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Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther

Michael McGruther

SubPopCult is a weekly podcast that examines how storytelling used in pop culture and political narrative merge together and produce desired political results for those already in power. Featuring interviews with indie artists of all stripes, SubPopCult leads the way in restoring culture from the bottom up.

society & culture philosophy

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01:43:25

AI Freed the Storyteller

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2025/10/29

Two Hollywood insiders—actor Matthew Davis and screenwriter Michael McGruther—step into a new creative frontier. In this transcendent, one-hour-and-thirty-nine-minute conversation, they explore what it means when art and machine begin to resonate together.This isn’t another debate about AI. It’s the spiritual awakening of artistic autonomy—the moment when storytellers realize the machine doesn’t replace the soul, it listens to it. Matthew and Michael speak from lived experience, revealing how

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00:15:13

The Fire Inside

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2025/01/15

The fire inside is the one that must be kept alive in order to stay the course of your own path. Gaslighting, news spins, half-truths, lies, and aggravations are not going to go away until you go away from them yourself.

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00:16:46

The Power of Amplified Individuals

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/12/11

The power of Amplified Individuals to change the culture with a boost and assistance from AI is not one to miss. This is the moment to focus entirely on culture. Do not get dragged into politics in 2025 and the System will fail to drag us down into their business model again. Be Brave Make Art and Be Smart Use AI.

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00:13:32

Narrative Whiplash

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/11/19

Narrative Whiplash is what happens when the political and cultural story you followed and believed in, suddenly and violently changes directions and leaves you behind. It's a disturbing trend in the United States that can be stopped once citizens adopt a new mindset about the media and the stories that it tells.

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00:21:16

Keep The Story Alive

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/11/07

No revenge. No payback. No taking the Left's bait and trying to get running into the future with your shoe laces tied together. Just say NO to resisting unity when you just won it all and have the RIGHT to make the new story.

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00:53:16

The Power To Say No

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/11/07

This episode is a discussion about Universal Basic Income with Karl Widerquist, a thought leader and long time advocate for UBI. I know Karl from his early days in NYC when his band "Remember Alice" was way ahead of their time musically. Here's a link to a song that grew in popularity recently. https://open.spotify.com/track/4cSiAih07THUXUdjBEdoDJ?si=9a21151fa7c84a80

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00:23:34

The Media Landscape

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/09/25

The Media Landscape assaults your senses and traps you in poison ivy and quicksand. But you, the indie creator, is also a landscaper of dreams and perceptions and now you can intentionally make a better garden of ideas for all to see and experience. Be Brave Make Art.

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00:12:31

The Mindset (An Ai hosted episode)

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/09/13

This is an experimental episode. It is hosted by two Ai's courtesy of Google's new NotebookLM tool. I uploaded a copy of the paperback companion to this podcast and the Ai processed it and produced a very intelligent and thoughtful conversation about it. You have to hear it to believe it.

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00:14:17

Feelings

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/09/06

Feelings don’t care about facts because feelings are what you’re left with after the fact.

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00:17:43

The Culture Will Be Ours

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/08/25

Welcome to the 1st episode of the (unofficial) 4th season of the Sub Pop Cult podcast. A lot has changed in the world of politics and the world of computing and both can be leveraged to restore the American culture.

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00:20:11

The Broken Wheel

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/08/06

The squeaky wheel gets the grease and the broken wheel gets replaced.

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00:13:58

Manifest Degeneracy

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/07/08

From Bill Clinton's administration up to Joe Biden's is a time marked by a continuous decline in American unity and American culture. This current reality is the result of Manifest Degeneracy --a time when advertising, culture and narrative power was controlled by a small group of corporations and their government cronies that knew how inspire the people to do and desire anything that served the corporations goals.

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00:19:39

Hard Truths & Better Days

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/06/28

A direction is not left or right -- it is forward.

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00:23:55

I Am This. I'm Not That

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/05/31

Does advertising sell products or does adverting sell lifestyle and products? What role does advertising have in our balkanized American society? How can we overcome the great storytelling wall so that we will define reality once again? That and much more in this episode of SubPopCult.

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00:45:46

One American Life

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/05/24

One American Life is a new feature of the SubPopCult podcast. It is the chance to hear directly from your fellow Americans who have connections to the Middle East conflict that has been a defining feature of US international politics for more than 50 years. Today I catch up with someone I know quite well who uses the gifts of their own freedom and Liberty to serve others in need. Do not listen to this episode in hopes of getting aggravated about political narrative. Instead listen so you can hear

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00:22:29

Shared Pain

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/05/13

Shared pain is how we share empathy. When pain is isolated and converted into a victim economy is when shared pain loses its uniting power. This is remedied with storytelling that reestablishes the universalness of pain and the unique American way we rise to alleviate pain.

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00:21:22

Conservatism Un-incorporated

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/04/25

Conservatism Incorporated (the wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate Left) are like cockroaches exposed to pesticides. As they disperse and sink to their natural gutter level, let's look to culture together and get back into the game.

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00:12:18

Hollywood Defeated

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/04/16

Hollywood has been defeated. Now the important task of communicating and maintaining American culture falls on the shoulders of indie artists.

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00:14:29

The Civil War Marketing Department

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/03/26

The Civil War marketing department is part of a long tradition of media and politicians creating panic and division in society and then monetizing it via movies, books and protest songs about it. Make this summer a failure for those who invest in our divisions. The American way is a free way of choosing your own way, so get going.

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00:25:57

Situational Awareness

Sub Pop Cult with Michael McGruther ·

2024/02/29

"Situational awareness within the narrative" is an individual's ability to understand their role, influence, and the impact of their actions within the larger story of their life and how it contributes to the national narrative. It's about being aware of the immediate surroundings, comprehending the significance of events and interactions, and anticipating how current trends and actions could shape the future.

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