Jordan Klepper Fingers The Conspiracy

December 14, 2022 10:40 AM

After spending years engaging with MAGA members, Q followers, and other believers in conspiracies, The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper finally takes stock of all the crazy and tries to understand it. The six-part podcast Jordan Klepper Fingers The Conspiracy [Apple Podcast page with listening links] features conversations with sane people who are experts in different conspiracies, and outlines their origins and how it all fits together. Episodes run around an hour.

If you'd rather watch than listen, the series is also on YouTube:

Is JFK Jr. Still Alive?
Pizzagate: Are Democrats Harvesting Children's Blood?
The Early Internet & 9/11 Conspiracies
Donald Trump Runs The Military & The Role Of Militias
Hunter Biden's Laptop
Voter Fraud, Italian Satellites and...Marla Maples?

Full Playlist

posted by hippybear (12 comments total)

I really wanted to like this, but there are so many ads in the podcast! It’s almost unlistenable.
posted by Mr. Excellent at 10:44 AM on December 14, 2022

Huh. There are zero ads in the YouTube version, so that's an odd thing. I didn't listen to the audio version.
posted by hippybear at 10:47 AM on December 14, 2022 [4 favorites]

I didn't listen to the audio version.

I watched the audio version. Wasn't much to see.
posted by Servo5678 at 11:07 AM on December 14, 2022 [12 favorites]

That's what they want you to think. Actually you've just subjected yourself to hours of subliminal leftist visual propaganda, none of which you can now remember seeing.
posted by flabdablet at 11:14 AM on December 14, 2022 [5 favorites]

I really wanted to get into this but it's super hard to listen patiently while certain people jabber on with no facts. Started with the 9/11 conspiracies. Gonna give it another try on some of the topics though.
posted by tiny frying pan at 11:41 AM on December 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Fnord?
posted by Jacen at 2:20 PM on December 14, 2022 [9 favorites]

That last comment was blank...I didn't think that was possible?


Addition for clarity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
posted by foonly at 2:38 PM on December 14, 2022 [13 favorites]

Related book: I recently re-listened to Jon Ronson's "Them: Adventures with Extremists" (which he narrates!). Fascinating. His view is that many conspiracy people have converged on a strangely similar idea: a small group of people run the world. And, he visits them! With Alex Jones!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Rulers_of_the_World
posted by shavenwarthog at 8:35 PM on December 14, 2022

That last comment was blank...I didn't think that was possible?

Huh, I saw a question mark. Maybe get your eyes checked?
posted by inexorably_forward at 10:39 PM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

His view is that many conspiracy people have converged on a strangely similar idea: a small group of people run the world

To be fair, that's not wrong.

Where the conspiracists go off the rails is in thinking that the small group of people involved is somehow not well documented on the Forbes rich list.

There is nothing shadowy about these people, and it's not a conspiracy when it comes with that much PR. There's no disguising who they are, and there's no disguising what they're doing. You don't need a conspiracy if what you have is vast amounts of wealth, the power that brings, and a shared interest in stopping any State from taking any of it off you.
posted by flabdablet at 3:00 AM on December 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

Don’t bring me into this shit. My conspiracies are fun and light hearted.
posted by fnord at 5:41 AM on December 15, 2022 [5 favorites]

There are zero ads in the YouTube version

Which doesn't seem viewable in the UK.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 3:28 AM on December 16, 2022