Interview with Travis View: QANon & Modern Conspiracies
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
If you have managed to avoid the phenomenon of QAnon up until now, then congratulations! Your life is likely better for not knowing. Sadly many of us have been forced not only to learn about the 'enigmatic'(/idiotic) Q and his merry band of followers but also to witness the consequences of the movement during events like January 6th.
Travis View (the pen name of Logan Strain) is part of the motley crew of the hugely popular QAnon Anonymous podcast that attempts to document the phenomenon of QAnon. From undercover investigations to creative writing, the QAnon Anonymous team (including previous guest Annie Kelly) have approached the topic with a creative and anthropological approach.
We sit down with Travis and ask him to provide us with the 101 on QAnon before we delve into some of the more arcane topics, including cultish splinter groups, the psychology of QAnon adherents, just how much of a threat he thinks the movement poses, and how does he stay sane while looking at depressing craziness week in and week out.
Travis is a wealth of information and a groovy guy to boot. The kind of person you would want to have your back in a Zombie apocalypse. So kick back and enjoy hearing about the crumbling of contemporary society.
Links
Travis's Instagram account: Great nature photos!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's, the podcast where a psychologist and an anthropologist |
| 0:28.3 | listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about. I'm Professor Matt Brown with me is Chris |
| 0:36.0 | Kavanagh, the, let's see, the Watson to my homes as we're figuring out what's going on, what the mystery is with the |
| 0:43.9 | gurus sometimes as you know Chris it's a Moriarty type figure devilishly |
| 0:48.8 | difficult to decode other times it's more of Colonel Mustard hit them over their head. |
| 0:54.6 | Deave Rubin type person. |
| 0:58.0 | But we get there in the end, either way. |
| 0:59.7 | How you're doing, mate? |
| 1:00.9 | I'm all right. |
| 1:02.2 | I think I am like Watson because wasn't he like a battle-hardened veteran |
| 1:08.4 | left the grounded the airy fairy it's Sherlock it is is crazy theories no issues were all correct so that's |
| 1:18.8 | not let the same dynamic but apart from that. Yeah, yeah. Holmes was he was dissolute. Yeah, he would |
| 1:27.1 | land around sleeping. He was a cocaine addict as well, wasn't he? A cocaine addict |
| 1:31.1 | he had substance issues so you know maybe it kind of works in various ways. |
| 1:35.3 | Who's Moriarty? Eric Weinstein? |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah he definitely really is. He's an Emmhesis. I spent good day Mr. Holmes. Damn your Moriarty. So yeah well actually our last episode Matt was the Lablic episode. I don't know if you remember. |
| 1:56.5 | No, I don't. It's all a blur. |
| 1:59.5 | What we did, we talked with Christian, and Michael, remember them? |
| 2:03.8 | Yeah, I do, I do. |
| 2:05.8 | And it was, I would say overall, very positively received and got a lot of nice feedback about people, you know, whatever the various conclusions were. |
| 2:16.3 | People seemed happy to be able to hear from relevant experts and for them to have like long enough time and address various |
| 2:25.1 | questions that they themselves have been wondering about. So we did a good thing |
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