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    | title           = There Is No Mermaid
    | caption         = Listen to this episode on [https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/knowledge-fight-there-is-no-mermaid Libsyn] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0m2lPAroUpXQ1Bbfou7mZK Spotify], Read the [[Transcript/362: There Is No Mermaid|Unofficial Transcript]]
    | episodeNumber   = 362
    | length          = 01:55:44
    | airDate         = October 30, 2019
    | episodeType     = [[:Category:Wacky Wednesday|Wacky Wednesday]]
    | appearance      = [[Kevin Moore]], [[Noah]], [[John Titor]]
    | oocDrop         = In the case of the Merman
    | previousEpisode = [[361: April 19, 2013]]
    | nextEpisode     = [[363: October 30, 2019]]
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Just when they thought they were moving away from [[Project Camelot]] World, Dan and Jordan get sucked back in. Dan needed a break from Alex Jones, so the gents discuss some paranormal weirdos. In this installment, they look into the time [[Kevin Moore]] (the guy who is making a takedown documentary about Project Camelot and [[Mark Richards]]) interviewed a guy who claims to talk to time travelers, which is as close as this show gets to a Halloween episode.

==Tidbits==

*Goodbye Project Camelot, hello Kevin Moore
*Kevin interviews ApexTV creator
*ApexTV interviews time traveling whistle-blowers
*Discussion: There's not much to ApexTV
*Discussion: ApexTV background
*Time travel video is a pension plan ad video
*ApexTV creator is on because he contacted Kevin because Kevin is popular
*Kevin says he hasn't prepared for the interview
*ApexTV is anonymous for security reasons
*Mainstream news won't cover time travelers
*Discussion: Noah from 2030
*Noah is stuck in our time after getting in a bar fight in South America
*MLK Jr's granddaughter will be president at 21
*Discussion: holes in Noah's story
*Discussion: vetting time travelers
*Kevin congratulates Apex for making money
*Time travelers don't come to Kevin... except one
*Discussion: John Titor
*Apex talks about his vetting process
*Some travelers are fake!
*Noah admits to being a fake
*It's hard not to laugh at mermaid talk
*Future technology: spinning top
*The ottoman empire never fell
*Discussion: Anti-Islamic Ottoman Empire talk
*ApexTV explains the Mandela effect
*Discussion: Google trends of Nelson Mandela's death
*Kevin shrugs away from tough questions
*Facebook is great for videos
*Dueling Noahs
*Kevin is trying to be a participant, not an investigator
*Maybe it's demons
*Apex: people think we're in on these videos
*Kevin: great judge of character
*Discussion: Kevin is inconsistent

==Dan "Predicts" COVID-19==

When Kevin Moore's 2030 traveler "Noah" claims that an (ineligible due to age) 21 year old will be elected president, Dan and Jordan jokingly predict that perhaps there would be a "plague that strikes -- some sort of new illness strikes, but it only affects the older population and thus the -- you know -- everyone's gotta grow up real fast."

This is of course, a complete coincidence, and not really an accurate prediction at all, but given the timing it's occasionally pointed to by wonks as a sort of meta-proof that if you spend hours on air talking about stuff, eventually you'll say something that can seem like a prediction later, a strategy Alex regularly employs to undeservedly boost his credibility.

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