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The Reality Taboo
by Ness and Jeff
A wide-ranging discussion of politics, religion, current events...no topic is off limits.
Episodes
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Are you and alpha? Part III
Ness brings the SSH analysis to the professional world
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Are you an alpha? Part II
Ness brings the SSH self-assessment lens to a time in every man's life he remembers better than any other whether those memories be bitter, sweet, or bittersweet - high school - this time with a focus on romantic relationships.
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Are you an alpha? Part I
In the first part of a series on personal assessments of SSH status, Ness asks listeners to recount and assess their relationships with extracurricular activities in high school
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Will AI kill itself?
Ness discusses the Fermi paradox in the context of artificial super intelligence, how zionism and white supremacy are seen as one in the same, the impending mid-term massacre and the brutal murder of Idris Evans
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AfD Wins Big, Macklemore Gets Banned
Alternative for Germany (AfD) just won nearly 44 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, and the firewall that has kept it out of power since its founding is starting to crack. Jeff and Ness give some background on German political history since the end of World War II for context, then break down...
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Clancy and Coxon: The Human Threat and the Machine Threat
A confessed child killer, a case that no suffering could equal what her children endured, and a competing willingness to still hear her defense, plus what the survey data says about who wants her freed. Then: an Anthropic researcher whose resignation set off a Washington panic that might be more...
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A Dog-Riding Selfie Becomes an AI Magic Card (Plus Clancy v Hendrix and the Tyler Robinson Plea)
Ness turns a dog-riding selfie into a shockingly authentic AI-generated Magic card, kicking off a bigger conversation about what happens to kids growing up in a world where AI does the creating for them, and whether authenticity and originality still mean anything. Ness and Jeff also get into the...
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Did zionism kill Jason Arday?
Ness discusses why they came for Arday when they did, how Andrew Wilson lost the debate to Candace Owens and why Karmelo Anthony's defense team messed up in failing to grasp how widespread the sentiment it's better to be dead than to be racist is in modern America
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Jason Arday: Charlatan or Victim of a Lynch Mob?
In 2023, Jason Arday became the youngest Black professor in Cambridge's history, a self-made story of overcoming autism, illiteracy, and poverty to reach the academy's highest ranks. By August 2026 he was dead, and the story behind the story had collapsed. Jeff and Ness trace the full arc: the...
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Rewriting the Record: From Hunter Biden's Laptop to Netflix's James Garfield
Tucker Carlson and Hunter Biden's new interview: Hunter now denies a laptop that strong documented evidence says existed, and Jeff and Ness dig into why both he and Tucker appear to be lying about it, speculating on what Tucker's angle is this time. Meanwhile, Netflix's Death by Lightning…
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Immigration is killing free speech
Ness discusses how the most important factor in support for free speech is being native to America and how immigration is destroying support for free speech with the Shiloh Hendrix case as a launching off point
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Andrew Tate's American Defenders
Jeff and Ness discuss the prosecution of the Tate brothers and why so much of the American Right still defends them. Then: a look back at the WTO protests of 1999, and how different the political nature of opposition to global trade is today compared to then. Finally: the dynamics of…
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Final Fantasy and the Socio Sexual Hierarchy (SSH)
Ness applies the SSH to a selection of movies, tv series and Final Fantasy games
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Justice for Charlie Kirk?
Jeff and Ness dig into the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing in the Charlie Kirk murder case: what the prosecution's evidence actually shows, and what it doesn't. Plus: public perception of the Supreme Court's political lean, how 2026's grievances against the government stack up against 1776's,...
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Graham Platner and the Politics of Consent
Graham Platner ran for Senate in Maine as the candidate progressive politics claims to want: a combat veteran and working-class outsider running against the establishment. Then it collapsed, and Platner ended up folding to the very establishment he built his campaign fighting against. Jeff and…
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Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara, striking down Trump's executive order and affirming birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. Jeff and Ness break down the opinion and the fractured majority behind it, then turn to the U.S. military drawdown in the Gulf and Oracle's AI-driven...
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Donald Trump, Exposer-in-Chief
Jeff and Ness examine what Trump has actually revealed about American power by working through the collapse of U.S. military hegemony, why corporate media mobilized for MeToo but stayed quiet on Epstein's network and the Pakistani grooming gangs, Kanye West's managed apology tour as a humiliation...
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Protect the Musk
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire — worth more than the next four richest people combined — and Ness and Jeff touch on the retribution they think may be coming his way. They also discuss the possible end of America's global military dominance, compare Musk's fortune against...
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Karmelo Anthony, Jeff Metcalf, and the False God
On April 2, 2025, Karmelo Anthony, 17, a Black teenager, stabbed Austin Metcalf, 17, a White teenager, through the heart at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years. What followed was more revealing than the crime. Jeff Metcalf —…
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Killed in California, the green movement is dead
Ness discusses how Steyer's defeat and the voracious energy appetite of AI spell the end of the green movement, how Henry Nowak's murder is a tragically perfect microcosm of what is happening to the West, Tucker Carlson's unpopularity, Helen of Troy in black face and how science is not…
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The Most Expensive Primary in History: Massie Goes Down
Thomas Massie just lost the most expensive House primary in American history — $32.6 million to take out one congressman. Jeff and Ness break down the Massie-Gallrein race: who bankrolled it, why Massie made himself a target for Trump, and what the demographics of Kentucky's 4th District tell you...
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Massie gets massacred
Ness discusses MIGA's successful defenestration of Thomas Massie, Reform's successful approach in the UK, looks at what the media had to say about demographic replacement a generation ago, compares the book of Trump to the book of Exodus and contrasts the Jesus of Constantine the book of…
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The Number That Launched a Thousand Mandates
In late 2020, the world was told Pfizer's COVID vaccine was "95% effective." That number became the foundation for government mandates, employment requirements, and the social pressure placed on anyone who asked questions. But what did 95% actually mean? Ness and Jeff break down what the trial…
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The day Daily Wire died
Ness discusses the massive layoffs and downsizing at the Daily Wire and what it illustrates about the right's inability to maintain any kind of institutional power, how DOGE is even deader than DW, why Trump's failure to flip-flop on things that matter are why he is so viscerally hated and shares…
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Tucker Carlson: The Fox in Lion's Clothing — Charlatan or Coalition Builder?
Tucker Carlson praises figures while distancing himself from their ideas, has been on every side of Trump depending on the moment, and has a documented history of saying one thing in private and the opposite in public. So is he a fraud? Or is he the most politically savvy coalition builder on the...
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Foxes and Lions: Russell Brand and the Weaponization of Scandal
Antidepressant use among American adults has quadrupled in a generation and a half, and Canada's dramatic expansion of assisted suicide may be part of the same story. Then Ness and Jeff turn to Burnham's The Machiavellians and apply it to the Brand scandal — the allegations, the timing, the 77th...
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Homosexuality and pedophilia
Ness discusses the higher rate of sexual abuse perpetrated against young boys by gay men compared to straight men, how even if birthright citizenship is overturned it won't matter and Tucker Carlson glowing over John Chrysostom
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Liberty, equality or diversity: Choose one
Ness discusses the inherent tension in the three philosophical pillars of Western liberal democracy, what Martin Luther thought about Jews, what Erick Erickson shows about modern conservatism, what Matt Walsh portends for its future, Christianity's relationship with hatred and war and more
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Intelligence Matters: The Science of IQ and Why It's Worth Understanding
Ness and Jeff dig into the history and science of IQ testing — where it came from, how it works, what it measures, and what the data shows about cognitive differences across individuals and populations. We cover the g factor, the Flynn Effect, heritability, the relationship between IQ and...
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The Managerial Revolution and the American Deep State
James Burnham predicted in his 1941 work The Managerial Revolution that capitalism and socialism were both finished — and that a new class of bureaucrats, technicians, and institutional managers would inherit power instead. Ness and Jeff apply Burnham's framework to the American deep state, the...
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Tolerance crucified Christ
Far from being an oppressive tyrant who ruled with an iron fist it was Pontius Pilate's cowardly tolerance of evil that condemned Christ to the cross
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Canceling César Chávez
César Chávez has a California state holiday and a legacy carefully curated by the American left — until now. Ness and Jeff break down the sexual abuse allegations against César Chávez and the part of his record that never made it onto the murals: his militant campaign against illegal immigration....
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White discrepancy
Ness discusses perceptions of discrimination in America and how they compare to empirical realities on the ground
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Well Shiite, there goes the Ayatollah
Ness discusses the attack on Iran, sewage crossing the Potomac, how Americans feel about demographic transformation, how virtual reality proves we are living in a simulation and wonders why basketball isn't height-classed like wrestling is weight-classed
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Trans Rage: Gender Ideology, Mental Illness, and Murder
Four mass shooters, all transgender-identified, all with severe documented psychiatric histories, all connecting their violence to gender identity distress in their own words. Jeff and Ness lay out the case files — Nashville, Minneapolis, Tumbler Ridge, Pawtucket — then trace the clinical…
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What is globohomo?
Ness offers a potpourri, beginning by trying but not trying very hard to hammer out a definition of the managerial state. He then moves to the AI revolution with Seedance 2.0 as the focal point, who the most popular leader in America is, how successful the TPUSA halftime show was and ends by...
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Color-Coded Justice & the Anti-White Coalition
A Black man is convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault in Louisville. Despite his unhinged courtroom tirade, a Black female judge slashes his sentence in half — and references his race in her reasoning. A Texas Democrat tells minority groups that they share "the same oppressor" and can "take...
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Won't somebody please think of the children
Ness discusses the Epstein document dump
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Paper Eagles or Golden Dragons: Currency Collapse and Border Chaos
Ness and Jeff and unpack the most dramatic precious metals selloff in over 40 years. They examine Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh for Fed Chair, and how to invest in a dedollarization world. They also discuss the Immigration Showdown in Minneapolis.
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Leading lambs to slaughter
Ness discusses how Churchians continue to invert Christianity to destroy it for the benefit of its enemies and how the myth of American consumption as the key factor in making the global economy work is coming undone
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Minneapolis and the Battle Over Immigration Enforcement
After the January 7th shooting during an ICE operation, Minneapolis erupted. Should Trump invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops to restore order? Should federal prosecutors target the organized groups facilitating the obstruction? Jeff and Ness examine the history of the...
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Tennessee shooter, case study in white self-hatred
Ness discusses the removal of Maduro, the defunding of American state media, the validity of IQ and Audrey Hale's manifesto
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2026 Preview: Predictions and Stories to Watch
Ness offers his predictions for 2026 on gold prices, the midterm elections, and Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, and fertility. Jeff reveals his list of stories to watch in 2026. A look ahead at what promises to be a consequential year.
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Churchianity
Ness narrates Vox Day's foreword to Jon Del Arroz's book Churchianity: How Modern American Churches Corrupted Generations of Christians
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Verified vs. Unverified: Fort Huachuca, Death Warnings, and Erika Kirk’s Contradictions
Mitchell Harrison Snow claims he witnessed Erika Kirk at Fort Huachuca the day before Charlie's assassination—his story has problems so severe even Alex Jones pushed back. Charlie Kirk allegedly sent two communications in his final 72 hours: one verified through FBI documents, one existing only…
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TPUSA blinks and MAGA runs Shapiro out on a rail
Ness discusses the meeting between Candace Owens and Erika Kirk and the light it sheds on Charlie's killing, the escalation in the right's ongoing civil war and why the contrasting anger towards Owens and pity towards Tyler Robinson rubs the wrong way
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Candace Owens vs. TPUSA: The Showdown That Could Expose a Conspiracy—Or a Grifter
Jeff and Ness examine the Charlie Kirk killing and the explosive conspiracy theories that followed. Candace Owens—whose podcast hit #1 globally after Kirk's death—claims foreign militaries and Kirk's own colleagues orchestrated his assassination. TPUSA says it will systematically debunk her...
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Candace Owens: Liar, lunatic or legend?
Ness discusses the ongoing issues surrounding the killing of Charlie Kirk and assesses the likelihood Owens is intentionally lying or is delusional or is onto the truth of what happened on September 10th and what that portends for the future
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Tucker Carlson the Influencer
Ness and Jeff analyze Tucker as a 'popularizer'—an influencer who amplifies ideas rather than creates them—and explore why his particular brand of disingenuousness feels uniquely unsettling to Jeff. We try to figure out what Tucker Carlson is really doing, and whether being impossible to pin down...
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Antichrists and Aliens
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.
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