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The Onion Wears The Infowars Skinsuit feat. Ben Collins (E370)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The parent company of the satirical publication The Onion has a deal to take control of Infowars, the conspiracist media machine built by Alex Jones for the past 26 years. It is a proposed six-month licensing arrangement, pending approval from a Texas judge, with an option to renew. That is expected to be approved this Thursday, April 30th. Travis and Jake speak to former NBC News reporter and The Onion CEO Ben Collins about the deal, the new creative vision for Infowars, what it means to Sandy Hook parents who were victimized by Jones, and comedian Tim Heidecker's role as creative director for the venture. Before that, Julian joins us to unpack theories related to Cole Tomas Allen, the Torrance man who was charged with attempting to assassinate the president after attempting to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The Onion Print Edition https://membership.theonion.com/ Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! Spectral Voyager Season 2 is releasing now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows:  https://cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & 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. Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation https://www.404media.co/did-a-time-traveling-superintelligent-ai-try-to-warn-about-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-an-investigation/

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Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet.

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Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode

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370. The Onion wears the Info Wars skin suit featuring Ben Collins. As always, we are your

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host, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. Today we have a very exciting

0:51.0

interview with Ben Collins about the Onions project to Take Over Infowars and his plans for that.

0:57.1

But before we get to that, I figure we got to talk about the most recent, nearly violent incident involving, you know, the president of the administration.

1:05.9

Yeah, it's like it's another, I guess, atypical, surprising suspect in this case.

1:11.1

And, of course, it sprung up a lot of bizarre misinformation and conspiracy theories.

1:15.4

I feel like he's a bit like Ryan Ruth.

1:17.3

I don't think he's totally atypical.

1:19.0

I think that what we're learning here is that liberals and centrist, they get apprehended by guards that are outside the mission area.

1:26.3

Yeah.

1:26.6

Like they never, ever make it. Yeah. They get arrested, like, taking cover. And it's like, no, like you, you technically are going to get eliminated within 30 seconds for being outside of the mission area. So, you know, you have to move a little bit faster, folks. They're stepping into that cone of vision, like, way too soon. Yeah, it's like a general

1:45.3

cone of vision. They're just attracting agro from like the two guards at the guardhouse down

1:49.6

the road. But the fact that we're, I mean, this is now the third. I think it's the third.

1:55.0

Yeah. This is the third. And I kind of casually saw this, you know, on the news. And it didn't even phase me. The first one, I was like, I remember, like, I went out to, like, lunch with my wife afterwards. And we were like, wow, things are really ramping up. And now I was like, you know what I thought this time is I was like, I bet if I go to Twitter right now, hashtag stage is going to be like the number one trending thing. I'll bet that's what I'm going to see. And guess what? I was fucking right. Again, to myself alone, nobody else knew, but I knew that I was right. Yeah, these little kernels, you know, these popcorn kernels kind of popping at the beginning of the general heating of the oil at the bottom of the pen are really just the beginning. Believe me, we haven't even reached cruising altitude with like the, you know, like when you're looking at the microwave starting to time for the intervals, you know? Believe me, I think we're going to see a lot more of this stuff. I mean, this was, Matt Christman, you know, spoke about this, the kind of like individual, kind of stochastic acts that we're going to start

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