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Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther

SubPopCult is a weekly podcast that examines how storytelling used in pop culture and political narrative merge together and produce desired political results for those already in power. Featuring interviews with indie artists of all stripes, SubPopCult leads the way in restoring culture from the bottom up.
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Episodes

The Fire Inside

The fire inside is the one that must be kept alive in order to stay the course of your own path. Gaslighting, news spins, half-truths, lies, and aggravations are not going to go away until you go away from them yourself.

Jan 15, 202515 minEp. 149

The Power of Amplified Individuals

The power of Amplified Individuals to change the culture with a boost and assistance from AI is not one to miss. This is the moment to focus entirely on culture. Do not get dragged into politics in 2025 and the System will fail to drag us down into their business model again. Be Brave Make Art and Be Smart Use AI.

Dec 11, 202417 minEp. 148

Narrative Whiplash

This episode is not complete. I make a powerful statement at the end about both political parties and it has been cut off, not by me. I uploaded the entire episode.

Nov 19, 202414 minEp. 147

Keep The Story Alive

No revenge. No payback. No taking the Left's bait and trying to get running into the future with your shoe laces tied together. Just say NO to resisting unity when you just won it all and have the RIGHT to make the new story.

Nov 07, 202421 minEp. 146

The Power To Say No

This episode is a discussion about Universal Basic Income with Karl Widerquist, a thought leader and long time advocate for UBI. I know Karl from his early days in NYC when his band "Remember Alice" was way ahead of their time musically. Here's a link to a song that grew in popularity recently. https://open.spotify.com/track/4cSiAih07THUXUdjBEdoDJ?si=9a21151fa7c84a80

Nov 07, 202453 minEp. 145

The Media Landscape

The Media Landscape assaults your senses and traps you in poison ivy and quicksand. But you, the indie creator, is also a landscaper of dreams and perceptions and now you can intentionally make a better garden of ideas for all to see and experience. Be Brave Make Art.

Sep 25, 202424 minEp. 144

The Mindset (An Ai hosted episode)

This is an experimental episode. It is hosted by two Ai's courtesy of Google's new NotebookLM tool. I uploaded a copy of the paperback companion to this podcast and the Ai processed it and produced a very intelligent and thoughtful conversation about it. You have to hear it to believe it.

Sep 13, 202413 minEp. 143

Feelings

Feelings don’t care about facts because feelings are what you’re left with after the fact.

Sep 06, 202414 minEp. 142

The Culture Will Be Ours

Welcome to the 1st episode of the (unofficial) 4th season of the Sub Pop Cult podcast. A lot has changed in the world of politics and the world of computing and both can be leveraged to restore the American culture.

Aug 25, 202418 minEp. 141

The Broken Wheel

The squeaky wheel gets the grease and the broken wheel gets replaced.

Aug 06, 202420 minEp. 140

Manifest Degeneracy

From Bill Clinton's administration up to Joe Biden's is a time marked by a continuous decline in American unity and American culture. This current reality is the result of Manifest Degeneracy --a time when advertising, culture and narrative power was controlled by a small group of corporations and their government cronies that knew how inspire the people to do and desire anything that served the corporations goals.

Jul 08, 202414 minEp. 139

I Am This. I'm Not That

Does advertising sell products or does adverting sell lifestyle and products? What role does advertising have in our balkanized American society? How can we overcome the great storytelling wall so that we will define reality once again? That and much more in this episode of SubPopCult.

May 31, 202424 minEp. 137

One American Life

One American Life is a new feature of the SubPopCult podcast. It is the chance to hear directly from your fellow Americans who have connections to the Middle East conflict that has been a defining feature of US international politics for more than 50 years. Today I catch up with someone I know quite well who uses the gifts of their own freedom and Liberty to serve others in need. Do not listen to this episode in hopes of getting aggravated about political narrative. Instead listen so you can hea...

May 24, 202446 minEp. 136

Shared Pain

Shared pain is how we share empathy. When pain is isolated and converted into a victim economy is when shared pain loses its uniting power. This is remedied with storytelling that reestablishes the universalness of pain and the unique American way we rise to alleviate pain.

May 13, 202422 minEp. 135

Conservatism Un-incorporated

Conservatism Incorporated (the wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate Left) are like cockroaches exposed to pesticides. As they disperse and sink to their natural gutter level, let's look to culture together and get back into the game.

Apr 25, 202421 minEp. 134

Hollywood Defeated

Hollywood has been defeated. Now the important task of communicating and maintaining American culture falls on the shoulders of indie artists.

Apr 16, 202412 minEp. 133

The Civil War Marketing Department

The Civil War marketing department is part of a long tradition of media and politicians creating panic and division in society and then monetizing it via movies, books and protest songs about it. Make this summer a failure for those who invest in our divisions. The American way is a free way of choosing your own way, so get going.

Mar 26, 202414 minEp. 132

Situational Awareness

"Situational awareness within the narrative" is an individual's ability to understand their role, influence, and the impact of their actions within the larger story of their life and how it contributes to the national narrative. It's about being aware of the immediate surroundings, comprehending the significance of events and interactions, and anticipating how current trends and actions could shape the future.

Feb 29, 202426 minEp. 131

The Ultra Artists

SubPopCult Podcast: Unleashing the Spatialmaker Revolution In this episode of the SubPopCult podcast, we venture beyond traditional filmmaking into the realm of the "Spatialmaker" – a term coined by our host to describe the new age of creators shaping narratives in a multi-dimensional digital landscape. As indie artists seek to make their mark in a culture craving unity and innovation, the tools at their disposal have evolved. This episode is an essential guide to the arsenal of AI technologies ...

Feb 19, 202422 minEp. 130

SILENCED!

The plight of Americans far from power is directly affected by those who are speaking on their behalf in political media. The main objective of the Right Wing professional political class is making hating you acceptable so that our culture imbalance never changes.

Feb 02, 202419 minEp. 129

Revenge

After spending 12 years with politics consuming much of my free time and racking up loss after loss, I had realized what was missing from the Right is stories and art that makes conservatism understandable. I then spent 4 years advocating for the Right to convert to an art and culture operation. That is not going to happen. Instead — revenge and all the negativity that comes with it. Americans are better than this. I am better than this.

Jan 22, 202414 minEp. 128

Run Off With The Concepts

The time has arrived for indie artists to boldly run off with (protected) concepts that are tied to corporate IP (that in realty are just branded and monetized iterations of underlying scientific concepts that anyone can use). Indie artists, leveraging AI, are fully empowered to break apart the corporatization that puts the artist in a box and holds them there. The future of pop-culture and art is an audience that accepts artists can whatever they want with their craft. This will empower the ind...

Dec 20, 202326 minEp. 126

Pawns In A Grand Narrative

Until we become full time artists who are concerned with American culture, we will continue to be mere pawns in a grand narrative.

Dec 06, 202319 minEp. 125

Culture Over Time

Culture over time is the equation that wins the future. To walk in the right direction means we must walk into culture over time. To react is to look backwards at the crumbs dropped to throw you off. Get on the path to culture, over time, and we will walk right out of this disaster of American culture being dominated by corporations.

Nov 14, 202315 minEp. 124

The Doom Projectionists

Projecting doom into your dome is a well paying full time Pundicrat job but you can end it quickly and simply by forcing change upon the narrative and making them change what they do to bait you. The song at the end is "Secret Hopes" an indie artist named Anthem.

Oct 20, 202323 minEp. 123

AI means Amplified Individual

AI tools are arriving to help indie artists organize and amplify their work in a way that will put them on par with major corporations in the media business. In this episode I talk about what I believe is the real future of storytelling as well as asking ChatGPT an important question so you can hear how it answered me live.

Oct 09, 202323 minEp. 122

Chaotic Expressions of Discontent

Unity is the glue that holds us together -- and discontent is the hammer that aims to smash us apart.

Sep 07, 202319 minEp. 120
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