QAA Podcast - Confessions of a Bobby Kennedy (Premium E255) Sample

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

The corpse of a bear cub dumped in central park, a dog on a spit, brain worms and allegations of sexual assault. RFK Jr is the third-party presidential candidate we deserve. We explore his various escapades and Jake honors the moment with a beautiful story involving Roseanne Barr, RFK Jr and time travel. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Pick up new merch! We've got a mug, a two-sided tee, a hoodie, and an embroidered hat. Each item shows off the new QAA logo by illustrator Pedro Correa. https://shopqaa.myshopify.com/ Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Jake Rockatansky, and Corey Klotz. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 255, Confessions of a Bobby Kennedy. As always, we're your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field, Blair Vakar, and Travis View. Years ago, the QAA podcast began as an examination of the marginal and bizarre. are. We thought of ourselves as dumpster divers, burrowing ever deeper into the cultural trash heap to bring you the most rotten items we could find in the hopes that they would be of some interest in a broader cultural investigation. What is that smell? And where is it coming from?

But every time we came up for air, we noticed the landscape changing. Blue rings of mold seemed to be forming on everything the eye could see. And so it came to be that we no longer bothered with our hazmat suits because there was no world to return to. Everywhere was the dumpster. and the bazaar became the anodyne. It's hard to find a more perfect example of this than RFK Jr. A political scion of perhaps the most famous American family, a candidate for the presidency, and yes, an anti-vaxxer and new-age kook

who believes COVID is a bioweapon created to target specific races, Wi-Fi causes, quote-unquote, leaky brain and cancer, and chemicals in the water supply are turning children transgender. RFK Jr's campaign for president has had another fascinating effect. Apo research and media scrutiny have been turning up a string of unsettling stories about the man, each more outlandish and bizarre than the last. So today we thought we'd take our beautiful listeners on a little tour of Bobby Kennedy Jr's incredible life experiences, which involve a brainworm, a dead bear cub dumped in Central Park,

a dog on a spit, and allegations of sexual assault. Oh, this man will be getting a Jake story at the end of the show. The idea for this episode began with a video posted by RFK Jr. himself on X, Elon Musk's increasingly unhinged iteration of a platform once known as Twitter. The post read, looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, at New Yorker. In the video, RFK Jr. is sitting in what appears to be a living room as he tells a story to, for some reason, Roseanne Barr, who was the first celebrity to endorse QAnon and has been active in right-wing kook circles since then. She was recently captured on video at a political fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, clutching a glass of white wine and talking to, presumably, the either Zoomer or millennial content creator.

Hey, old girl, how are you doing? I'm here at Mar-a-Lago supporting Carrie Lake, and it was a fantastic evening, and our Trump is here, being the DJ and I've just danced and everyone's amazed. So I'm just going to say to you, please drop out of college because it's going to ruin your lives. Do me a favor. Drop out.

They don't teach you nothing good. Email me or Twitter me or whatever you call me and I'll help you with your life, but you've got to get out of college because it isn't nothing but devil-worshipping, baby blood drinking, Democrat donors. Love you.

God, this feels. feels like being cornered by your least favorite aunt at a family gathering. She has a genuinely vacant look in her eyes. Like, it's just, like, bizarre. Like, she's talking past you. It's the Democratic donors that are in control specifically. Yeah, that's the colleges, baby blood. And she's, like, telling people, drop out of college.

Instead of going to college, just email or, like, DM me. I'll give you life advice. Whatever you call me, she said. And she's saying this as she's standing. in front of this bizarre painting of, it looks like a, like an Italian Renaissance painting of Trump in like a golf

sweater. She says, our Trump has been DJing, I was dancing. Like, she's, I don't know what's happening. I do know that like, taking advice from her would be amazing because she's gone from huge celebrity, visible to all, beloved, all these TV shows to like the drunkest, weirdest

person, like, that you want to avoid at all costs, even if you probably liked her before. So if you want advice on that, like on how to completely demote your life, like if you're at the top, hit her up, because she will help you tumble right back down. I imagine even if you're at the same fundraiser and believe the same thing she does, you would want to try to avoid her. Absolutely. Anyways, back to RFK Jr.'s living room.

I have no idea how Roseanne Barr ended up there. I assume she just drunkenly wanders from party to party, like those acid. burnouts. I would see it every single rave, like investigating the atmosphere through a mirror they had attached to their head. But anyways, she's seen sipping from a mug labeled coffee. Now, I don't, no comment on labeling a mug coffee and not having it be seen through. And she's looking alternately enthralled and confused by RFK Jr's long story. Meanwhile, the presidential candidate seems less than excited to have to tell it. He's sitting in a chair, arms crossed, in a position I'd describe as

little boy cornered by teacher. It's clear that he's only making the video to get ahead of a media investigation he's being made aware of, and he probably knows that that media investigation is going to lead to a piece that is not good for him.

In fact, he mentions that a bit later. But it could nonetheless be a relatable moment for the average American watching the video. After all, whom among us hasn't done something stupid they later regretted? Maybe Kennedy's story will paint him as a fumbling,

relatable every man. Let's take a listen. I was taking a group of people of falconing and now up in the ocean, New York, up in Hudson Valley. Okay, falconing. I don't. Remonst us, isn't I done some falconing? That's a very bad start, I think it's fair to say.

Lots of Americans are outdoorsy types who've hunted, or at the very least, don't look down on the practice. But I'm going to venture a guess that very few of them have been falconing, which involves you and your boys taking out your trained raptors to hunt small game. A quick visit to the North American Falconers Association or Nafo website will tell you that this shit is for rich people only. In the what is falconry section, Nafa actively tries to discourage people from just jumping into the sport, asking the reader, do you really want to become a falconer? With like really in italics and underlined. Honestly, it does sound pretty fucking cool.

So I understand why they have to, I'm sure they have to just dissuade a bunch of bozos who are like, I want a fucking bird. Okay. It depends for me. Note to self, we must pay live less. She's considering getting a falcon. I'm saving up for a bird, for a falcon. I'm this close. I think it's like, they call it falconing, but I think it's like with hawks because he

switches, he says hawking later. Anyways, Travis, did you have any comment? I mean, feels like you're kind of our go-to outdoorsy guy. Yeah, you know, it is very funny that he does feel very put upon and resigned to, I guess, yet again, talk about the horrors I committed while I was out falcons. The website lists all of the things required to become a falconer, including two years of training to become an apprentice, five more to become a master,

having access to land with wild game, and of course, just a category that just lists money. And it explains, most people immediately think of the cost of acquiring a hawk, but the price of the bird is only the beginning, assuming you can purchase one. In North America, most apprentice falconers will be required by their sponsor to trap at least their first bird from the wild.

You must have money to spend. Spend on food, shelter, equipment, veterinary costs, permits and fees, and travel. To keep it healthy, you must feed your raptor only fresh raw meat, preferably the exact same whole birds or mammals they would catch in the wild on their own. Housing and equipment requirements are mandated by state and federal law. You'll need the money to buy the raw materials and you'll need the skill to work with these materials and you will be inspected before you are permitted to acquire a hawk by state and possibly local officials. Most falconers also spend considerable amounts of money on books as a source

of vital information and enjoyment. You will have to pay permit and license fees as well. Travel adds up fast too. Obtaining a hawk, visiting other falconers, training and hunting can put literally thousands of miles on your car and empty wallets quickly. Well, I'm out. Honestly, I'm more interested in it now. You have to go catch a falcon. This kind of sounds like a... a journey. Yeah, it is. It's a quest. The moment they said I had to co-capture my own bird, I was like, eh, I probably can't do this. Can you imagine if every pet you wanted to have, you had to go out and catch it? Be like, oh, I got to go find where the wild papions roam. I mean, Liv just wants to get a falcon so it can

defend her against the small dogs that keep snapping her ankles. Listen. She would be the cause of like the death of most people's pets in the surrounding three to four kilometers. They're strong birds. Yeah. Do not get in the way. You just have it on your shoulder. Feeding it fucking Vivance. It's fucking jittering. It's just pecking it everybody.

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Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude, maybe? That's not true. The part about be crying. Not me being grateful. I'm very grateful.