Shadowland (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - They Need to Hang - full transcript
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- The Shadowland project
is really an examination
of how people come
to believe in conspiracies...
- What do you think
she was looking for?
- What makes
conspiracy theories alluring?
- And what that can mean
for the future of the nation.
- A line's been drawn
in the sand.
- They want to destroy America.
- We've never seen conspiracy
theories move from the margins
into the mainstream discourse
the way they have over
the last five or six years.
- There are wealthy,
powerful families
that want
to control everything.
- We see families
who feel torn apart
because they have
different world views.
- He'd make me laugh a lot.
That all left
once he got into Q
and conspiratorial thinking.
- It really has become,
sad to say, us and them.
[crowd cheering]
- January 6th,
an entire insurrection,
you know, the almost-overthrow
of the United States government
happened because
large numbers of people
are susceptible
to conspiracy theories.
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- I know you guys
are gonna take this,
and you're gonna spin it
to make me look like
a crazy conspiracy theorist.
- I mean, you guys have spent
three days with me.
You feel
I'm a danger to society?
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- The strings are being pulled
by a puppet master.
He's pulling the strings
on both sides.
- I used to laugh so hard
at conspiracy theorists,
and then I started seeing it
on the inside.
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- My belief is that this
was completely 100% planned.
- They use the coronavirus
as their Trojan horse
to usher in
whatever the hell they wanted!
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- When people play around
with these ridiculous
conspiracy theories,
the result of it
has been violence.
- We were really
interested in exploring
the real systems behind, like,
why conspiracy thinking
happens.
- The cabal, the illuminati,
they don't want you
to find the truth.
I'm not a "pay-triot," P-A-Y.
I'm a patriot.
- There's something else
going on,
something in the shadows.
- The Nazis aren't coming.
They're here.
- The goal of the project
is to bring what's happening
in the shadows
out into the sunlight.
- We're at war
because the rule of law
in this country
has been eliminated!
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- Police arrested
two McKean County residents
in connection with the riot
at the U.S. Capitol.
William Blauser Jr. of Ludlow
and Pauline Bauer of Kane
face several charges.
- After their arraignment,
they were released on bond.
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- We will--
you and I will endure.
- Guess I don't have a problem
dying for my country.
Just don't want to be
incarcerated.
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- I think you took
my poached egg one.
- Yeah, I did,
because the guy wanted...
- All right,
what's our list look like?
[phone rings]
Hey.
I would love to,
but I got more important things
I gotta take care of right now,
'cause I have
my hearing on Friday,
and I won't be able
to make it tonight,
'cause I have to get stuff
packed up and head out
by tomorrow morning.
You know,
I would love to come
and hang out
with you guys again, but...
If I don't go to jail...
Okay, I will.
Thanks, Leo.
Mm-hmm. Bye-bye.
Pizza business
I learned from my husband.
My husband had worked at
pizza shops since he was 16.
Then he taught me.
He taught me,
and he goes fishing now.
[laughs]
- If you know Pauline,
you know
what a good person she is.
She's done a lot
for the community
that a lot of people
don't realize.
- I mean, yeah,
people are prayin'
and thinkin' about me
all the time, and I mean,
I just got that bear up there.
[soft music]
I grew up on a farm
in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
It was hard work.
But it's what shaped me into--
where my work ethic came from.
I worked 18 years for Kmart,
and I lost my entire retirement
when the stock went from
$30 to $5 a share overnight.
So at that point,
I said I will never work
for anyone else again.
I came here
with my husband in 2005.
We really wanted to move here.
So we found this for sale,
and we ended up buying
the restaurant.
When we got started,
we had close to $50,000
in credit card debt,
and we worked very hard.
I had three years left
until everything
was completely paid off
when the pandemic hit.
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- This virus
has just exploded throughout
the state
of Pennsylvania.
- I believed at first
that it was an actual pandemic.
We had cleaned this restaurant
top to bottom with bleach,
and a lot of my employees
were overwhelmed.
It was a stressful, stressful
time to be a business owner.
- New restrictions
announced in the last hour
for the entire state
of Pennsylvania.
- All non-life-sustaining
businesses in the state
must close.
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- Everything started to change
on March 17th of 2020.
The 17th is when they told them
that startin' tomorrow,
you're shut down.
You cannot--you can't be open.
So of course, she complied.
She shut down.
- At that time, I seriously
thought I was gonna lose
everything I ever worked for.
[tense music]
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- She was a lot different.
She was not political.
She liked
going more on her boat
and doing things like that,
instead of going
to these rallies.
Then she started
into the politics.
She started on her cell phone,
goin' into things,
lookin' things up.
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- I started to get involved
with researching
the coronavirus.
- Welcome, everyone.
Log onto social media,
and you'll probably find
some of your friends sharing
wild COVID-19
conspiracy theories.
Pretty much all of them
are packed into one viral video
that's made the rounds.
- Then I came across
the "Plandemic" video.
- It's called "Plandemic,"
a 25-minute video claiming
to show the real story
behind COVID-19.
- Nothing is more insidious
than this so-called
"Plandemic" conspiracy theory
now floating about,
which alleges that coronavirus
was engineered
to increase vaccinations
and make people rich.
- Pharmaceutical companies,
how much money
are they making on the vaccine?
They brought upon the pandemic.
Event 201, in October
of 2019 by Bill Gates,
proves they were gonna bring
the pandemic.
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[mixer whirring]
- The textbook definition
of a conspiracy theory
is the idea
that a small group of people
are sort of collaborating
in private, in secret,
to enact harm
on the common person.
- The pandemic has given
a boost to conspiracy theories
like those propagated
by QAnon
with its claim
that Satan-worshipping
pedophile elites
are running our lives.
- The kind
of conventional wisdom
about conspiracy thinking
is that it solves a few
sort of psychological needs.
One is the need for belonging.
- Through online forums, these
different conspiracy theories
brought more people together,
especially over the past year.
- Another is the need for
knowledge, the epistemic need.
It's just sort of like, make
sense of the world around you.
- And when something big
happens,
like a terrorist attack
or a mass shooting,
we assume there must be
an equally big
explanation for it.
- And believing
conspiracy theories is a way
to sort of understand
the bad things that happen.
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- I thought the pandemic
would've woke everyone up,
but it didn't.
There are some people
that still do not believe
in the New World Order.
- A one world government
controlled by the 13
elite families of the world.
- Well, it's controlled
by the Vatican
and the royal family
and the Rothschilds
and the Rockefellers
and the Morgans,
and the more and more
that we bow down to it,
the less liberties
we're going to have.
We need to stand up.
We need to start fighting,
and that's why I went there
on January 6th,
because our elections
were stolen from us.
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- We define
a conspiracy theory
as a explanation
for world events,
that there's secret
and malevolent coordination.
Then that certainly applies
to the notion
that people secretly worked
together to steal the election.
- This is the most
fraudulent thing anybody's--
this is a criminal enterprise.
- We know that
that's not true.
But that's, in large part,
what incited the insurrection
on January 6th.
- When you catch somebody
in a fraud,
you're allowed to go
by very different rules.
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- Who?
Where did you hear that at?
- Four of five of them.
- All charges were dropped?
- I hope so.
Bill is my best friend.
He's a Purple Heart
Vietnam veteran,
and Bill was by my side
the entire time.
[indistinct shouting]
When I was standing on
the Capitol building steps,
I got maced
directly in the eyeballs,
and I could not see,
and thank God
that Bill was there.
- She said, "You gotta be
my eyes to get in there,"
you know, so I said, "Well,
I really don't wanna go in."
We'll get out,
and all she said--
so then the doors open.
- Whose house?
all: Our house!
- Whose house?
[horn blares]
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all: USA!
- There were a whole bunch
of police there.
She told them that they--
she wanted to bring that--
bring that bitch out here
and hang her.
- She wanted to go down
into the Capitol
where the Senate chambers are.
I didn't wanna
go down in there, for sure.
[indistinct yelling]
- Around 3:30, President Trump
told us all to go home.
So we went home.
- Now, some of our
not-so-dear friends,
they called the FBI on us.
[tense music]
- They're charging me
with obstructing
an official proceeding,
and that is supposed to be
a 20-year sentence.
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- You could've fibbed
a little bit.
- Thank you.
On September 17th
at 10:30 a.m.,
I have a status hearing
in Washington, D.C.
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It's scary, but...
If this is the path where
God's chosen me to take...
Everything happens
for a reason.
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- One of our hypotheses
going into "Shadowland"
was that a lot of this
is about money,
and there are people who are
profiting off of
conspiracy theories,
and we really wanted to open
that world for people
to understand, like,
this is a billion-dollar
industry, you know?
There's money to be made here.
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- Mimi?
- Yeah?
- What can I help you with?
- Actually, I would just--
if you could just hang out,
we could listen to Tim Pool
or something.
I could, like--
- Okay.
Let me get my phone
and something to eat.
- My name is Zach Vorhies,
and I'm about to release
my new social media network
to the world.
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Let's see here.
We have Infowars.
We also have
Fox, OAN, Newsmax.
Steve Bannon's just amazing.
And some of it's conspiracy,
but most of it's
pretty spot-on.
This is going to change
the entire game.
I could end up
as a millionaire
if people come in
and want to help me do this.
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- My name is Maryam Henein.
I'm an
investigative journalist.
Welcome to the channel
where I address
chronic illnesses,
autoimmune conditions.
I'm very active every day in
reading and sharing information
about what's happening
with the 'rona,
and these freedoms that are
being taken away from us.
♪ This corona,
fuck you, corona ♪
This was an opportunity
to usher in many things.
[whispers]
Brilliant Trojan horse!
[quietly] Inbox, inbox.
- Maryam is my girlfriend.
- I came across Zach
while he was on Alex Jones.
- All right,
Jack Vorhies is here with us.
- I looked at him
on the screen.
His eyes looked familiar to me.
And then I reached out to him
on Twitter.
- This is Zach Vorhies,
the Google whistleblower here
with Maryam Henein.
- Investigative journalist.
So when we connected,
it was just--just awesome.
- The United States
is in the state of war
against the world communist
conspiracy.
Whether it scares some people
or not, I don't give a hoot.
- [laughing] I don't think--
I don't think many people.
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- When this whole
COVID mess came out,
me and Maryam were just
beside ourselves with fear.
- COVID-19's greatest power
is fear.
It is a psychological warfare
weapon that has been deployed
against the people
of the world to be the cover
for a controlled global
collapse to consolidate power
in the hands of the globalists
and to establish
their New World Order.
- There was one weekend
we were actually on ecstasy,
and we were--we spent, like,
48 hours just watching
all this fear porn.
- This is a 21st century war.
It's a gl--war
about the globalists.
It's a psy-war
trying to scare you,
and the answer to that
is not be scared.
The answer is go...[screams]
- And so we just
grabbed onto each other
and held on for dear life.
- He asked me, and he's like,
"Would you be my girlfriend?"
It was, like, so cute.
- And we've been in this house
ever since.
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I'm just gonna sit down
in this pile of stuff, and...
So when can I tickle you?
Can we do that soon?
- I think there needs to be
space on the bed for that.
- Really?
- And there isn't...
- What if I proved you wrong?
- Unfortunately.
[laughs]
- What if I proved you wrong?
Huh? Huh? It's coming.
It's coming.
- [laughs]
- Okay, you're done now.
- Zach, I just saw
you have a dimple.
- Where?
- I just saw
you have a dimple here.
- No way.
- I've never seen it before.
- When does it show up?
- Now.
I have to take a picture--
you see it.
[children laughing]
- Hi, Zach.
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- I grew up
in the forest of Oregon.
I went to the University of
Oregon to study programming,
and Google was my dream job.
I actually worked there
for 8 1/2 years,
first as an engineer
on Google Earth,
and then later on YouTube.
That's how I came
to San Francisco,
and that was my identity.
I was working for Google,
working for the best company
in the world,
and what I didn't realize
was how wrong that
was all gonna turn out to be
8 1/2 years later.
- In the weeks
since the election,
Facebook and Google
have come under fire
for their supposed role
in spreading "fake news"
throughout the election.
- A BuzzFeed analysis found
that fake election news
generated more buzz
than stories
from 19 mainstream
news outlets combined.
- Now both companies
are making changes
to stop this spread
of false information.
- After Trump won the election,
Google decided that they were
going to start clamping down
on fake news.
- Now Google and Facebook
are targeting
how the creators of these
fake news sites make money.
That's advertising.
- Bay area tech giants
are taking action
against conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones.
- iTunes, Facebook,
Spotify, and YouTube
all removed his audio
and video material.
- I saw that.
Conservatives like myself
are getting censored.
I did not like the censorship,
and so I started to investigate
what the company
was doing on the inside.
[tense music]
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- The Google whistleblower
has come out of the shadows.
- I got this information out
to a right-wing
investigative outlet.
- How did you obtain
this document?
- So these documents
were available
to every single employee within
the company that was full-time.
The left wing basically called
my disclosure a nothing-burger.
- Conservatives accused Google
of political bias.
Is there any evidence of that?
- I think it would be
really, incredibly difficult
to prove political bias
at this point.
- You know, we do get concerns
across both sides of the aisle.
- [coughs]
- You know, I can assure you
we do this in a neutral way.
- But the right wing
grabbed onto it.
- Zach, you've been a real hero
coming forward.
Having you come
to the forefront is amazing.
- And so people want
to understand, like,
what's really going on.
They're--they come to me.
Google is this company
hell-bent on enslaving you.
What Google is pushing is--
they're pushing ideas
that will destabilize
the United States
and make it fall without
the enemy firing a shot,
and the question is,
who's the enemy?
People want to know, well,
who's pulling the strings?
Because obviously,
there's a puppet master,
and the thing is, is that,
we don't know who they are.
There is a New World Order,
and Google is a part of it.
They're just a front group
in the same way
that Facebook is a front group.
You know, the bag men
of the New World Order.
- And that's why
I'm here fighting today,
because I know what the deep
state is able to pull off.
I know that they're
able to pull off
this global warming scam.
I know that they're able
to put
zoonotic mouse retroviruses
in our vaccines.
They're able to put mercury
in our filling.
You know, they put fluoride
in our water
and in our toothpaste,
and they're able to do this
in order to make us sick
so that we're--it necessitates
the need
of a socialized healthcare.
I feel like I'm a hero.
- I want to hand you the floor,
'cause I'ma tell you,
you're smart, man.
- I've got this
new part of my life
where I'm an
international celebrity now.
I think that I'm, like,
the right wing hipster.
Like, I was, like,
red-pilling before it was cool.
I'm not here to, like,
get famous or anything.
I'm the Google whistleblower.
[cheers and applause]
And I don't
really charge for it.
It's just something
that I want to do
because I wanna get
the information out there.
- Um, the way
that I make money--
I mean, look, I don't do any
of these appearances for money,
and people often ask me, like,
how do I make my income?
And the answer to that
is I've got some wealthy donors
that are scared to death
that their businesses
are going to be more destroyed
than they are by regulation
and the government.
♪ ♪
- So this is my sauna.
This is great
because it's portable.
Right now,
it's cold in San Francisco,
so I use this a little--
my space,
and then I just listen
to the podcast or the news
or do my work.
I grew up in Montreal, Canada.
I was very curious,
and I wanted to be
a private eye.
My first story that I wrote
for the "Montreal Gazette"
was at 18 years old,
and then when I came here
to California, I was writing
for "The Hollywood Reporter,"
and I was writing for "Maxim,"
and I was writing
for "Penthouse."
I'm best known
for directing a film
called "Vanishing
of the Bees."
It's a documentary
on colony collapse disorder.
I thought I was a Democrat
and thought I was liberal
in my views
and then had
a kind of rude awakening
in this past year and a half.
The shift in my thinking,
as far as my politics,
was meeting Zach
and the coronavirus.
It's not that I think
this is not real,
because I know people
who've been sick.
I just feel this is--
these responses are not kosher.
Fuck you.
Take your poisons,
and shove 'em into your veins,
and let us see what it does.
You are hypnotizing
an entire planet by fear...
To get injected, to make money.
You're using humans as pawns.
You all think
that this is about a virus?
This is about ushering in
a New World Order.
This is about training people
to be obedient slaves.
How did they do it
during the Nazis?
This is how.
And, of course, getting
personally all this hate--
I just got a message
from--I don't know who.
"I honestly feel bad
for you and your followers.
"So incredibly stupid
and misinformed,
"just spreading the stupid
and misinformation
amongst yourselves."
Okay, buddy.
Just block.
I went to a conservative event
with Zach
and saw that the people were
super polite and welcoming.
Then felt like, "Oh,
these people will accept me."
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[keys clacking]
So I'm writing a book,
and it's been challenging,
despite my writing skills,
to sell this story
because of, uh,
how controversial it is.
- I do believe
we're gonna be able to get you
a syndicated space
in several online publications
starting this month.
- Okay.
I'm not doing this for money
or for fame.
I grew up watching
Alfred Hitchcock movies
and Hardy Boys
and Agatha Christie.
I think people like whodunits.
People like the truth.
And then is there any word
on this network?
Are they still interested?
- Mm-mm.
He did say he was interested
after I shared with him
what you had already done.
- Okay.
- I do feel
that once I have it written,
that someone will publish it.
It's going to be that good.
- I have always
been interested
in why people believe
in conspiracy theories,
because I understand firsthand
that anyone can believe in
conspiracy theories.
[dramatic music]
When I was a teenager,
I had a teacher
who believed in the illuminati
and who taught our class
that the illuminati was real,
and I believed it.
♪ ♪
It was totally intoxicating.
It feels really good,
especially when
you are a teenager,
to feel like you understand
things that other people don't
and to feel like you kind of
get the way the world works,
and someone told me
that the key to the universe,
basically,
is that there's
a shadowy cabal of rich people
who are pulling the strings,
and that worked for me.
It feels really good to feel
like you've unlocked
the secret of how
wealth and power works,
and to seek fairness
and to prevent bad actors
from acting badly.
It feels like
being a little high,
and I--that feeling
has stayed with me
even though the thoughts
that undergird it haven't.
So that's part of why
I wanted to do this project.
I think it's so important
to not lose sight of that,
that this is something that
is really pulling people in.
[somber guitar music]
♪ ♪
- "Dear Pauline,
I hope they hang you
"by the neck till you die after
convicting you of treason.
"You're not only
an embarrassing nutcase
"that humiliates our democracy
by your very existence.
"You're the usual idiot redneck
"who votes for con artists
like Trump.
"You Trump cunt,
treasonous, fucking pig.
"Suck on Trump's tiny,
shriveled, wrinkled,
"spray-tanned dick,
you bimbo-ditz whore.
Choke on a confederate flag.
You're a traitorous cunt."
- I just learned
to blow it off.
You know,
when I was in middle school,
my best friend came to me
and said that
a lot of the girls in my grade
told her
not to hang out with me
'cause I smelled like a cow,
'cause I grew up on a farm.
So I've learned to...
not to pay
much attention to words.
You know?
It's not their fault.
They're just uneducated.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
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- Well, I have it.
There is your document.
All 127 pages of it.
- I came across Bobby Lawrence
at the rallies,
and Bobby was talking about how
we needed
to not be "citi-zens" anymore.
- We have had the biggest fraud
perpetrated on us
in the history of mankind.
- There is a group of people
living amongst us
who walk like us, talk like us,
and act like us,
but they say
they are different.
- Sovereign citizens
basically believe that
the current federal government
is illegitimate and illegal.
- What we have
are corporations
that are owned
by a small group of people
that are pretending
to be government.
This fight is real.
This struggle is real.
We have a giant cabal called
the Corporation
of the United States,
and the Bar Association
that seeks to keep us slaves.
♪ ♪
You can find out
who the top 20 people are
that own the Corporation
of the United States.
And why they do it
is to make money--
simple, plain and simple.
And they do it through fraud,
fear, and intimidation.
♪ ♪
- I love my country.
I'm patriotic as you can get.
I have always stood
for the national anthem.
I've always pledged allegiance
to the flag.
I believe in our
constitutional rights
and our
Declaration of Independence
and liberty,
and I feel that we have lost
our liberties.
So when I sat down with Bobby
and I listened to him,
I decided to go on this path.
- You are making history
right now.
You're in a federal district
court in Washington, D.C.,
with--a part of one
of the biggest events,
legal events,
in the history of our nation,
and you have chosen to stand up
and fight for God's law,
fight for what is real,
fight for what is righteous.
- My defense is that their
rules, codes, statutes
and ordinance do not apply
to sovereign people,
to an American state national
who is no longer
part of their corporation.
I don't want an attorney.
They don't care
about the welfare
of the people
they're representing.
They're only in it
to make money.
Okay, so I'm gonna enter
the courtroom and say,
"I'm here, Your Honor,
by Divine Special Appearance."
- That's cool.
You can say, "I am Pauline
from the house of Bauer,
"and I seek a settlement today
of these issues
before the court."
And you have to believe
these words.
If you've gotta read 'em
from a piece of paper...
- I know.
- You know, it's not gonna--
you know, you gotta look 'em
in the eye when you say it.
You can't be readin' off
a piece of paper.
He's gotta--he's gotta know
you believe it.
He's gotta know that it's
in your heart and it's real.
And you're talking to him,
one woman to one man,
not some vessel
in talking to shit made up.
He is a man.
Okay, and I doubt
very seriously if he knows
he's part of a cabal.
I'm gonna get you ready
for what may come, okay?
So when you walk
in there tomorrow,
I want you to feel
and know what I know.
Don't be afraid
to quote the Bible, okay?
The Bible is what
our nation was founded on.
It's illegal--
is the undoing of God's law.
It's shit made up.
They can't force you
to surrender God's law
for the legal shit made up.
So they try
to get you to capitulate
and give a tacit agreement
by giving your "sig-nature,"
surrender nature's law
on their land.
If you sig-nature their
document, you surrender law.
Sig, surrender, nature.
Under God's law,
we created government.
We were directed by God
to take dominion
over the land, the air,
and the water.
What I'm doing right now--
this is why that judge
doesn't want me
in that courtroom.
I will eviscerate
that federal judge
and any prosecutor
they put before me.
They can't out-debate me,
'cause they don't know
half this shit.
But I can tell 'em
where to go look it up.
And I'm just a construction
worker that puts windows in.
They're the ones
that's been practicing law
their entire career.
I'm a people.
You're a restauranteur.
You did nothin' wrong.
You harmed no one.
You touched no one.
You were invited in.
But all you said was,
"Bring that bitch out here."
Dismiss these charges,
and when you walk in
that courtroom tomorrow,
you remember
that good and righteousness
is on your side.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I am here
in Duluth, Georgia,
and I'm here to talk
to Sarah Lewis,
whose childhood best friend,
Rosanne Boyland,
was one of the people who died
on January 6th at the Capitol.
What I'm really here to do is
to try to understand,
on a person level,
why conspiracy theories
are so compelling
and how someone's
whole worldview
can change so quickly.
- New information tonight about
the death of a Georgia woman
who died during
the January 6th attack
at the U.S. Capitol in D.C.,
trampled
under a stampede of rioters.
- Rosanne Boyland's family
called her a happy,
wonderful person.
- Rosanne's social media posts
show how she was caught up
in pro-Trump conspiracy
communities involving QAnon.
- Many believers of QAnon
believing factions
of the government
are run by pedophiles
running an international
sex-trafficking ring.
- Rosanne's family and friends
wishing the woman
they loved so dearly
had not gotten herself
so wrapped up
in conspiracy theories
they consider dangerous.
- Hi!
- Hi, I'm Ellen.
- I'm Sarah.
both: So nice to meet you.
- Tell me about Rosanne.
What do you wish
people knew about her?
- I wish that people knew
that before
this QAnon exposure,
before that, she was
a regular Trump-roastin',
good-time-havin' person.
We literally were exchanging
memes about the man,
like, two days, three days
before she
"went down the rabbit hole."
- Mm-hmm.
- She was my best friend,
and best friend is really
an understatement.
We were more like family
because of the fact
that we were introduced
to each other so young.
We were only 17 months.
So there's no memory that
I have without her until now.
♪ ♪
She had
an amazing sense of humor.
She was always joking.
But my friend was hurting.
You know, her whole life,
she was hurting.
I guess it was middle school,
things started
to change for her.
I started doing drugs
in, like, late middle school.
So come to find out, we had
both started to branch out
kind of on our own
little drug journeys.
Her opiate use
turned into heroin
some point after high school,
and it took a lot for me
to accept that.
But she just struggled
and struggled.
And then her nieces were born.
Her sister had her first baby,
and nothing could've been
better for Rosanne.
Like, somehow
that just triggered her
to wanna do something better,
and she cleaned up for them,
and she started going to NA.
But you know, her life
was just pretty basic.
Taking care of the girls,
you know, watching TV,
playin' on her phone.
That was really it, you know?
She didn't have a job.
She never left home.
Didn't have a home of her own.
Didn't get married.
Didn't have children.
And then
when quarantine happened,
it messed with Rosanne.
She had nothing
but her room and her phone
and that isolation.
- Not going to meetings.
- Right,
she's taking it seriously.
She wasn't going to meetings,
wasn't going out
because she took
COVID seriously at first,
and so, um, she goes down
this "rabbit hole,"
they like to say, and that's
what she called it too.
Immediately--the first night
she found out about this shit,
she admitted that she
was up all night reading it,
that she hadn't slept.
The very next message
I have from her is,
"I've been up all night.
Haven't slept."
Like, she was immediately
that hyper-fixated
that she forgot
everything else.
We never disagreed on anything!
Like, we grew up,
same mind on all this stuff.
So sh--I'm just blown away
when she's like,
"No, you have to understand,
"Donald Trump
is the only person
"that knows about all this
and that wants to do anything
about this."
- What do you think
she was looking for?
- I think
she was looking for a purpose,
and I think,
for her, that created--
like, she felt like
a failure to launch.
She felt like a loser.
She felt like, you know,
she had no purpose
other than drain society,
which was totally
the opposite of what she was.
She was everyone's support
who needed her.
I think
she just found in QAnon
all of the things that she,
at that moment, needed.
♪ ♪
It was gonna be an opportunity
to rescue these children
and be a part of something huge
and historic and productive.
And for once,
it wasn't gonna be, you know,
"I'm not being found
in the Walmart parking lot
"with foam coming out
of my mouth
and a needle hanging
out of my arm."
You know, "This
is something I can be proud of
is fighting for this."
I wish I had really tried
more to stop it,
but I thought, "You know,
what harm is it gonna do
for her to just
keep posting this shit?"
- Right. Well, and you've said
that it happened
really, really fast.
- It did.
Literally just
less than a year.
- Yeah.
- Less than six months, really.
I just woke up one morning,
on the 7th, I guess.
A friend of mine
had sent me a text,
and she was like, "Oh my God,
I can't believe this."
And she had attached
a news story,
and I just remember screaming.
[sniffs]
Just like that,
my best friend is gone.
My person, the only person
who knows me on this planet.
She's the only person
on this planet who remembers
everything about my life
and can talk about things
with me
and can frame things for me.
"Well, Sarah,
this is why you do that,
"'cause don't you remember,
your grandma
was kind of like this way?"
That's valuable.
Like, I would have done
whatever it took
to make this not happen.
[somber music]
And I'm being selfish
for my fucking self.
I would have done everything
to make this not happen
for her, for the world.
People needed what she had.
And now nobody will have it.
♪ ♪
- It helps me understand more
this sort of
"search for meaning"
piece of this.
It does seem like Rosanne
really wanted something
to believe in
and something that,
more than that, made her feel
like she was working
towards something.
♪ ♪
- Okay. Here we go. Here we go.
This is what I was looking for.
She says, "I want to say
thank you to everyone
"involved in this movement.
"My family thinks I'm crazy,
"but I'm heading up from ATL
to be shoulder to shoulder
"with my true brothers
and sisters.
"I finally feel like everything
and everyone has a purpose.
"And I'm super grateful that
God kept me alive long enough
"and woke me up just in time
to see all this.
"So thank you.
God bless you all.
See you on the 6th.
Where we go one, we go all."
It brings me
a small measure of comfort
that her final act
was, in her mind, so heroic.
So heroic and brave.
- I came here to figure out
what brought Rosanne Boyland
to the Capitol.
Purpose.
Like, she said it herself
in her own words,
and that, I think
was really meaningful.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[computer dings]
- Howdy.
- What's up, Maryam?
- What's up?
Okay, here we go.
Okay. I'm ready.
[dramatic musical sting]
- All right, guys,
thanks for tuning in.
First of all, today we're
gonna be hearing a conversation
between myself
and my friend Maryam Henein.
She and her partner,
Zach Vorhies,
the Google whistleblower,
do a lot of work together.
Maryam's been a health freedom
advocate for a long time,
and now she is finding herself
part of another club:
people who are getting their
bank accounts shut off
because they don't hold
the right political views.
- So this is the story
from the "New York Post"
"JPMorgan Chase accused
of purging accounts
of conservative activists."
- They sent us this little
letter that just said,
"You represent reputational
risk to our bank,
and so therefore we're
canceling those two accounts."
- Recently, Maryam had her bank
account for her business
completely shut down.
And we're gonna be right back
with the interview
after this.
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All right, everyone.
Welcome back.
Maryam, how are you?
- I'm well.
Thank you for having me on.
- Yeah. No problem.
- And it was my business,
just to make that distinction.
They did say that they
would send a check.
And so that's on its way.
And I asked, "Why?
"Is it because
I'm unvaccinated vermin?
Is it because I sell vitamins?"
And they straight up say,
"We don't have to give you
a reason why
we've canceled you."
I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'm a successful, intelligent,
hardworking entrepreneur
that actually cares about
people's health,
wants to empower people.
And how do I explain
to my parents
that I'm not an eff-up?
That there's a reason
why a 48-year-old woman
is in need of help
because she doesn't have
access to her funds?
- Right. Well, thanks a lot...
- Thank you.
- For getting in touch
with me, Maryam.
I appreciate it, and say hi
to Zach for me too.
- I will. Bye.
I've been totally attacked.
I'm banned from PayPal.
I've lost channels on YouTube.
I'm banned from Amazon.
I just got shut down by Chase.
[sighs]
My livelihood
is totally impacted.
I'm on food stamps
and constantly struggling.
- If you find out
about this stuff,
if you get obsessive
about these
conspiracy theories,
what it does is it wrecks
who you are as a person.
It separates you from society.
You think that your friends
and family would be happy
to find out
that they've been lied to,
but instead they turn on you.
[somber music]
- Yeah, I've lost lots
of supposed friends.
Over and over again,
"What's happened to you?"
If you give a shit
about what's happened to me,
pick up the phone
and speak to me
and ask me what's happened.
Nothing's happened to me.
My mother said
she "disagrees" with me,
but she hasn't read anything
that I've read,
and she doesn't know
what the fuck
she's disagreeing with.
My parents are vaccinated.
My dad worked for Pfizer.
And my dad said,
straight up, quote,
"I don't care
what you have to say."
♪ ♪
The people that I thought
were intellectuals
don't really think
for themselves anymore.
Right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Or they have
this huge blind spot.
- Doesn't matter.
I don't even like
the old friends.
Like, I want to get new friends
'cause the new friends
treat me different.
This polarization is happening
all over America.
It's almost biblical
where they talk about
how family--brother would turn
against brother,
father against son.
- Very little.
- He thinks something darker
is happening with me.
I miss my dad all the time.
I wish, like--
he used to be my confidant.
You know, he used to be
the person that I looked up to.
I can't even talk to him
anymore
without us getting
into, like, a fight
where we start screaming
at each other.
And I don't know
whether I'm gonna ever have
a good relationship
with him again.
I'm sorry.
[pensive music]
Just hold the whole screen
'cause this is gonna pop off.
- Okay.
[drill whirs]
- Thank you.
- Thank you. That's it.
- I believe in freedom,
and I don't want to play
these games anymore.
Okay.
At this point, I am trying
to save myself
by escaping San Francisco.
I never liked San Francisco.
Especially don't like it
now with the 'rona
and these mandates.
And so I'm leaving
to go to Florida
to maybe just buy some time
and then figure out whether I
need to leave America.
I mean, lots of people who...
don't believe in this vaccine
are in the same position.
- [grunts]
In all possibility,
I'm gonna be following her
in a few weeks myself.
- There's one underneath.
We're all in the same boat of,
where are we gonna feel safe?
Are they gonna take us
to the gulag
because we're
unvaccinated vermin?
I will continue
to pack everything
and have it all sorted,
and then we can just
circle back.
But are you pretty much
have come to terms
with the fact that
you're leaving this--
- I have to leave.
This city isn't safe for me.
Like, I was in doubt
that it was happening.
I was like,
"Oh, it's not gonna happen."
And then it's like, boom,
now they're trying to push
for unvaccinated to not
be able to travel on airplanes.
At what step
am I not gonna be able
to even drive across
state boundaries?
- Well,
there'll be checkpoints.
Maybe by the time you go
there might be a checkpoint.
- Maybe.
Maybe it'll happen in 30 days.
I don't think so.
I think I got
a little bit more time.
[tense music]
- I would love to be making
plans with Zach.
I hope to be with him.
I adore him.
♪ ♪
But he has his own path.
♪ ♪
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Same to you, Billy.
- I will.
- Pauline, gonna leave
in about two minutes.
- All right, well, we're
getting ready to leave here.
- All right. You too, Billy.
- So is he coming?
- So he doesn't have to go?
- Okay.
- All right.
♪ ♪
- I'm a little nervous.
- You ready to go
do this thing?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
- Your stomach's messed up?
- What are you concerned about
today specifically?
- I'm concerned because
the prosecution has asked
for my conditions of release
to be revoked
and hold me in contempt.
I mean, you guys
have spent three days with me.
Do you feel
I'm a danger to society?
I mean, do I walk around
with a weapon on me?
Do I harm anyone?
I hug people.
[laughs] I don't harm people.
- All right. All right.
And we're off to the races.
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
I don't care if they flood it
or blow it up.
It's a satanic city.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
MSM is the whole reason why
this country's so messed up,
'cause they're owned
by six companies.
George Soros-funded companies.
You print lies.
- None of your business.
[laughter]
- Am I gonna have a choice?
I mean, our court systems
are corrupt.
They've been compromised.
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- Okay.
The judge is in the room.
[dramatic music]
- Hmm.
- He's gonna lock her up.
- The judge said she believes
she's above the law
and he can't allow that.
She's not claiming to be
above the law.
She's claiming that the judge
needs to follow the law.
So he's taking her
into custody.
He's locking her up.
- Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
- Now he's holding her
in contempt of court.
And he wouldn't allow her
to testify to give testimony!
To rebut that shit made up
by the prosecution!
The judge is full of shit.
- Let's see, there were two,
four, six, eight marshals.
We're talking about a lady
that runs a restaurant.
Not somebody--
they treat terrorists better
than they did her.
Then they wanna know why
so many people
are buying weapons and ammo.
There you have it.
- Yeah, about--
she's looking at 30 days,
by my understanding.
- She said she'd rather be
shot then put back in prison.
- We're at war!
We're at war
with the court systems.
We're at war
with the Bar Association.
We're at war because the rule
of law in this country
has been eliminated!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[tense music]
What's happening?
[sobbing]
- So the basic thing
I'm working on
is sort of the intersection
of conspiricism and capitalism,
essentially.
The way that
conspiracy theories
sell themselves.
- My belief is this was
completely, 100% planned.
- A warning tonight
about a fake coronavirus cure
being sold.
- Should I be worried about me
being put in jail,
like yourself?
- I'm not gonna say 100%
they won't arrest you.
♪ ♪
Look at us.
♪ ♪
- The Shadowland project
is really an examination
of how people come
to believe in conspiracies...
- What do you think
she was looking for?
- What makes
conspiracy theories alluring?
- And what that can mean
for the future of the nation.
- A line's been drawn
in the sand.
- They want to destroy America.
- We've never seen conspiracy
theories move from the margins
into the mainstream discourse
the way they have over
the last five or six years.
- There are wealthy,
powerful families
that want
to control everything.
- We see families
who feel torn apart
because they have
different world views.
- He'd make me laugh a lot.
That all left
once he got into Q
and conspiratorial thinking.
- It really has become,
sad to say, us and them.
[crowd cheering]
- January 6th,
an entire insurrection,
you know, the almost-overthrow
of the United States government
happened because
large numbers of people
are susceptible
to conspiracy theories.
♪ ♪
- I know you guys
are gonna take this,
and you're gonna spin it
to make me look like
a crazy conspiracy theorist.
- I mean, you guys have spent
three days with me.
You feel
I'm a danger to society?
♪ ♪
- The strings are being pulled
by a puppet master.
He's pulling the strings
on both sides.
- I used to laugh so hard
at conspiracy theorists,
and then I started seeing it
on the inside.
♪ ♪
- My belief is that this
was completely 100% planned.
- They use the coronavirus
as their Trojan horse
to usher in
whatever the hell they wanted!
♪ ♪
- When people play around
with these ridiculous
conspiracy theories,
the result of it
has been violence.
- We were really
interested in exploring
the real systems behind, like,
why conspiracy thinking
happens.
- The cabal, the illuminati,
they don't want you
to find the truth.
I'm not a "pay-triot," P-A-Y.
I'm a patriot.
- There's something else
going on,
something in the shadows.
- The Nazis aren't coming.
They're here.
- The goal of the project
is to bring what's happening
in the shadows
out into the sunlight.
- We're at war
because the rule of law
in this country
has been eliminated!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Police arrested
two McKean County residents
in connection with the riot
at the U.S. Capitol.
William Blauser Jr. of Ludlow
and Pauline Bauer of Kane
face several charges.
- After their arraignment,
they were released on bond.
♪ ♪
- We will--
you and I will endure.
- Guess I don't have a problem
dying for my country.
Just don't want to be
incarcerated.
♪ ♪
[soft guitar music]
♪ ♪
- I think you took
my poached egg one.
- Yeah, I did,
because the guy wanted...
- All right,
what's our list look like?
[phone rings]
Hey.
I would love to,
but I got more important things
I gotta take care of right now,
'cause I have
my hearing on Friday,
and I won't be able
to make it tonight,
'cause I have to get stuff
packed up and head out
by tomorrow morning.
You know,
I would love to come
and hang out
with you guys again, but...
If I don't go to jail...
Okay, I will.
Thanks, Leo.
Mm-hmm. Bye-bye.
Pizza business
I learned from my husband.
My husband had worked at
pizza shops since he was 16.
Then he taught me.
He taught me,
and he goes fishing now.
[laughs]
- If you know Pauline,
you know
what a good person she is.
She's done a lot
for the community
that a lot of people
don't realize.
- I mean, yeah,
people are prayin'
and thinkin' about me
all the time, and I mean,
I just got that bear up there.
[soft music]
I grew up on a farm
in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
It was hard work.
But it's what shaped me into--
where my work ethic came from.
I worked 18 years for Kmart,
and I lost my entire retirement
when the stock went from
$30 to $5 a share overnight.
So at that point,
I said I will never work
for anyone else again.
I came here
with my husband in 2005.
We really wanted to move here.
So we found this for sale,
and we ended up buying
the restaurant.
When we got started,
we had close to $50,000
in credit card debt,
and we worked very hard.
I had three years left
until everything
was completely paid off
when the pandemic hit.
[ominous music]
- This virus
has just exploded throughout
the state
of Pennsylvania.
- I believed at first
that it was an actual pandemic.
We had cleaned this restaurant
top to bottom with bleach,
and a lot of my employees
were overwhelmed.
It was a stressful, stressful
time to be a business owner.
- New restrictions
announced in the last hour
for the entire state
of Pennsylvania.
- All non-life-sustaining
businesses in the state
must close.
♪ ♪
- Everything started to change
on March 17th of 2020.
The 17th is when they told them
that startin' tomorrow,
you're shut down.
You cannot--you can't be open.
So of course, she complied.
She shut down.
- At that time, I seriously
thought I was gonna lose
everything I ever worked for.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- She was a lot different.
She was not political.
She liked
going more on her boat
and doing things like that,
instead of going
to these rallies.
Then she started
into the politics.
She started on her cell phone,
goin' into things,
lookin' things up.
♪ ♪
- I started to get involved
with researching
the coronavirus.
- Welcome, everyone.
Log onto social media,
and you'll probably find
some of your friends sharing
wild COVID-19
conspiracy theories.
Pretty much all of them
are packed into one viral video
that's made the rounds.
- Then I came across
the "Plandemic" video.
- It's called "Plandemic,"
a 25-minute video claiming
to show the real story
behind COVID-19.
- Nothing is more insidious
than this so-called
"Plandemic" conspiracy theory
now floating about,
which alleges that coronavirus
was engineered
to increase vaccinations
and make people rich.
- Pharmaceutical companies,
how much money
are they making on the vaccine?
They brought upon the pandemic.
Event 201, in October
of 2019 by Bill Gates,
proves they were gonna bring
the pandemic.
♪ ♪
[mixer whirring]
- The textbook definition
of a conspiracy theory
is the idea
that a small group of people
are sort of collaborating
in private, in secret,
to enact harm
on the common person.
- The pandemic has given
a boost to conspiracy theories
like those propagated
by QAnon
with its claim
that Satan-worshipping
pedophile elites
are running our lives.
- The kind
of conventional wisdom
about conspiracy thinking
is that it solves a few
sort of psychological needs.
One is the need for belonging.
- Through online forums, these
different conspiracy theories
brought more people together,
especially over the past year.
- Another is the need for
knowledge, the epistemic need.
It's just sort of like, make
sense of the world around you.
- And when something big
happens,
like a terrorist attack
or a mass shooting,
we assume there must be
an equally big
explanation for it.
- And believing
conspiracy theories is a way
to sort of understand
the bad things that happen.
♪ ♪
- I thought the pandemic
would've woke everyone up,
but it didn't.
There are some people
that still do not believe
in the New World Order.
- A one world government
controlled by the 13
elite families of the world.
- Well, it's controlled
by the Vatican
and the royal family
and the Rothschilds
and the Rockefellers
and the Morgans,
and the more and more
that we bow down to it,
the less liberties
we're going to have.
We need to stand up.
We need to start fighting,
and that's why I went there
on January 6th,
because our elections
were stolen from us.
[dramatic music]
- We define
a conspiracy theory
as a explanation
for world events,
that there's secret
and malevolent coordination.
Then that certainly applies
to the notion
that people secretly worked
together to steal the election.
- This is the most
fraudulent thing anybody's--
this is a criminal enterprise.
- We know that
that's not true.
But that's, in large part,
what incited the insurrection
on January 6th.
- When you catch somebody
in a fraud,
you're allowed to go
by very different rules.
♪ ♪
- Who?
Where did you hear that at?
- Four of five of them.
- All charges were dropped?
- I hope so.
Bill is my best friend.
He's a Purple Heart
Vietnam veteran,
and Bill was by my side
the entire time.
[indistinct shouting]
When I was standing on
the Capitol building steps,
I got maced
directly in the eyeballs,
and I could not see,
and thank God
that Bill was there.
- She said, "You gotta be
my eyes to get in there,"
you know, so I said, "Well,
I really don't wanna go in."
We'll get out,
and all she said--
so then the doors open.
- Whose house?
all: Our house!
- Whose house?
[horn blares]
♪ ♪
all: USA!
- There were a whole bunch
of police there.
She told them that they--
she wanted to bring that--
bring that bitch out here
and hang her.
- She wanted to go down
into the Capitol
where the Senate chambers are.
I didn't wanna
go down in there, for sure.
[indistinct yelling]
- Around 3:30, President Trump
told us all to go home.
So we went home.
- Now, some of our
not-so-dear friends,
they called the FBI on us.
[tense music]
- They're charging me
with obstructing
an official proceeding,
and that is supposed to be
a 20-year sentence.
♪ ♪
- You could've fibbed
a little bit.
- Thank you.
On September 17th
at 10:30 a.m.,
I have a status hearing
in Washington, D.C.
♪ ♪
It's scary, but...
If this is the path where
God's chosen me to take...
Everything happens
for a reason.
♪ ♪
- One of our hypotheses
going into "Shadowland"
was that a lot of this
is about money,
and there are people who are
profiting off of
conspiracy theories,
and we really wanted to open
that world for people
to understand, like,
this is a billion-dollar
industry, you know?
There's money to be made here.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Mimi?
- Yeah?
- What can I help you with?
- Actually, I would just--
if you could just hang out,
we could listen to Tim Pool
or something.
I could, like--
- Okay.
Let me get my phone
and something to eat.
- My name is Zach Vorhies,
and I'm about to release
my new social media network
to the world.
♪ ♪
Let's see here.
We have Infowars.
We also have
Fox, OAN, Newsmax.
Steve Bannon's just amazing.
And some of it's conspiracy,
but most of it's
pretty spot-on.
This is going to change
the entire game.
I could end up
as a millionaire
if people come in
and want to help me do this.
♪ ♪
- My name is Maryam Henein.
I'm an
investigative journalist.
Welcome to the channel
where I address
chronic illnesses,
autoimmune conditions.
I'm very active every day in
reading and sharing information
about what's happening
with the 'rona,
and these freedoms that are
being taken away from us.
♪ This corona,
fuck you, corona ♪
This was an opportunity
to usher in many things.
[whispers]
Brilliant Trojan horse!
[quietly] Inbox, inbox.
- Maryam is my girlfriend.
- I came across Zach
while he was on Alex Jones.
- All right,
Jack Vorhies is here with us.
- I looked at him
on the screen.
His eyes looked familiar to me.
And then I reached out to him
on Twitter.
- This is Zach Vorhies,
the Google whistleblower here
with Maryam Henein.
- Investigative journalist.
So when we connected,
it was just--just awesome.
- The United States
is in the state of war
against the world communist
conspiracy.
Whether it scares some people
or not, I don't give a hoot.
- [laughing] I don't think--
I don't think many people.
♪ ♪
- When this whole
COVID mess came out,
me and Maryam were just
beside ourselves with fear.
- COVID-19's greatest power
is fear.
It is a psychological warfare
weapon that has been deployed
against the people
of the world to be the cover
for a controlled global
collapse to consolidate power
in the hands of the globalists
and to establish
their New World Order.
- There was one weekend
we were actually on ecstasy,
and we were--we spent, like,
48 hours just watching
all this fear porn.
- This is a 21st century war.
It's a gl--war
about the globalists.
It's a psy-war
trying to scare you,
and the answer to that
is not be scared.
The answer is go...[screams]
- And so we just
grabbed onto each other
and held on for dear life.
- He asked me, and he's like,
"Would you be my girlfriend?"
It was, like, so cute.
- And we've been in this house
ever since.
♪ ♪
I'm just gonna sit down
in this pile of stuff, and...
So when can I tickle you?
Can we do that soon?
- I think there needs to be
space on the bed for that.
- Really?
- And there isn't...
- What if I proved you wrong?
- Unfortunately.
[laughs]
- What if I proved you wrong?
Huh? Huh? It's coming.
It's coming.
- [laughs]
- Okay, you're done now.
- Zach, I just saw
you have a dimple.
- Where?
- I just saw
you have a dimple here.
- No way.
- I've never seen it before.
- When does it show up?
- Now.
I have to take a picture--
you see it.
[children laughing]
- Hi, Zach.
♪ ♪
- I grew up
in the forest of Oregon.
I went to the University of
Oregon to study programming,
and Google was my dream job.
I actually worked there
for 8 1/2 years,
first as an engineer
on Google Earth,
and then later on YouTube.
That's how I came
to San Francisco,
and that was my identity.
I was working for Google,
working for the best company
in the world,
and what I didn't realize
was how wrong that
was all gonna turn out to be
8 1/2 years later.
- In the weeks
since the election,
Facebook and Google
have come under fire
for their supposed role
in spreading "fake news"
throughout the election.
- A BuzzFeed analysis found
that fake election news
generated more buzz
than stories
from 19 mainstream
news outlets combined.
- Now both companies
are making changes
to stop this spread
of false information.
- After Trump won the election,
Google decided that they were
going to start clamping down
on fake news.
- Now Google and Facebook
are targeting
how the creators of these
fake news sites make money.
That's advertising.
- Bay area tech giants
are taking action
against conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones.
- iTunes, Facebook,
Spotify, and YouTube
all removed his audio
and video material.
- I saw that.
Conservatives like myself
are getting censored.
I did not like the censorship,
and so I started to investigate
what the company
was doing on the inside.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- The Google whistleblower
has come out of the shadows.
- I got this information out
to a right-wing
investigative outlet.
- How did you obtain
this document?
- So these documents
were available
to every single employee within
the company that was full-time.
The left wing basically called
my disclosure a nothing-burger.
- Conservatives accused Google
of political bias.
Is there any evidence of that?
- I think it would be
really, incredibly difficult
to prove political bias
at this point.
- You know, we do get concerns
across both sides of the aisle.
- [coughs]
- You know, I can assure you
we do this in a neutral way.
- But the right wing
grabbed onto it.
- Zach, you've been a real hero
coming forward.
Having you come
to the forefront is amazing.
- And so people want
to understand, like,
what's really going on.
They're--they come to me.
Google is this company
hell-bent on enslaving you.
What Google is pushing is--
they're pushing ideas
that will destabilize
the United States
and make it fall without
the enemy firing a shot,
and the question is,
who's the enemy?
People want to know, well,
who's pulling the strings?
Because obviously,
there's a puppet master,
and the thing is, is that,
we don't know who they are.
There is a New World Order,
and Google is a part of it.
They're just a front group
in the same way
that Facebook is a front group.
You know, the bag men
of the New World Order.
- And that's why
I'm here fighting today,
because I know what the deep
state is able to pull off.
I know that they're
able to pull off
this global warming scam.
I know that they're able
to put
zoonotic mouse retroviruses
in our vaccines.
They're able to put mercury
in our filling.
You know, they put fluoride
in our water
and in our toothpaste,
and they're able to do this
in order to make us sick
so that we're--it necessitates
the need
of a socialized healthcare.
I feel like I'm a hero.
- I want to hand you the floor,
'cause I'ma tell you,
you're smart, man.
- I've got this
new part of my life
where I'm an
international celebrity now.
I think that I'm, like,
the right wing hipster.
Like, I was, like,
red-pilling before it was cool.
I'm not here to, like,
get famous or anything.
I'm the Google whistleblower.
[cheers and applause]
And I don't
really charge for it.
It's just something
that I want to do
because I wanna get
the information out there.
- Um, the way
that I make money--
I mean, look, I don't do any
of these appearances for money,
and people often ask me, like,
how do I make my income?
And the answer to that
is I've got some wealthy donors
that are scared to death
that their businesses
are going to be more destroyed
than they are by regulation
and the government.
♪ ♪
- So this is my sauna.
This is great
because it's portable.
Right now,
it's cold in San Francisco,
so I use this a little--
my space,
and then I just listen
to the podcast or the news
or do my work.
I grew up in Montreal, Canada.
I was very curious,
and I wanted to be
a private eye.
My first story that I wrote
for the "Montreal Gazette"
was at 18 years old,
and then when I came here
to California, I was writing
for "The Hollywood Reporter,"
and I was writing for "Maxim,"
and I was writing
for "Penthouse."
I'm best known
for directing a film
called "Vanishing
of the Bees."
It's a documentary
on colony collapse disorder.
I thought I was a Democrat
and thought I was liberal
in my views
and then had
a kind of rude awakening
in this past year and a half.
The shift in my thinking,
as far as my politics,
was meeting Zach
and the coronavirus.
It's not that I think
this is not real,
because I know people
who've been sick.
I just feel this is--
these responses are not kosher.
Fuck you.
Take your poisons,
and shove 'em into your veins,
and let us see what it does.
You are hypnotizing
an entire planet by fear...
To get injected, to make money.
You're using humans as pawns.
You all think
that this is about a virus?
This is about ushering in
a New World Order.
This is about training people
to be obedient slaves.
How did they do it
during the Nazis?
This is how.
And, of course, getting
personally all this hate--
I just got a message
from--I don't know who.
"I honestly feel bad
for you and your followers.
"So incredibly stupid
and misinformed,
"just spreading the stupid
and misinformation
amongst yourselves."
Okay, buddy.
Just block.
I went to a conservative event
with Zach
and saw that the people were
super polite and welcoming.
Then felt like, "Oh,
these people will accept me."
♪ ♪
[keys clacking]
So I'm writing a book,
and it's been challenging,
despite my writing skills,
to sell this story
because of, uh,
how controversial it is.
- I do believe
we're gonna be able to get you
a syndicated space
in several online publications
starting this month.
- Okay.
I'm not doing this for money
or for fame.
I grew up watching
Alfred Hitchcock movies
and Hardy Boys
and Agatha Christie.
I think people like whodunits.
People like the truth.
And then is there any word
on this network?
Are they still interested?
- Mm-mm.
He did say he was interested
after I shared with him
what you had already done.
- Okay.
- I do feel
that once I have it written,
that someone will publish it.
It's going to be that good.
- I have always
been interested
in why people believe
in conspiracy theories,
because I understand firsthand
that anyone can believe in
conspiracy theories.
[dramatic music]
When I was a teenager,
I had a teacher
who believed in the illuminati
and who taught our class
that the illuminati was real,
and I believed it.
♪ ♪
It was totally intoxicating.
It feels really good,
especially when
you are a teenager,
to feel like you understand
things that other people don't
and to feel like you kind of
get the way the world works,
and someone told me
that the key to the universe,
basically,
is that there's
a shadowy cabal of rich people
who are pulling the strings,
and that worked for me.
It feels really good to feel
like you've unlocked
the secret of how
wealth and power works,
and to seek fairness
and to prevent bad actors
from acting badly.
It feels like
being a little high,
and I--that feeling
has stayed with me
even though the thoughts
that undergird it haven't.
So that's part of why
I wanted to do this project.
I think it's so important
to not lose sight of that,
that this is something that
is really pulling people in.
[somber guitar music]
♪ ♪
- "Dear Pauline,
I hope they hang you
"by the neck till you die after
convicting you of treason.
"You're not only
an embarrassing nutcase
"that humiliates our democracy
by your very existence.
"You're the usual idiot redneck
"who votes for con artists
like Trump.
"You Trump cunt,
treasonous, fucking pig.
"Suck on Trump's tiny,
shriveled, wrinkled,
"spray-tanned dick,
you bimbo-ditz whore.
Choke on a confederate flag.
You're a traitorous cunt."
- I just learned
to blow it off.
You know,
when I was in middle school,
my best friend came to me
and said that
a lot of the girls in my grade
told her
not to hang out with me
'cause I smelled like a cow,
'cause I grew up on a farm.
So I've learned to...
not to pay
much attention to words.
You know?
It's not their fault.
They're just uneducated.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Well, I have it.
There is your document.
All 127 pages of it.
- I came across Bobby Lawrence
at the rallies,
and Bobby was talking about how
we needed
to not be "citi-zens" anymore.
- We have had the biggest fraud
perpetrated on us
in the history of mankind.
- There is a group of people
living amongst us
who walk like us, talk like us,
and act like us,
but they say
they are different.
- Sovereign citizens
basically believe that
the current federal government
is illegitimate and illegal.
- What we have
are corporations
that are owned
by a small group of people
that are pretending
to be government.
This fight is real.
This struggle is real.
We have a giant cabal called
the Corporation
of the United States,
and the Bar Association
that seeks to keep us slaves.
♪ ♪
You can find out
who the top 20 people are
that own the Corporation
of the United States.
And why they do it
is to make money--
simple, plain and simple.
And they do it through fraud,
fear, and intimidation.
♪ ♪
- I love my country.
I'm patriotic as you can get.
I have always stood
for the national anthem.
I've always pledged allegiance
to the flag.
I believe in our
constitutional rights
and our
Declaration of Independence
and liberty,
and I feel that we have lost
our liberties.
So when I sat down with Bobby
and I listened to him,
I decided to go on this path.
- You are making history
right now.
You're in a federal district
court in Washington, D.C.,
with--a part of one
of the biggest events,
legal events,
in the history of our nation,
and you have chosen to stand up
and fight for God's law,
fight for what is real,
fight for what is righteous.
- My defense is that their
rules, codes, statutes
and ordinance do not apply
to sovereign people,
to an American state national
who is no longer
part of their corporation.
I don't want an attorney.
They don't care
about the welfare
of the people
they're representing.
They're only in it
to make money.
Okay, so I'm gonna enter
the courtroom and say,
"I'm here, Your Honor,
by Divine Special Appearance."
- That's cool.
You can say, "I am Pauline
from the house of Bauer,
"and I seek a settlement today
of these issues
before the court."
And you have to believe
these words.
If you've gotta read 'em
from a piece of paper...
- I know.
- You know, it's not gonna--
you know, you gotta look 'em
in the eye when you say it.
You can't be readin' off
a piece of paper.
He's gotta--he's gotta know
you believe it.
He's gotta know that it's
in your heart and it's real.
And you're talking to him,
one woman to one man,
not some vessel
in talking to shit made up.
He is a man.
Okay, and I doubt
very seriously if he knows
he's part of a cabal.
I'm gonna get you ready
for what may come, okay?
So when you walk
in there tomorrow,
I want you to feel
and know what I know.
Don't be afraid
to quote the Bible, okay?
The Bible is what
our nation was founded on.
It's illegal--
is the undoing of God's law.
It's shit made up.
They can't force you
to surrender God's law
for the legal shit made up.
So they try
to get you to capitulate
and give a tacit agreement
by giving your "sig-nature,"
surrender nature's law
on their land.
If you sig-nature their
document, you surrender law.
Sig, surrender, nature.
Under God's law,
we created government.
We were directed by God
to take dominion
over the land, the air,
and the water.
What I'm doing right now--
this is why that judge
doesn't want me
in that courtroom.
I will eviscerate
that federal judge
and any prosecutor
they put before me.
They can't out-debate me,
'cause they don't know
half this shit.
But I can tell 'em
where to go look it up.
And I'm just a construction
worker that puts windows in.
They're the ones
that's been practicing law
their entire career.
I'm a people.
You're a restauranteur.
You did nothin' wrong.
You harmed no one.
You touched no one.
You were invited in.
But all you said was,
"Bring that bitch out here."
Dismiss these charges,
and when you walk in
that courtroom tomorrow,
you remember
that good and righteousness
is on your side.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I am here
in Duluth, Georgia,
and I'm here to talk
to Sarah Lewis,
whose childhood best friend,
Rosanne Boyland,
was one of the people who died
on January 6th at the Capitol.
What I'm really here to do is
to try to understand,
on a person level,
why conspiracy theories
are so compelling
and how someone's
whole worldview
can change so quickly.
- New information tonight about
the death of a Georgia woman
who died during
the January 6th attack
at the U.S. Capitol in D.C.,
trampled
under a stampede of rioters.
- Rosanne Boyland's family
called her a happy,
wonderful person.
- Rosanne's social media posts
show how she was caught up
in pro-Trump conspiracy
communities involving QAnon.
- Many believers of QAnon
believing factions
of the government
are run by pedophiles
running an international
sex-trafficking ring.
- Rosanne's family and friends
wishing the woman
they loved so dearly
had not gotten herself
so wrapped up
in conspiracy theories
they consider dangerous.
- Hi!
- Hi, I'm Ellen.
- I'm Sarah.
both: So nice to meet you.
- Tell me about Rosanne.
What do you wish
people knew about her?
- I wish that people knew
that before
this QAnon exposure,
before that, she was
a regular Trump-roastin',
good-time-havin' person.
We literally were exchanging
memes about the man,
like, two days, three days
before she
"went down the rabbit hole."
- Mm-hmm.
- She was my best friend,
and best friend is really
an understatement.
We were more like family
because of the fact
that we were introduced
to each other so young.
We were only 17 months.
So there's no memory that
I have without her until now.
♪ ♪
She had
an amazing sense of humor.
She was always joking.
But my friend was hurting.
You know, her whole life,
she was hurting.
I guess it was middle school,
things started
to change for her.
I started doing drugs
in, like, late middle school.
So come to find out, we had
both started to branch out
kind of on our own
little drug journeys.
Her opiate use
turned into heroin
some point after high school,
and it took a lot for me
to accept that.
But she just struggled
and struggled.
And then her nieces were born.
Her sister had her first baby,
and nothing could've been
better for Rosanne.
Like, somehow
that just triggered her
to wanna do something better,
and she cleaned up for them,
and she started going to NA.
But you know, her life
was just pretty basic.
Taking care of the girls,
you know, watching TV,
playin' on her phone.
That was really it, you know?
She didn't have a job.
She never left home.
Didn't have a home of her own.
Didn't get married.
Didn't have children.
And then
when quarantine happened,
it messed with Rosanne.
She had nothing
but her room and her phone
and that isolation.
- Not going to meetings.
- Right,
she's taking it seriously.
She wasn't going to meetings,
wasn't going out
because she took
COVID seriously at first,
and so, um, she goes down
this "rabbit hole,"
they like to say, and that's
what she called it too.
Immediately--the first night
she found out about this shit,
she admitted that she
was up all night reading it,
that she hadn't slept.
The very next message
I have from her is,
"I've been up all night.
Haven't slept."
Like, she was immediately
that hyper-fixated
that she forgot
everything else.
We never disagreed on anything!
Like, we grew up,
same mind on all this stuff.
So sh--I'm just blown away
when she's like,
"No, you have to understand,
"Donald Trump
is the only person
"that knows about all this
and that wants to do anything
about this."
- What do you think
she was looking for?
- I think
she was looking for a purpose,
and I think,
for her, that created--
like, she felt like
a failure to launch.
She felt like a loser.
She felt like, you know,
she had no purpose
other than drain society,
which was totally
the opposite of what she was.
She was everyone's support
who needed her.
I think
she just found in QAnon
all of the things that she,
at that moment, needed.
♪ ♪
It was gonna be an opportunity
to rescue these children
and be a part of something huge
and historic and productive.
And for once,
it wasn't gonna be, you know,
"I'm not being found
in the Walmart parking lot
"with foam coming out
of my mouth
and a needle hanging
out of my arm."
You know, "This
is something I can be proud of
is fighting for this."
I wish I had really tried
more to stop it,
but I thought, "You know,
what harm is it gonna do
for her to just
keep posting this shit?"
- Right. Well, and you've said
that it happened
really, really fast.
- It did.
Literally just
less than a year.
- Yeah.
- Less than six months, really.
I just woke up one morning,
on the 7th, I guess.
A friend of mine
had sent me a text,
and she was like, "Oh my God,
I can't believe this."
And she had attached
a news story,
and I just remember screaming.
[sniffs]
Just like that,
my best friend is gone.
My person, the only person
who knows me on this planet.
She's the only person
on this planet who remembers
everything about my life
and can talk about things
with me
and can frame things for me.
"Well, Sarah,
this is why you do that,
"'cause don't you remember,
your grandma
was kind of like this way?"
That's valuable.
Like, I would have done
whatever it took
to make this not happen.
[somber music]
And I'm being selfish
for my fucking self.
I would have done everything
to make this not happen
for her, for the world.
People needed what she had.
And now nobody will have it.
♪ ♪
- It helps me understand more
this sort of
"search for meaning"
piece of this.
It does seem like Rosanne
really wanted something
to believe in
and something that,
more than that, made her feel
like she was working
towards something.
♪ ♪
- Okay. Here we go. Here we go.
This is what I was looking for.
She says, "I want to say
thank you to everyone
"involved in this movement.
"My family thinks I'm crazy,
"but I'm heading up from ATL
to be shoulder to shoulder
"with my true brothers
and sisters.
"I finally feel like everything
and everyone has a purpose.
"And I'm super grateful that
God kept me alive long enough
"and woke me up just in time
to see all this.
"So thank you.
God bless you all.
See you on the 6th.
Where we go one, we go all."
It brings me
a small measure of comfort
that her final act
was, in her mind, so heroic.
So heroic and brave.
- I came here to figure out
what brought Rosanne Boyland
to the Capitol.
Purpose.
Like, she said it herself
in her own words,
and that, I think
was really meaningful.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[computer dings]
- Howdy.
- What's up, Maryam?
- What's up?
Okay, here we go.
Okay. I'm ready.
[dramatic musical sting]
- All right, guys,
thanks for tuning in.
First of all, today we're
gonna be hearing a conversation
between myself
and my friend Maryam Henein.
She and her partner,
Zach Vorhies,
the Google whistleblower,
do a lot of work together.
Maryam's been a health freedom
advocate for a long time,
and now she is finding herself
part of another club:
people who are getting their
bank accounts shut off
because they don't hold
the right political views.
- So this is the story
from the "New York Post"
"JPMorgan Chase accused
of purging accounts
of conservative activists."
- They sent us this little
letter that just said,
"You represent reputational
risk to our bank,
and so therefore we're
canceling those two accounts."
- Recently, Maryam had her bank
account for her business
completely shut down.
And we're gonna be right back
with the interview
after this.
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All right, everyone.
Welcome back.
Maryam, how are you?
- I'm well.
Thank you for having me on.
- Yeah. No problem.
- And it was my business,
just to make that distinction.
They did say that they
would send a check.
And so that's on its way.
And I asked, "Why?
"Is it because
I'm unvaccinated vermin?
Is it because I sell vitamins?"
And they straight up say,
"We don't have to give you
a reason why
we've canceled you."
I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'm a successful, intelligent,
hardworking entrepreneur
that actually cares about
people's health,
wants to empower people.
And how do I explain
to my parents
that I'm not an eff-up?
That there's a reason
why a 48-year-old woman
is in need of help
because she doesn't have
access to her funds?
- Right. Well, thanks a lot...
- Thank you.
- For getting in touch
with me, Maryam.
I appreciate it, and say hi
to Zach for me too.
- I will. Bye.
I've been totally attacked.
I'm banned from PayPal.
I've lost channels on YouTube.
I'm banned from Amazon.
I just got shut down by Chase.
[sighs]
My livelihood
is totally impacted.
I'm on food stamps
and constantly struggling.
- If you find out
about this stuff,
if you get obsessive
about these
conspiracy theories,
what it does is it wrecks
who you are as a person.
It separates you from society.
You think that your friends
and family would be happy
to find out
that they've been lied to,
but instead they turn on you.
[somber music]
- Yeah, I've lost lots
of supposed friends.
Over and over again,
"What's happened to you?"
If you give a shit
about what's happened to me,
pick up the phone
and speak to me
and ask me what's happened.
Nothing's happened to me.
My mother said
she "disagrees" with me,
but she hasn't read anything
that I've read,
and she doesn't know
what the fuck
she's disagreeing with.
My parents are vaccinated.
My dad worked for Pfizer.
And my dad said,
straight up, quote,
"I don't care
what you have to say."
♪ ♪
The people that I thought
were intellectuals
don't really think
for themselves anymore.
Right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Or they have
this huge blind spot.
- Doesn't matter.
I don't even like
the old friends.
Like, I want to get new friends
'cause the new friends
treat me different.
This polarization is happening
all over America.
It's almost biblical
where they talk about
how family--brother would turn
against brother,
father against son.
- Very little.
- He thinks something darker
is happening with me.
I miss my dad all the time.
I wish, like--
he used to be my confidant.
You know, he used to be
the person that I looked up to.
I can't even talk to him
anymore
without us getting
into, like, a fight
where we start screaming
at each other.
And I don't know
whether I'm gonna ever have
a good relationship
with him again.
I'm sorry.
[pensive music]
Just hold the whole screen
'cause this is gonna pop off.
- Okay.
[drill whirs]
- Thank you.
- Thank you. That's it.
- I believe in freedom,
and I don't want to play
these games anymore.
Okay.
At this point, I am trying
to save myself
by escaping San Francisco.
I never liked San Francisco.
Especially don't like it
now with the 'rona
and these mandates.
And so I'm leaving
to go to Florida
to maybe just buy some time
and then figure out whether I
need to leave America.
I mean, lots of people who...
don't believe in this vaccine
are in the same position.
- [grunts]
In all possibility,
I'm gonna be following her
in a few weeks myself.
- There's one underneath.
We're all in the same boat of,
where are we gonna feel safe?
Are they gonna take us
to the gulag
because we're
unvaccinated vermin?
I will continue
to pack everything
and have it all sorted,
and then we can just
circle back.
But are you pretty much
have come to terms
with the fact that
you're leaving this--
- I have to leave.
This city isn't safe for me.
Like, I was in doubt
that it was happening.
I was like,
"Oh, it's not gonna happen."
And then it's like, boom,
now they're trying to push
for unvaccinated to not
be able to travel on airplanes.
At what step
am I not gonna be able
to even drive across
state boundaries?
- Well,
there'll be checkpoints.
Maybe by the time you go
there might be a checkpoint.
- Maybe.
Maybe it'll happen in 30 days.
I don't think so.
I think I got
a little bit more time.
[tense music]
- I would love to be making
plans with Zach.
I hope to be with him.
I adore him.
♪ ♪
But he has his own path.
♪ ♪
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Same to you, Billy.
- I will.
- Pauline, gonna leave
in about two minutes.
- All right, well, we're
getting ready to leave here.
- All right. You too, Billy.
- So is he coming?
- So he doesn't have to go?
- Okay.
- All right.
♪ ♪
- I'm a little nervous.
- You ready to go
do this thing?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
- Your stomach's messed up?
- What are you concerned about
today specifically?
- I'm concerned because
the prosecution has asked
for my conditions of release
to be revoked
and hold me in contempt.
I mean, you guys
have spent three days with me.
Do you feel
I'm a danger to society?
I mean, do I walk around
with a weapon on me?
Do I harm anyone?
I hug people.
[laughs] I don't harm people.
- All right. All right.
And we're off to the races.
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
I don't care if they flood it
or blow it up.
It's a satanic city.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
MSM is the whole reason why
this country's so messed up,
'cause they're owned
by six companies.
George Soros-funded companies.
You print lies.
- None of your business.
[laughter]
- Am I gonna have a choice?
I mean, our court systems
are corrupt.
They've been compromised.
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- Okay.
The judge is in the room.
[dramatic music]
- Hmm.
- He's gonna lock her up.
- The judge said she believes
she's above the law
and he can't allow that.
She's not claiming to be
above the law.
She's claiming that the judge
needs to follow the law.
So he's taking her
into custody.
He's locking her up.
- Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
- Now he's holding her
in contempt of court.
And he wouldn't allow her
to testify to give testimony!
To rebut that shit made up
by the prosecution!
The judge is full of shit.
- Let's see, there were two,
four, six, eight marshals.
We're talking about a lady
that runs a restaurant.
Not somebody--
they treat terrorists better
than they did her.
Then they wanna know why
so many people
are buying weapons and ammo.
There you have it.
- Yeah, about--
she's looking at 30 days,
by my understanding.
- She said she'd rather be
shot then put back in prison.
- We're at war!
We're at war
with the court systems.
We're at war
with the Bar Association.
We're at war because the rule
of law in this country
has been eliminated!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[tense music]
What's happening?
[sobbing]
- So the basic thing
I'm working on
is sort of the intersection
of conspiricism and capitalism,
essentially.
The way that
conspiracy theories
sell themselves.
- My belief is this was
completely, 100% planned.
- A warning tonight
about a fake coronavirus cure
being sold.
- Should I be worried about me
being put in jail,
like yourself?
- I'm not gonna say 100%
they won't arrest you.
♪ ♪
Look at us.