The ongoing discourse around social media and extremism took a strange twist earlier this month after users of the social media platform Tik Tok discovered a 2002 work by Osama bin Laden called “Letter to America.” Tik Tokers noted the letter’s analysis of American imperialism and its effects on the Middle East, as well as the influence of Zionist thought on American politics. Many expressed shock and acted as if the brief letter completely altered their conception of the world, as if this was the very first critique of American foreign policy they ever encountered. This controversy ignited a very dumb conversation about the influence of social media, and Tik Tok in general, on young people. To unpack this tempest in a teapot, Travis, Jake, and Liv discuss the letter itself, how Tik Tokers reacted to it, and how the controversy may be inflated by panic over Chinese-owned Tik Tok. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: livagar.com / linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. qanonanonymous.com References: Full Text: bin Laden’s Letter to America https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081002/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html Letter to American people Wikipedia Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_American_people 404 Media: The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden’s Letter to America Because it Went Viral on TikTok https://www.404media.co/guardian-deletes-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-it-goes-viral-on-tiktok/ Washington Post: How Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ reached millions online https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/ CNN: Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/index.html Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine Ryan Broderick: TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama Bin Laden https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama Reuters: Montana to become first US state to ban Tik Tok https://www.reuters.com/world/us/montana-governor-signs-bill-banning-tiktok-state-2023-05-17/ New York Times: Nikki Haley Renews Call for TikTok Ban After Bin Laden Letter Circulates https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/us/politics/nikki-haley-tiktok-ban.html New York Times: Lawmakers Renew Calls to Ban Tik Tok After Accusations of Anti-Israel Content https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/tiktok-accusations-anti-israel-content.html

Libs of TikTok is the name of a social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms run by a woman named Chaya Raichik. In just a few years it has catapulted from a relative unknown to a right-wing media force. Raichik mostly reposts videos, photos, and screenshots designed to stir the ire of her followers. The vast majority of her output concerns the LGBTQ community, for example calling out teachers for sharing their pronouns with students and hospitals for offering gender-affirming care. The accounts have been amplified by the likes of Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, and other big names. The account’s posts often include the names, social media handles, and other identifying information of its subjects, leading to harassment campaigns against the individuals and organizations it spotlights. Raichik’s obsessions often go on to become mainstream topics of conservative discourse. She commands the attention of some of America’s most powerful right-wing politicians, and her influence has empowered the account’s conservative fanbase to threaten and protest children’s hospitals, teachers, school districts, drag shows, and more. To get a better idea of the real world impact of Libs of Tik Tok, we are joined by Will Carless. He is a reporter for USA Today and he recently published an investigation titled “When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow.” And for this report, Carless got a rare personal interview with Raichik herself. REFERENCES Michael Flynn and family pocketed leftover money from his legal defense fund, filing claims https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2023/michael-flynn-and-family-pocketed-leftover-money-from-legal-defense-fund-filing-claims The AP incorrectly reported that QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley has “disavowed the QAnon movement” as he plans an Arizona congressional campaign https://www.mediamatters.org/associated-press/ap-incorrectly-reported-qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-has-disavowed-qanon-movement When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/11/02/libs-of-tiktok-tweets-death-bomb-threats/71409213007/ TIMELINE: The impact of Libs of TikTok told through the educators, health care providers, librarians, LGBTQ people, and institutions that have been harassed and violently threatened https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians

Taylor Swift is secretly gay — according to a movement born on Tumblr that lurched into QAnon territory. Liv Agar leads us down the rabbithole of this years-long fever dream. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by DJ DEATH and Roopen. http://qanonanonymous.com

Bill Gates and his "philanthropic" foundation. We've heard the conspiracy theories — but what if the reality was damning enough? Our guest is Tim Schwab, journalist and author of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA x Goosecult Party on Saturday December 16th: https://dice.fm/event/e8pkd-qaa-podcast-x-goosecult-party-w-john-vanderslice-16th-dec-the-goldfish-los-angeles-tickets The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250291431 Tim Schwab: https://twitter.com/TimothyWSchwab Music by Nick Sena. http://qanonanonymous.com

Join Jake and Brad on their bogus journey as they cross the River Styx and descend slowly into the lake of fire. That’s right folks, this week we’re all going to Hell. We’ll pour over the origins of the underworld and examine three different cases where people claimed to have traveled there: An atheist turned minister. A pastor who had to suffer through a demon-sung rendition of Rhianna’s “Umbrella.” A sweet old lady who couldn’t, for the death of her, understand why she had been sent to this godforsaken place. We’ll also explore an idea even more terrifying than Hell itself… the quantum entanglement of never dying at all. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Voiceover performance by Katie Amis. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

A libertarian conservative children’s cartoon proclaiming the virtues of bitcoin and the evils of Karl Marx: it’s The Tuttle Twins! We explore the people behind the book series and its animated adaptation and then take a stroll through a couple of the episodes. Julian has found new ways to torture Liv, Jake and Travis. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

New Speaker of the House, new freak to examine. In Mike Johnson's case, we'll be looking at his connections to the New Apostolic Reformation, Christian dominionism, election denial, young earth creationism, and a Noah's Ark theme park in Kentucky. Our guest is Dr. Bradley Onishi, a scholar of religion who teaches at the University of San Francisco. His writing has been published in the New York Times, LA Review of Books, and Religion & Politics, among other outlets. He is also the co-host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus and the author of the book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism And What Comes Next. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA x Goosecult Party on Saturday December 16th: https://dice.fm/event/e8pkd-qaa-podcast-x-goosecult-party-w-john-vanderslice-16th-dec-the-goldfish-los-angeles-tickets Straight White American Jesus Podcast: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Bradley Onishi: https://twitter.com/bradleyonishi Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism And What Comes Next: https://www.bradonishi.com/books/ Music by Max Weber & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

You are floating through a long, dark tunnel, towards a bright, warm light into Part I of our Afterlife episode. Who better to finally answer the question of where we go when we die than Brad and Jake? We take you on an out of body experience to the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia’s medical school, where we meet our guides, professors of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences Jim Tucker M.D. and Bruce Greyson M.D. Together, they’ve amassed around 8000 case studies in their respective fields of near-death experiences and children who claim to remember past lives (aka reincarnation). We’ll not only delve into the science and history of the phenomena but take you through the wild personal stories of the experiencers. This will prime you for next week’s Part II, where we’ll drag you to the depths of Hell, and through the many dimensions of Quantum Immortality. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond, Bruce Greyson M.D. Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, Jim B. Tucker M.D. Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives, Jim B. Tucker M.D.

In January and February of last year, the normal operations of Canada's capital city of Ottawa were disrupted by the so-called Freedom Convoy. The convoy involved hundreds of trucks and personal vehicles and thousands of protestors at its peak, who made a lot of noise and blocked traffic before finally being cleared out. The initial convoy movement was created to protest vaccine mandates for crossing the United States border, but later evolved into a protest about COVID-19 mandates in general. Beginning January 22, 2023, vehicles formed convoys from several points and traversed Canadian provinces before converging on Ottawa on January 29, 2022, with a rally at Parliament Hill. The convoy was condemned by the trucking industry and labor groups. The Canadian Trucking Alliance stated that most protesters had no connection to trucking. That all came to an end on February 14, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time since its passing in 1988. Between February 17 and 20, a large joint-operation police presence in Ottawa arrested organizers and protesters, removed parked vehicles, and dismantled blockades from Ottawa streets. Just a few months ago a new protest movement emerged, taking inspiration from both that convoy movement and anti-gay and trans protest movements. This one is called The Save the Children Convoy. Since this new convoy was announced, it has been subject to allegations of plans of criminal violence, infighting, and the leaders have invoked sovereign citizen and QAnon concepts. We talk to Luke LeBrun, editor of the publication PressProgress, about this developing story and what members of the Save The Children convoy want. REFERENCES Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-far-right-is-planning-a-convoy-to-toronto-to-save-the-children-its-already-spinning-out-of-control/ Far-Right ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Gathering at Rural Base Camp Outside Ottawa https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-save-the-children-convoy-gathering-at-rural-base-camp-outside-ottawa/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Leaders Plotted to Capture Police and MPs at Secret Meetings, Participants Allege https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-leaders-plotted-to-capture-police-and-mps-at-secret-meetings-participants-allege/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Leader Calls for Jailing Politicians and Replacing Government in QAnon-Inspired Speech https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-leader-calls-for-jailing-politicians-and-replacing-government-in-qanon-inspired-speech/ ‘Save the Children Convoy’ Says Conservative MP Invited Them Into House of Commons as ‘VIP’ Guests https://pressprogress.ca/save-the-children-convoy-says-conservative-mp-invited-them-into-house-of-commons-as-vip-guests/

JFK Jr's Magazine - which aimed to make politics sexy - ran from 1995 to 2001. But now it's back! And it's packed to the gills with QAnon weirdness, far-right grievances, poems about Pomeranians and broken writing. Somehow they landed an interview with RFK Jr? Plus they launched a children's magazine! Fun for everyone in George 2.0. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

British comedian-turned-Hollywood-actor-turned-Youtube-guru Russell Brand is facing serious sexual assault accusations. Annie Kelly takes a look at his relationship to his audience as he slides into the conspiratorial and contrarian. This is part two of two and includes an interview with Dr. Rob Topinka, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Dr. Rob Topinka: https://twitter.com/robtopinka Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Tik Tok get their hands on the deaf blind historical figure and the results are confounding. Liv once again takes us down a maddening path into the viral joke / rumor / conspiracy theory that Helen Keller either wasn't real or was faking her disability. Apologies in advance. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

British comedian-turned-Hollywood-actor-turned-Youtube-guru Russell Brand is facing serious sexual assault accusations. Annie Kelly takes a look at his relationship to his audience as he slides into the conspiratorial and contrarian. This is part one of two and includes an interview with Dr. Rob Topinka, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Dr. Rob Topinka: https://twitter.com/robtopinka Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Dragons. Giants. Planets giving birth. Julian, Liv, Travis and Jake return to Mudfossil University to learn that all rocks are actually the body parts of ancient creatures spoken of in various myths and religious texts. Graduation is at hand — if they can grasp these complex scientific findings. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

In past QAA cryptid episodes, we typically find a creature thought to be real, but then is later debunked by modern science. For this week’s Spectral Voyager, we thought it would be interesting to do the opposite: Start with a creature once believed to be a myth, until scientists were able to actually prove its existence. The Giant Squid has fascinated Jake since he was a young boy, and he, Brad, and Julian will pour through the animal’s legendary sightings dating all the way back to the fifteen hundreds. Follow us along on the nearly five hundred year journey to prove the existence of one of the greatest mysteries the ocean has to offer us. We’ll also be exploring the Mokele-Mbembe in Brad’s “Cryptid Corner” – a potentially prehistoric reptile that might very well haunt Lake Tele, deep in the jungles of Africa. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com SOURCES: The Hunt for the Giant Squid | The New Yorker First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild - PMC (nih.gov) 1882 - Report on the cephalopods of the northeastern coast of America - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)

Did U.S. forces fight and kill a redheaded giant in the Afghan province of Kandahar? Is it possible to connect the dots about the United States’ role in Afghanistan — and the Middle East — without resorting to stories about giants? We answer these questions with Brendan James and Noah Kulwin of the Blowback podcast. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Blowback: https://blowback.show Noah Kulwin: https://twitter.com/nkulw Brendan James: https://twitter.com/deep_beige Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Auto-tuned Michael Flynn. Trump rapping. Adrenochrome dubstep. QAnon spoken word over saxophone. AI Klaus Schwab. Disney parodies. We cover the best of the best in redpilled music, including the freshly-dropped anthem "Freedom" which is taking the world by storm. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

On October 4th FEMA, in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). For those of us in the normie world, this is a dull bureaucratic event. But conspiracists, it’s something much more — a potentially catastrophic event. One that will spread illness and disease that may even transform people into zombies. In this episode, we dive into the conspirituality gurus who started this bonkers rumor, how it borrowed from earlier conspiracy theories, and how it took a life on its own among online conspiracists. REFERENCES FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023 https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023 What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013538/what-are-the-ingredients-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine/ Jim Bakker Is Now Using His End Times Broadcast to Warn About Zombies https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-is-now-using-his-end-times-broadcast-to-warn-about-zombies/ Chromosome 1p36 deletion syndrome https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/334629 Zombie Apocalypse: Can the Undead Teach the Living How to Survive an Emergency? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612174/ Pfizer vaccine does not contain graphene oxide https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-430816913228 If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

We finally did a UFO episode, and it’s our retelling of one of the most confounding and mysterious cases on record: The Socorro Saucer. This case has all the makings of a cognitive conundrum: a credible main witness (Lonnie Zamora), secondary witnesses, physical evidence, the Air Force classifying it as unknown, and a lack of convincing alternate explanations. This UFOlogical tale is told in parallel with the story of the Jacques Cousteau of UFOs (and channeler of ascended masters), the swaggiest researcher of them all, Ray Stanford… who also found dinosaurs in a NASA parking lot. Featuring an interview with journalist skeptic-believer D. Dean Johnson. To listen to the full episode, and gain access to our other mini-series such as Manclan and Trickle Down, you can subscribe for just five bucks a month at: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous D. Dean Johnson: http://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. QAA’s website: http://qanonanonymous.com

A murderous "witch doctor" from South Africa and the ritual killing of teenagers and children. Basically the perfect script for Italian Americans to write. Jake, Julian and Liv tackle a listener submission: 2023's The Ritual Killer. The film has an inexplicably stacked cast: Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, Vernon Davis, Peter Stormare... and guess what? It's a masterpiece. No idea why it bombed. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: http://livagar.com / http://linktr.ee/livagar Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com