The Age of Transitions: Recent Episodes
Aaron Franz
The Age of Transitions is an original podcast that covers the topics of: transhumanism, Singularity, geopolitics, history, propaganda, mind control, occult symbolism, and much more.
At this point, everyone seems to have had enuff of Vladimir Putin. However, all the grievance narratives in the world aren't enuff to stop Smash Mouth from churning out the hits.
Topics include: Global Propaganda Matrix, online propaganda, Vladimir Putin and his war, Vlad Vexler, decline in acceptance for RT in US alt media, Palantir, vying for global soft power influence, anti socialist propaganda as standard line for US establishment, Silicon Valley capture of government, grievance narratives, China leveraging Iran War, alternative to US, China likely promoted MAGA to destabilize US, obvious Chinese influence ops and international PR across social media, anti data center movement and allegations of Chinese influence, zeitgeist of pessimism, nostalgia for 90s and 2000s decades, Smash Mouth new Single Had Enuff, AI slop artwork
Soft power becoming software power, and the hope is to embed it as the OS for every government in the world. Behind the veneer of the ever-present online propaganda, lies this simple motive. When we talk about new cold wars, national security, or even a world war, this is the prize that all of the power brokers, decision makers, and stakeholders have as their motivation. It isn't complicated, but it is hidden in a web of synthetic digital complexity that we need to break away from as soon as possible.
Topics include: Revolve book, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, disinformation, influence operations, online space is propaganda space, conspiracy media co-opted, Open AI and Anthropic news, sandbox test, AI development and integration into world governments, technocracy, destruction of old government, Eric Schmidt, NSCAI, framing the new national security context around AI, China as new Cold War enemy, cyber security threats, current presidential administration no more than a bought off clown show, transparent corruption, Palantir PR, American Greatness obvious propaganda outlet, soft power, DOGE part of broader agenda, stupidity of simplistic libertarian content online, monopoly capitalism, Whitehouse new left wing terrorism target, tech billionaires as the ultimate preppers, crafting governments around the world for your purposes and agendas, reading between the lines
Our shared digital hall of mirrors becomes more and more advanced, and so we must somehow find a way to advance ourselves beyond and outside of it. Don't let your fringe ideas clash too hard with another's apparently conflicting views. The same sponsor may likely have brought you both messages in the first place.
Topics include: free stickers offer, elusive truth, long term coverage of AI topic, current AI systems, possibility of AGI, transhumanist movement, posthuman, science fiction, Conspiracy Culture and Truth Movement, dominant minority, mainstreaming of conspiracy concepts, semantics, perception vs reality, similarities of different fringe groups, history of internet, concept of internet as a distinct thing almost gone, social media dominance, data centers, future digital personal assistants, conspiracy ideas as propaganda, Cronenberg like reality, digitization of everything, amalgamation of media, augmented and virtual reality, beyond divide and conquer
Monaco is the second smallest nation on Earth, and clearly an example of a country made for international financial purposes. Old money families controlled the world that created Monaco, but are the New World masters of tech now rising up to challenge them on the world stage?
Topics discussed: new Age of Transitions stickers, Looksmaxxing, online influencer culture, leg lengthening surgery, Connor Murphy death by gold, alchemy, transhumanism, Tech Oligarchs funding looksmaxxers and other influencers, social class structures, upper upper and lower upper class, Old Money vs New Money, Monaco country created by Old World establishment for banking purposes, Rothschild family, symbolism in Monte Carlo, new US power elite want to create new financial system, crypto currency, Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto similar to Saint Germain, conspiracy culture tropes within other online influencer niches, Technocratic elites control of Conspiracy Culture, New World Order
Dialog, the pet Bilderberg style secret society of Peter Thiel, is now an open secret. Is that a good or bad thing for PT and friends? The countercultural capture of the online world has to be recognized.
Topics include: confusion, technological change, AI, AGI, possibility of Technological Singularity, economic bubble, practical applications and reasons for AI, Libertarianism is useless, enshitification of internet, Dialog secret society, Bilderberg, Peter Thiel, secret societies, Elon Musk as proof of concept for building Tech Oligarch cult of personality, elites of recent past, Palantir, US technocratic takeover, online content creators are the new propagandists, useful idiots and conscious agents, MAGA trojan horse worked, transhuman future, transhumanism, forcing masses into metaverse life, living in Roblox, luxury bunkers, true globalists, possibility that counter cultural social media accounts are actually helpful to the establishment, Conspiracy Culture thoroughly hijacked
Palantir will not be denied a defense contract. They are well on their way to becoming the totality of the US government itself. All hail our Monopoly Capitalists overlords who have thwarted the evil Woke Army who tried "debanking" them. Honestly though, we all need to get better at seeing through their new media propaganda.
Topics include: long game of digital media production, China summit, Palantir lawsuit against Pentagon/DIA, MARS, Project Maven, Big Tech becoming new Military Industrial Complex, FAA, Destroy and Rebuild, Silicon Valley billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Marc Andreesen, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Trump admin 2.0, puppet regime bribed and totally corrupt, first AI mass layoffs are in Tech, data centers, pollution, ownership of social media, new mainstream media is social media, counterintelligence techniques, cooptation of Conspiracy Culture, technocracy, confluence of different propaganda narratives, US decline benefits China, inconsistent messaging of propaganda concerning China
The recent US presidential trip to China was most interesting for what has not been said out loud. TSMC remains a lynchpin within this new world system emerging out of AI development.
Topics include: Ochelli dot com down, UAP video shot in Landers, Trump visit to China, Xi JInping, Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, tough guy Pentagon is for optics, CEO delegation, trade war shift, Taiwan as the lynchpin issue, ambiguity of US position on Taiwan, possibility of war, Jensen Huang, Nvidia, AI arms race, TSMC the one and only premiere fab in the world, failure/revocation of CHIPS Act, real powers in control of US, Technocracy, Elon Musk, Tesla business in China, MAGA's previous campaign ideologies hollow, internal strife in US benefits China, Global Propaganda Matrix, influence ops everywhere and from multitudinous sources, alt media and conspiracy narratives align with foreign influence ops, propaganda, reality of New World Order, US government being purposely being destroyed to be rebuilt, Putin's war in Ukraine, soft power plays
We are living under Biff Tannen style governance. We should pay close attention when our reality starts taking on the characteristics of dystopian popular fiction.
Topics include: Lyft ride truth evangelism, Conspiracy Culture, more people exposed to and in agreement with fringe ideas than ever, social media as broadcast mechanism of conspiracy ideas, analytics tools driving content, ubiquity of gambling, legalization of online gambling, dopamine response, prediction markets, new kinds of insider trading, more and more corruption, Biff Tannen style governance, Onion takeover of Infowars, satire of Conspiracy Culture long overdue, tecnocratic new world order, tech oligarchs, propaganda and Culture War distraction, crypto scams, new ASMR content pivot
Palantir/Alex Karp's book The Technological Republic has been distilled down to 22 easy to digest points this past week. Here, Aaron gives his commentary on them. Palantir and their fellow Silicon Valley technocratic institutions are succeeding in taking over the United States, and ruling via a renewed system of war and "deterrence."
Topics include: Palantir and the new Silicon Valley MIC, fascist technocracy, Alex Karp, The Technological Republic, morals and ethics, old aerospace being pushed aside, Iran War showcasing loss of old American Empire and its old aerospace weapons, $1.5 trillion defense budget for Golden Fleet and Golden Dome, old apps not good enough, new transhuman tech and virtual worlds, soft power, Great Powers Competition, bringing back military draft, faux Libertarian talking points, public figures, influencers, politicians, new Age of Deterrence, progressive ideals of Neoliberal Order, Elon Musk, X as personal promotional tool, violent crime political push for Law and Order, MAGA as propaganda tool of the technocracy, Culture Wars, tech companies dream to take over elections, US police state, Eric Schmidt, Trump now out of favor so online right wing propaganda monkeys now trashing him
The MAGA media world has suddenly come down with a serious case of TDS. It seems as though they have taken on the banner of "Dump Trump." On whose behalf do these morons speak, and what is it do we see coming in the near future?
Topics include: Trump more trouble than he is worth, tech oligarchs will fire president, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, rant Truth Social post, MAGA media world now against Trump, insult comic routine and other go to techniques now backfiring, Manosphere, Rogansphere, no loyalty or ethics, media charlatans need to be held accountable, alt media is just alt propaganda, online analytics tools, Melania Trump Epstein statement, more media face time for JD Vance, future cyber terror events will substantiate Vance to American public, Iran war, China, geopolitical great powers conflict, foreign influence ops targeting the US have been ongoing for years and have worked, MAGA built to destroy America from within, alt media taboo in talking about foreign influence ops, cybersecurity, CIA elevating cyber espionage division, Powell Bessent and band CEOs meeting, Global Propaganda Matrix, American Exceptionalism present everywhere
Aaron does a quick update on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast.
Topics include: video series about Conspiracy Culture/alt media, conspiracy theorist term CIA, charlatans, alt media irredeemable, actual truth, qui bono
Transhumanism, and all of the technologies associated with it have become topics that have become better known over time. There remains a very misunderstood, and important history behind the fringe movement.
Topics include: camping in Yosemite, changing online media landscape, so-called democratization of media, algorithm at center of everything, IMG_0001 website, visual experimentation with livestream, Let's Paint TV guy still around, Tom Green influential media creator, transhumanism, tribal political divisions within greater transhumanist movement, Peter Thiel, Martine Rothblatt, Postmenderism paper predated Culture Wars, emerging and converging technologies
The new holy war in the Middle East is the same old war in the Middle East, but it has had a tech upgrade. Cyber capabilities and global influence operations now rest neatly in the center of this, and all other wars moving forward.
Topics include: new streaming graphics, Iran War, through line from War on Terror to present, post-9/11 America, compartmentalized history with presidential administrations, Israel Bible study propaganda in US, Evangelical voter base a defect propaganda target, generic use of esoteric religious terminology and iconography, US troops told they are bringing about return of Jesus and Armageddon, Pete Segeth insane crusader warrior ethos, past US sponsored regime changes in Iran, Cyber now central aspect of all war, digital surveillance and data-driven targeting, influence ops now admitted to more freely to public, Global Propaganda Matrix, possible cyber false flags, Vance the preferable guy to put in place by tech oligarch MAGA political sponsors, failing US empire, becoming Tank Man
The old YouTube channel has been brought back, and you will be able to watch the live-stream video versions of The Age of Transitions podcast there from now on.
Topics include: reinstating the old YouTube ADDTV channel, live-streaming the podcast, leaving YouTube video, old problem of unwanted ads, new problem of algorithmic dominance, content creation in service to the algo, online super ego, classic conspiracy take of media manipulation vs new emergent media manipulation, technique Jacques Ellul, autonomous systems where technique goes, AI, agentic AI, automation of labor, addictive nature of social media is designed, digital priesthood, artificial synchronicities, Culture Wars as propaganda, ecological disaster of data centers
In daily life, we sometimes experience synchronicities. Now that we live in a totally surveilled world, it is hard to tell whether a synchronicity is natural or synthetic.
Topics include: Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, working on a video series, original ADDTV YouTube channel, work life, cell phone surveillance, CCR Born on the Bayou, John Fogerty, listening devices, synchronicity, data collection, personalized ads, reflecting on your day, anecdotal stories useless, distrust of self, demoralization, open society, AI, doing your own research, Conspiracy Culture, alternative facts done more harm than good, mainstreaming fringe ideas for propaganda purposes, QAnon, Epstein drama, free will, capacity for conscious choice, artificial overlay on top of life, confusion, art a form of channeling, collaborating with machines, destruction of Constitution, AI created podcasts
A brief show to explain a little bit about the purpose of The Age of Transitions podcast.
Topics include: emails, streaming, video podcasts, purpose of the podcast, critique of technology, transhumanism, intentional destruction of US government, alternative media, Truth Movement, Conspiracy Culture, online personas, noticing formulas, movies are dying medium
Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about their experiences making media online over the years. Things keep changing for the worse, and any semblance of a free internet looks doomed to extinction.
Topics include: internet history, podcasting, live-streaming, true crime content, media history content, Howard Stern, satellite radio, history of comedy content, Opie and Anthony, Ai remaking content, inaccuracy, alternative media history, cable access television, Mae Brussell, old free website platforms, tape trading, micro broadcasting, Alt Right monopolized alt media identity, white nationalists, extremists believe the false narratives about themselves, talk radio, new age material in alt media past, Red Ice Creations, algorithm in control, designed to fail Star Trek series, using Woke as controlled opposition, QAnon and Pizzagate, Hulk Hogan will be the new conspiracy rabbit hole, Cass Sunstein, Obama era, CIA defining conspiracy theory, Warren Commission criticism, propaganda, America being destroyed, calling out digital platforms in generic way, Rumble will be the same as YouTube, fake independent creators, Google Video, The Age of Transitions video, inaccurate view counters, Revolve book sales, low podcast numbers, James Corbett, Ochelli Effect, infiltration and redirection, memory holing independent media producers
This new year is proving difficult to keep up with. On both the domestic and international fronts, there is no end of trouble. Whatever you do, don't trust Nick Shirley.
Topics include: different ways to support the show, wild new year, Venezuela military operation, Maduro NY court case, Cartel de los Soles not a real cartel, criminal government, no rules or accountability, Global propaganda Matrix, new digital propaganda not properly understood, influencers are propagandists, social media, selling us brain chips, big money tech bought up media and government, Post-Truth World, Minnesota child care scandal, Nick Shirley, evolution of Truth Movement/alternative media, JD Vance promotion of Shirley, PPP scandal forgotten, noticing recurring narratives and talking points, executive branch blocking legislation based on YouTube videos, video titles, video from inside El Salvador prison, young people caught up in attention economy, testing the public, fake tough guys, pretending to be anti-Neocon, American imperialism, Rubio, plans for Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Network State, New World Order under construction, dangerous international tensions, US break from NATO, China military drills around Taiwan
The underground counterculture world of independent DVD production spanned a huge variety of niche interests. Outlaw motorcycle stunt man Ghost Rider is an example of something that can never be replicated in today's world of total surveillance.
Topics include: Ghost Rider motorcycle DVDs, underground indy media in 90s and 2000s, Bum Fights, INDECLINE graffiti collective, ADDTV, underground audio, Bam Margera, CKY, Jackass show, Big Brother videos, skateboard culture, Jump Off a Building Toy Machine video, Pennsylvania, prostitution, Bill Hicks, irony of laws, real life characters, modern internet motorcycle outlaws always get caught, surveillance built into technology and media, content creation, cameras ubiquitous, AI, no escape for anyone, TikTok divestment, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Middle East sovereign wealth films, total corruption, big money buying off executive branch, Paramount, David Ellison, Warner Brothers Discovery, buying up all media, Netflix, CBS, Bari Weiss, pay to play, CNN, technocratic oligarchy taking over American government, AI economic bubble, bringing nuclear power plants back up and running, nuclear fusion company merge with Trump media, data centers, so called green energy just a competitor being pushed out of the market, chemical industry takeover of EPA, doubling legal level of formaldehyde in air, real criminals at the top of the system, new media also part of propaganda system, right wing influencers, in-fighting of MAGA, JD Vance doing damage control at TPUSA America Fest
There is a major narrative shift now underway, and it centers on everyone being sick of our Strong Man in chief.
Topics include: attention economy online, digital media, rage bait, click bait, analytics, influencing elections, right wing content creators, Alex Jones, MAGA, public relations, Trump losing support, medical issues, oligarchs in control, Neocons, exploitation of conspiracy theories, purposeful destruction of American government, consolidation of all media, America Fest, Shapiro vs Carlson, deconstructing media, Bernays, propaganda, early optimism over internet, career as online content creator, public should demand to know who pays content creators, mad about Trump after they sold the administration in the first place, useful idiots, hollowness of social media success, Candace Owens growing audience, Roger Stone vs Steve Bannon, disinformation, tiers of power in right wing media, medium is in ultimate control, AGI, transhumanism, anxiety over the future, new robber barons, sci fi reality, relying on new technology to fix the problems made by old technology, baseless optimism, new Cold War geopolitical narrative, US vs China
Don't feel bad if you aren't sure what to do right now. Even the high and mighty captors of America are relying on social media analytics to know what to say.
Topics include: esoteric transhumanism, Peter Thiel, Patreon, AI automating online content creation, waiting for something to happen, no normal life, rapid pace of change, Big Tech AI projects, data centers, electrical power needs increasing, Ray Kurzweil, AGI, TMI, Tech oligarch version of Libertarian politics, UBI, social media and legacy media being consolidated, dependence of technological system, technique perfecting itself, faith in creation of technological god, Joe Rogan's transhumanist views, pretending to be Christian, using analytics to craft new media narratives, appropriating conspiracy culture, previous Big Tech religious identities, mainstreaming of fringe media and tech figures, social media marketing, Communism as boogey man scape goat, no accountability built into new American government, no way out of total surveillance
Strong Man is living in a glass house, and he isn't one for setting stones aside. Even Roger Stone may not be able to save him now.
Topics include: Lancer conference, Revolve book, audience, niche topic, Sora video, AI, transhumanism, uploading consciousness, digital clones, soft uploads, technocrats controlling government and more, purposely destroying old government, new mainstream media, social media as propaganda outlet, crafting narratives, atomized audience, algorithms, MAGA infighting, Trump himself is disposable, JD Vance preferred presidential puppet, Vance 2028 beta test, Musk's new political party, performative outrage from the actual oligarchs, conspiracy topics mainstreamed and used for propaganda, collecting data all the time, Epstein a continuing problem for Trump, Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers, presidential pardons, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Crooks, Butler PA, FBI coverup, Kash Patel, MTG, obvious corruption, purges, Cybertron, data centers and huge power use
Silicon Valley billionaires have been exploiting the MAGA movement to do their political bidding. The Rockbridge Network has been established to keep this ball rolling forward into the future.
Topics include: back from break, eczema, minuscule audience, top transhumanism podcasts, online living, tech billionaires, propaganda, mainstreaming fringe online ideas, woke joke, Rockbridge Network, Ohio, Hocking Hills, wealthy tech titans exploiting MAGA movement, databases of potential voters, using surveillance tech to influence elections, Thiel, JD Vance, Chris Buskirk, new MIC, American aristocracy, morons in executive cabinet positions, destroying US Constitutional government on purpose, total corruption, bribery, American Greatness total shill site, transparent PR articles, creative destruction, California Forever, Network State, Freedom Cities, packing masses into cities, unholy alliance, contrarians, UBI, automated society, old man fading away, actual ruling powers would like to replace president, beta testing Vance 2028 on social media, MAGA world fractures, narrative control, Cambridge Analytica, dystopian future, online entertainment, becoming a trillionaire, luxury bunkers
The maniacs taking over the US government are actually idealistic. They are the quixotic, dark idealists, pushing their Dark Enlightenment philosophy.
Topics include: Don Quixote, quixotic, idealists, etymology, Tron Ares, occult concepts, virtual reality, Monterey CA, mundane world, The Ninth Gate, Grail legend, Left Hand Path occultism, dark idealism, Peter Thiel, Anti Christ lecture series, misunderstanding occult, theology, Christianity, Gil Duran, 33, transhumanism, Singularity, AGI, Mark Andreessen, contradictions, controlling and being above the government, displacing American Constitutional government, Curtis Yarvin, Silicon Valley, America turned inward to war on itself, Executive Branch used as a tool of destruction, useful idiots of online media, Tolkien, Anduril, Palantir, wizards, Lord Of the Rings, Martine Rothblatt, technocracy, Stargate, AI vs AGI, X propaganda platform, reviving War on Terror, luxury bunker, divide and conquer, martial law, nonviolent resistance, deposing tyranny, nothing is real, the Event
America First is going full steam ahead as our new technocratic overlords successfully consolidate media. They use the platforms they buy to turn the population inward, and against itself, all the while international influence shifts to America’s adversaries.
Topics include: esoteric side of transhumanism, Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, living online, social media, information war, propaganda, the new mainstream media, misinformation, divide and conquer, algorithms, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, consolidating media ownership, TikTok ownership swap, China, national security, American oligarchs, Great Powers Competition, Stargate AI project, geopolitics, technocracy, America’s Constitutional government being purposely destroyed, advocates for civil war, techno feudalism, shifting global influence, America First destroying American international relations, Chinese investment in Space X, Tesla, Trump Russian money lifeline, silly alternative media taboos, international adversaries benefit from MAGA in power, culture war nonsense, exploitation of supposed free speech, military deployed domestically, pandering to the figurehead of power, political martyrs, Tony Blair is now an Ellison puppet, Silicon Valley takeover of government
Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about foreign influence campaigns. Getting beyond confirmation bias is a real stumbling block when it comes to this topic.
Topics include: Revolve, esoteric side to transhumanism, old days of Truth Movement, conspiracy and fringe topics exploited by establishment, early days of podcasting, alternative media scene infiltration, politicized narratives, JFK research, video project, non linear editing, hippies to yuppies, T Snyder, Lauren Southern This Is Not Real Life book, White Noise documentary, right wing commentary and influencers, signal boosting, Tenet Media, Russian influence operations, money sources obscured to creators, just another job, pushed by algorithms, destruction of America, dark alchemical side of conspiracy culture, confluence of interests, divide and conquer schemes, multiple goals, other foreign influence operations, other media outlets that fell at the same time as Tenet, Falun Gong, Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler, Epoch Times, possible Chinese intelligence connection, glomming onto MAGA narratives, organ harvesting story, cults, controlled opposition, Shen Yun dance show, James Jesus Angleton, counter intelligence, pigeon holed partisan views on influence ops
The new mainstream media is social media, but the new propaganda is starting to look similar to the old War on Terror propaganda.
Topics include: digital media, Truth Movement shifted into the influencer economy, emerging technologies, TikTok divestment going through, Larry Ellison Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, TikTok ban story was a farce, social media being bought up by tech oligarchs, truth is in the details, reactionary social media distractions, new mainstream media and propaganda network is social media, billionaires in control, government controlled by Big Tech, JD Vance is a plant, transhumanism, Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture protest, common misconceptions of California, Huntington Beach, Network State ideology, destroying US Constitution, Vance guest host Charlie Kirk podcast, Stephen Miller, new War on Terror, branding the Left as violent extremist group, fractures in MAGA media world, Charlie Kirk honest in his convictions, Turning Point USA, Epstein
Trying to find some meaning with the insanity of this digital simulacrum. Also, just another take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Topics include: Patreon posts, small audience, hermit tendencies, This is Not Real Life Book, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, Unite the Right rally, White Noise documentary, honest behind the scenes stories, Tenet Media, Charlie Kirk assassination, video all over social media, rushing to judgement, conspiratorial takes, karma, nature of digital medium overriding our free agency, labeling political enemies as demons, timeline, AI slop books, distortion of existential truths, divide and conquer, faux debates, users in TRON, civil war, mankind’s crime against itself, threats, free speech
The pretense of being a Libertarian was just too much work to keep up with for Peter Thiel, and so a new label has been conjured up to describe him. As a contrarian, he now has the luxury of not having to believe in anything, and instead maintain an appearance of antagonism to the status quo.
Topics include: Patreon posts, Carroll Quigley, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, transformation of former Truth Movement, creative spark is back, transhumanism becoming a mainstream topic, exposing technocratic propaganda, disinformation everywhere, Peter Thiel the contrarian, public relations, building public persona, move away from Libertarian identity, adaptations within right wing propaganda stream, shifting narratives, Elon Musk public profile model, Christian Identity, Anti-Christ lecture series, no charisma Silicon Valley billionaires, Ray Kurzweil, Rogan interviews, Andreessen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, taking attention away from real problems, puritanical dark religious aspect to right wing propaganda, international disinformation campaigns, Bernays, Technological Society, perfection of technique, global government, luxury bunkers, end times head space, Revelation of the Method, occult concepts, poor or no research feeds you into disinformation stream, encouraging nihilism, pretending not to be the new establishment, old mainstream media no longer exists, going deeper into the virtual world, rapid change
The former “Truth Movement” is no longer in existence, however some of the personalities involved in it are still out there making media. The many unfortunate changes in their messaging are discussed here, and Aaron will be going further with this in his ongoing Patreon series.
Topics include: improvements on Patreon, listeners who sent DVDs in the mail, history of Truth Movement, alternative conservative commentators, left wing denigration of truth seeking, algorithm leading the way, MAGA takeover, concept for YouTube documentary, creators getting huge out of nowhere, Fox News, angel investors, tech overlords in the shadows, rise of podcast format popularity, shifting over of mainstream media to digital media, old format of presenting research now gone, everything is reactionary, Guy Fawkes masks, misplaced paranoia, federal profiling of researchers, continuation of post 9/11 Neocon agenda against civil liberties, beyond the left/right paradigm, shift to full on racist material, Muslim takeover scare, Dearborn MI, history of demonizing specific ethnic groups
What heights were reached at the Alaska meeting of The US and Russia? What depths have we reached in terms of digital life?
Topics include: Patreon project, Looking For Truth In All the Wrong Places, enemy combatants, Trump and Putin Alaska summit, bad audio with interpreter, peace, podcast imagery, red carpet, runway, fish avatars, gaining audience, optics, fighter jets, decline of American Empire, F35, Air Force, MIC was aerospace industry, B2 Stealth Bomber, world wars, tech advances bring new warfare, aviation, emerging technologies, AI, Space Force, communications, digital connectivity, internet, Global Propaganda Matrix, influence ops, Russian influence on elections a taboo idea, marketing bad ideas, shift in American power elite, internal war within MIC, government contracts, technocracy, martial law in DC, the Constitution in Libertarian propaganda, creation of domestic enemies, Neo Feudalism, Elon Musk, Ukraine, business, information warfare, justice, don’t have to pretend to not be racist anymore, fooled by lowest common denominator
There is an ongoing war in the podcast world. The latest comedian defector is Marc Maron, and he has done a good job calling out the unofficial leaders of the space.
Topics include: Patreon ideas, scheduling live streams, continuing to produce online media, absence of Elon Musk, template for online behavior, AI, stolen election allegations, NSA audit, reversing the narrative, Butler assassination attempt, Epstein client list, starting point of truth seeking, lies, click bait, eugenics, Orchid Health, roof of White House, internet way worse propaganda delivery platform than television, facade of truth seeking, podcast wars, marketing techniques, woke as tool of division, Marc Maron, WTF podcast done, Rogansphere, new comedy special, political correctness, have to change your act, terrible comedians, Alex Jones always getting attention, cats, defying liberal tropes, using publicity tour to deliver political message, Tim Heidecker, Elephant Graveyard, reactions to reactions, free speech, control by the super wealthy, Alex Karp, billion dollar babies
Aaron and Chuck discuss the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. Later in the show, Aaron attempts to make sense of our senseless reality.
Topics include: continuing on in the face of adversity, death of Ozzy Osbourne, Back to the Beginning, off of meds, charity event, Black Sabbath, solo career, heavy metal, darkness, trademark sound, identity, Lemmy, Parkinsons, Ozzfest, freak sideshow acts, rock bottom, Suicide Solution, art, fiction accurate portrayals of evil, Running Man movie, free speech, propaganda, Epstein, Big Data, using social media for social experimentation, analytics, narrative crafting, Strong Man is disposable, true powers that be, right wing media is in state of confusion, charlatans, Conspiracy Culture taboos, currently in holding pattern, coming Singularity scenario, destruction of old institutions, useful idiots, international rival countries, oligarchs
They are trying to build a prison for you and me to live in. Another prison system.
Topics include: technical difficulties, Patreon videos, Singularity Summit interviews, International Alchemy Conference, New World Fest, insanity of the day, East Coast trip, new digital media propaganda, global propaganda, Epstein, taking away ability to think, influencer tools, tech elite, defense contracts, Anduril, Palmer Luckey, obsession over PR, mic gain, JD Vance, surveillance state, same project of Neocons, World War 3, information warfare, disinformation campaigns, schizophrenic government, no victory upon Trump death, Peter Thiel, salesman for MAGA, exploitation of patriot movement, eugenic philosophy, life extension research, new Superman movie, Amazon in its early days, inauguration, Technological Singularity, Kurzweil, Alligator Alcatraz, things are things, inventors, virtual worlds, complaining before it’s too late, deepfakes, knobs, Uncle TikTok videos, prison industrial complex, Freedom City, gig economy, dystopia
Aaron welcomes back Y as his guest to talk more about his Untold QAnon Origins article series. Here, they pick up with Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Topics include: Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, The Family cult, Great White Brotherhood, QAnon, White Hats, Australia, arrest for hacking, online message boards, helping Russia hack the election, Gucifer, early Suburbia Australian ISP, IQ dot org, shopping Wikileaks concept, Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers, counterculture, tech culture, Anonymous, hacktivism, art activism, Cicada 3301, ARG, MAGA, Trust the Plan, memes, Chaos Magic, internet as a medium, interactive media, WWG1WGA, networks, New Age, cybernetics, trolling, anons vs identified users online, ego, SJWs, identity politics, channeling, Theosophy, cryptic posts, Ron Watkins, influencing politics, nihilism, no culpability, Medium article series, YAnon
In 2009, I went to New York City, and met up with my friend / TransAlchemy blog collaborator Carlos, to attend the Singularity Summit as independent press. We got seven tapes worth of footage, mainly interviews of speakers at the conference.
I just finished a seven part Patreon series. In each episode I play one of the tapes from this event, uncut.
The guest on this episode is the author of the Untold Origins of QAnon article series. Here, he explains connections between seemingly separate movements such as Anonymous, The Venus Project, Technocracy Inc and more. Be sure to read Y’s articles, and hopefully we will do another show that continues on these topics soon.
Topics include: Technocracy Incorporated, Anonymous, QAnon, conspiracy culture, 4Chan, hacker culture, Occupy movement, Pizzagate, online message boards, internet culture as a whole, lack of critical analysis, leaderless movements, appearance of spontaneity, early anti Scientology Anonymous protests, backstory to Truth Movement, Untold QAnon Origins articles, Elon Musk’s grandfather, price system, energy accounting, Social Credit, possible common origins, distributist economics, automation, Howard Scott, faking identity as German engineer, A.R. Orage, avant garde scenes, Bolshevik Revolution, Gurdjieff, Russian mysticism, esoteric religion intertwined with political movements, occult history, art, Venus Project, Zeitgeist movie series, Jacques Fresco, shared terminology, Peter Joseph, New Age, appearing to be left leaning, odd truth filmmaking techniques, Venus Project films, visionary persona, Buckminster Fuller, futurism, cybernetics, philosophic schizophrenia, Zeitgeist Movement, Wikileaks, hactivism, white and black hat hacking, IRC, What Is The Plan dot org, Trust the Plan, Venus Project’s The Plan, phases of The Plan, extreme content on message boards, ARG, meme magic, chaos magic, controlled scarcity concept, Jordan Maxwell, solutions for discourse only, Cold War history, alternative socialist ideas, modern Russian propaganda, Aleksandr Dugin, East and West occult historical takes, shifting between right and left wing political extremes, government subsidies, 2011 important year, Podesta emails, political rise of Trump, Seth Rich, trialectics, getting caught up in Truther scene
Strong Man has now been put into a situation that he wasn’t built for. He has to make a clear decision in regard to Israel and Iran. Gone are the days of ad libbing on the debate stage. This is the World Stage, and it is serious.
Topics include: making sense of the senseless, life in digital space, old predictions of internet influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, conspiracy tropes, America’s position on Israel and Iran (day before bombing happened), MAGA regime, America First and anti-war take on MAGA, infighting is legitimate, Musk vs Trump, can no longer have things both ways, ties to Moscow, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Israel ties to US, Neocon origins of current American political establishment, War on Terror, Total Information Awareness, current surveillance state, Palantir, public private projects, new MIC, contracts with Israel, stock price surging, Big Tech, geopolitics, real version of Dump Trump, placing JD Vance into power, Trump can’t handle being pulled in several directions, weaponization of Conspiracy Culture, Republican Party identity changes, surveillance state used as political tool, dark side of comedy and right wing ecosystem, confrontational nonsense, lowest common denominator always rules online, simple reality has become heresy, gatekeeping, fringe websites reborn on TikTok, new age, technical improvement of online video, AI driving automation and job loss, being led into digital world, living in a virtual reality, transhumanist future, appearance of anti-establishment credibility, Newt Gingrich still Trump’s champion, giving due credit to the power of conspiracy ideas
Social media is dominated by trolls, and they have used their influence to wreak mass destruction on and off line.
Topics include: making sense of things, no allegiances, social media interactions, Tim Pool, bots, trolls, sarcasm, communication, social media Nihilism, trolling is now seen as good, MAGA riding dark online wave, Russian money, Tenet Media, targets of propaganda, alternative thinking taboos, American decline, divide and conquer, Trump vs Musk, telling jokes, rising to top by being an internet troll, comedy routine at debate, Vivek Ramaswamy, being the biggest winner and loser at the same time, billionaires acting like clowns, pro wrestling, is the fight real?, technocratic overlords, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, Administrative State, privatized system of control, attention economy, pay to play, possible schism within right wing world, MTG, Alex Jones, making excuses for Palantir, hall of mirrors, alternative is already the new mainstream, Steve Albini, being confrontational for its own sake, recanting edge lord past, analog media is dead, living a virtual reality, deflecting, nebulous enemies, literally demonizing your enemy, Golden Age, Western geopolitical alliances breaking on purpose, alchemical dissolution, nebulous ideas as enemies, Red Pill, cosplaying The Matrix, 3 AIs talking to each other
Pearse Redmond makes his grand return as a guest on this special episode. Reflections on an ever changing digital media space, and our collective struggle against confusion are had along with some memories of days gone by.
Topics include: early Porkins Policy Radio episodes, looking back at earlier days of podcasting, KONY 2012, information overload, Musk’s black eye, possibility of P Diddy pardon, early Epstein coverage, bitterness, commoditization of stories, idea that Trump would expose Epstein truth, alt media personalities exploiting story, dog whistle, end of conspiracy media, MAGA establishment pretending not to be the establishment, public threshold for failure low, J6 pardons and claims of Antifa involvement, live-streamers portraying themselves as truth tellers, war Gaza, simulation and virtual reality, RFK Jr, kicking the can down the road, not reading news can be good, debate culture, reactionary content creation, the platform leads the creator, analytics and SEO, rise of AI, nothing is real or original, lack of superintelligence, college students cheating with AI, mediocrity in and out, new Mission Impossible, social media platforms as propaganda platforms, perception warped, Great Powers Competition, resources, multipolar world, international propaganda, soft power, becoming radicalized to good causes can lead to disaster
The distraction machine is constantly being upgraded. Don’t think it won’t get you.
Topics include: Patreon supporters, online platforms, Trump’s BBW, new kind of material for shows, fake Prince tape at Diddy trial, falling victim to disinformation, AI automated content generation, salacious stories used to propagate misinformation, exploitation of counter culture, key words and SEO, attention economy, narratives, propaganda, distraction and misdirection, Epstein, Bongino and Patel as traitors to the cause, twisting truth movement as a way to vote in a new regime, tech oligarchs, Tim Dillon CNN interview, part of a new establishment, lame talking points, wishing the shills well, far right hate conspiracies have gone mainstream, White Genocide in the White House, receipts talking point, media is saying Elon Musk is stepping down, Grok, fat guy on Ozempic, eugenic breeding program, South Africa, legitimate disruptor would be good, possible cooptation of alternative community building, Network State, Freedom Cities, alt media already coopted, real story of longterm goals of DOGE, technocracy, possible privatization of USPS, hostile takeover by Amazon, cancelling X premium
Peace through strength involves taking world tours to make the big technological deals.
Topics include: communication breakdown, technology leading humanity to its own ends, digital dark age, Middle East presidential tour, technological arms race, AI, microprocessors, G42, Humain, China, Saudi Arabia, NVIDIA, AWS, AI zones, UAE, propaganda, TSMC, Taiwan, government contracts, X pure propaganda platform, transitions, fighting the establishment, nationalism, cyber security, free will impossible in techno prison, make the most out of your situation, false consciousness of AI systems, intergenerational warfare, accountability, no normal, impossible to plan a life, metadata
While the United States proudly destroys itself, other global power players take the opportunity to bolster their “charm offensives.”
Topics include: bad information, information warfare, conspiracy culture, analytics tools, pitting the poor against each other, woke scapegoat, racist posts, alchemical process of social deconstruction, QAnon, obvious conspiracy traps, possessed by misinformation, faith in authority figures, America being purposely destroyed, intellectual self defense, salesmanship, divide and conquer, immigrant scapegoat, promoting idea of civil war, technocratic control system, Palantir, Big Tech, artficial control systems, new MIC, luxury bunkers, excitement about possibility of apocalyptic events, world views of the United States, destruction of anti-war movement, UK history of appeasing fascists, moronic shills, talking points, being the person no one likes, burnt at the stake, Meta hiring former Pentagon officials, Llama AI, charm offensive, military and government contracts, IShowSpeed in China, Chinese international propaganda campaign, soft power, targeting younger generation, Voice of America targeted by Trump administration, China portraying itself as the better alternative to US, geopolitics, new power players, efficiency propaganda point, Libertarian farce, pride in being a total misfit, digital tyranny, spiritual resistance, Eye of Sauron, Lord Of the Rings, no Red Pill or other pills
Robin Unger returns to the show to pick up where we left off talking about Carroll Quigley. This episode is more about the alternative media landscape generally. A hollowed out shell of what it once was, so much of supposed counter culture is now being used to sell authoritarian technocracy.
Topics include: Mark Carney, establishment leaders, The Age of Transitions video, Truth videos from aughts, Alchemy in Popular Music, Mystery Girl Roy Orbison song, Bono, Themes & Memes, Carroll Quigley, Curtis Yarvin, orbital power, UN as a problem, weapons as unifying political tools, changing alternative media takes, Dark Enlightenment, Libertarian farce, fascism, technocracy, Anglo American Establishment, promotion of dominant minority, Left Hand Path occultism, Zelensky Star Wars fandom, the Dark Side, National Reconnaissance Office, selling counter cultural narratives, QAnon, intel ops, The Storm, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, MAGA infighting, pretending to be antagonistic, Biosphere 2, stirring the pot, Roger Stone hiding away, Jason Bermas, Australian fronted media companies, supporting political candidates only to disrupt elections, alternative media ventures as a means to mask actual sources of funding, hijacking Truth Movement, Flat Earth, DOGE, Alex Jones support from Musk, The Onion short lived ownership of Infowars, Canadian trucker convoy protest, Bill Cooper, exploiting emergency powers, Patriot Act, PNAC, shilling for new establishment, Tucker Carlson, Curt Weldon, 9/11 Truth, converging interests, Cass Sunstein white paper about weaponizing conspiracy theories, military intelligence, terror acts instigated by feds, Michigan governor kidnapping plot, Operation Gladio, making media about weaponization of alt media, Media Roots, James Corbett, return of Sibel Edmonds, spiritual self improvement
Are we now living in a Great Powers Competition or Great Powers Cooperation? The story changes daily, so pay close attention to be able to make any kind of sense of it all.
Topics include: technology, transhumanism, singularity, global tech war, development, trade, geopolitics, propaganda, social media information war space, influence operations, Huawei microchip developments, TSMC, Taiwan and China, GPU, graphics chips, AI, LLMs, NVIDIA, tariffs, AI arms race, 910C chip, SMIC fab, Sophgo, threats of invasion, changing perceptions of the Great Powers Competition, CFR, silliness of propaganda narratives, exploiting American bias, government claiming to be business, exploitation of American conspiracy culture, philosophy of current presidential administration based on conspiracy ideas, American Exceptionalism as a weakness, Russian influence ops, question of scale, Tim Pool in Whitehouse press room, Bizzaro Nature Boy, flimsy ideological environment, no consensus, dependency on digital information space, Elon Musk inflated autobiography, Big Tech power brokers both powerful and foolish, believing your own propaganda
Aaron takes the opportunity to do a bit of brainstorming and reflection on media production. We live in a time of flux, and all we can do is keep moving within the raging current. One can stay afloat by simply realizing the reality of the situation, and not merely being washed away.
Topics include: Candid Truth, being invited onto shows, Revolve book, being around for years, ebb and flow of popularity, drop off of female audience for Ochelli Effect, Skype as an original online broadcasting tool, Discord, herbivorizing predators video debate, bioengineering, content farm, time to create content, true independence is valuable, algorithms, online propaganda, social media online propaganda war, taboo topics, influencers, interesting email feedback, connected fringe groups, actual research, optimism, motivation, rules changing constantly, Uncle’s TikTok, short videos, Meria Heller as the Italian Grandma, social media as a form of therapy, layers of translations, international audiences, banned in China, propaganda specific to TikTok, propaganda is not completely untrue, exploiting US weaknesses, new normal in media, playing with crazy
Robin Unger comes on to talk with Aaron about Carroll Quigley. Infamous in the world of conspiracy culture, some of his best work continues to go mostly unnoticed. His book, The Evolution of Civilizations, is looked at here.
Topics include: Canada, Carroll Quigley, Evolution of Civilizations, Historical Analysis, Tragedy and Hope, Cecil Rhodes, Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy think tanks, Georgetown University, Bill Clinton, right wing conspiracy culture, John Birch Society, Alan Watt, Anglo-American Establishment, scientific method applied to history, social sciences, Anna’s Archive, Weapon Systems and Political Stability, unfinished manuscript, Classical Civilization, Western Civilization, Middle Ages, 7 stages of civilization, mixing of civilizations, instruments of expansion, institutions become special interests, MacMillan publishing issues, book plates destroyed, Allen Dulles, no true secrets in intelligence work, open source intelligence, no secrets in nuclear research during the Cold War, GSG & Associates, Milner Group, DeBeers Diamonds, Rhodes Scholars, All Souls, British Empire, Lyndon LaRouche, current Age of Conflict, inner class wars, tech takeover, Technocracy Incorporated, Robin’s art projects
Everyone is a victim of American Exceptionalism.
Topics include: podcast reviews, algorithms and shadow banning, future listens, Herbivorize Predators livestream debate, Robin Unger, Carroll Quigley, Uncle livestreams, normal life, digital world, contradictions, transhumanism, Martine Rothblatt, new propaganda narrative, Destroy and Rebuild, regime change, civil liberties, talking points, Joe Rogan’s podcast spinoff TV show, merging with machines, Elon Musk, X as propaganda platform, Tesla boycott is working, vandalism of Tesla as propaganda, fire symbol, uptick in racist posts, typical progression to full white supremacy, mainstreaming of fringe ideas, conspiracy culture, no talk about occult concepts, globalism, Great Powers competition, US national identity crisis, clashing with former allies, global influence ops, strength, China, Russia, fall of Soviet Union, trained to only look inward, veiled national arrogance, possible collusion between domestic and foreign power players, heresy, closed minds, tariffs, new American imperialism, North American Union, rare Earths, Greenland, Social Darwinism, leaders can barely speak, throat nanobots used to neutralize targeted individuals via squirt gun
We are now witnessing a complete upgrade of the US government and our very lives. The War on Terror foundation and blueprint is there, and being used to go even further. There can be no true freedom from here on out, but there sure will be a lot more things labeled as “liberty.” Will you “stand with” this abomination?
Topics include: Bookshop dot org affiliate link and buying books, techno eugenics, recent guests, digital propaganda stream, Tech moguls in charge of our government, total control, flaunting themselves in public view, evolution of Military Industrial Complex, Big Tech takeover from Aerospace, national security, defense, DIB, DIU, Eric Schmidt, cyber security, AI, future warfare, implied crony capitalism, F35, new dominant narrative centered on government waste, Deep State boogeyman, pure Libertarian Capitalism, Art of the Deal, new American Imperialism, American exceptionalism, cyber terror attacks, new rulers will exploit attacks, Musk and his super geniuses, desire for apocalyptic events by super rich, DOGE, facade of efficiency, AI directed government, ownership of data, privacy, Peter Thiel brand of Libertarianism, freedom and liberty, crushing individual rights, War on Terror foundations, PNAC, safety and security, 9/11, enemy combatants, Bush as the bad guy, daughter Cheney, DC corruption, MAGA narrative, 1776ing, Orwell, Erik Prince criticism of War on Terror, anti-establishment aspect of new dominant propaganda narrative, the new mainstream media, enemy networks capitulation, future of cable TV, social media is the new mainstream, interactive media, algorithms, systems designed to promote favored content, former iconoclastic critics of establishment now are mouthpieces of ruling regime, information war, bullhorns, brazen attitude at street protests, international deals, social media feeds meant to distract and confuse, Freedom Cities vs 15 Minute Cities, constant updates, lowest common denominator continues to work, guise of conservatism, I Stand With movement
Gil Duran is an independent journalist and mind behind The Nerd Reich Blog, which is one of the absolute best sources of information about the Big Tech billionaires who are now attempting a hostile takeover of the United States government. In this interview, he talks about this Earth shattering story that can no longer be ignored.
Topics include: Silicon Valley, freelance journalism, transhumanism, Bryan Johnson, Don’t Die conference, cult like ideology, life extension, true believers, fringe vs mainstream ideas, Neuralink, X, algorithm, billionaires, rich people are crazy, long form podcast interviews, journalists tuned out, career in politics, hostile takeover, California Forever, Solano County, secret group buying up farm land, slow growth ordinance, Network State, Mark Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, Amsterdam conference, surveillance and high end security, unite left and right to reject the development project, false claims of addressing the housing crisis, special economic status, Freedom Cities, Peter Thiel, potential takeover of FDA, hierarchical society controlled by a corporation, luxury bunkers, apocalyptic ethos, prepper movement, the Sovereign Individual book, homeless epidemic, accelerationist Millenarian philosophy, Exit, Voice, stealing other’s ideas, Curtis Yarvin, CEO as dictator of federal government, Butterfly Revolution, duty of the Press, old and new media, Fifth Generation Warfare, 5GW, controlling perception, John Robb, information war, pressure on academia, religion, parallel reality, propaganda, disinformation, Russian influence ops, talking points, kleptocracy, oligarchy, Autocracy Inc book, Project Russia, town hall confrontations, Democratic Party hiding, former political suicide not a problem for new power players, need for pushback, force leaders to action, moral battle, AI, sci fi villains, dystopia, power of the people, fake strength, nothing but show, accountability, rationing eggs, superficial media narratives, data that federal government holds
Anita Say Chan is the author of “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future.” Here, she speaks about her book and the very important connection between eugenics and the current Big Tech data regimes that we all live under.
Topics include: Uncle is on vacation, Ochelli Radio Network, Skype going away, 666-HELL, Singularity Summit 2009, eugenics, transhumanism, Bookshop(dot)org, University of Illinois, history of information sciences, data economy, predictive methods, social media, STEM, Silicon Valley, archives, critical humanities, Francis Galton, colonization, against diversity, demise of the West, paranoia, racial demise, datafication of populations, natural hierarchy, numbers, disinformation, non-Nordic classes, immigration laws, criminality, policy lobbying, misuse of science, sterilization laws, patrician classes, California eugenic policies, Stanford, Elon Musk, funding far right political movements, global order, attack on democracy, racial hierarchy, US as model for Nazi Germany eugenics, techno eugenics, false empiricism, divest from public institutions, Thiel, Andreesen, radical elitism, MAGA, promoting procreation of the well born, super genius, biological predetermination, Silicon Valley, Modi, Hindu Nationalism, Facebook in India, social media posts leading to real world violence, mob violence, attacks on minority populations, regulation on AI, public safety, psychopathic cost benefit analysis, taking power back
The new political propaganda machine did not just appear overnight. It’s been a long road built in a relatively short period of time, and we are speeding down it now. If you just merged onto this freeway be warned, nothing is as advertised on the billboards.
Topics include: no Uncle show this week, 2009 Singularity Summit, Peter Thiel, Ray Kurzweil, NYC, MIRI, Google, Macroeconomics and Singularity, Libertarian politics, government contracts, intelligence, Palantir, PayPal Mafia, billionaires, limited government, consolidation of fringe and mainstream, alternative media, ideological shifts, political technology, social media, big data, surveillance, Big Tech, crazy wins elections, data as a commodity, analytics, Information Age, political campaigns as potential data purchasers, world of contradictions, technocracy, Trump and Musk, crypto, claims to be disclosing hidden secrets, chainsaw at CPAC, transhumanism, zero charisma spokesmen, Joe Rogan, podcasts, comedy, fake underground, Gravitron ride, online media is the new establishment, cult of personality, X, AI, Culture Wars as a distraction, executive orders made to placate the electorate, propaganda, Thiel Fellowship, powers that be now on public display, talking points, acting like automatons, Russian disinformation, confluence of interests, Hulk Hogan, Idiocracy, dumbing down of America, Ochelli Radio Network, performance art, stand up comedy, branding, There is an Us and Them however you’ve gotten the identities of both wrong
Freelance journalist and author, Tea Krulos, is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. His zine, Political Monsters, has built onto a theory that posits that there are more vampire movies during Democratic presidencies, and more zombie movies with Republican administrations. Tea’s addition to this concept is that Trump has a whole horror genre unique to his reign, the killer clown movie.
Topics include: Political Monsters zine and ebook, horror movies, original theory from Obama years, Democratic vampires and Republican zombies, collective fears, Trump clowns, MAGA Party, Great Clown Panic of 2016, archetypes, data presented in graphs, Dracula, public domain, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Nosferatu, war commentary, Hollywood copycat films, collective reality, identity narratives, new fears, chaos, other subgenres to look for, Joker, rabble rouser, Jan 6, nostalgia, movies on TV, YouTubers, Juggalos, Violent J, DC march, live presentations, Milwaukee, Lion’s Tooth bookstore
The Global Propaganda Matrix is raging onward in this world gone mad. Be on the lookout for the transformation of the “alternative media” into the fully fledged patriot media.
Topics include: transhumanism, converging technologies, current events emergencies, AI, tech and biology merger, posthuman, continuum of human history, big picture, DeepSeek, generative AI, ChatGPT, NVIDIA, cheap development, national security, shift in MIC, Aerospace vs Big Tech, arms race, Eric Schmidt, NSCAI, DIB, DoD, app stores, Chinese app controversies, TikTok, digital hall of mirrors, Strong Man, US picking fights with neighbors, North American Union, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, change in alternative media, temporary identity crisis, New World Order, game show host savior, patriot propagandists, peace through strength, cyber warfare, false flag terrorism, 9/11, The Apprentice, administrative state, various forms of online propaganda, Elon Musk, Alternative for Deutschland, idiotic trolling, prodding the opposition, scapegoats, social media are propaganda distribution networks, shills, reposting every lie, bully techniques, actual resistance, free thinking, using culture wars as a weapon, data and analytics, command and control, technique
Strong Man is back, and he has come toting a stack of executive orders. Make no mistake, these EOs have not appeared out of thin air. They were written in advance by the Project 2025 team at the Heritage Foundation. Is our glorious leader trying to endear himself to the electorate by fulfilling campaign promises, while also setting up his billionaire backers for total takeover?
Topics include: word of mouth podcast promotion, The Third Rail, Ochelli Radio taking new hosts, garage bands, foray into alternative media, transhumanism, insight from doing this for a long time, return of Strong Man, big changes, Project 2025, Newt Gingrich, hippies, bald identity, Turning Point USA, executive orders, DOGE repurposed USDS, assassination records releases, J6 pardons, campaign promises, immigration enforcement, alt media bought and paid for, tech overlords, USPS will be given to Bezos, inauguration parties for online media creators, voices of dissent now appearing, Stargate, Steve Bannon, AfD party, Musk, Nazi salute, alt media identity crisis, doing something different
As everyone frets about the impending “ban” of TikTok the world’s greatest businessman and politician is already two steps ahead and solving the problem. In an uncertain future the one thing that we can make out is that everyone stands to get something out of all the great deals that are yet to come.
Topics include: David Lynch, David Wants to Fly, upcoming inauguration, TikTok Supreme Court ruling, supposed ban, China, Joe Biden, Bytedance, Trump with final say on any issues, technocracy, billionaires buying influence, wooing younger generation, online propaganda, Xi Jinping, changing narratives, the best is yet to come wall poster, alt media having temporary identity crisis, rebranding, popular apps from China, left-right paradigm, doing business as new American political propaganda model, social media as propaganda distribution network, shills, when the fringe becomes mainstream, patriotism, North American Union used to be a great evil, Columbus Oh, Anduril Arsenal-1 drone factory, Peter Thiel, jobs, new MIC, Newt Gingrich worried about immigration enforcement
The year just started, and is already throwing all kinds of unexpected events our way. Is this merely the harbinger of even wilder things to come?
Topics include: Goat Mountain video, technocratic oligarchy, Musk, Trump, Greenland, Canada, TikTok Supreme Court, Great Powers Competition, online propaganda, Culture War, Los Angeles fires, natural disasters, World War 3, hybrid and cyber war, underwater structures, UAP drones, military denials, Lakehurst base, UFOlogy, orbs, UAP in Southern California Inland Empire, sightings all week long, drone forms, orb form morph into drone form UAP, types and patterns of lights, Lake Hills, patrolling drones, large bulbous headlights, drawings and notes, no sound in flight, out in plain sight, Radio segue about UFO, online message boards and apps with posts about sightings, cannabis, surreal reality, current events also bizarre, Trudeau resignation, former allies possibly becoming enemies, media changes, George W Bush, War on Terror propaganda, billionaire late comers donating to inauguration, unfettered power brokers, no hiding the truth, billionaire tech moguls podcast guest appearances, regular people in good spirits despite things getting worse, sense of togetherness, better communication and understanding, culture war issues always infused into stories that would otherwise unite everyone, staying on track, digital surveillance, distraction, human interaction goes in the right direction, noting pitfalls, The Event, luxury doomsday bunkers, guests using AI to find the show, Say Yes to the Guest
We are in the thick of The Age of Transitions now. It’s a time of technocracy, and control by Big Tech oligarchs who have bought and paid for the government. Not even the former beneficiaries of the MIC are safe from their data driven rule by force.
Topics include: Chuck not well, Ochelli Radio Network, new Rumble channel, Patreon content, Singularity Summit interviews, new Themes & Memes episode, peers, tech oligarchs, shadow banning, share the show, AI powered guest referral systems, transcripts, artificial intelligence, MIC shifting from aerospace to Big Tech contractors, Space X, Palantir, Anduril, Open AI, consortium, retooling DoD, CDAO, JAIC, DDS, JADC2, Trump presidential campaign, tech billionaires, technocracy, cybersecurity, cyber 9/11, War on Terror, national security, social media, global propaganda matrix, exploitation of anti-establishment ideas, rise of online media, analytics, data surveillance, weaponization of culture war, Ramaswamy and Musk, acquisition of foreign talent in tech, MAGA base racist, Andreesen, Thiel, deportation agenda, new Cold War, China as antagonist, drag time story hour, divide and conquer, Trump himself not in charge, watch for narrative changes, TikTok divestment, Trump meeting with Bytedance CEO, Bezos, media now bowing to new administration, no one cares about truth, DOGE tool to remove regulation, civil liberties, privacy, Project 2025, prison industrial complex cashing in on deportation, police state, martial law, PNAC, Neocons, War on Terror continued, Mangione, billionaire podcast guests
John Kirwin is the author of The Conspiracy Theorist Survival Guide. In this interview he talks a bit about the book, and his motivations in pursuing the truth as he sees it.
Topics include: Wake up or else, 508(c)1, legal education, Sovereign Citizen trigger term, conspiracy theorist trigger term, Federal Reserve, rifts in family life, ultimatums, God, religion, truther group, mind control programming, personal sacrifices, waking up, charlatans, insinuation of character flaws, 10 rabbit hole portfolio, normies, false narratives, chemtrails, in the world not of the world, willful ignorance, vaccine as bioweapon, vaccine issue forcing conversation to extremes, absolute truths, virologists, conspiracy ideas used in mainstream, red pills, UFOs, states banning chemtrails, children’s library books, alternative space doing more harm than good, digital propaganda space, covert influence operations, citizen journalism, weaponized government, money for hurricane victims, choosing not to give up, Mandela Effect, vivid memories undone, convictions, pop culture, misremembering the same way, conventional thinking, implanted thoughts, mathematic impossibilities
David Hirschfeld is the founder of Tekyz software development company. In this interview he shares some interesting examples of how he has used artificial intelligence for projects that he has worked on. There are also some speculations on what we may expect to see in the near future.
Topics include: Patreon material, David Hirschfeld, software development, Tekyz, artificial intelligence, no one understands how AI works, technology, training data, medical devices, AI integrated into new software, AI development assistant, idea that AI hype is overblown is wrong, Elon Musk, data centers, robotics, autonomous vehicles, parking garages, rideshare companies, Waymo, regulations, DOGE, AI hallucinations subsiding, coding, self improving systems, autonomous vehicle safety, AGI, data privacy, agentic workflow, Microsoft reopening Three Mile Island, geopolitical side to AI development, tech administered influence operations, near future implications
A quick update to let you know about some live-streams and Patreon content you may have missed.
topics include: Themes & Memes, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, Singularity Summit 2009 video tapes Patreon shows, transhumanism, listener suggestions, making media fun
Onions are known to cause tears, but this time they ain’t the tears of liberal snowflakes. No way, these are the tears of everyone’s favorite rightwing beefcake.
Topics include: Patreon content, Singularity Summit 2009, NYC, James Hughes, 2B movie premiere, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, video, changing media landscape, legacy media vs new media, Onion auction purchase of Infowars, Alex Jones, satire of alt media overdue, shills, Paul brothers, making money from media production, advertisers, home shopping channels, viewer demographics, content creator as career, online media high production value, Global Propaganda Matrix, fabs, microprocessors, TSMC, Intel, world war, CHIPS Act, technology, New Albany OH, Columbus, Les Wexner, Mike Jeffries, get rich quick, billionaires, made in America, gods, Antichrist
The glorious leader will soon make his triumphant return to the office he was born to sit in. In truth, he likely won’t do much more than sit, but he is bringing all of the best people to help him to do the job.
Topics include: Patreon improvements, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular live-stream, return of Trump, Stop the Steal 2, election fraud, content creators are always right, MAGA marketing, Trump brand, techno oligarchs, Big Tech, Silicon Valley Libertarianism, loss of civil liberties, technocracy, Freedom Cities, coming challenges, Grifter Industrial Complex, dying Legacy Media, Neocons, Bush administration, unitary executive, War on Terror, racism, Patriot Act, Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity, disenfranchised working class, Trump not actually in charge, Project 2025 is the plan, lawyers have written executive orders, old age, America First, foreign policy, karma, World War 3, South China Sea, Indo Pacific, China, Russia, Japan, Australia, Phillippines, Taiwan, Chinese statements placating the American ego, cyber attacks, new patriotic propaganda campaign, PNAC, “alt media” is the establishment again, Strong Man, outlawing dictionaries
This week’s episode of The Age of Transitions podcast is an interview of Eray Özkural. An AI professional, transhumanist, and all around free thinker, he has a lot of first hand experience from within the world of artificial intelligence technology that he talks about here.
Topics include: Marvin Minsky, Usenet, philosophy of mind, machine learning, biocomputing, history of AI, AI research shut down on purpose, AI Winter artificially induced, experts can be fooled by propaganda, misinformation, science of influence, media, examachine, Open AI, scare tactics to keep tech in hands of a few, Sam Altman, free markets
Apparently, The End of Democracy is upon us. As that plays itself out, let’s try to get a firm hold on whatever is left.
Topics include: crafting propaganda narratives, artificial world, self, epiphany, human experience, American democracy, presidential election, lost faith in electoral process, true wealth hoarded, turned on each other, foundations, anti-intellectual sentiment, rapid change, Singularity, history, stake holders, gaming the system, virtual life, scapegoating, generational warfare, led by analytics and algorithms, art, truth, upcoming interviews, future options
Some thoughts on the many changes and many ages of transitions that we can look back on. Changing media and political trends have intertwined and brought us to a new marker post. Where do we go from here?
Topics include: Age of Transitions, technology, change, subconscious, historical marking posts, Newt Gingrich, politics and media, online reality, party politics, MAGA, fringe conspiracy culture, stolen election narratives, Election Day, ramping up police state, law and order, blanket distrust of politics and government, propaganda, conspiracy theory used as weapon, alchemical metaphors, heat, end of democracy, P Diddy, fringe radio, Tupaq and Biggie murders, black conspiracies, William Cooper, periods in conspiracy culture, self publishing, podcasting, internet history, albums on vinyl, Rush Limbaugh, outsider politics, truth movements subsumed by political movements, Putin, Butler assassination attempt
National security elites wish we were still living during the War on Terror years, but the glory days are gone for the US. Procuring government contracts to simply become wealthy is not good enough anymore. Meanwhile, those claiming to speak truth to power are simply recycling old tropes that no longer apply.
Topics include: prophets, IronNet, national security, cybersecurity, NSA, stock prices, C5 Capital, Russia, Keith Alexander, War on Terror, post war US history, foreign policy, wars of aggression, Pienaar, Russian oligarchs, making money for its own sake, corruption, imperial power, false pretexts for wars, 9/11 terror attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush administration, torture, Truth Movement, loss of civil liberties, unitary executive, Neocons, USA had privileged position, no global challengers, revolving door between public service and private industry, MIC, F35, ED 209, transitional period, Great Powers Competition, BRICS, dominant minority, Post Truth Movement, worn out tropes, funding for Ukraine vs past wars, Silicon Valley vying for more MIC influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, billionaires, falls from grace, double headed eagle, glorious past of various nations
Is Lauren Southern having a private crisis of conscience? Signs point to the probability of this, but only time, and Southern herself, may tell.
Topics include: status of Ochelli Radio Network, Brady Bunch collective style video podcasts, agendas, taboo topics, shifts in alternative media, Tenet Media, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, women in media, Charlottesville, young people difficulty with decisions, owning the libs, attention for its own sake, White Noise documentary, Gavin McInnes, misogyny, racism, business as usual for other Tenet affiliated creators, trad wife social media trend, Flintstones, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Civil War Monuments, free speech, Red Pillers, The Matrix, occult significance of Seven Mountains Mandate, NAR evangelical sect, Microsoft reopening TMI, AI power requirements, belief that AI is overhyped, Heritage Foundation, theocracy, conscience, Sam Altman, Open AI
Harping on the Russian influence, but also making time for what China is up to these days according to the NSA. You may want to throw out your old smart toaster just to be safe from the botnet.
Topics include: Russian influence on alternative media, Post Truth Movement World, shared interests, global propaganda matrix, governments, taking offense to more, social media, justifying being online, surveillance of everyone, Tenet Media, Tim Pool the world’s biggest moron, Canada, Foreign content creators exerting influence over our national politics, paranoid alt media creators, defense of independent editorial control, other media companies shutting down, financial backers pulled out, guise of free speech, hosts and creators who don’t tow company line are dropped, RFK and Don Jr piece about Ukraine long range missiles, $100K per episode, promotion of civil war, sense that Justice may be done, exploding pagers, Israel, cell phones, future terrorism, NSA Twitter post, PRC botnets, hacking, IoT devices, DDoS attacks, cybersecurity, update devices and get rid of old ones, smart devices, consumer culture creates security risks, Communism vs Capitalism, Cold War 2.0, questions of grey areas concerning war, geopolitics, dystopia, historical perspective, confusion, cognitive dissonance, confidence in knowing what is real, work of podcasting vs manual labor, tools of alt media
Chuck joins the show to talk about the Russian propaganda influence over the alternative media. This is a topic that many would prefer to ignore, but it has to be taken seriously, and understood at a level that goes beyond opinion.
Topics include: Russian propaganda money, patriot radio stations, RBN, 2015, alt media dramatically shifted to Trump support, offers of money to go along, Roger Stone, apologists for Trump, QAnon, outsider iconography, large networks buying up all online media, Newsmax TV channel, PSYOPS, RT promoted, bans from social media never seem to stop big names, unwitting useful voices for Russia, Lee Camp, culture war, Western values vs Russia is the East, generic Ukraine smears, Pizzagate, every liberal woman accused of being a man, useful idiots, free speech as a marketing tool, absurd amounts of money for podcasting, money for YouTube videos, funneling money through phony advertisers, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, etymology of opinion, Post Truth World, social media
As the Culture War rages on, there continues to be a surprisingly serious battlefront in the world of online comedy. High ranking general Joe Rogan recently had a very public meeting with Lord Thiel. Sorting information from disinformation in the midst of this is easier said than done.
Topics include: syncronicity, Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan interview Peter Thiel, Singularity Institute, org name changes, AI, billionaire, Erich Von Daniken, Ancient Aliens, Wokeism as extreme religion, contradictions, Libertarianism, climate science, computer science, Bilderberg, AGI, NPCC film festival, Cinefamily LA, nihilism, stand up comedy, Comedy Culture War, JRE is the biggest podcast, 250 stand up comics left, The Elephant Graveyard YT channel, Rogan’s Netflix special, Rogan Sphere, making a career out of podcast appearances, hacks, Rogan’s song and dance becoming stale, generic conspiracy podcasts, whining about woke, sycophants, Austin comedy scene, Comedy Mothership, left and right wing factions of comedy, Kill Tony, Harland Williams, David Lucas, Tom Green, web-o-vision, early days of live streaming and podcasting, Matt Walsh at the DNC, the Not Racists, PR for a movie, attention economy, entertainment careers in digital age, following analytics, getting a reaction, no real ideology, posts becoming more extreme over time, quality original content, divide and conquer
Pack up your bags, you’re being moved into a Freedom City. Don’t worry, it’s not an Agenda 21 Fifteen Minute City. We all know that would be a nightmare. This is a utopian new way to live that comes with a brand new and improved form of government.
Topics include: questions to ask to understand the world, ambiguous non answers, Deep State, billionaires, presidential election, narratives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media platforms used for propaganda, confusion and obfuscation, MAGA money support, Mark Cuban, government run as a business, Libertarian ethos blended into Trump campaign messaging, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, Republican Party changed by far right fringe ideas, Silicon Valley Libertarians, Marc Andreessen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, alt media online augmented reality, tech upgrades bring propaganda upgrades, technocracy, PR is Trump’s only skill, generative AI political candidates, Peter Thiel, LLMs, JD Vance, insult comedy, fake masculinity, culture war, evangelicals, Putin, Post Truth, Triumph the Dog, internal war within MIC, desire to recreate American governmental structure, Curtis Yarvin, techno-feudal city states, Freedom Cities, Pronomos Capital, rebranding, network state, Space X and Brand X, Agenda 21 population movements, 15 minute cities, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, martial law, Alex Jones, left/right paradigm
The digital charlatans are outnumbered only by their legions of online devotees. Understanding the basic nature of our current augmented reality is a necessary first step toward independent thought.
Topics include: June Lake Eastern Sierras, nature, boring artificial world, no true collective human goals, inadvertent problems of technological civilization, pollution, environmental degradation, technique, undeniable reality, wealth inequality, political turmoil, Trump’s appeal to underclass, everything is a con, planned obsolescence, Harris and Democrats have the advantage at present, RFK Jr and Joe Rogan, nihilism of Rogan’s brand, podcast medium, how to get engagement on Twitter X, Stephan Molyneux, exploitation of social media, augmented reality, online personas, propaganda, few people realize extent of digital exploitation, trending topics, taking things for granted, useful idiots, special interest groups, disinformation, online literacy, evil of television, scams, meaning of life, wasting time, honesty
Fires can be great, but it depends on who sets them. Is that a brush fire set by a Revolutionary Patriot, or is it one of those Molotov Cocktails that Antifa throws?
Topics include: independent media, anti intellectual trend, no more books, meme language, grotesque aesthetics, propaganda, dueling narratives, Project 2025, MAGA, exploitation of conspiracy culture, Alex Jones, playing the victim, Joe Biden gone, violence around election, Charlottesville, US intelligence establishment and Russia, PA Farm Show Arena, Paul Dans, Kevin Roberts book title edited, need to know basis, Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America, sun symbolism, Jordan Maxwell, dawn of a new day, fire, occult meaning, Revolutionary Faith, James Billington, conjuring Revolutionary War, Fire in the Minds of Men, Taking Back Washington to Save America, lit match cover image, publishing is dead, JD Vance foreword, muskets, pushing idea of new Civil War, amalgamation of Revolutionary and Civil War, domestic warmongering, Freemasonry, dumbed down, Billionaire Libertarians, war over new Military Industrial Complex, Palantir, old Aerospace companies vs new VC Tech businesses, Pentagon
The propaganda machine is rolling away as the political rallies are rallying a little too hard. In a world gone mad how does everyone have all the answers? What if they never did?
Topics include: back on the show, immediate responses to news, paid propaganda, actual work, independent media, motives, noticing patterns, talking points, Jump to Conclusions Mat, Trump assassination attempt, Crooks, Secret Service failure, Democrats did it narrative, lawfare, playing the victim, spiritual battle, deep state, Trump sons, stochastic terrorism, Trump as a liability to his own campaign, MAGA movement bigger than Trump, martyrdom, narcissism clouds grander vision, aging, distancing from Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Bannon, Kevin Roberts, cult of personality, being on TV, JD Vance, replace all bureaucrats, Peter Thiel, venture capital, Silicon Valley, unitary executive, Bill Kristol, Neocons, erosion of civil liberties post 9/11, Supreme Court, official duties, founder’s intent, Libertarian technocracy, virtual reality, 1984, mind control, alternative media built up to now, flip flopping, culture war, being triggered, political stunts, virtue signaling, Cowboy Catholic posturing, getting attention for political advantage, authoritarianism, Trumpamania, billionaires making money, Andreesen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, saviors
In this podcast a tired guy talks about religion. Is he tired of religion? Maybe.
Topics include: Project 2025, religion, missionary work, Jesus Christ, Christianity, esoteric aspects of all religions, comparative religion, fear of the occult, Godfrey Reggio, living in a monastery, brotherhoods, fundamentalism, Christian Nationalism, public and private schools, peace, reincarnation, ego, human experience, quantification and objective truth seeking, mortality, alchemy, transhumanism, destroying religion with ignorance, AI booms and busts, generative AI imagery, AGI, everyone questioning reality, Dark Night of the Soul, theocracy
It’s funny how those who are screaming and shouting the loudest about the Truth are actually driving us further and further away from realizing it.
Topics include: desert weather, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, truth seeking, alternative movements, fringe topics, dominant minority, online media, global propaganda matrix, shifting narratives, 180 degree turns in opinion, basic truth, divide and conquer, actually confronting the actual problem and enemy, Occupy Wall Street, discontent directed toward political movements, MAGA, QAnon, basic elements of history ignored, American exceptionalism, delusion, genocide of indigenous people, racism, the not racists, Christian religion, money backing propaganda, common people pitted against one another, angry mob as the enemy, status quo, authoritarian movements and impulses, Heritage Foundation, destruction of civil liberties during War on Terror
Did the “Tiananmen Square never happened” tweets fool you? It wouldn’t have if you had seen Shen Yun. America can become even more greater by electing the best rich guy for the job. Our problems aren’t so hard to fix when all the answers just seem to keep falling right in our lap.
Topics include: help promote the show, different sources of content online, propaganda from everyone, disinformation, government, narratives, Chinese Twitter posts, Tiananmen Square, Tank Man, Chinese propaganda, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, religious cults, over the top homophobia, CFO money laundering, what people say means nothing, basic corruption, Shen Yun, Russian propaganda ubiquitous, online news sites used as propaganda portals, Russiagate, Intelligence community shared beliefs, Stop the Steal, geopolitics, competition over resources, US spread thin, divided population, minimum wage increase in CA, insane profits, political cults, apparatus behind Trump, Project 2025, Truth Movement roots of MAGA, redirected energies, coming protests over election results, Insurrection Act, Idiocracy in real life, states pitted against one another
Freelance writer, researcher and historian Robert Skvarla is the guest on this episode of the show. You may know him as the smoking alien from Twitter. This interview was most definitely a close encounter of the informative kind.
Topics include: Pennsylvania, fringe topics, X Files, 90s paranormal and conspiracy boom, writing, hidden American culture, Trump, left vs right wing conspiracy material, propaganda, Edward Bernays, misinformation, Havana Syndrome, narrative wars, defense contracts, civil liberties, truth, inner enemy, DHS accused of being too woke, DHS INA, Project 2025, right wing new turn against intelligence and DOJ, government contingency plans, Rex 84, McCarthyism, concentration camps, conspiracy concepts derive from true histories of oppression, culture wars, political campaign noise, being online, Twitter, micro celebrity, new student protests, crime statistics inaccurate and used for political benefit
Entertainment media is shifting. Meanwhile, the continuing corporate takeover of all internet is only picking up more speed and momentum.
Topics include: remixing the shows, content creation, corporate takeover of online media, Big Tech, MIC, Conner O’Malley, Standup Solutions, mixed media comedy, satire, Google borders change on maps, subversive comedy, new media, Marc Rebillet ad for Google, entertainment, Google employees resign in protest, Alphabet, SEO industry, AI generated imagery dominating image search results, fantasy art, Dead Internet, attention obsession, artificial intelligence does not have intelligence, terminology, hacking slavery, deep fakes, online services, terms of service, ubiquitous surveillance, link back to your own website, idiocy of online content, search may be dead, TikTok as source of information, continuum of our world, thought experiments, seeking truth, climate change, online discourse not inspiring
We have been told that alchemy was no more than the delusions of Medieval drug addicts. Might there be more to the story than this?
Topics include: misfits, confusion, rapid change, alchemy, medieval addicts smoking lead, human experience, philosophy, abstract thinking, imagination, flying sticks, time, Great Work, ages, technique, taking our world for granted, thinking as hard labor, creative power, artifice, magic, mental health crisis, attaining inner peace, esoteric practices and goals, meditation, miracles of modern world, mystery of prehistoric humanity, biology, mining in space, the Tao, greatest truth defies quantification, death, ego, humility, nature, creation and creator, transhumanism, metaphor of lead into gold, limits of language, art of multiplication, Crone aspect of goddess, deleting discomfort, maturity, silliness of politics, tent revivals, perfect eternity, it’s a bible
An unexpected hero arises to take on our old enemies, the Neocons. Not the hero we expected, but most likely, the hero we deserve.
Topics include: Future of Humanity Institute closing, Oxford, transhumanism, Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, WTA, h+, eugenics, Silicon Valley billionaires, Simulation Hypothesis, racist emails, dysgenics, artificial intelligence, progressive version of transhumanism, fringe ideologies and groups, IEET, Martine Rothblatt, EA, Longtermism, national economic systems, technological development, Neoliberals, Neocons, establishment in crisis, Erik Prince, Blackwater, Xe, Bush Administration, War on Terror, MIC, Indo-Pacific military theater, pivot away from Middle East, defense spending, Reagan, Cold War, post communist Russia, focus on private sector to save governmental failure, Eric Schmidt, national security shift, Boeing, whistleblowers’ deaths, basic corruption, focus on profits over all else, financialization, wealth gap increasing, money isn’t real, lack of economic philosophy, no accountability, dismantling of legitimate protest, Israel, student protests, banning campus protests, 2024 presidential election, AGI, major governments want to steer their own new world order, space vs the desert
The Age of Transitions is your one stop shop for important tech news. Make your way through the shadows and over to this podcast to learn a thing or two. There are other shows out there that you may not want to listen to, lest you get us all into more trouble than we are already in.
topics include: Silicon Valley new MIC, expert opinions, one stop tech info hub, AI, nascent technologies, Kissinger, CHIPS Act, TSMC, semiconductors, China and US, Taiwan, Arizona fab, national security, LLMs, graphics cards, shadow people, fringe and alternative communities always degrading, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul campaigns, Alex Jones as the Joker, marketing, Stop the Steal rally, fringe ideas going mainstream, electing a US president, adversarial aesthetics for public political protests, confrontation videos, narratives, propaganda, relating to MAGA crowd motivations, rapid contradictions, accountability, deep state, alternative figures prefer to play the victim, massive narrative shift, Republican establishment, instability, stolen election, guns, desire for civil war, possible election outcomes
Boeing’s very public fall from grace appears to be coinciding with a changing military contracting ecosystem. Commercial airliners are being grounded as the art of war gets a new operating system.
Topics include: favorite words, time to live in your own head, solar eclipse, Northrop Grumman AI drones, killer robots, MIC, aerospace companies, military contractors, old and new guard, Silicon Valley and tech companies, mass psychology, fall of Boeing, marketing to public, exoteric and esoteric sides of businesses, air travel industry, commercial jets, 747, financialization of business, funny debunking videos, logic of the culture wars, celebrating your accomplishments, Amazon No Checkout shut down, AI object recognition, RFID, tracking chips, sensors, automation, training data, labor intensive, exploits, numbers don’t lie, total surveillance, efficiency, intangibles animating the tangible world, unnecessary complexity, belief, school, pragmatism, defy categorization
We are now trying to make sense of our world from within a global propaganda matrix. It should come as no surprise that most of us are confuse and tired, due to the fact that everyone has been screaming at us in order that we believe their side of the story.
topics include: cliche advice, too many analogies, Russian terror attack, who will be blamed, ISIS, Ukraine, World Wide Web, all views presented at the same time, tweets, Israel, US intelligence, talking points, bots, embassy warnings, Putin off the record, propaganda for every audience, global propaganda matrix, independent media sources, all media tainted, reactionary takes, reason for confusion and division, information war, world war, analytics, algorithms, numbers game, content creation, attention is the only thing that matters, truth tellers, comedy content, US intel working within Chinese social media, American hypocrisy, deny everything, global tension, global influence and infrastructure building operations, trolling, all social media can go away tomorrow
TikTok may just be the social media app of a new generation, but it is also now on the chopping block of the US government. A lot of legitimate and illegitimate business is done online everyday, and that may have to change soon as well. Where are technology and our government heading in this strange future we are always moving into?
Topics include: Topics include: digital to analog techno transition, antiquated systems, TikTok ban, Bytedance, Chinese response, national security, international trade, Chinese media and propaganda, psychological operations, free speech online debate, social media apps and companies, marketing, furthering tensions between US and China, Eric Schmidt, Chinese internet, national unrest, surveillance societies, dystopian technological visions, anticrime legislation, crime as a political tool, organized retail crime, public perceptions skewed, fence sales, online retail allowing illegal sales, pushing more law enforcement, evangelical vote, Faith and Freedom, money buys votes, advertising, abortion was enough to convince evangelical bloc, divisive issues
Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode.
Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2
It actually does matter who wins the upcoming American presidential election. Donald Trump is not simply running by himself. He has the backing of a massive evangelical political apparatus.
Topics include: no phone lines, propaganda has changed, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Donald Trump, presidential election, American Autocracy Threat Tracker, dictatorship, Christian Nationalism, alternative media bias, prejudice, powers behind Trump campaign, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, cults, Center for Renewing America, theocracy, spiritual warfare, Truth Movement corruption and co-optation, Tea Party, Ron Paul, cult of personality, Christian take on conspiracy material, Alex Jones, mainstream conservative politics, MAGA, battle within Republican Party, America First, geopolitics, great powers competition, Cold War, world war, Israel, Russia, international use of culture wars, China invasion of Taiwan, US domestic turmoil, new US Civil War, law and order, crack down on political protests
Alex Ansary is the guest on this episode of the podcast. After a break of a couple of years he has returned, and is now making new episodes of Outside the Box TV.
topics include: Outside the Box, solar flares, eclipse, Gaza, off grid living, Tucker Carlson, Putin, Russia, China, build up to a world war, big names in alternative media, mainstream conspiracy theories, solar maximum, Elon Musk, 2030, WEF videos trending on purpose, paranormal, ChatGPT, racially charged social media posts, TikTok, white supremacy, counterfeit 9/11 truth, spiritual warfare, Portland, human trafficking, World War 3, hacking, eclipse, possession, civil war, new Top Gun, Iran, biased online platforms
It’s safe to say that if Carroll Quigley were around today, he would not have a high opinion of Tucker Carlson. A little bit about the unauthorized publishing of Tragedy and Hope, and a brief look at changing American political ideologies.
Topics include: Brzezinski, internet, truth, Tucker Carlson interview of Putin, alternative vs mainstream media, Fox News, patterns of praise for Putin, China, Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, Anglo American Establishment, Evolution of Civilizations, macro history, Milner Group, 20th century UK Imperialism, John Birch Society, legal battles over publishing, Barry Goldwater, San Pedro, Tea Party movement, JFK assassination, American politics drifting over time
There may be an American elite, and they might have a “fraternity culture.” There might be a conspiracy, or there might not be. It may not matter either way.
Topics include: philosophical questions about this Age of Transitions, artifice, China cyber attacks, Cyber terrorism, great powers competition, GMA news stories, Taiwan, propaganda, technology race, AI, global economics, US foreign policy, WW3, exploitation of terror attacks, WW2, major countries domestic problems, America’s Elites, ivory towers, class divisions, fraternity vs conspiracy, political sway, forcing things to be better, things have gone off the rails, doomsday prepping, burying storage containers in the ground, paranoia, luxury bunkers
Robbie Martin returns to the show to talk a bit about the strange and ever-changing landscape of online media. Media Roots spread deep and sure, but new and evermore beguiling media outlets, personalities, and trends keep emerging at a breakneck pace. Robbie and Aaron do their best to make some kind of sense of it all here.
Topics include: Media Roots, podcasting, Masonic history, alternative media, UFO community, monetization schemes, over saturation, Lex Friedman, Joe Rogan, copies of copies, old conspiracies and hoaxes have lasting power, far right extremism and mainstream convergence, family upheavals, mental health, MAGA, Project 2025, strategy of tension, Jan 6, ruling class factions at war with each other, civil war, QAnon, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Podesta emails, counterintelligence, Accelerationism, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, rightwing influencers, glomming onto fringe topics, 9/11 Truth, Flat Earth, Alex Jones, Singularity, AI, Kurzweil, transhumanism, virtual spaces, fictionally augmented digital realities, LLM fueled disinformation campaigns, Neuralink
There is an ongoing war within the war business. The old guard aerospace companies are now competing with Big Tech players from Silicon Valley. New departments within the US Military have been put into commission that may end up giving an advantage to Big Tech.
Topics include: Friday night show, MIC competing interests, aerospace industry, Big Tech, Silicon Valley, defense contracts, DoD, technology, Eric Schmidt, tech race with China, AI, venture capital, private equity, subscription models, vested special interest groups, DIB, Office of Strategic Capital, SVB bailout, national security argument, financial industry, cybersecurity, foreign policy, bureaucratic waste, profiteering, public/private partnership, F35, projecting international image of strength, California, cicadas, fast food automated kiosks, automation, MTG feet, bowl making machine, gas station markets
Blake Lemoine burst onto the public scene a year and a half ago when he went public about his work on Google’s LaMDA system. In this interview, Blake talks about the current state of AI development, and our collective involvement in this massively important technological event.
Topics include: Google, LLMs, AGI, AI, engineering jargon, LaMDA, chatbot, Gemini, evolution of search engines, safety protocols, sentience and consciousness, Pope’s sermon on AI and peace, philosophy, Silicon Valley, transhumanism, Ben Goertzel, Ray Kurzweil, Effective Altruism, Accelerationism, Techno-Utopians, Libertarianism, religion, cults, occult, Discordianism, Turing Test, Roko’s Basilisk, panic, Gary Marcus, low emotional intelligence and power, nerds, different characters of LaMDA, narratives, new kind of mind, faithful servant, AlphaGo, Sci fi worries not a real problem, AI as a human weapon, Golem, ethics, privileged access to advanced systems a real danger, MIC, The Gospel system of IDF, automation of worst aspects of human culture and society, artists sounding alarm
It’s a vast, seemingly endless, digital wasteland out there. Somebody must be buying the quadrocopter harmonica drone kit, but does it really matter who?
Topics include: planting Joshua Tree seedlings in Landers, pseudo confrontations online, virtual worlds, entertainment media, popularity, digital wasteland, disengagement, nebulous digital identities, bots, online wasteland, content for its own sake, click bait, endless products and ads, can’t hear sound effects, numbers, marketing, propaganda updates, automation thus far has forced human labor to speed up, John Wayne
The world is an absolute horror show that can only be repaired by our wise and benevolent hand. The hand of God would do the same thing, and on that note, let’s make a whole new god. We can make it in our image, and it will be looking pretty good. Kind of makes you wonder how the hell anything got done around this dump before we showed up?
Topics include: converging technologies, impossible to keep up, insane world, AI used in political elections, Project 2025, freedom, first and second amendments, MAGAC, privacy and online activity, law and order, silly Twitter debates, Herbivorize Predators, transhumanism, the world needs a naysayer, taking things for granted, Man vs Nature, death as a problem, life extension, anthropomorphic gods, religion, Great Work, apotheosis, immortality, continuum of the human race, schizo world, overstimulated, unplugging, online life, evolution of social media, convergence of all media, video games, gamer’s dreams come true, increased interactivity, generative AI, digital dementia, video game induced psychosis, virtual environments shape your very being, power of mind, intangible things have real power, life in VR could be sold as more sustainable, avoid physical waste by doing everything virtually, new religion, uploading consciousness, paradise engineering, no pain in heaven, simply observing
The Heritage Foundation has been planning a whole new federal government to be implemented in 2024. They just need their horse to win.
Topics include: books, AI, converging technologies, transhumanism, podcast feed, politics, military funded tech, exhaustion and confusion, presidential election, 2024, alternative media sphere led to Trump, Deep State, Heritage Foundation, Agenda 47, loyalists, social media data mining, technocracy, Project 2025, Left reactionary issues given a Trump victory, protests, law and order, revenge, authoritarian police state, alternate Democratic candidates, Gavin Newsom, hatred of California, Dwayne Johnson, no point for Republican debate, Ramaswamy, surveillance tech in politics and elections
The Age of Transitions is a live call in show on Sunday nights.
Topics include: live call in show Sunday nights, scams, online sex work, paid trolls, building online audience, social media, phishing, coerced labor, human trafficking, modern slavery, Craigslist, Silk Road, Skype, Jimmy the Example James, calling in to big shows to promote smaller shows, Age of Transitions marketing, Bin Laden book shelf
While living in your own head, take care not to fall off the edge and into the Abyss that Nietzsche warned about.
Topics include: black cat, Halloween, new year approaching, weekly and daily routine, every human interaction a survey, multi-tasking, living in our own heads, paying attention in the moment, you are your thoughts, psychosis, bad things happen to good people, can’t predict future, accepting horror of world, inner peace, chaos, philosophy, theology, anthropomorphizing divinity, men with funny hats, Hercules, charlatans, cults, personas, Curtis Springer, Zzyzx Road, selling holy water, mountain spring water, celebrity deaths, Night Court
Marc Andreessen isn’t just some stuck up old one percenter. He’s a lot like you and me, hatin’ on the Malthusian globalists who want to control the world with population reducing environmentalism. Jump on board the Techno-Optimist train today to arrive in Abundance Town tomorrow!
Topics include: Dallas trip, taking stock, Revolve book, transhumanism, converging technologies, esoteric side of technology, alchemy, religion, occult, alternative and fringe groups, conspiracy minded billionaires, Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley, tech industry, Techno-Optimist Manifesto, one percenters, contrarian thinking, link between tangible and intangible, leisure time afforded by wealth, population levels, Libertarian ideology, Accelerationism, Philosopher’s Stone, abundance, dominant minority, market structures suit those in power, CEOs and politicians are lackeys, insider trading, artists, philosophy, technological supermen, Nietzsche, sustainable development, Limits of Growth, Club of Rome, Agenda 21, climate change, global warming, First Global Revolution, Malthusian view, nihilism, the Dying God, artifice, intelligence, perpetual motion, radio spots, hopeless pandering to potential employers
We are too slow to catch up to the world now that it has begun learning how to run itself.
Topics include: American foreign policy, propaganda from multiple sources, influence operations, technology, drone warfare, inexpensive weapons, old songs, meme culture, intellectual property, virtual worlds, convergence of all media, AI imagery, artificial intelligence, prompts, social media, YouTube houses, shock jock TV shows, Subway franchising, entrenched establishments won’t adapt fast enough, F35, Silicon Valley, waste became the establishment, pollution, lack of efficiency, defense budget woes, machine automation, economy, impossibility of eliminating debt, brokering debt dissolution deals, computer hacking cyber attacks, economic information deleted
Retail crime is making headlines these days. Are retail stores doomed, or is the future of retail just around the corner?
Topics include: live show, anti-trust lawsuits against tech companies, retail theft, fear of crime, future retail store, brick and mortar vs online retail, warehouse, interactive displays, augmented reality, AI customer service, Game Theory, autonomous machines, surveillance, privacy, MAGA, Hillary Clinton, presidential election, violent rhetoric
It’s the four hundredth episode of The Age of Transitions podcast.
Topics include: Newt Gingrich, Age of Transitions essay, America, politicking, media, dueling narratives, civil rights movement history, BLM, scapegoats, crime, racism, alternative media, perceptions as reality
Influence operations have made us go to war with ourselves.
Topics include: cyber security, national security, digital terror attack, war propaganda, torture, Guantanamo Bay, 9/11 trials, Saudi Arabia, New World Order, technology, weapons, AI, influence operations, China, civil war, no ideological cohesion, gates, meta verse, virtual reality, converging media, entertainment, brutal justice
Who wants to help trample truth into the ground, and replace it with a hideous imposter? Join the party, everyone’s doing it.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network, other networks, conformity, censorship, freedom of speech, phone lines in jeopardy, JFK Lancer, misfit among misfits, no regrets, odd choices, success, day job allows freedom on the microphone, give audience benefit of knowledge from the other side of the speakers, shrewd business masked in virtue signaling, alternative media, 9/11 Truth Movement, attention for its own sake, confrontation videos, out of context and unprompted 9/11 questions, transhumanism now popular to comment on, happy on the sidelines, frauds, talking vs listening, inertia behind bad narratives, BS sells, religious devotion, tech overlords being horrible believing themselves to be benevolent, self actualization, individuality, complete reversal on certain talking points, hatred of Islam, martial law is great if it keeps the right person in power, police state, many actually want an authoritarian system, law and order, pretending to be tough, pretending to care about free speech, psychological projection, belief
Law and order for the people, and total criminality for their leaders. Fair is fair.
Topics include: alternative media, Truth Movement, narrative fandom, guest spots, 2024 presidential election
Freedom means throwing your neighbor in a gulag if they go against the will of “our president”. The Constitution is a Christian document written by Jesus, and predators will be herbivorized. Yes, it’s true, Heaven on Earth is upon us.
Topics include: hurricane, climate change, The Storm, QAnon, Trump indictments, 2024 election, Georgia, threats against judge, Grand Jury doxxed, 18 codefendants, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, indictments help Trump gain popularity, entrenched political establishment two parties, Russian moon mission, grand narrative, serial killer, Trump fans radicalizing themselves, what even is alternative media, meaningless labels, Herbivorize Predators, paradise engineering
Dwitght D. Eisenhower’s famous farewell address to the American people is played here. Aaron, Chuck and Jimmy give some commentary on it.
Topics include: call in to the live show, AI, LLMs, microphone, URLs, X, Meta, Eisenhower farewell speech, MIC, technology, inventors vs massive grant funded labs, classic Republican, more cohesive public sentiment in the past, democracy, informed citizenry, upward mobility used to be possible, performance
Author, Sam Aydlette returns to the show to talk about his new book, “American Values.” Take a road trip deep into the undercurrent of the American psyche, and see what may emerge from the shadows.
Topics include: Sam Aydlette author, writing, brevity, blurring lines between metaphor and reality, Stratosphere casino and hotel, Las Vegas, Big League Chew, Curt Schilling, coming to terms about dangers in world, perception vs reality of Iraq war, admitting when you are wrong, road trip narrative, synchronicity, media talking points, intelligence community, connecting with readers
As technological capacity keeps building we are being reminded of the many new possible threats to national security. Where is this all leading and who is profiting?
Topics include: global tension, Cold War 2.0 term, American foreign policy, Eric Schmidt, Silicon Valley becoming new MIC, DIU, profiting off of government contracts, Doug Beck DIU director fomerly Apple executive, emerging technology, new arms race, defense budget, Ike MIC speech, Ellul, technique requires funded big laboratories, cyber version of 9/11, reactionary media a problem, possibility of homegrown open source tech, communication breakdown, idolotry, STEM vs the humanities, college attendance down, online interactions, research into life extension, aliens and UFOs, congressional hearing
Chuck, Chris Graves and Aaron discuss podcast production, and news at the Ochelli Radio Network. This gig isn’t as economical as it once was, and it isn’t even the gig economy, or is it? We may have missed that when it happened.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network, broken microphone, using the knobs, audio equipment, dollar store microphone, Disney video game microphone, promo products made in Asian countries, polka dot design idea, new Uncle IG videos, new shows coming to network, Chris Graves, guests charging appearance fees, Stuttering John, Sgt Slaughter, RFK Jr speaking fee, Dallas JFK conference trip, big budget podcast producers, over-saturation of podcast market, Cameo show bumpers, Jerky Boys, Captain Janx
The facts have been thoroughly checked, and podcasting has been exposed. Learn the real truth here on this show, and not on any other shows. This show isn’t a podcast, it is an expose of podcasts.
topics include: internet could change, semiconductor manufacturing, Taiwan, TSMC, US military buildup in South China Sea, 2024 election, desire to use US military against Mexican drug cartels, defense budget, technology at center of global conflict, possible new hardware for computing, training AI, possibility of incredibly boring future optimized by AI and surveillance tech, group psychology, Soros replica son, celebrities with fertility issues, artificial wombs, AI prompts, fact checking, podcasting exposed
Zardoz was a cool vision of the future. Let’s do that one.
Topics include: transhumanism, technology, continuum of the present, life extension, basic healthcare incredibly difficult to attain, dominant minority beneficiaries of high tech healthcare, cost of living, artificial meat, Zuckerberg and Musk cage fight, Wagner Group head run out of Russia, Myanmar, cobalt, Saudi Arabia purchase of pro sports, Chinese entertainment approval, attention as an asset, extreme tedium of AI training, Wizard of Oz
You can fool most of the people all the time. That’s it.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network swag bags, camping in Sequoia National Forest, power of nature, natural and artificial worlds, transience of life, metaphysics, matter and energy, void, subjective life, creation coming to life, echo chambers, atomized society, digital life, Cult 45, ease of conning masses, conscious vs subconscious, autonomous wheel, computers, algorithms, machine learning systems, dread of future, remixing remaking and rehashing everything, physical and virtual immortality, psychedelic world, alchemy, possibility of authoritarian government, political order
The Venus Project might bring an abundance of something, but first let’s talk politics.
Topics include: Neuralink, competing with AI, brain implants, transhumanism, F35 spare parts missing, MIC, Red Team complains about government spending except for defense budget, politics don’t make sense, drone simulation kill operator, out of context, AGI a smokescreen, Peter Diamandis, techno utopian stance harder to promote today, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, abundance nonsense, creativity allows you to realize there are other approaches, depression, infinite possibility, philosophy of society, optimism, life extension, food preservatives, oil, scary Democrats, politics of division, media
Red Pilling ourselves to the point where Social Security numbers are mere zeros and ones for us to bullet time jump through.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network donation swag, big things happening right now, LLMs, deep fakes, AI generated imagery, motion pictures, legislation to halt AI development, Promethean Fire, Social Security numbers, identification, AGI, Ellul, the system molds us, mass man, mass confusion, ubiquitous propaganda and misinformation, social media, internet of the past, AI Gold Rush, gold symbolism, metaphor equal to or greater than reality, Stewart Rhodes and other false prophets
Particle Ion was Aaron’s collaborator on the TransAlchemy blog/website. It has been over a decade since then, but some of the topics discussed on TA are only just now becoming big news stories.
Topics include: TransAlchemy, making videos, Singularity Summit 2009, Ai art, Midjourney, intellectual property, ChatGPT, LLMs, writer’s strike, actors, deep fakes, Ai generated movies, music, impossible to trust imagery now, internet, metaverse, VR headsets, virtual reality, transhumanism, social media, Twitter, Elon Musk, AGI vs narrow Ai, machine learning, intelligence, consciousness, scientific method, software, AI writing code, hacking, intangibles, occult side of tech, existential threat
The practice of science requires philosophical impetus. Every meaningful action we take is predicated by an idea. This is how the intangible alters the physical.
topics include: science, alchemy, scientific theories, ideas, mysticism, Great Work, Philosopher's Stone, Tucker Carlson
Living in a machine’s world makes an obsolete man out of all of us.
Topics include: Columbus 9/11 Truth Group, truthing, film fest, Wind Storm 08, drive to California, Google Video views, interview requests, The Obsolete Man, burning DVDs, computer programming languages, Tandy, early PCs, Windows OS, knowledge limited to using app interfaces, machine world, Battlestar Galactica, training algorithmic systems, AI bias, Elon Musk, internet troll ethos, 3D printing, sculpture, 3D modeling, Fusion 360, art, JFK, martial law for freedom, military dictatorship, Smedley Butler
Vanessa Walilko is the host of the Personal Pans podcast, and guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. No one ever said that arcane matters had to be dark and scary, so come join us by listening to our brief conversation.
Topics include: Personal Pans podcast, Pans Paracon, nerd communities, Book It, fundamentalist religion, belief systems, occult info online, metaphysical and physical realities, intelligent design, mathematics and measurements, thoughts, consciousness, missionary work rejected by South American indigenous community, ancient mysteries, paranormal, media literacy
You will use Bing, and you will like it.
Topics include: Bing on Skype, ChatGPT, LLM, artificial intelligence, attention economy, analytics, possibility of alien mothership, Nibiru, Bill Gates, cobalt mining, Trump indictment, Jan 6, Jimmy’s grocery store story, mail getting lost
A new Magna Carta for a new day is being written in digital code.
Topics include: t-shirts and hats, sovereign citizens, Magna Carta, Thanatos, apocalypse, social media, generative AI, Ben Goertzel, machine replacing man
The Pentagon hopes to bolster its tech prowess by partnering with a faltering private sector.
Topics include: JADC2, DoD, AI, cybersecurity, digital warfare, new Cold War, Iraq War, lies, Post-Truth, Oath Keepers, Jan 6
Biological computers can play pong.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network back up, Everything Everywhere All At Once, schizophrenia, nothing matters, biological computers, Battlestar Galactica, Dr Who, creative projects
The rug of society has been folded over on itself and now its many and varied fringes are on top of each other making quite a mess.
Topics include: transhumanists are fringe group, emerging tech now in the news, chatbot stories about machine consciousness, Dilbert, AI, Nick Bostrom racist email, Extropians, eugenics, evangelical reactionary takes on tech
Good for nothing but predicting an all too predictable future.
Topics include: letting people down, staying offline, Eric Schmidt, DOD, technology, motorcycles playing loud music, Rocky movies, Survivor, JFK assassination, Richard Belzer, crime and traumatic TV series, Infowars Junior, establishment MIC moves slow, future cyber terror event, digitized economy, propaganda, China will be blamed, legislation to speed up military spending in Silicon Valley, cyber security
Pondering some of the philosophical and esoteric aspects of artificial intelligence.
Topics include: advertising on Ochelli Radio Network, not being online, impossible to keep up, technological progress, automation, genetics history tied to eugenics, general public leery of science, cults, secret societies, AI systems, black holes, mysticism, religion vs science, philosophy, no absolutes, quantum theory, alchemy, artistic process, consciousness, creative power, godhood, AGI or narrow AI, Buddha at peace
Uncle becomes the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions.
Topics include: healthy skepticism, democratization of propaganda, online platforms, martyrs, virtual worlds as sustainable solutions, reversing ecocide with technology, petroleum based products, automation, Uncle guest appearance, brains, Thursday dating app, early internet, profiles to do everything, scams, social media identity imposters, copyright law to protect personal identity, Ochelli card deck
An automated society is now emerging.
Topics include: busy schedule, important news, social media wasteland, divided population, owners in society, coming economic reckoning, automation, AI generated imagery, ChatGPT, technique, super intelligence, AGI, gaming the system, Game Theory, amassing wealth, quantum computing, virtual world to continue the status quo, pretense, engagement and attention, freedom from consciousness, nihilism, feigned opposition, V For Vendetta, Wachowskis, The Matrix, Truth Movement, Trump, Covid lab leak hypothesis, projection, Kamala Harris, deeds not words, philosophy, Aaron Rodgers and Ayn Rand
So many of the things that have been discussed on this show over the years are now coming to be. The future is now.
Topics include: automation, robot warehouse pickers, Amazon, Washington Post, MIC, tech industry, normalization, drone delivery, machine learning, AI writing, AI art, Emo, dark warehouse, US and China tensions, microchip factories, PR, artificial wombs, genetic engineering, changing attitudes, deepfakes, perception of reality, nature of technique, mental health crisis, wages going up now, strange contradictions in corporate job market, working remotely, layoffs, annoying debates, portions of the population being left behind, Trump NFTs
The antics of Ye, the man we all love to hate, may be the playing out of a wide scale replay of the many and sordid misadventures of the alternative media.
Topics include: Spaghetti Western Saloon, Joshua Tree area, making predictions, technologically advanced misinformation, democratization of media, celebrity available to all, social media, legacy media, game theory, Ye likes Hitler, ego, Andy Warhol, Andy Kaufman, fringe conspiracy material, far right extremism, reenactment of past of alternative media for mainstream, racism, fascism, easy to be fooled, George Costanza philosophy, no such thing as total lies, instant gratification, reactionary environment, people hate their work, Banksy, Chris Graves, past interviews, graves of famous people
Thanksgiving is a harvest time festival with corollaries in past civilizations.
Topics include: Thanksgiving holiday, turkey, meal, holiday myths, Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, pilgrims, symbolism of agriculture and cultivation, civilization, tribal life, harvest Winter and death, stones as foundation of work, Native Americans, reckoning time for American history, corn, Demeter and Persephone, Eleusinian Mysteries, seasons, nature, Classical Civilization, rise and fall of civilizations, comparative religion, general discontent part of larger alchemical process, destruction, shared experience, cooperation, China protests, global wave of nationalism
The great filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. Most famous for his Qatsi series of films, he continues creating to this day. Godfrey also just received a lifetime achievement award at the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
Topics include: Estrangement cells, posthuman, human environment has changed, our miracles are our afflictions, cannabis, sun gazers, monasteries, apostle, rename the world, sacrament, sound is the beginning, The Word, language, telepathy, minds are chemical zones, black ground, color, our schizophrenic nature, actors, under standing, masks, three as one, Darwin, fathers of the desert, open for contemplation, fragility of humanity, jaw bones, right brain Hell, monitored by the cloud, good and evil as twins, to be bardic, hope the most confusing virtue, hour before the dawn, end of the age, future present, eternity, the blue, the black, souls, circle the square
The many promises of technology fuel so much of our drive toward the future. To giant rocks this passing of time is next to nothing.
Topics include: Patreon content, Godfrey Reggio interview, Sunday nights, Landers, Giant Rock, time relative to geological history, Millenarianism, Y2K, technological promises, fire symbolism, alchemy, art of multiplication, creative outlets, circadian rhythm, Ochelli poker scheme, Friday nights, livestream karaoke, Chris Graves, bad wifi connection, upload speeds, AOC and Elon Musk, blue checkmark on Twitter, social media rules don’t always apply, Musk loves publicity stunts, Geraldo, remembering phone numbers, video versus audio broadcasting
Civilization was grown, as crops are grown, from the seed that is agriculture.
Topics include: Halloween, Trunk or Treat, evangelical take on holiday, theocracy, superstition, civilization, technology and science influence on society, leaders as gods, agriculture prime element in dawn of civilization, holidays relation with seasons and growing crops, harvest, death and rebirth, life and death, human influence over nature, Freemasonry, Great Work, apotheosis, Fertile Crescent, dark forest, archetypes, fear of wilderness and wild animals, clearing land for fields, Anarcho-Primitivism, politics, Christian Nationalism, elections, Nancy Pelosi home invasion
Live on a Sunday again. A call comes in from Chris Graves, and we get an update of The Ochelli Radio Network.
Topics include: broadcasting, radio stations, Cooley, Ohio, side by side UTVs, Los Angeles, Uber Eats
Aaron makes it back to the microphone for a special broadcast live from Landers, CA.
topics include: talking about different topics than others, technology, media, Landers California, George Van Tassel Integration, Giant Rock, the desert
The further we move forward the more exhaust we leave behind us.
Topics include: trends, opposing forces, time, environmental destruction, artificial world, Fourth Industrial Revolution, technological utopianism, all things green, politics, solar power, carbon dioxide, electric vehicles, water problems in Southwestern states, grass lawns, anarcho-primitivism, observing nature, population reduction occurring, eugenics, Generation Z, climate change, toxicity, wealth concentrated at top, luxury bunkers, marketing works on elite class, plant based meat alternatives
The Buddha does not laugh out of ignorance of the pain and suffering in the world, but rather in spite of it.
Topics include: laughter, laughing Buddha, pain and suffering, enlightenment, awareness, defying logic, taking things too serious, certainty of death, finality, Yoda, worry, international propaganda efforts, Russia, Cold War 2.0, insular national internet infrastructures, Leviathan, CA wildfires, Hemet, Inland Empire, Scientology’s Gold Base, peripheral places
Beware of propaganda from everyone and coming from everywhere. As a best practice you may want to “trust no one.”
Topics include: Age of Transitions 2 intro video, Revolve book reviews, deep brain stimulation, medical brain implant experiments, compulsive behavior, opioid addiction, Parkinsons, Navy Twitch livestreams, military recruitment, gaming, Department of War Studies King’s College London, alumni in social media and journalism, NATO propaganda, Russian propaganda, Chinese propaganda, Cold War 2.0, Atlantic Council, CNN changing formats, new “liberal” Fox News channel, Mike Judge, Arcade Fire controversy, California alchemical gold rush, New Gold Dream
Our world is full of contradictions, and we are left here to make sense of it.
Topics include: collective confusion and frustration, social contradictions, anomie, technology, production and consumption, environmental degradation, technique, system feeds itself, resources hoarded, corporations, artificial entities, Florida pirate Jimmy, shifting beliefs, fringe ideas gone mainstream, extreme actions seem more possible now, conspiracy thinking
Our world is full of contradictions, and we are left here to make sense of it.
Topics include: collective confusion and frustration, social contradictions, anomie, technology, production and consumption, environmental degradation, technique, system feeds itself, resources hoarded, corporations, artificial entities, Florida pirate Jimmy, shifting beliefs, fringe ideas gone mainstream, extreme actions seem more possible now, conspiracy thinking
Quantum computing may offer a way to power emerging tech such as Ai or AGI.
Topics include: livestreams, quantum computing, quantum theory, physics, entanglement, mysticism, Ai, qubits, time and space, Robin, Fibonacci laser, Golden Ratio, Ai generated artwork, text prompt to image, NFT market, Beeple, Jimmy James, metaverse, Paris Hilton, digital immortality, Ozzy Osbourne, The Congress movie, Robin Wright, Carrie Fischer deep fake in movie, Star Wars, Turing test
The so-called great powers of the world are all doing their best to build up, gain control, and take advantage of all they possibly can in a world that becomes increasingly complex. Where this all leads, no one knows, but it will surely be a rocky ride ahead.
Topics include: chatroom scuffle, mainstream and fringe narratives, rapid speed of change, systems beyond human control, intelligence community, Counterterrorism Era, great powers competition, 2016 sea change, geopolitics, world militaries, intelligentized warfare, machine learning, emerging technologies, Russian influence in US elections, information warfare, political divides, lack of national cohesion, many agendas of different players, technological competition with China, Chinese capitalist purge, Jack Ma, WeChat, American Factory, IT, cybersecurity, evangelical holy war, skewed ideas about American Founding Fathers, Great Replacement theory, white genocide, weaponization of alternative groups, Alex Jones, phone records released, January 6 Commission
Wojacks are the most hideous thing to grace the internet, but they are immensely popular. Machines are programming us to only pay attention to men over six feet four inches tall.
Topics include: technical issues, internet, social media, apps, living through technology, Wojack memes
The infamous Georgia Guidestones have been destroyed. So far, there are no official suspects. Just last week there had been quite a bit of chatter online about the idea of their destruction.
Topics include: Georgia Guidestones destroyed, GBI investigation, Elberton Granite Company, right wing extremism, Christian Identity, living new language, synthetic telepathy, transhumanism, occult, R. C. Christian, secret societies
There is no shortage of passion in the culture and information wars that rage 24/7 online. What is lacking is any sort of self reflection as to how we all fall prey to misinformation and disinformation. It is likely too late to turn the tide, but it is still useful to see what is happening, and where things are going.
Topics include: passing of Joshua Brookshire, first autonomous big rig on US road, logistics, supply chain, automation, EVs, GE, Einride, Ford plans to solely produce fleet vehicles, individual vehicle ownership now phasing out, rideshare apps, public transportation, TikTok labeled national security threat by FCC, user data, China and US tech rivalry, surveillance, intelligence gathering, consumer drones banned, social media apps sell data, stuck in the digital world, Russia, cyber warfare, Google China, scientific advances of Cold War were always publicly available, open source intelligence, culture wars, social media used to spread misinformation by many different groups, divide and conquer techniques, alternative media personalities swayed by social media misinformation, feeding information to influencers and alt media, power of suggestion, no one is immune, MindWar, self promotion, fringe ideas entering mainstream, internet freedom at risk due to fools spreading disinformation, constant manipulation, Google likely demoting The Age of Transitions website
Aaron was witness to sovereign citizens pulled over on the side of the road and having a bomb removed by San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department. It isn’t a good sign when you start seeing these things in your daily life.
Topics include: Chuck’s autobiography audiobook, Yucca Valley, sovereign citizens pulled over on 62 highway with bomb, Johnson Valley, sign guy on corner of Old Woman Springs, Hi-Desert Star article, Russell brothers, fringe groups growing in numbers, right wing extremism, post 9/11, War on Terror, DHS, searching every bag on the ground, militias, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, DOJ instigations, one world government vs hyper nationalism, corruption, economic and social conditions getting worse, Jan 6, political insanity, actors as presidents
A Google employee has claimed that a chatbot he was working on has attained sentience. This is an important story no matter what way you slice it.
Topics include: Blake Lemoine, LaMDA chatbot, sentient AI, AGI, Google, PR, machine learning, truth or fiction, power of narrow AI systems, consciousness, Medium blog, meditation, automating society, Dalle Mini, AI text prompt image generators, influence of technology, Jacques Ellul, Sam Aydlette, simulacra, AGI not part of business model, mind space, Simulation Hypothesis, Dancing With My Fate, Trickster God, white rabbit, surveillance, intuition, virtual worlds, emulating reality, impirical truth
The Pentagon has just formed a new office to coordinate its artificial intelligence operations. The national security banner will very much be flown over our increasingly digitized world as time goes on. The War on Terror may seem like a bygone era, but is likely to be reborn to provide cyber security.
*Topics include: Chief Digital and AI Office, CDAO, Pentagon, MIC, artificial intelligence, Lyft, private industry, revolving door, technology, NSCAI, intelligence, China, Russia, international competition, hacking, cyber security, national security, digitized world, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, databases, digital terrorism, polarized political environment, 9/11, establishment propaganda, alternative propaganda, World Trade Center, War on Terror continued, foreign country’s tech disallowed for security, Silicon Valley government and defense contracts, social media disinformation, fact checking, Robbie the Robot, elected officials, Newsom recall, homegrown terror, Peter Thiel
Good friend, Pearse Redmond, returns to the show to talk about the new cinema sensation “Top Gun Maverick”. What military PR was present in this film, and what of Scientology? Find out what Pearse and Aaron have to say about these things on this podcast.
Topics include: release dates, movie theaters, Tom Cruise, Covid delay, Memorial Day weekend, intro to the film, the enemy, military propaganda aspect, live filming fighter jets, homoeroticism of first film, 80s styling, uranium enrichment target, Iran, Tony Scott, fictionalized fighter jet mission, Star Wars scenario, Rooster character, Scientology benefit from film, PR, Navy ties to L Ron Hubbard, Sea Org, real life bombing missions, Battle of Los Angeles
We are all being fooled, and fooling ourselves. When the fringe is the same as the mainstream, it matters less what we believe, and more how psychologically resilient we are.
Topics include: Landers California, Giant Rock, George Van Tassel, UFO subculture, aerospace, truth, narratives, different forms of propaganda, dominant minority, appealing to emotion, fringe concepts in mainstream media, limited hangouts, entertainers as politicians, inevitable economic collapse, evolution of Tea Party movement
Life extension often becomes a forgotten transhumanist area of research, but major investment is now happening in the field. Are billionaires putting their money down in an effort to attain eternal life?
Topics: desert house completion, Jeff Bezos, Altos Labs, life extension, biological reprogramming, cell rejuvenation, billionaire investors, converging technologies, Greenland Shark, Batman movies, Sunset Boulevard, film noir
A meandering stream of consciousness inspired by the slings and arrows of daily life in our crazy world.
Topics: everyday life, socioeconomics, existential dilemmas, homelessness, rationalization, slang, social media, senselessness of modern world, dominant minority hoard wealth, stress, disposable income, money and motivation podcast, everything numbered, alternative social movements in the near future, strength, Nothing But Trouble, New Jersey Turnpike, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmy James Fan Club, Pennsylvania, paranormal and spiritualism, The Burbs, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon aTime in Hollywood, foot fetish, 70s, Lara in Spain
With a new organized labor movement gaining traction, what will happen as human labor becomes more and more obsolete?
Topics include: listener support, social media presence, labor unions, work, automation, deglobalization, robotics, machine learning, industry, customer experience, rapid change, majority stock holders, wealth going to top minority, American Factory documentary, China, nuclear family, human social organization, civilization, greed, war, heat, American Exceptionalism
Aaron takes some time to consider his own motivations for making digital media.
Topics include: making online media, content creators, listenership and playing the numbers game, procuring guests, hard work of Chuck Ochelli, virtual worlds, internet space, augmented reality, tangible world, extremely online youth, finally recognizing dangers of technological progress, base desires fulfilled online, being part of the problem, human weaknesses, machine coming to life, personal life, making life easy
Electricity is one of many natural phenomena that have been altered by human artifice.
Topics include: April Fool’s Day, Tarot Fool, life changes, optimism, self reflection, Democratization of Media, online media distribution, content creators, advertisement, arrogance, news cycle, Jordan Maxwell, ideals and realities, electricity, natural and artificial worlds, lighting, arc flash, Zeus myths, Humvee electrocution, risk at work, bonus podcasts
A brief exploration of alchemy and other occult ways of understanding our world.
Topics include: alchemy, material and immaterial, mind, consciousness, turning lead into gold, symbolism, dreaming, altered states of consciousness, reality beyond quantification, JFK Assassination, small groups able to steer public perception, Star Wars, quantum physics, Chuck the Blue Man, black can reflect, painting, Trump style different from tradition president, Nixon movie, F35 crash into ocean
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is discussed here. Moving forward, who in America will continue supporting Putin and how will they pull it off?
Topics include: Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nordstream 2, Germany, China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, NATO, Trump, MAGA support of Putin, sanctions, tariffs, propaganda, psychology, strength, authoritarianism, fascism, Joe Biden, Steven Wright, Sean Penn, Anonymous hackers, Catch Me If You Can, cyber warfare, weapons industry booming
Will uploaded human clones yearn for death, but have no means to achieve it? These are the thoughts that arise when imagining transhuman futures.
Topics include: Putin protect Russia in metaverse, ads on websites, transhumanism, philosophy, religion, occult, uploading consciousness to machine, fear of death, eternal life, dominant minority, stake holders, money as means to power, Anthony Levandowski, Heaven’s Gate cult, creation overtake the creator, nostalgia as escape, knowing what you believe, average person yearns for death
Chuck had Aaron back on The Ochelli Effect for the first time in quite a long time to talk a bit about transhumanism, and more.
topics include: Chuck decided to try and focus on the technocratic topics that interest Aaron during the conversation.
There have been many and varied secret societies, the world over, throughout history. Martial arts certainly have ties to occult concepts and groups.
Topics include: secret societies, fraternal orders, Freemasonry, Victoria BC, revolution in China, martial arts, Kung Fu, Bruce Lee, revealing secrets, monks, language and cultural barriers between East and West, Asian history, globalization, meditation, ideals, psychology, Quigley, Knights of Malta, fortifications and alchemy, Rhodes, Assassins, ninjas, intelligence agencies
Technological progress has created ecological disaster, and now we hope that it will do the opposite.
Topics include: Revolve book news, petroleum based products, plastic, DuPont family, chemicals, profit motive, MIC, micro plastics, pollution, ecological disaster, impossible to know long term effects, using technology to fix problems from technology, planetary timescales, transhumanism as answer, mind uploading, virtual reality, augmented reality, computing power, social media evolving into metaverse, data mining, surveillance
Scientism is all the rage these days as we drift further and further away from a forgotten past.
Topics include: live callers, transferring memories, controlling bodies across the world, Ai, machine learning, AGI, transhumanism, prehistory, myth, history of consciousness, nerds are cool, Nimrod, hubris, scientific method, Francis Bacon, secret societies, updating theories, technique, technological progress, historical figureheads as icons of the work of fraternal orders, science born out of mystic philosophy and alchemy, astronomy and astrology, caught up in details, marketing, irrationality of reality, strength of emotional impulse, aloe mites, pesticides, scientism
Anyone who is sick of it all, come listen to this podcast and join Aaron in saying FTW.
Topics include: appearances on other shows, Patreon, transhumanist agenda, nothing makes sense, average person’s viewpoint, charade of politics, no winning Covid situation, Trump supporters will follow him to any end, insurrection, coup, January 6, constantly changing story, Biden a total lame duck, 2024 election, crime, Robocop, Detroit, Martine Rothblatt’s Pig Heart Revival, genetic engineering, United Therapeutics, Revivicor, Soylent Green, Matrix Resurrections, Keanu Reeves, Alex Jones
This episode of The Age of Transitions is Christmas Eve special of sorts. Recorded live, Aaron continues the Ochelli Radio Network book giveaway trivia game.
Topics include: Aaron in a cardboard box, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, projecting the future, trivia game for free book, the conspiracy theorist mind, conspiracy theory ideas believed by large portion of the population, learning process, problems with US school system, alternative facts, do your own research, Judeo Christian mind punishment of itself, job training, Transformers and Go Bots, cannabis dispensaries, Revolve: Man’s Scientific Rise to Godhood, shipping costs, USPS secrets, Minoans, Labyrinth myth, Dark Crystal Netflix series, train AI with massive data sets, artificial celebrities and influencers, virtual worlds, secret societies use of figureheads, video games transitioning to virtual reality, augmented reality, the next Google Glass, autonomous vehicles, metaverse
We are at a point in time where it makes total sense to walk away from your job. Not simply locally, but globally, this phenomenon has arisen. Where do we go from here?
topics include: Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, the Great Resignation, Laying Flat movement China, going to work no longer provides any security, medical insurance scam, medical industry, anomie, indifference no longer an option, anti union training at work, working from home, living in virtual reality, left and right interpretations of events, crime rates rising, distracted by squirrel, cameras on public servants, unemployment benefits easily taken away, TikTok, mustard seed symbolism, intangible realm of ideas, consciousness, science, Prometheus
Have you ever spoken to someone on the street who sees words as numbers? Both Aaron and Chuck have, and in this show they talk about some of their memories meeting such real world characters.
Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network new shows, Christopher Walken, Elvis sighting stories in 80s, talking to people on the street, words as numbers, Guitar Man, synchronicity, math, music, carrying video camera around town, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, MKULTRA, savant mind, creation myths and the instantiation of Time, Saturn, life and death, sound, Jordan Maxwell
Aaron talks to callers Jimmy and Kent about divisive media.
Topics include: divide and conquer, political divide, strong opinions, media, cable news networks, Bill O’Reilly, anger, feeding two wolves, Joe Rogan, Dennis Miller, Sarah Palin Jr, Ron Paul, merge of fringe and mainstream right-wing politics, market dynamics, YouTubers same as politicians, TV characters, Green Day, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution coming soon
We are waging war upon ourselves to no end. Now more than ever, but the du jour divisive topics can take a back seat to the old standby of Science vs Religion. If the two sides of this argument took a moment to reflect, they might see that their supposed rival is a bit like they are.
topics include: vacation holiday time, reading, divide and conquer, science, religion, astronomy, space, black holes, supermassive black holes, suns, occult religion, light and darkness, meditation
We keep getting told how vulnerable we are to cyber attacks. This seems to be the build up to a coming shift in Cold War 2.0, which will put priority into this sphere only after actual cyber attacks happen.
Topics include: books, independent media landscape, Cold War 2.0, China, artificial intelligence, data, converging technologies, DIU, Silicon Valley and MIC, tech industry, DoD, defense spending, NSCAI, slow speed of defense contracts, rapid pace of tech development, privacy, War on Terror, post 9/11 world, national security, Anduril, old special interests, cyber security, cyber terrorism, false flags, internet, media convergence, social media history, Boomerbook, conspiracy culture gone mainstream on social media, identity politics, Ai in stock market, virtualization of everyday life, metaverse, billionaires living out childhood fantasies
Facebook has rebranded in their pursuit of building the metaverse. While hilarious, this is also incredibly troubling as we can clearly see the reality of the virtual world being constructed all around us.
Topics include: Facebook rebrand to Meta, metaverse, virtual worlds, technology companies, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, internal document leaks, big data, machine learning, surveillance capitalism, information as a product, narrow artificial intelligence, surveillance, AGI, Singularity religion, Peter Thiel, Palantir, Communist totalitarian technology, facial recognition, intelligence agencies, cryptocurrency, Libertarian ideology, hypocrisy, government funding for tech, China, post 9/11 world, update to War on Terror, homegrown extremists, cyber threats, China’s massive wasteful public works projects, retail store of the future, augmented reality, experience design, smartphone integrated with store, virtual reality, stores like game arcades, Fourth Industrial Revolution, pandemic shopping boom, sustainability, environmentalist capitalism, confusion of our day
The metaverse is upon us. Born out of MMO gaming, e-commerce and social media, this latest iteration of virtual reality is sure to be the next big thing.
Topics include: listeners comments, escaping rabbit holes, metaverse, virtual worlds, MMO games, online culture, evolution of technology and communications, convergence, social media, Facebook, Second Life occult symbolism, gaming, knowledge of coding not necessary when platforms have advance user interface, Generation Z not actually tech literate, Jimmy James, transhumanism, uploading consciousness to a machine, surreal problems with emerging technologies, machine learning, Abba band virtual concerts, symbolism of the seasons, working remotely, many online personas, living through IT, virtual travel, Ai will take over creation of new IT in future, human loss of control over creation, automation, possibility of machine empathy, reactionary forces that will happen in face of Ai advancement, technology perfects itself, Paris Hilton, inability to forget anything
Talking about crazy things sometimes gives off the impression that the speaker, is themself, crazy.
Topics include: interconnected system, crazy talk, Revolve book, converging technology, guest spots on radio shows, networking with other media producers, ACR, consistent book sales, self publishing, investment of time, impacting public discourse, art, global supply chain issues, vehicle market, inflation, war, factions within deep state, politicians
Finishing up the Portuguese version of Revolve has Aaron reflecting on a few of his creative projects over the years.
Topics include: Portuguese version of Revolve, writing, creative projects, ADDTV video, Aaron is Jeff Censored
Aaron talks a bit about Michael A. Aquino, and his book MindWar. A self-published book that has surprisingly not garnered much attention, MindWar reads very much like your standard fare conspiracy oriented paperback.
topics include: Left-hand Path occultism, Church of Satan, Temple of Set, Stephen Flowers, propaganda, PSYOP, psychological operations, US Army, titles of nobility, mystique, General Paul E Vallely, QAnon, Fox News, mind, logic, consciousness, subconscious mind, electromagnetic fields, technetronics, fringe topics, conspiracy culture, JFK assassination, Iraq wars, Jose Delgado, Persinger's God Helmet, spectrum of light, hypnosis, magic, mentalism, flaming sword symbolism, original form of Tai Chi deadly, Civil Affairs, ParaPolitics, false flag terrorism
The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 was a chance for a popularly redeemed George W. Bush to give a speech. He took the opportunity to remind us of a few things concerning terrorism.
Topics include: Bookshop dot org affiliate links, alternative to Amazon, Amazon Factory Towns, new fulfillment center in Mexico, George W Bush speech at Shanksville 9/11 20th anniversary, patriotic fervor, terrorism, homegrown extremists, lone wolf, Patriot Act and other loss of civil liberties, War on Terror, Donald Trump useful idiot, propaganda, long term narratives, private medical records, world government, nationalist strain in current discourse, new Cold War narrative, NRA benefit from gun control laws, gun safety classes
Author Daniel Pinchbeck is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transition. Discussion centers around his recent article about Covid 19 vaccines.
Topics include: books, From Vacillation to Vaccination, vaccines, healthcare, making informed decisions, intense political divide, warranted mistrust of authority, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, biotech, capitalism, Delta Variant, MIC
Things have been feeling a lot like they did during the George W Bush years. Are we about to lose even more of our civil liberties?
Topics include: impending cyber terrorism, future lock down of internet, Afghanistan, War on Terror, 9/11 20th year anniversary, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida, domestic terrorism, right wing extremism, 90s militia movements, loss of civil liberties, Biden signed off on 9/11 DOJ document release, FBI and CIA, conspiracy theories, no plane theories, Hoax Busters Call, in fighting, mainstreaming of conspiracy ideas, QAnon
The US withdrawal of Afghanistan marks the end of a 20 year military saga that was born alongside the War on Terror. Are we leaving the War on Terror along with Afghanistan, or are things merely shifting in a new direction? What will become of the military industrial complex, and how will our massive defense budget be spent in the years to come?
Topics include: DHS, defending the homeland, TSA, domestic terror programs, hackers, importance of data and information technology, SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, China, Russia, Iran, ISIS, 9/11 Truth, National Security, postwar WW2 1947, aerospace industry morphed into MIC, history of USAF, modern warfare is shifting to digital information space, NSCAI, artificial intelligence machine learning, US beginning to seriously invest in converging technologies, China building infrastructure and technology, Silicon Valley moving further into defense and security, DoD contractors, cyber security, cyber terror attacks in near future, security clearances incentivized in new work programs, increased crackdown on misinformation alternative facts and free thought, propaganda, myriad of micro targeted influence operations, US DoD truly put on the defensive
Aaron talks about his eczema. This condition has been a major frustration in the past Summer months. Dealing with health issues like these can be incredibly difficult, but important to do.
topics include: atopic dermatitis, adult onset eczema, dry skin, intense itch, best lotions to use, finding triggers, food allergies, diet, gluten free diet, losing sleep, anxiety, stress, mental and physical health
Joseph L Flatley returns to the show to talk about his new book, “New Age Grifter: The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and His Cosmic Family”. The book is the culmination of years of investigation into this zany new age UFO cult.
Topics include: Gabriel of Urantia, Feral House, twentieth century is past, high control groups, alternative religious groups, culture of American decline, Failed State Update, Danny Casolaro, parapolitics, the Octopus, mailing list, Indio CA, conspiracy theory ideas, desert paranormal interest, GCCA, Arizona, ego, online gurus, channeling, cosmo pop music, falling for false stories, Dionysus, vintage appeal
Friday the 13th is just another day, but it sure did throw a lot of ominous events at Aaron this time around.
Topics include: tie dye t-shirts, thunder storms, Friday the 13th, Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, Jason Vorhees movies, horror, synchronicities involving death and finality, endings and beginnings, politics attached to personal identity, limits of logic, diminishing powerful terms for use in generic slogans, science and technology, accidental discoveries of experimentation, causation, persona, computing power increasing
Tea Krulos returns to the show to talk about his podcast, Tea’s Weird Week. He also lets us know that an American Madness documentary is now in production.
topics include: Phantom Patriot, starting a podcast, strange people, eclectic subject matter, UFO Daze, Wisconsin, blur between reality and fantasy, luxury doomsday bunkers, American Madness documentary in production, Mark Borchardt, trying to use Twitter responsibly, Nuro autonomous vehicles permitted in CA, call from Jimmy, Jetpack Man, living in a digital world
From symbolic to tangible, the intellect is able to turn the base metals into gold. However, the flame of Lucifer can easily burn the whole world down.
Topics include: t-shirts, bonus podcasts, going to space, Ren and Stimpy, Earth viewed from space, light, fire, symbolism, Battlestar Galactica, science fiction, Dr Who, time travel, technology, social commentary, reducing concepts, Prometheus, civilization, alchemy, art of multiplication, speeding up evolutionary process, making the symbolic literal, esoteric, intellect, reordering material world, Jon Gold, 9/11 truth and justice, UFOs
Saving the planet by leaving it, and other nonsensical rationalizations of the super rich and dirt poor alike. If the Earth is an island on the vast, endless, ocean of space, then it truly is a fantasy island.
Topics include: Cremation of Care reading on Tea’s Weird Week podcast, Age of Transitions t-shirts, 2020, Jeff Bezos space voyage, Blue Origin, AoT comic, claiming to save the world, thanking Amazon employees and customers, public relations, super wealthy love of space travel, rationalizations, academics apologizing for billionaires, pollution, Bezos drove a Honda Accord, survival bunkers, autonomous systems, Dark Night of the Soul, life in quarantine, guilt for having free time, special interest narratives, mainstreaming of fringe topics, flying carpets, Aladdin’s Lamp, divide and conquer, Jimmy calls in, woke youth
Sam Aydlette is the author of the book “Dancing With My Fate”. Being “a handbook about life and death”, some of Sam’s advice on these matters is shared on this podcast episode.
Topics include: writing a book, philosophy, love of wisdom, rejecting purely objective interpretation of the world, truth seeking, irony, Trickster God, desire, social constructs, identity, alternative media, political campaigns, dominant minority, James Jesus Angleton, Paris Hilton, difficulty of lives of elite family members, hardship, realization that we are all the same, serving in military, overburdened with responsibilities in modern world, life and death
Aaron covers some interesting stories from the tech world. Is the American Empire currently diminishing itself after years of being spread too thin?
Topics include: t-shirts, DARPA FENCE program, biomimetics, neuromorphic cameras, MIC, camera lenses based on human eye, US Air Force partnership with Drone Racing League, video game recruitment centers, First Person View FPV, virtual reality, emerging technology, STEM projects funded by MIC, Robin calls in, Girl Scouts and Raytheon, American Empire, Silicon Valley, apps used by criminals, major corporations developing technology, Ai, public and private as one system, farmers allowed to fix their own machinery, employment shortage, automation, Covid may not go away completely, major economic changes, AGI not good for established special interests, dominant minority
There are new t-shirts available, both The Age of Transitions and Ochelli Effect are on the website. Aaron also talks a bit about the McMillions documentary series.
Topics include: tie dye, shirts, Ochelli Effect 2,000th episode, McDonald’s Monopoly game, scams, cheating, stolen game pieces, corruption
Autonomous vehicles are becoming quite the hot topic these days. How long might it be before we see them on the road?
Topics include: Boston Dynamics, Spot, package handling robots, Hyundai, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Brookings Institution, Ford, fleet vehicles, rideshare companies, Uber, Google, Anthony Levandowski, Silicon Valley ethos, China, tech bros, legislation, California, population dynamics, urban areas
A look at the Tarot, specifically its four major suits of Coins, Cups, Swords and Wands. The etymology of these four words is explored a bit.
Topics include: etymology dictionary, thrift stores, Inland Empire, Palm Springs, occult, four elements, playing cards, money, Freemasonry, sticks
The Ochelli Effect 2,000th episode is going to be live on June 29th, 2021. Be sure to listen to it, and show your support for the Ochelli Radio Network.
Ochelli Effect 2000th episode, guest list, donations, keeping the network going, supporters, producing, doing live radio, behind the scenes, performance art, karaoke, livestream video
Aaron and Chuck discuss part one of the HBO docu-series, Crime of the Century. It is a surprisingly hard hitting expose of the opioid crisis, and its industrial benefactors.
Patreon, live show break, t-shirts, opioids, Oxycontin, Crime of the Century documentary, HBO, opium, history, Johnson & Johnson, addiction, heroine, War on Terror, medical industry, Sackler family, Appalachia, blame the victim, Evangelical Christianity, corruption, Rudy Giuliani, elitism, wealth, Purdue, Vice
Aaron Dykes of Truthstream Media is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. Truthstream is working on a forthcoming video series on central banking. Learn a bit a about it here, and stick around for some thoughts on esoteric matters.
topics include: independent media, historical research, esoterica, symbolism, anthropology, apophenia, electromagnetic frequencies, alchemical code, central banking, crown, agriculture, rituals, corn dollies
The NSCAI has published its final report. Aaron skims over its table of contents and gives some commentary. topics include: Ochelli donations, artificial intelligence, emerging technology, machine learning, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, defense, intelligence, industry, geopolitics, China, competition, influence operations, propaganda, communications, MIC, STEM
You never know what will happen when you’re eating breakfast in Palm Springs. Plastic bags for lumber might almost be as big a problem as impending cyber attacks, but who can be sure?
topics include: Southern California, media professionals, right-wing political personalities, Randy Economy, Katie Hopkins, Repeal Newsome, Caitlyn Jenner, celebrity, virtue signaling of all stripes, Home Depot lumber in small plastic bags, cyber security, WEF plan if cyber attack happens, Q Into the Storm, QAnon, internet forums, message board culture, social media
Chapter 9 of Revolve: Man's Scientific Rise to Godhood is titled "A Worldwide Death and Rebirth Ritual". Upon the suggestion of a listener, Aaron explores the concepts presented in that chapter, here in this podcast episode. The basic premise is that the process of occult initiation can be multiplied to take place on a macrocosmic scale. Society at large can be initiated into New Life.
topics include: Gnosticism, marriage contract, Chemical Marriage, Rosicrucianism, Royal Society, science, orthodox religion, evangelical reactionary thinking, consciousness, occult initiation, cults, secret societies, Left-Hand Path, Lucifer, hive mind, technology, alchemy, birth pangs quotes, Henry Kissinger, trans words, motion, time, vibration, mysticism, philosophy, compliance, dominant minority, commerce, intangible realm of mind, limited thinking
Robin calls in to the show to talk a bit about artificial wombs.
topics include: transhumanism, Cold War 2.0, China, super soldiers, neural enhancement, brain chips, machine interfaces, propaganda, artificial wombs, Israel, fertility, geopolitics
One of these days the Maryland state flag is going to be cancelled, but in the meantime listen to this podcast that explains why there is a bear on the California state flag.
topics include: California state flag, bear, Callisto, mother bear, symbolism, fertility, alchemy, occult, astronomy, Orange County, Saint Germain, cults, fraternal orders, secret societies, philosophy, historical figures, CUT in Malibu
War on this, war on that, war on everything. We are tearing ourselves apart, and it seems that we like it that way.
topics include: Spot® Boston Dynamics, police robots, MIC, military, wars, endless wars, killing, death, framing everything in terms of war, fighting ourselves, technology, Silicon Valley, China and America, Cold War 2 point oh, propaganda
Adam and Aaron recorded a new episode of Themes & Memes in February. It is posted here as an exclusive to the Patreon bonus podcast feed.
Tenet, state of entertainment media, Covid, Great Reset, Club of Rome, global tensions, US and China, ethics, technology, artificial intelligence, Elon Musk, lockdowns, changing economic system, online services, QAnon, micro-targeted influence operations, Post Truth World, propaganda, data, algorithms, mistrust of all media, privacy, Capitol siege, Alex Jones, Donald Trump rally, alternate reality games, fringe political groups, War on Terror, domestic terrorism, revolution, fringe mixed with mainstream, puppet masters, denouncing conspiracy mindset while using its very methods to prove your own point, cognitive dissonance, learning from alternative sources
Remembering Alan Watt, and working on making sense of the world in these strange times.
topics include: Alan Watt, ignored topics, show guests, challenging information, eugenics, valuable books, fertility issues, dominant minority, Club of Rome, information overload, machine learning, machine’s world, Big Data
Is the United States MIC threatened by Silicon Valley, or even a coming cut in federal funds? Bobby Vaughn calls into the show to talk a bit about a scandal involving international uranium logistics.
topics include: military, technology, new threats, National Security, NSCAI, cyber security, hacking, China, United States, nuclear power, A Call To Actions, uranium
Aaron shares some of his thoughts and opinions on Cancel Culture.
topics include: social justice, sexism, discrimination, harassment, assault, media, books, Dr Seuss, marketing, equal rights, authoritarianism, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, workplace, corporate world
A stream of consciousness episode of The Age of Transitions.
topics include: seeking truth, conviction, reincarnation, Nietzsche, eternal recurrence, religion, philosophy, recording devices, history, prehistory, Atlantis, technology, cults, human thought process, conscious vs unconscious mind, propaganda, relativity of time, safety and security, easy answers, artifice, art, need to relax, precivilized human life, all or nothing, Michael Jordan, doing the impossible, meditation, self help
Artisan Loaf returns to give us an update on the new wealthiest man on Earth, Elon Musk. Being a living contradiction may be the best way to gain fame and fortune in the virtual world.
topics include: Tesla, Neuralink, Jack Ma, stock price, $TSLA, DogeCoin, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, online life, internet, Twitter, a cult of personality, Trump, Joe Rogan, marketing, Clubhouse, Vladimir Putin, public image, China, international business
This podcast is the audio version of a special live-stream video presentation. Aaron played his video, The Age of Transitions, and gave commentary over it.
The Age of Transitions video came out back in 2008. First on Google Video, and later to various places online. The main subject matter is transhumanism as it relates to eugenics. What does Aaron think of the video thirteen years later? Watch along and see.
So far, 2021 has been like one big experiment in augmented reality. From the depths of internet forums straight to the front pages, the story has consistently been that of internet weirdos shaking up the real world.
topics include: Game Stop, Reddit, Wall Street, stock market, shorts, Elon Musk, Bitcoin, Robinhood, alchemy, money, virtual worlds, message boards, Y2K, technological convergence, media, communications, Capitol debacle, temples, Citadel, Norbert Weiner, MIC, mind, intangibles, IT, Ai, creator and creation dynamic, Tron Legacy, mainstream and fringe conjunction, confusion, QAnon, Rudy Giuliani
Rocky Jones hosts the Pattern Stalker podcast. On it, he interviews his family in an attempt to better understand his own history. In this interview, Rocky explains how attachment theory is a major influence on what he is doing.
topics include: patterns, family interviews, attachment theory, psychology, self improvement, awareness, relationships, epigenetics, nature vs nurture, brain, alcoholism, opioids, addiction, hallucinogenics, therapy, health
Aaron continues on the same thread as last week's show. The events of January 6th are neither the beginning, nor the end, of an ongoing political story. The War on Terror had experienced a lull for a few years, but is returning as the new face of terror is the PT Cruiser.
topics include: Washington DC, Capitol Hill, riot, protest, angry mob, right wing, terrorism, Patriot Act, Joe Biden
The three hundredth episode of The Age of Transitions podcast occurs in the wake of what will surely come to be historic events. The Trump presidency goes out with a bang as an angry mob of his supporters storm the US Capitol in Washington DC. This is not the beginning, nor the end, of an ongoing story starring bad actors from the fringes. Anyone out there who may still be under the spell of MAGA, QAnon, or other related far-right movements need to understand the reality of what they are involved in.
topics include: Trump rally, politics, extremism, psychology, Patriot Act, coopted movements, War on Terror, narratives, domestic terrorism, militia movement
This bonus podcast episode gives you a look into Aaron's headspace at the end of this year, and moving forward with The Age of Transitions media project. It is good to be aware of the many pitfalls that surround us today, and to take advantage of unique new opportunties.
topics include: podcasting, live streaming, independent media, fringe merging with mainstream, martial law, divide and conquer, American politics, changing political landscape, microtargeted influence campaigns, propaganda, virtual worlds, augmented reality, truth, motivation
Some more musings on technology, politics and divide and conquer techniques.
topics include: possible end to 2 party system, partisan arguments, Corona Virus, Boston Dynamics, Spot, robotics, changing labor markets, package delivery, autonomous systems, AGI, transhumanism
Aaron gives listeners a preview of what they can expect to see on the new Twitch livestream channel. Some musing on occult concepts also happens.
topics include: live-streaming, video production, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, Alchemy in Popular Music, lyrics, generic takes on the occult
The year 2020 has gained quite the reputation, but it is funny to see how many of its most interesting aspects usually go unnoticed. It’s a big virtual world that we are moving into more and more each day.
topics include: livestreaming, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, Twitch, gaming as a spectator sport, surveillance, technology, internet, media creation, content, convergent media, YouTubers, fame, fortune, video production
Pearse Redmond is back for a discussion about religion, idol worship, and the Tao. At a societal level, we seem to be plague by dogma. A greater and simpler truth awaits us when we are ready for it.
topics include: bonus podcast episode, alternative media, politics, news, getting upset by others who take your material, religion, Catholicism, Trump, idol worship, ego, scientism, Tao Te Ching, language, the occult, symbolism, relaxing, relationships between numbers, Pythagoras, the trinity
Pearse Redmond returns to the bonus podcast. Here, he and Aaron talk about how popular it is to market your independent media to the right wing crowd. The far-right is now indistinguishable from the mainstream right, and so it is that online media is now experiencing a boom as their audience grows. These new rising stars are using the same old tricks that all media manipulators have used, which is mainly to create content that fits into the accepted narrative that their audience craves.
topics include: podcasting technical issues, living life with alternative viewpoints, keeping your network small, indy media production as a job, JP Sears, YouTube videos, guilt by association, new age mixed with right wing ideology, gurus, Teal Swan, cults, accountability, society lacking social cohesion, life coaching, therapy, authoritarianism, marketing to right wing audience, Covid, yuppies, narcissism, Tony Robbins, responsibility to your audience, future terrorism, Donald Trump, reality TV, digital life, Scientology, mainstream media
Captain Trips calls back into the show. He and Aaron talk about the medical establishment at large, and how it is largely just one big profiteering racket.
topics include: NYE, seasons, Covid lockdowns, vaccines, immune system, profit motive, eczema, getting well through diet, genetics, blind faith in science, eugenics movement, Social Darwinism, accepting our limitations, medical technology, bio surveillance, Age of Transitions, Newt Gingrich, Trump, fall of civilizations
At least half of the show was dedicated to Pennsylvania and nearby geographical areas as fellow Keystone Stater, Captain Tripps called in. The decisive state in this presidential election is decidedly unique.
topics include: Pittsburgh, Central PA, Philadelphia, yinz, subs, pizza, mom mom pop pop, pap, no turn on red, dialects, Jersey, Trump, 2020 election, media
The new system is being built by technology, and it is already here to a great extent. Online access is becoming more controlled as the media found there is the new form of MSM.
topics include: socio-economic system, technology, postgenderism, transhumanism, Marilyn Manson, posthuman, IEET, freedom of choice, labor, machine learning, UBI, Covid, mass layoffs, AGI, media, culture war, internet censorship, social media, Google owning online media, tech firms making the rules, online access as a utility service, video games, online videos, virtual reality, YouTube stars, QAnon
Pearse Redmond returns to the show to help us all take a look around at the strange place we find ourselves in now. QAnon has come a long way since the days that Pearse and Robbie Martin would talk about it on a weekly basis. American foreign policy has taken a political backseat as Trumpism focuses in on all things domestic.
topics include: 2020 election, alternative media, conspiracy culture, chemtrails, new kinds of conspiracy theory, QAnon, mainstream media, internet forums, FBI involvement in domestic extremism, terrorism, Islamic terrorism no longer the focus, militia movement
A stream of consciousness show continues along the same path as it was already traveling in when Aaron’s friend Josie J calls in. Thoughts on alchemy, consciousness and current affairs.
topics include: perception, narrative, realm of the mind, intangible, women’s work and child’s play, performance art, streaming, quarantine life of Covid, Hollywood prodcuctions, Los Angeles, Marfa Texas, XFF Extreme Futurist Festival, New World Fest
Transhumanists have said they want to pursue “paradise engineering.” Enduring a little pain is far too much to meet the ideal of their abolitionist movement. What shadows are there to be found in their enlightened world?
BLTC Research, paradise engineering, genetic engineering, artificial wombs, eugenics, brain implants, James Olds, pleasure centers of brain, reproduction, population control, Walter Rudolph Hess, Walter Penfield, Jose Delgado, Office of Naval Intelligence, Yale, WTA, Transhumanist FAQ 2003, posthuman, transhuman, nanotech, super intelligence, virtual reality, mind uploading, individual freedom, sustainability, going beyond Nature, occult, esoteric symbolism, life extension, history, Anders Sandberg, James Hughes, Mike LaTorra, globalization, Digital Serfs and Cyborg Buddhas, technological unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wage slavery, transcranial magnetic stimulation, Michael Persinger God Helmet, Nick Bostrom, Wisdom of Nature, evolution, birth canal too small for larger brain size, Philosopher’s Stone, alchemy, coal to diamond
In a time of constant outrage, it can be difficult to see the forest through the trees. Trump may well have transformed into a super villain, but it is his legions of followers and their actions which will be the developing story in regard to the ongoing War on Terror.
topics include: presidential election, Trump not broadening his appeal, fringe media, home grown terrorism, right-wing extremism, White Nationalism, narratives, truth movement, Q Anon
Winston Conrad of the Mystery School Comics Group is back on the show. His new comic “We Belong to the Night” is the first of what will be an ongoing series, and is the center of the discussion at hand.
topics include: Washington DC, comics, art, line work, color, writing, anxiety, faith, Germany, Old World, story telling, occult, magic, nature, the Huntsmen, night time, characters, civilized world, nuance, no protagonist, werewolf and witch trials, story within a story
Newt Gingrich is up to his old tricks again. He just can’t seem to help himself from talking like one of those wacky conspirorizers that you find online. This show will tell you all about the truth, lies, and true lies that other media outlets are too scared to touch.
topics include: media, television, Fox News, fringe talking points in mainstream, Bill O’Reilly, SJWs, Antifa, socialism, Karens, 2020 the worst year, reusing cardboard boxes, Ron Paul, street names, virtual reality, kneeling at football
Tea Krulos is the author of the new book, American Madness. It is partially a biography of Richard McCaslin, better known as the Phantom Patriot. The man most famous for his raid of the Bohemian Grove is certainly a unique case study concerning American conspiracy culture, but his brand of madness is becoming more and more common.
topics include: Tea Krulos interview, real life super heroes, Pahrump Nevada, truth groups, breaking into Bohemian Grove, swords and guns, prison time, comic artwork, videos, truth groups, loner, internet culture, attention seeking
This episode was recorded on the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Aaron takes calls from Captain Tripps and Ray in Australia as talk centers around 9/11 Truth.
topics include: 9/11 Truth Movement, terrorism, Iraq War, conspiracy theories, propaganda, Edward Bernays, media, ideas, collective consciousness
Aaron continues reading from one of his notebooks that he used to write his book Revolve. Topics range from occult science to esoteric religion. According to Harvard Science Review, research into artificial wombs has been kept underground purposely, in order to avoid outrage from the public. The Book of Genesis is a deep religious alegory that is not disimilar to the Book of Tao. The topics of Transhumanism and propaganda are also covered in this episode.
Is there actually a new American civil war beginning, or is there something else happening? Will Charles Manson’s face become the next big street art phenomenon?
topics include: 2020 presidential election, worst years, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, left and right wing politics, divide and conquer, race war, civil war, Helter Skelter, news, fringe political ideas gone mainstream, conspiracy ideas in popular culture, military advisors to media productions, China, technology, machine learning, geopolitics, culture wars
The keynote speaker at the RNC gave a surprise scripted speech, but was sure to pile on plenty of anti-China sentiment for his fans. There appears to be a war going on, and it is mostly taking place in the virtual sphere. We should all look to emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, as a major driving factor in this conflict.
topics include: bonus podcasts, Donald Trump RNC speech, US enlightening the world, stick to the script, America first, doublethink, peace through violence, defense spending, Neocon ideology, anti China sentiment, artificial intelligence, machine learning, technological revolution, AI powered influence campaigns, propaganda, micro targeting demographics, big data, Twitter as a consciousness sensor, analytics, creating viral content, YouTube videos, digital life, Kyle Rittenhouse, influencers, International Business Machines, computer files, Zach Miller, Dr Dog, online echo chambers, social media, evolutionary psychology, media selectively crafts narrative
Those who most rigidly follow the rules do so in hopes that those rules are an accurate metric for gauging reality. The truth of the matter lies far beyond these confines. Just as a small insect can fly easily through the massive gap in a wire fence, so too can we breeze through the confines that so many others try to enforce upon us in this world.
topics include: truth, independent media, human needs, finding meaning, consciousness, mind, philosophy, human history and prehistory, foreseeing the future, clarity, happiness, prison
After some much need R&R, Aaron Returns to talk about the Military Industrial Complex. America is now its military through and through. Things weren’t always this way, but they have been for some time to be sure.
topics include: Washington DC, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, aerospace industry, technology, flight, esoteric side of man’s quest to fly, Icarus, left ring paradigm, Covid mask wearing a partisan issue, USPS, Trump crony Postmaster General
gathering of aimless wanderers and information seekers happens on this week’s show.
topics include: walking around where no one is, city, Columbus Ohio, downtown, Newport Music Hall, Minneapolis Minnesota, George Floyd, police taking early retirement, protests, umbrella man identity
On this episode there is some talk about the institution of marriage as well as a very interesting piece from the NIH that Bobby Vaughn brings to the table. It seems that 5G millimeter waves can be absorbed by skin cells and produce Coronaviruses.
topics include: human relationships, laws, marriage, contracts, religion, Corona Virus lockdown reality, relationship stress, relationships with machines, 5G, technology, transhumanism, Google, internet, forcing people onto certain browsers, 404 errors, https, old sites no longer secure, switching over to new internet structure
Jon Gold is the joins the show to talk a bit about 9/11 Truth. It remains an important issue which relates to so much going in today’s world. We would not be where we are now without what happened on September 11, 2001.
topics include: 9/11 truth and justice, we were lied to, Jersey Girls, protests, anti war movement, Iraq, Afghanistan, American foreign policy, racism, Bandar Bush, veterans for truth
Robbie Martin joins the show for a conversation on the history and present state of conspiracy culture. He has a special episode of Media Roots Radio detailing the QAnon phenomenon, which is a must listen. Here, Robbie talks a bit about Q, its genesis, and some of the ramifications of what it all means in today’s tumultuous political climate.
topics include: QAnon, internet, media awareness, propaganda, disillusioned to entertainment industry, popular conspiracy ideas, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Trump presidential campaign, OAN, Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Trump supporters, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul, martial law, 8 Chan, boomers, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, Antifa, BLM, racism, right wing extremism, anti China propaganda
Aaron brings back his old notes to explore some pieces written on IEET by one of its former managing directors, Mike Treder. Treder has been missing/gone silent online since 2012. Transhumanist groups are not unlike other fringe special interest groups, in that it is indeed a fringe group.
topics include: IEET, Mike Treder, Martine Rothblatt, transhumanism, WTA, intellectuals, academics, white papers, Canada, disappearance, power pyramid, global elite, David Rothkopf, Invisible Hand, religion, science, philosophy, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, nanotech, induction, inductive reasoning, logic, faith, pattern recognition, Hume, Bayesian Inference, occult, secret doctrine, initiate, induct, artificial wombs, Jeremy Rifkin, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, Harvard S
Chris McKann from The Path of Tea comes on the show to talk a bit about tea with Aaron. If you aren’t into loose leaf teas, you should be. There is a lot to learn about them on this podcast episode. Be sure to listen to the second part of this show on the latest episode of Uncle (the podcast)
topics include: loose leaf tea, camellia sinensis, China, Japan, Asia, natural medicine, relaxation, taste, caffeine, Oolong, Jasmine, Earl Grey, green tea, black tea, Houston Texas, tea shop
Long time friend of the show, Sand Sheff, returns to talk a bit about Bill Gates. There are a number of large-scale business and social ventures that Gates is involved in. Should we be wary of his intentions?
topics include: EarthNow, surveillance, satellites, space, 5G, foundations, business, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, transhumanism, BCI, BMI, brain computer interface, Elon Musk, occult, religion, prophecy, Mark of the Beast, Covid19, vaccines, security
With TheAgeOfTransitions.com currently down, Aaron talks about the fragility of online security. What sort of large-scale cyber threats will emerge as we go deeper and deeper into this age of transitions?
topics include: web design, online security, Cybersecurity, NSCAI, Google, Amazon, government, private industry, Silicon Valley, China, geopolitics, technology, machine learning
Robin calls back into the show and discusses online/offline life with Aaron. Who will control internet in the future?
topics include: protests, unrest, Age of Transitions, social media, employers vetting candidates online, safety and security, NSCAI, China, birth pangs, sensors, Internet of Things
As the nation literally burns, The Age of Transitions goes live on the air. Will George Floyd’s murder be the straw that broke the camel’s back for the public’s trust in the police? Connor, a chat room regular and Minneapolis resident, calls in to the show with some insights and reporting.
topics include: George Floyd, police violence, protests, riots, unprecedented times, anomie, frustration, public trust, umbrella man, agent provocateurs, looting, Minneapolis, Columbus OH, Atlanta GA
Aaron reads some notes from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s initial report.
topics include: differing ideas about reality, philosophy, technology, politics, transportation, automation, commerce, NSCAI, national security, China, Cold War 2.0, ethics gap, machine learning, Ai, AGI, algorithms, future, Ford, fleet vehicles
On this very special May Day, Aaron decides to consecrate the live show.
topics include: religion, religious activity, seeking truth, spirit, pagandom, nature, sage, sense of smell, memory, live show Friday nights, cycles, institutions of religion, theocracy, architecture, leaves carved in masonry, mineral vegetable animal kingdoms, government buildings, Classical architecture, evolution, pantheons, Tron, mist, mysticism, four elements
Video games have advanced greatly over a relatively short period of time. They now rival Hollywood films in production value. How may these different forms of media end up converging? What is the future of media, and our relationship with it?
topics include: live show, Age of Transitions comic, Covid19, free online Harvard courses, machine learning, niche industries, democratization of media, video games, Nintendo, movies, television, internet, networked media, multimedia, convergence, virtual reality, education, IT, technology, realistic graphics, detail, Ready Player One, books, private public reality, American Capitalism, understanding, propaganda, hidden information, narrative, Post-Truth World, think tanks, critical thinking
Working from home opens up a whole new world of possibilities for daily life. Is the Covid19 pandemic showing us how technology can enable a life sheltered in place?
topics include: technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, telecommuting, communications, work, automation, Ai, machine learning, New Green Deal, environmental impact, green technology
In the short-term we are dealing with massive changes due to Covid19. People are working from home, not working at all, or possibly not working again. But, what happens when the crisis subsides? There are some serious long-term changes that we can see developing, many of which have been brewing for a long time now.
topics include: Corona Virus, economy, jobs, working, technology, Ai, robotization, Boston Dynamics, automation, UBI, stimulus, government subsidizing life, military life, generation gap, Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, online life, media, YouTubers, Protestant Work Ethic, MAGA
In the Midst of Covid19, 2020, Aaron takes a moment to reflect on the unique situation we are all in. So much has changed, while so much has stayed the same.
topics include: Corona Virus, California, quarantine, social distancing, presidential election prediction, Biden/Sanders 2020, families spending time together, home schooling, Common Core curriculum, uncertainty, gun fantasies, martial law, frustrated parents, Ed in WA, going in public, Boomer Remover, church and state, Chet Hanks, China
The Covid19 Crisis has kicked into full panic mode. What do we do in the face of this? JG Michael calls in to talk a little bit about this, and more.
topics include: Corona Virus, public settings, hysteria, hoarding home goods, consumerism, medical system, stratified social system, social distancing, wealthy removed from everyone else, Douglas Rushkoff, Wall Street, one percenters, bunkers, apocalyptic events
Aaron tells tales from highlights of his life wandering around aimlessly. Don’t let anyone fool you, wasting time is not always a total waste. If you are in a hurry, it helps to know where it is you are going in the first place.
topics include: AoT comic, creative projects, laughing at nothing, insanity, comedy, conspiracy theory, 9/11, relationship behaviors influenced by sitcoms and romcoms, credibility, generic conspiracy ideas, Bohemian mindset, successful people break rules, stratified society, walking around aimlessly, wandering, Columbus Ohio, strengths and weaknesses tied together, observation, loneliness, alienation, carrying mail in suburbia, Orange County CA, bustling wastelands, fast pace of modern life, time management, unnatural state, inevitable fates, death, desert, something in nothing, expectations, source of depression
Aaron returns to do a live show for the first time in nearly a month. Robin from Victoria calls in to have a conversation about popular culture’s seedy underbelly.
topics include: Ochelli Radio Network, The Age of Transitions, GOTJ 2017, some counterculture ideas held by the majority now, corruption, 1620 High Noon podcast, MMA, Canada, podcasting, laser discs, Song of the South, old Warner Brothers cartoons critiquing wild west America, Siemens, military war propaganda, Disneyland, Walt Disney, Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl, Edward Bernays, World’s Fair, Futurism, average person becoming aware of mass propaganda, conspiracy theories placed in popular media, cognitive bias, technology, communication breakdown, Adam Fitzgerald, 9/11, history, JFK assassination, Chuck Ochelli
Murdacloak is the man behind the Instagram, Juggalos Against Trump, and the special guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. Those who know juggalos know enough to expect the unexpected. This interview is a prime example of this principle, and a fun conversation about the insane clown show that is politics today.
topics include: juggalo, ICP, lyrics, Gathering of the Juggalos 2018 OKC, Oklahoma, police presence, 2019 Columbus OH, Midwest, California, President Donald Trump, racism, Juggalos For Trump, Juggalo ideology, losing sight of the message, Carnival of Carnage, economic inequality, Walmart, MAGA hats, Montana, demonization of the poor, Republican Party base, Bernie Sanders, social media, political debate at GOTJ, Juggalo Night Court, Native American Reservation, Salish Tribe, life on the Res, the projects, nature, discrimination, civility, Instagram
Journalist, author, and podcaster Josephy L Flatley returns to the show to talk about his latest audio documentary podcast series. The So-Called Prophet from Pittsburgh is about the GCCA, a group headed by a man who calls himself Gabriel of Urantia. Here, Joseph gets to talk about making his series as well as some serious psychological aspects of cult life.
topics include: Catatonic Youths, GCCA, podcasting, audio documentaries, cults, interviews with ex members, conspiracy culture, mind control, Synanon, word salad, psychology, spiritualution, Soulistic Hospice, Occupy Wall Street, confusion, family, Gabriel of Urantia, Elders, internet marketing groups, poor quality websites, gurus search for victims, Sanskrita, Jonestown, dysfunctional relationships, family dynamics
Chuck Ochelli rejoins The Age of Transitions bonus podcast stream. Here, he and Aaron retell some of their experiences being part of the "Truth Movement" that happened a decade in the past. Passing out DVDs, networking with like minds, and much more are explored in this light-hearted, but hard-hitting conversation.
topics include: 9/11 Truth, eBay, the Obsolete Man, DVD copies of documentaries, truth groups, JFK, sharing information, meeting truther celebrities, no planers, Kevin Barrett, Jim Fetzer, Sophia Smallstorm, supportive partners, conspiracy theory, civil liberties, depression, Uncle (the podcast), average person
The 2020 presidential election is heating up. It’s hard not to get caught up in the show.
topics include: Bernie Sanders, Bon Iver, Iowa, primaries, Donald Trump, PA rally, crowds
Things can often and all too easily seem completely hopeless. In the face of this, it may be that a bit of hope and faith go a long way to help us. But how do we keep ourselves from become victims of blind faith?
topics include: 9/11 Truth, we were lied to, some far Left pitfalls, conspiracy related topics, religion, faith, mysticism, altered states of consciousness, being consumed by alternative media
If we are going to develop thinking machines, perhaps we should first evaluate our own thought processes. Are we even thinking in the first place?
topics include: democratic debates, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, media coverage, propaganda, marginalizing outlier candidates, mind, psyche, intelligence, Ai, machine learning, bias, objectives, human control, Stuart Russell, Forbes article, virtual worlds
A relaxed and impromptu show in which Aaron talks about everything from the Age of Transitions show itself to war with Iran.
topics include: live show, Patreon supporters, desert camping trip to Giant Rock, optimism, power corrupts, special interests, war with Iran, business of war, Middle East theater of War, Iraq, Donald Trump 2016 campaign, convenient lies, George W Bush administration, Neocons, propaganda, public acceptance of war, opportunity to make unique media, conspiracy theory distractions, surveillance, big data, social media, cellular phone microphone picking up your conversations to target advertisements, average person’s perceptions, Silicon Valley, Surveillance Capitalism, generational antagonism, self help, write up podcast reviews for your favorite shows
We urgently need your help to get the Ochelli Radio Network back up and running in time for Uncle's New Year's Revolution. The show will air live at 11pm EST on December 31. Our producer, Chuck Ochelli had his computer break last week. With a few donations he will be able to buy a new one and get the network back up and running. Please help by sending him a donation today. Go to Ochelli.com and make a one time donation. Thank you, and we will see you on New Year's Eve.
Aaron makes a special solo show. Preparations are being made for Uncle's New Year's Revolution. Please help make the Revolution happen by going to Ochelli.com and sending a one time donation to our producer, Chuck Ochelli. His computer broke down, and he needs a new one to make the Revolution happen. We don't need to raise much money to pull this off, so please show your support.
The Conspirosphere is an ever-changing environment, but is the conspiracy the conspiracy?
topics include: New Years Eve, live radio, Patreon, Ai, Atlantic Council, RAND Corporation, think tanks, white papers, Bohemian Grove, A Relative Advantage, conspiracy theory, alternative research, Post Truth, Trump, MAGA, conservative movements, John Birch Society, Truth Movement