Against the backdrop of President Trump calling attention to the narcissism podcast universe, several people have made inquiry about relationships, motives, financial structures etc.
For those unaware, the traditional media framework of billionaire and corporate opinion/information shaping, modified itself for a new digital era. However, the motives that underpinned the original control mechanisms remain the same, only the venues are different.
As an example, most reasonably intelligent people caught on to the manipulative political content pushed by Rupert Murdoch, his family of control agents and the Fox Corporation media empire. However, most people are unaware that Fox Corporation controls the information space of well-known current and former Fox News employees and contract agents that shifted to the podcast venues.
Fox Media purchased Red Seat Ventures {Citation} and expanded the narrative control operations through “podcasting.” As a consequence, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan, Bill O’Reilly and many more still work for Fox Corporation, just in different venues.
When Tucker Carlson is interviewing Megyn Kelly during a podcast, or when Piers Morgan is interviewing Bill O’Reilly during a podcast, it is no different than Megyn Kelly interviewing Piers Morgan on Fox News television. The platform changed, but the relationships -and more importantly the information content itself- is the same. The same control mechanisms apply; it is just a different distribution channel.
Instead of watching Fox News, you are essentially watching Fox News ‘podcasting’ division, via Red Seat Ventures.
♦ Red Seat Ventures (a Fox Corporation subsidiary) controls the advertising, distribution and financial payments to the same cast of characters that appeared on Fox News broadcast. The same leverage and pressure points apply, albeit with a plausible deniability in order to push a false claim of independence in order to manufacture the optics of credibility.
You can explore Red Seat Ventures here, overlay the intention as expressed by Fox Corporation here, and see exactly how this internecine system is connected.
When you hear people say, “I no longer watch Fox News,” yet they still watch Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan, Dana Loesch, Bill O’Reilly, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Kelly, etc., you might take note those people probably don’t realize they are just watching a different version of the Fox Corporation.
This is why none of the former pundits, now part of Red Seat, will say anything critical of Fox Corp. They are still beholden to the control masters. Many people are unaware of this reality in the background.
♦ There is also the Red Apple Podcast Network, another corporate conglomerate of well-known pundits like Larry Kudlow, Roger Stone, Greg Kelly, Sean Spicer and many more. Again, these are not ‘independent’ per se’, they are part of a corporate commercial system with terms and conditions that apply to the employees, the podcasters.
♦ Then you have Westwood One, (aka Cumulus) another corporate media conglomerate which includes popular names like Benny Johnson, Mark Levin and Dan Bongino. Again, these are not independent voices per se’ – they are contract agents with financial relationships to the mothership, the corporation. Again, terms and conditions apply.
What you will notice in all of these enmeshments is a system of podcast tribalism, now captured within the corporate dynamic. When a podcaster is interviewing a podcaster for podcast content, you are essentially watching a circle of narcissists discussing each other. The watcher or listener is not receiving ‘information’, they are participating in the distribution of specific financially aligned narratives – albeit with an ‘independent’ flare.
If your participation in the podcast sphere is akin to watching WWE wrestling, then you have the appropriate filter for the performances within each broadcast.
However, if you participate from the perspective of information gathering; raw, researchable or cited information to expand objective knowledge; you might end up in a crazy matrix where you are led to believe that aliens are living down the street, black helicopters are following your every move, Melania is about to divorce Donald, the FBI is an honorable institution, or even that Reverend Franklin Graham is busy building a billionaire doomsday bunker in Alaska.
As the years were unfolding you likely recognized the Wall Street corporate media system was going to respond to the changed and collapsed credibility environment. Well, podcasting is the 2026 iteration.
Artificial Intelligence is going to replace all of these ‘voices’ eventually, as government systems learn and adapt to the private sector information space.
Just something to keep in mind.
I have been religiously reading CTH articles. CTH, and Sundance, is by far the most insightful and eye-opening when it comes to politics, at a time when the struggle for our country’s future seems to be fully in the political arena. I’ve also been listening to Ben Shapiro and Victor Davis Hanson. I hope those are good, decent choices (good, decent people); I think they are.
VDH is top drop! BS maybe not so much? (IMO)
I’ve decided that Mr. Shapiro just has a higher risk tolerance than me when it comes to US actions that benefit Israel. I’m okay with that, and I would think it’s weird if he didn’t have that. He seems pretty honest after factoring that in. I appreciate that he is very devout in his religious beliefs and that he educates himself on all the issues; he’s a smart guy. Now, one day he may seriously veer away from the Trump agenda, but at least I can understand why, unlike with people like Tucker. Another question; Is he paid by Israel? I don’t know but honestly, I could understand that too, considering the anti-Jewish climate in America these days. Israel is our ally and has similar cultural and moral values to us and are the only ones who do in that region.
Shapiro and Hansen are 100 percent owned by a foreign country Israel. Hansen is a hypocrite. Third generation California farmer . 150 years of importing illegal migrant Mexicans to destroy California The only people who vote conservative are White native born Americans. But conservatives are as pro anything but White employees as the democrats. Democrats for votes. Republicans for cheap labor. Especially doctors nurses coders accountants book keepers. Anything and everything to do with technology computers engineering cheap imported labor. Or no White Americans need apply. Except for a few radical communist White American women to med school. Medical nursing engineering and all technology school; a few Caucasians lost among Asians. Immigrant Asians
Why I’m not a conservative the obsession with importing not White immigrant cheap labor and Israel. Israel NATO and Africa eternal welfare dependents of the American taxpayers . American tax pays increasingly excluded from every job from doctor to dishwasher, with conservatives applauding in their eternal quest for cheap labor.
Cheap labor equals high welfare costs.
Well paid labor equals low welfare costs. Cheap labor is replacing the White race
Now, a lot more sense is made of podcasters! Thank you Sundance!!!
And yet Trump loves CNN polling when it favors him and then in the same tweet calls it fake news. Then goes on Fox News and then calls it fake news. His own DOJ and FBI which targeted him is now targeting an innocent J6 pipe bomber suspect and lying about evidence in Charlie Kirk trial and lying about Joe Kent when he resigned. Candace Owens’ open letter response was just about perfect and I am not even a fan of hers, but she sounded like the adult in the room. I would know as a simple American who has raised some children and grandchildren and can recognize a bully and BS.
IF CNN is a known biases source and favors him, then that is newworthy of report.
Do you have the link to Candace letter? What date? She puts out stuff daily.
Yes J6 prosecution of pipe bomber looked like FBI coverup. Truth continues to come out.
What was the specific lie about Joe Kent?
Candace Owens “Brigitte Macron is a man” is the adult in the room, and Jeffrey Dahmer was a trail blazing chef.
I am on the floor!!
Brevity is the soul of wit and you have ascended into the sphere of genius. I salute you. I love it when my day starts with hilarity.
Thank you.
When Faux News ditched the Godfather of President Donald J Trump’s MAGA movement, Pat Buchanan, thats when I knew Faux news was a Uniparty Bush republican part of the Mockingbird News disinfo network.
America First all in the 90’s. Every day PDJT & MAGA prove that Pat Buchanan was correct and our enemies, especially in the Council On Foreign Relations managed Mockingbird Fake News wrong. Enjoy listening to his new Trade & Foreign policies from 1995 that sounds like its 2016-2020 and now from PDJT.
Presidential Candidate Patrick Buchanan, December 1995
Faux News? Is better than the left side of the aisle, but often only marginally so.
Both push their agenda of the day, week, month,…..
Pat Buchanan ran for president with an obscure black woman no one had ever heard of as VP. Smart move
That was 2000. It exposed their hypocrisy rather well. She was a Christian patriot from the California Coalition For Immigration reform. I knew of her work fighting the Mexiforinia Aztlaners in the CA School system. So she had the right gender, race, wrong political ideology so she was ignored.
Maybe I am beyond naive but Tucker and Megan both heavily criticize Fox all the time and I think Fox is overly rah rah Israel and Tucker an Megan a little to critical of Israel….I don’t know, except everything is upside down. I don’t disagree with much here but this is a bit too far for me. Something big is going on and this doesn’t explain it or make total sense for me at this point.
The fake news media, Council On Foreign Relations managed and CIA run. They hate patriotism and push Luciferian Babylonian Globalism.
Sundance, inquiring minds wonder what about Candace Owens?
I learned a lot from this. While I find some of the names mentioned to be very entertaining to listen to, I don’t think I’ll be listening the same way again. BTW, I listen to exactly zero podcasts and mainly watch Newsmax for news. But many these people are guests on radio or tv shows or have their own (usually Fox) show. They are hard to not stumble upon. But I will now be less inclined to mindlessly listen. Was I being naive? Yes. Thank you Sundance.
I always remember, regarding Tucker, that in 2020, his friend Hunter Biden was getting “piled on” and so the laptop story was dropped; if he ever explained that, I have not heard what the explanation was.
I wouldn’t know as I never watch TV news Nothing but lies
“most reasonably intelligent people caught on to the manipulative political content pushed by Rupert Murdoch”
You say that as though there’s any mainstream political content that isn’t biased and manipulative. Fox News wouldn’t exist if CNN hadn’t already been so heavily slanted the other direction for so long. Though Michael Crichton’s “Why speculate” essay summed up why ALL 24/7 news networks will always be at least 90% garbage.
What about Bannon Warroom and Carlie Kirk Show podcasts? Only ones I listen to..
SD, thank you for bringing clarity.