QAA - Premium Episode 52: Neon Revolt's Big Boy Book (Sample)
Aired: 2019-12-05
Duration: 10:56


=== Neon's Devotion Revealed (10:42) ===

[00:00:00]  And the result of that crowdfunding is this 483-page paperback book, complete with full-color images and fancy French flaps.
[00:00:08]  And here's what it says on the back cover.
[00:00:11]  Who is QAnon?
[00:00:12]  There's a revolution going on in America.
[00:00:16]  And up until this point, most had no idea anything was happening at all.
[00:00:21]  Unbeknownst to the general public, an insider embedded deep within the Trump administration was given a nearly impossible task.
[00:00:30]  Neon, no using this awesome voiceover for your own advantage.
[00:00:36]  Just calling that out now.
[00:00:38]  Assemble a team of patriots, military intelligence types who knew the real score.
[00:00:43]  Bypass the media and create a parallel construction.
[00:00:47]  Engage with a select group of superlative civilians so that they can spread the word.
[00:00:52]  Systematically expose a worldwide death cult that has seeped into all levels of power in all countries and which has ruled for generations.
[00:01:02]  And finally, dismantle this evil cabal before exposing these criminals in front of the entire world and dragging them in to finally face justice for their countless crimes against humanity.
[00:01:13]  Along the way, thousands of digital soldiers volunteered their time, their energy, and their resources to advancing this cause.
[00:01:22]  And as the world of QAnon spread, their ranks and exploits grew.
[00:01:27]  I, Neon Revolt, feel privileged to come myself among their ranks.
[00:01:33]  This is my story.
[00:01:34]  This is the story of Anand's and the Great Awakening.
[00:01:38]  This is the story of QAnon.
[00:01:42]  in It goes over basic claims about who Q purports to be, Pizzagate, birtherism, individual Q-proofs, Angela Merkel is secretly related to Hitler, that sort of stuff.
[00:02:16]  Normal stuff.
[00:02:16]  Yeah, normal stuff.
[00:02:18]  So I'm not going to go over all of that and rehash it for our beloved Patreon supporters.
[00:02:23]  But what I am going to do is I'm going to zero in on one chapter that I personally found fascinating, and that's Chapter 4.
[00:02:30]  And we're going to actually spend the majority of our time going over that chapter.
[00:02:34]  And I'm going to kind of like skim over the rest of the book.
[00:02:37]  And the reason is, is that chapter four is so fascinating, is that Neon talks about his life and how he became a devotee of Q. And that's interesting because one thing that really drives me to try and figure out QAnon is that on a certain level, I'm baffled why anyone would think that this whole grand narrative is an accurate account of the world.
[00:02:59]  Like, what goes on inside of a person's mind to make them actually sincerely believe that something like this is true?
[00:03:08]  And fortunately, Neon tells a story.
[00:03:12]  Now, I'm of the opinion that Neon Revolt is actually kind of a bright person.
[00:03:17]  I think he has deranged, demonstrably false beliefs, but he demonstrates in his work that he is kind of smart and creative.
[00:03:24]  Now, I think there's this sort of misconception that if you are a smart person, then you'll believe true things or you'll advocate for moral positions, but I just don't think that's true.
[00:03:35]  But it leaves us with a question.
[00:03:36]  So, how does someone as smart as Neon get radicalized into a community and a belief system as deranged as QAnon?
[00:03:44]  Well, fortunately, he lays it all out in this book in chapter four, which is entitled, You Are Taking Back Control.
[00:03:51]  And that chapter is 54 pages, which is about 11% of the entire book.
[00:03:56]  So it's like an affirmation that he wrote for himself.
[00:04:00]  Yeah.
[00:04:01]  You are taking back control.
[00:04:03]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:03]  He's looking at himself in the mirror in the morning.
[00:04:05]  Yeah, it's interesting.
[00:04:07]  It's basically about, mostly about how little control he has over his life and what happened to him in his life.
[00:04:13]  But now I can post my way into feeling better.
[00:04:16]  That's right.
[00:04:17]  So even though I think it's the most interesting chapter of the book, Neon includes a disclaimer that almost apologizes for even including it.
[00:04:24]  One disclaimer before we embark on this chapter.
[00:04:28]  This is the most autobiographical chapter in the book.
[00:04:31]  Many of my readers will undoubtedly be more interested in what I have to tell them about QAnon than in me, and may mistake this chapter as a mere exercise in vanity.
[00:04:40]  But I realize in writing all this that I am but one lens through which to view Q. I certainly have my own biases, which the more astute readers may have already started to pick up on, and for which I do not apologize.
[00:04:52]  By the end of the chapter, I hope you'll see these biases more clearly.
[00:04:56]  So, in the interest of helping you better understand this particular lens, I've included this chapter, which talks about the origins of my work.
[00:05:04]  How I came to cover Q and the events leading up to all this.
[00:05:09]  Now, Neon, if you want to take some of that $150K and hire me to read the audiobook, I absolutely am open and available.
[00:05:15]  What the fuck?
[00:05:15]  Within minutes?
[00:05:16]  My DMs on Twitter are open at RealRoktansky.
[00:05:20]  Within minutes of saying you can't use this, you're trying to get him to hire you.
[00:05:23]  Well, for money, apparently.
[00:05:25]  Incredible.
[00:05:26]  You'll take money from Travis View, who paid for this book.
[00:05:30]  You'll take some of Travis's hard-earned money, which he was about to laud over you for taking, which obviously he doesn't apply the same moral standards to himself as a contributor to the campaign.
[00:05:39]  Fair enough.
[00:05:40]  Listen, this is the episode in which we completely morally collapse in on ourselves in every fucking way.
[00:05:45]  Try to get hired by them, give them money.
[00:05:47]  Big piece of papaya.
[00:05:49]  Who gives a shit?
[00:05:50]  I'm going to tattoo myself with the fucking word Q. This podcast is on a very good course.
[00:05:55]  I think we're... this is great.
[00:05:57]  Chapter 4 opens with Dian describing a low point in his life, one day in September of 2017,
[00:06:21]  which happens to be the month before the very first Q-drop appeared.
[00:06:24]  He says that he felt empty, tapped out, numb inside, and unable to get out of bed.
[00:06:29]  He was around 30, had been working at a grocery store for low wages for five years, And his long-distance Canadian girlfriend had just dumped him.
[00:06:38]  Man, I know how that is.
[00:06:39]  Come on!
[00:06:40]  He's literally the stereotype of, yeah, I've got a girlfriend, she lives in Canada.
[00:06:44]  Yeah, you know what?
[00:06:45]  God, I hate getting dumped by my imaginary girlfriend.
[00:06:49]  No!
[00:06:50]  The thing is that he included this in the book.
[00:06:51]  I believe him, because who would make... If you were to make up a girlfriend, you'd make up a real-life girlfriend that you see in real life.
[00:06:59]  Yeah.
[00:06:59]  Yeah, this is so painful.
[00:07:01]  I feel it rings true.
[00:07:03]  I was completely alienated.
[00:07:05]  This is the exact example of how capitalism leaves us alienated and void and empty and then we're like, hmm.
[00:07:12]  I too have felt betrayed by a Canadian girlfriend.
[00:07:17]  I empathize with our friend Mr. Revolt.
[00:07:20]  So as he describes it, her father had stepped in and decided that Neon was unfit for his
[00:07:25]  daughter.
[00:07:26]  So, pity.
[00:07:27]  Whoa.
[00:07:28]  Jesus, Neon.
[00:07:29]  I know.
[00:07:30]  This is painful, man.
[00:07:31]  It is, it is.
[00:07:32]  Come on.
[00:07:33]  You know what?
[00:07:34]  I appreciate Neon for being so open and vulnerable in this chat.
[00:07:37]  You know what?
[00:07:38]  I kind of do.
[00:07:39]  He could have made up talking about how he was such a badass in his 30s or his 20s.
[00:07:43]  Everything was going well for him.
[00:07:46]  But this is the part of the infomercial where it's you pretend that you don't know how to pour orange juice out of a carafe or something.
[00:07:53]  Even then he could have made it sound like mildly frustrating.
[00:07:56]  Not like my girlfriend who lives a thousand miles away in Canada dumped me over Skype.
[00:08:01]  Not even dumped me.
[00:08:03]  She has such low volition that her father Told her to do something, and she did it.
[00:08:08]  Or she lied to me by using her father as an excuse.
[00:08:13]  Every part of it is really sad.
[00:08:16]  Don't make me like Neon Revolt.
[00:08:17]  Don't do this to me, Travis.
[00:08:18]  Don't make me feel compassion for him.
[00:08:21]  I'm trying to impress upon you that a lot of this rings authentic, because who would openly admit this?
[00:08:27]  Absolutely heartbreaking.
[00:08:29]  So from here, the chapter flashes back to various scenes earlier in his life that led up to this point.
[00:08:36]  The earliest when he was five or six years old.
[00:08:40]  One day, when he was upset with his mother, young Neon gave his mom the double middle finger.
[00:08:49]  By his mother's furious reaction, he realized that he had done something horrible and so he ran and hid.
[00:08:58]  I love it!
[00:08:59]  Fuck you mom!
[00:09:00]  Fuck you mom!
[00:09:01]  This book rules!
[00:09:02]  By his mother's furious reaction, he realized that he had done something horrible, and so
[00:09:08]  he ran and hid.
[00:09:09]  Here's how Neon describes it.
[00:09:11]  The only way I can describe what happened next was that it was like that scene in Jurassic
[00:09:16]  Park where the kids are hiding from the velociraptors in the kitchen.
[00:09:20]  So well hidden was I that I could see my mother, roving back and forth through the house, shouting my name, like some kind of furious bloodhound who had lost the scent of its prey.
[00:09:30]  Wait, so, okay, first he compares his bomb to a Velociraptor, then, incapable of maintaining the analogy until the end of the same paragraph, shifts to a bloodhound.
[00:09:41]  Yep.
[00:09:42]  Well, listen, on one side, this is hilarious.
[00:09:45]  On the other side, it's also bad writing.
[00:09:47]  Hey, win-win.
[00:09:48]  Mm-hmm.
[00:09:50]  On another side, on a third-dimensional side, he references a great movie, Jurassic Park, which shows that he's got great taste.
[00:09:57]  And who hasn't seen that scene and been like, that Velociraptor's exactly like my mom?
[00:10:01]  My mom, after I flicked her off with both swears.
[00:10:03]  And who, years later, wouldn't write that into a book if they did think that, you know?
[00:10:09]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:10:10]  He's smart.
[00:10:11]  You're right, Travis.
[00:10:12]  You know what?
[00:10:13]  He's as smart as you.
[00:10:14]  All right, I have to gloss over that ownage.
[00:10:21]  Eventually, his mother caught him and then spanked him until his butt was blistered and raw.

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