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- 5 days ago2h 1m
Final Fantasy and the Socio Sexual Hierarchy (SSH)
Ness applies the SSH to a selection of movies, tv series and Final Fantasy games
- 1 weeks ago1h 7m
Justice for Charlie Kirk?
Jeff and Ness dig into the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing in the Charlie Kirk murder case: what the prosecution's evidence actually shows, and what it doesn't. Plus: public perception of the Supreme Court's political lean, how 2026's grievances against the government stack up against 1776's, and the grim case of Henry Nowak, where the "better dead than racist" meme became real.
- 2 weeks ago1h 11m
Graham Platner and the Politics of Consent
Graham Platner ran for Senate in Maine as the candidate progressive politics claims to want: a combat veteran and working-class outsider running against the establishment. Then it collapsed, and Platner ended up folding to the very establishment he built his campaign fighting against. Jeff and Ness dig into the allegation that ended his campaign: Jenny Racicot's account of a 2021 encounter, laid out to Politico and CNN.
- 3 weeks ago53 min
Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara, striking down Trump's executive order and affirming birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. Jeff and Ness break down the opinion and the fractured majority behind it, then turn to the U.S. military drawdown in the Gulf and Oracle's AI-driven layoffs.
- Jun 27, 202653 min
Donald Trump, Exposer-in-Chief
Jeff and Ness examine what Trump has actually revealed about American power by working through the collapse of U.S. military hegemony, why corporate media mobilized for MeToo but stayed quiet on Epstein's network and the Pakistani grooming gangs, Kanye West's managed apology tour as a humiliation ritual for reintegration into the mainstream, and what the Democratic primary results in New York City signal about the coming realignment of elite political power.
- Jun 20, 202656 min
Protect the Musk
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire — worth more than the next four richest people combined — and Ness and Jeff touch on the retribution they think may be coming his way. They also discuss the possible end of America's global military dominance, compare Musk's fortune against Rockefeller, Walmart, and Nvidia, then pivot to a fresh Economist/YouGov poll on how Americans feel about whether the country has drifted from or lived up to its founding ideals — plus the one constitutional amendment nearly everyone agrees on. And UFC Freedom 250 talk.
- Jun 13, 20261h 18m
Karmelo Anthony, Jeff Metcalf, and the False God
On April 2, 2025, Karmelo Anthony, 17, a Black teenager, stabbed Austin Metcalf, 17, a White teenager, through the heart at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years.What followed was more revealing than the crime. Jeff Metcalf — Austin's father — spent 14 months performing public Christian forgiveness and racial universalism, insisting the killing was never about race, rejecting White grievance activists, and extending grace to the family of his son's killer. The other side raised $630,000 for Anthony's defense and called Metcalf a racist anyway.Jeff Metcalf is a case study in a particular kind of White American — older, Christian, colorblind by conviction — who believes that if he just refuses to see race, race will return the favor. It won't. And it may take something as extreme as a son's murder to dislodge that belief.
- Jun 8, 202651 min
Killed in California, the green movement is dead
Ness discusses how Steyer's defeat and the voracious energy appetite of AI spell the end of the green movement, how Henry Nowak's murder is a tragically perfect microcosm of what is happening to the West, Tucker Carlson's unpopularity, Helen of Troy in black face and how science is not subservient to truth
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