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Tuesday I went to a live recording of my favorite podcast, Stuff You Should Know. It was about Public Relations & the inventor of it (and bad guy), Edward Bernays. I recommend you listen to it when it comes out because it was super interesting; Bernays was, as Josh put it, an evil genius.

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Some of take ways from the show:

  • I made an iTunes playlist of all of the episodes I haven’t listened to. There are a lot.
  • I ordered Bernays’ Propaganda.
  • At this point Josh and Chuck can say anything and I will believe it without questioning them.

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