Travis’ pumpkin pie preference, Liv’s Serbian cuisine, Jake telling the story about the Aliens slot machine for the second or third time on the pod. It’s a Thanksgiving takes worthy of your family’s praise. We talk food, dos and don'ts during the meal, and which conspiracy theories are safe to bring to the dinner table. Come for the ham, stay for the slop.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
As always, we are your host, Jake Rakotansky, Liv Akar, and Travis View.
With Liv's acid reflux slowly dissolving her from the inside, and Travis's hair reaching Santa Claus levels, I have been going 23 for 15 in the latest Call of Duty, a game that everyone seems to hate except for me.
Perhaps, like movies, I also enjoy bad games.
Wait, is it?
Where does it take place?
Is it future, present, is future?
Is it future?
It's future.
Those ones are kind of a wash to me.
It's future enough, right?
Like, it's got a robot dog.
It's got some metal gear type mechs.
I don't like it for the story so much or even the setting, although I think it's kind of cool.
To me, it's kind of like a Titanfall.
Remember that game?
Yeah.
Oh, that's one of the handful of games I've actually played.
I did play Titanfall 2.
There we go.
Travis lit up.
He was like, oh, it was like a game I'm familiar with.
He was like, yes, we can discuss.
Yeah, you can like jump off the walls and stuff.
Like, it's got a little bit more movement.
To me, it feels kind of like Max Payne.
Like, you can sort of dive in every direction while you're shooting.
And I'm just, I'm a basic enough gamer that to me, I'm like, oh, just like Max Payne.
So I don't know.
I've been having a lot of fun.
It's complete movement shooter victory.
We're just back to Quake.
Yeah.
We're back around.
Yeah, I mean, I was telling my buddy, like, it feels like doom.
And I don't know, maybe there's, maybe it's giving, because I fancy myself a semi kind of gamer.
I mean, I like, I own Arma in all the versions on almost every single platform, which is a slow, janky, thorough.
It's an unknoter.
Yeah, it's an unknown shooter for sure.
I'd even go one step further.
What's one above Unk?
A Gramp, a Gramp shooter.
A Gramp shooter.
There's nothing in between.
That's so funny.
My parents' generation just fucking erased.
Anyways, although I guess they are Grant.
I mean, they are Grandpa and Grandma.
That's true.
I think I'm just older than I.
Yeah, I think I'm just older than I think I am.
There's no.
I'm just Unk.
Yeah.
You're Unk and then you're Gramps.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're Unk.
Yeah, you're Unkh and then you're Gran and then what?
Death.
Yeah.
So this week, I thought it would be fun to get various takes and gives on some of the greatest American slash Canadian Thanksgiving traditions, do's and do-nots at the supper table or lunch table if you're a G and eat early, some classic Thanksgiving conspiracy theories, and as always, you know, whatever you've posted in the Discord, like an NBA 2K fan fiction film from 2014.
Do you guys say supper?
Like, seriously?
I say supper.
Okay.
That's everything I feel like a Victorian child would say in my mind.
Maybe I am a little bit of a Lord Fauntle Roy.
I don't know.
Maybe, yeah, it might be a regional dialect, not something I say.
No.
I don't think my parents ever said supper.
I think my Canadian friend said supper, and I thought it sounded so fun that I just, it sounded, that sounded so prim and proper that, you know, it just sort of stuck.
It's like, you know how sometimes you say things ironically, you'll pick up slang ironically, and then you'll say it so much that it kind of becomes part of your dialogue.
Big one right now.
I don't know if you guys saw that clip of the guy who's like i'm such a fat chud and like i've just been saying that all the time recently, like if anyone says it on stream.
It's one of my vocal sims.
We'll just say it out loud.
No, I have not seen that what's on your table.
Thanksgiving is a tough holiday.
It's essentially celebrating the prequel to a genocide.
I've told this story before, i'm sure uh, on the pod.
But when I came home from kindergarten with a handprint turkey and tales of the Nina The Pinta And The Santa Maria, my mom informed me that Christopher Columbus was quote a rapist and murderer.
She's so bass, I know, and so I carry on her tradition to all of you when I say that in this episode, we are celebrating time away from computers.
Uh, we are celebrating time with loved ones gathered around a large uh table and and potentially a smaller children's table, which is always more fun, sharing good food together.
I'm just gonna be hanging out, because mine was in october, but no but, we want you to bring, you can bring your thanksgiving.
Obviously, we didn't feel it was important enough to do that around the time but, but.
But, now that we're celebrating our thanksgiving, we want you to feel included, so we I i'm curious about some Canadian thanksgiving uh traditions.
Maybe it's a little bit different.
Maybe you guys do ham yeah, do you have pumpkin pie?
This is my, sometimes my, I think.
I think it's more like my thanksgiving the.
The food is like more Serbian coated because my dad cooks okay and we just like, I think last thanksgiving did we eat steak.
It was like we just don't care, it's like nice, okay.
Okay, I was gonna ask, like Serbian thanksgiving, if there was like a different kind of, a different kind of animal eaten.
I don't think there is a Serbian thanksgiving holiday, but we would probably go shibab chichi, which is like pork, it's like a kebab.
It's a similar etymology, I think.
I think they're kind of it's good, it's like spicy grilled meat, it's delicious.
I love Serbian food.
No, the Serbs have a.
I assume the Serbs have a holiday to reflect on all the things they're ungrateful for, all the pain and suffering they've experienced.
Uh my, my grandma once told me that a day isn't perfect unless you have something to complain about.
That sounds similar to mine.
That sounds similar to mine.
Yeah yeah, my upbringing.
But it's funny because, like, you know, Thanksgiving was always a very important time in our family because we got to go up north and visit my cousins in Milwaukee, and my grandfather also lived there.
And they're Christian, so it was like we were the—I think because my—yeah, my dad's sister married into a Christian family and converted, and so their kids were like Christmas, but we were Hanukkah.
But then we would kind of get together and do a Christmas kind of gift exchange that me and my brother all— always looked forward to, especially because my cousins had this toy in their basement that set my little brain on fire and it's called snafu.
I've included a picture for both you and Travis Liv.
Have you guys ever seen this game before?
This looks a lot like a game that I did play.
Do you guys know that?
Like mousetrap game?
That's like a, of course, another classic another yeah, classic.
Now we had mousetrap, but this I had never seen this and and for the audience, it's like a big kind of green plastic board with all of these like obstacles coming out of it and various buttons at the base of this board control each of the obstacles and the goal was to move this steel ball like from one end of the kind of like obstacle course, basically to the other side, but it was really hard and it just it was heavy, the ball felt nice, it really did.
It was nice and click clacky.
It was the part of my brain that would eventually become like uh like oh, I like destiny, or I like the way that the call of duty is like, Like when it hits the body, you know, that little, like, that little casino part of your brain.
This, this was satisfying it, but I digress.
I don't have tactile toys anymore because of Joe Biden's America.
You know, it's all everything is computer.
Well, they don't let you play, they don't let you play a steel boss anymore.
Put balls through mazes.
And a lot of kids are still sitting in the basement.
We're Christian cousins and they're sitting over the maze and they're taking a kind of ball through the maze.
But a lot of kids nowadays are on Nintendo Switch playing with our family camp.
It can't be coming from Mario Kark.
Jewish Bill Clinton.
Jewish, Jewish Bill Clinton.
Jewish Bill Clinton.
Oh man.
That's like my anti-Semitic walk at Christopher Walk and those two characters.
We'll have to get them together somehow.
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