Day of the Triffids, check out the BBC series, absolute stone cold dark apocalypse classic, and while you’re there get a copy of Death of Grass, a similar era post apocalypse novel that’s realistically gnarly…

https://youtu.be/sFCUOPwBFd8?si=U7LbuJRdCnN0vOVk

Time to wrap up the podcast fellas. I’m out either way. Best of luck

There isn’t yet a tariff on conspiracist narratives. So former Daily Wire podcaster Candace Owens imported one from France. Which is why she now finds herself the subject of a serious lawsuit filed by the French President Emmanuel Macron and the First Lady Brigitte Macron. 

Owens used Instagram influencer aesthetics to recycle a 2021 theory for American audiences that was originally promoted by a French spiritual medium and spread through “Yellow Vest” and antivax networks. For some reason, Owens wasn’t satisfied with the genuinely odd history of the Macrons’ relationship (they met when Brigitte was married with children and Emmanuel was just 14, despite most American sources claiming they met when he was 15.) Instead she picked up the convoluted conspiracy theory that Brigitte is really her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux who became a trans woman and proceeded to assist with turning Emmanuel into an MKULTRA-controlled “Manchurian Candidate.” In Owen’s ludicrous tale, the Macrons then killed anyone who started asking questions about Brigitte’s past, Clinton-body-count style. But since this nonsense is powered by crude bigotry rather than any investigatory impulse, the evidence is unsurprisingly weak. Owens’ method of argumentation involves ignoring the fact that Jean-Michel Trogneux is clearly alive and a separate person, looking at real photos and declaring them fake, and birthday numerology. 

Travis, Jake, and Julian unpack Owens’ past, the history of the conspiracy theory, how she promoted it through the 8-part series “Becoming Brigitte,” and the lawsuit that now threatens her independent media empire.


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We’ve launched a new podcast miniseries network: Cursed Media. The very first Cursed Media miniseries is Science in Transition. 

Science in Transition is an investigation into the intellectual origins of the contemporary right wing backlash against transgender acceptance. Through six deeply-researched episodes, hosts Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows unearth a bizarre coalition of well-meaning clinicians, aristocratic sexologists, militant feminists, right-wing culture warriors, headline-chasing journalists, and conservative politicians.

Binge all six episodes of Science In Transition by subscribing through this link.

www.cursedmedia.net/

Subscribers to Cursed Media get access to three new podcast series per year, plus every episode of QAA’s existing mini-series (properly organized!)

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Becoming Candace (E335)

Annie Kelly has spent most of 2025 investigating the online world of so-called “traditional wives” or “tradwives.” On this episode she sits down with Travis, Jake, and Julian to talk about her new six-episode miniseries Truly, Tradly, Deeply for the Cursed Media podcast network. Among other discoveries: it’s more difficult than you might think to even properly define “tradwife,” much of the community promotes a fantasy about the pre-internet age, and tradwife content is far less fringe than it used to be. 

The first two episodes of “Truly, Tradly, Deeply” will be released on the Cursed Media podcast network on the 29th of October.


https://www.cursedmedia.net/

Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year. 

https://www.cursedmedia.net/


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Truly, Tradly, Deeply — Inside the Tradosphere with Annie Kelly (E345)

It’s a call-in show! We respond to nineteen calls ranging from serious predictions about the Trump era and beyond, the future of the Middle East, Warren Zevon stories, books for kids and high schoolers, and trying to wean a friend off H3H3. Also: gossip about John Fetterman and Jair Bolsonaro. 

YEAR ZERO: A Chapo Trap House Comic Anthology is back on sale! Buy it at badegg.co/products/year-zero-1. Hurry while supplies last!

981 - Down in the Mall (10/27/25)


Why do tech oligarchs keep proclaiming that the end is nigh? From Elon Musk warning of the civilizational-level threat of the “woke mind virus,” to Marc Andreessen declaring that “any deceleration of AI will cost lives,” to Peter Thiel’s fixation with the Antichrist, billionaires are insistent that the stakes of their ventures are nothing less than apocalyptic. 

To better understand the paranoia of Silicon Valley overlords, Travis, Jake, and Julian are joined by Chris Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge and author of the book The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs.

Christopher Marquis
https://chrismarquis.com/

Christopher Marquis at Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/author/christopher-marquis

The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-profiteers-how-business-privatizes-profits-and-socializes-costs-christopher-marquis/ecaf3d412fe119c2

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The first two episodes of Annie Kelly’s new podcast miniseries “Truly, Tradly, Deeply” will be released on the Cursed Media podcast network on the 29th of October.

www.cursedmedia.net/

Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year.

www.cursedmedia.net/



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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.


SOURCES

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist


Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto - Marc Andreessen
https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/


The Tech Billionaire Doomsday Preachers (E346)

As we inch closer to war with Venezuela, historian Greg Grandin returns to Chapo for a history lesson about the War on Drugs as well as Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. We also talk about the US’s long-running economic interests and petty feuds in Latin America, particularly regarding the region’s oil supplies. We then briefly speculate about just how bad and chaotic a regime change operation against Venezuela might be for the US and Latin America.

985 - The Murder Inc. Doctrine feat. Greg Grandin (11/10/25)

This episode isn’t just great—it’ll revolutionize what you think of AI. Ed Zitron is back in the trap to discuss his recent reporting on just how much money companies like OpenAI have (and how much they’re burning). We talk about the byzantine financing of generative AI and LLMs, the tech world’s dream of recreating the postwar boom with a technology primarily used to make the world’s least legal porn, and the proliferation of data centers across the country. Plus: Bill Ackman teaches you how to pick up girls.

Get your Ed at:
Better Offline podcast: https://linktr.ee/betteroffline
Where’s Your Ed At newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/edzitron
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com 

987 - May I Meet You? feat. Ed Zitron (11/17/25)

Aaron and Tom are joined by writer, producer, and podcaster Manny Fidel to discuss the proliferation of online sports betting and its implications on society in the context of a US economy that's increasingly immaterial in conjunction with the "male loneliness epidemic."

Manny's GQ piece can be found here:
https://www.gq.com/story/online-gambling-is-ruining-sports-bars

Preorder Manny's forthcoming book "Colored People Time (A Case for Casual Rebellion)" here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740001/colored-people-time-by-manny-fidel/

Check out Manny's podcast "NO SUCH THING" here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-such-thing/id1780210954

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Episode 419: Two for the Money (w/ Special Guest: Manny Fidel)

The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apocalyptic UFO group, observing how members prepared, including quitting jobs, giving away possessions, and severing ties with skeptics. According to the book, when the group’s predicted disaster did not occur, instead of simply abandoning their beliefs, many core members strengthened their commitment and actively sought new converts. 

But it didn’t actually happen like that. In truth, Festinger and his fellow researchers glossed over evidence that contradicted their thesis and actively influenced the UFO group to get the result they wanted.

This is the discovery of our guest Thomas Kelly. By combing through newly unsealed materials from Festinger’s archives, UFO and occult magazines of the 1950s, later writings by group leader Dorothy Martin, he discovered crucial information that was omitted by the original book.  Kelly detailed his startling findings in a paper published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences titled Debunking “When Prophecy Fails.”

Travis interviews Kelly to discuss the real story behind When Prophecy Fails, the possible consequences of invalidating Festinger’s study, and how his work fits in the wider “replication crisis” in experimental psychology. 

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The first five episodes of Annie Kelly’s new 6-part podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers.

www.cursedmedia.net/

Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year.

www.cursedmedia.net/

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https://qaapodcast.com

QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

SOURCES

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jhbs.70043

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails” (Free Preprint Version)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9j7qc_v2

Failed Prophecies Are Fatal

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSNR/article/view/33085/32543

Cults, Conscripts, and College Boys: Whither Cognitive Dissonance? (Preprint)

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdj2u_v1

When “When Prophecy Fails” Fails (E350)

Journalist Eamon Whalen drops by to discuss his latest for Mother Jones "How a Mercenary Became a Minneapolis Mall Cop" (link Below)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/crg-mercenary-mall-cop-nathan-seabrook-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest-paramilitary/

Episode 420: Blart of Darkness (w/ Special Guest: Eamon Whalen)

There's two types of people in this world: those who will let their backyards be disintegrated into rubble and those who won't.

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Episode 422: Bargain Bin Futures

The year is 1983.  Your evil stepmother is hosting a party to celebrate the arrival of an interstellar comet.  The two of you get into a fistfight and you spend the night in the yard shed.  In the morning, everyone you care about has been turned to red dust.  

This is the inciting incident of “Night of the Comet,” a deep pocket Travis pull for our annual melted holiday movie night.  There are ghoulish motorcycle cops, deep underground research labs, and loud diegetic music playing in nearly every scene.  Jake and Travis make the case to Julian that this movie is good.  Happy Holidays everyone!  

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Night of the Comet Movie Night (E352)

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.

Night of the Comet Movie Night (E352)

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