The Vast Mermaid Conspiracy

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Has the 1 percent really rigged the economy? Why do Argentinians believe the Vatican is hiding aliens? And finally, what’s the deal with Bigfoot (and the associated erotica therein)? University of Miami political scientist and conspiracy theory expert Joseph Uscinski joins Jonah to answer these questions, explain who believes such things, and why. We suggest you listen to this truly bizarre episode before the Lizard People take it off the air. Show Notes: -FiveThirtyEight podcast with Joe -The 1 percent rigs the economy, according to Bernie -Princess Diana conspiracy theories -8 out of 10 French people believe a conspiracy theory -How not to write about the Koch brothers -Rothschilds (Rothschildren?) control everything -QAnon -Yuval’s book, A Time to Build -Secret oil billionaires are out to get Obama -Oliver Stone's JFK -SaneBox.com/dingo for a $25 credit on your subscription

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	I'm a decent gentleman
0:16.6	Can I please have your attention
0:18.6	Thank you
0:27.6	Reans here listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg close to the Remnant hot pass brought you by the ditch batch and the dispatch calm
0:33.9	Go to the dispatch calm to sign up for all our wares and to find out what exactly is the chemical that Colonel Sanders puts into his chicken fortnight to make you crave it fortnightly
0:45.3	That's particularly relevant tease because
0:47.3	At the suggestion of a listener we're doing more and more of these of people who listen to interesting guests on other podcasts and are like
0:56.7	Hey, you should get this guy. He's up your alley
0:59.6	For your podcast and that's what we did so we have professor Joseph Yuzinski
1:05.9	They get it right you got it right all right
1:08.8	Who is a political scientist at the University of Miami and and often cited
1:15.9	internationally recognized
1:17.9	expert on conspiracy theories and and and how they disseminate and
1:24.7	And he was on the 538 podcast which I recommend to people but we're gonna cover a little the same ground just to
1:31.0	Set the level on all that kind of stuff. So
1:35.0	I guess first thing how did you get interested in this? I wish I had a more romantic story
1:40.0	But it just comes down to I had a colleague at University Miami who said hey, let's do something and this was
1:46.5	About 12 years ago and at the time no one cared about conspiracy theories
1:51.4	It was sort of yeah the birth or thing going on with Obama's birth certificate and 9-11
1:57.5	Theories were a little bit in the past but these weren't really
2:00.9	a major part of American politics or a major part of political science at that point
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