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Zeitgeist Report

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  • The Best Economy in American History Is Killing Us

    The Best Economy in American History Is Killing Us
    Sep 20 2026
    Grok Bot Webinar SignUp - https://www.authormedia.com/grokbot/ Author Arsenal Challenge: https://forms.gle/x3baf4VR4BScqppt5 Author Arsenal Discord: https://discord.gg/vHKSu8BF6 Novel Marketing Conference: https://www.novelmarketingconference.com/ The US economy posted 5.1% GDP growth, the highest in years, with real median household income reaching a record $87,460 in calendar year 2025, up 2.6% from $85,000, marking the highest level since the Census Bureau series began in 1967. The official poverty rate fell to 10.2% for 34.5 million people, the lowest ever recorded, and child poverty dropped to 13.4%. According to The Economist, AI has created one million new jobs in the US, payrolls are up 162,000, and unemployment sits at 4.1%. The episode argues that AI is following the same pattern as every labor-saving invention in history — the tractor destroyed farm jobs but created two city jobs for every one lost — and that Democrats who need an economic crisis to win elections are now pivoting from the failed "AI will take your jobs" narrative to "AI will kill you." Diesel prices are rising not because of domestic policy but because Ukraine is flying drones with 100-pound bombs into Russian diesel refineries, and Trump has asked Ukraine to lay off. The episode then examines John B. Calhoun's Universe 25 mouse utopia experiment, where a colony of mice with unlimited food and no predators collapsed socially despite never running out of resources, producing "the beautiful ones" who groomed themselves, "clusterers" who fed only where the crowd fed, and aggressive packs. The hosts draw direct parallels to American society: birth rates at series lows despite record prosperity, rising isolation, and shifting genre preferences that map onto the mouse colony's survivor classes — romance and romantasy for the beautiful ones, horror and thrillers for the aggressive packs, faith and homesteading books for the tunnelers, and children's books for those who still have children. Times: 0:00 — The American Economy Is Booming 1:44 — Record Incomes & Lowest Poverty Ever 3:05 — AI Creates Jobs, Not Destroys Them 4:57 — Gas Prices, Refineries & the Ukraine War 8:06 — AI Productivity Boom for Authors 10:11 — Stock Market & American Productivity 16:04 — Media Narratives & Political Messaging 17:35 — Mouse Utopia: The Universe 25 Experiment 28:41 — What Genres Readers Want in Mouse Utopia 39:43 — Courtship Rituals & Cultural Collapse Watch Author Update Live at 4pm (Central) on Fridays: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Update Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing Patron Toolbox (Author AI Tools): https://www.authormedia.com/patron-toolbox/ Novel Marketing Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Novel-Marketing Author Arsenal Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Arsenal Zeitgeist Report Podcast: https://zeitgeistreport.com/ Join the AuthorMedia.social Community: https://authormedia.social/feed Hosted by Thomas Umstattd Jr. and Jonathan Shuerger. Subscribe for weekly publishing industry analysis, author marketing strategies, and tech insights you can actually use. Visit AuthorMedia.com for show notes, tools, and resources. #Economy #ForAuthors #BirthRate
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    51 min
  • Democrats Pick Their Next Boogeyman to Regulate AI Into Oblivion

    Democrats Pick Their Next Boogeyman to Regulate AI Into Oblivion
    Sep 14 2026
    An investigation into the viral resignation of an Anthropic AI researcher who quit after roughly six weeks at the company and previously worked as an activist on multiple Democratic political campaigns, with his resignation thread — stating that AI companies are "racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives" — surpassing 155 million views and generating same-day coverage from the Wall Street Journal and Axios. The report characterizes the incident as part of a coordinated public relations and lobbying effort to build political support for aggressive AI regulation, arguing that major AI labs benefit from regulation that raises barriers to competitors while doing little to constrain Chinese open-source AI developers not bound by the same rules. The analysis places the story in the context of a recurring pattern of decade-scale public fear campaigns — citing global cooling, ozone depletion, climate change, and COVID-19 as prior examples — and argues that AI industry leaders are incentivized to publicize alarming claims about their own technology because they lack a durable competitive moat and want to lock in developer and enterprise usage through regulatory barriers to switching providers. Watch Author Update Live at 4pm (Central) on Fridays: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Update Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing Patron Toolbox (Author AI Tools): https://www.authormedia.com/patron-toolbox/ Novel Marketing Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Novel-Marketing Author Arsenal Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Arsenal Zeitgeist Report Podcast: https://zeitgeistreport.com/ Join the AuthorMedia.social Community: https://authormedia.social/feed Hosted by Thomas Umstattd Jr. and Jonathan Shuerger. Subscribe for weekly publishing industry analysis, author marketing strategies, and tech insights you can actually use. Visit AuthorMedia.com for show notes, tools, and resources. #Corruption #China #AINews
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    13 min
  • One Year Without Charlie Kirk

    One Year Without Charlie Kirk
    Sep 13 2026
    A one-year retrospective on the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, examining how his death and the public reactions to it — described as ranging from grief and religious revival to open celebration and justification of the killing — reshaped political and cultural discourse. The discussion covers reports of a religious revival among young men following his death, incidents of protesters allegedly celebrating his killing outside a Turning Point USA women's conference and confronting attendees, differing views on political violence between the political left and right, and warnings that continued provocation risks triggering a sudden, severe escalation rather than a gradual one. The segment also addresses roughly 60,000 arrests in the United Kingdom over online speech violations, debates over the historical and theological relationship between Islam and the West on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and calls for de-escalation, religious renewal, and restraint from political violence on all sides. Times: 0:00 — Introduction: one year since Charlie Kirk's assassination 0:46 — How his death impacted young men and sparked copycats 1:52 — The "revival" of faith and its hijacking by influencers 3:09 — Charlie Kirk as a rallying symbol; TPUSA protest story 7:17 — How the left and right view violence differently ("the switch") 13:06 — Texans arming themselves for societal collapse 16:39 — Storytelling, faith, and channeling societal "lightning" 21:41 — Personal health journey and views on suffering/trauma 23:52 — UK's 60,000 speech-related arrests 29:37 — 9/11 anniversary reflections Watch Author Update Live at 4pm (Central) on Fridays: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Update Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/novelmarketing Patron Toolbox (Author AI Tools): https://www.authormedia.com/patron-toolbox/ Novel Marketing Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Novel-Marketing Author Arsenal Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Author-Arsenal Zeitgeist Report Podcast: https://zeitgeistreport.com/ Join the AuthorMedia.social Community: https://authormedia.social/feed Hosted by Thomas Umstattd Jr. and Jonathan Shuerger. Subscribe for weekly publishing industry analysis, author marketing strategies, and tech insights you can actually use. Visit AuthorMedia.com for show notes, tools, and resources. #CivilWar #Politics #CharlieKirk
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    34 min
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