Citizen Podcast

Max Chafkin, Bloomberg tech writer and author of the new book The Contrarian, joins to talk about Peter Thiel’s history in Silicon Valley and his philosophies on big tech and business, how Facebook views itself and how Mark Zuckerberg views his role in the world, and how big tech can be broken up, if at all.

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN to get 30% off your next FOUR orders.

Save time and money this holiday season with Stamps.com. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in AMERICAN for a special offer that includes a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale.

Dan Hollaway and Dakota Meyer detail Facebook's history of promoting content meant to outrage and politically divide their users in order to increase engagement. 

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN to get 30% off your next FOUR orders.

Go to BABBEL.com and use promo code AMERICAN. Right now, when you purchase a 3-month Babbel subscription, you’ll get an additional 3 months for FREE. That’s 6 months, for the price of 3!

Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All joins the show to explain how far left activism makes homelessness and other issues like crime and homicide worse in major cities.

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN to get 30% off your next FOUR orders.

Get the best, highest-quality sheepskin slippers on the market at OVERLAND.com/AMERICANPARTY.

Scott DeLuzio, veteran and author of the book ‘Surviving Son’, talks about his time serving in Afghanistan and how losing his little brother in combat affected him, how he ultimately dealt with the loss (in ways both productive and unproductive) and what he ultimately thought of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war at large.

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN, and you get Buy One Get One FREE on your first order.

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is running wildly misleading Google ads disguised as news stories to trick voters into believing lies about his opponent Glenn Youngkin, Joe Biden held a bizarre town hall on CNN in which Anderson Cooper helped him answer Cooper's own questions, and Dallas Firefighter Brad Cox deserves to be fired for beating up a homeless man on duty (but so far has yet to be punished).

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Breaking down the bystander effect and how it relates to both the recent news story about a woman being sexually assaulted on a train in Philadelphia as people watched and filmed, and how it relates to America’s “exhausted middle” standing by while the country experiences a cultural decay.

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Alec Ross, author of 'THE RAGING 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future', joins Dan Hollaway to talk about what has gone wrong with American capitalism, what we do right, and how to make capitalism work the way it's supposed to again.

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN, and you get Buy One Get One FREE on your first order.

Dan and Dakota answer listener submitted questions and talk about the importance of local elections, the flaws of Libertarianism, and what to do with federal mandates. 

Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in the USA!

Go to CardoMax.com and use promo code AMERICAN, and you get Buy One Get One FREE on your first order.