Aaron does a quick update on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast.
Topics include: video series about Conspiracy Culture/alt media, conspiracy theorist term CIA, charlatans, alt media irredeemable, actual truth, qui bono
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You are listening to The Age of Transitions. I’m your host, Darren France, coming at you live this Friday night, April 3rd, 2026, live from the facilities of ochell.com on Friday nights. Um, every Uh yes. Yes. We’re going to be doing the Uncle Show tonight at the normal time, which is 11 Eastern. It’s 8:00 p.m. here in uh California. So, I’m just going to do a real quick show here, quick age of transitions, and you know, just a little update show really. And uh then we’ll get right into it. The uncle show is going to be good because Bum Wine Bob is back as a guest. We get him back on the show and we’re gonna have a drink with him, have a good time. It should be a pretty fun show. So, that’s coming up next hour. Uh, but yes, this is the age of transitions as it is on Friday nights. Thank you everybody for listening to the show. I do appreciate your um listenership over the years and uh and for being here for the live shows for um you know listening on ochelli.com listening to the podcast. It’s uh thank you very much for that. uh do consider going to ochelli.com and leaving a donation because now is a time where Chuck and the network need help. So if you’re able to do that, please do so. Um I will say that and uh so if you’re able to do that, please do that. And then my website is the age of transitions.com. Uh, same old thing there with the book and the Patreon and all that kind of stuff. Still doing that. Um, got the old YouTube channel fired back up, dusted off, came brought it off the shelf. It’s working away again. Um, and so it is that we’re back in business in a way. And uh, I I do I would like to make some more videos coming up. I want to I keep saying and I will what I really want to do now is make a video series for looking for truth in all the wrong places where I just kind of like probably episodically uh cover the topic that is the widespread deception of what has been marketed as online truth alternative media. material, conspiracy culture. Again, coming up with the labels for these things is problematic. Uh, but I I for one enjoyed the term conspiracy culture because I do think there’s a culture to uh conspiracy theory community almost. Uh, it’s I mean community is a bad term for it because it’s so disjointed and it’s not cohesive whatsoever. Never has been. That was never meant to be. Might be part of the point when you think about it. But, uh, conspiracy culture nonetheless, I think, is an actual thing. I think it’s more powerful thing than almost anybody gives it credit for. It’s one of those charged sort of things where you put out the idea of, you know, conspiracy theorists or conspiracy culture in this uh example. As soon as you mention it, it’s immediately dismissed like, oh, we can’t take that serious because we’re not allowed to. And that mental um programming has been done by the CIA. Yes. Or they were the first ones to do that. Were they effective in doing so? Yes. Does that beg quite a few questions uh that we need to pose even talking about this? Yes, absolutely it does. It also legitimizes conspiracy culture. Like look, this very term was uh dragged through the mud by the CIA. And you can’t you can’t argue that. That’s that’s the truth. They did that on purpose. And it was at a time when like the premier American conspiracy of the 20th century was the problem for the establishment of the JFK assassination. I think it’s safe to say that was a problem and that’s why they came up with the term that even now today in the 21st century quarter of the way through mind you we’re still feeling the reverberations of that we we’re still dealing with the fact that you can’t say conspiracy without an immediately an immediate programmed response from anybody. And that sounds like, you know, a conspiratorial goofy whackadoodle thing to say. It’s like, oh, a programmed response like, but it it’s true. There is such a thing. Um, you can craft associations on a broad scale. It’s doable. It’s a doable thing. It’s been done. And so it is. It’s fascinating to see that the conspiracy alternative world sets out to do the right thing. Something that needs to be done quite frankly is get to the bottom of things. To get to the truth, cut through the weeds of all the nonsense and the outright propaganda that has been thrown at us our entire lives. That’s true. That has happened. But the problem is that so many of those especially the loudest ones saying that they have the best ideas in this regard of telling you what the truth is. Those people are the biggest problems of all because they take this good they they take something that should be good and a a public service and they completely use it to uh bad ends to not do the public good. That’s what it that’s what had ought to be happening is public good happening. But what happens is a lot of the times if you’re talking about the individual content creators, individual charlatans themselves, they’re in it for some kind of personal gain, whether it’s monetary sometimes, but more often than not, I think the gain to be had is just a little bit of like attention and minor degree of fame. I think that motivates a lot of people doing this and that’s good enough because this is not a career choice that you make to become uh you know in a high tax bracket. If you do, you’re out of your mind. If you do, you better go about it. Um if anybody’s making that kind of money on this, you really should not be listening to them. first of all, but if you go into this thinking that that’s going to happen, you’re a freaking lunatic cuz that’s not how it is. Uh so many of the people that are problems that are just doing the bad work, there’s somewhat of a karmic truth in that their lives are horrible. They’re living terrible lives. A lot of these people that like will like to talk a big game like I’m so cool, I know everything. I’m taking down the deep state, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. They live like in a tool closet behind the rundown Kmart or something, right? And honestly, so many people would be better off doing anything anything other than this. This scene is a bad scene. It’s a mess. It may be irredeemable, but what I want to do is make videos about what a piece of trash it is. Filter out anything that could be useful and and and constantly make the point like, look, this conspiracy culture thing should be good. I’m not saying that it’s all bad. What I’m saying is take a look how it is bad and what has what it’s been used for, what it’s been used to do, and maybe start to ask questions like who’s really benefiting from this? Who might, you know, have something to gain from all of this? because I do believe there’s answers to those questions, but it would take a lot of work really to get good hard answers that are um that are thought through and researched and truthful, actually truthful, truthful in a complete sense because we’re a long way from that. We could get there if the collective will existed. I don’t know that it does, but that’s neither here nor there. So, the age of transitions, thank you for humoring me these years that I’ve been doing this. Um, do appreciate that. Stay tuned on the Ochelli Radio Network now because Uncle the broadcast is coming right up. Uh, it’s going to be a fun time. again, guest Bumline Bob uh is going to be with us. So, it’s going to be a fun show. So, do stay tuned. Don’t touch the dial. Um the age of transitions.com is my website. My name is Aaron France. As always, I will leave you by saying, “Seeker, seek on.”