QAA Podcast

A cycle of violence fed by decades of online culture. But what connects the mass shooters who posted manifestos on 4chan and 8chan? How does a massacre become a meme, begetting more tragedy? Dale Beran guest writes. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to Trickle Down, the ongoing miniseries by Travis View: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Dale Beran: https://twitter.com/daleberan Buy his book 'It Came From Something Awful': https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250189745 QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Nick Sena & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

In the early fifties, the United government had to reckon with the escalating nuclear arms race. The cold war meant that ascendant rival superpowers were amassing the tools of apocalypse. Internal committees and think tanks decided that they had to avoid the American people becoming terrified, paralyzed, and panicked about the bomb. The solution? Make people afraid. Citizens should fear the bomb. But they shouldn’t lose their heads. Fear is manageable. Panic is not. The Federal Civil Defense Administration organized messaging and educational campaigns to show how people could defeat potential nuclear destruction with can do American spirit. Officials hoped to fine tune nuclear anxiety, so it never lapsed into apathy or terror. This is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES: Chernus, Ira (2002) Eisenhower’s Atoms For Peace Gladdis, John Lewis (2005) The Cold War: A New History Masco, Jospeh (2014) The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror Oakes, Guy (1994) The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture Osgood, Kenneth (2006) Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad Starck, Kathleen (2010) Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War Alert America!, Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com/story/alert-america-u-s-national-archives/awVBMrc3sxGJLg?hl=en

Ouija boards, ghost brothers, and strange recordings made in the middle of the night. Jake invites us to take a break from serious stuff to enjoy a nice digital campfire and hear some paranormal stories. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Episode music by Pontus Berghe, Max Weber, ITEM. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

Idaho was once home to the headquarters of the Aryan Nations. Recently it has seen extremism creep into political power at local and statewide levels. Emboldened extremists are working to squeeze out Republicans who aren’t far right enough. Our guest is reporter Christopher Mathias of the Huffington Post. He recently spent a week traveling across Idaho and wrote about what he learned for the article “Living With the Far-Right Insurgency in Idaho.” Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to Trickle Down, the ongoing miniseries by Travis View: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Christopher Mathias: https://twitter.com/letsgomathias QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by ENOFA. Editing by Corey Klotz.

The 1918 Pandemic was a deadly outbreak of influenza that killed tens of millions globally. It was also forgotten by historians for a generation. Medical officers in charge of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I were confident that they could stop all infectious diseases in their tracks. The previous advances in medical science showed them that wartime epidemics could be stopped through sanitary measures. But when the flu pandemic ripped through their ranks, they didn’t know what to do. And the government was too focused on winning the war to offer much help to the civilian population. After the war, authorities were unable to deal with the horrors of the disease in an honest way. They preferred to forget. And so for decades afterwards, the horrors of the 1918 pandemic were erased from the cultural consciousness. This is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES Arnold, Catharine (2018) Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Medical History Byerly, Carol (2005) Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I Barry, John M. (2018) The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic In History Crosby, Alfred (1989) America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

Psychological operations are something the United States army openly advertises. They make podcasts and youtube videos out of Fort Bragg in order to recruit men and women into the long-term, international United States psyop on the world. But some believe the Army groups are just "CIA light" and glorified pamphlet pushers. It turns out social media can reveal a whole lot about the underlying overall project of US foreign intervention. This episode also includes an apparent autobiographical Jake story based on Training Day (2001). Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Episode music by Nick Sena, Pontus Berghe, Matthew Delatorre. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories rebooted and remixed by Dinesh D'Souza. 2000 Mules is a "documentary" that garnered Dinesh praise from Donald Trump and caused a fight with Tucker Carlson's production team. We explore the extremely shoddy claims made in the movie. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to Trickle Down, the ongoing miniseries by Travis View: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by ATM. Editing by Corey Klotz.

The Ku Klux Klan, debutantes, Monsanto Chemical and an orientalist poem about a veiled villain. Let's take a look at the creepy "veiled prophet" cult based in Saint Louis, Missouri. It's a men's club of rich and powerful locals dedicated to crushing labor movements and parading their daughters in front of each other. Ellie Kemper (Erin from NBC sitcom The Office) was crowned their "Queen of Love and Beauty" in 1999. But activists played a role in revealing their racist past. Saint Louis journalist Devin Thomas O'Shea guest writes the episode. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Check out Devin Thomas O'Shea: https://twitter.com/devintoshea / https://proteanmag.com/2022/05/06/the-cult-of-the-veiled-prophet / https://devinoshea.wordpress.com/veiled-prophet/ Episode music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, Doom Chakra Tapes. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

After the White Slave Traffic Act passed in 1910, the federal government was ready to start enforcing it with help from the young Bureau of Investigation. The problem is that the gangs of white slavers who snatched innocent girls off the street proved to be more difficult to find than they thought. Instead, the law was used to enforce a moral crusade, punishing citizens who engaged in sexual activity that prosecutors deemed immoral. It was also used by J. Edgar Hoover to target Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of the second red scare. This is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES: Donovan, Brian (2005) White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917. Langum, David (1994) Crossing over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act Pliley, Jessica (2014) Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI Sbardellati, John and Shaw, Tony (2003) Booting a Tramp: Charlie Chaplin, the FBI, and the Construction of the Subversive Image in Red Scare America, The Pacific Historical Review Charlie Chaplin’s FBI File https://vault.fbi.gov/charlie-chaplin

We attended a Q-related "Secret Space Program" UFO conference in Grafton, Illinois. Everything went wrong. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to Trickle Down, the ongoing miniseries by Travis View: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Brad Abrahams: https://twitter.com/LoveAndSaucers QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Pontus Berghe, Doom Chakra Tapes. Editing by Corey Klotz.