QAA Podcast - Listener Stories Volume 9 (Premium E305) Sample

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

Or potentially volume 10; we might have published Volume 3 twice… but who can blame us? Our reality has aged by more than two years since the last Listener Stories episode, where we shut up for once and check in with the people who make the podcast possible. In this episode Jake performs: She Married A Neo Nazi, Cousin Q, Scientology Rehab, and more. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media and its new show Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: https://cursedmedia.net 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.

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 305, listener stories, volume 9. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View. Well, folks, there's no way around it. The United States is in a death spiral. I'm just glad we have some civility left, and we're going to have a day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk, thanks to our lawmakers. Who said the Fourth Reich was going to be?

going to be a bummer. And HB1 work visas, looks like those are going to cost $100,000, so pesky poor people have zero shot of coming here. Not that I'd recommend they do. So yeah, I mean, you know, cheer up. Not all is lost. And in that spirit, we thought we'd court another round

of listener stories, which somehow we have not done in more than two years. Yes. Crazy. Crazy. It was March 27th, I think, of 2023. Was listener stories volume 8? Yeah. And I also believe that we published volume 3 twice.

So technically this is volume 10. And you know what? Fuck off. Like we're doing volume 9. Maybe we'll do like X for 10 and like, and like, do something like the Xbox 1 series X, Xbox, Box, X. Listener stories series X. Listener story series X. Edition X.

No. We'll do, we'll wind up with like, with like, Final Fantasy numbering. Whereas like, yeah, this is an edition XI part two, you know. Wait, did you listen? Did you listen to the Japanese or the American version? Because, like, I think that was seven for America, but it was five for Japan. No, it was, no, I mean, I always thought, wait, wait, it was, yeah, the early numbers always screwed me up. It was always.

No, I know. I made that up. I didn't. Okay. Seven is seven everywhere. It's the early numbers that are, yeah. But, but, you know, we're not here to listen to Travis half-remember Final Fantasy games. And we also, we didn't expect to be doing this podcast this long.

Let's be perfectly honest. No. We didn't realize that Qaeda would become all-encompass. We didn't realize that it was like a shroud that would settle over the country and never and never leave. Oh, yeah, I expected stochastic violence to catch up with me. I feel like I'd be maybe, you know, chatting to like an audience and then this kind of red circle appeared on me. Anyways. So, yeah, the last story here is it was sent in a few years ago and we couldn't include it because it's just so long, which, you know, come on, man, you can't be sending us such long stories.

But somehow you won the lottery two years later You probably don't even listen anymore But yeah So better late than never I don't know fellas before we jump into the stories Like how are you guys? I know Travis just got back from You know I believe like studying the Bible in Jerusalem

Like in the crypts? No no no not quite I spent some time Spent like about a week and a half In western New York State Mostly Western New York State I did have to make a detour towards like fucking Manhattan.

But yeah, it was, it was lovely, lovely, lovely people, beautiful. It's so wet and lush there. And right now it's just starting to like to get the very, the very earliest sort of blush of fall color. And the people there are, yeah, I mean, they are huge Buffalo Bills fans. That's this one, my one takeaway. My God, I've never encountered people so enthusiastic about a football team. But yeah, I've been looking at documents about a long-term project I've discussed before

that deals in part. with the Morgan affair in which, you know, as a man was abducted for, like, threatening to publish the secrets of Freemasonry. And so because I got to the point where, like, I realized I needed to, like, start looking up the real primary shit. I'd, like, read everything.

I had exhausted everything I could get from my computer. And so I started going to these places. So I've been doing a little bit, like a cross between a national treasure and a ninth gate, some of that in that neighborhood. Awesome. Two great comps, by the way. So, so you,

You spilled coffee on the Shrout of Turin? No, but it's like I was shocked about like how fragile some of these 200-year-old letters were and how they just let me just a schmuck off the street, take a look at them and handle them and put them back. Have you considered a cum tribute? No, no, no, no, no. Inappropriate. You know, bad archival practices. A cum tribute.

That's the first time you tell me that what I'm saying on the podcast is inappropriate. Like, I'll give the example of what I've been looking, I've been looking for a lot of things. But one example is that like, it's like through my research, learned that in the immediate aftermath of the kidnapping of William Morgan in the town of Batavia, where it happened, there were two publications that dealt with it explicitly. One was called the Masonic Intelligencer, and this was set up by the local sort of like Masonic paper to defend Freemasonry. Now it's just called the Intelligencer. And then also David C. Miller, the guy who printed Morgan's book and was himself kidnapped by Mason's briefly, had another

paper that responded to the Masonic Intelligencer called the Morgan Investigator. fucking group deemming. Everyone was just posting. It goes back to like, it's crazy. It was posting. There were like anon's. There were always these strange one word, sort of Latin names as for the anonymous names. Incredible. I feel like like human history is defined by pre-posting and post-posting. And we're finding out that posting came way earlier than we thought. I can't wait to find like cave drawings where they're arguing with each other and insulting each other somehow. Like maybe they go to the cave like on alternating weeks. No, they were still like in a healthy stage of like human community they were posting picks of like dogs and like buffalo like like animals in nature and like all

that cool stuff like they were early days of incident like they were like turning things into polaroids kind of and just like putting a cool color filter and like enjoying their lives there was like an ancient Travis who who did like I fucking love science like on a on a like cave wall yeah so when I went to the the masonic library in Manhattan it wasn't listed because like it's a private library so they don't have everything that they have there listed by I spoke to the library and the guy named Alex fantastic guy I ask if like oh man do you have these happen to have these publications and to my delight I found out they had they had every single issue so it was a one year run it was 26 issues of the Masonic Intelligencer and then they also had three issues of the Morgan

Investigator so they had the issues four six and 26 the very the very last one and then that combined with they had one issue the very first issue at the New York State Library in Albany. So the crazy thing is, I only had it in paper. Like, it was just a single paper copy. As far as I'm aware, as far as anyone is aware, it's the only issue of this particular paper anywhere in the world. And it was just sitting in, but anyways, they digitized it for me.

So now I have made eyes on four issues of this paper. There are four of the 26. And now, and there's lots of like research avenues I'm going through. But now my question is, how insane do I allow this to make me? Do I, do I devote my life to trying to track? down the remaining 22 issues of the Morgan Investigator. Or do I like let it go? Or do I make peace

with a possibility that the rest of these issues are just destroyed forever and no one will ever see them? Well, I don't believe you'll ever be in peace but I do understand the conundrum. I think if this podcast has taught us anything, it's that in order to be truly happy, you have to use the rest of your life and all of your resources to

track down these remaining issues. And if you fail or like die in the process, like hey, you'll have one hell of a story to tell. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, the largest Masonic library in the world is in Iowa. I don't know why that is. So I'm going to have to check there next. And then, yeah, there's some avenues I can do to try and find this last one. But then I'm so it's like, well, if these fail, I'm going to just, am I going to let it go? Or allow myself to go and say, then try and think of new ways to find these issues. And I might go insane. We'll see. Yeah, bro. Come on. Letting it go. Like, everything I know about you is not a let it go type situation. Meanwhile, I'm like, I'm like, it'd be cool if we added like a little bit of like a thing. fictional element where like Travis figures out how to like travel back in time so that he can get the you know the remaining pages yeah yeah Travis is going to go so insane you're going to have to write like a saga for him it's like a three book trilogy you've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast for access to the full episode as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast miniseries go to patreon.com slash QAA Travis why is that such a good deal

Well, Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month. For that very low price, you get access to over 200 premium episodes, plus all of our miniseries. That includes 10 episodes of Man Clan with Julian and Annie, 10 episodes of Pervers with Julian and Liv, 10 episodes of the Spectral Voyager with Jake and Brad, plus 20 episodes of Trickle Down with me, Travis View. 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. Thank you.