Hopepunk Podcast: Ep04
The Voice of Hope
EP01: The Water We Swim In
An operating manual for being human right now. In this first episode, we lay the foundation: what Hopepunk is, the Six Pillars it’s built on, and a first look at The Greater Game — the five systems running in the background of your life.
Watch this week: The Corporation, 13th, and HyperNormalisation — all on our Watchlist.
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Ep04: How Information Actually Flows
Meet the man who invented your breakfast. Edward Bernays — Freud’s nephew, father of public relations — sold America bacon with a doctors’ “survey,” cracked a taboo with staged “torches of freedom,” and ran the press campaign that paved the way for a coup. Then: the forty-year shrinking of media ownership (updated live to the 2026 Paramount–Warner deal), the night 200 local anchors read one script in unison, and the four fast moves that make you nearly impossible to spin.
EP04 — How Information Actually Flows
Bonus — The Bernays Files
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Take one story you believe and trace it back to who first reported it, or told it — and who paid for that reporting or story.