We are living under Biff Tannen style governance. We should pay close attention when our reality starts taking on the characteristics of dystopian popular fiction.
Topics include: Lyft ride truth evangelism, Conspiracy Culture, more people exposed to and in agreement with fringe ideas than ever, social media as broadcast mechanism of conspiracy ideas, analytics tools driving content, ubiquity of gambling, legalization of online gambling, dopamine response, prediction markets, new kinds of insider trading, more and more corruption, Biff Tannen style governance, Onion takeover of Infowars, satire of Conspiracy Culture long overdue, tecnocratic new world order, tech oligarchs, propaganda and Culture War distraction, crypto scams, new ASMR content pivot
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It’s another Friday night in the midst of the age of transitions. It’s a wild time. It’s a time of uncertainty. Uh it’s the age of doubt and I doubt we’ll figure it out as the song goes. Couldn’t agree with that sentiment more. But we’re doing what we can, right? Through the confusion, through the insanity, through the digitalization of all life that as we know it, uh it has to be done to make the world better, right? So, here here we are.
And it’s just wild. Um I want to keep the show just loose. I I have notes actually from a couple weeks ago, two, three weeks ago, I was going to use, but then I didn’t. I think I’ll dip into them in a minute. But before I even do that, just want to just, you know, tell a couple little stories today. Uh, I took a lift ride, which I hardly ever do. I don’t have a lift account myself. Every now and then I find myself in one of these things because I’m with somebody who does have one if if I happen to be on rare occasion out doing something, which isn’t that often these days. But anyway, I took a lift ride today back from the car dealership because I took the car down there for maintenance and you know, I asked like basically is there a way? Do you have a shuttle? Is there a way out of this damn place because I don’t want to stay here. Oh yeah, yeah, we’ll do lift. Yeah, here you go. And so I got a free lift ride from the um well free in quotations, right? not no such thing as a free lunch economics 101. But anyway, I got a lift ride away from the car dealership, so I wasn’t trapped there.
And uh the driver pulls up, you know, standard little lift car, whatever. It’s just some guy driving it. Standard fair, right? Okay, this is a lift ride. I get in, we start driving and I kicked off the small talk because, you know, there’s got to be people complained about the driver small talking too much. I like talking in that scenario. So, I you know, I got conversation going. Uh, it was gray. It was a gray morning with uh, you know, some cloud cover. We call it marine layer here. And I just talked to the driver. I said, um, what is this? Is this June gloom? What what do we got going on here? what’s with this weather? And his response to that was that well they’re do they are doing a lot of things to the weather right now. Something to that effect. And I don’t remember the exact thing he said, but he definitely used they he definitely uh referred to they doing something to make the weather as it was. So I was like, “Oh, okay.” So immediately, you know, I knew uh what he was talking about. I knew you know I was it doesn’t take a a lot for me to understand that that conversation started right you that’s so much as this show is the fact that you know we’ve been in this world the conspiracy culture world for over 20 years now and so these are the things that I recognize as a bizarre weirdo that’s like that so you know conversation goes on He mentions chemtrails and so I was talking to him about chemtrails. I’m like, “Oh, yeah.” I’ve saying how he’s on the fence with chemtrails like, “Yeah, I could see them.” I’m like, I go back and forth with my wife like, “Are they indeed chemtrails or is it as they’re saying these naturally occurring contrails? I don’t know. I could honestly see it being either one.” And so he’s going on duh.
Um, and the whole conversation he continues with. Okay, so he does the uh weather stuff and I’m hanging with him. I’m I’m throwing stuff in there. I don’t know if he fully, this is what’s interesting because it it was like the manner of the conversation I guess is what I should really pull out of this is that what he was doing and I recognized it was that he was you know doing a presentation and he turns his lift rides into the forum for these presentations because I’m sure I’m not the only one that he’s done this with. It seemed like, you know, he’s and I’m assuming here, but I’m assuming what his the idea behind this is that he does this on any occasion he can in order to do what? Well, get the good word out to help inform the public of the mass deception that’s happening all around us, right? And I recognize that because I’ve been there myself and I’ve done that same thing. So, I knew I knew what he was doing. I I wasn’t mad at him that he was doing it at all. In fact, I enjoyed it very much. I mean, I I liked being on the other side of the conversation. I’m not saying that I disagreed with everything he said either. He I’m not saying he was preaching to the choir, but he wasn’t, you know, facing an uphill battle with a lot of resistance either. You know what I mean? and I was agreeing with a lot of what he was saying and I was throwing extra stuff in here and there. Um I’m not sure how much that mattered but anyway. So, so I think the moral of the story here is that anywhere you go, and I would venture to say these days, I know it’s dangerous doing that, but I would I would go out in on a limb and say in today’s world within this moment in the age of transitions, you’re more likely than ever to come across another person dayto Okay, that’s in the conspiracy culture world one way or another and they’re immersed in it uh for they spend so much time with it that it becomes a very important part of their life. Again, I relate to this. Okay, not judging. I understand all too well.
But now this thing like he reminded me of me. I like you cuz you remind me of me. A younger version of me. That’s what this guy was like, right? So um yeah this is this would have been the me from like um yeah about 20 years ago about 20 years ago version of me would would be very similar in the way that he is evangelizing for the things that he believes to be true and that by sharing this information is going to make things better. you know, you have to inform as many people as possible. And when that happens, then, you know, that’s the blank to fill in that uh it’s nebulous and it’s ever elusive. But be that as it may, this is an important mission for him, and it was for me.
And I I believe now that there’s more of this than ever, we have come to a place where it’s all of the same general conspiracy culture ideas have been there all along. Again, I’m not even giving a definite starting point to when this began, but for me, it began back around, you know, the mid 2000s. So everything from that time period has just continued to move on and we’ve had different things happen and there’s always been different subg genres within conspiracy culture. You got UFO stuff. You’ve got paranormal things. You got uh you know Illuminati. You’ve got the um I hate Jewish people. So that’s the way I’m going to interpret everything. You’ve got you you got everything right. So, uh, that’s the way it’s always been, too.
And it’s always been bad conspiracy culture. That is to say that the bulk of it is disinformation and it’s not helpful and it doesn’t help the average person in their life the more that they learn it. However, it’s not all bad either. it is good and I still believe that it is if it’s treated properly, but it very rarely is. And again, I’m not judging anybody that would, you know, share this stuff in any sort of way because there’s so much of it thrown out there. And he was mentioning these Tik Toks that he watches. And this is what this is where people are getting this information now. Back in my day, it was uh Crystal Links website and uh weird internet forums where fringe weirdos would talk about these topics. So, it was internet as it was back then is where I was getting the best bulk of, you know, the general information. Then, it’s best if you go and you read books and like you try to find actual sources for whatever it is that interests you. That’s nice. That barely ever happens. But if you do that, then you’re starting to do things right. You’re on the right track if you do that. Again, it rarely occurs, but uh what you get happening is just this mass wave of conspiracy culture media that now is permeating throughout social media applications. You know, name any given social media app, the stuff is on it one way or another. And Tik Tok is big because there’s a lot of information not just with conspiracy culture but generally speaking people go on there wanting to learn about you know XYZ anything wanting to inform themselves wanting to to you know enrich themselves by somehow learning about the world and so people do that whether we like it or not whether you like it whether I like it or not that’s what’s happening people are going on there to learn stuff and so it is that content creators are there to fill that need because that’s why people are there. So that creates a space where an aspiring content creator shows up and and and provides that service.
And of course we know the problem being that you have to trust the sources. This case the content creators on social media. You have to trust them that the information they’re purveying is reputable. This takes me back to my earlier point. Most of the time this conspiracy culture stuff is does more harm than good. It just does. I’m that’s where I am now. Now, if you disagree with that, I’m sorry. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. That’s how I feel at this point.
Other point reiterated, I do feel that if pursued and applied correctly, conspiracy research or just research into parapolitics into uh ju just into any spheres of power or political influence or anything that’s going on in our world. Any like real information that is that you can find there is a good thing. Okay. But it does take hard work. It does take time. It and and internet and social media most certainly is not set up for you to consume uh its what it offers you in that manner. It just isn’t. And we know this. Come on. Everything’s made just so that you click on it. uh engagement. Content creators are making stuff so that it brings the audience there irregardless of anything else. Whether the information is true, whether the information is useful, whether the anything about it, it doesn’t matter. As long as they get you there and you stay and they look at their little analytics like, “Oh, look, my engagement rates high and I’ve got uh 33% of the audience stayed for over 20 minutes of my show and oh my god, that’s great.” That’s what they’re doing. That’s what they’re doing. All of them. That’s the only thing most of them care about. the successful ones, the the successful content creators, they’re basically all that’s their game. Okay? And that goes for the same people that were I would have considered colleagues 15, 20 years ago, 15 years ago when I was really in the uh midst of, you know, trying to make a name for myself and doing this and doing the age of transitions thing, transistor radio and all that. The bulk of people that have had any success doing that, they are playing that game too. And I would venture to say most of them at this point don’t really care about much more than staying relevant and just keeping whatever it is they have going. And that’s just how it is. Okay. It’s a weird sad world.
Uh but whatever. Okay, this this is just this may be neither here nor there. Um to segue away from that point, another anecdotal thing that I have noticed in everyday life is that a lot of people just I’m talking about the average person. Envision the average person, just the average American. Okay, Joe, uh, Joe Normal. What he’s doing is spending a lot of time gambling these days. And why is that? Why is Joe Normal spending so much time gambling away his hard-earned money? Um well first of all he’ll explain to you and he will what he’s doing is he’s rationalizing what he’s doing by uh the r the classic gambling rationalization of oh I’m doing this smart and I have a system of everybody has a system every gambler has a system like I’m applying my system and this is how I do it and they’ll proceed to tell you I make this many bets a day I make this many bets a week I spend this much money this is the way I do it these are the sorts of things I bet on And you know, the idea being that they’re going to see more returns come in than they’re going to spend money going out, right? They’re going to be in the grain doing this because their system is going to work. Okay? Uh tail as old as time or tail as old as gambling, which what’s the difference, right? Um so you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a thousand times. Now there’s more people than ever doing this. There’s more people than ever into conspiracy culture. There’s also more people than ever gambling. Why? Well, the answer to that is very simple. Because it’s been legalized to an insane extent and there’s so many forums to do it that did not exist in the past. There most of them are what? They’re applications for your mobile device. The same thing as social media applications. It’s an alternative addictive application to use on your mobile device, the gambling one, instead of the social media one. You could mix the two. You can make an account that’s uh dedicated to gambling, your gambling interests, or you could be a gambling content creator. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of people doing that right now as I speak because it’s legal now. You can just do it, which is to me I mean to me one thing that’s wild is how this has just kind of like come to pass and we’ve already take we already take this for granted. It’s like oh now we can gamble with all these different things. It’s wild that we’ve gotten to a place where we can do that. Turn back the clock a decade, two decades, three decades, four decades, if you were to explain to them what is happening now, the good folks, Joe Normal, even 40 years ago, not only would they think it’s it would be unthinkable, like why gambling is that ubiquitous and you’re doing it on a weird little electronic device that you carry around everywhere? That would be weird to them first of all, but second of all, they would regard it as immoral and degenerate. They would think, “Oh, those future people are such degenerates and gosh, I” and they would immediately start um they would be judging them from the past. They would be making all these judgments. And what’s funny is when you think about it, Joe Normal would be making a judgment about his future self, thinking that he’s so righteous in believing that what future Joe is doing is evil. It it makes him feel good about himself in the present moment. Little does he know uh in the future, yeah, you’re going to be the one doing that. You’re going to be the gambling addict in the future. Okay? So, you know, uh be careful if you’re casting the first stone or whatever. you know, apply uh the Bible verse of your choice here because you know, Chuck, are you there? I think I hear you.
Yeah. You know what? I have a question for you as I’m listening to you think out loud about this. And is it only because people would look at it out of context that they would say, “Oh, this is gambling. This is rough. This is irrational. This is destructive. Corrosive behavior.” Cuz here’s the thing about it. There are such a variety of convenient dopamine hit machines one way or another, you know, presented to you mostly on the internet. And I mean, literally, you know, everything from that I I forget what the name of the site is, but it’s super popular where you can literally bet on almost anything. Like, you know, uh Khi is one of them. Khi, I No, not that one. There’s another one, too. I mean there’s there’s the sports specific ones, but I forget the other ones. Yeah, but sports Okay. But sports gambling is sports gambling, right? So you we understand that that’s the rush and Okay. And that’s been around, you know, ever since uh people competed, you know, they they they they would bet, you know, cavemen were were, you know, wagering a rock as to whether somebody would beat somebody in a foot race, right? Okay. So things happen there. That’s sports gambling. But separate from that, how many dopamine, you know, machine hits are there? And I do mean that literally because that’s what it all boils down to, right? Gambling, the thrill of the risk, the anticipation, the engagement. And I mean, if you think about it, whether money’s being exchanged or it’s uh credits on that, it’s something else that’s got a simpler name, not not watch or whatever, but there’s another one that’s sort of like, you know, uh determinate or something. Yeah, it’s one of those prediction market sites. There’s a and these things just keep proliferating because they can now. So yeah, I don’t know. There’s a bunch of them.
Well, right. Right. But but but that’s why I’m saying out of context, right? Is that some of these things started out as socialization tools like, you know, Facebook and the like button and therefore Tik Tok and X, you know, which was Twitter and all these things. Okay. Now you you get, you know, the the dopamine hit from the attention. You get the dopamine hit from the likes. You get the dopamine hit from the followers. Okay, so that’s one way you gamble out there or you enter into something and you drop, you know, your brilliant thoughts that are so freaking unique. Anybody detect sarcasm yet? Um, you know, out there into the world and your hot takes and your nonsense. Okay, everybody and their mother got a podcast now to talk about their favorite comic book and also disinfectant if you like and to rate the different new sandwiches that come out from fast food. All right, fine. So, there’s attention [ __ ] and there’s socialization people. Then you take the gambling and sure they virtually made it, you know, the online casinos and all that and you can go and you can gamble literally, but also you can talk to the other people at the poker table while you sit alone gambling for 9 hours straight and you didn’t realize you didn’t sleep Thursday, right? You know, stuff like that goes on and people could do that with real chips in the real world, sure, but eventually somebody comes and breaks your leg instead of overdrafting your bank account, right? All right. All that aside, those are sort of normal and socialization being cloaked in this digital virtual surrogate reality. We get all that and we’ve been over that material now, you and I, for over a decade publicly. All right, fine. But in addition, now everything has a social element to it, a dopamine, you know, hit and response. Either you’re getting attention, likes, you know, virtual chips, Bitcoin, or dollar bills allegedly digitally being transferred around one way or another. You’re micro paying on your virtual farm game so that you can grow carrots where you couldn’t before. Okay? I mean, every single aspect here from gaming to basic uh communication to actually gambling to speculation cuz that’s what that website is about. I mean literally you can speculate on how many times Trump is going to say tremendous in his next speech. You know what I mean? That website has you know what will happen uh tonight you know at Wrestlemania. I mean you name it. How many times will uh you know the Usos slam uh whoever the hell is popular in WWE right now? I don’t even know. Okay. How many hits will you know the Dodgers get in the third inning? They literally have broken it down peace meal so that you can bet a dollar, you know, like you and I like to do every once a year, twice a year, right, on the show, except you can do it 24 hours a day. And there’s that one site where you wager based on a percentage and therefore if you’re correct based on the percentage, right, you go against it and you win. Uh, like you can only bet a dollar. I forget what the name of that site is, but what happens is if it’s 60% the odds are against you, you get a $160 back, right? But if you lose, you lose the whole dollar or you lose 60% of the dollar, whatever the hell it is, the weird equation, right? Where you’re microbetting and you’re micro participating in socialization. And there are various combinations of all of it. And meanwhile, not everybody recognizes all these things as the dopamine hit machine. They think it’s all separate things when it’s all part of one interlocking mechanism that is meant to do what, Aaron? Right. What is it meant to do? We know what part of our animal brains it’s it’s it’s uh you know calling out. It’s attracting. It’s literally trapping. And of course, the younger you are, the more susceptible you are. And even the class action lawsuits are starting to reflect that, right? We realize we made this addictive for kids. Oops. We realized that uh when we made Roblox, it was a perfect way for, you know, cloaked pedophiles to approach children online, etc., etc. We realize this is damaging to people mentally. People with mental illnesses really shouldn’t participate in all this, but seems like everybody’s got a mental illness, so who the hell are you aiming it at, right? And we know from internal documentation they knew they were building the addiction machines even when they created something as simple as once again I bring it up the like button.
So out of context and looking at it, you know, from the uh overhead point of view, Aaron, you could say all kinds of things about it, but as we swim in it, you know, the people who are going through it currently, concurrently even, do they get that it’s just one giant set of dopamine machines being distributed and customized for every single person based on the algorithm that we have taught to serve us? or what? What do you think?
Well, there’s a lot to say about that, Chuck. I mean um you’re talking about the prediction markets and yeah of course it’s all one giant thing and it works on the same principle and you know I was linking the two the social media the uh gambling apps they’re all essentially the same thing but oh predict it is one is that one app that had a simple name that I was trying to think of predict it yeah is actually that one with the dollar on it but there’s another one that’s real super popular where you And they have the most ludicrous like minor weird things, you know, will this go to a commercial break? You can bet on literally anything. And somebody is developing these scenarios 247. So there’s never there’s never an end. You couldn’t possibly bet on all of it, Aaron. How about that? That’s crazy. Yeah. I mean, this all feeds into again that my notes from a couple weeks ago was about the back to the future to reality and how we’re living it now. And Biff Tannon is in charge of our society. He’s running the show and he’s doing what? How is he doing that? He’s doing that by creating a complete corrupt gambling system that he profits off of the fornowledge of what he’s doing. And that and lo and behold, that’s what’s actually happening in the midst of everybody, you know, Joe Norormal using these apps, social media, gambling, and otherwise. Um, we’re not supposed to just look in the direction of Biff and what he’s up to, but when we do, it doesn’t take a lot of digging to see what’s going on. It’s not that complicated to see what’s what’s happening. Uh, so what it comes down to is that those in power are profiting off of gambling. Now, and yes, they’re exploring these prediction markets that we’re talking about. They’re also using crypto to uh run all sorts of scams and they gambling.
Um so let’s see here. I have I have a couple of uh news articles that I’m going to look at real quick here. This one was from March 30th. Okay, that gives you an idea when I was doing these notes. This one was from CNN. Uh the uh the um title of the article is exclusive. Federal prosecutors are exploiting whether prediction market bets trip insider trading laws. And a couple of the quotes I pulled from this article. Here’s a quote. The increased attention by federal prosecutors comes as some players in the fast growing industry are rushing to write and update their own rules and open investigations into suspicious activity. The expansion of bets into elections and sports is also creating a clash between state and federal authorities. End quote. So, it’s funny. People are making political bets, but they’re also betting literally on sports. And there’s been scandals and in those and so many more things where there’s been insider knowledge that people are using just like Biff Tannon did to make money on these things. So, they’re they’re cheating and that’s what this story is about. Okay. Another quote, “Recent lucrative bets on the timing of the war with Iran, the capture of Maduro, and the outcomes of popular television series have raised fresh questions over whether betters were lucky or if they had inside information.” End quote. Uh, did you get did you catch the new story about the military guy who uh Yes. He was a special ops guy who prosecuted. He was run he was there for the Maduro op in Venezuela. Right. Right. So effectively, let’s just bear it right down. Right. You’re gonna cover that article or no? Uh I don’t think I have that one, but I mean it’s just another example of the same thing. It’s what it’s the more recent story of the same, you know, the same line of of stories. Yeah. But this but the summary here isn’t Congress who’s allowed to insider trade. Thank you very much. But no, a guy who had, you know, top secret information because he was involved in a covert operation that the world wasn’t supposed to know about did what? He utilized that to benefit by what was it? 400 or $200,000, I forget which in the in his scheme with these predict type websites, right? I mean, is that not the nuts and bolts of that story? Yeah. Yeah. I believe it was 400,000. 400,000. I mean, and yet, do you see anybody like I mean, yeah, we saw a headline for a second, but as per usual, hey, here’s the headline. Okay, moving on. That’s wild, man. Don’t you think so? Yes, it’s insane. Yes, I’m here. I’m here. I’m sorry. I’m getting a little distracted. I was like, and you know, I’m distracted with I’ll just come out and be honest. I’m eating and and if you’re watching the YouTube video, you’re lucky enough to have seen me do that a minute ago. So, there’s something. Okay, all 10 of you that were watching because I actually interrupted. Wait, what’s that? Hey, look. Fourth wall break. I I interrupted you before because you were having a little problem with your signal and I figured out a way to straighten it out and boost it. And I didn’t want you to continue speaking broken up. That’s why I actually interrupted you. Uh I wasn’t really just trying to take up that time that I did. I did that. Here’s here’s here’s another here’s another little piece of behind the scenes information. I was hungry so I ate something. So there’s that, too. Aaron’s like Chuck’s going to run his mouth for a minute. I can shovel in some food, right? Yeah. Yeah, that’s pretty much the thought. Yeah. So, okay. No, I like sharing this with the audience cuz sometimes people think, “Oh, Chuck’s just being obnoxious and he just can’t stand, you know, he has to speak at all times. He has to hear his own voice. I hate the sound of my voice.” I only do that on Aaron’s show with a real purpose. Like if Aaron is struggling with something, I’ll come in and give him a couple of seconds to reset by speaking. Yeah. Or if I’m having a technical issue and I need to test it and, you know, fix it while I’m talking, which is easier for me to maintain the sound than when he’s talking. So sometimes I do that with that purpose because we’re live and I don’t tell you guys nine out of 10 times when it’s happening. And uh yeah, and and I’ll do that also if I know you need a break for whatever purpose for a few seconds. So, okay, just carry on. But I I also throw in relevant information when I do it so as not to totally disrupt the show. But uh yeah, that’s what I’m doing. Instead of going to a commercial break, I figure I’ll talk for a minute just like I did now because I had a computer issue and I actually have a second device and that device crashed. So, I had to transfer everything over to the one computer and it was giving me a little trouble maintaining your signal for communications. So, I shut down everything else while I was talking and made sure that you were back to clear. And now I’ve probably given you a few moments to have a few more bites of your food. So, now I’m going to go away. How do you know? Until the uncle hour.
And uh I saw that Cal Puffers in the chat gave me a hard time about it. So, that’s funny. Yeah. Yeah. So, hey, it’s a special show. Special treat. This is like a Twitch stream ASMR style. I could really Yeah, I’m Yeah, I do the live stream video now. So, I if if I really wanted to and I was complaining about conspiracy culture earlier and I’ve been doing this song, I’m mad about it. Why don’t I just shift gears tonight? I just become an ASMR streamer. I just take my food. I make as much noise as I can on the microphone because that might be uh you know better information for people than con than conspiracy stuff. Yeah, it would get Yeah, exactly. I get more listeners. I get a wider audience and we could just shift gears tonight because you know why not. So, we could or either that or Yeah, either that or you and I could present ourselves to whoever the new owners of Infowars is going to be and we could uh say, “Hey, look, fresh start. We have experience. Give us a job. You can afford it.” Chuck. Chuck, wait. I’m going to stop you right there because I know it’s The Onion is taking over Infowars. And I know it’s Tim Hidecker is taking it over. And to be completely honest, I actually thought of how could I actually send some sort of uh message to them to apply for a job because I would honestly love to work at infowars.com now for The Onion and make comedy material. And I feel that my experience gives me a lot of good knowledge where I’d be able to write a bunch of crazy a lot of good material. I feel like I could do it. But I mean, maybe I’m not funny. So, I mean, that’s the problem. The problem is I’m an unfunny guy that would like to do that, but you know. So, Well, listen. I I’m serious. That’d be fun. Well, look, maybe I’m not funny either. No, I’m Listen, I’m with you that you think I brought it up just cuz I was being ludicrous. No, I meant it. And uh fact is I think we could both pull it off. I think if we worked together, we could show up as a team. It would be unique. Uh, I wouldn’t mind co-hosting a show with you over there, especially if they’re going to pay us a good rate. Let’s do it. Um, and it would be fun. I would love it, you know. Okay, so look, that aside, though, here’s the thing. The right-wing spin currently in the media, of course, is that the Onion’s not really going to take over the Alex Jones thing. And of course, Alex is now desperately strapped, even though he had plenty of time to prepare the parallel broadcast. as I explained. Yeah. When the Alex Jones network was launched and everybody was screaming, “The Onion took it over. Oh my god.” And I pointed out that, you know, as per usual, and even on my show tonight, I pointed out, guess what? You know what? Well, The Onion was supposedly taking over the front page, anytime you hit the store links on there, even when The Onion supposedly controlled infowars.com, guess what? It still went to Dr. Jones and his dad’s vitamin company and all that. you could still buy all the Infowars stuff while The Onion allegedly took it over. Yeah. So, there’s more than meets the eye. I don’t know if the right-wing spin is correct, but the right-wing spin is like, “Oh, there’s an injunction that’s up in the air. It’s not really them taking it over.” But, yeah, I’ve seen it reported both ways and uh frankly, yeah, I I think The Onion is finally going to take possession. Yeah. But does it matter? Is it even relevant to Alex Jones who had a perfectly good parallel and what a year-long commercial for the Alex Jones network, you know, on Infowars. So, and that’s that’s the you know, how valuable is it? That’s the dark side of what The Onion may or may not be doing is they’re just giving him more publicity even when they’re trying to like, you know, do be against him. Does it really work? There’s no such thing as bad publicity. That sort of thing. So, you know, yeah, I love the idea of the satire of it and I would love to make some and I’ve been saying for a long time there needs to be satire of conspiracy culture stuff more and that’s that’s b that’s been a burgeoning thing like the first person to do it right actually make it good was Connor Ali the uh comedian he’s he’s I mean he is top-notch he’s his material is so good he’s he’s got YouTube he’s a stand-up comedian he’s a writer for different comedy things. He’s on top of it. Like I’ve not seen anybody do it better. The Onion’s going to be hardressed to do it better than him. But be that as it may, this seems like it’s something that’s finally going out there which needs to happen. But the promotion of the old Info Wars, everything that is. And another point I’ll make on this, anybody who is taking the side of Alex Jones and all of them, the pre, you know, the old infow wars, if you’re taking their side at all and and and saying like, “Oh, they’re being wronged. Oh, these they’re trying to steal stuff from.” If you’re on their side, you know, shame on you. First of all, I there’s there’s nothing I there’s nothing good to be said about any anything to do with that. Now, some of the people that have um escaped that cult over there that was running infowars.com, I mean, there’s good people that have escaped and and continually people are leaving and and saying it’s it’s uh the same story every time. Like, I had to get out of there. I was sick of, you know, doing this insane job just spinning fake stories all the time. And they don’t even go in as deep as they could when these people leave into like the reality of the horrors that are going on over there and Alex Jones, how bad of a person he really is. He’s horrible. So, if you’re defending him, shame on you. That’s all I have to say. And I know that there’s a lot of people, back to the point I made earlier, the people that have hung around in this world because they think that they can just keep waltzing around and that they’re actually getting something out of this. Maybe monetarily they’re getting a little. I doubt it’s even very much. It’s not worth it to continue holding up characters like this, like Alex Jones. If you are putting him up on any kind of pedestal, I don’t care how low it is. If it’s any kind of pedestal, stop. Stop doing it. And the people that are doing it should know better. Anybody who’s been around for even 5 years, but if you’re talking 10, 15, 20 years, if you’ve been around doing this that long and you don’t know by now what the story is over there, you’re either a complete [ __ ] or you just you don’t care. You’re doing ethics. No, there’s no ethics because if you know what’s going on, you you you you won’t have it. So, you’re either a total [ __ ] which I think there are a couple of them, or you have zero ethical compass in what you’re doing, and you’re presenting yourself as though that’s it. It’s it’s like we’re saving the world and like they’re the most ethical people and they’re on this mission to save everything. It gets back to the common person I was saying earlier is taking all this in of that mission, that missionary drive, that evangelical um urge in people that’s being exploited. And not only are the people that they’re watching for information presenting in that evangelical uh presentation, they themselves adopt it in their day-to-day activities of driving lift drives and things like that. So the point that you were making, Chuck, earlier, these seemingly separate things, different sort of apps are you could look at as the same app doing the same thing. Building what? Building up the new world order. I don’t I don’t know if it’s ordered yet, but when it is ordered, it will be by algorithms. It’ll be artificial intelligence. the artificial intelligence systems of the owners of what this thing being built up which is the new America. The the topic at hand every week now is what is being built all around us. It’s quite obvious when you look at it. It’s not even complicated. It’s just complicated in the amount of, you know, they would use data points, right? If we’re going to use data science and all this stupid compsai crap, uh the amount of data points that uh we have is huge. But don’t let that confuse you. The basics of what’s going on here is all quite simple. And so we get lost in the details. and and it seems like so much of this fumbling and bumbling all around and um it’s it’s getting lost in the details and the New World Orderly brought to you by Peter Teal and Palanteer. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Exactly. And it’s really that simple. That’s the group that has bought and paid for the government and they’re doing it so that they can continue rewriting the rules as they go. That’s the whole point of what’s happening now. If especially if we’re talking about the federal government and all the insanity we’ve seen over the past uh couple years, that’s what’s happening. It’s them uh going in there um kicking everybody in DC who was there out and and we could complain, oh those bureaucrats, they had it coming. We could do that. But the point was all of the old school career people in DC got the the concept was to boot as many of them as possible so they could just swap out the government as a whole for a new technologically um augmented or it’s it’s the technological backbone. is what they’re building. They they want the the United States government to be run as one giant system that they own and operate, of course. And any branches of government, any department, they will all be under their control. They will be running them all. And are they going to what do they have to gain from this? It’s not just monetary gain, which there will be plenty of that, but it’s control obviously in every every sense of the word. And and it’s so obvious that even like the good thing is that everybody’s seeing this happen now, which is odd. This that it’s become so obvious that there’s not I haven’t seen a good argument against this. Now, be that as it may, the propaganda machine, which is also part of this same thing, let’s simplify things, too. It’s just one other aspect, one um uh one task that this giant algorithm has to run is the propaganda operations to get people going along with things just enough that they can continue doing what they’re doing. um that’s working well enough so that it can create enough doubt in people that yeah we’ve heard all of this uh stuff about the takeover the the takeover of the United States system and yeah we see this rise of this oligarchy and we even know the guy we know the names of the people doing it and yeah they’re billionaires of course they are um But, you know, just seeding little seeds of doubt just like, “Oh, no. It’s it’s not that bad.” Or, you know, they throw you off. Uh, they get you reel you back into the culture war. They bring that old thing out. They love that one. That’s like their favorite. That’s their favorite tool. That seems to be their favorite one in the uh propaganda war that they’re waging against us is the culture war. So, don’t engage. Do not engage it, however tempting it may be. And that’s for all of us. It’s tempting to jump in there and try to, you know, on either side of the debate you choose. Uh, very tempting. They’re good. They’re good at what they’re doing. They know how to addict us. They’ve done they’ve been uh studying that for long enough and they’re the experts at doing that. So, it’s what they do. So, don’t fight them at that game because you’re going to lose. And we all have uh myself included, we’re we’re all partially I I don’t know if the word guilty is right, but you know, we’ve all played our part in this. So, just be aware of all this. You know, that’s the constant takeaway. Um Chuck, do you have anything over there? I hear you over there. What’s going on?
Oh, no. I’m just listening along. I I just uh I don’t have anything really relevant to add here. just that we’re coming close to the end of your hour and uh I think this is a necessary discussion. I’m really glad that you’re having it mostly with yourself and uh sorry again for the interruption, but you know, I just wanted to stabilize stuff and and and help you out with your point at the same time. So, uh looking forward to the uncle hour. I have no idea what’s going on this time, although uh I I bet you have uh one thing to discuss from earlier today, but outside of that, I don’t know what’s going on. So, I’m looking forward to that. And um you know, there you have it. So, we’re about at the end of this Age of Transitions episode, but we’re not really at the end of the age of transitions episode, right? No. No, we never are. It continues on and on whether we like it or not. This is the times we’re living in. So, we can we can deal with it. We can uh you know, deal with the card we’ve been dealt. And thank you, Chuck, for helping transition the Age of Transitions show into a brand new and improved ASMR live stream where I will eat my dinner every week. So, all you uh viewers that saw me eat my food, be sure to tune in next week where I eat something else and it’ll sound a little different because the texture of the food will be slightly different. So I don’t that man if that’s not a hook I don’t know what is. So well will you be taking listener will you be taking listener requests for different things to ASMR? Uh like cuz I noticed that there are plenty of successful ones that uh like you want to hear me eat spaghetti, I’ll do that. Uh if you want to hear me eat crackers or play play with a comb or something, I’ll do that. Uh are you going to start taking requests? Well, I guess I have to. So, I mean, that’s how this works. So, I mean, I don’t really have a choice, Chuck. So, yes is the answer. So, yeah, we’ll just There’s no rules on this. Come on. There’s no rules here. What do you mean you have to? It’s it’s the rules of the analytics, Chuck. If the analytics deem that I’m going to get more views by doing something, that’s what I do. Okay. So, So, you’re going to be a slave to the algorithm and answer to the faceless uh supercomput? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have to. I mean, there’s no other choice. I didn’t Wow. I don’t make the rules. I just I’m just content creating. What do you want me to do, Chuck? I got to do this. Listen, I don’t make the algorithm. I just do what it says. Okay, I got you. There it is. Thank you, Chuck. I’m glad we cleared that. As long as you Hey, long as Yeah, exactly. We cleared that right on up. So, hey, there you go, guys. You heard it here first. Okay.
I guess I will try to tie a bow on the crypto or the all the sorts of scams that our dear leaders are running on us now. Uh here’s a little note from that same story from earlier. This is another quote. I’ll just read off real quick. In August, Donald Trump Jr. joined the advisory board of Poly Market after venture capital firm 1789 invested an undisclosed amount of money into the company. He’s also an adviser to Cal Poly Market. Oh, there you go. Well, there it is. market. Yeah, I got to interrupt because Poly Market was the thing I was trying to think of. Predict it is that weird one with the dollar and Poly Market is the super hyper popular bet on anything. They have a billion scenarios up there. Like almost literally, not quite, but almost. It’s like anything you could think of. What color shoes will somebody wear the next time they’re coming out of their house publicly? Uh, you know, what will be the next word given first at a press conference? uh you know, etc., etc. It’s pretty wild, man. So, you know, Poly Market, that’s it. Thank you. Big surprise. Biff Tannon Jr. is invested and making money off of that now. So, not only do these guys make the little bets and and they tell their buddies what uh bets to make, um they’re like, “Here, this is coming up.” And there’s been so many stories about uh minutes before our dear leader drops some idiotic uh truth social post um there’s all these bets that are made that will uh that make money based on what he has to say. So you know this is you know it’s just nothing to see here. There’s there’s nothing untoward. Biff Tannon isn’t ruling over all all of us. That’s that’s a bunch of libtard nonsense. I don’t know how anybody would get that kind of idea out of anything, but uh and I have I have a lot in my notes of just example of after example of just more of these digital scams that are being run because that’s the economy now is this system that’s set in place that can be exploited by people with insider information. Guess what? It’s happening all the time now. It’s still illegal to have the insider information, but it seems as though it’s impossible to prosecute anybody who does this because time and time again, if you look into any of these stories, nobody really ever gets in trouble for it. It’s just always like, well, it seems as though somebody had foreign knowledge of this. It seems as though somebody had fornowledge of that. The only one that seems to be popping up where maybe something will happen is this guy in the military, the special forces guy. Maybe he’s going to get in trouble. That’s the only one that pops up to my mind where somebody looks like they’re caught. But when it comes to the guys that are, you know, the ones giving the orders to these special forces guys, you think they’re going to get in trouble ever? No, they aren’t. Um, not only are they going to profit off of these ridiculous prediction bets, them and their um chosen cronies, but they’re going to profit on the actual forum itself by owning it. like Biff Tannon Jr. and Khi and Poly Market and all that. Just for the record, I thought Khi was one of those health food cereals. Like a granola cereal. That’s my memory of Khi being a granola cereal. But I again, is it? Okay. That’s Kashi. Yeah. Kashi. All right. Close. Close again. Kashi. Yes. Uhhuh. So whenever I hear Koshi, I think of this granola cereal. But no, it’s just another prediction market site. So nothing to see here, folks. This is the world we live in now. And I’m not here to throw judgment on the act average person losing money to these things. I’m definitely not. I mean, am I going to make just the statement of fact that when you bet just on a whole you’re going to lose more than it’s it’s a losing game. Unless you are who? The house. You aren’t the house. You’re somebody walking in there. You’re walking in a house where you’re going to get robbed. And it’s just that simple. It always has been that way. Still is. The house is now digital. It’s now housed within your mobile device. But the basic rules are the same. You’re going in there to lose money. And that’s just plain simple fact of the matter. If anybody wants to do that and spend time doing that and even rationalize doing it, I’m not going to judge anybody for that. I’m just going to sit here and crawl into a corner and weep over the state of the world as I typically do every day, at least for a minute or two every day. I’m just going to continue doing that. And you know, it’s not going to do anything. But just know, hey, is that a casino? Hey, is that a casino in your pocket or you just happy to see me? Aaron. Okay. Hey, let’s close this one out and get on to Uncle. Exactly. We need the comedy. We do. We do. This is enough of We We’re sick of hearing about Biff Tannin and Sons. So, let’s just move on. So, the age of transitions.com, thank you for listening. Um, let me know what you want me to eat on next week’s show. Uh, stay tuned to ochell.com for the Uncle the Podcast show. It’s coming right up. So stay here. Uh my name is Aaron Fron.