Bonus Sample: Carpetbagger Pharaohs

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Philosophy, Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences

4.0 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

They couldn’t be more different: the self-made, self-help guru to the stars, the antisemitic Black-separatist, the blue-blood anti-vax lawyer, and the founder of a science-fiction religion. But in the cult-conspiracy economy, strange bedfellows are often the norm.Julian investigates how—underneath cultural, racial, political, and even religious differences—opportunistic grifters can always find common cause in the pursuit of wealth and influence. In the end, they’re all carpetbaggers dressed up as pharaohs.Show NotesThe Lies of RFK Jr’s Medical Racism DocumentarySamoan Measles OutbreakSomali Measles OutbreakMeasles Outbreak Amongst Brooklyn Orthodox JewsRFK Jr. At Berlin protest with Neo-NazisWeaponizing Racism for Anti-Vax ActivismWerner Erhard: Father of Self-HelpAnti-Vax Infiltrates Nation of Islam Scientology Money Project -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:11.0	Hello, Conspirituality Podcast listeners.
0:13.0	Welcome to a sample of a Patreon bonus episode.
0:17.0	We release these every week for our subscribers.
0:20.0	They're usually solo essays from our team.
0:22.0	It costs $5 a month for access
0:25.0	and the support helps to keep us add free and editorially independent.
0:30.0	You can sign up at patreon.com-conspirituality.
0:35.0	Thank you.
0:38.0	Before becoming a minister in the nation of Islam,
0:41.0	Tony Muhammad worked as the real estate executive for a fast food chain.
0:46.0	He also worked as a manager in Atlanta for Eastern Airlines,
0:51.0	where he upleveled his former business as a drug dealer
0:56.0	to use his professional position to enable bringing shipments of cocaine in through airport security.
1:03.0	Werner Earhart, as we already covered,
1:06.0	was a kind of carpet bagger, Carl Salesman,
1:09.0	who abandoned his wife and four kids before making millions preaching to seminar participants
1:14.0	about taking responsibility for their lives.
1:17.0	His empire was threatened by targeted attacks from Scientology,
1:21.0	so what about their founder, Elron Hubbard?
1:26.0	Lafayette, Ronald Hubbard, was born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska.
1:33.0	With his Navy officer father, he grew up a military brat
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