RFK Jr. - The Presidential Candidate for Wellness Conspiracists?

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

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Imperfect Paradise: Yoga's "Queen of Conspiracies": Part 4: RFK Jr. - The Presidential Candidate for Wellness Conspiracists?
A year after Yoga’s “Queen of Conspiracy Theories” first release, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido explores a new, unexpected chapter in this story with Conspirituality podcast host Matthew Remski, Politico journalist David Freedlander, and LAist Correspondent Emily Guerin, who reported the series. This episode examines how the conspiracy theories, once relegated to a subset of yoga and wellness communities, are being brought into the political mainstream through the presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is campaigning on a mix of conspiracies from both the wellness world and the far right.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Larry Mantel.
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0:14.0	Hey, it's Antonia Cérejido, the host of imperfect paradise,
0:20.0	a show about hidden worlds and messy realities.
0:24.7	We first released Yoga's Queen of Conspiracy Theories a year ago, and as we were planning to re-release
0:29.9	the series, I asked correspondent Emily Garran who reported this story.
0:34.0	What has happened in this last year?
0:36.0	Are there any developments in the Yoga Conspiracy world?
0:39.0	And she suggested that I check in with Matthew Remsky,
0:42.0	one of the hosts of
0:43.6	conspiratoriality, a podcast that looks at the intersection between
0:47.2	spiritual communities and conspiracies. And that conversation with Matthew
0:52.4	opened up a whole new chapter in this story
0:55.0	that I was really not expecting.
0:58.0	There's a general process of mainstreaming that I think reaches its pinnacle with the
1:07.8	presidential candidacy of R.F.K. Jr. We found ourselves on the presidential
1:12.2	campaign trail in In this episode, a journey through
1:16.1	the yoga boom of the 90s, the inner turmoil within a prominent democratic political family, and finally we land in a Spanish colonial house in
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