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Punching Upwards

Fabian A. Scherschel

The podcast that digs at the nitty-gritty facts behind the week"s loudest headlines and discovers stories legacy media neglected to cover. From a veteran reporter and investigative journalist; new episodes every Sunday. punchingupwards.substack.com

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54:23

PU 33: The Stop Nick Shirley Act

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2026/04/26

YouTuber Nick Shirley says California’s proposed AB2624 law was made to stop him and other independent journalists from reporting on fraud. How much of that is true?Punching Upwards, Episode 33 for 26 April 2026Topics: Politics / Free Speech🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS FeedCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater and Sir Galteran for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it!See Also*

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65:51

PU 32: Germany's Digital Strategy Is Absolutely Bonkers

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2026/04/19

Driven by a national delusion that Germans are somehow naturally very bad at digital technology, the country’s government is rushing headfirst into a disastrous implementation of AI in government.Punching Upwards, Episode 32 for 19 April 2026Topics: Politics / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS FeedCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and Fairero Voltier for supporting this podcast financially and

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67:46

PU 31: NASA’s Artemis II Mission

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2026/04/12

Depending who you ask, NASA’s new mission to the moon was either the scientific breakthrough of the century or an utterly boring waste of money. Which is it?Punching Upwards, Episode 31 for 12 April 2026Topics: Science / Space🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS FeedSome of the photos taken by the Artemis II crew (images courtesy of NASA):The astronauts back on Earth (images courtesy of NASA):NASA photo galleries:* Artemis II Launch* Artemis II Journey to the Moon* Artemis II Lunar Flyby* Artemis II

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33:17

PU 30: Aviation and the War in Iran

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2026/04/05

The war in Iran is having a tremendous impact on the aviation industry. An underreported detail is what happens when your flight deviates around the closed airspace over Iran via Afghanistan.Punching Upwards, Episode 30 for 5 April 2026Topics: Aviation / War in Iran🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce

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88:59

PU 29: The State of Star Trek

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2026/03/29

With the cancellation of Starfleet Academy, there is no Star Trek series in active production for the first time in a decade. Why is that and what does it reflect about the state of our culture?Punching Upwards, Episode 29 for 29 March 2026Topics: Politics / Culture🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce

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90:10

PU 28: What is Antifa?

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2026/03/22

Even though it has been in the US news a lot recently, almost everybody over there seems to be getting wrong what Antifa actually is. This is an overview from someone who grew up around this movement.Punching Upwards, Episode 28 for 22 March 2026Topics: Politics / Trumpism🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce

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102:40

PU 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End

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2026/03/15

Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an excuse to re-hire workers for cheaper.Punching Upwards, Episode 27 for 15 March 2026Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to

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59:54

PU 26: Trump Falls Into the Smart Bomb Trap

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2026/03/08

Trump’s war on Iran is a huge blunder, both militarily and politically. The US can’t possibly win this war and Trump is tanking his presidency, and the whole Republican Party, along with it.Punching Upwards, Episode 26 for 3 March 2026Topics: Politics / War in Iran🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce

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65:00

PU 25: The Problem with the Epstein Files

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2026/03/01

I’ve been digging through the Epstein files for weeks now and I’m finding that there are a lot of issues with the coverage in the press. This is an attempt to explain some of them.Punching Upwards, Episode 25 for 1 March 2026Topics: Politics / Epstein Files🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial

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76:03

PU 24: The ELIZA Effect

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2026/02/22

An MIT professor developed the first chatbot in 1964 and discovered that we tend to ascribe human traits to even the simplest computer programs. This would foreshadow today’s widespread AI delusion.Punching Upwards, Episode 24 for 22 February 2026Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who

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71:35

PU 23: The Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal

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2026/02/15

A several-billion-dollar welfare scam hit national news shortly before the riots erupted in Minneapolis. And the people egging on the protesters seem to be directly involved in this fraud.Punching Upwards, Episode 23 for 15 February 2026Topics: Politics / Minneapolis Protests🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to

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79:59

PU 22: Moltbook Madness

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2026/02/08

The AI tech bros are going crazy: They are convinced their chatbots are gaining consciousness, which is why they made a chatbot-only social network for them, where the bots have gotten religion now.Punching Upwards, Episode 22 for 8 February 2026Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who

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94:56

PU 21: The Death of Alex Pretti

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2026/02/01

Another protestor was shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis. Why are these agents so bad at their job? Who would take a gun to a protest? Where is the local police? And did Pretti’s P320 fire on its own?Punching Upwards, Episode 21 for 1 February 2026Topics: Politics / Minneapolis Protests🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who

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78:22

PU 20: Does NATO Have a Future?

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2026/01/25

What does Donald Trump’s power play over Greenland and the ensuing confrontation with European allies mean for the future of the military alliance? Does NATO without the US even make sense?Punching Upwards, Episode 20 for 25 January 2026Topics: Politics / Trumpism🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide

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50:06

PU 19: The Death of Renee Good

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2026/01/18

An entitled Karen meets a hot-headed, dumb cop, gets killed and all hell breaks loose. How ideology is wiping out common sense and endangering democracy in the United States.Punching Upwards, Episode 19 for 18 January 2026Topics: Politics / Trumpism🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vlad A Gouf for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing

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26:10

PU 18: Trump's South American Adventure

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2026/01/11

How did the Trump government manage to capture the Venezuelan head of state in Caracas? And where they allowed to do so? Your won’t hear the correct answer to that question from the legacy media.Punching Upwards, Episode 18 for 11 January 2026Topics: Politics / Trumpism🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially!Sources* New details in daring US military operation to capture Maduro,

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45:43

PU 17: Vlad vs. Vlad

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2026/01/04

An overview of the background and the history of the War in Ukraine. Plus some analysis of what will happen next. Does peace between Russia and Ukraine have a chance at all?Punching Upwards, Episode 17 for 4 January 2026Topics: Politics / War in Ukraine🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing via

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19:16

PU 16: Met Police to Stop Non-Crime Arrests

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2025/12/28

After the Graham Linehan debacle, London’s Metropolitan Police is now set to stop arresting people for non-crime hate incidents. This policy obviously was a bad idea in the first place.Punching Upwards, Episode 16 for 28 December 2025Topics: Politics / Free Speech🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing

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49:00

PU 15: State Secret or Vibe Physics?

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2025/12/21

A recent patent application that made the news in Germany looks suspiciously like someone with chatbot delusion tried to vibe code a threat to NATO’s nuclear deterrence strategy.Punching Upwards, Episode 15 for 21 December 2025Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial

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35:49

PU 14: Chat Control is Back

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2025/12/14

The EU still wants to read through every digital message every one of its citizens ever sends. After some pushback, the newest idea is that platforms should now do the dirty work for the police.Punching Upwards, Episode 14 for 14 December 2025Topic: Privacy / Crypto WarsCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing via

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