Danny Wallace: How I got sucked into the conspiracy rabbit hole...

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Danny Wallace is a bestselling author and broadcaster who loves nothing more than thinking up fun ideas and seeing how far he can take them. His first book, Join Me, tells the true story of how he he accidentally started a cult. His second book, Yes Man, describes what happened when he decided to say yes to everything - a story so compelling it was adapted into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey.

Now he's delving into the world of conspiracies with his new book, Somebody Told Me. Danny tells James how he fell down a rabbit hole of disinformation and well-told lies and why he's never been afraid of rejection.

Somebody Told Me: One Man's Unexpected Journey Down The Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies is out now.

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0:00.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.6	Hello and welcome to full disclosure.
0:16.0	A podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I'd ever get on the radio.
0:21.6	Although in the case of Renaissance man, bon vivor, raconteur, Danny Wallace, we could just do it in the global radio canteen.
0:29.6	We could?
0:30.2	But happily we're not.
0:31.5	No.
0:31.9	We're recording it.
0:33.1	Welcome.
0:34.0	Thank you. There is a new book, Somebody Told Me, One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole
0:39.1	of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies,
0:40.9	a subject very close to my heart.
0:42.6	Why is it close to yours?
0:44.0	Because, I mean,
0:45.2	I've always had an interest in conspiracy theories
0:47.9	and different ways of thinking.
0:50.3	You interviewed Alex Jones before he was Alex Jones, really.
0:52.9	I interviewed Alex Jones before YouTube existed, which made Alex Jones.
0:56.3	I met him, I think, probably just months before YouTube launched when he was just an angry man shouting in a garage.
1:02.7	Or at one point...
1:03.4	At one point we were walking down the street.
1:06.3	And I still don't know how he did this.
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