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36.12 - MU Podcast - The Skill Trap | Outsourcing Ourselves

Mysterious UniverseSep 25, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgdon and Brandon Thomas finish their look at Matt Beane's 2024 book The Skill Code, which argues that AI and automation are quietly removing the apprenticeship experiences that turn beginners into experts. Through stories of warehouse workers, salespeople, bankers, surgeons and bomb technicians, they explore how efficiency gains can cut off the next generation's learning. Along the way they tangent into Hollow Earth entrances, red-light camera legality and the alleged '20 and back' secret space program as a possible model for downloading skills.

Matthew J. Bell | Bankers Trust, Nicholas Roerich, & The Mystic Stone From Sirius

The Higherside ChatsAug 7, 2026

Synchromystic researcher Matthew J. Bell traces Bankers Trust, a J.P. Morgan-linked bank he calls 'the bank that touched everything,' from the founding of the Federal Reserve to suspicious airline put options placed before 9/11. The same bank's name was reportedly printed on the casket carrying the Chintamani stone, a mystical relic said to come from Sirius, which was delivered to the Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, spiritual guru to FDR's vice president Henry Wallace. Host Greg Carlwood and Bell connect these threads to the pyramid on the dollar bill, French occultism, Theosophy's Ascended Masters, and the question of who holds the Stone of Destiny today.