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Monitoring the Situation

Monitoring the Situation

By: Steve Skojec & Kale Zelden
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Monitoring the Situation is a podcast about the forces shaping our moment—often quietly, sometimes invisibly, moving beneath the surface of a world with fractured attention.

Hosted by two Gen Xers, Steve Skojec and Kale Zelden, the show explores technology, culture, science, philosophy, media, and geopolitics through a single guiding question: why are the things that are happening, happening?

We live in an age of unprecedented information, accelerating technology, and constant noise—but progress in tools hasn’t always meant progress in wisdom. Each episode looks beneath the surface of daily headlines and cultural trends to examine the deeper currents at work: how the human mind adapts, how power concentrates, how meaning erodes or re-forms, and how emergent phenomena—from AI to surveillance to UFOs—fit into the bigger picture.

This isn’t a news roundup or an outrage machine. It’s a long-view conversation about signal and noise, insight and illusion, progress and its costs.

We’re awake, and we’re paying attention.

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Episodes
  • Living in a World Of Illusions: Disinformation, Nostalgia, and Plato's Cave | MTS #2

    Living in a World Of Illusions: Disinformation, Nostalgia, and Plato's Cave | MTS #2
    Feb 8 2026

    In this episode, Kale and Steve explore the overwhelming nature of information in today's digital age, discussing the implications of disinformation, the role of AI, and the philosophical underpinnings of reality versus illusion. They delve into the recent Epstein document dump as a case study in information overload, the challenges of navigating a landscape filled with both organic and disinformation, and the historical context of these issues. The discussion also looks at Plato's cave and the Matrix as metaphors for understanding our perceptions of reality.
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    1 hr and 55 mins
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