In daily life, we sometimes experience synchronicities. Now that we live in a totally surveilled world, it is hard to tell whether a synchronicity is natural or synthetic.

Topics include: Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, working on a video series, original ADDTV YouTube channel, work life, cell phone surveillance, CCR Born on the Bayou, John Fogerty, listening devices, synchronicity, data collection, personalized ads, reflecting on your day, anecdotal stories useless, distrust of self, demoralization, open society, AI, doing your own research, Conspiracy Culture, alternative facts done more harm than good, mainstreaming fringe ideas for propaganda purposes, QAnon, Epstein drama, free will, capacity for conscious choice, artificial overlay on top of life, confusion, art a form of channeling, collaborating with machines, destruction of Constitution, AI created podcasts

A brief show to explain a little bit about the purpose of The Age of Transitions podcast.

Topics include: emails, streaming, video podcasts, purpose of the podcast, critique of technology, transhumanism, intentional destruction of US government, alternative media, Truth Movement, Conspiracy Culture, online personas, noticing formulas, movies are dying medium

Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about their experiences making media online over the years. Things keep changing for the worse, and any semblance of a free internet looks doomed to extinction.

Topics include: internet history, podcasting, live-streaming, true crime content, media history content, Howard Stern, satellite radio, history of comedy content, Opie and Anthony, Ai remaking content, inaccuracy, alternative media history, cable access television, Mae Brussell, old free website platforms, tape trading, micro broadcasting, Alt Right monopolized alt media identity, white nationalists, extremists believe the false narratives about themselves, talk radio, new age material in alt media past, Red Ice Creations, algorithm in control, designed to fail Star Trek series, using Woke as controlled opposition, QAnon and Pizzagate, Hulk Hogan will be the new conspiracy rabbit hole, Cass Sunstein, Obama era, CIA defining conspiracy theory, Warren Commission criticism, propaganda, America being destroyed, calling out digital platforms in generic way, Rumble will be the same as YouTube, fake independent creators, Google Video, The Age of Transitions video, inaccurate view counters, Revolve book sales, low podcast numbers, James Corbett, Ochelli Effect, infiltration and redirection, memory holing independent media producers

This new year is proving difficult to keep up with. On both the domestic and international fronts, there is no end of trouble. Whatever you do, don't trust Nick Shirley.

Topics include: different ways to support the show, wild new year, Venezuela military operation, Maduro NY court case, Cartel de los Soles not a real cartel, criminal government, no rules or accountability, Global propaganda Matrix, new digital propaganda not properly understood, influencers are propagandists, social media, selling us brain chips, big money tech bought up media and government, Post-Truth World, Minnesota child care scandal, Nick Shirley, evolution of Truth Movement/alternative media, JD Vance promotion of Shirley, PPP scandal forgotten, noticing recurring narratives and talking points, executive branch blocking legislation based on YouTube videos, video titles, video from inside El Salvador prison, young people caught up in attention economy, testing the public, fake tough guys, pretending to be anti-Neocon, American imperialism, Rubio, plans for Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Network State, New World Order under construction, dangerous international tensions, US break from NATO, China military drills around Taiwan

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, modern internet motorcycle outlaws always get caught, surveillance built into technology and media, content creation, cameras ubiquitous, AI, no escape for anyone, TikTok divestment, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Middle East sovereign wealth films, total corruption, big money buying off executive branch, Paramount, David Ellison, Warner Brothers Discovery, buying up all media, Netflix, CBS, Bari Weiss, pay to play, CNN, technocratic oligarchy taking over American government, AI economic bubble, bringing nuclear power plants back up and running, nuclear fusion company merge with Trump media, data centers, so called green energy just a competitor being pushed out of the market, chemical industry takeover of EPA, doubling legal level of formaldehyde in air, real criminals at the top of the system, new media also part of propaganda system, right wing influencers, in-fighting of MAGA, JD Vance doing damage control at TPUSA America Fest

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 online content creator, public should demand to know who pays content creators, mad about Trump after they sold the administration in the first place, useful idiots, hollowness of social media success, Candace Owens growing audience, Roger Stone vs Steve Bannon, disinformation, tiers of power in right wing media, medium is in ultimate control, AGI, transhumanism, anxiety over the future, new robber barons, sci fi reality, relying on new technology to fix the problems made by old technology, baseless optimism, new Cold War geopolitical narrative, US vs China

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 itself, faith in creation of technological god, Joe Rogan's transhumanist views, pretending to be Christian, using analytics to craft new media narratives, appropriating conspiracy culture, previous Big Tech religious identities, mainstreaming of fringe media and tech figures, social media marketing, Communism as boogey man scape goat, no accountability built into new American government, no way out of total surveillance

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, Musk's new political party, performative outrage from the actual oligarchs, conspiracy topics mainstreamed and used for propaganda, collecting data all the time, Epstein a continuing problem for Trump, Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers, presidential pardons, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Crooks, Butler PA, FBI coverup, Kash Patel, MTG, obvious corruption, purges, Cybertron, data centers and huge power use