A Podcast Packed with Paranoia

Free Thoughts interviews Jesse Walker.

Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus recently interviewed me for Free Thoughts, a podcast produced by the Cato Institute. The broad topic was my 2013 book The United States of Paranoia; the specific subjects ranged from Tipper Gore to They Live to the suppression of imaginary slave revolts in the antebellum South. Enjoy:

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[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm pretty sure I am picking up something coming over a lower frequency in this transmission.

[mad.casual]

Is this a legit complaint, a sarcastic 'your conspiracy broadcast has hidden messages that can pick up with my fillings' comment, or an 'I can't hear your dogwhistle!' social signal?

It's always so hard to tell with you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yes, it is always hard to tell with me.

[DJF]

Does it have anything about Trump being Hitler?

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

If you remove Trump's hair you'll find a mini Hitler working the controls.

[Rich]

A Podcast Packed with Paranoia

A Saucerful of Secrets

[Mongo]

The card game Illuminati is indeed a heckuva good time!

(The last session we played, my Society of Assassins double-tapped a middle manager at Kinko's which took out an entire branch of The Network but, like the real world, money is all-powerful and the obscenely wealthy Bavarian Illuminati triumphed as the unholy victors.)

[Jesse Walker]

Once I was the Discordians, and I decided the Discordian thing to do would be to play an entirely random strategy. So I did a series of completely nonsensical moves until one of the other players realized he had to be somewhere else. He had the cards I needed to win, he handed them to me, and I won the purest victory in the history of all games.