BBC Journalist and author Mike Wendling joins the podcast to talk about the rise and fall of the "Alt-Right", Art Bell, and how not to amplify bad information.
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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
Alt-Right From 4chan to the White House by Mike Wendling
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786802378/alt-right/
Day of Reckoning - How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy by Mike Wendling
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349718/day-of-reckoning/
BBC Trending
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cme72mv58q4t
Protester Punches White Nationalist Richard Spencer During Interview
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/protester-punches-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-during-interview-859651651503
Art Bell, Radio Host Who Tuned In to the Dark Side, Dies at 72
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/obituaries/art-bell-radio-host-who-tuned-in-to-the-dark-side-dies-at-72.html
"43*" by Jeff Greenfield.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16034689
(An alternate history where Al Gore wins the 2000 presidential election and actually becomes president.)
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Episode 19 - The Mad King gets Mad Online (please don't put it in the papers that he got mad)
Episode 18 - Elon's new "Big Bad", Tim Pool talks out of both sides of his mouth, again, and the substation attacks.
Episode 17 - Person of the Year, MAGA's Old Time Religion, and a bad week for gangsters
Episode 16 - Stenography for a billionaire, SBF the Republican donor, and Can't Tell Him Nothing.
Episode 15 - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Elon declares Amnesty, and The Other Beautiful Game.
Episode 14 - Don't call it a comeback, a Special Counsel is appointed, and the MAGA FTX narrative gets even less coherent
Episode 13 -The Return of Trump, The Fall of the House of Kirk, And A Conspiracy Theory No One Understands
Episode 12 - MAGA opportunism and the FTX collapse
Episode 11 - Elon Musk and Twitter 2.0, midterm election antics and the budding GOP civil war
Episode 10 - "When violence is downstream from culture"
Episode 9 - "Kevin McCarthy is The Hollowest Man"
Episode 8 - Did Xi Jinping just purge his predecessor?
Episode 7 - On Kanye West and "Breaking Kayfabe"
Episode 6 - The Iran Protests
Episode 5 - "What Really Happened To The Nord Stream Pipelines?"
Episode 4 - Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong (Again)
Episode 3 - "How and Why Hunter Biden's Laptop Got Weaponized"
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