{"id":508,"date":"2024-10-11T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:14:06","slug":"operation-mockingbird-a-lot-of-confused-people-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/operation-mockingbird-a-lot-of-confused-people-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 47: Operation Mockingbird: A Lot of Confused People Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This episode will be unlike anything you&#8217;ve see the D.U.S.E. crap out thus far! It&#8217;s chock full of culture, politics, musical talk, social activism, and everything that made America great&#8230;well semi-great. Turns out everything you love &#8212; from the Planters peanut guy to the toilet paper that brushes your brown eye &#8212; is all C.I.A. funded under Operation Mockingbird. Except us. Want to know why? Eight months into this podcast and Eli has yet to receive a paycheck. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re just as confused as you are! But that&#8217;s because there&#8217;s&#8230;. A Lot of Confused People Out There!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Operation Mockingbird: A Lot of Confused People Out There\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5Yk4ZE7Kc2f1hRAs6zE3mA?si=WSedNQahSRqwh_MLiq5fLg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music credit coming soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired June 19, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Operation Mockingbird: A Lot of Confused People Out There<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/episode-68-operation-mockingbird-herbert-marcuse\/\">Operation Mockingbird: Herbert Marcuse<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/episode-113-operation-mockingbird-polybius\/\">Operation Mockingbird: Polybius<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode will be unlike anything you&#8217;ve see the D.U.S.E. crap out thus far! It&#8217;s chock full of culture, politics, musical talk, social activism, and everything that made America great&#8230;well semi-great. Turns out everything you love &#8212; from the Planters peanut guy to the toilet paper that brushes your brown eye &#8212; is all C.I.A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-operation-mockingbird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/episode-47-Operation-Mockingbird-Part-I-A-Lot-of-Confused-People-Out-There.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}