733 - How and Why did QAnon exist!? with Mike Rothschild

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What is QAnon? How did the QAnon movement start? Why did no one stop the movement when it first started? And how did QAnon manipulate their frame, stories, and their believer? In this episode, Mike Rothschild, a journalist focused on the intersections between internet culture and politics as seen through the dark glass of conspiracy theories, came on to the podcast to talk about his new book, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, all thing QAnon, Hunter Biden, John McAfee and more! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:07.0	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:13.0	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.5	What is QAnon?
0:18.0	Everybody keeps saying QAnon is QAnon there.
0:21.0	QAnon is this cult.
0:23.0	QAnon is fascist.
0:25.0	QAnon is a concept.
0:26.6	What is this thing?
0:27.6	So Mike Rothschild, who is my guest today, he has been researching this for the past two
0:34.1	years and he's going to finally explain this mysterious concept.
0:39.6	Is it a conspiracy theory?
0:40.6	Is it a cult?
0:41.6	Is it real?
0:42.6	Let's hear it from Mike.
0:43.6	We might have been his last interview.
0:54.2	That might have been true because he got arrested the very next day after the interview.
0:58.8	He was bragging about how he was on the run and then they called him the next day.
1:07.2	It's also crazy but I think they did do another interview but it's a written one.
1:11.2	It wasn't like on the internet.
1:12.6	It wasn't like an audio in all the material or something.
1:16.2	No, yeah.
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