QAA Podcast

We discuss the shift in the podcast's cover art, theme song and name. Then we explore miracle cure-all 5D "med beds" and delve into the online community around "Skye Prince", a multi-faceted grifter at the nexus of QAnon, UFO disclosure, prosperity gospel and new age pseudo-medicine. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by NAP (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com) & Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (http://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) http://qaapodcast.com QAA was formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Nowadays, when a horrific tragedy occurs, you can pretty much guarantee that conspiracy theorists will flood the channels with wild narratives and flat-out disinformation. This week, we’re breaking down the various theories surrounding the collapse of the Key Bridge, including a completely AI generated 911 call. Later in the episode, Jake finds a conspiracy theory influencer with such a funny name, he just had to do a story starring him. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

According to the Tartarian Empire conspiracy theory there once existed a massive, advanced regime that stretched over much of the Asian continent. This Empire’s power was so great that they built structures all over the world, including in Africa, North America and South America. Buildings such as the White House in Washington D.C. and the Great Pyramids in Egypt were built by the great, globe spanning Tartarian empire. They were able to accomplish this in part thanks to advanced technology that is lost to time, like batteries powered by the Earth which distributed electricity wirelessly. This theory has spawned a community of people who pour through old European maps and pictures of 19th century buildings in search of evidence for this lost empire, then post their findings on Reddit and Tik tok. But was there really a lost empire called “Tartaria?” Or have conspiracy theorists on the internet misinterpreted an archaic European term for parts of Asia then proceeded to desperately search for evidence of a better world that was lost to time? REFERENCES Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory Shaoxin, Dong. "The Tartars in European Missionary Writings of the Seventeenth Century." In Foreign Devils and Philosophers, pp. 82-103. Brill, 2020. Graff, Rebecca S. "Dream City, Plaster City: Worlds’ Fairs and the Gilding of American Material Culture." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16 (2012): 696-716. Greenhalgh, Paul. "Ephemeral Vistas: Great Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World’s Fairs, 1851–1939." (1989) CIA Document: National Cultural Development Under Communism https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-02771R000200090002-6.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla_(memorial) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmenhaus_(Burggarten) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_Post_Office_and_Courthouse_(New_York_City) The Singer Building https://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/singer-building/

This week, we drop Liv Agar on planet P to wade through the thousands of bug carcasses that have been discussing Starship Troopers as of late. Meanwhile, Brain Bug Travis has been captured and forced out of his comfy cave amidst the rallying cries of one million Julians. Will Liv be able to make it all the way through a pro-fascism science fiction novel from 1959? Will Jake be able to critically discuss the politics surrounding “Helldivers 2”, a video game inspired by a satirical movie adapted from the aforementioned pro-fascism novel? Will he instead include gameplay footage despite there being no video component of this podcast? Join us, on one express elevator to Hell. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

Americans sure love being paranoid. And they’re not always paranoid for sensible reasons, like ever-expanding corporate and governmental surveillance systems. Sometimes they’re paranoid about natural and predictable astronomical events. For this episode we discuss why the conspiracist world is fretting about the solar eclipse that will be seen across the United States on April 8th. We also chat with Arthur Goldwag, author of the recently published book The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696775/the-politics-of-fear-by-arthur-goldwag/ Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. qanonanonymous.com

What if there was a videogame so indistinguishable from the real world that anyone who played it began to wonder if their entire life was nothing more than a game? What if there was a movie that, in depicting this, stumbled upon the unnerving truth of our present relationship to the internet? What if that movie came out one month after The Matrix and totally bombed while the Matrix would go on to release three sequels and establish the language of conspiracy theory culture? Get your bio-port fitted, lube up your game-hole and jack into this week’s QAA movie night, “eXistenZ.” Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

On March 6th, 2024, the Pentagon published a sixty-three-page report on the AARO’s findings in regard to whether our own government is in possession of extraterrestrial technology. The report stretches all the way back to the 1940’s, and provides a comprehensive look into the ever transforming secret programs created to determine whether or not the truth IS, in fact, actually out there. Two Fox Mulders (Jake & Brad) and one Scully (Travis) pour through the pages of the recently de-classified docs searching for answers. Is the government in possession of actual flying saucers? Or are they just spending lots of money on planes that look like them? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Brad’s twitter: https://www.twitter.com/LoveAndSaucers Watch “Love & Saucers” here: Love & Saucers (loveandsaucers.com) Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

The last episode of this season of Trickle Down. So we’re going to do a self-indulgent one. In this episode we discuss common criticisms of “anti-disinformation” reporting, the topics Travis wound up passing on, and listener stories. You had a lot to say about the Thomas Midgley Jr. series. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous

An Irish boyband called Boyzone sees their bad boy accuse other musicians of doing satanic rituals on stage. In Utah, a bill is advanced to criminalize “ritual abuse of a child” that speaks of animal sacrifice, cannibalism, bestiality, corpse mutilation, bondage, coffins and open graves. Meanwhile, Tim Ballard, the heroic subject of a recent blockbuster biopic is fighting back against accusations that he coerced multiple women into sex in the course of his “missions” to save children in foreign countries. In the house to cover all of this: Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, Liv Agar and Annie Kelly. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qaapodcast.com SOURCES: https://www.premierchristianity.com/features/boyzones-shane-lynch-the-music-industry-is-satanic/16349.article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjCuoFA08wU https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/former-boyzone-star-shane-lynch-claims-taylor-swift-performs-satanic-rituals-in-front-of-fans/a610482285.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-advances-bill-criminalize-ritual-child-abuse-rcna140025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qocBf3_mmic https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/02/21/should-ritual-child-abuse-be/ https://www.senate.mo.gov/LegislativeLibrary/Panic.html https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/10/09/breaking-five-women-have-filed/ https://www.ntd.com/cpac-in-dc-2024-day-3-featuring-donald-trump-kari-lake-peter-navarro-javier-milei-and-more_975372.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ekzx/tim-ballard-sound-of-freedom-grooming-sexual-abuse-undercover-couples-ruse-operation-underground-railroad https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/tim-ballards-wife-katherine-added-as-defendant-in-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a378p/five-of-tim-ballards-alleged-victims-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-him

In the 1940s and 50s there was the great American comic book scare. Many serious adults warned that comic books were turning young people into illiterate, criminally violent, sexually deviant political extremists. There were several editorials in newspapers that argued as much. There were groups who organized literal comic book burnings. Local jurisdictions passed laws to limit the sale of comic books. There was even a televised congressional hearing on comic books by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. This was a widespread phenomena that can’t be laid at the feet of any one person. But there is one person who did more than anyone to legitimize this panic: Dr. Fredric Wertham. He was a well-credentialed German-American psychiatrist best known for his anti-comics book Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today’s Youth. The scientific worthlessness of Wertham’s theories has been clear to historians of comic books and even some of his contemporaries. However, it wasn’t until 2012, three decades after his death, that the full extent of the worthlessness of his anti-comic book work was revealed. After a historian was able to read his raw clinical notes for the first time, it was discovered that many claims in his book Seduction of the Innocent were wholly fabricated. His anti-comic book claims weren’t merely the product of sloppy science, but lies and distortions. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous Theme by Nick Sena (nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. www.qanonanonymous.com

What is UMMO? The greatest hoax of all time? A secret society with a mysterious agenda? An intelligence agency psyop? Or genuine contact from space aliens? Brad and Jake will attempt to answer these questions, and they’ve kidnapped Julian and Travis to come along for the intergalactic ride. In the 1960s, a group of Spanish societal elites received a bevy of letters and phone calls from purported extra-terrestrial visitors. Each communication was tailored to their specific field and contained advanced technical details and theories. At the same time, multiple witnesses reported a number of compelling UFO sightings, leaving behind physical evidence bearing the Ummite symbol. This contact was to become a decades-long affair that convinced multiple esteemed scientists, subverted Franco regime censorship, and left 1300 pages of alien writings to be poured over and debated for a generation. It also left destruction and misery in its wake, with at least two dangerous cults inspired by the lore. One may still be active to this day. Will we find the madman trickster genius manipulator behind it all? Let the IBOZOO UU and WAAM WAAM flow through you, and experience all that is UMMO. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Brad Abrahams https://twitter.com/LoveAndSaucers https://bradabrahams.net/ Music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

Brian Wansink was the Head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. While there, he did exciting research that suggested eating healthier and encouraging others to eat healthier was as simple as providing subtle hints and nudges towards the preferred behavior. He’s perhaps most famous for the claim that if you take a larger plate to the buffet, you’ll eat more than if you were to take a small plate. For a long time he was easily the world’s most prominent voice on food psychology. He published bestselling books. He was constantly interviewed by national media. He even had major influence in the government. He served for two years as the Director of the US Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy. It’s fair to say that Brian Wasnick affected how millions of people prepared, presented, and ate food. However, his reputation came crashing down from 2016 through 2018. It was discovered, partly through an accidental confession by Brian Wansink himself, that his papers were frequently based on shaky and perhaps outright fraudulent data analysis. The scandal was so bad that Cornell determined that Wansink had committed scientific misconduct and removed him from all teaching and research positions. This is a story about what happens when someone treats science like a business with the goal of gaining the most influence and media coverage, rather than a project of gaining an empirical understanding of the real world. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous Theme by Nick Sena (nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. www.qanonanonymous.com

For the final episode of season 1 of the PERVERTS podcast we explored online "sissy" communities with June AKA Juniper of the Western Kabuki and Crate Diving Podcasts. What is sissification? Sissyology? Sissy school? For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Juniper: https://twitter.com/CantEverDie / https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki / https://linktr.ee/cratedivingpodcast Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Max Weber. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Google's gone to shit, Huma Abedin is dating George Soros' son, Brandon is going Dark and Epstein is out on steam. We take a jaunt through our really cool world with guest Ed Zitron, tech reporter and host of the Better Offline podcast. Subscribe for $5 a month to get access to all our premium QAA episodes + mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Ed Zitron: https://twitter.com/edzitron / https://www.wheresyoured.at / https://www.betteroffline.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qaapodcast.com

Just a couple years after Thomas Midgley, Jr. invented leaded gas in the 20s, he followed up that achievement by inventing chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, which were sold by Du Pont under the brand name of Freon. The crown jewel of his work was the creation of Dichlorodifluoromethane, or CFC-12. This substance allowed for more people to experience the wonders of electric food refrigeration as well as indoor air conditioning. For over 40 years everyone assumed the Freon was perfectly safe, and in fact safer than other chemicals used in refrigeration. It wasn’t until the 1970s, years after Midgley had died, that the horrible truth was discovered: CFCs were eating away at the Earth’s ozone layer. The ozone layer is a region in the stratosphere that absorbs 97 to 99 percent of the Sun's medium-frequency ultraviolet light, which otherwise would potentially damage life. The deterioration of this protective layer threatened all life on earth with increased risk of cancer and other ecological problems. People realized the extent of the damage in 1985 when it was discovered that there was a massive hole in the Ozone layer above the Antarctic. This emergency situation led in 1987 to the creation of an international treaty called The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. Because of this agreement, which was signed by all of the members of the United Nations and has an extremely high compliance rate, climate projections indicate that the ozone layer will return to 1980 levels between 2040 and 2066. One possible apocalypse averted because of global cooperation. This is the story of one guy who just wanted to make money for himself and the companies he worked for (specifically Frigidaire, General Motors, and DuPont), and how his second big invention eventually forced the entire world to pull off a massive effort to avoid global ecological disaster. Christie, Maureen. The ozone layer: A philosophy of science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray. "Between earth and sky: how CFCs changed our world and endangered the ozone layer." 1993. McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. “Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World.” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2001. Wilson, Eric Dean. After cooling: On freon, global warming, and the terrible cost of comfort. Simon and Schuster, 2021. Cox, Stan. Losing our cool: Uncomfortable truths about our air-conditioned world (and finding new ways to get through the summer). The New Press, 2010. Molina, Mario J., and F. Sherwood Rowland. "Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone." Nature 249, no. 5460 (1974): 810-812. Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011.

GOOP GOOP GOOP GOOP GOOP GOOP GOOP GOOP. GOOP. Anna Merlan — senior staff writer at Vice and author of REPUBLIC OF LIES — joins us to explore Gwyneth Paltrow's Gooposphere including her Netflix show Love, Sex & Goop. Plus Liv and Julian take a quizz to figure out their "erotic blueprints". For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to https://patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Anna Merlan: https://twitter.com/annamerlan / https://annamerlan.net/ Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Around 70 years ago, a deadly counter-insurgency was carried out by the British colonial occupiers of Kenya to quell the Mau Mau Rebellion. The operation involved political propaganda stoking a panic about the freedom fighters' use of black magic — a "horror story" written by colonizers to justify their own brutal actions. Annie Kelly explores this fascinating historical moment. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Leaded gasoline could not have become a universally-used commercial product without an enforcer. Someone who was dedicated to protecting the status quo position that leaded gasoline was safe to use and not a threat to the general public. And that enforcer was named Dr. Robert Kehoe. In 1925 he was appointed chief medical consultant of the Ethyl Corporation and remained in the post until his retirement in 1958. Though he continued to fight for leaded gasoline after that and he lived until the 1990s. Thomas Midgley, Jr. might be the one responsible for inventing leaded gasoline. But Robert Kehoe is the one responsible for protecting industry from uncomfortable questions about lead so that it could be used as long and widely as it was. Until the 1960s, the only studies of the use of tetraethyl lead were funded by the lead, gas, and car industries and carried out by Robert Kehoe. REFERENCES Brown, Oliver W. "Kettering Lab Hailed as Pioneer" Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), April 2, 1964. Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Lead wars: the politics of science and the fate of America's children. Vol. 24. Univ of California Press, 2014. Ross, Benjamin, and Steven Amter. The polluters: the making of our chemically altered environment. Oxford University Press, 2010. Keating, Peter. "The Secret History of the War on Cancer." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82, no. 3 (2008): 757-758. Nriagu, Jerome O. "Clair Patterson and Robert Kehoe's paradigm of “show me the data” on environmental lead poisoning." Environmental research 78, no. 2 (1998): 71-78. Loeb, Alan P. "Birth of the Kettering doctrine: fordism, sloanism and the discovery of tetraethyl lead." Business and Economic History (1995): 72-87. Reilly, Lucas. "The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of." Mental Floss 17 (2017). https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scientist-who-determined-age-earth-and-then-saved-it Rosner, David, and Gerald E. Markowitz, eds. Dying for work: Workers' safety and health in twentieth-century America. Indiana University Press, 1987 McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. “Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World.” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2001. Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. “Deceit and denial: The deadly politics of industrial pollution.” Vol. 6. Univ of California Press, 2013. Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray. "Between earth and sky: how CFCs changed our world and endangered the ozone layer." 1993. Kovarik, William. "Ethyl-leaded gasoline: how a classic occupational disease became an international public health disaster." International journal of occupational and environmental health 11, no. 4 (2005): 384-397. Kitman, Jamie Lincoln. "The secret history of lead." NATION-NEW YORK- 270, no. 11 (2000): 11-11. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead/ Patterson, Clair C. "Contaminated and natural lead environments of man." Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal 11, no. 3 (1965): 344-360.

The United States' non-existent war in the Middle East. Taylor Swift being a psyop. A man decapitating his father because he believes in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. A videogame titled simply "Epstein". Another week, another round of feverish visions. Our guest is Ken Klippenstein, investigative journalist for The Intercept. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Ken Klippenstein's Newsletter: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/ Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qaapodcast.com

The most prominent modern role playing video game is also the most modified by its fan base. Which means there's a massive scene of horny gamers scripting elaborate sex mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In the process of listening to this episode you will learn about: "OVirginity Reflowered", "OCum", "Devious Devices", "The Duder's Grab Bag of Fetish Items", "Bimbos of Skyrim", "Public Whore", "THE TRUE SEX MAD - FEMALE DRAGONBORN. The Nympho.", and of course "Being a Cow". Our guest for this week's exploration is Scott Benson, the artist and game developer known for the beloved indie game Night In The Woods. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Scott Benson: https://twitter.com/bombsfall Night In The Woods: http://www.nightinthewoods.com/ Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Clotz.

The invasion has begun. Swarms of gen x parents are flooding onto Tik Tok to ruin the lives of their children and amass substantial followings of their own. This week, we’re joined by journalist Miles Klee in an attempt to make sense of conspiracy mega-influencer Auntie Coolette. Her online career began as innocently as any other middle-aged person experimenting with short form content, before she transformed into someone barely recognizable. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Miles Klee’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/youwouldntpost Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/auntie-coolette-tiktok-conspiracy-queen-1234946312/

Thomas Midgley Jr. invented two things that were used all over the world. Firstly, he invented leaded gasoline. This helped car engines operate more efficiently, but at the cost of spewing poisonous gas everywhere. The second invention is Chlorofluorocarbons or "CFCs." These substances, which were sold under the brand name Freon, had widespread applications in refrigerators and aerosols. But it was eventually discovered that these CFCs were eating away at the ozone layer in Earth’s atmosphere. Ozone depletion allows more UV radiation to reach the Earth's surface, which can lead to skin cancer, cataracts, and weakened immune systems. The fact that a single individual invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs led Environmental historian J. R. McNeill to say that Midgley "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Before Thomas Midgley died in 1944, he didn’t see himself as destructive. The scientific community showered him with praise and prizes and accolades during his lifetime. And he didn’t even have reason to think he was doing anything bad. Government regulators who were tasked with protecting the American public gave his inventions a pass. This story represents a complete failure of tech entrepreneurs to consider the adverse impacts that their inventions might have, a failure of the scientific community to check one of their own, and a failure of supposed protectors of the public interest to do their jobs. And all of these failures meant that the generation after Midgley was forced to clean up his mess. REFERENCES McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. “Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World.” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2001. Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. “Deceit and denial: The deadly politics of industrial pollution.” Vol. 6. Univ of California Press, 2013. Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray. "Between earth and sky: how CFCs changed our world and endangered the ozone layer." 1993. Tylecote, Ronald F. "Roman lead working in Britain." The British Journal for the History of Science 2, no. 1 (1964): 25-43. Kovarik, William. "Ethyl-leaded gasoline: how a classic occupational disease became an international public health disaster." International journal of occupational and environmental health 11, no. 4 (2005): 384-397. Kovarik, Bill. "Charles F. Kettering and the 1921 Discovery of Tetraethyl Lead In the Context of Technological Alternatives", presented to the Society of Automotive Engineers Fuels & Lubricants Conference, Baltimore, Maryland., 1994 Kitman, Jamie Lincoln. "The secret history of lead." NATION-NEW YORK- 270, no. 11 (2000): 11-11. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead/

We attended the X3 Porn Expo in Los Angeles thanks to our guest Zoë Ligon, author of 'Carnal Knowledge: Sex Education You Didn't Get In School', founder of the Spectrum Boutique sex shop and Onlyfans content creator. We discuss her experience running a booth at the event, creating for onlyfans, and running a sex toy shop. Plus Julian gets bullied for writing poetry. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to http://patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Zoë Ligon's Links: https://linktr.ee/zoeligon/ Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by John Vanderslice. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Over the years, we’ve heard Qanon believers loudly protest the alleged misappropriation of human remains – whether they’re being used to supply “adrenochrome farms” or consumed during satanic cabal dinner parties. As is often the case, the reality is far more disturbing than the conspiracy theory. This week, Allie Mezei joins us to bring us horrific tales from the real ‘tissue trade’, a feud between the bodies of the living and the dead that stretches all the way back to the eighteenth century. Unfortunately, the corpse trade is very much alive, even today, and continues to be a depressing reminder of the ruling class’s war against the poor. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Written by Allie Mezei https://twitter.com/pinealdecalcify Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: https://www.alreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dotson-Complaint.pdf https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/11/us/alabama-prison-inmates-missing-organs-lawsuit/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/massachusetts-bill-allowing-prisoners-donate-organs-reduced-time/story?id=96989325 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9996393/ https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2024/01/alabama-still-cant-find-heart-missing-from-prisoners-body.html https://abc3340.com/news/local/family-says-organs-including-brain-missing-from-deceased-inmate-body-in-noticeable-state-of-decomposition-adoc-uab-st-clair-county https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162231/ https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/pre-1800/comparative-anatomy-andreas-vesalius/#:~:text=Right%2C%20Vesalius%20found%20that%20the,not%20seven%20as%20Galen%20claimed. Peter Linebaugh, the Tyburn Riots Against the Surgeons in Albion’s Fatal Tree https://www.versobooks.com/products/2212-albion-s-fatal-tree Ruth Richardson, Death, Dissection and the Destitute https://books.google.com/books?id=NEuthk74yG0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/journeytyburn https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24794 https://scholarworks.harding.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1139&context=tenor https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/ https://nfda.org/news/media-center/nfda-news-releases/id/7475/congress-takes-significant-step-to-regulate-body-brokers https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4275?s=1&r=29

How we feed babies and young kids greatly impacts their health, growth, and future. This affects not only the children but also women and society. While baby formula has its uses, and it literally be a life saver in certain circumstances, it also comes with significant health, economic, and environmental costs. On the other hand, breastfeeding has proven health benefits for both mothers and babies in high-income and low-income settings alike. Despite that, according to the World Health Organization, less than half of babies and young children are breastfed as recommended. How did this happen? According to a three-paper series published in The Lancet in 2023, the lack of breastfeeding is due to multifaceted and highly effective strategies used by commercial formula manufacturers of infant formula. The strategies are designed to target and influence parents, health-care professionals, and policy-makers. This episode explores the roots of this problem: the infant formula industry in the early 20th century captured doctors and medical associations in order to sell their product. And when they reached the limit of infant formula market in the United States, they simply aggressively sold their powders to mothers in poor countries, with disastrous and deadly consequences. REFERENCES Breastfeeding 2023 https://www.thelancet.com/series/Breastfeeding-2023 Apple, Rima. Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1950. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. The Baby Killer (1974) https://waronwant.org/sites/default/files/THE%20BABY%20KILLER%201974.pdf Stevens EE, Patrick TE, Pickler R. A history of infant feeding. J Perinat Educ. 2009 Spring;18(2):32-9. doi: 10.1624/105812409X426314. PMID: 20190854; PMCID: PMC2684040. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/ Why The Breastfeeding Vs. Formula Debate Is Especially Critical In Poor Countries https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/07/13/628105632/is-infant-formula-ever-a-good-option-in-poor-countries Ziegler EE. Adverse effects of cow's milk in infants. Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Pediatr Program. 2007;60:185-199. doi: 10.1159/000106369. PMID: 17664905. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17664905/ APPLE, RIMA D. “‘TO BE USED ONLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A PHYSICIAN’: COMMERCIAL INFANT FEEDING AND MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1870-1940.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 54, no. 3, 1980, pp. 402–17. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44441272. Walters DD, Phan LTH, Mathisen R. The cost of not breastfeeding: global results from a new tool. Health Policy Plan. 2019 Jul 1;34(6):407-417. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czz050. PMID: 31236559; PMCID: PMC6735804. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735804/pdf/czz050.pdf Munblit, D., Crawley, H., Hyde, R., & Boyle, R. J. (2020). Health and nutrition claims for infant formula are poorly substantiated and potentially harmful. bmj, 369. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m875.full.pdf Boatwright, M., Lawrence, M., Russell, C., Russ, K., McCoy, D., & Baker, P. (2022). The Politics of Regulating Foods for Infants and Young Children: A Case Study on the Framing and Contestation of Codex Standard-Setting Processes on Breast-Milk Substitutes. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(11), 2422-2439. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.16 https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4169.html Nancy E. Zelman, The Nestle Infant Formula Controversy: Restricting the Marketing Practices of Multinational Corporations in the Third World, 3 Transnat'l Law. 697 (1990). https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/303871848.pdf Infant nutrition : a textbook of infant feeding for students and practitioners of medicine / by Williams McKim Marriott. https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/pdf/b29929453 Wattana, Melissa. The Baby Bottle and the Bottom Line: Corporate Strategies and the Infant Formula Controversy in the 1970s (2016) https://hshm.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Wattana%20senior%20essay%202016.pdf

We have to cover the most publicly pilled star quarterback in the NFL. The only problem is… neither Jake, Julian, nor Travis knows a damn thing about the world of professional football. Fortunately for us, we’ve enlisted the talents of NFL writer Arif Hasan. Arif is the author for Wide Left Post Substack - a newsletter covering both football and politics - who has followed Rodgers’ radicalization from his glory days as a Greenbay Packer, to insinuating that Julian’s favorite late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel, is one of the names on the Epstein client list. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Written by Arif Hasan (@ArifHasanNFL, wideleftpost.substack.com) Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com Sources: https://archive.ph/4H09S https://archive.ph/aI9b5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_States https://twitter.com/Sportico/status/1743273590366032283 https://www.profootballnetwork.com/pat-mcafee-signs-multi-year-deal-with-espn/ https://leaflicker.com/nfl/leagues/208012/players https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/aaron-rodgers-denounces-green-bay-fan-for-prejudiced-comment-during-moment-of-silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCnoN-qEhuc https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/sports/football/nfl-says-penalty-on-chiefs-husain-abdullah-for-praying-was-a-mistake.html https://andscape.com/features/aaron-rodgers-takes-a-sledgehammer-to-kaepernick-myth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK8P7aWUvmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3JU_oAEinQ https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1456729926023921669 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7108a4-h.pdf https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-doctor-data-on-covid-19-infections-in-vaccinated-players-2021-11 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/21/fact-check-unvaccinated-still-much-more-likely-die-covid-19/10923335002/ https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2788225-qb-shea-patterson-ready-to-be-michigans-savior-after-escaping-ole-miss-wreckage https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2023/11/michigans-jim-harbaugh-has-a-new-stance-on-chickens.html https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/desean-jackson-eagles-anti-semitic-instagram-posts-adolph-hitler-louis-farrakhan-jewish-coronavirus-vaccine-20200707.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/12/jersey-city-shooting-who-black-hebrew-israelites/4408073002/ https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-hard-knocks-episode-two-recap-william-hayes-jared-goff-20160816-snap-story.html https://deadspin.com/is-pete-carroll-a-9-11-truther-513149713 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30155009/karaoke-trivia-frat-parties-tales-aaron-rodgers-inner-weirdness https://youtu.be/4Ob-lKTDwUE?t=4176 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/mid/NIHMS116241/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULt9LZ3l9iY https://werdsmith.com/genesology/dYybP3bH6asha https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1631418882693971971 https://twitter.com/DavidBakhtiari/status/1631647886332100610 https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1745229186325684362 https://youtu.be/P6ZOdJ5A5Ck?t=463 https://frontofficesports.com/aaron-rodgers-appearances-on-the-pat-mcafee-show-done-now/

Baby bottles, car seats, diapers, mommies, littles, and making a mess. We explore the online ABDL community with Lucy Valentine of the Boonta Vista Podcast. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to http://patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Lucy Valentine: https://twitter.com/LucyXIV The Boonta Vista Podcast: https://boontavista.com/ Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

2024 is off to a great start. New Epstein documents drop, Mike Flynn tweets that #PizzagateIsReal, and kraft retailer Etsy is being accused of selling ‘bespoke children’ on their marketplace. It’s a throwback QAA-style ep where Julian, Jake, and Travis begin to unravel at the realization that they’re about to relive 2016 for the seventh year in a row. Is Etsy really engaged in human trafficking? Is Pizzagate actually real? Are there still unanswered questions about the Epstein scandal? No, no, and yes. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

The origins of foot fetish website Wikifeet, the thriving community inhabiting it, and a very special reading of the first recorded foot fetish material — poems by Greek Poet Philostratus the Elder. Our guest is Hesse Deni of the Seeking Derangements and Movie Mindset podcasts. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Hesse Deni: https://twitter.com/ZeroSuitCamus Seeking Derangements Podcast: https://twitter.com/SSDERANGEMENTSS / https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements Movie Mindset Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Brad and Liv have blown into their cartridges and booted up some truly disturbing games. This week, we've prepared a potluck style new year's brunch with a handful of dishes for you to pick at as you lay in bed, wracked with guilt about already breaking your resolutions. Later in the episode you’ll hear Jake break his NDA as a quality assurance tester at *bleep*. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe, and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

The root concept of “learning styles” is based on a simple and intuitive idea: different people most successfully learn through different means. Or maybe they best learn through different sensory or emotional inputs. Possibly because people with differing brains make them more receptive to certain ways of knowing and absorbing information. Some people managed to take this intuitive idea and build massively successful careers for decades. Students were labeled “Visual,” “Aural,” or “Kinesthetic” learners. The problem, as researchers discovered in the ‘00s, is that there’s no good evidence to suggest that any of the “learning styles” models popular with teachers actually improved educational outcomes. But that did little to slow the popularity of learning styles — or the mini industry built up around them. References McLaughlin, Dorene Casey EdD, "An Evaluation Case Study of the Effects of a Learning Style Awareness Program for Ninth Graders at an Independent School" (1996). Dissertations. 617. https://digital.sandiego.edu/dissertations/617 Furey, William, “The Stubborn Myth of Learning Styles” (2023) https://www.educationnext.org/stubborn-myth-learning-styles-state-teacher-license-prep-materials-debunked-theory/ Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9(3), 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6053.2009.01038.x Sun X, Norton O, Nancekivell SE. Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents', children's, and teachers' thinking about children's academic potential. NPJ Sci Learn. 2023 Oct 17;8(1):46. doi: 10.1038/s41539-023-00190-x. PMID: 37848467; PMCID: PMC10582039. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37848467/ Coffield, F. (2004). Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning: a Systematic and Critical Review. LSRC Reference, Learning & Skills Research Center, London. https://www.leerbeleving.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/learning-styles.pdf Cassidy, Simon (2004) Learning Styles: An overview of theories, models, and measures, Educational Psychology, 24:4, 419-444, DOI: 10.1080/0144341042000228834 https://doi.org/10.1080/0144341042000228834 Rogowsky, Beth A., et al. “Matching Learning Style to Instructional Method: Effects on Comprehension.” Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 107, no. 1, 2015, pp. 64–78., doi:10.1037/a0037478. “Belief in Learning Styles Myth May Be Detrimental.” PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2019, doi:10.1037/e504772019-001. Fleming, N., and Baume, D. (2006) “Learning Styles Again: VARKing up the right tree!”, Educational Developments, SEDA Ltd, Issue 7.4, Nov. 2006, p4-7. Knoll, Abby R., et al. “Learning Style, Judgements of Learning, and Learning of Verbal and Visual Information.” British Journal of Psychology, vol. 108, no. 3, 2016, pp. 544–563., doi:10.1111/bjop.12214. Nancekivell, Shaylene E., et al. “Maybe They’Re Born with It, or Maybe It’s Experience: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Learning Style Myth.” Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 112, no. 2, 2020, pp. 221–235., doi:10.1037/edu0000366. Hyman, Ronald & Rosoff, Barbara (1984) Matching learning and teaching styles: The jug and what's in it, Theory Into Practice, 23:1, 35-43, DOI: 10.1080/00405848409543087 https://doi.org/10.1080/00405848409543087 Learning Styles Network Resources Brochure https://web.archive.org/web/20050527165802fw_/http://www.learningstyles.net/2004/resource_brochure/resource_brochure.pdf

Expos and Conventions where porn stars meet fans are liminal spaces where awkward interactions are the norm. It gets worse when Youtube content creators show up to "interview" the talent. Our guest is Spencer of the Those Good Old-Fashioned Values Podcast. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to http://patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Those Good Old-Fashioned Values Podcast: https://linktr.ee/tgofv Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by ITEM. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Our holiday present to you all is the gift of Jake, Liv, Julian, and Travis losing their collective minds over the new film “Leave The World Behind” – a pre-apocalyptic film executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Not only will they be staggering their way through the plot of the film and its production history, but they’ll also be taking a look at the online conspiracy community’s reaction to the film. Rest assured it’s a ‘great holiday bake-off’, minus the presence of anything sweet and savory. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

Dating! In an app! What could go wrong? We check in with listeners, Liv, and Jake to answer that question. Our guest is comedian and author Jamie Loftus! For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. This series was brought to you by the QAA podcast. Thanks for supporting us on patreon! Jamie Loftus: https://twitter.com/jamieloftusHELP The Bechdel Cast: https://linktr.ee/bechdelcast Raw Dog (The Book): https://read.macmillan.com/lp/raw-dog-by-jamie-loftus/ Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by NAP. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Part 2 of our exploration of how Gatorade influenced the science of hydration. In this episode Travis talks about how the Army developed bad doctrine around hydrating soldiers while preparing for war in the Middle East, how Gatorade helped finance athletic organizations, and why dangers related to overhydration were ignored in the 90s. Also at point Jake launches into a Carpi Sun ad for some reason. REFERENCES Georgia Teen Dies From Drinking Too Much Water, Gatorade https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-teen-dies-from-drinking-too-much-water-gatorade/ Rovell, Darren. First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon (2005) Noakes, Timothy. Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (2012) Water as a Tactical Weapon: A Doctrine for Preventing Heat Casualties https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA113477.pdf ACSM Position Stand: Exercise and Fluid Replacement https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fulltext/1996/10000/acsm_position_stand__exercise_and_fluid.45.aspx National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Statement: Fluid Replacement for Athletes https://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/FluidReplacementsForAthletes.pdf Updated Fluid Recommendation: Position Statement From the International Marathon Medical Directors Association (IMMDA) http://immda.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Spring-2006-Updated-Fluid-Recommendations.pdf Gatorade demand high in war zones, squeezing supply https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2005/09/08/gatorade-demand-high-in-war-zones-squeezing-supply/31703317007/ Water Intoxication—Considerations for Patients, Athletes and Physicians https://med.virginia.edu/ginutrition/wp-content/uploads/sites/199/2015/11/NoakesArticle-September-08.pdf Drinking policies and exercise-associated hyponatraemia: is anyone still promoting overdrinking? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fernando-Beltrami/publication/5451623_Drinking_policies_and_exercise-associated_hyponatraemia_Is_anyone_still_promoting_overdrinking/links/57334c7908ae9f741b26101c/Drinking-policies-and-exercise-associated-hyponatraemia-Is-anyone-still-promoting-overdrinking.pdf Case proven: exercise associated hyponatraemia is due to overdrinking. So why did it take 20 years before the original evidence was accepted? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564296/#ref16 “Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.” Really? Is there scientific evidence for “8 × 8”? https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.00365.2002 British Medical Journal: The Truth About Sports Drinks https://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/187587?path=/bmj/345/7866/Feature.full.pdf The sensitivity of the human thirst response to changes in plasma osmolality: a systematic review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763530/#:~:text=Physiologically%2C%20plasma%20osmolality%20(pOsm),Baylis%20%26%20Thompson%2C%201988

Annie Kelly is back in the Peak District to delve further into an ongoing struggle between the peaceful residents of Cressbrook Dale and a rogue band of doomsday farmers led by former “Dragon’s Den” host, Rachel Elnaugh. This time, Annie will be speaking to residents and hapless hikers who have been accosted by Rachel’s followers and their recon drones. She’ll also unpack a mysterious “anti-Rachel” website that popped up after being advertised on flyers distributed in the area, in the hopes of discovering just who might be behind it. Here’s a hint… it’s not the residents. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe and NAP. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

Sex dolls — realistic and cartoonish alike — have a sizable online community of enthusiasts dedicated to them. We explore this rabbithole with Alice Avizandum of the Trash Future, Kill James Bond and Well There's Your Problem podcasts. For access to the full episode (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to https://patreon.com/qaa and subscribe for just $5 a month. Alice Avizandum: https://twitter.com/AliceAvizandum Her Podcasts: https://twitter.com/trashfuturepod / https://twitter.com/killjamesbond / https://twitter.com/wtyppod Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

There are many reasons why Gatorade became the king of sports drinks. It had a compelling origin story. Its partnership with the NFL led to the iconic “Gatorade Dunk,” where celebrating athletes would pour a giant container of Gatorade over their coach. There was the hugely successful “Be Like Mike” advertising campaign, which featured Michael Jordan sipping Gatorade. But one of the reasons is the belief that Gatorade is a science-backed product. To secure this belief, Gatorade’s owners helped establish the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. On these two episodes of Trickle Down, we’ll explore how Gatorade influenced the science of hydration on the way to becoming a multi-billion dollar brand. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com REFERENCES Wikipedia: Elixir of Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_of_life Fitzgerlad, Mattt. Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us (2014) Rovell, Darren. First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon (2005) Noakes, Timothy. Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (2012) Noakes, Timothy. THE HYPONATREMIA OF EXERCISE https://www.crossfit.com/essentials/the-hyponatremia-of-exercise-part-1 Cleveland Clinic: Electrolytes https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/21790-electrolytes

Annie Kelly takes us on a road trip to Cressbrook, Derbyshire, where a pilled community of wannabe farmers have somehow purchased land within the Peak District National Park. The group is led by former reality television star Rachel Elnaugh, an entrepreneur who appeared on the BBC television show “Dragon’s Den.” How will the residents of Cressbrook take to a group of strangers who fully intend to turn their cherished landscapes into an ‘apocalypse-ready’ farm? Find out in part one of this two part saga brought to you by our beloved UK host. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe and NAP. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

A podcast where Liv Agar and Julian Feeld venture into horny online subcultures and take you along for the ride. Gooning, Gooners, Goonettes, the Goon State and Goon Caves. Is it just copious masturbation? Is it the overconsumption of pornography? Is it a tantric state? Is it a solo or group thing? Is it gay? Is it an online community? Why not all of these things, all the time, everywhere, forever? This first episode of PERVERTS we are joined by Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale of the Your Kickstarter Sucks Podcast to discuss. For the remaining 9 episodes of the series as they come out (+ all miniseries + all premium QAA episodes) go to https://patreon.com/qanonanonymous and subscribe for just $5 a month. Your Kickstarter Sucks: https://patreon.com/yourkickstartersucks / https://twitter.com/yourkickstarter Go Off Kings Twitch Stream: https://twitch.tv/gooffkings Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

So, it’s all come down to this. For our grand finale, we’ve assembled the entire QAA crew to perform a handful of unexplained phenomena that our dear listeners have submitted. Ghosts. Near Death Experiences. Precognition. Angels. Captain Jean-Luc Picard. It’s all here! Brad and Jake have done their best to bring each of your stories to life with music and sound effects, so that you can all relive the most terrifying moments of your life in high-definition audio. Which QAA host will be reading your story? Find out in the haunting conclusion to The Spectral Voyager. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com Mental Health/Addiction: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. SAMHSA’s National Helpline – 1-800-662-HELP (4357) NAMI HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 am–6 pm, ET. 1-800-950-NAMI (6264).

Promoting pizzagate, joking about QAnon and telling advertisers to go fuck themselves. Elon Musk is a hilarious guy and we all appreciate his sense of humor. Which is why he'll appreciate our "jokes" about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Plus we chat about Marjorie Taylor Greene attempting to revive the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA x Goosecult Party on Saturday December 16th: https://dice.fm/event/e8pkd-qaa-podcast-x-goosecult-party-w-john-vanderslice-16th-dec-the-goldfish-los-angeles-tickets Music by Nick Sena. http://qanonanonymous.com

The ongoing discourse around social media and extremism took a strange twist earlier this month after users of the social media platform Tik Tok discovered a 2002 work by Osama bin Laden called “Letter to America.” Tik Tokers noted the letter’s analysis of American imperialism and its effects on the Middle East, as well as the influence of Zionist thought on American politics. Many expressed shock and acted as if the brief letter completely altered their conception of the world, as if this was the very first critique of American foreign policy they ever encountered. This controversy ignited a very dumb conversation about the influence of social media, and Tik Tok in general, on young people. To unpack this tempest in a teapot, Travis, Jake, and Liv discuss the letter itself, how Tik Tokers reacted to it, and how the controversy may be inflated by panic over Chinese-owned Tik Tok. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: livagar.com / linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. qanonanonymous.com References: Full Text: bin Laden’s Letter to America https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081002/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html Letter to American people Wikipedia Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_American_people 404 Media: The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden’s Letter to America Because it Went Viral on TikTok https://www.404media.co/guardian-deletes-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-it-goes-viral-on-tiktok/ Washington Post: How Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ reached millions online https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/ CNN: Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/index.html Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine Ryan Broderick: TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama Bin Laden https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama Reuters: Montana to become first US state to ban Tik Tok https://www.reuters.com/world/us/montana-governor-signs-bill-banning-tiktok-state-2023-05-17/ New York Times: Nikki Haley Renews Call for TikTok Ban After Bin Laden Letter Circulates https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/us/politics/nikki-haley-tiktok-ban.html New York Times: Lawmakers Renew Calls to Ban Tik Tok After Accusations of Anti-Israel Content https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/tiktok-accusations-anti-israel-content.html

Libs of TikTok is the name of a social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms run by a woman named Chaya Raichik. In just a few years it has catapulted from a relative unknown to a right-wing media force. Raichik mostly reposts videos, photos, and screenshots designed to stir the ire of her followers. The vast majority of her output concerns the LGBTQ community, for example calling out teachers for sharing their pronouns with students and hospitals for offering gender-affirming care. The accounts have been amplified by the likes of Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, and other big names. The account’s posts often include the names, social media handles, and other identifying information of its subjects, leading to harassment campaigns against the individuals and organizations it spotlights. Raichik’s obsessions often go on to become mainstream topics of conservative discourse. She commands the attention of some of America’s most powerful right-wing politicians, and her influence has empowered the account’s conservative fanbase to threaten and protest children’s hospitals, teachers, school districts, drag shows, and more. To get a better idea of the real world impact of Libs of Tik Tok, we are joined by Will Carless. He is a reporter for USA Today and he recently published an investigation titled “When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow.” And for this report, Carless got a rare personal interview with Raichik herself. REFERENCES Michael Flynn and family pocketed leftover money from his legal defense fund, filing claims https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2023/michael-flynn-and-family-pocketed-leftover-money-from-legal-defense-fund-filing-claims The AP incorrectly reported that QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley has “disavowed the QAnon movement” as he plans an Arizona congressional campaign https://www.mediamatters.org/associated-press/ap-incorrectly-reported-qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-has-disavowed-qanon-movement When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/11/02/libs-of-tiktok-tweets-death-bomb-threats/71409213007/ TIMELINE: The impact of Libs of TikTok told through the educators, health care providers, librarians, LGBTQ people, and institutions that have been harassed and violently threatened https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians

Taylor Swift is secretly gay — according to a movement born on Tumblr that lurched into QAnon territory. Liv Agar leads us down the rabbithole of this years-long fever dream. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by DJ DEATH and Roopen. http://qanonanonymous.com

Bill Gates and his "philanthropic" foundation. We've heard the conspiracy theories — but what if the reality was damning enough? Our guest is Tim Schwab, journalist and author of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA x Goosecult Party on Saturday December 16th: https://dice.fm/event/e8pkd-qaa-podcast-x-goosecult-party-w-john-vanderslice-16th-dec-the-goldfish-los-angeles-tickets The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250291431 Tim Schwab: https://twitter.com/TimothyWSchwab Music by Nick Sena. http://qanonanonymous.com

Join Jake and Brad on their bogus journey as they cross the River Styx and descend slowly into the lake of fire. That’s right folks, this week we’re all going to Hell. We’ll pour over the origins of the underworld and examine three different cases where people claimed to have traveled there: An atheist turned minister. A pastor who had to suffer through a demon-sung rendition of Rhianna’s “Umbrella.” A sweet old lady who couldn’t, for the death of her, understand why she had been sent to this godforsaken place. We’ll also explore an idea even more terrifying than Hell itself… the quantum entanglement of never dying at all. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Voiceover performance by Katie Amis. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

A libertarian conservative children’s cartoon proclaiming the virtues of bitcoin and the evils of Karl Marx: it’s The Tuttle Twins! We explore the people behind the book series and its animated adaptation and then take a stroll through a couple of the episodes. Julian has found new ways to torture Liv, Jake and Travis. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

New Speaker of the House, new freak to examine. In Mike Johnson's case, we'll be looking at his connections to the New Apostolic Reformation, Christian dominionism, election denial, young earth creationism, and a Noah's Ark theme park in Kentucky. Our guest is Dr. Bradley Onishi, a scholar of religion who teaches at the University of San Francisco. His writing has been published in the New York Times, LA Review of Books, and Religion & Politics, among other outlets. He is also the co-host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus and the author of the book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism And What Comes Next. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA x Goosecult Party on Saturday December 16th: https://dice.fm/event/e8pkd-qaa-podcast-x-goosecult-party-w-john-vanderslice-16th-dec-the-goldfish-los-angeles-tickets Straight White American Jesus Podcast: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Bradley Onishi: https://twitter.com/bradleyonishi Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism And What Comes Next: https://www.bradonishi.com/books/ Music by Max Weber & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

You are floating through a long, dark tunnel, towards a bright, warm light into Part I of our Afterlife episode. Who better to finally answer the question of where we go when we die than Brad and Jake? We take you on an out of body experience to the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia’s medical school, where we meet our guides, professors of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences Jim Tucker M.D. and Bruce Greyson M.D. Together, they’ve amassed around 8000 case studies in their respective fields of near-death experiences and children who claim to remember past lives (aka reincarnation). We’ll not only delve into the science and history of the phenomena but take you through the wild personal stories of the experiencers. This will prime you for next week’s Part II, where we’ll drag you to the depths of Hell, and through the many dimensions of Quantum Immortality. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond, Bruce Greyson M.D. Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, Jim B. Tucker M.D. Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives, Jim B. Tucker M.D.

In January and February of last year, the normal operations of Canada's capital city of Ottawa were disrupted by the so-called Freedom Convoy. The convoy involved hundreds of trucks and personal vehicles and thousands of protestors at its peak, who made a lot of noise and blocked traffic before finally being cleared out. The initial convoy movement was created to protest vaccine mandates for crossing the United States border, but later evolved into a protest about COVID-19 mandates in general. Beginning January 22, 2023, vehicles formed convoys from several points and traversed Canadian provinces before converging on Ottawa on January 29, 2022, with a rally at Parliament Hill. The convoy was condemned by the trucking industry and labor groups. The Canadian Trucking Alliance stated that most protesters had no connection to trucking. That all came to an end on February 14, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time since its passing in 1988. Between February 17 and 20, a large joint-operation police presence in Ottawa arrested organizers and protesters, removed parked vehicles, and dismantled blockades from Ottawa streets. Just a few months ago a new protest movement emerged, taking inspiration from both that convoy movement and anti-gay and trans protest movements. This one is called The Save the Children Convoy. Since this new convoy was announced, it has been subject to allegations of plans of criminal violence, infighting, and the leaders have invoked sovereign citizen and QAnon concepts. We talk to Luke LeBrun, editor of the publication PressProgress, about this developing story and what members of the Save The Children convoy want. REFERENCES Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-far-right-is-planning-a-convoy-to-toronto-to-save-the-children-its-already-spinning-out-of-control/ Far-Right ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Gathering at Rural Base Camp Outside Ottawa https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-save-the-children-convoy-gathering-at-rural-base-camp-outside-ottawa/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Leaders Plotted to Capture Police and MPs at Secret Meetings, Participants Allege https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-leaders-plotted-to-capture-police-and-mps-at-secret-meetings-participants-allege/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Leader Calls for Jailing Politicians and Replacing Government in QAnon-Inspired Speech https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-leader-calls-for-jailing-politicians-and-replacing-government-in-qanon-inspired-speech/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Says Conservative MP Invited Them Into House of Commons as ‘VIP’ Guests https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-says-conservative-mp-invited-them-into-house-of-commons-as-vip-guests/

JFK Jr's Magazine - which aimed to make politics sexy - ran from 1995 to 2001. But now it's back! And it's packed to the gills with QAnon weirdness, far-right grievances, poems about Pomeranians and broken writing. Somehow they landed an interview with RFK Jr? Plus they launched a children's magazine! Fun for everyone in George 2.0. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

British comedian-turned-Hollywood-actor-turned-Youtube-guru Russell Brand is facing serious sexual assault accusations. Annie Kelly takes a look at his relationship to his audience as he slides into the conspiratorial and contrarian. This is part two of two and includes an interview with Dr. Rob Topinka, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Dr. Rob Topinka: https://twitter.com/robtopinka Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Tik Tok get their hands on the deaf blind historical figure and the results are confounding. Liv once again takes us down a maddening path into the viral joke / rumor / conspiracy theory that Helen Keller either wasn't real or was faking her disability. Apologies in advance. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

British comedian-turned-Hollywood-actor-turned-Youtube-guru Russell Brand is facing serious sexual assault accusations. Annie Kelly takes a look at his relationship to his audience as he slides into the conspiratorial and contrarian. This is part one of two and includes an interview with Dr. Rob Topinka, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Dr. Rob Topinka: https://twitter.com/robtopinka Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Dragons. Giants. Planets giving birth. Julian, Liv, Travis and Jake return to Mudfossil University to learn that all rocks are actually the body parts of ancient creatures spoken of in various myths and religious texts. Graduation is at hand — if they can grasp these complex scientific findings. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

In past QAA cryptid episodes, we typically find a creature thought to be real, but then is later debunked by modern science. For this week’s Spectral Voyager, we thought it would be interesting to do the opposite: Start with a creature once believed to be a myth, until scientists were able to actually prove its existence. The Giant Squid has fascinated Jake since he was a young boy, and he, Brad, and Julian will pour through the animal’s legendary sightings dating all the way back to the fifteen hundreds. Follow us along on the nearly five hundred year journey to prove the existence of one of the greatest mysteries the ocean has to offer us. We’ll also be exploring the Mokele-Mbembe in Brad’s “Cryptid Corner” – a potentially prehistoric reptile that might very well haunt Lake Tele, deep in the jungles of Africa. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: The Hunt for the Giant Squid | The New Yorker First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild - PMC (nih.gov) 1882 - Report on the cephalopods of the northeastern coast of America - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)

Did U.S. forces fight and kill a redheaded giant in the Afghan province of Kandahar? Is it possible to connect the dots about the United States’ role in Afghanistan — and the Middle East — without resorting to stories about giants? We answer these questions with Brendan James and Noah Kulwin of the Blowback podcast. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Blowback: https://blowback.show Noah Kulwin: https://twitter.com/nkulw Brendan James: https://twitter.com/deep_beige Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Auto-tuned Michael Flynn. Trump rapping. Adrenochrome dubstep. QAnon spoken word over saxophone. AI Klaus Schwab. Disney parodies. We cover the best of the best in redpilled music, including the freshly-dropped anthem "Freedom" which is taking the world by storm. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

On October 4th FEMA, in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). For those of us in the normie world, this is a dull bureaucratic event. But conspiracists, it’s something much more — a potentially catastrophic event. One that will spread illness and disease that may even transform people into zombies. In this episode, we dive into the conspirituality gurus who started this bonkers rumor, how it borrowed from earlier conspiracy theories, and how it took a life on its own among online conspiracists. REFERENCES FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023 https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023 What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013538/what-are-the-ingredients-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine/ Jim Bakker Is Now Using His End Times Broadcast to Warn About Zombies https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-is-now-using-his-end-times-broadcast-to-warn-about-zombies/ Chromosome 1p36 deletion syndrome https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/334629 Zombie Apocalypse: Can the Undead Teach the Living How to Survive an Emergency? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612174/ Pfizer vaccine does not contain graphene oxide https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-430816913228 If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

We finally did a UFO episode, and it’s our retelling of one of the most confounding and mysterious cases on record: The Socorro Saucer. This case has all the makings of a cognitive conundrum: a credible main witness (Lonnie Zamora), secondary witnesses, physical evidence, the Air Force classifying it as unknown, and a lack of convincing alternate explanations. This UFOlogical tale is told in parallel with the story of the Jacques Cousteau of UFOs (and channeler of ascended masters), the swaggiest researcher of them all, Ray Stanford… who also found dinosaurs in a NASA parking lot. Featuring an interview with journalist skeptic-believer D. Dean Johnson. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous D. Dean Johnson: http://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

A murderous "witch doctor" from South Africa and the ritual killing of teenagers and children. Basically the perfect script for Italian Americans to write. Jake, Julian and Liv tackle a listener submission: 2023's The Ritual Killer. The film has an inexplicably stacked cast: Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, Vernon Davis, Peter Stormare... and guess what? It's a masterpiece. No idea why it bombed. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Jim Caviezel is the moist-eyed actor who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ — and has since continued to do so in his own headcanon. He’s also a fan of QAnon, which is why we’ve covered him in the past: Episode 143, Enter the Cavortex, in which we found out how much of a nightmare he is on film sets, and Episode 238, Sound of Freedom, in which we explored his latest child trafficking summer blockbuster. The movie saw him play Tim Ballard, the head of tastelessly-named and questionably-run anti-child-trafficking non-profit Operation Underground Railroad ( OUR). But since the film was released — and promptly vaulted to the center of the culture wars — Ballard has stepped down from OUR, been accused of sexual misconduct, and was even denounced by the Mormon Church. We cover all of that in this episode with our guests: Vice journalists Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman, who’ve been covering Ballard and his organization for a while now. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down' and 'The Spectral Voyager': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES Recent Reporting on Operation Underground Railroad by Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman Mormon Church Denounces Tim Ballard’s “Morally Unacceptable” Activities https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjypz/mormon-church-denounces-tim-ballards-morally-unacceptable-activities Tim Ballard’s Departure From Operation Underground Railroad Followed Sexual Misconduct Investigation https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation ‘Sound of Freedom’ Producer Felt the Naked Breasts of Apparently Underage Trafficking Victim https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mq5w/sound-of-freedom-producer-underage-trafficking-victim Operation Underground Railroad Child-Rescue Missions Were Based on Psychic Intelligence https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bpda/operation-underground-railroad-child-rescue-missions-were-based-on-psychic-intelligence

Nazi video game mods, mercenaries reincarnated as giraffes, and teenage twitch streamers LARPing their way into Russian national chauvinism. Liv is back in the pilot seat and she doesn't disappoint, regaling us with a twisted tale involving a game called Hearts of Iron 4, "Hyperborea wave", and the Ron DeSantis campaign retweeting sonnenrads. Plus Jake asks the pressing question: what if Littlefoot from The Land Before Time was in The Sopranos? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

The end of an era for a destructive numerology-based QAnon cult led by Michael Protzman AKA Negative 48 — a group that got infamous for their belief that JFK Jr and even JFK were on the cusp of returning from the dead. We spoke to CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan about his documentary exploring their effect on the families of those involved and the death of their leader. We also spoke with researcher Karma about her long-standing work on the group. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Donie O'Sullivan: https://twitter.com/donie / https://www.cnn.com/profiles/donie-osullivan Karma: https://twitter.com/2022_Karma Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

The deposition of Michael James Lindell AKA Mike Lindell AKA Mike Pillow. Some sort of drone he calls a "Wireless Monitoring Device" (WMD) designed to monitor voting machines. MyPillow's lumpy pillows. All this and more on this week's MyPillowTalk with MyQAA. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

In 1989, in the bustling seaport of San Pedro, California, Jackie Hernandez began to experience strange phenomena in her newly rented bungalow. Lights would turn on and off. Objects would move. A heavy breathing could be heard rattling in the attic above her laundry room. After a neighbor experienced the activity herself, she encouraged Jackie to reach out to a team of Ghost Hunters she had recently seen on TV. What would follow was a year-plus long investigation that included everything from full-figured apparitions, to dripping ectoplasm. Jake and Brad provide a comprehensive look at either the best evidence of a poltergeist ever captured on video, or perhaps the first ‘found footage’ horror movie ever made. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Jackie Hernandez dramatizations performed by Katie Amis. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine' and the upcoming 'Doppelganger: A Trip Into Mirror World', joins us to talk about QAnon, "diagonalist politics", and why people keep confusing her with Naomi Wolf online. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Naomi Klein: https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein / https://linktr.ee/naomiklein Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

We put Brace Belden of the TrueAnon podcast on trial for starting an elaborate hoax on Twitter about an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, FEMA and a "triple kiss at the marshmallow hut". Jake regales us with a story about the playa. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous TrueAnon: https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod / https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod Music by Nick Sena & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

When it comes to possession, we’re used to hearing stories about the demonic variety. But there’s another side to it: those anointed by the Holy Spirit in religious movements such as Pentecostalism. This type of possession crescendos to ecstatic states, along with spastic movements, snake and fire handling, poison drinking, and faith healing. And in this rare case, a murder done in the name of God. This is the story of one of the most bizarre, depraved, & little-known acts of spirit possession ever committed: Appalachia’s first & only case of ritual sacrifice. Was spirit possession really to blame for the Unknown Tongue Cult murder? And as a chaser, Jake tells the tragic/comic story of George Went Hensley, the man responsible for popularizing snake handling at church. Can you guess how that one ends? To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Jake Rockatansky, and Silvia Tarozzi. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

Repeat guest Devin O’Shea regales the boys with a tale straight from ‘90s conspiracy theory culture. It concerns the prolific parapolitical researcher and St. Louis native Kenn Thomas. Thomas’ magazine Steamshovel Press made him a minor celebrity and earned mentions in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, and The Smithsonian. The magazine was also a source of inspiration for the writers of The X-Files. In 1996, Thomas published his career-defining book: The Octopus: The Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro. The book weaves a complex tale of a massive conspiracy involving a journalist who died in an apparent suicide, Native American reservations, a state-of-the-art-security program, a source named Danger Man, the Contras, the Shah of Iran, and a private security firm called “Wackenhut.” Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down' and 'The Spectral Voyager': www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: www.qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. Episode Written by Devin O'Shea https://twitter.com/devintoshea

There is a world that blends ancient arcane arts and algorithm-powered short form video content. That world is "Witch Tok," the community of self-described witches and other supposed wielders of magic who discuss the secrets of their craft on Tik Tok. Liv dives into Witch Tok to reveal how 21st century witches are leveraging social media to swap spells, hawk merch, and engage in occasional infighting. We also discover how christian media is reacting the popularity of online witches and continuing the centuries-old feud between protestants and those they accuse of being occultist devil worshippers. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan', 'Trickle Down', and The Spectral Voyager: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Raised by the youtube manosphere, a new female generation of anti-feminist influencers are rising to internet prominence, exemplified by Hannah Pearl Davis AKA JustPearlyThings. Full episode: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous When you subscribe for $5 a month you'll get access to the full Manclan mini-series as it comes out (+ all episodes of Trickle Down with Travis View + an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our entire archive of premium QAA episodes) Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) Theme & music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com). Editing by Corey Clotz.

QAnon figures have completely taken over the conservative activist organization America’s Future, Inc. Under the guidance of chairman of the Board Michael Flynn, they’re hosting events to radicalize Florida residents with a cartoonish conception of human trafficking. We explore how America’s Future, Inc. got its start as an anti-New Deal publication in the late 30s founded by publishing tycoon Frank Gannett. We also break down their recent event in Sarasota, Florida, where attendees were treated to wild horror stories of child abuse, complete with burlap bags, chains, and adrenochrome harvesting. Will this lead to real estate agents performing raids on houses they think are trafficking hubs? I guess we’ll find out. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down' and 'The Spectral Voyager': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES Polenberg, Richard. "The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, 1937–1941." Journal of American History 52.3 (1965): 582-598. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/12-2018%20Files/UWSP%20Folders/Box%2019/Box%2019-107.pdf

Julian decides to put five years of QAA knowledge to the test. In the process of detangling a redpilled Roku channel called “Burrow”, he discovers something horrifying: an online lecture course that aims to help pilled students ‘energize their brand’. In the midst of learning how to “not sound so crazy” as to turn away friends and family, the gang begins to uncover a bitter feud between Burrow’s original founders. This is a melted world that blends Q Anon with maddening marketing jargon, and it all culminates with a twelve-question multiple choice exam which Julian must take in order to unlock a secret webpage. With Julian’s extensive knowledge of the deeply pilled, twelve questions should be a piece of cake, right? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com Sources: https://www.nexttv.com/news/roku-vexed-and-funded-by-mysterious-far-right-conspiracy-theory-publisher https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/roku-has-allowed-hundreds-thousands-installations-channel-dedicated-qanon https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/roku-channels-want-to-redpill-viewers-about-qanon-vaccines-the-jews/

Time Travel. We’ve all fantasized about what could be possible if we possessed the ability to travel backwards or forwards through time; perhaps to see your favorite band in some small smokey venue before they were famous, or to prevent a horrible tragedy from taking place. But what if you stumbled upon time travel completely by accident? Where would you go? What would you do? This week, Jake, Brad, and Julian dive into the wondrous case of Mike “Mad Man” Marcum, a Coast to Coast AM caller who claimed to have built a Time Machine on his back porch in 1995. We’ll follow Mike from his humble beginnings working in a cardboard box factory all the way through his rise to fame as one of Art Bell’s most memorable callers. And of course, try to answer the most pertinent question of all: Did the madman actually do it? To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

For hundreds of years the Rothschild banking family played a central role in conspiracist narratives. In the 19th century the Rothschilds’ massive wealth, war profiteering, connections to powerful governments, and pioneering banking strategies earned them well-deserved scrutiny. But myths about the Rothschilds eventually became a way to promote anti semitic attacks and disguise them as critiques of wealth and power. To help us separate fact from myth when it comes to the Rothschild family, we are joined by repeat guest Mike Rothschild (who, despite his name, is not related to the banking dynasty.) In our discussion with his upcoming book, Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories, we cover everything from the origin of anti-semetic canards, how the Rothschilds became a financial force in Europe, the evolution of Rothschild conspiracy theories, and a major 21st century financial scandal involving the Swiss arm of Rothschild & Co. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down' and 'The Spectral Voyager': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Mike Rothschild on Twitter https://twitter.com/rothschildmd Jewish Space Lasers by Mike Rothschild https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733925/jewish-space-lasers-by-mike-rothschild/ REFERENCES Rothschild family to take Paris-listed investment bank private https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/rothschild-family-plans-take-its-paris-listed-investment-bank-private-2023-02-06/ 1MDB: The inside story of the world’s biggest financial scandal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/1mdb-inside-story-worlds-biggest-financial-scandal-malaysia

People convinced their consumption of "sissy hypno" pornography is making them more feminine, turning them gay, forcing them to cross-dress or even convincing them they're trans. Another right wing panic, another bizarre online subculture to explore with Liv Agar. Either that or she hypnotized us. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar's stuff: http://livagar.com Music by Nick Sena & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

We explore the strange heir, political candidate, conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, and swole boy known as Robert F. Kennedy Junior with our friends from the Conspirituality podcast — Derek Beres, Matthew Remski and Julian Walker. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous All things Conspirituality: https://www.conspirituality.net/ QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Are you ready to be premonition pilled? In the second episode of the Spectral Voyager, we take you on a journey through several devastating disasters - Aberfan, 9/11, the Titanic, plane crashes - and the people that seemed to dream of them before they happened. In fact, there were so many cases of these dreams and visions that a national bureau was created in the U.K. to catalog them, with a tragic ending. We also interview science writer, author, and precog expert Dr. Eric Wargo about the possible scientific explanations of the phenomena. So join Jake and Brad to find out if we can dream the future… or if it’s all just coincidence and hindsight bias. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com Sources: Time Loops by Eric Wargo (@thenightshirt on twitter), The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight, Changed in a Flash by Jeffrey Kripal.

An online community convinced they can change their race by watching and listening to youtube videos called "subliminals". The "Race Change To Another" or RCTA crowd have more tangible counterparts in figures like Oli London, a person who first garnered media attention for getting a bunch of plastic surgery to resemble a male K-POP star, and has since become a right wing talking head at the center of the anti-trans panic. A cursed episode for sure. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759 https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwegyn/are-subliminal-videos-on-youtube-messing-people-up

Social media is in flux. The disruption started when Elon Musk acquired Twitter, purged most of the staff, turned the blue checkmark verification system into a pay for play system, and welcomed previously banned extremists and QAnon followers back onto the platform. To add to the chaos, last week Elon announced that Twitter is rebranding as “X.” His stated goal is to turn X into an “everything app,” an all-in-one platform for messaging, voice and video calls, social media posts, payment services, and more. This rebrand included erecting a giant metal flashing X on top of the former Twitter building, much to the discomfort of the building’s neighbors in San Francisco. On today’s episode we discuss how emboldened conspiracists are using their paid checkmarks to build clout and spread disinformation. This includes a newcomer to disinformation game named Dom Lucre, who was suspended for posting child abuse material before Elon personally restored his account. And General Michael Flynn and former 8kun administrator Ron Watkins working to revive pizzagate ahead of the coming election season. We also chat with tech journalist Ryan Broderick in an attempt to figure out why Elon Musk is doing all this. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down,' and 'The Spectral Voyager': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Garbage Day Newsletter https://www.garbageday.email/ Christopher Beale’s Link Tree https://linktr.ee/realchrisjbeale REFERENCES https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter-csam-dom-lucre-elon-musk/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/facebook-far-right.html https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1684670401027145728

Jake and Brad are thrilled to bring you the very first episode of their new mini-series “The Spectral Voyager.” Over the course of ten episodes, they’ll bring you true tales from the edges of reality with a less critical eye, and a focus on the pure enjoyment of paranormal folklore. In the premier episode, they’ll dive into the story of the very first spirit photographer, William Mumler. From Mumler’s humble beginnings to his rise in popularity and eventual fraud trial, the guys will leave no photograph undeveloped. In the second half of the episode, Brad recounts his own personal tale of the paranormal - a close quarters rendezvous with one of the most cursed objects of all time… Robert the doll. You can subscribe for just five dollars a month on Patreon to gain access to the remaining nine episodes of The Spectral Voyager as it releases, as well as QAA’s other mini-series: Manclan and Trickle Down. If you’re already a subscriber, thank you! It allows us to make weird stuff like this. We hope you enjoy it! See you on the other side. http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

The moon is hollow. Or so Roland Emmerich would like you to believe. We explore his 2022 megaflop "Moonfall". Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

A Louisiana family is profoundly changed as dad falls down the rabbit hole. Central to their story: a small-time QAnon influencer based in Canada who set up a numerology cult positioning himself as the herald of the Great Awakening. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe & Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.

From the fantasy-infused white nationalism of body-building Swede "The Golden One" to the racially diverse misogyny and antisemitism of the Fresh & Fit podcast, we explore the shifting relationship of the manosphere to neo-fascism. Our guest is Eamon Whalen, reporter for Mother Jones. Full episode: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous When you subscribe for $5 a month you'll get access to the full Manclan mini-series as it comes out (+ all episodes of Trickle Down with Travis View + an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our entire archive of premium QAA episodes) Eamon Whalen: https://twitter.com/EamonWhalen Eamon Whalen’s Manosphere article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/after-metoo-andrew-tate-jordan-peterson-influencers-men-fight-back/ Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) Theme & music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com). Editing by Corey Clotz.

A melted community of stock pumpers and meme-makers obsessed with Palantir, the company founded by Peter Thiel and nursed to maturity by the CIA. In this episode we explore the history of Palantir including its work with ICE, the military industrial complex and various police forces. Then we dive into the PLTR subreddit where people are worshiping Alex Karp, the company's CEO, and encouraging others to invest in a company known for mass surveillance and using AI to enhance drone assassinations. Our guest is Katie Notopoulos, who wrote an article for Fast Company titled "How Palantir stock developed a weird, passionate, meme-crazy fan base". Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Katie Notopoulos: https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos Article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90922821/palantir-stock-meme-crazy-fan-base Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Down the rabbithole of a right wing panic, inside joke, and image board meme turned bizarre community. "Transmaxxing", on the surface, is the idea that young men (mostly involuntarily celibate or "incels") are becoming trans women to increase their odds of getting laid. In right wing media, the concept is being covered as a serious movement so as to fuel harmful transphobic narratives and erode civil protections for trans people. But is it actually a thing? And who came up with "transmaxxing"? Liv Agar investigates. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

There’s a lot going on in Arizona. Elections directors are quitting due to harassment. A lawmaker named a committee after a QAnon slogan. They’ve tried to pass legislation based on the terrible Dinesh D’Souza documentary 2000 Mules. The conspiracy theories have gotten so crazy that a legislator named Liz Harris was actually expelled for helping promote a wild conspiracy theory involving the Arizona governor, a Mexican Cartel, and the Mormon Church. And of course Arizona is the home of Kari Lake, the former tv news reporter tuned Gubernatorial candidate. She has been busy trying unsuccessfully to overturn the election she lost, writing a book that includes a deranged kidnapping dream sequence, and inadvertently posting evidence of possible crimes her team may be involved in. To help us break it all down we are joined by Haley, the person behind Arizona Right Wing Watch. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Haley’s Social Media https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social https://twitter.com/az_rww REFERENCES https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-legislature-expels-republican-lawmaker-over-conspiracy-theory-2023-4 https://www.azmirror.com/2023/02/24/arizona-gop-legislators-continue-to-give-oxygen-to-disproven-election-conspiracies/ https://www.courthousenews.com/arizona-senate-committee-clashes-over-election-bills-amid-false-claims-of-fraud/ https://www.pinalcentral.com/breaking/pinal-elections-director-quits-cites-toxic-environment-lack-of-support/article_b3c19204-97ec-53aa-9b72-fde3962378b8.html

After years of delays, the film “Sound of Freedom'' has finally hit theaters. The movie stars majorly pilled QAnon-promoting actor Jim Caveizel. He portrays Tim Ballard, the founder of the anti sex trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad. This film is bound to be a big boon for Tim Ballard. He is a former Department of Homeland security agent, but starting about a decade ago he made a name for himself thanks to stories of bold, daring missions helping rescue abducted children and arresting traffickers. Sex trafficking is in fact a very real and serious problem that is being actively fought by many governmental and nongovernmental organizations. But investigations into Ballard discovered that he exaggerates or sometimes outright fibs about his role in helping victims of trafficking. Similarly, Operation Underground Railroad claims partnerships with law enforcement and corporations that aren’t actually real. To discuss the film, we are joined by Dave Anthony of the Dollop Podcast. To dive into Operation Underground Railroad and its founder Tim Ballard, we talk to Vice News reporters Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Guests https://twitter.com/daveanthony https://twitter.com/annamerlan https://twitter.com/timmarchman REFERENCES https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the-children-trafficking.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/sound-of-freedom-jim-caviezel-857639bf https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/sound-of-freedom-the-film-you-almost-never-had-the-chance-to-see Reporting On Tim Ballard From Vice News https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7a3qw/a-famed-anti-sex-trafficking-group-has-a-problem-with-the-truth https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxev5/inside-a-massive-anti-trafficking-charitys-blundering-overseas-missions https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgq8a/anti-trafficking-charity-operation-underground-railroad-has-another-murky-rescue-story https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zjyg/operation-underground-railroad-touts-non-existent-partnership-with-american-airlines https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3apm/anti-trafficking-group-with-long-history-of-false-claims-gets-its-hollywood-moment

In the third volume of the infamous “Jake’s Takes” series, Jake and Liv kidnap podcast dad Travis View and force him to surrender his takes unto them. Whether they’re discussing discontinued snack items, or the TV adaptation they’re MOST disappointed by, Jake never fails to unlock some bizarre memory from his childhood and tell it to you for probably the fourth or fifth time. This episode also introduces two highly requested segments: Liv’s Gives and Travis’ Savages. The former see’s Liv’s interest piqued by a new, somewhat shady, streaming platform, and the latter finds Travis musing over the early writings of PT Barnum. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

QAnon is the source of many bizarre tales in the real world. But few are more bizarre than the tale of Romana Didulo, a Filipino-Canadian woman who claims to be the Queen of Canada. Since her appearance in 2020, Didulo has convinced many people that she is the monarch of Canada and also an alien. And that further, she is leading the fight against the worldwide cabal. She issues royal decrees, calls upon health workers and politicians to be executed, and convinces people that her government is making all public utilities free. Sometimes, it’s fine to be wary about calling a belief system or a group of people a cult. But in this case, it’s clear that this is a dangerous cult that has and continues to harm many people. To get a real proper perspective on the state of Romana Didulo, we are joined for the third time by the world’s leading Romana Didulo expert, Mack Lamoureux. He recently published a fascinating and extensive report on the ongoing business headlined “What Happens When A QAnon Cult Leader Moves To Town” on Vice News. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zzn9/qanon-queen-canada-nova-scotia-moves-in

It’s official, summer has begun. Naturally, things are beginning to melt at a rapid rate, including the news that is fed to us via our precious black mirrors. In an effort to help the QAA Snowman keep his eyes from falling out of his head, we’ve unleashed our most trusted aggregator Travis View to track conspiracy theories spawning out of Trump’s indictment as well as the emergence of a powerful Kennedy offspring. Meanwhile, Jake unpacks online conspiracy theories related to the missing Ocean Gate submarine, and the reddit communities who are sick and tired of hearing about them. Joining us is resident QAA legal analyst Allie Mezei, to help the guys figure out just how many Pinocchios Donald Trump will be spending in jail. Producer’s note: This episode was recorded before the breaking news about the fate of the submarine and its passengers. We were sorry to discover the tragic conclusion and offer our condolences to the families of all those affected. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

In the ‘00s there were three big Conspiracy theory movies on the internet: the 9/11 conspiracy theory film Loose Change, the multi-conspiracy film Zeitgeist, and the illuminati and conspirituality film Esoteric Agenda. Esoteric Agenda is perhaps less famous than the other two, but it was just as impactful for the first generation of internet users who watched videos online. On this episode, we talk about the movie and its creator Ben Stewart. Stewart was the singer/songwriter for an up-and-coming but unsigned band called Hierosonic. While Stewart initially made conspiracy videos to discuss topics in his songs, he soon discovered his YouTube clips were making a bigger impact than his music did. That set him on a path towards becoming a professional conspiracist that stretches to today. He now makes series for the conspirituality streaming network Gaia TV and right wing YouTuber Tim Pool. To help us learn more about Ben Stewart’s career arc Travis spoke to one time Hierosonic roadie Steven Wynne. Travis, Liv, and Jake ponder the chicken-and-the-egg problem of the conspiracy theory media industry. What really drives the popularity of online conspiracy theories? Is it suppliers like Ben Stewart? Or does the demand for exciting misinformation create influencers like Ben Stewart? Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

If there’s one thing that beautiful British Columbia needs, it’s more cults. This week, the gang explores the volatile life of Edward Arthur Wilson, better known as “Brother XII.” Wilson was an English mystic who wasted absolutely no time building a spiritual compound south of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Prepare yourself for Egyptian gods, hidden treasure, and heart problems as Brad Abrahams gently ferries us off to the De Coursey islands in search of gold. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

A Silicon-Valley-based fertility-obsessed celebrity couple with plans to populate the perfect world of the future. Liv leads us down a rabbit hole of pronatalism and excessive reddit posting. Along the way we touch on deviant art, brony porn and extremely lame memes. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

We spoke with the most visible J6er — known colloquially as the “QAnon Shaman”. He was distinct from the rest of the rioters thanks to his horned headdress, painted face, booming voice, extensive tattoos, and spear. Before he became world famous he participated in QAnon events, which made him an occasional feature of this show. On May 25th, Chansley was released after serving time in federal prison and a halfway house for the crime of obstructing an official proceeding. On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about Chansley's big comeback and what was said when he spoke in person at a church in Scottsdale, Arizona — an event which Travis attended. Then we’re going to play clips from our interview with Jacob Chansley. He discussed his childhood, how he acquired his pluralistic religious worldview, his experiences in prison, and his plans for the future. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Editing by Corey Klotz. References https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1848352/scottsdale-church-we-did-not-host-qanon-shaman-event https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally-speaks-up-about-its-bizarre-ufo-patent-experiments

Semen Retention, Sexual Kung Fu, NoFap, Bro Bonding… we track health perverts back to their religious roots and explore the new breed of online influencers in the scene. They combine new age, right wing, and pseudo-eastern philosophies to teach young insecure men how to self-actualize on youtube. Full episode: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous When you subscribe for $5 a month you'll get access to the full Manclan mini-series as it comes out (+ all episodes of Trickle Down with Travis View + an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our entire archive of premium QAA episodes) Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) Theme & music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com). Editing by Corey Clotz.

Premium Episode 215: Structural Antisemitism feat Sean KB When it comes to the market, you need to trust the plan. We explore how capitalism mystifies itself by generating alternate explanations for our steady immiseration. Perhaps the most popular among them? Antisemitism. Sean KB from the Antifada podcast guest writes an episode about Canadian historian and social theorist Moishe Postone’s theory of Structural Antisemitism. Thanks for supporting us on patreon! Sean KB: https://twitter.com/as_a_worker The Antifada Podcast: http://fans.fm/theantifada Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com Moishe Postone's Structural Antisemitism and National Socialism: https://critantisemnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/postoneclassic.pdf