{"podcast":{"title":"Boiler Room","slug":"boiler-room-594876","podcast_index_feed_id":594876,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1396285/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.alternatecurrentradio.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2744f842eb2e5f1ebde6466afe57316b.jpg","author":"Alternate Current Radio","episode_count":180,"summary":"Boiler Room, custom designed for media maniacs, savants, bar fly philosophers and otherwise lovable political animals. The show that straps itself to a rocket like Wiley Coyote and lights the fuse every Thursday night, ready to blast off into the media sphere with news, pop culture, music, movies, deep state politics, false flag research, pulling the threads on phony stories and propaganda where we find them. Science, tech, philosophy, social engineering, the degeneracy of the progressives, the falsity of the right left paradigm… you name it we’ve probably threw up on it during one of our parties.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876"},"episode":{"title":"Cultural Vampires & Digital Shadows","slug":"cultural-vampires-digital-shadows","published_at":"2025-11-08T04:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876/cultural-vampires-digital-shadows","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876","url":"https://alternatecurrentradio.com/cultural-vampires-digital-shadows/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68480743/20251107_br_audition_pod.mp3","summary":"Alternate Current Radio Presents - Boiler Room - Learn to protect yourself from predatory mass media In this edition of Boiler Room, Hesher is joined by Ruckus and Mystical Pharaoh for a deep-dive into the shadows behind modern headlines. The crew dissects the passing of Dick Cheney and the end of Pelosi’s congressional run, exploring what these political exits reveal about the shifting American power structure. The team also examines the UPS cargo plane crash and the increasing role of automation in transportation — leading into a conversation about “house robots,” digital surveillance, and the quiet normalization of cultural vampires feeding on convenience. Featuring: Bryan ‘Hesher’ McClain, Adam ‘Ruckus’ Clark and Mystical Pharaoh Website: https://alternatecurrentradio.com Support: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/ Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/","meta_description":"Alternate Current Radio Presents - Boiler Room - Learn to protect yourself from predatory mass media In this edition of Boiler Room, Hesher is joined by R…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7078,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boiler-room-594876/episodes/cultural-vampires-digital-shadows/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876/cultural-vampires-digital-shadows.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}