Bam Margera Surveillance State, AoT#483
The Age of Transitions
The underground counterculture world of independent DVD production spanned a huge variety of niche interests. Outlaw motorcycle stunt man Ghost Rider is an example of something that can never be replicated in today’s world of total surveillance. Topics include: Ghost Rider motorcycle DVDs, underground indy media in 90s and 2000s, Bum Fights, INDECLINE graffiti collective, ADDTV, underground audio, Bam Margera, CKY, Jackass show, Big Brother videos, skateboard culture, Jump Off a Building Toy Machine video, Pennsylvania, prostitution, Bill Hicks, irony of laws, real life characters,...
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The Narrative Shift, AoT#482
The Age of Transitions
There is a major narrative shift now underway, and it centers on everyone being sick of our Strong Man in chief. Topics include: attention economy online, digital media, rage bait, click bait, analytics, influencing elections, right wing content creators, Alex Jones, MAGA, public relations, Trump losing support, medical issues, oligarchs in control, Neocons, exploitation of conspiracy theories, purposeful destruction of American government, consolidation of all media, America Fest, Shapiro vs Carlson, deconstructing media, Bernays, propaganda, early optimism over internet, career as...
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Big Tech Oligarchs Pretending to be Christian, AoT#481
The Age of Transitions
Don’t feel bad if you aren’t sure what to do right now. Even the high and mighty captors of America are relying on social media analytics to know what to say. Topics include: esoteric transhumanism, Peter Thiel, Patreon, AI automating online content creation, waiting for something to happen, no normal life, rapid pace of change, Big Tech AI projects, data centers, electrical power needs increasing, Ray Kurzweil, AGI, TMI, Tech oligarch version of Libertarian politics, UBI, social media and legacy media being consolidated, dependence of technological system, technique perfecting...
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Will the Technocrats Dump Trump? AoT#480
The Age of Transitions
Strong Man is living in a glass house, and he isn’t one for setting stones aside. Even Roger Stone may not be able to save him now. Topics include: Lancer conference, Revolve book, audience, niche topic, Sora video, AI, transhumanism, uploading consciousness, digital clones, soft uploads, technocrats controlling government and more, purposely destroying old government, new mainstream media, social media as propaganda outlet, crafting narratives, atomized audience, algorithms, MAGA infighting, Trump himself is disposable, JD Vance preferred presidential puppet, Vance 2028 beta test,...
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Rockbridge Network MAGA Manipulation, AoT#479
The Age of Transitions
Silicon Valley billionaires have been exploiting the MAGA movement to do their political bidding. The Rockbridge Network has been established to keep this ball rolling forward into the future. Topics include: back from break, eczema, minuscule audience, top transhumanism podcasts, online living, tech billionaires, propaganda, mainstreaming fringe online ideas, woke joke, Rockbridge Network, Ohio, Hocking Hills, wealthy tech titans exploiting MAGA movement, databases of potential voters, using surveillance tech to influence elections, Thiel, JD Vance, Chris Buskirk, new MIC, American...
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Dark Idealist Technocrat Takeover, AoT#478
The Age of Transitions
The maniacs taking over the US government are actually idealistic. They are the quixotic, dark idealists, pushing their Dark Enlightenment philosophy. Topics include: Don Quixote, quixotic, idealists, etymology, Tron Ares, occult concepts, virtual reality, Monterey CA, mundane world, The Ninth Gate, Grail legend, Left Hand Path occultism, dark idealism, Peter Thiel, Anti Christ lecture series, misunderstanding occult, theology, Christianity, Gil Duran, 33, transhumanism, Singularity, AGI, Mark Andreessen, contradictions, controlling and being above the government, displacing American...
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Consolidating the Propaganda Machine, AoT#477
The Age of Transitions
America First is going full steam ahead as our new technocratic overlords successfully consolidate media. They use the platforms they buy to turn the population inward, and against itself, all the while international influence shifts to America’s adversaries. Topics include: esoteric side of transhumanism, Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, living online, social media, information war, propaganda, the new mainstream media, misinformation, divide and conquer, algorithms, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, consolidating media ownership, TikTok ownership swap, China, national security,...
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Too Far Gone For Falun Gong, AoT#476
The Age of Transitions
Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about foreign influence campaigns. Getting beyond confirmation bias is a real stumbling block when it comes to this topic. Topics include: Revolve, esoteric side to transhumanism, old days of Truth Movement, conspiracy and fringe topics exploited by establishment, early days of podcasting, alternative media scene infiltration, politicized narratives, JFK research, video project, non linear editing, hippies to yuppies, T Snyder, Lauren Southern This Is Not Real Life book, White Noise documentary, right wing commentary and influencers, signal boosting,...
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Consolidating the New Mainstream Media, AoT#475
The Age of Transitions
The new mainstream media is social media, but the new propaganda is starting to look similar to the old War on Terror propaganda. Topics include: digital media, Truth Movement shifted into the influencer economy, emerging technologies, TikTok divestment going through, Larry Ellison Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, TikTok ban story was a farce, social media being bought up by tech oligarchs, truth is in the details, reactionary social media distractions, new mainstream media and propaganda network is social media, billionaires in control, government controlled by Big Tech, JD Vance is a...
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All Too Real Virtual World Assassination News, AoT#474
The Age of Transitions
Trying to find some meaning with the insanity of this digital simulacrum. Also, just another take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Topics include: Patreon posts, small audience, hermit tendencies, This is Not Real Life Book, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, Unite the Right rally, White Noise documentary, honest behind the scenes stories, Tenet Media, Charlie Kirk assassination, video all over social media, rushing to judgement, conspiratorial takes, karma, nature of digital medium overriding our free agency, labeling political enemies as demons, timeline, AI slop books, distortion of...
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Topics include: bad information, information warfare, conspiracy culture, analytics tools, pitting the poor against each other, woke scapegoat, racist posts, alchemical process of social deconstruction, QAnon, obvious conspiracy traps, possessed by misinformation, faith in authority figures, America being purposely destroyed, intellectual self defense, salesmanship, divide and conquer, immigrant scapegoat, promoting idea of civil war, technocratic control system, Palantir, Big Tech, artficial control systems, new MIC, luxury bunkers, excitement about possibility of apocalyptic events, world views of the United States, destruction of anti-war movement, UK history of appeasing fascists, moronic shills, talking points, being the person no one likes, burnt at the stake, Meta hiring former Pentagon officials, Llama AI, charm offensive, military and government contracts, IShowSpeed in China, Chinese international propaganda campaign, soft power, targeting younger generation, Voice of America targeted by Trump administration, China portraying itself as the better alternative to US, geopolitics, new power players, efficiency propaganda point, Libertarian farce, pride in being a total misfit, digital tyranny, spiritual resistance, Eye of Sauron, Lord Of the Rings, no Red Pill or other pills