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Brett Mason Show

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 An often funny or irreverent look at culture, entertainment, politics, or just silly things that happen to us all every day.Copyright Brett Mason Media 社会科学
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  • Sixty: Your Kids Are Not Safe

    Sixty: Your Kids Are Not Safe
    2025/08/08
    A shocking look at pervs and predators on social media. Things I learned from going undercover in my free time to see how many perverts are following kids online.

    Channels mentioned in the pod:
    SOSA Undercover
    https://youtube.com/@sosaundercover?si=438A8bcT5EcpI-JG

    Kitboga
    https://youtube.com/@kitbogashow?si=YCYebnj4YYtKEJJZ

    Article on Ariel Winter
    https://www.foxnews.com/entert...

    Missing and Exploited Children
    https://www.missingkids.org/ho...
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    48 分
  • Fifty-Nine: What Trump Is Selling

    Fifty-Nine: What Trump Is Selling
    2025/07/03
    Donald Trump is a salesman. But what is he selling? It’s not hope, innovation, or positivity? It’s insidious.

    Donald Trump handed the American right the most dangerous weapon in modern history—manufactured doubt. And he didn’t invent it. He stole it from Big Tobacco’s most insidious playbook.

    “Doubt is our product.”
    That was the chilling strategy cigarette companies adopted once science exposed their deadly lie. They couldn’t disprove the truth, so they buried it beneath a mountain of confusion. Pay off doctors. Cherry-pick data. Question the research. Sow just enough uncertainty to paralyze the public. And it worked—for decades.

    Trump saw that and ran with it. But he didn’t just weaponize doubt—he fused it with something far older and more primal.

    Tool One: Tribalism

    Evolution wired humans to distrust outsiders. Trump pulled that ancient instinct to the surface and sharpened it into a political blade. From day one, he cast immigrants as criminals and threats—rapists, murderers, thieves. His followers, primed by fear and fed a steady diet of blame, didn’t resist. They embraced it. And then he expanded the target: Democrats. Scientists. Journalists. Judges.

    It wasn’t a political strategy. It was mass psychological warfare.

    Tool Two: Doubt

    He repeated one line like gospel: “Fake news.”
    Every time a truth threatened him, he cast it as a lie. No need to disprove it. Just label it. Mock it. Question it. And do it loudly, constantly, relentlessly. His base—already locked in tribal loyalty—didn’t need evidence. Just reinforcement.

    From there, doubt spread like a virus:
    -Doubt science
    -Doubt medical professionals
    -Doubt vaccines
    -Doubt experts in every field
    -Doubt the research
    -Doubt the cops
    -Doubt the judges
    -Doubt the prosecutors
    -Doubt the juries
    -Doubt the verdicts
    -Doubt the voting machines
    -Doubt the voters
    -Doubt the voting officials
    -Doubt the ballots
    -Doubt the election
    -Doubt democracy
    -Doubt Everything that doesn’t come from my mouth

    There was no proof. There never is. But he didn’t need it. He just needed repetition and conviction. A lie repeated a thousand times becomes not truth, but something more powerful—belief.

    And now? Millions believe only what he says. No source is trusted unless it bows to him. He is their truth. Their reality. Their god.

    Trump isn’t dumb. He’s dangerous. Not because he’s insightful—but because he understands the power of manipulation at scale.

    He didn’t create a political movement. He created a cult of disbelief—and he’s selling doubt like it’s salvation.

    Doubt is the product.
    You’re the customer.
    And the cost?
    Your country.
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    6 分
  • Fifty-Eight: Trade And Tariffs Explained

    Fifty-Eight: Trade And Tariffs Explained
    2025/05/15
    Today I’m going to talk about trade and tariffs in a way that even a 5 year old can understand if. Now I know, that probably sounds dry. But if you stick around, I promise you’ll end this episode knowing more about trade and the global economy than most politicians—and certainly more than the President of the United States. And I’m not even trying to be edgy with that. It’s just… true. Here’s the reality: A trade surplus or trade deficit is just the difference between what a country exports and what it imports. That’s it. It’s not a win-or-lose scoreboard. It’s not a sign of national strength or weakness. It’s an accounting detail. A symptom—not a diagnosis. And cutting off trade with another country? That doesn’t “save” us money. It doesn’t “bring back jobs.” What it actually does is shrink the economy. It limits product availability. It raises prices for everything from cars to cornflakes. It triggers inflation. It makes everyone poorer. Period. This isn’t new information. We’ve known it for a long time. And if you need proof, let’s roll the tape back to one of the dumbest trade blunders in U.S. history: the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of the 1930s. Congress—bless their hearts—thought slapping tariffs on imported goods would protect American farmers and manufacturers during the Great Depression. Instead, what happened? Other countries retaliated. Exports plummeted by over 60%. Trade collapsed. Jobs vanished. The global economy cratered even further. Now here’s the fun part: if that name—Smoot-Hawley—rings a bell, maybe you remember it from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Yeah. A teen comedy from 1986 explained it better than most modern politicians. Ben Stein, in his iconic deadpan role as the economics teacher, delivers this legendary scene: “In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… uh… anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… anyone?… Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which… anyone?… raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue. Did it work?… Anyone?… It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.” It’s played for laughs—but it’s also spot-on. It didn’t work. And yet, nearly a century later, we’ve got people pushing the exact same crap with new branding. Fast forward to the U.S.-China trade war under Trump. We jacked up tariffs on Chinese goods. China retaliated—hard—by targeting U.S. agriculture. Soybeans. Pork. Wheat. Farmers across the Midwest got wrecked. Prices dropped. Exports dried up. So what did we do? We bailed them out with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. Let that sink in. The government caused the problem, then used your money to patch over the hole they blew in the boat. That’s not economic strategy—that’s political arson followed by very expensive fire trucks. And this isn’t just a U.S. issue. Let’s look globally. In 2010, Japan got into a diplomatic spat with China. As leverage, they restricted exports of rare earth minerals—critical materials used in smartphones, electric vehicles, wind turbines, even missiles. The result? Panic. Supply chains trembled. Prices exploded. The entire tech and manufacturing sector around the world felt the aftershocks. It was a reminder: global trade isn’t just about profit—it’s about stability. Or take Russia in 2022, cutting off natural gas supplies to Europe in response to sanctions over Ukraine. What happened? Prices for electricity and heating fuel in countries like Germany and Italy soared—by over 500% in some cases. Factories shut down. Steel, fertilizer, aluminum production—all scaled back or halted. Inflation soared. Food prices, rent, basic goods—everything went up. Because when trade breaks, everything breaks. There are a million more examples. And every time, it’s the same story. Politicians sell you a fairy tale about protecting the economy, about bringing jobs home, about “America First” or whatever slogan they’re workshopping this week. But in reality? You get screwed. You pay more at the grocery store. You pay more for fuel. You lose job opportunities. You live in an economy that’s slower, more expensive, and less competitive. That’s the price of economic ignorance. Trade isn’t some abstract Wall Street concept. It’s what keeps your shelves stocked, your bills manageable, and your paycheck worth something. Trade supports competition. That’s what keeps prices low. It drives innovation. That’s what keeps companies from getting lazy. It creates connections. That’s what builds resilience in times of crisis. Cutting it off doesn’t “protect” us—it isolates us. It weakens us. It leaves us more vulnerable. And who pays? You do. Every time. Not the president. Not the billionaire donor class. Not the lobbyists. You. Because you’re the one paying $5 for eggs. You’re the one whose ...
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    13 分
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