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Yes. We are on the bed.

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You could call it an homage
to old YouTube.

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I call it...

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comfortable for my butt.

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Conspiracy theories.

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So as somebody who's
lost many a night

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tumbling down Wikipedia
rabbit holes,

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I love a good conspiracy
theory.

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It's like, "Ooh, aliens!"

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"Ooh, how do people make
such big triangles?"

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I think that that
it's just fun

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imagining the world
to be more interesting

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than what I was taught.

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But then something weird
happened?

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A couple weeks ago,
I found myself

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in the middle of
a conspiracy theory.

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And then, all of the fun
was replaced with just...

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pure confusion.

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The conspiracy itself

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is, like, weird and fun
and innocuous.

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However, what I really
cared about is, like,

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how do you get to that point?"

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how do you start seeing signs
that were never there

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to begin with.

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That's what I want to know.

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And I also want to, like,
disprove this conspiracy theory

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'cause it's whack.

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However, as the person
in the middle of all of this,

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I can imagine why I'd be
seen as unreliable.

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So...

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...I'm calling on a friend!

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Uhh, I don't know
how to put this.

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How do you put this?
People think that I

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am part of the Illuminati.

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Uh-

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Well, are you?

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[laughing]

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This is just one
of the comments,

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but I think it really
summarizes the issue.

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"I find this channel to
be highly disingenuous-"

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"-Corporate product masked
to have the appearance of

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an independently run YouTube channel."
"There's no way a single person

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is that skilled at animation,
editing, presenting, research-"

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"Everything is too professional for that-"
"There's no way this girl is the one-"

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"-production company put
this video together

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with you just as a host."

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So now- Now...
Now what?

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Why am I calling you?
Right?

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Yeah. I'm, like, "How do
you want me to prove this?

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I am wondering if you could explain