Premium Episode 58: Fresh Off The Tampa QAnon Rally (Sample)
Reeling, our immediate reactions to our three experiences. That's right, Jake, Travis & Julian traveled to Florida to cover the second rally organized by the same people. Maybe it's not the most sober episode, but it was certainly fun to record.
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Companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing have way too much power.
They could literally be running Star Trek as an R&D project.
This is a rally for QAnon, the community, and the movement, political movement, and
the conspiracy theory, if you're familiar with it at all.
Have you ever heard of QAnon?
Who?
QAnon.
QAnon.
QAnon is a very elaborate conspiracy theory.
Welcome listeners to the 58th premium chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the fresh
off the Tampa QAnon rally episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Travis View, Jake Rakotansky, and Julian Field.
This weekend, all three hosts traveled to Tampa, Florida, in order to attend a QAnon rally organized by Red Pill Roadshow, a newly minted event production company run by an influencer called Red Shift Reality.
She and her husband had learned quite a bit from organizing the original Washington, D.C.
QAnon event.
This was a decidedly slicker affair on their own turf.
It was set at a nice, small riverside park in downtown Tampa.
There were speeches.
There was music.
It was merch?
It was a whole show.
It was a whole shebang.
It felt like a little convention, a little concert.
There was available shade and functioning microphones?
Yeah.
What more could we ask for?
Pretty good deal for the approximately 150 to 200 attendees who seemed happier than the more anemic DC crowd.
But I guess that's just the laid-back magic of the Sunshine State.
At the rally, Jake peeled away from our group and used his acting chops to blend in with the crowd.
Meanwhile, Travis and I were unable to do the same.
We had blown our cover in the wake of the last rally pretty badly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We were known.
So this time around, we refrained from barking our MAGA passion to the heavens, lest we be accused of dishonesty.
After the speeches were over, we milled about and chatted with the participants before heading back to our rental place where we gathered around a table to discuss our experiences while they were still fresh in our minds.
Only something was wrong.
It was early evening.
We had forgotten to eat lunch.
And we had taken far, far too much Crocodile.
Nonetheless, this tilted, sweaty summit was captured for your listening pleasure.
So, here is that recording.
There it is.
We got the clap.
Cheers boys!
Cheers!
My first QAnon rally.
Sweet taste of success.
We're a little red and damp.
We just came back from the rally back in our Airbnb.
We are at the AstroTurf Plaza, our temporary abode.
No phone palace.
Shady little mics.
They're gonna have to do... Boy, do I have some things to tell you guys about intergalactic slaves that have been bussed in from other worlds to do slave labor here.
By the way, watching you walk around, it seems like that's what you were.
Basically, the plot of Stargate was that guy's whole speech.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
No, not his whole speech.
I should give credit where credit is due.
It was one section of a much larger picture that was painted.
I'm glad that it was so mystical this time around.
It was very mystical.
I thought that Sather as the representative of mysticism and our boys over at Edge of Wonder were joyless and truly, truly it was an exercise for them.
It didn't feel at all like a passionate thing.
Yeah.
Whereas, hey, Bad Speaker?
But fantastic vibes, great content for our boy who made the QMap, that giant QMap, the designer, who calls it what, the Deep State?
Deep State something project.
Deep State Research Project?
Deep State Mapping Project.
Deep State Mapping Project.
So he was great, I thought, and he was there with his girl, and they looked like fucking Brooklyn hipsters.
Yeah.
They had great merch, by the way.
I was looking at a couple t-shirts.
Travis ended up getting the hat that I wanted to get.
I did.
I like the kind of jean, the denim one.
They only had a white one and a black one.
I'm jealous.
It's a dad hat.
It looks good.
It's definitely a dad hat.
And it's cool.
The symbol is very Resident Evil-y.
It's the Pentagon.
Yeah, I know.
But still, it's kind of like Umbrella Corps, like Resident Evil.
I don't know what that is.
Is that a game?
It's a game.
It's a movie.
It's a series.
It's a reboot.
It's a sequel.
It's a prequel.
Dylan Lewis Monroe is the deep state mapping guy.
Oh, and congratulations to the other Dylan.
For not making it because he had a beautiful baby.
Yeah, congratulations.
Sorry you have the flu, buddy.
Confusing that he had to make up two things.
Your baby being born, fine.
You have the flu, no one believes you.
You don't have the flu, you could just say the baby thing and everyone's fine with it.
Yeah, but who knows?
Maybe he knows his audience really well and they were like...
Bring the baby!
There were a lot of kids there.
Very kid-friendly event.
There was a lot of kids there.
The daughter of Dustin Nemos is about 2 or 3 years old and she was wearing a dress with a giant red pill that said QAnon on it.
It was sewn onto the front of her little dress.
And she was just running around in the grass and I just didn't know what to think of it.
The show opened with Gene Ho's son playing the Jimi Hendrix version.
Yeah!
He's a fucking nine!
He's nine!
Just fucking shredding that guitar.
Yeah, he was shredding.
He had like a nice little fender.
He played the national anthem, Jimi Hendrix style.
Big time crowd pleaser.
Everybody liked it.
I think the choice of Gene Ho as the MC was a very good choice because he had the best energy last time.
In fact, knowing now that the organizer has listened to the last episode because she told me that we were clowning on her and she didn't appreciate it and wouldn't answer some questions, but she was very nice.
She had good vibes.
Mad respect.
I introduced myself to her.
I don't think she knew.
I tried to stay separate from Travis and Julian, but it's tough because I was fucking alone.
Well, these two dipshits wore a checkered shirt that looks exactly the fucking same.
We just blended in pure America.
No, you didn't blend.
Look, anytime I look through the crowd for you guys, I just look for those checkers.
There's only two guys.
No, there was another guy.
These are some liberal coastal checkers.
No, there was another guy in some checkers.
I saw.
No, these are deep state checkers.
You guys are disgusting liberals.
San Francisco checkers.
Julie wore a Star Trek Next Generation Jordi LaForge t-shirt.
And guess what?
A QAnon momma loved it.
You blended right in.
They appreciate the optimist vision of the future.
There's something about you that's non-threatening, even if you're the enemy.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know if they like me.
They like you, probably.
Yeah.
I stayed... I mean, I did almost no interacting.
I was recording the speeches, mostly, so... Yeah.
People liked me.
I think I might have overdone it a little bit.
I went out of my way to try to, you know, red pill them on more shit to let them know that, like, I'm one of them and, like, not to be... You went around...
Like, red-pilling people at this thing?
Yeah.
So you're really part of the problem.
I think we can fairly say that.
What am I going to do?
Try to convince them that all of it's goofy?
No!
You could just not do either of those things!
These people aren't like... You know, there's speeches going on.
Everybody's trying to listen.
I'm trying to come up with something that's going to spur some genuine conversation.
You know what I mean?
So I have to open with a decent pill.
Were you happy with the Billy Meyer representation?
Yes, there was some references to the Pleiadians.
A Pleiadian meme commander?
Yeah.
The QMAP guy?
Plejarian meme commander is what he called himself.
No, he said Pleiadian.
Pleiadian?
Is there a difference?
Is Plejarian and Pleiadian the same thing?
It kind of might be the same thing.
I don't know.
I might.
All the alien stuff is amazing.
I know.
You know, there's one guy I was talking to and I was like, man, I'm gonna drop some alien shit and see how he feels about it.
Sure enough, as soon as I did, he was, oh yeah, we saw him here.
But that's what's so cool.
I was telling Travis as we walked away, I was like, the part of QAnon that sucks is the MAGA part.
The rest rules.
It's all just fucking cosmic, like, you know, dispersion of the mind.
It's just, you know, mindfulness meets, like, worshiping an old German man with no arm meets, you know, being convinced that, you know, free energy is just around the corner.
Yeah, it's the sci-fi shit that Ice-T was talking about.
Yes, the sci-fi shit.
In fact, I think QAnon is at its best when it's sci-fi shit.
I agree, I agree.
Yeah!
Yeah, I feel like it's more, it's like, well, this is just New Age spirituality.
Yeah, the bloodthirsty Trump stuff, and the hang-them-all thing, not fun, but... But the interesting thing about the Deep State Map guy is...
He was very much, you know, QAnon is not the end-all be-all.
He's just kind of the door, you know.
I was curious to see how people would react to hearing that, you know, this guy basically say, you know, QAnon is not our God.
You know, QAnon is not, you know, this.
It's more of a, I guess, sort of a lifestyle, information-seeking light.
Yeah, it's like, they always treat it like a flashlight or an arrow or just a finger pointing somewhere.
This is how they always explain it.
And so I feel like, yeah, a lot of them are like, they say that they aren't committed.
I feel like there are, like, different levels of commitment to QAnon.
Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
There are some people, I feel like, like most of the people I spoke to at this rally, they're like, well, like, oh, yeah, you know, I feel like it's pointing people in the right direction, and that's good.
But if those are the people showing up at the rallies, like, you gotta wonder.
I do think that the QAnon community is not Very passionate community.
Most communities are very much more passionate than this, I think.
I mean, even if you go to a, you're dealing with, okay, let's put it this way.
If your story involves mass pedophilia, murder, sacrifice, even stuff, there's a lot of stuff going on.
And yet, you go to those things and you can't really describe those rallies as being high energy.
People are constantly having to be reminded to be excited.
Everyone's like, it's because it's a lot of old people, it's hot.
But the crowd overall was very, very nice.
Well yeah, laid back, nice.
Very laid back, very Sig friendly.
I did smoke a couple of cigarettes.
He kept bumming them off me, pretending that... Well, because that was my in.
I would go up to people and say, hey, do you have a lighter?
And that would be my in to start talking.
But I gave... the first time you bum cigarettes off me in public, like, you know, as a stranger... Yeah.
I gave you, like, five, and they were just gone, like, 20 minutes later.
I was nervous, man.
You guys were... at least had each other.
I was on my own.
I had to keep my cover.
I had to not, like, look and smile and giggle at you two idiots.
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