We are joined by Aaron Good, author of "American Exception: Empire and the Deep State," to talk about his book. Also we drop a cake on the floor.

AARON GOOD
@Aaron_Good_
American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
https://www.patreon.com/americanexception
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception/
americanexception.com

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The Deep Cake with Aaron Good

Friend of the show Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio fills in for Tarence as we talk Jerry Falwell Jr., George Santos, Andrew Tate vs. Greta Thunberg, and why a man ended up on death row because of a Jeff Ross roast.

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Check out Aaron's other pod: Everybody Loves Communism wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode 272: The Mt. Rushmore of Liars (w/ Special Guest: Bryan Quinby)

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Matt's COVID report, non-local universe, Christ, the Diggers

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235 - Let the Bodies Hit the Space 12.23.22

Holy crap damn fam, we did it. The year is over. Join Alex and Jake as we stab this year in it's rattling, skeletal rib cage. The gang's all here, Jake, Alex, a skeleton monster, Murray, no Anders. What an episode. 

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Anders Free NYE w/ Alex and Jake

Today Jacques sits our white asses down and is accidentally racist while telling us about how Avatar 2 is racist, we do a present review, talk about these two Christian influencers who couldn't stop jacking off to trans porn, Elon Musk trying to kill Steve Aoki. 

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SD 184 - Critical Jacques Theory

On a Very Special Episode of "Home Improvement," Tim and Jill lecture their son about the dangers of marijuana after he’s caught smoking a joint. On a powerful episode of ABC’s "Sports Night," written by Aaron Sorkin, sportscaster Dan Rydell delivers a four-minute monologue on how dope killed his younger brother. On a devastating episode of CBS's "Chicago Hope," a dozen teenagers are rushed to the emergency room after taking a new psychedelic drug at a rave.

We’ve all seen these "Very Special" drug episodes throughout our childhoods and adolescence. For some reason, our favorite shows, seemingly out of nowhere, decided to dedicate an entire episode to the perils of teenage drug use.

These episodes, mostly from the 1980s and '90s, have become a cultural punchline, something amusing and mocked but ultimately, one would think, harmless. But what most viewers don't know is that many of these episodes were not just part of a teen-oriented convention turned TV trope; a number of them were actually funded by the federal government to the tune of hundreds of thousands––sometimes millions–– of dollars to promote so-called "drug awareness."
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in the late 1990s made a deal with multiple TV networks to include anti-drug messaging in show plots. In 1997, Congress approved a plan to buy $1 billion of anti-drug advertising over five years for its National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

From at least 1997 to 2000, the Feds paid TV networks to air what was ostensibly drug awareness public health information but was, in many key ways, propaganda to sustain and build support for the war on drugs. The White House drug office paid networks large sums of money to weave so-called "anti-drug" stories in their narratives, undisclosed to the viewer, often revising and approving scripts without the show writers knowledge.

Rather than being harmless––if corny––anti-drug messages we can all now laugh at, these narratives were also part of a broader scare strategy to frighten, misinform, and prop up the federal government's war on drugs both at home and abroad.

On this episode, we will review some of the major TV shows that ran these episodes, how much money they took in from the U.S. government, and how these tropes shaped and directly impacted public policy that promoted racism, imperial meddling in Latin America, and mass incarceration.

Our guest is Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Ep 174: How Your Favorite 1990's "Very Special" Anti-Drug Episode Was Probably Funded by the US Govt

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Social Media mindset, China, Plane & movie chat, western separatist movements

237 - Pacific Garbage Patch Kids 02.03.23

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics:  Talking about "no one is talking about", College, The Last of Us, Cereal v. Fungi, human/animal hybrids

238 - Airborne Toxic Event Planner 02.13.23

Hell comes to Germany.

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Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth - Episode 7 Teaser

In this News Brief, we discuss the initial lack of coverage of the devastating February 3rd train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio; the coverage of the lack of coverage; the GOP's "white genocide" exploitation; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's defensiveness; and the real human stakes of decades of bipartisan deregulation and union-busting.

Our guest is Matthew Cunningham-Cook, a reporter and researcher at The Lever.

News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Banks, Apocalypse

238 - Airborne Toxic Event Planner 02.13.23

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