Out of all the bizarre conspiracy theories out there, the theory that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is comedian Bill Hicks, is definitely one of them.
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This episode features technobrarian Luc Brien from Libsaurus on a wide range of conspiracy theories including Alex Jones is Bill Hicks, Finland is a made up country, 9/11 was an inside job and GMOs are evil. Luc finishes the episode with some tips for how to stop spreading fake news. This episode is a continuation of the discussion on fake news from last episode #180.
You can listen to Luc’s talk on this topic here. This talk is from the 2017 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference – see the notes of our 179th episode for links to all of the talks from this conference.
Check out the James Cook University Fake News Guide and Luc’s recommended songs about fake news!
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Clips:
The Living End ‘Tabloid Magazine’, Info Wars ‘Child Slave Colony On Mars!’, Nine Inch Nails ‘Survivalism’.
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The combo of the two looks kinda like John Ritter.
Yep, pretty close!
Nick