[PREVIEW] Episode 150 traces podcasting’s shift from grassroots rebellion to corporate capture, spotlighting San Francisco’s Truinon movement—rooted in Strasser Brothers and Call Her Daddy—while fixating on Pete Buttigieg as a CIA-linked "asset," tying his naval intel past and McKinsey ties to shadowy networks. Dark humor and unfounded claims—like polio comparisons or hypothetical violence—mix with conspiracy musings about Clinton’s fate, framing elite control as inevitable. The episode ends with Jewel Watch teases, blending satire with paranoia. [Automatically generated summary]
Since the dawn of history, people who want to change the world have been seeking ways to spread their ideas.
Technological achievements, from the written word to the printing press to the television, have been harnessed by individuals to reach the masses.
But each of these media ultimately came to be controlled by the very same forces who already held power in society.
In the early 2000s, a quiet revolution was brewing in the United States.
A few radical thinkers were dreaming up a new method of communication, one that would be free from the old systems of power.
They named their invention, podcasting.
But then a funny thing happened.
Podcasters, who had once seen themselves as the vanguard of a new type of society, began making deals with the old power brokers, like Stamps.com and Blue Chew.
Soon, a new podcasting elite was enshrined, one who no longer sought to inspire the masses, but instead to placate them.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, California, three newcomers came to believe that podcasting could still change the world.
Borrowing from the ideology of thinkers like the Strasser Brothers and Call Her Daddy, they began hinting at a new path forward, one which they called Truinon.
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My sympathy for Pete Buttigieg as a fail man is tempered by the fact that I don't know what you guys think about this, but there were, you know, all kinds of jokes about him and shit when he was rigging the Iowa caucus.
I legit do think he is a CIA asset.
Like, I'm not being ironic or anything.
I think he probably is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I also, I mean, I think that about a lot of U.S. presidents.
Oh, yeah, sure.
He's not the first, but like the fucking naval intelligence in Afghanistan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's not even trying.
Well, and McKinsey, I mean, I just think that that's like, you know, it's like, it's like one of those like French bureaucrat schools or something.
It's like all the spooks just go straight through that.
You know?
Yeah, McKinsey is like the guys in MI6 who don't have a license to kill.
That's the same thing as McKinsey.
It's like you're working on it still.
Yeah.
Getting licensed to kill.
I'd be inclined to agree, but that I don't think the CIA would let that body armor picture in Afghanistan get out because that's a child killer picture right there.
Like, not like, and I'm not calling him a child killer, like he went to Afghanistan and killed babies.
I'm like, he's going to kill a child at some point just like discreetly in their own home.
Yeah, a guy who's got a bunch of kids' shoes in a closet.
Exactly.
The eyes, something in the eyes for me, really, really turned me off.
It doesn't stop me from, you know, unceasingly flogging myself to him.
But like, you know, yeah, it's there's a deep evil there.
We're all going to vote.
Remember when Pete's bad's bad pandemic haircut?
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He really is gifted at physical comedy.
You're right.
I think he could be via both the deep state connections and the unintentional physical comedy.
Like, once Hillary dies, if she dies, Pete could take that role.
He can be falling downsteps.
He can be getting fucking pleurisy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I bet my man could take a pirate to the face real good.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I wish he had polio.
So he like, I think that would be.
I mean, I'm not saying like, I wish polio was like still common or whatever, but like if a guy had to have polio, like if we had like a sin eater version of like, you know, we can cure polio, but one guy in the world has to have it, it'd be Pete.
I'm just thinking of the movie Simon Birch, but with Pete Buch in the lead.
Brace has no idea what I'm doing.
I don't know.
Hey, Brace, Jewel Watch.
Yeah.
The movie Richard Jewel.
Yeah, I haven't watched that.
That's been your Jewel Watch update.
Hello, everyone.
Hi.
I actually do want to say something here, but let's introduce ourselves.