QAA Podcast - full episodes in order

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Andy, Charles and Tim discuss the sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese after her report on corporate complicity in Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, the meaning of free speech beyond the Constitution and how the Trump administration is forgetting the point of international diplomacy and the world that the UN grew out of.

Andy - @wyattprivilege.bsky.social
Charles - @ugarles.bsky.social
Tim - @garliccorgi.bsky.social

Thanks to @gloomfather for the music (orlandogloom.bandcamp.com) and @Snxwyfish for the sound editing (snxwyfish.bandcamp.com).

Episode 32: Free Speech But It'll Cost Ya

This week we are joined by Dr.  Olivier Jutel, a lecturer in the Department of Media, Film & Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His scholarly focus is in communication studies and media theory, particularly around populism, digital media, political economy, and critical theory.

Travis and Julian chat with Olivier about his iconoclastic take on the paradigms that have dominated U.S. technology and communications policy since 2016. 

Olivier argues that fear of foreign influence has been leveraged by a coalition of Silicon Valley firms, national‑security agencies and allied think‑tanks to deflect structural reform of platforms. Drawing on Cold‑War communication theory, this coalition frames all online conflict as “information warfare,” treating citizens as passive targets for behavioral manipulation while ignoring deeper political‑economic drivers of democratic decay. Jutel retraces the military origins of mass‑communication research, critiques Shoshana Zuboff’s “surveillance capitalism” thesis, and dissects the role of high‑profile disinfo professionals whose methods, he contends, don’t question the core assumptions of tech industry platforms and national‑security priorities. 

Olivier concludes that while this disinformation framework is past its heyday, its war‑like view of social life persists, empowering actors such as Palantir while sidelining antitrust and public‑interest remedies. The solution? A shift toward true democratic governance of digital infrastructure. 

Dr Olivier Jutel at University of Otago
https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/olivier-jutel


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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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The Problem of Disinformation (E334)

Everything you need to understand the podcast — and the outlandish, bloodthirsty conspiracy it was jokingly named after. This episode is a cheat sheet for some of the more impenetrable things we cover, a glossary of the damned, and a great way to get into the podcast in general. Send it to a friend!

In it we explain terms like: QAnon, Pizzagate, The Storm, Where We Go One We Go All (WWG1WGA), Redpilling, Shills, the MSM, Q Drops, 4chan & 8chan, Spygate, the Deepstate, and The Great Awakening. 

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QAnon Anonymous

Episode 1: Introduction to QAnon

Travis View visits Jake & Julian to talk Reddit bans, 4chan / 8chan reactions and theories, Q drops, the Voat exodus, Tech companies becoming the arbiters of truth, the MSM (or Main Stream Media for normies), and George Papadapoulos' Twitter renaissance. Oh and Werner Herzog interviews Alex Jones on our show.

Episode 7: The Great Reddit Bans of 2018 - feat. Travis View

Jared Holt (journalist for Right Wing Watch, host of the SH!TPOST Podcast) joins Jake’s & Julian to discuss his contribution to getting Infowars banned from multiple platforms, that sweet sweet George Soros money, whether it’s alright to trust corporations to regulate speech, the time Alex Jones called him a Nazi in public, and what the deal is with this pesky FISA declassification stage show that keeps entertaining the QAnon community.

Episode 8: The Information Wars feat. Jared Holt

Joined on this one by Nathan Bernard, who tells us about founding Bernard Media, working with Vic Berger & Tim Heidecker, being doxxed Gavin McGuiness & his Proud Boys, smeared by Mike Cernovich, and bitched at by Ben Shapiro. We talk about Vladislav Surkov and our age of post-information, comedy in the age of whatever you want to call this hell, and probably you, buddy.

Episode 9: Doxxed But Not Forgotten Feat. Nathan Bernard

Jordan Uhl joins us to talk about the Compassion Party, a Q-believing, hyper-religious, pro-marijuana, anti-abortion party running candidates in Rhode Island — who were arrested the day after we recorded this episode with 48 pounds of weed. We then move on to Jordan's amazing Go Fund Me for a New Jersey man who was videotaped shaving on a commuter train (by some asshole). Other topics: homelessness, poverty, Bernie, and reasons for the rise of the QAnon movement.

Episode 10: The Compassion Party Feat. Jordan Uhl

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.