Conspiracy Theories and Coronavirus (with Joe Walsh)

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Topics Discussed: Opening Meditation (2:14) Good Community Members (3:20) Covid-19 and the Senate (11:51) Compliments: Andy Beshear (27:53) QAnon and Coronavirus (34:39) Conversation with Joe Walsh (46:50) Talking to Conspiracy Believers (54:37) Outside of Politics (1:07:25) Thank you for being a part of our community! We couldn't do what we do without you. To become a tangible supporter of the show, please visit our Patreon page, purchase a copy of our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), or share the word about our work in your own circles. Download Hot Mic and use code BETH153 or SARAH818 to join us for live news events and see our past coverage. Episode Resources: "Govern me, daddy": Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear a clean-cut sex symbol for the coronavirus age (Salon) Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble (Politico) The Conspiracy Theory Handbook How a QAnon Coronavirus Conspiracy About Oprah Went Viral (Vanity Fair) QAnon May Be Resting, But It Will Never Die (Mother Jones) How to debunk COVID-19 conspiracy theories (The Verge) China's wild coronavirus conspiracy theories haven't slowed down (ABC News) Iran leader refuses U.S. help, citing virus conspiracy theory (Politico) How to Get Someone Out of a Cult (The New York Times Magazine) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And I'm not on board with that.
0:02.0	I am a lot more worried about Maggie's Taikoondo School
0:07.0	and my local yoga studio and the restaurant
0:11.1	on the street that has only been open a few months
0:14.0	that is offering pizza to kids for free all day
0:16.9	every day, no questions ask.
0:18.8	If they aren't getting fed while our schools are closed,
0:21.4	I'm in a, like, hashtag too small to fail mindset.
0:25.2	This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pantzoo Politics,
0:32.9	the home of Graceville political conversations.
0:35.7	Hello friends, thank you for joining us for another episode of Pantzoo Politics.
0:57.4	We hope that you are all doing as well as you can possibly be doing.
1:01.1	We hope that you are staying at home.
1:03.3	We hope that you have everything that you need while you're staying at home.
1:07.2	We're going to talk today more about what's going on in the world.
1:10.9	Of course, we're going to spend some special focus on conspiracy theory circulating about COVID-19
1:17.2	at a number of listeners request and especially at Hannah's request.
1:21.4	For the latter part of that conversation, we're going to be joined by Joe Walsh,
1:25.4	who is a former Tea Party conservative who actually ran against Donald Trump in the primary.
1:32.0	We're going to ask him why he thinks the Republican Party has been so prone to conspiracy theory over the last couple of years.
1:38.1	It's a little bit therapeutic conversation for me.
1:40.3	I'll be honest and we'll end with what's on our minds outside of politics.
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