How the hip New Zealand brand Lonely Lingerie and its employees have suffered from the owners' QAnon beliefs and COVID-19 denialism. We cover how 5D Ascension and 'Star Seeds' came to populate their official brand feed. This episode was written by Annie Kelly and features David Farrier, the documentarian behind Tickled and Dark Tourist — who happens to have done extensive journalism on Lonely Lingerie.

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Episode 135: Lingerie Anon with Annie Kelly feat David Farrier

Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, the broader QAnon community and even our GEOTUS Donald Trump — what's happening with all of our problematic faves? Plus we talk about the HBO documentary.

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Episode 136: Heroes of QAnon: Where Are They Now?

HBO's series on QAnon was shot over the course of three years and saw its director, Cullen Hoback, spend countless days alongside key players in the conspiracy theory. By the end of the documentary, a clearer image emerges of who has been enabling — and even posting as — Q. We sit with Cullen to chat his investigation and our experiences out in the field.

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Episode 136: Into The Storm feat Cullen Hoback

TrueAnon attempts to explain the tangled web Matt Gaetz’s penis hath woven, featuring: SugarBabies, Medicare fraud, Hezbollah, the Israeli Consulate, tHe BlOcKChAiN, airforce intelligence, cigarette smuggling, Dilbert and MORE

Episode 149: BenGaetzi

What happens when your mom starts believing in QAnon? Charlotte Callanan is a young woman from Australia who has been in this exact situation for 4 years now. She speaks to us about the process of finding out about her mother's beliefs, educating herself on the conspiracy theory and attempting to find some peace despite a series of painful arguments plaguing their close relationship. Time reporter Vera Bergengruen also drops by to explore her recent article about QAnon candidates winning local elections.

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Episode 139: Mother, Anon feat Charlotte Callanan & Vera Bergengruen

Author and Northwestern University history professor Daniel Immerwahr stops by to tell us about why our tech overlords in Silicon Valley are suddenly interested in all things paleo, and about why studying deep time is important.

Here is a link to the article in the New Republic that we discuss: https://newrepublic.com/article/161593/prehistoric-myth-work-james-suzman

Also buy Daniel's very good book, How To Hide An Empire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145

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Episode 197: The Mods Must Be Crazy (w/ special guest Daniel Immerwahr)

We get Blowback’s Noah Kulwin (twitter.com/nkulw) on the line to talk about the past and present of the Cuban exile lobby.


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Episode 157: Havana Nights

Brace and Liz live and dangerous “spilling tea” (sorry we’re in our 30s) about Bill & Melinda’s divorce, Ghislaine’s trial and her mysterious black eye

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Episode 159: Melinda Single???

"Biden Calls For Hope And Healing In Speech," NPR reports. "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for return to Sept. 11 unity," writes The Chicago Tribune. Following the 2014 Ferguson protests, a CNN headline read, "Obama: Now is the time for peace, healing." "Filmmaker Ken Burns aims for healing with new documentary about Vietnam War," the San Diego Union-Tribune has told us. Everywhere we turn columnists, celebrities, pundits, and politicians are insisting we have "unity," "come together," promote "peace" and work to "heal the divisions."

On its face these concepts sound fine enough: after all, who doesn’t like peace? Unity sounds great! Who wouldn't want to "heal" our wounds? Wounds are bad! But in the majority of political contexts, these warm and fuzzy buzzwords rush past the messy and difficult work of justice, substantive change, or reparations and get straight to the part where everyone just feels good about themselves.

In a world where 2100 billionaires hoard more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, where billions live in abject poverty, what do concepts like peace mean? After an administration that has carried out deliberate policies of ethnic cleaning at the U.S border, what does unity entail? In a country that has leveled much of the Middle East, Korea, Vietnam, and overthrown numerous democracies in Latin America, what does healing involve? Without concrete policies of accountability, restitution, restoration and reparation, squishy liberal notions of "unity" and "healing" achieve little more than protecting the status quo.

This isn’t a unique problem: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously reminded white liberals that "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice," a point he made literally hundreds of times in his years of advocacy to a handwringing media insisting everyone just calm down and go home and let the lawyers at the Department of Justice take care of things.

Nevertheless the problem persist decades later: time and again, before there's been any concrete changes, policy proposals, or restitution to victims of injustice, those in power evoke abstract notions of "healing," "unity" and "peace" to shut up activists and act as of it the work is done right before pivoting back to business as usual.

On this week's episode we will examine the origins of the concepts of "unity" as a political PR gambit, detail how concepts of "healing" which can are very useful in grassroots and interpersonal psychological contexts have been cynically appropriated by those in power, and breakdown how media consumers can avoid the shallow allure of "peace" and "unity" rhetoric in the face of routine, everyday racism, violence, exploitation, and injustice.

Our guest is Lara Kiwani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).

Episode 128 - The “Healing” Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power

Author of the Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins, comes on to talk about the cold war and the influence of America's #1 rag tag gang of friends, the CIA.

Research for the episode:
Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Poisoner in Chief by Steven Kinzer
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot

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Your Pal The CIA w/ Vincent Bevins

Frightening London class exhibited here, as our in-house PhD politely analyzes Andy Ngo's latest book: Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

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Episode 132: The No Ngo Zone (Annie Kelly's Andy Ngo book report)

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.