This episode of QAnon Anonymous is about a woman who discovers the benefits of lower dose opiates combined with a fine rotation of cannabis strains. The rest of us GenXers discovered this trick in the 80s or 80s.

"I don't know how familiar you are with the bible..."

Well, miss, I don't know how familiar YOU are with the Bible, but you may be interested to know there is no such book as "Revelations." You might be thinking of REVELATION, singular. But if your EVP recorder is pluralizing it, I dunno, maybe it's just saying random words.

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The Gods of Podcasting 01 - When It Comes to Gruel, Do You Prefer Millet or Barley?

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We take a look at Prince Harry’s new tell-all SPARE, talk through Mexit and the couple's turn toward content, the death of The Queen, and the historic role of the British Monarchy

Episode 265: Booyakasha (trailer)

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We crawl across the DMZ and down the hole in the ground where North Korean defector Yeonmi Park’s massive cheeks bash us around like a pong ball. Plus we talk about the market incentives around defectors that brought someone like her to prominence.

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Episode 291: America's Sweetheart (trailer)

Will, Hesse and John Semley review Clint Eastwood’s 1983 Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact. Go ahead, make my day.

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Movie Mindset 06 Teaser - Clint Eastwood's Sudden Impact

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Topics: Christian satanism, end of history, banana discourse, Bernie 2020, military dictatorship, Obama's 4th term, gulf war trading cards

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257 - Polypocalypse 07.21.23

The moon is hollow. Or so Roland Emmerich would like you to believe. We explore his 2022 megaflop "Moonfall".

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Premium Episode 221: Moonfall (2022) Movie Night (Sample)

"Hitler was a product of his time," historian Kent Gardner told us in 1975, just thirty years after the end of World War II. "Was Frank Rizzo racist, or just a product of his time?" The Philadelphia Inquirer pondered in 2017 about the city's notoriously racist former police commissioner and mayor just 26 years after his death. "Christopher Columbus, no saint, was product of his time," explained a 2013 commentary in the Staten Island Advance.

We often hear this sentiment in reference to historical atrocities. Slaveowners, colonizers, genocidal tyrants, and right-wing bigots from decades or centuries past didn't know any better. They were simply responding to the time and place in which they lived — a different time, marked by different social mores, moral standards, and laws.

While it's perhaps fair to cite this cliche to explain, rather than justify, awkward song lyrics or offensive language and stereotypes used in movies from decades ago. But it's an entirely different issue with respect to how we venerate and remember the past. Especially since, in the most popular cases, famous people’s bad actions were roundly criticized, at the time.

Long popular as a catch-all to hand-wave away the misdeeds of slaveowners, colonizers and war mongers, Increasingly educational movements on the American right––from Ron DeSantis trying to remake history education to conservative propaganda targeting kids like PragerU — this "product of its time" cliché and its close cousin "don't judge the past by the standards of today" is making a bit of comeback, if it ever went away at all.

The defensive, superficially appealing cliche is a popular go-to for those who think we shouldn't criticize the supposedly sacrosanct secular deities of our past — from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. But the whole concept operates under a glaring double standard: how can we take pride in and venerate the supposedly good things Americans in history did but ignore and dismiss the bad things? How can we pick and choose our moral inheritance at will? How does the need for us to downplay slavery, colonization, and Jim Crow continue to be such a strong political force? And whose interests does this down-playing serve in 2023?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the reactionary forces of history have just been "products of their time." We'll explore the ways in which this and related concepts are not only inaccurate, but also convenient instruments of right-wing historical revisionism, and how the need to make people feel good about our civic mythology makes for bad history, and even worse politics.

Our guest is historian and museum educator Erin Bartram.

Ep 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense & the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex

"Realities have forced us to remain on diplomatic terms with several dictators," the Pampa Daily News stated in 1958. "U.S. ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power has been forced to look the other way as Saudi Arabia does as it pleases in Yemen," Politico told us in 2016. Biden is being forced to accept the flaws of America's friends," claimed The New York Times  earlier this year, 2023.

For decades, we've heard the same excuse regarding US foreign policy: 'Our leaders might not agree with the world’s dictatorial, reactionary governments, but they’re forced –– by some unknown geopolitical dark matter of realpolitik –– to support them for some broader, more noble goal.'

Strengthening ties with the governments of Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Israel, The Philippines, and other countries under right-wing, human-rights-abusing governance might be a bit unpleasant, but it’s the pragmatic thing to do and, therefore, the morally acceptable thing to do.

But countries that are not the United States or its allies are never said to be "forced" into carrying out human rights abuses or supporting those that do. They back bombings, ethnic cleansings, the oppression of women for the sport, because they are existentially evil. No outside mysterious entity ever "forces" them to have to make compromises on the altar of "reality."

But there is nothing, of course, "forcing" these decisions on our own Western leaders, and in nearly every case, they're simply extensions of preexisting geopolitical relationships, imperialist policies, and arbitrary might-makes-right governance.

On this episode, we discuss the media narrative that the U.S. is "forced" to maintain long-beneficial alliances with right-wing regimes, looking at how this suggestion falsely presents the U.S. as an unwilling, but ultimately helpless, participant in repression of human rights around the world.

Our guest is author and NYU professor James Peck.

Ep 190: Why Media Insists the US is "Forced" to Commit Human Rights Abuses

An episode on plane rides and the TV show Yellowstone. Also features two diseased articles: one from Max Boot, and another from Ross Douthat. Enjoy!

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Episode 323: Yes But With Conditions

The invasion has begun. Swarms of gen x parents are flooding onto Tik Tok to ruin the lives of their children and amass substantial followings of their own. This week, we’re joined by journalist Miles Klee in an attempt to make sense of conspiracy mega-influencer Auntie Coolette. Her online career began as innocently as any other middle-aged person experimenting with short form content, before she transformed into someone barely recognizable.

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SOURCES:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/auntie-coolette-tiktok-conspiracy-queen-1234946312/

Episode 265: Auntie Coolette feat Miles Klee

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Will Menaker (of the Chapo Trap House podcast) take on very icky and sad and surprisingly very good late sequels to all-time horror classics: Richard Franklin's PSYCHO II (1983) and William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST III (1990). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on surreal Italian zombie cinema: Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE (1979) and Michele Soavi's CEMETERY MAN (1994), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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PSCYHO II // 07:55-55:04
EXORCIST III //55:04-1:52:13
Outro // 1:52:13-1:56:12

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141 - PSYCHO II (1983) + THE EXORCIST III (1990) ft. Will Menaker

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.

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