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THE KINKS - A Well Respected Man

Hide and Seek

Hide And Seek (Live)

Whitney is joined by Unlimited Hangout contributor Stavroula Pabst to discuss Peter Thiel, the man behind Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance and the CIA-linked architect of key aspects of the technocratic surveillance state.

Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/resources/show-notes/the-thiel-verse-with-stavroula-pabst/

Originally published 07/25/24.

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The Thiel-Verse with Stavroula Pabst

"Legalize and Regulate Sports Betting," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wrote in The New York Times in 2014. "NFL Betting Promos & Bonuses | Top NFL Betting Sites & Offers for Week 9 NFL Odds & More," USA Today offered readers in 2023. "Bookmakers break down NBA, NHL playoffs, big bets," reads a June 2024 Fox Sports headline.

It's not an exaggeration to state that, since its legalization in 2018, sports betting and other forms of sports gambling have all but taken over American sports media. Increasingly, over the last six years, leading sources on sports news, including ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, and NBC, have signed multi-million and billion-dollar agreements with major players in the sports betting industry, and launched suites of gambling-themed verticals, podcasts, and series designed to urge viewers and listeners to keep placing their bets, no matter the social costs.

These media platforms claim to reason that, amid a shifting media landscape where cable channels struggle to adapt to the streaming era and legacy newspapers hemorrhage advertising revenue, partnerships with sports gambling companies help keep them afloat. But what does it mean when sports media are beholden to betting companies? Given the predatory nature of the industry, and the clear conflict of interest of sports media also being gambling pushers, what are the social and political costs to shifting sports from an admittedly already very flawed entertainment business, to a widespread peddler of increasingly unsustainable and gimmicky gambling opportunities? On this episode, we examine how sports media in the U.S. have increasingly embedded themselves in the exploding online sports betting industry. We look at the corrosive effect this has on sports coverage, the glaring conflict of interest this generates, and the moral hazards of a media climate (and state and local governments) that welcomes with open arms a regressive tax pushed by a notoriously rapacious and exploitative industry. 

Our guest is, friend of the show, The Nation's Dave Zirin.

Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole

Abby and Robbie Martin go for a whole two hours covering the RFK Jr dead baby bear blow-up, Peter Thiel's involvement in the Israeli occupation and mass slaughter of Palestinians, and much more.

Note: the voice speaking in the opening of the podcast is generated with AI using a service called Jammable.

RFK Jr Elite Depravity, Peter Thiel Infrastructure For Genocide

The Sounds of The Kinks

Don't You Fret

In a new series by Felix, Josh (@ettingermentum), and Spencer, we ask: how did the Republican Party, once the dominant force in American culture for almost a generation, become a group of bowtied cosplayers and rapist streamers yelling about Litterboxes? We trace this development back to the empires built by two men—Paul Weyrich and James Dobson—as well as the failures of one Pat Buchanan.

This episode draws from Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine and David Grann’s “Robespierre Of The Right.” For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

Seeking A Fren for the End of the World

Seeking a Fren for the End of the World: Episode 1 - This is Really Just the Beginning

Annie Kelly brings Jake, Julian, and Travis tales of the lesser known figures of the European witch hunts during the early modern period: the skeptics who openly doubted that every accused woman was actually a witch.

At the time, it was common for village communities in England, Spain, and France to accuse local women of cursing cows and similar satanic mischief. But a handful of men didn’t believe the mainstream belief that witchcraft was widespread. Doubts were raised by the Spanish royal physician Andrés Fernández de Laguna, the English gentleman Reginald Scot, and the inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías. Salazar even established rules on investigating witchcraft that set a high standard of proof. This subsequently saved an untold number of accused witches from being hanged or burned at the stake.

What can all of this tell us about the modern right’s use of the language of demonology to describe their enemies? Listen to get exclusive analysis from the National Baby.

To get a better background on the history of witch hunting, Annie interviewed Professor Marion Gibson from the University of Exeter, and author of the book Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials.


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Annie Kelly
https://bsky.app/profile/annieknk.bsky.social

Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Witchcraft/Marion-Gibson/9781668002438


Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)

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Witchcraft Skeptics And The Spanish Inquisition (E306)

First episode of the year is a wide-ranging episode covering everything from the recent tragedy in New Orleans, to the right-wing discourse around H1B visas, to the television show Landman, to the future of the Democratic Party, and finally to the most recent hit pieces on Luigi Mangione

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Episode 374: The Green Slime Party

We catch up with news over our long week off, including brief hits on the two new years truck attacks (more on that Thursday), MAGA civil war over immigration & visas, various instances of Musk buffoonery, Biden’s presidential medal of freedom recipients, and Semafor’s survey of what people in the media ‘got wrong’ about 2024.

Chapo Trap House

897 - Urquellization (1/6/25)

This week we're joined by writer Kate Aronoff to discuss the new Taylor Sheridan show Landman, in all its glory. We get into the strange, uncanniness of the show, its racism and sexism, its similarities to other Taylor Sheridan shows, and the myths it tells about the oil industry and thus about America. 

Read Kate's article about Landman here: https://newrepublic.com/article/189696/landman-paramount-plus-oilmen-myths

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Episode 375: The Landman Cometh (w/ special guest Kate Aronoff)


It's been about a month since Donald Trump was sworn into office and they've already begun stripping the country of copper wiring, slashing a multitude of government agencies and attempting to facilitate large scale deregulation. This has led to some pretty absurd mistakes by the administration. Like when they fired a sizable chunk of the department of energy, only to attempt to scramble to rehire a group of nuclear safety workers only to realize that they didn’t actually have these worker’s contact information, as they no longer had access to their government email accounts. It appears that no one is at the wheel right now. You are being run by a kakistocracy, or rule by the worst, although given that the vice president and reddit billionaire shadow president both clearly have browsed 4chan too much, it seems more like a “kekistocracy” at the moment. 

Liv, Travis, and Jake discuss the lies that are flying out of DOGE and Elon Musk, the consequences of massive regulatory capture, the Trump admin’s plans to declassify old documents, and what r/conspiracy thinks about the new, "uncensored" version of ChatGPT.


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SOURCES:

Trump froze a bribery law that previously hit suppliers for Elon Musk’s Tesla
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/trump-foreign-bribery-law-elon-musk-tesla-minerals.html
SSA OIG: Preventing, Detecting, and Recovering Improper Payments
https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/072401.pdf


No, 150 Year Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/

How Trump’s Firings “Paralyze” the NLRB
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-nlrb-firing-musk-doge-workers-rights-labor-unions-paralyze/

Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293382/x-elon-musk-doge-cfpb

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
https://archive.is/tmWZl#selection-4583.0-4586.0


Open AI Tries To “Uncesor” ChatGPT
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/

FBI says it has discovered new files on JFK assassination
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/jfk-assassination-files/index.html

Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/trump-jfk-assassination-records


The Kekistocracy (E312)

Kinda Kinks

Such a Shame

The Anthology 1964 - 1971

Till the End of the Day (2014 Remastered Version)

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Episode 83: Jeffrey Epstein (Part 2) feat. Matt Christman and Nick Mullen

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his Army platoon for three days when he ordered them to kill three Afghans on a dirt road. After a second-degree murder conviction, Lorance was pardoned by Trump, hailed as a hero. His troops suffered a different fate. This episode originally published July 2, 2020 on Post Reports.