Tyler McBrien

You're like, you made some points.

I don't agree with the tactics.

And it was, I think, a pretty local target for a while.

And then there was a Wired article, I believe, in 2008, around the time when the internet is also...

growing that these conspiracy theories that were at once localized just spread and multiplied and changed their forms.

And another inflection point came in 2016 when Trump was elected, QAnon's on the rise, and then it just kind of became subsumed in 2016.

The QAnon world, it became part of Georgia's special brand of QAnon.

This may resonate with you.

I was talking with the AJC's politics reporter who's covered this, and he said that conspiracy theories used to be fun.

They used to be like this crazy lore.

And Elberton really played up the lore, and still does with the Guidestones.

But then something changed, and now they have like...

action items and a more political orientation and like to-do lists.

And, you know, that's what happened to the Guidestones ultimately.

Someone was like, yes, they're bad, but we should also blow them up.

You know, it's like, it's that extra step.

But yeah, so I'm trying to think of the other conspiracy theories attached to it.

It's really kind of like anyone you have, there's like the Guidestones can fit in because they're so malleable.

They're so strange.

Yes, yeah.