With troops flooding DC, Trump's term ends in two days time. Why doesn't it feel certain that it will? Was a nation of "patriots" suddenly afflicted with insurrectile dysfunction o...
Archive for the 'Agitation Propaganda' Category
Jan 15th, 2021
#99 - Trump's Rebellion & The Need to Believe
Waiting for 2021's Inauguration Day storm to arrive, I intended this to be a quick repost of a segment from 2019's "Iceberg Ahoy!" episode but it took on a life of its own. It cove...
Jan 11th, 2021
#98 - Trump's Rebellion & The New Gatekeepers
Trump's insurrection and the religious mind: why are so many Americans committed to faith before facts? Were they rioters? Protesters? Activists? Terrorists? That's decided by prop...
Jan 4th, 2021
#97 - All You Need Is Doubt
Fresh off his first motivational speaking tour, Todd returns to the podcast to discuss uplifting topics such as why it's not necessary to conquer a democracy when a just little dou...
Oct 26th, 2020
#92 - Addictive Outrage, Empathy's Path, A Nation in Heat
Todd & Brian return discussing the direct parallels between ideological and theological religion and what Dan Carlin calls The Heat: trivial outrage manufactured to manipulate ...
Brian rejoins Todd just in time to discuss the plot to kidnap our governor, Michigan's militias, the psychology of extremism, and the ongoing destruction of social and governmental...
Oct 1st, 2020
On Morality & Fanaticism; Conformist Suicide
"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it... we join the fashionable madmen...
Sep 28th, 2020
#89 - An Invasive Species Gazes Into The Abyss
Todd & Brian discuss whether the "divine" human species is in fact both bipolar and invasive, the difficulties that come from gazing into the Abyss, and moral imperatives vs. s...
Sep 21st, 2020
#88 - Steinbeck, Murrow, and The Social Media Disease
Continuing the Social Dilemma theme, Todd and Brian delve further into the social, psychological, and personal effects of more than a decade of social media, including meeting memb...
Sep 10th, 2020
#85 - Cyberspace Monkeys & The Boiling Caldera
Former radio personality, psychologist, and current PR guy, The Professor joins the show as perhaps the perfect co-host discussing propaganda and hyper-connective technology's unkn...
Jun 19th, 2020
#83 - Discourse? Or Just Waiting To Talk?
On the Social Media Disease: how exhibitionist combat and agitprop disguised as "debate" is having an effect on verbal comprehension and the ability to engage in meaningful organic...
May 19th, 2020
#80 - The Stalker Militia, A Hydroxy Hardon, Woke Youth
So, about that silly "in this together" thing... Topics include Trump's bizarre and supernatural hydroxychloroquine erection, quarantine and consumerist withdrawal, free-rage extre...
May 9th, 2020
#79 - Stories, Hope, and The Propaganda Paradox
Adventures in leaving the house after 5-weeks, a quick review of the crappy Vaporesso Target PM-80, populism and the supposed "wisdom" of the bewildered herd, belief and truth are ...
Apr 29th, 2020
#78 - Social Media Disease: A Cacophony of Nothing
Todd's merciful Bat Plague boycott continues with more spiritually uplifting content like: "F**k Subaru. I hate them and you should, too." Also, 2020's Jill Stein; Steinbeck, Salin...
Apr 24th, 2020
#75 - Seekers, Preachers, The Covid Reality Wars
Toddzilla delivers his overdue Message of Hope™ featuring topics like strutting stupidity, social media's performance addiction, Hobbes' inevitable civil war, the need for propagan...
Mar 20th, 2020
#72 - Informational Anarchy In A Pandemic
A potentially catastrophic stress test as the healthcare system drowns inside a divided country who chose informational tribalism over preparation. Detachment is essential! And, th...
Mar 5th, 2020
#68 - Insurrection, Resurrection, and The Rubicon
Super Tuesday Politics Dump. How did Biden revive himself? It's simple, really. Fighting extremism with extremism is suicide. Also, fanatical ideological religions, the UK canary i...
Mar 2nd, 2020
#67 - Propaganda, Trust, Coronavirus, and You
How will the for-profit boutique/reality show/agitation news media model affect how we respond to the virus? Have a drink. Make sure it's not bleach. Includes a quick introduction ...
Feb 29th, 2020
#66 - Authentic Courage vs. Crying With The Pack
"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." Genuine courage is required to stand apart against the deafening conformity of the cowardly mob. Ask Andrew Sullivan! People ...
Feb 26th, 2020
#64 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip
"Whoever owns social validation..." Performance addiction and how the masses have become junkies gorging on validation's dopamine stream. How various influencers, including podcast...
Of course Putin's playing both sides and assisting Bernie in the Democratic primary. It's about agitation, discord, and eroding the public's already fractured belief it itself, not...
Feb 11th, 2020
#61 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity's Touchstone
Toddzilla's latest Message of Hope formally introduces the loyal listener to Mr. Lippmann: a Man of the People! Touched on are Lippmann's "The Phantom Public", his iconoclastic tho...
Feb 6th, 2020
#60 - The Wokeflake Follies
The Iowa Boner, The Rips Heard 'Round the World, and impeachment fails. All by Wednesday. This is the alternative? ALSO: Scripture, agitation, and The Herd Mind, Democracy implod...
The next great war: intellectual autonomy. The bold certainty of the herd, the challenges of independent thought and why seeing someone who is genuinely their own Man is so rare, t...
Jan 21st, 2020
#56 - Richmond: The 2A and MLK
Wokeflake Twitter was apoplectic when the Richmond pro-gun rally turned out to be peaceful while the rest of world asked, "What? No Antifa? Do they not believe in their holy crusad...
This episode focusses mostly on disinformation and interference in the 2016 election and includes selected audio clips from the Your Undivided Attention podcast episode "From Russi...
Trump's not actually retarded, is he? Pray with me, won't you? Also: Quitting smoking: it sucks Nicholas Carr and the "influencer" Goebbels ❤️'s Bernays My poor defenseless podca...
Oct 9th, 2019
#51 - Pinching The Impeachment Loaf
Are you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works:...
Oct 1st, 2019
#50 - Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary Hatred
An introduction to LeBon, his ideas on mobs, and The Psychology of Revolution--specifically: hatred. The forthcoming electoral reality show, 2020's prepared script, how the spinoff...
Sep 26th, 2019
#48 - The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse
"The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed." A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. Peo...