Posting Through It

On New Year’s Day, Jared took calls from listeners for about an hour and a half live on Twitch. This episode contains audio is from that session, cleaned up and edited for listening in podcast form. Here’s to another year of this god-forsaken podcast!shtpost.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Nick Lutsko is a musician, producer, and songwriter based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the creative voice behind beloved Super Deluxe parody songs like “Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song” and “Donald Trump’s Speeches as an Emo Song.” More recently, you may have seen him sweaty and red, singing about his longing to be adopted by right-wing pundit Dan Bongino or his love of the Spirit Halloween chain store. He joins SH!TPOST this week to talk about his career, share his understanding of how the internet and politics interact, and more.Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/NickLutskoNick’s vinyl campaign to press some of his songs from Twitter onto LPs: nicklutsko.bandcamp.com/campaign/more-songs-on-the-computerNick Lutsko’s Patreon: patreon.com/nicklutskoNick’s favorite things online: HEI Network: heinetwork.tvVic Berger’s latest series for VICE: youtu.be/9E0NcmcGdSIArtist Brielle Garcia: twitter.com/tacolamp This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Claire Atkin is the co-founder of Check My Ads, an organization dedicated to boosting awareness of online advertising’s financing of hate and misinformation and working to drive change against it. She joins SH!TPOST to talk about the work her organization is doing, Dan Bongino’s targeting of her co-founder Nandini Jammi, and what a better future in online advertising looks like.Learn more about Check My Ads: https://checkmyads.org/Read the latest ‘Branded’ newsletter: https://checkmyads.org/branded/dan-bongino-is-begging-to-be-cancelled/Follow Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/catthekin Like what you heard? Consider supporting this project with a subscription! You’ll get access to a newsletter that goes out between episodes! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Amanda Moore spent a year undercover within the grassroots of the post-election Trump movement and its various subcultures, attending events and integrating herself with pockets of true believers. All along the way, she recorded what she witnessed with a hidden microphone. She joins SH!TPOST this week to share her observations and takeaways from a year living and breathing MAGA in its purest forms.Follow Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17Find Amanda on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/franklin17 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Michael Hobbes is a writer and co-host of the podcast “Maintenance Phase.” You may also recognize his voice from the acclaimed podcast “You’re Wrong About.” He joins SH!TPOST to discuss the steady stream of stories and columns from national American media about the supposed rise of an “illiberal left”—something he argues to be a modern moral panic reinforced by thin hype. Jared and Michael talk through the ways this decades-old right-wing talking point has been laundered through respectable press using the moral panic starter kit and why it’s important to push back against it.Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmarkListen to Michael on “Maintenance Phase: http://maintenancephase.com/Read Michael’s writing mentioned during the show: michaelhobbes.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Vic Berger is an acclaimed video editor and satirist. He joins SH!TPOST to talk about his path into making his bizarre edits of American culture, the parody potential of the post-Trump years, and what he’s up to these days. This interview was a long time coming and we hope you enjoy!Vic’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/Vic's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VicBerger/featuredOffice Hours Live with Tim Heidecker: https://officialofficehours.com/Vic's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vicbergerVic's Albums: https://flannelgraphrecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-enough-to-see-the-moon This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Joe Mulhall is Head of Research at HOPE not hate and one of the UK's leading authorities on far-right extremism. He joins SH!TPOST for a chat about his latest book, “Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right.” In it, Joe provides an exhaustively researched accounting of far-right political movements around the world that he tastefully pairs with vivid recounting of his time spent infiltrating and exposing those movements.Follow Joe Mulhall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeMulhall_Read the book: https://bookshop.org/books/drums-in-the-distance-journeys-into-the-global-far-right/9781785787515Joe’s favorite thing on the internet: TikTok train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois! https://www.tiktok.com/@francis.bourgeoisProgramming note: You may notice your host sounds slightly different! Thanks to listener support, SH!TPOST has upgraded our audio recording and processing equipment. We hope that as we learn the new hardware and software that the show’s audio quality will greatly improve.We also welcomed an editor to the SH!TPOST newsletter. Say hello to Sam Thielman when you get a chance! With Sam’s help, the supporters-only newsletter at shtpost.substack.com that goes out between episodes will be even better. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Joseph Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. He joins SH!TPOST this week to discuss the overly simplistic story of online disinformation that many American audiences have been sold. Joe encourages those interested in understanding online disinformation to pause and recognize several fundamental issues with the way some of our current conversations have been framed. These flaws, he argues, are not an end-all to the study of disinformation; rather, he hopes that addressing them will produce better work that contributes to stronger public knowledge.Follow Joe Bernstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BernsteinRead his essay on this topic at Harper’s: Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation (https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Vera Bergengruen is a Washington correspondent for Time Magazine who joins the show to explain why some unvaccinated people are seeking out Ivermectin as a supposed shield against COVID-19. Demand for the drug has overwhelmed many pharmacies, leaving some so desperate in their hunt that they’ve bought and ingested horse paste and other livestock drugs that contain Ivermectin as an active ingredient. At least it’s apple flavored.Follow Vera on Twitter: @VeraMBergenRead Vera’s fantastic reporting: How 'America's Frontline Doctors' Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the LurchIf you like the show and want to help support it, you can sign up for a subscription, right here on Substack. You’ll get access to an accompanying newsletter that publishes on the weeks between episodes.And if you want to read the newsletter but can’t afford a subscription for whatever reason, get in touch. We’ll let you through the gate. No questions asked. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com

Puck News national correspondent Tina Nguyen joins SH!TPOST to talk about her time covering Mike Lindell’s 72-hour “Cyber Symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last week. We’ll talk to her about what she saw, her takeaways, the dang big shrimps on the buffet bar, and more.Learn more about Puck News here: https://puck.news/And sign up for Tina’s newsletter here: https://tina-nguyen.news/Follow Tina on Twitter: @tina_nguyenIf you liked this show, you might like the newsletter, too! Smash the button below to sign up for subscriber-exclusive content, delivered straight to your inbox: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shtpost.substack.comSupport the showSubscribe to the Posting Through It newsletter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit postthroughit.substack.com