As Super Bowl LX rolls into Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, Jake Rockatansky and Travis View are joined by sports writer Arif Hasan (Wide Left newsletter) to dig into one of the NFL’s strangest modern fan obsessions: the idea that the San Francisco 49ers are cursed by an electrical substation. Over the last decade the Niners have become infamous for suffering from brutal, momentum-killing injuries. This has fueled endless theories about potential reasons for the medical incidents that are causing ...
Feb 07, 2026•10 min
"Are you still talking about this Epstein guy?" Yes Donald, we are. This week Travis has prepared a slough of revelations from the latest DOJ document dump pertaining to nightmare creature Jeffrey Epstein. We’ll cover emails from the likes of Elon Musk, Christopher Poole (aka "Moot"), Richard Branson, and...Xbox? We think Travis may have listened to "Truly Tradly Deeply" one too many times because even he has taken up a little baking in this episode with some encouragement from Liv, Jake, and Ju...
Feb 04, 2026•1 hr 22 min
Devin Thomas O’Shea transports Travis to Milwaukee, 1932, where Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel Shadow Ticket kicks off with speakeasy intrigue, Depression misery, and a precision-engineered car bomb. Devin unpacks Pynchon’s characteristic hinge-of-history setting, when everyone’s forced to pick sides, as the book’s reluctant bruiser-turned-investigator Hicks McTaggart gets thrashed around by forces he can’t (and won’t) understand. Shadow Ticket’s paranoia, occult object-mysticism, and explosive p...
Feb 01, 2026•10 min
Travis and Jake are joined by journalist Mike Rothschild to discuss the second time that the federal government has killed someone in Minnesota then smeared them as a terrorist, the growing paranoia on the right that opposition to occupation by federal agents constitutes an “insurgency,” the White House manipulating photos using AI, Kash Patel treating the FBI like his personal Hype House, and alleged time travel by the late Charlie Kirk. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium QAA episo...
Jan 28, 2026•1 hr 10 min
This week we dig into a peacoat-wearing QAnon counter-protester and end up unspooling a whole new nest of open fascists. First up: pardoned Jan. 6 figure and proud white supremacist Jake Lang, doing street-theater politics in Washington, D.C. at a “crusader rally,” complete with Nazi posturing, bizarre props, and an argument that quickly devolves into the classic far-right pastime: accusing each other of being FBI. We also track Lang’s later appearance near Minneapolis City Hall, where he and hi...
Jan 25, 2026•10 min
If you’ve spent any time on Travel YouTube lately, you’ve probably seen it: grim walk-and-talks through London that portray neighborhoods like post-apocalyptic no-go zones. This week, Annie Kelly digs into the booming “London Has Fallen” genre of online video travelogue. Unscrupulous influencers trawl London’s most diverse neighborhoods hunting for “proof” of civilizational collapse, and reliably finding it in the form of clickbait, racism-by-implication, and algorithm-friendly panic. All episod...
Jan 22, 2026•1 hr 50 min
Liv, Jake, and Travis grapple with the killing of Renee Good by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis. Though the incident was captured on video from multiple angles, discourse about it was immediately swallowed by a churn of regime spin, conspiracy narratives, and AI-assisted fakery. To get a better idea of how Department of Homeland Security leadership thinks and operates, Travis interviews independent journalist Ken Klippenstein about internal DHS documents recently leaked to him. Then Jake gives us hi...
Jan 18, 2026•10 min
The new book The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging by Noelle Cook offers an unusually intimate look at why seemingly bizarre conspiracy worlds that involve starseeds, ascended masters, and shadowy cabals are powerfully compelling even when they damage the lives of believers. Rather than taking a detached academic approach, Cook traces how white, middle-aged women were pulled deeper into conspiratorial belief systems in the years leading up to and after January 6, through...
Jan 14, 2026•1 hr 18 min
A new strain of cryptozoology is howling across the internet. It’s less about stuff like “undiscovered birds” and more like “Bigfoot is interdimensional.” This week, we are joined by guest writer Jack LaRoche follow that trail straight into Louisiana’s swampy heartland to meet the Rougarou: a Cajun loup-garou legend shaped by Catholic ideas about sin and control, then transformed through centuries of cultural mixing into something that’s been feared, joked about, and even embraced as a local mas...
Jan 10, 2026•10 min
Julian, Travis, and Jake ring in the new year by chatting about the deluge of disinformation and AI slop created in the wake of the brazen U.S. abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. We interview The Empire Files journalist Abby Martin about her on-the-ground reporting in Venezuela. Plus, Julian reveals the darkest secret of his family line. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Abby Martin https://x.com/AbbyMartin The Empire Files https://www.yout...
Jan 08, 2026•2 hr 4 min
Liv brings us a very special report from inside the brain of former Vanity Fair editor and journalist Olivia Nuzzi. You see, Liv has read Nuzzi’s book, “American Canto,” cover to cover; we know this because Travis was one of the 1200 people who purchased a hard copy – again, we apologize. But as the gang dives deeper and deeper into the sacred text, Liv and Julian make the horrible discovery that… Nuzzi, she’s just like them! Jake and Travis remain mostly intact throughout this very silly look i...
Dec 23, 2025•10 min
Tic Tac, Gimbal, GOFAST. Elizondo, Grusch, Mellon. AAWWSAP, AATIP, AARO. Brad is back, ensconced in a space-time bubble, to take on the latest UFO film blockbuster with the guys: “The Age of Disclosure”. It’s the most credentialed UFO film to date, featuring 35 government insiders, and smashing all box office records. Somehow, this same intelligence community that allegedly ran eight decades of deception, is now to be trusted? Find out why, even though he’s “the UFO guy”, Brad is over disclosure...
Dec 19, 2025•1 hr 34 min
In the three months since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Kirk’s former friend and colleague Candace Owens has spun several wild conspiracy theories about that event. Owens rejects the mainstream narrative of a single killer who had no accomplices, instead insinuating that Kirk’s death was part of an international conspiracy involving Israel, Egypt, and possibly France. She has further implied that Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, is helping cover up the supposed truth behind the fatal gunshot, t...
Dec 16, 2025•10 min
The year is 1983. Your evil stepmother is hosting a party to celebrate the arrival of an interstellar comet. The two of you get into a fistfight and you spend the night in the yard shed. In the morning, everyone you care about has been turned to red dust. This is the inciting incident of “Night of the Comet,” a deep pocket Travis pull for our annual melted holiday movie night. There are ghoulish motorcycle cops, deep underground research labs, and loud diegetic music playing in nearly every scen...
Dec 13, 2025•1 hr 41 min
A self-proclaimed whistleblower’s post has gone viral on the r/UFOS subreddit. They claim, through their work as a government contractor, that they have become privy to an intergalactic wager made by aliens betting on our survival in a future war we fight against bugs. Tight! But that’s just a side note to what she claims is the real alien coverup: that a communist version of our planet exists on a nearby star system – and that the US government is doing everything in its power to make sure we d...
Dec 06, 2025•10 min
Julian, Travis, and Jake discuss Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation from Congress and the many MAGA accounts which were revealed to be based overseas. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa All episodes of Annie Kelly’s new 6-part podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers. Sign up now for the most in depth analysis of tradwives you can hear anywhere. www.cursedmedia.net/ Cursed Media subscribers also get acces...
Dec 04, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Nuzzi. Lizza. Maga. Disney. Chemtrails. Folks, the world is getting weirder and weirder as human brains begin to wilt and grow mold. Perhaps we didn’t water them enough. Perhaps some of us watered with Diet Coke, Monster Energy, and Electrolytes instead of classic H20, which would explain why some of us are so much more powerful than others. For this week’s episode, Travis, Jake, and Liv form a meeting of the minds. We talk about some of the latest and ongoing news stories from pilled America th...
Nov 30, 2025•10 min
The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apocalyptic UFO group, observing how members prepared, including quitting jobs, giving away possessions, and severing ties with skeptics. According to the book, when the group’s predicted disaster did not occur, instead of simply abandoning their beliefs, many core members strengthened their commitment ...
Nov 25, 2025•53 min
Travis’ pumpkin pie preference, Liv’s Serbian cuisine, Jake telling the story about the Aliens slot machine for the second or third time on the pod. It’s a Thanksgiving takes worthy of your family’s praise. We talk food, dos and don'ts during the meal, and which conspiracy theories are safe to bring to the dinner table. Come for the ham, stay for the slop. 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...
Nov 22, 2025•10 min
Travis, Jake, and Liv sift through the gems in the latest dump of Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee. The records show interactions with individuals across politics, academia, finance and media, including Noam Chomsky, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and author Michael Wolff. We cover Epstein’s comments about Trump, Michael Wolff’s creepy work with Epstein, Bannon’s request to visit “the island” the day that Epstein was arrested in Ne...
Nov 21, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Jake emerges from the underground city of Speranza to see whether gamers are cooperating online again. Rumors of friendly behavior and positive community vibes have brought the new videogame “Arc Raiders” under close scrutiny. Are we capable of putting aside our differences and taking on the robots together once and for all? 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. Theme Vocals by ...
Nov 16, 2025•11 min
In many sad cases, promoting QAnon ends with broken relationships and derailed careers. But occasionally, QAnon promoters end up in Congress or as Director of the FBI. This week Jake, Travis, and Liv check in with our QAnon friends in government. We chat about Rep. Margarie Taylor Greene’s split with Trump and accusations that FBI Director Kash Patel is living large (while impressing his 24-year-old country singer girlfriend) on the taxpayer’s dime. We also discuss The Blaze’s bumbling attempt t...
Nov 14, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Jake hands in a frantic book report on Chris Bledsoe’s detailed memoir as a lifelong UFO experiencer. The hosts perform passages from the book and discuss why science fiction and Christianity complement each other so well. 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. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaap...
Nov 09, 2025•11 min
Have you been having fun with the newest slate of AI tools? Have you been doing research with GPT-5? Coding your projects with Claude? Turning pictures of your friends into cartoon characters from the Fairly Odd Parents using the image editing tool Nano Banana? Are you impressed with what they can do? Well guess what? You’re only impressed with them because you’re basically a naive child. You’re like a little child with an etch a sketch who is amazed that they can make crude images by turning th...
Nov 07, 2025•56 min
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released weekly. https://www.cursedmedia.net/ This series immerses you in the online world of "tradwives" through social media feeds, videos, and podcasts, so we can understand both its genuine appeal and its real‑world consequences. In our kickoff episode to Truly Tradly Deeply, Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly d...
Oct 30, 2025•2 hr 17 min
Why do tech oligarchs keep proclaiming that the end is nigh? From Elon Musk warning of the civilizational-level threat of the “woke mind virus,” to Marc Andreessen declaring that “any deceleration of AI will cost lives,” to Peter Thiel’s fixation with the Antichrist, billionaires are insistent that the stakes of their ventures are nothing less than apocalyptic. To better understand the paranoia of Silicon Valley overlords, Travis, Jake, and Julian are joined by Chris Marquis, Sinyi Professor of ...
Oct 29, 2025•1 hr 15 min
This week, Jake and Travis sit down with journalist Will Sommer to unpack his investigation into the New Age wellness empire selling stacks of glowing TV monitors as a cure‑all. Jason Shurka, the brains behind the multi-million dollar operation, used the funds to bankroll a brand new streaming platform, Unifyd TV, whose offerings include documentaries made by QAnon promoters. According to the promoters of this quack cure, their work is approved by a secret society of powerful entities who are de...
Oct 25, 2025•10 min
Annie Kelly has spent most of 2025 investigating the online world of so-called “traditional wives” or “tradwives.” On this episode she sits down with Travis, Jake, and Julian to talk about her new six-episode miniseries Truly, Tradly, Deeply for the Cursed Media podcast network. Among other discoveries: it’s more difficult than you might think to even properly define “tradwife,” much of the community promotes a fantasy about the pre-internet age, and tradwife content is far less fringe than it u...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 21 min
In this special Halloween edition of movie night, Jake and Travis discuss the 1960 British “B-movie” The City of the Dead. The film, the directorial debut of John Llewellyn Moxey and released under the title Horror Hotel in the United States, tells the story of a coven of witches in New England who lure women for a diabolical yearly sacrifice to Lucifer. The British actors, including a very young Christopher Lee, put on their best American accents to make a film so spooky that distributors chose...
Oct 18, 2025•10 min
Government shutdown! Indictments! National Guard! It’s almost as if military tribunals will be announced next, according to the many Qanon faithfuls who believe they’ve entered the third act of the movie. Is the “Storm” finally upon us? 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. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedroco...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min
