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“I consider myself a man of truth, someone who hates being ignorant,” Paul tells the crowd, spouting off some stats about the moon landing. It’s Logan Paul, the mega-popular YouTuber and prankster who last year gained notoriety for making a video of a dead man in Japan’s “Suicide Forest.” There’s a persistent needling at reality.Ĭonference organizers have been teasing a surprise guest, a real A-lister. Eventually I Google “time in Denver” to confirm my phone is in the correct time zone. Not even the whole song, just the opening bit over and over, around and around the place. Someone keeps walking around whistling the theme music to Westworld, the TV show about a fake world inside a dome. Both clocks in my hotel room are an hour ahead, even though Daylight Saving Time ended 11 days ago. It seems incredibly easy, even natural, to go insane here. At the hotel bar, a Flat Earther tells me about the supposed nonexistence of certain intercontinental flights, two of which I have personally taken within the past four years. It’s located on an unfriendly bit of highway, so few of us leave, opting instead to mill about in this enclosed world of hotel and restaurant and conference center.

The conference that drew hundreds took place Thursday and Friday at the Crowne Plaza, a Denver airport hotel and convention center.

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