Down the rabbithole of a right wing panic, inside joke, and image board meme turned bizarre community. "Transmaxxing", on the surface, is the idea that young men (mostly involuntarily celibate or "incels") are becoming trans women to increase their odds of getting laid. In right wing media, the concept is being covered as a serious movement so as to fuel harmful transphobic narratives and erode civil protections for trans people. But is it actually a thing? And who came up with "transmaxxing"? Liv Agar investigates.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 239: Transmaxxing

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We delve into letters to the pedophile and try to figure out exactly why Epstein was trying to broker a meeting between Jes Staley and the bagman son of the Senegalese President, Karim Wade.

Episode 308: Jeffrey's Palace (trailer)

Jake and Brad are thrilled to bring you the very first episode of their new mini-series “The Spectral Voyager.”  Over the course of ten episodes, they’ll bring you true tales from the edges of reality with a less critical eye, and a focus on the pure enjoyment of paranormal folklore.  In the premier episode, they’ll dive into the story of the very first spirit photographer, William Mumler.  From Mumler’s humble beginnings to his rise in popularity and eventual fraud trial, the guys will leave no photograph undeveloped.  In the second half of the episode, Brad recounts his own personal tale of the paranormal - a close quarters rendezvous with one of the most cursed objects of all time… Robert the doll.  

You can subscribe for just five dollars a month on Patreon to gain access to the remaining nine episodes of The Spectral Voyager as it releases, as well as QAA’s other mini-series: Manclan and Trickle Down.  

If you’re already a subscriber, thank you!  It allows us to make weird stuff like this.  

We hope you enjoy it!   See you on the other side. 

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The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena.

Additional music by Pontus Berghe.  Editing by Corey Klotz.

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The Spectral Voyager Episode 1:  The Curious Case of William Mumler

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SBF’s arrest, mixed with his brother’s desire to buy an island in order to do unregulated medical experimentation, leads us towards the weird world of ultra-libertarian Charter Cities.

Episode 313: Help Me Find My Frens (trailer)

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We’re joined by Professor Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism (amazon.com/Adventure-Capitalism-History-Libertarian-Decolonization/dp/1629639176), to talk about libertarian exit, high adventure in the West Pacific, soldier of fortune Mitch WerBell III, and anarcho-capitalist Caribbean coups.

Episode 315: Libertarian Noir (trailer)

Raised by the youtube manosphere, a new female generation of anti-feminist influencers are rising to internet prominence, exemplified by Hannah Pearl Davis AKA JustPearlyThings.

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Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) 
Theme & music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com). Editing by Corey Clotz.

Manclan Episode 10: Womanclan (Just Pearly Things) Sample

In 1989, in the bustling seaport of San Pedro, California, Jackie Hernandez began to experience strange phenomena in her newly rented bungalow.  Lights would turn on and off.  Objects would move.  A heavy breathing could be heard rattling in the attic above her laundry room.  After a neighbor experienced the activity herself, she encouraged Jackie to reach out to a team of Ghost Hunters she had recently seen on TV.  What would follow was a year-plus long investigation that included everything from full-figured apparitions, to dripping ectoplasm.  Jake and Brad provide a comprehensive look at either the best evidence of a poltergeist ever captured on video, or perhaps the first ‘found footage’ horror movie ever made.

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The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena.

Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky.

Jackie Hernandez dramatizations performed by Katie Amis. 

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The Spectral Voyager Episode 5:  The Haunting of Jackie Hernandez (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

Tik Tok get their hands on the deaf blind historical figure and the results are confounding. Liv once again takes us down a maddening path into the viral joke / rumor / conspiracy theory that Helen Keller either wasn't real or was faking her disability. Apologies in advance.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Premium Episode 232: Helen Keller Isn't Real (Sample)

Annual Halloween Special featuring Frank Hurricane, John Haywood, Caleb Hanson, Tommy Anderson, and Ken Layne. Music by Lee Bains III, production, editing and additional sound design by Matthew Carter, and artwork by Hayden Miles.

Bonus: 2023 Trillbillies Halloween Special-Spectral Valley

The latest news about shrimp, climate summits, Henry Kissinger, Democratic politics, and Israel/Palestine

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Episode 319: Krill Kings

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.