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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, a podcast

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

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Speaker 1: This is a production of Ku Data Media and I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. In this episode, we'll be discussing the storming

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Speaker 1: of the US Capitol Building on January six one and

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Speaker 1: how that is connected heavily to Q and On. Now.

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Speaker 1: Many people seem to think that because Trump is no

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Speaker 1: longer the US president, Q and on is over. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: that is very much not the case. There are hundreds

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Speaker 1: it or not, some of them still think Q so

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Speaker 1: called plan is being followed to the t. Will be

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Speaker 1: showing you that just because you're not seeing it everywhere

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Speaker 1: now doesn't mean Q and On has gone away. Before

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Speaker 1: we go into all of that, though, let me explain

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Speaker 1: what we'll be doing in this series. So in the

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Speaker 1: first series, we clearly laid out who we think is

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Speaker 1: how the account changed hands, how media misinformation started blaming

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Speaker 1: the wrong people, and why hundreds of thousands felt for

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Speaker 1: the madness of Q and On. If you haven't heard

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Speaker 1: it yet, I strongly advise you to go back to

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Speaker 1: episode one of series one, otherwise a lot of this

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Speaker 1: will make no sense to you. The end of series

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Speaker 1: one of Q Clearance came around the same time as

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Speaker 1: the end of Q and On as we know it,

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Speaker 1: at least the end of que drops. See Q hasn't

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Speaker 1: The followers have been somewhat set adrift by this. Some

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Speaker 1: have realized their error in believing in such an outlandish

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, whilst others have dog in deeper. Will be

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Speaker 1: covering all of that later on in this series, so

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Speaker 1: to be clear, In this series will be documenting the

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Speaker 1: that you won't see discussed in the news segments. Since

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Speaker 1: the see of Maga hats kicked in windows at the

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Speaker 1: take proper notice of Q and On. Predictably, most of

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Speaker 1: Q Clearance, we're digging in deeper. For four years, we

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Speaker 1: we saw the FBI swat team come in earlier, no

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Speaker 1: question that they The storming of the Capitol Building is

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Speaker 1: Before that, Q and On was an oddity, laughed at

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Speaker 1: by most who had heard about it. Now it's becoming

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Speaker 1: themselves from this beast that they obviously nurtured. One side

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Speaker 1: what actually happened at the Capitol Building in January? To

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Speaker 1: I spoke to journalist Matthew Goat. Goat runs the podcast

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Speaker 1: Angry Planet and has been doing work on Q and

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned to Q Clearance while we bring all of

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Speaker 1: this into the light. Q Clearance is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by I Heart Radio and cou Data Media. I'm Jake Hanrahan.

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