Lindsey Weber
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60 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Feb
Lindsey Weber’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you.
It was fun.
What do you say, Mike? I think statistically, given the size and age of the universe, it seems pretty likely that life has existed somewhere at some point. Now, does that mean they're here and flying around and dueling it with F-16s? Seems unlikely, but you never know.
Sure. Conspiracy theories offer a sense of certainty in a very uncertain and very random world. When you believe that there is a dark cabal plotting in the shadows to personally ruin your life, it explains a lot of things. It explains why maybe you couldn't get ahead in business. It explains maybe why you got sick or maybe why you got saddled with a medical debt you can't pay.
We were very uncomfortable sitting in the answer, I don't know.
Yeah, it really does. And I think that's why we saw so much conspiracism blooming during lockdown, when suddenly the entire country, the entire planet was confronted with this catastrophic event that forced all of us into our own very private communities, sometimes just our own house with nobody to talk to and nothing to do.
And they went looking for explanations, and some found them in the worst possible places. Hmm.
Hillary Clinton really was sort of the perfect opponent for him because Trump was able to pick up a baton that a previous generation of cranks and conspiracy theorists had already left for him. The early 90s were absolutely consumed by an industry of Clinton conspiracy theories. You had Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Vince Foster, cattle futures, all of these countless things that –
seemed crazy to people on the left. But for people like Rush Limbaugh and the growing right wing talk radio industry, the very earliest embers of the internet, this was a huge driver of commerce and culture. So Trump really was just stepping into a role that had already been laid out for him.
And he was able to push it out to people who were really desperate for ways to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president.
And there's also a general feeling of don't trust anyone that has become a real currency in the conspiracy theory world, regardless of party affiliation. There's this idea that the media is lying to you, the politicians are lying to you, the doctors are lying to you, the banks are lying to you.
And only these certain influencers are telling you the truth, whether that's InfoWars, whether that's any number of TikTok influencers. There's a belief that everyone's lying to you, but I'm telling you the truth. Trust me. Oh, by the way, if you want to subscribe to my podcast, you want to buy my T-shirts, you want to buy these brain pills, it's going to help you become just like me.
So it becomes this enmeshment of trust and commerce and paranoia to where most people just end up where they don't know up from down or left from right, and they just want someone who isn't lying to them.
We are hardwired to seek patterns. We are hardwired to be afraid of things that are unknown to us. And there will always be people who exploit those fears through books, through pamphlets, through political movements. So we're never going to leave behind the underlying reasons why people flock to conspiracism.
But what we can do is confront conspiracism in our own lives and in the lives of the people closest to us.
Thank you.
Yeah, I want to say it was Cats as well.
You know, I just have a lot of really useless trivia ping-ponging in my brain, and occasionally I get to trot it out for people.
Yeah, this is great.
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