QAA Podcast - Pay to Pray (Premium E341) Sample

Episode Date: June 21, 2026

What's up listeners, it’s me, your friend, Marky Mark. We’re going to stay prayed up today, okay? Just login to my new app “Hallow” and for the low price of $69(nice).99/year you can optimize your praying output everyday with me and Chris Pratt. Where’s my 4am club at? Get a 4am prayer pump, okay? Yes listeners, it’s time. With Jake’s free trial already lapsed and Jack’s about to, the two have partnered up to bring you the worst content in prayer maxing. Founded in 2018 the app “Hallow” is a catholic meditation and prayer app that has brought in celebrities such as Liam Neeson, Gwen Stefani, Russell Brand, Chris Pratt, and most notably, Mark Wahlberg. Jack kicks off the episode discussing the celebrities that have partnered with Hallow and the company’s questionable ideals. Then Jake brings us home focusing on the app’s content and how the background ambient sounds might just be worth the price of admission. Jake finds out many celebrities are in fact still living. 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.

If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 341. Pay to Pray. We are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Jack LaRoshe, Julian Fields, and Travis View. Hey, Jack. Hey there, Jake. Feeling blessed this morning to be able to record an episode of the QAA podcast. Won't you pray with me?

Wow. You're really asking me? I'd be honored. Gotta stay prayed up hashtag 4 a.m. Club, okay? Dear Father, may the deep dish... Dear Father, may the deep dish bless us and keep us from losing our mind while we deep dive into the Christian prayer app, hallow. That's right, folks. Oh, whoa.

That's Jake. That was Jake the whole time? Folks, look, I might have got a little hallowed myself. That means I was killed. I've come back in skeleton form less. powerful. I need to get my soul essence back. And to do that, we're going to have to record this episode because I signed up for the free trial of Hallow just because I was bored really late one night. And I was hoping to see Marky Mark be like, Jesus be thy name, okay? You know, that's what

I wanted. I just wanted to see Marky Mark and Chris Pratt be like, be like, hi, hi, we're huge, multi, multi-millionaire movie stars. And yet here we are on this Christian app. And then I forgot to cancel. I forgot to cancel the free trial. And so it charged me for you. 5999 for the year. And so I was like, I feel terrible about this. What am I going to do? I'm going to screencap the content and we'll do an episode on it and that'll make it worthwhile. Even more funny, it's $69.99. So how many prayer minutes have you long? I'm at like two. I'm probably at like 300 prayer minutes, I would say over the last like, I don't know, week and a half or so. I've gotten a couple of badges. So basically just playing them? Like when you play. the little guided prayers, it counts them? Uh-huh, yeah, it's gamified. It's gamified.

So the more you listen, it's kind of like the duolingo app. Like, it rewards you for kind of completing challenges. The average boomer, like, has more time talking to that parrot than they do their kids. I'm getting so close to 300 prayer minutes. So I guess you'd say we're both getting pretty prayed up. Wait, no, it's an owl, right? Yeah, it's an owl. Fuck.

It gives a shit. I'm getting badged up. I'm getting badged up. I'm wearing the armor of God. I'm clothed, I've clothed myself in a mythrial chain mail of Christ. As I slowly melt away from my Jewish roots and embrace the teachings of hallow, which is actually just a meditation app that's like Christian coded. It's quite genius, quite insidious. And Jack's going to tell us a little bit about its humble beginnings.

Yeah. So as a disclaimer, all of this was written while listening to the Catholic lofi beats that are available to listen to on Hallow, complete with some beautiful AI rendered images to just really get you into a nice meditative state. Yes, I've included a little sample from the radio station that was advertised to me later on in the episode. So yeah, we're going to give you a little a tasting menu, if you will, from Hallow. So buckle up. Close your eyes and take a deep breath and prepare to get prayed up with us. Yeah, you always know it's good when you have to fucking buckle up to eat something. You know, it's like buckle up at the restaurant.

That's what Jake is asking you to do. We are putting that Eucharist right underneath your tongue right now, Julian. So open wide. Thank you. There are plenty of self-help apps available to download that will guide you through meditation. Some of them are for sissy hypnosis. but many others guide you through a more conventional religious session. Some even offer prayerful Catholic meditations and will guide you along through the rosary.

Your finger just tapping away at each of the virtual beads to mimic the far more satisfying tactical experience of actually holding it in your fingertips. But the one we're going to hear about today is by far the most popular one. Every Lent, it reaches top of the app charts, actually. and you need to pay $69.99 to subscribe for a year or $11 a month. Either way, you are absolutely screwed, as the app is notoriously difficult to unsubscribe from. So please pray for Jake and me. Oh, my God. Two subscriptions?

God, we've paid so much already. Alex Jones, not the conspiracy theorist. Correct. Yes. No relation, but same name. He looks kind of like a dark Macklemore. He was raised Catholic. Yeah, he totally does.

He's like so dark macklemore, though. You mean like evil macklemore or like more? Yeah, like evil macklemore, like alt dimension macklemore. Bizarro, got it. Yeah, imagine macklemore like in a polo with this just evil look in his eyes and this vacant stare. It's something. Julian, Julian, imagine macklemore, but mac no more. Oh, wow.

That, what is there to say? So Alex Jones. the evil macklemore was raised Catholic, but like many in the secular era, he fell away from faith during college. The stress of classes and then his job in the financial sector, you can insert some sad violin noises here for effect, led him to discovering the world of meditation apps. Most prominently, he mentions headspace. While he doesn't mention the fact that he married a devout Catholic during this time period, which might have had something to do with his typical meditation. meditation experience.

Every time I would meditate or sit in silence, my mind kept feeling pulled towards something spiritual, like an image of Jesus, an image of the cross, the words Holy Spirit, which I thought was very strange because I would have considered myself agnostic. It's so crazy, like this stuff, these images and words that were pumped into me for years and years, I mean, most of my childhood, in fact, it's weird when I'm sitting in silence thinking about spirituality, those tend to be the images that come to my mind. Catholic pussy got me acting strange. I mean, that's kind of what I think is going on.

Yeah, of course. He married a devout Catholic. Why does he keep thinking about Catholic things? Who knows? But he was so confused by these visions that kept coming to him that he called on two of his college friends for advice. All of these guys had drifted away from any deep connection to the faith, except for possibly Alessandro de Santa. but him and, you know, Eric Kureki, they were both still kind of practicing as opposed to Alex's near atheism. He says he's agnostic. Sometimes he says he's an atheist, whatever, who cares?

Alessandro described the scene this way to the podcast busted halo. Alex showed up to my apartment one day as his resident Catholic friend. He said, Hey man, how did you learn how to pray? And what's your prayer life today? What's your prayer life? What's the prayer like? How's your prayer life? Hey man, how's your prayer life? Julian, what if that's what we talked about when we first met to talk about doing a video game podcast? First, how's your prayer life, man?

Meanwhile, you're having a fucking panic attack. I kind of imagine it like that scene in the room. You know, instead of anyways, how's your sex life? It's just anyways, how's your prayer life? Yeah, that's what's up. How many times a week do you pray? 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 Perverts with Julian and Liv. 10 episodes of the Spectrales, 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 great.