Podcast appearances and mentions of jen senko

In the '70s, a charismatic minister named Jim Jones convinced thousands of followers of his Peoples Temple that he was for them, moving them from the U.S. where he was being investigated for running a cult (lol, nothing to see here) to an agricultural commune in Guyana under the auspice that he was "creating a paradise free from the oppression of the U.S. government." Oh, and also, they had to call him dad, maybe sleep with him and never, ever leave unless they wanted to be shot.  But that's neither here nor there. He was FOR them, you guys. Of course, if you know anything about Jonestown, you know this didn't end well for 909 of them.  You'll never believe this, but the markers of Jim Jones—a guy who loved Hitler, schmoozing with politicians and exerting power over others—have a lot of overlap with our current RPOTUS (that would be rapist president of the United States).  In this episode, we welcome back—Dr. Janja Lalich, CEO of the Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion and foremost international expert on cults to answer our is-half-the-country-in-a-cult? questions.  She also recommended a book that we're going to recommend to you: The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation—And How We Can Fight Back, by Jen Senko. We want to hear from you. Do you have a story we need to discuss or a guest we should feature? Visit us at ToxicThePodcast.com and share your story. If you're experiencing abuse or domestic violence, please reach out to someone you trust. You can also connect with a trained advocate near you through DomesticShelters.org. Finally, help us keep this conversation going. Share an episode of Toxic with a friend, your gyno, or even the person next to you in line voting for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford. Follow us on your favorite podcast platform or social media, and if you're willing, leave us a review. Your support helps us amplify these critical stories. Together, we can create change.

"The Brainwashing of My Dad" is both a 2016 documentary and a subsequent book, both the inspiration of the real-life experience of author and documentarian Jen Senko, who joined me today to share her experience and insights into that very-real "vast right wing conspiracy" mechanism Hillary Clinton spoke of so many years ago. It's real; it preys on many of our nation's worth societal shortcomings, and - as I've discussed in recent weeks - is metastasizing and repopulating a new wave of misguided voters.

This week on CounterSpin: Springfield, Ohio schools are facing bomb threats because some people believe that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating dogs and cats. According to candidates for the country's highest offices, and the KKK flyers showing up around town, this means that these legal immigrants should be pushed out of the country — or, in the minds of inspired vigilantes, much worse. We spoke with filmmaker, activist and author Jen Senko in April 2023. The Brainwashing of My Dad — Jen Senko's film and the book based on it — are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media. We hear that conversation with her this week.   The post Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad appeared first on KPFA.

Jen Senko's film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.

About This Episode In this insightful episode, Jen and I trace her father's complex journey through the rabbit hole pf conservative mass media and his eventual return. Guided by the profound insight that “we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are”, we utilize theories as lenses to interpret and understand new phenomena. We also discuss approaches proposed by Steve Hassan and Jim Stewartson, and how the complexities of radicalization and deradicalization might necessitate a broader spectrum of perspectives.  Instagram Twitter Watch Jen's Documentary! Website: https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/ About The Glitterpill Community Prevent burnout and stay inspired in trust and safety, cve, infosec, and tech without feeling guilty or glorifying overwork. It's ok to seek support and prioritize your well-being. Discover the joy in transformative work. Sign up for our newsletter here.  Support The Glitterpill Podcast  Join us here! Grab Your Last Office Hours Session For April! Send me a private message on Instagram sqkutner to schedule your last office hours for April! All proceeds go back to support podcast production and monthly community programming. All Sam's Links https://linktr.ee/samanthaqkutner Pay What You Can Office Hours Schedule Your Last Office Hours Sessions For April!  • Wed, Apr 24: 9am - 12pm EST • Thu, Apr 25: 9am - 12pm EST Booking Link

This past year we saw Fox NOT News hit with $787 Million in damages after losing a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox admitted they lied and had to pay the largest fine ever levied on a media entity in history, yet their behavior hasn't changed, and its dangerous.Jen Senko is author of the book, The Brainwashing of My Dad.

There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Jen Senko is the director of the 2015 documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad. She shares her thoughts on the new CBS News/YouGov poll that shows how Donald Trump's followers trust him more than their friends, family members, and religious leaders. In essence, and once again, Donald Trump is the leader of a fascist political cult. Jen Senko also reflects on the impact of her very prescient documentary given Trump's criminal trials and the plot against democracy, the escalating danger(s) of Trump's movement, and why so many in the American mainstream news media continue to be in willful denial about the reality of the crisis. Rich Logis is a former high ranking Trump MAGA World operative and propagandist. He reflects on how he was radicalized by the Trump MAGA fascist movement, how it functions as an alternate reality that provides emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, familial, and other types of meaning and belonging for its members, and how he escaped it. In this wide-ranging conversation, Rich Logis also shares how being a member of the MAGA movement and worshipping the Great Leader Donald Trump made him feel like he was a soldier in a revolutionary struggle to defeat the Democrats, “the liberals” and other enemies of “the movement”. Chauncey DeVega honors the lives, legacy, and impact of two great professional wrestlers who passed away last week. Terry Funk, who was 79 years old, left this realm of existence on Wednesday. Windham Lawrence Rotunda (“Bray Wyatt”) transitioned on Thursday. He was only 36 years old. This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is dedicated to them. Chauncey DeVega also shares his thoughts about the Republican Party's first 2024 presidential primary debate, Trump's fake interview with Tucker Carlson, and the ex-president and traitor's surrender and arrest in Georgia. And Chauncey reacts to the white supremacist terrorist attack in Florida in real time as he is recording the introduction to this episode of the podcast. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow

Jen Senko talks about her fascinating documentary and the book of the same title which gives even more detail of the information war waging in the US. Jen's dad Frank was a thoughtful, considerate man who became a raging fanatic when his information sources were restricted to right-wing media - especially Fox "News" and Rush Limbaugh. Jen found that this plague has touched many families in the US. It seems astonishing that a literate, intelligent man who spoke seven languages could have been pulled into this hateful echo chamber. Jen gives us a remarkable perspective on the machinations of the right and the need for us to check our information. Links: Jen's site watch TBoMD on YouTube (trailer) Facebook page The YouTube Channel ------ Madison Square Garden rally 1939 Velasquez men of pleasure paintings more on Intelligent Disobedience

With Trump's Indictment, the GOP is being described as the Cult of Trump, and the other GOP candidates are scrambling to figure out how to position themselves. Come listen to a fascinating talk with the award-winning documentarian Jen Senko on her film, The Brainwashing of My Dad, and the book based on it. Jen Senko's experience with her father, Frank, hits close to home for many Americans today. Frank was a happy-go-lucky progressive Democrat when he came across a talk radio show hosted by Bob Grant. He started being more critical of Democrats and was somewhat combative about it. When he fully retired, he discovered Rush Limbaugh and listened to him for three hours daily. Then he started watching Fox News. At that point, his personality changed. He was always angry and couldn't have discussions with his family anymore without them turning to politics. She delves into the experts who use social psychology to recruit and indoctrinate people. The good news is her father comes back to himself—a fascinating interview. Of course, as the author of the Cult of Trump, I weigh in. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Jen Senko, Director, Author (The Brainwashing of My Dad) to the Show!    (Click to go there) ● WEB: www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com ● FB: @thebrainwashingofmydadmovie ● TW: @BrainwashingDad ● IG: @the_brainwashing_of_my_dad ● TB: thebrainwashingofmydad.tumblr.com ● YT: @jensenko6987 As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon for a media takeover by the GOP, The Powell Memo urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion -especially the universities, the media and the courts, and under Reagan, the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine, and The Telecommunications 'Reform' Act signed by Bill Clinton. As her journey continues, we discover that her father is part of a much broader demographic, and that the story is one that affects us all. ● Media Inquiries: www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com

[Explicit Language] The great Jen Senko returns to the show. Jen is the director of the groundbreaking documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad about the terrible influence of right wing media. And now she's authored a book of the same name – an updated, must-read volume detailing the back story of how the conservative entertainment complex got started and how it's managed to radicalize so many Americans. You can follow Jen on Twitter @BrainwashingDad. Meantime, think about supporting this fully independent podcast by subscribing to our Patreon page – bobcescashow.com. Music by The Metal Byrds.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the breaking news that former Vice President Mike Pence testified on Thursday before the D.C. grand jury investigating Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Also in this episode, we bring you the chilling words of E. Jean Carroll, who was back on the witness stand facing cross-examination in Donald Trump's civil rape trial. A reporter who was in the room has more. Then, documentary filmmaker Jen Senko joins us on how right-wing media radicalizes Americans for ratings, including her own father. Finally, we examine the Proud Boys with our expert guest. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

Hate-fueled and hate-fueling media have political and historical impacts—and interpersonal, familial ones as well. The post Jen Senko on the Cost of Hate Talk appeared first on FAIR.

In this follow-up episode from last season, we catch up with writer, producer, and director Jen Senko (“The Brainwashing of My Dad” Documentary and Book).Jen takes a deep dive into the history of right-wing media from its very roots and ties to the same kind of “propaganda” effort by the Nazis and their sympathizers in our government in the 1920s through 1940s.In her book addition (taken from the critically acclaimed documentary), Jen explains just how dangerous right-wing media has been and continues to be a MAJOR threat to our democracy. Her “LEGENDARY” work will be remembered for waking up America to the dangers of falsehoods and lies that have NEARLY brought our democracy to its knees… https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

This week's guest is documentary filmmaker and author, Jen Senko, whose brilliant work The Brainwashing of My Dad tells the story of not just how her father Frank literally became a different person due to the effects of far-right media, it also tells the story of how conservative media became such a powerhouse. More than likely, you have friends, family, friends or other acquaintances who have been sucked into the cult-like vortex of far-right conservative media, imbibing from a constant drip-tap of propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, outrage politics, and conspiracy theories. If you despair that they will ever return to their pre-cult like state of normalcy ever again, Jen's  work offers up hope that a person who falls down that rabbit hole can actually regain their authentic self once again. Join the MindShift Podcast Patreon Community! Contact Information Follow Jen on Twitter @Jen_Senko Follow me on Twitter @MindShift2018

This week's guest is documentary filmmaker and author, Jen Senko, whose brilliant work The Brainwashing of My Dad tells the story of not just how her father Frank literally became a different person due to the effects of far-right media, ... Read More »

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It's well-known by now that disinformation media played a significant role in enabling the political rise of Donald Trump. But the truth is that far-right media has been misinforming Americans for many decades. Fake news was a thing before Facebook in other words. A lot of times, it's hard for people who aren't familiar with the topic to understand it in the broad sense, in terms of facts and figures and statistics. That's why it can be useful often to look at an individual's story and how disinformation has impacted individuals. And that's why in this episode, we were happy to be joined by Jen Senko. She is the director producer and writer of "The Brainwashing of My Dad," which started off as a documentary and is now a book. And it chronicles how far right radio and television hosts manipulated her father into believing all sorts of false and hateful ideas. And how he was able to escape from it. GUEST INFO Jen Senko on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jen_Senko Film and book website: https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/ ABOUT THE SHOW Theory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield and is part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet. Theory of Change website: https://theoryofchange.show Theory of Change on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoryChange Matthew Sheffield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattsheffield SUPPORT THE SHOW PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theorychange Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discoverflux If you're not able to support financially, please help us by subscribing and/or leaving a nice review on your favorite podcast app. Doing this helps other people find Theory of Change and our great guests. Thanks for your help!

Right wing media has had a stranglehold on terrestrial radio and cable news for decades. What led the right to dominate the airwaves and brainwash a generation? About Jen Senko Jen Senko, a documentary filmmaker, author, and media-activist based in New York City, is known for her award-winning documentaries; Road Map Warrior Women (2000), The Vanishing City (2010), and The Brainwashing of My Dad (2016) narrated by Matthew Modine. In 2021, The Brainwashing of My Dad received the prestigious People's Voice Award in Public Service & Activism from The Webby Awards. Senko's adaptation of her film into a book of the same name (published on October 5, 2021) tracks the pernicious and addictive rise of right-wing media and how this media served as a tool for libertarian billionaires to get people to vote against their own interests and gain one-party rule. Jen's work focuses on socio political themes with the intent of inspiring activism and fomenting change.   You can find her movie here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thebrainwashingofmydad...   About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube!   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Pascal Robert in Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving...   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music featured on the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/   Follow Djene Bajalan @djenebajalan Follow Kuba Wrzesniewski @DrKuba2

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT) “Once upon a time, there was an average American family living in an average American town. After the family moved to a new state, the father left his carpool and began a long solo commute to work. And gradually, he began to change. He looked the same. He dressed the same. But something was very different. But this isn't a story about just one man. It's the story of a media phenomenon that changed a father … and divided the nation.” - Jen Senko Join KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 10 at 5:00pm (PT) to hear the award-winning documentary filmmaker and author, Jen Senko, discuss her book: The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation … And How We Can Fight Back. Jen Senko, in her new book, uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy. Ms. Senko's story shows us how Fox News and other ultraconservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world and encourages us to fight back. Jen pulls back the curtain on how this media served as the most powerful tool for Libertarian billionaires to get ordinary Americans to vote against their own interests and to gain one-party rule. Interview Guest: Jen Senko: is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in New York City. Her documentaries focus on socio-political themes with the intent of inspiring discussion and fomenting change. Senko's 2016 documentary, narrated by Matthew Modine, The Brainwashing of My Dad, tracks the pernicious, addictive and disturbing rise of right-wing media. This widely acclaimed project has most recently won the prestigious “2021 Webby People's Voice Award: Public Service & Activism” award. Jen's work focuses on socio-political themes with the intent of inspiring activism and fomenting change.

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In our first post-season 5 special edition, our guest is the writer, director, and producer of the film "The Brainwashing of My Dad" Jen Senko.Jen is an award winning documentary film-maker whose main focus is on social-political themes with the intent of inspiring conversation and fomenting change. Her "ground-breaking" work in the aforementioned title, tracks the disturbing rise of right-wing media.The storyline of the film is told through the lens of her father, whose politics and personality were radically changed after he discovered talk radio back in the early 90s.In this interview, Jen discusses the primary "mechanism" behind the right-wing media machine (further expanded and detailed in her film and book) that not only influenced her father, but how it has slowly radicalized a generation.

Miggs and Trace Burroughs interview Jen Senko, director of "The Brainwashing of My Dad - How the right-wing media changed a father and divided our nation - and how we can fight back". Jen is also the author of the book of the same name. A very lively and provocative conversation!

Plus: Why threats to American democracy should be front-page news; Pelosi and Sanders blame press for budget confusion; Brian Stelter shares a personal story about threats against journalists.  Marc Elias, Robert Costa, Bari Weiss, Jen Senko, Oliver Darcy, and Matt Belloni join Brian.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

How did listening to the radio change Jen Senko's dad and divide America? Author Jen Senko reveals how Fox News brainwashed her beloved father in Thom Hartmann's Conversations with Great Minds. Also, the little known beginnings of Kyrsten Sinema, Indigenous People's Day, and insights into the ultimate identity theft of your home.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

That's not hyperbole, it's a fact and something must be done about it. Our guest today is Jen Senko, writer/director of the film, "The Brainwashing of My Dad" that was released in 2016. Yesterday, the book, "The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation-- And How We Can Fight Back" was officially released, and the timing is perfect because things are getting worse. I hope you'll listen to this interview, read the book, watch the film, and then take action. We'll try to figure out what we can do. Knowing we have a problem is the easy part; fixing the problem is the challenge we must address... before it's too late!

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Learn how Jen raised funds, found her audience, book publisher, and won the Webbie Award. To learn more about Carole Dean and From the Heart Productions please visit www.FromtheHeartProductions.com. 

Documentary filmmaker & now author, Jen Senko chats with me about RW media, her new book “Brainwashing of My Dad” & more!

Fox News and other right wing media have been brainwashing people around the world. Jen Senko talks about her experience with her dad becoming part of the far right cult and how she brought him back. Why has America given up on vaccine passports and given in to the right-wing death cult?

We discuss a wide variety of things in this episode. We go into how Jen Senko got her start in filmmaking. How she made her documentary "The Brain Washing of my Dad (2015)'.  Senko even gives lots of helpful tips to early filmmakers on how to get your film out to the world. We learn tons about being an Indie Media artist and how art always imitates life. https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

Documentary filmmaker, Jen Senko, talks about "conservative" media, the attack on the US Capitol by domestic terrorists on January 6, 2021, and what lies ahead, in a country divided thanks to the brainwashing of tabloid media. Film website: www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-jackson2/support

This is a very exciting moment, the release of my 100th episode! We'll have releases for you every day this week to celebrate this momentous occasion – I have officially spent over 100 hour talking rubbish on podcasts with a vast range of incredible guests and I'd like to say thank you for anyone who listened over the past 3 years, I hope it wasn't too painful and that my podcasting has improved since episode one with Jen Senko. My guests today are Colin St. John and Milan Kordestani from The Doe. The Doe is a fantastic website dedicated to allowing people to tell anonymous stories without fear of repercussion and is something that I believe is incredibly important in today's society where whistleblowers are demonised, doxxed, or harassed. If you haven't already check out their website and give them a follow on Instagram, their graphics are as stunning as the stories! If you haven't already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don't forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. You'll find the links in the description below. [**PRE ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE**](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1789044901/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1789044901&linkCode=as2&tag=thejist00-21&linkId=713eb889ae4131bec19abcebdee517f6) [***Get 25% off podcast hosting with Podiant***](https://pcast.link/chatter/) ***RESOURCES*** https://www.thedoe.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thedoe/?hl=en https://twitter.com/wearethedoe?lang=en https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/16/2109982/0/en/How-The-Doe-is-Making-Media-Trustworthy-Again.html Follow us on [Facebook]( https://www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/) or [Twitter]( https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist) or [sign up for our mailing list here]( http://eepurl.com/cSmT7v) to get information on my upcoming book, [Brexit: The Establishment Civil War](http://www.establishmentcivilwar.co.uk/). Music from Just Jim - [https://soundcloud.com/justjim](https://soundcloud.com/justjim)

This is a very exciting moment, the release of my 100th episode! We’ll have releases for you every day this week to celebrate this momentous occasion – I have officially spent over 100 hour talking rubbish on podcasts with a vast range of incredible guests and I’d like to say thank you for anyone who listened over the past 3 years, I hope it wasn’t too painful and that my podcasting has improved since episode one with Jen Senko. My guests today are Colin St. John and Milan Kordestani from The Doe. The Doe is a fantastic website dedicated to allowing people to tell anonymous stories without fear of repercussion and is something that I believe is incredibly important in today’s society where whistleblowers are demonised, doxxed, or harassed. If you haven’t already check out their website and give them a follow on Instagram, their graphics are as stunning as the stories! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. You’ll find the links in the description below. PRE ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE Get 25% off podcast hosting with Podiant RESOURCES https://www.thedoe.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thedoe/?hl=en https://twitter.com/wearethedoe?lang=en https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/16/2109982/0/en/How-The-Doe-is-Making-Media-Trustworthy-Again.html Follow us on Facebook or Twitter or sign up for our mailing list here to get information on my upcoming book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War. Music from Just Jim - https://soundcloud.com/justjim

Jen Senko's father got hooked on radical, right-wing radio, and his transformation nearly tore his family apart. Jen joins Seth Andrews to talk about her dad...and the documentary about his brainwashing.Find out more: http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.comVIDEO of this conversation: https://youtu.be/MW7Go6_sShI

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Susan Bordo, cultural historian, professor emeritus, feminist, and author of the books, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton and Imagine Bernie Sanders as a Woman.  We speak with Susan today about her work to deconstruct woman as a cultural category, its role in the 2016 election, and what it means to be a woman today in public life.  Our conversation explores the ways in which the same behaviors exhibited or embodied by men are treated differently by the media when we observe them in women, how society is complicit in reinforcing these cultural norms, double-binds,  double-standards, and what it communicates to the girls (and boys) we raise. During our conversation, Susan and I referenced the following resources and topics: The documentary--The Brainwashing of My Dad and our interview with film maker, Jen Senko about it The "cookies and tea" controversy that the media created about Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan of 1993 How sexism and misogyny is the gateway to white supremacy How feminists differ in whether they want to prevent harm or reduce harm, as exemplified in the debate about prostitution How "purity politics" is harming progressivism --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!  

The Unbowed crew welcomes Special Correspondent Bobcat, who talks with Jen Senko creator and director of film The Brainwashing of My Dad. Plus, the group look at the past week's winners and losers, and share resources/actions that listeners might be interested in.

The Nonsense Password Lounge is thrilled to have its first guest, documentary filmmaker, author, voice actor Jen Senko.   Senko made The Brainwashing of My Dad, The Vanishing City, and Roadmap Warrior Women.   We talk about the nature of misinformation in the media, the political landscape in America, and Bill Plympton.    Check out the Nonsense Password Lounge, live nightly at 10PM central US on PODBEAN. Boku yama yama hog.   Thanks for listening to the Nonsense Password podcast which is available at the podcatcher of your choice: PODBEAN (for the podcast & the Nonsense Password Lounge LIVEcast), Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, PlayerFM, ACast, Castbox, Podcast Addict, Amazon Alexa, iHeart Radio, Media Monkey, Himalaya, Radio Public, Castback, Luminary, and others.    The Weekly Show is timely, where Special Character talks about what's going on with himself and in the world. Art, music, movies, politics, day-to-day life, rants and ramblings. Highlights from the Nonsense Password Lounge, a live show on Podbean, are also included on the Weekly Show. These drop on Sundays.   Waveplays, Nonsense Password trips that are like audio dramas - aka audio fiction, aka radio plays - only way more hip, consisting of both standalone pieces and miniseries.    Specials, the interviews, essays, and other stuff, will also stay present in the Nonsense Password podcast feed.    If you enjoyed the show, please like, rate, share, subscribe, or whatever it is you do to help the show and the cult by spreading the word.   Nonsense Password merchandise and other designs are available at RedBubble, in the Nonsense-PW store, and at TeeSpring, in the Nonsense Password store.   There is also Nonsense Password YouTube, Facebook page, Instagram, and now even a Soundcloud.   The official website is nonsensepassword.com and you can email Special Character at specialcharacter@nonsensepassword.com.   Good luck,   Twitter: @nonsensepasspod   

In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on women, gender, and democracy: Episode 103: Jenna Spinelle of the “Democracy Works” podcast on COVID-19, the media, and elections, Episode 105: Jen Senko on “The Brainwashing of My Dad” and right-wing media's impact on our democracy, Episode 107: Christina Hu on the importance of minority civic engagement to democracy, Episode 109: Erin Vilardi of “Vote Run Lead” on its work to train and elect more women to elected office, and Episode 110: Jordan Zaslow on “Women for the Win” and gender equality in government. During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources in our conversation: The myth of "voter fraud" and actual statistics Republican efforts to suppress voting rights Ivanka Trump's Goya endorsement, now under an ethics investigation Andrew Yang's campaign platforms as it related to diversity in representation Kamala Harris and Mindy Kaling bonding over dosa McConnell's proposal for five year corporate immunity Judge Ester Salas son's alleged murderer and his identity as an "anti-feminist" and male supremacist --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Jen Senko, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose documentaries focus on socio-political themes with the intent of inspiring discussion and fomenting change, most notably, The Brainwashing of My Dad, which tracks the disturbing rise of right-wing media.  We speak with Jen today about her films, her activism, disinformation tactics used by conservative media outlets, and why and how a free press and educated populace is an essential component of a functioning democracy. During our conversation, Jen and I referenced the following resources and topics: How her father's increasing obsession with right-wing media and Fox News inspired her to make the film The research of Kathleen Taylor, author of the book, Brainwashing:  The Science of Thought Control Albert Biderman's "Chart of Coercion" which was discussed in our interview with Jess Hill about her book, See What You Made Me Do The influence of Rush Limbaugh on Jen's father's behavior and thoughts towards women Fox News' use of the term "fair and balanced" to portray itself as fact-based and objective and legitimate journalism Edward Bernays' reframing of bad things as good as an advertising tactic to sell products, such as calling cigarettes "torches of freedom" How Trump uses brainwashing techniques like those described in the film as depicted in the book The Cult of Trump:  A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan Dave and Erin Ninehouser's work to help reclaim America's brain from media manipulators and agenda-driven demagogues through their organization, Hear Yourself Think The importance of media literacy, a free press, and citizen demand for media accountability to our democracy The significance of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in opening up the path towards media oligarchies --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

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Have you had the experience of a family member have their politics and even their personality change from watching Fox News? Jen Senko joins Thom to talk about what she learned making the movie 'The Brainwashing of my Dad'. What are the principal techniques that Fox uses to draw people into their cult?And Thom goes into details as to how the Trump administration is using the carona virus crisis to fundamentally change America. Can we change the direction of our country in November before it is too late?

Hello and welcome to Chatter a podcast from thejist.co.uk. Today on the show we are talking to American documentary maker Jen Senko. We cover a whole load of topics including Trump's use of Twitter, Fox News and the right wing media, her documentary “the brainwashing of my dad”, and safe spaces and pc culture. If you enjoy the show you can rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, share us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and tell your friends about the show! Thanks so much for listening, if you have enjoyed this first episode of Chatter we have many more fantastic interviews for you coming up over the next few weeks, including Gavin Bakewell of Friends of the Earth and Kellie Armstrong the Northern Irish MLA. Until next time, goodbye! [www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/ ](http://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/ ) [thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/ ](http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/ ) [twitter.com/Jen_Senko](http://twitter.com/Jen_Senko) [www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/](http://www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/) [twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist](http://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60) ***THIS EPISODE WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 2017***

Hello and welcome to Chatter a podcast from thejist.co.uk. Today on the show we are talking to American documentary maker Jen Senko. We cover a whole load of topics including Trump’s use of Twitter, Fox News and the right wing media, her documentary “the brainwashing of my dad”, and safe spaces and pc culture. If you enjoy the show you can rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, share us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and tell your friends about the show! Thanks so much for listening, if you have enjoyed this first episode of Chatter we have many more fantastic interviews for you coming up over the next few weeks, including Gavin Bakewell of Friends of the Earth and Kellie Armstrong the Northern Irish MLA. Until next time, goodbye! www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/ thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/ twitter.com/Jen_Senko www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/ twitter.com/GiveMeTheJist www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60 THIS EPISODE WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 2017

Director, writer and producer of the incredible documentary, "The Brainwashing of My Dad", Jen Senko returns! To understand the rise of Fox News, right-wing commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson and the RW propaganda machine, Jen's film is truly a must-watch. In this episode we discuss how Fox and all affiliated are spinning the impeachment inquiry, Trump's daily insanity and so much more! Check out her vital film: https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

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Jen Senko is an award-winning filmmaker, known for The Vanishing City and The Brainwashing of My Dad.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Monster Making 2 (Audio) I know this sounds trite, but I think this is my favorite Episode so far. And YES, I think I've said that about almost every Episode. That said, this is a follow up to Episode 29 The Making of a Monster about the US propaganda machine designed to feed on our fears and hatreds in pursuit of profit. In the driver's seat is our guest Jen Senko, who Directed and Produced the heartfelt Documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad.   I've learned so much from her movie, and you'll hear, I enjoyed our interview from start to finish.

My guest for today's interview show, the great Charlie Pierce, had to re-schedule so I'm bumping my chat with Charlie to Friday, same day as the After Party pod. Meanwhile, here's an encore presentation of my January 2019 interview with Jen Senko, the director of the documentary The Brainwashing Of My Dad (watch the trailer here). The movie's about the toxic influence of Fox News and AM talk radio on some of our closest friends and relatives. I think we all have a family member who’s been indoctrinated into the Fox News cult, and Jen’s film not only details the reasons for this but also ways in which we can de-program our loved ones.

Monster Making 2 (Full Episode)  I know this sounds trite, but I think this is my favorite Episode so far. And YES, I think I've said that about almost every Episode. That said, this is a follow up to Episode 29 The Making of a Monster about the US propaganda machine designed to feed on our fears and hatreds in pursuit of profit.   In the driver's seat is our guest Jen Senko, who Directed and Produced the heartfelt Documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad.     I learned so much from her movie, and you'll see, I enjoyed our interview from start to finish.

Monster Making 2 I know this sounds trite, but I think this is my favorite Episode so far. And YES, I think I've said that about almost every Episode. That said, this is a follow up to Episode 29 The Making of a Monster about the US propaganda machine designed to feed on our fears and hatreds in pursuit of profit. In the driver's seat is our guest Jen Senko, who Directed and Produced the heartfelt Documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad.   I learned so much from her movie, and you'll see, I enjoyed our interview from start to finish.  

Jen Senko is the director of the documentary film The Brainwashing of my Dad, released in 2016. The film tells the story of how her father had a drastic change in personality after slowly getting sucked into a rabbit hole of conservative talk radio

Matt chats with Ryan, a Salt Lake City entrepreneur and the executive producer of a new documentary out now which examines the roots of right-wing media in the United States. The documentary, available on most video on demand platforms, tells a broader media story by examining the path of the filmmaker, Jen Senko’s, father, who grew increasingly more conservative after being immersed in right-wing radio programs. Matt and Ryan also talk about Impact Hub, a shared workspace downtown which hosts community programs. If you’re a podcast listener, here’s the link to the iTunes feed for the HEAL Utah Podcast. If you use an Android app or another non iTunes method, paste this link —https://www.healutah.org/feed/podcast — into whatever app you use.

Matt chats with Ryan, a Salt Lake City entrepreneur and the executive producer of a new documentary out now which examines the roots of right-wing media in the United States. The documentary, available on most video on demand platforms, tells a broader media story by examining the path of the filmmaker, Jen Senko’s, father, who grew increasingly more conservative after being immersed in right-wing radio programs. Matt and Ryan also talk about Impact Hub, a shared workspace downtown which hosts community programs. If you’re a podcast listener, here’s the link to the iTunes feed for the HEAL Utah Podcast. If you use an Android app or another non iTunes method, paste this link —https://www.healutah.org/feed/podcast — into whatever app you use.

Sophy and Kelly speak with Jen Senko, writer and director of *The Brainwashing of My Dad,* a 2016 documentary about the effects of right-wing media on American thought.

Sophy and Kelly speak with Jen Senko, writer and director of *The Brainwashing of My Dad,* a 2016 documentary about the effects of right-wing media on American thought.

Filmmaker Jen Senko returns to Lush Left and we continue the conversation about her film, the origins of RW media, the impact, propaganda, how we can combat misinformation and much more. Jen's film, "The Brainwashing Of My Dad" is required viewing! The right's media infrastructure is huge and we must explore ways to counter the noise!

This episode's structure is a little different than you're used to. First join us for 35 minutes as Cass chats with Bonnie from episode 162. They discuss painting murals in her hometown and ethical choices for living on earth, given this is the only one we have. Then eavesdrop on a conversation between Marie and Cass for an hour as they work through the dynamic of the podcast with Marie as the new co-host. Enjoy scintillating topics such as misogyny, tokenism, racism, sexism, intersectional feminism, and patriarchy.   Lastly we lament the loss of our recording with Mrs. Betty Bower's creator and writing: Andrew Bradley. Saying yes to what is doesn't always feel good. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast,  or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. Where to Find Us:  Email: everyonesagnostic at gmail dot com Website: everyonesagnostic.com Facebook: fb.me/everyonesagnostic Twitter: @evry1sagnostic  Instagram: @everyonesagnostic YouTube: tinyurl.com/sayyestowhatis Patreon: link   Consider this phrase: my perception is my reality.  First let me say that this is true. It's true to the individual. Maybe also to people groups or even nations. Disagreements, even wars, can be caused by different perceptions that create different realities. The parable of the blind men and an elephant places a group of blind men engaging an elephant for the first time. They each touch a different part of the elephant's body such as the ear, leg, trunk or tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their limited experience and upon insisting that they are right and the others are lying they come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective perception as they ignore other people's limited, subjective perception which may be equally true. So while YOUR perception is YOUR reality, it is not necessarily the whole picture. It doesn't mean you're wrong AND it doesn't mean that differing positions aren't also right. When perceptions become mutually exclusive, the opposing parties may be in denial and insist on the rightness of their narrow view. Convincing them otherwise can be extremely difficult if not impossible. We form a bias around a perception and often don't want to be bothered with the facts.  Humans once believed that the earth was flat. It must be, just look at it! We thought the sun and stars circled the earth because it looked that way. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. ... Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. One social research study examined a pool of people’s opinions about federal welfare programs. The researchers found that the majority of people were highly-misinformed about the nature and scope of these programs, and that the people who were the least-informed about them generally expressed the highest degree of confidence in their knowledge. Furthermore, the researchers found that presenting people with facts about these welfare programs did little to change people’s opinion about them. However, in a follow-up study, the researchers discovered that tweaking the way they presented the facts made people respond more positively to the new evidence. In this follow-up, people were first asked to estimate the percentage of the national budget that is allocated towards welfare. Then, they were also asked what percent of the budget they believed should be spent on welfare. Posing these questions back-to-back led participants to contrast their perception of reality with their preferred level of spending, before they were told what portion of the budget is spent on welfare in reality. This meant that most of them had to process the fact that not only is the federal-spending lower than they thought, but it is also lower than the portion of the budget that they believed should be allocated to welfare. Thus the value of agnosticism: It guards against certainty. Much blood has been shed based on certainties that were just not true. Since perceptions can seem like realities, we build narratives which become foundations on which we build assumption upon assumption. When we discover that the assumption upon which all the others were based, it falls like a house of cards. To the degree in which we were invested in that narrative is the degree to which we will be embarrassed and maybe even traumatized. We were living a lie. them that we then act on or even live by. My wife and I were at a music concert once that was general admission. I saw some empty seats and approached them but a guy had his left leg stretched across them.  We moved on thinking he was saving them. We noticed that no one ever came to sit there and he was just stretching out, hogging those seats, or so I thought. Turns out he had a full leg cast under his pants and couldn't straighten his leg. I had lunch this week with a friend who shared that she had a lucid dream when she was a young mother where she was visited by a messenger.  The message was that her toddler son was going to die before her but not until after her father died. Fast forward 40 years and the woman's father died. That message had haunted her her entire life and now that her father was dead, she was riddled with fear and anxiety that her son was going to die at any moment. She built a narrative on a nocturnal brain fart. Sometimes we give perceptions way too much power and unmerited influence over our lives.   My issue with this way of living is that a person is steered by external data. And the key problem there is "steered." Incoming data is unavoidable and amoral. The only person not interpreting events and circumstances is unconscious. However, if one does not have an inner core that is awake, aware and vibrant, they will likely live their life as one with no agency. They're childish. They are tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every conspiracy theory. What Jesus called, "a reed swayed by the wind." For lack of a better word, I'll call this thing the soul of a person. Souless people need to be told what to think, how to act, what to wear, who to be. They have no core. They are robotic, only able to do what their programmer coded. Computers that can adapt and think for themselves are called Artificial Intelligence. Perhaps this soul I'm talking about could also be called intelligence. Intelligence is one's ability to understand something. We're hearing more and more stories of people losing their parents or siblings to Fox News. Two years ago, on Episode 126, I interview Jen Senko who'd made a documentary film called "The Brainwashing of My Dad." If people are hollow inside, a vacuum is created that takes in counterfeit nourishment, pureed baby-food, served up by charlatans and conmen to the laziest, least intuitive minds over which they can easily overpower and influence for their causes--mainly the inflation of their wealth. The condition of soulessness--a person with no agency--fosters a type of insecurity that disables that person from bringing their person authentically into the room, precisely because they don't have one. No soul, no ownership of their ability to discern their world and make choices.  Due to non-use, the muscles that empower one to think for oneself are atrophied. And they are preyed on by the greedy. And here we find ourselves. Corporations spotted the credulity of Christians and the GOP and corralled them into their fold to think, propagate, and vote their agenda. Wanna know why a large majority of Christians support Trump? They have no soul. The filled their God-shaped void with God alright. Human's imaginary gods have the substance of cotton candy--they leave you hungry and wanting more, the steady diet of which will make you lazy and fat. I believe there is no void. We're not born with it at least. We create the void by believing that we're not good enough, not worthy, not powerful, insignificant without a higher power. Those of us who left that brainwashing, soul-stealing lie have set out to rediscover our soul, our inner core, that was there all the time. Not so we can get an identity or "find ourselves," but so that we can begin living from that core toward the world, not the other way around. There is no self to find. There's only you showing up in the moment as whatever your soul wants to do or say in real time. No one and nothing should tell you who to be; you already are.   I'll close with a prose by David Whyte posted by my friend Fiona. It's called   THE SUBVERSIVE SOUL We tend to focus on, and speak about the soul-life of an individual in terms of spiritual comfort and deep nourishment, qualities which are a central, and abiding dynamic of its presence, but the equally unsettling and disturbing quality about this strange, often wild and courageous faculty of belonging inside us we have come to name ‘the soul’ is its ruthless, and almost tidal wish to find its own way to a fuller union with the world. The soul is a planner’s nightmare, the career counselor’s central puzzle, the biographer’s conundrum, the saboteur of the puritanical and the unimaginative; an internal abiding spring that is both a source and a flow: an internal stranger at the door of our outer life about to break everything apart; a pilgrim often suddenly more in love with the horizon than its home; and most disturbingly, someone who would much rather fail spectacularly at their own life than succeed, imprisoned drably by the ordinary, at someone else’s.

An important conversation with Jen Senko, filmmaker of the documentary, "The Brainwashing Of My Dad", We discuss the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her dad, Fox News, the history of today's right-wing propaganda and more!

Welcome back loyal Strange Day listeners, you’re about to hear a whopper of an episode. We begin with filmmaker Jen Senko as she breaks down how the right-wing media brainwashed her father in her 2016 film, “The Brainwashing of My Dad”. Next, we got GOP strategist and ‘Never Trumper’ Rick Wilson on the line, joined by former Congressman Patrick Murphy, and stranger to the podcast, Marc Caputo of POLITICO Florida, to talk Democratic Party strategy, memo wars, and Trumplandia. Finally, we wrap with a fuego round of rapid-fire.

Cass Midgley and Dr. Bob Pondillo interview an ex-Christian married couple in their mid-twenties who are using the names David & Arrianna. They grew up in very different christian homes. David was brought up in a deeply fundamental, Pentecostal christian household. A literal reading of the bible was adhered to - the bible was considered THE word of god, end of discussion. Arrianna had a much softer experience with parents that prioritized empathy, understanding and asking questions. It didn't take long for these healthy habits to rub off on David (early in their relationship) and eventually led to both of them de-converting (amazingly, at around the same time and only about a year ago, so this is really fresh). They are both now totally removed from religion and personally feel they are better for it. We taped the conversation on August 5th, 2017. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Our show is available on most podcast platforms.  Also, you can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge one dollar per episode through Patreon; that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. The smallest contribution is greatly appreciated. Credits: "Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack Johnson The segue music is on this episode is a song called "High Life" by the Dave Weckl Band Thanks for listening and be a yes-sayer to what is. https://scathingatheist.com/ https://evolutioncounseling.com/hero-worship/ https://evolutioncounseling.com/heroes-to-emulate-not-to-worship/ Some of us former Christians carry around antithetical sentiments toward are former faith. One day we're soft on Christianity and the next we're on a mission to destroy it. At least that's how it goes for me. I haven't done the math, but at least one out every 10 guests we've had on this podcast are progressive Christians. Often they're friends of mine, and I'm usually pretty soft on them when they're here, with a few exceptions. Many of us are doing our best to maintain decent relationships with our Christian friends and family who are dear to us (at least those who will still talk to us). We ex-Christians have noticed a pretty stark difference between atheists that never loved Jesus with their whole heart for decades and those that did. And I've been critical on this show of the branch of atheist activism that ridicules the most extreme versions of Christianity; the low hanging fruit. I've said it doesn't take a lot of courage. I've referenced Jim Henderson's core tenets from episode 33 many times, one of which is "stop comparing your best with others worst." But as you know, I also reference and have prescribed what is probably the most scathing atheist podcast on the air, appropriately titled, The Scathing Atheist, and especially the opening diatribe by the founder of the show, Noah Lugeons. I featured one them on an episode years ago. Well this last week, on their episode 235, Noah makes a point that I want to share with you. He gave me permission to play this 5 minute diatribe. I won't reiterate his point here because he does a fine job of it, but to preface it, they have made a living creating a podcast that ridicules the stupidity of all religions, especially Christianity, since for a long time they were immersed in it in Valdosta, GA. If you're not a regular listener of their show, you may not recognize all the nicknames they've given the many practitioners of Christian stupidity (like Pat Robertson is P-Robe, for example) but don't miss the point he makes. As Bob and I marvel virtually every week and the bizzarro world in which we find ourselves, I think it's important to make the connection between how we got here (and by here I mean a Trump presidency girded up by evangelicals for starters) and the pass we've given Christianity for the last 50 years. We've turned a blind eye to the ludicris and absurd thinking that it would always remain on the margin. In the meantime, it's encroaching hegemonic takeover has grown into a powerful juggernaut that may be the end of us, and that's no joke. My thanks to Noah for letting me share his Diatribe here, for writing it, and a big tip of my hat for all the work he and his crew does to stem the tide of theocracy over America and religions around the world.   Who is on your mind? I recently became interested in this topic because I've noticed that some people seem to look outside themselves for how to think. Back on episode 126 we interviewed Jen Senko, who wrote and directed a documentary titled “The Brainwashing of My Dad,” how Fox News turned her father from a sound-thinking liberal to a paranoid alt-right conservative. Many people tune into particular pundits to know how to think. Sometimes we do it to each other. Have you ever had people in your life that were "big" in your mind while you were small and everything you did together you were constantly thinking, "what are they thinking?," so that you could know how to think about too? Perhaps to avoid conflict, perhaps align yourself with them because your own ability to think yourself was atrophied by non-use and it was just easier to adopt their point of view? As Christians, we used to ask ourselves "What would Jesus do?" And because we were taught to not trust our own heart and mind, we deferred our own agency to this imaginary, projected symbol of perfection. And how'd that work out for us? No matter the source, if there are influences in your life that cause you to cast doubts on your own thoughts or ability to think for yourself, get curious as to how that's impacting your personal development. That said, let's explore the opposite, if it's possible to have a few people that you admire that you consider when faced with tough decisions. Surely this is less toxic if it's not a forfeiture of one's agency. In my case, I sometimes wonder "what would Bill Murray do?" or Christopher Hitchens or some local personal friends in my life of whom I think highly. Sometimes we have the benefit of letting people--often authors of books we've read--shape our ways of thinking or seeing the world, and I think that can be very healthy. That's one way that being a life-long learner, or in community and relationships make us better people. Hell, our parents were models in both good and bad ways as to how to think or behave. With just about everyone we encounter we can see both how it's done right and model that and/or learn how NOT to do it.   As those of recovering from religion, we are learning to ask "what would I do?" What do I want? What do I want to experience? And how can I take responsibility for bringing about the changes in my life that I desire? This is basically the difference in hero worship and having heroes that we emulate. It comes up in our talk today with our guests--this notion of charismatic leaders and the way in which we put them on pedestals. Allow me to read an excerpt from two articles by Psychologist, Michael Schreiner about hero worship in which he addresses the issues of being a hero worshiper, being the worshipped hero, and how to have heroes in a healthy way.  (links to the articles are in the show notes). "Some feel the relentless drive to elevate a person to godlike status. They search and search until finding a suitable target, then bow down before this supposedly stronger presence. If one is on the receiving end of this, it can feel really good to be the object of hero worship, but understanding the psychology behind the phenomenon makes it much less appealing.Hero worship is not really about the hero. The same people who worship you one day will discard you the next, moving on to a new entity that does a better job filling the role. If you had not been the chosen one, someone else would have been. This idea applies whether we are thinking in the metaphysical context of deities, the social context of fame, or the intimate context of personal relationships. For example, if you have ever had a romantic partner who began treating you as all-knowing, powerful, and more talented than everybody else, he or she likely followed this same pattern in previous relationships too before they inevitably soured, just like yours did. Or think about the religionist who loves and worships his god until tragedy strikes, at which point adoration is replaced by cursing this god’s name.The reason to resist the temptation to accept the godlike role (and this may resonate with us ex-pastors)  is that your freedom of thought and behavior will become extremely limited. It stops being okay to make any mistakes or to admit your ignorance. If you buy into what is said and thought about you, then conflict will arise between who you really are as a human being and the unrealistic image you are trying to fulfill. You will attempt to cover up or minimize all your shortcomings and foibles until finally being exposed for the fraud you are (or human you are), at which point the person or people who have put you up on the pedestal can toss you aside with a clean conscience, feeling defrauded, even though they were the ones who unfairly put you up there in the first place for their own psychological needs.The people placing heroes on a pedestal are parasites (and this may resonate with lay people). For whatever reason they feel incapable of doing the hard work of self-actualization themselves, so they take the shortcut of basking in the glow of the hero's presence instead. They latch onto the hero, and unconsciously believe that this is enough, that they will be able to find fulfillment by being a small part of what is going on. They worship the hero, and all they ask in return is that the hero remain perfect at all times, living up to the impossible standard they have set for the hero without fail. But there’s nothing wrong in principle with having heroes, specifically when your relationship to them is one of emulation rather than worship. In this case you’re harnessing the power of anchoring, setting the bar high instead of settling for mediocrity. The goal is to join them up in that rarefied air, a much different orientation than perpetually praising them.Whether heroes are used for the purposes of worship or emulation, the psychology is the human need for transcendence, for escaping the ordinary in favor of the extraordinary. What it comes down to is cultivating the belief that if you discover and cultivate your unique seeds of potential, you can be extraordinary too. You don’t need heroes to take over the job for you, only to show you the way."  

Cass Midgley and Dr. Bob Pondillo interview Jen Senko, who wrote and directed a documentary titled “The Brainwashing of My Dad.” Jen’s documentary and the effect that political pundits and talking heads have on the human psyche brings up a fascinating subject, especially relevant in view of the election of Donald J. Trump to the highest office in the world (or at least it was before he took it). This catastrophe has so stupefied people that we’re finally talking about the elephant in the room: “fake news.” and it’s ability to influence people  to vote against their own self-interest, their own conscience, or against whatever decency they have left after 30 years of right-wing propaganda. This really is a fascinating conversation with a fascinating personality—Jen Senko. There are several nuggets of unique dialogue here and a few at my expense.  I love this episode and I hope you will too.  We taped these conversations on October 30th, 2016. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, give it 5 stars, and/or leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Our show is available on most podcast platforms.  Also, you can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge one dollar per episode through Patreon; that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. The smallest contribution is greatly appreciated. Our Indigogo fundraiser is over and as of this taping, we raised $530. We were trying to raise $1600 for 3 new microphones and 3 boom arm mic stands. We raised enough for the mic stands with a head start toward the mics. My thanks to everyone who donated.  Credits: "Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack Johnson The segue music is by Sam Maher recorded on a handpan in the NY city subway. Thanks for listening and be a yes-sayer to what is. Official Website: www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrainwashingofmydadmovie?ref=hl YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq2PQ5pM-6oYAdAGSsreB4Q Twitter: @brainwashingdad Tumblr: http://thebrainwashingofmydad.tumblr.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_brainwashing_of_my_dad/   Producer/Sales Contact: Adam Rackoff CINCO DEDOS PELICULAS (917) 207-5169 adam@cincodedospeliculas.com https://vimeo.com/cincodedospeliculas   Maslow’s 5 hierarchies of needs start with the basic needs of food and shelter, then safety and security. The third is community. The fourth is esteem. The fifth, and top of the pyramid is self-actualization. But in light of today’s show and the premise of this podcast, I want to point out how falling for counterfeit means of meeting the 3rd and 4th level’s needs—community and self-esteem, keeps one from ever achieving self-actualization. This is where false ideologies come in and hijack personal growth and true agency. This where religion and Fox News come in.  People can overlook a lot of nonsense associated with an organization IF they’ve made friends within it. Churches are full of people that don’t tow the party line of all 7 tenants of their church’s statement of faith, but they go back week to week because “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows you’re name, and they’re always glad you came. You want to be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You want to be where everybody knows you’re name.” That’s the 3rd tier—community.  The fourth tier has to do with self-respect or self-esteem.  We all need a sense of contribution or value. This might include a felt need for strength, competence, independence, and/or freedom. These are true paths to the 5th need—self-actualization. But we can be tricked into thinking we have freedom when we’re yet a slave; we can think we’re thinking for ourselves when we’re being told what to think. We can be tricked into thinking we’re strong when in fact we’re weak. The church does this by conveying that God loves you uniquely. He knows the number of hairs on your head. He knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are special. The music, the stain glass windows, the grand narrative from Creation to Apocalypse, the goose-bumps all make a person feel alive and a part of something bigger than themselves. All this was made with you in mind. But what if it’s not true? What if life is not the intent or creation of a being and we’re all just accidents; that the universe doesn’t know or care that we’re here? Wouldn’t it be important that we’re getting our needs met by things that are true? That are real? We don’t eat imaginary food? We don’t shelter ourselves under imaginary roofs. Our self-esteem must be based on facts or we’ve fallen for counterfeit girding of our existence.  The banner under which we rally our community must be real. Fox News meets the esteem need by igniting the emotions—primarily fear and anger. When our brains light up with these emotions, they release dopamine and adrenaline and we feel alive, powerful, and most importantly: right. The need to be right cannot be underestimated. But it actually stunts our maturation, not fosters it. Yeah, you’re exerting your energy, flexing your muscles, fighting enemies, but they’re not real. Fake news keeps people on an imaginary playground with imaginary battles and thus in a perpetual state of infancy. The most honest path to true self-esteem is thinking for one’s self, doing the work yourself to build your beliefs, but this is hard work. Part of the difficulty is facing harsh realities like the chaotic, absurd meaninglessness of life. Part of it is acknowledging that we all die a permanent death and will be forgotten in a few generations—as if we never existed. If a person cannot or will not exert the effort needed to face reality, it can actually lower their self-esteem. Life is SO complex, and navigating human problems is such an intricate labyrinth, that it’s very attractive when someone offers to do your thinking for you and feed you what to think and believe.  Religious leaders and political pundits are eager to feed us. There is great wealth to be gained by creating followers.  We all can get overwhelmed with our realities and the temptation to bury our heads in the sand is powerful. But this is saying no to what is.  There are many popular ideologies, including religion and partisan politics, that when adopted can trick you into falsely maintaining your self-esteem, self-respect, and self-righteousness in spite of your cowardice, incompetence and sloth.  I’m saying that Maslo’s needs are real; we all want to feel alive and part of a community. I’m pointing out that there are people who understand that humans can be stupid and lazy and are eager to exploit us for personal gain by introducing deceitful pitfalls that can derail our heroic journey toward genuine self-esteem and authentic community. Don’t fall for it. Smell it out. Follow the greed. Discern the liars. Say yes to reality and no to falsehood, not the other way around. Jesus may have been right when he said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”  

In this episode of Social Justice Warriors, Matt Buckley interviews Jen Senko, who is the director of the documentary film The Brainwashing Of My Dad. The Brainwashing Of My Dad details the effects that listening to right-wing talkback radio  had on her father. Prior to listening to right-wing talkback radio, Jen Senko's father was an open-minded and compassionate person who was largely apolitical and tended to vote for the Democrats. After he started listening to right-wing talkback radio on his drive to and from work each day, he became a hateful, dogmatic, right-wing fanatic. The film shows that listening to right-wing talkback radio and watching Fox News has had the same effect on numerous other Americans. The film also details how the U.S.A.'s right-wing media industry came about.

The following is an interview with director Jen Senko and Producer Adam Rackoff from this amazing documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad, that explores the rise and popularity of conservative media by profiling the filmmaker’s own father, who at his twilight years falls into a Read More ... The post EP2 ‘THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD,’ Interview with director Jen Senko appeared first on Celebrity Spotlight Radio.

9 am Eastern, Thursdays, "The Tufts Get Going!" host Rosanna Tufts: "The Brainwashing of my Dad." (No, not MY Dad.) Jen Senko's father used to be the sweetest guy in the world, never had a bad word to say about anyone . . . until he started watching a steady diet of Fox News and right-wing talk radio. When she asked, "what happened to my Dad?" she soon discovered thousands of other people who had lost family relationships to the same toxicity. They too were asking, "what happened?" Jen found the answer went all the way back to Nixon's awkward performance at the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960! In her new documentary film, "The Brainwashing of my Dad," Ms. Senko tracks the development of right-wing media and its insidious language. Viewing Link: https://vimeo.com/137766216 Password: FilmFestivals2016

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we fall head over heels for the propaganda machine as out lined by our guest Jen Senko, the writer and director of the shocking documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad a charged look at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of Jen's father, whose immersion in it radicalized him and rocked the foundation of their family. Not to be outdone by the political mass media manga Grim, Marke and Johnny Heck get politically correct with those incorrect people in popculture we love to hate. Mel Gibson, Mike Tyson, Robert Downey Jr., Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby, Adam Baldwin, our popculture is riddled with tourtured and troubled talent yet we keep watching. Which begs the  question...Is it ok to love the art and not the man? Hard to see SchoolHouseRock covering these topics! Hosted by Grim Shea, Marke and Johnny Heck. Follow us on Twitter @stayclassysdcc and check out the site mattypradio.com for links, archived episodes, nerdy news and more!

Today's Guest: Jen Senko, documentary filmmaker, The Brainwashing of My Dad, The Vanishing City   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jen Senko by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of dittoheads, knuckleheads and general dickheads who thought they were getting tickets to be in the studio audience of The O’Reilly Factor… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Jen Senko was worried about her dad. A self-described Kennedy Democrat, Frank Senko was a peaceful, loving husband and dad whose political views were never much of an issue between him and the world. Until one day, on his long commute to work, he discovered talk radio… and Rush Limbaugh in particular. After that, Frank was never the same. JEN SENKO podcast excerpt: "Fox shouldn't have the right to call itself 'News'; it's mostly commentary." You can LISTEN to this interview with documentary filmmaker JEN SENKO, director of THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD, by clicking the audio player above! He soon framed and announced a long list of people that he hated. And when he found the Fox News Channel, he went completely bonkers. He was angry all the time. If Rush or Fox told him something, he was unquestioning in his acceptance of it as absolutely true. His wife, his three children – Jen and her brothers – as well as extended family, friends and co-workers, one day found a stranger living in their midst, a hate-spewing, nasty, bigoted monster paranoid of everyone’s beliefs around him. He trusted no one outside of his growing, far right-wing conservative circle of TV and radio hosts, newsletter writers, website propagandists and pamphleteers. Aghast at what had become of Frank, Jen—a filmmaker who had received good notices for her first release, The Vanishing City—decided to seriously investigate what had happened to him. JEN SENKO podcast excerpt: "(Long-time Republican operative) David Brock knew. He was in the trenches. He was an 'elf.' He was on the team to take down (President Bill) Clinton. He spilled the beans (on the 'vast right-wing conspiracy'). His conscience got to him; he felt guilty." // The resulting film, The Brainwashing of My Dad, is a serious examination of the rise of right-wing media—“The Noise Machine,” as it is called—and its fact-free assault on the Constitution, civil rights, liberal advocacy and much more. Senko, who shares narration duties with actor Matthew Modine, assembled a film that reveals the motivations of Roger Ailes, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Richard Nixon, the Heritage Foundation, and the John Birch Society. The film, which recently left the festival circuit and began theatrical, iTunes, Google Play and Vudu distribution, was completed before the rise of Donald Trump, presidential candidate, but it makes for excellent background material to explain the Republican businessman’s angry rise to political power. Key interview moments: • 3:05 Filmmaker Jen Senko dealt with multiple delays in getting The Brainwashing of My Dad to the silver screen, but the rise of Donald Trump, GOP political candidate, made her eventually timing perfect; • 12:10 Even Democrats scoffed at Hillary Clinton's mid-1990s claim of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" -- until long-time Republican operative David Brock confirmed her accusation was true; • 20:20 Senko questions whether Fox News Channel should be allowed to use the word "News" in its name. The Brainwashing of My Dad Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • Tumblr • Instagram   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Right-wing news is The Brainwashing of My Dad!

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Jen Senko was my guest on the March 17, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of a special screening in Kansas City, Senko talked about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of My Dad-The Truth Behind the Right-Wing Media Machine That Changed a Father and Divided a Nation. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

This episode we welcome director Jen Senko and producer Adam Rackoff to discuss their new documentary 'The Brainwashing of My Dad'. After the interview, James breaks down the latest trailers and movie news and offers his review of the new film 'Miles Ahead'.  Follow 'The Brainwashing of My Dad' https://www.facebook.com/thebrainwashingofmydadmovie/ Follow Wrong Reel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrongReel Official Site: http://wrongreel.com  

It's primary day in FL, OH, IL, MO & NC today. The revolution is in full swing, but won't be successful if you don't show up to vote! Today, Nicole Sandler is joined by former NAACP president Ben Jealous, filmmaker Jen Senko and @GottaLaff

Dissecting Docs covers the films Our Man In Tehran, Harper Lee, Antartic 70 Degrees South,and The Brainwashing of My Dad, of which we will have the great pleasure of being joined by it's filmmaker Jen Senko.  For information about Carole Dean and From the Heart Productions please visit www.FromtheHeartProductions.com. To learn more about Don Schwartz and his film reviews visit http://fromtheheartproductions.com/radio-blog/don-schwartz-blog/.

Doug is joined by Fiore DeRosa and Jen Senko, filmmakers of “The Vanishing City.” The documentary is about New York City neighborhoods where high-rise luxury buildings and flagship stores are displacing community businesses.