the real illuminati was led by a dick nobody liked

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So yeah, so I did I did an episode on the Illuminati. The Illuminati was started by a little weasel named Adam Vicehelped uh in 1776 in Bavaria. He basically he he wanted to join the Freemasons. He had an idea in his head about what a secret society should be like. And there were tons of little secret societies. Very often they were little clubs of uh well-connected people. And if you could join that, you know, if you're a I don't know, a baker and um you're never get access to high high ranking people in society, especially in the 16 17 1800s, right?

You're never going to get to rub shoulders with those people. But if you're a Freemason, you can. And so Freemasonry started becoming this kind of gentleman's club, but with a little bit more um access for people of lower classes. So people wanted to become Masons. So, Adam Vice had it in his head that this is secret society and this is he really liked the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry of it. Oh boy, we're going to have secret handshakes, secret signals and costumes and secret words and codes. It's going to be awesome. And when he got there, he found that it's really just a bunch of men hanging around making business deals. He didn't think it was secret enough, secret society enough. So, he said, "I'm going to create my own." Mhm.

And it was called the Illuminati. Now, the interesting thing is he started recruiting out of Freemason free uh Masonic lodges. He started recruiting Freemasons, other people who also maybe were like, "This isn't nearly as cool as I thought it was going to be. Join us.

We're going to actually change things." We have a whole philosophy that he wrote, and if you don't follow 100% the philosophy, you're out. Because he's the boss. Damn it. Finally, he gets to be the big man and he starts his little group and they do in fact infiltrate