The Chris Abraham Show

01:04:12

S11E2 The Reality of Risk & Confrontation

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/10/09

“The First Amendment is not a force field against the Second Amendment.”The world doesn’t owe you a trust fall. In this episode of The Chris Abraham Show, I explore the distance between how we believe people should behave and what actually happens when fear, ego, adrenaline, weapons, and conflicting convictions enter the picture.Starting with protests and confrontations with police and federal agents, I question the assumption that having rights, good intentions, or the moral high ground guarantees

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00:35:40

S11E1: Guns: Culture, Crime & Policing in America

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/10/08

Welcome back to Season 11 of The Chris Abraham Show! In this season premiere, host Chris Abraham dives headfirst into the fierce philosophical and cultural debate surrounding gun ownership, policing, state power, and personal responsibility in modern America.Spurred by a recent episode of Oprah Winfrey's podcast—Why Is America Different Than Every Other Country When It Comes to Guns?—Chris reflects on why American attitudes toward crime and guns are fundamentally different from those in Europe

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01:15:20

How I Stole 24 Months of Gameplay in 60 Seconds of...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/03/09

This episode is about the end of our Curse of Strahd campaign, and more specifically, about how I ended it.Not Sean Scanlon, our excellent Dungeon Master. Not Strahd. Not just the dice. Me.In what I can only describe as a perfect storm of stupid, I managed to take a campaign that probably still had another 18 to 24 months of life in it and drive it straight into a wall in about sixty seconds. That sounds melodramatic until you hear the story. Then it starts sounding annoyingly accurate.We were deep

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01:11:04

America Goes Abroad in Search of Monsters to...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/03/05

In this episode of The Chris Abraham Show, Chris revisits an argument he first made more than two decades ago—an argument about American foreign policy, intervention, and the strange persistence of what John Quincy Adams once warned against: going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.The conversation begins with the latest escalation in the Middle East. Following a massive U.S. and Israeli strike campaign against Iran that targeted military infrastructure and senior leadership, the region once

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00:11:17

The Deportation Plan Broke So the Bombs Came Out

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/03/01

In Season 10, Episode 5 of The Chris Abraham Show, I lay out a theory for why Donald Trump pivots to Iran. This isn’t an episode about Iran’s internal politics so much as it’s an episode about incentives, momentum, and what happens when a leader needs an economic and narrative engine and the preferred domestic plan hits a wall.About a year ago, I wrote a Substack post arguing that Trump’s big idea wasn’t necessarily invading countries abroad. It was building a domestic “make work” machine: a

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00:25:30

Media Capture, Populism, and the NPR Trust Problem

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/03/01

The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media EmpireThe Century-Long Capture of U.S. MediaIn Season 10 Episode 4, Chris Abraham swerves away from the day’s obvious headlines and instead reacts to an On the Media segment on WAMU about “media capture” and the role of public broadcasting in a healthy democracy. He frames himself as an NPR/WAMU lifer with a complicated relationship to the institution: nostalgic for the old public-radio mix, aware of how it shaped him, and also increasingly allergic to how

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01:09:48

The Ravenloft Dinner That Broke Everything Episode 27...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/02/27

Welcome back to The Chris Abraham Show. This episode collects Sessions 27 28 and 29 of our Dungeons and Dragons campaign The Curse of Strahd and turns them into one continuous descent into Castle Ravenloft.If you are not a D and D person, here is the simple setup. Our small band of adventurers is trapped in Barovia, a mist locked valley ruled by Strahd von Zarovich, an ancient vampire lord with the patience of a spider and the manners of a king. We have been trying to protect Ireena Kolyana from

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00:59:34

Session Twenty-Six: The Wachter House, a Basement of...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/01/28

Session Twenty-Six picks up at a moment where survival has stopped feeling temporary. By now, the party understands that Barovia doesn’t reset between victories. Vallaki, once a place to rest and resupply, has become hostile ground. We’re no longer visitors. We’re trespassers.The objective is narrow and urgent: recover the Amulet of Ravenkind. Losing a relic capable of harming vampires in Strahd’s domain isn’t a setback. It’s a liability. Lady Fiona Wachter, newly installed as Vallaki’s burgomaster,

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01:00:41

Green Fire on Mount Ghakis: Death, Deceit, and the...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2026/01/15

Barovia does not kill you all at once.It lets the mountain do the arguing.Sessions Twenty Four and Twenty Five began with the kind of fragile optimism that only survives when everyone is too tired to argue with it. We had stew at the Wizards of Wine. We had candles. We had a plan. Urihorn had no shadow, having traded it for a mist-token in one of Barovia’s quiet, transactional horrors. Nobody liked that, but nobody said no. That is how corruption enters a party. It doesn’t knock. It waits for

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00:51:51

Becoming an Always-On Meshtastic Router by Accident

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/29

I didn’t come to Meshtastic with a plan.I bought a cheap purple device off Etsy for about fifty-five dollars because I’d heard the word a few times and vaguely understood it meant LoRa mesh messaging. I wasn’t a prepper. I’m not a ham. I didn’t have a scenario in mind. The buy-in was low enough that curiosity won.I live on the 8th floor in Arlington Heights, with windows facing southeast. From that height, there’s a clear line of sight over a golf course and across low-rise terrain toward the

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02:02:46

S10E2 Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/27

This episode of The Chris Abraham Show is an unscripted, exploratory monologue that circles a single question from multiple angles: what happens to large war-oriented systems when they no longer have an obvious external war to fight?Rather than arguing for or against specific policies, this episode looks at structure, scale, and inertia. For much of modern American history, war has functioned not only as foreign policy but as an organizing principle for labor, industry, logistics, and federal

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00:32:16

S10E01 Uncle Chris Gives an Update

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/22

After a long hiatus from live, human-voiced podcasting, Chris Abraham returns with the unofficial kickoff to a new season of The Chris Abraham Show. Call it Season 10, or just call it “one more than whatever came before.” This episode is less a formal broadcast and more a fireside check-in. No hot takes yet. No grand thesis. Just Uncle Chris catching up, taking inventory, and letting listeners back into the workshop.Chris opens by reflecting on a year spent experimenting with AI-assisted writing and

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00:05:13

Inside the Empire: Why the Holy Family Were Never...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/10

Today, I want to talk about a claim that shows up every Christmas season, especially online: the idea that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees — that they were undocumented migrants escaping a hostile government, and that the Nativity somehow maps onto modern U.S. immigration politics. It’s an idea repeated so often that it feels unquestionable. But once you look at the world they actually lived in, the analogy collapses instantly.To understand the Flight into Egypt, you have to understand Rome

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00:52:12

Inside the Empire: Why the Holy Family Were Never...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/10

Welcome back. Today we’re taking on a Christmas claim that resurfaces every year: that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees, undocumented migrants, or ancient asylum-seekers. It’s emotionally appealing, politically useful, and completely incompatible with the world the Nativity took place in.To understand why, we have to put aside modern nation-states and step into Rome. Rome wasn’t a patchwork of countries. It was a unified imperial world, more like a continental-scale United States than anything

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00:05:25

The Holy Family’s Journey: A Historical Look Beyond...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/10

Discussions about the birth of Jesus often include the assertion that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees fleeing persecution. This framing is intended to connect the biblical story to contemporary global crises and highlight empathy for displaced people. While the intention may be understandable, the historical circumstances of the Holy Family do not align with the modern category of refugee status as defined by law, borders, and international recognition.In the first century, the Eastern

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00:56:37

The Holy Family Were Not Refugees: Understanding...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/10

The story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph is one of the most recognized narratives in human history. During the Christmas season, it becomes a focal point of faith, culture, and reflection. In recent public conversation, a growing claim circulates that Jesus and His family were refugees or asylum seekers, meant to serve as a direct parallel to contemporary refugee experiences. While this comparison is often used to provoke empathy or social concern, it is historically inaccurate and incomplete when

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00:07:06

Sequestered Carbon: Why America’s Private Firearms...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/05

This episode examines the United States as the only modern nation where privately owned firearms—hundreds of millions of them—form a silent, decentralized balance against the three visible layers of power: local government, shadow networks, and federal authority. We are told the Second Amendment is about hunting, recreation, nostalgia, and home defense, but those explanations describe utility, not purpose. The American model disperses power by design, not tradition. The firearm is not symbolic

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00:54:08

Sequestered Carbon: How Half a Billion Firearms...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/05

The United States is the only modern nation where nearly half a billion privately owned firearms—most dormant, unseen, and unorganized—form an unspoken fourth layer of power within civil society. Public debate reduces guns to crime, culture wars, or personal safety, but the deeper structural reality is that private firearm ownership disperses consequence and prevents any single actor—local government, shadow authority, or federal power—from assuming uncontested monopoly over civilian life. The

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00:06:19

The People Who Fill The Vacuum: Why Power Never...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/05

When governments fail — slowly, suddenly, or simply enough to be noticed — power doesn’t evaporate. Power reallocates. The world abhors a vacuum, and politics is physics with human consequences. Somewhere between the speeches and the streets, between the slogan and the morgue, new systems emerge to do what the old system can’t or won’t. They collect debts. They settle disputes. They hand out punishment, protection, and paychecks. They build their own justice without courts and their own economies

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02:27:42

When The State Isn’t Enough: Cash, Guns, and the...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/12/05

When people debate terrorism, cartel violence, insurgency, or the so-called war on drugs, they usually argue morality — who is good, who is evil, who is defending civilization, who is poisoning it. But morality, for all its emotional voltage, explains almost nothing. What explains far more is power — who has it, who wants it, and who steps in when the official architecture of governance collapses or simply stops caring. The line between freedom fighter and terrorist, protector and predator, patriot

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