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An Abunance of Lies

Attack Ads! The Podcast

Release Date: 09/16/2025

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

Categorizing certain things is important.  Over-categorizing them, though, can be more damaging to one's understanding than not categorizing things at all.  Lately, I've realized that categorizations have impeded understanding our world to the point that perhaps we should just jettison certain categorizations altogether.  Hence, Episode 279: Why Capitalists Don't Exist. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/03/episode-279-why-capitalists-dont-exist.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

I've mentioned before that advertising often takes advantage of those it targets psychologically, triggering latent vulnerabilities in all of us.  Maybe it's more than just psychology, though, that makes ads tick.  I explore one possibility in this Episode 278: The Magical Manipulation of Desire. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/02/episode-278-magical-manipulation-of.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

Sometimes, the difference between entertainment between two countries is profound due to cultural differences.  Today, I'd like to suggest that there are differences well beyond culture that affect two peoples, even those separated by a common language, in this Episode 277: Ratcheting the Ridiculous. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/02/episode-277-ratcheting-ridiculous.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

For reasons I hope to make clear soon, advertising is not foremost on my mind right now.  I made a realization that a great change will quite possibly befall us, and… I have no idea when.  To understand my thinking on this, though, I feel it's necessary to give some background.  Hence, some background in this Episode 275: Nullius In Verba. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/12/episode-275-nullius-in-verba.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

What's that phrase?  One step forward, two steps back?  For every positive step our society takes, it seems there are invisible forces trying to drag every step in a quite negative direction.  I'll explore one example of just this in this Episode 274: Our New Normal… Is Abby. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/12/episode-274-our-new-normal-is-abby.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

I never cease to be amazed at how bad some corporate decisions are… until I finally figure out why those bad decisions were probably the best way for the company to make more money.  I explore one revelation concerning my need to connect a simple device to the internet, only to be forced to chat support, in this Episode 273: Chattel Trapped in Chat Hell. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/episode-273-chattel-trapped-in-chat-hell.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

There are far more thinkers whose writings can explain phenomena better than most; but thanks to ruthless historical suppression, those thinkers are not even considered.  I'd like to frame a few economic problems many of us are facing today to the philosophy of Henry George in this Episode 272: Henry Saw This Coming. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/episode-272-henry-saw-this-coming.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

Just in case you don't get enough advertising in the privacy and sanctuary of your home, good news! Refrigideezers will soon show you ads on a screen on the door! It's true! I react to this silliness in this Episode 271: Baffling Ripples of Synergy. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/10/episode-271-baffling-ripples-of-synergy.html

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Attack Ads! The Podcast

I lately find myself dwelling on not the existence of new technology, but on questions about how we humans should treat it. After all, nothing in our cultures or languages has evolved to accommodate, for one example, ASoLs. In the interest of discussing these geegaws and thingamajigs with someone who actually not only uses them, but doesn't actively hate them, I have a chat with KMO as we start the title of Episode 270: Pulling at Tightly Woven Threads.  Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/09/episode-270-pulling-at-tightly-woven.html

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More Episodes

Every so often, a book emerges that gets a lot of buzz from the media and gets tongues wagging.  Sadly, too often those books say things that stretch credulity to the breaking point and start to smell a lot like a massive propaganda campaign stuffed into a hardcover.  I follow the abundant evidence of one such book being bunkum in this Episode 269: An Abundance of Lies.

Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/09/episode-269-abundance-of-lies.html