QAnon? In The Big Year 2025? (E337)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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What is QAnon today, nearly eight years after the first Q drop? In Marc-André-Argentio’s new book QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement he argues that QAnon is best understood as a “hyper-real religion.” Even years after the Q drops stopped, QAnon exists as a lived religious practice, where true believers are commissioned to redpill the normies and posting is a rite. The book demonstrates that the movement has gone through three stages of existence: proto-QAnon, canonical-QAnon, and apocryphal-QAnon. Travis and Jake chat with Marc-André about his book and how it builds on other books that cover the movement. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Marc-André Argentino https://www.maargentino.com/ QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement https://www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-Conspiracy-Theory-to-New-Religious-Movement/Argentino/p/book/9781032703534 20% Discount Code: 25AFLY2 Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. /// We’ve launched a new podcast miniseries network: Cursed Media. The very first Cursed Media miniseries is Science in Transition. Science in Transition is an investigation into the intellectual origins of the contemporary right wing backlash against transgender acceptance. Through six deeply-researched episodes, hosts Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows unearth a bizarre coalition of well-meaning clinicians, aristocratic sexologists, militant feminists, right-wing culture warriors, headline-chasing journalists, and conservative politicians. Binge all six episodes of Science In Transition by subscribing through this link. www.cursedmedia.net/ Subscribers to Cursed Media get access to three new podcast series per year, plus every episode of QAA’s existing mini-series (properly organized!) ////

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:35.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 337.
0:40.3	QAnon in the big year 2025?
0:43.7	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky.
0:45.9	And Travis Vue.
0:47.9	Part of why I found and continue to find Q&ONN so compelling is that it's intriguingly difficult to define like a really
0:55.7	succinct way. Q&ON has been called a conspiracy theory, an extremist movement, a LARP, an
1:01.2	ARG, a sci-up, a cult, and a religion. And the problem is that any one of those labels is at
1:07.3	worse misleading, and at best they might be technically accurate, but still fail to
1:12.7	entirely describe, like how the Q&ONN community operates.
1:16.7	Now, this is why I was very excited to read a new book Q&ONM from conspiracy theory to
1:21.7	new religious movement by Mark Andre Argentino.
1:24.9	For longtime listeners of the show, I might remember we've had him on a few
1:29.2	times back when our episode counts was still in the double digits. This is like long time ago,
1:34.7	pre-January 6th. Also is one of the few Q researchers that we've met, IRL. Most people we see,
1:42.9	we only know through a Zoom or Skype screen, but Mark Andre actually came to the live show when we performed in Canada and we got to hug. IRL. It was wonderful. We got to hang out behind the scenes. It was great. Yeah. I was having a panic attack too, which is so funny. I don't know if you remember that. I was like, I wanted to like hang out, but I was also having a massive panic attack because I like, even though I have a theater degree,
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