A History of Persuasion: Part 1

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A once-famous psychologist...& how the Unabomber tried to kill him. The first part of a three-part series from The Stakes examines the science of persuasion — and its backlash.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Bob Garfield, and this is an on-the-media podcast extra.
0:04.6	For the next few weeks, we'll be sharing a new series from our friends over at The Stakes.
0:09.9	You might remember the reporter, Amanda Aroncic, from the O'TeM episode she and I co-hosted last December on pandemics.
0:18.0	This week, we join Amanda for a wild journey into manipulation, technology,
0:24.6	and conspiracy. Here she is with Stakes host, Kai Wright.
0:43.7	I'm not going to talk, I'm Kai Wright, and these are the stakes.
0:48.7	In this episode, cannibalistic worms and thought reform.
0:54.2	Okay, Amanda, you've got the letter.
0:56.5	I brought the letter with me today, yes.
0:58.2	And this is a letter from whom?
1:02.2	This is a letter I got last year from Ted Kaczynski.
1:03.0	The Unabomber.
1:03.4	Yes.
1:06.6	I was disturbed to learn you had been writing the Unabomber.
1:07.6	Should I remind people?
1:09.7	Yeah, tell us quickly who he is. Right.
1:09.9	So if you don't remember who the Unabomber is, from 1978 to 1995, he sent these bombs that he made himself to 23 victims.
1:21.8	He killed three people.
1:23.1	Arguably our most infamous domestic terrorist.
1:25.5	And it was all because he was freaking out about technology, right?
1:28.5	Yeah, he was targeting these people who he saw as symbols for technology.
1:33.7	So why did you write him?
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