A very special episode where we explore Travis’ views on Jake’s takes. With Julian waylaid by the flu, Jake has cooked up a ‘tasting menu’ featuring his current doomscrolling obsessions, to serve to Travis. With no producer at the helm, Jake discusses Ghostbusters fan films, Airsoft, and tells one or two stories for the second or third time on the podcast. Travis also has views on the two hundred million dollar ‘ballroom’ planned for the White House.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
As always, we are your host Jake Rakitansky and Travis View.
Well, folks, hello.
I have a feeling a decent amount of you have been giving us your hard earned five bucks a month and potentially more for now 300 episodes.
That's like 5.769 years.
So holy shit.
I mean, Travis, I'm sure you also remember when we used to rap and sing and holler all of the subscribers' names at the end of every episode.
Yeah.
And I remember having to stop doing that because there were so many names.
Yeah, yeah, that was briefly a fun practice.
Yeah, this is when we kind of thought that this would be, I guess, a part-time gig for us, but it escalated, as they say, it escalated way out of hand.
Well, and there was all sorts of funny things happening because, of course, you know, once, once people understood that, that whatever name they signed up with under Patreon was going to be settled out, we got all of these wonderful characters, heart brains, you know, you know, all sorts of hilarious names that who have now become, you know, long, long and loved members of the community.
And yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Yeah.
God bless the Knowledge Fight guys, because they still do that.
That's insane.
I know.
Good for them.
Good for them.
Maybe we should start doing it again.
How many subscribers do we have?
No, I would be.
I'm just kidding.
That'll be the next show.
It'll just be that.
I remember streaming on Twitch during the pandemic.
The pandemic?
We all went through a pandemic together?
Yeah.
which is crazy.
Yeah.
That period of time in 2020 was...
was tumultuous stressful certainly but yeah it was fun it was fun to stream yeah we had just basically done our first kind of test pilot live show, I believe was in February of 2020.
It was literally right before COVID hit.
And then, yeah, and then a couple years later, we got back on and we went on tour.
And I remember, you know, meeting a lot of you and shaking your hands and sometimes we were talking through masks and sometimes we weren't.
And that was a whole crazy experience.
I remember writing an email, because I'm a coward, to my boss telling him that I was going to quit and do QAA full time.
By the way, he did come to one of the live shows and laughed his ass off.
So that was pretty cool.
I got married.
Travis became a proper mountain man, and Julian is unfortunately really sick with the flu right now in France, which is horrible, but somehow fitting.
So maybe we can call him during the show and check up on him.
We grew the QAA family, first with our amazing Discord mods, who I won't name, but who we've had the privilege of kicking at IRL, most of you.
And we've added Brad, whom we've met in real life, and Annie and Liv, who feel like family, but I've never, ever met them in real life.
Travis, have you met Annie or Liv in the third dimension here?
I have not, no.
One of these days we need to do a Christmas party or something and get everyone in the same room.
That would be so sick.
Truly independent podcasting.
We have like a Christmas party where there's like eight or nine people.
We brought on Corey, our insanely talented editor, who is totally Winston, by the way, from the Ghostbusters, because he was just an honest editor looking for a steady paycheck, and he has been exposed to the most heinous ghouls and goblins of the conspiracy.
So anyways, I just wanted to quickly say thank you, listeners.
We literally wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for you.
And a special thank you to our day one writer dies, the people whose names that we used to sing.
With Julian out of commission and unable to be tortured further, but Also unable to interrupt Travis, I had an idea for something fun and special for 300.
I have a lot of bizarre interests right now, and I'd like to get Travis' views on them.
You know, had he picked a different gnome to plume, he probably could have protected himself from this episode, so yeah, what do you what do you think, T?
Do you think, uh, I'm just curious, you know, you and I get along really well, but our interests are, are pretty varied, you know.
I like to sleep in till 10 a.m., you know, you like to do nights by yourself, like out in the forest where you literally put yourself in environments that I merely simulate in early access games.
So I figured this could be maybe like a meeting of the minds.
Then we could also maybe talk about some pretty funny news lately coming out of the White House as well.
That sounds like a good idea.
You know, Jake, I think we have more in common than you may suspect.
So let's dive into it.
Let's go.
So, right, sorry, I'm chewing a piece of ice from my homemade coffee.
I'm trying to make my coffee at home instead of going to Starbucks and spending like six or seven dollars on some creamed, creamed monstrosity..
Mom, don't and don't take, I'm, you know, sometimes I do go to Starbucks and get a Creamed Monstrosity, but not a lot.
You know, my parents being avid listeners of the show now is really tough for me because I say things sometimes and then, you know, when I see them, uh, like I did over this past weekend for their anniversary, congratulations, by the way, you know, then I'm asked questions and interrogated a little bit and you gotta understand, you know, this is mostly who we are, but we're also, it's a show, it's entertaining, you know, there's a little bit of performance aspect to it.
So, you know, I just want to say that upfront.
Travis, do your parents ask you about things that you say on the podcast?
Blessedly they don't listen.
So I'm in a better situation.
Anyway, so lately I've been into this community and you won't be surprised.
It's basically like a full RP airsofting community.
And I guess maybe that's airsofting in general.
Have you ever been to play airsoft, Travis?
No, I've never done airsoft.
I've done paintball a couple of times in my life.
Oh, nice.
That's it.
I've done paintball a couple of times as well.
Airsoft is like the guns look a lot more realistic.
And instead of shooting paint, they shoot these tiny plastic BBs at like 340 feet per second.
So it feels like someone snapping a rubber band on your, on your skin, like when you get hit.
But it's not nearly as fucked up as paintball is.
I'm sure I can't remember if I've told this story on the podcast before, and Julian's not here to tell me if I had, so I'm going to tell it again.
But when I was probably about ten or eleven years old, maybe a little older, my dad took my Cub Scout troop to play paintball down at Navy Pier in Chicago.
There was like an indoor paintball arena, but it's also near the Navy base.
And so there were like two Navy SEALs there who were just kinda there, like, you know, on their day off, like having fun or practicing maneuvers or whatever.
So it's like ten, like, ten prepubescent Cub Scouts versus like these two like operators.
And I just remember getting headshot a lot that day.
I remember feeling a lot of double taps on the front of my head.
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Travis, why is that such a good deal?
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Travis, for once, I agree with you that people could subscribe by going to patreon.com slash QAA.
