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The Reality Taboo

Ness and Jeff

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53:44

Antichrists and Aliens

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2025/11/23

Ness and Jeff trace "Antichrist" from Scripture to Peter Thiel's 2025 Silicon Valley lectures. Then they examine the U.S. Bishops' November 2025 Special Message on immigration.

54:28

The Battle for MAGA

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2025/11/15

The MAGA right is tearing itself apart again — this time over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. Kevin Roberts’s whiplash defense and walkback exposed just how fragile the conservative establishment still is. Ness and Jeff break down the widening split between Conservatism Inc. (Ben Shapiro, the Wall Street Journal), the dissidents like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes, and the fence-sitters struggling to straddle both worlds, like JD Vance and Matt Walsh.

48:26

Exit polls on who supported Mamdani

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2025/11/09

Ness discusses exit polling from the off-year shellacking the right experienced in last Tuesday's elections and the internecine conflict on the American right

60:22

Just Asking Kirkian Questions

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2025/10/31

Jeff and Ness raise questions — and explore possible answers — about the official story surrounding Charlie Kirk’s killing.

31:03

The Great Replacement comes for Cuomo

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2025/10/26

Ness discusses how the demographic transformation paved the way for Mamdani, how cultural imperialism dies with the boomers and how swords are the new words when it comes to seizing power

44:56

MAGA Punishes Enemies and Rewards Friends

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2025/10/19

Ness and Jeff break down the friend–enemy distinction shaping Trump’s second administration, the cultural autopsy of DOGE, and the modern absurdity of “born this way”.

43:48

Gold's moon shot

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2025/10/13

Ness discusses $4000 gold, a Kentucky miscarriage of justice, why Charlie Kirk's killing was maximally public and the gender transitioning of given names in America

43:48

$4000 gold and the end of the American empire

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2025/10/12

Ness discusses gold's record dollar-denominated valuation, a radical miscarriage of justice in Kentucky, lingering questions around Charlie Kirk's murder and the onomastic tendency for boy names to become girl names over time

38:56

Miscellany of Brief Items

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2025/10/05

Jeff and Ness sift through a potpourri of stories shaping America’s political and cultural landscape — from Trump’s record-breaking blitz of emergency Supreme Court appeals and the Des Moines superintendent scandal to Dearborn’s street-sign controversy, the latest in the Austin Metcalf case, and the reshuffled New York City mayoral race.

40:21

Class contingencies and Charlie Kirk

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2025/09/28

Ness discusses how the top of society doesn't like the extrajudicial execution of its enemies, the test Jimmy Kimmel presents for the Trump administration, concerns about Jewish outmarriage rates and the seismic shift in support for same-sex marriage over the last forty years

64:48

From Kirk to Kimmel: Crossing the Rubicon

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2025/09/21

Jeff and Ness analyze Charlie Kirk’s assassination and Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, exploring how violence, censorship, and crisis politics are reshaping America’s institutions.

53:33

Charlie Kirk blown away what else do I have to say?

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2025/09/14

Ness discusses the Charlie Kirk assassination and why there will be more, not less, of it in the future

60:21

Christianity, Migration, and LGBTQ Inclusion

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2025/08/31

Drawing on Pope Leo’s words about migrants as “messengers of hope,” the Kansas bishops’ 2025 pastoral letter on immigration, and the first-ever LGBTQ+ pilgrimage in the Vatican’s Jubilee calendar, Jeff and Ness explore whether these events reflect Christian renewal or betrayal.

40:33

Capital Crime

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2025/08/24

Jeff and Ness take the looming federal takeover of Washington, D.C. as a springboard to explore how America defines and politicizes crime — and what that says about the state of the country today.

47:32

The Science Formerly Known as Settled

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2025/08/17

Jeff and Ness revisit the COVID era, considering its medical, political, and cultural consequences; they also examine recent developments from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding mRNA vaccines.

63:38

Defining Heritage America

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2025/08/10

A deep dive into the meaning of “Heritage American,” the feud between Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and new polling on declining U.S. support for Israel.

47:38

Mamdani’s Mansion, Darwin’s Mind, and the Long Shadow...

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2025/08/02

Jeff and Ness explore Zohran Mamdani’s gilded socialism, apply Charles Darwin’s theories to homo sapiens, and sift through new polling data on Russian election interference.

44:32

Bosom Buddies? Trump, Epstein, and the Unanswered...

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2025/07/26

Jeff and Ness unpack Tucker Carlson’s problematic Noticing and examine how the Trump Administration handled — or failed to handle — the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

48:43

Donald “Lame Duck” Trump?

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2025/07/20

Jeff and Ness examine early voter pushback to core second-term priorities of the second Trump Administration.

62:31

How well did Magic: The Gathering do translating...

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2025/07/13

Ness assesses how well Wizards of the Coast did with its Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set and uses the opportunity as an excuse to air some thoughts about both games

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