5. Blowback
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...
A British spy is hired to dig dirt on Donald Trump’s Russia connections. His sources tell him Trump is a Russian agent, a puppet of the Kremlin.
America is gripped by this story. Half are convinced the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in order to defeat Hillary Clinton. But the other half believes the investigations into Russian collusion are a hoax, a conspiracy by the establishment to unseat a democratically elected president.
The QAnon community takes up this second narrative, in which a renegade General becomes a martyr and a figurehead.
Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse and this is the coming storm. |
| 0:10.4 | This next episode, it's a bit of a curveball. I've been trying to understand this conspiracy theory known as Kianon. |
| 0:18.0 | But now I want to tell you about another conspiracy theory, one that I nearly fell for. It's sort of the same story really city of Omsk, Siberia. |
| 0:38.0 | It's 1996, a stadium in the city of Omsk, Siberia. The band is called Nautilus Pompilius. |
| 0:47.0 | They're brilliant by the way. Check them out. |
| 0:49.0 | I first heard them around this time when I was living and studying in Russia. |
| 0:53.4 | They were kind of the soundtrack of that period for me. |
| 0:56.6 | And this song they're playing, it's called Goodbye America. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a breakup letter for a generation of Russians who lived through the collapse of the |
| 1:11.0 | communist system, a moment of incredible hope and optimism, |
| 1:15.8 | an American dream of prosperity and democracy that turned out to be a mirage. The reason this band is playing this gig has to do with an |
| 1:30.0 | American who thought he was trying to save that dream. |
| 1:34.6 | And many years later, that guy would get mixed up in a twisted tale involving Donald Trump |
| 1:40.8 | and Hillary Clinton. Not Qenon, this other one. His name is Michael Caputo and back in |
| 1:49.6 | 1996 it was a young political PR consultant living in Moscow. |
| 1:54.0 | I was hanging out at the rock and roll clubs talking to all the rock stars and all the different clubs in |
| 2:00.8 | mock it was a crazy scene. The old rules had been torn up the new ones was still being written. By day |
| 2:08.4 | Caputo worked for a pro-democracy organization funded by the US government. By night he immersed himself |
| 2:16.6 | in the culture of a nation emerging from its own dark shadow. |
| 2:21.0 | My body said I'm taking you to the craziest underground club in all of Musco. |
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