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Paranormal Reality with JV Johnson (a/k/a Beyond Reality Paranormal Podcast)

The King of All Con Men - Miles Harvey - 093020

Paranormal Reality with JV Johnson (a/k/a Beyond Reality Paranormal Podcast)

JV Johnson

Science

4.6689 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Author Miles Harvey takes a look at a little-known but very significant tale of a man who declared himself king - in America. This story of 19th-century curiosity includes religion, espionage, piracy, US Presidents and more. Harvey's book - The King of Confidence - tells the story of James Strang, and a strange tale it is indeed.

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Host - JV Johnson - www.facebook.com/jvjparanormal 

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0:00.0

The night may be long and the dark may be deep, but the answers are there to be found.

0:07.6

Whether it's the normal, the abnormal, or the paranormal, you're in the right place.

0:12.6

Let's go beyond reality.

0:14.4

Welcome to the program.

0:16.3

By the way, if you dared tip your toe into Facebook or probably other social media today,

0:25.1

it was like, it was like dipping your toe into shark-filled waters.

0:30.5

Everybody was on edge.

0:32.1

Everybody is waiting to pounce on anybody who says anything about the debate one way or another.

0:37.9

This is just poison.

0:38.9

And, you know, the people that hide behind their keyboards and their screens and their

0:42.8

phones and say, you know, things that they wouldn't say to somebody to their face,

0:48.3

you know what?

0:50.1

If that's the result of social media, I think we really need to rethink what we're doing.

0:53.8

Speaking of which, I started watching, what's the name of that documentary?

0:58.2

I think it's on Netflix.

0:59.6

The social, no, not the social network.

1:02.6

That's the one about Facebook.

1:05.1

I know, whatever.

1:05.8

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

1:07.0

There's a documentary on social, or on Netflix that talks about the social media

1:12.0

companies and their attempt to influence and actually manipulate people. I don't think that's

1:19.8

anything that's really a surprise. I mean, they're all businesses. You know, their goal is to make

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