814: Matt Frederick & Ben Bowlin | Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Matt Frederick & Ben Bowlin (@ConspiracyStuff) are the conspiratorial masterminds behind the Stuff They Don't Want You to Know podcast and co-authors of a book that, to avoid any confusion, goes by the same name.
What We Discuss with Matt Frederick & Ben Bowlin:- Why people believe conspiracy theories.
- Popular conspiracy theories and why they persist.
- Conspiracy theories that turned out to be real.
- Telling the difference between true believers and opportunistic grifters.
- How we can avoid going down rabbit holes that foment conspiracy theories.
- And much more...
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| 0:04.2 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:07.2 | There's something that happens with conspiratorial thoughts there. You get the added, not just the |
| 0:13.6 | status bump up, belonging to a community and being approved of by those who reconcil your peers, |
| 0:19.7 | but you also get the feeling of being one who is influential in that group, one who is moving |
| 0:26.5 | that group in some certain direction by the power of your mind, right? This happened a lot with |
| 0:31.5 | QAnon, right? Especially when COVID had a lot of people inside, we saw people who were kind of |
| 0:37.4 | building their own social pyramids and they were at the top. |
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| 1:49.2 | I'm fascinated with this stuff. I don't really or didn't really understand what the attraction was |
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