QAA Podcast - Jake's Takes Thanksgiving Reflux (Premium E313) Sample

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

Travis’ pumpkin pie preference, Liv’s Serbian cuisine, Jake telling the story about the Aliens slot machine for the second or third time on the pod. It’s a Thanksgiving takes worthy of your family’s praise. We talk food, dos and don'ts during the meal, and which conspiracy theories are safe to bring to the dinner table. Come for the ham, stay for the slop. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. 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.

Thank you. If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 313. Jake's Takes, Thanksgiving Reflux. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Liv Aker, and Travis View. With Liv's acid reflux slowly dissolving her from the inside, and Travis's hair reaching Santa Claus levels,

I have been going 23 for 15 in the latest Call of Duty, a game that everyone seems to hate except for me. Perhaps, like movies, I also enjoy bad games. Wait, where does it take place? Is it future president? It's future. Is it future? Okay.

Those ones are kind of a wash to me. It's future enough, right? Like, it's got a robot dog. It's got some Metal Gear-type mecks. I don't like it for the story so much, or even the setting, although I think it's kind of cool. To me, it's kind of like a Titan fall. Remember that game?

Yes. Oh, that's one of the handful of the ones. games I'd actually play. I did play Titan Fall 2. There we go. To Travis lit up. He was like, oh, he was like a game I'm familiar with. He was like, yes, we can discuss. Yeah, you can like jump off the walls and stuff. Like, it's got a little bit more movement. To me, it feels kind of like Max Payne. Like, you can sort of dive in every direction while you're shooting. And I'm just, I'm a basic enough gamer that to me, I'm like, oh, just like Max Payne. So I don't know, I've been having a lot of fun. It's complete movement shooter victory. We're just back to Quake.

went back around yeah i mean i was telling my buddy like it feels like doom and i don't know maybe there's maybe it's giving because i fancy myself a simmy kind of gamer i mean i like i own arma and all the versions i'm on almost every single platform which is a slow janky thorough it's an unc shooter yeah it's an unc shooter for sure i'd even go one step further what's one above unk. A gramp, a gramp shooter. A gramp shooter. There's nothing in between.

That's so funny. My parents' generation just fucking erased. Anyways, although I guess they are grand. I mean, they are grandpa and grandma now. That's true. I think I'm just older than I. Yeah, I think I'm just older than I think I am. There's no.

I'm just unk. Yeah, yeah, you're unk and then your gramps. Yeah. Your uncle, yeah, your unc and then you're grand. And then, then what? Death. Yeah. So this week, I thought it would be fun to get various takes and gives on some of the greatest

Americans slash Canadian Thanksgiving traditions, do's and do nots at the supper table or lunch table if you're a G and eat early, some classic Thanksgiving conspiracy theories. And as always, you know, whatever you've posted in the Discord, like an NBA 2K fan fiction film from 2004. Do you guys say supper? Like, seriously? I say supper. Okay. I think I feel like a Victorian child would say in my mind.

Maybe I am a little bit of a Lord Fauntle Roy. I don't know. Maybe, yeah, it might be a regional dialect. Not something I say. I don't think my parents ever said supper. I think my Canadian friend said supper, and I thought it sounded so fun that I just, that sounded so prim and proper that, you know,

it just sort of stuck. It's like, you know how sometimes you say things ironically? you'll pick up slang ironically and then you'll say it so much that it kind of becomes part of your dialogue my big one right now i don't know if you guys saw that clip of the guy who's like i'm such a fat fucking chud like i've just been saying that all the time recently like if anyone says it on stream it's one of my vocal sims we'll just say it out loud no i have not seen that what's on your table thanksgiving is a tough holiday it's essentially celebrating the prequel to a genocide. I've told this story before, I'm sure, on the pod, but when I came home from

kindergarten with a handprint turkey and tales of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, my mom informed me that Christopher Columbus was, quote, a rapist and murderer. She's so base. That's so awesome. And so I carry on her tradition to all of you. When I say that in this episode, we are celebrating time away from computers. We are celebrating time with loved ones, gathered around a large table, and potentially a smaller children's table, which is always more fun, sharing good food together. I'm just going to be hanging out because mine was in October, but... No, but we want you to bring...

You can bring your Thanksgiving. Obviously, we didn't feel it was important enough to do an episode around the time. But now that we're celebrating our Thanksgiving, we want you to feel included. So I'm curious about some Canadian Thanksgiving traditions. Maybe it's a little bit different. Maybe you guys do ham. Yeah, do you have pumpkin pie?

This is my main question. Sometimes. I think it's more like my Thanksgiving, the food is like more Serbian-coated because my dad cooks. And we just like, I think last Thanksgiving, we eat steak. It was like we just don't care. It's like a red meat steak. Okay. I was going to ask like Serbian Thanksgiving if there was like a different kind of, a different kind of animal eaten. I don't think there is a Serbian Thanksgiving holiday, but we would probably go Shababab Chichie, which is like pork.

It's like a kebab. It's a similar etymology, I think. I think they're cognates. Oh, that sounds good. It's good. It's like spicy, grilled meat. It's delicious. I love Serbian food.

No. The Serbs have a, I assume the Serbs have a holiday and they reflect on all the things they're ungrateful for. All the pain and suffering they've experienced. My grandma once told me that a day is imperfect unless you have something to complain about. Hmm. Hmm, that sounds similar to my, that sounds similar to my, yeah, yeah, my upbringing. But it's funny because, like, you know, Thanksgiving was always a very important. important time in our family because we got to go up north and visit my cousins in Milwaukee

and my grandfather also lived there. And they're Christians. So it was like we were the, I think because my, yeah, my dad's sister married into a Christian family and converted. And so their kids were like Christmas, but we were Hanukkah. But then we would kind of get together and do a Christmica kind of gift exchange that me and my brother always looked forward to, especially because my cousins had this toy in their basement that set my little brain on fire, and it's called Snafu. I've included a picture for both you and Travis Liv. Have you guys ever seen this game before? This looks a lot like a game that I did play. Do you guys know that like Mouse Trap game? That's like a real cool. Of course. Another classic. Another classic. Now we had

mouse trap, but this, I had never seen this. And for the audience, it's like a big kind of green plastic board with all of these like obstacles coming out of it and various buttons at the base of this board control each of the obstacles and the goal was to move this steel ball like from one end of the kind of like obstacle course basically to the other side but it was really hard and it just it was heavy the ball felt nice it really did it was nice and click clacky it was the part of my brain that would eventually become like uh i'm like oh i like destiny or i like the way that The call of duty is like when it hits the body, you know, that little, like, that little casino part of your brain. This, this was satisfying it.

But I digress. Not enough tactile toys anymore because of Joe Biden's America, you know, it's all, everything is computer. Well, they don't let you play, they don't let you play with steel balls anymore. I put balls through mazes. And a lot of kids are still sitting in the basement for Christian, we're Christian cousins. And they're sitting over the maze. And they're taking, and a guy on the balls through the maze. But a lot of kids nowadays are on Nintendo Switch playing it with other,

Family, it can't be coming from Mario Kart. Jewish Bill Clinton. Jewish, Jewish Bill Clinton. Jewish Bill Clinton. Oh, man. That's like my anti-Semitic walk at Christopher Walk and those two characters. We'll have to get them together somehow. 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. Thank you.