QAA Podcast - Jake’s Takes x Liv’s Gives - Coachella Edition (Premium E333) Sample

Episode Date: April 25, 2026

After years of speaking to Liv through their computers, the OG QAA hosts have finally met Liv IRL before her and Jake attended Coachella. Liv was especially excited to see The Strokes, while Jake was just hoping for a better experience than the uncomfortable Sabrina Carpenter concert he had attended in the metaverse. In this episode the two investigate the conspiracies they witnessed growing around them once they passed the lax security and entered the festival. From Julian Casablancas to some poorly timed skywriting, no one was safe from the baking minds of Coachella influencers - and no VIP Spam Musubi was safe from Jake. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! Spectral Voyager Season 2 is releasing 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. 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.

If you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium episode 33. Jake's takes cross lives gives Coachella edition. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Field, and Liv Egar. Well, folks, we finally did it. We brought the rings of power together in Palm Springs and the three OG QAA host got to meet Live in person for the first time. was glorious.

Great. How like if I put on this podcast for? I haven't met you guys in person. Yeah, like half a decade or something? Yeah, how long has it been? So, 2021 maybe? Oh, my God. That's crazy to think.

But Travis is still in the hospital from it. Literally, it almost killed him. Yeah, he realized he was like, it was kind of like inception. Like he was in a dream, within a dream, within a dream. Well, he thought, he thought Liv was like 48. So he actually killed. came apart. He kind of shattered in front of us. Yeah, unraveled, unraveled. Well, I didn't get to go to the dinner because we were driving in late.

But how was that? Was that fun? Did you guys have a good time? It was. Yeah, it was. We definitely, you know, use the QAA dime and you weren't there. It's sad. Next time you have to, you know, participate. Yeah, I'll order a patty melt. I'll get a patty melt on the QAA dime. A patty melt just sounds like you're eating like a dog turd or something. Why do Americans come up with dishes that just sound like you scraped it off the floor? A melt. I will say it was impressive to find a place that's like more expensive food-wise than Vancouver.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it does. Jesus Christ. Because the food was like fine. Like it was good. But like. No, but you're also in Palm Springs, which is like a very wealthy kind of suburban area. And we're going to like one of these places that is probably double the price you'd get for the same quality in L.A.

Yeah. Not like maybe that much, but still, like you're paying a premium for being. You know, if you're like in the O.C. or in Palm Springs, like, you're going to be paying, like, kind of a very different standard. If you go by the beach, like, you know, Malibu will be like that. Well, you'll get, like, really whatever Italian food for the price of what you would be paying upscale Italian food in the city. But, Liv, this was your first jaunt into California, right? It was. Yeah, I regret not staying for longer coming to L.A., although, like, given how destroyed I was after the festival, maybe, maybe heading right back wasn't the worst idea. It is the best idea.

Liv definitely had like palm spring eyeballs, like getting off the plane. You know, just being like, wow, what the fuck? Because it is very impressive, pop springs. You see the mountains and huge and like these rows of palm trees. And you're stepping off the plane from like Raintown, British Columbia. Raintown, USA. Yeah. It will be soon.

Yeah, it will be soon enough, Raintown, USA. I made this joke on Twitter about like it being, like, my impression of California is that it's just Minecraft biomes. Like, it's just a new biome. It's like these 64 by 64 squares. And each one has a distinct biome. If you go to Big Sur, like up the coast, all the biomes are really close together too.

So you'll have like, hey, I'm in the planes. Like, oh, wait, I'm on like big rock facades with like crashing waves. And oh, I'm in a redwood forest. Everything is within like, you know, meters of each other. The neighborhoods are kind of like that too. We're like just like very different like block by block. Like it'll look like two completely different places. But what's nice about Palm Springs is like, you'll be in the parking lot of a CVS, like, looking at one of the most beautiful vistas you've ever seen.

Yeah. Like, it's a crazy, it's like just like a crazy, like, mishmash of like convenience and like pure, like, unadulterated nature. I don't want to be insulting to it, but it basically shouldn't exist. It's one of these places where unless like water can be massively displaced and essentially misused cannot exist. I mean, L.A. is essentially the same thing. A fake lagoon. Yeah, we don't have our own water. Like, we just don't have the water for anything that's happening in California.

Or a fake lagoon. Yeah, I was even, like, standing, there's a big grass field. We took, like, the shuttle from our hotel to Coachella. And, like, there's this big grass field that, like, it sends you to. And I'm just talking to my friend about, like, how much water do you think needs to be maintained for this, just grass fields? Like, it must be, I mean, like, it's just absurd. Like, what is how much, how much of a public good is it? to have this field be authentic grass.

Yeah. And in the summer, you need, like, an ankle-high, like, building that covers all of the grass so that it can survive, like, the heat. Right. You need to create, like, a miniature hot house for each blade of grass. Yeah, I was, I was disturbed. Because it was not an especially hot weekend either. It was, like, 27 to 30 Celsius.

No, it was incredibly, like, temperate for the time of year. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we lucked out in that regard. There was a sense in which it felt like a very, it felt like a fake city partially because it was just exactly how California is portrayed in the movies. That main kind of highway where it's got the really long palm trees and then the scenic, you know, mountain in the background. Yeah, it's kind of like if Pasadena had vistas, you know.

And Pasadena is used as like every town USA. And in movies, of course, that means a whole like class notch above reality. But this is like that plus, you know, just being surrounded by these massive mountains. And there's some incredible, like, hiking trails and stuff. that where you see like mountain flowers, butterflies, you ascend to like a fucking waterfall that you can bathe in, you know, I mean, there's some stuff around Palm Springs that is truly amazing. But like that main kind of flat land where the city itself is, I mean, that place should have been baked off the map like long ago. Yeah, there's something oddly like, like, it's very

beautiful. Like in Vancouver, it's very beautiful as well, but it feels less fake. There's something I'm not fake about Palm Springs to me. Vancouver would exist. Like it is a vibrant place with plenty of its own water. Yeah. Like it had a population. I believe the Lower Mainland had like 700,000 indigenous people approximately before was colonized by Europeans.

Like it's a geographically very sensical location to have a lot of people at. Palm Springs, it's like no. And I'm no specialist, but yeah, Palm Springs would be like a migratory stopping point. maybe if it was being, you know, occupied by animals during a certain part of the year. But sticking around there during like part of the year where it becomes, you know, just the hottest you've ever fucking experienced. Like the atmosphere itself feels like an oven is a totally different story. Yeah. And the history is also strange because it's very like old gay money.

Like people who survived the AIDS crisis. Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely. And came out to be like, you know, see executive at Apple or something. I'm assuming you did the gay sex. like resorts there. Of course, every single one. That's like I stayed, yeah, of course.

Coachella, quote unquote, right? I see Jake's new mustache. I see Jake's new way of being. They wouldn't let me in without one. They just give you a little like a little glue on one. It was like, you know, back in my 20s, you would show up at the club and they'd be like, no sneakers. You know, you'd have to go figure out something else.

This time that was like, hey, no clean shaving. You need a stash to get in here. Yeah. Liv, did you go to, did you try in and out burger? I did not. I don't even know if there is one in Palm Springs. I feel like there is, but maybe I'm wrong. I think there is if I'm not wrong.

Did you go to Agua Caliente, the casino in Palm Springs? I did, I did not know. Yeah, casinos, there's something horrifying to me about a casino. Really? Especially one in Palm Springs. Yeah, no, especially, yeah. But it's like your favorite streams except older people and they get to smoke cigarettes. You've been listening to a sample of a premium.

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