Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: The Lamest Show on Earth, a three-part mini series on the phenomenon that is Tesla Motors and the carnival barker at the center of its show: Elon Musk. We’ve often said that Jeffrey Epstein offers us a lens through which to view larger networks of power and influence and ways to ascertain how they operate and impact the world. The story of Tesla Motors offers us the same opportunity: how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end. Now that Tesla has a gun to the head of the American economy, there’s only one question left: how long can the show go on?

In Pt 2 we track Elon’s movements over Silicon Valley from his self-proclaimed acceptance into Stanford University to his odd obsession with the letter “x”, to his coup at Tesla Motors and his attempt to hold it all together in the face of both personal and global bankruptcy. Featuring: Peter Thiel, malaria, Lance Bass, John McCain, the Mars Society, and remember the show Desperate Housewives?

UNLOCKED! The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 2)

We take a look at the killing of environmental activist Tortugita and the protests in Atlanta over the controversial development of the sprawling police training facility known as Cop City.

Atlanta Community Press Collective: https://atlantapresscollective.com/

Episode 267: Cop City

Usually, telling lies on the internet is Constitutionally protected. 

But what happens when it’s not? What happens when you post and meme so hard and so maliciously that you go far outside the realm of protected speech and wind up in a federal prison. That’s the story of a 33-year-old man named Douglass Mackey, who operated a few Twitter accounts under the name Rickey Vaughn. Using these accounts he spread Pizzagate lies, racist tropes, and also messages deliberately designed to mislead people into giving up their right to vote. On May 31st, Douglass Mackey was convicted of Election Interference in the 2016 presidential race after a one week trial.

To better understand this case we spoke to someone who has been covering it for years: Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center. We chat about Douglass Mackey’s background, the crime he was found guilty of committing, and what it means for the future of online disinformation campaigns. We also discuss the trial’s involvement of “Microchip,” a notorious troll who is currently working as a federal informant.
 
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QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 227: The Posting to Prison Pipeline feat Michael Edison Hayden

This week we're discussing John Brown, as seen through the eyes of the late novelist, Russell Banks, in his novel Cloudsplitter. DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that Russell Banks's novel is a work of fiction, and is not meant to be read as a literal interpretation of history--and thus neither is our episode.

To help us work through it, we've enlisted the help of writer John Lingan, whose great book on Creedence Clearwater Revival is out now: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Everyone-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival/dp/0306846713

And please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 288: Crazy White Boy University (w/ special guest John Lingan)

We discuss responses to the killing of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway, including the complete absence of any realistic state responsibility to address the intersecting and accelerating crises involved.

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729 Teaser - Subway Killing Reactions

We cover Ron DeSantis’ disastrous Twitter campaign launch.

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735 Teaser - Failure to Launch

Christopher Bell joins us to talk about his new film "Miss Me Yet," a look back on the presidency of George W. Bush, playing later this month at the Spectacle Theater in NYC. We also talk about how it's orange outside.

CHRISTOPHER JASON BELL
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https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell

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Miss Me Yet w/ Christopher Bell

We sit down with author Jim DiEugenio to chat about his work on the Oliver Stone films JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, chasing down assassination leads for thirty years, what Hollywood and the media get wrong, and much more. 

Check out Jim’s work at: www.kennedysandking.com
Listen to our previous JFK coverage: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod?filters[search_query]=jfk

Episode 298: James DiEugenio

We talk to Alex Press about her reporting on the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes, with additional commentary from some of the striking entertainment workers we met on the picket lines in LA and NYC.

Special thanks to the following for speaking to us:
Bex Taylor-Klaus
Catherine Schetina
Jess McKenna
John Hodgman
Max Calder

Read Alex's piece on the strikes in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/2023/07/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-studios-streaming

Bonus: WGA/SAG Strike Update

We begin our multi-part series on the legends and myths swirling around the POW/MIAs allegedly left behind in Indochina with an explanation of how we got there in the first place: The Vietnam war, the Golden Triangle, secret bombings, aerial campaigns, army wives, and Ross Perot.

Episode 321: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part One)

We are back. What a week to take a break, huh? We catch up on Nazi officers in Canadian parliament, Sen. Bob “Goldbar” Menendez, Sen. Dianne “RIP” Feinstein, an assortment of madcap Trump statements, China repossesses its Pandas, and more. 

Thank you for bearing with us through all of this. Programming should continue as usual now. Movie Mindset Halloween Edition starts this Wednesday 10/4/23, and we have some more surprise treats coming to the Patreon when that’s wrapped up in November.

If you’d like to join Will & Hesse this October 30th for screenings of The Fog and Halloween III at the Roxy Cinema in NYC, ticket links here:
The Fog: https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-fog/
Halloween III: https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch/

769 - Band of Brothers feat. Kath Krueger (10/2/23)

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