Attack Ads! The Podcast

Attack Ads! questions the dominance of media supported mainly by the corrupting influence of commercial advertising sponsorship, and aims to raise both awareness and outrage at the limitations such a system produces.

Many Voices Make Lies Work 05/04/2026

Many Voices Make Lies Work Modern advertising and military propaganda efforts share quite a few common elements. How many they share should surprise and even shock us all. I explore this topic in this Episode 282: Many Voices Make Lies Work. Find the Show Notes at: Find the Show Notes for Episode 34: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-34-reiteratively-repeated.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/41151040

My Brother's Experiment 04/19/2026

My Brother's Experiment Using computers that can more or (mostly) less function as if they were "intelligent" is all the rage today, especially in business. Why hire a person when a machine can do the job? Others are goofing around with these machines as well, including my own brother. I explore some of his recent goofs in this Episode 281: My Brother's Experiment. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/episode-281-my-brothers-experiment.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/40926315

Sky Father The Uncrumbly 04/01/2026

Sky Father The Uncrumbly Definitions can be difficult sometimes, especially when the word you are floundering to define doesn't really have a concrete definition, but rather a multitude of different applications and associations. It's best then to define something with double negatives, as I try to demonstrate in this Episode 280: Sky Father The Uncrumbly. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/episode-280-sky-father-uncrumbly.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/40703745

Why Capitalists Don't Exist 03/17/2026

Why Capitalists Don't Exist 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/40518835

The Magical Manipulation of Desire 02/27/2026

The Magical Manipulation of Desire 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/40249030

Ratcheting the Ridiculous 02/10/2026

Ratcheting the Ridiculous 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/40065560

The Fuel & The Fire 01/21/2026

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Nullius In Verba 12/31/2025

Nullius In Verba 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/39573150

Our New Normal… Is Abby 12/02/2025

Our New Normal… Is Abby 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/39239565

Chattel Trapped In Chat Hell 11/19/2025

Chattel Trapped In Chat Hell 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/39089210

Henry Saw This Coming 11/08/2025

Henry Saw This Coming 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/38958520

Baffling Ripples of Synergy 10/18/2025

Baffling Ripples of Synergy 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/38630485

Pulling at Tightly Woven Threads 09/30/2025

Pulling at Tightly Woven Threads 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/38403320

An Abunance of Lies 09/16/2025

An Abunance of Lies 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 /episode/index/show/attackads/id/38245855

Senator John Sherman's Address to The Senate 09/01/2025

Senator John Sherman's Address to The Senate While most of us have heard of the Sherman Act, few have savored Senator John Sherman's speech to the Senate in defense of that act. Today, I present to you my reading of an edited version of that speech, in this Bonus Episode: Senator John Sherman's Address to The Senate. /episode/index/show/attackads/id/38050175

Rich Uncle Money-Bork, Welfare Queen 08/11/2025

Rich Uncle Money-Bork, Welfare Queen Monopolies are nothing new. Government allowing companies to merge and acquire and metastasize into monopolies, though, that is relatively new. The ideas that support monopolies come from a handful of jerks supported by other jerks, who provide trucks full of money. I focus my hairy eyeball of criticism today on one such full truck funded fuck in this Episode 268: Rich Uncle Money-Bork, Welfare Queen. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/08/episode-268-rich-uncle-money-bork.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/37753130

Breathing Together, Choking Apart 07/27/2025

Breathing Together, Choking Apart Propaganda is not just a thing that happens in the here and now. Dig well enough, and you might find old institutional knowledge that started originally as a conspiratorial plot designed to sway society. Make such propaganda profitable enough, and we find ourselves in a world described by the title to Episode 267: Breathing Together, Choking Apart. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/07/episode-267-breathing-together-choking.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/37567920

Garbage Fires and Angry Weasels 07/08/2025

Garbage Fires and Angry Weasels When propaganda falls, it can lead to social impacts more powerful than kinetic weapons. The troubles come when the propagandists conceal their manipulation of society with misdirecting propaganda that we have trouble detecting, let alone responding to effectively. Which brings us to today's Episode 266: Garbage Fires and Angry Weasels. Find the Show Notes at: /episode/index/show/attackads/id/37330170

A Stringent, Crystalline Vision 06/24/2025

A Stringent, Crystalline Vision As I've quoted before, "ideas need patrons." I'll dive into economic ideas bought by the wealthy and spread by those Chicago school economists in this Episode 265: A Stringent, Crystalline Vision. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/06/episode-265-stringent-crystalline-vision.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/37136510

Archeologists of a Bygone Age 05/30/2025

Archeologists of a Bygone Age Perhaps for the first time in human history, we people can now buy things more easily than we can fix them. Repair shops have become a thing only on television, even though so much of value could be repaired. I spend most of this Episode 264: Archeologists of a Bygone Age, planning my next big repair. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/05/episode-264-archeologists-of-bygone-age.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/36796390

The Hits To Our Privates Just Keep Coming! 05/09/2025

The Hits To Our Privates Just Keep Coming! Ethics often interfere with profits. When more profits are “required,” companies often face a hard choice…or an easy one. Results vary. I look into two compromises/profitable opportunities in this Episode 263: The Hits To Our Privates Just Keep Coming! Find the Show Notes at: http://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/05/episode-263-hits-to-our-privates-just.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/36502635

The Shitcaca Sküll 04/16/2025

The Shitcaca Sküll I’m reminded almost daily about how the current elevation of private enterprise has made our lives crap. It's helpful to remember that this industrial fetish had an origin, and can be reversed, as I discuss in this Episode 262: The Shitcaca Sküll. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/04/episode-262-shitcaca-skull.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/36183510

Ways We Are All Getting Torq'd 04/02/2025

Ways We Are All Getting Torq'd I didn’t really know how much advertisers surveil us. I started to look into it. Then I stopped looking: how much we have all lost our privacy was just too scary. I look back on 10 years of reading in this Episode 261: Ways We Are All Getting Torq'd. Find the Show Notes page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/04/episode-261-ways-we-are-all-getting.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/35970920

Two Scientists 03/18/2025

Two Scientists Episode 260: Two Scientists. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/03/episode-260-two-scientists.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/35767020

The Butchers of Certainty 02/26/2025

The Butchers of Certainty Not only does a constant onslaught of information drown us, we must sift out not just business propaganda, but ideological propaganda as well. The effort leaves us cynical. We should blame those in the title of Episode 259: The Butchers of Certainty. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/02/episode-259-butchers-of-certainty.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/35432200

Ticky Tacky Talkin' 02/12/2025

Ticky Tacky Talkin' Putting the descriptor "foreign" on any term often gives it more gravitas, perhaps more of a threat, than simply uttering the term alone. I consider adversaries foreign and domestic in this Episode 258: Ticky Tacky Talkin'. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/02/episode-258-ticky-tacky-talkin.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/35249230

Here Today… 01/25/2025

Here Today… When we chronicle the efforts businesses have made to influence how the public feels about the government, into Propaganda’s Hall of Fame must go the National Association of Manufacturers. I'll share some of their efforts in this Episode 257: Here Today… Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2025/01/episode-257-here-today.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/35006435

It's In The Cards 12/25/2024

It's In The Cards When one ponders stuff, it's best if one knows the actual facts of whatever it is one ponders, as opposed to made-up crap stuffed into one's head by others. Otherwise you might as well use a tarot deck and see the title of Episode 256: It's In The Cards. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/12/episode-256-its-in-cards.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/34614855

Reasoning & Irrationality 12/11/2024

Reasoning & Irrationality We humans are funny critters, with loves and hatreds and outright loathings that too often bear no real resemblance to any cogent rationality. Yet it's all we've got. I explore this in Episode 255: Reasoning & Irrationality. Find the Show Notes at: http://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/12/episode-255-reasoning-irrationality.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/34388575

It Can't Happen Here 11/24/2024

It Can't Happen Here Not since the late 1800s has America elected a president twice out of order. Should we worry? Or should we worry about the moneyed forces behind our former president? I explore context everyone should know in this Episode 254: It Can't Happen Here. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/episode-254-it-cant-happen-here.html /episode/index/show/attackads/id/34126206

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