The Toddzilla X-Pod
By Toddzilla X
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Episodes: 191
Description
The Thompson Show looks at how language, culture, and media shape the way we see our country and ourselves. Each week Todd Thompson brings together shortwave broadcasts and podcasts to explore messaging, cultural shifts, and the pressures of modern worldviews on everyday life. From WWCR and WBCQ’s direct style to the podcast’s unapologetic, unfiltered edge, the mission is the same: cut through euphemisms, examine the narratives we live in, and preserve a sense of shared memory.
Two formats, one arc:
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Escaping the Cave (ETC) — long-form analysis of narratives, identity, and self-delusion.
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Shortwave (“The Thompson Show” on WBCQ & WWCR) — direct broadcasts for a global audience beyond the algorithm.
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WWCR - European Censorship, Conventional Wisdom, and the New Gatekeepers
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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#170 - Short Waves and Unintended Consequences
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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WBCQ - Katrina Remembered, Europe Awakens
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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WWCR - The Trans Butcher of Minneapolis, Cracker Barrel vs Americana, The UK Counter-Revolution
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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WBCQ - The Red–Green Alliance: England, France, and Minneapolis
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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WWCR - Ideological Religion: From Idealism to Jonestown
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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WBCQ - The Red-Green Alliance Comes to Congress
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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WWCR - The Todd-God Alliance Begins
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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WBCQ - The Red-Green Alliance: When Marx & Muhammad Both Swipe Right
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#169 - Humane Tech vs. Human Nature: It's Still "The People"
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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WBCQ - The Counter-Insurgency: Red Tea Party, Woke Theocracy, The DSA Infestation
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#168 - Media 101 Revisited: It's the People Drowning in Data
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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#167 - Ideological Religion vs. Intellectual Autonomy
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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#166 - Ideological Religion & The Ultimate Sin
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Subscribers: Taking the Show to Shortwave!
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#165 - Storytellers Not Truth Seekers: Factions, Gatekeepers, and the False Promise of Digital Unity
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#164 - Summer of Love '25: Bernie's Revolution, Ideology's Attorneys, The Neutered Majority, "No Place For Violence"
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#163 - Superbloom, Storytellers, and Steaming Piles of Truth
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May 30, 2025 |
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#162 - Astro Barbie, Bernie's Sleeper Cells, Dinner With Hitler
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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#161 - Creative Equity & The Borg, Assassination Culture & Ellul
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#160 - Newton's 3rd Law of Extremism, Litigation Nation, Covid + 5, Red Demagogue Alert
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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#159 - American Jacobins, A Summer of Love, Agitation, and Arson, A Somber Warning
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#158 - The Speech: TDS Democrats Cross the Breaking Bad Rubicon
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#157 - Dead Eye Jake & the Dementia Coup, Historic Media Shift, When Paid Agitators Attack
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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#156 - Dear Europe...
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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#155 - DOGE Derangement, Marxism's Long March, The Counter-Revolution
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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#154 - The Boomerang
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#153 - Quixote Socialists, Spock Delusions, Trial By Rhetorical Combat, Tribalism Wins
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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#152 - Trump 2.0: Activist Impotency, Information Whores, and The Great Unburdening
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#151 - Free Speech Liberation & Censorship By Proxy
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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#150 - Calm the F**k Down, Lions Fans
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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#149B - Joe's Pardon Party, Patriotic Pesticide, A Penny Resurrects BLM, Luigi Hood
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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#149A - Lions, Wolverines, Buckeye Felonies & Tears, Campbell's Cojones
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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#148 - Storytellers Not Truth Seekers: The Climate Follies
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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#147 - The Great Anti-Woke Backlash of '24: Better Late Than Never
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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#146 - The Information Paradox, Mr. McTrump, Kamala Chameleon: The '24 Election Companion
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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#145 - Kamala, Trump, and Democracy's Storytelling Bloodsport
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#144 - Informational Anarchy, Propaganda Osmosis, Manchurian Marxists
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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X-Pod - The Roar of '24: Andy Slays the Astros Beast
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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X-Pod - The Roar of '24: Tigers’ Wild Card Triumph and Playoff Hopes
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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X-Pod - Detroit Tigers: The Weekend It Became Real
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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X-Pod - Detroit Tigers: Royals, Twins, Guardians, and Pixie Dust
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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X-Pod - Detroit Tigers Wild Card Hunt: Rockies & Orioles
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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#143 - Kamala's Propaganda Chorus, Truth Ministry, McCarthy "Reimagined", Political Jonestown
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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X-Pod - Lions, Tigers, and...Kelly?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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#142 [X-Pod]: Tigers Wild Card Chase & Remembering George, Vin, & Ernie
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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#141 - Official Gaslighting, Phantom Shooters, When DEI Attacks
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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#140 - Prayers For Hitler
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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#139 - Democracy '24: Factional Idiocracy
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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#138 - Ideological Religion, White Savior Racism, & The Self-Righteous Whine of Hysteria
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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#137 - Rumination Nation: The Therapy Trap
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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#136 - Tribalism, Censorship or Free Speech, Propaganda's War on Reality
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May 30, 2024 |
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#135 - On "Genocide", Our Political Show Trial, Toxic Activism
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May 20, 2024 |
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#134 - The Men Who Go
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May 06, 2024 |
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#133 - Proselytes & Militants Revisited: Indoctrination's Long March
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May 03, 2024 |
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#132 -Joe da Wabbit Hunter, Wokentology's Westboro Kids, Beware the Messiah
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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#131 - Mao's Grandkids vs. The Sun Tzu of Propaganda
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#130 - Hamasholes, Jefferson's Coat, Democracy vs. The Invasive Species
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#129 - The Bastard A's, AJ's Ruminations, Death's Perspective
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#128 - Data Overload, Our Storytelling Paradox, The Everyman Tyrant
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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#127 - The Power of Patriotism, Cannibal Leftists, Our Badass Ancestors
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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#126 - On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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#125 - Institutional Hospice & The Death of 9/12
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#124 - Where’s Rock Bottom? Killing The Come Together Fairytale
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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#123 - Inappropriate Honesty, Truth Riders, That Which Must Remain Unsaid
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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#122 - Intellectual Tribalism & Gladiators in the Virtual Coliseum
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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#121 - The Authoritarian Mind #2: Puritanism vs The Right Not to Believe
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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#120 - The Authoritarian Mind #1: The Facebook Files, AI-Generated Agitprop, The Gatekeepers
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#119 - Inherent Deceit & Self-Deception: Our Wonderful World of Make Believe
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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#118 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & The Religious Mind
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#117 - Propaganda, Trust, Coronavirus, and You: 3-Years Later
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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#116 - Guns, Balloons, Trains, Unworthy Victims
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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#115 - It’s Still The People
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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#114 - B for Boomerang
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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[Micropod] Our Great War
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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[Micropod] Social Media’s Ministry of Truth
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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#113 - Our November Surprise, TikTok, and Rocks From Uranus
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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#112 - Storytellers, Truth, and The Great War of the 21st Century
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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[Reload] Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones (9/10/19)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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[Reload] Story: The Propaganda Paradox (5-9-20)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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[Reload] All You Need Is Doubt (1/4/21)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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#111 - Tribal By Nature & The Invasive Species
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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[Micropod] Murrow to FOX & CNN: From News to Monetized Propaganda
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May 03, 2022 |
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#110 - The Cost of Courage & The Limits of Anti-Vax Empathy
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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#109 - Backdoor Reparations & Unity Via Division
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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#108 - My Team Bullsh*t: Private Lives & Public Health
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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#107 - Social Media Avatars: Crazy, Stupid, or Full of Sh*t?
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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#106 - Political Cults & Mobs 101
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#105 - Exploration, Evolution, Death of a Propagandist
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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#104 - Leaders, Puppets, Boils, and Show Trials
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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#103 - From Moralist to Tyrant or The Fanatic's Imperative
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#102 - The Other Insurgency & Where's Our Hashtag?
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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#101 - Post-Trump Stress Disorder & Tech's Theocracy
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#100 - American Zapatistas, Saboteur in Chief, The Lone Boogaloo
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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#99 - Trump's Rebellion & The Need to Believe
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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#98 - Trump's Rebellion & The New Gatekeepers
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#97 - All You Need Is Doubt
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#96 - The Medium, The Message, & The Horizontal Bop
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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#95 - Demagogues & Prairie Dogs
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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#94 - The Election Afterglow, The Moderate Majority, The Social Media Disease
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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#93 - 2020 Election: The Nero Referendum & Defending The Electoral College
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#92 - Addictive Outrage, Empathy's Path, A Nation in Heat
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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#91 - The Whitmer Plot, Michigan's Militias, Socialism's Facade
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#90 -The Trumptober Surprise; Leo Ryan & The Dennis Doctrine
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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On Morality & Fanaticism; Conformist Suicide
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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#89 - An Invasive Species Gazes Into The Abyss
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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#88 - Steinbeck, Murrow, and The Social Media Disease
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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#87 - The Social Dilemma: War of the Virtual Worlds
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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#86 - The Illusion of Knowledge & Democratized Opinion 2.0
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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#85 - Cyberspace Monkeys & The Boiling Caldera
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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#84 - Intellectual Populism, Enemy of the People, The Humanovirus S**tshow
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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#83 - Discourse? Or Just Waiting To Talk?
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#82 - A "Real Conversation"? Allow Me to Retort...
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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#81 - Activist Media, Dogma as God, Marrow of Humanity
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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#80 - The Stalker Militia, A Hydroxy Hardon, Woke Youth
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May 19, 2020 |
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#79 - Stories, Hope, and The Propaganda Paradox
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May 09, 2020 |
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#78 - Social Media Disease: A Cacophony of Nothing
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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#77 - The Blacklands Abyss
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#76 - Hot Pockets & Lysol
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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#75 - Seekers, Preachers, The Covid Reality Wars
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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#74 - Detroit, Intellectual Distancing, The Glowing Antichrist
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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#73 - Incompetent Negligence and Economic Eugenics
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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#72 - Informational Anarchy In A Pandemic
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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#71- The Primaries: Noise Makers vs. The Majority
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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#70 - COVID Media: Crying Blitzer, Aftertruth & The Religious Mind
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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#69 - "Insurgent Drag Queen" Or "Go Be a Snake"
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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#68 - Insurrection, Resurrection, and The Rubicon
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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#67 - Propaganda, Trust, Coronavirus, and You
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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#66 - Authentic Courage vs. Crying With The Pack
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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#65 - Conform Or Be Cast Out
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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#64 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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#63- "Vladdy Loves Bernie?" Or "It's The Destabilization, Dummy!"
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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#62 - Authenticity, The Mask, and The Beast Unleashed
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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#61 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity’s Touchstone
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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#60 - The Wokeflake Follies
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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#59 - Conformist Suicide
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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#58 - Independent Thought vs. The Need to Belong
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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#57- Hilerpes; Bernie & The Suckerfish
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#56 - Richmond: The 2A and MLK
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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#55 - Snakes, Survival, & Sabotage: The Need to Feel Alive
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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#54 - Apocalypto and The Red Star of Moscow
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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#53 - Disinformation '16, Weaponized Truth, Hillary The Halloween Zombie
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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#52 - Presidential Anarchy, Goebbels & Advertising, A Prayer
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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#51 - Pinching The Impeachment Loaf
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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#50 - Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary Hatred
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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#49 - Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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#48 - The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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#47 - Wokeflake Comedy: Sociological Propaganda
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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#46 - Newton's Third Law of Totalitarian Messiahs
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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#45 - Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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#44 - Propaganda: Agitating the Inner Ape
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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#43 - Monetized Agitation, Unleashing Hatred, Poking Crackerbears
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid Mark
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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#41 - Propaganda: Drunks In Denial
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & Simplicity
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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#39 - Wanted: Wokeflake Demagogue, Dignity And The Useful Idiot, Tyrannizing The Vanquished
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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#38 - Informational Anarchy & Deadly Insignificance
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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#37 - Propaganda: Intellectual Autonomy & Banishing Fabricants
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious Mind
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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#35 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & Vicarious Atonement
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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#34 - Propaganda: Manufacturing Proselytes & Militants
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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#33 - Propaganda's Mindcrime
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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#32 - Spinning Mueller & The Sacred Cows
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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#31 - Humanist Puritans, Wokeflake Jesus, Manchurian Crusaders
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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#30 - Renouncing Patriotism And The Nationalist Boomerang
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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#29 - Guidance Is Internal
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#28 - Wordknapping, Propaganda's Effects, A Reckoning
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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#27 - Propaganda: Agenda + Journalism
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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#26 - Broken Beasts of Intellectual Burden
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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#25 - Convulsive Twitch and The Damage Done
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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#24 - The Signal To Noise Ratio and A Digital Pretox
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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#23 - The Social Media Disease - Distraction Sickness, Electronic Eyes, Thought Shaming
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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#22 - Pick Your Authoritarian Wisely
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#21 - Social Media Disease - Virtue Batsignals, Puritans, Exhausted Majority
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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#20 - The Social Media Disease: Net Rage, Poking the Ape, Unleashing the Id
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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#19 - Hey, Hilltucky! Reptilian Truth & The Outrage Fever
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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#18 - Propaganda 101: Corrupt Data & Telling Truth From Falsehood
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May 31, 2019 |
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#17 - The Social Media Disease: The Illusion of Knowledge & Democratized Opinion
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May 23, 2019 |
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#16 - The Social Media Disease: Virtual Mobs, Conformity, & External Truth
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May 14, 2019 |
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#15 - The Elephantitis Pandemic; Winter is Here
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May 10, 2019 |
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#14 - Political Orphans & Constitutional Hospice
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May 07, 2019 |
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#13 - The Boomerang Effect: "Hold My Beer"
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May 04, 2019 |
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#12 - Media 101: It’s The People
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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#11 - The Social Media Disease: Cyber Space Monkeys
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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The Demon (2014)
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Hitchhiking and Philosophy
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Friar Chris - Walking Savannah to Seattle
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Friar Chris - A Gringo in the Andes
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Self-Delusion, Solutions in Truth, and A Side of Crow
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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Ideological Religions & The Talking Dead
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Detecting the Disinformation: Tribal Warfare, Slithering Fascism (2014)
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Feb 06, 2018 |