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June 25, 2025 - QAA
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Mike Lindell: Cocaine Cowboy, Courtroom Loser (Premium E295) Sample

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has lost his defamation lawsuit and somehow has also declared total victory. The gang dives deeper into the mind of this fascinating man, only to discover that his brains are made entirely of patented ‘fill’. Jake has read Mike’s biography and will be performing multiple passages. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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Welcome to the QAA Podcast, Premium Episode 295.
Mike Lindell, Cocaine Cowboy, Courtroom Loser.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rakotansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
The United States has produced some great writers who have artfully expressed the beauty, the ugliness, and the grand drama of this land and this nation.
But I think there is a case to be made that the writer that really shaped how Americans think about what it means to be an American isn't Mark Twain or Melville or Steinbeck or Jean Dos Passos, let's say.
It's Horatio Alger, the late 19th century Massachusetts-based writer who produced didactic tales about young, impoverished boys who rise above their station to middle-class respectability through sheer pluck, personal virtue, and determination.
That's the story of this podcast.
Yeah, it is.
That's what we did.
His tales spoke to and fed the American fantasy that regardless of where you are in life, you can rise to extraordinary heights in any field of your choosing if you just dream big, work hard, and believe in yourself.
Now, grand ambitions can be inspiring and noble, but one of several flaws with Horatio Alger's tales is that they ignore the dark side of the success formula.
Sometimes you can dream so big that you enter the world of delusional fantasy.
Sometimes working hard on the wrong project makes society worse instead of better.
And sometimes it's possible to believe in yourself so much that you smother the kind of self-reflection that might prevent you from harming both yourself and innocent people.
Dude, are you fucking, is this like about me?
Is this episode about me?
So today we're going to talk about a favorite recurring character on this podcast and someone I believe to be Horatio Alger's monster.
My Pello CEO, Mike Lindell.
Wait, so that's the Frankenstein's monster?
That's the relationship there?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's like, yeah, it's like he wanted to produce, you know, young men who like who were able to work hard and believe in themselves, but he produced something ugly in Mike Lindell.
You know, I mean, I think Mike Lindell does have the structure of like a Universal Studios monster.
I'm not sure if it's the Frankenstein monster.
Yeah, that is kind of true.
Like, I feel like his structure just lends itself to something.
We can work with it.
Wide shoulders, sort of high forehead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very strange posture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lindell was a man from the tiny town of Chaska, Minnesota, who came up with the idea for a pillow company in the midst of a delirious blackout cocaine bender.
I'm going to tell you something right now.
When you lay your head down on that pillow, as I did in a cheap hotel recently, and then I kind of took the, I like looked under the cover and it said my pillow, this feel, it feels like he just put crumpled up paper inside like a fucking like cloth container.
They're horrible.
They're extremely lumpy.
Very lumpy pillows, yeah.
By Lindell's own reckoning, he doesn't recall exactly what inspired his idea.
I got up in the middle of the night.
It was about two in the morning, and I had my pillow written everywhere in the kitchen and all over the house.
What does he mean by that?
Did he go into a fucking stimulant psychosis?
Yes, yes.
He wasn't like red rum, red rum, red rum, but it was my pillow, my pillow, my pillow.
I'm sorry, but like when you wake up the next morning and you see the words my pillow, you realize you don't have an idea.
You're just, you're just, you just have an object that everyone already knows.
You've just lost your sort of special sleeping item, you know?
Like you fucking wake up and it says my mug everywhere in the house.
You don't think you fucking came up with an idea for mugs.
Yeah, if he, if he woke up and there was a picture of like a pillow outline with lots of like crumpled up pieces of paper inside of it, then maybe.
Just fucking completely out of his mind being like, oh, there's a lot of pillows in the world, but this one's my pillow.
You know what?
He probably got so delirious, he couldn't sleep and he was so exhausted to be like, oh, what do I need?
I need my pillow.
I need my pillow.
I need my pillow to sleep.
And that's how I came up with my company.
Do not trust them.
That neurotoxicity-fueled inspiration turned into a pillow empire that made him a very wealthy man.
Wealth that he squandered, donating to far-right grifters that treated him like a cash cow, chasing nonsense conspiracy theories about election fraud, supporting silly media ventures, and now by being required to pay damages through losing a defamation lawsuit.
You're forgetting he made like four fucking movies that were all trying to do the exact same thing.
Yes.
And they were all called like, what was it, like absolute truth, irrefutable truth, the truth of the truth.
Uncompromisable truth.
Yeah.
I think that falls under the media ventures.
I guess so, but like that is a particularly psychotic thing.
Like even if you're investing in things, who makes four documentaries about the exact same thing?
He was, yeah, he's just thoroughly convinced that.
It's like, oh, this, like, this should work.
I'll just do it the exact same thing.
One last documentary.
It's the fourth.
That's the one that's going to unlock this whole situation.
Well, fellas, I thought we could do it with three, but it turns out we're going to need one more movie.
Though at his peak, Lindell was worth over $200 million personally.
It means nothing.
The money doesn't mean anything.
He is an obsessive addict.
I recognize him.
I am him.
He recently told the court that he and his company face a combined $70 million in debt and ongoing garnishment from the IRS.
Bro, you fucking imagine taking all that money and gambling instead.
That's what you should have fucking done, dumbass.
I mean, based on what I've read in the book, he probably would have been better off.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
You would have had a lot more fun than like making four documentaries.
Like, none of that shit's fun.
He had to hire that weird little fucking no-look guy like for his TV station.
Like, it was not a good life.
I have a feeling like the joy of being part of what he saw as a righteous cause gave him more happy chemicals in his brain than gambling.
Yeah, it's like, oh, I'm not, you know, I'm not obsessive at all.
I'm just telling the president to invoke martial law.
So, today, first, I'm going to talk about Lindell's recent laws and his defamation suit filed by Eric Coomer, which is why Lindell has been ordered to pay nearly $2.3 million in damages.
Okay, so I will obviously not do this again, but I do need to stop for a moment and say, Coomer, ha ha ha.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Eric.
I know you listened.
Your name is very funny.
And, you know, I will say one of the things.
Like, congratulate.
I'm sorry you had to go through it.
He is a listener of the show.
Sorry you had to go through this.
Congratulations on your victory.
And it is funny.
It's made funnier by the fact that your name is technically Dr. Coomer.
Okay.
Dude, come on.
Come on.
Exactly.
come on.
It's like, it's like, well, if it's not fair, it's It's like you're shoving a barrel full of fish towards him.
And then to better understand how it got to this point, Jake has read Lindell's autobiography, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO?
Boy, yeah, I hope I can't wait to see what you found for us, Jakey.
It's sad because he had to do the digital version, but I have the original where if you move the cover, it changes between his crack phase and his new phase.
Yeah, it's that old technology of kind of like hologram plastic car, like 8x10.
You know what I mean?
Look how disturbing it is when you do it fast.
Yeah, it's the sad clown and then the happy clown, but on the front of Lindell's book, it's, yeah, it's crack addict and then.
And on the back, it's like him talking and he's happy, and then it's him as a child.
Ah, okay.
So he used the back because he's like, yeah, I mean, we're going to have the technology on the back.
There's also a cross that almost looks like holographic on the binding here.
Look, we're not going to lie, it's a high-tech book.
Yeah, this is fucking, this is a startup, I think.
This book is actually a startup.
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Travis, for once, I agree with you.
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Well, that's not an opinion.
It's a fact.
You're so right, Jake.
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Yes, we do.
Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude, maybe?
That's not true.
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