Politics after the headline breaks open.
The Propaganda Report moves between media criticism, political history, cultural anxiety, and long-form source reading. Its episodes are messy by design: claims get slowed down, challenged, detoured through older books, then pulled back into arguments about propaganda and institutional power.
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The Propaganda Report is a skeptical, source-reactive show about politics, media, cultural history, and the stories institutions tell about themselves. Its best moments come from slowing down a public narrative until the seams in the argument become visible. A headline is rarely just a headline here. A book is rarely just a book. Recent episodes move through Cold War cultural alarm, folk music as a supposed vehicle for subversion, Pavlovian language around youth behavior, technocracy, Catholic moral obligations, home birth politics, military secrecy, and bizarre news-cycle distractions. The tone is informal and argumentative. It is also more text-driven than its loose style first suggests. Episodes in the Rhythm, Riots & Revolution series use David Noble's book as a recurring object of analysis, reading its Red Scare framing while questioning what its panic reveals about counterculture, music, and political control. Guest conversations widen the frame. Patrick Wood and Courtney Turner are brought into a discussion of The Final Betrayal, technocracy, government efficiency, and the ideological contradictions around centralized power. Dominic Scarcella joins a conversation on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, where religious practice is treated as practical ethics rather than branding. Lanny from Preserving Today and Greener Postures appears in a home-birth conversation that pushes against medical authority and hospital-centered assumptions. Brad Binkley's segments bring a sharper news-desk feel, with rapid movement through political scandal, protest theater, military gossip, and alien-hybrid oddities. Monica Perez's episodes are more digressive and bookish, often pausing to ask what an older source is really doing rhetorically. The result is not clean institutional analysis. It is a restless editorial machine for people who like caveats, suspicion, historical side roads, and arguments that keep returning to propaganda as the central operating system.
Made for: For listeners who like combative media criticism, Cold War cultural history, institutional skepticism, and long-form arguments built from source material. Best suited to people comfortable with messy pacing, hard pivots, and an anti-establishment frame.
What sets it apart: The show blends document reading, cultural memory, guest conversation, and abrasive news analysis without sanding off the digressions. It feels less like a panel show and more like an ongoing attempt to catch propaganda forming in real time.
The Propaganda Report with Brad Binkley offers amusing commentary on the news of the day as well as deep insights into the powers that be who reveal their agenda in their own words.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Film, music, books, and public spectacle become evidence in a restless examination of persuasion and the stories used to carry it.
The Propaganda Report treats media as evidence: a film's production, a musician's courtroom fight, or a Cold War-era book becomes a way to examine how public stories are built.
Afroman's courtroom win meets anti-Beatles pamphlets, and your media skepticism gets a workout.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A skeptical read of a dense section that keeps the book's argument under a sharp light.
Monica Perez stays skeptical in part three of Rhythm, Riots, and Revolution by David Nobel. She reads the section closely and keeps coming back to how loaded it is, calling out the propaganda feel, the racism, and the red scare tone without smoothing any of it over.
A loose, combative look at spectacle, possible military oversharing, and attention-driven stories.
Binkley uses a chain of public spectacles to question how attention gets built and sold. The episode moves from a small No Kings rally near his area to an Atlanta scene with a woman in a powered wheelchair, Trump masks, and people she appears to hire for the performance.
A homestead-centered conversation that turns into a direct argument about how birth stories are framed.
Monica Perez reconnects with Lanny from Preserving Today and Greener Postures for a conversation that starts in homestead life and then turns to the pressures surrounding home birth.
A restless Cold War inquiry follows an odd trail toward claims about children's records and hypnotic suggestion.
Rhythm, Riots & Revolution follows Monica Perez as she works through the historical claims surrounding David Nobel's book, where propaganda, counterpropaganda, stereotypes and outdated assumptions have made the question of communist infiltration hard to separate from its…
A loose but pointed courtroom postmortem finds a First Amendment win in failed preparation and the force of storytelling.
A First Amendment fight over Afro Man's songs turns into a study of how courtroom stories can come apart when a side has not squared its argument with its own evidence.
A skeptical late-night dispatch where Brennan, bad AI, and broken search fold into one restless argument.
Political accountability and broken search tools land at the same late-night address in The Propaganda Report, as Brad Binkley moves from a House Judiciary Committee referral for criminal prosecution to an AI bot that pushed for a higher car price after being shown a lower one.
A filmmaking conversation where political rhetoric, health rules, and an unlikely casting choice meet.
This PlayNext episode turns a discussion of making Jones Plantation into a study of how political language and production pressure can end up in the same room.
A season-long narrative reconstruction of the 2012 Benghazi attack and its political fallout.
Reagan-era America, observed at close range.
Brad Binkley discusses the House Judiciary Committee's criminal referral of former CIA director John Brennan for alleged false statements to Congress.
This episode of Cognitive Dissidents discusses recent geopolitical events including Donald Trump's claim to run Venezuela and related incidents of invasion and kidnapping.
Monica Perez interviews filmmaker Drew Treglia, director of Jones Plantation.
Monica discusses the final episode of her analysis of 'Rhythm, Riots & Revolution' by David Noble, shares plans to shift to reading out-of-copyright books for a podcast called adult brain, and mentions upcoming topics including Thomas Paine's 'Age of Reason' and Irish folklore.
This episode of the Propaganda Report with Brad Binkley introduces a political commentary segment focusing on a salacious topic related to Swalwell.
This episode discusses part 4 of the book 'Rhythm, Riots and Revolution', focusing on how folk music was used to deliver communist messages to college-age audiences during the Red Scare era.
This episode features an interview with authors Patrick Wood and Courtenay Turner discussing their book 'The Final Betrayal', which explores how technocracy has impacted America, touching on themes like the dark enlightenment and political disillusionment.
Monica Perez interviews Domenic Scarcella about the corporal and spiritual works of mercy in Catholicism, exploring why they matter as practical guides for living a better life.
Monica Perez continues part three of *Rhythm, Riots, and Revolution* by David Nobel and reads along as she tries to make sense of it in real time.
Brad Binkley uses The Propaganda Report to dissect a Daily Mail headline about Tyler Robinson and Charlie Kirk, arguing that the article’s own text downgrades a claimed bullet mismatch into an inconclusive fragment comparison.
Monica Perez talks with Lanny from Preserving Today and Greener Postures, and the conversation opens on family life before it gets anywhere near birth politics.
Monica Perez opens with David Nobel's Rhythm, Riots, and Revolution and says the chapter pushed her from "propaganda and counter propaganda" into the Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the Venona Papers.
The Propaganda Report takes up Afro Man's First Amendment win.
Monica Perez interviews Jason Purcell about conflicting economic opinions, focusing on whether a recession is imminent and the state of labor, automation, and market stability.
This episode continues a reading and discussion of Albert J.
Monica Perez introduces Part 3 of reading Albert J.
Monica Perez interviews Allegedly Dave about personal sovereignty in hyperreality, exploring how legal names and identity function as traps in modern society.