The new cycle was being dominated by a president who was completely out of control and seemed eager to start a nuclear war.

And I think a lot of the reaction I saw to it then was just fun, aliens.

Like, and that's a very human thing to want to find something sort of lighter and kind of goofy when the news is like that.

And I think it also held that it wasn't very polarized that Margarubio and Harry Reid both are really into aliens.

If we knew what the aliens wanted to do on capital gains taxes, maybe there'd be like a real divide there but are there aliens

seems fairly neutral? Welcome to offline. I'm John Favreau. I'm Max Fisher and you just heard

from today's guest senior correspondent at Vox Dylan Matthews.

It's Conspiracy Theory Week here at offline.

Oh my God, is it?

We're going to talk about a listener named Kate

who's taking the offline challenge a little too seriously. She's doing great though.

Sir screen time numbers are amazing.

Very low.

Because it's been months since anyone has seen or heard

from the Princess of Wales and future Queen of England.

Where the hell is she?

Why did she post a heavily photoshopped, maybe even fake Mother's Day picture on Twitter?

And why can't we all stop talking about it?

I can't. all stop talking about it? I can't give it up.

Me either, man.

Then after the break, Max, I know you talk to your old colleague at Vox Dylan Matthews

about another conspiracy theory that took the internet by storm, the Pentagon's 2021

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