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