Listener Stories Volume 9 (Premium E305)
Or potentially volume 10; we might have published Volume 3 twice… but who can blame us? Our reality has aged by more than two years since the last Listener Stories episode, where we shut up for once and check in with the people who make the podcast possible.
In this episode: She Married A Neo Nazi, Cousin Q, Scientology Rehab, and more.
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Comments (76)
scientology escapee guy sounded like coolest motherfucker on the planet. finding out the whole story took place after 9/11 felt like i got shot in the back of the head
Go Bills! Hope you enjoyed your time in western NY, Travis!
Still remember my first encounter with all this stuff. I was working for a Christian org back in the day (we all have faults) and some of the people I worked with were just chatting before an event. One of the guys just casually said, "Did you hear that stuff with Hillary and the demon worship? Like with kids and a pizza place." I said, "What? You have to know that's not true...right?" The guy was like, "I don't know, but it would be crazy if it was." "But it isn't. You know that...right?" But they didn't know that. They were already pilled. This stuff was so baked into evangelicalism's need for good vs evil.
Lol I went into archaeology cuz of Voyage of the Mimi, thank you for reminding me of logo the turtle, first grade was a blast!
Guys, you have no idea how much I needed to hear the part about blessing teachers, especially those of us who care, this week. It's been a shitshow lately and if you want some fun and melted tweets look up the incredible busllshit storm that happened in Loughton, England this week. I wasn't at the school where there was a random unhoused dude looking for food in bins who got arrested on a warrant, but I did get to hear a hailstorm of racist rhetoric wrapped in "who will save our kids" all week.
At some point, did one of you say to yourselves, "This podcasting shit is great. I hope I never have to stop and get a job," and now you lay awake at night wondering if you've doomed us all with your monkeys paw wish
Found this episode inspiring and helpful in my own life. Currently struggling with a lot of anger towards a Q brained friend and this episode helped me turn some of that into compassion and forgiveness. Appreciate all the team does. We see how hard this topic is on you and send our love and support for fighting through this crippling reality. Be good to yourselves you all deserve it
Much love to Scott and the cats, and Travis and the microfiche
A grim episode but on a lighter note, the bit where Travis is discussing his research is probably amongst the happiest and most animated I’ve ever heard him so that’s cool
HYCCT ("Have you considered a cum tribute?") is the new WWJD
A resounding, but important ~y i k e s~ episode. Thanks for grounding us all back into the real world consequences of all of this.
Thanks, guys. This was an important episode, in a library of important episodes. Keep up the good work!
It was this episode where they truly became uncs
I'm now looking forward to a multi-episode series on Masonry. Bring it on!
Another terrific episode, fellas - a really well curated selection of user stories.
As a longtime listener, nothing makes me happier than listening to Travis go down a rabbit hole. I vote for spending the rest of his life tracking down these issues, with a “report back” periodic feature where we get to listen to him talk about what he’s found.
I always find it funny when the boys run into an average American and are like, “These people are weird!” Can’t believe it was Travis this episode, “Never met people that love a football team so much.” Hey, brother, you just met regular people. This is how most of us live, man. LOL.
Please send Travis to Tuscaloosa for a game day.
Tracking down the remaining 22 issues is the kind of group scavenger hunt we need right now. someone out there has them. LFG
E F F E C T A smooth operator operating correctly.
I think its worth mentioning there are other effective alternatives to NA/AA that take the long term approach. Eg SMART recovery, which does not have to be abstinence based and doesnt involve steps etc. There's also medications such as Naltrexone. For some reason the US has been resistent to these, but they are commonly used in some other countries. What works is pretty individual.
Basically any program has to be better than NA/AA, one of the reasons people struggle with those programs is they are religious-based. And by religion I mean Christianity specifically.
halfway in and so much to say, but shook at a kid ranting at women, “controlling his life” like, you mean your Mom? Grandma? Who are these women and are in the room with us
hugs to each and every listener, while I’m at it 🫂
Have you all ever checked out r/QanonCausulaties? There is a lot more sadness there similar to this.
Losing someone you love to this stuff changes you as a person. I have an aunt who doesn't do podcasts but knows all about QAA bc it's the closest thing I've found to a support group. She also appreciates a good obscure rabbit hole viewed through a skeptical lense and is dealing with randos her age comparing kirk to Jesus. Much love to all involved and the community of listeners <3
I have a LOT of issues with NA/AAs abstinence only model because I think that medication assisted recovery and I almost failed psych nursing because I wrote a personal reflection paper about that and how relatives with additions handled their journey with getting sober being MAR.
In tears. Thank you for this.
Shout out to Monkey Island, Guybrush taught me how to love
I’m onboard with Travis’s patented method of Internet introduction.
I totally understand your hesitation to watch anything about your profession or current life. I’m a lawyer and recovering alcoholic and the two things I hate most are: 1) legal dramas (or anything with a courtroom scene) and 2) media about addiction
Wow, thanks for reading guys. I think I wrote this first rehab story immediately following last listener episode. Sorry for being so long winded, I can’t even be brief In the comments… Julian, I agree I short-sold aa which was unintentional, 12 steps//aa//na easily did more for me than any other program. To this day any critique I have of that program I keep to myself because it very likely saved my life and the love and community in those rooms is real and wonderful (plus any critique is largely of individual meetings and not the program in sum).. I will say recovery is a personal journey that looks different for all. I feel this way more now than ever given my current job in west baltimore working with those suffering “severe and persistent mental illness” mostly schizophrenia, often with addiction crossover. I’ve learned a lot in this job where sobriety is often not the goal of treatment… the one thing I’m bummed I failed to mention is how key suboxone has been to my long term recovery with heroin and opiates. Almost 7 years and I’ve let the bupe dissolve under my tongue every single day. Having that part of brain satisfied has opened the world to me and ended my circle of annual or bi-annual relapse… hearing those words read back to me in this form was pretty intense. Like all things I write, I am being incredibly harsh on the voice I used with the passage of time… but I think it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of that experience and I’m proud of how vulnerable I was about what those ‘late teenage identify crisis’ years were like.. thank you for scoring and reading it Jake, It’s incredibly cool to me that you put in the time to do that… I said this recently in one of these threads (I think after liv did chapo), but this is the first podcast I ever listened to and I have subscribed since I believe 2019. In an early episode I heard jake say something like “I knew I leaned left but didn’t understand my own politics until I found chapo..” which I related with profoundly. I had a sort of ambient disgust with the democrats which I could not articulate but obviously preferred to any notion of conservatism… this lead to my immediate seeking chapo largely beginning my leftist political education, which liv’s studies on Marx have also been a part of … this show has meant a lot to me for a long time and was largely the og incubator for a lot of what I believe today, for better or worse given some of the damage inflicted… like jp sears.. that episode fucked me up. That guy is popular? Thanks again for sharing my story, I love yall
It was a solid story dude good job and way to hang in there
Wishing all the folks who wrote in so much love. ❤️
I think taking 2 years between listener story eps is A-okay. Wuf.
I like them and would appreciate them more frequently.
A harrowing but excellent episode.
Oh fuck these stories were intense but Scott's obliterated me....so well said. QAA helps me get through my sisters radicalisation too. Means a lot to me. ❤️
FML boys I forgot to send in my story about how my sister fell in love (lesbian love) with a fascist cop who stanned Milo Yanoppolous in 2016 and got radicalised from being a leftie to now thinking I am dying of woke mind virus and going to bible study (we are from an atheist family...in....Australia). But no dont worry they're just friends who spent 3 weeks together sleeping in the same bed and worshipping Jesus/mourning Kirk Well I'll see you for the next listener stories in 2028 if we aren't all in a gulag ❤️🙏✨️
I say 'fascist cop' even though ACAB cause this girlie is very veru proud of her white supremacy and hatred of gays (despite being the butchest woman I have met...not making allegations but I mean...)
It all feels hopeless right now but you’re each demonstrating how to be passionate, self-aware and appreciative through the muck. Thank you.
I remember hearing about Scientologists using the sauna program on kids in Ukraine who had been exposed to Chernobyl radiation.
This story is definitely a lie
Went to rehab for heroin without withdrawals…
Reading between the lines it didn’t sound like he was an addict. Most people who take opiates don’t become addicted. It sounds like his conservative suburban parents freaked out and instead of checking with a qualified medical professional they sent home to Oklahoma. The Scientology stuff rang pretty true.
I've learned a lot from you guys and just wanted to give my thanks. My schizophrenic sister voted for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein and then she got Q-pilled. Listening to you guys and reading the books of the authors you've had on has helped me a lot in understanding what's happening to her. Cheers!
Holy crap. That last story is straight out of the Master! And they said PTA's script was nonsensical...
Yeah P.T. Anderson really did his homework with that movie
Iowa mentioned!! 🥳🥳
Ever heard of the Kools Club? In the late 90s there was a group of anti-Scientologists who would break into Scientology offices. Every Scientology office keeps a replica of L. Ron Hubbard's office, as it was on the day he died, complete with a back of Kools cigarettes that they replace periodically. To join the Kools Club, you had to get a photo of you in the replica office, smoking one of the Kools. My then fiancee, now wife of 25 years (radical shit binds you) , and I visited an office to scout for a later entry by my roommate, who was going for the prize. We sat through all the dumb films, learned that Scientology is the only religion that won't give you their bible for free, and scoped out all the security systems, window locks, etc. I felt sorry for the dupes running the place, obviously working off their payment for the next level of enlightenment, but it was such fun.
Love to the folks out there, with brainwashed family
Damn guys, talking Iowa Masons, Coast to Coast, Monkey Island? This is why I sub. I hope the best for everyone who wrote in and everyone else who’s as fried as I am rn. HMU if you need Iowa research or come here, but beware the state is closing our historical society in IC soon. It sucks.
Fellow Tacoma resident here, hope you are well Scott!
Oof, my heart goes out to you Scott from one Grit City resident to another.
That Australia flight is a fucking slog, man. Even worse when it's just a stop over on the way to New Zealand. I have stories. I'm never doing it again.
Eurovision pls☹️
Final Fantasy IV in Japan is 2 in US and VI in Japan is 3 in US. (I think)
yes, because II and V didnt come stateside until the ps1 era, and III took until the ds to come out in the west as a 3d remake.. officially at least
The hypothermia episode of Voyage of the Mimi. Core memory. You could hear a pin drop in that 5th grade classroom.
Scott, thank you for sharing that. I could definitely imagine it helping people who hear it, who you might never meet. And I hope that it was a help for you to share it.
lol Felix border man style lies
Oh yeah, I’ve done that. I’ve done that lots of times… actually I know the guy who invented it, we used to get high together…
If you need someone to look at masonic nonsense in London I have access. *both regular and Mark.
Christmas ornament store mention!
Liv Agar!
That didn’t take long
Man, much love to Scott from a fellow QAA listener in Port Orchard. That was a rough listen.
1 is 1. 2 is 4. 3 is 6. 7 is 7. Not that hard guys, come on!
Jake play Silksong
Yeh Jake get skonged
It has been too long! Thanks for another story ep 🙏🏾
Go Bills 😄
Got me moister than an oyster. Love y'all!
Moist ! 👉
niiice
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