Twenty-five years after September 11, Hesher and Ruckus revisit the event that changed America's relationship with war, government, surveillance and information.From AE911Truth and Dr. Judy Wood to the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Guantanamo, Iraq and mass surveillance, the discussion explores how researching 9/11 became an education in propaganda, gatekeeping, evidence and competing narratives.Those lessons eventually extended far beyond 9/11—into geopolitics, mass-shooting coverage, COVID, culture wars, censorship and the increasingly algorithmic information environment.This isn't about claiming to have finally solved September 11. It's about asking what 25 years of information warfare have taught us about authority, certainty and the manufacture of reality.Website: https://alternatecurrentradio.comSupport: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/
On this episode of Boiler Room, Hesher, Mystical Pharaoh, Ruckus and Jamie Hanshaw examine the widening battle between men and women and the technological systems profiting from social division.The crew digs into the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, psychiatric medication and the online gender war surrounding the case; Andrew and Tristan Tate and the commodification of male alienation; AI companionship and synthetic relationships; Flock surveillance cameras; and the massive physical infrastructure powering the AI boom.While ordinary people fight horizontally, are technocracy, surveillance and algorithmic control expanding vertically?Battle of the sexes. Victory of the machine.Website: https://alternatecurrentradio.comSupport: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/
America is buried beneath more than $40 trillion in debt, geopolitical confrontation continues simmering, and institutional credibility keeps deteriorating. Yet the machinery of surveillance and automation is becoming more sophisticated by the day.Hesher and Ruckus trace the rise of the “Machine State” through border robotics, surveillance drones, AI-assisted emergency services, sensor networks, ballistic databases, Flock license-plate readers and emerging national-security technologies.Along the way: Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, Musk's enormous Texas Terafab, Trump's White House ballroom, sunlight sold from space, Space Force weirdness, the anti-Flock backlash—and Darth Vader appearing before the San Diego City Council to defend surveillance of the “rebel scum.”What survives when the institutions decline but the infrastructure remains?Website: https://alternatecurrentradio.comSupport: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/
Boiler Room: Terms & Conditions ApplyThis week on Boiler Room, Hesher is joined by Ruckus and Mystical Pharaoh to dig through the fine print of an increasingly automated and surveilled world.The crew examines Luigi Mangione’s federal guilty plea, electric-shock gloves and law-enforcement technology, the White House ballroom legal fight, reports of deteriorating morale aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Walmart’s digital price tags and fears over surveillance pricing, growing resistance to massive AI data centers, federal monitoring of political groups and protesters, and government efforts to uncover journalists’ confidential sources.Later, the conversation turns to fires, earthquakes and the conspiracy theories forming around them, Hunter Biden’s surprising podcast-media rehabilitation tour and Tucker Carlson interview, and reported cyberattacks targeting water systems across multiple states.From the supermarket shelf to artificial intelligence, domestic surveillance, military power and critical infrastructure, more decisions are being handed to systems ordinary people cannot see, inspect or challenge.You clicked accept.Terms & Conditions Apply.Website: https://alternatecurrentradio.com Support: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/ Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/
Alternate Current Radio presents Boiler Room: Madhouse Recap — Missed Icebreakers & Recent Insanity.After returning from Fire in the Mountains in Montana, Hesher reconvenes the Boiler Room with Ruckus, Spore, Mark Anderson and Mystical Pharaoh for a long-overdue clearing of the infamous Discord Ice Breaker Suggestion room.The crew begins with mutant raccoons roaming Seattle and rescue robots built from scuba-equipped cockroaches before plunging down a much deeper rabbit hole involving AI data centers, energy consumption, surveillance infrastructure and technological dependency.From there, it’s back into the Madhouse: extreme happiness sending someone to the hospital, betting on weddings, Kalshi and Polymarket, political corruption, alleged nuclear monster sharks, fried-chicken-flavored Oreos, a student pilot suddenly left alone in the cockpit, Viagra at the World Cup, brain parasites, Mexican Batman, begging robots, diaper fraud and the bizarre world of “electrosex.”The plan was eventually to get to the serious news.The Madhouse had other ideas.Featuring: Hesher, Ruckus, Spore, Mark Anderson and Mystical Pharaoh.