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Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
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Premium Episode 241: Radium Toothpaste (Sample)
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On June 13th, 1996, the leader of a Long Island UFO group was charged with conspiracy to poison local conservative leaders with the most absurdly deranged of methods. His motive? Retribution for the political cover-up of UFO activity in the area. Brad Abrahams joins us to tell this bizarre and melancholy tale of the alien obsessed John J. Ford. We …
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Anti-Chemtrails Laws feat. Teddy Wilson (E275)
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Though the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory has long been dismissed by scientists, aviation experts, and other skeptics, the Tennessee legislature has taken it very seriously. On April 11th, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law SB2691, which bans the ‘intentional injection, release, or dispersion’ of chemicals within Tennessee ‘with the expres…
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Premium Episode 240: The Machines Are Lying To You (Sample)
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Even in the early conversations discussing the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, there was always the fear that it could potentially fall into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the QAA team is here to tell you that it has. It is definitely already in the wrong hands. And that’s mostly due to the fact that sophisticated AI algorithms are availa…
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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…
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Premium Episode 239: The Key Bridge Collapse (Sample)
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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 c…
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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 Py…
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Premium Episode 238: We Love The Starship Troopers Bugs (Sample)
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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 …
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Episode 272: Solar Eclipses And The Politics of Fear feat. Arthur Goldwag
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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 acro…
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Premium Episode 237: eXistenZ Movie Night (Sample)
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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 a…
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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…
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Trickle Down Episode 20: Retrospective (Sample)
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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…
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Episode 270: Let There Be Satanic Panic
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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 blockb…
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Trickle Down Episode 19: Graphic Corruption (Sample)
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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 juris…
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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…
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Trickle Down Episode 18: Viral Science (Sample)
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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 buff…
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PERVERTS Episode 10: Sissyology feat Juniper (Sample)
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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.J…
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Episode 268: Why Google Sucks Now feat Ed Zitron
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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, P…
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Trickle Down Episode 17: Earth's Most Destructive Organism Part 3 (Sample)
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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…
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PERVERTS Episode 9: Goop feat Anna Merlan (Sample)
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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 premi…
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Episode 267: Black Magic Panic & the Mau Mau Rebellion
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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…
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Trickle Down Episode 16: Earth's Most Destructive Organism Part 2 (Sample)
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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 Cor…
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Episode 266: We Are Not At War feat Ken Klippenstein
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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 fo…
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PERVERTS Episode 8: Skyrim Sex Mods feat Scott Benson (Sample)
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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 …
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Episode 265: Auntie Coolette feat Miles Klee
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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…
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Trickle Down Episode 15: Earth's Most Destructive Organism Part 1 (Sample)
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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 app…
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