What's up QAA listeners?

Welcome listeners to a bonus edition of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the interview

with Alexander Hefner episode.

As always I am your host Travis View.

Today I am speaking with Alexander Hefner, the host of the Open Mind, the longest running

interview program on public television.

Alexander has spoken with people from all corners of business, journalism, politics

and the arts and that includes interviews with me Jake and Julian, which you can listen

to on the Open Mind podcast.

He is also someone who has spoken a lot about disinformation, discourse and democracy.

And I invited him on to get his perspective on how he got to this point and the best way

to restore trust moving forward.

Alexander I am going to start up with a broad question, which is how did QAnon happen?

And I know that this is something, this is a question we often struggle with on the

show and there are answers that are both systemic and specific.

And personally I think like the rise of QAnon reveals something especially rotten about

American culture.

But how would you diagnose the reason why nonsense online became so popular?

So I don't know about when you were at the checkout counter as a young man or even as

a child of your local supermarket.

But I have distinct memory, not in one supermarket visit, but in a plethora of visits to supermarkets,

bodegas, your outdoor stands in metropolitan areas of the national choir.

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