{"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":189,"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":"2026-09-13T08:26:19.675517+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876"},"episode":{"title":"The Machine State — Building the Control Grid While the Empire Burns","slug":"the-machine-state-building-the-control-grid-while-the-empire-burns","published_at":"2026-08-25T04:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876/the-machine-state-building-the-control-grid-while-the-empire-burns","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiler-room-594876","url":"https://alternatecurrentradio.com/the-machine-state/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74710970/20260824_br_machinestate_pod.mp3","summary":"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.com Support: https://alternatecurrentradio.com/support/ Merch: https://alternate-current-radio.creator-spring.com/","meta_description":"America is buried beneath more than $40 trillion in debt, geopolitical confrontation continues simmering, and institutional credibility keeps deterioratin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7521,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boiler-room-594876/episodes/the-machine-state-building-the-control-grid-while-the-empire-burns/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/the-machine-state-building-the-control-grid-while-the-empire-burns.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}