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