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Uncle TED Talks is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 20 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #35

  35

  Sep 10, 20263h 8m

  35 From Unabomber to AI Girlfriends: A Tour Through the Weirdest Corners of the Internet Flock Cameras, FBI Standards, and the Mystery of the AI Girlfriend Netflix’s Unabomber, Surveillance Creep, and Other American Nightmares The Surveillance State Meets Internet Freak Show Ted Kaczynski, Mystery, and a Very Strange News Week This episode took a wild, very online ride through conspiracy culture, media weirdness, and the modern surveillance state. We kicked off with Netflix’s new *UNABOMBER* film and used that as a springboard into Ted Kaczynski lore, government overreach, and the strange way pop culture keeps repackaging real historical darkness. From there, we veered into Flock camera backlash, Laura Loomer eating dog food looking like saw's jigsaw absurdity, and the increasingly surreal overlap between politics, influencer grift, and internet spectacle. We also dug into the latest WIRED story about pickup artist Mystery and his AI “girlfriend,” the reporting on loosened FBI hiring standards, and a string of side quests involving *The Boondocks*, *Snatch*, true-crime commentary, road-life camping tips, giant fantasy novels, and Midwestern food crimes like tossing lutefisk. In other words: part media criticism, part cultural autopsy, part late-night hang with friends trying to make sense of a deranged timeline. UNABOMBER (Netflix film): https://www.netflix.com/title/82010386 UNABOMBER (Netflix Media Center): https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/82010386 Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com/ Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend (WIRED): https://www.wired.com/story/pickup-artist-mystery-has-an-ai-girlfriend/ Ask Mystery / Erik von Markovik: https://www.askmystery.com/ The Pick-Up Artist (Apple TV listing for the VH1 series): https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-pick-up-artist/umc.cmc.3pdrihsj32hx0e01h3r8dge06 The Mystery Method (book): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312360115/themysterymethod/ FBI Now Allowing History of Bestiality Among New Recruits (Futurism): https://futurism.com/future-society/fbi-bestiality-new-recruits At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired (CBS News): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-candidates-prostitutes-theft/ Hipcamp: https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US BowFlex: https://www.bowflex.com/ The Boondocks: https://www.sonypictures.com/tv/theboondocks Snatch: https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/snatch Awesome God by Rich Mullins: https://integrityworship.com/songs/awesome-god-rich-mullins/ Animal Farm by George Orwell: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/george-orwell/animal-farm/9781529032673 Brandon Sanderson: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/ The Stormlight Archive: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/books-and-art Robert Jordan: https://us.macmillan.com/author/robertjordan

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  Fake Internet Mystics are Real

  Sep 8, 20262h 50m

  Impromptu Weave Runes, Wicca, and the Fake Internet Mystics are Real From Odinism to OnlyFans: Symbols in a Broken Culture Peter Pan Society, Life Energy, and Modern Magic Wilhelm Reich, White Ladies, and the Death of Adulthood Delphi, Dogma, and the Consumerization of the Sacred In this episode, I let the conversation wander exactly where it wanted to go: from terrible movies and pop-culture detours into a much deeper discussion about Odinism, Ásatrú, the Delphi case, runes, Wicca, and the difference between a serious spiritual system and a flattened, internet-ready imitation of one. We talked about what happens when symbols get ripped out of context, why personal study matters more than institutional gatekeeping, and how modern people too often treat mythology, ritual, and even gods like interchangeable consumer products. From there, we pulled on the thread into Peter Pan culture, infantilization, social media, sexuality, loneliness, Wilhelm Reich, and the way modern life turns intimacy, belief, and attention into transactions. We also got into the history behind our own streaming projects, took a look at the new Netflix Unabomber film, and somehow still made room for side quests involving tomatoes, pickles, brewing, and mineral-heavy water. In other words: mythology, psychology, internet culture, and modern absurdity, all woven into one long late-night web. TED Talks: https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-talks FernGully: The Last Rainforest: https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/ferngully-the-last-rainforest Fateful Findings: https://www.fatefulfindings.biz/ The Red Book by C.G. Jung: https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393065671-the-red-book Asatru Folk Assembly: https://www.runestone.org/ Chris Bledsoe: https://www.ufoofgod.com/ UFO of GOD: https://www.ufoofgod.com/ Bledsoe Said So: https://www.bledsoesaidso.com/ Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country: https://unknowncountry.com/ Communion by Whitley Strieber: https://unknowncountry.com/book/communion-2/ Wilhelm Reich Museum: https://wilhelmreichmuseum.org/ Contact with Space by Wilhelm Reich: https://search.worldcat.org/title/Contact-with-space-%3A-Oranur-second-report-1951-1956.-Orop-desert-Ea-1954-1955/oclc/4481512 A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich: https://www.ipgbook.com/a-book-of-dreams-products-9781786069627.php The Witches’ Bible: https://www.crowood.com/book/witches-bible/ UNABOMBER on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/82010386 Manhunt: Unabomber: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/manhunt-unabomber/umc.cmc.26ituv06a0zmwfhv4yqpl4qwi Taskrabbit: https://www.taskrabbit.com/ lululemon: https://shop.lululemon.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Myspace: https://myspace.com/ Toys”R”Us: https://www.toysrus.com/ Menards: https://menardsusa.com/

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  Episode #34

  34

  Sep 3, 20263h 9m

  34 Golf Ads, Mutant Ohio, and Tuesday Night Chaos From Wildfires to Wild Hogs: An Uncle Ted Talks Tuesday Potato Olés, Padres, and the Death of Cool Jed York, Good Good Golf, and Other American Mysteries Mead, Motorcycles, and Media Meltdowns On this Tuesday night hang, we bounced from brutal heat, wildfire smoke, and the Reno/Tahoe fire situation into a long, chaotic run through sports absurdity. I riffed with the panel on the Good Good golf ad backlash, the Padres ownership chatter around Kwanza Jones and José Feliciano, and the bizarre Jed York / East Palestine story before we spiraled into side roads about whether golf is a sport, what makes old sports media weirdly compelling, and why modern internet outrage turns every bad commercial into a cultural event. From there, the show turned into a full Uncle Ted Talks variety hour: feral Gen X memories, junk cars held together with pepper and bad decisions, homebrewing mead and moonshine, Sturgis and biker culture, wild horses and the BLM, demon-hunter trademark confusion, Taco John’s Potato Olés, and a pile of music nostalgia featuring Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, and the Allman Brothers. In other words: one part sports talk, one part American roadside anthropology, one part chemistry lesson, and all of it gloriously off the rails. Ted Kaczynski / Industrial Society and Its Future: https://unabombermanifesto.com/ Dolly Parton: https://www.dollyparton.com/ Dollywood Parks & Resorts: https://www.dollywood.com/ Fore Play (Barstool Sports golf podcast): https://www.barstoolsports.com/shows/5/fore-play/podcasts Good Good Golf: https://goodgoodgolf.com/ San Diego Padres: https://www.mlb.com/padres Jed York (San Francisco 49ers): https://www.49ers.com/team/front-office-roster/jed-york Kwanza Jones: https://kwanzajones.com/ José Feliciano: https://www.josefeliciano.com/ Free State Project: https://www.fsp.org/learn/ Taco John’s Potato Olés: https://tacojohns.com/menu/potato-oles/ Demon Hunter (band): https://www.demonhunter.net/ KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix): https://www.netflix.com/st/title/81498621 Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse & Burro Adoptions and Sales: https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/adoptions-and-sales Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: https://www.sturgismotorcyclerally.com/ Doodle On a Motorcycle: https://doodleonamotorcycle.squarespace.com/ 9 to 5: https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-0c880b10-d6eb-4049-947a-51ee3539137b The Muppet Movie (1979): https://movies.disney.com/the-muppet-movie-1979 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas The Legend of Bagger Vance: https://www.paramountpictures.com/movies/the-legend-of-bagger-vance Led Zeppelin: https://www.ledzeppelin.com/ The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin): https://www.ledzeppelin.com/event/october-8-1976 Pink Floyd: https://www.pinkfloyd.com/?lang=en The Who: https://www.thewho.com/ At Fillmore East (The Allman Brothers Band): https://allmanbrothersband.com/discography/at-fillmore-east/

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  Episode #33

  A Grumbling of Gandalfs ‍♂️ 33

  Aug 27, 20263h 15m

  welcome special guest author Secret Himmler to discuss his novel Secret Hitler a gripping story about dissident factions infiltration psychological operations and the uneasy alliances formed when different ideological groups must work together to stop a sinister psyop and a broader examination of how influence operations work how groups get manipulated and why modern politics increasingly feels like one long psychological operation designed to keep ordinary people divided and distracted ️     Uncle Ted Talks: Stoned Hollywood Squares where conspiracy meets comedy and nobody knows which Ted is speaking From there we go fully off-road the Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson debate circus and its four hour humiliation ritual AI powered surveillance and Flock cameras Peter Thiels Buenos Aires protests featuring a grumble of Gandalfs California's absurd tire regulations military stories board game nostalgia (Risk Diplomacy) old movie rabbit holes (Beastmaster Krull Ferngully) and the general absurdity of internet era culture Along the way we crack dark jokes about Ted Kaczynski debate whether Rush is an overblown pop band explore the fine art of facial recognition evasion and somehow circle back to the same question who's really running the machine and how do ordinary people stop getting played by it Featuring Teds: Ted Chewzinski Ted Bubblegum Ted Steves Ted St Nick Ted Allen Ted Gemsworthy Ted Bennington Topics discussed:   Secret Hitler book vs board game confusion Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson debate breakdown Flock cameras and surveillance state resistance Peter Thiel protests (Gandalfs in Buenos Aires) California tire regulations Ted Kaczynski references and dark humor Board games and movie nostalgia Military service stories The nature of modern psyops and influence campaigns Recurring bits:   "You've got mail" "So what?" mocking Andrew Wilson ❓ Ted nickname generation ceremony (knighting) ✏️ Getting gayer with each Janet Jackson Prince mention ️‍ Honorary TEDs for flock camera vandals   Uncle Ted Talks: Stoned Hollywood Squares where conspiracy meets comedy and nobody knows which Ted is speaking 33 A Grumbling of Gandalfs Secret Hitler, Psyops, and the Debate Circus Flock Cameras, Pickle Puff, and Serious Politics Suffer How Dissidents Get Played From Candace to Kaczynski: Strange Bedfellows This week I had a wild, wide-ranging conversation that started with Ted Kaczynski imagery and quickly turned into a breakdown of online debate culture, Candace Owens, Andrew Wilson, and the circus around political performance media. We also welcomed guest author Secret Himmler, who joined us to talk about his novel Secret Hitler — a story about dissident factions, infiltration, psychological operations, and uneasy alliances across ideological lines. That led us into a bigger discussion about how influence ops work, how groups get manipulated, and why so many people feel like modern politics is one long psyop. From there, we went fully off-road: surveillance tech, Flock cameras, Palantir, Peter Thiel, AI-generated parody clips, Tolkien-themed protests, California tire rules, military stories, board games, old movies, music rabbit holes, and the general absurdity of internet-era culture. In other words, it was exactly the kind of episode where conspiracy, comedy, and cultural criticism all crash into each other — and somehow still circle back to the same question: who’s really running the machine, and how do ordinary people stop getting played by it? Secret Hitler board game: https://www.secrethitler.com/ Candace Owens: https://candaceowens.com/ Turning Point USA: https://tpusa.com/ The Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/ Tea Party Patriots: https://www.teapartypatriots.org/ Ron Paul Institute: https://ronpaulinstitute.org/ Freedom Cells: https://freedomcells.org/ Derrick Broze: https://www.derrickbroze.com/ Palantir: https://www.palantir.com/ Thiel Foundation: https://www.thielfoundation.org/ Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com/ Toka Group: https://tokagroup.com/mission/ The Joe Rogan Experience: https://www.joerogan.com/ Sam Tripoli: https://samtripoli.com/ Risk official rules: https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-us/instruction/risk-board-game Diplomacy official rules: https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/diplomacy.pdf I could not confidently verify a canonical working URL for several mentioned items, so I omitted them: (1) the book Secret Hitler by the author name Secret Himmler on Amazon — I could verify Amazon itself, but I could not confirm a specific live product page for the intended book; (2) We Are Forbidden — the transcript references an X account and merch, but I could not confidently verify the intended official account/site; (3) Sarah Tomato — I could not verify a clearly official site/channel with confidence from the available results; (4) Benjamin Balderson / Weaving Spiders 2642 / AM Wake Up channel links — these were referenced verbally, but I could not reliably verify the exact canonical channel URLs from the available search results; (5) Axis & Allies — I found rulebook and fan-site references, but not a clearly canonical official landing page I was comfortable using here; (6) Remington Core-Lokt ammunition — I found catalog references, but not a clean canonical product page for the exact round discussed. Watch live on Tuesday Nights Subscribe on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/@weavingspiderswebs2642/streams https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBalderson/streams Subscribe on Rumble:   https://rumble.com/c/AMWakeup/livestreams Confidential feedback: contact@allenmarcus.com (00:00:01) Uncle TED Talks (00:02:29) Guest Secret Himmler and the Secret Hitler book (00:09:45) Candace Owens debate fallout and Andrew Wilson mockery (00:25:55) Secret Himmler explains the novel and its political premise (00:30:34) Peter Thiel protest and a grumbling of Gandalfs (00:38:55) Maybe a grumbling of wizards? (00:46:07) Industrial society, bad motels, and military stories (01:03:54) Ted Kaczynski jokes, dark humor, and SI0P talk (01:09:18) California tire rules, surveillance, and flock cameras (01:31:01) Honorary Ted, Wesley Jackson, and anti camera vandalism (01:36:20) Pop culture detours from Janet Jackson to Internet shock sites (02:05:20) Policing, politics, race talk, and public disorder (02:17:45) Comedy rap, old movies, music talk, and Prince (02:30:14) Jennifer Lopez? (02:52:24) Debating Odinism, lineage, and religion (03:03:33) Late night call in, book plug, and stream wrap up https://serve.podhome.fm/uncle-ted-talks https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/uncle-ted-talks/33

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  Episode #32

  32 industrial society & its future?

  Aug 20, 20263h 59m

  Horsing around with the Kristi Noem bronze statue unveiling in South Dakota, her legacy as governor, overruling popular ballot measures, and the unforgettable “Meth, we’re on it” campaign. Slightly larger-than-life bronze statues, state politics, Midwestern regional oddities, 7UP changing its formula to Lime first and lemon second, and a running debate over whether South Dakota history is being memorialized or mocked in bronze.  We also go deep into movies, mythology, and modern spectacle, talking about why Tombstone still holds up, why Dune inspires such passionate reactions, and how bad adaptations miss the heart of great source material. Val Kilmer’s performances get their due. Guy Ritchie’s The Gentleman gets a nod. Robert Eggers’ The Northman is called “phenomenal.” We touch on the Dune book series and explain why the first three books are just setup for the real story. The recent Dune films are abominable adaptations because they don’t maintain the integrity of the author’s intent.  Along the way, we cover UFOs and the Phoenix Lights, the ethics of CRISPR and human experimentation, the way online debate culture rewards performance over substance, and the strange overlap between media narratives, politics, and conspiracy. We talk about the greasy Andrew Wilson debate against Candace Owens possibly about Charlie Kirk's killer, degenerate Destiny crashing a panel his friend was unprepared for, and face the fact that modern pop country music is “homogenized garbage.” Cowgirl Kristi Noem in Bronze: Wild West is South Dakota Spectacle From South Dakota Statues to Dune Debates UFO Lights and Adaptations Worse than Source Material Tombstone, Tech Ethics, and the Kristi Noem Monumental Blunders Figures, Speculative Sci-Fi, and the Circus of Modern Everyting Watch live on Tuesday Nights Subscribe on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/@weavingspiderswebs2642/streams https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBalderson/streams Subscribe on Rumble:   https://rumble.com/c/AMWakeup/livestreams Confidential feedback: contact@allenmarcus.com Daisy Duke from Faith, South Dakota Tombstone still holds up as top Western Doc Holliday's "huckle bearer" line Val Kilmer was convincing as Doc Holliday and Jim Morrison heat dome coincided with physical labor co-worker got heat stroke Phoenix Lights look like a Starlink string now Sturgis vendor fees around a grand for the week saw Charlie Daniels from ten feet away modern country homogenization is garbage Shania Twain and Toby Keith were offenders Guy Ritchie directed The Gentleman and London Olympics opening ceremony The Northman is phenomenal Sean Young was supposed to be at an event hurricane wiped out the event center Lost Highway is brilliant Dune books: first three are setup, second three are real story Leto becomes the God Emperor new Dune movies defanged the story Paul killing Baron Harkonnen ruins Alia's plotline Frank Herbert's written word is definitive Dark shamanism uses trauma to unlock abilities The Exorcist novel provides psychiatric alternatives to possession Nuremberg Codes violated by medical experiments Destiny interrupted panel constantly Garland Nixon had no idea who he was Andrew Wilson debate with Candace Owens Andrew Wilson reads Charlie Kirk text verbatim, then calls it a lie Biden has stage four metastasizing bone cancer Spawn movie needs a proper remake Jack T. Chick comic tracts left in truck stops Watch live on Tuesday Nights Subscribe on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/@weavingspiderswebs2642/streams https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBalderson/streams Subscribe on Rumble:   https://rumble.com/c/AMWakeup/livestreams Confidential feedback: contact@allenmarcus.com (00:00:00) Uncle Ted Talks (00:01:41) South Dakota news and the Kristi Noem statue (00:04:28) Why Kristi Noem became a target of ridicule (00:06:08) The statue reveal and bronze expert commentary (00:09:17) AOC appears in bronze and more statue jokes (00:13:37) South Dakota culture, costumes, and chat banter (00:16:43) Seven Up changes its flavor formula (00:20:13) Stage two of the Kristi Noem monument (00:25:34) Flock cameras, Winona, and lock in memories (00:29:26) Western movies, Tombstone, and Doc Holliday (00:35:08) Method acting, addiction, and hard living (00:38:23) Heat dome stories and working in extreme weather (00:41:36) UFOs, Phoenix Lights, and skepticism (00:46:49) Sturgis vending and rally economics (00:50:04) Modern country music and genre complaints (00:56:04) Jimmy Dore, Andrew Wilson, and debate culture (00:57:40) Vincent joins with tech troubles and drought talk (01:03:01) Robert Eggers, David Lynch, and film discussion (01:07:28) Deep dive into Dune and Frank Herbert lore (01:40:05) Gifted testing, brain hemispheres, and vaccines (01:49:06) EMF theories, accents, and cultural detours (01:55:47) Candace Owens versus Andrew Wilson setup (01:59:42) Jimmy Dore, independent media, and Ukraine debate (02:13:56) Personal politics, foreign policy, and media bias (02:25:24) RT, Sputnik, and free speech advocacy (02:31:39) Occult panels, shekels, and musical jokes (02:35:35) Andrew Wilson criticism and Charlie Kirk case (02:58:56) Biden health, CRISPR ethics, and mortality (03:07:34) Weapons stockpiles, war fears, and future conflict (03:12:42) Dune adaptations, fandom, and source material (03:37:49) Truck stops, safety signals, and rough humor (03:55:45) AI media edits, wrap up, and next shows https://serve.podhome.fm/uncle-ted-talks https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/uncle-ted-talks/32

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