Jim Hightower's Lowdown
Hosted by Jim Hightower · Jim Hightower
4.8from 352 ratings
- 475
- Episodes
- 272
- Transcribed
- 352
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Jim Hightower's Lowdown
Author, agitator and activist Jim Hightower spreads the good word of true populism, under the simple notion that "everybody does better, when everybody does better." jimhightower.substack.com (https://jimhightower.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Jim Hightower
- Category
- news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
272 of 475 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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The Academy Award for Self-Serving Corporate Propaganda
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The high-tech profiteers of artificial intelligence are now going nuclear. Grassroots Americans did not swallow Silicon Valley's opening deceit that AI data centers would be a bonanza for local communities. And when the billionaires escalated their land, water, and power grab by assailing the opponents as Luddites, people of all political stripes erupted in open rebellion against the self-serving arrogance of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and other tone-deaf AI autocrats. So now comes their PR onslaught. AI's moneyed powers, desperate to control government policy, the media message, and public debate, are now dumping untold billions into mass market propaganda, portraying AI as somewhere between benignly beneficial and endearingly human. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 336 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 16 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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