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AI Duality Meets Spirituality & the Terrain Way of Being - Interview w/ Steve Falconer
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- The Winner Cast
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- May 30, 2026
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Summary
I sat down with my good friend Steve Falconer (the voice of Spacebusters) recently for a two-hour conversation that covered a lot of ground — from the nature of AI and centralized surveillance, to analog DJing, to the esoteric underpinnings of the internet itself. But the core of what we talked about was TerrainTV , what it is, why I built it, and where it’s going. I’ve uploaded it to Substack here as a backup but you can also watch it directly on TerrainTV here: https://terraintv.com/video/watch/77148/ai-duality-meets-spirituality-the-terrain-way-of-being-with-mike-winner Here’s the short version of what I told Steve. What TerrainTV Actually Is TerrainTV is a fully custom-built web application that curates terrain and sovereignty content from across the internet — YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, and BitChute — and puts it in one fast, clean, searchable place. We’re sitting at 46,500+ videos in the database right now. And here’s the thing people always ask: “how the hell can you host that many videos without crazy expense?” We don’t host them. We embed them. We’re leveraging the infrastructure that already exists and pulling the best of it into a framework where you can actually find things, save them, rate them, follow creators, and get notified when new content drops. No ads. No algorithm pushing you toward whatever the mainstream narrative is. It’s the difference between wandering around a record store with no staff versus walking in and asking a knowledgeable DJ to put something on that actually fits what you’re looking for. Why I Built It I’ve been a DJ for 20 years. What a DJ does is curate — not create, curate. You take what exists and you bring it to people in the right order, at the right time, for the right room. That’s what TerrainTV is. The problem in the alternat…