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Speaker 1: Q and On is now the most prolific online conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theory of the twenty one century. None of their predictions

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Speaker 1: came true. Q has vanished and the storm never came,

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Speaker 1: but Q and on is still alive. I'm Jake Hanrahan,

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Speaker 1: and this is series two of Q Clearance Podcast, shedding

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Speaker 1: light on the ongoing Q and on conspiracy theory. This

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Speaker 1: is a production of Kudatar Media and I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to be speaking about the confusing world

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Speaker 1: of Q and on Japan. That's right, the trump centric

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Speaker 1: US online conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories has

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Speaker 1: managed to take roots seven thousand miles away in Japan. Now,

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Speaker 1: you might have seen Japan in the news recently due

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Speaker 1: to the Olympics being hosted there and the protests that

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Speaker 1: that has caused. Many people in Japan feel that the

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Speaker 1: Olympics will essentially act as a super spreader event for COVID.

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Speaker 1: Japan has had over fifteen thousand deaths from the virus,

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Speaker 1: with almost one million cases in total. Hundreds of Japanese

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Speaker 1: citizens have taken to the streets to air their concerns

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Speaker 1: about the further spread that the Olympics could cause. However,

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Speaker 1: a group of people in Japan, of course, not concerned

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Speaker 1: about covid ah. The Japanese Q and Ons, like their

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Speaker 1: American counterparts, they believe it's all a hoax and a

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Speaker 1: quote scam. DEMI to get an idea of how the

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Speaker 1: hell Q and On gained a solid following in Japan,

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Speaker 1: We're going to be speaking to Sarah Hightower. You've probably

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Speaker 1: heard of her. She's been on the podcast a few

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Speaker 1: times and she helps with the research. Sarah is a

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Speaker 1: researcher specializing in cults with an incredibly in depth knowledge

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Speaker 1: of Japanese cults. She's also one of the very best

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Speaker 1: Q and On researchers out there, so as you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: she is very well versed in Q and on Japan.

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Speaker 1: She's going to explain how this all happened. So Sarah

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Speaker 1: maybe just explained to us how did Q and on

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's a very America centric thing, so it's kind

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Speaker 1: of unusual. Um, maybe give us an idea, give us

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Speaker 1: of Q and on. Now is Q non America centric? Yeah? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it's the gult of personality centator around this image of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump as an infallible god game. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's really stupid and it is really American. But

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Speaker 1: that's not all you and on is. Yeah, pull back

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Speaker 1: and look at the bigger picture. What else is Q

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Speaker 1: and I? Q and On is an anti Semitic conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theories plucked straight out of the Protocols of the Learned

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Speaker 1: Elders of Zion. If you don't know what Sarah is

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Speaker 1: talking about, their the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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Speaker 1: It is a hoaxed anti Semitic text from the early

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Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds. It originated in Russia and was eventually taught

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Speaker 1: by the Nazi regime in schools as if it were real,

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Speaker 1: of course, to demonize the Jewish people. Many parts of

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Speaker 1: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They don't always

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Speaker 1: and the protocols and these anti Semitic conspiracy theories, they've

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Speaker 1: also taken hard at various points throughout Japanese history. But

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Speaker 1: I think you wanted the timeline, so let's do that. Forest.

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Speaker 1: By the time team rolls around over here, four Chuan

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Speaker 1: the Japanese counterpart to four Chan. At this time, it's

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Speaker 1: one kind of idea that this specific cult adheers to.

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Speaker 1: Sounds a lot like Q and on, right, So instead

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Speaker 1: So this person Ariy that Sarah is talking about. She

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Speaker 1: some of the Japanese Q and Ons are incorporating a

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Speaker 1: It sounds to me is if Q and On Japan

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Speaker 1: That's not just five people that are vaguely interested or

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Speaker 1: five hundred people that have signed up as start up

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Speaker 1: the cult is here, and it is a destructive cult.

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