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(preview) Pod Mad Men America

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1702 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

That's right Damners, our Mad Men episode is finally here. In addition to character arc stuff, we talk about Edward Bernays, Paul Sweezy's analysis of advertising, our dueling interpretations of the ending and more. If you haven't watched (or don't like) the show, fret not there's still some interesting shit to be gleaned. For the full episode subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

this is all in the show and like i think the show would pair it pairs really well with the story of

0:04.7

edward bernays because he like fucking pioneered that like he cranked that was already kind of

0:12.4

an organic process according to like someone like you to board but like he cranked that shit up to

0:17.1

11 if you don't know who he is he's sigman Freud's nephew. He invented PR and he wrote a book called

0:23.7

Propaganda in like the 30s or 20s, I want to say. Um, propaganda is just like, I read it. It's one of the

0:32.0

most evil books I've ever read because it's just talking about human beings like they are just cattle like to be

0:38.5

manipulated he refers to this like invisible government throughout the book that's like the real

0:44.0

order of things and like uses all these like herd psychology terms and stuff and uh and he like

0:53.1

he you know describes a very nihilistic view of the world and how basically

1:00.6

you know he makes an argument that like eh you know monarchism like authoritarianism never really

1:07.9

ended it's just now it's invisible and it's,

1:11.7

you know,

1:11.9

people are still subjects,

1:13.2

but they're subjects,

1:14.9

uh,

1:15.4

in the marketplace or whatever.

1:17.4

And he's like,

1:18.8

he's the godfather of PR.

1:20.9

He invented a lot of advertising.

1:22.8

We,

1:23.0

I fucking mentioned this every time I talk about him,

1:25.1

but like he,

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