I Hate the ‘90s feat. John Ganz (E282)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Do you look back on the early 90s with a sense of fondness? In this episode, we hope to ruin that for you just a little bit. What if we told you that this time period was crucial in the development of American right wing populism and therefore crucial for the eventual election of Donald Trump and the rise of QAnon? Bet you’re a little less nostalgic for those slap bracelets now. We speak with John Ganz, author of the new book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. He explains how KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, Economist Murray Rothbard, Paleoconservative Pat Buchanan, Texas Tycoon Ross Perot, and other colorful figures laid the groundwork for the results of the 2016 election and all its consequences. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605445/whentheclockbroke John Ganz on Twitter https://x.com/lionel_trolling Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to podcast mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAA Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:37.0	I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA Podcast episode 282.
0:41.6	I hate the 90s featuring John Gans.
0:44.4	As always, we're your host Jake Rokatanski,
0:46.8	Julian Field, and Travis View.
0:48.8	Remember the early 90s, assuming you are a millennial or older. The Cold War had ended and with it the possibility
0:56.1	of the end of the accompanying national paranoia. The Consul Wars pitted the Sega Genesis with its lower
1:01.7	price point in larger library of games against the
1:04.1	Super Nintendo which boasts high quality exclusive releases like The Legends of Zelda
1:08.6	a link to the past and Star Fox. Companies like America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy gave owners of home computers a way to access the information Super Highway.
1:19.0	The USA Olympic basketball team, the Dream Team, mercilessly crushed every national squad they face in
1:25.2	Barcelona. America was so fearless that young people proudly wore t-shirts
1:29.1	printed with the stylized words, no fear.
1:31.8	I remember this is such a wonderful time I had a big dream team
1:36.4	t-shirt with all the like cartoon kind of like big head caricatures of all the
1:40.4	of all the players oh man you're taking me back did you have the loony tunes dressed like
1:46.4	crisscross no but I had the crisscross I had the crisscross cassette tape and like definitely thought about could I get away with
1:55.9	wearing my clothes backwards.
1:57.5	Yeah, Jake nearly died from a slap on bracelet injury. Yeah, he tripped over his parachute pants, it was very tragic.
2:07.0	And the charismatic politicians from Arkansas, named William Jefferson Clinton,
2:12.0	led the centrist faction of the Democrats to the White House at the young age of 46.
2:16.5	The emerging liberal consensus would surely last a thousand years.
2:20.5	It was seemingly a world away from modern American political and cultural problems with its mainstream
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