David Farrier

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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David Farrier is a New Zealand investigative journalist known for his documentary Tickled and documentary series Dark Tourist. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss all things conspiracy theories, from QAnon to Wayfairgate to Flat Earthers. The two discuss how these conspiracies happen, what makes people susceptible to them, and how to have constructive discussions with their believers. Dax confesses how sad he is that he can't hang out with David every day. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Radh.
0:03.5	They're joined by Manager Mouse Emmy nominated.
0:07.0	Oh my gosh.
0:08.5	I was going backwards again.
0:09.5	I can, oh yeah you were.
0:11.5	This is an Experts on expert edition of the show, and we have been long time
0:17.2	interested in conspiracy theories, and boy did we find the perfect person.
0:22.6	David Ferrier is a New Zealand journalist
0:26.0	and he directed this amazing documentary we love called Ticled
0:29.7	and he also has a show on Netflix called Dark Tourism. but today he is here to talk to us about
0:34.9	conspiracy theories and you can go read all of his great work on this topic at
0:41.0	webworm.co that's where he breaks down conspiracy theories I have to say
0:46.1	of the many episodes we've done yeah this was the most just like titillated I ever
0:49.8	was yes this is such a wormhole.
0:54.0	Conspiracy theories, like they just go and go and go and go and you can get really sucked in.
0:59.0	And I also feel like there's a big degree of Bader-Minehoff.
1:02.0	Since we talk to him, I feel like it's popping up everywhere
1:04.7	and everyone's curious about all these different
1:07.1	conspiracy theories.
1:08.1	So good timing.
1:10.0	Please enjoy David Ferrier.
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