The Age of Transitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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