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Pizzagate is a wildly stupid, debunked consipracy theory. It goes a little something like this: There\\u2019s a pizza place in Washington DC! They have a child sex ring in the basement!! Hilary Clinton and a bunch of other politicians go there to abuse kids!!!!\\xa0
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\\nThere\\u2019s not an ounce of truth to this story, but that didn\\u2019t stop a bunch of right wing fringe \\u201cnews\\u201d outlets from running it. As a result, people believed it. And one man decided to take action.
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\\nThen Brandi tells us an infuriating story about a dorm fire at Seton Hall. It was the wee hours of the morning in January of 2000, when the fire alarm went off in Boland Hall. Smoke filled the dormitory. Students tried to get to safety, but they\\u2019d never had a fire drill. The dorm wasn\\u2019t equipped with sprinklers. The smoke was so thick that it blinded them. The fire was traumatizing. Three students died. Fifty-eight were injured. And it all started thanks to a prank.\\xa0
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\u201cHow the bizarre conspiracy theory behind pizzagate was spread,\\u201d by Craig Silverman for Buzzfeed
\\n\\u201cPizzagate Gunman Sentenced to Four Years in Prison,\\u201d by Merrit Kennedy for NPR
\\n\\u201cThe Comet Ping Pong Gunman Answers Our Reporter\\u2019s Questions,\\u201d by Adam Goldman for the New York Times
\\n\\u201cComet Pizza Gunman Pleads Guilty to Local and Federal Charges\\u201d Washington Post
\\nThe Affidavit in Support of the Criminal Complaint
\\n\\u201cIs Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria Home to a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton?\\u201d by Kim Lacapria for Snopes.com
\\n\\u201cAnatomy of a Fake News Scandal,\\u201d by Amanda Robb for Rolling Stone
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\u201cSeton Hall: The Worst Dormitory Fire In The US\\u201d by Seamus McGraw, The Crime Library
\\n\\u201cSeton Hall dorm fire: A look at where some of the key people are today\\u201d by Alex Napoliello, NJ.com
\\n\\u201c3 Killed in Fire at Seton Hall; Dozens of Students Are Hurt\\u201d by Dan Barry, The New York Times
\\n\\u201cSean M. Ryan v. New Jersey State Parole Board\\u201d justia.com
\\n\\u201cBoland Hall Fire\\u201d wikipedia.org
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