I see it all the time now on the conspiracy "podcast circuit". There's a word that has gone out of fashion over time and that's "charlatan". Conspiracy podcasts have been artificially pumped full of them.

They shout all kinds of provocative and enthralling things. You're free to agree or disagree, but there are a couple of things that will never happen. One is that nothing they say reveals any important truth, or will ever lead you to any.

The other, more important, is that nothing they say will frighten you. The truth really is quite frightening, in a certain sense, which is why almost everyone rejects it.

The subconscious recognizes all this material as--regardless of its factuality--no more than entertainment, so the overall effect is to have the audience wandering around in a comic book store, pulling those books off the shelf which have attractive covers. No one is disturbed by what they find in comic books, are they? There are also few important truths in them.

TrineDay seems to be one of the highbrow alternative publisher pumping their authors into podcasts. None of their highbrow authors like Jay Dyer seems to have noticed any of this. He also hosts the Alex Jones show from time to time, which tells us what "highbrow" really means these days.

I mean, "They" paid Rachel Maddow $30M/year for a 1 show/week gig, but it somehow did not occur to "Them" to take over TrineDay and all other such operations? I thought of it but "They" did not? Really?