Best Propaganda Earth Podcasts (2025)

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Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea 1:17:15

6h ago1:17:15

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For 5,000 years civilizations have told themselves stories of progress. Today, the progress myth has become humanity's most dangerous illusion. Samuel Miller McDonald, geographer and author of Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea, illuminates the destructive lineage of progress, why these myths endure, how they enable socially and ecologica…

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Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea 1:17:15

6h ago1:17:15

1:17:15

For 5,000 years civilizations have told themselves stories of progress. Today, the progress myth has become humanity's most dangerous illusion. Samuel Miller McDonald, geographer and author of Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea, illuminates the destructive lineage of progress, why these myths endure, how they enable socially and ecologica…

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Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020) 50:55

2d ago50:55

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We often think of censorship as governments removing material or harshly punishing people who spread or access information. But Margaret E. Roberts’ new book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall (Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals the nuances of censorship in the age of the internet. She identifies 3 types of cen…

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Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024) 1:24:21

3d ago1:24:21

1:24:21

Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy (U California Press, 2024) traces how filmmaker-philosophers brought the dream of making documentaries and strengthening democracy to award-winning reality—with help from nuns, gang members, skateboarders, artists, disability activists, and more. The evolution of Kartemquin Films—Peabod…

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Olga Touloumi, "Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 58:05

3d ago58:05

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For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance for a new political organization called the United Nations (UN). To create the iconic headquarters of the UN in New York City, these architects experimented with room layouts, media technologies, and design in …

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String and Traps 22:42

4d ago22:42

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In this shorts episode I talk about string and traps, mundane, but perhaps important topics. After that I answer Gather's question about sourcing unusual plant species. I'm starting to run a bit low on shorts topics, so if you've got a request, please get in touch! If you want to support this podcast, you can tell a friend to check it out, subscrib…

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Intercultural Communication 51:14

7d ago51:14

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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her best-selling textbook Intercultural Communication (Edinburgh UP, 2025). A comprehensive and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication Key concepts and discussions illuminated with inte…

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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020) 50:01

7d ago50:01

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While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (Duke University Press, 2020), anthropologist Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work …

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Unacknowledged: The ET Cover-Up Files 3:49:35

9d ago3:49:35

3:49:35

Prepare for disclosure as we expose the most significant government cover-up in human history. Through classified documents, military whistleblower testimony, and groundbreaking evidence, we reveal the decades-long suppression of extraterrestrial contact. From top-secret energy technologies to recovered craft materials, discover how black budget pr…

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Behind The Curve: The Flat Earth Revolution 1:35:38

9d ago1:35:38

1:35:38

Journey into the explosive movement challenging everything we thought we knew about our world. Through unprecedented access to the Flat Earth community's leading minds and private gatherings, we expose why thousands of people are rejecting centuries of scientific consensus. From high-powered laser experiments to Antarctic ice wall theories, discove…

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The Great Hack Digital Puppet Masters: How They Hacked Your Mind 43:31

9d ago43:31

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Dive into the terrifying truth of how your personal data became the weapon that manipulated global democracy. Through explosive revelations from Cambridge Analytica whistleblowers and leaked internal documents, we expose the sinister machinery that turned your digital footprint into a psychological warfare tool. From Brexit to presidential election…

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HyperNormalisation Is Reality Is A Lie?: The Hyper-Normal Matrix 2:46:32

9d ago2:46:32

2:46:32

Prepare to have your perception of reality shattered as we dive deep into Adam Curtis's mind-bending revelation about how power structures have created a fake world. Through classified documents, whistleblower testimonies, and hidden historical connections, we expose how banks, politicians, and tech giants have constructed an artificial reality to …

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Mel Gibson EXPOSES Hollywood Actors On Epstein-Diddy List And REVEALS Their Hidden Spot 24:25

9d ago24:25

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In this explosive episode, we uncover the shocking revelations as Mel Gibson blows the whistle on Hollywood's darkest secret - an elite network of entertainment industry predators. Through verified documents, insider testimonies, and previously buried evidence, we expose the disturbing connections between A-list celebrities, private islands, and po…

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The FBI's Dark Prince: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret Files 59:45

11d ago59:45

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Uncover the sinister web of blackmail, surveillance, and power that made J. Edgar Hoover America's most feared man. This explosive episode rips open the hidden vault of the FBI's first director, exposing decades of illegal operations and devastating secrets that held presidents, celebrities, and civil rights leaders hostage to his will. Through dec…

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Alien Engineering: The Bob Lazar NEVER HEARD Interview with Don Garlits (1997) 46:13

11d ago46:13

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Journey back to 1997 for a rare and explosive interview that shook the foundations of UFO research. This episode unravels Bob Lazar's historic conversation with drag racing legend Don Garlits, where classified technologies and extraterrestrial propulsion systems are exposed in unprecedented detail. Through this previously buried interview, we explo…

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A Glitch in the Matrix= Digital Prison: Are We Living in a Simulation? 1:48:33

11d ago1:48:33

1:48:33

Enter the mind-bending realm where reality itself comes into question. This consciousness-altering episode dives deep into the increasingly popular theory that our entire existence might be nothing more than an advanced computer simulation. Through cutting-edge quantum physics research, unexplainable glitches in everyday life, and testimonies from …

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LA 92 Streets of Fire: The LA Riots Uncensored 1:53:47

11d ago1:53:47

1:53:47

Dive into the explosive truth behind one of America's most devastating civil uprisings. This raw episode exposes the perfect storm of racial tension, police brutality, and systemic corruption that transformed Los Angeles into a war zone in 1992. Through declassified documents, suppressed footage, and eyewitness accounts, we reveal the hidden trigge…

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War Lies They Told Us=Popular Conspiracy Theories 48:54

11d ago48:54

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Brace yourself for a shocking journey through history's most controversial military deceptions and cover-ups. This explosive episode rips away the propaganda veil to expose the elaborate lies that have dragged nations into conflict and kept the war machine turning. From false flag operations to manufactured enemies, we dissect the most compelling e…

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Jordan Maxwell Sacred Secrets Exposed: The Hidden Codes of Religion 1:18:36

11d ago1:18:36

1:18:36

Prepare to have everything you thought you knew about religious symbolism completely shattered. In this mind-bending episode, we dive deep into the controversial research of Jordan Maxwell, the legendary researcher who spent decades uncovering the ancient origins and occult meanings behind religious symbols and texts. From the astrotheological conn…

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez ed., "Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media" (Amherst College Press, 2025) 50:39

11d ago50:39

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Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press, 2025) fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different med…

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"Assignment Moscow" with author James Rodgers 56:41

13d ago56:41

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Is it possible to do independent journalism in today’s Russia? “The short answer is no,” James Rodgers tells me in our conversation about his insightful and scrupulously researched book Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Rodgers is a former BBC correspondent in Moscow. We first talk about Western…

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Complexity and Collapse | The Honest Sorcerer 1:16:05

14d ago1:16:05

1:16:05

Modern techno-industrial civilization is running up against the law of diminishing returns - and societal collapse is inevitable. B, author of The Honest Sorcerer blog, reveals why our civilizational complexity carries the seeds of its own destruction. Highlights include: What led B (who also shares his reasons for remaining anonymous) from believi…

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Complexity and Collapse | The Honest Sorcerer 1:16:05

14d ago1:16:05

1:16:05

Modern techno-industrial civilization is running up against the law of diminishing returns - and societal collapse is inevitable. B, author of The Honest Sorcerer blog, reveals why our civilizational complexity carries the seeds of its own destruction. Highlights include: What led B (who also shares his reasons for remaining anonymous) from believi…

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Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 44:32

14d ago44:32

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Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speak…

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Pears with Lauren Cormier and Blaine Fortin 1:09:15

14d ago1:09:15

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This week I am talking with Lauren Cormier about pears! Lauren works for the Maine Heritage Orchard and is exploring, documenting and preserving the old pears of Maine. She tells me about the history of pears, their cultural needs and the issues they might run into, we also discuss the late Blaine Fortin, a hyrid pear breeder. After Lauren's interv…

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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019) 1:04:04

16d ago1:04:04

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hearing an awful lot about the fraught relationship between science and media. In his book, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), historian of science Joshua Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was …

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Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth 42:56

17d ago42:56

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It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and today we react to the first two episodes of Alien: Earth. We break down the themes and ideas in the series, focusing on its central questions of transhumanism, the Peter Pan mythology, and the dream / nightmare imagery. We consider how this series is consistent with and differs from the Alien (1979) and Aliens (…

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David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution" (Oxford UP, 2023) 34:47

18d ago34:47

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David de Boer returns to the podcast to talk to Jana Byars about his first book, The Early Modern Dutch Press in the Age of Religious Persecution (Oxford UP, 2023). This book is available open source here. For victims of persecution around the world, attracting international media attention for their plight is often a matter of life and death. This…

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Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025) 30:29

19d ago30:29

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Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It (Columbia UP, 2025) is a wide-ranging and comprehensive book that shines a light on how false beliefs take root and spread, exploring the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that make us all susceptible to misinfor…

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Jirí Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 1:01:34

21d ago1:01:34

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Jiří Anger is a scholar, archivist, and videographic critic devoted, as he says in this interview, to "making weird shapes shine." In this episode of New Books in Film, Anger sits down with Alix Beeston to discuss his award-winning book Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up. Anger's book is an experime…

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Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018) 1:02:14

24d ago1:02:14

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If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme. Unfortunately, this is an example of how the region is stereotyped and misunderstood, particularly in films. In her book, Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film(University of Georgia Press, 2018), Meredith McCarroll, Director of Writing …

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Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025) 24:13

25d ago24:13

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Grant Us Eyes is a book-length close reading of Bloodborne by literary critic Nathan Wainstein (LA Review of Books, Cartridge Lit, American Book Review). Grant Us Eyes situates the game’s oft-discussed difficulty in relation to a much longer tradition of difficult art – surrealist painting, the modernist novel, etc. Wainstein probes the difficulty …

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The Social Impact of Automating Translation 56:37

1M ago56:37

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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalunya. They talk about Dr. Monzó-Nebot's new book The Social Impact of Automating Translation: An Ethics of Care Perspective on Machine Translation. The con…

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Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025) 1:10:48

1M ago1:10:48

1:10:48

Suruchi Mazumdar’s book addresses the complex relationship between India’s evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interests of diverse media actors, and movements opposing contentious issues such as market-based economic reforms and religious nationalism. In the mid-2000s, Singur and Nandigram, nondescript semi-urban and rur…

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Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025) 48:11

1M ago48:11

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From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blend of genres in innovative and unheard-of ways. Not only did his exploratory styles challenge the expectations of what popular music could sound like, …

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Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025) 52:19

1M ago52:19

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Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars explores the complex interplay between violence and propaganda during the continent's major civil conflicts in the first half of the 20th century. The book, edited by Yiannis Kokosalakis and Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira, uses a multidisciplinary approach to analyze how propaganda both reflected and fu…

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Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 1:07:47

1M ago1:07:47

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With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with the shellac disc, beginning with its preconditions in South Asian knowledge and labor, to offer a global portrait …

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"JFK's Deadly Affair: The Mary Meyer Murder Files" 49:54

1M ago49:54

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🗝️ Dive into one of the most explosive yet suppressed stories of the Kennedy era - the mysterious execution-style murder of JFK's most dangerous mistress. Mary Meyer wasn't just another presidential affair; she was a CIA wife with explosive secrets, psychedelic connections, and a diary that threatened the powerful. This investigation exposes why he…

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"Laurel Canyon's Dark Symphony: Sex, Death & CIA Rock" 31:54

1M ago31:54

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🎸 Enter the shadowy world of 1960s Laurel Canyon, where rock legends, military intelligence, and occult ceremonies collided in ways the mainstream media won't touch. This explosive investigation reveals how this counterculture paradise became ground zero for mind control experiments, suspicious deaths, and the manufactured music revolution that cha…

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"American Darkness: The KKK's Hidden Power Web" 52:23

1M ago52:23

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⚠️ Brace yourself for the most shocking exposé of America's most notorious hate group, unveiling connections that reach into the highest levels of power. This unflinching investigation rips away the hoods to reveal the true scope of the KKK's influence throughout U.S. history - from shadowy political manipulations to corporate ties that continue to…

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"Manson's Mind: Dark Psychology of a Cult Master" 46:06

1M ago46:06

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🔪 Venture into the twisted psyche of America's most infamous cult leader in this bone-chilling psychological autopsy. Beyond the sensational headlines and Hollywood tales lies a darker, more disturbing truth about Charles Manson's path to manipulation and murder. Uncover never-before-discussed psychological triggers, CIA connection theories, and th…

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"Jordan Maxwell: Project Avalon Cosmic Revelations Decoded" 2:08:41

1M ago2:08:41

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🌟 Step into the extraordinary world of legendary researcher Jordan Maxwell in this spellbinding deep dive into humanity's hidden history. From electrifying close encounters to decoded ancient symbolism, Maxwell's most compelling revelations come to light in this must-hear episode. Journey through sacred knowledge suppressed for millennia, uncover t…

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"The Grand Design: Connecting Every Conspiracy" 3:23:22

1M ago3:23:22

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🌐 Prepare for the ultimate revelation as we weave together history's most profound mysteries into one earth-shattering narrative. From ancient civilizations to modern-day cover-ups, this groundbreaking audio documentary exposes how every major conspiracy theory interconnects in ways that will leave you questioning reality itself. Discover how sacre…

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"Dark State Rising: The Shadow Beyond Watergate" 1:12:46

1M ago1:12:46

1:12:46

🔍 Uncover the mind-shattering truth that makes Watergate look like a bedtime story. Journey deep into the labyrinth of America's most infamous political scandal, where shadowy figures, classified documents, and unexplained phenomena converge to reveal a conspiracy so vast it touches everything from extraterrestrial contact to underground government…

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Composting 31:12

1M ago31:12

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This week on Propaganda By the Seed Shorts I’m talking about composting. It's a big topic so even though this is a bit longer than average for a short episode, it's really just an introduction to the topic. I'll cover how different types of composting work and then focus in on my favorite, the static pile. In the Q&A we're talking berry rakes. If y…

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