QAA Podcast - Prediction Market Guerilla Advertising (Premium E342) Sample

Episode Date: June 28, 2026

BING BONG! After an extended absence due to some antibiotics, Liv is back and has brought with her another episode filled with a slurry of emotion. Liv’s latest covers the betting app Kalshi and its competitor, Polymarket. Although illegal in some states, these “prediction market platforms” have had a boom in popularity allowing users to bet on anything imaginable, including but not limited to, political events. With Don Jr as a strategic advisor for both Kalshi and Polymarket, it’s safe to say these morally questionable sites will be with us for the foreseeable future. Jake and Julian join Liv on this adventure and I would bet it doesn’t take too long for the rails to leave entirely with this troublesome trio. 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.

I see guys with thinning hair out in public, and I go, there's a solution. I know we just started recording, but we've been talking for, we were supposed to meet at 11. It's now 1128, and we've been talking for half an hour. We've been doing secret podcasting, just talking amongst ourselves. I was saying, content that we don't have. That's so good. Subscribe to the super premium for the real. I was telling, yeah, Julian, Liv, and Corey, who's also on.

the call and I can see all of their faces because we're on oh I shouldn't say what program we use oh the link or something do you guys want to join no but I was saying that I've effectively like reversed my balding with like an amount of medication pills oral pills a Korean hair serum that I got on the TikTok shop but yeah my friends can't believe it my one buddy asked me if I got a hair transplant. What is happening? Well, you guys can see the video, Julian, this whole section used to be bald.

This, I had the... You're hearing this. You've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QA podcast, premium episode 342. Prediction Market Gorilla Advertising. As always, we are your hosts, Julian Fields. Jake Rakatansky. And Liv Egar.

Yeah, you cannot hold this liable for anything that's been said until now, and anything that's said after now, actually, if we're going to be honest. If you like New York, it was going to be about New York. If you like New York and also socialism, get on the monoxideil. I know that Zoron talked about. Yeah, I'm on like, I'm on a combo. I'm on what they call the nuclear stack in the R-Bald subreddit. It's a combination of monoxidil. What's the other one?

It was for prostate cancer. A whole bottle of Syracool. No, no, no, no, no. My mood is okay, my mood is okay. I am not needing this. I am not needing Sarah M. Quill. But, uh, hey everybody. Welcome to our little episode.

I guess like a little bit of Jake's takes, lives gives has like found its way onto a pretty normal premium. Sure. How is everyone doing? Well, at about, I don't know, 8 a.m. this morning, we got a text from one Travis View. And he said, hey, guys, do you mind if I say, out this episode. And I went and I looked at the roster and I went, let's see, who's on this app?

Julian Liv. When I saw that text, fireworks erupted in my neighborhood. I went, this is going to be trouble. This is going to be trouble. There's a topic, but who knows if we'll get to it. We'll see. Yeah. You know what I've not done so far is promote superstructure up front. So I will do that a little bit. I have a new podcast called Superstructure, and you can go check it out at Superstructurepodcast.com. I hang out with comedian John Gabris, and we explore power. The way I put it is it's the power of political repression, the power of propaganda, and the power of freedom struggles the world over. So it's very, very fun time. We're going to have live on soon. And we're also planning to have Hessa and Will on for an episode exploring a Jean-Cle

Claude Van Dam movie from 2001 in which he ends up dressed as a Hasid in Tel Aviv, like doing karate on people. And it's a really beautiful, beautiful movie. They didn't show that one in Shull. No. No, but Junkhloid Van Dam with the little hair stuff and the hat is just, it's a beautiful movie. So that should be fun.

Yeah, go go check it out. Superstructionpodcast.com. Liv, how are you doing? And please don't answer about with like drug advice. It was immediately going to mention a prescription medication, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, I've been on Metronidazol for like a month. It's an antibiotic, and I just been cooking me completely. But I'm off at now.

Antibiotics are tough, and they don't really give them out that much anymore. They're stingy with the biotics. Yeah. The drug that makes you metrosexual. Oh, it is. And it worked. It works. It works.

It was so. But I have like, I feel like I have a new lease on life now. I have a pep in my step. I can drink alcohol now. It's one of the antibiotics where it's like if you drink any amount of alcohol, like your liver just cannot process anything. She's got a pet no baseball in her step. Yes. So what have you learned? What have you learned over this past month of sobriety? It's kind of nice not drinking, honestly. Alcohol is kind of terrible for you. It's just poison. You know, luckily, I do not have the thirst. I am one of those people whose face turns bright. red and I get sick to my stomach after two drinks and I get kind of queasy. Because you're like Jewish, you don't need to explain to us you're not a vampire. Well, no, I just mean that like I've never really been able to drink. I've always kind of been, one, a lightweight, two, I never really liked the, I just never had the thirst. Like, you know, for my family, smoking really was the problem.

As somebody who sat across from my softa in like a booth, you know, she blew cigarette smoke into my face while I was probably like eight or nine years old. That's really kind of the internal battle. Even now when I like, I'm in certain places or I see people with cigarettes, like, oh, fuck, that looks good, you know? I remember in Venezuela, my grandpa who had like super like, I've been in the sun's skin and just smoked two packs a day, two, three packs a day. He would have his like windows down on the big, like, wide old American car.

Still made of like fucking hard as rock steel. Oh, yeah. And he was definitely smoking. He smoked Belmont's. Oh, Belmont Miles. Yes, my Canadian friends' favorite, favorite Sig. Belmont is huge in Venezuela. Like, I remember you would come in through the airport in Caracas,

and in the mountains they would have crazy big ads. And Belmont, the approach was always like, beach party, smoke cigarettes. That sounds awesome. I'd love to be to beach party smoking. That sounds great. Mystery brought to you by Belmont. Wouldn't that be funny if when we finally adopted ads on the

QAA podcast. It was like for like cigarettes. Yeah, Gouloulois. Goulouz, like scratch cards. We have to do trashy shit. Do you like a Chilean beer. I actually, I don't know. Why does that feel less slimy somehow? Because it's like, it's already slimy.

Like let's just go to the fucking bottom of the barrel. Like, take me to the bins of crap, you know? This stream, sponsored by Polymarket. Sponsored by Galaxy Gas, Polymarket. Yeah. Yeah, have they done like a combo yet? Galaxy gas and Calci? That would be fire among

17-year-olds. That sounds like something that I would see at the dispensary. They just taking Galaxy Gas in like an empty room and it's been by, you know, fucking Steven Spielberg. Yeah. Galaxy gas does feel like a thing that isn't real, though. Is it just what? It's literally just like Whippets, right?

And they just sell them legally to children. People just are huffing on these big old long tubes that just look. I guess like the closest shape you could you could get is like one of those like tennis ball containers. Jesus Christ. Yeah, and they're fucking huffing on that shit. You can just go buy that in smoke shops here. Yeah, that's real bad.

That'll really kill your brain cells, yeah. Yeah, it's very literally. Yeah. You remove some oxygen from your brain for a temporary period of time. And then in Australia, they call them nangs. Because when you take them, it goes, what? It sounds like a slur.

It sounds like a slur that they have. Oh, it's not a slur. And if it is a slur in any kind of language or something, dialect they have Paul. There's really just no rules anymore to anything.

The bottom has fallen out in American society. Don't by your galaxy gas and huff it while you watch like the

250th anniversary UFC fight on the White House lawn. You bet on it on an integrated sports beth app.

We're not even describing something strange. Absolutely incredible state of things. I'm so glad that we get to

jump into this too. I mean, this prediction market stuff has been, what a cool feature of

our time. You know, when they say that we don't innovate anymore, that we don't come up with new things, well, what if sports was entirely just consumed by gambling? Like, we've really put that to the test, I think, you know? Even the World Cup, it's just like completely contaminated by all of these fucking ads. Yeah, I've been enjoying the World Cup a lot because it's like in Vancouver, which is cool. Are you going to actually go to a game or something?

No, it was too expensive. I kind of regret not going to like a cheaper one that's like where Canada isn't playing or whatever. But I have just been enjoying like just the culture. like they've like blocked off Granville Street and it's like walkable now. It feels like it's like you're in Montreal or something. It's really great. But it is evil and everything attached to it. Oh, of course.

There's no, unfortunately. Yeah, there's no ethical consumption, etc. But it's definitely something that I can't help but love every four years. Like every country that I've lived in basically goes nuts for it except for maybe here. And here they're starting to go kind of nuts for it. It's starting, yeah.

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