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Speaker 1: Q and On is the world's largest online political conspiracy movement.

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Speaker 1: Followers believe someone code named Q is provided them with

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Speaker 1: secret information from inside the White House. No one really

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Speaker 1: knows the real identity of Q, though we aim to

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Speaker 1: change that. I'm Jake Hanrahan and this is Q Clearance

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Speaker 1: podcast series aimed unmasking the true identity of Q. This

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Speaker 1: is brought to you by I R Radio and Q

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Speaker 1: Data Media. In this episode, episode two, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: looking into the claim that Q and on is a

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Speaker 1: leftist prank on US Republicans. Also, in a minute, we'll

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Speaker 1: hear what Trump has had to say about Q and

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Speaker 1: on this week. So as the US presidential election is closer,

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Speaker 1: the two competing sides did their town hall events last week.

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Speaker 1: Both Biden and Trump were lightly grilled on various topics,

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Speaker 1: but hanging to their policies the election that finances all sorts.

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Speaker 1: Amongst many things that Trump was criticized for his town

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Speaker 1: hall event was his failure to disavow Q and On

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Speaker 1: when asked about it a few weeks back. If you

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Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about here, be sure to

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to episode one of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: So once again, the topic of Q came up, and

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Speaker 1: this is what happened when Trump was asked about thing

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Speaker 1: to denounce Q and On. It is this theory that

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Speaker 1: Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are

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Speaker 1: the savior of that. Now, can you just once and

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Speaker 1: for all state that that is completely not true about

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Speaker 1: Q and On in its entirety. I know nothing about

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Speaker 1: you and On. I just tried to know very little.

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Speaker 1: You told me, But what you tell me doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: make it fact. I hate to say that I know

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Speaker 1: nothing about it. I do know they are very much

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Speaker 1: get pedophilia. That okay, okay, yeah, you did hear that, right?

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Speaker 1: The president of the United States, the most powerful country

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Speaker 1: the Q and On conspiracy theory. So maybe the Q

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Speaker 1: and On theory is real after all. Now I'm joking,

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Speaker 1: of course, I don't think that. But Trump is feeding

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Speaker 1: into that idea with these theories every time he goes

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Speaker 1: on TV and refuses to speak out against them. For

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Speaker 1: the followers of Q and On, it's a big thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: Their ideas are being reaffirmed each time he does this. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: let's move on to talk about the main topic of

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Speaker 1: this episode, the idea that suggests Q and on is

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Speaker 1: a prank carried out by leftists meant to make us

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Speaker 1: Trump followers look stupid. It began inen when BuzzFeed really

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Speaker 1: than article with the catchy headline it's looking extremely likely

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Speaker 1: that Q and on is a leftist prank on Trump voters,

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Speaker 1: which they later changed to people think this whole q

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Speaker 1: remember when I first saw this article myself, and I

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Speaker 1: just thought not, surely not. But to be fair, as

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Speaker 1: I read the article, the coincidences within the piece were

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Speaker 1: quite striking at times. We'll go into those a little

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Speaker 1: bit more in a minute, but just bear in mind,

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Speaker 1: on paper, this isn't actually the far reaching theory that

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Speaker 1: it might sound like at first. And for those concerned

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Speaker 1: it acted almost as a bit of a comforter. They

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Speaker 1: all a big prank being played out against Trump boomers

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Speaker 1: faux relief. They could think that this increasingly powerful global

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Speaker 1: conspiracy network was all made up by the good guys

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Speaker 1: decide that they're more likely to agree with. But was

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Speaker 1: it someone who looked deeper into this leftist prank theory

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Speaker 1: is Matthew golt Goal is a journalist and a personal

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Speaker 1: the current affairs podcast Angry Plant. He's good at what

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Speaker 1: he does and he's never wont to be swayed by

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Speaker 1: So the origin of this idea that Q and on

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Speaker 1: So the basic, the very very basic thrust of this

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Speaker 1: how the politics board works. We've covered a lot of

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Speaker 1: And in this case it kind of worked. In regards

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Speaker 1: just that there is more to it. Random people just

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory I would say behind this conspiracy theory is

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Speaker 1: that in nine nine, Luther Blissett published a novel in Italy.

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Speaker 1: It's titled Q. It became a cult classic in Europe,

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Speaker 1: sixteenth century, and it's against this backdrop of societal upheaval

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Speaker 1: that follows the Reformation. Martin Martin, Martin Lutheran nails Martin

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Speaker 1: he's sending letters to radical leaders, spreading misinformation to so

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Speaker 1: coincidences or the clues come in. Think about this cue

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Speaker 1: Cure has told his followers many times that the Democrat

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Speaker 1: end quote. Satanic occultism is part of the central Q

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Speaker 1: I've seen the emails that Goal is speaking about there,

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Speaker 1: I've seen the communications, and every turn the Wooming Collective

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Speaker 1: This is what the Babylon be does, much like its

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Speaker 1: the original cue post came from. Q Clearance is brought

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Speaker 1: to you by I Heart Radio and Codatar Media. I'm

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