QAA Podcast - Disclosure Day Movie Night (Premium E350) Sample

Episode Date: August 23, 2026

Liv, Brad, and Jake have a grand time dissecting Spielberg's latest non-human biologics picture. They discuss everything from poorly painted Alien artifacts to bizarre boomer film transition techniques. Jake discovers a promising Colin Firth impression. This is ground truth podcasting. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! All episodes of Spectral Voyager Season 2 are out now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Well done. You found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 350, Disclosure Day movie night. AKA full disclosure, this movie sucks. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Brad Abraham's, and Live Agar. Happy Disclosure Day, folks. That's right. After today, there will be no mistake. Aliens are real and our government hired contractors are not being very gentle with them. It's also happy Weezer Day to those who celebrate. I know this is coming out tomorrow, but when we recorded it, there's Weezer's 20th album,

20th self-titled album, Gold, out today. They're not paying me to do this, but, you know, as an older guy, is somebody that listened to music in the 90s like to have your favorite band still putting out music and it's actually like still like pretty good and surprisingly good actually. Shout out Kenneth Beats. It's it's wonderful. It's such, it's actually, I'm trying to do anything to avoid from talking about this movie. Yeah, it's not like the movie, which is also from someone who you appreciate in the 90s and want to make movies like he did then. Oh my God, that is so true. Ah, my content heroes. Some of them, sometimes they disappoint and sometimes and sometimes. And sometimes.

they surprise. He should have hired Kenneth Beetz to write this. We really should have hired Kenneth Beetz to write this movie or to direct this movie and to come up with the story because Stephen Spielberg didn't actually write the screenplay himself on this one, but we're going to get to all that. So of course, everyone, and I'm exaggerating when I say that, wanted to know what Brad and I thought about Spielberg's latest extraterrestrial offering. Yeah. And I mean, This is like the fourth disclosure up that I've been on, and I keep saying it's my last one. But Jake, Jake pulled me back in. Well, because Brad saw it.

I was really excited to see. I was really excited to see the movie. I actually quite liked, I know it gets a lot of hate, but I really liked War of the Worlds, which was written by the same guy and directed by the same guy. But that movie also had Tom Cruise, which is, you know. Sure, yeah. That's different. But I was really looking, you know, I'm always,

Spielberg, like I'm down to see what he's up to. I always like to check in, check in with my faves, even if, you know, I don't think their latest work is representative of what made me fall in love with them. I mean, look, I'm a Weezer fan. That was good. That was pretty quick. I'm getting quicker at podcasting, I think. But people in my real life are telling me that I should, you know, like, not talk so much that I don't, that like silence is okay. That's a sign that you know that you're a good podcaster, is if people are telling you to stop. That I don't have. to like fill every you know second of silence with content so I'm trying to find a balance in my own life but anyways I wanted to see this Brad saw it first and he was like it's

really bad and he said it in a way that I was like oh it doesn't even sound like it's like kind of a fun bad like you know like you know you could be like oh you know it's it's not great but like go go go to the theater you'll have a fun time like it's you know it's what I imagine people would have said about War of the Worlds when it came out. Yeah. Did you first watch this in the theater, Jake? I did not. Okay.

I did not. I did a bad and I rented online on streamer. Yeah, it was a good thing I saw it in the theater the first time and I was with like a big group of friends who were also kind of like alien heads and made it somewhat exciting. So I was a bit clouded by the atmosphere. Although, you know, on the subject of boomers, which we'll get to later, there was this older lady who in the middle of the film just got up and started clomping around the theater for like 10 to 15 minutes kept going in the exit like out the exit door back in walking around up and down all the aisles

she was just clearly very confused like something happened she got very confused it was sad it's like are you all right and she was like yes i can't find my seat and finally she found her seat and she sat down aside from that though so it was kind of like a i found it like an entertaining experience but then as as I thought about the film more and more the more I realized how how terrible it was and it was such a slog to get through this second time took me all day yeah it took me all day to watch like just little bits here and there to watch it again and and live what was your what was your first experience watching yeah I really wanted to like it I went in knowing basically nothing except for of course like the title is a spoiler it's like reading return of the king and being like I wonder

if this king is going to return or not. There's a lot of suspense. But, like, I wanted to like the film, but I just, like, the basic premise is exciting, but everything outside of that is uninteresting. I think that's maybe why it's different than the War of the Worlds as a movie. It's, like, you kind of want to like that film, even if it's, like, not the best. You know, there are things you can critique. But this is just, like, no, I don't really like the premise.

Yeah. And did you watch it, did you just watch it, like, at home? I watched it at home. Okay, right. Yeah, I can't imagine that as my first watched, just because of how disappointing it is. You bring up a really interesting point, live, that I'm now, I forgot. As I was saying that, I could feel my own point slipping away. That the premise, it was that the premise, like, you didn't really like it.

Oh, yes. Okay. See, yeah, you make an interesting point live, which is, if you're going to name, God, we're such pros, you help me fucking figure out exactly, you knew exactly what to do. We're such pro podcasters. People think this job is easy. It ain't 350 episodes. Are you laughing still after 350?

Good. Well, you're paying. I mean, we're talking to the people who are paying hard-earned cash, so I hope you are. We're putting in, hey, good thing Travis is not here. He would have stopped this rant long ago. She used to reel to himself. If you name your movie Disclosure Day, and I'm going into the movie knowing that that's what's going to happened that over the course of the movie, the world is going to find out that aliens exist.

You gotta do something with that. Like, it can't just be like about all of the moments leading up to the world finding out. Yeah. Like, oh my God. Oh, my God. And I have some specific moments throughout the script and I apologize, but I'm going to turn this into a little bit of a lesson. And I'm sure Brad, I'm sure.

As a fellow screenwriter, you also have some things to say about how this film was assembled because it's truly impossible to understand how anybody, I don't know. How anyone thought this way of doing it was a good idea. Yeah. It's honest, like, it was really not a suspenseful movie to me. Like, it was like, I know it's going to happen. They have Moadieb. They wrote a character who's Moadieb, basically, who is, like, knows everything and

be misled and, like, always gets out of, like, you know, DASX mock. Yes. To jump ahead. There it is. So it's like, I don't, like, is there going to be an interesting twist on this? I don't know. Like, it kind of immediately showed what it was and what was going to happen. Yeah, if we already know what the premise is, then you have to have, like, a really interesting twist that, like, something like, the disclosure footage has to happen within the first 10 minutes of the movie.

You know what I mean? Like, that's how the movie has to open. And then what are the, you know, or, or if it's leading up to the release, then something has to happen. You have to start with a character that is in, like. Let's not get ahead of our. ourselves here. Okay, so we'll get into all the critique, because I've written, I've written all of this out. So we'll get into the critique. But, you know, from the moment, you know, this movie's release was imminent, I had heard that it was Bun's ass dood, but, but I was not expecting something that resembled the type of right-wing

content that we usually watch for our movie nights. You just mean like stylistically, like, yeah, stylistically and like the feeling of it. Like this movie's DNA to me had far more in common with something that Angel Studios might make than might be loved ambling, you know? In a sense, yeah, because the, yeah, I'll mention it later, but the performances were so terrible too. Like that's what made it feel like an Angel Studio film. You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast

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Well, that's not an opinion. It's a fact. You're so right, Jake. We love and appreciate all of our listeners. 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. You know,