190: QAnon - Hot Take With Abbie Richards

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

Jessica Lanyadoo

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jessica talks about QAnon and conspirituality with Abbie Richards and learns how it's connected to the wellness space. Follow Abbie on TikTok at @tofology or on IG at @abbiesr. Want more learning resources? - For media training: https://firstdraftnews.org/training/ - First Draft News has a free library of training content, including online courses, toolkits and resources to help both journalists and the public understand and manage disinformation. - Reading materials for educators: http://www.medialiteracy.com/educator-resources - Free course run by ASU: https://courses.cpe.asu.edu/browse/cronkite/courses/cpe-cronkite-digital-world - Check out https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/medialiteracy for a free media literacy course. 📍Support the podcast and get extras from Jessica on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/JessicaLanyadoo. ❤️ To sign up for Jessica's mailing list and learn more about her offerings, visit lovelanyadoo.com ❤️ For daily insights and resources follow Jessica on Twitter at @jessicalanyadoo or on Instagram at @jessica_lanyadoo 🍁To learn about the land you live on, visit Our Native Land at https://native-land.ca/ or download their free mobile app

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an
0:04.7	astrologer, psychic medium, an animal communicator, and I'm gonna give you your
0:09.1	weekly horoscope and no bullshit, mystical advice for living your very best life.
0:15.9	Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. On this week's hot take, we are talking about
0:22.2	QAnon. I am joined by Abby Richards. We are going to explore what Q is and how
0:29.7	it has infiltrated the wellness space. We're gonna get a little bit into how to
0:34.8	stay safe and smart when you're exploring spiritual content online and
0:39.4	even towards the end of the episode, I explore how to talk to people who are
0:44.0	maybe getting caught up in conspiracy theory stuff. How to know if you're
0:48.6	getting caught up in conspiracy theory stuff in a way that is harmful to you or
0:53.4	others. I think this is a pretty important topic in an important episode and I
0:58.3	hope you do too. My name is Abby Richards. I am currently a student in the Netherlands
1:06.4	but I am from the US. I do science communication online mainly in short form
1:11.2	video content. So I do a lot of like TikToks and I talk about conspiracy theories
1:16.9	and disinformation and climate change. It's so important for me as a person who's
1:22.6	an astrologer and has a spiritual wellness podcast to talk about this because Q
1:28.4	has really a conspiracy theories and the wellness world is really smushed
1:32.1	together. So here's the thing. Q, QAnon. For Q, is there a sense of like is Q
1:39.4	supposed to be a person? Is there like a start date for Q? Let's let's learn
1:44.9	about like what is Q? Right. Okay. So Q started on 4chan. Back in honestly it
1:53.1	really starts with like kind of pizza gate. Which is what? Pizza gate was the
1:58.0	conspiracy theory in 2016 I want to say. It was a conspiracy theory that like
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