Transhumanism, and all of the technologies associated with it have become topics that have become better known over time. There remains a very misunderstood, and important history behind the fringe movement.
Topics include: camping in Yosemite, changing online media landscape, so-called democratization of media, algorithm at center of everything, IMG_0001 website, visual experimentation with livestream, Let’s Paint TV guy still around, Tom Green influential media creator, transhumanism, tribal political divisions within greater transhumanist movement, Peter Thiel, Martine Rothblatt, Postmenderism paper predated Culture Wars, emerging and converging technologies
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You are listening to The Age of Transitions. I’m your host, Aaron Fron, coming at you live this Friday night, uh, Friday, March 27th, 2026. live every Friday night from the facilities of ochell.com.
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Um it was cool. So, now I’m back here and uh back on the old stream and just doing what we always do here, trying to make sense of the age of transitions, this weird time that we live in, and making sense of this digital mess that we find ourselves in, this everchanging digital landscape that we’re now in the thick of. I’m live streaming right now. We’re in it. We’re doing this. I’m going to try some different things here tonight. Uh, I’m going to try with the visuals to switch things up. There is a strange website called, what is it? It’s IMG_000000001 and it’s a website that has old iPhone videos that were uploaded directly to YouTube and the I think they all have the file name img_00001 or you know sometime img some number because I guess iPhone used to have this function where you could just publish your videos directly to YouTube without doing anything. So, it would just do that and that’d be like the title of the video. It’s just all these like super random videos that people put up there.
Most of them with like hardly any views. Like the most views you’ll see is like maybe 200 or something like that. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to pull this up and we’re going to So, here we go. Here’s a still from one. I’m just going to play uh these videos here and so they’ll just be going and I’ll just have that playing as I talk here because you know why not? Let’s um talk about the internet and have some weird um visuals there for us too. Why not? make sense because I’ve been thinking about whatever the heck internet even is a lot.
Uh, and doing this show, you kind of have to because you know, Chuck and myself both have been doing this for a long time and um, we often talk about the fact that the medium has changed and even the people making media have changed and just the the the everything about making online media is different now because the technology has changed primarily and yeah it has so much to do with the algorithms shaping how content is brought to us. But more and more it’s going into the arena where the algorithm is beginning to create the content as well and it’s just the uh further moving further with the automation of everything right everything being automated there’s no escape from it so it’s uh it’s crazy it’s crazy to think about it. It It has me wondering like what the heck is even going on. And then also something that I’ve continually, and this isn’t new, but something as the technology continues to get better, which it does, there’s ways to now with with the way that the that the if if we’re going to use the silly um term that they like to use when the techno optimists talk about this kind of thing as like a good thing, it’s like, oh, look at how great technology is. So the the way they would describe what I’m talking about is the democratization of media where now everybody can be a creator because the price of um the price of entry is so low.
Anybody can just make videos and post them. Anybody can live stream. Anybody can make content. Anybody can instantly be a content creator. I mean for all intents and purposes, everybody. When we speak everybody. We don’t mean everybody in the world, right? We’re talking about the first world still. and that we have to remember that we easily forget but let’s still just take that sort of thing for granted and um uh the democratization of media production when when we talk about that it is true that um things are getting easier to do and and and there’s so many more resources available that to me I continually get frustrated at the lack of creativity in media. Like there’s there’s so many options for unique things to be done and yet it seems like the stuff at least the stuff that’s most popular is always going to be being created out of some sort of formula for success. But I mean again this is not even new when it comes to media. This is what Hollywood has always done and it’s what is leading now actually ironically to their downfall. as far as I can tell, as far as I’m concerned, the downfall of Hollywood is coming because they just uh stuck too strongly to their formulas like we need um we need to stick to what’s safe and we need to go with what we know has been successful and therefore we will do it again to the point where they just remake everything and they just ran out of ideas.
But be that as it may, with the new content creation world online, it’s the same thing with the uh mostly boring content where people aren’t doing anything unique or interesting. But there’s the other side of that devil’s advocate where I am starting to see some interesting stuff and even some weird stuff is out there uh getting you know large follower counts and all that kind of stuff. So, that’s kind of cool, you know, for what it’s worth. And that’s good. Uh, one guy pops to mind is Let’s Paint TV. I found him on Tik Tok. And actually, I uh, this is a guy that I remember from years before. He had posted clips of an old cable access show he had done. I don’t know what city it was in. He’s definitely based out Los Angeles today with his new videos. Maybe he was in LA doing cable access originally, but I don’t know. His original show was Let’s Paint, Draw, and Exercise. I think what it is what it was.
Um, but anyway, he was he’d be walking on a treadmill, like an exercise treadmill. He’d be painting like Bob Ross. He’d be doing a painting, and at the same time, he’d be cooking something. He’d be doing all three things at once and he’d just be talking uh through the whole thing and that was his uh show. It was really funny. And I I used to watch those uh videos on YouTube. But this guy is back and he’s going as uh the handle Let’s Paint TV on Tik Tok. I found him and he’s uh crazy as ever and he’s kind of, you know, morphed his format somewhat where he’s got these really bizarre pieces of audio equipment where he’s making strange sort of like noise music or just noises with musical equipment and he’s just doing weird performance art stuff where he’s saying bizarre things and sometimes he’s doing it in public. So, it’s that’s that’s cool. Well, I think that’s a lot of fun and that guy is interesting and might have to try to get him as a guest on Uncle. I don’t know how hard he is to get a hold of, but uh stuff like that. He he had a ton of followers. So, that is, you know, that’s somewhat encouraging that something like that can do well. I like to see that.
Um but it’s bizarre. That’s uh the outlying fringes of content creation world. But again, reassuring to see that at least people are trying to do something different, right? And that it’s it’s working. So there’s something a ray of hope, I suppose.
But uh it’s it’s wild to see again just all the changes that have occurred over the years. And Tom Green is another guy who I’ve talked about a lot on the show, but he’s an interesting example of a person that I followed him for years. I I liked as a TV show that again, his show originally was a weird cable access show in Canada that somehow got picked up by MTV. Someone at MTV had seen the show and then they uh got a hold of him and said, “Hey, would you like a show on MTV?” He said, “Yes.” And then we know the rest. He had this show on MTV. And even his MTV show was similar to certain older media, but it was also pushing the boundaries and doing something new. You know, it was similar to the candid camera uh shows of years past. So, it kind of like took that of filming in public without people really realizing that’s what you’re doing, but it took it to that whole other level. And people unfamiliar with skateboard culture too don’t really see the influence of, you know, skateboard videos and media that was there in Tom Green’s stuff, but it was so that was there too. Um, but anyway, Tom Green’s an interesting guy because he was there and he’s he’s an in influential figure in media just I mean that’s just how it is. He is he’s he he he is an influential guy and he was early on with a lot of different stuff and whether you like that or not it’s just the truth.
And his uh his later stuff where he was um in the early 2000s at his home doing his show his online talk show out of his house in I think it was in Burbank or the Hollywood Hills. It was up in LA. He lived in LA and he just set up the equipment to be able to live stream a show, a talk show and put it online. It was a task to be able to get the equipment together to do that at the time. It was really hard to do, but he did the work to do that. Now that format is really standard and so many people are doing it just with the democratization of media production. anybody can do it just with, you know, just little setup that you can just buy ready to go.
So, if you I guess the long point I’m trying to make here is when you listen to Tom Green talk, he’s a guy who understands more than most people give him credit for because he he will talk about the creation of all the media media he’s done over the years. He understands that he is influential and he’s at one he’s proud of it. You can tell that he’s proud of it, but you can also tell that he’s kind of um perhaps uh troubled or maybe he feels guilty even in being the sort of uh being a person who has brought about changes that now empower the current content creation. world, which he does not like for all the right reasons. And it’s it’s fascinating to see that and to listen to that.
And as a person in a similar position, I’ I’ve been around making media for a long time, so I I understand that, too. And people making content now, if they keep going for years and years and years, they’ll be in the same spot, too. So, I guess when you when you do something like this for such a long time, you notice a lot of different things. And perhaps this is the point of the show tonight and even going forward is we’re trying to understand what this all is like. What the hell are we even doing?
Uh what’s good about all this and what’s not? What do we have to look out for? And there’s a lot to look out for with this automation angle to things. I just go online now and when I’m scrolling the stuff I see, it’s just it’s almost as if everything’s a carbon copy. It’s like, oh yeah, here’s this, here’s this. No matter what topic it is that the algorithm is presenting to you and that’s what it’s doing like whatever your interest is, it’s going to be feeding you that your social media feed will be doing that guaranteed.
But it seems to me like all the big uh all the content creators and the posts that are coming from different channels, the ones that have the furthest reach, they all have like the same they all use the same templates. They all use the same formatting in uh even something like X. Let’s talk about Twitter X. You know, it seems like all the posts that really get tons of repost, tons of likes, tons of traction, they’re all formatted the same way. And and they’re formatted to get your attention, to provoke you. Uh they’re formatted for engagement, like they ask you a question, so you’ll answer in the comments, that sort of thing. They’re all like that. A lot of times there’ll be like a list of things like here’s this statement I’m making. This is why I’m pissed off about uh automation and this is why I’m pissed off about artificial intelligence and then list of like 10 different things. D what did I miss in my list? And then you’re supposed to say in the comments everything is like that. If it’s big, if it’s anybody with any kind of presence, they’re all just latching on to that formula because it works. But then that begs the question to me, like there’s a lot of these accounts that appear as though they do a good job at appearing as though they’re like legitimate um indepth movement, alternative media, whatever.
Uh there’s a new version of that that should be legit, but they just fall in line with the um same old content creation rules that serve things up so the algorithm so the algorithm will serve them up. And so that that to me that that makes me go, okay, what what the hell is really going on here? They’re this is somebody presenting themselves as though they’re one thing, but aren’t they just another uh copy of, you know, the vast digital uh bot sphere or whatever. You know what I mean?
I’m playing around with IMG001 or IMG_00001, excuse me. I’m trying to get this to Let me see if I can get this to refresh. Oh, here we go. There. I think uh or actually And if you’re watching, let’s see. I’m changing things up. So, I’m kind of prioritizing the uh video here because I have got the video back. Okay. And we see we’re seeing our random videos again. That’s very important to me.
But I think the point I’m trying to make here, and I think you’re hearing it, is who are all these people? What is this content? And how much of it is just bots and like automated uh AI generated crap that’s even formatted to appear to be like anti-establishment or uh you know, dangerous or or uh you know, in some way what would be a threat to the establishment. How much of this is just being put out there to appear that way and it’s appearance only and it’s to get us uh it’s it’s it’s going to wheel around to being misinformation um limited hangout sort of stuff, right?
Because like what what are we even doing? And and so you have to ask the question, is that what all of online activity has become? Is just this one giant uh algorithm uh fueled distraction machine, right? Is there even a way that you can get on here and be a a a threat or or be useful in presenting information that is going to, you know, somehow challenge the status quo or anything. Just just just do something useful to make a better place. or are we just um has it is it being has it been designed and is it working to just get us constantly distracted and nothing else?
It’s kind of hard to tell right now. now is a really it almost is like this moment is like peak at least as far as we’ve been so far and might get worse but it’s peak confusion where it’s hard to answer this this question that I just posed is like is there anything useful going on here I want to say yes I want to say that what I’m doing is different and and useful in that sort of way. But even me with the with all the right intent and the heart in the right place and wanting to do the right thing, I’m even um under the influence of all of the other things that I come in contact with in this strange digital space. And so there’s no escape from it. And if I take seriously these feeds, these information feeds in any way and I use them as reference material, how much of it has been thrown my way to get me to just be part of this bigger weird campaign of confusion, trying to figure that out. Uh, not easy.
But it’s also fascinating to see that the I’m another thing I’m doing on this show is trying to derive um actual truth and useful information on these things these topics and these groups for that matter that I’ve been following over the year over the years groups individuals topics. Of course we’re interested in transhumanism on this show. We’re interested in emerging technology. We’re interested in things like artificial intelligence, life extension projects, uh, biotech, robotics, nanotech, all that kind of stuff, right? All the transhuman stuff. Singularity, all of that business is the main focus of is my main focus. It continues to be.
And so I have been following the work of the transhumanists themselves. And it should be known that the easy way to talk about this topic, which I think is the way that almost always it is talked about by content creators, which I find unfortunate, the easy way to talk about it is to say that the transhumanists are just one solid group, one like vested special interest group that is, you know, uh they have one goal in mind. They’re coordinated. They’re working together. They have a transhuman agenda and they’re seeking to further that out together and they have been this whole time and this is how far along they are, etc., etc.
The reality is more complex than that in that there are different sects within transhumanism. There always have been And there’s different ways to view these sects, but I think the most convenient and probably most accurate honestly to way to do so is to view them under the lens of politics with the right and the left, you know, the the left wing and the right wing. Uh, and for one thing, that’s something that’s familiar to anybody on the outside is going to understand that framework. But uh not only that, the transhumanists kind of divvy themselves up that way anyway, which there’s a lot to unpack with that. Like why why are they doing that? They do they take seriously the left right political divisions that are established in our culture? I think yes that they do.
But be that as it may, the left versus the right in transhumanism. Uh, back in the mid 2000s, there was what appeared to be an attempt by these two, let’s say, these two sects. Again, we’re simplifying, but we need to. There’s attempt of of these two transhumanous sex to come together under an umbrella and under a shared common purpose to advance the idea of transhumanism generally speaking and that was seen in projects like the World Transhumanist Association and also moving down the line the name changes the rebrands uh of, you know, World Transhumanist Association was no longer around. They shifted over to the name Humanity Plus and, you know, uh, so that sort of stuff going on. In the midst of all that, there was what appeared to be the honest attempt to come together under the shared transhumanist cause.
Now, as time has gone on, it seems like the rift has well, I know that the rift has reemerged and that the split is definitely there now. And it’s pretty fascinating to see and to try to understand exactly what’s going on. And of course, there’s stuff behind the scenes that we’re not privy to that I’d really like to know the answers to. like um let’s just uh well let’s talk about the figure heads in these different camps, right? Uh it’s it’s the people with the money. It’s the people fronting the money for the the little groups that they go out and they do their media presentations promoting their ideas of transhumanism.
And on the right/ libertarian side of things, which is laughable as as the listeners of this show know, is Peter Theal. I mean, he’s putting up the money for the rightwing side of things of this, right? We know that he always has like with the Singularity Institute and all things Singularity, it’s always been Teal pumping money into that. that’s been public, but I think even privately he does that to an even greater extent. There’s a lot of people trying to speculate where Peter Teal has been throwing his money, right? And that’s that’s something that um that’s a tricky subject, but I mean we can make all sorts of good educated guesses there. But we do know that he um when it comes to singularity and all that, he he was the guy behind that and and certainly the right-wing slash libertarian his his version of that which is laughable. But I mean the entire to be honest all of libertarianism now is is laughable to be and if that bothers anybody I’m sorry it’s just turned into a complete and utter joke and that guy really more than anybody has should be taking the credit for the downfall of anything that would have been useful within libertarianism. And a lot of people have bought into all the online garbage. But anyway, right-wing money teal and others. It’s not just him. There’s there there’s others pumping money into it, too. But he’s he’d be the big guy. On the left-wing side of things, you have, of course, our old friend Martin Rothblat is the big money trustee on the board of trustees when it comes to the group, the IET, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, which is a very lesserk known group, always has been, but from its beginnings, it always even started with members who came from the world transhumanist association. From that time where everybody was trying to be together and work under one transhumanist banner, the lefties from that time period switched over to Eet and joined the progressive left-wing version of transhumanism as funded by Martin Rothblat.
Uh James Hughes was a former president of the World Transist Association. Hughes is like the main one uh there in the Roths Black camp heading up the IET and he was one of the guys that wrote that paper transgenderism or postgenderism ratherly rather sorry postgenderism which was uh it’s pretty fascinating to see that was taking what would later be a really hot topic in the culture wars the culture wars wasn’t even a thing when that paper came out um but What later hot but an issue that became very divisive in the greater political dialogue of transgender uh anything. You know just transgender just as a whole blanket term became a gigantic uh talking point within the culture war is is almost like a uh it’s almost like the center of the culture war really. You could I think you could argue that, but they were Hughes and D’Vorski. I think it was those two guys that wrote the paper postgenderism, which took that idea even further into the transhumanist uh concept of like, well, you know, who cares about gender at all? We’re going to just turn ourselves into posthumans. And maybe it’s better that we don’t have gender or if people that want to, they can. Or if you want to be both genders, blah blah blah blah blah. we’re going to be posthuman in this or that or some other way. So like whatever and you know being very progressive and leftwing about the whole thing, right?
Because that’s what they do. And it’s it’s funny to see that they were very much aggressively taking a stance within a culture war dialogue framework with that piece. So it’s almost feeding into the greater again American political dialogue and even western world political dialogue which I argue is overall the culture wars is a um it’s it’s a um weapon it’s been weaponized against us. So, it’s it’s it’s a losing battle to start with no matter what side you fall on with that one because the main purpose is to um get us going against each other, right? It’s my quick take on that one.
But they were very much involved with that. And then you see um with the rightwing side of the transhumanists, it’s um I’m trying to think of like the actual transhumanist group that came out like with the IE on the left and I’m struggling to put my finger on the actual name of a group. I don’t think I can do it honestly. But what you do see is different individuals pop up and just spout off the same right-wing talking points and people who had previously been very uh from from the time of the World Transhumist Association in the mid 2000s, people who had been very vocal outside of official transhumanist circles, people like Joe Rogan, he started Ed going very rightwing with his politics, but also you could argue right-wing transhumanist concepts. And big surprise, Joe Rogan ended up having on his show as guests Peter Teal, Mark Andre, um, Zuckerberg, and some others that I can’t remember, like these crazy the guys behind the curtain. But the the the other funny thing is, is there even a curtain anymore when it comes to this? It’s weird. Now, another guy that kind of fits into the mix here of the like right-wing libertarian sort of crowd in the sort of stuff that he says, but he kind of is even more individualistic and terrifying and nihilistic is Ben Girtzel.
Um he’s a guy that uh now it has come out that he had been receiving money from Jeffrey Epstein for years and years and years. So to the point where he knew I mean it was public what Epstein had done because he’d already been uh you know gone to trial for it. Um, and Girtzil not only knew because the whole public knew, but he was in correspondence with Epstein, like saying, you know, it’s going to be okay. And essentially just cheering him on, hoping hoping that he gets out of it and saying, “Yeah, just keep sending money my way essentially. Keep sending money our way so we can make more cool crap like Sophia the robot, right?” Uh so he’s a guy that’s fits in the middle of this too. And what’s fascinating to see what’s interesting to look at and to think about with somebody like that is he’s a guy presenting himself as the expert in artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, AGI. He’s the guy that’s out there making it and he’s the, you know, world’s foremost authority. This is how he sells himself in the same way that any online influencer sells himself as I’m this, I’m that, you know, and they proceed to tell you why they’re important, why they know everything or why they’re, you know, God’s gift or whatever. Fill in the blank.
For him, it was artificial general intelligence. And he’s like the world’s foremost authority, blah blah blah blah. You look at other people actually involved in the field and it’s fascinating to see people like Oscar or right Oscar who I’ve had on this show despises and essentially he just says he’s a fraud. He’s a guy that’s just out there uh trying to get attention for himself essentially is what Oscar is saying. And I believe that he’s correct in that. And that’s why actually Oscar is is a hardcore transhumanist himself and very much in favor of creating AGI and he thinks that we need to. And you know I’m I’m disagree with that. But I like him because I know that he is just one of these rare individuals that just pops in and and says tells things how they are and and and in this case he’s telling us who Girtzol is now. He’s a fraud and he’s not to be trusted. He’s a scumbag and he hates him. But ostensively, if if you look at him on paper, they’re two guys that like are doing the same thing, right? And so, yeah, and you only know these things when you really start digging into it and you look and you look at every different corner and you look at the different people and like and you try to understand what everybody’s motivations might be. Can only go so far, right? You can’t think you know everything about uh a topic or another person. Hell, even if you think you know everything about yourself, you you might not, right? So, don’t make that mistake. But be that as it may, when you really dig around and look at all these different people, you look at this greater movement that is transhumanism. You see all these crazy angles to it and the larger truth starts to emerge out of these disperate examples and this bigger picture of things that are going on. And that’s what’s so fascinating as these technologies continue to develop to develop algorithms getting more powerful, artificial intelligence systems becoming more replete in our world, um things like this.
It’s fascinating to see the public-f facing people that are parts of these movements advocating for this and trying to to to make things out from there. And just as Tom Green seems at at times is genuinely lamenting what he has been a part of in making weird funny videos. And he’ll go on and on about how, you know, in the 90s you put a camera on somebody and they didn’t even know what’s going on because and people would react to a camera. When you had a camera on them, people would have a visceral reaction where they get angry. Now cameras are just everywhere and nobody even thinks about it. Like you can film somebody and they they’re just they don’t even care. And that is a significant change in human interaction, daily interaction. And it has to do with media. It has to do with digital what is now online media and sharing of media, creation of media and us as everybody as a de facto media personality. It’s a weird situation we’ve made ourselves into or we’ve gotten ourselves into and we would do well not to take for granted where we actually are now in this age of transitions. And would you believe it that Tom Green actually has had a lot of fascinating things to say over the years about this? For anybody who has actually listened to him, it’s pretty interesting.
In that in that same vein, I think the transhumanists are doing similar things where they’re starting to be self-reflective. Sometimes they’re starting to be self-reerential. They’re starting to air out their grievances uh publicly, which is interesting as it seems like the online media ecosystem elicits that from us. It elicits confrontation and debate in in the way that it gets us to debate. Um and so none of us are impervious to that. And even these high fluting PhD types that are involved with PhDs or billionaires or just, you know, public figures are involved in transhumanism. It’s getting interesting out there to see their wars within which are genuine. I I do again I I do think that Peter Teal and Martin Rothblat likely really don’t like each other in real life and I don’t know what they might think of what they’re doing on two different sides of whatever it is. I I don’t know what their true motivations may be, but from what I gather, their antagonism toward each other is is real. It’s not just some sort of like WWF um fake thing that they’re just putting this on to while we’re all distracted because nobody is even really looking at this to begin with, right? It’s only weirdos like me that even know that, you know, have dug this this far into this topic. And so it doesn’t make sense that they would be putting this on just for what, an audience of me and like a couple other weirdos. Nobody cares. Nobody knows to look this way. It is fascinating to see more and more people commentating on make uh being doing commentary on these topics which I mean there had ought to be because it’s more in the public now than ever but as we go that way and it does become more public and and more pressing more um urgent with each passing day and I’m seeing all these posts like the world’s And then tomorrow AGI is coming. It’s going to kill us all. I’m seeing a lot of that sort of stuff.
And then I’m also seeing a lot of well AI is just a big bubble and it’s going to implode and then the economy is going to go with it. I’m seeing a lot of stuff like that. I’m seeing a lot of everything. So much of it contradictory of course. But all depends on what you want to believe as so many other things do. And so it is that we get all these different people doing these posts that appear to be carbon copies of what somebody else posted, saying the same thing, same formatting, same templates, getting a lot of repost, this that and it’s making a big conversation. The conversation coaleses around this which I think is worthy of reflection of meditation on stop and think about because um because it’s it has become important this bizarre online media ecosystem that we’re a part of. have to try to not just let it have its way with us and just fall into line with its dictates without even knowing it because it seems like that might be what’s happening more often than not.
Back to this point again. So, so uh transhumanism still there, still important issue, still uh the push is there to see these technologies further developed. Different waring factions as ever trying to get their way instituted. What actually ends up happening is a whole another thing. depends on a lot of different factors. But the encouraging thing is that we might actually have is that we we should have a say in the way that that goes in the way that we collectively all interact with this and hopefully not just react constantly to whatever is fed to us. But there is an actual interaction where we have some input into things that we redirect things where we need to. Being able to understand where we have the power to do so might be the the new thing to do, right? actually having an understanding of what we’re capable of, where we can have impact, what’s actually important, what’s obviously distraction, and what’s um all part of the global propaganda matrix. And there’s a lot of it. There’s a lot of it.
Um, so yeah, I mean that’s that’s where we’re at in this age of transitions as I see it. And I have to say back to the video version of this show that I’m doing on YouTube. I am really enjoying the random videos playing from IMG_0000001 website. Uh it’s been uh fun to watch that as this show plays. So I hope uh if if anybody appreciates the visual of that, let me know.
I do think that the YouTube channel bringing it back up was I do continue to think it’s worthwhile doing that. So, let me check. Actually, it looks like we actually have maybe we have had a couple live viewers during this. So, that’s cool, too. So, that’s fun.
So, Aaron, I just want to add something. I just want to add something to the listeners consideration is I love that I imgore and three numbers uh issue because YouTube is literally loaded with billions of random videos that are literally uploaded under the name. You can do a search on YouTube yourselves if you like out there. Anybody listening imgore pick any three numbers. Okay. You’re you’re better off with a low number like Aaron chose 001. That’s one way to go. But there’s probably millions of IMG_00001s. You’ll never finish watching them all if you just pick one number. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There’s literally 80 years worth of time in video uploaded to YouTube daily. And some of it is from people’s phones. They back it up. Some of them don’t even realize they did it. You have no idea what strange, mundane, or oddities you might encounter under IMG zero and then two numbers. Pick them. It’s a beauty. But 001 is great because that’s probably the biggest database of random in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I I just want to point that out. That is beautiful. I’m glad. Where did you figure when how did you figure that out?
I actually I came across this as part of the uh looking for truth in all the wrong places series where I’m trying to go back and uh find lost media from alternative media. I’m looking for clips like Mark Dice first appearing on Alex Jones. I’m just trying to find sites that might have those videos. And this came up like as a thing and I’m I’m not going to find that sort of stuff on here, but it’s interesting for what it is on its own right now. This site is kind of cool. Yeah. And you have no idea. But you could literally just do this on YouTube and come up with an endless list. I don’t know. The the algorithm can’t do anything with it. That’s another fun thing because in most cases these img, you know, 001 might have a few views on each of these videos, but the majority of the IMG and numbers numbers videos have no views. They were simply stored there. And some of them were stored with the intention of putting them up on websites. Some of them were stored just for personal reasons. All kinds of crap. I mean, it is amazing. Yeah, it’s wild. randomness. Yeah, it’s mind-blowing to me.
I just want to point that out though. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. And I see we’ve got Susan Music at the YouTube chat saying that they really enjoy the show, Aaron and Chuck. So, they are actually listening to us. So, that’s cool. I’m glad that you enjoy this. So, that’s good to know. And I’m I’m having fun with this just as different visual sort of thing just as it is. But that gets back to the point of there’s so many different unique things you could be doing with live streaming now that it would be good to see people, you know, maybe get more experimental and do really interesting things. And I it and to be positive, it seems as though people may starting to be doing that. And so that’s cool. That’s a good side to this story. So I think Yeah. And just for the record, separately. Yeah. Separately a couple of maybe maybe some weeks ago. just a few weeks ago really. Uh, I discovered this, talked about it on my show and probably you didn’t hear that, but it’s just one of those things that seems to have come up among people thinking in a certain track recently. I’m discovering is that it’s like, wow, there’s this whole repository of randomness on YouTube, you know, like, yeah, it’s wild. You you could not in your lifetime possibly watch all of the videos on YouTube and you couldn’t even get through image 001 probably. No, in your lifetime if you started at birth watching YouTube. Oh man. So that’s crazy. All right. Anyway, sorry I’m done. I just wanted to throw that in. Thanks.
Yeah. No, it just shows how replete video has been embedded into human life. It’s just always there. The camera is always on now. It used to be like lone weirdos that would film everything and people would think they’re crazy for filming all this different stuff. Well, not anymore. You’re crazy if you don’t have a camera and you’re not filming all the time. So, so here we are. Yeah. Different world and something to think about and uh something for the potential advanced AI systems to sift through uh and maybe make sense of. uh if it’s considered worthy of uh the investment, but we’ll we’ll just see how that all goes.
And yes, uh we’re definitely in the age of transitions now. So, thank you everybody for being here, for being around throughout the years. Maybe you’re a new listener. That’d be cool, too, if you’re new to this show. Um, yeah, it’s just it’s such an odd time now and it’s trying to get a foothold into anything real is just really difficult. And so that’s what we’re going to try to do to the best of our ability. We’ll see what we can do with that.
But uh yeah, I I think um I think we can segue to the next hour here shortly on Ochelli Radio Network. Seeing that it’s Friday night, you know what comes next after the Age of Transitions is Uncle the Broadcast. So do stay tuned for that. Anybody listening live, that’s coming right up uh Friday night 10 p.m. to midnight Eastern time. Don’t forget.
Uh, so that’s coming up. The Age of Transitions, of course, is this show, the age of transitions.com, my website. Check that out, everybody. My name is Aaron France. As always, I will leave you by saying, “Seeker, seek on.”