Oct 9, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
Where were you on 9/11? Welcome to Tangible Vibe Shift, hosted by Tom Usher and produced by Scam Goldin, a podcast that explores moments that made you feel like your world, or the world, has changed…
Tom UsherHost
I mean, from a personal level, I think my friend Janie said a really interesting point to me the other day.
And I've also worked for big companies in terms of doing marketing and all this kind of stuff.
But yeah, A, I'm starting a podcast and B, I'm fucking, I'm having to train as a security guard.
And I think on a personal level, it's quite funny because I didn't really make that connection.
But Janie was saying that, isn't it mad that someone that essentially is kind of nominally a creative has so little other kind of options, but that security is always an option.
Because we've increased the level of security and the surveillance and security state is now so overwhelming that some fucking idiot like me could just go do a security course on universal credit and just fucking start being like a bouncer or a security guard in like a couple of weeks.
But the fact that there's that much need for it, there's like 20 people in my class, there's like 20 people starting next week, there's 20 people starting the week before.
It's now kind of like the only way that we kind of experience society is through some kind of surveillance or security.
Obviously, it's a hugely pivotal moment that those different topics we're going to talk about as we go through it.
And that's why I wanted to do it as my first episode of a tangible vibe shift, because for me personally, it was the biggest tangible vibe shift I've ever experienced.
It's going to be half just me talking to you on the camera every single for about an Hopefully not too long.
But talking about a topic that I felt, you know, has dramatically had a vibe shift in recent times.
And then we're going to have guests on and they're going to talk about their own kind of experiences with a tangent or their own experiences of the world changing.
I mean, from a personal level, I think my friend Janie said a really interesting point to me the other day.
And I've also worked for big companies in terms of doing marketing and all this kind of stuff.
But yeah, A, I'm starting a podcast and B, I'm fucking, I'm having to train as a security guard.
And I think on a personal level, it's quite funny because I didn't really make that connection.
But Janie was saying that, isn't it mad that someone that essentially is kind of nominally a creative has so little other kind of options, but that security is always an option.
Because we've increased the level of security and the surveillance and security state is now so overwhelming that some fucking idiot like me could just go do a security course on universal credit and just fucking start being like a bouncer or a security guard in like a couple of weeks.
But the fact that there's that much need for it, there's like 20 people in my class, there's like 20 people starting next week, there's 20 people starting the week before.
It's now kind of like the only way that we kind of experience society is through some kind of surveillance or security.
Obviously, it's a hugely pivotal moment that those different topics we're going to talk about as we go through it.
And that's why I wanted to do it as my first episode of a tangible vibe shift, because for me personally, it was the biggest tangible vibe shift I've ever experienced.
It's going to be half just me talking to you on the camera every single for about an Hopefully not too long.
But talking about a topic that I felt, you know, has dramatically had a vibe shift in recent times.
And then we're going to have guests on and they're going to talk about their own kind of experiences with a tangent or their own experiences of the world changing.
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