Bot Armies, Dead Internet, and Misinformation Farms with Amil Khan
With endless bot armies infiltrating social media feeds and harnessing the algorithm to control narratives and public opinion, our media system is becoming increasingly polluted. How long will it be ...
30 Maj 202539min
Media Literacy with Renee Hobbs
The average American's worldview is under constant assault from propaganda. Between the 5,000 advertisements we see daily, for profit journalism, and virtually every post on social media, the gulf bet...
12 Maj 202532min
Hollywood and The Pentagon with Tom Secker
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise that the Pentagon was involved in the making of Top Gun. What may be more surprising is the sheer scope of film and television projects the Pentagon has ha...
16 Apr 202533min
The Death of a Millennial Brand with Eugene Healey
What aesthetics and ideas defined the branded propaganda targeting millennials in the 2010s, and why do they increasingly fail to resonate with Gen Z audiences? Joining us is special guest Eugene Heal...
18 Mars 202530min
Howard Gossage: 20th Century Master of Propaganda with Justin Oberman
San Francisco ad man Howard Gossage (1917–1969) is a bit more under the radar than his Madison Avenue contemporaries, but his work in both consumer marketing and advocacy messaging was brilliant. His ...
19 Feb 202527min
Abortion Messaging in Post-Dobbs America with Amelia Bonow
Liberal “pro choice” messaging has historically conceded the moral high ground (“safe, legal and rare”). Amelia Bonow helped change that as the leader of the Shout Your Abortion movement. In this epis...
20 Jan 202523min
Luigi Mangione, Trump and the Art of Cultural Disruption with David Shields
David Shields (best-selling author / filmmaker) joins us to dissect the brutal reality of politics as performance. We dive into Trump’s media mastery, Luigi Mangione’s provocative symbolism, and why t...
20 Dec 202433min
Nuance has a PR Problem
Unpacking how the Culture War feeds on emotional shortcuts, why complexity and nuance is so hard to embrace, and what it means to navigate a society driven by flattened ideas and radicalized identitie...
20 Nov 202425min
