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

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

 

Direct download: 298_Revisiting_and_Remembering.mp3
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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

Direct download: 297_The_Great_Gaming_Arena.mp3
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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

Direct download: 296_Pearse_Redmond_guest_The_Wisdom_of_the_Tao.mp3
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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

Direct download: 295_Dont_Tripp_on_the_Medical_Industrial_Complex.mp3
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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

Direct download: 294_Keystone_State_of_the_2020_Election.mp3
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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

Direct download: 293_The_Virtual_New_Deal.mp3
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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

Direct download: 292_Pearse_Redmond_interview_Uncertain_Times.mp3
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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

Direct download: 291_Josie_J_Streaming_Consciousness.mp3
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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