Birds are not real. Whats now?

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the one thing the the one of the conspiracy which I cannot even I mean I cannot even digest is like you know birds are in real love I mean do you I mean ah H observe I'm even wearing my birds aren't real t-shirt oh so youve been I love birds aren't real wow here's the thing so Birds aren't real uh started off in Jan AR 2017 in Memphis Tennessee a uh a student I think he was a history student named Peter Mondo was there as part of the uh 2017 women Memphis women's March for you know Reproductive Rights and can we finally get paid the same as men and things like this this just this is literally the same month that Donald Trump uh was sworn in his president so a lot of people were like hey this is this is a guy who's I mean he's been accused of rape and now he's president what's going to happen for women's rights in this country so he's a young liberal guy he went and over there here's his group but over there is a group of prot trump anti-protesters holding up all kinds of signs with really outlandish conspiracy theories even on them so as a joke he walked over grabbed a blank sign and wrote Birds aren't real and stood with the prot trumpers and held it up M well there were there were news news people there and they saw this and they were like oh does someone actually think Birds aren't real that's hysterical how stupid are these Trump people and so it took off it got talked about on the news videos of it went viral on uh YouTube it was just a joke and then after this sometimes it was just a joke yeah sometimes the jokes can be a conspiracy as well right like you know yeah yeah so he decided to lean into it so he created Birds aren't real and he created a whole story about have you covered this thing in any of your episode have you spoken about this in any yeah it's part of um an episode yeah uh episode nine just before Denver airport is called now you you see it now you don't Finland doesn't exist the country of Finland does not exist so that's talked about in there there's another conspiracy theory that says Australia doesn't exist that's also talked about in there and uh Birds aren't real is talked about in there because all of these started off as jokes and then somewhere along the way somebody started believing them now I don't believe there's anybody who believes Birds aren't real is real everybody who like me I love it I have a t-shirt I I will probably buy more things from Birds aren't real because I think it's so funny but uh and the story he's written is wonderful the website is fantastic it's so complicated it looks just like a real conspiracy website because he's he's doing something called culture jamming he's trolling the conspiracy people he's making something that looks exactly like a real conspiracy theory except that it's so clearly Preposterous except that so is reptilians so is you know aval LaVine was replaced by a body double or a clone so is everything we've talked about in here is ridiculous more ridiculous than Birds aren't real not really so he just kind of runs with it and and uh and it's become this whole thing to the point where when somebody says in a news article or an interview yeah I love burds aren't whe it's such a great satire of conspiracy theories he gets angry and says that person is working for you know Big Bird the because the whole idea is you you I don't know if you know what it is all birds were killed by the US government yeah yeah the yeah the the the war against birds and they were replaced with surveillance drones uh so so every time you see a bird in North America it's a camera mhm