The White House is Q Posting (E379)

Summary

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QAA Podcast — E379: The White House is Q Posting

Podcast Hosts: Julian Feeld, Travis View, Jake Rockatansky, Liv Agar
Release Date: July 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode tackles the bizarre, unprecedented moment when official White House social media accounts openly trolled by “Q posting,” riffing on QAnon slogans and aesthetics. The hosts delve into the political, cultural, and psychological dimensions of this state-sponsored trolling, its meaning for the QAnon movement and conspiracy culture, and the wider implications for our increasingly surreal information landscape.

From there, the team pivots to dissecting the rise of new conspiracy theories spawned by recent events—most notably, the viral “exploding microphone” theory surrounding the assassination of right-wing personality Charlie Kirk, and the World Cup conspiracies about refereeing, Iran’s performance, and FIFA corruption. The episode closes with a lighter but equally absurd segment on how internet dog accounts themselves are being swept up in the current of end-times internet paranoia.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. The White House "Q Posting" Stunt

Timestamps: 00:45–16:42

• Hosts' Reactions:

  • Stunned but cynically accepting: “Well, the White House laid out some bait, and we’re taking it because what else are we gonna do? We’re a QAnon podcast. We don’t have an option.” (Jake, 00:46)
  • The hosts liken the situation to a humiliating trap: “We are forced to put on diaper and poop our pants in public. That is what this episode is.” (Julian, 04:40)

• Content & Analysis:

  • The White House’s official Twitter posted:

    “The White House will be Q posting today.”
    (Travis, 06:42)

  • Followed by:

    “And by Q, we mean quantum. Stay tuned. [ice emoji]”
    (Travis, 06:52)

  • The posting triggers the Q community, who see hidden signals, even as the stunt is obviously sarcastic and condescending.
  • Travis reflects on the newfound brazenness:

    “It’s significant not because Trump is amplifying QAnon—he's done that plenty—but because these are government White House accounts joining in.”
    (06:17)

  • Reference to “quantum” is poked fun at as yet another hollow, buzzword-fueled pseudo-scientific government project:

    “The quantum computing stuff…a really good scam that somehow has even less to show for it than AI.” (Julian, 08:30)

  • Julian draws parallels between the Q posting and social media stunts by millennial-led brands (e.g., Steak-umm):

    "It reminds me of the fucking millennial who was allowed to like, take over the Stakehams account." (Julian, 03:27)

• Reaction in QAnon Community:

  • Many Q followers responded with earnest hope or anger, recirculating “Q drops.”
  • Jake notes the absurdity:

    “If you had told us when we started this podcast that the White House was going to put together a fake Q post in the style of the Chan Post…I mean, no matter how we got here, it is still a foreign country.” (Jake, 13:00)

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2. Meaning, Consequences & the Loss of Shock

Timestamps: 13:00–16:50

• Discussion about how QAnon's shock value is gone, society is numbed to increasing absurdity:

  “I do wonder if part of the reason why it’s no longer as shocking is because the damage of Q is now already diffused into society. Like, this isn’t going to do anything more. The damage is already done.” (Liv, 16:13)

• Travis recounts QAnon amplification history:

  "The first time I pointed out on Twitter that Trump himself was amplifying QAnon content…it was August 1, 2018. Nearly eight years ago…Think I would still be here eight years later? Say, it’s still happening, but worse. Now the White House is doing it." (Travis, 15:40)

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3. The Charlie Kirk “Exploding Microphone” Assassination Theory

Timestamps: 18:00–35:00, 75:24–76:51

• Overview:

  • A new conspiracy alleges right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated in 2025 by a rigged RØDE wireless microphone containing high explosives (PETN/C4), rather than by a bullet from the charged gunman.
  • Original proponent is Oklahoma farmer/engineer John Bray, further amplified by Candace Owens.

• Analysis & Evidence:

  • Bray’s website lays out elaborate technical arguments: forensic video/audio “proof,” wound ballistics, and supposed “supersonic events.”

    “So the evidence marshaled in favor of this theory includes like video, motion and audio timing…explosive chemistry and wound behavior, SUV debris, and of course what he considers to be missing evidence.” (Travis, 24:02)

  • Claims a 58 hertz resonance in audio is “evidence of thoracic response”—debunked by actual scientific literature, which puts chest resonance at 125 hz+.

    “Okay, so he’s just dead wrong…All that work, dead wrong.” (Julian & Travis, 33:46)

• Critique:

  • The hosts mock the convoluted logic—how the conspiracy convolutes facts so much that it lands almost at the official narrative, just with extra complexity.
  • Liv: “It’s like it happened except for one thing.” (24:54)
  • Theorists claim a gunshot was a “cover” for the real cause—exploding mic—so “the lone wolf” shooter narrative would be plausible.

    “If you just detonate device on Charlie, then everyone knows the lone wolf story's out of the question.” (John Bray, 25:51)

• Notable Quotes:

  • Travis: "Bray suggests that this assassination was designed to create more domestic conflict and help build support for the war in Iran." (33:55)

[Related Segment: PETN Demonstration]

• A video segment (75:24–76:51) shows a demonstration of 20 grams of PETN versus bullet-resistant glass, coincidentally referencing the power of the same explosive Bray claims was used.

  “20 grams of PETN mimics the punch of a .30-06 bullet. Unbelievable.” (D, 76:05)

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4. World Cup Conspiracies – Iran, VAR, and FIFA

Timestamps: 36:50–49:33

• Hosts Share Their Allegiance:

  • Julian for France & global south teams; Liv rooting for Canada, Bosnia, Croatia; wishing Iran well.

• Controversies:

  • Iran faced unprecedented logistical and political hurdles—forced to repeatedly travel from Mexico to LA, fans and staff denied entry, bombings during play.

    “They blocked part of their logistics staff at entry and they also blocked all their fans…They were also bombed during like actual play.” (Julian, 39:12)

• Offside Rule and VAR:

  • Iran’s knocked-out goals by "centimeter margin" became the nucleus of online conspiracy theories.
  • Some claim the Video Assisted Referee (VAR) system is manipulated (“HazVARa”, “Israeli Assisted Referee”).

    “There’s some misinformation…I’ve seen it called HazVARa... Israeli Assisted Referee is another one…” (Liv, 45:13)

• Debunking:

  • The hosts agree margin-of-error and frame selection issues stoke suspicion, but see no direct evidence for targeted sabotage.
  • They also explain FIFA’s deep, undisputed history of corruption makes such theories plausible to many fans, even if unjustified in this situation.

• Notable Quotes:

  • “Are any of these institutions above receiving money from Israel or America to make Iran’s life harder?... Of course not.” (Liv, 48:47)

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5. Dog Accounts, Religious Meltdown & “End Times” Content

Timestamps: 49:42–72:47

• Segment Focus:

  • Jake spotlights Lil Max, a viral “chonker” dog whose owner’s account gradually mutated into a vehicle for intense evangelical, apocalyptic content—blurred together with wholesome dog videos.

• Narrative Arc:

  • Lil Max’s stories increasingly feature millennial-style, doomy Christian memes and rants:

    “Lock in with God, twin. We’re literally in the last two pages of the Bible.” (read by Liv, 60:12)

  • Jesus’s imminent return, red heifers in Israel, and warnings against yoga as “Satanic” appear alongside cheese-eating dog clips.

• Hosts’ Observations:

  • The “spiritual psychosis” of U.S. internet culture now seeps into even the softest spaces.

    “I love this fuck ass dog, but I think his owner is MAGA or going through religious psychosis.” (quoting TikTok user, 54:01)

  • Jake: “You guys gotta understand, like, this isn’t from the owner's account, it's from Lil Max’s account.”
  • Julian: “Every dog has his redpill. But has his redpill.” (63:16)

• Meme Culture & the Surreal:

  • Julian: “This is who's running the White House account.” (54:14)
  • The blending of cuteness and apocalyptic fervor is presented as emblematic of the present era's cursed media ecosystem.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On the White House Q posting:

• “You can't have the White House post a fake Q post and us not cover it. Come on.” (Liv, 00:57)

On the state of conspiracy culture:

• “It is like middle, like 2010 slop, like 2008 slop.” (Julian, 03:27)
• “The White House reposted…multiple overt QAnon references…It’s like QAnon followers interpret tweets as being secret signals. So why not do it a little more overtly?” (Travis, 12:20)

On the Charlie Kirk theory:

• “That’s honestly more well thought out than I would have imagined it to be…other than, like, he calls it TPS USA.” (Julian, 26:36)
• “I feel like I smoked weed with that guy in like, 2011.” (Jake, 32:38)

On the dog apocalypse:

• “If she keeps feeding Little Max cheese, it’s going to be the last two pages of Little Max.” (Julian, 71:45)

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Important Timestamps by Segment

| Time | Segment/Topic | |-----------|------------------------------------------------| | 00:45–16:42 | White House Q posting, meaning, and QAnon's transformation | | 18:00–35:00 | Charlie Kirk exploding microphone conspiracy | | 36:50–49:33 | World Cup: Iran, VAR, conspiracy chatter | | 49:42–72:47 | Internet dog accounts as vehicles for end-times paranoia | | 75:24–76:51 | Bonus: PETN demo video & its relation to Kirk theories |

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The QAA Podcast's Tone & Style

• Equal parts comedic, mordant, and deeply skeptical
• Conversational, openly neurotic, and self-aware; the hosts often riff on their own exhaustion, the absurdity of their beat, and the circularity of internet conspiracy discourse
• Language: Swears, sarcasm, memes, online speak; the show is informal but insightful

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Takeaways

• The boundaries between real and performative conspiracy have evaporated; even the White House can now openly troll with QAnon memes—with both earnest believers and critics caught in the act.
• Conspiratorial thinking is ubiquitous, crossing all lines—left/right, official/unofficial, serious/farcical—including even the most innocent-seeming corners of the internet.
• The collapse of meaning and shock value is total: “Everyone believes in QAnon now.”
• Surveillance, market scams, and apocalyptic religion—all are commodified alongside memes and pets, forming a new sludge-like media soup.
• Hosts’ diagnosis: The world is cooked, and the only thing left is to try to document the weirdness, and (maybe) laugh.

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“If you had told us when we started this podcast that the White House was going to be putting together…a fake Q post in the style of the Chan Post. I mean, no matter how we got here, it is still a foreign country.”
(Jake, 13:00)

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For more on this episode and additional reporting, visit qaapodcast.com.

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Transcript

[A]

Sam, if you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the qaa podcast, episode 379. The White House is Q Posting. As always, we are your hosts, Jake

[B]

Rockatansky, Julian Fields, Liv Aker, and Travis View. Well, the White House laid out some bait, and we're taking it because what else are we gonna do? We're a QAnon podcast. We don't have an option.

[C]

I mean, I do feel like you have to bring back Q news when the White House goes on a se. Sarcastic, jokey troll of just full on embracing QAnon without even trying to hide all the slogans getting wheeled out as if they had some guy back there, like, listening to our podcast to make sure he got it. All right, you can't have the White House post a fake Q post and us not cover it. Come on.

[B]

I know, I know.

[C]

Bait or nightmare that we are forced to cover. It's really always between those two.

[A]

I've been working as a double agent. I've been being paid very well behind the scenes to help the White House figure out how to get this right.

[C]

And I can't believe what you were saying, Jake. You're so right. It's the Austin Steinbart Q.

[A]

Yes. Yes.

[C]

Which is the most insulting part of it all to have that little twerps like quantum bullshit come back.

[A]

Most insulting, Absolutely. If I were a QAnon believer, I would be so insulted by this. I rarely find myself in their corner. But really, I mean, gosh, could you be more insulted? Especially those of you who have done prison years in prison on account of this. On account of this whole thing.

[C]

Years in prison because you were fingered by Travis View. In the Red Scare era of anti QAnon, Travis pointed his finger at you and you were sent to jail. You paid so much, and now the White House is looking at you and going, hey, piggy, piggy, open your mouth. We know you like this slop.

[D]

Could you imagine beaming this like these tweets abstractly back to a Hunan supporter in like, 2018.

[C]

They'd lose their fucking minds. But at this point, I feel like it can't. Even if you have to cover for it and you have to say, hey, Whoa.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

How interesting.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

It makes you think we can tell it's a troll, but that just means it's one of us, one of the Pepes. You know, you still must feel kind of bad inside because you're being condescended to.

[A]

Yes, yes, absolutely. It's weird, you know, when I predicted that QAnon would come back because it was too good of a marketing tool not to use. I never thought that it would be this blatant and by the White House that like, somehow QAnon believers could get what they want. Like the official White House account.

[C]

Basically, yes.

[A]

Confirming like every. Everything that they've ever bullied for the past eight years. How, however long it's been. But like, it's even more meaningless somehow. And like it's even. It's even more devastating. Like there's no, there's no W here in a world of W&L's. You know what this is?

[C]

It reminds me of the fucking millennial who was allowed to like, take over the Stakehams account. Like, it is like middle, like 2010 slop, like 2008 slop.

[D]

Yeah, they definitely, like, it's a millennial occupied government right now. And for all the posting, all the awful White House posting where they've been like, you know, rubbing, you know, immigration, deportations in people's faces, it's been like all the memes they've been posting, people are saying it's like a zoomer on the account. I don't believe that. I think it's a millennial who wants to be a zoomer.

[C]

Yeah, I tend to agree. Or at the very least it's a zoomer doing their very best millennial impression.

[A]

I think this is a millennia. I think this is somebody who's watched like a lot of American dad. Like a very, like a very classic, like mid grade animation enjoyer, adult right wing memer American Dad.

[C]

You mean Liv's ex boyfriend?

[D]

Huh?

[A]

I don't know anything about my co workers personal lives.

[C]

All right. Oh, wait, I'm confusing with American Daddy, right?

[A]

All right, all right. Everybody's having a good time.

[B]

Cause we're.

[A]

We all feel so weird that we have to even talk about this.

[C]

Yeah, this is a bit like we are forced to put on diaper and poop our pants in public. That is what this episode is.

[D]

Can you really blame like a fish for taking the. You don't blame it. That's what a fish. I guess that's what the QAnon podcast does, is it takes the bait when it mentions QAnon.

[C]

And also like a gracious fisherman never insults the fish once they pull it out of the water.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So today, yeah, we're going to talk about that and also about the Charlie Kirk exploding microphone assassination theory. Also talk about some World cup theories. And then Jake, you have for us some dessert about a dog on The Internet.

[A]

I got something for you.

[B]

All right.

[C]

Yeah. Oh, I can't wait for the dessert of like, the doggo accounts get pilled, which is also the last of us.

[A]

It's the last of us.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

It's so beautiful to see. I love. I love an account like that. That's like, you know, it was a joke question. It's 11 out of 10, as usual. Good doggo. We love it. And then suddenly I wonder. I wonder about the Kazarian mafia and the Kalergi plan.

[A]

Yeah. You haven't even scrolled down and you're.

[C]

No, I haven't. Wrong. That's amazing. I can write this reality myself.

[A]

Of course I do. You guys know what happens. You know how it ends.

[C]

Incredible. So, Travis, you have like, you're the one who's truly unfortunately having to put your mouth over the hook.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

If we are a fish, like, you are the mouth currently and you're having to go and screen cap White House, like, account posts about.

[A]

Awful.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, yeah.

[B]

First of all, I want to point out that this is significant not because Trump is amplifying QAnon. Trump has been amplifying QAnon for many years, many times, and it's been sort of not been commented on. He's done on Truth Social a ton. But this is significant because these are the actual, like, government, like, White House accounts kind of getting. Getting in on the fun. So it all started on June 22nd when the White House Twitter account posted this.

[A]

The White House will be Q posting today.

[B]

And then there was this long blank space that you had to scroll down to see the bottom of. And then after that blank space, it says this.

[A]

And by Q, we mean quantum. Stay tuned. Ice emoji.

[B]

So already there's like, we're having some fun. We're gonna be Q posting. It's like at, but not QAnon. Something else. But you're still gonna cover it, aren you? Aren't you, you little piggies? This is what bothers me. It's like the absolute seething contempt that this, that this poster has that. That for people like me just they think I'm a dog on his shoe. And he likes playing with people like me.

[C]

Yeah, this is you in the saw track.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But he. I mean, he is getting a little bit of react of a reaction.

[B]

I. Yeah, I mean, this is. Yeah, I. This is why he did it. This is a real, real check in mate kind of move. What else am I supposed to do? Totally ignore it. That's what I wanted to do. Not really an option, not this.

[D]

It is interesting how that dynamic has developed from, like, you know, warning people like, oh, this new. This new congressional candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's pretty bad. We should talk about this to now, talking about QAnon is like, well, if I mention it, I'm owned.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

If I mention what the White House is currently posting, I'm owned. I am owned.

[D]

That's just how much shit is in there, just how much. We are just like drowning in sludge right now.

[B]

So how they framed it is that this Q posting was promotion for two executive orders that Trump signed that are related to quantum technology. So here's another post from the White House.

[A]

Q is for quantum winking emoji.

[B]

Under President Trump's leadership, Quantum is making

[A]

a massive leap and America is at the forefront of these innovations and groundbreaking

[C]

technologies, which, by the way, are so speculative. The quantum computing stuff is amazing. A really good scam that somehow has even less to show for it than AI. I love this. This is like a. In 12 years, we might have something boys, and it's going to be able to do multiple operations all at once because we have it suspended in a quantum state. And the technology is. It's not clear that it's even possible what they're doing, but they are all public companies, all traded heavily, of course, all having high volatility. What's new? We are making markets, folks. Stop saying that our economy is fake. Stop saying that we're in suspended animation.

[D]

Ye.

[A]

I'm developing a unique piece of technology that will allow me to tell which slot machines will hit the jackpot.

[D]

Quantum technology is like a. Tech is like a part of the tech tree in like an expanded paradox. Hearts of Iron 4Mod for the future. So, yeah, we're probably bad eventually. Sure.

[C]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure it is in civilization, actually.

[D]

Yeah, right.

[A]

Yeah, that's the kind of. That's the kind of thing I look at in like an RPG like that, like that far out on the tech tree. And I go, I'm never going to get here. I'm never going to see what this power does.

[C]

Because you never finish games. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

But it's not that unusual for governments to signal that they're trying to, like, get ahead of speculative technology. Like, you know, like JFK saying that we're going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. You know, kind of insane thing to say, but, like, just as a projection of power, as a superpower, this is something you're supposed to do. So the first of these two executive orders focuses on maintaining US Technological superiority and what they called quantum information science and technology. And the second directive aims to protect federal IT systems from quantum cybersecurity threats. This is the other big issue that these quantum computers are so powerful that they can, like, you know, hack everything. And then we'll make cybersecurity a thing of the past. Everyone, everything will just be exposed forever.

[C]

Even though, like, everybody currently in power, like, uses Hotmail with the password, like 123abc. It's like the idea that we need quantum computing to hack currently into the mess is a joke. It's amazing. Another made up fear that you can quantify in dollars per share. It's truly beautiful.

[B]

So it's actually like, pretty mundane. I think it was something that might be signed regardless who is president. And Trump has actually signed 43 executive orders so far in 2026. They're usually pretty dull and don't get any press coverage, but they decide to switch things up now instead and said and do this sort of like, queue posting thing in order to generate the kind of that I'm giving them right now.

[C]

Yeah, and also, I mean, this I have to check, and I will, and I'll get back to you later in the episode, But I'm almost certain quantum stocks went up as a result of this. Okay, so it might just be another fun little market manipulation.

[B]

Oh, another insider trading kind of pump and dump thing. Gotcha. The Twitter account for the official Department of War chief Technology officer got in on the fun. Posting an image of Trump in front of a giant queue. And this text. Are you enjoying the show? Refill your popcorn. You'll love this next part. Popcorn emoji, American Q in parentheses.

[A]

Quantum dominance.

[D]

And the photo of Trump is, like, from that meme, you know, where it usually says, are you enjoying the show? Fill your popcorn. They've photoshopped a cue into the background.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And they've even used the parentheses around the queue, like, in the actual queue drops. They're mirroring the language.

[C]

Okay, I take it back. The market has actually continued to go down for these quantum stocks. So if it was an attempt at market manipulation, it did not work.

[A]

Nevertheless, the White House reposted it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's another, like, just multiple overt sort of like QAnon references. And they all got really riled up, the QAnon followers underneath them. Like, they posted Q drops and stuff. And it's like. Yeah, and it's like the same thing over and over again. It's like qanon followers sort of interpret, you know, tweets as being secret signals to them. Anyway, so the figure is like, why not just do it a little bit more overtly?

[A]

I leaned over and showed these tweets to my wife to be like, oh, my God, look at what they're doing. And she looked at it and she goes, oh, my God, Wow. And then, like, went back to her shit. Like, that's how fucked we are. Is that. It's like, wow. It's like, oh, wow. Like, oh, they're actually doing the Q post now.

[C]

Yeah. I'm sorry, but if you had told us when we started this podcast that the White House was going to be putting together, using a graphic designer to put together a fake Q post in the style of the Chan Post. I mean, no matter how we got here, it is still a foreign country.

[A]

It's unfair what they're doing to us. I don't know how much more I can take.

[B]

Of course, there was also this tweet from the Department of War cto where we go one, we go quantum American flag emoji. So this, again, this just overt reference to, you know, QAnon slogan, though. You're right, Julian. In terms of pure audacity, I think this all paled in comparison to this White House post, which included an image that was mocked up to resemble a screenshot of a Q drop from a popular Q post aggregator site. Like, is really deep stuff.

[D]

Oh, yeah, they're in the weeds.

[B]

They are.

[D]

They are.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

No, no, no. Whoever. That's what I was saying. Like, whoever's done this, like, could easily have, like, listened to a couple episodes or something, you know, just to get some primers. Might have hit a couple articles where Travis is interviewed.

[D]

The funniest option is that it's a guy who did genuinely believe in Q at some point. Who knows who they're hiring? I don't know.

[A]

Yeah, Yeah.

[C]

I mean, the funniest answer is it is Austin Steinbart, and he is currently working for the Justice.

[A]

I was gonna say Julia. That's so funny, dude. Because I was literally gonna say it could. I was like, it could be a guy who, like, actually believes that they are cute. Like, it could be some psychopath who sat in, like, the Trump social media office, like, typing away for so long. He's having some kind of mental episode, and he actually does believe. He's like, I'm gonna make you real, and I'm gonna post it from the White House.

[C]

For those who don't know, Austin Steinbart is a Prescott, Arizona based influencer who went by Baby Q and also basically had a cult. And they were very obsessed with Quantum and, you know, all this stuff. And he was supposed to be a time traveler, and some people had him pegged as Q. You know, it was a whole, like, subsection of QAnon lore.

[A]

And that's who's going to get most radicalized by these most recent QAnon posts. Austin Steinbart, by the way, may I remind you, also got in trouble because.

[C]

Do you remember he had a pee pee.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

He had a fake penis that he. That he used to pass a drug test.

[A]

Yeah, He. The Wizzinator.

[C]

The Wizzinator, Yeah.

[A]

Good times.

[C]

This country used to be something.

[A]

This podcast is starting to, like, feel more classic. Like, it's starting to feel kind of like the old days. And that's bad.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know what I mean? Like, you think we shouldn't be slipping back that way?

[B]

I don't. The first time I pointed out on Twitter that Trump himself was amplifying QAnon content, I checked recently. It was on August 1, 2018. Nearly eight years ago.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You think I would still be here eight years later? Say, it's still happening, but worse. Now the White House is doing it. Now the Pentagon is doing it. I'm a different man than I was eight years ago.

[C]

Does it make you want to get, like, a pilot's license?

[B]

No, not really.

[C]

Okay, interesting. I just thought I'd ask.

[D]

I do wonder if a part of the reason why it's no longer as shocking is because, like, the damage of Q is now, like, already diffused into society. Like, this isn't going to do anything more that, like, the damage is already done.

[C]

Yeah, they basically, they. They literally undid the crimes of everybody, and then they all got themselves put back in jail for doing, like. Like fondling children.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And. And not. So nothing happened. There's no justice. And now they're, like, openly laughing in our faces. So y. What is there to say?

[D]

Yeah, it's shooting someone a 15th time. It's like it's already. I mean, I would have preferred you didn't do that, obviously, but, I mean,

[B]

it's like, it reminds me of, like. Yeah, it's like. It's like it used to be an embarrassment. I remember during the first Trump administration, there was a question from the White House press pool about QAnon, and the press secretary Huckabee kind of deflected and like, for example, Marjorie Taylor Greene, when she actually ran for Congress, she apparently seems like, she got some sort of consultant that told her, okay, no more of this QAnon stuff. And she totally. When she actually ran, she stopped posting about entire. It was something you ran away from. But now it's like, you're always like, oh, there's just no consequences. It doesn't matter. Then it's like, okay, let's straight up. Cue post.

[D]

This moment kind of reminds me of, like, a QAnon equivalent of, like, Infowars and Knowledge Fight, where, like, Infowars is officially taken offline. Although, like, we got, like, the opposite end of it, where instead of, like, Alex Jones being ruined and no longer being able to publish, it's like, if, like, Alex Jones was, like, the biggest celebrity, it became boring to cover it just because it's like, literally everyone watches Alex Jones. Yeah, it's like the. The opposite reality negative, where we want to move on just because it's like, well, yeah, everyone. This is just. Everyone always sees this all the time.

[C]

I have to say, for a podcast that originally had QAnon in his name, I'm so glad we didn't put our eggs all in one basket, because that basket is so rotten.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I've also been getting into the exploding microphone theory of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Have you guys heard this one?

[C]

No, I am not familiar.

[D]

This is a classic. I may have mentioned this in passing on mine, like, a couple, like, a week after, but clearly it is ballooned out. It has exploded out, shall we say?

[B]

It started gaining more traction, inexplicably, on some of the conspiracists. Right. So this is the theory that Charlie Kirk was not killed by Tyler Robinson, the man who has been charged with his aggravated murder. Rather, Kirk was killed because of the RODE wireless Pro microphone that was attached to Kirk. Kirk's shirt. According to people who believe this, it was rigged with an explosive device and was deliberately set off as part of a more covert assassination.

[C]

By whom?

[B]

Well, you know, they dance around this, but they usually imply that it's a Israeli assassination.

[C]

Yeah. A bit like the pagers.

[B]

Yes. Similar to what they did with the pagers. Yes.

[C]

Interesting. I'm in. I'm in. I'm on.

[A]

Yeah, sure. Why not?

[B]

Oh, come on.

[A]

I heard kind of a better theory online that was that he had been wearing a bulletproof vest and the bullet ricocheted off the vest, or a fragment of the bullet ricocheted off the vest into his neck. And that's. And that's what happened.

[C]

Interesting.

[A]

Which is also just kind of like the same result. It's like yeah, it's like kind of the same result. It's just still like I don't really want to kind of believe like what the, you know, what sort of the agreed upon reality. I'm going to offer something that kind of has the same outcome but like from, but. But a little differently.

[B]

The only thing different between that and the official narrative is that the bullet strike struck like a foot away from what is commonly believed.

[A]

Right.

[C]

It's like video games where it doesn't matter what choice you make, the ending is always the same.

[A]

His death was like some kind of quick time event.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was pre rendered. Pre rendered like video, but it was

[A]

on like easy difficulty. So like kind of no matter what you pressed, it's terrible. This is awful. I feel bad.

[C]

Press a to, you know, you got

[D]

the quick time event where Tyler Robinson is like writing down like etchings on the bullets and you're just like pressing all the wrong buttons and he's writing like I'm gay. Lol. Yeah. I guess the essence of it, of conspiratorial thing obviously is that you want to be in on something and other people don't know about. And yeah, with what Jake was talking about, it's like it's the exact same. But I know something that you don't.

[C]

Yeah, extra safe.

[A]

I think that's what it is, Liv. It's exactly what they said. But I actually know it a little bit more than you do do.

[B]

I'll be honest. I like the conspiracists who like have what they, you know, sort of stigmatized esoteric knowledge and are smug about it because they're also the types that have like esoteric stigmatized knowledge and are resentful about it. They're just resentful that no one agrees with them. Resentful that the, that they're made fun of. Those guys are much less fun.

[C]

I just have one question about that, Travis.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Are you including or not including gang violence?

[B]

One might think that this sort of like theory that Kirk was not killed by a bullet was like being promoted by maybe liberals or leftists who want to absolve Robinson. It actually got started because of an Oklahoma based farmer and engineer named John Bray. And his political leanings seemed to be more of the Ron Paul variety. Sort of a fiscally conservative, anti war libertarian. And you know, there's like people who talk about, you know, the federal deficit spending a lot. There are maybe like five or six, six guys like that left in the country, I'm pretty sure.

[D]

Yeah. All Those guys have just become fascist now. They're like, what am I kidding? What are you.

[B]

Yeah, most of them, it's like, oh, whatever. I was just. I don't give a. About deficit spending. I'd like. I. I like Trump a bit.

[C]

Like how libertarianism seems to have completely evaporated.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Really has.

[C]

Very strange. As they do all the stuff that they, like, warned us, like Obama would do or whatever.

[D]

Yeah,

[A]

Obama looking pretty good right now.

[C]

Nope.

[A]

I don't know, though. All the Obama center videos coming out of him, like, telling stories about hooping. I don't know.

[D]

Divorced. Obama would win in, like, states that we haven't discovered yet.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[D]

If he ran again somehow, they were fields.

[A]

They would live. He would win 52, 53, and 54.

[C]

If the end of Jake's rope is him becoming a radlib, that would be so funny.

[A]

You know, I don't think that's out of the cards for me. I feel like I could easily. I could easily fall victim to. To that sort of belief system.

[C]

I think you'd be good at Dark Woke. What's that?

[A]

I don't even know what that is.

[C]

Well, I mean, I would probably just say, Liv, please explain this.

[D]

Dark Woke, it's like the people who are like, on the left liberal part of the culture war, but they're like, they're offensive, but they have those offensive jokes or attacks on the right. So it's like saying that Elon Musk is gay and that being gay is when he does it is bad and he's gay and he's also. Also in a dress and he has sex with the president.

[C]

Yeah. And it's kind of like calling. It's like doing a Julian style death threat, but you're like a rad lib and it's based on that way of thinking.

[D]

Yeah. It's like you like the Democrats, but you're doing. You're. You're being like, we need to lock up. We need to do Q and A style, like show trials for the Republicans.

[B]

John Bray started posting this Charlie Kirk exploding microphone theory just like a week after Kirk was killed in September of 2025. And he's been building on it ever since.

[E]

Since.

[B]

Bray now has a website dedicated specifically to laying out this theory and has been picked up by Candace Owens just a few weeks ago, bringing it to a larger audience.

[D]

I want to know what the formatting of the website looks like. Is this like web 2.0?

[B]

No, it's interesting. It's. It's like a squarespace it seems to be some sort of squarespace kind of thing. It's like, it reminds me a little bit of like with a much better design, the old Time Cube website, because just one long page and a lot of it is kind of difficult to unpack and like kind of incoherent, but because it uses modern web design tools, actually looks kind of nice.

[D]

Yeah, that's a shame. Yeah. That the time QBI didn't have squarespace.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Because it's hard to read that website. It's just like, it's just black text in a white background. Right. And there's just.

[C]

You must mean cube space.

[B]

No, I think it's interesting because it's a. It's a real kind of old school conspiracy theories. So many what they call conspiracy theories nowadays are just like bare assertions of some kind of like plot or some kind of absurd claim. Like real conspiracy theories. They have piles of elaborate, confusing evidence that don't actually add up to what they're claiming. So the evidence marshaled in favor of this theory includes like video, motion and audio timing and like microphone hardware. Very technical stuff. Like he talks about explosive chemistry and wound behavior and textile behavior, SUV debris, and of course what he considers to be missing evidence. Now, interestingly, Bray says that he believes that there was a bullet fired at the same time that Charlie was killed. But he thinks that is not what killed Charlie.

[D]

So who fucking cares?

[A]

What the heck? It's like it happened like it happened, except for one thing.

[D]

They really wanted to kill him. They really wanted to kill him to

[C]

make sure they made sure there were a couple of different wetwork teams there.

[B]

In a recent interview on the firearms podcast, Bray says that he has seen evidence of what he calls a supersonic event at the time of Charlie Kirk's death. But that was part of an elaborate cover up of what really killed him.

[A]

Based on the audio that you've seen scene, do you agree that there was

[C]

a supersonic event that happened?

[E]

Absolutely, yeah. Supersonic event that originated from an elevated position and swept over the crowd and you know, within three meters of the tent it passed. So in between Charlie and the two cameras on the right side, I can say with certainty that that that bullet passed through there.

[D]

Now what would you say to the

[C]

people that say, why would they need all of that if they're just going

[E]

to take them out?

[C]

Why would they need the gun shot?

[A]

What, what purpose does it serve?

[E]

Well, because if you just detonate device on Charlie, then everyone knows the lone wolf stories out of the question. Like Tyler Robinson is going to craft a high order explosive in his bedroom, sneak into TPS usa, swap the microphone, and then somehow be able to trigger it, you know, through connecting to it, unbeknownst the AV team. So, you know, if they were gone to use the. That the target opportunity, that was the microphone. They needed something that was more benign and could be explained as a lone kind of rogue actor that, you know, had a beef with Charlie for one reason or another that took a course of action. And the easiest thing to explain that is a rifle shot.

[D]

That's honestly more well thought out than I would have imagined it to be,

[C]

other than, like, he calls it TPS usa. Yeah, I'm going to need your TPS USA report on my desk. But, yeah, no, this is incredible. His hat says faith, which you need to believe his theory. Yeah, it's good.

[A]

And the guy who's hosting him, I mean, like, how does. How does a guy like this get on a podcast like that? It's just, how do these people. I'd love to see the chain of emails that led to this show. This. This collaboration.

[B]

Well, yeah, because, like, a lot of his theory deals with, like, ballistic analysis, and that got a lot of the firearm community involved in sort of, like, discussing it. And so this firearms podcaster was like, all right, like, my audience is into it, so let's bring them on, let's talk it out.

[A]

I guess that makes sense that there would be a lot of Charlie K. Kirk fans amongst the listeners to firearms podcasts.

[D]

Oh, yeah, it's a very. It's an incredibly chud area. Same with, like, firearms YouTube stuff, because you have, like, a section of it that's, like, far left, you know, socialist RA stuff. But then most of it is, like, guys who are, like, thinking about killing gay people.

[A]

Isn't, like, the fun of it, though. Like, seeing videos of the guns and, like, all the pieces and, like, seeing it shoot and stuff. Like, how is a gun podcast exciting?

[D]

That's a good point. Yeah. No Gun YouTube. If you're in a gun podcast, you're really in the weeds, I think.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Because what are they saying? They're just, like, telling stories from the range. I don't know.

[C]

Yeah, that's all they say. And they say mine went bang bang. Says, wow, I heard a boom when I squeezed my trigger.

[A]

And then when I got my aim just right, I heard a tiny ting. Ting.

[C]

That's right.

[D]

I also do love the fluent, like, CHUD speak, for lack of a better term, of, like, it's supersonic event from an elevated Position tactically eliminated the mm.

[A]

That's me. That's me. Late night on headset in like a Call of Duty.

[C]

There was a ballistic complication in the ao.

[D]

All those ballistic analysis, like, because there's like so much like left wing conspiracy theories about this too, because just everyone believes in QANON now, where it's like, if any event is like politically uncomfortable, it's like, well, it must be. There must be a conspiracy. It must be like Israel is actually doing it because, like, you know, morally speaking, they wouldn't, they wouldn't be opposed to killing Charlie Crowd. It's like, that's not how you understand the world. That's not how you deal with empirical information. It's like, well, is it impossible that my bitch ex wife was the one who got me sick? She came into my bedroom at night and was coughing on me. It's like, yeah, no, she's pretty mean. But it's not empirically particularly likely.

[C]

Ex wives really taking strays here.

[D]

So. Yeah, Sorry, sorry.

[B]

Now, what kind of explosive was in the microphone? According to Brooklyn Bray. Bray suspects it was this highly powerful explosive used by a lot of militaries called PETN. But when asked if it could have been C4, he says it might be that too.

[A]

Got it. Okay.

[E]

I've never really gotten too caught up on knowing exactly what the charge was. The, the whole thing that attracted the idea of the PTN is that it's very clean, it doesn't leave much residue to be seen for like the eyewitnesses around. And we had prior, prior use of it in a kind of a hidden electronic device that was in use for a while before it was detonated. So it's pretty stable. But C4 has pretty much all those same characteristics. It's really just a cousin, so it's not that much different.

[D]

If you look at like photos of Kirk right before he got killed, like the microphone is like just a really tiny clip on microphone. It's like, it's very small. I don't, I don't. I guess I am not a bomb logistics guy.

[C]

Yeah, spoken like someone who doesn't know the power of Israeli miniaturization.

[D]

Yeah, constructing like a functional like remote detonation device out of one of those really tiny clip on microphones. I don't know, maybe it's possible.

[C]

Nano charges.

[B]

Bray's theory relies very heavily on a bewildering audio and visual forensic analysis. So the conventional theory is that Charlie Kirk died after being struck at the neck. But Bray suggests that what really killed him was this explosion destroying Kirk's chest cavity. And further, he claims that there's audio evidence of this.

[D]

Okay, did anyone else see, like, the video, like, on the day you got killed on, like, Twitter, like the. Yeah, it's just pouring out of his neck.

[C]

Yeah, it's very clear. It's, it's. And it's very clean.

[D]

And it's on the opposite side of his body that his microphone is on. It was on the left side and the microphone is clipped to the right. So. I'm curious. I'm, I'm skeptical of the theory so far.

[C]

She's ready for a scrap.

[B]

Bray claims that there is an audio signature of thoracic response. So he says that mic microphones near Kirk captured what he calls a low frequency event that was around 58 hertz, which he interprets as the sound of the chest cavity responding after penetration.

[A]

Okay, okay, so just to summarize, you're

[D]

saying that the force was great enough

[C]

and powerful enough, it would pierce through his body cavity, it would cause cavitation

[D]

that would destroy internal organs and that

[C]

kind of stuff all the way up

[A]

to possibly his brain stem, which might explain the posture. And then you're also saying that it was audible in the microphones.

[E]

Yeah, all the microphones. There's not a microphone that was close to him that didn't pick it up. Even the Canon microphone from the UVU picked it up.

[D]

That's.

[E]

That's how audible it was. Because it's a very specific band. It's. It's mean averages 58 hertz. So it's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. And so you, you. It. It's. The, the frequency is one thing, but the timing of the frequency and how long it lasts, that really gives you a really good idea that it had to have something to do with it.

[C]

Cesar Milan Chest Whisperer yeah, These guys are fucking ghouls.

[A]

They must have watched this video like 800 times and like, slow motion to be like, well, I gotta make sure all the theories are right.

[B]

Yeah, this doesn't translate well to an audio pilot. I didn't include it. But like, like he does like, real, like, hyper zer film kind of like analysis where he takes like every single frame from every single angle and tries to explain why this proves his thing theory.

[A]

Well, some people just have a lot of time on their hands. I feel like I smoked weed with that guy in like, 2011.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Different paths. Must have been a real revolving doors moment.

[A]

I think you mean sliding doors.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

So he's like, he's saying, like, so These odd. He claims that there's audio recording that picked up this 58 Hz resonance. And from this he concludes, okay, that only makes sense if what is resonating in this audio is Charlie Kirk's chest cav because it's been hit with this small explosive device. And so I was like, oh, what the hell are you talking about? How do you know? Is there any like evidence, do people do any like actual research on how much a chest cavity resonates when it's been struck very hard and turns out that they have. So I looked around, I found a 2018 paper published in the scientific journal Sensors. And it says this resonance refers to

[C]

the natural frequency at which a structure will continue to vibrate when excited by an impulsive force. For the chest, this characteristic depends on the size of the thorn. For men, the resonant frequency of the chest is around 125 hertz. For women it is slightly higher at 150 to 175 hertz and still higher for children at 300 to 400 hertz. Okay, so he's just dead wrong.

[B]

Yeah, maybe if Charlie Kirk was a real barrel chested man, then maybe. But no, yeah, dead wrong.

[A]

All that work, dead wrong.

[C]

While the resonance was absorbed by the

[B]

gums brace theory of motive is I think actually kind of sweet for conspiracy theory. It reminds me of something that maybe Alex Jones might have proposed in the 90s back when he was still doing his like, oh, like both sides are terrible kind of thing before he decided like he would go all in on Trump. So Bray suggests that this assassination was designed to create more domestic conflict and help build support for the war in Iran.

[E]

So you know, we look at the, the reactions afterwards and the narrative that was parroted by all the mainstream. The violent leftists killed Charlie. They killed Charlie. That's why they did it in a public venue. It wasn't for the leftist, they didn't care. It was for the right leading people. So they would get caught up in the, the, you know, there's a war of, of left to right and you know, you have to get behind anything the right's behind because the left is the enemy. So accept this Iran war because the left are against it. It just sets up the narrative to allow them to do whatever they want. Kind of like Bush years after, not 11.

[D]

Yeah, we're kind of coming back again to like more woke conspiracy theories because for a long time conspiracies were like a right wing thing. I feel like they like held that hegemonically for like, not. Not especially long. It's like, it's time. It's time for like left liberal, like Bush style conspiracies. Because that was like, with the attempted assassination attempt, the most recent one against Trump related to the ballroom, like both sides of the political spectrum overwhelmingly. Like, the normie response I saw was like, yeah, yeah, right. He just wanted to do that to get his ballroom. There's like people calling into Fox News to say that. So we're just back. We're back to. There's been a strange restructuring.

[C]

Now we're competitive again.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I think the latest round of like heavy pressure from Democrats, especially mainstream Democrats, like your average senator, governor, sort of like a news aggregator person on Twitter, basically pushing Epstein stuff so hard, like, because it was identified that that was really bad for. That it looked bad for Trump and those accounts, I think their prime objective is to, if something makes Trump look really bad, you know, to blast that far and wide. And I feel like introducing that into the water just kind of like opened it up. Because ever since then I just feel like it's kind of a free for all. I mean, really since the assassination attempts, that. That really feels when things started to spiral out of control. But I mean, like Julian said, I mean, can trace it all the way back to the Mueller investigation and Russiagate and all of that stuff. So fuck, we're all cooked. Who cares?

[C]

Yeah, I think for a little while there was just this pretense that the left is actually way less conspiratorial. And I think that that wasn't so much the case as we thought. I do agree with it overall, but I think it minimizes the effect of certain things. Like the whole Russiagate period was a real hallucination.

[D]

The World cup is on. As we kind of talked about in the most recent premium episode, Julian and I are the main hosts who are locked into it. It's been very entertaining so far.

[A]

Right.

[D]

My teams are doing well. Canada, Bosnia, Croatia. Let's go.

[A]

Excellent. And Julian, your teams?

[C]

My team is France and it's doing well. And then otherwise I support basically anybody from the Global south, like over any. Any colonizer power. Since I have to redeem myself for supporting France, an evil colonial power.

[D]

Inshallah. You're watching this right now. Bosnia has already defeated the Great Satan and they're out of 32.

[C]

Would it ever go give me pleasure to watch Michael Pulisic nutmegged into oblivion.

[D]

But speaking of rooting for countries in the Global south, there have been some conspiracies that have been sprouting out of Twitter that I've seen in relation to Iran and how Iran has been doing in the World Cup. They, unfortunately, because they're another team, of course, I've been rooting for. They lost into the group stage. They were unable to get any wins. They did surprisingly well in their group, which included both Belgium and Egypt. And they often actually almost won both of those games, if not for a pesky little rule in soccer called the offside rule.

[C]

Offside just means that you're passing at the time of the pass. The person you're passing to is beyond

[D]

the last defender or the second last defender.

[C]

Right.

[A]

So how can you get like a breakaway then?

[C]

You have to go on a run that's timed with when the ball leaves the foot of your passer. There's quite a few ways to, you know, still score goals. Obviously, that's, you know, Jake does not look impressed. He looks real disgusted with this.

[D]

It is a good rule. I will, I will defend the offside rule.

[C]

Yeah, I think it's too. It needs to be loosened. It needs to be loosened a little bit. We can't have any more of these shots where it's like the guy's fat ass that like, poked out a little too far.

[D]

Honestly. I will defend the offside rule. I think if you're going to play that close to the second last defender, then sometimes it's going to happen.

[C]

Yeah, I think majority of the body past the last defender would be a better move. But I don't disagree. I mean, the truth about the Iran situation is not necessarily found in the VAR conspiracy theories, which I do think are worth investigating. I don't think there's, there's anything like fundamentally flawed about the possibility of that being something that VAR would, you know, just select a still frame at the correct time for it to be, you know, because you can have like a difference of distance that is closing at a speed that's like difficult to see, depending on how many frames per second the image is.

[D]

Anyway, I feel like I should explain my var. I should get into that first.

[C]

Right? Yes. Video assisted referees, which is basically a bunch of people in a little box watching screens and like looking at the whole match. And they also have a chip in the ball and they have cameras on the sideline to capture images to then show people. Yes, it was actually an offside. You know, it's not worth burning down your entire, like building complex over this because people get pretty passionate. But before we jump into VAR and all of that. Sorry to interrupt. Just to Say the issue with Iran is really on a macro scale. They forced them back to Tijuana for every single time they had to train, which was not done to other teams. They blocked part of their logistics staff at entry and they also blocked all their fans. Like no Iranian person was allowed to essentially come into the United States for the, the tournament. So there's plenty of reasons why they've been disadvantaged in a horrifying way. They were also bombed during like actual play. So I don't know there's plenty to. To be seen here without resulting on what Liv's about to cover.

[D]

Yes, like most their games were mostly in Los Angeles or I believe all of them were in la. And they, the United States did not allow them to stay, stay for longer than a day or two. So they had to go back to their home base in Mexico, which is very taxing obviously to just like be in enemy territory and then immediately fly out then. Yeah, not getting some of your logistical support staff.

[C]

And every single time they had to run them through immigration. So of course they were searched up and down every single time and harassed. So I mean, it is true.

[D]

So considering all that, an incredible performance. They almost topped their group. If you went for two goals that were offside, just barely offside against Belgium, which is a massive soccer country in Egypt, who I believe was still favored, still is a more favored team than Iran. But the goal against Egypt that was overturned that would have allowed them to win and pass through the group stage was literally offside by a couple centimeters. It was very, very close. And the main controversy, I think with Var that's fair, is that they have no margin of error at all. And obviously if you're capturing the game at 60 frames per second, life has a lot more frames than that. And so you're probably going to miss some offsides. You're not going to capture it at the exact moment that someone kicks the ball. So there's some margin of error that isn't included in there.

[C]

Yeah, I think that's really what I'm advocating for, is just a slightly looser taking into account of margin of error, which is the case in other football tournaments. The World cup is unique in its non respect for any margin of error.

[D]

Yes, but of course this is not something that's directed specifically to Iran. There's some misinformation I saw online there. They check offside for every goal if they have a frame.

[C]

Oh, of course they do. Is it impossible that Var like picks the frame a little bit and that there's some like, like margin of human choice in your decisions. I think that's not out of the question. It's just that we don't have any very good evidence of it.

[D]

And also that, like, I mean, presumably they're capturing a frame where he is offside that's close to.

[C]

So I. I'm a truther. I'll stick on the truth or side of this. Why not? For fun.

[B]

It's interesting because, like, just this year in Major League Baseball, they introduced what they call ABS automatic balls and str, which is the same thing. Which, like, rather than relying on the fallible empire who sometimes makes a blowing call, they check to see whether a pitch was a ball or a strike based upon a computer. And, you know, they. They do it within, like, with. Within a single centimeter. And I think maybe that kind of. That kind of like, you know, precision makes sense if you're dealing with a baseball that's like 2.9 inches across, but you're dealing with a whole human body. I don't know. I feel like you need to allow a little bit more. More margin of error.

[D]

It is ironic, like var. It's an interesting situation because in most sports, people would love for something like var, something that precise and accurate, like, particularly with baseball. The thing I know about people who watch baseball is they hate umps. The umps are stupid. There's a union. There's a bunch of them that are incompetent. They don't get thrown, they don't get fired, their calls aren't overturned. Like, there's some situations where they're doing so poorly that, like, even they know that they're shitting the bed. Like, all the players are like, come on, man. They're like, yeah, I'm sorry.

[C]

It's just. Nothing happens. Yeah. VAR is an overall, like, positive because there used to be goals that were obviously miscalled. And that, that, that's going to. Don't worry. I mean, we're going to fight no matter what is the bottom line.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

As soccer fans, we're going to be fighting about this shit. We're going to be yelling at the tv. Now we have this video thing that we can yell at. It's perfect. It's like Jake, all of his anger gets sublimated into, like, the cable don't fit, the thing won't charge, the fucking driver won't install. And he, he'll go nuts on that instead of like, you know, becoming like a Walmart shooter or whatever.

[A]

Yeah, well. And like, I mean, at least you guys have it Better than the football people. They got like two guys in hats with like. Like light post with a chain between them. They come out with this thing and they got a. Like, how do you.

[B]

Like, how.

[A]

How is that possibly going to work? It seems more almost like kind of like performative. And maybe that's what soccer needs, just some kind of little ritual. Doesn't really. Oh, that's where the chain says it is. You know, something fun. Maybe a. Some kind of animal comes out of a hole. It goes. That's who.

[D]

Who.

[A]

It's offsides, you know, something like that. Fun.

[C]

I totally agree. It's a satanic ritual. You're so right.

[D]

People are just never happy, particularly in a case where. Where it's like so many people wanted, I think, Iran to do better, particularly given the objective rigging that has been happening in relation to them and the conditions that they've had to play under. And yeah, having this system be introduced and have it overrule goals in such a tragic way has created a lot of discussion. I posted this on Twitter and someone replied that, oh, the Bundesliga had a better rule where they just always rule in favor of the attacker and it's kind of based on vibes and it was better. And someone in the replies to that gave an example of a game in the Bundesliga where it was like the most horrific offside you've ever seen. And it's counted. It's like, oh, this is clearly much worse than var. Yeah, I think. I think also the World cup introduces a lot of casual viewers who don't get to see that. Then they do get to see the Iran goal against Egypt, discounted because of literally a couple centimeters of a guy's foot. And then they can complain. But some of this has led to specific conspiracies in relation to var. I've seen it called Hazvara, which is a good one. Israeli Assisted Referee is another one because it stands for virtual. Here's an example from a Twitter account called Viral Mind Live. Who says this?

[B]

FIFA either stole the match or manipulated it in favor of Egypt or against Iran. Now I understand why VAR exists to

[A]

allow FIFA to manipulate match results. Can someone explain this to me?

[B]

FIFA is corrupt and its president must be held accountable.

[A]

There is clear manipulation.

[D]

It shows a photo or a GIF of the kind of the frame where the pass is made to the person who scores the goal and it shows that there is, like, one defender behind.

[A]

Yeah, this means nothing. I'm looking at this picture, trying to be like, okay, let's see, what does

[D]

it mean, and it's counting the last defender because there's a defender behind the one that they were concerned about for the foot and it's saying like, oh, you missed one of the guys. You completely missed the guys. It wasn't like what Julian was saying of like, oh, maybe the foot is captured in a certain way, but this is just like not understanding the rule for offside because it's the second last defender, which is usually the goalie, but in this case the two last defenders aren't the goalie at all.

[C]

I have a lot of compassion for people because it can be complicated and it's hard to eat, even explain.

[D]

One of my favorite responses to this is a quote tweet with what I assume is like AI generated. I'm not sure.

[C]

Well, I'm just saying if there are Israelis in the VAR room, they're not wearing IDF uniforms.

[D]

I'll put it that way. Yes. There's a user that says all you need to know that VAR is run by three Zionist Israelis, which, yeah, I'm

[C]

going to say they're not wearing that shit. If they're actually doing an op.

[D]

It's a photo of them in. In the VAR room with, yes, idf.

[C]

Hello, I am Israeli.

[D]

There's a couple other conspiracies related to FIFA, specifically Iran's qualifications. Because they were third in their group, they could have qualified anyways, but that required a certain specific set of things to happen. They were quite likely, given the things that needed to happen in the final day. They were quite likely. Someone had 90%. But literally all of them went wrong for Iran. The final of which was that the match between Algeria and Austria had to not be a tie, which that was an excruciating match because at The, I believe 91st minute, when it was tied 2 2, the Algerians scored and then at the 95th or 96th minute, the Austrians scored back to make it 3 3. It was incredibly heartbreaking. There's conspiracy around that in relation to match fixing.

[C]

Yeah. Well, there's the argument that if you landed the first position in that match, you ended up against Spain, which is a very good team, whereas you would end up against Switzerland if you didn't. So there was a good reason to not win that match for both teams.

[D]

It is somewhat ambiguous. Yeah.

[C]

Who knows if that's means it's fixing. I mean teams can purposefully lose matches if they want to. That's kind of their right to play that strategically and game the numbers to end up against a better team later. But still, like there's also a whole layer of insanity on top of that about what people believe.

[D]

Yeah. And you know, the people that pointed to in the middle of the game, both sides of the play now playing very aggressively, pointed to an argument that seems to have happened between the Austrian Algerian benches after the Algerian goal that broke the tie very, very late in the match. But of course, it's hard to say. And obviously, more than likely the Algerians and the Austrians were more thinking about themselves. You know, again, it's one of those things with like, was Charlie Kirk killed by Israel? Where it's like, I guess it's not impossible that FIFA has intervened in some way to sabotage Iran. One thing about FIFA and the mention of corruptness is something I didn't realize until relatively recently, how explicit FIFA's corruption is.

[C]

Oh, it's insane. So that's why it's directionally correct to call FIFA corrupt and to say Fontino is a crook.

[B]

It's like, yeah, they picked a very unsympathetic villain. So, you know, makes people. You inclined to believe these conspiracy theories.

[D]

Yeah. Are any of these institutions, like, above receiving money from Israel in America to make Iran's like, life harder and intervene against them in rulings? Like. Of course not.

[C]

But they tried to do everything else. So the Americans are not, you know, they don't have their noses clean in terms of fair treatment of Iran as a host country. That's. That's a fact. So we have that kind of sitting there. But before we move on, I will say that there is, like, the extremely bizarre occurrence that Trump was awarded the FIFA Peace Award, which was not really a thing. They just made a little fun award for him, and then he ended up bombing a country that was at the FIFA World cup being hosted by the United States. So just, you couldn't have a better, like, just disgusting mess anyways.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Yeah, of course.

[A]

Well, my segment doesn't feel so funny following that, but I guess it's time for.

[C]

No, it's time for Doggy D Lil

[A]

Max, as I quickly become the Gian Moose, a compliment of this podcast. My segment today deals with a large animal chonker and their pill to the gill's parent. That's right, folks. You're not the only one who has lost a family member to preposterous conspiracy theories. They're trying to pill the pets.

[C]

They're pilling the pets. They're pilling the pets.

[A]

They're pilling the pets. Especially hamsters. They sit in their little cubes and they're in there they're there and they've got wood chips and they're sitting in there and they're riding and they're getting fat and they're not playing. They're not very good. They don't want to come out there.

[D]

Do you guys remember the squirrel that became like a really important part of the 2024 election? Like it was the cycle because the peanut, the squirrel.

[A]

Wait, wait, what happened? No, I forgot about that. Tell me.

[D]

It's the story of government overreach because did Peanut bite someone? And then the cops were like, well, we have to kill the squirrel.

[C]

They killed. They put down poor peanuts.

[D]

Poor little peanut.

[A]

They killed a squirrel.

[D]

The police did, but this became a conservative thing because it happened in New York. So it's like the woke. The woke New Yorkers. They're killing the squirrels. Poor little peanuts.

[C]

He apparently has a story loading in his mind, and I am here to tell you three times already, minimum.

[A]

They're. They're eating the squirrel. They're eating the squirrels. Under the yeshiva. All right, that's my one anti anti semitic joke for the day. Enter little Max. He's real cute. Imagine a brownish curly poodle with the body type of one of those giant gigantic rabbits that you have to hold with two arms. That's what he looks like. He's a flopsy snickerdoodle type good boy who no doubt would have gone viral no matter who his owner was. Now, I was unaware of Lil Max until I was alerted by my wife that people on social media were beginning to worry that his mother had gotten pilled. I quickly went to her Instagram page as one thing I'm useful for now is determining the flavor of pilledness one has chosen. The grid looked totally normal. Just a lot of photos of a sweet soup dumpling boy. And I've included a little sampling for the host. You can see this is a type of dog that I would like to have.

[D]

It's like one of those dogs that kind of has a human face. Like human eyes at least.

[A]

Yeah, he's got like an Ewok face. He's fluffy, he's moldable.

[D]

It's cute.

[C]

Beautiful, beautiful boy. Bulging eyes.

[A]

He's beautiful. He's beautiful. So there are videos, too. And as I scrolled through a couple, I couldn't help but feel a slight unease at hearing the owner's strange monotone narration. You know, as the parent of a little creature myself, a lot of the content was mostly familiar to me, like sharing my night cheese with my pet.

[D]

What little Max did You come to share a piece of my midnight cheese. Okay, wait, wait. Not the whole piece. You can have a proportional sized piece. Little Max top. This is an appropriate size. Okay, no more. This is my bed cheese. I need it during these times. Little Max, you know it's true.

[C]

Oh, my God. Something is deeply wrong.

[D]

This feels AI generated. Like speed. Spiritually, yes.

[A]

Spiritually, yes. I feel like more and more things are going to start feeling that way.

[C]

Yes, yes.

[A]

But this, you know, this fairly normal dog content stuff. But then they posted a kind of uncharacteristic Insta story, as one Instagram user noted, Reposting the story from Lil Max with the text. Lil Max posted what on their ig?

[C]

The same way.

[E]

Right.

[C]

Never wrote anything. I thought he was a carpenter and

[A]

he need, like a little carpenters tonight.

[D]

I don't get. But Jesus, this award is my God now.

[C]

Oh, but there is a generation who

[B]

is bold and there's like, is Jeffrey Epstein talking about Jesus in some Hollywood stuff? And then it says, God will not be mocked.

[C]

Yeah, it's from the interview with Ben.

[A]

Yeah, so that post was from June 19th of this year. Very recent. And another TikTok user commented, I love

[D]

this fuck ass dog, but I think his owner is MAGA or going through religious psychosis.

[C]

This fuck ass dog. We need to stop it with this shit. See, this is who's running the White House account.

[D]

Yeah, this is. Yes, this is the other side of the culture war type of millennial pesting.

[A]

Okay, so the Axhow Dog Instagram account, they first started posting in September of 2025 and didn't really begin posting strange conspiratorial content until April of this year, with, unsurprisingly, a selfie video from inside an automobile.

[C]

I'm surprised you did not catch the millennial spelling of Max Hot dog.

[A]

Yeah, H A W T Hout hout dog.

[D]

This is not caulking to y'.

[A]

All.

[D]

And there's a lot of people that are like, I'm not trying to scare you. Well, then you must not care about them very much. I am trying to scare you. I'm trying to scare the crap out of you. Honestly, what's not clocking to you is that a lot of the people on this app and on social media are getting enormous amounts of money they have never got before because they are creating AI versions of themselves that have a work output that is physical, physically impossible for a human being to match. And when that AI version of themself is able to get them material wealth in this world, they've never had. They are going to have a lot harder of a time letting go of that. And that means they have created an image of a beast and they are worshiping that image and not the image of God.

[C]

Okay, she's doing the even more millennial. Like pulling the camera close, like doing that zoom.

[D]

And also like, is it what's not clocking to you? Yeah. Oh ye.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[D]

Incredible. There's a millennial pause at the start of this as well. It's perfect.

[A]

So I dug into the owner's social media presence a little more to see if there was any indication that this might have been coming. And interestingly enough, Lil Max's bio on the official Lil Max website does offer some clues. Lil Max's story begins. A starving, filthy flea and tick infested stray 2 to 44 month old puppy who wandered up to a rural Mississippi woman's doorstep alone. Living in a rural area. This meant that little Max was wandering around in the woods alone. And to this day, no one knows how he survived. The woman and her daughter began desperately trying to find out who he may have belonged to, where he came from, or any other information about him. After exhausting their options, the woman's daughter carefully cleaned him and fed him despite having many other pets at home. Which is crazy. Crazy to imagine.

[C]

I know that house. I know that house smells crazy.

[A]

Once he was healthy, the girl in her community came together to try to find him a forever home. After several people volunteered their time, effort and homes for him, Lomax finally found his dad. His dad decided to adopt him immediately after Max gave his leg a highly inappropriate greeting. I'm guessing he either humped it or peed on it.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Do you think maybe he pooped on his leg?

[C]

I wouldn't. I wouldn't pretend to know what comes out of little Max.

[B]

I wouldn't pour that much thought into it. I would just assume hump and move on.

[A]

A highly inappropriate greeting which made him look laugh. After a long day at work, for the first time in his life, Lil Max had a forever home all to himself. About six months after, Max's dad met a girl. I think this is the woman. I think it's in self self referencing. And fell in love by the glory of Jesus Christ our savior. It was love at first sight. Marriage and pregnancy followed soon after and Max's new mom left her career to raise her children. Years before, before starting TikTok in her first pregnancy, Max's mom started filming videos of little Max to keep herself positive. After the birth of her second child, a second round of preeclampsia and postpartum depression. Max's mom decided to start posting her videos to TikTok in hopes to make other people smile who may be dealing with similar postpartum struggles and loneliness. To everyone's surprise, Lil Max became an international Internet dog celebrity and skyrocketed to fame in 30 days. He has been featured in news publications and broadcasts across the world and has created a network of incredible friends across all platforms. Max has over 320,000 friends. That's way more now. Now, Lil Max and his mom work hard to make funny, uplifting, and motivational videos online to help combat the loneliness and depression epidemics which are hurting so many. Thank you for being our friend and may Jesus bless you and you, your family for years to come.

[C]

Oh, it's kind of like our sign up.

[D]

May Jesus bless you and keep you.

[A]

And then she writes Max's breed breakdown for those who are interested. You guys want to hear this?

[C]

Oh, of course.

[D]

Dog life science.

[A]

All right, we got 21.2% Toy Poodle, 20% Shih Tzu, 16.3% Pekingese, 8.3% Dach Hound, 8% Miniature Pincer, 7.7% Laza Apso. Don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. 4.8% Miniature Schnauzer, 4.5% Chihuahua, 4.5% Rat Terrier. And 4.5% Maltese.

[C]

And freaking 110% Doggo Chunko.

[D]

Cute.

[A]

On May 26th of this year, Lil Max was featured by online media outlet Complex for having the expression of a human being like Liv mentioned, which led to Lil Max surging in popularity. The owner, who has chosen to remain anonymous, currently has almost 200,000 followers on Instagram and over 300,000 on TikTok. She continues to post adorable videos of little Max to her respective grids, but her stories indicate that she is an end times evangelical. So here is a post from her. I think this is from her Instagram stories. She says it's a picture of just like, I don't know, a lake, like a lakeshore with some ripples. Like you're standing at the edge of the lake. And Liv, can you read the text on that?

[D]

Lock in with God twin? We're literally in the last two pages of the Bible. As I know it's not how the Bible is ordered, right? They don't have revelations at the end.

[C]

The end of the world is the last two pages.

[A]

We are in the last two pages. Fam. Lock in lock in glocking.

[D]

Like it's not a linear. Like at the start God creates the world and then at the end of the Bible it's like this is the end of it and then it's over.

[C]

Yeah, that is how the Bible is.

[A]

But then there's like also some like memes that she shares her stories that are coming kind of based like this one. Julian, would you mind describing this meme from Max dog 17 hours ago?

[C]

Yeah, it's like a crew of people kind of celebrating and it says right, the US government after fear mongering everyone with China being a surveillance state just to let their country become one word, word.

[A]

I don't see any maga specific or like right wing stuff. She seems to be like, not particularly like, like there's nothing about Trump or anything like that, but she is like definitely Jesus pilled more proof of live.

[D]

Yeah, I know exact this type of conspiracy person where it's like a lot of it's the Epstein files made them kind of go crazy. I've seen it in like, like liberal millennial Vancouverite woman who doesn't believe in God. This is like the believing in God version, I guess.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And just to give you an idea, I mean this has been going on for the last couple of weeks, but here is the latest sampling of today's stories from her TikTok account. Some of the most fascinating Jesus content I've seen recently. Honestly, some of the Jesus influencers that she's found, like, I didn't even know that this kind of like end times existed. Like end time guys who looks like he could be a barista, like a local, like Austin, like roaster, you know what I mean?

[C]

There's also some like weird like crystal mommy vibes, but then a little bit on like the kind of methy side where it's like my bed cheese, like I'm all alone with dogs all day.

[A]

You'll see. You'll see. You're right on the money, dude.

[B]

Here are nine things that must happen before Jesus returns.

[C]

Number one, the gospel will be spread to all nations. Every everyone will have heard the good news of Jesus.

[B]

Number two, a lot of people will stop following Jesus and will stop claiming his name. Number three, persecution of Christians. You will be hated for following Jesus and a lot will be put in

[C]

a life or death situation.

[B]

Number four, there will be natural disasters of all kinds and they will be

[C]

very severe and very consistent.

[B]

Number five, two mysterious false prophets will

[C]

appear and they will sway millions away

[B]

from Jesus through miraculous signs.

[C]

Number six, the mark of the beast. The number of Satan.

[B]

Some people think it'll be symbolic, some

[C]

people think it's physical, but it'll be

[B]

a mark on your forehead or your hand. And you cannot buy or sell anything without it.

[C]

Number seven, the sun will be darkened completely. Number eight, all seven seals will have been fulfilled.

[B]

And number nine, there will be a

[C]

great sign in the sky where Jesus

[B]

will come down the clouds on a white horse in a blood dripped robe. A sword out of his mouth, flaming eyes, and an angel army behind him.

[A]

Okay, I'm sorry to do this to you, Julian, but this is literally, literally the scene where the Ghostbusters are in the mayor's office telling him what's about to happen to the city.

[C]

Every dog has his red pill, but has his red pill.

[A]

You guys gotta understand, like, this isn't from, like the owner's account, it's from Lil Max's account. So, like, with all these videos, like the little, like the little profile,

[D]

a

[C]

little face of a dog, just to like, telling you all this stuff, there's nothing behind those eyes. That dog is gone.

[A]

Here's another one that she shared right after that.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Even Travis is like, oh, my God.

[C]

Jesus is coming back.

[A]

Whether you want to admit it or not. The signs are everywhere. The writing is on the wall. Everywhere you look, you can see what it's pointing to. Jesus is coming.

[C]

Jesus is coming. The end is here.

[A]

And people, which I get, want to just put their head in the sand and act like everything, everything is fine. But yet we live in this world where things aren't fine. We are living in this world where

[C]

we have to go to work, we have to continue to pay our bills,

[A]

pay our taxes, but the world is literally crumbling and ending right in front

[C]

of our eyes and Jesus is at the door. So I made just a little list

[A]

of things that you can look up on your own to see clearly. We are in the end times.

[C]

The music. Bling, bling, bling.

[A]

But yeah, this. This guy is crazy.

[C]

The little.

[A]

The music behind it of the.

[D]

It's these millennial soy, like, end times cults.

[C]

Yeah. And who likes fucking those Bristol cards more than millennials?

[A]

It's so funny. He's like, mad about, like, bills and, like, things getting more expensive too. But while I'm like, I'm trying to fucking have a family here and just like, kind of, I don't know, have my own little slice of paradise, this guy's like, well, the taxes are going up and my bills are still coming in and literally, like, we are Waiting for Jesus to come down. Like, how can I possibly think about worldly things like bills and rent and that sort of shit?

[D]

It is great that Christians have been saying this literally since there have been Christians, like, this exact thing.

[A]

The next video blew me away. I have no idea what this guy is talking about. He says that there's some kind of red heifer that's appeared in Israel and that this is like some. Some symbol that we. We've, I don't know, hit some kind of milestone we're in, like, I don't know, maybe. Maybe the last page of the Bible, according to Lil Max's mom. Go ahead and play this. This, this clip from her stories today. Travis, please. Here's a Red Heer update. If you haven't heard the breaking news recently, it has announced they have a pure red Heer. This is significant. First of all, they haven't had one in 2000 years. This is significant because it will allow them to purify the Temple Mount, build the third Temple temple, and begin sacrifices there. Again, this is significance because the ones they had last year was born in Texas. This one was actually born in Israel.

[D]

Just like the most AI image you've ever seen.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. AI Christian Zionism. This is perfect.

[A]

That's right. You could create any miracle you wanted to with AI.

[C]

Jesus did a lot of stuff, like, for example, be made of shrimp.

[D]

Jesus also had sex. Six fingers. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah. Ugh.

[A]

I hate when Jesus comes with the shell and the head still on him, you know, I hate having to peel his shit off. You know, twist his little beady eyes off. Like, just give me Jesus headless. Like, the shit taken out of him,

[C]

you know, this is why there are literally rules. If you were a good Jewish person, you wouldn't have this issue. You wouldn't be eating the damn shellfish. Get it together.

[A]

On Lil Max's Instagram, things aren't looking any better. The grid's nothing but Max, but nothing but Jesus. She shared one of the most melted podcasts that I've ever seen. And I really. I really do need the group's help here. And I wrote in parentheses, sincerely in the script to figure out if these people are AI or not. This is like. To me, this is like the Theo Vaughn of, like, Christian podcasts. Travis, please. Of hours studying the second coming. 40 years avoiding talking about it, and then just a burden God put on your heart, and now it's become this alarm that you've been sounding. Well, first of all, most people see it incorrectly. They see it as an Event. It's not an event. It's the wedding of the ages. It is all about a groom who adores his bride, who gave his life and suffered what we can't even imagine because he loves his bride so much and he's just waiting for his dad to say, go get your girl. And it's about a bride who's love sick for her groom. So it's really more about a wedding. And so when people hear about end times, unfortunately, so many teachers have made it into fear, they've made it ambiguous, they have created uncertainty with people. I find that it's more about a wedding. And when you think about a wedding, I wasn't fearful of my wedding. I was actually quite excited about my wedding.

[C]

So I think here we just have a case of Protestants being AI coded.

[D]

Yeah, I think so.

[B]

A couple of people there, weird, a little stiff in their movements, but they seem to be real people.

[A]

Okay. Just AI coded. And maybe like a little too, kind of like pristinely wrinkled, that one guy.

[C]

Yeah. Well, they've also done the weird filter where it like almost like cel shades you.

[A]

I wonder if that's it. That could be it.

[C]

It does give a sheen of unreality to the whole situation.

[A]

Me old eyes. In one of her latest stories on Instagram, in a desperate warning to former New Age millennial crystal mommies, Lomax reposts an interview with Christian musician and influencer Nick K. Kaswani. They're very ignorant about yoga and believe that it's merely just stretching. But with my background, I grew up under Hinduism and yoga is a Hindu practice. And yoga means to yoke in Sanskrit. So the question is, what are you yoking to?

[E]

Right.

[A]

If you read the Shiva Samhita, it's

[C]

basically a collection of writings from the Hindu God Shiva.

[A]

There's passages in there where he talks about how he's the creator of yoga and every pose is dedicated to a certain God. And the whole purpose, purpose of yoga is to yoke to that Hindu God. Christians unknowingly are worshiping these false gods. And if you're worshiping Satan, Satan is going to make his home inside of you.

[C]

A lot of Christians have unknowingly let

[A]

demons into their temple by partaking in this practice. And then they'll do dances around it.

[C]

Christians will say, okay, okay. And then they'll do dances around it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

By the way, this guy, I checked out this guy's page just to see what, what his vibes were. And all of his posts are about how Islam is satanic, so.

[C]

Oh, Cool. Yeah.

[A]

So he's doing. He's doing great. Now, last but not least, I just wanted to bring my beloved hosts a little sampling from the Lil Max merch page. You can see there's nothing really God related at all. You know, you've got a Little Max girly happy birthday card. They've added a little boat. They've added a little bow to Little Max. The classic pose. Little Max looking over his shoulder, kind of miffed a little bit.

[C]

One that just says, I'm fine. Lol. Like on the water bottle.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

On paper, this account is totally harmless. Just little chunky boy. He's probably so sweet. And that's it. Totally innocent. But if you watch the stories every day and are disappearing, you know, a different narrative unfolds, and that is that we are in the last two pages of the Bible. And that I need to prepare for the nine things, I guess, that are gonna happen when Jesus returns. And I don't know, I'm just a lowly Jewish person trying to figure out the end time. So I don't know, I feel like I'm a little bit in over my head here. I accept all advice from my fellow Christian hosts.

[B]

I'm really curious, like, how, for how many of these people who enjoy this kind of content of, like, cute dogs, you know, eating cheese, how much is this a deal breaker if they don't like it? You're like, I was like, listen, it's like, ah, that's a really cute dog. Is like, occasionally they tell me that the end is nigh. That's fine as long as I get to see the dog continually eat cheese. I get that much dopamine from watching these Instagram reels.

[D]

Yeah, because if this was like, right after January 6th, it'd be like, oh, this? No, I can't. I can't bother to do. I can't, like bear to do that. We should get this account banned. But now it's like, the cheese is cute. Like, what do you want from me?

[A]

Like, they're like, look, everybody's killed a little bit now. Look, she's posting about Epstein. I don't see any Trump. I mean, the Jesus stuff, yeah, it's a turn off, but, you know, at least she's not maga. And Little Max, I mean, what does he know? He's got the brain the size of a walnut.

[C]

If she keeps feeding Little Max cheese, it's going to be the last two pages of Little Max.

[A]

I don't. I think he's like 5 years old. So he's Little, he's got. He's got a ways to go.

[D]

Okay. I hope so.

[C]

Hope that cheese grows him nice and strong.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But I hope something horrible doesn't happen, like, where she, like, sacrifices him or something, because she thinks that, like, you know, Jesus is coming down. Like, I'm a little bit worried for his safety.

[D]

Yeah, that's fair. She's gonna be a post about, like, I'm Little Max and I don't have a soul.

[C]

See, that's where, like, that's where you could see that it's like a little entry point where you can dismount. Like, the whole religious thing is just telling her, well, I mean, if your belief system holds, Little Max ain't going anywhere.

[A]

Yeah, the whole account disappears and it just comes back as, like, Dark Lil Max with lasers coming out of his eyes.

[D]

I did look at this account, and I do believe that she is, like, woke on gay and trans issues. She was like, I do support you all.

[C]

Oh, so fantastic. I love the new mixes.

[D]

Yeah, no, yeah.

[C]

Long live the new flesh.

[A]

That's fine. You know what? The Neo. The Neo Sapiens of the conspiracy of the conspiracy world, we welcome them. If you can be pilled beyond the gills, but not have hatred in your heart for gay and trans people and are perfectly happy with them just living their lives, I welcome it. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Q. Qaa podcast. We have a website that's qaapodcast.com. julian, you have a. Another podcast that you've been working on. You guys are putting out tons of content. Superstructure.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I don't really want to, you know, promote it too much, but. Superstructure podcast dot com. No, no, Definitely. Still want to give them that URL and go check it out, folks.

[A]

Go check it out. Liv, are you streaming. Streaming right now? Are you working on a newsletter?

[D]

That stuff most of the streams are doing now is reactions to World cup games.

[A]

Oh, that sounds fun.

[D]

And, yeah, usual streams, noon on Sundays, PST at Twitch TV, Liveagar, and also my [e-mail].

[A]

that's a perfect Sunday afternoon activity. Travis, what have you been up to?

[B]

I've been. You know what my New Year's resolution is? That I would get more into Escrima and swing around the sticks more often. I've been doing that, actually.

[D]

I've been.

[B]

I've been enjoying it. Yeah, my posture is better. I. I feel. I feel confident.

[D]

I can.

[B]

I can strike something with a great amount of force. So it's a lot of fun for me, folks.

[A]

Ever. We're all headed to Travis's place. We're not going to tell you where that is, but we're all headed there once the apocalypse breaks out. So just know somewhere, like when you are, you know, crouching in fear from some kind of radioactive ghoul that's about to murder you. Just know that at least three of the QAA hosts, some of our international hosts.

[C]

No space.

[A]

Oof. Well, yeah, we. I don't know what's. You know, they might be on their own.

[C]

They can take mine. Because the only place I'm headed is scoliosis and bedsores.

[A]

Julian's like, I welcome. I welcome the end of this era.

[C]

Take me.

[A]

But we're all going to be up in the woods somewhere throwing axes, you

[C]

know, blowing each other.

[A]

Not that. Well, not for me and Travis.

[C]

Probably speak for Travis.

[A]

Oh no. Well, I've already. I've already done the outro. Heck, do I have anything to plug? I don't think so. Except you, listener. Thank you for listening. And until next week, may the deep dish bless you and keep you. We have auto queued content based on your preference.

[D]

Pay very close attention to what this

[C]

person says because I could not believe my ears.

[D]

I was freaking out. Take a listen.

[C]

20 gram booster pet on charge. We're gonna use it against the transaction

[A]

window to see what the results are. I didn't expect the half pounder to make a make like a laser beam

[D]

through the guy's head.

[C]

It's about the same as a guy gunshot.

[A]

This is NIJ4 rated glass from A30.06. It's about the same foot diameter.

[D]

It's about the same as a gunshot from a 36. If you shot it against that bulletproof GL I. You heard him correctly. I. I promise you. I just.

[C]

That was the first one I hit.

[D]

He decided. And? Same results as a 36. 20 grams of PETN mimics the punch of a 30 hot six bullet. Unbelievable. I want to be clear. This video was not posted to prove or debunk any conspiracy theories.

[C]

In fact it was published back in May of 2025. Charlie was very much alive. That's a full four months before Charlie was murdered.

[D]

So it is fascinating that they are

[C]

saying it mimics the diameter of a 30 odd six bullet.

[D]

Especially given the persistent conspiracy theory that

[C]

Charlie's road mic was rigged with PETN explosive.

[D]

I haven't much talked about spoken about

[C]

that because I wasn't a PETN expert

[D]

until this Butler situation. Speaking with people close to situation telling

[C]

me about this strange set of circumstances

[D]

and the possibility of some explosives ring, and I went.

[C]

Wait, what?

[B]

What.

[D]

What are we talking about?