What heights were reached at the Alaska meeting of The US and Russia? What depths have we reached in terms of digital life? 

Topics include: Patreon project, Looking For Truth In All the Wrong Places, enemy combatants, Trump and Putin Alaska summit, bad audio with interpreter, peace, podcast imagery, red carpet, runway, fish avatars, gaining audience, optics, fighter jets, decline of American Empire, F35, Air Force, MIC was aerospace industry, B2 Stealth Bomber, world wars, tech advances bring new warfare, aviation, emerging technologies, AI, Space Force, communications, digital connectivity, internet, Global Propaganda Matrix, influence ops, Russian influence on elections a taboo idea, marketing bad ideas, shift in American power elite, internal war within MIC, government contracts, technocracy, martial law in DC, the Constitution in Libertarian propaganda, creation of domestic enemies, Neo Feudalism, Elon Musk, Ukraine, business, information warfare, justice, don’t have to pretend to not be racist anymore, fooled by lowest common denominator

There is an ongoing war in the podcast world. The latest comedian defector is Marc Maron, and he has done a good job calling out the unofficial leaders of the space. 

Topics include: Patreon ideas, scheduling live streams, continuing to produce online media, absence of Elon Musk, template for online behavior, AI, stolen election allegations, NSA audit, reversing the narrative, Butler assassination attempt, Epstein client list, starting point of truth seeking, lies, click bait, eugenics, Orchid Health, roof of White House, internet way worse propaganda delivery platform than television, facade of truth seeking, podcast wars, marketing techniques, woke as tool of division, Marc Maron, WTF podcast done, Rogansphere, new comedy special, political correctness, have to change your act, terrible comedians, Alex Jones always getting attention, cats, defying liberal tropes, using publicity tour to deliver political message, Tim Heidecker, Elephant Graveyard, reactions to reactions, free speech, control by the super wealthy, Alex Karp, billion dollar babies

Aaron and Chuck discuss the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. Later in the show, Aaron attempts to make sense of our senseless reality. 

Topics include: continuing on in the face of adversity, death of Ozzy Osbourne, Back to the Beginning, off of meds, charity event, Black Sabbath, solo career, heavy metal, darkness, trademark sound, identity, Lemmy, Parkinsons, Ozzfest, freak sideshow acts, rock bottom, Suicide Solution, art, fiction accurate portrayals of evil, Running Man movie, free speech, propaganda, Epstein, Big Data, using social media for social experimentation, analytics, narrative crafting, Strong Man is disposable, true powers that be, right wing media is in state of confusion, charlatans, Conspiracy Culture taboos, currently in holding pattern, coming Singularity scenario, destruction of old institutions, useful idiots, international rival countries, oligarchs

They are trying to build a prison for you and me to live in. Another prison system. 

Topics include: technical difficulties, Patreon videos, Singularity Summit interviews, International Alchemy Conference, New World Fest, insanity of the day, East Coast trip, new digital media propaganda, global propaganda, Epstein, taking away ability to think, influencer tools, tech elite, defense contracts, Anduril, Palmer Luckey, obsession over PR, mic gain, JD Vance, surveillance state, same project of Neocons, World War 3, information warfare, disinformation campaigns, schizophrenic government, no victory upon Trump death, Peter Thiel, salesman for MAGA, exploitation of patriot movement, eugenic philosophy, life extension research, new Superman movie, Amazon in its early days, inauguration, Technological Singularity, Kurzweil, Alligator Alcatraz, things are things, inventors, virtual worlds, complaining before it’s too late, deepfakes, knobs, Uncle TikTok videos, prison industrial complex, Freedom City, gig economy, dystopia

Aaron welcomes back Y as his guest to talk more about his Untold QAnon Origins article series. Here, they pick up with Julian Assange and Wikileaks. 

Topics include: Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, The Family cult, Great White Brotherhood, QAnon, White Hats, Australia, arrest for hacking, online message boards, helping Russia hack the election, Gucifer, early Suburbia Australian ISP, IQ dot org, shopping Wikileaks concept, Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers, counterculture, tech culture, Anonymous, hacktivism, art activism, Cicada 3301, ARG, MAGA, Trust the Plan, memes, Chaos Magic, internet as a medium, interactive media, WWG1WGA, networks, New Age, cybernetics, trolling, anons vs identified users online, ego, SJWs, identity politics, channeling, Theosophy, cryptic posts, Ron Watkins, influencing politics, nihilism, no culpability, Medium article series, YAnon

In 2009, I went to New York City, and met up with my friend / TransAlchemy blog collaborator Carlos, to attend the Singularity Summit as independent press. We got seven tapes worth of footage, mainly interviews of speakers at the conference.

I just finished a seven part Patreon series. In each episode I play one of the tapes from this event, uncut.

The guest on this episode is the author of the Untold Origins of QAnon article series. Here, he  explains connections between seemingly separate movements such as Anonymous, The Venus Project, Technocracy Inc and more. Be sure to read Y’s articles, and hopefully we will do another show that continues on these topics soon. 

Topics include: Technocracy Incorporated, Anonymous, QAnon, conspiracy culture, 4Chan, hacker culture, Occupy movement, Pizzagate, online message boards, internet culture as a whole, lack of critical analysis, leaderless movements, appearance of spontaneity, early anti Scientology Anonymous protests, backstory to Truth Movement, Untold QAnon Origins articles, Elon Musk’s grandfather, price system, energy accounting, Social Credit, possible common origins, distributist economics, automation, Howard Scott, faking identity as German engineer, A.R. Orage, avant garde scenes, Bolshevik Revolution, Gurdjieff, Russian mysticism, esoteric religion intertwined with political movements, occult history, art, Venus Project, Zeitgeist movie series, Jacques Fresco, shared terminology, Peter Joseph, New Age, appearing to be left leaning, odd truth filmmaking techniques, Venus Project films, visionary persona, Buckminster Fuller, futurism, cybernetics, philosophic schizophrenia, Zeitgeist Movement, Wikileaks, hactivism, white and black hat hacking, IRC, What Is The Plan dot org, Trust the Plan, Venus Project’s The Plan, phases of The Plan, extreme content on message boards, ARG, meme magic, chaos magic, controlled scarcity concept, Jordan Maxwell, solutions for discourse only, Cold War history, alternative socialist ideas, modern Russian propaganda, Aleksandr Dugin, East and West occult historical takes, shifting between right and left wing political extremes, government subsidies, 2011 important year, Podesta emails, political rise of Trump, Seth Rich, trialectics, getting caught up in Truther scene

Strong Man has now been put into a situation that he wasn’t built for. He has to make a clear decision in regard to Israel and Iran. Gone are the days of ad libbing on the debate stage. This is the World Stage, and it is serious. 

Topics include: making sense of the senseless, life in digital space, old predictions of internet influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, conspiracy tropes, America’s position on Israel and Iran (day before bombing happened), MAGA regime, America First and anti-war take on MAGA, infighting is legitimate, Musk vs Trump, can no longer have things both ways, ties to Moscow, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Israel ties to US, Neocon origins of current American political establishment, War on Terror, Total Information Awareness, current surveillance state, Palantir, public private projects, new MIC, contracts with Israel, stock price surging, Big Tech, geopolitics, real version of Dump Trump, placing JD Vance into power, Trump can’t handle being pulled in several directions, weaponization of Conspiracy Culture, Republican Party identity changes, surveillance state used as political tool, dark side of comedy and right wing ecosystem, confrontational nonsense, lowest common denominator always rules online, simple reality has become heresy, gatekeeping, fringe websites reborn on TikTok, new age, technical improvement of online video, AI driving automation and job loss, being led into digital world, living in a virtual reality, transhumanist future, appearance of anti-establishment credibility, Newt Gingrich still Trump’s champion, giving due credit to the power of conspiracy ideas

Social media is dominated by trolls, and they have used their influence to wreak mass destruction on and off line. 

Topics include: making sense of things, no allegiances, social media interactions, Tim Pool, bots, trolls, sarcasm, communication, social media Nihilism, trolling is now seen as good, MAGA riding dark online wave, Russian money, Tenet Media, targets of propaganda, alternative thinking taboos, American decline, divide and conquer, Trump vs Musk, telling jokes, rising to top by being an internet troll, comedy routine at debate, Vivek Ramaswamy, being the biggest winner and loser at the same time, billionaires acting like clowns, pro wrestling, is the fight real?, technocratic overlords, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, Administrative State, privatized system of control, attention economy, pay to play, possible schism within right wing world, MTG, Alex Jones, making excuses for Palantir, hall of mirrors, alternative is already the new mainstream, Steve Albini, being confrontational for its own sake, recanting edge lord past, analog media is dead, living a virtual reality, deflecting, nebulous enemies, literally demonizing your enemy, Golden Age, Western geopolitical alliances breaking on purpose, alchemical dissolution, nebulous ideas as enemies, Red Pill, cosplaying The Matrix, 3 AIs talking to each other

Pearse Redmond makes his grand return as a guest on this special episode. Reflections on an ever changing digital media space, and our collective struggle against confusion are had along with some memories of days gone by. 

Topics include: early Porkins Policy Radio episodes, looking back at earlier days of podcasting, KONY 2012, information overload, Musk’s black eye, possibility of P Diddy pardon, early Epstein coverage, bitterness, commoditization of stories, idea that Trump would expose Epstein truth, alt media personalities exploiting story, dog whistle, end of conspiracy media, MAGA establishment pretending not to be the establishment, public threshold for failure low, J6 pardons and claims of Antifa involvement, live-streamers portraying themselves as truth tellers, war Gaza, simulation and virtual reality, RFK Jr, kicking the can down the road, not reading news can be good, debate culture, reactionary content creation, the platform leads the creator, analytics and SEO, rise of AI, nothing is real or original, lack of superintelligence, college students cheating with AI, mediocrity in and out, new Mission Impossible, social media platforms as propaganda platforms, perception warped, Great Powers Competition, resources, multipolar world, international propaganda, soft power, becoming radicalized to good causes can lead to disaster