Or potentially volume 10; we might have published Volume 3 twice… but who can blame us? Our reality has aged by more than two years since the last Listener Stories episode, where we shut up for once and check in with the people who make the podcast possible.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
Welcome to the QAA Podcast, premium episode 305.
Listener Stories, Volume 9.
As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatanski, Julian Sfield, and Travis View.
Well, folks, there's no way around it.
The United States is in a death spiral.
I'm just glad we have some civility left, and we're gonna have a day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk, thanks to our lawmakers.
Who said the fourth Reich was gonna be a bummer?
And HB1 work visas?
Looks like those are gonna cost 100,000 dollars.
So pesky poor people have zero shot of coming here.
Not that I'd recommend they do.
So yeah, I mean, you know, cheer up.
Not all is lost.
And uh in that spirit, we thought we'd court another round of listener stories, which somehow we have not done in more than two years.
Yes.
Crazy.
Crazy.
It was March 27th, I think, of 2023 was listener's stories volume eight.
Yeah.
And I also believe that we published volume three twice.
So technically this is volume ten.
And uh, you know what?
Fuck off.
Like, we're doing volume nine.
Maybe we'll do like X for 10 and like and like uh do something like um the uh Xbox One Series Xbox Boss X. Listener Stories Series X, Listener Stories Series X, Edition X. No, we'll do Pro.
We'll wind up with like with like uh Final Fantasy numbering, where it's like, yeah, this is uh edition uh XI part two, you know.
Wait, did you listen?
Did you listen to the Japanese or the American version?
Because like that, I think that was seven for America, but it was uh five for Japan.
No, it was I thought it was no, I mean, I I always thought, wait, wait, it was uh yeah, the the early numbers always always screwed me up.
It was always No, I know I made that up.
I didn't seven is seven everywhere.
It's the early numbers that are but but uh you know, we're not here to listen to to Travis half-remember Final Fantasy.
And we also we didn't expect to be doing this podcast this long.
Let's be perfectly honest.
Do we No?
We we didn't realize that Q and On would become would become all encompassed.
We didn't realize that it was like a shroud that would uh settle over the country and never and never leave.
Oh yeah, I expected stochastic violence to catch up with me.
I I feel like I'd be maybe you know, chatting to like an audience, and then this kind of red circle appeared on me.
Anyways, so uh yeah, uh the last story here is it was sent in a few years ago, and we couldn't include it because it's just so long, which you know, come on, man.
You can't be sending us such long stories.
But somehow you won the lottery two years later.
You probably don't even listen anymore.
But uh yeah, so better late than never.
I don't know, fellas, before we jump into the stories, like how are you guys?
I know Travis just got back from, you know, um, I bel I believe, like studying the Bible in Jerusalem, like like in the crypts.
No, no, no, not quite.
I I spent some time, uh spent like uh like uh about a week and a half in uh Western New York State, mostly Master New York State.
I did have to make a detour towards uh like fucking Manhattan.
But yeah, it was it was uh lovely, lovely, lovely people, beautiful.
It's so wet and lush there, and right now it's just starting to like the to get the the very the very earliest sort of blush of fall color.
And the people there are are, yeah, I mean, they are huge Buffalo Bills fans.
That's this is one my mo one takeaway.
My god, I've never encountered people so enthusiastic about a football team.
But yeah, I've been looking, but looking at uh documents about for like uh a long-term project I've discussed before that deals uh in part with uh the Morgan affair, in which uh, you know, as a man was uh abducted for like uh threatening to publish the secrets of a Freemasonry.
And so because I got to the point where like I I realized I needed to like start looking up the the real primary shit.
I'd like read everything, I had exhausted everything I could get for my computer.
And so uh so I started going to these places.
So I've been doing a little bit of something uh like a cross between the national treasure and the ninth gate, some someone that in that neighborhood.
Awesome.
Two great comps, by the way.
So so you you spilled coffee on the Shroud of Turin?
No, but it's like I was shocked about like how how fragile some of these 200-year-old letters were and how they just let me just a schmuck off the street, take a look at them and handle them and put them back.
Have you considered a come tribute?
I know, no, no, no.
Inappropriate.
You know, bad archival practices.
Uh come tribute.
That's the first time you tell me that what I'm saying on the podcast is inappropriate.
Uh the like I'll give the example of what uh what I've been looking, I've been looking for a lot of things, but one example is that like it's like through through my research, I learned that in the immediate aftermath of the um kidnapping of William Morgan in the town of the Batavia, where it happened, there were two publications that dealt with it explicitly.
One was called the Basonic Intelligencer, and this was set up by the local sort of like Masonic paper to kind of defend uh Freemasonry.
Now it's just called The Intelligencer.
Then also uh David C. Miller, uh, the the guy who uh printed Morgan's book and was himself kidnapped by Masons briefly, had another paper that responded to the Masonic Intelligencer called The Morgan Investigator.
They're fucking group DMing.
We're everyone was just posting.
It was like it's crazy.
It was posting.
There were like there were like anons, and there were always these strange one-word sort of Latin names as for the anonymous names.
Incredible.
I feel like like human history is defined by pre-posting and post-posting, and we're finding out that posting came way earlier than we thought.
I can't wait to find like cave drawings where they're arguing with each other and insulting each other somehow.
Like maybe they go to the cave like on alternating weeks.
No, they were still like in a healthy stage of like human community.
They were posting pics of like dogs and like Buffalo, like that's so strange.
Like animals and nature and like all that cool stuff.
Like they were early days of instant, like they were like turning things into Polaroids kind of and just like putting a cool color filter and like enjoying their lives.
There was like an ancient Travis who who did like I fucking love science, like on a on a like cave wall.
Yeah, so when I went to the the MySonic library in Manhattan, it wasn't listed because like it's a private library, so they don't have everything that they have there listed.
But I spoke to the uh librarian, the uh guy named Alex, fantastic guy.
I asked if, like, oh man, do you have these happen to have these publications?
And to my delight, I found out they had they had every single issue.
It was a it was a one-year run.
It was 26 issues of the uh uh Masonic Intelligencer, and then they also had three issues of the uh Morgan Investigator.
So they had issues four, six, and twenty-six, the very the very last one.
And then uh that combined with they had one issue, the very first issue at the New York State Library in Albany.
So the crazy thing is they only had it in paper.
Like it was just a single paper copy.
As far as I'm aware, as far as anyone is aware, it's the only issue of this particular paper anywhere in the world, and it's just sitting in uh, but anyways, they digitized it for me.
So now I have laid eyes on four issues of this paper.
There are four of the 26.
And now my and there's lots of like research avenues I'm going through.
But now my question is how insane do I allow this to make me?
Do I do I devote my life to trying to track down the remaining 22 issues of the Morgan Investigator?
Or do I like let it go?
Or do I make peace with a possibility that the rest of these issues are just destroyed forever and no one will ever see them?
Well, I don't I don't believe you'll ever be in peace, but but I do understand the conundrum.
Yeah.
I think if this podcast has taught us anything, it's that in order to be truly happy, you have to use the rest of your life and all of your resources to track down uh these remaining issues.
And if you fail or like die in the process, like hey, you'll have one hell of a story to tell.
Yeah, yeah.
By the way, the largest Masonic library in the world is in Iowa.
I don't know why that is, so I'm gonna have to check there next, and then yeah, there's some avenues I can do to try and find this last one, but then I also like, well, if these fail, I'm gonna just am I gonna let it go or allow myself to go insane and try and think of new ways to find these issues.
And I might go insane.
We'll see.
Yeah, bro, come on, letting it go.
Like everything I know about you is not a let it go type situation.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, I'm like, I'm like, it'd be cool if we added like a little bit of like a fictional element where like Travis figures out how to like travel back in time so that he can get the you know the the remaining pages.
Yeah.
Yeah, Travis is gonna go so insane you're gonna have to write like a saga for him.
It's like a three-book trilogy.
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