Sorry We Funded Nuzzi (Premium E317) Sample

Summary

QAA Podcast Premium E317 Sample — “Sorry We Funded Nuzzi”

Hosts: Julian Feeld, Travis View, Jake Rockatansky, Liv Agar
Release Date: December 23, 2025

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Episode Overview

This premium sample of QAA Podcast episode 317, “Sorry We Funded Nuzzi,” blends the show’s signature mix of comedy, personal anecdotes, and media commentary. The hosts riff on personal chaos, relationships, and their guilt-laden support for journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s recent book (which includes a famously awkward incident involving RFK Jr.). The episode quickly pivots from intimate life stories to jabs at internet culture and media consumption, poking fun at themselves along the way.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Banter & Personal Anecdotes ([00:00]–[03:07])

• Liv shares a chaotic Monday morning, recovering from a late-night out due to a situationship breakup and mishaps with her plumber, literally named Mario.
• The group jokes about Mario being a real-life “Super Mario” and spins humorous innuendo (e.g., “laying pipe”) into discussions of masculinity and relationships.
• Memorable Quote:

  “The image of me on the floor of my apartment soaking up water with a towel while he was leaving felt emblematic of the general relationship I have to men in my life.”
  —Liv Agar [04:02]

2. Group Dynamic & Reflections on Breakups ([03:08]–[06:52])

• Hosts riff on personality types in relationships, comparing themselves to sharks (“stay moving”) and starfish (“motionless”).
• Liv details how her situationship ended with a very public coffee shop breakup, which she found strangely familiar and almost transactional.
  • Notable Quote:

  “...every injury has its equivalence, which can be paid in compensation, if only to the pain of the person who injures. ...sometimes all you can expect from men is that they feel some amount of guilt for the troubles they've caused you.”
  —Liv Agar quoting Nietzsche [05:19]

• Travis and Liv discuss how people process emotional fallout from relationships differently, blending sincerity and banter:
  • “If I stay still too long, I'm like, wait, why am I even alive?” —Jake Rockatansky [02:08]
  • “I'm like a starfish. ...If you do time lapse photography, you can slowly get up.” —Travis View [02:12]

3. Segue Into Olivia Nuzzi & Media Commentary ([06:53]–[09:03])

• The personal narrative gives way to Liv’s work assignment: review Olivia Nuzzi’s much-maligned book, which Travis View had arranged to have delivered.
• The hosts discuss both the awkward notoriety around Nuzzi’s exchange with RFK Jr. and the joke that Travis is now publicly listed as a supporter due to low book sales.
  • “So few people buying it, Travis, that now you're kind of like a public figure. Like, your name is in the... thanks.” —Julian Feeld [07:35]
  • “She reads your name... in a list of the... 10, 12 that she reads at the end of the audiobook.” —Jake Rockatansky [07:55]
• Continuing to skewer themselves, Travis admits to seeking “alternate means” of obtaining review copies when possible, but still often buys them:
  • “There are maybe two dozen people who read new books anymore, and I feel like we should support the people who still produce it.” —Travis View [08:24]

4. Meta-Podcast Jokes & Inside References ([08:48]–[09:03])

• The crew digresses into self-deprecating humor about their roles and past “support”—including Travis (jokingly) as an “executive producer” on Nuzzi’s teenage music video “Jailbait.”
• “I did notice... you were the executive producer of Jailbait, the song she made when she was 16. Travis, how did your name end up in that video?” —Julian Feeld [08:48]

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

• Liv’s chaotic Monday, plumber mishap: [00:50]–[03:07]
• Breakup experience and philosophy: [04:02]–[05:45]
• Start of Olivia Nuzzi book discussion: [06:53]
• Travis as a (reluctant) book backer: [07:35]–[07:55]
• Supporting dwindling “book culture”: [08:24]
• Meta banter about podcasting and inside jokes: [08:48]–[09:03]

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Tone & Style

QAA’s trademark approach is in full effect: dry, sardonic humor, candid admissions, and heavy self-awareness. The hosts poke fun at each other and themselves, openly dissecting the awkward overlaps between personal experiences and their professional media lives. Banter skids seamlessly from everyday woes—like flood-prone laundry rooms—to the collapsing ecosystem of political journalism and internet-inflected cultural critique.

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Summary for New Listeners

In this sample episode, listeners get a glimpse of what makes QAA Podcast unique: deeply personal storytelling mashed up with biting cultural commentary and relentless in-jokes. The team deftly moves from Liv’s misadventures with men and plumbing to the odd infamy of funding an unpopular journalist’s book, with each anecdote acting as microcosms of a “melted” online and real-life culture. The episode underscores the absurdity of modern media and relationships, god-level podcast chemistry, and a willingness to laugh at their own role in the strangeness.

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Selected Quotes

• On breakups and the roles of men:

  “I guess sometimes all you can expect from men is that they feel some amount of guilt for the troubles they've caused you. Ideally an amount equal to your own pain. But it’s hard to be so hopeful.”
  —Liv Agar [05:19]

• On funding Olivia Nuzzi’s book:

  “So few people buying it, Travis, that now you're kind of like a public figure. Like, your name is in the... thanks.”
  —Julian Feeld [07:35]

• On buying and reviewing controversial books:

  “There are maybe two dozen people who read new books anymore, and I feel like we should support the people who still produce it.”
  —Travis View [08:24]

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For the full episode and QAA’s archive, listeners are directed to subscribe to the show’s Patreon.

Transcript

[A]

Sam, if you're hearing this, well done.

[B]

You found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the qaa podcast premium episode 317. Sorry, we funded Nutsy. As always, we are your hosts, Jake.

[C]

Prokatansky, Julian Field, Liv Agar and Travis View.

[A]

I woke up on Monday a few hours later than I had hoped. I had been up a bit too late because I was out drinking with friends the night before, mourning the fact that one of my favorite situationships had broken it off a few days earlier. It was the sound of sirens that finally shook me out of my drunken sl. Something to be expected while living in downtown Vancouver, especially considering the earphones I used to sleep had fallen off during the night. I immediately checked my phone. Two missed calls. They had been from Mario, a forgetful plumber my landlord had hired to fix my washer unit's cold water valve. And yes, his name is literally Mario.

[D]

I was about to say, like, is this like a Julian intro where it's like a kind of reverie? Like, you have an actual Mario plug.

[A]

I'm giving it to you raw here. This is all real things that happened to me.

[B]

I was about to be like, is Mario the situationship?

[D]

No, the situation relationship is obvious. It's like, you know, I mean, a type of chaos that I relate to extremely well, where you're like, man, I just walked away from something very painful, and I'm already in a new thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Who has the time to recover or think about what we've done or stick and move?

[A]

It's like a shark.

[D]

Come on, come on, come on.

[B]

Which is so funny because I'm the exact opposite. Like, the only way I can stay alive is by far floating still and being dead.

[D]

Well, I'm not convinced that life is worth living unless there's a bunch of exciting stuff.

[A]

Like if I.

[D]

If I stay still too long, I'm like, wait, why am I even alive?

[B]

Oh, it's so funny. I'm the exact opposite. I need to stay. I'm like a. I'm like a starfish. I look like I'm sitting in one spot.

[A]

But if you.

[B]

But if you do, bro, if you do. What do they call it when they speed up the. But if you do time lapse photography, you can slowly get up.

[D]

No, you. Yeah, but there's like little. Little bubbles escape, like, the edge of him or something like that.

[A]

I love how you guys have already derailed the.

[D]

Fuck yeah, we've derailed it. I'm gonna derailed further. The Australians call a girl who, like, doesn't do anything in bed. Who just, like, lays back.

[A]

What? Yeah, that's the starfish. They call him a starfish. I feel like they call that Jake.

[D]

Are you like that in bed? Do you just, like, let stuff happen to you? He's doing a starfish, folks. You can't see it, but it's so good.

[B]

I'm doing a visual bit on our podcast, folks.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Anyways, usually I say, travis, take us away, but, Liv, please take us away.

[A]

My plumber, Mario, made up for it the next day by accidentally turning on the washing unit before connecting the water hose to the plumbing system, flooding a small section of my living room.

[D]

So, like, who, like what? Like, was the plumber, like, played by, like, Lexington Steele or like, James Dean or something? Like, what's. What are we doing here? Did you get stuck in the dryer again, Liv?

[A]

No, the plumber did. Does genuinely look like, you know, that, like, live action Mario movie from the 90s. It's just Mario.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, it's just, you know, it's a small Italian. Old Italian man. Yeah. Who's also forgetful. He's also aloof.

[D]

He had to come back the next day because as soon as he opened one of your pipes, he, like, went down it. Like, he jumped down it, and he came back with a lot of coins.

[A]

Both cases, he was sincerely apologetic about his mistakes. I'd have been grateful for that.

[D]

I am so sorry.

[A]

Leave.

[B]

Oh, well, actually, you're allowed.

[D]

Ye, I'm a wobble.

[A]

Yeah. Yet the image of me on the floor of my apartment soaking up water with a towel while he was leaving felt emblematic of the general relationship I have to men in my life.

[D]

Right. They leave big puddles.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

They fuck up your plumbing.

[A]

Got it.

[D]

Oh, they lay pipe. You're saying all the men lay pipe.

[A]

Just as I had been grateful to Mario, I had been grateful to my former situationship for being forward about his emotional unavailability a few days before.

[D]

Well, Liv, like, dates like Clint Eastwood. Like, silent types. And they're usually Republican.

[A]

Oh, yeah, no, this is. This whole thing is about how Nuzzy is just like me.

[D]

Oh my God. Uh oh.

[A]

Just kidding.

[D]

We just found out some that Liv made music when she was 16. Uh oh.

[A]

My situationship decided to break off our dalliance in a crowded coffee shop. We were surrounded by other people who were surely eavesdropping on a conversation. I'd wondered why this couldn't have been done through text message.

[D]

I just feel like I'm too busy with work to really make a Relationship work right now. And I know that if we keep trying, it'll create conflict and just lead to you suffering.

[A]

It was a standard line. I'd heard it before, and I had myself given it to others. I wasn't too upset. He was nice, but I saw it coming. More importantly, I had appreciated his lack of honesty. He asked me if I wanted to have coffee and talk. I told him no. We both laughed. I walked away. It was Frederick Nietzsche that once wrote that every injury has its equivalence, which can be paid in compensation, if only to the pain of the person who injures. I guess sometimes all you can expect from men is that they feel some amount of guilt for the troubles they've caused you. Ideally an amount equal to your own pain. But it's hard to be so hopeful. But that was on Friday.

[B]

Depends. Depends on the guy.

[A]

Depends.

[D]

Well, while it was happening, was it fun? Was it cool?

[A]

While I was being. While he was breaking it off?

[B]

No.

[D]

While you were like, in the relationship?

[A]

Yeah. No. So then, you know, I have the feeling, the way I think about breakups.

[D]

Sometimes is like I'm like 5% of this relationship was awkward. The rest was fucking cool.

[A]

That's how I feel. This is only a thing that happened because it was. I'm only putting this because it's embarrassing to me. You'll see in a second how this connects. But that was on Friday. By Monday, the aching pain of rejection had dulled to a feeling that was faint enough to completely tune out through my regular morning activities. I had become an expert at doing this, not merely because of discomfort sourced from interpersonal conflict, but also due to the constant background hum of political controversy driven by Donald Trump's re ascension in the Oval Office. Despite not even being a citizen or resident of the United States, Trump somehow managed to cause a great deal of discomfort in my life, and similar to the pain caused by the men I knew personally. Sometimes it feels as if the only revenge one could possibly exact against him is driven by how miserable it must be for someone like him to deal with the consequences of holding power over sore money. Yeah. More importantly, I'd received a message from Travis View on signal.

[C]

Let me know if you received the book. It's telling me it was delivered.

[A]

It's at that moment I had remembered a task I had been assigned for work that I'd been putting off because of my emotional troubles. Olivia Nuzzy, the former political journalist who had been flamed all across the Internet for sexting RFK Jr. After profiling him, had written a book they Fucked.

[D]

Have you read those?

[A]

No. Yeah.

[D]

He's like, I'm filling up your pussy with seed. Oh, no, Straight up.

[A]

No, no, no. It's drinking cum, actually. Is the poem. Oh, yeah, Drink up specifically dedicated to.

[D]

The poem was called Slurp it up.

[A]

Slurp. Slurp it up in racket. Slurp. Nancy had just written a book, and I had promised to review it. I checked outside my door, and sure enough, there it was.

[D]

So, basically, Travis was one of the,200 people that contributed, essentially, kind of kickstarted or funded Olivia Nuzzy's book because it didn't sell very well. So you kind of. Unfortunately, there were so few people buying it, Travis, that, like, now you're kind of like a public figure. Like, your name is in the.

[A]

Thanks.

[D]

Like.

[A]

Right.

[D]

All that shit.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's a memorial being built. Yes.

[B]

She reads. Your name is in a list of the thousand. You know, the 10, 12 that she reads at the end of the audiobook.

[C]

Yeah. I want to be clear, though. I initially attempted to arrange for Liv to be able to read the book without actually purchasing it, the method of which I will not specify, but what a mystery.

[D]

Did you use the Internet?

[C]

I couldn't say, but, you know, it's like.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Think sometimes it's easier to read a physical copy. I'll be clear. Whenever we get books, review books, or, like, talk to authors, I purchase the book, even if I get an advanced reader copy, because I believe that, you know, there are maybe two dozen people who read new books anymore, and I feel like we should support the people who still produce it. But this case, I. Yeah, I didn't feel bad about, you know, seeking alternate means to acquire the information in the book.

[D]

Yeah, I have a Gorka book on my shelf, so. But I did notice, like, worse than funding Olivia Nuzzy on purpose because you like her writing and her. I saw that you were the executive producer of Jailbait, the song that she made when she was 16. Travis, how did your name end up in the.

[B]

In that video 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 qaa Travis, why is that such a good deal?

[C]

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 the Nanny, 10 episodes of Perverts 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.

[D]

Travis, for once I agree with you. And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.comqaa well, that's.

[B]

Not an opinion, it's a fact.

[D]

You're so right, Jake.

[B]

We love and appreciate all of our listeners.

[D]

Yes we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think out of gratitude.

[C]

Maybe that's not true. The part about me crying, not me being grateful. I'm very grateful.