker 1>same stuff. Sort of a choose your own adventure mad

0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:21.760
<v Speaker 1>lib book that they're that that they're just replaying over

0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.800
<v Speaker 1>and over again. I think Q and on has a

0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:26.000
<v Speaker 1>political valance to it as well. Do you look at

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:27.840
<v Speaker 1>the pictures in January six, the people all the people

0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:29.880
<v Speaker 1>who were there who were convinced that this was going

0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:31.680
<v Speaker 1>to be kind of this big, like kind of fascist

0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:36.040
<v Speaker 1>moment where the dreams were gonna come true. Um, and certainly,

0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:39.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think it's unique in that it has

0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:42.719
<v Speaker 1>achieved such mainstream prevalence within the Republican Party. I mean,

0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:45.800
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about election denial stuff like that. And in

0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:47.040
<v Speaker 1>many ways, I think Q and on is kind of

0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:48.680
<v Speaker 1>an easy thing to talk about because you can kind

0:29:48.680 --> 0:29:51.040
<v Speaker 1>of get a handle on it. It's people holding cues

0:29:51.040 --> 0:29:53.120
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that. But a lot of these ideas

0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.000
<v Speaker 1>that are core to Q and on have become are

0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:58.200
<v Speaker 1>kind of swirling around the GOP and I've become much

0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.680
<v Speaker 1>more successful without the Q label attached. So we think about,

0:30:01.680 --> 0:30:04.560
<v Speaker 1>for example, this idea that you know, talking about gay

0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:07.120
<v Speaker 1>people existing in a school is part of a pedophile

0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.600
<v Speaker 1>groomer plot. And so we can see these things really

0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:12.480
<v Speaker 1>being weaponized into policy in a uh, you know, I

0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:15.840
<v Speaker 1>think a really ominous way. I want to talk about

0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.920
<v Speaker 1>how this is covered. What you know, obviously there are

0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:21.320
<v Speaker 1>elements of conspiracy theories that belong in the news that

0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:25.440
<v Speaker 1>become news. Um. What think the role of roles should

0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:28.080
<v Speaker 1>be for journalists and coming some of these fringe beliefs?

0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:32.000
<v Speaker 1>Is it giving too much air uh to to to

0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:35.680
<v Speaker 1>follow some of these JFK JR ideas uh and and

0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:37.600
<v Speaker 1>put them up on a pedestal so people can see

0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:40.040
<v Speaker 1>those ideas and have that air out or or what

0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:42.800
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about right now? Because this is affecting our culture,

0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:45.600
<v Speaker 1>do they need to be more vigilant and bring this

0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:47.760
<v Speaker 1>to the forefront so we can engage with them, we

0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 1>can knock them down or at least be aware that

0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:51.840
<v Speaker 1>they're out there. Sure, I mean, I think it's a

0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:54.600
<v Speaker 1>complicated one for me. You know, you certainly don't want

0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:56.720
<v Speaker 1>to just go find a couple of nuts online and

0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.239
<v Speaker 1>say like, oh, yeah, these guys are so crazy. For me,

0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:01.480
<v Speaker 1>it's when it starts crossing over into the real world.

0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, we've had q and On believers murdering people.

0:31:03.840 --> 0:31:05.360
<v Speaker 1>We had a q and On guy murder his wife

0:31:05.640 --> 0:31:08.680
<v Speaker 1>in q and On guy shut down a bridge near

0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:10.280
<v Speaker 1>the Hoover Damn. He had a bunch of guns. That

0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:11.720
<v Speaker 1>was at the point where I was like, this is

0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:14.240
<v Speaker 1>not just an online thing anymore. This is something where

0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:16.400
<v Speaker 1>I have to trust my readers enough, both as an

0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:19.960
<v Speaker 1>audience and as you know, citizens, that they deserve to

0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:21.600
<v Speaker 1>know what's going on in the world. And you know,

0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:23.840
<v Speaker 1>I do think that idea of amplication is a relevant one.

0:31:24.040 --> 0:31:25.640
<v Speaker 1>But at the point where you have Donald Trump saying

0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:27.560
<v Speaker 1>like check out this que stuff, you know, I I

0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:29.480
<v Speaker 1>think the cow is out of the barn. And I

0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:31.760
<v Speaker 1>would add, in the case of JFK JR, I mean

0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:34.160
<v Speaker 1>one of these maybe he's kind of the evil JFK

0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:37.719
<v Speaker 1>Junior impersonator. There's another guy who's put together a coalition

0:31:38.000 --> 0:31:40.840
<v Speaker 1>that is going that has people running to control elections

0:31:40.840 --> 0:31:43.640
<v Speaker 1>in battleground states. Who's the JFK Junior impersonator. They're the

0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:46.080
<v Speaker 1>Republican nominee. So really, I mean this is stuff that

0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:49.360
<v Speaker 1>is going to have really, I think, really concrete impact

0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:52.280
<v Speaker 1>on our lives. Unfortunately, that was one of the details

0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:55.320
<v Speaker 1>when I talked to the Jamatria woman. You know what,

0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:58.360
<v Speaker 1>what the talk of the rally at that point was

0:31:58.400 --> 0:31:59.960
<v Speaker 1>not that this was just a person who believed the

0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:01.920
<v Speaker 1>wild thing, but there was a person who was in

0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:06.280
<v Speaker 1>Dallas who had a strong following in places like telegram Um,

0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:08.680
<v Speaker 1>and the talk was that they had a relationship with

0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:10.680
<v Speaker 1>the Trump campaign, that a lot of these people from

0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:14.800
<v Speaker 1>Negative forty eight were also uh setting up chairs, uh

0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:17.080
<v Speaker 1>and in you know, the fact that they would show

0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:18.680
<v Speaker 1>up and try to help the campaign get set up

0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:21.080
<v Speaker 1>at the rallies, they would get certain v I P passes.

0:32:21.320 --> 0:32:23.080
<v Speaker 1>And this is not just a fringe thing that exists

0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:25.600
<v Speaker 1>outside some of the campaigns in some ways that also

0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:29.320
<v Speaker 1>working and coordinating within them. It's it's becoming folded into it.

0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:31.320
<v Speaker 1>There is sort of this tension with the Trump campaign

0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.520
<v Speaker 1>where they seem to see these people as what they are,

0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:36.120
<v Speaker 1>which is huge Trump super fans, and Trump is kind

0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.560
<v Speaker 1>of constantly signaling to Q and on believers, but at

0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:40.400
<v Speaker 1>the same time they don't want the average person to

0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:42.440
<v Speaker 1>see a bunch of Q stuff at the rallies. So

0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:44.400
<v Speaker 1>we see the Negative forty eight people doing the Q

0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:46.240
<v Speaker 1>and on symbols and stuff at the rallies, and they're

0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:48.400
<v Speaker 1>being told, you know, don't do that, what have you.

0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.480
<v Speaker 1>But there's kind of this pull, this back and forth,

0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:54.480
<v Speaker 1>and Trump doesn't understand that it's so complicated, it's it's

0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:58.360
<v Speaker 1>so above him. There was some Onion headline that I

0:32:58.360 --> 0:33:01.960
<v Speaker 1>think nailed it that was essentially Trump half asking his

0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.560
<v Speaker 1>support of c and like, yeah, I guess the Democrats

0:33:05.560 --> 0:33:07.280
<v Speaker 1>eat babies or whatever the hell it is. You guys

0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 1>think like you can you can feel in like I

0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.960
<v Speaker 1>if this makes you like me more sure, But I

0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:15.040
<v Speaker 1>can't even begin to wrap my head around what you

0:33:15.040 --> 0:33:18.640
<v Speaker 1>guys think is going on. Joe, I wonder what you

0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 1>think the proper response from the media would be in

0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.400
<v Speaker 1>covering these types of stories. That's a really tough question.

0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.280
<v Speaker 1>I I'll tell you what. I started studying the topic

0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.440
<v Speaker 1>about fifteen years ago. There was barely any coverage of

0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:34.840
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories in the mainstream news. So I started a

0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:38.240
<v Speaker 1>Google alert back then, so every night I would get

0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:41.320
<v Speaker 1>all the articles that had the term conspiracy theory in it,

0:33:42.000 --> 0:33:44.080
<v Speaker 1>And back then I was getting four or five articles

0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.320
<v Speaker 1>a day and none on the weekends, and at the

0:33:47.360 --> 0:33:50.160
<v Speaker 1>end of that had jumped to a hundred a day

0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:54.480
<v Speaker 1>every day, and just just this is anecdotal, but just

0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:56.760
<v Speaker 1>for myself, I think I took close to three hundred

0:33:56.760 --> 0:34:01.440
<v Speaker 1>interviews in alone, so most every journalist was calling me

0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:02.760
<v Speaker 1>when they were writing about it, and they were all

0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:06.360
<v Speaker 1>writing it about it quite a bit. And then I

0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:09.360
<v Speaker 1>think what happened shortly after is that a lot of

0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:13.840
<v Speaker 1>major news outlets started getting their own misinformation conspiracy theory

0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:18.360
<v Speaker 1>social media newsdesk, so they now have dedicated reporters just

0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:21.960
<v Speaker 1>just covering this topic. So it's going to continue to

0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:25.560
<v Speaker 1>get a lot of attention. I don't know, you know,

0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:29.480
<v Speaker 1>what the what the effect of the coverage is. I mean,

0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:33.120
<v Speaker 1>I think that some things went wrong in I think

0:34:33.120 --> 0:34:35.239
<v Speaker 1>there were a lot of journalists that had sort of

0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:39.400
<v Speaker 1>a panic over conspiracy theories and misinformation, and the headlines

0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:41.759
<v Speaker 1>sort of gotten to their own echo chamber. Was like

0:34:42.239 --> 0:34:44.600
<v Speaker 1>Q was taking over the world and it's the biggest

0:34:44.640 --> 0:34:47.520
<v Speaker 1>thing ever. And you know, as I was pulling on it,

0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:51.120
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I'm just not getting these these massive numbers.

0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:54.399
<v Speaker 1>It's there, it exists, and they have a presence online. Um.

0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:56.040
<v Speaker 1>But I think Will was one of the few people

0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.880
<v Speaker 1>who was in journalism who was saying, you know, maybe

0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:01.960
<v Speaker 1>it's not as big as of the fantastic headlines are

0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:05.799
<v Speaker 1>saying it is. So I think in some ways, you know,

0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:09.560
<v Speaker 1>some of the sensationalistic report and got ahead of itself.

0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:14.720
<v Speaker 1>We'll be right back. Will give us a little perspective.

0:35:14.760 --> 0:35:16.239
<v Speaker 1>You're not only on the que and on movement as

0:35:16.239 --> 0:35:18.480
<v Speaker 1>to where it is now, but even looking at something

0:35:18.520 --> 0:35:21.560
<v Speaker 1>like this JFK JR theory, the negative forty eight group,

0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, how big is it actually and how much

0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:27.640
<v Speaker 1>of an effect doesn't have on the conversation. Yeah. Sure,

0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:29.880
<v Speaker 1>So I've actually got I've got some polls right in

0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:34.560
<v Speaker 1>front of me for for just this moment um. So yeah, okay,

0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:36.399
<v Speaker 1>So and now these polls are a little out of date,

0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:38.840
<v Speaker 1>and and Joe does some great polling on this, and

0:35:38.880 --> 0:35:41.239
<v Speaker 1>I think he has newer numbers. So, but the difficulty

0:35:41.320 --> 0:35:44.480
<v Speaker 1>of nailing down Q and on belief is there's a

0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:46.120
<v Speaker 1>couple of things. Number One, A lot of times people

0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.040
<v Speaker 1>are gonna say they may believe some of the tenets

0:35:48.080 --> 0:35:50.600
<v Speaker 1>of it, but they're not like on the forum saying

0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:52.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, where we go and we go all stuff

0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.440
<v Speaker 1>like that. At the same time, we have to realize

0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:57.680
<v Speaker 1>that at the end of Cute basically told the fans

0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:00.680
<v Speaker 1>the brand had become too damaged into stopped to saying

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.200
<v Speaker 1>Q Q Q and just to sort of use the

0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:05.400
<v Speaker 1>talking points. And so there is gonna be an amount

0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:07.400
<v Speaker 1>I think of people who are kind of downplaying it.

0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:11.120
<v Speaker 1>There's a March five thousand people that's found that fifteen

0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:14.520
<v Speaker 1>percent of them believe Statana Satan worshiping pedophiles run a

0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:18.560
<v Speaker 1>global child sex operation. We got two thousand people in

0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:23.360
<v Speaker 1>January one that found fifteen percent believe that Trump was

0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:25.360
<v Speaker 1>at war with these Hollywood pedophiles. And now when you

0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:26.960
<v Speaker 1>started asking about Q and on the numbers get a

0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:30.600
<v Speaker 1>little lower. You're talking to think three to seven percent. Still,

0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:33.239
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about millions of people. That's more popular in

0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:37.239
<v Speaker 1>some religions in the United States. So you know, don't

0:36:37.320 --> 0:36:39.960
<v Speaker 1>ship on the Quakers. You gotta ship on the Quakers.

0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:41.759
<v Speaker 1>I know what you're getting at there. I can read

0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:44.720
<v Speaker 1>between the lines. They're a good, peaceful group of people.

0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:48.040
<v Speaker 1>Stop shifting on the Quakers. Don't come on my podcast

0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:51.880
<v Speaker 1>and make all this anti Quaker attacks. I know they

0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:54.640
<v Speaker 1>had a hard time getting people into the whatever they

0:36:54.680 --> 0:36:57.120
<v Speaker 1>call it community room. But they're working hard on this,

0:36:57.239 --> 0:37:00.359
<v Speaker 1>Okay exactly, retinue believe the Quakers out of a mouth

0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:02.520
<v Speaker 1>just getting wrecked by Q and on here. Yeah, they're

0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:05.560
<v Speaker 1>they're getting blown out. So so yeah, when we start

0:37:05.600 --> 0:37:07.000
<v Speaker 1>talking about that at the same time, I mean the

0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:09.399
<v Speaker 1>JFK JR people are kind of a faction of that.

0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:12.560
<v Speaker 1>And then we get down to the negative forty eight group,

0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:14.400
<v Speaker 1>which is smaller than that, So I would say negative

0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:16.640
<v Speaker 1>forty eight. I think UM has tens of thousands of

0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.480
<v Speaker 1>Telegram subscribers. I think when we think about hardcore fans,

0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:23.759
<v Speaker 1>we're probably talking a couple of thousands. Mhm uh. It's

0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:26.560
<v Speaker 1>actually interesting to see, Joe, where do you see? They're

0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:29.440
<v Speaker 1>the hardcore fans, the people who show up at the

0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:32.200
<v Speaker 1>events who are posting most of that information. But there's

0:37:32.239 --> 0:37:34.920
<v Speaker 1>that secondary element too of when it just becomes a brand.

0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:36.520
<v Speaker 1>I go to some of these events and I see

0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:41.920
<v Speaker 1>people wearing cue paraphernalia, queues back and there's cute ship everywhere. Yes,

0:37:42.200 --> 0:37:45.680
<v Speaker 1>the online conspiracy following a mysterious character known as Q

0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:49.000
<v Speaker 1>was more popular than ever. Is that a cue? Yeah?

0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:52.960
<v Speaker 1>Are you a cute supporter CTA? Some people I taught

0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:55.040
<v Speaker 1>you the way that just because they understand that it's

0:37:55.040 --> 0:37:57.520
<v Speaker 1>a it's trolling behavior, that it's a brand that they

0:37:57.520 --> 0:37:59.720
<v Speaker 1>can put on their body, it's gonna piss off the media.

0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:01.799
<v Speaker 1>It's good to get attention from the people they want

0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:04.040
<v Speaker 1>to get attention with. And they may not even know

0:38:04.239 --> 0:38:07.200
<v Speaker 1>the tenets of what Q is, but they do know

0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:09.960
<v Speaker 1>that it's something that they support in theory because in

0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:13.800
<v Speaker 1>their mind the support is just trolling. Is that dangerous?

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.000
<v Speaker 1>Is that sort of a is it? Is it the

0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:18.440
<v Speaker 1>evolution of a conspiracy theory that when it just becomes

0:38:18.800 --> 0:38:22.359
<v Speaker 1>pepsi that we're we're in for a world to hurt?

0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:24.240
<v Speaker 1>Where do you see that? Well, we're sort of calling

0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:27.200
<v Speaker 1>everything Q and on now right, and and if you

0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:29.120
<v Speaker 1>go back to the idea that Q and on adopted

0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:31.520
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ideas that pre existed Q and on,

0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:37.640
<v Speaker 1>then it's not quite as disturbing. So between and more recently,

0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:40.200
<v Speaker 1>we're depending on how you asked the question. If you

0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:42.680
<v Speaker 1>if you're just doing direct questions, are you a believer

0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:45.960
<v Speaker 1>in Q and on? You follow Q and on? We're

0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:49.239
<v Speaker 1>getting between five and twelve percent, which makes it one

0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:52.839
<v Speaker 1>of the least believed and followed things that I pull on.

0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:54.960
<v Speaker 1>I mean to put that in perspective, and we just say,

0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.240
<v Speaker 1>do you think there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy

0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:01.200
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty three? We're getting between fifty and six.

0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:06.000
<v Speaker 1>So Q and On isn't isn't all that huge? But

0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 1>when will is exactly right when we ask on these

0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:13.520
<v Speaker 1>more general ideas, like our teachers grooming kids to become

0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:18.320
<v Speaker 1>trans Are there satanic cults doing massive Satanic rituals across

0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:22.719
<v Speaker 1>the country. Are elites running sex trafficking rings? Um, we're

0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 1>getting between twenty and thirty. Now, I wouldn't call those

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:32.360
<v Speaker 1>ideas Q ideas. I mean Q and On adopts them,

0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:34.560
<v Speaker 1>but they could have existed decades ago. And some of

0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:39.040
<v Speaker 1>those ideas sort of have their origin thousands of years ago. Um,

0:39:39.239 --> 0:39:42.080
<v Speaker 1>So they've been around, and I just don't want to

0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.520
<v Speaker 1>attribute them to Q because then it says like, oh,

0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:46.840
<v Speaker 1>this guy was able to convince thirty percent of the

0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:50.080
<v Speaker 1>country that elites are running sex trafficking rings, when in fact,

0:39:50.120 --> 0:39:53.919
<v Speaker 1>those ideas, you know, might have been around well before that.

0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:58.040
<v Speaker 1>It's just we weren't paying attention. You know, even back

0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:00.919
<v Speaker 1>during the Satanic Panic of the eighties, were very few

0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:04.200
<v Speaker 1>poles taken of how many people were buying in to

0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:06.759
<v Speaker 1>this idea of satanic cults running around And I've only

0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:10.920
<v Speaker 1>found one pole, and it was of Texas, so you

0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:12.960
<v Speaker 1>have to you have to keep that in mind. But

0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:14.799
<v Speaker 1>it was eight percent of people at the end of

0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:17.120
<v Speaker 1>the eighties thought that, you know, one of the major

0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:20.960
<v Speaker 1>problems in the country was satanic cults going around abusing people.

0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:23.719
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know how well that might have been

0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:27.399
<v Speaker 1>believed in you know, some other state um at the time.

0:40:27.440 --> 0:40:29.640
<v Speaker 1>But but right now we're trying to poll on all

0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:32.600
<v Speaker 1>these things, and it's just we don't have good comparisons

0:40:32.640 --> 0:40:35.160
<v Speaker 1>to the past. You know. One thing I would note

0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.960
<v Speaker 1>there is that there's something unique about Q and On

0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:40.480
<v Speaker 1>in comparison to some of these other conspiracy theories. If

0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:43.480
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about, uh, like the thing of the Kennedy

0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:46.520
<v Speaker 1>assassination was it was it was a conspiracy theory, or

0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:49.719
<v Speaker 1>the moon landing was fake. Well, there's kind of not

0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:52.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot you can personally do about it. In the

0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:54.759
<v Speaker 1>case of Q and On, there's kind of this there's

0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:56.759
<v Speaker 1>sort of a fascist utopia at the core of it,

0:40:57.160 --> 0:40:59.520
<v Speaker 1>and that there are places that we are going to

0:40:59.560 --> 0:41:02.520
<v Speaker 1>go tear arise these satanic pedophiles. So there is kind

0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:04.440
<v Speaker 1>of like a way that people can participate about in

0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:06.440
<v Speaker 1>it that I think it makes it more dangerous than

0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:09.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, believing that again the moon Laney was fake

0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:11.280
<v Speaker 1>or something like that. Yeah, I mean it's a game.

0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:14.640
<v Speaker 1>There's a group identity, right, So a lot of people

0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:18.440
<v Speaker 1>believe Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy, but they're not friends,

0:41:18.560 --> 0:41:20.520
<v Speaker 1>they don't consider themselves to be part of a group

0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.200
<v Speaker 1>or a movement write, but Q and on a lot

0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:26.120
<v Speaker 1>of those people do like they are doing something together.

0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:30.160
<v Speaker 1>They're following along, they're solving the clues, they're expecting an

0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:35.160
<v Speaker 1>outcome in a shared way. And that's something that most

0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:37.960
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories don't really have. And that's why Q and

0:41:38.040 --> 0:41:40.360
<v Speaker 1>on has always been very hard to define, right because

0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:43.560
<v Speaker 1>it's sort of cult ish but not really a cult.

0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:47.319
<v Speaker 1>It's a group but sort of decentralized. Um. It's got

0:41:47.360 --> 0:41:50.000
<v Speaker 1>a lot of conspiracy theories in it, so it's not

0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:54.040
<v Speaker 1>just a conspiracy theory, and it's got sort of activities

0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.799
<v Speaker 1>that people can do to sort of be a part

0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:59.640
<v Speaker 1>of it and play along that other conspiracy theories just

0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:03.120
<v Speaker 1>don't have. I do love thinking of it like activities.

0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:05.000
<v Speaker 1>It's like, we get to get together, we get to

0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:08.239
<v Speaker 1>solve white Tom Hanks is drinking baby blood. It's it's

0:42:08.239 --> 0:42:11.400
<v Speaker 1>like just a bunch of little Encyclopedia Browns running around America.

0:42:11.880 --> 0:42:13.400
<v Speaker 1>It's funny you say that. I mean, they had a

0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:15.560
<v Speaker 1>rally in d C and they said, you know, we're

0:42:15.560 --> 0:42:17.840
<v Speaker 1>gonna kind of go on this excursion if you're interested

0:42:17.880 --> 0:42:19.880
<v Speaker 1>to go protest a comment ping pong, So they have

0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:23.799
<v Speaker 1>the whole itineraries well before I let you go. Part

0:42:23.840 --> 0:42:26.239
<v Speaker 1>of the reason this podcast is one for me to

0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:27.879
<v Speaker 1>wrap my head around some of the stuff that I'm

0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:30.960
<v Speaker 1>seeing out there on the road. But to help me

0:42:31.520 --> 0:42:33.440
<v Speaker 1>what am I going to see out there on the

0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:37.280
<v Speaker 1>road a couple of months from now. One in regards

0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:41.400
<v Speaker 1>to the JFK Junior conspiracy? How does that morph? And too?

0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:43.920
<v Speaker 1>Am I gonna get a new Robin Williams movie out

0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:48.520
<v Speaker 1>of all this? Uh? Yeah, you know. I I think

0:42:48.560 --> 0:42:50.680
<v Speaker 1>the JFK Junior stuff is going to continue. I mean

0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:53.279
<v Speaker 1>I saw and in particular, I think if Trump keeps

0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:54.959
<v Speaker 1>engaging more with Q and On, I think we're gonna

0:42:55.000 --> 0:42:56.560
<v Speaker 1>see more people getting into Q and On and kind

0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:59.799
<v Speaker 1>of see some fresh energy behind that. Um. I once

0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:02.320
<v Speaker 1>went to the kind of the Trumpian July fourth event

0:43:02.719 --> 0:43:04.680
<v Speaker 1>and all these women at the Trump Hotel were wearing

0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:07.120
<v Speaker 1>like JFKG in your shirts and this lady had a

0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:08.960
<v Speaker 1>JFKG in your mask on her face and I said

0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:11.600
<v Speaker 1>to her, uh, you know what's that about? And she goes,

0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:14.200
<v Speaker 1>he's alive, and she kind of flipped flitters away. So

0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't think that energy is going anywhere. Um.

0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:18.920
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I think we get we get new

0:43:18.960 --> 0:43:21.160
<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theories all the time, and so I think, you know,

0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:23.279
<v Speaker 1>you got the big one. I I'm seeing a lot

0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:25.360
<v Speaker 1>of movement on this idea that the elites want to

0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:28.239
<v Speaker 1>meet make us all eat bugs. Jordan's so like you,

0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:29.440
<v Speaker 1>you might want to be on the lookout for that.

0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:30.920
<v Speaker 1>I think there's gonna be a lot of like what

0:43:30.960 --> 0:43:33.000
<v Speaker 1>they say is I will not eat the bugs. And

0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:35.160
<v Speaker 1>so I think you might get someone you know accosting

0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:37.319
<v Speaker 1>you about that. So so don't don't make them do it.

0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:40.920
<v Speaker 1>I hate this. I hate this job so much. Dear Lord,

0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:43.400
<v Speaker 1>dear Lord, Jordan, you might want to be on the lookout.

0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:46.359
<v Speaker 1>I guess there's this thing about elite trying to make

0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:54.600
<v Speaker 1>you eat bugs bugs? Is that what it is? Uh? Joe?

0:43:54.680 --> 0:43:57.040
<v Speaker 1>What do I have to look out for? H So

0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:59.520
<v Speaker 1>worse than that, I think the same reporter who was

0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:01.960
<v Speaker 1>writing a about the bug eating was also writing about

0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:06.600
<v Speaker 1>forced anal swabbing. It's not just about testing for COVID.

0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:10.000
<v Speaker 1>It's about humiliating you in public. So if you walk

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<v Speaker 1>down the street and they have like a government tent

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<v Speaker 1>set up where they're sticking people with Q tips up

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<v Speaker 1>the ass, that's gonna be Um, that's gonna be something

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<v Speaker 1>come true somebody's dark dream apparently. So this is how

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<v Speaker 1>I'm writing it down right now. I need to be

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<v Speaker 1>aware of bug ghazi and bum ghazi. There they're on

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<v Speaker 1>the horizon. Uh, thank you gentlemen. Well, well, Joe, thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for coming on the podcast. Um, I'm gonna go down

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<v Speaker 1>to a Trump rally and a few do you guys

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<v Speaker 1>want to come along? Is that it might be a

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<v Speaker 1>little intense for me, bear up, bear enough. We'll thank

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<v Speaker 1>you guys for joining me and helped me figure this conspiracy. Thanks,

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