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The Watchers & the Watched

Macklemore, AI escape claims, robotaxi surveillance and a Texas police collapse converge in The Watchers & the Watched.

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September 11: The Day That Broke Reality — 25 Years Later

25 years after 9/11, Boiler Room examines the event, the information war it unleashed, and the lessons that helped shape ACR.

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Battle of the Sexes, Victory of the Machine

While men and women fight each other, AI, surveillance and technocracy expand. Battle of the sexes. Victory of the machine.

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The Machine State

Debt, war and institutions spiral while AI, surveillance and automation build an increasingly sophisticated Machine State underneath them.

Boiler Room: Terms & Conditions Apply — surveillance, algorithms and the machinery of control

Terms & Conditions Apply: Surveillance, Algorithms & the Machinery of Control

Surveillance, AI, algorithmic pricing, press freedom and cyberwar collide as Boiler Room digs into the fine print of modern control.

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Madhouse Recap: Missed Icebreakers and Recent Insanity

After a brief summer hiatus, Boiler Room returns to clear the Discord backlog of mutant raccoons, cyborg cockroaches, nuclear monster sharks, prediction-market madness, fried-chicken Oreos, Mexican Batman, panhandling robots and other evidence that the Madhouse remains fully operational.

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Engineered Emergencies

This week on Boiler Room, Hesher and guests examine the growing intersection of perpetual crisis, AI infrastructure, surveillance, and information warfare. Are today’s emergencies merely being managed—or are they laying the foundation for a more centralized technological future?

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Alternate Current Radio Presents: The Boiler Room

A mid-week talk radio program designed for news hounds, media maniacs, political animals and social rejects!

The original Social Rejects Club and meeting place for those rejected by the ever growing extremism of the mass media cartels and their mind-controlled viewers.

Join host, Hesher, along with a motley crew of other ACR hosts and regular guests as they take a pry-bar to your third eye.

Live Thursdays 6 PM PST | 8 PM CST | 9 PM EST *

* 2 am UTC Friday

About The Hosts

HESHER
noun

  1. A diehard Heavy Metal enthusiast
  2. Germanic mercenary soldiers from Hesse-Cassel who became superstitiously feared in the American Revolution
  3. Call-sign for the Host of the infamous BOILER ROOM podcast

synonyms
Hesh, Hesher Dude, Hesher McHeshington, El Hesherino

Boiler Room is created, produced and hosted by Bryan McClain (AKA ‘Hesher’). Hesher is a career IT Professional with graduate degrees in computer science and information technology management. A long time media maniac in the realms of terrestrial radio, early internet forums, embryonic forms of podcasting before the standard was set, Dr. Demento, Art Bell, Metal Shop, William Cooper and just about any other form of entertaining, informative or inquisitive broadcasts available.

Hesher has evolved Boiler Room into a long form conversational live podcast with extensive experience in analysis of politics, news analysis, media, trends, society, culture, propaganda, esoterica, secret societies and technology with an emphasis on deconstructing psyops, propaganda and mass media cartel shenanigans.

Boiler Room Host - Hesher
Lovely Spore

SPORE
noun

  1. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is resistant to adverse environmental conditions and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain fungi, algae, protozoans, and nonseedbearing plants such as mosses and ferns.
  2. A body formed by certain bacteria often in response to a lack of truth/freedom, and characteristically being highly resistant to heat, desiccation, and destruction by chemicals or enzymes.
  3.  A former rave-ologist and DJ
  4. Call-sign for the Co-Host of the Infamous BOILER ROOM podcast.

synonyms
Lovely Spore, Sporangi, Spore McHeshington, WTF Curator

‘Spore’ came into her lovely media existence in the early 2010s when her call-sign had to be resurrected from her Rave party DJ days, as a defense against the dark submissive arts of the mass media cartels and the propaganda waves that took over her once (seemingly) harmonious cultural environment in the California Bay Area and Central Coast regions. Spore is a founding member of Alternate Current Radio, an experienced sales professional, a certified media maniac, a seasoned broadcast voice in the independent media, DJ mastermind of the Anarchy With Spore series and the Social Rejects Club Vice President.

Spore
noun

  1. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is resistant to adverse environmental conditions and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain fungi, algae, protozoans, and nonseedbearing plants such as mosses and ferns.
  2. A body formed by certain bacteria often in response to a lack of truth/freedom, and characteristically being highly resistant to heat, desiccation, and destruction by chemicals or enzymes.
  3.  A former rave-ologist and DJ
  4. Call-sign for the Co-Host of the Infamous BOILER ROOM podcast.

synonyms
Lovely Spore, Sporangi, Spore McHeshington, WTF Curator

‘Spore’ came into her lovely media existence in the early 2010s when her call-sign had to be resurrected from her Rave party DJ days, as a defense against the dark submissive arts of the mass media cartels and the propaganda waves that took over her once (seemingly) harmonious cultural environment in the California Bay Area and Central Coast regions. Spore is a founding member of Alternate Current Radio, an experienced sales professional, a certified media maniac, a seasoned broadcast voice in the independent media, DJ mastermind of the Anarchy With Spore Mixtape series and the Social Rejects Club Vice President.

Lovely Spore

Thank you for listening!

- Hesher & Spore
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