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.

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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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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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