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🗓️ 21 February 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome listener to premium chapter 201 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Mickey |
| 0:20.9 | Willis and Pandemic 3 episode. |
| 0:23.5 | As always we are your host Jake Brokotansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. |
| 0:28.2 | For Mickey Willis, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a transformational journey. |
| 0:33.1 | In late 2019 he was a relatively unknown filmmaker and producer behind a string of independent |
| 0:38.3 | documentaries he described as socially conscious. |
| 0:41.5 | By May of 2020 he had made the LA Times for entirely different reasons. |
| 0:46.2 | Meet the OHI Dad who made the most notorious piece of coronavirus disinformation yet, |
| 0:51.3 | read the headline, Here's from the article by Josh Rottenberg and Stacey Perman. |
| 0:55.4 | In filmmaker Mickey Willis uploaded a 26 minute video called Plandemic to the internet |
| 1:00.4 | on May 4th, he knew it was likely to cause a stir. |
| 1:03.7 | But Willis didn't bank on becoming the poster boy for coronavirus disinformation. |
| 1:08.4 | In reality he was just a dad in OHI making low budget movies out of his house. |
| 1:13.2 | The closest he'd ever come to viral fame was when he posted a video in 2015 to his YouTube |
| 1:18.0 | channel about how he bought his young son a little mermaid doll at the toy store, a moment |
| 1:23.0 | of open-minded, non-gender conforming parenting that earned him more than 4 million views |
| 1:27.9 | and a lot of Tories spot on the local news. |
| 1:30.7 | At the time of this article Willis was still somewhat apologetic about the conspiracy theorizing |
| 1:35.5 | in the first pandemic movie. |
| 1:37.3 | We made the video to go viral. |
| 1:39.2 | Willis said over FaceTime earlier this week from his home in the OHI Valley where he lives |
| 1:43.2 | with his wife and business partner Nadia Salamanca and their two sons. |
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