This Is Propaganda
by BRINK
Latest episode
Copaganda with Skip Intro
Copaganda with Skip Intro
About this podcast
In this Webby Award-winning narrative podcast, co-hosts Josh & Malcolm from BRINK media group reveal the hidden influence of the propaganda all around us and how it continues to profoundly shape our culture today.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 26 episodes
- Copaganda with Skip Intro · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 3This week the boys are joined by YouTuber Skip Intro to discuss the outsized impact copaganda has had on the medium of television. From the LAPD using Hollywood to launder its…
- Paid for by the U.S. Government: Trump's Midterm Propaganda · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 2Since September 23rd, if you watched a football game, you saw various commercial spots with dark authoritarian undertones that you paid for, if you’re an American taxpayer…
- Everybody Loses: The Rise of American Sports Gambling with author Danny Funt · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 1Between 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…
- What Comes Next? · 5 min · Season 2We have a Patreon now! It’s free and comes with bonus content including a full debrief on season 2.
- S2E5: Hegseth’s War on Woke and Women · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 5Pete Hegseth’s entire life has been leading to this moment. A war for the very soul of our nation. But can he save the institution responsible for his sense of self from the woke…
- S2E4: Forever Wars: Embedded Feminism from the Middle East to the Marvel Cinematic Universe · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 4As female soldiers get elevated from object to equal, they become both the army’s greatest PR asset, and greatest PR liability.
- S2E3: Betty Crocker the Psy-Op, Rosie the Riveter, and the Feminist Revolution · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 3From flappers to factory workers, and suffrajitsu to cold war kitchens, we track how the 20th century woman was imagined time and again to meet the needs of a nation.
- S2E2: Hollywood Declares War: From WWII Pinup Girls to Playmates in Vietnam · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 2How propagandists getting into bed with Hollywood caused the military to lose control of what women mean to their warriors.
- S2E1: Horny for War: The History of How Sex Became A Weapon · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 1White feathers, red light districts, and the rise of the military edging complex. How governments weaponized horniness to win WWI, and began to reimagine what women represent to…
- This Is Propaganda Season 2 · 1 min · Season 2This Is Propaganda is back, and more patriotic than ever. From WWI posters to TikTok E-Girls, strap in for an immersive narrative investigation into how the military uses sex to…
- Bot Armies, Dead Internet, and Misinformation Farms with Amil Khan · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 15With endless bot armies infiltrating social media feeds and harnessing the algorithm to control narratives and public opinion, our media system is becoming increasingly…
- Media Literacy with Renee Hobbs · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 14The average American’s worldview is under constant assault from propaganda. Between the 5,000 advertisements we see daily, for profit journalism, and virtually every post on…
- Hollywood and The Pentagon with Tom Secker · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 13It probably won’t come as much of a surprise that the Pentagon was involved in the making of Top Gun. What may be more surprising is the sheer scope of film and television…
- The Death of a Millennial Brand with Eugene Healey · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 12What aesthetics and ideas defined the branded propaganda targeting millennials in the 2010s, and why do they increasingly fail to resonate with Gen Z audiences?
- Howard Gossage: 20th Century Master of Propaganda with Justin Oberman · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 11San Francisco ad man Howard Gossage (1917–1969) is a bit more under the radar than his Madison Avenue contemporaries, but his work in both consumer marketing and advocacy…
- Abortion Messaging in Post-Dobbs America with Amelia Bonow · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 10Liberal “pro choice” messaging has historically conceded the moral high ground (“safe, legal and rare”). Amelia Bonow helped change that as the leader of the Shout Your Abortion…
- Luigi Mangione, Trump and the Art of Cultural Disruption with David Shields · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 9David Shields (best-selling author / filmmaker) joins us to dissect the brutal reality of politics as performance. We dive into Trump’s media mastery, Luigi Mangione’s…
- Nuance has a PR Problem · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 8Unpacking how the Culture War feeds on emotional shortcuts, why complexity and nuance is so hard to embrace, and what it means to navigate a society driven by flattened ideas and…
- The Art / Propaganda Spectrum · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 7Is art propaganda? Is propaganda art? A free flowing conversation about a spectrum that exists between the two and how modern consumer propaganda might benefit from leaning…
- Narratives of the US Election · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 6In this first episode of DoubleThink — conversations inspired by the themes of This Is Propaganda — Malcolm and Josh revisit the “vibe shift” of the US election when President…
