Interview · moment 12 of 20
What Makes People Believe an Elaborate Hoax
from Candace Owens Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #441 · #441
4 min
Guest
Tim and Candace discuss the psychological fascination with how elaborate hoaxes get sold to the public, comparing the Macron and Weinstein/Baldoni stories to true crime, and how even Candace fell for the Weinstein narrative initially.
- What can you get people to believe? What can you pass yourself off as?
- Tim is impressed by the elaborate hoax and production value, even with gaping holes in the story.
- The Ryan Reynolds New York Times lawsuit scheme—pretending to have a different case to get someone's cell phone—reads like a true crime story.
- Tim's natural interest in psychology draws him to how easily people can be socially engineered and manipulated.
- Even Tim fell for the Harvey Weinstein case, which scared him about his own susceptibility to manipulation.
- Intelligent, successful people educated at the best schools can be completely lost when asked to process information outside their world.
- The longer you stay in school, the dumber you become—common sense gets lost chasing degrees and certifications.
- Andrew Tate on street smarts: if someone on the block is pushing hard for you to eat a free cheeseburger, you instinctively know something's wrong.
- Experts keep getting it wrong because they're missing the common sense element that comes from experience outside academia.
- A nice expert book and a big bag of money is all it takes to sell an elaborate hoax.