Interview · moment 27 of 33
The QAnon Boomer Encounter in Aspen
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
3 min
Guest
Tim tells a story about a QAnon-believing older woman in Aspen who insisted Trump is the real president, riffing with a Shane Gillis-style joke about Fox News moms, and theorizes QAnon is really just bored Boomers looking for fun and community.
- Tim met a QAnon believer in Aspen who grabbed him in line and insisted Donald Trump is still the real president.
- When Tim told her Trump definitely isn't president and she could Google it, she responded that "they got to you."
- Her younger daughters were embarrassed by their mother's conspiracy beliefs, which Tim compares to Shane Gillis's joke about having a Fox News mom.
- Boomers have turned politics into a sport where they're either MSNBC or Fox News, sitting in recliners with heating blankets and melted brains.
- Tim argues QAnon isn't actually a threat—it's just entertainment for elderly people who want to believe Trump's leading a secret army through tunnels.
- QAnon gave people a sense of being part of something meaningful, like they were on the verge of a major revelation.
- The breakdown of American social institutions, documented in "Bowling Alone," left communities without clubs or organizations to join together.