# The Triple Filter: Five Data Pulls and a Disappearing Audience

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Podcast: [More Morgellons](https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841)
Published: 2026-04-04T04:51:31+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/more-morgellons/episodes/The-Triple-Filter-Five-Data-Pulls-and-a-Disappearing-Audience-e3hdnsi
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## Resource

Crystal Clear opens with testimony from Elsa Johnson, a Stanford junior and Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Review, who describes being targeted by a suspected Chinese Ministry of State Security operative while conducting research at the Hoover Institution — including social media contact from a fake Stanford affiliate, a paid trip offer to Shanghai, pressure to move communications to WeChat, and subsequent FBI confirmation of physical surveillance on campus. Crystal picks up the thread as a fellow subject of monitoring and reintroduces the forensic triple filter framework: timing window, rarity baseline, and independent system convergence. She then walks through five data pulls from her podcast hosting analytics — not interpretations, numbers. The baseline: In 5+ years of show history, China represented 0.2% of total Spotify plays. Japan, 0.11%. English-speaking countries dominated. Normal. Then on February 23, 2026, she filed an open records request to Oklahoma State University targeting the 12,000-person Morgellons patient registry, research agreements, and Randy Wymore’s federal correspondence. Within days — not weeks — China surged to 15% of her audience (country #2 worldwide), Japan to 11.67% (#3). Listeners concentrated in three cities: Harbin, Xi’amen, and Lanzhou. Web browser listening quadrupled from 8% to 32%. The spike held for roughly 45 days, then collapsed within four days of the Hello Harbin episode airing — at which point Jenny Chan also went silent after her last reply. Crystal addresses the VPN counterargument head-on: even if individual access is easy, the simultaneous disappearance of 100% of the Chinese audience within days of the call-out episode is the part VPN logic can’t explain. She notes the spike wasn’t triggered by her China coverage in Se…

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