Episode 13: Talentless Hack

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

Dylan Marron & TED

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Doug called Dylan Marron a “talentless propaganda hack” so Dylan called him up to ask why.

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Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Rob Wilson (logo designer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I don't think most people hate you, per se.
0:09.0	And so when I still the terminology, people who hate me,
0:11.0	I just said, oh, this is tacky, this is corny.
0:14.0	Tacky and corny.
0:17.0	Hey listener, a quick favor.
0:18.5	We are conducting an audience survey, and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.
0:23.7	Please visit survey.PRX.org slash Ted to take the survey today.
0:29.2	That's survey dot PRX.org. Thanks. Hey, I'm Dylan Merin, and welcome back to conversations with people who hate me, the show
0:48.8	where I take negative online conversations and move them offline.
0:53.3	Today I'm calling Doug, a man who in the comments section of a trailer for this podcast called
0:59.2	me a talentless propaganda hack.
1:02.0	Well, more specifically, he wrote, so you openly admit that you're a
1:06.2	talentless propaganda hack. That's cool. So let's give Doug a call. call. Hello. Hey is this Doug? This is... Hi. Hi, how are you? I'm good. So before we begin, in only as many details as you're comfortable sharing, tell me about you.
1:29.0	Well, my name is Doug, obviously. I am a server at a country club. Oh nice. Yes. Do you like the country club? I do. I do like it. You know it's something until I really figure out what I'm doing with my life it's something that really holds me down.
1:48.0	Yeah, I enjoy it. So Doug we are on this phone call because a few months ago underneath the trailer for this very
1:56.5	podcast you wrote so you sort of openly embrace the fact that you're a talentless propaganda hack that's cool that sounds like me yeah okay
2:06.1	great so tell me why you wrote that um well I've actually seen several of your videos pop up in my
2:12.3	news feed from time to time and I just
2:16.0	I'm mostly diametrically am having opposite beliefs as you do so I just saw that advertisement and I just
2:26.7	responded in such had no idea that it would actually catch your attention that
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