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🗓️ 18 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Welcome listener to chapter 247 of the QAA podcast, the death of negative 48 episode. |
0:23.4 | As always we are your hosts Julian Field and Travis View. |
0:27.4 | Two years ago we covered perhaps the most bizarre offshoots of QAnon. |
0:32.6 | This is the Dallas-based negative 48 cult. |
0:35.9 | The group's leader, Michael Protsman, who himself went by the name, negative 48. |
0:40.3 | Built up the following of people who believe that JFK Jr and JFK were alive and will |
0:46.0 | return to public life soon. |
0:48.4 | They also claim that numerology can reveal the secrets of the world and a lot of other |
0:53.0 | things that really are just too out there for even most QAnon followers. |
0:57.4 | When Michael Protsman and his group weren't traveling around the country to attend Trump rallies, |
1:01.6 | they stayed at Dallas area who tells and in one famous instance, with a Dealy Plaza, the |
1:06.8 | site of JFK's assassination, to await the return of him and JFK Jr. |
1:12.2 | Protsman even convinced many of his followers to abandon their former lives, leaving friends |
1:16.9 | and family members confused and heartbroken. |
1:19.5 | Michael Protsman's story ended last June when he died after crashing a motorcycle, but |
1:24.8 | the cult he built lives on. |
1:26.9 | To talk about Michael Protsman and the impact of negative 48, we are joined by Donio Sullivan |
1:32.7 | from CNN, and after we speak to Doni, we're going to talk to the Australian researcher |
1:37.1 | known as Karma, who had been closely following the group and how it fractured after Protsman's |
1:42.4 | death. |
1:43.4 | Donio Sullivan has been reporting on negative 48 for a long time and produced a documentary |
1:47.9 | on the group called Waiting for JFK. |
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