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QAA Podcast

Episode 247: The Death of Negative 48 feat Donie O'Sullivan & Karma

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The end of an era for a destructive numerology-based QAnon cult led by Michael Protzman AKA Negative 48 — a group that got infamous for their belief that JFK Jr and even JFK were on the cusp of returning from the dead. We spoke to CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan about his documentary exploring their effect on the families of those involved and the death of their leader. We also spoke with researcher Karma about her long-standing work on the group. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Donie O'Sullivan: https://twitter.com/donie / https://www.cnn.com/profiles/donie-osullivan Karma: https://twitter.com/2022_Karma Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

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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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