The Age of Transitions
Author and digital filmmaker Aaron Franz hosts this podcast about transhumanism, social manipulation, the occult, and much more.
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Truth Town Troubles, AoT#420
04/29/2024
Truth Town Troubles, AoT#420
The Age of Transitions is your one stop shop for important tech news. Make your way through the shadows and over to this podcast to learn a thing or two. There are other shows out there that you may not want to listen to, lest you get us all into more trouble than we are already in. topics include: Silicon Valley new MIC, expert opinions, one stop tech info hub, AI, nascent technologies, Kissinger, CHIPS Act, TSMC, semiconductors, China and US, Taiwan, Arizona fab, national security, LLMs, graphics cards, shadow people, fringe and alternative communities always degrading, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul campaigns, Alex Jones as the Joker, marketing, Stop the Steal rally, fringe ideas going mainstream, electing a US president, adversarial aesthetics for public political protests, confrontation videos, narratives, propaganda, relating to MAGA crowd motivations, rapid contradictions, accountability, deep state, alternative figures prefer to play the victim, massive narrative shift, Republican establishment, instability, stolen election, guns, desire for civil war, possible election outcomes
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Boeing's Fall From Grace, AoT#419
04/07/2024
Boeing's Fall From Grace, AoT#419
Boeing’s very public fall from grace appears to be coinciding with a changing military contracting ecosystem. Commercial airliners are being grounded as the art of war gets a new operating system. Topics include: favorite words, time to live in your own head, solar eclipse, Northrop Grumman AI drones, killer robots, MIC, aerospace companies, military contractors, old and new guard, Silicon Valley and tech companies, mass psychology, fall of Boeing, marketing to public, exoteric and esoteric sides of businesses, air travel industry, commercial jets, 747, financialization of business, funny debunking videos, logic of the culture wars, celebrating your accomplishments, Amazon No Checkout shut down, AI object recognition, RFID, tracking chips, sensors, automation, training data, labor intensive, exploits, numbers don’t lie, total surveillance, efficiency, intangibles animating the tangible world, unnecessary complexity, belief, school, pragmatism, defy categorization
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The Global Propaganda Matrix, AoT#418
03/24/2024
The Global Propaganda Matrix, AoT#418
We are now trying to make sense of our world from within a global propaganda matrix. It should come as no surprise that most of us are confuse and tired, due to the fact that everyone has been screaming at us in order that we believe their side of the story. topics include: cliche advice, too many analogies, Russian terror attack, who will be blamed, ISIS, Ukraine, World Wide Web, all views presented at the same time, tweets, Israel, US intelligence, talking points, bots, embassy warnings, Putin off the record, propaganda for every audience, global propaganda matrix, independent media sources, all media tainted, reactionary takes, reason for confusion and division, information war, world war, analytics, algorithms, numbers game, content creation, attention is the only thing that matters, truth tellers, comedy content, US intel working within Chinese social media, American hypocrisy, deny everything, global tension, global influence and infrastructure building operations, trolling, all social media can go away tomorrow
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Banning TikTok and Fighting Crime, AoT#417
03/18/2024
Banning TikTok and Fighting Crime, AoT#417
TikTok may just be the social media app of a new generation, but it is also now on the chopping block of the US government. A lot of legitimate and illegitimate business is done online everyday, and that may have to change soon as well. Where are technology and our government heading in this strange future we are always moving into? Topics include: Topics include: digital to analog techno transition, antiquated systems, TikTok ban, Bytedance, Chinese response, national security, international trade, Chinese media and propaganda, psychological operations, free speech online debate, social media apps and companies, marketing, furthering tensions between US and China, Eric Schmidt, Chinese internet, national unrest, surveillance societies, dystopian technological visions, anticrime legislation, crime as a political tool, organized retail crime, public perceptions skewed, fence sales, online retail allowing illegal sales, pushing more law enforcement, evangelical vote, Faith and Freedom, money buys votes, advertising, abortion was enough to convince evangelical bloc, divisive issues
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Great Powers Competition Technological Battle Grounds, AoT#416
03/11/2024
Great Powers Competition Technological Battle Grounds, AoT#416
Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode. Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2
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American Theocracy 2025, AoT#415
03/05/2024
American Theocracy 2025, AoT#415
It actually does matter who wins the upcoming American presidential election. Donald Trump is not simply running by himself. He has the backing of a massive evangelical political apparatus. Topics include: no phone lines, propaganda has changed, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Donald Trump, presidential election, American Autocracy Threat Tracker, dictatorship, Christian Nationalism, alternative media bias, prejudice, powers behind Trump campaign, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, cults, Center for Renewing America, theocracy, spiritual warfare, Truth Movement corruption and co-optation, Tea Party, Ron Paul, cult of personality, Christian take on conspiracy material, Alex Jones, mainstream conservative politics, MAGA, battle within Republican Party, America First, geopolitics, great powers competition, Cold War, world war, Israel, Russia, international use of culture wars, China invasion of Taiwan, US domestic turmoil, new US Civil War, law and order, crack down on political protests
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Alex Ansary interview, Back Outside the Box, AoT#414
02/25/2024
Alex Ansary interview, Back Outside the Box, AoT#414
Alex Ansary is the guest on this episode of the podcast. After a break of a couple of years he has returned, and is now making new episodes of Outside the Box TV. topics include: Outside the Box, solar flares, eclipse, Gaza, off grid living, Tucker Carlson, Putin, Russia, China, build up to a world war, big names in alternative media, mainstream conspiracy theories, solar maximum, Elon Musk, 2030, WEF videos trending on purpose, paranormal, ChatGPT, racially charged social media posts, TikTok, white supremacy, counterfeit 9/11 truth, spiritual warfare, Portland, human trafficking, World War 3, hacking, eclipse, possession, civil war, new Top Gun, Iran, biased online platforms
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Quigley and Quigley, AoT#413
02/11/2024
Quigley and Quigley, AoT#413
It’s safe to say that if Carroll Quigley were around today, he would not have a high opinion of Tucker Carlson. A little bit about the unauthorized publishing of Tragedy and Hope, and a brief look at changing American political ideologies. Topics include: Brzezinski, internet, truth, Tucker Carlson interview of Putin, alternative vs mainstream media, Fox News, patterns of praise for Putin, China, Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, Anglo American Establishment, Evolution of Civilizations, macro history, Milner Group, 20th century UK Imperialism, John Birch Society, legal battles over publishing, Barry Goldwater, San Pedro, Tea Party movement, JFK assassination, American politics drifting over time
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The American Elite, AoT#412
02/05/2024
The American Elite, AoT#412
There may be an American elite, and they might have a “fraternity culture.” There might be a conspiracy, or there might not be. It may not matter either way. Topics include: philosophical questions about this Age of Transitions, artifice, China cyber attacks, Cyber terrorism, great powers competition, GMA news stories, Taiwan, propaganda, technology race, AI, global economics, US foreign policy, WW3, exploitation of terror attacks, WW2, major countries domestic problems, America’s Elites, ivory towers, class divisions, fraternity vs conspiracy, political sway, forcing things to be better, things have gone off the rails, doomsday prepping, burying storage containers in the ground, paranoia, luxury bunkers
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Robbie Martin guest, Fringe Places to Digital Spaces, AoT#411
01/28/2024
Robbie Martin guest, Fringe Places to Digital Spaces, AoT#411
Robbie Martin returns to the show to talk a bit about the strange and ever-changing landscape of online media. Media Roots spread deep and sure, but new and evermore beguiling media outlets, personalities, and trends keep emerging at a breakneck pace. Robbie and Aaron do their best to make some kind of sense of it all here. Topics include: Media Roots, podcasting, Masonic history, alternative media, UFO community, monetization schemes, over saturation, Lex Friedman, Joe Rogan, copies of copies, old conspiracies and hoaxes have lasting power, far right extremism and mainstream convergence, family upheavals, mental health, MAGA, Project 2025, strategy of tension, Jan 6, ruling class factions at war with each other, civil war, QAnon, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Podesta emails, counterintelligence, Accelerationism, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, rightwing influencers, glomming onto fringe topics, 9/11 Truth, Flat Earth, Alex Jones, Singularity, AI, Kurzweil, transhumanism, virtual spaces, fictionally augmented digital realities, LLM fueled disinformation campaigns, Neuralink
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Venture Capital MIC Makeover, AoT#410
01/22/2024
Venture Capital MIC Makeover, AoT#410
There is an ongoing war within the war business. The old guard aerospace companies are now competing with Big Tech players from Silicon Valley. New departments within the US Military have been put into commission that may end up giving an advantage to Big Tech. Topics include: Friday night show, MIC competing interests, aerospace industry, Big Tech, Silicon Valley, defense contracts, DoD, technology, Eric Schmidt, tech race with China, AI, venture capital, private equity, subscription models, vested special interest groups, DIB, Office of Strategic Capital, SVB bailout, national security argument, financial industry, cybersecurity, foreign policy, bureaucratic waste, profiteering, public/private partnership, F35, projecting international image of strength, California, cicadas, fast food automated kiosks, automation, MTG feet, bowl making machine, gas station markets
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Blake Lemoine interview, The Many Mysteries of Our AI Present, AoT#409
12/20/2023
Blake Lemoine interview, The Many Mysteries of Our AI Present, AoT#409
Blake Lemoine burst onto the public scene a year and a half ago when he went public about his work on Google’s LaMDA system. In this interview, Blake talks about the current state of AI development, and our collective involvement in this massively important technological event. Topics include: Google, LLMs, AGI, AI, engineering jargon, LaMDA, chatbot, Gemini, evolution of search engines, safety protocols, sentience and consciousness, Pope’s sermon on AI and peace, philosophy, Silicon Valley, transhumanism, Ben Goertzel, Ray Kurzweil, Effective Altruism, Accelerationism, Techno-Utopians, Libertarianism, religion, cults, occult, Discordianism, Turing Test, Roko’s Basilisk, panic, Gary Marcus, low emotional intelligence and power, nerds, different characters of LaMDA, narratives, new kind of mind, faithful servant, AlphaGo, Sci fi worries not a real problem, AI as a human weapon, Golem, ethics, privileged access to advanced systems a real danger, MIC, The Gospel system of IDF, automation of worst aspects of human culture and society, artists sounding alarm
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The World Wide Wasteland, AoT#408
12/14/2023
The World Wide Wasteland, AoT#408
It’s a vast, seemingly endless, digital wasteland out there. Somebody must be buying the quadrocopter harmonica drone kit, but does it really matter who? Topics include: planting Joshua Tree seedlings in Landers, pseudo confrontations online, virtual worlds, entertainment media, popularity, digital wasteland, disengagement, nebulous digital identities, bots, online wasteland, content for its own sake, click bait, endless products and ads, can’t hear sound effects, numbers, marketing, propaganda updates, automation thus far has forced human labor to speed up, John Wayne
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So Many Bad Ideas, So Little Time, AoT#407
12/07/2023
So Many Bad Ideas, So Little Time, AoT#407
The world is an absolute horror show that can only be repaired by our wise and benevolent hand. The hand of God would do the same thing, and on that note, let’s make a whole new god. We can make it in our image, and it will be looking pretty good. Kind of makes you wonder how the hell anything got done around this dump before we showed up? Topics include: converging technologies, impossible to keep up, insane world, AI used in political elections, Project 2025, freedom, first and second amendments, MAGAC, privacy and online activity, law and order, silly Twitter debates, Herbivorize Predators, transhumanism, the world needs a naysayer, taking things for granted, Man vs Nature, death as a problem, life extension, anthropomorphic gods, religion, Great Work, apotheosis, immortality, continuum of the human race, schizo world, overstimulated, unplugging, online life, evolution of social media, convergence of all media, video games, gamer’s dreams come true, increased interactivity, generative AI, digital dementia, video game induced psychosis, virtual environments shape your very being, power of mind, intangible things have real power, life in VR could be sold as more sustainable, avoid physical waste by doing everything virtually, new religion, uploading consciousness, paradise engineering, no pain in heaven, simply observing
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Heritage Foundation Project 2025, AoT#406
11/29/2023
Heritage Foundation Project 2025, AoT#406
The Heritage Foundation has been planning a whole new federal government to be implemented in 2024. They just need their horse to win. Topics include: books, AI, converging technologies, transhumanism, podcast feed, politics, military funded tech, exhaustion and confusion, presidential election, 2024, alternative media sphere led to Trump, Deep State, Heritage Foundation, Agenda 47, loyalists, social media data mining, technocracy, Project 2025, Left reactionary issues given a Trump victory, protests, law and order, revenge, authoritarian police state, alternate Democratic candidates, Gavin Newsom, hatred of California, Dwayne Johnson, no point for Republican debate, Ramaswamy, surveillance tech in politics and elections
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Illicit Calls, AoT#405
11/08/2023
Illicit Calls, AoT#405
The Age of Transitions is a live call in show on Sunday nights. Topics include: live call in show Sunday nights, scams, online sex work, paid trolls, building online audience, social media, phishing, coerced labor, human trafficking, modern slavery, Craigslist, Silk Road, Skype, Jimmy the Example James, calling in to big shows to promote smaller shows, Age of Transitions marketing, Bin Laden book shelf
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Oops, Peace Not Found, AoT#404
11/03/2023
Oops, Peace Not Found, AoT#404
While living in your own head, take care not to fall off the edge and into the Abyss that Nietzsche warned about. Topics include: black cat, Halloween, new year approaching, weekly and daily routine, every human interaction a survey, multi-tasking, living in our own heads, paying attention in the moment, you are your thoughts, psychosis, bad things happen to good people, can’t predict future, accepting horror of world, inner peace, chaos, philosophy, theology, anthropomorphizing divinity, men with funny hats, Hercules, charlatans, cults, personas, Curtis Springer, Zzyzx Road, selling holy water, mountain spring water, celebrity deaths, Night Court
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Marc Andreessen Techno-Optimist Manifesto, AoT#403
10/26/2023
Marc Andreessen Techno-Optimist Manifesto, AoT#403
Marc Andreessen isn’t just some stuck up old one percenter. He’s a lot like you and me, hatin’ on the Malthusian globalists who want to control the world with population reducing environmentalism. Jump on board the Techno-Optimist train today to arrive in Abundance Town tomorrow! Topics include: Dallas trip, taking stock, Revolve book, transhumanism, converging technologies, esoteric side of technology, alchemy, religion, occult, alternative and fringe groups, conspiracy minded billionaires, Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley, tech industry, Techno-Optimist Manifesto, one percenters, contrarian thinking, link between tangible and intangible, leisure time afforded by wealth, population levels, Libertarian ideology, Accelerationism, Philosopher’s Stone, abundance, dominant minority, market structures suit those in power, CEOs and politicians are lackeys, insider trading, artists, philosophy, technological supermen, Nietzsche, sustainable development, Limits of Growth, Club of Rome, Agenda 21, climate change, global warming, First Global Revolution, Malthusian view, nihilism, the Dying God, artifice, intelligence, perpetual motion, radio spots, hopeless pandering to potential employers
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Wasting Away the American Way, AoT#402
10/20/2023
Wasting Away the American Way, AoT#402
We are too slow to catch up to the world now that it has begun learning how to run itself. Topics include: American foreign policy, propaganda from multiple sources, influence operations, technology, drone warfare, inexpensive weapons, old songs, meme culture, intellectual property, virtual worlds, convergence of all media, AI imagery, artificial intelligence, prompts, social media, YouTube houses, shock jock TV shows, Subway franchising, entrenched establishments won’t adapt fast enough, F35, Silicon Valley, waste became the establishment, pollution, lack of efficiency, defense budget woes, machine automation, economy, impossibility of eliminating debt, brokering debt dissolution deals, computer hacking cyber attacks, economic information deleted
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The Future of Retail, AoT#401
10/12/2023
The Future of Retail, AoT#401
Retail crime is making headlines these days. Are retail stores doomed, or is the future of retail just around the corner? Topics include: live show, anti-trust lawsuits against tech companies, retail theft, fear of crime, future retail store, brick and mortar vs online retail, warehouse, interactive displays, augmented reality, AI customer service, Game Theory, autonomous machines, surveillance, privacy, MAGA, Hillary Clinton, presidential election, violent rhetoric
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Super Four Hundred Party Supreme, AoT#400
10/05/2023
Super Four Hundred Party Supreme, AoT#400
It’s the four hundredth episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. Topics include: Newt Gingrich, Age of Transitions essay, America, politicking, media, dueling narratives, civil rights movement history, BLM, scapegoats, crime, racism, alternative media, perceptions as reality
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Influence Ops Prop Shop, AoT#399
10/01/2023
Influence Ops Prop Shop, AoT#399
Influence operations have made us go to war with ourselves. Topics include: cyber security, national security, digital terror attack, war propaganda, torture, Guantanamo Bay, 9/11 trials, Saudi Arabia, New World Order, technology, weapons, AI, influence operations, China, civil war, no ideological cohesion, gates, meta verse, virtual reality, converging media, entertainment, brutal justice
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Truth In Reverse, AoT#398
09/17/2023
Truth In Reverse, AoT#398
Who wants to help trample truth into the ground, and replace it with a hideous imposter? Join the party, everyone’s doing it. Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network, other networks, conformity, censorship, freedom of speech, phone lines in jeopardy, JFK Lancer, misfit among misfits, no regrets, odd choices, success, day job allows freedom on the microphone, give audience benefit of knowledge from the other side of the speakers, shrewd business masked in virtue signaling, alternative media, 9/11 Truth Movement, attention for its own sake, confrontation videos, out of context and unprompted 9/11 questions, transhumanism now popular to comment on, happy on the sidelines, frauds, talking vs listening, inertia behind bad narratives, BS sells, religious devotion, tech overlords being horrible believing themselves to be benevolent, self actualization, individuality, complete reversal on certain talking points, hatred of Islam, martial law is great if it keeps the right person in power, police state, many actually want an authoritarian system, law and order, pretending to be tough, pretending to care about free speech, psychological projection, belief
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Narrative Fandom, AoT#397
09/09/2023
Narrative Fandom, AoT#397
Law and order for the people, and total criminality for their leaders. Fair is fair. Topics include: alternative media, Truth Movement, narrative fandom, guest spots, 2024 presidential election
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Politics Is Radical Dude AoT#396
08/23/2023
Politics Is Radical Dude AoT#396
Freedom means throwing your neighbor in a gulag if they go against the will of “our president”. The Constitution is a Christian document written by Jesus, and predators will be herbivorized. Yes, it’s true, Heaven on Earth is upon us. Topics include: hurricane, climate change, The Storm, QAnon, Trump indictments, 2024 election, Georgia, threats against judge, Grand Jury doxxed, 18 codefendants, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, indictments help Trump gain popularity, entrenched political establishment two parties, Russian moon mission, grand narrative, serial killer, Trump fans radicalizing themselves, what even is alternative media, meaningless labels, Herbivorize Predators, paradise engineering
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Ike Warned Us, AoT#395
08/17/2023
Ike Warned Us, AoT#395
Dwitght D. Eisenhower’s famous farewell address to the American people is played here. Aaron, Chuck and Jimmy give some commentary on it. Topics include: call in to the live show, AI, LLMs, microphone, URLs, X, Meta, Eisenhower farewell speech, MIC, technology, inventors vs massive grant funded labs, classic Republican, more cohesive public sentiment in the past, democracy, informed citizenry, upward mobility used to be possible, performance
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Sam Aydlette interview, American Values, AoT#394
08/09/2023
Sam Aydlette interview, American Values, AoT#394
Author, Sam Aydlette returns to the show to talk about his new book, “American Values.” Take a road trip deep into the undercurrent of the American psyche, and see what may emerge from the shadows. Topics include: Sam Aydlette author, writing, brevity, blurring lines between metaphor and reality, Stratosphere casino and hotel, Las Vegas, Big League Chew, Curt Schilling, coming to terms about dangers in world, perception vs reality of Iraq war, admitting when you are wrong, road trip narrative, synchronicity, media talking points, intelligence community, connecting with readers
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The New Old Guys In Town, AoT#393
08/02/2023
The New Old Guys In Town, AoT#393
As technological capacity keeps building we are being reminded of the many new possible threats to national security. Where is this all leading and who is profiting? Topics include: global tension, Cold War 2.0 term, American foreign policy, Eric Schmidt, Silicon Valley becoming new MIC, DIU, profiting off of government contracts, Doug Beck DIU director fomerly Apple executive, emerging technology, new arms race, defense budget, Ike MIC speech, Ellul, technique requires funded big laboratories, cyber version of 9/11, reactionary media a problem, possibility of homegrown open source tech, communication breakdown, idolotry, STEM vs the humanities, college attendance down, online interactions, research into life extension, aliens and UFOs, congressional hearing
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Talking Shop with Chuck and Chris Graves, AoT#392
07/27/2023
Talking Shop with Chuck and Chris Graves, AoT#392
Chuck, Chris Graves and Aaron discuss podcast production, and news at the Ochelli Radio Network. This gig isn’t as economical as it once was, and it isn’t even the gig economy, or is it? We may have missed that when it happened. Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network, broken microphone, using the knobs, audio equipment, dollar store microphone, Disney video game microphone, promo products made in Asian countries, polka dot design idea, new Uncle IG videos, new shows coming to network, Chris Graves, guests charging appearance fees, Stuttering John, Sgt Slaughter, RFK Jr speaking fee, Dallas JFK conference trip, big budget podcast producers, over-saturation of podcast market, Cameo show bumpers, Jerky Boys, Captain Janx
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Podcasts EXPOSED, AoT#391
07/12/2023
Podcasts EXPOSED, AoT#391
The facts have been thoroughly checked, and podcasting has been exposed. Learn the real truth here on this show, and not on any other shows. This show isn’t a podcast, it is an expose of podcasts. topics include: internet could change, semiconductor manufacturing, Taiwan, TSMC, US military buildup in South China Sea, 2024 election, desire to use US military against Mexican drug cartels, defense budget, technology at center of global conflict, possible new hardware for computing, training AI, possibility of incredibly boring future optimized by AI and surveillance tech, group psychology, Soros replica son, celebrities with fertility issues, artificial wombs, AI prompts, fact checking, podcasting exposed
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