Something has been poisoning the conservative movement for thirty years. It's in the podcasts, the reels, and the content you consume every day. And there is a documented trail from a forged document designed to justify genocide straight to your Spotify subscriptions.

Chapter 14 of Black Sun traces the conspiracy world back to its foundations: Bill Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse, which reprints the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in full, and David Icke’s The Robots’ Rebellion, which quotes the Protocols extensively and cites Cooper as a source. Cooper called for violence. Icke was told the Protocols produced genocide and shrugged. Every conspiracy podcast working today is downstream of these two men.

This episode asks the question nobody in the conspiracy world wants to answer: what has it actually produced? Strong families or absent fathers? Political victories or the QAnon Shaman? Trustworthy alliances or an affinity for Islam that would have been unthinkable twenty years ago? The darkening prospects for conservatism are not a mystery. They are the direct product of drinking poisoned water for thirty years.

In this episode

• What has the conspiracy world actually produced?

• Bill Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, and the Protocols reprinted in full

• David Icke, entryism, and the New Age transmission belt

• Cooper’s explicit calls for violence

• QAnon, the QAnon Shaman, and the storm that never came

• The Islam-far right alliance: Iraq then, Iran now

• Tucker Carlson, Russell Brand, and the killing of Charlie Kirk

• COVID as the floodgate for thirty years of conspiracy infrastructure

• Ron Paul vs. Alex Jones: two models of questioning authority

• Conspiracy as mainstream entertainment: Spotify, YouTube, Instagram

• Will’s testimony: twenty years in the New Age conspiracy world

• The theological exit: afraid men don’t build