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QAA Podcast

Episode 245: Kenn Thomas, The Octopus, and ‘90s Paranoia feat. Devin O’Shea

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Repeat guest Devin O’Shea regales the boys with a tale straight from ‘90s conspiracy theory culture. It concerns the prolific parapolitical researcher and St. Louis native Kenn Thomas. Thomas’ magazine Steamshovel Press made him a minor celebrity and earned mentions in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, and The Smithsonian. The magazine was also a source of inspiration for the writers of The X-Files. In 1996, Thomas published his career-defining book: The Octopus: The Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro. The book weaves a complex tale of a massive conspiracy involving a journalist who died in an apparent suicide, Native American reservations, a state-of-the-art-security program, a source named Danger Man, the Contras, the Shah of Iran, and a private security firm called “Wackenhut.” Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan,' 'Trickle Down' and 'The Spectral Voyager': www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: www.qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz. Episode Written by Devin O'Shea https://twitter.com/devintoshea

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0:00.0

Welcome listener to chapter 245 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Octopus episode.

0:22.5

As always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.

0:28.3

Greetings from inside the St. Louis Arch listeners, where together you and I have held hands

0:33.7

writing our egg-shaped elevator up and up the silver legs of this gigantic parabola.

0:38.8

Our goal is to drink in a view of some bridges and the muddy Mississippi and become a little

0:43.2

nauseous from the wind swaying this gigantic croquet loop. In the room up here we find ourselves

0:48.6

in a crowded trapezoidal corridor. Taurus from Iowa are packed around the windows,

0:53.2

and I can hardly see you over the shoulders of this visiting college softball team.

0:57.2

A look at the end of the corridor, Jake, Julian, and Travis just stepped out of their egg-shaped

1:02.1

elevator to join us. Hey guys. Oh, I'm not feeling so good, my tummy hurts. Yeah, I think I am

1:08.9

egg-shaped myself. We shouldn't have eaten those famous mud dogs. All the mud dogs. The mud dogs

1:16.6

give me mud slads. We've all had 22 Tosa Dravio always before getting in the elevators, so we're

1:24.1

feeling good. But Jake, did you know that the arch's Finnish-American designer,

1:28.5

Aero Serrinen, was a spy? He was a member of the OSS, which is like the precursor to the CIA.

1:35.2

No, I had no idea. That name sounds like it was designed by the CIA.

1:40.8

Aero Serrinen. Yeah, Aero Serrinen sounds like something that like I would be injected with by,

1:46.8

you know, by Julian and forced to tell the truth. He does seem like a guy who would love to jump

1:52.4

in just a frozen lake every morning of the true Finnish performer. Sorry to the Finnish listeners.

1:58.9

Yeah, absolutely. He'd be doing like breath work and just be one of those like unbearable,

2:04.0

like, mindset CIA guys. But like this is the kind of guy who like ice swims with like a

2:09.5

silence pistol. Yeah. Julian, have you considered that the Central Intelligence Agency was penned

2:16.0

into existence by Harry Truman, another Missourian, and that the early CIA was known to be controlled

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