The conspiracy theorist is a person who with no evidence at all is just looking for conspiracies. And we do know there's a thing called Operation Mockingbird, which again is a thing. It was a CIA operation in that they planted operatives into the media to plant trigger words and to weave newspapers towards stories like 9-11. The problem is it's like anything. When you hear intelligent people on TV really cooling it and talking about tin foil hats and things. It suddenly has a lot of credibility. So it's just been planted deliberately in the culture.
[Part 2 of 2] Since recording part 1 of this conversation, Antony caught COVID-19 and lost a bit of weight, but he managed to talk for about 100 minutes here about more topics he has previously covered in episodes of his podcast "Life & Life Only". Here we discuss diverse things including the extraordinary feats of endurance by David Blaine🕴🏻, food and dieting 🍔, Stanley Kubrik's film "The Shining" 🪓, the term "conspiracy theory" 🤫, the ways that comedy shows can reveal the truth 🎭, and the complex art of happiness 🙂.
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