11: George Soros | Is he secretly controlling the world?

He was fourteen years old when he helped his father forge documents to survive the Nazi occupation of Budapest. He arrived in London with almost nothing. He became, for one day in September 1992, the man who broke the Bank of England — and pocketed a billion dollars doing it.

And somewhere between that refugee boy and the most vilified billionaire on the planet, George Soros became something else entirely: a shape onto which half the world projects its fears. The secret funder of every protest. The architect of open borders. The puppet-master behind prosecutors, presidents, and pandemics. The globalist. The name that arrives, sooner or later, in almost every modern conspiracy theory.

The thing is, some of it is documented. He does fund political causes, on a scale that is genuinely extraordinary. His Open Society Foundations have spent billions reshaping legal systems, media organisations, and civil society groups across dozens of countries. Governments have expelled his operations. His own birth country has passed laws bearing his name.

So where does the documented end — and the mythology begin?

In this episode, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go looking for the real George Soros underneath the legend: the man, the money, and the machine — and ask why his name has become the answer to so many questions that were never really about him.

- The Black Wednesday trade, what he actually did, why it worked, and what it tells us about how he sees the world

- The Open Society Foundations — what they fund, who benefits, and whether "promoting democracy" is as neutral as it sounds

- The prosecutor pipeline — the DA races, the criminal justice reform agenda, and how much of the backlash is legitimate criticism versus something older and uglier

- The antisemitism question — how a set of real facts about a real billionaire became a vessel for a very ancient kind of hate, and how those two things got tangled together

- Why Soros endures as a conspiracy magnet when other billionaires — spending just as much, on the other side — barely register

Some of this is documented. Some is projection. And almost none of it is as simple as either side wants you to believe.

Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out.

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