Hello and welcome to The Rest Is History. First up, a confession. This podcast is actually

paid for by a consortium of the night's Templar and lizards from outer space. Our job is

to change the mindset of you, our listeners by overwhelming you with tendentious historical

parallels, thereby softening you up for a global takeover led by George Soros and Elvis.

Actually, at Dominic Sambrick, my co-conspirator with me here, that's not actually true, is it?

That's nonsense. Well, some of it is true.

A tendentious historical parallels, that's true. Yes, that is actually true. I mean, maybe if we

encourage a few influences on social media to suggest that this is, in fact, the case, how long

before some people actually believed it to be true? Well, that's a good, I mean, the thought that

we could influence anybody, frankly, beyond the realm of imagination. But yes, so today we

thought we would do conspiracy theories. What a great subject to me had an amazing response on

Twitter when we put this out, was just shows the appetite that people have for believing that

tiny groups of highly influential people like Tom and me control the world. So obviously JFK,

the Templars, the Freemasons, the Rosa Crucians, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the

Popish Plots, you know, was Baraka Barma, actually a Russian sleeper agent born in Kenya.

I mean, the statistics, Tom, are amazing. So to kick off a recent poll by NPR, the American

National Public Radio, asked Americans if they believe that a group of Satan worshipping elites who

are in a child's sex ring are trying to control our politics and media. So that's the allegation

at the heart of QAnon. And 17%, 17%, said it was true that they thought these Satan worshipping

elites were trying to control the media. And 37% said they didn't know. So in other words, you've got

more than half who either believe it or sort of ambivalent. That's extraordinary, isn't it?

And but not unprecedented. I think that's the interesting thing. Not unprecedented. And you can see

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