Alternate Current Radio Presents: Boiler Room
Learn to protect yourself from predatory mass media
”Goodbye Illusions — Welcome to Open Empire”
The Social Rejects Club: Hesher, Mystical Pharaoh, Ruckus, Sam Chaney & Mark Anderson
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The year 2026 begins with the end of pretense.
In this kickoff episode of Boiler Room, host Bryan “Hesher” McClain is joined by Adam “Ruckus” Clark, Bazed-Lit Analyzer, Mystical Pharaoh, Sam Chaney (Weaponized News) and Mark Anderson to examine what can no longer be denied: the transition from covert influence to open empire.
At the center of the discussion is the unprecedented abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, followed by public justification at the United Nations based explicitly on energy control and corporate access. Gone is the language of “humanitarian intervention.” In its place is doctrine spoken plainly: resources, leverage, and dominance.
But the show makes clear this is not just a foreign policy story.
As empire sheds its disguises abroad, the same logic returns home. Militarized enforcement, masked agents, narrative inversion, and AI-driven confusion are no longer edge cases — they are becoming normalized features of governance. From the symbolic death of MTV and the collapse of shared culture, to deepfake politics, prediction markets betting on government behavior, and ICE actions inside U.S. cities, this episode traces the connective tissue binding it all together.
Drawing historical parallels to Rome’s transition from republic to empire, the panel explores a post-constitutional moment where corporate and state power are increasingly indistinguishable — and where illusions no longer serve a purpose.
No euphemisms.
No disguises.
No reset coming.
Welcome to open empire.
Topics Discussed:
- The symbolic death of MTV and the end of shared cultural reality
- AI slop, deepfakes, and narrative warfare
- Venezuela and overt regime-change doctrine
- Maduro’s abduction and imperial optics
- UN statements justifying intervention via energy control
- Marco Rubio and post-constitutional power
- Corporate beneficiaries of foreign intervention
- China, oil, Iran, and global choke points
- Greenland, rare earths, and strategic expansion
- Cuba, Colombia, and Western Hemisphere control
- ICE, domestic crackdowns, and blowback
- Empire returning home
- From republic to empire: historical parallels
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