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Dr. Aaron McKain

PODCASTS / MEDIA BOOST

PODCASTS / MEDIA BOOST

We Need Press To Mobilize Comedy Fans/Get Ahead of This Shitshow. Podcasts (That Regular People Listen To) Help.

We’re from Nebraska and ain’t snobs:

I could explain AI to Larry the Cable guy fans on bad morning radio in fifteen minutes -- or go down the rabbit hole of encoded postmodernism if that's your jam.

Also and for real: We listen to all of you.  Your audience will not be bored.  The backstage stuff is clickbait, national press attention (w/ truth bombs), or just funny and informative.  Your call.   

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This is literally these kids' final (2019). They used KH for a podcast demo for comedians. (we submitted to some companies but got stuck in a bad development deal)

I hadn't listened to it in six years. Since then, we have these on nearly every comic who has been in the news: Rock, Chapelle, Louis, Franken, etc. etc. I got the kids on the news my first week by defending Norm on local NBC

back to AI isn't funny

back to AI ISN'T FUNNY

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HERE'S MY USUAL PODCAST/MEDIA PITCH

BUT A PLACE FOR US TO ACTUALLY TELL THE TRUTH -- AND OUR STORIES THE FUNNY WAY (WE MADE A GODDAM CNN REPORTER CRY LAST YEAR)-- WOULD BE SWELL

My students and I survived our city and colleges' post-digital collapse
by the skin of our teeth.

Our stories -- Minneapolis, woke school, Bible school, exorcisms, a Norm inspired student protest, shootings, bombs, militias, etc. -- are crazy/hilarious.

Now we are living proof that we can still fix AI, education and America. We have the Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's society story your. people need to hear right now.

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DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION

I co-built the first multi-campus disinformation fighting system (w/ a Fortune 500 in 2007), became a disinformation 'diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to stop a post-digital civil war,


and ended up in the middle of one (dodging bullets and COVID) with a bunch of scrappy Jesus kids (who hosted the Floyd Memorial) while building emergency information/aid networks (between people programmed to hate each other) in Minneapolis when things went ham.


So, yes, I have stories. Thank god they are funny.

Strategies, hacks, frameworks, and pep talks to fight against disinformation; start to rebuild our shared reality; and heal our communities, classrooms, companies, and country.


TECHNOLOGY POLICY,
LAW, ETHICS, and CULTURE

ai and algorithms | disinformation | privacy


I SPENT 20 YEARS TALKING ABOUT TECH TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN.


Now I can explain it to anyone. Using whatever is on the news that day or whatever your audience/industry usually talks about: Hawk Tuah, politics, sportsball, comedians, religion, law, science, movies, music, art, philosophy, TikTok, etc.



COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

We have months (not years) to fix higher ed the right way before we lose it -- and the 21st century -- forever.


My teams and I have the story that every (exhausted) student, teacher, and admin needs/wants to hear right now.

And I've spent 20 years leading my corners of higher ed with the best solutions culled from Big 10 schools, small colleges ("woke" and MAGA-y), a Fortune 500, and two nationally-recognized university presidents (including Time's "University President of the Year" during a bilion-dollar fundraising campaign.)

FIRST AMENDMENT and FREE SPEECH

I've been studying 1A and technology since the 90s, am headhunted to run the famous national orgs, taught it for 20 years (Big 10 and Bible/lefty colleges),

started an internationally recognized 1A art collective, am a legit casualty of the college free speech crisis,


and trained thousands of diverse students and citizens to debate/disagree with each other like humans, not gaslit robots.

BIPARTISAN and CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING

But our divisions are a national security risk; are tearing our families, communities, and companies apart; and I know why our wires got crossed, where the landmines and opportunities are buried, and how to get humans re-connected again.

Honestly, if you know someone else who spent their career working with the left and right -- to get them to work together -- and spent the last six years on "both sides" of reality, introduce us so we can team up.


PTSD and POST-DIGITAL MENTAL/PUBLIC HEALTH

Also a human who has been through some gnarly stuff that usually only happens in horror movies and House re-runs.


But the worst thing that ever happened to you can help someone else get through it.   Repeat this enough times and lives get saved. Being funny helps.

Internationally-recognized curator, artist, and thought leader on technology, post-fact science, and public health.