
Wicked Smart w/ Lucas Bean
Hosted by Lucas Bean · Lucas Bean
4.9from 54 ratings
- 349
- Episodes
- 96
- Transcribed
- 54
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Wicked Smart w/ Lucas Bean
Sharing insights on psychology, History, human behavior, politics, new technology and business | Author, Scientist, Podcast Host | I make videos & I try to tell good stories. lucasbean.substack.com (https://lucasbean.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Lucas Bean
- Category
- business · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 May 2018
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
96 of 349 episodes have a transcript.

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1 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Fall of the Far Right and MAGA Cult
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Why MAGA Loves Hurting Experts: Why We Vote
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In 1994, researcher Blake Ashforth at Arizona State University studied what happens when people with small amounts of authority use it to control, belittle, and humiliate the people that work underneath them. He called it petty tyranny. It's the tendency to lord your power over others, not because their job requires it, because it feels good to a small, insecure person to do so. The petty tyrant takes credit for other people's work, He punishes people for asking questions. He makes new rules up as he goes and changes them whenever he feels like it. Sound familiar? Petty tyrants don't act this way because they have too much power. […]
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