Great episode, amazing job by Annie Kelly as usual !

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

Around 70 years ago, a deadly counter-insurgency was carried out by the British colonial occupiers of Kenya to quell the Mau Mau Rebellion. The operation involved political propaganda stoking a panic about the freedom fighters' use of black magic — a "horror story" written by colonizers to justify their own brutal actions. Annie Kelly explores this fascinating historical moment.

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Music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Episode 267: Black Magic Panic & the Mau Mau Rebellion

Alex joins us once again to look at the news of the day, starting with a more serious look at the recent self-immolation in protest of U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell. After that some lighter fare, with some stories of the bad Biden dog, Elizabeth Warren smoking weed with Ed Markey, and an article chronicling Biden’s stroke game going back to the 70’s. Finally, we read the big new piece on Bari Weiss’ University of Austin and its “Forbidden Courses”.

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810 - The Forbidden Zone feat. Alex Nichols (2/27/24)

Contributing editor for the New Republic and columnist for The Guardian Osita Nwanevu returns to the show. We look at a new New Yorker piece on Joe Biden’s last campaign, and the president’s defiant refusal to change gears, adjust policies, or really do anything to address rather dismal polling ahead of the election. Then, switching to the republicans, we look at the increasingly weird and anti-social tact of American conservatism and ask: can the modern right be assimilated into American culture?

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And check out the Flaming Hydra collective (featuring a lot of great writers & friends of the show) here: https://flaminghydra.com/

812 - Sweeney Odd feat. Osita Nwanevu (3/5/24)

In the 1940s and 50s there was the great American comic book scare. Many serious adults warned that comic books were turning young people into illiterate, criminally violent, sexually deviant political extremists.

There were several editorials in newspapers that argued as much. There were groups who organized literal comic book burnings. Local jurisdictions passed laws to limit the sale of comic books. There was even a televised congressional hearing on comic books by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.

This was a widespread phenomena that can’t be laid at the feet of any one person. But there is one person who did more than anyone to legitimize this panic: Dr. Fredric Wertham. He was a well-credentialed German-American psychiatrist best known for his anti-comics book Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today’s Youth.

The scientific worthlessness of Wertham’s theories has been clear to historians of comic books and even some of his contemporaries. However, it wasn’t until 2012, three decades after his death, that the full extent of the worthlessness of his anti-comic book work was revealed.  After a historian was able to read his raw clinical notes for the first time, it was discovered that many claims in his book Seduction of the Innocent were wholly fabricated. His anti-comic book claims weren’t merely the product of sloppy science, but lies and distortions.

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Trickle Down Episode 19: Graphic Corruption (Sample)

**Unlocking this Patreon episode in light of the official book release** 

For this episode we're joined by Andrew Drummond to learn about the early German revolutionary Thomas Muntzer: the world he inhabited, his political and theological visions, and his impact on history. We also talk a little bit about Friedrich Engels's book on the German Peasants War, which you should check out if you're looking for a good supplement to Drummond's book (both linked below).

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And read Engels's stab at it is here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm

**UNLOCKED** Against the Godless Tyrants (w/ special guest Andrew Drummond)

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325 - Sex Doll Mechanics

The last episode of this season of Trickle Down. So we’re going to do a self-indulgent one. In this episode we discuss common criticisms of “anti-disinformation” reporting, the topics Travis wound up passing on, and listener stories. You had a lot to say about the Thomas Midgley Jr. series. 


Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). 

Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Trickle Down Episode 20: Retrospective (Sample)

Ireland, Israel, Finkelstein.

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St Patrick's Night

What if there was a videogame so indistinguishable from the real world that anyone who played it began to wonder if their entire life was nothing more than a game?  What if there was a movie that, in depicting this, stumbled upon the unnerving truth of our present relationship to the internet?  What if that movie came out one month after The Matrix and totally bombed while the Matrix would go on to release three sequels and establish the language of conspiracy theory culture?  Get your bio-port fitted, lube up your game-hole and jack into this week’s QAA movie night, “eXistenZ.” 

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Premium Episode 237: eXistenZ Movie Night (Sample)

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In this episodes, Log meets a yummy mummy. Joe meets a juice fanatic. And Steve overhears the pope dropping some f-bombs near an archdeacon.

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567: Yummy Mummy Pope Juice

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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