2. Sex, Lies, and… a Videotape
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
QAnon and the plot to break reality...
Gabriel Gatehouse discovers a real conspiracy called The Arkansas Project. The aim is to inject lurid tales about the Clintons into the mainstream American press in the 1990s. These stories spin off in different directions. Down one road lie sex scandals and eventually impeachment proceedings. But thanks to an Evangelical coalition the story goes off in another direction, involving Satan and a looming battle between good and evil. A dark fantasy has taken hold which bubbles away under the surface, ignored by the establishment.
Producer: Lucy Proctor
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to the coming storm. |
| 0:11.0 | And a warning, this episode contains a description of sexual assault. |
| 0:17.0 | On January the 6th last year I was in London glued to my TV watching a crowd |
| 0:25.6 | stormed the capital in Washington DC they were trying to overturn the election |
| 0:31.3 | there was someone I recognized. He was bare-chested, draped in furs with horns on his head and carrying a spear. |
| 0:40.0 | I'd met that guy two months earlier in Arizona while covering the presidential election. |
| 0:47.4 | He called himself the Q Shaman, a devotee of a new conspiracy theory known as Kewenon. He believed Hillary Clinton was the |
| 0:56.5 | central figure in a cabal of satanic pedophiles and Donald Trump was battling to defeat them. |
| 1:05.0 | This is a war that is of like a spiritual nature, okay? |
| 1:10.0 | I ignored him at the time, fringe character I thought, too weird to put in a news report. |
| 1:16.2 | But then it turned out he was part of a whole movement, this insurrection. |
| 1:21.2 | So I started trying to make sense of it all. And then I heard about this pastor |
| 1:27.5 | who might have a piece of the puzzle. He'd washed up in northern Scotland, so I went to see him. |
| 1:38.0 | You're a long way from home. |
| 1:40.0 | Yes, yes, definitely. |
| 1:42.0 | Very long way from home. How are you finding it? Very good. You know, the |
| 1:47.2 | distance is hard from family, but the distance from maybe the life that we left |
| 1:52.4 | is good. |
| 1:54.4 | Jared Stacy and his wife Stevie |
| 1:57.0 | they're seeing the positive. |
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