Premium Episode 171: The Veiled Prophet Cult feat Devin Thomas O'Shea
Added 2022-05-18 04:59:35 +0000 UTCThe Ku Klux Klan, debutantes, Monsanto Chemical and an orientalist poem about a veiled villain. Let's take a look at the creepy "veiled prophet" based in Saint Louis, Missouri. It's a men's club of rich and powerful locals dedicated to crushing labor movements and parading their daughters in front of each other. Ellie Kemper (Erin from NBC sitcom The Office) was crowned their "Queen of Love and Beauty" in 1999. But activists played a role in revealing their racist past. Saint Louis journalist Devin Thomas O'Shea guest writes the episode.
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Episode music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, Doom Chakra Tapes. Editing by Corey Klotz.
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For more information, see Patricia Crone’s “Nativist Prophet of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism”
Shane Roberts
2022-05-25 23:17:04 +0000 UTCHis rebellion was explicitly anti-Islamic…
Shane Roberts
2022-05-25 23:16:15 +0000 UTCHe was rebelling against the ‘Abbasid Dynasty
Shane Roberts
2022-05-25 23:15:36 +0000 UTCHe’s a real historical figure, and he lost his eye in battle. He died by suicide after a prolonged siege.
Shane Roberts
2022-05-25 23:14:52 +0000 UTCThat Thomas Moore poem does a shit job retelling the story of the one-eyed al-Muqanna’ (lit. The Veiled One, an 8th century Sogdian revolutionary).
Shane Roberts
2022-05-25 23:10:56 +0000 UTCFranklin Scandal and Micahel Aquino.
daniel
2022-05-21 17:47:54 +0000 UTCSo it's like those purity balls but even more creepy and sinister. Like that's even possible.
2022-05-21 06:17:58 +0000 UTCYou guys should do an episode on the “Franklin Scandal”. Apparently Wikipedia lists it as a hoax, but Chapo Trap House just did an episode on it and their guest was pretty convincing. It’s right in the QAA wheelhouse.
Needs More Marxism
2022-05-20 01:03:28 +0000 UTCIts always nice to hear stories about my cities sussness. The mafia here would make a great episode too. Or at least the war that was over vending machines
daniel
2022-05-19 10:01:53 +0000 UTCAnother Stl ep. Wish I could have been at the Grafton freakshow. Devin has been killing these podcast appearances. Checkout his True Anon on the Busch family if anyone hasn't.
THOMAS GIBBONS
2022-05-19 01:19:35 +0000 UTCneedless to say i had listened to not even 2m when i posted this :D
Shivvy
2022-05-19 00:54:59 +0000 UTCbc of Ellie on the far out chance he doesn’t mention her https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1269569
Shivvy
2022-05-19 00:54:08 +0000 UTCPumped for this story, the meat of which I only recently learned about on Twitter
Shivvy
2022-05-19 00:53:02 +0000 UTCSo True Detective season 4 will be in St. Louis.
Evan Pitkin
2022-05-18 21:50:02 +0000 UTCThis episode reminds me of the Walker family, aka George Herbert *Walker* Bush’s maternal side and the source of much of the Bush family’s wealth and power. From Jacob Weisberg’s book “The Bush Tragedy”: “David Davis Walker (1840–1918), moved to St. Louis where he made his fortune as a dry goods wholesaler. In the Midwest, David Walker maintained the Southern attitude about race, though with a contemporary overlay of social Darwinism. He was a believer in eugenics and the “unwritten law” of lynching. In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Republic published in 1914, David Walker described Negroes as a greater menace than prostitution and “all the other evils combined.”” ^This is George HW Bush’s great-grandfather.
Allen
2022-05-18 19:01:14 +0000 UTCAs someone who grew up in St Louis, I now find myself wondering which of my schoolmates went to this bizarre thing
Michael Webster-Clark
2022-05-18 18:04:13 +0000 UTC
