Ep 53 - Vaxx don't care about your feelings w/ Anna Merlan
The Antifada
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Illuminati are back, baby! This week, the crew is joined by Anna Merlan (@annamerlan), author of "Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power," to discuss where all these conspiracy theories came from and how to defeat #fakenews once and for all.
Jamie and Anna recap how they met at an RNC-adjacent punk show. The crew's favorite conspiracy theories. The history of conspiracy theories in America. What is it about the U S of A that makes it such fertile ground for conspiratorial thinking? The kinds of conspiracy theories believed by the black community and the all-too-real government actions driving them. Conspiracy theories on the far right and in the White House. How conspiracy theories track with "populism." Why Anna is correct in thinking that "we will not be a less paranoid country until we are a fairer one."
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More on the subject:
Ep 22- Secrets of the Illuminati w/ Tanz
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Outro music - Bad Religion, "Do The Paranoid Style"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antifada where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Sean K. B. I'm A.P. Andy. |
| 0:16.0 | And we are here with an excellent guest today. |
| 0:18.0 | She's a reporter at Geo Media. |
| 0:21.0 | That's who owns Jezebel now, an author of Republic of Lies, American |
| 0:26.1 | conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power out now from |
| 0:30.1 | Metropolitan. I'm speaking, of course course about Anna Merlin. Hi, thanks for being |
| 0:35.9 | with us today. Thank you for having me. So I understand that you came from a |
| 0:41.0 | boat party earlier. |
| 0:43.3 | That sounds pretty fancy. |
| 0:44.5 | Can you tell us what exactly you were doing there? |
| 0:46.7 | I was on my friend's tugboat and we were building a habitat for geese. So less fancy more habitat for geese. I was not helpful. |
| 0:57.0 | No crystal there at all. There was no crystal. No bottles, no models. I'm afraid not. |
| 1:02.2 | Maybe that was a different boat, but this boat did not have any of those things. |
| 1:06.4 | But we did successfully build a little habitat for geese with a little ramp for the baby geese to walk up. |
| 1:11.6 | That's nice. |
| 1:13.0 | It was good. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I mean, Wyatt Coke wasn't invited, so it couldn't have been that cool, |
| 1:18.0 | but I'm sure you had a nice time. |
| 1:20.0 | And Jamie said it that's on New Town Creek, is that right? Yeah, it it's on New Town Creek is that right? Yeah it's on the |
| 1:24.3 | New Town Creek they just moved around the corner from where they were before but |
| 1:27.2 | noted fancy body of water New Town Creek. There are so many geese though and you see them just drinking out of it and you know |
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