Real Talk with Mary Contrary and Starfish

Hear the story of William Singer, the mastermind of biggest and baddest ivy league varsity admissions scandal, ever. Listen to the details of how William Rick Singer organized a scheme to cheat on college admission tests and bribed coaches to get children of wealthy parents into elite schools. Schools implicated in this college admissions scandal include USC, UCLA, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Read more on http://realtalkmcsf.com/12-william-singer-varsity-admissions-scandal/ [http://realtalkmcsf.com/12-william-singer-varsity-admissions-scandal/]

Hear the story of David Hogg who House Rep Marjory Taylor Greene accused of the conspiracy that he was a Parkland Shooting Crisis Actor. In 2018, David Hogg was  a 17-year old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a live shooter entered the school and killed 17 people. During the shooting, David and other classmates were shuffled into a closet where he interviewed terrified students. After these videos went public, conspiracy theorists claimed this event was a false flag, and that the left had paid David and his friends to be a Crisis Actor so that they could use the shooting to enact tighter gun laws. Just recently, reporters found a video of U.S. GA-14 House Representative Marjory Taylor Greene chasing down David in Washington, D.C. in 2019. Marjory was asking David whether he could defend his stance against taking away 2nd amendment rights. Her justification was the conspiracy that he was a crisis actor. Members in the House of Representatives have called on Marjory to resign.

Shortly before the 2020 election, a right-wing figure Joe Oltmann in Denver, Colorado heard "Eric from Dominion" on an Antifa call say that he was going to make sure Trump did not win the election. After a google search, Joe Oltmann found a man named "Eric Coomer" who worked for the widely used Dominion Voting systems, and assumed the worst. Unfortunately for Eric Coomer, none of the accusations are true, but he still lives in danger because of death threats to himself, his coworkers, and his family.

Ruby Freeman a poll worker in the 2020 elections. Ruby showed up to work on November 3rd to count absentee ballots in Atlanta Georgia. At the end of the night on November 3rd, poll workers sealed up the remaining ballots to count them in the morning. All of the poll watchers left the room. Shortly after, Ruby’s supervisor received a call to continue counting. Ruby and others in the room pulled out the sealed ballots boxes and began counting again. Media showed this small clip of what appeared to be Ruby finding extra ballots. In an attempt to show 2020 election fraud, Trump sparked a conspiracy that Ruby Freeman stuffed the ballot box for Joe Biden. On January 3, 2021, President Trump continued spread the conspiracy in phone call to Georgia Election officials. Trump said Ruby’s name 18 times in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.

In this episode, we discuss stories of people who have been negatively impacted by coronavirus due to misinformation, doxing, and conspiracies. Episode includes stories of Maatje Benassi who conspiracy theorists in the U.S. and China believe is the COVID-19 Patient Zero in the United States. as well as Erin Hitchens who died of COVID-19 because she and her husband Brian Lee Hitchens believed it was a hoax.