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Thank you so much for listening and supporting us. We couldn't do it without you. Hey, welcome to the Social Club podcast. I'm Josh Kovenski, and I'm here with Joe Ragazzo. How's it going, Joe?

It's going great, Josh. How are you? I'm good. We have a great episode today. We interviewed

an author, journalist Kelly Weil, about conspiracy theories, her favorite one, the flat earth theory,

which is exactly what it sounds like, and how and why they've taken over American politics.

I think it was a really good conversation.

What did you think, Joe?

I loved it.

It was really interesting.

First of all, I think conspiracy theories are intrinsically interesting, inherently interesting.

They're just very, they're good stories, which is something we get into.

I think what I really enjoyed most was Kelly explaining sort of the psychological

pull of conspiracy theories and how they're sort of filling a void that you could say is created by, you know,

the way society is ordered.

And I thought that whole, I thought that was very, very interesting.

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