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.
Sundance! BINGO! I have been saying this for months, all these ex-Fox News workers, aka Paul Ryan, Fox News people acting like they are MAGA.
One by one, my bs detector increasingly eliminated these voices.
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Once my trust was tampered with — that was it.
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I am skeptical and suspicious by nature.
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Fool me twice is definitely not an option.
Same. I subscribed to one of them but blocked him before my subscription ran out.
GOP uses power to gain money. DNC uses money to buy power.
The formula remains true in media same as in politics.
GOP media personalities barter their stock of “goodwill” and audience-loyalty to get rich.
Leftist media personalities spend-up billionaire and corporate money to buy airtime.
SD has also pointed out how the house oversight committee works: all for the show and to raise money for issues that are never solved or prosecuted. Sadly, each and every one of their chairmen have lost the ball on the issues they investigated.
Then FOX (now with Paul Ryan on the board) hires the rooster and any other luminaries who can pretend to be credible guardians of the “conservative” pathway. Such a game it is and it’s a wonder that we even follow or pretend to hope for better things from the government.
Thanks Sundance once again taking something dark and bringing light to the topic much appreciate
The best news is right here at CTH. No need to go anywhere else.
Truth ! It has no agenda
Ya might wanna put up that revealing pic of Murdoch, the Iranian asset, and Jeb!…..
Don’t watch or listen to any of them.
I’ll do my own reading and thinking, thank you.
That is all.
Listening to anyone doesn’t mean you don’t read or research on your own.
Let’s put it this way then…
I’ve learned to discern whose voices I want to hear.
Not theirs.
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You have a right to free speech, but not a right to be heard. Choose wisely.
@imdependantformeralien
Agreed
“All the world is a stage. . .”
The reason cnn was on at airports all over was all an asset had to do was find a screen;
at a time designated,
decode the chryon,
and decipher the signal within the “noise” of the story
President Trump is a Billionaire,
But he is only in office due to his network aiding him in getting there
Same with any politician
They are acting out a role
In order to achieve a goal or directive
Each of these “podcasts” either use the noise of an event
To broadcast a signal
Or
They make an event noisy
To send a signal
The power structures in place use media to see what the populace will endure
Then use that data to sway their colleagues or advisaries
And leverage a deal
All the narratives are just used to manipulate an outcome
Then, of course, there are the events that are real
Or
False flags
Real events that are leveraged or exaggerated
Just sayin
I listen to them all to a degree and for a purpose
Then I know how to position my assets and pursue endeavors
Trust few
Love the righteous
Be well
Do good
Live free
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Yeah, I mean someone has to write the thing you’re reading instead of listening to, right?
Sure could use a minute of your time on PrT.
Strength in numbers…
On my way…
Forgive my ignorance but what is PrT?
Prayer Thread
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Same here. And I don’t like to hear their emotional input.
I just read and watch live feeds as events unfold, so I can see for myself what is going on.
The more emotion expended
The less I listen
I only want the data
Exactly. “Just the facts ma’am.”
Being able to read between the lines is useful. Biases in one form or another always show themselves.
Also…
And I think this important…
There is a huge difference between “listening”…
And hearing.
Ditto 👍
Likewise Betsy. Once you see the strings…. I view all media as propaganda of some sort. It does help to know who the sponsors are so one can define the predisposed biases.
I read the WSJ and Bloomberg daily but am completely aware of the angles they are pushing and thus cut that clutter out of relevant news they publish.
Exactly so. Agendas. All media have them.
News is one thing, opinion another.
It helps also to be able to think for oneself critically, something I’ve discovered is a thing many simply cannot do.
So true. I started noticing in the high school where I taught, in the early 2000’s, that there was a lack of writing being done by the students, to the point that they no longer knew what an opinion piece v fact looked like. So much focus on AP coursework completion and not enough time left in the curriculum to assign actual research papers, thus a loss in the ability to discern between fact and opinion. A dangerous road our youth have been on for over two decades. We pulled our daughter out of public and put her in private for that very reason. Cost us a lot, but her skillset is the payoff. She can read through the lines, think critically, AND more importantly, she can write, which is a skill lost to so many now.
We have on opportunity, and the years go by too quickly.
Cost vs Reward, Unicorn. I know she recognizes what you both gave her, for which, in the end, there is no price too high for such skill. None.
She does, Betsy, she does. Her abilities are so far beyond many her age, and she has the wisdom of an old soul to boot. I am so excited to see where she chooses to use her many talents.
Makes my heart happy to imagine your joy which no doubt is very great. I must add, home life and support are as important. No wonder evil (yes, evil) forces have done their best/worst to destroy the nuclear family and replace it with malignant government. And in great part have succeeded. Now that’s a tragedy, the results of which we can see every single day.
Bless your daughter, my friend, and you both for propelling her into unlimitless opportunities.
Jolly good!
The smile you have put on my face is huge.
Thank you in return. Warmest wishes to you, Betsy.
You’ve made my day brighter, Unicorn…as with your daughter’s education, there is also no price too high to put on that 💕
I watch it only to understand the spin. I have multiple friends who are lukewarm patriots that only watch Faux News. It’s nice to know what they are spinning so I can counter with actual truth and maybe open some eyes. But alas most are too damn oblivious to understand and I get the tinfoil hat looks instead.
Brave to try to explain, Brokenhearted. But one has to be prepared to listen. Unfortunately as you have discovered……
Igualamente. 21 years for me!! Don’t let anyone tell us how to think!!!
Many have tried and failed, Bobo.
Don’t know of a time when you weren’t in the X-Ring or very close, Betsy Jones. Enjoy seeing your comments. 👍
Yes.
I sincerely thank you for that, Geo. Very kind…
Very true … you earned it, Betsy Jones !
Humbling… very much so 💕
Depressing in a way
I did find some humor in Sundance stating a wrestling match is the correct filter. Levin vs Tucker in a smackdown!
Hence the long ago coined,
CONservative Inc.
The noticing will continue.
I am laughing so hard, I spit out my coffee!! All ‘main-stream journalism’ is institutional incest. You can add such wonderful ‘independent’ thinkers such as Mike Adams and his broadcast empire.
The critical formula includes advertising dollars and access to legislative political power. Most every component of modern news is a liberal con job for money and power to persuade people who won’t or can’t think critically for themselves.
Sundance never ceases to provide a lighted pathway through the dim shadows.
Happy 250 Birthday!!
“akin to watching WWE wrestling”😂😂😂
That is funny Sundance and true 💥
BTW Julie Kelly is Jesse Kelly’s sister.
Graham Allen is buddies with Dan Bongino.
It’s all so obvious.
There will be other unknown names or known names that we will realize that are connected to the swamp.
It goes on and on.
No, Julie Kelly is not the sister of Jesse Kelly.
The great thing about Sundance is that he tells us where the rabbit holes are and to not to go down them! Saving time and avoiding believing falsehoods! Godspeed Sundance!
Color me lucky…..Don’t watch anyone on Red Seat, Red Apple, or Westwood One. Once you see the strings on the Puppets you cannot unsee them.. Thank you Conservative Treehouse.
Much more independence compared to their time at Fox News (where producers, executives, and standards departments shaped segments in real time), these figures now have significantly more control.
I don’t know about that. They all probably get their talking points every morning. The overhead is much less.
The clinical term used to be circle jerks.
Does that make Candace Owens independant?
Makes her crazy as a loon. No corporate would hire her. She is nuts enough on her own.
I would consider the term ‘useful tool.’ All of this has a psychological undercurrent: Using the unstable but attractive to create social chaos among the psychologically fragile.
You are correct Denise.
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Candace’s hero is Oprah……are we clear enough on what that means?
Say anything to increase her popularity.
In essence Candace Owen’s is a rhetorical whore pretending secret knowledge and titillating the listener …(stolen description but an apt one).
Candace is the best at taking a myriad of threads and weaving them into an innuendo filled narrative. When you shake your head you have been down a rabbit hole like the one Sundance shows and there is nothing there. The Sunlight burns off the morning fog.
Separate out those who were in 1) some other business or occupation (learning a needed, marketable or in-demand skill set) FROM 2) those who spent their entire lives in ‘media’ (pandering for a job) … NOW where do those names line up.
that’s a fine litmus test right there, sir.
Fox is guarding the hen-house.
Tucker, Megyn, and Piers – cluck, cluck, cluck…
Some people have an addiction to political “talk”.
They want to be told which issues ought to be on their minds…..which issues they should be discussing with their friends.
It’s just another idiot box.
The fact that Sundance keeps his identity a secret and chooses to write and publish his own independent website, rather than speak and joke around, and try to brand himself, is why I come here daily.
The fact that this site is routinely attacked by viruses is another reason!
Yep, I know many like that. Consumers of spoon-fed “news”, rather than active seekers, and researchers, of real news.
I have several “conservative” friends and <<shudder>> family members who get their “news” from Apple, cuz it’s so convenient to have it aggregated for them.
A wide audience of passive sheep out there, soothed by the familiar bleating of these podcasters….
I am gobsmacked! Literally had no idea.
All of these podcasters should be made to pronounce their relationship with the motherships that control them.
Assume it. : )
Ephesians 4:14
AMP
So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit
Any talking head on any kind of screen, take what they say with a grain of salt.
Great explanation.
I read.
I rarely watch.
Too much baloney,
too much emotion… too much sparkle and glitter, and too much showboating.
That’s also true of most radio talk-show hosts as well.
Rush Limbaugh understood that – and coming from a DJ background, knew that SOME entertainment and razzle-dazzle was necessary to keep listeners engaged… but he usually knew how to blend it… or turn it off when needed.
These current ‘influencers’ have no common-sense filter.
They NEED to be extreme – to keep or increase the number of clicks or eyeballs.
The comparison with professional wrestling is illuminating:
Bombast, bombast, and more bombast.
Thank you so much, Sundance. Not a big fan of Fox anyway but this adds back room detail. Thank you.
New dining area. Same slop.
Same chef and wait staff.
Thank you. I knew something was rotten in Denmark, and naturally turned away from all of them. You can smell a rat if you merely sniff. None of them passed the sniff test in my book. It’s good to see you connect the dots. I had no idea how it was all connected. I just knew I wasn’t going to “tune in”.
I would also like to understand the Prometheian Action podcasters. They are a PAC. Who are their sponsors?
Head’s up that it’s a similar story with non-political content. All of those popular Youtubers and video game streamers, for example, belong to a handful of corporations. I wager it’s a similar situation sports and business content. The bottom line is that if they have a significant audience on a major platform, then they’re probably owned, under the control of somebody, and artificially boosted by Big Tech algorithms.
I quit watching FNC some 10+ years ago and do not watch or listen to or pay attention to current or former agents of FNC.
Not one single FNC agent current or former should be in our government or sitting on a bench either.
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Excepting Pete Hegseth and Judge Jeanine Piro….
CUT THE CORD!
CUT THE CORD
21 years since I’ve watched a news program….Is Walter still alive?
Same here maybe more . . .
I finally stopped watching ABC’s Peter Jennings World News Tonight once the internet was activated in the mid to late 90s. Drudge was my first aggregated news site to check, until he sold out against Trump in 2015? Long before then I had many sites to view for receiving great conservative news.
This is the first time I have seen a good explanation about Fox and all their current and especially former employees. I have always been skeptical of old man Murdoch, his people, all their various outlets, and their motives, and this just helps prove to me that I was right to be skeptical. Much thanks to Sundance.
All Major media conglomerates need to be broken up into very little pieces.
For whatever it’s worth, the only podcasters I bother with are Steven Crowder and Brandon Tatum . . . when I have time to listen at all.
These two? Controlled opposition.
Crowder has his own company.
Brandon Tatum loves the FBI as is. I can’t remember precisely, but I believe he demanded maximum penalties for all people swept up in the January 6th Capitol protest dragnet, despite the thinly disguised Antifa and undercover FBI/agents precipitating it, firing percussion grenades at them before any violence, etc. I couldn’t take that level of willful ignorance.
Tatum is also heavily involved with candace. His company prints her vile t shirts.
That’s why I enjoy a variety of smaller voices:
– @Shipwreckedcrew (legal)
– @HansMahncke
– @amuse
– @LordBebo (Eastern EU)
– @ElectionWizard
– @VigilantFox
Like ….
Decision Desk made the decision.
I’m just an old woman and I supported him three times. He insulted me by his comments on his truth social, and his support of the sand people. Children are dying. No more.
You must be old,as you are not making any sense.
sand people = mid east muslims
I’m not sure that’s what she meant. I think she meant Israel.
“Sandman” by America was a cool song back in 1972.
Thanks. Definitely. Lots of cool songs about the war, soldiers and veterans. Out of extreme adversity comes some strong positives…bill
“Enter Sandman” by Metallica in 1991 is quite different than 1972 Sandman…
Even more of a contrast with “Mr. Sandman” by the Chordettes in 1954.
My Bonny lies
over the ocean.That is easily mis interpreted as an insult rather than a light jest….try again
I think he was right on!
I happen to understand Hebrew and I know what he said. He said that Israel fought Iran first and the US joined because Israel started and that was a win for Israel. All the rest is BS Propaganda my friend.
May I remind you that, under feckless and incompetent President Carter and Morning Joe’s father-in-law Zbigniew Brzezinski, Iran invaded our country(US Embassy in Tehran) and held American citizens hostage for 14 months until President Reagan was inaugurated. Other than meaningless sanctions, Iran never paid a price for what they did to us in past 47 years until President Trump’s second term when Iran was much more dangerous to us and the rest of the free world. When a country yells “Death to America”, “Death to Israel” as their enriching uranium, you better take them seriously!
I had no idea of this…I cancelled my subscription to TCN today.
I feel betrayed.
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I still watch a few of them, although none regularly. Everyone should be skeptical of ALL sources all the time and do your own research. The nice thing about podcasts is you can see beforehand if it is something you want to watch. Even some of the crazies can stumble onto a nugget of truth occasionally. I like to check out all viewpoints myself. I think even Nancy Pelosi made a good point once, but that may be a false memory.
Getting paid is job one. How it comes to be is secondary. Narcissists love being seen and heard and take to podcasts like a duck to water. I don’t watch any of them… if they seem to enjoy seeing their own faces I instantly tune them out. Blech.
I had no idea that this circle of influence was a never ending circle that included everyone!!
I don’t listen to any of them, but now I know why they all sound absolutely crazy. They are all bought and paid for.
Some would say SD forgot an important aspect in this article:
A number of podcasters and other media figures are controlled, a la Mockingbird.
The Controllers can use blackmail, bribery, or plausible threats to individual or their family. Or combinations thereof.
No one is immune to this control.
Not even a President. (The last one who refused “an offer he couldn’t refuse” was assassinated in 1963.)
Once you see this, you start to view things differently.
I found this place after reading the Benghazi Brief and have been here since. There is an amazing amount of knowledge both from the site, and the posters, and it is the TRUTH. Thank you all again.
“AI” as the paradigm exists today (LLM and similar autocomplete models) isn’t going replace anyone or anything long term, and there’s no new super model in the can either. I have never seen a new “technology” hyped with so many lies before. It’s nuts. At least two of the “AI” companies are run by psychotic, pathological liars that have cult leader characteristics.
You’re being sold a bill of garbage. Many people are starting to figure this out, and everyone, except the true “believers” will see it soon.
And which companies and psychopaths would they be?
Thanks for the links to the corporate groups behind these podcasters, other websites post them as being independent conservative voices and need to be called out when they do.
With that backdrop what to make of PDJT tapping so many former Fox personalities to key positions in his administration? And other “red” diaper babies? Most all being my least favorite. Including Hegseth. It is still not Trump’s flag officer military. The latest resignation a few weeks ago of Army Chief of Staff evidence of such malign brass that should’ve been clean sweeped out 15 months ago. Fox. Hegseth. Many more lurkers. Who are enculturated with CRT, DEI, Tranny, Green, mask and jab mandators. Not impartial loyal to the Constitution types of top brass. Fox Hegseth.
All the Fox big talkers, smooth talkers, Trump infatuated by. Smh
Just one example: This is why Fox continually tries to “rehabilitate” 2nd Amendment Hater and Covid Control Despot Piers Morgan by having him on TV shows & roundtables. It’s really because he never left. Literally one example; multiply times whatever.
When you’re not ignoring them, mock them. They choose to surrender their lives to demonic influences. May God have mercy on them.
Here, I wrote Tucker Carlson off as IC owned.
But all along he was just working for Rupert Murdoch as a BS dispenser,
and cheap entertainer.
Makes total sense. Tucker ‘s clown mask has been penetrated.
Why wasn’t Hannity on Dan Scavino’s list of untrustworthy supposed MAGA supporters?
I detest and distrust Hannity and his bosom buddy Lindsey Graham.
PDJT seems to embrace them both. What’s up with that?
Please clarify Sundance if you have insight that we aren’t privy to.
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Tucker Carlson 2020:
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. . . I hate him passionately. I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”
Alex Jones 2019:
“It’s the truth and I’m just going to say it. That I wish I never would have ****** met Trump. I wish it never would have happened. And it’s not the attacks I’ve been through. I’m so sick of ****** Donald Trump, man.”
Megan Kelly 2016:
“What people don’t realize about Donald Trump — and I don’t even know if Donald Trump realizes it — is that every tweet he unleashes against you creates such a crescendo of anger… I think it’s dangerous… We’re in a dangerous phase right now, where too many millions of Americans aren’t listening at all to what the press tells them.”
Candace Owens 2015:
“The good news is, they [tea party Trump followers] will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY.”
They don’t like Trump because they can’t control him. They aren’t the center of attention, Trump is. They feel safe and happy when they have a Romney who is not liked by those who voted for him and only tolerated because at least he’s not a Democrat. With Trump, even when he’s doing something questionable, his voters like him. That takes their power over us away.
So. Everyone is lying?
That’s a good place to start.
Except me and you Michele but we are starting to be suspicious of your motives!!!!!
Alex Jones was told by the Sandy Hook Legal Team, Maifa, to get on board.
Bacon to go with these pod bean hoe’s….foxes will eat beans …… didn’t know that foxes grew pod beans.
All bean pods from the same vine…..