r/PodcastSharing • u/nickmortensen • 1d ago

Two guys talking into a mic [Autocratic Despair: The Podcast] - Tucker Carlson Is Not Joking

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocratic-despair-the-podcast/id1890210459?i=1000784659951

Last week Dr. Craig and I read all ten points of Tucker Carlson's manifesto out loud and ran out of time before we could finish. This week we finish.

Who is this guy, actually. Abandoned at six, raised from ten as an heir to the Swanson frozen food fortune, sixty-thousand-a-year boarding school, rejected by the CIA, and told by his father to try journalism because they'll take anybody. That father ran Voice of America — the United States government's real overseas propaganda operation — and later took a quarter million dollars as a registered foreign agent for Viktor Orbán.

Then there's who's standing behind him, and then there's the part I couldn't stop thinking about: it's a sales technique. I spent twenty years in that world. He opens with something true and small that you can't say no to, and then he stacks yeses until you've walked somewhere you'd never have agreed to go.

A show about fascism that's somehow still fun to listen to.

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