QAA Podcast - Labubu (Premium E298) Sample

Episode Date: July 19, 2025

Jake has returned from deep within the Labubu rabbit hole, and he’s brought enough furry little monsters back with him to replace Travis and Julian. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! This is a Labubu podcast now, I’m sorry to say. The real question on everyone’s mind is how many Labubus I got (a lot). 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, and Jake Rockatansky. 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.

POMAYOR. If you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 298, LaBou-Boo. Fuck you. Fuck you, dude. Fuck you. La-boo, la-boo, la-boo, la-boo, la-boo, la-boo.

No. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. A la-bubu. Noun. A plush toy. Come on. Often used to decorate handbags, backpacks, and potentially satanic altars. Mariam.

Come on. Labubu is a land of contrasts. Yeah. I am actually going to kill you. Grade school essay is this. I haven't even, we're not even 10% into the intro here. Well, that's how powerful the word is. And I'm going to kill myself, guys, because honestly, this has been a...

No, that actually made me sad hearing you say that. Don't do it. Okay, okay, okay. I'm not going to. But, but this, this, all right, we're going to get to the bottom of these. Wait, wait, let's but what about La butt butt, but? Okay, we're going to get to the bottom of these little guys because right now, I don't have to tell you that they have an iron grip on our society. La boo-boo, labo, labo, your kids want them, your mom wants to get them for your kids, and maybe a couple for herself.

But actually, no one can get them unless you're willing to fight in the streets or online for them. One thing is for sure. This is going to be an episode that breaks me. And potentially, Julian. I think definitely Julian, based on the early feedback. I think Travis will be amused. See, this is so fucked up because you've identified that all my fucking vulnerable points are flashing red. Like, you know, you know that, like, I am not, I don't have the armor of God.

Whatever Travis is protected by, I do not have it, and you know that, and this is actually abuse. Julian, you're like a double dragon boss, like where it's not like pieces of you that are flashing red. It's like the whole body. And like as we go through the episode, it's going to flash more, you know, more intensely and more intensely. I will take that. But I will say I would like to be the arcade version where you're forcing kids to pump in a bunch of coins because it's really unfair. Like I want to be overpowered. Okay, all right.

Okay. Fine. Great. No, keep going. Do your fucking Laboooo thing. I was, like, reading through this last night, and I couldn't stop laughing. Like, there might be a point, like, there was a point where my wife was like, she was like, do you think, like, you'll be able to get through this even?

And I was like, I really don't know. Like, I might have to have one of the other guys, like, just pick up the script. So that is a possibility. Just letting you guys know. One of the other guys. Like, it just, we don't even matter as human beings to you. It's like, it's one of the other guys. You know, one of the other guys.

Yeah, the work guys. It's like how creative people have to talk about like their weird projects to make it sound like it's some kind of professional outfit. Oh, yeah, you got to have, you got to start to really have, I don't know, like a personality disorder or like some sort of stance that makes it into comedy to excuse what we have set up for ourselves. Yeah, it's like already longer than 5,000 were like I visited some East Coast friends recently who were in from out of town. Yes. Hey, wait, this is my script. And I paused at the concierge desk as I was leaving their hotel. Uh-huh.

The guy at the front desk around my age, maybe a little younger. What, did you identify he had fucking hair? Perhaps. Okay, we're switching off now because I don't want to say Lubu-boo. Oh, I just said it. Okay. I visited some East Coast friends recently who were in from out of town, and I paused at the concierge desk as I was leaving their hotel.

The guy at the front desk, around my age, maybe a little younger, had a lobooboo clip to his bag. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're fucking using someone else's concierge? You're not even checked in? Oh, no, I wasn't checked in. You don't have a room and you're just like, ooh, I think I'll use these concierge services. Yeah, well, I came down. I wasn't going to use them.

It caught my eye. I was leaving, you know, they're staying in a hotel. Oh, you were walking out and you saw a fucking furry toy on someone's head. I'm walking out, and I saw it, and I was like, what a perfect opportunity to talk to another stranger, Jake. Okay, we really, I guess we have to get through the script, and if I interrupt every three words, it's not going to work. Okay, so, is that a real?

Abooboo, I asked. Yes, he answered. It was the second time I had seen one in the wild. The first one was at Disneyland. It was clipped to the front of an older woman's vest in a clear plastic protective case. What? This was starting to get out of hand.

Wait, are people like wearing them, like, in their boxes? Because it's already, it's like a collectible, but you also want it to be like a A purse fucking flare piece? Yeah, they, online, you can buy clear plastic, laboo-shaped, like, protective cases. Oh. There's a whole, like, sub-market. Not from Pop Mart. We'll get into all that.

The aftermarket. These things better have a sex toy built in. Like, they better either fuck or suck or be- I'm sure that's coming. Like, there's no excuse for these things to exist unless we can fuck them in some way. Okay, sorry, continue. You're harassing a concierge in a place that you're not paying for. Yes.

I told the guy that I didn't even know what Labuboos were until two weeks ago, and that now I was obsessed. Me too, the guy said with a sigh. It was just so funny, he looked down like, he was like, oh, me too. Bro, it's so... He was like so defeated. But it was true. I was obsessed.

Like, how did I and so many others go from knowing nothing about these creatures to trying to gather as many as we could? Were these seemingly harmless plushies imbued with demonic powers? Many do think this is the case, but the reality is far more frustrating and financially detrimental. Financially detrimental. I really hope your wife, like, has more control over your budget at this point. Like, she needs to fucking, it's like one of those situations. She needs to interfere.

You know what? She's got her own very good job, all right? And she's got her, she's got plenty of her own money that if she wants to spend it on whatever she wants. I think she should save you from yourself. She wants to spend it on stuff, you know, she doesn't. How much has she spent on Labuboos? Um, zero dollars. Okay, copy that.

So come with me as I take you down the exciting macaron hole and into a world of blind boxes, recycled satanic panic and a community of consumers desperate to beat the bots and collect what's rightfully theirs. La boo-boo. La boo-bo. La-boo-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La-bo. La pooh-boo La-bo-la-pooh-bo-la-bo-la-bo-la-bo-la-bo-la-bo-la-bo-la-bo-bo-la-bo-bo-la-bo-bo-la-bobo-l-bobo-la-bobobobo-la-bobo-la-bobo-la-bo-loooooo Julian?

Oh, no. I don't think I'm going to be paid. taxes this year because the money is going to a genocide. And I wake up every morning and all I fucking think about is how I would like to, you know, fuck, I can't even use the words because I feel like my phone's recording me. I'm also on a podcast. Well, you guys know what I want to do every morning. Well, you, you know what? If you wanted to, you could wake up every morning and be thinking about Laboo Boo Boo like me. Join us. Why? Why is the, in the clip, there's Coca-Cola. And I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but the ones you got, have a Coca-Cola.

Some of the ones I got. What is the, but there's so much Coca-Cola involved. Like, Beanie Babies weren't holding Coca-Cola. What's happening? These are like partnerships. They're doing these collaborations with, like, huge corporations. And there's Disney ones. There's, you know, Coca-Cola ones.

And, you know, the Coca-Cola heads are hoarding the Coca-Cola Luboos. It's so cool. Yeah. And they're fucking, they're partnering with all the U.S. weapons manufacturers, and now we're dropping la bomb bombs on people's countries. They're very cute and they have annoying eyes.

It all started a couple weeks ago. My wife wanted to do something dumb and fun after a tough work day and suggested we go to the mall to buy Labooboos. Okay, that does actually sound fun. You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast.

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It's a bounty of content and the best deal in podcasting. Travis, for once, I agree with you. And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.com slash QAA. 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. Oh