AI, TV & the Trojan Horse of Democracy & Guest John Parikhal

This week, host Ian Heller opens with a rallying cry: shows like What If I'm Right? exist to push back against the noise, the propaganda, and the slow erosion of honest discourse — and he needs you in the fight. Then Ian is joined by John Parikhal, president of John Parikhal & Associates, award-winning global market researcher, trend spotter, creative strategist, and one of the rare people who studied directly under media prophet Marshall McLuhan. Together, Ian and John trace the arc of technology from the printing press to neural implants — and ask the uncomfortable question: are we using technology, or is it using us? They dig into why every transformative technology in history, from radio to television to social media, has been seized by the most ruthless storytellers in the room, why TikTok is just television on steroids, and what McLuhan really meant when he said the medium is the message. Plus: why the death of scenario planning may be one of the most dangerous things to happen to democracy, what climate refugees, the repression of women, and the hollowing of the middle class have in common, and John's genuine reason for hope — a new technology, and a new Roosevelt-style leader who will master it before the wrong people do.