The Prophetic Professor Jiang (Premium E329) Sample

Summary

QAA Podcast Premium E329 – "The Prophetic Professor Jiang" (Sample)

Date: March 29, 2026
Hosts: Liv Agar, Julian Feeld, Travis View
Main Theme:
The hosts examine the meteoric rise of Professor Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese-Canadian “predictive historian” whose seemingly academic YouTube lectures blur the line between credible education and pseudo-intellectual storytelling. They explore the phenomenon of Internet “wise men,” the psychological allure of authoritative personas, and the dangers of mistaking style for substance in our fractured media landscape.

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Introduction: Seeking Comfort in Uncertain Times

[00:44]

• As the episode opens, the hosts discuss how people handle life's complexity and uncertainty, gravitating toward comforting figures or material.
  • Travis View: “Everyone has something they turn to when the complexity and uncertainty of the world becomes too overwhelming.”
  • Julian Feeld (jokes): “Yeah, it's called the QAA podcast, baby.”
• Travis sets up the theme: some seek wise friends, news sources, or books, while others, more recently, turn to figures like Professor Jiang.

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Who is Professor Jiang?

[02:00] Travis View:

• Jiang Xueqin, known as “Professor Jiang,” is a Chinese-Canadian middle-aged man who gained massive online popularity for his history, literature, and geopolitics lectures.
• Liv Agar admits never having listened to him before this episode, adding an element of fresh discovery and skepticism.

[03:20] - [03:40] The “Town Liar” Analogy:

• Liv and Julian elaborate on a tradition of “town liars”—compelling storytellers with questionable authority—suggesting Jiang fits this archetype on a global scale.
• Julian Feeld: “What’s interesting with Town Liars is that...any town will fall into how much they respect and love their liar...logically that would also happen in countries...Canada, incredibly good at loving their liars.”
  • Liv Agar (self-deprecating): “We're great at it. And exporting them.”
  • Julian Feeld (mock thanks): “Thank you for Peterson.”

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Professor Jiang’s Style and Appeal

[04:09] Travis View:

• Jiang’s YouTube channel, Predictive History, features lengthy lectures—“40 minute to hour and a half”—on a variety of topics.
• Production is simple: an unbroken take of Jiang at a whiteboard (sometimes upgraded to a smart board with “that YouTube money”).
  • Julian (sarcastic): “They sent him the plaque and...the Glenn Beck board.”

Sample Lecture (Professor Jiang) [04:51]:

“So this will be a fun class. Today we are doing the Great Pyramid. Okay, so the Great Pyramid was built about 2,500 BCE, that's 4,500 years ago by a pharaoh named Curfew.”

• Liv and Julian joke that his opening lines offer “first sentence of Wikipedia level stuff,” feeling like primary school material.

[05:13] Discussion:

• The hosts note it’s difficult to distinguish between real academic courses and Jiang’s content due to similar presentation styles.
  • Liv Agar: “[There’s] no way to distinguish...real qualifications.”
  • Julian Feeld: “The great pyramid definitely reads like primary school type lecture, like, what the fuck are we doing?”

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The Psychology of Authority Online

[05:44]

• Travis View: “He takes advantage of a hack in most people’s brains...if there’s a middle-aged person and glasses...I should listen to them and they’re credible.”
• Julian Feeld (cuts deeper): “He’s also taking advantage of the hack that most people are now completely stupid and they’re just taking in whatever’s there.”

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Jiang’s Explosive Popularity

[06:10]

• Travis reveals stats:
  • 138 videos
  • 2.14 million subscribers
  • 65+ million views
  • “Substack has 91,000+ subscribers”; Instagram accounts for “nearly a million followers”
• He’s been interviewed by Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan.

[06:48] External summary (sample clip):

“Professor Zhang is a game theorist best known for his popular predictive history YouTube channel where he applies his systems of analysis to the past in order to predict the future.”

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Critique: Pseudo-History and Fan Culture

[06:48] – [07:12]

• Liv Agar: Dismisses Jiang’s style as “pseudo history stuff”—“that used to be how everyone did history like 200 years ago...theories for how history works.”
• Julian Feeld (jokes): “Sending Piers Morgan back in time so he can be like, welcome to the show, Professor Nostradamus.”
• Professor Jiang’s “army of fans” are fiercely defensive, quick to defend his credibility.

Fan Endorsement Example [07:28]:

“If you don’t already, I urge you to please go follow Professor Jang from Predictive History...He’s like spot on. Not popular opinions at all. But oh my goodness, if you don’t go with...the mainstream line, you have to watch him.”

• Liv Agar: “It’s so much worse that it seems apolitical.”
• Julian Feeld: “He seems a bit like an entry to HOTEP type thinking as well about the pyramids.”
• The hosts speculate that Jiang’s “unpopular opinions” are just age-old geopolitical rumors, e.g., “Iran is going to be invaded by the United States in the next five years.”

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The Spread of Imitators and AI Fakes

[08:09] Travis View:

• Even a fake, AI-generated “Professor Yang” YouTube account has grown to 20,000 subscribers, posting fabricated lectures.
  • Sample (AI Jiang) [08:21]:

  “Okay, so today I want to break down something that most people are completely missing about this war. And I think this is the most important analysis you will hear about what is really driving America's role in this conflict.”

• Liv Agar (skeptical): “It can’t be worse than the real guy, right?”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The great pyramid definitely reads like primary school type lecture, like, what the fuck are we doing?” — Julian Feeld, [05:36]
• “He takes advantage of a hack in most people’s brains...if there’s a middle-aged person and glasses...I should listen to them and they’re credible.” — Travis View, [05:44]
• “He seems a bit like an entry to HOTEP type thinking as well about the pyramids and stuff.” — Julian Feeld, [07:55]

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Key Takeaways

• Online “Experts”: The show examines how authoritative presentation styles and academic trappings can fool audiences into believing speakers like Jiang hold genuine expertise and insight.
• Media Literacy: The hosts point out the dangers of conflating style with substance, highlighting the blurred line between real educational content and pseudo-intellectualism on platforms like YouTube.
• Cultural Phenomenon: Jiang’s rise is connected to a broader tradition of “town liars” and Canadian export of such figures, drawing comparisons to Jordan Peterson and others.
• Fanaticism & Imitation: The fierce loyalty of Jiang’s fans—and the emergence of AI-generated imitators—underscore the modern tendency to fall into online echo chambers.

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This sample episode offers a sharp, tongue-in-cheek exploration of why pseudo-scholars thrive online, the conditions that create cult-like followings, and how internet culture warps public understanding of history, geopolitics, and authority.

Transcript

[A]

Sam, if you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast premium episode 329 the Prophetic Professor Jang. As always, we are your hosts, Liv

[B]

Agar, Julian Field and Travis View. Everyone has something they turn to when the complexity and uncertainty of the world becomes too overwhelming.

[C]

Yeah, it's called the QAA podcast, baby.

[B]

Yes, that's my number one choice. You know, but sometimes they, they might also turn to like a wise friend or colleague. That's a good one. Or a trusted news source. Or watch a comforting movie. Or they read a book that has stood the test of time.

[C]

Good thing I started working with a man called Professor Jang. Trusted colleague, Mentor.

[B]

What I like to do, I like to read about early American politics to remind myself that bullshit and corruption are nothing new. And like the people in those times, I'm not exempt from the tide of history. For example, did you know that in the election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson paid a man named James Callender to publish smears about his opponent John Adams. And after Callender was jailed for those smears under the Sedan act and Jefferson was elected Jefferson pardon Calendar. So yeah, the spoil system that outrages us in the the Trump administration is, you know, is par for the course in American history.

[A]

Callender also the person who invented keeping track of time by the month.

[C]

Visually yeah, he invented that and in fact he used to wear a onesie with a bunch of really hot firemen all over.

[B]

But over the past year or so, a shocking number of people have tried to make sense of our transforming world by listening to a middle aged Chinese Canadian man named Jiang Xueqin, better known as Professor Jiang. Now have you heard of him before now?

[C]

No.

[B]

No.

[C]

And I have not listened. I made sure to not listen to him at all before this episode. So it's going to be very exciting to have Travis be my filter here to protect me from what is sure to be a deluge of incredibly good ideas.

[A]

I also have tried not to listen to him, which is a shame because all his ideas sound very correct and true based on my. My first glance.

[B]

No, yeah, I think combines, I think some of your favorite things Julian international schools and bad geopolitical takes you God damn.

[C]

That's actually like the best burn you've ever delivered to me. Holy hell.

[A]

My understanding of this is one of the like, like a long standing tradition of guys who get famous because like they're the town liar and like this just like kind of exported to a larger scale of like lecturers who, like, maybe have some sort of expertise. A lot of times they're like a physicist or a mathematician. Then they like, try to like, you know, they're basically like, well, okay, I've hit the age of 40 and now I understand everything and I can just like, I can Wikipedia, skim about history and then I can lecture about it. And, you know, I'm more correct than everyone in this field.

[C]

Well, what's interesting with Town Liars is that there are. There's a scale on which any town will fall into, like, how much they respect and love and adore and hold up their liar. Right. And then so, you know, logically that would also happen in countries. And it turns out Canada, incredibly good at loving their liars.

[A]

We're great at it. Yeah.

[C]

And exporting them. Thank you for Peterson.

[A]

Thank you for Cha Hanging and Le Vanguard, of course. That's another big one.

[C]

Yeah. Massive liar.

[A]

Yeah. No, Canada just, like, didn't have any culture at all that was, like, distinct from either Britain or America. So in the 60s we just, like, invented it. That was a big part of it is we have our town liars. We're very proud of national subsidy programs.

[C]

Yeah. And you stand out among three people on this current episode that are all lying about their names. The very basic.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Jiang runs a YouTube channel called Predictive History. Now, the majority of his content consists of like 40 minute to hour and a half long lectures on topics related to history, literature, or geopolitics and sometimes related topics. Now, there's really nothing flashy in his videos. They all consist of just like a single unbroken take of a man and glasses and a little bit of gray in his hair, talking while writing on the whiteboard or in more recent videos. He has an interactive smart board. He got some of that YouTube money. He upgraded his gear.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

They sent him the plaque and they sent him, like the. The Glenn Beck board.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And the content of the lectures is, at first glance, you know, totally benign.

[E]

So this will be a fun class. Today we are doing the Great Pyramid. Okay, so the Great Pyramid was built about 2,500 BCE, that's 4,500 years ago by a pharaoh named Curfew.

[B]

I mean, you watch that, you think, oh, I'm suddenly in for like, a pretty slow, pretty simple ancient history lesson.

[A]

Yeah. There's a problem. Like, there needs to be some sort of verification system here because I know, like, there are, like, real, actual academic lectures that are uploaded onto YouTube in, like, this exact identical style, which is just someone, like, recording a Graduate seminar, let's say, or like a higher level undergraduate course. And then, yeah, there's really no way to distinguish it, at least from what I've seen now from those people who like, presumably actually have qual qualifications.

[C]

I mean, the great pyramid definitely reads like primary school type lecture, like, what the fuck are we doing?

[A]

That is first sentence of Wikipedia level stuff.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I feel like, yeah, he, I think he like takes advantage of like a hack in like most people's brains if they went through conventional schooling, which is that if there's a person, if there's a, you know, a middle aged person and glasses, you know, in front of me writing on a blackboard or a whiteboard, I should listen to them and they're credible.

[C]

I think also he's taking advantage of the hack that most people are now completely stupid and they're just taking in whatever's there.

[B]

But what separates him from other YouTube lecturers is his stunning and recent popularity. So he has posted 138 videos which have earned him a stunning 2.14 million subscribers and over 65 million views. His substack has over 91,000 subscribers. His Instagram account, which mostly consists of clips of his lectures and interviews, has nearly 1 million followers. And since his breakout popularity, he's been interviewed by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan.

[F]

Professor Zhang is a game theorist best known for his popular predictive history YouTube channel where he applies his systems of analysis to the past in order to predict the future.

[A]

Yeah, just like pseudo history stuff. I mean, that, that used to be like how like everyone did history like 200 years ago. It was like, you know, the theories for like, how history works. It was like, yeah, usually people in the south initially are really powerful and then more northern people eventually take over. That was like a comparison of like Rome versus, like, you know, Germany's later industrialization and then like the American south and North. I would have to assume it's on like that tier of prediction level.

[C]

Sending Piers Morgan back in time so he can be like, welcome to the show, Professor Nostradamus.

[B]

Yeah, and the crazy thing is that we see that he has, he's built up like this army of fans who, who like, take offense at the idea that he's, you know, not what he's cracked up to be.

[D]

If you don't already, I urge you to please go follow Professor Jang from Predictive History. So I'm listening to one of his lectures and sometimes you just gotta pause and be like, listen to what? Some, some of the things he says. And it's. He's like spot on. Not popular opinions at all. But oh my goodness, if you don't go with main like the mainstream line of thinking, you have to watch him.

[A]

It's so much worse that it seems like kind of apolitical.

[C]

Yeah, he seems a bit like a kind of entry to like HOTEP type thinking as well about the pyramids and stuff.

[A]

Yeah, it's like, I'm sure the unpopular opinion is like Iran is going to be invaded by the United States in the next five years.

[B]

In fact, Jang is so popular right now, there is currently a YouTube channel with 20,000 subscribers that features a fake AI generated Professor Yang which says things that the real one never actually said.

[E]

Okay, so today I want to break down something that most people are completely missing about this war. And I think this is the most important analysis you will hear about what is really driving America's role in this conflict.

[A]

I mean, it can't be worse than the the real guy, right? Like,

[F]

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[B]

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[C]

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[F]

not an opinion, it's a fact.

[C]

You're so right, Jake.

[F]

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[C]

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

[B]

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