As former high-level CIA operatives, John Sipher and Jerry O'Shea would create fake conspiracies around the world. Now, with the help of experts, they execute their own fun and fearless investigation into conspiracy theories past and present to assess what's real. And how. And why.
Episode Transcript
This is podcast legend Adam Davidson, I'm talking.
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To a few things more important than that.
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So John Cipher and Jerry o'sha, what did you guys
do for a living?
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We were legends in the CIA.
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You were legends in the CIA, at least in our
own minds.
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So we worked in the CIA for thirty plus years
trying to recruit and run spies around the world.
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We deal with a lot of conspiracy theories inside of
the agency, and there are actual conspiracies.
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What is mission implausible?
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We're looking at conspiracies and conspiracy theories from a conspiratorial mindset.
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Each episode will we take a conspiracy and deconstruct it,
see where it's coming from, and in the process tell
a little bit about our backgrounds and how conspiracies fit
into the work we did in our secret work.
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And we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.
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So what are people going to get out of this show?
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We want to use our experience and some of the
stories that we know from the inside to help people
understand some of the things that they've been told or
they've read about over the years.
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But I think it's also important because increasingly into the future,
other governments Russians, Chinese are going to be using conspiracy
theories against us, and I think it's really important to
the health of our democracy. The people are able to
recognize conspiracies which exist, conspiracy theories which don't, and how
to tell the difference between them.
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So, Adam, if people want a healthy democracy, they need
to listen to Mission implausible.
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Listen to Mission Implausible starting on February seventh on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosts And Creators
Adam Davidson
John Sipher
Jerry O'Shea
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