Age of Transitions and Uncle 12-19-2025

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It's a weird time, but I don't have to tell you that. We all are aware of. It's difficult to be to be aware because there's so much being told to us, so many different conflicting stories, everybody vying for attention, and it's hard to know to what degree we should give our attention to these sorts of folks screaming and yelling about this and that, all the problems, and they're

here to tell us the truth. Generally speaking, I'd say don't bother listening at all, especially now, because it's getting worse and worse all the time, with everybody just yelling and trying to get attention for its own sake, because that's the way that the medium, the digital online meet works is you put yourself out there pretty much only to get attention, and there's all sorts of different creative ways you can do that, but you know, the loudest

and the most extreme is what ends up getting the attention. And so that's just a way of things. You use your analytics tools to see what got people the most pissed off, and you keep doing that, you just keep making everybody angry and upset, and you know, rage baiting, click baiting, all sorts of all sorts of baiting, go away of baiting. That's the situation we're in. Cool, they're great that we're in the idiocracy world now, but silver lining,

because we have to find one. I think the silver lining is that people are starting to see through this facade of absolute nonsense. I don't know how long this could continue, and I shouldn't. I shouldn't dare it into going further, because it probably will. It'll probably go on indefinitely, So I'm not going to make that mistake. But at least sometimes it seems like the Veneer is starting to

not be so glossy anymore. The luster is lacking, and everybody's just sick of this nonsense, and so you get a lot of voices that have been very loud recently. It's not that they're not loud anymore. But what's happening is they're loud, and they're shouting at each other. People who were presumably part of some group project prior to now all seem to be at odds with one another. And yes, I'm talking specifically about the MAGA infighting and

all that. It's interesting. It's interesting to me. It's I don't think it's something that we should just be like, Ah, it's a bunch of idiots being stupid. I mean, it is, but there's more to it than that. I think that it is not just I don't think they're just putting on a show to continue to get attention, although I mean there's always that aspect to it. I don't think

it's only that. I don't think that they're colluding with each other, like, hey, let's fight each other like it's WWE and that'll keep people talking about us and engaging with our content. And this is working. Let's keep doing that. I don't think it's only that. I think they are truly mad at each other, which is interesting. It's hard to know where to begin and the end to end when you're talking about this group. I mean it it needs to just be plainly stated that you should not

trust one of them. Should not be trusted first of all. So if you want to look at them and see what they're screaming about, fine, as long as you know better than to actually start taking them seriously. That's where we'll all get into trouble. And that's how we've gotten to this point because they have been surprisingly influential. That's another point that has to be made. You got to give them credit where it's due. That they have made an impact, and that's why they were used in the

presidential elections. Absolutely the last one to get us to where we are now. And there's a lot, you know, there's a lot in the press, whatever press you're looking at, they were all talking about that just plain simple fact of matters, that this group was hugely influential. And I think pretty much everybody said yeah. I mean, they had a played a big part in tipping the election the way it went. And I mean, I don't know if you want to argue that, I don't know what to

tell you. It's just pretty plain and simple as far as I'm concerned. And so it's an influential group. It's an influential group. And once again It's like what angle do you take? It's like, do you take the angle of like, you know, what's their voice? What are they actually saying, what are they not saying? What is the platform? What unite the right? What actually unites them? What core

ideas do they have that unite them? It seemed like for a while they had quite a few, and I mean their main uniting point, their turning point, USA was getting pissed off at the other side. It's like, we hate the left wing communists that are in control of our country and the instituting wokeism communism on us, so that this must stop now. So that was their uniting thing,

was hating the other half. Right, So they when they were able to play the victim consistently and make it seem realistic that they were the victims of the grand conspiracy of the left, the woke left, or whatever it was epitomized in the Biden administration, when they were able to use that with impunity, then things worked out best for them. That's why I was always fascinated, honestly with will single out everybody's favorite amongst this crowd as Alex Jones.

Of course we all love him. I was always fascinated to see that. He jumped on board early back in twenty sixteen with the whole Trump thing, and then he continued on with that to now he's still going. He's a mouthpiece of what oh yeah, of the establishment of the executive branch of the government. He's just acting as

a PR mouthpiece for them. Which this is the guy who is like the ultimate conspiracy theorist, ultimate counter cultural figure, right, is now just a pr platform for the UH for the presidential administration, right, And that's that's what he is, That's what he has been. He's more than that that. He's also a mouthpiece for whoever's keeping him afloat with money so that he can keep going without going completely bankrupt. So he's a shill on many different levels. As we

all know. It's all plain to sea, nothing new there, but would be that as it may. I mean, how I just can't it blew my mind that that was that, that bizarre dichotomy. He was able to get away with that for as long as he has. It's only really now starting to fall apart, where the hardcore followers of this whole concept of making America great again. In America, first all this that they're starting to their faith is wavering, faith wavering, and Alex Jones faith wavering and strongman, our

dear leader. Nobody likes the leader anymore. Which this is a new event as far as I'm concerned. Previously, he was just fine. He could say anything, he could do anything, he could be the biggest moron on earth, and we would be like, well, at least he's funny. I guess that was the idea he was entertaining. But now as dementia grabs hold further and further and he's more and more difficult to eat, even address anything in any sort of anything nearing being coherent, that's so far away now

that things are just drifting away from him. I did hear that he was maybe taken. He's had some sort of medical thing going on tonight. That was a recent saying that I had heard, but I did not confirm that, So I don't know. I mean, I've been saying for a while he's on his last legs. He's about to just honestly just fall over and die once again from natural causes, because he's older. In hell, he's an old man that's dying. Okay, He's an old dying man. That

nobody likes, not even the people that used to like him. Now, when he actually does die, you know, the people who are not the detractors will be like, oh, oh yeah, well he's dead, so well we miss him, and blah blah blah blah. But he won't really be missed, and we will move forward with a replacement for him, and that I keep saying this. This is the real situation as far as I'm concerned. This has been the situation for a while now, is how are they going to

get rid of this guy? And my assumption has been just waiting it out, I think has been the the agreed upon solution to that is like, because the financiers and the true powers behind the throne here, the people who are just flat out buying off the executive branch and the whole of the government, but particularly the unitary executive that continues to take more and more power, building off the wonderful template of the neo cons of the

early two thousands. This is just a continuation of their project. So I really don't want to hear complaints from any of them about the current situation, because they they set this whole thing up, So go to hell. Bill Crystal goes straight to hell. You can keel over and I don't give two damns about it. You could die right now and I wouldn't care. Our leader could die and I don't care. He will. He might be doing it

right now. You know, it's very possible. But anyway, back to the absolute Charlatan's and shills that have been selling us this whole garbage to begin with, They've been selling us in ohso many ways that every conspiracy theory you have ever heard online ever was going to be cracked

wide open. It was going to be fixed, it was going to be solved, It's going to be exposed due to just voting this in voting the whole MAGA thing in was that's all you had to do, and the pedos that run the world were going to all be locked up, you know, the trust the plan, it's going to happen. I don't know what the current state of the whole QAnon thing is either, but I think it's just fading. With the rest of this whole thing that

we're looking at, I think it too, is dying. And today was the day that the Epstein files were released. So here we go. This is like this actually today

is a culmination of that which is notable. That is a notable event when we're talking about this whole world, talking about the online conspiracy culture that was taken and exploited to put in this idiotic presidential administration that's not doing anything for anybody other than the top point zero zero one percent of the population based on income we're talking of course, right, we understand that those are the people who own and operate the government now de facto

by just buying it off. They bought and paid for this administration in part to deregulate anything that they want to do, first of all, but also just to generally destroy the existing American system of government as it was, and it is disintegrating all around us now. Ironically, that's what conspiracy culture, I would argue, kind was pointed in that general direction always, and this has been something I've had like in the back of my mind for decades now.

It's like, okay, conspiracy culture is railing against the establishment, but in tearing it down, what does that leave us with and what does it replaced with? And is that not an opening for somebody to exploit that wants to insert their own new operating system we're talking about actual technological sense and operating system and making that the new government, because these guys are the big tech titans, and that's what they want. They want the government to be an

operating system. They want the government to be governments. They want to be governments that are actually corporations that they own. They they're the majority stockholders, of course, and they get to set all of the laws, which there won't be laws because they'll be libertarian. Don't worry, it'll be very laissez faire, but rest assured they'll be benefiting from this monetarily and otherwise. So that's the situation. That's the just

plain situation that we've been in for a while. But we're pretty far down that road now for anybody who hasn't noticed. But once again, what I'm saying right here is becoming interestingly coming into the mainstream discourse. Now that is a problem for the true powers that be, And so it is that they need faithful voices and frankly

just pr agents placed throughout media. And once you know what, these guys own the entirety of the media now, the old mainstream media channels as well as the new social media online platforms, they own all of it, so you better believe that they're going to use that to put forward their interest. And if you don't think so, many of these popular online people are shilling for this. I don't know what to say because I don't I don't know what to say, you know, I mean, it's just

I don't. Oh, but anyway, let's talk about Turning Point USA for a second. Uh. This gets back once again to the MAGA in fighting, which is also interesting right now, which is I do believe once again it is legit they aren't actually pissed at each other. But this was from yesterday. This is something from a story from Mediaite. I got this from JP Satilly's News Vandal run down. It was a low link on there. This a Mediaite story title is Turning Point USA conference turns into war

between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson essay trade bluzz. It's by Charlie Nash. Let's read a little. Turning Point USA is America Fest. Now, I mean, if you don't just I mean, the names of these things are are hilarious to me. America Fest Like to me, that's that's like the funniest damn thing ever is just reading the stuff that these clowns come up with, and they expect us

to like take it seriously. Okay. Turning Point USA's America Fest conference turned into a war between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson on Thursday, as the two men spent much of their speeches trading blows. During his speech, Shapiro attacked Carlson for hosting controversial guests on this show, including Nick

Flenttase and Andrew Tait. Shapiro also attacked the former Fox News host for refusing to condemn Candice Owens amid her ongoing conspiracy theories about the assassination of Turning Point USA

founder Charlie Kirk. There was a lot of names, a lot of big names in the scene packed into that one parigraph, aren't there, And honestly, I don't know if I'm going to really read any more of this article because we get the idea, right, they're fighting each other, and one of the main ideas behind this whole scene is that you know these names, right. We know who Nick Flants is, we know who Andrew Tate is, we know who Ben Shapiro is, we know Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens,

Charlie Kirk. We all know them because so much effort has been put into putting them out there, getting their names, their faces, their message, they're branding, putting their branding out through online media, spamming it as far as the eye can see, so that no child is left behind not knowing who Candas Owens is. They all do, They all the kids probably know who Andrew Tait is horrifically enough and that should bother us that they do. And so anyway,

that's that's how the whole media thing works. Uh, funny enough, this is on Media eight. It's apropos. But we we understand this, We understand pr we understand media, right do we? I don't think we do. And when I say we, I mean collectively as a whole, as you know, as America. If I were to have an America Fest, what I would put at the top of the bill is, you know, a deconstruction of how what media is, how it works, what it's doing in our country, how it's exploited. How

you could get historical on it too. It's like, look, we could go back to uh you know, older days of media. I mean, where do we're going to start with the creation of the printing press. So you you know, name your starting point and go up to modern day, and there's Lenny Fingers to point at all sorts of historical figures who were horrible and who exploited media, they used the medium to control ideas, perceptions. You know, go back to Edward Burne's and read his writings. It's all

pretty straightforward and basic. And he just said It's not like he didn't admit how it worked. He told you, in like plain simple terms, really how the whole thing worked. And it's been basically the same since. However, when we're talking about the online media ecosystem and internet and the interactivity, the engaging with the audience and all that. The virtual reality, augmented reality side to this, which has a decidedly transhumanist

bent to it. When you add that in to the whole equation, things start turning into what we're seeing now. And it's why everybody's going a little crazy. It's that we have gone so far deep into this world of media. It has become such a ubiquitous thing where we constantly have access to it, which in the beginning days of internet and online media that was touted as a beneficial

thing like, oh, look, we'll have constant connectivity and that's great. Well, the downsides could have been foreseen and were by visionary people and people who had any kind of sense really before this all happened. But it's nice to be kind of it's nice to paint the pretty picture and be optimistic about technology and just generally optimistic. So, you know, this whole online world at first was absolutely sold with

a lot of optimism attached to it. That optimism is beginning to wane, and there's a whole lot of pessimism, there's a whole lot of well, there's a whole lot of things that come with that. But the one good thing, the one bit of hope we're getting out of that, is that perhaps once again people are starting to come to their senses and see the writing on the wall, see how this whole thing works, See that all of these names jam packed into this one paragraph on this

news story that are relevant to America. Fest that we should not pay attention to these people. Will we continue to pay attention to them? Probably? Is it interesting that they're fighting each other? Yes? Is it sad because they're going to continue to get attention because they're fighting. Yes, And this is weel back to what I was talking about earlier. Are they doing this just to maintain the attention that they're getting in part, yes, because that's what

they do. But they are fighting, So but what are they fighting about? That's the question. So what is the what is the reality of the fight that these freakin' kooks are having with each other? What is that, you may ask? So I'll see if I can manage to explain my opinions on this. Once again, the whole lot of these big name people, they're all shilling some thing. They're all shilling for someone. They're all selling you something

that is not to your benefit. I don't even think it's to their benefit other than they get to make their career, right, they're making their little career, their online media career, and some of them are wealthy from it. Now, this group of people are at an elite level in this strange system, and most people making online content are not rich. They might be famous, but they're not rich. And fame is a sliding skill to for what that's worth. But if they're at a high level, it's because that

they're selling something useful to frankly, their paymasters. Okay, and now, that is the difficult thing to break down. I'm not here exposed this person or that person is getting paid by a specific you know, they're getting paid by this, they're getting paid by that. Now, what I will say is that would be a very worthwhile study, and if the public had any the public had ought to be

clamoring and demanding that sort of thing. Quite frankly, if we want to turn things around and make a better America, here's my America fest once again, we want to make things better. I think one of the initiatives that would be good is demanding that we know who these big media figures are being paid by, who's paying them, like specifically set up some sort of you know, get our government,

not that we have one anymore. First we have to demand that the government does the will of the people, which it does not, but part of the will that people should be like, look, we want to know what's going on in the media, okay, because we can't expect that the media is going to do the job of pointing us in the right direction anymore. That's not That was the intent, and that's what they should be doing. But it just keeps getting bought up by big money

and the powers that own the channel itself. They own the entire distribution network for all media. Now, okay, that's a problem, and not that this wasn't happening to a degree always, but things are different now. And these freaking idiots that once again sold us this current administration that now they're pretending a lot of what's going on here is that these scumbags are acting like they're mad now

long after it's way too late. And almost every single one of them, I will remind you, sold you this. They sold you the MAGA package. And that's what it was. It was just another stupid product that they were shilling like it was a male vitality pill on one of their dumb radio shows. It was the same thing they were selling. You make America great again, and we're going to get rid of the woke left, and we're going to make communism disappear, and it's going to be a great new day from America.

That's that's the fascinating irony here, is that it's not that they were initially like lying outright, is that that they were such complete freakin morons that they were fooled into selling this, and they bought into it too, because they're not the smartest, sharpest knives in the drawer. Quite the contrary, they're people that are can be fooled easily, that love attention and pretty much that's the only thing

you need. And they're put out there and they're all riled up, and a lot of times they think that they believe what they're saying, and if they don't believe what they're saying, they don't care, because again, their brand is contingent on going along with this bigger movement, which this was a whole, big political movement. This was a giant movement. The whole magazine was huge, and it was ubiquitous, and it was almost like it was like a rank

and file thing. Everybody just got in line, that's what you know, Like people like myself and Chuck were so upset about for so long is seeing this all happening. This has been happening for it's been like a decade of this now, and it's just been so frustrating the whole time to see how they all went that way

and everybody got rewarded for doing it. Now once again, there's different levels of rewards and a lot of the people who look like they really are benefiting are still just like they're scraping by and quite honestly, they would be better off working some crappy job like working for Walmart or something. And that's not even a joke, that's

just the plain, simple truth. Like some of these big name people that you know that did they sold the whole magathing to us, and we know them, and they've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of followers on this platform, and they got millions, hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, and blah blah blah blah blah, people retweet them. It doesn't matter because they're barely surviving. But they bought into this. That's what counts, and it doesn't matter how they're doing.

In fact, it's a bit poetic. It's poetic. Justice is what it is, because they're struggling just like the rest of us, probably worse and America and buyer's remorse. Rather, I was looking at an American fest again, Buyers are worse. Some of them are legitimately have it. So it's not like I'm I'm getting mad. I'm calling them names because they deserve it. But at the same time, I'm willing to forgive if someone truly is willing to turn around and plainly state what they did wrong. Now, Sadly, I

don't know how many of them. I don't see a lot of them doing this. Some of them have, and it's commendable when they do, few and far between. And then there's some of them that are just plain they

are stupid. There's a lot of dumb ones. So and I'm just speaking in a matter of fact way, like I think a lot of them are really stupid, and so they don't quite know what to do with themselves, and they're still kind of like fumbling and bumbling around, not knowing what to say, and they're still kind of like floating around in the same sort of you know, going with the same sort of templates that they've used for so long to continue their content creation mill that

they run that they're basically just mill workers when you think about it, because it's a real grind creating content all the time, which is what's demanded of you as the As a content creator, you have to constantly keep creating something every hour of the day, otherwise you lose relevancy.

That's a fascinating to me. Aspect of this media ecosystem is that it demands it demands output in a similar fashion that just regular industrial jobs have these metrics, performance metrics, like you have to do this, you have to do this much within an hour, or we can you. It's a similar technological system that has overtaken media that demands that the creator meet these metrics or they're spit out. They're no good to the system if they can't produce.

So they're no better in fact, probably far worse off than most. Just name the industry worker, every single industry, every lower level worker is now surveilled all day long, and so their performance metrics are they're validated by constant surveillance. That's a fascinating part of daily life for the average person. But it's absolutely the same in the media, so we

shouldn't be like, I don't know. What I'm saying is like, we can feel bad for them because they're not in a great situation, right, but we can fiercely criticize them and frankly be angry at them for what they did because they are culpable in selling this piece of garbage to us, which now we all have buyer's remorse for, not just them, and they're just turning it in what they're doing, like Kansas Owens, they're doing what they know best.

They're just making stuff up as they go along to try to continue creating content and getting more people, retaining audience, but also ideally growing their audience, and Canvas Owns has been doing good at that lately, is growing her audience because she has this appeal where she was this MAGA staunch MAGA supporter for so long that now is defecting and that's interesting to people from the other side, but also from people who have long been listening to her

from her own side. So now she's drawing a wider from a wider audience, right, So that's why she's getting huge now. So some of these people are frankly jealous of that. And they're like, well, well, why can't I just go around seeing whatever I want and get a bigger audience. And so they're calling her out for what she's doing, which she is just making stuff up as she goes along. Okay, but the people calling her out

are probably doing the same thing too. It's just you know, a matter of well, are what exactly is your specific message, mister Shapiro, and what makes you better than candae Ellens? Oh? Nothing? Okay, interesting, that's good. That's cool. I mean, I understand why you're jealous, but do you realize that in calling her out, you're calling yourself out? No you don't, Okay, that's fine. So

it's interesting. I did also notice that Roger Stone and Steve Bannon are feuding at the moment, which is notable because those guys are more I would put those guys in a league up and above the people in this paragraph, in this article. These people in this paragraph are the faces, right, They're the talent. They're the on air talent that you point the camera at, you put a microphone up to them, and you know, that's that's fun and you need that.

It's an important part of the project, but an important part of that role is that you get a useful idiot in that role. Now you go a step above that to although Bannon does put himself in front of the camera and on the microphone and he has his own show, he's also one of the guys that's one of the more organizational figures that are putting together things at the higher level in organizing these like disinformation campaigns. And Roger Stone as well, they're they're more, you know,

the leaders of this. And once again, it goes beyond them too, So they're just another if they're visible and you see them outright and you know that they're doing this, and they we do, both Bannon and Stone gloat about what they do and they constantly just plainly tell tell you what they want to do. So that's fascinating in and of itself. But we know who they are and they're very public figures. They are above They're a tier above the Shapiro's, Nick Frantis, candas Zones, all of them.

They're a tier above them. But it goes beyond that, obviously, right and I think we see where it goes. It goes to the financier level. Beyond that, you know, some of which which continues to blow my mind. Even that level of people have come down in front of the camera. We've talked about this on the show too. I barely

believe that's the case. It's almost as if the demands of the online media media ecosystem are so it's so bizarre because it really, I think part of it is like part of it is indicative of the power of the medium itself and how it is the true controller, Like above all of the humans in this, really the medium and the technology itself is actually in control. It's it is its operating system. It is the thing that creates the structure for all of this. It's what enables

all of this. And the ones who are stent are would be the puppet masters in the conspiratorial sense. The human controllers of this will eventually lose control of this.

And that's a fascinating part of the whole dynamic, which they talk about publicly too, and which is why they're into transhumanism, which is why they want to create AGI, which is why they're already worshiping it, because not only do they get to genuinely worship this thing that is actually in control over them, they get to also play the role of the creator God in the Promethean sense, in bringing it to life. And they're constantly talking about this these days too. It used to be that they

would talk about it, but nobody would listen. Now people are listening to it. Decades ago, it is just a bunch of weird dudes from Silicon Valley that would talk about this stuff, and nobody would listen except for weird people like myself. Only weirdos like me would take it seriously, at least that if anybody else managed to even hear it, they'd be like, I don't know what I'm listening to

right now. I'm going to go do something else. Okay, I see for some reason, I've continued to pay attention to this the whole time, because why didn't you know it? There was something to this whole thing the whole time, and that that little kernel of truth that exists behind all of this, behind maga, behind online media, behind you know, every YouTube video you've ever seen, every TikToker that puts

out content, there is this grain of truth. There's this allure, there's this reality that is there and it's undeniable and it's pointing the same direction that is just obvious for anybody. You don't have to you don't have to be smart, you don't have to be uh, you don't really need anything. There's no prerequisites for knowing just in the core of your being what's actually happening. And we all do. We all know. That's why everybody's all freaked out about artificial intelligence.

That's why everybody's worried about the future. That's why you know, Yeah, artificial intelligence is such a huge burgeoning topic because it clearly it's here now, it has, it's been developed, it's developing before our very eyes, it's getting better, and we're wondering, at what point does this really take over? Has it already?

If it has, what does that mean? What does that mean for our narratives with you know, so many people pretending like they're still in control, and that really these people fighting each other now it exemplifies that is like a bunch of people who are really good at pretending like they're in control when clearly they're the most out of control people you could probably ever meet in every sense every sense of being in control of once of yourself,

self control, they don't have any none. Once again, that's beneficial to the people who are paying them and you know, putting them out there for their purposes. But even we want to get up to that level. How much control do those people have over themselves and how much do they you know, what are their ideas about the anti Christ? Are they good Christians? I want to know are they

good Christians? Because that's important to me. I want to know if the billionaire class of the new robber baron and tech oligarchs that are destroying our government so that they can make all the rules from here on out, are they good Christians? I hope. So it's going to kind of be important if they're going to lurd over us and tell us all what to do and usher us into virtual reality, living situations that we can't escape

from ever for all eternity. They're going to give us eternal life inside of these virtual systems, which is very nice to them to give us everlasting life. It'll be a digital replication of ourselves, which they will rest assured. They will let us know that it will be conscious and it will actually be us still living their emulation of us in their virtual reality. It will continue to be us when we our physical body is dead, so

we'll be alive forever in their heaven. And the sad thing, the worst part about all of this is that I'm not just some lunatic ranting and raving. I'm just a guy talking about where we're at now. That's the worst part about all of this is that I'm not just some like idiot talking about insane sci fi goofiness said this is this is reality now, and I would argue once again, that's the real problem of our day is everybody is struggling to come to grips with reality because

we all know. Once again, we all know what it is, but accepting it, like truly accepting it as a whole other story, which we really shouldn't. Why would we accept this? We probably shouldn't accept this, But then again, what do we do? How do we not? Something's got to give, Something's got to give. And we're back to that same the same place, that same point. We're here in the

present moment. We're all fighting with each other, those who are presumably on the same side of the ever present argument, the constant, ongoing argument that is the very fabric of our social contract. Now from here on out, is just one giant argument that never ceases, always visible, always incredibly loud, the louder, the brighter, the better. That's what the demands of this medium are said. They demand that the volume get turned up all the way, louder, louder, louder, blow

out the speakers. It's fine, we'll get new ones. They'll be better too, they'll be the latest version. They'll be infused with nanotech or something. They're gonna be great. Our problems will all be solved by technology. The problems that technology created will be solved tomorrow with new technology. So the problems created by technology today will be solved tomorrow by the next iteration of the same technology, which, yes, I'm sorry to say it will create all new, worse problems,

but don't worry. The next version of the same technology will fix those problems. And of course, you know how this works that it will create way more new ones at that point, so we see how these works. Just be techno utopian optimists. There's no reason not to be.

It's it's the only way out is to become insane, and you know, just become an insane, baseless optimist and call it whatever you want, call it a techno utopian or something that's good, because we're at least addressing the problem by saying it's not a problem, by saying it's actually a solution. And I don't know, I just I just can't help but see that happening over and over again. It's just different versions of that. It's like, yeah, we're coming up with the solution right now, We've got it

here it is. It's vote for this, but use this. It's the cell phones such, so don't worry. We've got the new replacement for that technology that's way better because they can do more things and it's going to solve the problem of the self we all because we all know how we hate cell phones now, right that's begetting to be an issue. So the replacement is coming to solve the problem. That'll be an interesting one to watch because yes, people are getting mad at cell phones now too,

rightfully so. And so there you go. And the backdrop of everything there is still a reality of a geopolitical reality, and there's the interesting same thing that always goes on with the national security narratives that are always used to

explain a big geopolitical decisions of the government. That's no different now, sure, our government is being replaced by a new technological oligarchy, but they're gonna still use these same tricks like from the Cold War, where you know, we're fighting against China and all their technology that they got a force upon all of us is going to keep us ahead of the evil China that we're fighting, that

we're in constant battle with. And that's becoming more a part of the everyday narrative as well, which is interesting. It's not just the generica we we hate China because we've been wronged by them in a business sense. Therefore, you know, maga, right, we moved on from that, or we're moving on from that narrow hatred of China to

a new hatred of the same thing. That's this new national security talking point of we're in this race, this technological arms race with AI at the center of it, with China and the whole you know, new renewable technology and all that kind of stuff is part of it too. Are we going to fall behind? Is China already ahead? That sort of stuff. There's a there's more of that entering the general lexicon, which when when the replacement for the guy that's currently dying in office? When when we

get the replacement for that guy? I expect we're going to go further into the whole US China rivalry new cold war scenario where you get real serious now or no more funny business none. We're playing around like this is a reality show that those days are over. Time we get serious and Cold War two is here. We got to concentrate on that now, and so it'll be

more of that. It will be the same real problems going on that are going on now, of course, but we can get more business as usual with you know, JD. Vans or whoever the hell is going in there from the rock Bridge Network approved candidate to go into the unitary executive position, which will continue to consolidate power to itself and to the those who have bought and paid for the whole system will more directly control everything and we'll be better off for it. It'll be real great. Yeah.

So that's that's the age of transitions. That's what we're dealing with. But you already knew that. We we all we all know this. I I'm not doing anything special on this show. There's no fancy things I'm talking about. There's nothing really nothing new here, but you know it's crazy.

I don't know. The one thing different here is that I'm just trying to, matter of factly, trying trying to understand this instead of just you know, putting some sort of weird glossphin here onto the whole thing like we're supposed to. Maybe I am.

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I get the drink going. And whoever was buzzing and they got joy. It is the Three Stooges. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been working is like that. I'm always trying to improve the graphics here at the Uncle Show Uncle and and we have those guys, guys, new graphics everybody, so we're always going to have new ones here. And we've got the upcoming New Year's Revolution. On New Year's Eve, we will be doing that, so look forward to that. How don't we on to be a situation to buy

for ready for a stack up? I haven't gotten anything special for it. I mean, maybe I start working on it. We will have to get a hold of something I don't Four Loco has been nice to have. I don't know if we're gonna do that again.

can upside down to read what it is. Hard kombucha midnight painkiller. This seems like dangerous putting the typography on upside down like that part of it is and part of it they flip it one hundred day degrees some of the type in relation to itself. This is six percent alcohol by volume local. I was wondering what kind of how many alcols? Does it have a fair amount a little more of the most beers. It's a hard kombucha. We gotta have it.

I didn't know. I forget you. Yeah, surprised. Pretty exciting that though. Yeah that's okay. Well let's see here. So I'm going to that here, I have this one. There we go opening and I'll pour your shot glass. Oh that t you little thing. Okay, there there's a shot glass for my glass. I do. I do enjoy this glass that you gave to me uncle. This is very good. It's a great glass. Okay. So when you when you need more of this, let me know and I'll refill

it for you. Let's see what's the color of this stuff? It looks like whoa great, Yeah, it's kind of like greenish almost. Team Oh, I know what this one is.

I like kombucha generally speaking. Do you like these? Do you like? Kombucha's starting to They're pretty good. There's a lot of them available these days too, and they're nice. You need more, okay, because I got a short plants. You guys get long one. You don't need much. Me his uncle, I can use him. It's I'm not going to call it a problem. It's just something that's almost close to a problem. This. Yeah, no, I don't think I don't think it is. I don't think it is.

me see here. Okay, yeah, okay, so I see that. Let me see what my input on this is properties Oh wait, this might work, This might work. Let me see hello. Hey, there we go. I believe I just fixed it. Okay, I believe I fixed our audio problem. What was it? You're conducting technological wizardy let us know if it improved itself.

trying to add graphics. Is really it's not so much that I'm improving graphics, I suppose, uncle, as I'm just adding new ones into this big list that I have on obs. For instance, I can pull up this photograph from June Lake, California that I altered in Adobe Illustrator to be very colorful. I just pull that up whenever I feel like it. That's in graphic I have. Of course, this is an old standby. Is Hillary Clinton go at the rally during the twice sixteen election, which she subsequently lost,

But she was excited right here. I don't understand why. Yeah, well I can't figure that way actly. So that's a that's a go to I've had for a while. Here's this graphic that's a photo of Goat Mountain, of betray On Goat Mountain that I hacked tapping. Oh you got, Danny, it's overlaid with that one. Before you have seen this one. Well, yeah, I like this graphic. This one's overlaid with some other like jiffs or gift images that I sort of layered on top of it.

give him the cup a glass? Oh, a shot glass. Uncle's a shot class. Uh, let's ask Jimmy, do you have or would you like to receive Uncle the drop glass? A few? I would. I do have one, but I would like one. I haven't that leg sen to him? What was that? Sorry?

have you. How's the hard kombucha going? You're enjoying us? Is it so good? You need moore in the morning?

into it, make it a little better. You know me, Well, this year, you know, I'm miss here listening to what's that? I'm his have miss is? Uh?

a six out of ten. It's not great because as a kombucha I don't like as a kimbucha, which I like kombucha as an alcoholic drink. It's okay, it's got alcohol and I'm not spitting it out, but it's nothing like, oh yeah, this is awesome. So it's just six out of ten? Top me? Are you ready to rate it? Uncle?

minutes here. The Ochelli chat is quite lively tonight with Chuck is there and Ed is in there. So that's good. Oh, it's a lot happening there. It's a pretty lively night actually, considering the fact that we haven't been around as much as we would like to be. Maybe Uncle this weekend will do another stream with vhs or video games. Perhaps, But the only thing is that I have to go shopping. Okay, so that's tomorrow's tomorrow. Okay, So we won't do it while you're shopping.

that true? Uncle did? Three eye at lits just mess us up? Who is this? That's that alien craft that's flying out from behind the sun or whatever?

quite tell. I want to say it isn't. I don't know why. But everybody follow us on TikTok regardless. Add uncle the podcast because we'll have videos on there.