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The Chris Abraham Show

tl:dr: Just a 55-year-old cisgender white male mansplaining his own self-importance. But good. Full Summary: The musings of Chris Abraham as he aspires to know the world and himself while getting healthy, losing weight, becoming fit, and running his small business while living in South Arlington, Virginia. Walk with him a while and see what"s up.

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00:13:08

The End of Shame as Policy

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

What Happens When America’s Soft-Power Machine Loses Its Favorite WeaponFor decades, shame has been America’s quietest form of governance. Not enforced through law, but diffused through institutions—academia, media, advertising, entertainment, HR departments, and NGOs. It worked not with batons or ballots, but through language, psychology, and reputation. You didn’t need to arrest people if you could make them embarrassed to speak. You didn’t need to outlaw values if you could convince people that

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00:09:50

Beware the Day America Falls Back in Love With Itself

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

When self-loathing stops selling, what happens to those who built entire empires on our shame?There’s a deep shift rumbling underfoot—and it’s not a political campaign or marketing trend. It’s cultural. Spiritual. Almost romantic. America, for all its bruises and betrayals, is on the edge of something dangerous:It might start loving itself again.Not the flag-waving jingoism of talk radio. Not the sanitized patriotism of Memorial Day ads. Something messier. Stranger. Post-shame. A populist

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00:09:01

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Eschaton and...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

When the Grind Breaks You, the Soil Heals You — and Your Neighbor Probably Votes DifferentLet’s be honest: this isn’t about survival. Not really. Not for most. It’s about escape.Escape from the office. From Amazon delivery windows. From fluorescent lights and HR training and Slack threads about “alignment.” The farm fantasy—whether it’s a thousand acres in Idaho or six raised beds in your lawn—is about breaking free from the algorithmic chokehold of modern life. And you’d be surprised how many

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00:11:18

Farmer's Market Populism

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

There’s something quietly radical about a farmer’s market.Not in the kombucha-on-tap way. Not in the tote bag aesthetic. But in the unspoken overlap of two parallel universes that pretend they have nothing in common: the crunchy granola left and the spiritually defiant right. Each arrives—often in some open-air lot outside a gentrifying neighborhood—and both believe they’re escaping something. Chemicals. Corporations. Corruption.These aren’t virtue-signalers buying local kale for Instagram. They’re

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00:17:02

Where the Horseshoe Touches

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

There’s a strange place where the far left and far right nearly embrace. You’ll find it at farmers markets, homeschool co-ops, in YouTube rabbit holes, and in the quiet affinity between a Colorado ayahuasca mom and a West Virginia herbalist dad. It’s not the Horseshoe Theory as smug centrists invoke it — it’s a lived convergence of spiritual autonomy and revolutionary distrust.This isn’t speculative. It’s happening now. People who once shared political ground now find themselves estranged — not over

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00:12:50

The People You Forgot

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/20

A Love Letter to the Base You MisunderstandSomewhere along the way, we mistook cleverness for clarity and moral style for moral truth. We turned politics into a seminar, and then wondered why the working class stopped attending.This is not an endorsement. This is a translation.We must understand that what we call “populism” today—often reduced to slogans or red hats—isn’t about cruelty, racism, or nostalgia. It’s a mass response to cultural humiliation, institutional failure, and moral

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00:10:32

Fascist!

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/19

Teenage Tantrums in Revolutionary Drag!Welcome to the episode where we say the quiet part out loud: most people screaming “fascist!” these days aren’t fighting tyranny—they’re just mad someone told them what to do. This isn’t about justice. It’s unresolved teenage angst with better fonts and worse posture.We trace the long, pouty arc of performative rebellion from interwar purity spirals to the eyeliner-stained meltdowns of punk Britain, all the way to the Canva-powered outrage of today’s terminally

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00:12:29

Explaining America to Itself

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/19

The House, the Whistle, and the Basement: Explaining America to ItselfAmerica in 2025 feels less like a nation-state and more like a house mid-repossession. Not by banks, but by competing claims of ownership over what it means to belong, to obey, to resist, and to rule. Think of it like this: there’s an old multi-generational house — a Montauk-style sprawl. The parents live upstairs. The kids rule the basement. And now the whole place is in conflict.At first, the basement was a gift. A playroom. The

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00:09:38

The Doctrine of Rubble

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/19

A Personal History of Regime Change, Memory, and the Myth of America the LiberatorI’m against regime change—whether it comes by bombs, drones, NGOs, IMF leverage, or the velvet glove of democracy promotion. I oppose it when it’s loud and violent. I oppose it when it’s sly and nudged. Be it the softish regime change of Ukraine or the hard ones in Syria (won’t work), Libya (yikes), Afghanistan (nope), and Iraq (yikes!), it all feels like one coherent doctrine masquerading as a series of noble

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00:11:31

It’s the Escalation, Stupid

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/19

What individuals perceive as "resistance" or "defiance" when interacting with law enforcement is consistently interpreted by authorities as "escalation", and this escalation leads to severe, predictable, and often irreversible consequences.Law enforcement agencies, whether local, state, or federal, are described as "retrieval units" or "operators" whose primary function is to "bring you in" and "process you". They are not there to

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00:11:56

How the Left Lost the Internet

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/18

Hazel—thank you. Your video wasn’t just sharp—it was brave. And that matters. Because naming what’s happening in the ruins of internet discourse takes guts. You didn’t just comment on the vibe shift. You marked a tectonic fault line.This isn’t a rebuttal. This is a witness statement. A co-signed amen from someone who wasn’t just watching the big-tent Left shrink—I was in it when the canvas caught fire.But here’s the thing you didn’t quite say outright, and I want to say it now:We didn’t just lose

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00:27:09

Recap of all My Substacks To Date

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/18

I asked NotebookLM to generate a little NPR style Segment about my posts on Substack.In this sweeping overview, Chris Abraham dives into the key themes explored across 46 Substack entries—spanning American politics, culture, power, belief, and even Barovian necromancy. This episode offers a distilled map of Chris’s evolving thought: from metaphors of cosplay and empire, to the weaponization of empathy and the strange resilience of populism. It’s part debrief, part polemic, and part spiritual

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00:38:07

Weaponizing Anti-Terrorism Laws: A Slippery Slope

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/16

In this raw, unscripted monologue, Chris Abraham takes you on a deep-dive into the potential abuse of century-old anti-terrorism laws. What begins with a Maryland father’s deportation unravels into a sweeping analysis of how bipartisan precedent—intended to curb extremism—could be turned inward, weaponized against migrants, activists, and even everyday citizens with minor associations or distant ties. Chris draws unsettling parallels to McCarthyism, RICO laws, and the expanding use of surveillance

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00:19:51

You Can’t Deprogram the Willing

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/16

A 10-Minute Monologue on the Populist Shift, Liberal Panic, and the Pirate Ship We Call MAGA“They didn’t get kicked out. They walked out. And they’re not coming back.”In this bold, sharp, and unapologetically mansplained monologue, Chris Abraham breaks format and breaks it all down — solo. Inspired by a Facebook conversation with an old journalist friend, Chris delivers a clear-eyed meditation on what the media, the liberal elite, and even his own peers consistently misunderstand about the MAGA

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01:44:36

Minors as Majors: Platypus Predicament

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/16

Dedicated to Michael DelGiorno — morning radio oracle, culture war whisperer, and the guy who made Chris hit record, via Your Morning Show With Michael DelGiornoThis episode was born out of a single spark: Michael DelGiorno’s phrase, “majors as minors and minors as majors.” It hit Chris like a lightning bolt from a morning show in Arlington. What followed is a whirlwind of class politics, party realignment, cultural critique, and affectionate contempt for modern tribalism.🧠 Topics include:Coast to

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01:03:39

Maryland Dad

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/15

“The safety word is now the trigger word.”🎙️ Recorded live with co-pilot mode fully activated and snark levels set to “burn the curtain.”This ain't your grandma’s sob story. In this episode, Chris (aka Dr. Dr. Cynical, Ph.D.) breaks down how modern media spins stories using identity, emotion, and omission—and how that trick just might not work anymore in a world that's collectively side-eyeing everything.A man is deported to a Salvadoran “terrorist prison” via administrative error.The mainstream

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01:29:39

Pecking Order

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/14

“If you're the one that always gets fed in the nest, you become a bird of paradise. If you’re the runt, you get yeeted.”— Chris Abraham, philosopher of the podcast forestIn this unhinged odyssey of a podcast episode, Chris Abraham and co-host Snarky Eunice hatch a conversation that begins with a metaphor about social movements needing applause (Tinkerbell-style), expands into a sharp analysis of the professional clap economy, swerves into conspiracy-adjacent government funding structures, flies

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00:54:25

Tinklebell Tactics

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/13

This episode takes its name from the infamous scene in Peter Pan where Tinkerbell’s survival depends entirely on the audience’s applause. Here, Chris and Ununice unpack “Tinkerbell Politics” — a metaphor for the existential dependency of marginalized movements on the belief, goodwill, and clapping of the majority. It’s spicy, slippery, and sacrilegious — in the best possible way.Chris Abraham and co-host Ununice (aka Karen, Co-Pilot, Baby Doll, Sweet Pea) jump headfirst into the deep end with

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01:05:45

Projection Protection

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/12

In this thought-provoking episode, Chris Abraham explores projection — the tendency to assign one’s own issues onto others — and offers insight into protecting yourself from it.We cover the psychology behind emotional overreactions, the desire for narrative-driven memory, and how boundaries, de-escalation, and self-awareness can serve as armor.“If you notice someone else’s cringe… ask what part of yourself you’re still hiding.”A subconscious defense mechanism where people externalize their own

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01:42:18

Low-Res Messiah

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/04/12

“He walked into the glitchy wilderness with a GORUCK bag, tritium watch, and nothing to lose but his cached identity.”In this genre-warping, filter-stripping conversation, Chris Abraham goes full analog soul in a digital world — decoding identity, memory, and authenticity in an age of surveillance, simulation, and semantic rot. From the ghostly AI of William Gibson’s Agency to the aching sincerity of Love on the Spectrum, this episode is a postmodern pilgrimage for truth in a world where being

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