A meandering stream of consciousness inspired by the slings and arrows of daily life in our crazy world.

Topics: everyday life, socioeconomics, existential dilemmas, homelessness, rationalization, slang, social media, senselessness of modern world, dominant minority hoard wealth, stress, disposable income, money and motivation podcast, everything numbered, alternative social movements in the near future, strength, Nothing But Trouble, New Jersey Turnpike, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmy James Fan Club, Pennsylvania, paranormal and spiritualism, The Burbs, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon aTime in Hollywood, foot fetish, 70s, Lara in Spain

With a new organized labor movement gaining traction, what will happen as human labor becomes more and more obsolete?

Topics include: listener support, social media presence, labor unions, work, automation, deglobalization, robotics, machine learning, industry, customer experience, rapid change, majority stock holders, wealth going to top minority, American Factory documentary, China, nuclear family, human social organization, civilization, greed, war, heat, American Exceptionalism

Aaron takes some time to consider his own motivations for making digital media. 

Topics include: making online media, content creators, listenership and playing the numbers game, procuring guests, hard work of Chuck Ochelli, virtual worlds, internet space, augmented reality, tangible world, extremely online youth, finally recognizing dangers of technological progress, base desires fulfilled online, being part of the problem, human weaknesses, machine coming to life, personal life, making life easy

Electricity is one of many natural phenomena that have been altered by human artifice. 

Topics include: April Fool’s Day, Tarot Fool, life changes, optimism, self reflection, Democratization of Media, online media distribution, content creators, advertisement, arrogance, news cycle, Jordan Maxwell, ideals and realities, electricity, natural and artificial worlds, lighting, arc flash, Zeus myths, Humvee electrocution, risk at work, bonus podcasts

A brief exploration of alchemy and other occult ways of understanding our world. 

Topics include: alchemy, material and immaterial, mind, consciousness, turning lead into gold, symbolism, dreaming, altered states of consciousness, reality beyond quantification, JFK Assassination, small groups able to steer public perception, Star Wars, quantum physics, Chuck the Blue Man, black can reflect, painting, Trump style different from tradition president, Nixon movie, F35 crash into ocean

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is discussed here. Moving forward, who in America will continue supporting Putin and how will they pull it off? 

Topics include: Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nordstream 2, Germany, China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, NATO, Trump, MAGA support of Putin, sanctions, tariffs, propaganda, psychology, strength, authoritarianism, fascism, Joe Biden, Steven Wright, Sean Penn, Anonymous hackers, Catch Me If You Can, cyber warfare, weapons industry booming

Will uploaded human clones yearn for death, but have no means to achieve it? These are the thoughts that arise when imagining transhuman futures. 

Topics include: Putin protect Russia in metaverse, ads on websites, transhumanism, philosophy, religion, occult, uploading consciousness to machine, fear of death, eternal life, dominant minority, stake holders, money as means to power, Anthony Levandowski, Heaven’s Gate cult, creation overtake the creator, nostalgia as escape, knowing what you believe, average person yearns for death

Chuck had Aaron back on The Ochelli Effect for the first time in quite a long time to talk a bit about transhumanism, and more. 

topics include: Chuck decided to try and focus on the technocratic topics that interest Aaron during the conversation.

There have been many and varied secret societies, the world over, throughout history. Martial arts certainly have ties to occult concepts and groups. 

Topics include: secret societies, fraternal orders, Freemasonry, Victoria BC, revolution in China, martial arts, Kung Fu, Bruce Lee, revealing secrets, monks, language and cultural barriers between East and West, Asian history, globalization, meditation, ideals, psychology, Quigley, Knights of Malta, fortifications and alchemy, Rhodes, Assassins, ninjas, intelligence agencies

Technological progress has created ecological disaster, and now we hope that it will do the opposite. 

Topics include: Revolve book news, petroleum based products, plastic, DuPont family, chemicals, profit motive, MIC, micro plastics, pollution, ecological disaster, impossible to know long term effects, using technology to fix problems from technology, planetary timescales, transhumanism as answer, mind uploading, virtual reality, augmented reality, computing power, social media evolving into metaverse, data mining, surveillance