Conspiracy Theories: YouTube's Heaven or Hell?
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🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
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This week, Greg and Mitch tackle conspiracy theories. They share stories about theories they've bought into over the years, and then take a deep dive into the rise of conspiracism on YouTube. Should the giant media platform be held at all responsible?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Mitch and I'm Greg and this is side note a podcast where every episode we tell stories about and then debate a controversial topic and then we research and |
| 0:09.3 | Splice in all the mind blowing shiznit throughout so you are entertained while simultaneously learning today |
| 0:14.6 | We are going to be talking about conspiracy theories if you haven't heard YouTube is coming under a lot of fire for the proliferation of |
| 0:21.4 | Conspiracy theories so as people who work on YouTube we're going to give our take but first we're going to tell stories about the conspiracy theories that we grew up |
| 0:28.4 | Believing in and then we're going to go off on YouTube and other YouTubers who are using conspiracy theories and sort of the biology behind how they work in order to become |
| 0:36.9 | Popular on the platform today's side notes will be presented by me Greg and Rachel hey friends. Let's get into it |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, Greg. Hey Mitchell. So not much. Um, we saw dear Evan Hansen this week. That's something new. Oh, yeah, in Toronto |
| 0:55.1 | Which was fun. Did you like it? No, you didn't like it at all. No, I didn't like it at all. It's just very I |
| 1:01.9 | Thought it was not well put together. It's like is this serious is this funny? |
| 1:07.6 | It's about suicide and I just yeah, no, I didn't ever find it that funny or that yeah, I didn't lie in there |
| 1:13.5 | There are parts of it that I enjoyed it like the music |
| 1:15.6 | I don't mind the story |
| 1:16.9 | But then if you step back every now and then you're like |
| 1:19.6 | Comparing this to other like art that does get very serious and touches really well |
| 1:23.7 | Not you're like, okay, this is like kind of a child's music is amazing. Yeah, that's what I will say |
| 1:27.9 | But other than that, I was like, okay, this is weird. Don't need to see this again |
| 1:30.1 | But I love music a leaner the only real time I did cry was that there's like a |
| 1:36.0 | Mom son moment in the musical and then in front of us there was a mom and two kids and she like put her hand over and like |
| 1:41.5 | They started crying yeah hugged the kids and then the kids were like mom stopped and they all like started crying |
| 1:46.0 | Like and I was like this family made me cry. Yeah, when we were leaving |
| 1:48.9 | I wanted to be like because the point of that story in the sense is like the mom is a single mom |
| 1:52.9 | And I think it was a mom with two daughters and there was no father |
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