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The Uncommoners

A podcast for the person that doesn"t feel at home in modernity - call it Nietzsche practically applied to current events. Tyler and Joel engage in casual and entertaining, but mostly organized discussions based on the conclusions we"ve drawn from years of talking through philosophy, world events, and politics together. We"re here to cut through petty politics and common morality, something you won"t get many other places, and create a daily life applicable philosophy for the uncommon person while

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00:45:19

There's No Narrative Like No Narrative

The Uncommoners ·

2025/10/29

As promised, we follow up our prior episode on the forced retreat into the mental cave by explaining how the new social control scheme of no narrative at all is rapidly taking the place of the narrative/counter-narrative dichotomy that has been in place for nearly a century. Incapacitatingly stupid solutions are being supplanted by incapacitatingly stupid "noticing". All the wild opinions, conspiracies, and everything previously kept carefully outside the Overton Window - are now not just

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00:57:44

Setting Your View Distance... in Minecraft

The Uncommoners ·

2025/09/21

This episode is an old (6/12/25), unpublished recording brought back from the dead, due to its high applicability to the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination. This was originally intended to be episode 33, but is now released as episode 35.In this episode we talk about information overload and mental focus limiting, using the video game based concept of "view distance". We cover both how these things occur naturally - and, of course, how they're used as part of the social

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00:57:45

The Curtis Problem

The Uncommoners ·

2025/09/05

Far be it from us to bring back a topic everyone else has predictably forgot about after saying they never would... but here we are, because here is where we must be. In this episode that's been far too long in the making, we use good old Jeff Epstein as an example to talk about people who understand morality as an illusory construct and those whose don't - and why it results in those who don't failing to correctly comprehend and contextualize the behavior of those who do. Equally

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00:43:38

Ineffective Aultruism

The Uncommoners ·

2025/05/01

We finally conclude our "accepting the world as it is" multi episode discussion by addressing a question from a listener wondering what the purpose and benefit of this outlook actually is. From toasting Teslas to war in Gaza, we examine how people avoid working on themselves by latching onto large scale causes and boogeymen - permanently delaying fixing their own lives until the rest of the world operates the way they think it should. Focusing on changing the world first is merely a feel-good guise

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00:52:41

Uncle Ted's Motorcycle Ramp

The Uncommoners ·

2025/03/08

We're back after a long travel hiatus to keep talking on the recent theme of accepting the world as it is - this time focused on Ted Kaczynski's ideas around self-propagating systems and the inevitable race to doomsday created by unrestrained technological advancement. We begin with a rather lengthy discussion of the nothing burger of the first Epstein release and what the purpose might actually have been - and conclude with an uncomfortable truth about the reality of the Epstein blackmail

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01:00:07

Incapacitatingly Stupid Solutions

The Uncommoners ·

2025/01/17

Foreign aid, Israel, California wildfires, the homeless industrial complex - in this fourth episode in a series of what is essentially a continuing conversation, we take the abstractly presented idea of "the world as it actually is" from last episode and examine some real world situations through this lens. Failure to understand how and why the world operates the way it does results in uselessly stupidly "solutions" to perceived "problems" - a fact that is put to use by

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00:37:11

The World As It Actually Is

The Uncommoners ·

2025/01/07

Finally getting back to our philosophy roots - the third episode in this recent series of crash-landed conversations picks right up where we left off, using Snowpiercer as framing to discuss the philosophical implications of the current events we talked about in the prior two episodes. Learning to accept the world as it is means two things can be true at once: our current group of elites are garbage, but also, what's actually necessary to keep society functioning isn't pretty, fair, or easy.

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00:48:40

Trauma Bukkake

The Uncommoners ·

2025/01/04

Failing to get back to recording fast enough to continue with part two of the prior episode, we once again feel the need to address a host of current events including the "terror" attacks, MAGA's H1B in-fighting, and Lugi again. Conveniently, these events are all relevant to the continuing conversation; so we use our analysis of them to bring us full circle back to the conclusions of prior episode - now yet again ready to move forward on the discussion of Snow Piercer and the issues with populism as

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00:59:31

The Italian Job

The Uncommoners ·

2024/12/18

We're finally back to talk Luigi Mangione and the reactions to the UHC CEO murder as a major signal of a captured shift in the national zeitgeist. This episode is intended to tee up foundational ideas for next episode, namely: the importance of maintaining a minimum functional trust level in society, systematized bad behavior as protection from idiosyncratic bad behavior, and the intended (or claimed) purpose of institutions versus what they're currently, actually delivering.

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00:38:38

It's all Julie Andrews (comment reply mini)

The Uncommoners ·

2024/11/19

After too much enjoyment of the circus of cabinet appointments in the last episode, we address a listener comment (quoted below) from the same episode that we felt was a good opportunity to clarify our position on Trump.As mentioned in this episode, anyone interested in coming on the show and discussing some of these topics without the 500 character comment limit - feel free to DM me on Reddit u/awdstylez Comment from Xan on the prior episode: "Beyond the obvious bad faith talking points, is

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01:00:17

Rise of the 4th Reich

The Uncommoners ·

2024/11/16

Trump has been lambasted as "literally Hitler" for the past eight years, almost entirely for imaginary reasons. Now that MAGA is adopting almost word-for-word Third Reich policies - no one seems to be capable of making the connection. In this mostly political and more casual than normal episode, talk centers around Trump's cabinet appointments, which continue to further confirm our predictions for what the future holds. We tie these current events back to POSIWID, the Victoria/Victor/Julie Andrews

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00:42:22

Postgame Self-Congratulations

The Uncommoners ·

2024/11/06

More than just patting ourselves on the back for the accurate election prediction, we address how we were able to make this prediction over a year and a half ago, what the actual purpose of voting is, the importance of understanding counter-narrative control, Biden as an intentional fall guy, Harris as an intentional loser, and why the Trump win needed to be now and not in 2020.

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00:45:40

Election Pregame Show

The Uncommoners ·

2024/11/05

Peanut the squirrel, election day predictions and analysis, Harambe (again), the importance of memes, comments on the Trump and Vance appearances on Rogan, our new logo Fritz Durden, and most importantly we introduce our theory of the ideologically split elites - we've got it all in this uncharacteristically off-the-cuff casual chat about what most people seem to think is the first day of the end of the world. This episode also officially kicks off season two... whatever difference that

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01:07:52

Can We Save Harambe?

The Uncommoners ·

2024/10/29

We didn't want to make Joel a liar, so we finally hit on feminism as he promised half a season ago - using it as a construct to explore a larger and far more important conversation about the lack of willingness to explore origins of modern social, political, and philosophical issues. Bioshock Infinite ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LihmgIriyM&t=487s

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01:08:51

Never Be White

The Uncommoners ·

2024/10/19

Following directly from our somewhat abruptly ended "vibes only" conversation in the prior episode, we explore how this construct manifests out in the world and leads to logic defying behaviors across widely varied groups of people. Why do threepers open carry at a suburban Starbucks, but don't care about their astronomical BMI? Why do college hipster girls feel safe jogging half naked through migrant camps, but feel threatened by smiles from random men? This episode has some answers.

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00:51:09

Vibes Only

The Uncommoners ·

2024/10/18

"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur The truth does not set you free, and it sets you free even less if your idea of "free" is the "kid on Saturday morning" feeling we've talked about in the past. So what beats complicated, difficult, nuanced truth for most people? Feelings

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01:02:50

The Fall of the Baby Oil Mafia

The Uncommoners ·

2024/10/08

Picking up right where we left off in the prior episode, we're ready to talk Sean "baby oil" Combs and how blackmail operators function as high level gate keepers to power and influence. As always, we tie these events back to prior discussions and use them to continue to build out our world-view. We also ask the questions that go beyond the contrived, normie positions on these topics: Why is all this being intentionally, publicly exposed now? Why aren't these operations needed anymore? We have some

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01:04:39

IQ stats & BBQ'd cats

The Uncommoners ·

2024/10/02

"'Equality to the equal, inequality to the unequal' — that would be the true slogan of justice; and its corollary: 'Never make equal what is unequal!'”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols In this long overdue episode which we started recording two weeks prior, we hit on some no-longer current events like the second assassination attempt and the Trump/Harris debate, ultimately tying Haitians possibly eating cats to the heart of this episode's discussion: why is recognition of equality as a

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00:59:59

Victoria, Victor, & Julie Andrews

The Uncommoners ·

2024/09/04

Our failure to get it together and put out an episode over the past couple weeks has led to a build up of no longer current "current" events that we felt the need to address, including Eric Weinstein's recent appearance on Modern Wisdom. This week we put a bookmark in our as yet unfinished talk on finding fulfillment in struggle, and have a brief interlude to discuss the RFK endorsement of Trump, Zuckerberg's peace offering, and how these things relate to the socio-political flip we've been hitting

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01:01:31

The Green Pill, Pt 2

The Uncommoners ·

2024/08/16

"It never gets easier, you just go faster."- Greg LeMond We continue our tying together of all of season one in this extension of the prior episode's conversation, further elaborating on the idea of embracing and finding fulfillment in the struggle, because there is actually no achievable, lasting state of "win". Statis itself is a myth and illusion. Conservatism is self-defeating. Jane Fonda is a traitor b*tch. Candide is the funniest book written in the 1700s. And Joel

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