#83 Voyage Into Pizzagate

Reply All

Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A conspiracy theory, a pizza related map, and a website fighting for its very soul. Further Reading Bryan Menegus' great article, "Reddit is Tearing Itself Apart." An interview with Edgar Welch, the Pizzagate gunman. The Donald Subreddit If you have a question about a story we've reported this year, please email a voice memo of 30 seconds or less to [email protected] with the subject line "updates." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Reply All.
0:07.6	I'm Alex Goldman.
0:08.6	And I'm P.J. vote.
0:13.2	So last Friday, we sat down to do a segment that we do a lot on the show called Yes, Yes,
0:17.2	No, with our boss Alex Bloomberg.
0:19.3	And at the time, it felt like we were talking about a facet of the sort of strange, tiny
0:25.2	world that Reply All inhabits.
0:27.4	It's this niche internet story that was never going to escape the orbit of the weird
0:31.3	stuff that we are fixated on.
0:33.7	And between Friday and today, the story has exploded.
0:38.3	But we will get to that.
0:40.1	First, the Yes, Yes, No, we recorded on Friday at 6 p.m.
0:49.0	Welcome once again to Yes, Yes, No, the segment on our show where our boss, Alex Bloomberg,
0:54.2	a card carrying member of the AARP.
0:57.0	I do not carry the card.
0:58.0	I would carry the card, but my way through it away when I got it in the mail comes to us
1:07.4	with stuff that he doesn't understand on the internet and we do our best to explain it
1:11.2	to him.
1:12.7	So what do you have for us this week?
1:14.4	All right.
1:15.4	So I have a series of tweets.
1:16.4	I will read them.
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