“TuAnon” Unmasked: The Secretive Star of Dolphins Twitter Speaks (ENCORE)

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of two seasons in the NFL, a story has been brewing around Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. For a while, the beats of the story were pretty familiar––promising young quarterback comes into the league, has his ups and downs, and leaves so many wondering if he’ll ever be the star they dreamed he could be. But last season, that story took a turn unlike any we’ve ever seen. That’s because a subset of fans decided to take control of the narrative themselves and, via Twitter, launch “TuAnon,” a conspiracy theory fixated on an alleged plot inside the Dolphins and throughout sports media to undermine Tua at every turn. So ESPN’s Dolphins beat reporter Marcel Louis-Jacques set out to find the mystery superfan at the center of the entire thing. And what he got was not just an interview, but a journey down a rabbit hole that gets deeper each day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright, so we're gonna have to play a little bit of good news bad news here at the very
0:06.0	top of the show and hello by the way, it is me Pablo, spoiler alert.
0:12.5	Bad news first, yeah, we're on vacation this week.
0:18.0	I know, but look, we're objectively overworked.
0:21.2	I think we are, I mean, look, our staff, we just want an Edward R. Merrow word by the way,
0:27.1	not out to our staff, they are incredible, but it's the last cast of summer and about
0:32.6	season about to kick off and we have a list prepared for you of some of our favorite
0:39.3	episodes from this past year and that's the good news honestly because today's episode
0:44.7	is you will hear it's kind of a doozy and so we're gonna start with a story brought
0:49.7	to us by Dolphins Beatrider Marcel Luizhach who accepted one of the most insane assignments
0:54.6	I've ever given to someone as we will explain.
0:57.1	But his job was to bring us the story of the online cult that has been surrounding Miami
1:04.5	Dolphins quarterback to a tongue of Iloa and so you are cordially invited to take a journey
1:11.3	with us.
1:12.9	Deep down into the two a non rabbit hole as yeah, we discovered just how far this thing
1:20.6	goes.
1:21.6	It is Monday, August 22nd by the way and this is ESPN daily.
1:33.2	Marcel Luizhach Miami Dolphins Beatrider I am honestly I'm honestly kind of worried to
1:40.0	talk about the thing we're about to talk about with you.
1:43.1	You should be this is this is high level high security classified information you know
1:49.1	not everybody gets to know this I feel like the topic it's so bizarre that when someone
1:56.5	hears the word to a non I feel like we need to explain like what it really is because
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