Brad and Liv have blown into their cartridges and powered on 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. Stick around until the en...
2024-01-06 03:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ce...
2023-12-31 00:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2023-12-28 08:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostOur 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...
2023-12-23 01:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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Jamie Loftus: 2023-12-21 05:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2023-12-19 18:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostAnnie 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 hiker...
2023-12-16 02:20:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2023-12-12 19:29:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 L...
2023-12-10 00:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostAnnie 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...
2023-12-09 03:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 grou...
2023-12-05 03:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Pica...
2023-12-01 23:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostPromoting 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...
2023-12-01 02:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 effec...
2023-11-28 21:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostLibs 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 th...
2023-11-24 16:40:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2023-11-20 21:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostBill 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.
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2023-11-16 04:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 tr...
2023-11-13 22:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 to...
2023-11-11 19:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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 rel...
2023-11-10 04:41:24 +0000 UTC View Post
QAA and the Goosecult will be assembling at the Goldfish in Los Angeles on Saturday December 16th for a fun, loose live podcast followed by DJ sets from Jo...
2023-11-06 20:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Universit...
2023-11-02 23:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 f...
2023-10-31 22:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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'...
2023-10-28 21:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostBritish 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 ...
2023-10-24 01:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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2023-10-21 01:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostBritish 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 ...
2023-10-17 23:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2023-10-15 04:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 we...
2023-10-12 23:43:26 +0000 UTC View PostDid 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 Kulwi...
2023-10-10 22:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post