49ers Electrical Substation Conspiracy Theory feat. Arif Hasan (Premium E322) Sample

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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As Super Bowl LX rolls into Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, Jake Rockatansky and Travis View are joined by sports writer Arif Hasan (Wide Left newsletter) to dig into one of the NFL’s strangest modern fan obsessions: the idea that the San Francisco 49ers are cursed by an electrical substation. Over the last decade the Niners have become infamous for suffering from brutal, momentum-killing injuries. This has fueled endless theories about potential reasons for the medical incidents that are causing heartburn among football fans in the Bay Area. Is it turf, training, recruiting strategy, bad luck, or something else? One rumor has dominated the online discourse: the idea that the Northern Receiving Station, right next to where the pro athletes train and play, is bathing players in “EMF” and making them more injury-prone. We trace how the theory travelled from locker room chatter, to online content creators, to a “board-certified quantum biology practitioner” until it finally had to be addressed by the 49ers administration and NFL’s chief medical officer. This is despite the fact that the idea doesn’t have any empirical support and it doesn’t even make sense upon examination of the timeline of the substation. Wide Left: A newsletter about the NFL and its intersection with politics and culture https://www.wideleft.football/ Arif Hasan https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL?lang=en Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media and binge the entirety of our exclusive shows Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Truly, Tradly, Deely by Annie Kelly https://cursedmedia.net Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:37.4	Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 32, the 49ers Electrical Substation conspiracy theory, featuring ARIFASAN.
0:46.9	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky and Travis View.
0:50.7	This coming Sunday, Americans will enjoy one of the last remaining parts of the monoculture, the Super Bowl.
0:57.4	This NFL championship game will feature the New England Patriots extending their record of appearances to 12.
1:03.6	They'll face off against the Seattle Seahawks who are looking to get revenge against the Patriots for their loss to them after the last Super Bowl appearance back in 2014.
1:11.6	And I will say, Travis, not all Americans are looking forward to because the half-time show now has become a point of contention.
1:19.6	Over the last couple of years, there has been some culture war stuff that's worked its way out in the halftime show. So it's slowly being
1:30.3	ripped away from us one performer at a time. No, no. We can't go back to the days of Michael
1:37.3	Jackson or even like up with people. Yeah, now we now we have to have competing half time shows.
2:03.5	I read that like they're doing, we're going to do our own half, because it's Bad Bunny, and they're like, they're like, we're going to do our own halftime show with Kid Rock. Isn't that a thing? Or am I making that up? No, no, you're right. That's correct. They're, yes, they're doing their own, their own conservative halftime show with Kid Rock.
2:09.1	It's like Christian Bale's character in The Prestige. She's like, please join me at my magic show across the street at the Pantages. But it's like, please, but they're like,
2:14.6	please join us out in a field somewhere with Kid Rock.
2:19.8	Now, to mark the occasion, I thought it would be fun to have a football-themed episode.
2:24.3	But I personally haven't watched the NFL with any amount of regularity since the San Diego
2:30.3	Chargers. And the San Diego Chargers haven't existed as a team since the Obama
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