News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, my fiancee, Izzy (twitter: @badplantmom)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- After the Silk Road shut down, the US seized $1 billion in Bitcoin, which has now grown to $3 billion

- The US is now one of the biggest holders of Bitcoin, reflecting their invested interest in the currency

- The proliferation of Bitcoin as a force in the world, including becoming currency in El Salvador

- The supply chain shortages and what is causing it

- The Suez Crisis, where the UK lost their status as a world superpower following an intervention against Egypt

- Is Covid the US's Suez Crisis moment? And if not, does it feel like we are approaching one?

- How small businesses are beginning to hoard stock due to shortages, and the domino effect of economic effects post-Covid

- Black Friday, and how it is declining in popularity, and consumer shopping habits around the holidays have changed

- How Amazon was the only major company to report gains on Cyber Monday, and how Amazon is our future distribution overlords

- The major news surge about how much shoplifting there is in the US, and how it all started with one Target in San Francisco

- How a random use of a shoplifting reporting app from SFPD for one month sparked a fear mongering news surge

- The shifting to an automated but highly surveilled state with as few workers, and as much security, as possible

- X-Files, and how a show of this format, and being so critical of the US government, would never exist again

- X-File's villain, the Smoking Man, as a symbol of the Deep State, and the Conspiracy Graph that called the Deep State a far-gone anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

- How American media is increasingly infused with military and intelligence propaganda, and the Smith-Mundt Act Reauthorization of 2012

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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