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Picture this: it’s a chilly fall evening, a hot beverage of your choice in your hands, nothing on the agenda and you’re happy for that. Just as you're getting comfy in your favorite spot on the couch a notification dings your phone awake and you take a glance. New QAA movie night with Dan Friesen ju

Travis has prepared a real treat for us today in the form of a three-piece collection of stories regarding conspiracies surrounding the upcoming midterm elections. From people legally working on voting machines accused of corruption, to Jake spontaneously confessing to childhood lies, to a man who c

Ra Uru Hu, a Canadian and man Julian was one bad trip away from becoming, developed the astrology-adjacent Human Design self-help system while living in Ibiza, Spain in 1987. Human Design, Ra claims, was transmitted to him by a mysterious voice and the system attempts to take a more scientific appro

Mr. President, a second Press Secretary has hit The White House. They say she’s new but Julian can’t say for sure and Jake is beginning to think clones and/or aliens might somehow be involved. This week Travis examines new Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s long history as a devoted Trump fan and pill

Trump's failing mental state and mumbled words are once again the focus of the American eye. Listen in to experience Jake's brain dismantle itself in real time as he attempts to make sense of Trump's apparent invitation for Los Angeles and San Diego to be taken out. Jake's psychosis leads to a possi

Some online communities believe that “Medbeds” can supposedly cure cancer, regrow limbs, and reverse aging. The catch? You have to wait for Donald Trump to defeat the deep state before an appointment opens up. Slate reporter Molly Olmstead joins us to discuss her yearlong investigation into the orig

In Premium Episode 328, Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows introduced us all to the sad world of the “Alienated Parent Forums” and, for this episode, they are back with an update on the moral panic related to parental estrangement. Since our last coverage of the topic, the amount of articles written about

Noah’s Ark has been discovered. Again. This time, the claim involves underground scans, a boat-shaped formation in Turkey, and a publicity campaign promising evidence that could vindicate Genesis. Travis, Jake, and Julian investigate Andrew Jones and Noah’s Ark Scans, the latest effort to establish

Robots. First they came for our jobs, then they came for our sports, and now they’re coming to satisfy our every need (and maybe handing out death penalties). After a rise in chatter surrounding robots due to this year’s robot olympics, Jake decided it was time to zoom out from our recent focus on A

The “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory claims that powerful elites are deliberately replacing white populations through immigration. Under the second Trump administration, people who speak its language are representing the United States abroad. Josef Burton returns to QAA for a tour of the increa

Charles Stuart, aka “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter” claims he found a dead Bigfoot body in the Adirondacks, and he has a supposed DNA report from a Cornell University lab to prove it. Cornell, however, says it never performed the test. Now there’s a threatened $10 million lawsuit and a furious Bigfoot hu

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join us to discuss their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. They explain how tech billionaires, Christian end-timers, and ethno-nationalists have converged around a politics of permanent catastrophe. This new fascism offers even its follower

As we head into pumpkin spice season and the leaves begin to fall, so too does Jake’s brain - falling - nay - plummeting deep deep down into the AI slop latrine where his senses are assaulted from all sides as he claws at the crumbling walls of his reality. The harder he tries the more he breaks thr

Today the QAA crew is taking a small rest day from their melted algorithms but have no fear dear listener, we won't leave you hanging. Last week Jack and Julian began releasing their new Cursed Media mini series and today, in lieu of a usual main episode, we would like to share the first episode of

Katie Souza is an ex-meth cook turned author and founder of Katie Souza Ministries. Why did she start to claim in 2026 that she is the mother of an alien hybrid child named “Starburst?” Travis kicks us off recounting how his broken algorithm brought Souza across his radar and what he learned as a re

This past week prominent right wing twitter poster, Jennica Pounds (DataRepublican), got paranoid after being handed documents by the State Department, leading to the revelation that the Pentagon is employing conservative influencers as “special government employees.” Travis details Pounds’ history

Extra! Extra! Hacker kidnaps GTA6 development build! Holds game hostage for meme coin ransom. Conspiracies abound! Could developer Rockstar be behind the leaks themselves as a part of an elaborate marketing strategy? Probably not, since they have subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord in an attempt to cap

Today Liv brings the boys her best attempt at a “good news” episode without straying too far from our usual content. For our little cheat day, Liv has prepared a fun hour of discussing the investing failures of one Leopold Aschenbrenner whose AI centered investment firm, Situational Awareness, recen

Liv, Brad, and Jake have a grand time dissecting Spielberg's latest non-human biologics picture. They discuss everything from poorly painted Alien artifacts to bizarre boomer film transition techniques. Jake discovers a promising Colin Firth impression. This is ground truth podcasting. Thanks for su

Travis takes Jake and Liv inside Operation Puppet Master, Homeland Security Investigations’ months-long effort to uncover the supposed command structure and funding behind Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests. Undercover agents entered meetings and Signal chats, tailed activists, and searched union and non

Sweetest listener, did your July of this year (2026) hit just a little different? Maybe the other side of your pillow always seemed to be cold or you spidey sensed the shit out of everything that fell? Maybe it was just the opposite and your floor has been covered in pickles and broken glass more ti

Cajun karate black belt, ex-marine, gun disarm master, demon hunter, pedophile hunter, and Colorado gubernatorial candidate, Victor Marx (no relation), has a storied past that’s details have evolved with him over the years leading to, at times, more questions than answers. Was he a state champion tr

Read any geopolitical article from the past 20 years and you will find the growing concern that the U.S. may be falling behind China is a recurring theme. These articles cite reasons like manufacturing, technology, and geopolitical leverage. Author and political consultant Peter Schweizer, however,

On August 1st, 2026, a complex of fires started in Spokane, Washington that would become the state’s most destructive fires in history. Over 700 structures have been lost and thousands of acres burned as high winds fed the flames over the weekend. Nearly as quickly as the flames ignited, so did the

Well, folks… he's done it. Taking advantage of Travis's absence during the recording window, our Jakey has made his longtime dream a reality by turning this podcast into a video game review pod. Unfortunately for Jake, this dream would quickly become a bug-ridden, Groundhog Day nightmare. Hot off th

After years spent cultivating distrust of the press, the courts and official investigations, Turning Point USA now has a problem: the same paranoid media machine they nurtured has turned on Charlie Kirk’s family and organization. MS NOW reporter Brandy Zadrozny joins Travis, Julian, and Jake to disc

On June 17th the LA skyline was disturbed by a cloud of thick smoke emanating from a cold storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights. This resulted in a Fallout 76 style rat infestation, biblical swarms of flies, and the putrid stench of rotting meat filling every home in the surrounding area. After a

Jake, Julian, Liv and Travis are joined by investigative journalists Abner Häuge and Haley Orion, who traveled to Provo, Utah, to cover the preliminary hearings for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. They report on the conspiracy circus outside the courthouse: Can

Are those “small business owners” selling trinkets on Tik Tok actually real? Are those ripped gay hunks on Twitter just AI? Do people even care about the distinction between “fake” and “real” in the content they see online? In this episode we dive into the various ways people are deploying AI entiti

POV: You’re the world’s richest man, clicking the POST button on the platform you own. You’ve just shared an inconceivably terrible and violently bigoted film to your 240 million followers, catapulting what would’ve been a forgotten flop to the top of the streaming charts. The film is “Citizen Vigil

John Murray Spear and his followers have built their “mechanical messiah.” There’s just one problem: it won’t move. In the conclusion to Spear’s excellent adventure, the spirit of Benjamin Franklin guides the “Motorists” through increasingly elaborate attempts to bring the “Electrical Infant” to lif

Jack LaRoche and Trey Grace spent Fourth of July weekend inside Intercessors for America’s “Rededicate America” event at the Museum of the Bible, and they tell Travis, Liv, and Jake all about it. Intercessors for America (IFA) describes its own organizing model as “News. Prayer. Action.” In practice

This week, Jack begins the strange saga of John Murray Spear: Universalist preacher, abolitionist, prison reformer, anti-death-penalty agitator, spiritual medium, and eventual would-be midwife to a “mechanical messiah.” Before Spear tried to build the “New Motor” (a living machine meant to channel d

The White House’s official twitter account went fishing this past week using “Q posting” as bait. They snagged a wild Travis View hook, line, and sinker. While posting about President Trump’s executive orders related to quantum technology, the social media team for the White House and the Pentagon s

BING BONG! After an extended absence due to some antibiotics, Liv is back and has brought with her another episode filled with a slurry of emotion. Liv’s latest covers the betting app Kalshi and its competitor, Polymarket. Although illegal in some states, these “prediction market platforms” have had

Travis and Annie are joined by intellectual historian A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. Woods traces how a group of German critical theorists associated with the Frankfurt School were transfo

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In part two, Travis takes us back in time to Western New York State during the beginning of the Jacksonian era. The plans of 50-year-old William Morgan to publish Masonic secrets turned into one of America’s first nationwide true-crime media frenzies. After Morgan and printer David C. Miller threate

The hit podcast The Telepathy Tapes claims to reveal a hidden world where nonverbal autistic people communicate telepathically, visit one another on an astral gathering place called “The Hill,” access cosmic knowledge, and perhaps even commune with psychic animals. But behind the paranormal framing

A French GT champion's skull turns up in a remote forest. In Paris, two hooded intelligence operatives sweat through a heatwave in a stolen Renault with a silencer made from an applesauce pouch. Nearby, a life coach in the suburbs learns the bounty on her head is 70 grand, plus tax. Brad is here to

Annie Kelly takes the wheel for a deep dive into how “Great Replacement” theory went global. We trace how a once-fringe white-nationalist panic moved through Generation Identity, the alt-right, YouTube, the manosphere, Tucker Carlson, Stephen Crowder, and into mainstream electoral politics. For more

Jack LaRoche and first-time contributor Trey Grace go undercover on the National Mall for the May 17th Christian nationalist event Rededicate 250. This White House-linked rally features prayer, fasting, patriotic worship, shofar blasts, AI George Washington, and rumors about whether Trump might appe

Welcome to the age of AI slopaganda, where the synthetic videos are nearly indistinguishable from the real, the real videos are getting more suspect, and everyone is one fake Instagram Reel away from becoming the Facebook boomer they once mocked. Liv examines the newest iterations of AI-generated po

For nine years and over 1100 episodes Dan Friesen and his co-host Jordan Holmes helmed the podcast Knowledge Fight, where they unpacked and analyzed the neverending flood of nonsense that flowed from the mouth of Alex Jones through his media empire Infowars. After it was announced that Alex Jones’ o

In this Movie Night episode, Travis, Jake, and Jack descend into the sweaty church-basement panic of 1970s Christian exploitation cinema with a double feature: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971) and A Thief in the Night (1973). These were not slick Hollywood productions, but they reach

It’s Happening!! Disclosure is here! Brad is back to report everything you need to know on the topic from his deep underground military base. This episode weaves three stories into a terrifying mandala of our rapidly accelerating cultural madness. The administration's flaccid “disclosure” document d

In part 2 of this 2 part episode, this continued examination of John C. Lilly's life leads Jack into a sensory deprivation tank. Building upon the research done by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb, Lilly's use of sensory deprivation tanks (and a lot of hallucinogens) led him to develop the concept

In 2025, researchers at the University of California submitted an academic article related to a case study of what they called “New-onset AI-associated Psychosis”. The article breaks down the case of a 26 year old woman who was hospitalized after she began to believe her brother was speaking to her

Before marine mammal song CDs conquered mall kiosks and the slogan “Save the Whales” appeared on bumper stickers nationwide, one scientist became obsessed with the idea that dolphins might be our closest nonhuman intellectual peers. In part one of our two-part Evil Neuroscience series, Jack dives in

Hello QAA listeners, Julian has launched a new solo project with comedian Jon Gabrus. Super Structure is a podcast about the many shapes of power. The power of propaganda, the power of political repression, and the power of revolutionary struggles the world over. QAA listeners get 30% off their firs