RadCath Apocalypse (Premium E264)
Added 2024-10-22 05:27:36 +0000 UTCThe monks have found a way to connect to the internet. Brad Abrahams is back to bring you a trinity of radical Catholic sects he stumbled upon while reading about UFOs. We’ve got a fake monastery with apocalyptic monks, a Christian private military contractor, and a Vatican-in-exile in Kansas. Catholic-in-residence Annie Kelly is also back to make sure Brad and Jake don’t blaspheme irresponsibly. Listen on and you might be convinced that stage magic is real and proof of Satan. There’s also an interview with a family who left one of these sects and are brave enough to talk about it.
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Brad Abraham:
https://x.com/LoveAndSaucers // https://lnk.bio/extrasensory
Annie Kelly:
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Comments
The conversation at the start about whether God would create aliens unlocked a memory of mine from Christian school wherein I asked a teacher whether aliens could be real and she answered that God would certainly be capable of making other species, but we'd have to be the first one made in his image. So it preserved the "humans are special" element while still allowing for aliens to exist, hypothetically. Makes me wonder whether that take was common or that teacher was just a little pilled.
Mar Nikiforova
2025-03-26 23:46:43 +0000 UTCAnnie!! So glad to have you back. Here is the reason they “associate” with the Catholic Church just to then break off… taxes. The US has a nice little poison pill in its Constitution that allows the practice of religion without State penalty (ie taxes, hindered speech, etc.” so we get these types… like the southern snake handlers. These guys can serve up conspiracy theories like Alex Jones but rake in the YouTube revenue tax free. And claim all kinds of property/expenditures in the name of their Church, also tax free. Grifting, as it almost always boils down to.
Kevin Frey
2024-12-26 06:50:32 +0000 UTCI read that as call in pogrom.
Sarah S
2024-12-10 18:09:00 +0000 UTCThat firefighter was a prick. He was constantly banging on about how palestinians deserve to be massacred. Good riddance to bad rubbish imo
Ruth Kiszka
2024-12-04 18:46:44 +0000 UTCHe's deep undercover. If Trump wins, he'll be named the secretary of interior and lead a Maoist revolution from the inside
Grease Witherspoon
2024-11-02 23:34:42 +0000 UTCmakes sense
E Lyons
2024-11-02 13:31:30 +0000 UTCLol this church had a portrait of PJP2 in 2010. (It was a Polish congregation)
Grease Witherspoon
2024-11-02 06:05:11 +0000 UTCOpposire experience here: at my grandmother's funeral my whole lapsed family got the stinkeye from the presiding priest and our cousins for not coming up for communion. Mind you, this was a church in rural ass South Dakota where they were still displaying a portrait of Pope Benedict well into Francis's tenure. Bonus: When I was a kid, one Christmas Eve at midnight mass (when all the lapsed Catholics and heathens come out of the woodwork), I remember the deacon flat sprinting up the aisle to catch this guy who had taken the host and instead of eating it, just like, palmed it? I'm sure the dude had no idea what a super no no it is to just walk off with the literal body of Christ.
E Lyons
2024-11-02 04:54:06 +0000 UTCAnnie’s back 💃🎉🍾 congrats on becoming a mother!
Storky
2024-11-01 22:59:37 +0000 UTCAm currently catching up with this episode and I’m pretty sure I know the source of the conspiracy about Chinese people eating aborted babies. There is a 2004 film from China called Dumplings and how they described the conspiracy is basically the plot of that film. Finally my knowledge of early 2000’s Asian horror comes in handy.
Ashley Rasmussen
2024-10-31 17:22:01 +0000 UTCDuring my grandmother's funeral mass my uncle instructed all us unbaptized third gen kids not to take the Eucharist when the priest came around, and of course, a cousin of a cousin (who she had personal beef with, feuding with a 15-year-old at 85, what an icon) took it anyway. The priest could just tell he was an Anglican or whatever and he marched back to the guy, took the Eucharist out of his hand, smashed it up into his wine glass and slammed that shit Idk if that protocols or just how Poles do it
Grease Witherspoon
2024-10-30 14:40:17 +0000 UTCThe Mormon cosmology is incredible, on par with Scientology, and was the basis of BSG. And then there's the stuff about Joseph Smith's family and their connections to the occult (that tbh could have been anti-mormon propaganda? I haven't seen it covered much in super serious sources, such is the curse of having an academic interest in Weird Shit) Also the Mormon use of Jewish terminology takes me out every time. I have a friend who grew in an irreligious Jewish household in Utah who thought Gentile meant non-Mormon until he was in college
Grease Witherspoon
2024-10-30 14:26:41 +0000 UTCA good while ago but not that long ago I listened to a call in program on Irish radio where a priest from Limerick was calling in to complain about a local magic show and he was quoting the bible saying things like 'You should not allow a witch to live.'
Leo
2024-10-29 14:10:29 +0000 UTCI am just tuning in for the National Baby!
Leo
2024-10-29 13:00:28 +0000 UTCI wouldn't be surprised if it has, given how embedded right-wing Roman Catholics are in the American Right. Vatican II has been a big point of contention among them for decades, which is why we have TradCaths (who reject the modernized Mass) and Sedevacantists (who are basically schismatics that don't recognize any pope either during or since V-II). There's also the fact that besides modernizing the liturgy, V-II addressed antisemitism in the RCC as a response to the Holocaust and denounced such doctrines and interpretations of scripture as heretical. So naturally, it's not unusual to find RCs in this crowd who really hate Jews and blame them for any changes made by the modern-day Vatican.
Elly
2024-10-28 16:47:03 +0000 UTCHasn't Vatican 2 come up before? I swear I remember hearing about it, and I'm 90% sure this is the only place I would have heard about it.
KEGGY
2024-10-28 13:13:05 +0000 UTCI’m feeling parasocial this morning… I am a long time listener of the show and I want to say that I appreciate Julian, Travis, and Jake very much. Your work has accompanied and sustained me through some pretty tough times. I am grateful to you and I hope that you are all doing ok. 🙏♥️
S G
2024-10-28 11:37:57 +0000 UTCSuper late, I know, but Brad might be interested in Mormonism's ideas about life on other planets. It's wild and one of the things that really sets it apart from the rest of Christianity (I was raised LDS, am now Episcopalian)
Sarah W
2024-10-28 03:47:33 +0000 UTCI also wanted this which is why I am Episcopalian now
E Lyons
2024-10-28 02:27:48 +0000 UTCTo add to Annie’s response to Brad’s question about the difference between the family pope and the actual Catholic hierarchy, the RC church—like many Christian denominations—claims to be apostolic. That is, it takes its authority to derive from its leaders standing in a line of succession that begins with Jesus’ own disciple St Peter. This is what it believes to legitimate the church tradition that Annie talks about. Whether you find such a claim plausible or not, it’s clear that the family pope can’t claim such an apostolic succession.
Liam Harte
2024-10-28 01:09:44 +0000 UTCBrad, with all respect, please try to stop wheeze laughing into the mic :)
Otto Poiesis
2024-10-27 19:03:51 +0000 UTCFwiw, born Byzantine Orthodox, converted Roman Catholic and an incredibly religious and devout atheist since I turned 13- this was an excellent episode. Good to hear from Annie (Codename: QAA UK) again, too! But... writing this with 9 days and 6 hours to go before Nov 5th and (quite likely) the start of a whole bunch of shenanigans (esp. if Trump loses)- I need another QAA fix! Where's my fix? 🤣 No worries... Keep up the great work y'all.... (A mostly Hawai'i based QAA fan...)
Tom Yasko
2024-10-27 03:17:31 +0000 UTCThis is another episode where so much credence is given to ludicrous ideas it damages the credibility of the hosts
Jiang Qing
2024-10-26 19:23:33 +0000 UTCFour pest control guys from NYC had the method 40 years ago
skrrt vonnegut
2024-10-26 19:02:57 +0000 UTCDoes this mean we have an actual method of trapping and containing jesus for scientific testing?
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-10-26 16:45:27 +0000 UTCMichael Diamond also goes by the alias "Clarence".
Matt Stockman
2024-10-26 15:30:46 +0000 UTCWondering who I should nominate as pope…
Georgina Conformity
2024-10-26 09:43:30 +0000 UTCSay what you like. Copperfield definitely sold his soul to Satan.
Nèv
2024-10-25 22:00:43 +0000 UTCAfter hearing this episode, I'm inspired to form my own separatist Catholic church. One without all the misogyny or the bullshit 😒
Vanessa Lucio
2024-10-25 15:24:57 +0000 UTCNot a single Beastie Boys joke, huh?
Brad
2024-10-25 15:12:18 +0000 UTCAnnie 💐🥳💩🤭 I feel like tradcaths are having occult rituals. It's bizarre to watch from the outside. The theater around it all, I would think Nazis are the Vatican 🤣
The Vöid
2024-10-25 10:43:59 +0000 UTCANNIE IS BACK! I whooped!
Abigail Carey
2024-10-25 09:21:15 +0000 UTCWill check it out!
CharlieInsomnia
2024-10-25 01:53:41 +0000 UTCHaha basically
Matthew Norton
2024-10-25 01:00:44 +0000 UTCA lot of pop culture leverages crusader imagery and when pop culture constitutes your entire knowledge of a religion…
Mac-something
2024-10-24 23:29:31 +0000 UTCI also grew up Catholic and the first time I ever encountered right wing rhetoric was in an evangelical church (this was in the Obama years). It was so shocking that it was a formative experience. Unsurprisingly they were also extremely anti Catholic lol.
M J
2024-10-24 23:16:02 +0000 UTCSo happy to hear Annie on the show again!
M J
2024-10-24 23:05:09 +0000 UTCJake's idea that priests should be forced to choose between the bible or the internet (from now referred to as Jacob's Choice? posting or your job....) should be applied to as many professions as possible. Can't Jacob's choice be a Jake story?
nathan.witthoft
2024-10-24 20:03:45 +0000 UTCI literally let out a scream when I heard Annies voice! I am so glad that she is back, love her✨
Paula Charlotte Madest
2024-10-24 18:22:44 +0000 UTCI had questions about this also
E Lyons
2024-10-24 17:17:44 +0000 UTCLike carcinization?
skrrt vonnegut
2024-10-24 13:21:26 +0000 UTCWait i thought Catholics are supposed to consume the wafer immediately because once it's consecrated it becomes the body of Christ. Keeping it under glass is like keeping Jesus hostage
skrrt vonnegut
2024-10-24 13:11:47 +0000 UTCpretty soon we're gonna know about everyone who was standing behind trump during the attempted assassination
psidew
2024-10-24 06:55:26 +0000 UTCThe Pope Michael documentary on youtube is an hour long episode of The Office where we visit Dwights neighbors and Kevins son joins a cult. Wild in the most mediocre of ways. Yet true.
Formerly Catholic
2024-10-24 06:32:00 +0000 UTCI’m gonna need Annie to start narrating books or something-her voice is crazy soothing, even with uncomfortable subject matter.
Laura Walsh
2024-10-24 04:29:24 +0000 UTCIts so funny when chronically online people become trad cath because they think it’s some gothic Elden Ring religion but it’s mostly canned goods drives and lent fish fries
Nolan-Globus
2024-10-24 03:54:28 +0000 UTCI would love a pdf the zine brad talks about in the first story
Loudon Barnes
2024-10-24 03:34:15 +0000 UTCInsufferable pedant here, but strictly speaking in Catholic / Orthodox Christianity, monks are not necessarily ordained as priests nor perform the same function—some monks are ALSO priests, but many are not. Not that this changes literally anything in the sode.
Christopher Nagle
2024-10-24 02:49:01 +0000 UTCThe guy loving magic is a top 10 cutest QAA moment
Tad Dolphay
2024-10-24 01:54:05 +0000 UTCI keep going back to Matt Christman's theory that every religion in the US eventually just morphs into protestantism
Matthew Norton
2024-10-24 00:07:53 +0000 UTCJake -- finasteride. 1mg 3x/week if you're worried about side effects.
Michael Chevalier
2024-10-23 23:44:33 +0000 UTCOkay the guy being awed and terrified of David Copperfield is the funniest shit I burst out laughing at my job and customers looked at me like I was insane
Sebastian Pickett
2024-10-23 21:36:56 +0000 UTCThe guys delivery is like he's doing an impression of Jake doing an impression of him
The Ship's Cat Jnr
2024-10-23 21:35:26 +0000 UTCHail Annie, full of grace, the Lord is with thee...
The Ship's Cat Jnr
2024-10-23 21:25:22 +0000 UTCBless Jake lol wb Annie!! Great episode Brad fun trio
Sebastian Pickett
2024-10-23 20:59:14 +0000 UTCDamn I remember being dumb enough to think those various reverse lyric myths were hints of genius back in the day. So glad to be slightly less dumb now. -- Um poor Annie sounds like she was just woken from one of the few precious naps allowed for new parents, Brad's very lucky he's so goddamn nice and loveable lol 😉😋
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-10-23 17:54:28 +0000 UTCNot a bad 90s - 00's Brit trip-hop group too, Faithless. Reverence album still holds up, especially the full length atmospheric version of Insomnia 👌👌😉
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-10-23 17:48:45 +0000 UTCI was at a presentation Pope Michael gave at KU many years ago. He had two handlers that did must of the talking. They made a lot of antisemetic comments.
Sean Manning
2024-10-23 17:09:52 +0000 UTCEveryone go read The Three Body Problem trilogy right now. If you are listening to QAA you literally *have* to. It's required reading. Brad is describing the 'Sophon' concept that the fiction author Cixin Liu created in the first book (2008). A computer etched into an unwrapped proton and then folded back up. It can spy on us down to our DNA, interfere with reality to drive us crazy, or project images on the human retina, all from a higher-dimensional, totally invisible state. It's fiction. It's not technically possible. I'm not a believer in human contact with UFOs whatsoever, but yeah an alien super-intelligence could insert themselves into our world in more ways than we could ever imagine.
Minnesota_Cold
2024-10-23 15:57:16 +0000 UTCHahaha agree. Jake always comes through with commentary on villains with good hair. And ridiculous hats 😅.
S G
2024-10-23 14:19:21 +0000 UTCTropic of Thunder
Elliott Wallace
2024-10-23 13:36:58 +0000 UTCMy understanding of male hair loss is that it's passed down through the X chromosome, meaning that while you're mother's father is the most likely person for you to inherit this from, unfortunately for Jake it's possible for you to inherit from any male ancestor that is solely traced through the female line.
Gareth W
2024-10-23 10:28:30 +0000 UTCGreat ep! Congrats to you, Brad 😀
Johannes Heskamp
2024-10-23 09:04:32 +0000 UTCI'm taking that sentence for my tinder bio.
Bryony Shipston
2024-10-23 08:47:37 +0000 UTCBeing faithless brings me great joy pretty much on a daily basis.
Geraldine Kawabe
2024-10-23 08:20:56 +0000 UTCI grew up very close to Fillmore, and I've never heard about this. I'm gonna have to look into this further, I'll reach out to Brad if I find anything additional
Grey
2024-10-23 07:12:56 +0000 UTCEpisode subjects like this make me happy that I’m a faithless person.
CharlieInsomnia
2024-10-23 05:31:02 +0000 UTCRIP Pope Michael. Imminent Death Syndrome claims another victim.
E Lyons
2024-10-23 04:39:44 +0000 UTCIt's just like Jesus said: You are Chad, and upon this YouTube channel will I build my MLM, and the woke mind virus shall not prevail against it
E Lyons
2024-10-23 04:30:16 +0000 UTCThe first guy’s deadpan delivery talking about magic reminds me of Nathan Fielder’s Ronald Shoub sketch
Chloe Showalter
2024-10-23 03:57:58 +0000 UTCDude! Playing music backwards reminds me of when my family was at a family friend's house. The adults were listening to a recording of some pentecostal speaker. According to him, if you played a Beatles' record backwards (don't remember which song) you heard "we killed John Lennon" being whispered. It was creepy as fuck to an 8 year old.
Chris Bowman
2024-10-23 03:40:55 +0000 UTCKansas mentioned!
Jake R
2024-10-23 02:54:43 +0000 UTCI think you could argue that religion, by its nature, encourages the kind of enforcement they talked about, but I do think there is a specific element in cults where the behavior is compulsory and enforced through direct systematic pressure. Again, in the abstract, you could argue that systematic pressure is innate to religion, but there are clearly lots of people who are members of congregations that don't isolate from their family and give away millions of dollars. If such people do exist, they are generally outliers, whereas in a cult, those things are the norm and any deviation is punished in an organized manner.
Brad Plumb
2024-10-23 02:53:22 +0000 UTC“Doin’ great like Jake” is how I aspire to be
Megan Muse
2024-10-23 02:43:24 +0000 UTCSo, there are actually some good books on the whole demon/ufo thing, if anyone is interested. Nick Redfern’s Final Events is a good one. Interesting, anyway. 🤓 https://a.co/d/8L4S0lx
hoipolloimike
2024-10-23 02:40:53 +0000 UTCThis was a powerful interview with this family. Great work Brad.
Mary Armstrong
2024-10-23 02:28:38 +0000 UTCI could listen to darling Annie say “Christ-y-ans” all day
Mary Armstrong
2024-10-23 02:11:13 +0000 UTCAnnie 🩷
Johanna
2024-10-23 00:54:36 +0000 UTCI would absolutely subscribe to a Jake, Annie, and Brad podcast!❤️❤️❤️
joshua veno
2024-10-23 00:41:41 +0000 UTCI MISS YOU ANNIEEEEEEE. 💖
Heather B
2024-10-23 00:23:29 +0000 UTCCongrats to both Annie and Brad on their truly wonderful new life journeys! - which I’m not going to describe with specificity to maintain the exclusive nature of QAA premium
Eric Quirk
2024-10-23 00:17:59 +0000 UTC48:00 — I want to play some Christian rock albums backward and come up with ‘hidden’ satanic messages.
RNG
2024-10-23 00:07:07 +0000 UTCIt is true that yoga is a cult at best.
Brian Lancaster
2024-10-22 23:32:35 +0000 UTC1:30:23, you can hear red wing black birds.
Phillip J Pearson
2024-10-22 23:06:44 +0000 UTCWtf did you people do with Julian?
Evan Pitkin
2024-10-22 22:52:47 +0000 UTCMy exact reaction
Jamie Fritz
2024-10-22 22:30:48 +0000 UTCAnnnnnnniiiiiieeeee!
Paul Prince
2024-10-22 22:29:28 +0000 UTCExtremely good episode
Bobby Lawn
2024-10-22 22:27:52 +0000 UTCJake's faith is 2k and his hair loss is related to the stress of being bad at 2k.
Aaron
2024-10-22 21:13:31 +0000 UTCFire in The Sky is such a good movie. Scary as hell!
Schwartz666
2024-10-22 20:56:21 +0000 UTCaka, a Bustweezer
Schwartz666
2024-10-22 20:50:43 +0000 UTCI think it’s funny there’s people who think they know more about being Catholic than the Pope. You think you’re smarter than the Pope? That guy talks to god. He’s the vicar of Christ. Cry about it
Dakota Palomo
2024-10-22 20:50:32 +0000 UTCThe guy talking about believing in magic with such a flat affectation has me howling. He sounds exactly like Caleb from Pod About List.
Bryan Coffelt
2024-10-22 20:39:47 +0000 UTCcongratulations to Annie on becoming a parent! ❤️ it was so wonderful to hear her. also congratulations to brad on his engagement! and congrats to Jake just in general. :) everything is kind of a clusterfuck, so it’s heartwarming to think about folks still living their lives and reaching wholesome milestones or just vibing.
nance
2024-10-22 20:32:04 +0000 UTCThis episode was such a nice long cozy deep dive into the horrors. Can always count on Brad for that. And I’m soooo glad Annie is back, I missed her so much. Congrats to both Brad on his engagement and Annie on a second generation of national babies ❤️
Samantha Miller
2024-10-22 20:11:34 +0000 UTClol what a bullshit present
Michael Vader
2024-10-22 19:52:46 +0000 UTCPeter OToole in The Ruling Class. The quote….
Chris ONeill
2024-10-22 19:47:03 +0000 UTCAwesome episode. Congrats on the engagement Brad and all the best to Annie and the new member of her family.
Matthew Halsall
2024-10-22 19:38:17 +0000 UTCNot sure comparing the Catholic Church to the Bar is fair given the level of influence and seemingly unchecked corruption in the former.
monkey
2024-10-22 19:32:16 +0000 UTCThis is the plot of the Rich Christiano movie Unidentified (2006)
Ferox
2024-10-22 19:23:50 +0000 UTCI also have the Irish Catholic heritage, can confirm that all the male members of my family still have their hair, my dad's hair didn't even fall out through his chemo treatments. My grandma would buy us indulgences for our b-days, I would get a card that said she gave $100 to nuns to pray for my soul.
Mark Brian Wilson
2024-10-22 18:56:12 +0000 UTCI appreciate Jake's recent fixation on conspiracy pilled people having beautiful heads of hair
Jackson
2024-10-22 18:54:16 +0000 UTCThe part where the interviewee was drawing the difference between a cult and a religion. Yikes. I'm not saying those were the correct distinctions, but each of the points he raised are clearly evident in established religions also. He's still in the sauce. This episode left me disappointed in our species. I hope the cockroaches make a better attempt at critical thinking than we did in the eons that lie ahead for them.
Stuart Blair
2024-10-22 18:30:28 +0000 UTCIn the late 1980s, I attended a summer program for elementary school students at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA (locale of Seminary school drop-out Natale). Kids in the program were housed in Aurelius Hall, historically the dorms for freshman seminary students. All the kids were soon talking about how the fire-damaged 7th floor was 'off limits' and - importantly - how the fire started. The urban legend at the time was that the fire was started by a dejected seminary student who had turned away from the church: the story went that the blaze was started by a candle that had been knocked over in the student's attempt to hang himself. Given when this fire happened (1976) - the legend which reached me through the Satanic panic had the fire-starting student using lots of candles in their practice of Satanism, so it was very spooky when we broke into the 7th floor of the dorm and saw the walls were still blackened with smoke damage. There was also a much more severe fire at Saint Vincent in 1963 - so this episode has me now wondering if the origin of this particular urban legend got its beginning with Natale's rhetorical burning of the church.
Rip Roarin
2024-10-22 18:25:48 +0000 UTCIn the "Pope kissing Santa Claus in a Kippah" image, Kippah Santa is actually the Pope and the man he's kissing is, I assume, the Patriarch of Constantinople
Jozarin
2024-10-22 18:03:35 +0000 UTCThere is a lot of work on institutional legitimacy that I think speaks to the last topic. One of the major factors is that when you establish a new field, the focus is first on establishing legitimacy together (Empty Seat ideology) and then later has to transition to competition and exclusion once legitimacy is established. You can kind of see it in these three stories and their religious ideas.
Spencer H
2024-10-22 17:56:58 +0000 UTCI realized yesterday that we hadn't heard from Annie in a while. Congrats on your baby Annie!
DrewiePie
2024-10-22 17:25:59 +0000 UTCYahweh worshippers are weird af. even the nice ones
Skullbrain
2024-10-22 16:52:42 +0000 UTCSorry Annie, being a pill head with a three digit body count is actually much more true Catholic and growing up in the church
HonestEd
2024-10-22 16:49:54 +0000 UTCYay for Annie's return!
Xpensive Cardboard
2024-10-22 16:41:28 +0000 UTCWelcome back Annie!!!! 🫶
Hannah Blumenfeld
2024-10-22 16:37:30 +0000 UTCWhen he started talking about hair loss prevention brands by name I thought of what Julien would say
MifsudZ
2024-10-22 16:13:01 +0000 UTCSame! Gets me every time
MifsudZ
2024-10-22 16:11:48 +0000 UTCHe sounds like fuckin Nathan fielder lmao
Parochial Nimrod
2024-10-22 16:01:41 +0000 UTC😞😞😞
hhhhhm
2024-10-22 15:59:17 +0000 UTC"But you can't *believe* things because they're a lovely idea." "But I *do.* That's how I believe." --Brideshead Revisited
E Lyons
2024-10-22 15:56:05 +0000 UTCCongratulations Brad!
Kendra Gilbertson
2024-10-22 15:50:00 +0000 UTCAmen to that? To what? To everything!
Moloch's Personal Adrenochrome Peddler
2024-10-22 15:35:44 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly is back...I'm screaming, crying, throwing up. I missed you so much, paragon of masculinity Annie Kelly ❤️🙏 I hope your T is high and your mind is fresh. Brad Abrahams too, you are spoiling me QAA
Jess C
2024-10-22 14:01:05 +0000 UTCSo this is that?
Brad Plumb
2024-10-22 13:54:36 +0000 UTCGood episode. As a cradle Catholic I’ve unfortunately dealt with trad Caths throughout my life — and it always comes down to racism, specifically, antisemitism. Vatican II broke these people. They want to blame Jews for deicide. That’s all they want. The idea Jesus was a victim of state violence really, truly bothers them. They want blood libel back so, so much.
TravisPewPewPew
2024-10-22 13:41:25 +0000 UTCAnnie’s back!
David D.
2024-10-22 13:36:25 +0000 UTCI just got to the magician part and... come on, man! Get the fuck out of here! This has to be parody.
Brad Plumb
2024-10-22 13:36:08 +0000 UTC“Some magic is just sleight of hand, but card tricks? That could *only* be supernatural.” Incredible example
Noah Z
2024-10-22 13:21:30 +0000 UTCAnnie being "the national baby" is my favorite QAA running joke / lore
Jackson
2024-10-22 13:14:59 +0000 UTCannie!!! so glad to have you back, there has been so much crazy catholic stuff
Lydia
2024-10-22 13:13:21 +0000 UTCAnnie appearance!! Yes!!!!
Jackson
2024-10-22 13:12:41 +0000 UTCSorry Mr Monk, Jesus was 100% a communist
alli moulton
2024-10-22 13:10:05 +0000 UTCSame. I grew up Catholic in Texas -- deep in protestant country -- and my congregation was much, much more laid back than anyone else I knew. Then again, my Dad (who I wasn't raised by) was a "trad cath" some 30 years ago, as he was always complaining about the lack of Latin mass and wrote crank letters to the Vatican after my mom tried to get an annulment, lol.
Brad Plumb
2024-10-22 13:07:46 +0000 UTCdamn so true. being catholic IS just like being a weezer fan
Scrimmified
2024-10-22 12:53:19 +0000 UTCOoh, I love it when Peter O'Toole plays nuts (like the Stuntman). Gotta check that one out
Brad Plumb
2024-10-22 12:42:02 +0000 UTCWe must free Julian
M J
2024-10-22 12:41:11 +0000 UTCJulian gone and Brad hosting means Jake is fully untethered.
Brad Plumb
2024-10-22 12:40:22 +0000 UTCOr possibly Weezer..,
Andrew Billings
2024-10-22 12:21:06 +0000 UTC😤
Genevieve R
2024-10-22 11:53:26 +0000 UTCWelcome back, Annie! Great ep.
MmKay
2024-10-22 11:36:16 +0000 UTCANNIE’S BACK BITCHES!!!
Mac-something
2024-10-22 11:27:06 +0000 UTCI feel like we never really believed in miracles at all in my church lol
Genevieve R
2024-10-22 11:05:33 +0000 UTCA “You Know” has never been more welcome.
Irvin
2024-10-22 11:05:06 +0000 UTCannie's sectarianism drawing out my sectarianism. feeling the unnatural urge to defend Lutheranism
Genevieve R
2024-10-22 11:03:43 +0000 UTCThe quote Jake says at the beginning is from the 1972 film The Ruling Class. Good movie.
Hermit Time
2024-10-22 10:58:25 +0000 UTCSomething Annie said here really resonated with me: I also grew up Catholic (but I'm an atheist by now) and my parents are still Catholic. They and their whole faith community are super nice and what I would call Christ-like. Kind, looking out for each other, helping their neighbours as well as people in need, taking in refugees or sponsoring them etc etc etc. I know the Catholic church had and still has a lot of issues (I'm in Ireland, you may want to look up Magdalene Laundries and Mother & Baby Homes to get an idea of how bad it can get), but the congregations are much nicer and more relaxed than these tradcath converts expect them to be.
lady8jane
2024-10-22 10:40:30 +0000 UTCHis voice is basically Jake's Chat GPT impression 😂
Michael Vader
2024-10-22 10:27:30 +0000 UTCThere's no need for Satan or demons to use UFOs and aliens to undermine the church. The church does that itself by allowing clergy to twiddlle alterboys, and trying to cover it up.
bigphoton
2024-10-22 09:53:40 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly ftw!
Kranium Kracka
2024-10-22 09:08:28 +0000 UTCOh, I completely missed that Dasha lost her mind at a certain point
Mishap
2024-10-22 08:47:00 +0000 UTCyay annie is back 💚
ev
2024-10-22 08:22:00 +0000 UTCFinally the Red Scare idiots are catching some strays
Lindymizer
2024-10-22 07:51:03 +0000 UTCAt my dad's church, the only latin mass was benediction. Theres also a church near me that do latin mass if you want to wake up to be in church for 7.30 on a Sunday morning
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-10-22 07:49:54 +0000 UTCIn the English mystical tradition there’s a concept of the Christ as the manifestation of God’s love on our plane of existence. It follows that every sentient species/planet/dimension would have their own Christ. It’s sort of Jesus as natural phenomenon. The version of this that most people would know is the Chronicles of Narnia. It’s usually misunderstood as a not very subtle allegory but Lewis means it literally. The children travel to a universe of talking animals and meet Jesus who appears as a lion. I am particularly fond of Sydney Carter’s Christmas hymn Every Star Shall Sing a Carol that implies the birth of Jesus happening over and over so that when you look at the stars you can imagine the unfolding of God’s love in another world or solar system. It’s not what I believe but it’s a beautiful thought with no demonic conspiracy nonsense.
Jacob King
2024-10-22 07:44:31 +0000 UTCTake 5 grams of mushrooms then get back to me on the mantis thing.
Mantis Man
2024-10-22 07:40:15 +0000 UTCI don't think you can be a hermit AND be connected to the Internet. Like... Posting defeats the whole idea of hermitude or whatever.
Dustyn Lumley
2024-10-22 07:07:27 +0000 UTCIt's almost two hours! What a treat! 😍
Arvid Haglund
2024-10-22 07:04:12 +0000 UTCSo excited for another ep with Brad! 😄
Arvid Haglund
2024-10-22 07:03:45 +0000 UTCI would argue that Jake's true faith is Ghostbusters
Dana Glaukopis
2024-10-22 06:54:26 +0000 UTCKinda seems to me that dudes like this are infatuated with the Catholic aesthetic, but are also that essentially American kind of religious - off into the woods to found the new, perfect, theology
Joseph E.
2024-10-22 06:44:59 +0000 UTCBrother Michael Diamond himself sounds like a Jake Story character
Shivvy
2024-10-22 06:20:04 +0000 UTCWelcome back Annie! 😄 excellent episode 👍
Seona van der Pol
2024-10-22 06:06:40 +0000 UTCThanks Jake bc I too was screaming FIANCÉE AT MY PHONE 💕 CONGRATS BRAD
Shivvy
2024-10-22 05:44:45 +0000 UTCDeus Vult ( viam ad coniungere ad interrete) 🙏💻🖱️✝️
Josep C.
2024-10-22 05:42:50 +0000 UTCTHE NATIONAL BABY HAS RETURNED
Robert Williams
2024-10-22 05:42:02 +0000 UTCBRAD EP! ANNIE EP! Jake - would you say you’re Business Casual Jewish
Shivvy
2024-10-22 05:40:43 +0000 UTCAnnie is so cool
Rylan Visser
2024-10-22 05:35:56 +0000 UTCBring back Julian or we burn down QAA HQ
Henry
2024-10-22 05:31:09 +0000 UTCWow!!! First comment!! Anyway love the show. Love you guys all so much. QAA is my one and only true hobby - something I listen to EVERY day. ❤️❤️❤️
Cooper Green
2024-10-22 05:29:48 +0000 UTC
