This Is Propaganda

About a million people follow Kahlil Greene / Gen Z Historian across TikTok and Instagram, where he focuses his attention on finding the parts of American history that got buried and digging them up.

We chat about the role content creators play as both instruments of state propaganda, and forces of counterpropaganda against false narratives.

Listen to an extended conversation exclusively on Patreon for free.

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Email: propaganda@brink.com

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CREDITS 

Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur 

Co-Producer: Reed Chandler

This week the boys are joined by YouTuber Skip Intro to discuss the outsized impact copaganda has had on the medium of television. From the LAPD using Hollywood to launder its image, through to the security states obsession with surveillance technology and torture post-9/11.

Part 2 is available for free on our patreon. 

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Checkout Skip Intro’s YouTube channel here

Blusky: skipintroyt.bsky.social

Patreon: patreon.com/skipintro

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To get more Propaganda subscribe for free to our Patreon.

Patreon: patreon.com/cw/thisispropaganda

Website: thisispropaganda.show

Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow

Email: propaganda@brink.com

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CREDITS 

Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur 

Co-Producer: Reed Chandler

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ATTRIBUTIONS 

SAMIZDAT Written and performed by Joshua Belhumeur

Since September 23rd, if you watched an NFL game, a college game, Face the Nation or Fox News Sunday, you saw various commercial spots with dark authoritarian undertones that you paid for, if you're an American taxpayer.

Professional propagandists Josh Belhumeur and Malcolm Critcher discuss and decipher the strategy and whether it will help or hurt the Republican party in the midterms. 

Watch this episode instead:
https://www.patreon.com/thisispropaganda

https://youtu.be/txJyQ6dbMdk

 

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Website: thisispropaganda.show

Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow

Email: propaganda@brink.com

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CREDITS 

Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur 

Co-Producer: Reed Chandler

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In this episode we react to the following Trump 2.0 propaganda:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SI58/white-house-america-will-never-be-a-communist-country-song-by-jmsn

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SIhz/white-house-dont-play-games

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SIF4/white-house-the-final-battle

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGh-9hvuktE/

Between every down and inning is an ad for BetMGM, Fanduel, Draftkings, or the latest sports betting upstart with VC money and a celebrity sellout. Alongside author Danny Funt, we dissect how language shapes perception and policy and how industry lobbying influenced legalization in the world of “sports gaming”.

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Buy Danny Funt's book here.

X: @dannyfunt

Bsky: @dannyfunt.bsky.social

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-funt-2695b4a3/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannyfunt/

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To get more Propaganda subscribe for free to our Patreon.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/thisispropaganda

Website: thisispropaganda.show

Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow

Email: propaganda@brink.com

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CREDITS 

Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur 

Co-Producer: Reed Chandler

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ATTRIBUTIONS 

SAMIZDAT Written and performed by Joshua Belhumeur 

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REFERENCES

Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling by Danny Funt

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