The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (Premium E327) Sample

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Jack returns to torment Jake, Julian, and Travis by ranting about the impending threat of AI via a classic story from WWI Britain. In 1917, Elsie and Frances took what appeared to be photos of each other interacting with fairies. While some immediately recognized the photos as fakes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a true believer. Jack talks everyone through the history of the famous hoax, and speculates as to why it is that some so ardently believed in it. Jake, Julian, and Travis challenge themselves to figure out how the photographs were taken and offer insight into whether or not ruining skirts and stockings in creeks is a universal childhood experience across genders. Tune in to learn the truth behind the Cottingley Fairies, and whether or not an AI-generated fairy named Mr. E is going to kill us all if we don’t celebrate Earth Day. Jack Laroche: www.jacklaroche.com Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Produced by Liv Agar & 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) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
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0:04.0	Oh,
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0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the Internet.
0:36.4	Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium
0:38.4	Episode 327, the case of the Cottingley fairies. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky,
0:45.4	Jack LaRoche, Julian Fields, and Travis View. So, what do you guys know about fairies? Not a whole lot.
0:53.6	I don't think they call them that anymore.
0:56.8	So.
0:57.4	You know, I'm not too deep in the fairy lore.
1:01.2	I know that you have to believe in them for them to remain healthy.
1:05.6	That's the last sort of lore that I checked in on.
1:09.0	I know that it was wrong to make Julia Roberts so hot and hook.
1:12.6	I think it's a variety of fay. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, Fay femme is the pronoun. Oh, I know there's a
1:20.0	game called Fay Farm. That's kind of like Animal Crossing with fairies and mermaids, I think. Oh, yeah.
1:27.1	I'm not sure they like you farming them.
1:30.4	Well, no, you are them farming, you know, smaller, smaller creatures.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:36.9	It's like a little geodome and they have all the fairies in there and they're hunting them with fucking muskets.
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