National security elites wish we were still living during the War on Terror years, but the glory days are gone for the US. Procuring government contracts to simply become wealthy is not good enough anymore. Meanwhile, those claiming to speak truth to power are simply recycling old tropes that no longer apply.

Topics include: prophets, IronNet, national security, cybersecurity, NSA, stock prices, C5 Capital, Russia, Keith Alexander, War on Terror, post war US history, foreign policy, wars of aggression, Pienaar, Russian oligarchs, making money for its own sake, corruption, imperial power, false pretexts for wars, 9/11 terror attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush administration, torture, Truth Movement, loss of civil liberties, unitary executive, Neocons, USA had privileged position, no global challengers, revolving door between public service and private industry, MIC, F35, ED 209, transitional period, Great Powers Competition, BRICS, dominant minority, Post Truth Movement, worn out tropes, funding for Ukraine vs past wars, Silicon Valley vying for more MIC influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, billionaires, falls from grace, double headed eagle, glorious past of various nations

Is Lauren Southern having a private crisis of conscience? Signs point to the probability of this, but only time, and Southern herself, may tell.

Topics include: status of Ochelli Radio Network, Brady Bunch collective style video podcasts, agendas, taboo topics, shifts in alternative media, Tenet Media, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, women in media, Charlottesville, young people difficulty with decisions, owning the libs, attention for its own sake, White Noise documentary, Gavin McInnes, misogyny, racism, business as usual for other Tenet affiliated creators, trad wife social media trend, Flintstones, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Civil War Monuments, free speech, Red Pillers, The Matrix, occult significance of Seven Mountains Mandate, NAR evangelical sect, Microsoft reopening TMI, AI power requirements, belief that AI is overhyped, Heritage Foundation, theocracy, conscience, Sam Altman, Open AI

Harping on the Russian influence, but also making time for what China is up to these days according to the NSA. You may want to throw out your old smart toaster just to be safe from the botnet.

Topics include: Russian influence on alternative media, Post Truth Movement World, shared interests, global propaganda matrix, governments, taking offense to more, social media, justifying being online, surveillance of everyone, Tenet Media, Tim Pool the world’s biggest moron, Canada, Foreign content creators exerting influence over our national politics, paranoid alt media creators, defense of independent editorial control, other media companies shutting down, financial backers pulled out, guise of free speech, hosts and creators who don’t tow company line are dropped, RFK and Don Jr piece about Ukraine long range missiles, $100K per episode, promotion of civil war, sense that Justice may be done, exploding pagers, Israel, cell phones, future terrorism, NSA Twitter post, PRC botnets, hacking, IoT devices, DDoS attacks, cybersecurity, update devices and get rid of old ones, smart devices, consumer culture creates security risks, Communism vs Capitalism, Cold War 2.0, questions of grey areas concerning war, geopolitics, dystopia, historical perspective, confusion, cognitive dissonance, confidence in knowing what is real, work of podcasting vs manual labor, tools of alt media

Chuck joins the show to talk about the Russian propaganda influence over the alternative media. This is a topic that many would prefer to ignore, but it has to be taken seriously, and understood at a level that goes beyond opinion.

Topics include: Russian propaganda money, patriot radio stations, RBN, 2015, alt media dramatically shifted to Trump support, offers of money to go along, Roger Stone, apologists for Trump, QAnon, outsider iconography, large networks buying up all online media, Newsmax TV channel, PSYOPS, RT promoted, bans from social media never seem to stop big names, unwitting useful voices for Russia, Lee Camp, culture war, Western values vs Russia is the East, generic Ukraine smears, Pizzagate, every liberal woman accused of being a man, useful idiots, free speech as a marketing tool, absurd amounts of money for podcasting, money for YouTube videos, funneling money through phony advertisers, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, etymology of opinion, Post Truth World, social media

As the Culture War rages on, there continues to be a surprisingly serious battlefront in the world of online comedy. High ranking general Joe Rogan recently had a very public meeting with Lord Thiel. Sorting information from disinformation in the midst of this is easier said than done.

Topics include: syncronicity, Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan interview Peter Thiel, Singularity Institute, org name changes, AI, billionaire, Erich Von Daniken, Ancient Aliens, Wokeism as extreme religion, contradictions, Libertarianism, climate science, computer science, Bilderberg, AGI, NPCC film festival, Cinefamily LA, nihilism, stand up comedy, Comedy Culture War, JRE is the biggest podcast, 250 stand up comics left, The Elephant Graveyard YT channel, Rogan’s Netflix special, Rogan Sphere, making a career out of podcast appearances, hacks, Rogan’s song and dance becoming stale, generic conspiracy podcasts, whining about woke, sycophants, Austin comedy scene, Comedy Mothership, left and right wing factions of comedy, Kill Tony, Harland Williams, David Lucas, Tom Green, web-o-vision, early days of live streaming and podcasting, Matt Walsh at the DNC, the Not Racists, PR for a movie, attention economy, entertainment careers in digital age, following analytics, getting a reaction, no real ideology, posts becoming more extreme over time, quality original content, divide and conquer

Pack up your bags, you’re being moved into a Freedom City. Don’t worry, it’s not an Agenda 21 Fifteen Minute City. We all know that would be a nightmare. This is a utopian new way to live that comes with a brand new and improved form of government.

Topics include: questions to ask to understand the world, ambiguous non answers, Deep State, billionaires, presidential election, narratives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media platforms used for propaganda, confusion and obfuscation, MAGA money support, Mark Cuban, government run as a business, Libertarian ethos blended into Trump campaign messaging, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, Republican Party changed by far right fringe ideas, Silicon Valley Libertarians, Marc Andreessen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, alt media online augmented reality, tech upgrades bring propaganda upgrades, technocracy, PR is Trump’s only skill, generative AI political candidates, Peter Thiel, LLMs, JD Vance, insult comedy, fake masculinity, culture war, evangelicals, Putin, Post Truth, Triumph the Dog, internal war within MIC, desire to recreate American governmental structure, Curtis Yarvin, techno-feudal city states, Freedom Cities, Pronomos Capital, rebranding, network state, Space X and Brand X, Agenda 21 population movements, 15 minute cities, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, martial law, Alex Jones, left/right paradigm

The digital charlatans are outnumbered only by their legions of online devotees. Understanding the basic nature of our current augmented reality is a necessary first step toward independent thought.

Topics include: June Lake Eastern Sierras, nature, boring artificial world, no true collective human goals, inadvertent problems of technological civilization, pollution, environmental degradation, technique, undeniable reality, wealth inequality, political turmoil, Trump’s appeal to underclass, everything is a con, planned obsolescence, Harris and Democrats have the advantage at present, RFK Jr and Joe Rogan, nihilism of Rogan’s brand, podcast medium, how to get engagement on Twitter X, Stephan Molyneux, exploitation of social media, augmented reality, online personas, propaganda, few people realize extent of digital exploitation, trending topics, taking things for granted, useful idiots, special interest groups, disinformation, online literacy, evil of television, scams, meaning of life, wasting time, honesty

Fires can be great, but it depends on who sets them. Is that a brush fire set by a Revolutionary Patriot, or is it one of those Molotov Cocktails that Antifa throws?

Topics include: independent media, anti intellectual trend, no more books, meme language, grotesque aesthetics, propaganda, dueling narratives, Project 2025, MAGA, exploitation of conspiracy culture, Alex Jones, playing the victim, Joe Biden gone, violence around election, Charlottesville, US intelligence establishment and Russia, PA Farm Show Arena, Paul Dans, Kevin Roberts book title edited, need to know basis, Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America, sun symbolism, Jordan Maxwell, dawn of a new day, fire, occult meaning, Revolutionary Faith, James Billington, conjuring Revolutionary War, Fire in the Minds of Men, Taking Back Washington to Save America, lit match cover image, publishing is dead, JD Vance foreword, muskets, pushing idea of new Civil War, amalgamation of Revolutionary and Civil War, domestic warmongering, Freemasonry, dumbed down, Billionaire Libertarians, war over new Military Industrial Complex, Palantir, old Aerospace companies vs new VC Tech businesses, Pentagon