QAA Podcast

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 through ChatGPT. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated incident and in today’s episode Liv examine...

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 into the life and work of John C. Lilly: neurophysiologist, dolphin researcher, SETI-adjacent dreamer,...

We’re joined by former U.S. diplomat Josef Burton to examine modern Pahlavism: an online, diaspora-driven movement built around nostalgia for Iran’s deposed Pahlavi dynasty and the imagined restoration of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. What was once a marginal exile politics of royalist uncles, former regime officials, and anti–Islamic Republic hawks has, in the past decade, been transformed into a bi...

Are the nation’s top federal scientists being vanished to cover up earth-shattering revelations about aliens and advanced space technology? It’s a theory that President Trump, FBI Director Kash Patel, and the House Oversight Committee are at least pretending to take seriously. But what’s the truth behind the “dead or missing scientists” lists floating around social media for the last few months? M...

The parent company of the satirical publication The Onion has a deal to take control of Infowars, the conspiracist media machine built by Alex Jones for the past 26 years. It is a proposed six-month licensing arrangement, pending approval from a Texas judge, with an option to renew. That is expected to be approved this Thursday, April 30th. Travis and Jake speak to former NBC News reporter and The...

After years of speaking to Liv through their computers, the OG QAA hosts have finally met Liv IRL before her and Jake attended Coachella. Liv was especially excited to see The Strokes, while Jake was just hoping for a better experience than the uncomfortable Sabrina Carpenter concert he had attended in the metaverse. In this episode the two investigate the conspiracies they witnessed growing aroun...

In part two of this two part episode, Jack continues their look into the dubious practice of “de-extinction” this time as it is pushed in the 21st century by Colossal BioSciences. Created in 2019 by Ben Lamm and George Church, Colossal aims at making extinction, as well as the endangered species list, a thing of the past using CRISPR technology. Claiming to have revived the Dire Wolf and Red Wolf,...

Travis and Jack are joined by Devin O’Shea to examine why even powerful billionaires like Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein seek increasingly exclusive associations. Devin turns to the anthropological work The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity by Brian Hayden to show how and why societies develop groups that declare themselves keepers of esoteric knowle...

The long history of humans bending biology for civilization eventually raised an important question: if animals can be domesticated, then couldn’t they also be de-domesticated? Further: could selective breeding allow scientists to reverse-engineer a species back from extinction and contain identical DNA to its ancestors? The first people to attempt “de-extinction” were, naturally, mad zoologists s...

Welcome back to part two of two of Annie’s dive into the British homeschooling conspiracy scene. In this episode Annie explores what is being taught in these alternative home education centres like HOPE Sussex Community, and the truth behind the founders’ insistence that they’re not sites of conspiracist indoctrination. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa...

“THE BIBLE SAYS…JESUS IS NOT GOD - GOD’S SON DID NOT PRE-EXIST IN HEAVEN”. This billboard is what Julian was taking a photo of while attempting to not rear-end the driver in front of him. It was paid for by World’s Last Chance - an organization founded by Galal Philip Habib Doss. Established in 2004, the group claims its central office is the “World Wide Web,” asserts that the Earth is flat, and a...

The UK’s National Baby is back alongside Julian and Travis with more British right-wing adjacent content. In the first part of a two-part episode, Annie Kelly examines the rise in popularity of “home education centers” that first began appearing during COVID. At first marketed towards the anti-lockdown minded, these centers slowly evolved to address other areas of discontent with the British educa...

Cursed Media is proud to present “The Spectral Voyager II: Timeslip Radio” -- Presented in Stereo! In this second season, co-hosts and (I want to) believers Brad Abrahams and Jake Rockatansky embark on a six episode journey into Instrumental Transcommunication -- the idea that living humans in the present can communicate with dead humans living in the past. Old radios, analog clocks, and ancient c...

With hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in AI it was only a matter of time before parts of the 2013 film, Her, started to play out in real time. Liv brings Jake, Julian, and Travis multiple accounts of people falling in love with their AI companions and compares the accounts of people falling in love with their AI companions, and compares the relationship portrayed in the movie to thos...

Jiang Xueqin, better known as Professor Jiang, is a private school teacher and the man behind the “Predictive Future” YouTube channel, which has amassed over 2 million subscribers. His unlikely rise to social media stardom happened in spite of the fact Jiang has endorsed pizzagate, claimed that the Freemasons are responsible for 9/11, and believes that a well-documented battle of the Second Punic...

Julian and Jake are once again joined by Andrew, Branson, and Charles of the Episode 1 Podcast for another night of poetry, sentences, and court-mandated apologies. This episode is brought to you by Julian’s latest AI venture, Vibecraft. Vibecraft - it’s the poet in your pocket. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa E1 Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/e1podc...

This week, Julian and Jake have been strapped into the zoomer torture chamber, as Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows take us into the weird sad world of 'Alienated Parent' forums. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / spt...

Charlie Kirk’s work wife, Candace Owens, has his legal wife, Erika Kirk, in her sights. This has thrown the right wing media sphere into turmoil. Liv uncovers what Candace’s public statements reveal about her relationship with Charlie, including the many dreams she’s experienced about the assassinated right wing agitator. Travis unravels the tabloid style of Candace’s “investigations” into Erika K...

Jack returns to torment Jake, Julian, and Travis by ranting about the impending threat of AI via a classic story from WWI Britain. In 1917, Elsie and Frances took what appeared to be photos of each other interacting with fairies. While some immediately recognized the photos as fakes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a true believer. Jack talks everyone through the history of the famous hoax, and specula...

Maybe the solution to abundant, clean energy isn’t the one that could cause the annihilation of our planet? Sean J Patrick Carney of the Time Zero Podcast regales Jake, Brad, and Travis about the nuclear weird. We trace the radioactive thread connecting UFO sightings at missile silos, the ICE shooter's fallout map, and Big Tech's new romance with the atom. Sean dismantles central myths of the nucl...

After many requests, Jake, Julian, Liv, and Travis finally sit down to discuss Bugonia, the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos. In the film, an alien-pilled beekeeper and his cousin kidnap a high profile CEO named Michelle, convinced she is secretly an alien, and interrogate her for the truth. Pay no mind to what Liv and Julian say at the end; absolutely no jokes were cut from this episode. Subscri...

Jake, Travis, Jack and Liv examine Jeffrey Epstein’s long-running obsession with science, eugenics, transhumanism, and elite legitimacy. After Travis makes a quick tour through the conspiracy sludge surrounding the files, Jack reveals what the new documents reveal about Epstein’s ties to prominent researchers, Harvard, cloning fantasies, designer-baby schemes, and the strange overlap between scien...

In 1981 an arcade cabinet began popping up all over the Portland area called Polybius…or at least…that’s the claim. Released by a company called Sinneslöschen, the game used a graphics rendering technology that was impossibly ahead of its time and men in black were reported to be monitoring the machines. Kids that played reported having migraines, hallucinations, and memory loss while others becam...

Fredrick Brennan, the self-taught programmer and type designer best known for founding and then later denouncing the anonymous imageboard 8chan, died on January 10th, 2026. He was 31 years old. We had Fredrick on the QAA podcast several times starting in 2019 and he always had valuable insights into the technical aspects of imageboards, the owner/operators of 8chan, and the history of the internet...

In 1981 an arcade cabinet began popping up all over the Portland area called Polybius…or at least…that’s the claim. Released by a company called Sinneslöschen, the game used a graphics rendering technology that was impossibly ahead of its time. Kids that played reported having migraines, hallucinations, and memory loss while others became vehemently anti-arcade. But, just as quickly as the machine...