The Society Show

By Christian Patterson

The Society Show is about in-depth international, societal, and cultural news with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in.

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January 20, 2022 Ep 84: America is falling apart at the seams w/ Randi
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by five-time guest, Randi (twitter: @wascaleywabbit)! 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:
- Immigrant experience of the rules of the American workforce
- The future gigification of the workforce
- The petition to change the Washington State flag
- Some of the cooler state and national flags
- What Sopranos was about
- Kanye West named as suspect in battery of fan wanting an autograph
- Kanye's new life phase, divorced dad, moving in next door
- Palestinian-American elderly man dies while detained by Israeli police
- DUI checkpoints and anxiety-inducing car-related things
- Florida republican bureaucrat killed after violently provoking road rage incident
- "America is falling apart at the seams", an op-ed by David Brooks that's aimlessly meanders about how the US is declining, but literally has no explanation
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
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1h 22min
January 13, 2022 Ep 83: 2022 the Year of the Society Show w/ ConnorTonight
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by four-time guest, ConnorTonight (twitter: @connortonight)! 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:
- The massive Covid outbreak in the US
- How I think I had covid last week but I'm not sure because I tested negative
- Society Show quiz: X-Files Villain or real-life Cold War Era spy?
- Scully's unwarranted skepticism on X-Files after seeing so much
- The Society Show campaign to change the Washington State flag
- The Chicago Teachers Union voting not to go to live class, and the school district consequently cancelling all classes
- The protests in Kazakhstan, and the US reaction to it
- Will they be good? Scream (2022), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Batman, the upcoming Super Mario movie
- Self-awareness in movies now vs then
- Robert Pattinson's film career
- Will they be good? Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Elden Ring, Gran Turismo 7, new Saints Row, Starfield
- Predicting the 2022 Midterms (not good for the democrats, of course)
- Celebrities who died recently (Betty White, Sidney Poitier)
- Predictions of celebrity deaths 2022: Jimmy Carter, William Daniels, Danny Devito, Chevy Chase, Queen Elizabeth (if she isn't dead already), and Jack Nicholson
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
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1h 22min
December 30, 2021 Ep 82: Christian Patterson's New Year's Rockin' Eve
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! 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:
- All of the things the UN declared about 2021... and did nothing about!
- The Society Show's New Year's Resolution... to become a really big and important podcast
- I do the Hansen's Disease Ice Bucket Challenge!
- In 2022, the Society Show will be petitioning hard to officially change the Flag of the State of Washington
- The Society Show is starting the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Prachanda Path-Costanzaist Party!
- Remarkable deaths of 2021: Larry King, Sophie, Larry Flynt, Rush Limbaugh, DMX, Walter Mondale, Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
- The assassination attempt on Larry Flynt that left him paralyzed
- Why people never talk about how Walter Mondale got slaughtered in the 1984 election
- Looking back on January 6th, and how it was enabled by police ("an inside job" so they say)
- The Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal
- The strange detonations with ties to Israel at Iranian factories
- The planned disposal of nuclear waste into the ocean after the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor disaster
- The Israel-Palestine conflicts over Sheik Jarrah, the indiscriminate bombings of Gaza Strip, and anti-Arab hate mobs in Israel
- Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest Israeli Prime Minister replaced with even more far-right Neftali Bennett
- Remarkable deaths of 2021: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Ed Asner, Willard Scott, Young Dolph, Chun Doo-Hwan, Jacques Tits, Anne Rice, Joan Didion, bell hooks, and Desmond Tutu
- The extreme heatwave in the Pacific Northwest
- The suicide bombing at Kabul, and the end of the Afghanistan War
- AUKUS, the new agreement between Australia, UK, and US, to counter China
- The US, UK, Australia and Canada do a "diplomatic" boycott of Chinese Olympics
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (971) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138
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1h 4min
December 23, 2021 Ep 81: The Society Show Christmas Special! w/ John Carroll
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, John Carroll (twitter: @jhncrrll_)! 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:
- John Carroll is declared the official Holiday Correspondent for the Society Show
- The new Pokemon games, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How to with John Wilson, and Sex and the City: And Just Like That...
- The New Spider-Man movie
- Schools across the US shut down over a vague and non-specific Tiktok school shooting threat video
- Mr Potato Head was the toy that started the idea of "Christmas Toy Crazes"
- The Tickle Me Elmo craze
- Playstation 2 and video games that trended around Christmas
- Pokemon as Christmas craze, juxtaposed with Furbies and Beanie Babies
- TV Christmas specials, and how their decline coincides with the decline of America
- Spongebob, Frasier, Simpsons, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Hey Arnold, Fairly Oddparents, The Office and more Christmas specials
- The sardonic-but-friendly-kinda-geeky nice guy trope of the mid-2000s
- The history of Christmas, and how it is less imposed on pagan holidays then you would think
- The holiday the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun, and how it was most likely created to elbow out Christmas
- Saturnalia, an ancient Roman holiday
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
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1h 33min
December 16, 2021 Ep 80: Metaverse, Tiktok 'memes', New Chronology w/ Turn on Your Monitor
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by four-time guest, Nick, and second-time guest Jess, the hosts of the Turn on Your Monitor podcast (twitter: @TurnOnYrMonitor)! 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:
- Happy National Word of Mouth About Your Favorite Podcast Day!
- The Society Show Quiz! 1v1 match-up of Nick and Jess - who wins?
- Hawaiian water source was contaminated with gasoline, poisoning several people, consumed by tens of thousands
- New York Times reported a virtual wedding in the Metaverse, yet this has been done online many times before, what's so special?
- Virtual weddings in World of Warcraft, Maple Story, over Zoom during Covid, and more
- The potential future of Metaverse, and why it seems so uncool
- The Tik tok couch guy, a man scrutinized for an extremely boring Tik tok video, and the societal implications of things like it
- Suspicious mortgage website Better.com gets almost a billion dollars, fires almost a thousand employees soon after
- Rohl's New Chronology, the idea that Ancient Egyptian history is off ~350 years, and corresponds with the Bible
- The Phantom Time Hypothesis, that the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor created several hundred years, so Otto II would be emperor in the year 1000 AD
- Fomenko's New Chronology, the idea that all history before about 1000 AD is highly suspect, and very likely forged
- Fomenko's theory involves a conspiracy between the Pope, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the "pro-German" Romanovs, against the Russian Horde
- Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov's promotion of Fomenko's New Chronology, and why chess players can be political nuts
- The parallels between alternate chronologies and ancient aliens
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (971) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138
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1h 25min
December 09, 2021 Ep 79: Supply chain, fearmongering about shoplifting, and X-Files w/ Izzy
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!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (971) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138
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52min
December 02, 2021 Ep 78: Conspiracy Chart 2021, Slaughter in the South Plains of Texas
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! 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:
- It's December, which means it's the Christmas season!
- The world chess championship is currently occurring in Dubai
- The role of computers in post-Deep Blue chess, and how people use computers to play
- The Society Show monologue!
- Hundreds of packages found in a ravine in Alabama
- The Avenue of Sphinxes opened as an archaeological tourist site in Egypt
- American politicians go to Taiwan
- Forensic Files: the Society Show - a man killed by his ex-wife's boyfriend during custody exchange
- The terrible reputation of crooked judges in the US lately
- The everyday violence of custody disputes in the US, and the blasé attitude towards guns and gun violence
- A pregnant librarian ran a motorcyclist off the road, which ended in her gun death, after she fled the scene and was confronted
- The Conspiracy Chart 2021 - some of the things wrong with it, and at least one thing that's right about it
- The Nayirah Testimony, where the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter falsely testified that the Saddam government was killing babies in incubators
- Hill + Knowlton, the corrupt American PR company that created the Nayirah Testimony
- Hill + Knowlton also worked for Big Tobacco in the 50s/60s, Big Asbestos in the 70s, the Church of Scientology in the 90s, and Big Fracking
- MLK was admittedly surveilled by the FBI, even though most people would assume that, and the fact that this is known distracts from bigger truths
- The vague concepts presented on the Conspiracy Chart, and how "We have questions" has a deliberate ambiguity
- Iran-Contra Affair actually happened, and Reagan knew about it, but it really doesn't change much if he knew or not
- The "Paul is Dead" tier of conspiracy theories
- The conspiracy theory that the US is a corporation, which is basically true, but for none of the reasons they think it's true
- Illuminati and the New World Order
- Whether or not the concept of the Deep State is anti-Semitic, and what a Deep State means
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (971) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138
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54min
November 25, 2021 Ep 77: Happy Thanksgiving from the Society Show!
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! 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:
- A very Majority Report intro
- The successful farmer protests in India, and the 100s of protesters who were killed to ensure Modi's farm law didn't pass
- Keynesian economics vs neoliberal policies and how it pertains to India's laws and the protests
- Thousands of migrants from all over the world are crossing the Darien Gap
- The Pan America Highway, from north Alaska to south Argentina... except for the Darien Gap
- New Caledonia: a scheme by elites of the Scottish Kingdom to colonize the Darien Gap, which failed spectacularly
- Immigrants from the Middle East brutalized by Polish forces at border with Belarus
- The politicization and demonization of immigrants, and Belarus, as Belarus let's immigrants properly cross to their destination country
- NASA and Space X team up to launch satellite at asteroid
- The government is increasingly ceding their power to private corporations - Corporations are the government now!
- The frat bro president of El Salvador will make a Bitcoin City, powered by a volcano
- Kyle RIttenhouse and the implication on the future of the United States based on that court decision
- The anti-Catholic roots of Thanksgiving, and how that became established in the settler mythos
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
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44min
November 18, 2021 Ep 76: Chevy Chase and the Steely Dans, and My Freaking Ex-Wife w/ Bunkerboy
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! 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:
- On Earth-2, The Society Show features a wide array of interesting guests, including Chevy Chase and the Steely Dans
- COP26, Kyle Rittenhouse, scorpions in Egypt, and my FREAKING EX-WIFE!
- Movie reviews: Titane, Dune, They Came Together, House
- Waco University in Texas: the great, anti-cancel culture (online) college(/social media website)
- An interview with the Bunker Boy, the man who got married in a bunker that his parents built after the US invasion of Grenada
- Peter Thiel's interest in Rene Girard, and his theory of mimetic desire
- Peter Thiel's book The Diversity Myth, with David Sacks, who is also denounced by the Society Show
- How Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and obviously Elon Musk, are weird rich South African apartheid guys
- Thiel's ambition to use digital money to destabilize nation-states, and what he wants to replace it
- Thiel's rejection of the Enlightenment, and the political implications of that
- Following Astroworld, I look into other stampedes
- The stampede earlier this year at a religious pilgrimage site in Israel
- The stampede that occurred at the state funeral for Qassem Suleimani in Iran 2020
- The long (and recent) history of massively deadly stampedes at Mecca and Medina for Hajj
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
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1h
November 11, 2021 Ep 75: Vegetable Oil in Diesel Engine Day w/ Becca
News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, recruited from Twitter, Becca! (Not the other Becca, guest from last week's episode, also recruited from twitter). 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:
- Happy Vegetable Oil in Diesel Engine Day
- Vegetable oil is the only true renewable fuel for cars, and it was invented as a motor fuel in 1897!
- Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of diesel engines, and his cosmopolitan life
- Rudolf Diesel's mysterious death at sea
- A big fat naked Scottish man flashed Joe Biden's motorcade
- The tragic death of 8 people at the Astroworld concert in Houston
- What causes stampedes and how they could be prevented
- The FEC declared it legal for non-US citizens and foreign countries to financially support ballot measures
- Zillow buying up houses to flip, and it flops! They lay off 25% of their workforce and tried to unload the houses
- The logistics of government housing and how it could be expanded
- The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, the English-speaking separatist movement
- How English speaking Cameroonians are now allied with rebel factions in SE Nigeria
- What prevents rebel factions (like the Quebecois for example) from rebelling up here in the Northwest Hemisphere
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (971) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138
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1h 1min

FAQs about The Society Show:

How many episodes does The Society Show have?

The podcast currently has 130 episodes available.