Podcast appearances and mentions of kelly weill

Investigate reporter Kelly Weill discusses Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Then Liz Pollock on her book, Lost Restaurants Of Santa Cruz County.

The Lincoln Project's own Rick Wilson mocks Gov. Ron Desantis' astoundingly bad performance against Gov. Gavin Newsome. The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill, explains why the Seth Rich and Pizzagate conspiracy theories have resurfaced again. Environmental Defense Fund's Fred Krupp details the big news from this weekend, an agreement that will help hold gas companies accountable for methane leaks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to Kelly Weill from the Daily Beast about conspiracies, cop cities, and GOP Congressional staffers.Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: https://pod.link/1647010767/Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:Kelly Weill at the Daily Beasthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/author/kelly-weillOff the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anythinghttps://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kelly-weill/off-the-edge/9781643753379/‘Stop Cop City' Activists Hit With RICO Charges By Same Grand Jury That Indicted Trumphttps://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-cop-city-activists-hit-with-rico-charges-by-same-georgia-grand-jury-that-indicted-trump?ref=authorIs California's ‘Cop Campus' the Next Cop City Fight?https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-californias-cop-campus-the-next-cop-city-fight?ref=authorMom Left, Kelly's newsletter about the intersection of parenthood and politicsEmail us: didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.didnothingwrongpod.com/subscribe

Andy Levy, co-host of TNA, suspects there's more to the 2024 presidential hopeful's workout vids than just stupidity. He discusses his theory with co-host Danielle Moodie, along with what he thinks is happening in Russia. Then, Kelly Weill, reporter at The Daily Beast who covers far-right groups and trends, tells Danielle what we should know about “Moms for Liberty,” a mom group that operates like Proud Boys and are just as dangerous. Plus! Law Dork newsletter's Chris Geidner breaks down a recent Supreme Court case ruling, Jones v Hendrix, which essentially prevents some legally innocent people from challenging their conviction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of The New Abnormal, Alyssa Farah Griffin, co-host of “The View” and former Trump White House director of Strategic Communication, talks about her experience firsthand in the orb of Trump sexual harassment. Plus! The Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill joins the podcast to talk about the Texas Allen Mall shooter and how the right wing is trying to whitewash his reputation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill joins The New Abnormal to talk the reputation laundering of the Allen, TX mall shooter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fever Dreams hosts Kelly Weill and Will Sommer examine a classic style of right-wing outrage—which never seems to back itself up with evidence. Plus! A conversation with Aaron Kleinman of the States Project about all the wacky, extreme characters inhabiting America's state houses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how Trump's decision to fly to New York instead of hunkering down in Mar-a-Lago to face his historic arraignment had the markings of a political scheme—one which denied stoppedDeSantis from making his own big patriotic stand against the charges. Then, national political reporter for Semafor, David Weigel, joins the podcast and weighs in on the latest Trump drama. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the biggest myths in the history of human discovery is that the idea of a spherical earth is new. In fact, it is the opposite. The incorrect idea that the world is flat is what's new. In this discussion with Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill, we discuss her book, "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything." She explains how most of us have misconceptions about those who think the earth is a disc, and how those misconceptions can lead to missed opportunities to reign in dangerous conspiracy theories. She also explains how the idea of a flat earth was born in the 19th century and how conspiracy theories endanger those who believe in them, as well as everyone else. She shows how followers of flat earth ebbed and flowed, until Donald Trump took over the American presidency. Then, her reporting has found, belief in flat earth skyrocketed.Information on her book from Workman Publishing can be found here https://www.workman.com/authors/kelly-weillShe is on social media at https://twitter.com/KELLYWEILLSupport our show at https://patreon.com/axelbankhistory**A portion of every contribution is given to a charity for children's literacy** "Axelbank Reports History and Today" can be found on social media at https://twitter.com/axelbankhistory https://instagram.com/axelbankhistoryhttps://facebook.com/axelbankhistory

Hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill unpack the QAnon connections behind newly elected Michigan GOP leader Kristina Karamo, who declared Michigan as “ground zero for the globalist takeover of the United States of America.” A wave of more than 100 deaths over the past two years at Fort Bragg has rocked the U.S. military—caused in part by an increasing number of overdoses, says Rolling Stone investigative reporter Seth Harp on this week's episode of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast. Plus, a look into both hosts' personal history with the comic Dilbert—and its embattled artist, Scott Adams, who sparked a firestorm last week by going on a racist rant and calling Black people a “hate group,” among other things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of OFF THE EDGE author Kelly Weill about Flat Earthers, conspiracy culture and why some people will believe anything. Kelly Weill, the author of OFF THE EDGE: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture and Why People Will Believe Anything (2023),  is a journalist at the Daily Beast, where she covers extremism, disinformation, and the internet. As a leading media voice on the role of online conspiracy theories in current affairs, she has discussed Flat Earth and other digital fringes on ABC's Nightline, CNN, Al Jazeera, and other national and international news outlets. She lives in New York.  Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Flat earth beliefs have been spreading alarmingly in recent years. They offer plenty of fodder for punchlines, yes--but they also have ties to more nefarious conspiracy theories like QAnon and to other manifestations of political extremism.As a reporter at the Daily Beast, Kelly Weill has been covering it all. And she has written Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything, a book that tells the history of flat earthism, relates many stories from and about its current adherents, and traces its connections to other forms of radical belief.David Priess and Weill discussed the genesis of her interest in conspiracies; what drives people toward conspiracy theories; 9/11 trutherism as a "gateway drug" to other conspiracies; the origins of modern flat earth thinking in the 1800s and its links to religious fundamentalism; how flat earth believers took over and ran Zion, Illinois in the early 20th century; different flat earthers' conceptions of what's above, below, and around the ground; how online videos and social media helped drive a rise in flat earthism; what a flat earth conference is like; the negative impact that flat earth beliefs can have on individuals; how flat earth thinking intersects with other manifestations of conspiracism and with political extremism; how to help people who fall prey to conspiracy theories; and more.Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by David Priess and Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.Works mentioned during this episode:The book Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kathy WeillThe book The Road by Cormac McCarthyThe documentary Behind the CurveKelly Weill's articles at tyhe Daily BeastThe podcast Fever Dreams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first thing Andrew Tate did after his arrest on Romanian human trafficking charges was to complain about “the Matrix”—a shadowy power structure hell-bent on taking him down for, well, some unspoken reason. He is, of course, not the first one to use this term—it's an emerging meme in right-wing spaces online, says Fever Dreams host Will Sommer on this week's episode. Even Logan Paul, the YouTube provocateur and wannabe boxing star, has thrown out the theory to push back on critics after a particularly bad week of PR which began with the discovery of an abandoned pig he apparently once owned. Also on the episode, Sommer and co-host Kelly Weill investigate the origins of a new front in the culture war: gas stoves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ineitha Lynette Hardaway—better known as “Diamond” from the pro-Trump broadcasting duo “Diamond and Silk”—passed away this week, leaving the future of the pair's popular act in limbo. In this week's episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill speculate on what comes next for “Silk”—who was never really the group's frontman, so to speak. Then, the pair tackle Brazil's own Capitol riot, which came nearly two years to the day after Jan. 6. In terms of pure aesthetics, the two scenes were incredibly reminiscent of each other: “They had the flags, they had the marching groups, they had the people walking through government chambers, trashing things,” Weill said. But even as this was all going on, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been camped out in Florida at the home of an MMA star, signing autographs and meeting with American fans of his Trumpian governing style. The state has become a new nexus for the world's various right-wing movements in recent years, according to Fever Dreams guest and The Daily Dot political reporter Claire Goforth—and it appears Bolsonaro is angling to stay there and trade in on his popularity with the MAGA base rather than face the music back at home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It may be the start of a new year, but the Republican Party is back to its old antics again—throwing the House of Representatives into chaos as a rogue group of far-right Congresspeople refuses to step into line and back Kevin McCarthy's bid for the speaker's gavel. Kelly Weill and Will Sommer, hosts of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast, predict that 2023 will only bring more insane antics from the chamber's more controversial corners—and Fever Dreams favorites like Reps. Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene are already floating their best ideas for what to do with their newfound majority power. Plus, the pod explores the arrest of misogynist influencer Andrew Tate—and how the downfall of a MAGA-adjacent internet celebrity leaves the rest of that ecosystem in the lurch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kanye's West's “traveling roadshow of right-wing internet fame balls” may be the topic of the week, but according to Fever Dreams host Will Sommer, fame, like money, does not equal happiness. In this week's episode, Sommer and co-host Kelly Weill discuss the aftermath of Ye's controversial dinner with former President Donald Trump last week. Notably though, it was Ye's guest, the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, that had tongues wagging. Then, Cerise Castle, who covers the presence of gangs in the LA Sheriff's Department in her new podcast, A Tradition of Violence, explains what it takes to become a member. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Twitter really going to “go crazy” now that new owner Elon Musk has allowed previously banned users like former President Donald Trump back on the platform? Hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss the prospects for the beleaguered social media site on this week's episode of Fever Dreams. Also on the episode, Heidi Beedle, a reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder and host of the Western Fringe podcast, tells Sommer and Weill that anti-LGBT hate from Colorado Springs community leaders began peaking before this weekend's shooting at queer venue Club Q. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how just two weeks on from the Pelosi controversy, the Twitter CEO jumped on board a vague and unverified theory that is being used to explain why the “red wave” failed to materialize on Election Day. As well, the hosts talk Kari Lake's Arizona election loss and their surprise that she is among the first to make vague references of fraud during this election cycle, noting her Nov. 15 tweet: “Arizonans know BS when they see it.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Would you eat raw testicles to become an alpha male? This week, Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly of the QAnon Anonymous podcast join us to discuss their new series “Man Clan,” which delves into the dark, dietarily dubious world of masculinity influencers. Meanwhile, as voters go to the polls, election vigilantes are flocking to Telegram channels where they award each other “points” for conspiracy theories about people they baselessly believe to be election “mules.” If Republicans take the House of Representatives, the right might mount an effort to impeach President Joe Biden, albeit on unclear charges. Fever Dreams co-hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill break down how Republicans might try to oust Biden, plus why failed candidate Laura Loomer is now blaming her primary loss on fellow rightwing mudslinger Milo Yiannopoulos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a very good chance that at least two secretary of state positions in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona will be won by people who are part of a coalition put together by a QAnon promoter who some people believe is also JFK Jr. In this week's episode of political podcast Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill take a deeper look at that “shadowy character,” Juan O. Savin, and how he, along with his supporters, could destroy American democracy. Also on the podcast, Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at Media Matters for America who is an expert on all things Savin, says that while it's hard to say exactly what would happen if these candidates take office, “the concern is that if these people got elected they could try to cast doubt on the election result or frankly just try to flat out overturn it and refuse to certify it. What this could do is essentially connect QAnon to a constitutional crisis, and that's what could play out here if that/s what happens.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ken Dilanian, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Kelly Weill, Alyssa Katz, David Plouffe, Michael SteeleThe Pelosi attacker reportedly confesses. Tonight: the explicitly political motive of the Pelosi attack in the suspect's own words, and the non-stop lies and conspiracy theories from the right. Then, can you support an insurrection and get elected governor of New York? New alarm over the Republican candidate there. Plus, what may be promising new polling numbers for Democrats in the Senate. And amid record high profits for fossil fuel companies, the new White House effort to lower the cost of gas.

The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, faces an uphill battle to revive the “ghost town” that is the conservative MAGA site Parler, say hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill in this week's episode of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast. Ye is buying the social media platform after being kicked off Instagram and Twitter for an antisemitic post, Parler's parent company announced Monday. Also on the podcast, Kyle Spencer, journalist and author of the new book Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power, talks MAGA media personality and radio talk show host Charlie Kirk and how he got his start. Then, in this week's “Fresh Hell” segment, Sommer reviews the Fox Nation special The Trial of Hunter Biden, which he describes as “honestly one of the strangest pieces of content” Fox has ever produced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Herschel Walker already faced an uphill battle to become a U.S. senator after The Daily Beast reported he paid for a girlfriend's abortion. But now it appears Walker is embroiled in another fight: one with his own son. Christian Walker, a conservative with a substantial social media following—particularly on TikTok—has taken aim at his father, whom he accused of violence and said abandoned his children from multiple women. “Herschel's problem is that his son has such a way with words,” Will Sommer tells co-host Kelly Weill in this episode of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast, referring to Christian's impassioned online reaction to his father's denials of the abortion allegations. Also on the podcast, Travis Waldron, senior national reporter at the Huffington Post, talks Brazil and its politics, which have been popping off thanks to the Brazilian general election. “The stakes of this one feel pretty high given the concerns about democracy and [President Jair] Bolsonaro's efforts to follow Donald Trump down the path of election skepticism and potentially an all out challenge to the result of the elections,” Waldron says. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump can hold a grudge, Daily Beast reporter Corbin Bolies tells Andy Levy on this episode of The New Abnormal podcast, and he's not wrong. “Donald Trump knows how to hold a grudge and he will, and we've seen that continue throughout the last year and a half, because Donald Trump has consistently attacked Mitch McConnell,” Bolies says, discussing the most recent verbal harassment levied at the former Majority Leader's wife, Elaine Chao, in the form of blatantly racist name-calling on his Truth Social platform. Also on this episode: Hannah Gais, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, joins this episode to co-host with Andy, touching upon the intense violent threats against Dems and Marjorie Taylor Green's try-hard effort to get Republicans to think the threats are for them. Plus! Daily Beast far-right reporter and Fever Dreams podcast co-host Kelly Weill breaks down a huge schism happening within the libertarian party, including how the old Libertarians totally over these new Libertarians' toxicity. Like, beyond Trumpy toxic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Corruption chic” is in. That's according to The Conservateur, a new “D.C.-based fashion-and-lifestyle platform” from some of conservative fashion's most elite, who, upset over Vogue snubbing Melania Trump, are now throwing in their political views with a cute new pair of shoes–or ankle monitors–in their own attempt at creating content. Michael Schaffer, a senior editor at Politico whose Capital City column runs weekly in Politico Magazine, tells hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill in this episode of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast that while he doesn't think Anna Wintour is losing a lot of sleep, the “MAGA answer to Vogue” has landed, and it's already making headlines. In this week's “Fresh Hell” segment, the hosts discuss the right's reaction and misreporting to the emerging trend of colorful fentanyl pills dubbed rainbow fentanyl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's on par with Don't Worry Darling for being one of the most talked about cinematic events of the fall, but just how bad is Goonies star Robert Davi's film My Son Hunter? On this week's episode of The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams podcast, host Will Sommer and returning co-host Kelly Weill review the biopic of President Joe Biden's son Hunter. “It's got legs on Don't Worry Darling,” Weill says. “I think I fell into some kind of brain fog while watching it.” Also on the podcast, Ethan Chorin, Libya expert and author of the new book Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink, digs into the famous 2012 terrorist attacks and the way that Benghazi exists in our politics to this day, particularly on the right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two teens from the same street in Brooklyn, New York are murdered and dismembered a year apart. A dozen years later, the lead suspect was a neighbor. Has he done this before? Did he have more victims?RESOURCES“Metro Briefing | New York: Brooklyn: Body Parts Found Near Subway Tracks” by Michael Wilson, New York Times (February 18, 2005)“Worker Finds a Partial Torso in a Brooklyn Recycling Plant” by William K. Rashbaum, New York Times (February 24, 2005)“Man Sought in Killing and Dismemberment” by Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times (February 19, 2005)“Body Was Cut Up Expertly, Police Say” by William K. Rashbaum, New York Times (February 26, 2005)“A Year After a Teenager Was Dismembered, Still No Answer” by Kareem Fahim and John Koblin, New York Times (February 13, 2006)“A MOTHER'S FIGHT FOR FINDING HER SON'S KILLERS” by Indrani Basu, The Brooklyn Ink (January 20, 2014)“‘You piece of s–t!': Murder victim's family tries to attack suspect in court” by Emily Saul, New York Post (November 17, 2016)“Breakthrough in Brooklyn Teen's 2004 Murder Like 'Opening a Fresh Wound Once Again'” by Sarah Kaufman, Patch Media (November 21, 2016)“Accused Killer of Bushwick Teen Says He's Being Framed” by Gwynne Hogan, dnainfo.com (December 5, 2016)“Cold Case 'Killer' Arraignment Delayed After He Refuses to Be Fingerprinted” by Gwynne Hogan, dnainfo.com (February 22, 2017)“Obscure 2004 ‘cold case' may have led PIX11 — and the NYPD — to a serial killer of teens” by Mary Murphy, PIX11 (February 22, 2017)“Man Held in Cold-Case Death of a Brooklyn Teenager Is Accused in a Second” by Alan Feuer, New York Times (February 22, 2017)“Brooklyn man arrested in 2nd cold case killing” from Associated Press (February 22, 2017)“A Dozen Years, 3 Cold-Case Killings and an Arrest in Brooklyn” by Alan Feuer, New York Times (February 26, 2017)“Alleged Murderer Mouths ‘You Know I Love You' to Victim's Mom at Arraignment” by Erica Byfield, NBC New York (March 3, 2017)“'Cold-Case Killer' Signed His Victim's Funeral Guest Book, DA Says” by Trevor Kapp, dnainfo.com (March 3, 2017)“Snakes, a Life of Crime and Eventually Two Murder Charges” by Alan Feuer, New York Times (March 6, 2017)“Is This Brooklyn's Jack the Ripper?” by Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast (April 11, 2017)“Man convicted of 2004 cold case murder of 17-year-old Bushwick girl” from Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 22, 2018)“Bushwick man gets 25 to life for 2004 murder of 17-year-old girl” from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (September 7, 2018)“Girl's killer tells judge he lost a cousin — who he's also accused of murdering” by Emily Saul, New York Post (September 7, 2018)“Suspected serial killer gets 25 years to life in 2004 slaying of Brooklyn teen” by Mary Murphy, PIX11 (September 7, 2018)“25-to-Life for Rashawn Brazell's Alleged Killer in Separate Murder” by Duncan Osborne, Gay City News (September 7, 2018)Kings County court records (May 15, 2019)“Defense Questions Key Evidence in Rashawn Brazell Murder” by Duncan Osborne, Gay City News (August 14, 2019)Music by ZaharValaha, HarumahiMusic, GioeleFazzeri, Ashot-Danielyan-Composer, MichaelKobrin, Coma-Media from PixabaySupport the show

This is just a sample of our Patreon exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the episode in full by becoming a member at: https://www.patreon.com/indoctrination Our returning guest for this Patreon exclusive Bonus episode is Award-winning author and journalist Kelly Weill. Kelly reports for the Daily Beast covering right-wing extremism and conspiracy culture. She has more than two decades of experience at The Wall Street Journal and other major outlets and is the author of the incredible new book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything " Kelly shares her thoughts from the past several years covering flat earth conferences and conspiracy culture, offering unique insights into the thinking of those who have gone off the edge into conspiracy theory. Together Rachel and Kelly reflect on how people get lost in these ideas and explain how loved ones can become their stewards back to reality. You can find Kelly's excellent work with The Daily Beast here: www.thedailybeast.com/author/kelly-weill Her Book "Off The Edge" is available here : www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/564…694-off-the-edge Keep up to date with all her work by following her on Twitter @KELLYWEILL Thanks to all our Patreon supporters for making this episode happen!!

A newly nominated Republican congressional candidate in Ohio claims he's not a QAnon guy, despite appearing to own an extensive wardrobe of QAnon merchandise. This week on Fever Dreams, we revisit J.R. Majewski, the next likely candidate to join Congress's growing Q wing. Elsewhere, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss a falling-out among the white nationalist America First movement, which entered a bitter feud after its former treasurer got a girlfriend (a faux pas with the movement's celibate leader). While that racist youth movement flounders, another is quietly amassing influence. Reporter James Pogue joins us to discuss the New Right movement, an anti-liberal alliance whose star candidate J.D. Vance just won his GOP nomination for Congress. Finally, we visit a more longshot candidate, who, if elected, pledges to blow up a Georgia monument that she believes is Satanic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The right has achieved a decades-long goal by successfully overturning Roe v. Wade, but all they want to talk about is finding out who leaked the opinion breaking the news. Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill talk about the right's leak-hunt and insistence that, somehow, the leaker is a terrorist. Meanwhile, Alex Jones gets some hefty bitcoin donations. Plus: this potential future congressman has bars! Will and Kelly discuss J.R. Majewski, the Ohio congressional candidate poised to become Congress's third QAnon support — and its first rapper. Raw Story's Jordan Green joins to talk about Jan. 6, and Will reviews “2,000 Mules,” pundit Dinesh D'Souza's latest stab at proving the election was stolen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

People have known the earth is a globe for thousands of years. So, why do some contemporary conspiracy theorists still insist that our planet is flat?

https://www.alainguillot.com/kelly-weill/ Kelly Weill is a journalist and the author of Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3k3A1Ht

Would you buddy up to a neo-Nazi for a cut of crowdfunded “patriot freedom” cash? That's the question reportedly wracking a wing of a D.C. jail, where multiple alleged January 6 rioters are being detained. This week on Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill dive into the far right's money troubles—both behind bars and outside them, as three of Alex Jones' companies file for bankruptcy. Media Matters associate research director Nikki McCann Ramirez joins the podcast to discuss Tucker Carlson's bizarre new “special” on masculinity, which features a guy tanning his balls on what looks like a Tesla charger. Elsewhere, Will and Kelly check in on the stinkiest new QAnon trend: not bathing due to fear of snake water. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kelly Weill is a reporter at The Daily Beast. She recently published a book on Flat Earth conspiracy theory followers and what their beliefs can tell us about the ways people can arrive at absurdly false beliefs. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about her new book and its lessons for the rest of us.Follow Kelly on Twitter: @KELLYWEILLGet the book: “Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything” at Workman PublishingSubscribe to the SH!TPOST newsletter at shtpost.substack.comSH!TPOST is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at shtpost.substack.com/subscribe

This time we are honoured and delighted to welcome special guest Kelly Weill of The Daily Beast (etc) to talk to us about her new (and excellent) book Off The Edge, a history of Flat Earth, the current state of the Flat Earth movement, and our cultish and conspiratorial times generally.  A fun and thoughtful - and sometimes melancholic - discussion. Off The Edge links Off the Edge - Workman Publishing Amazon.com: Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything: 9781643750682: Weill, Kelly: Books Kelly's Twitter @KELLYWEILL Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic launched a thousand conspiracies. From microchips in the vaccines, to using bleach to treat the virus, to a shadowy cabal controlling it all, vast swaths of America fell prey to false thinking. But it has also enflamed a conspiracy theory that has nothing to do with viruses and vaccines. Journalist Kelly Weill has covered flat-Earthers for years. In her new book, “Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything,” she says the flat Earth movement is a microcosm of how and why conspiracy theories thrive and spread. On this week's Big Books and Bold Ideas, Weill and MPR News host Kerri Miller had a fascinating discussion about the culture of conspiracy, why flat-Earthers believe what they do, and why presenting the facts to true believers doesn't usually change their minds. Guest: Kelly Weill is a journalist at the “Daily Beast,” where she covers extremism, disinformation, and the internet. Her new book is “Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.” To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.  Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

Conspiracy theories are spreading faster than ever, thanks to social media. This Friday at 11 a.m., MPR News host Kerri Miller will talk about why people are susceptible to conspiracy theories with reporter Kelly Weill. In the meantime, enjoy this conversation from our recent archives. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe knows a thing or two about dealing with people who don't believe climate change is real. She also knows the science about the planet's warming temperatures is factual and often grim. But Hayhoe insists all is not lost. In her book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,” Hayhoe argues that collective action is still possible when it comes to climate change. She offers practical and thoughtful ideas on how to pull the debate from the quagmire of politics and division in this conversation from October 2021. Guest: Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

But so is a round Earth. So how do these square pegs in round holes justify themselves? With YouTube videos, of course, but also sometimes with some violence. Mike talks with Kelly Weill, author of Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything about these sometimes-problematic folks. In the Spiel, Mike considers the case against an opera about Emmett Till that was co-written by a black composer and a white librettist. And in Senate Judiciary Hearing news, Senators and potential Supreme Court justices agree: murderers are bad. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Daily Beast journalist Kelly Weill are extremism, disinformation and the Internet. They talk about “Off the Edge … Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything”. Then Moira speaks with Dr. Dale Christiansen from TFF Pharmaceuticals, and Dr. Deborah Levine, Medical Director of Lung Transplantation and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at UT Health San Antonio. It may be possible to inhale most of our present-day drugs, which has many benefits.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDaily Beast journalist Kelly Weill are extremism, disinformation and the Internet. They talk about “Off the Edge … Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything”. Then Moira speaks with Dr. Dale Christiansen from TFF Pharmaceuticals, and Dr. Deborah Levine, Medical Director of Lung Transplantation and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at UT Health San Antonio. It may be possible to inhale most of our present-day drugs, which has many benefits.

This week we’re joined by journalist Kelly Weill, who just released her new book “Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture & Why People Will Believe Anything.”We get into the history of conspiracy theories, including the origins of the flat earth movement, and Kelly draws a through line from early conspiracy culture & the modern day conspiracies that are impacting our politics.You can follow Kelly HERE.And buy her book HERE.Drop us a line at theinsurgentspod@gmail.com.Find the show on your favorite podcast provider at InsurgentsPod.comIf you’d like to become a premium subscriber and gain access to premium episodes as well as our private Discord server, you can do so here:Subscribe now This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at theinsurgents.substack.com/subscribe

Reporter Kelly Weill has spent most of her journalism career covering misinformation and conspiracy theories. As a recent college graduate in 2016, Weill entered the media world at a time of immense change, when terms like “fake news” and “disinformation” became part of the mainstream American vocabulary. Coinciding with this time was the rise in “Flat Earthers,” a group of people who support the idea that “we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice.” In Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything, Weill sets out to explain where the fringe theory of Flat Earth came from, how it relates to other conspiracy theories, and what it is about society that leads people to believe things that most consider inherently untrue. Kelly Weill is a reporter at The Daily Beast, where she covers extremism, disinformation, and the internet. She is a frequent media contributor on the topics of her work and has been featured on Nightline, CNN, and Al Jazeera, among other outlets, to discuss conspiracy theories, such as the Flat Earth theory and similar ideas outside of mainstream acceptance. She holds a dual degree in journalism and English from New York University. Moderated by Anna Merlan Merlan is a New Mexico-born, Los Angeles-based journalist and author, specializing in subcultures, alternative communities, conspiracy theories, crime, belief, death, sexual violence and women's lives. She is currently a reporter at Motherboard, a division of VICE. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, BBC Travel, Topic, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. She is the author of the book Republic of Lies. . . Do you believe in the importance of international education and connections? The nonprofit World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth is supported by gifts from people like you, who share our passion for engaging in dialogue on global affairs and building bridges of understanding. While the Council is not currently charging admission for virtual events, we ask you to please consider making a one-time or recurring gift to help us keep the conversation going through informative public programs and targeted events for students and teachers. Donate: https://www.dfwworld.org/donate

Sam hosts Kelly Weill, reporter at the Daily Beast, to discuss her recent book Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Kelly begins by situating her research into flat earthers as a case study in people's inclination to faith and belief, separating the flat earth belief from other conspiracies in how – rather than fitting itself within established views of reality – it forces its believers to truly throw out all known information about our world. She and Sam then work to unpack the flat earth canon, walking through the enclosed disk surrounded by ice that is our “earth,” and how this view stemmed from the global construction itself. Next, Kelly dives into how, despite this being rather disprovable, flat earthers tend to not be dissuaded by contrary evidence, as she walks through different attempts to find this ice wall (both legitimate attempts and grifts), before she and Sam jump back to England in the 1840s, in the midst of a shift from religion to natural sciences, to look at Samuel Rowbotham's foundational works on the flat earth and how they served to make sense of a rapidly changing view of our world. They then move to the 1900s in America, with the founding of the town of Zion, Illinois as a Christian fundamentalist, theocrat-ruled community that quickly was overtaken by a flat earth doctrine, and work through the malleability of this particular conspiracy in fitting alongside countless other beliefs. Moving into contemporary times, Sam and Kelly discuss the role of social media in giving flat earth the boost it needed to push it onto the fringes of the mainstream (oxymoron, sorry), as they dive into the artificial promotion on YouTube and Facebook before they look to the relationship between flat earthers and the other conspiracies flowing through the modern Right-wing, discussing how Q Anon and anti-vax believers are jumping on their overlap with other conspiracists to recruit even more to their side. They wrap up their interview by discussing the flat earth influencer hierarchy, and look into governments, Jews, and witches as the antagonists at the core of these theories. Sam also touches on Russia's continued attacks on civilians and hospitals, and Trump's appearance on an MMA pod to discuss his relationship with Putin and Ukraine. And in the Fun Half: Sam is joined by Matt and Brandon as they dive into Ben Shapiro soft-pitching a new anti-environmentalist conspiracy theory, Fox News giving a voice to the voiceless CEOs of the petroleum industry, and the building bad-faith tension between Jen Psaki and Doocy Jr. They also hold an extensive conversation on the nationalization of the energy industry, Frank from Minneapolis discusses would-be watershed-moments, and Fox News hosts a discussion on false-flag bioweapons. Ben from Worcester gives his own flat earther insight, and Matt gets into Crypto dating scams, plus, your calls and IMs! Purchase tickets for the live show in Brooklyn March 26th and Boston on May 15th HERE:   https://majorityreportradio.com/live-show-schedule Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere. https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/ Buy tickets to see Sam with Francesca Fiorentini at the Bell House in Brooklyn TONIGHT here: https://bitchuationroom.com/

Daily Beast journalist Kelly Weill reports on the rise of the Flat Earth movement and other conspiracy theories disseminated through online platforms.  She's interviewed by Reason Magazine books editor and author Jesse Walker.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything with Author Kelly Weill. https://www.amazon.com/Off-Edge-Earthers-Conspiracy-Anything-ebook/dp/B08WK7XCQ4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1646427754&sr=8-1 Twitter: @KELLYWEILL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You might think the flat earth obsession was old hat, knocked into anachronism by a world in which so many people flown around the world in planes, but has more adherents today than ever before.  Kelly Weill's new book Off the Edge looks at the history of the Flat Earth movement and the other conspiracy theories it might have helped to flourish. In a world that rejects facts, every lost argument becomes confirmation for the believers, many of whom pray at the church of YouTube. 

The earth is round. Science has proved it. We, as a fact based news organization, feel comfortable stating that fact. But there are people who would disagree. Those people are called "Flat-Earthers". A new book by reporter Kelly Weill documents the rise of the flat earth movement.

Joe Peyronnin, a former president of Fox News, talks about the network's over-the-top criticism of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. Plus, Clarissa Ward shares how journalists are verifying info in Ukraine and Russia; David Zurawik reacts to the latest revelations about the shakeup at CNN; David Leonhardt discusses the media's "balancing act" as the Omicron surge wanes; and Kelly Weill previews her new book "Off The Edge" about conspiracy culture. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

"PLUTO RETURNS and SOME OTHER SICKO DIDN'T HANG HIMSELF" 2/19/22 Infinite Plane Radio From The Desk of Tim Ozman 2/19/22: Pluto Returns on Tuesday Here are a few things to look forward to for this Tuesday, 2/22/2022: Kanye West is releasing Donda2. The last album release was accompanied by a burning house, a burning Kanye, and occurred on the day where Burning Man festivals were typically performed. 2019 marked the 33rd and final one at Black Rock City, Nevada. 2020's was canceled although an Antifa rioter played the role by setting himself on fire with his own Molotov Cocktail. We also can look forward to the release of Kelly Weill's book "Off the Edge: Flat a, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything". Pluto returns: the planet-not-planet, returns to where it was on July 4th, 1776 when 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. Kelly the Curvert: "Everyone can observe the Earth's curvature over a couple of miles. It only takes a couple of miles for the Earth to curve eight about like feet down, at which point you wouldn't be able to see an ice skater." (Link to audio). Kelly Weill thinks two miles is enough distance for the Earth's curvature to hide ice skaters. It's funny but also not funny. She's not a lazy researcher. What we have here is a confirmation bias. She likely thinks that boats go over a hill of water when they are too far away to see with the human eye. Pluto Returns: recently, Joe Biden joked about the time he left a dead dog on a republican's doorstep. His other dog story was stranger. Imagine (in slow motion) a wet, naked Joe Biden chasing Major the White House dog, only to slip while pulling its tail, resulting in a twisted ankle. I'm on the topic of dogs because Pluto the Disney dog was created in 1930, the same year Pluto was designated a planet. Interestingly, the planet has a silhouette of Pluto the dog's face on its surface. So this recent "dead dog" joke could be a cryptic Pluto reference. Aleister Crowley, or whichever entity possessed him to write The Book of The Law, asked,"Is a God to live in a dog?," often taken to mean Sirius, the Dog Star. Reversed spelling as a basic cipher is a standard tactic by the Illuminati. (The neighborhood dogs are going wild, presumably barking at the moon, as I write this). So on to Pluto Returns: On 2/2/2022, Pluto will enter the same place it was on July 4th, 1776. This is a "return" because it is a cycle, a 248-year cycle. What does 1776 mean in this context? Let's look at a few things: Illuminati founded Declaration of Independence The height, in feet, of the One World Trade Center that replaced the Twin Towers 888 = Jesus in Christian numerology, so 888 x 2= 1776 or 2nd Coming Also, Pluto = Hades. In the Summer of 2021, the ritual kidnapping and death of Gabby Petito followed the story of Persephone, the incarnation of Virgo, and her kidnapping and descent into the underworld, or Hades. There are many reasons to have your sights on Tuesday. Now I hate to be all doom and gloom and dark prophecy so here's a bit of light: 'The View' host Joy Behar will wear a face mask 'indefinitely." Thank you again for staying tuned in to Infinite Plane Radio and for subscribing to this newsletter. Tim Ozman, IPR, Host Here's a link to order Kelly Weill's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Off-Edge-Earthers-Conspiracy-Anything/dp/1643750682 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/infinite-plane-radio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/infinite-plane-radio/support