FBI raids, memes and one-man stochastic terror attacks. The FBI visits Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago and a representative for the White House posts about "Dark Brandon". Then a man commits suicide by fed after posting to Truth Social about attacking the FBI. Plus Ron Watkins surfaces in Australia, and it looks like he was lying about being in Arizona during his congressional run. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com New Merch dropped! http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by G-Dog. Editing by Corey Klotz.

A self-taught futurist imagines a utopian world with no money, war, scarcity or property. Jacque Fresco considered himself beyond capitalism and communism, relying on technology, science, and resource management to create a perfect, cybernetically enhanced world. He was also pretty horny and claimed to have changed the minds of several Ku Klux Klan members about race. His ideas ended up being showcased at the United Nations. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our Eugene, Oregon show on September 10th: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

A doomsday bunker beneath a mansion in Kentucky. A paranoid liquor store chain owner who got involved in right wing politics and went down the QAnon rabbithole. A terrible tragedy. Plus, the return of QAnon news! Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets for our September 10th Eugene, Oregon live show: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com NYT Article by Campbell Robertson: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/kentucky-bunker-civil-war.html QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Roman85, Matthew Delatorre, Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

"Elite Gender Inverts" are the shadowy cabal in this conspiracy theory, which posits that every famous person was secretly assigned the opposite gender at birth. No surprises here, Alex Jones and various QAnon promoters are on board with it. But there's also a whole community of people investigating this stuff every day online, using getty images and child-like diagrams. Jane Ost of the Batting Around podcast guest wrote the episode. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our Eugene, Oregon show on September 10th: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com Follow Jane: https://twitter.com/jane_ost Listen to the Batting Around podcast: https://twitter.com/BattinAround Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Annie Kelly: https://twitter.com/VaccinePodcast / https://twitter.com/AnnieKNK Episode written by Jane Ost. Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

Mark Zuckerbuck meets an angel (Travis View) and experiences what the world would be like if he were never born. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

Timeline shifting, manifestation, secret codes and escaping the matrix. Gen Z is entertaining all kinds of new ideas on "spiritual" or "new age" TikTok. Liv creates a fresh account, feeds it a single weird video, and sees where it takes her. We all suffer as a result. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Max Weber. Editing by Corey Klotz.

A 1930s California cult that prefigured QAnon and posited a world-shattering battle between the "Secret Rulers" and "The Sponsors". Its leader, Arthur Bell, enlisted people in the "Universal Service Corporation" and made them participate in a multi-level-marketing scheme to sell books. Bell's vision also included "a race of little men with metallic heads who lived at the center of the earth" among many other oddities. The cult eventually morphed into a church after some unwanted attention by the FBI. Ryan Serisu of the Rumor Flies podcast has done in-depth research on the subject and guest wrote the episode. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our live tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com Follow Ryan: https://twitter.com/serisu_m Listen to the Rumor Flies podcast: https://twitter.com/RumorFlies Episode written by Ryan Serisu. Music by Lil Alki. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com

Translating Q drops, organizing "stop the steal" rallies, forming splinter cults, and worshiping Michael Flynn. It looks like Japan has quite an assortment of Q followers. To help us figure them out, we interviewed Sarah Hightower, an independent cult and extremism researcher with a focus on Japan. Tour tickets for Portland, Seattle (Sold out!), Eugene: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to Trickle Down, the 10-part miniseries by Travis View: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Paul McCartney is dead. Or so believe a group of people who have been developing the idea since the late 60s. We explore how The Beatles’ rise to fame as a pop band was accompanied by conspiracy theories. Includes segments of an interview Annie conducted with Dr. Richard Mills at St. Mary’s University, London, an expert on The Beatles and author of 'The Beatles: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia'. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar Annie Kelly: https://twitter.com/VaccinePodcast / https://twitter.com/AnnieKNK Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Live Show Tickets / Merch / Discord / Etc: qanonanonymous.com

In the 1970s a new method of helping the poorest people in the world emerged: microlending. The idea is to give the very poorest people, those who live on less than two dollars per day, very small loans they can use to start businesses and serve their community. Thanks to the power of success stories and anecdotes of those helped by microlending, the idea caught on with philanthropists and governments in the west. The concept enjoyed the full throated endorsement of the Clintons, The Nobel Committee, the United Nations, and experts working in global development. But a dark side of microlending quickly emerged. Some loans came with unreasonably high interest rates. Certain microlending institutions harassed and threatened those who couldn’t pay. Some of those who received small loans found themselves trapped in a debt spiral. The indebted even committed suicide to escape the loan. While this was going on, some owners of microfinance ventures profited to the tune of millions of dollars. In the 2010s, multiple studies began to discover that the benefits of microlending as a poverty cure were vastly oversold. Microloans could in fact improve a community’s economic base in certain situations. But they cannot and will not end poverty entirely, as its advocates claimed decades earlier. How did the most powerful, wealthy, and influential people in the world buy into the exaggerated promises of microlending? This is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe & Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. REFERENCES Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther (2011) Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Bateman, Milford (2010) Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism Edited by Bateman, Milford and Maclean, Kate (2017) Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon Collina, Daryl et al (2009) Portfolios of the Poor: How The World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day Meyerowitz, Joanne (2021) A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit Rahman, Aminur (1999) Micro-credit Initiatives for Equitable and Sustainable Development: Who Pays? http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/!@$devo/Lecture%2006%20Microcredit/extra/RAHMAN,%20A.%20Micro-credit%20initiatives%20for%20equitable%20and%20sustainable%20development%20who%20pays.pdf