Area Man's Life Taken Over by Conspiracy Theories on Youtube

Carl Krebsbach is plumber in the Kansas portion of greater Kansas City. Most of his customers are in Overland Park. Right until the Trump election he was living a normal life with a wife and a one year old daughter Kelly.  His wife asked not to be named. Currently Carl lives mostly at Motel 6, though still married and occasionally invited to his house for a weekend.

During the Trump campaign he became more or less a libertarian. He was concerned about Democrats controlling all the millions of government employees. Pretty much all inspectors, except the local one that come to inspect the water heaters he installs. He is friendly with state and city officials.

Then he went deeper. Climate change,vaccinations, gun control, the federal reserve, the world Economic Forum. All were run by various conspiracies that all seem to be somewhat connected.

Then Trump took over. He may have his henchmen, but it was all new, all fresh. Trump was fighting the liberals, the deep state.

Carl spends hours each day watching the videos on his smart phone in his truck. He has bought two iPhones on line (he does not use Amazon, owned by a conspiracy, but will use eBay occasionally) so that each one can be either in use or at the repair shop for a new battery. He runs through several batteries a year.

As Carl does have to take care of his plumbing business, he got another phone number for that. It's not even a smart phone, but does allow him to do texting. Before that he accidentally texted a message to Bill, his local conspiracy pal, and added a customer to the message. The customer called him back immediately, some Democrat, and canceled the job. Carl is aware of the public's lesser concern for conspiracies, and has been able to talk just sports and water heaters and such with customers. Though there was an interesting old man last week who was equally occupied with fighting "evolutionists" as Carl is fighting the deep state.

The rich life of conspiracy theories is now filling up nearly all of Carl's spare time as well. Having some contact will real people is reduced to the one day a week he spends time with Kelly. The unnamed wife is aware of his conspiracy life, so she demands that he turn off the Conspiracy Phone while he is with Kelly. She only calls him on the Plumbing Phone if she has instructions to him about their child. The marriage is on the rocks, though, and she has not had sex with him since the day Trump got elected. She apparently voted for the e-mail lady.