The Age of Transitions (general)
Author and digital filmmaker Aaron Franz hosts this podcast about transhumanism, social manipulation, the occult, and much more.

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

Direct download: 417_Banning_TikTok_and_Fighting_Crime.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:39am EDT

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

Direct download: 416_great_powers_competition_technological_battle_grounds.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:10am EDT

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

Direct download: 415_American_Theocracy_2025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:20am EDT

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

Direct download: 414_Alex_Ansary_interview_back_outside_the_box.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:12am EDT

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

Direct download: 413_Quigley_and_Quigley.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:50pm EDT

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

Direct download: 412_American_Elite.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:08am EDT

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

Direct download: 411_Robbie_Martin_guest_Fringe_Places_To_Digital_Spaces.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:42pm EDT

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

Direct download: AoT410_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:42am EDT

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

Direct download: 409_Blake_Lemoine_interview_The_Many_Mysteries_of_Our_AI_Present.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:06am EDT

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

Direct download: 408_the_world_wide_wasteland.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:17pm EDT

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

Direct download: 407_So_Many_Bad_Ideas_So_Little_Time.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:43am EDT

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

Direct download: 406_Heritage_Foundation_Project_2025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:59pm EDT

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

Direct download: 405_Illicit_Calls.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:44am EDT

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

Direct download: 404_Oops_Peace_Not_Found.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:28am EDT

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

Direct download: 403_Marc_Andreessen_Techno_Optimist_Manifesto.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:36am EDT

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

Direct download: 402_wasting_away_the_american_way.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:16am EDT

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

Direct download: 401_the_future_of_retail.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:06am EDT

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

Direct download: 400_Super_four_hundred_party_supreme.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:39am EDT

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

Direct download: 399_Influence_Ops_Prop_Shop.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:06am EDT

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

Direct download: truth_in_reverse_AoT_398.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:16pm EDT

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

Direct download: 396_politics_is_radical_dude.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:07am EDT

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

Direct download: 395_Ike_Warned_Us.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:40pm EDT

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

Direct download: 393_new_old_guys_in_town.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:18am EDT

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

Direct download: 392_talking_shop_with_Chuck_and_Chris_Graves.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:25am EDT

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

Direct download: 391_podcasts_exposed.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:21am EDT

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

Direct download: Eternal_Life_Right_Around_the_Corner_390.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:06am EDT

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

Direct download: 389_Splitting_the_Atomized.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:23am EDT

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

Direct download: 388_Abundantly_Clear.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:18pm EDT

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

Direct download: 387_AI_Gold_Rush.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:15am EDT

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

Direct download: 385_The_Philosophers_Theory.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:54am EDT

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

Direct download: 384_A_Machines_World.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:11am EDT

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

Direct download: 382_Bing_Grabs_Our_Attention.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:21am EDT

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

Direct download: 381_The_ChatGPT_Magna_Carta.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:25am EDT

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

Direct download: 380_Private_Sector_Reporting_For_Duty.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:22am EDT

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

Direct download: 379_BioComputers_Coming_Your_Way.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:36am EDT

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

Direct download: 378_Crazy_for_Technology.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:56am EDT

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

Direct download: 377_When_Eric_Schmidt_Says_I_Told_You_So.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:05pm EDT

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

Direct download: 375_Uncle_the_Guest.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:25am EDT

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

Direct download: 374_The_Automated_Society.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:10am EDT

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

Direct download: 373_The_Age_of_Transitions_is_Now.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:20am EDT

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

Direct download: 372_Our_Reactionary_World.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:14am EDT

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

Direct download: 371_Thanksgiving_As_Harvest_Feast.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46pm EDT

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

Direct download: 370_Godfrey_Reggio_interview_From_the_Enstrangement_Cell.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:16am EDT

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

Direct download: 369_Bad_Desert_Wifi.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:56pm EDT

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

Direct download: 368_Agriculture_Grew_Human_Civilization.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:13am EDT

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

Direct download: 367_Ochelli_Radio_Updates.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:51pm EDT

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

Direct download: 366_Live_From_Landers.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:21pm EDT

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

Direct download: 365_Toxic_or_Not_Here_We_Come.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:05am EDT

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

Direct download: 364_Lighten_Up.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:29am EDT

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

Direct download: 363_Brain_Implant_Experiments.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:36pm EDT

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

Direct download: 362_Facing_the_Contradictions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:56pm EDT

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

Direct download: 361_Quantum_Computing_Mysticism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:24pm EDT

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

Direct download: 360_Shifting_Eras_In_The_Age_of_Transitions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:35pm EDT

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

Direct download: 359_Wojacked_Up.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:33pm EDT

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

Direct download: 358_Georgia_Guidestones_Destroyed.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:24am EDT

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

Direct download: 357_Caught_Up_In_the_Culture_Wars.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:57pm EDT

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

Direct download: 356_The_Sovereign_Citizens_of_the_High_Desert.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:36pm EDT

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

Direct download: 355_Arrival_of_AGI_or_Narrow_AI_Has_Become_Too_Convincing.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:59am EDT

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

Direct download: 350_Just_Living_Day_to_Day.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:44pm EDT

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

Direct download: 349_Automated_Labor_Union.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:02am EDT

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

Direct download: 348_Artificial_Lightning.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:44pm EDT

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

Direct download: 347_Alchemical_Influences_On_Our_World.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:32pm EDT

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

Direct download: 346_Russian_Invasion_and_Putin_Fans.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:31pm EDT

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

Direct download: 344_Secret_Societies_and_Martial_Arts.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:12am EDT

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

Direct download: 343_Plastic_Silicone_Synthesized_World.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:01pm EDT

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

Direct download: 342_Nerds_Can_Be_Irrational.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:46pm EDT

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

Direct download: 341_Revivicor_My_Soul.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:09am EDT

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

Direct download: 340_Learning_Differently_on_Christmas_Eve.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:29am EDT

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

Direct download: 339_Walking_Away_From_Work.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:20pm EDT

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

Direct download: 338_Math_Properties_of_Street_Savants.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:07am EDT

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

Direct download: 337_Political_Divides_Wearing_Thin.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:25pm EDT

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

Direct download: 336_Cyber_Security_War_On_Terror_Upgrade.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:05pm EDT

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

Direct download: 335_Communist_Metaverse_Surveillance_Ai.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:31pm EDT

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

Direct download: 334_Enter_the_Metaverse.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:02pm EDT

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

Direct download: 333_Not_So_Crazy_After_All.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:17am EDT

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

Direct download: 332_Gravitar_Coming_Soon.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:46am EDT

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

Direct download: 331_We_Almost_Forgot.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:11pm EDT

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

Direct download: 329_Reliving_the_Bush_Years.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:19pm EDT

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

Direct download: 328_Out_of_Afghanistan_and_Into_the_Cyber_War_on_Terror.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:36pm EDT

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

Direct download: 326_End_Signs_on_Friday_the_Thirteenth.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:22am EDT

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

Direct download: 324_Traveling_Through_Time_and_Space.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:18pm EDT

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

Direct download: 323_Final_Frontiers_For_Everyone.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:28pm EDT

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

Direct download: 321_Dont_FENCE_Me_In.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:38pm EDT

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

Direct download: 320_Mickey_Deez_Scammers.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:15pm EDT

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

Direct download: 319_Think_Tanking_Autonomous_Vehicles_Into_Existence.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:35pm EDT

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

Direct download: 318_Etymology_of_the_Tarot_Minor_Arcana.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:48pm EDT

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 

Direct download: 317_Prepare_For_Ochelli_Two_Thousand.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:39am EDT

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

Direct download: 316_Crime_of_the_Century_review_with_Chuck_Ochelli.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:31pm EDT

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

Direct download: 314_The_NSCAI_Final_Report.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:24am EDT

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
Direct download: 313_Recall_Your_Lumber_Bags.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:49pm EDT

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

 

Direct download: 312_Birthing_Super_Soldiers_From_Artificial_Wombs.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:44am EDT

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

Direct download: 311_The_Bear_on_Californias_Flag.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:50pm EDT

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

 

Direct download: 310_Little_Spot_Comes_Home.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:21pm EDT

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

Direct download: 309_Our_Gods_Are_Going_With_Us.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:18am EDT

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

Direct download: 308_MIC_Silicon_Valley_and_the_International_Uranium_Trade.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:10pm EDT

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

Direct download: 307_No_Culture_Nothing_to_Cancel.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:44am EDT

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

Direct download: 306_Artificial_Recurrence.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:47pm EDT

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

Direct download: 305_Artisan_Loaf_interview_Elon_Musk_the_Wealthiest_Man_Online.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:40am EDT

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.

Direct download: 304_The_Age_of_Transitions_Watch_Party.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:07am EDT

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

Direct download: 303_One_Past_Twenty.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:53pm EDT