WEBVTT - Is QAnon a Leftist Prank?

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

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<v Speaker 1>Followers believe someone code named Q is provided them with

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<v Speaker 1>secret information from inside the White House. No one really

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<v Speaker 1>knows the real identity of Q, though we aim to

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<v Speaker 1>change that. I'm Jake Hanrahan and this is Q Clearance

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<v Speaker 1>podcast series aimed unmasking the true identity of Q. This

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<v Speaker 1>is brought to you by I R Radio and Q

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<v Speaker 1>Data Media. In this episode, episode two, we're gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>looking into the claim that Q and on is a

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

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<v Speaker 1>hear what Trump has had to say about Q and

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<v Speaker 1>on this week. So as the US presidential election is closer,

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<v Speaker 1>the two competing sides did their town hall events last week.

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<v Speaker 1>Both Biden and Trump were lightly grilled on various topics,

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<v Speaker 1>but hanging to their policies the election that finances all sorts.

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<v Speaker 1>Amongst many things that Trump was criticized for his town

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<v Speaker 1>hall event was his failure to disavow Q and On

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<v Speaker 1>when asked about it a few weeks back. If you

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

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<v Speaker 1>go back and listen to episode one of this podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>So once again, the topic of Q came up, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is what happened when Trump was asked about thing

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<v Speaker 1>to denounce Q and On. It is this theory that

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are

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<v Speaker 1>the savior of that. Now, can you just once and

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<v Speaker 1>for all state that that is completely not true about

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<v Speaker 1>Q and On in its entirety. I know nothing about

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<v Speaker 1>you and On. I just tried to know very little.

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<v Speaker 1>You told me, But what you tell me doesn't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>make it fact. I hate to say that I know

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<v Speaker 1>nothing about it. I do know they are very much

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<v Speaker 1>get pedophilia. That okay, okay, yeah, you did hear that, right?

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<v Speaker 1>The president of the United States, the most powerful country

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<v Speaker 1>on Earth, arguably for a second time, refused to disavow

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<v Speaker 1>the Q and On conspiracy theory. So maybe the Q

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>into that idea with these theories every time he goes

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<v Speaker 1>on TV and refuses to speak out against them. For

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

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<v Speaker 1>Their ideas are being reaffirmed each time he does this. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>let's move on to talk about the main topic of

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<v Speaker 1>this episode, the idea that suggests Q and on is

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<v Speaker 1>a prank carried out by leftists meant to make us

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<v Speaker 1>Trump followers look stupid. It began inen when BuzzFeed really

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<v Speaker 1>than article with the catchy headline it's looking extremely likely

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<v Speaker 1>that Q and on is a leftist prank on Trump voters,

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<v Speaker 1>which they later changed to people think this whole q

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<v Speaker 1>and on conspiracy theories of prank on Trump supporters. I

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<v Speaker 1>remember when I first saw this article myself, and I

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<v Speaker 1>just thought not, surely not. But to be fair, as

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<v Speaker 1>I read the article, the coincidences within the piece were

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<v Speaker 1>quite striking at times. We'll go into those a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more in a minute, but just bear in mind,

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<v Speaker 1>on paper, this isn't actually the far reaching theory that

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<v Speaker 1>it might sound like at first. And for those concerned

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<v Speaker 1>about the creeping rise of Q and on, I think

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<v Speaker 1>it acted almost as a bit of a comforter. They

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<v Speaker 1>could laugh at Q and on again if it was

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<v Speaker 1>all a big prank being played out against Trump boomers

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<v Speaker 1>on no go websites like four chant, the threat was

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<v Speaker 1>somewhat extinguished with this idea. A sense of having the

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<v Speaker 1>upper hand could be restored. It was all a joke. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not above thinking that it would be absolutely fucking

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<v Speaker 1>hilarious if hundreds of thousands of right wing MAGA people

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<v Speaker 1>had gathered online only to be led by a group

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<v Speaker 1>of secret leftists talking nonsense at them. But I do

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<v Speaker 1>think again, for some people, there was a sense of

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<v Speaker 1>faux relief. They could think that this increasingly powerful global

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<v Speaker 1>conspiracy network was all made up by the good guys

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<v Speaker 1>decide that they're more likely to agree with. But was

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<v Speaker 1>it someone who looked deeper into this leftist prank theory

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<v Speaker 1>is Matthew golt Goal is a journalist and a personal

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<v Speaker 1>friend of mine. He works for vices Motherboard and runs

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<v Speaker 1>the current affairs podcast Angry Plant. He's good at what

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<v Speaker 1>he does and he's never wont to be swayed by

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<v Speaker 1>a useful media narrative. I spoke to him about this theory.

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<v Speaker 1>So the origin of this idea that Q and on

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<v Speaker 1>is a leftist prank had been kind of bubbling in

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<v Speaker 1>the fortune, you know, gross parts of the Internet for

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<v Speaker 1>a few months in the summer of um and then

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<v Speaker 1>it takes off on August six, when BuzzFeed publishes a

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<v Speaker 1>story with the subhead what the fund is wrong with Boomers? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>So the basic, the very very basic thrust of this

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<v Speaker 1>thing is that the reporter seems to have found some

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<v Speaker 1>people on some of non's on four Chan talking about

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<v Speaker 1>how q is the politics Board's greatest achievement. Look, how

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<v Speaker 1>many norms and boomers got sucked into our lulls chaos.

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<v Speaker 1>Good job, and on's looking forward to our next big prank, right,

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<v Speaker 1>which would appear to be a smoking gun unless you

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<v Speaker 1>know anything about four Chan and how it works and

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<v Speaker 1>how the politics board works. We've covered a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>what four Chan and eighth Chan is and isn't in

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<v Speaker 1>the last episode, but just to reiterate what Matthew god

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<v Speaker 1>is talking about, he is how four Chan will often

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<v Speaker 1>just put out prank saying anything, make things up, put

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<v Speaker 1>stories out there aren't real. Basically us to folk with everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>And in this case it kind of worked. In regards

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<v Speaker 1>to this article, however, you will see that it's not

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<v Speaker 1>just that there is more to it. Random people just

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<v Speaker 1>say random ship just you know, just because they can. Um. So,

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<v Speaker 1>where things get kind of weird is that like the

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<v Speaker 1>conspiracy theory I would say behind this conspiracy theory is

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<v Speaker 1>that in nine nine, Luther Blissett published a novel in Italy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's titled Q. It became a cult classic in Europe,

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<v Speaker 1>never really took off in America. It was translated into

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<v Speaker 1>English in two thousand four and released in Britain and

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<v Speaker 1>the US. Then. Um. The novel was set in the

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<v Speaker 1>sixteenth century, and it's against this backdrop of societal upheaval

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<v Speaker 1>that follows the Reformation. Martin Martin, Martin Lutheran nails Martin

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<v Speaker 1>Luther nails the ninety nine Theses onto the church door,

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<v Speaker 1>and like the Catholic Church starts to lose power, the

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<v Speaker 1>Protestant movement begins. Uh. There's a lot of war or

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<v Speaker 1>in chaos and fighting that goes on after that. And

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<v Speaker 1>so the main character of this book is moving throughout

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<v Speaker 1>Europe and moving throughout the century and basically participating in

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<v Speaker 1>various religious wars and rebellions. He doesn't have a name,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's adopting different identities as he goes, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>this radical revolutionary figure. Um kind of think of him

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<v Speaker 1>as like a precursor to like a v for Vendetta

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<v Speaker 1>kind of character. Right. Um, So, the antagonist of the

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<v Speaker 1>story is this agent of the Pope named Q, and

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<v Speaker 1>this agent of the Pope is the bad guy, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's sending letters to radical leaders, spreading misinformation to so

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<v Speaker 1>chaos among the ranks of the revolutionaries. He claims to

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<v Speaker 1>be a person, sometimes he claims to be a group

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<v Speaker 1>of people, and he always claims that he's writing from

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<v Speaker 1>within the halls of power, right, like, you know, I've

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<v Speaker 1>got the Count's ear, so I know what's really going on.

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<v Speaker 1>And if your revolutionaries will just do what I tell you, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we'll be able to wipe out all of

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<v Speaker 1>these bad guys, like all of these the ruling class

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<v Speaker 1>that's on top of you. Right. So he says he's

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<v Speaker 1>on the side of the rebel, so that he's infiltrated

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<v Speaker 1>the institutions of power. But at the same time he's

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<v Speaker 1>always feeding information back into the Vatican Um. And when

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<v Speaker 1>he is talking to the rebels, he always science this

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<v Speaker 1>missives Q. Sounds familiar, right, Well, this is where the

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<v Speaker 1>coincidences or the clues come in. Think about this cue

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<v Speaker 1>book for a second. As Matthew said, the book is

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<v Speaker 1>about a secret shadow entity within the government that is

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<v Speaker 1>moving from place to place whispering ideas in people's ears

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<v Speaker 1>to stoke conflict. And his name just so happens to

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<v Speaker 1>be Q as well, same emo, same name as our

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<v Speaker 1>Q and On. That's a pretty big coincidence, if you

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<v Speaker 1>ask me. And remember, according to Q and On, there

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<v Speaker 1>is no such thing as coincidences. That's one of Que's

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<v Speaker 1>many mantras. Certainly, if there is a collective of mischievous

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<v Speaker 1>leftist behind Q and On, this might start to sound

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<v Speaker 1>like an inside joke, right, a way to openly laugh

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<v Speaker 1>at the Q followers whilst remaining hidden in plain sight.

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<v Speaker 1>This is also kind of Q and On style as well,

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<v Speaker 1>hidden in plain sight. It gets weirder. So, the author

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<v Speaker 1>of this book Q is Luther Blisset, right, So who

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<v Speaker 1>is Luther Blisset um? And could it be possible that

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<v Speaker 1>this person is involved somehow in the Q and On movement? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>Luther Blisset is not one person. It's a collective of

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<v Speaker 1>writers that describe themselves as a collective of cultural agitation

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<v Speaker 1>and guerrilla communication. These are like cultural pranksters that we

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<v Speaker 1>kind of don't have any more, um and now they've

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<v Speaker 1>they're still around. They call themselves the Womming Collective UM

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<v Speaker 1>and so after this BuzzFeed article comes out, I reach

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<v Speaker 1>out and I talked to them. So now you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to hear a snippet of an interview Matthew Gold did

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<v Speaker 1>with a man named wu Ming Wooming. He's a member

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<v Speaker 1>of the Wooming Collective. Again a joke name. These lot

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<v Speaker 1>like to mess around. Now, remember the Women Collective is

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<v Speaker 1>the obscure leftist pranksters that came together to write the

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<v Speaker 1>Cube Book, the one we're talking about that has the

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<v Speaker 1>parallels with Q and On. What Woman has to say

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<v Speaker 1>here is particularly interesting, I think in regards to if

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<v Speaker 1>they are or aren't behind Q and On. Some conspiracies

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<v Speaker 1>do exist. What is a conspiracy? You have a conspiracy

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<v Speaker 1>when a group of people or more than one people

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<v Speaker 1>agree in secret to take some action against someone else,

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<v Speaker 1>a third party, against someone else's interests at least. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so you can just say that conspiracies do exist, but real,

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<v Speaker 1>actual conspiracies have some key characteristics that make them very

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<v Speaker 1>different from the kind of convoluted, cumbersome conspiracy theories which

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<v Speaker 1>spiracists dream about and share and spread. Okay, and you've

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<v Speaker 1>you've designed some conspiracies yourself, correct or you've been a

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<v Speaker 1>part of it, we practically debunked some conspiracies. We devised

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<v Speaker 1>the pranks as a practical critique and a direct intervention

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<v Speaker 1>against conspiracism. That's what we did. From the horse's mouth there,

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<v Speaker 1>a member of the Women Collective is saying what they

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<v Speaker 1>do is construct events, construct pranks to kind of show

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<v Speaker 1>that the intricacies and nonsense of many conspiracy theories are

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<v Speaker 1>a problem, and they aim to use a kind of

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<v Speaker 1>satire to debunk them. Now does that mean that that's

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<v Speaker 1>what they did with Q and on? Are they creating

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<v Speaker 1>a conspiracy to show the people fall for anything? When

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<v Speaker 1>you look at how outlandish some of Q and on

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<v Speaker 1>theories are, you might think, yeah, that makes sense. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>let's scale back a minute to talk about some of

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<v Speaker 1>the wombing collectives other activities. Specifically, let me explain how

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<v Speaker 1>they took part in their own way in Italy's Satanic

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<v Speaker 1>panic in the nineties. Satanic panic being a time when

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<v Speaker 1>the country's law enforcement, the media, everybody seems to think

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<v Speaker 1>there's some kind of occult ritual's going on with kids

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<v Speaker 1>saying devil worship. It's all there, and throughout history we've

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<v Speaker 1>seen this happen in different countries. Almost always there's nothing

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<v Speaker 1>to it, devil worship, pedophile rings, and lots of empty accusations.

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<v Speaker 1>It all has a parallel to cun On, as you

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<v Speaker 1>will see. Stay with me on this. So Italy Satanic

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<v Speaker 1>Panic took place off the back of the so called

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<v Speaker 1>Years of Lead, a time from the sixties to the

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<v Speaker 1>eighties when there were thousands of far right and far

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<v Speaker 1>terror attacks in the country. Italy was still very much

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<v Speaker 1>a nervous culture in some respects because of this. In

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<v Speaker 1>the nineties, a new threat emerged, devil worshipers. Several people

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<v Speaker 1>were accused of satanic pedophile abuse, sixteen children were taken

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<v Speaker 1>from their parents by the state, and one mother even

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<v Speaker 1>killed herself Off the back of all this. I won't

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<v Speaker 1>go into too much detail here, but basically it was

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<v Speaker 1>later found that Italian officials had aggressively coerced people into

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<v Speaker 1>giving evidence about something that just wasn't true. The Satanic

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<v Speaker 1>panic accusations were baseless. To show the government how stupid,

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<v Speaker 1>heavy handed and irrational they'd been, the Women Collective began

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<v Speaker 1>planning fake evidence in the woods to make it look

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<v Speaker 1>like there had been a cult satanic practices taking place. Eventually,

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<v Speaker 1>they revealed themselves to show that it was a prank.

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<v Speaker 1>It sounds funked up, but what they did was show

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<v Speaker 1>that the police were not doing their due diligence whilst

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<v Speaker 1>investigating something extremely sensitive. The Women Collective had pulled a

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<v Speaker 1>prank to expose a serious problem within Italian policing. Now

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<v Speaker 1>let me be clear here, it wasn't like the Woming

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<v Speaker 1>Collective planet it and then the satanic panic began that

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<v Speaker 1>had already happened. The satanic panic was not because of them,

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<v Speaker 1>but they were the ones who took part in this

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<v Speaker 1>prank to show, hey, you were not doing the proper

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<v Speaker 1>work here. These satanic panic Shenanigans also kind of strike

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<v Speaker 1>a parallel with what Q and On is doing right.

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<v Speaker 1>Cure has told his followers many times that the Democrat

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<v Speaker 1>Party is a devil worshiping Peter following he's insinuated all

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<v Speaker 1>sorts around the occult worship in various different cue drops.

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<v Speaker 1>He has said the following obscure things quote spirit cooking,

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<v Speaker 1>what does spirit cooking represent? Cult? And does Satan exist?

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<v Speaker 1>Does the thought of Satan exists? Who worshiped Satan? What

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<v Speaker 1>is a cult? Epstein Island and Operation mocking Bird Priority

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<v Speaker 1>to clean out the bad actors to unite people behind

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<v Speaker 1>the America First agenda, Many and our government worships Satan

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<v Speaker 1>end quote. Satanic occultism is part of the central Q

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<v Speaker 1>and On mythos. However, unlike the Woming collective, Q and

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<v Speaker 1>On has not dropped the mask to say, yeah, this

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<v Speaker 1>was all a prank. In fact, what Q and On

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<v Speaker 1>is doing is more like what the Italian police did

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<v Speaker 1>in the nineties, tearing families apart by putting out false information.

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<v Speaker 1>So are the Wombing Collective behind Q on on or not?

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<v Speaker 1>Matthew go asked them directly, are you responsible for q

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<v Speaker 1>and On? Of course not. They they basically said, like

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<v Speaker 1>they don't think that it's possible for stuff like this

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<v Speaker 1>to to work anymore because of the way that the

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<v Speaker 1>modern information ecosystem works and the way like parity and

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<v Speaker 1>satire work, Like all of that stuff's broken down, and

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<v Speaker 1>they so they think like any kind of any kind

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<v Speaker 1>of prank that they would try to pull them this

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<v Speaker 1>way would just end up making things worse at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>And like what's quoted in the BuzzFeed article is Wooming

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<v Speaker 1>is tweeting about the connections. So they're out there saying like, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>this is kind of strange. This is similar to our book,

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<v Speaker 1>and BuzzFeed kind of implies that, you know, hey, this

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<v Speaker 1>is them taking responsibility. Um. And when I talk to them,

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<v Speaker 1>they're like, no, we we didn't do this, um we

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<v Speaker 1>And I believe that their exact quote is believe me,

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<v Speaker 1>we had never heard about Q until six weeks ago.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen the emails that Goal is speaking about there,

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen the communications, and every turn the Wooming Collective

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<v Speaker 1>have outright denied any involvement with Q and On. What's more,

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<v Speaker 1>they've never once staged a prank without claiming it and

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<v Speaker 1>have never engaged in anything as malicious as it will

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<v Speaker 1>be to keep Q and On going this long. The

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<v Speaker 1>other clues to who Q and On might be don't

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<v Speaker 1>add up if it were the Women Collective either. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>speak about that in another episode, but basically, the Women

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<v Speaker 1>Collective Cue book is a handy coincidence that was spurred

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<v Speaker 1>on by fortune and blown out of proportion by the media.

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<v Speaker 1>The Women Collective do bring attention to a good point, though,

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<v Speaker 1>that satire in a post truth world is all but dead.

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<v Speaker 1>We saw a clear example of this last week when

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<v Speaker 1>Trump retweeted a satirical article by Babylon b as if

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<v Speaker 1>it was real. The joke was in the article that

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter had shut down its network to stop the spread

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<v Speaker 1>of negative comments about Trump's adversary, Joe Biden. It was

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<v Speaker 1>meant to be funny. It was meant to be taken seriously.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what the Babylon be does, much like its

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<v Speaker 1>counterpart The Onion their satire news sites. The same week,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump also retweeted a wild que and On conspiracy theory

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<v Speaker 1>that Joe Biden orchestrated the killing of Seal Team six

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<v Speaker 1>members to cover up a plot where they didn't actually

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<v Speaker 1>kill Osama Bin Ladding. The theory states, without any evidence whatsoever,

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<v Speaker 1>that in fact, only been Laddin's body double was killed,

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<v Speaker 1>and that it was done as a blood sacrifice to Iran.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump retweeted this outlandish theory. You couldn't make it up.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the women collective theory ultimately serves as a

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<v Speaker 1>cautionary tale within the q and On universe. Just because

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<v Speaker 1>you want something to be true because it fits your

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<v Speaker 1>ideals doesn't make it so. It works both ways. What

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying is we have to be very careful when

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<v Speaker 1>looking at who Q and on actually is or who

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<v Speaker 1>he might be. Everyone has their own ideas, their own clues,

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<v Speaker 1>their own evidence, but if we don't come through it

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<v Speaker 1>all carefully and objectively, the prank might end up being

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<v Speaker 1>pulled on us. Next week, we'll be looking at y

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<v Speaker 1>Q and our mood from four chance Hn what that

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<v Speaker 1>meant for the direction of queues messages. And also I'll

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<v Speaker 1>be going over some new leads that might explain where

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<v Speaker 1>the original cue post came from. Q Clearance is brought

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<v Speaker 1>to you by I Heart Radio and Codatar Media. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Jake Handrahan. You can find me online at Jake Underscore

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<v Speaker 1>This episode was produced by myself with fact checking by

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