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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Who run the world? Freemasons? – The truth about your favourite conspiracy

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Freemasons are often blamed when things go wrong. But are they behind a global conspiracy or are they just a glorified men’s drinking club? Siân Pattenden is joined by historian John Dickie, author of The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, to discover the truth behind this secretive fraternal group who have been blamed for everything – from corrupting the police to the global financial crash. “They have nothing to do with stonemasons but still use their symbols as moral metaphors.” “The secrets are extraordinarily mundane.” “It’s not the content of the secrets, it's the rituals and sense of togetherness that matter.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Siân Pattenden. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

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0:32.0

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1:17.6

more Grand Master than the Furious Five? Professor John Dickie is the author of The Craft, How the Freemasons Made the Modern World.

1:26.0

It's a forensic look into the history and spread over the most secret of secret societies.

1:32.0

Does the centuries old Brotherhood still have power and influence?

1:35.1

Or is it the last outpost for men of a certain age who like to dress up funny?

1:40.0

My first question would be, is Freemasonry a secret cult that controls the world or a glorified drinking club?

1:48.0

It's neither really, although it has had aspirations to be both in in different

1:55.2

circumstances and some people have certainly imagined it to be a great

2:00.0

conspiracy to control the world. How did it come about and why? Why did we need

2:05.6

free masons and why did we need a secret society? I'm not sure we need

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