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0:47.5	Today is a strange episode of Ghost Town, one that delves into a controversial figure still at large today.
0:55.4	QAnon conspiracies, a mysterious ranch, and YouTube channels rife with crime and criminal allegations,
1:02.7	welcome to the QAnon Commune, the upside-down time-traveling world of cult conspiracy theorist Austin Steinbart. But to understand the Q&on Commune and Steinbart himself,
1:09.8	we have to go way back to 2017.
1:13.0	Born on the shoulders of Pizagate, which happened a year earlier, and other conspiracy theories that have been around for quite some time,
1:20.7	QAnon is, in essence, the cryptic messages of Q, a mysterious online presence whose followers have been described as
1:29.1	passionate, unrelenting, and cult-like. So, what exactly is the credo that QAnon followers
1:35.9	described to? According to the BBC, QAnon is, quote, a wide-ranging, completely unfounded
1:42.8	theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret
1:46.1	war against elite, Satan-worshipping pedophiles in government, business, and in the media.
1:53.2	Q&N believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning, where prominent
1:57.7	people, such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and
2:02.2	executed. These messages became known as cue drops or breadcrumbs, often written in cryptic language
2:09.3	peppered with slogans, pledges, and pro-Trump themes. Now we can do a whole episode, probably
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