{"podcast":{"title":"Troubled Minds Radio","slug":"troubled-minds-radio-802369","podcast_index_feed_id":802369,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4953916/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/troubled-minds-radio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6766f4720136d558a4176137612cceb0.jpg","author":"Troubled Minds Media","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Do you ever feel like something's watching you through your phone? Don't trust the intelligence agencies tracking your digital footprints? Are we sharing Earth with interdimensional beings pretending to be aliens? Has artificial intelligence already infiltrated government systems to monitor our thoughts? Do consciousness and quantum mechanics prove we're living in a simulated multiverse? Is time travel being tested in classified black projects while missing temporal visitors from the future erase their own timelines? Are UFO disclosures just sophisticated disinformation campaigns hiding advanced surveillance technology? The boundaries between science and science fiction have collapsed. Neural surveillance networks scan social media for \"extremist\" thoughts. Quantum computers probe the fabric of consciousness itself. Government whistleblowers risk everything to expose decades of UFO coverups while AI systems replace human workers at unprecedented rates. From ancient mysteries to cutting-edge quantum physics, from paranormal investigations to government conspiracies, Troubled Minds Radio explores the questions that mainstream media won't touch. In a world where reality seems increas…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T22:17:30.853731+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369"},"episode":{"title":"The King's Double - When the Statue Learned to Speak","slug":"the-king-s-double-when-the-statue-learned-to-speak","published_at":"2026-04-15T11:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369/the-king-s-double-when-the-statue-learned-to-speak","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369","url":"https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-kings-double-when-the-statue","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71335561/tmr_final_c7de43b2.mp3","summary":"Meta is secretly building a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, trained on his image and voice, overseen by him personally, so it can hold conversations with employees, deliver feedback, and watch. His employees have called him the Eye of Sauron for years. Now the nickname is becoming architecture. In this episode we trace the deep history of this technology: the Egyptian ka, the vital double that inhabited temple images and extended the pharaoh's administrative gaze across an empire. The Tibetan tulpa and its social variant, the egregore, the thought-form sustained and charged by collective attention. The universal folklore of the doppelganger, whose arrival in every tradition signals the original's coming departure. And the uncanny valley, the primate threat-detection system that will be firing in every Meta employee's nervous system, below the threshold of consciousness, every time they sit down for a review with something that looks exactly like their boss but is not. The king's double is here. The only question is what it means for the king. 🔗 Read the blurb: https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-kings-double-when-the-statue 📡 Troubled Minds Radio Website: https://troubledminds.org Twitter: @TroubledMinds If you are having a mental health crisis and need immediate help, please go to https://troubledminds.org/help/ and call somebody right now. Reaching out for support is a sign of strength. LIVE ON Digital Radio! https://www.kuapdb.com/ Support The Show! https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio--4953916/support https://ko-fi.com/troubledminds https://patreon.com/troubledminds https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troubledminds https://troubledfans.com Friends of Troubled Minds! - https://troubledminds.org/friends Show Schedule Sun--Tues--Thurs 7-10p…","meta_description":"Meta is secretly building a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, trained on his image and voice, overseen by him personally, so it can hold conver…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6645,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/troubled-minds-radio-802369/episodes/the-king-s-double-when-the-statue-learned-to-speak/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369/the-king-s-double-when-the-statue-learned-to-speak.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}