Interview with Elgen Strait on the Unification Church and the assassination of Shinzo Abe
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
The main portion of the episode features an interview with returning guest, Elgen Strait, host of the Falling Out podcast. Previously we've had Elgen on to talk about his life growing up as a second-generation member of Reverend Moon's Unification Church (the Moonies) and also to help us decode some historical lectures of Moon. This time he is back to talk about the recent assassination of the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the role that the Unification church played in that event. Heavy stuff but it felt like an important topic to discuss given Elgen's expertise, Chris' location, and the theme of the podcast.
But that's not all!
Also in this episode, you get a slightly out-of-date update on Alex Jone's trial (which will be good preparation for a forthcoming interview with Knowledge Fight's Dan Friesen) and a mini-decoding of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's recent conversation. Consider this a coda to the techno monk episode, that perhaps gives a glimpse into the more sinister side of that somewhat endearing naivety.
The next decoding episode we are back with the sensemakers and it's one you won't want to miss!
Links
- Falling Out Podcast
- Elgen's YouTube video on the Unification Church & human trafficking
- Elgen's YouTube video discussing the motivations of Testuya Yamagami
- Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #300
- Our previous episode interviewing Elgen on DTG
- Our decoding episode with Elgen looking at Reverend Moon's speeches
- Alex Jone's trial highlight
- Knowledge Fight's post-trial review episode (712) with the parents' trial lawyers
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome to Dakota Lagoonis the podcast we're an anthropologist |
| 0:27.7 | and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try |
| 0:31.5 | to understand what they're talking about. I'm |
| 0:32.9 | Professor Matt Brown and with me is Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh and we are |
| 0:38.5 | going to be talking about a few things today and Chris is going to be interviewing someone and then we |
| 0:44.7 | do some other stuff. |
| 0:47.7 | It's not an joke. |
| 0:48.7 | This is why you're the master of Introduction Smart. Who wouldn't want to listen to a |
| 0:55.0 | podcast after that stunning introduction? It's like my generic introduction. It's my |
| 1:02.1 | full-back introduction. |
| 1:03.4 | Is it just, yeah, we're going to do a couple of things. |
| 1:05.4 | Someone will talk to someone. |
| 1:06.9 | You'll hear people make some jokes and comments on stuff. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, we can just copy this and paste it onto every subsequent episode. Save a lot of buy. on neck of the woods. Yes, yes. This neck of the woods. But this neck of the woods. Anyway, so |
| 1:26.8 | Chris, Chris, though, you've got a couple of items on your agenda you're wanting to get through. |
| 1:32.4 | As many people tell me online, I have an agenda and a mile long and visible from space now. |
| 1:39.0 | There are a couple of events which have been happening recently in the Guru's fear that I think |
| 1:45.2 | are notable and one is the ongoing almost finished now I think they're in the they've all awarded some of the |
| 1:54.1 | damages today the civil trial of Alex Jones from some of the Sandy Hook parents |
| 2:01.6 | and that trial has been a little bit a source of online |
| 2:09.1 | attention various video clips coming out and amusing moments happening as well as some genuine heartfelt |
| 2:19.7 | and emotional testimony from the parents. but have you been following this |
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