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Shrink The Nation — 59 episodes

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When the Grift Has Paperwork: Trump, Crypto, and Public Office

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The Department of Blame Management

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The Enemy You Needed: Private Wounds, Public Targets, and the Politics of Blame

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Andrew Tate, MAGA, and the Myth of Power: Status, Dominance and the Performance of Power

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Out of Your Element, Donnie: Ballrooms, Bureaucrats, and Bad Ideas

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Strategy or Theatre? Decisions, Delusions and Second Order Effects

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Hopium, Hormuz, and the Price of Pretend

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No Episode This Week (We’re Not Going to Fake One)

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When the Joke Is the Test

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Old Crow in a Gold Bottle: Confidence, Competence, and the Cost of Pretend

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Just a Guy: Power, Loyalty, and the Refusal to Be Checked

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Divine Cosplay and Movement Without Strategy

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The Myth of Inevitable Power (Hungary’s Snap-Back Moment)

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Cosplay Cabinet, Real Consequences

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Deepfakes, White Male Fragility, and the New Loyalty Tests

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Jessica Foster Isn't Real. The Loyalty Is.

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When Looking Real Replaces Knowing Anything

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Trump, Iran, and the Psychology of Impulsive Power: When Hope Is Not a Strategy

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Trump vs. the Supreme Court: IEEPA Tariffs, Delegitimizing the Referee, and Gaza’s “Board of Peace”

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Pam Bondi’s “Search History” Folder: How DOJ Audit Logs Become a Threat to Congressional Oversight

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The “You Sh*t My Pants” Defense: Trump’s Truth Social, Plausible Deniability, and Chaos as Strategy

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When Tribes Shrink: The Melania Documentary & the Killing of Alex Pretti

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The White House Is Sh*tposting: AI Memes, Greenland Penguins, and Reality Drift

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Iran Protests, “Insurrection” Talk & the Cockpit Wings Rule

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When Power Stops Explaining Itself: Venezuela, Numbness, and the Psychology of Control

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When Invasion Feels Normal: How We Learned to Shrug
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2025 Year in Review: Anxiety, Control, and the Collapse of Trust in American Politics

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The Cracking Avatar: Trump, Spectacle Politics, and Why Restraint Feels Radical

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Power, Projection, and Gerrymandering: Why Restraint Feels Radical in American Politics

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Moral Displacement, Pajama Wars, and the Rise of AI Propaganda

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Holiday Chaos, Narco-Terror, and the Rush Hour Reboot Nobody Asked For

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Identity Crisis Nation: Resignations, Ratings, and the AI Martyr Machine

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McConaughey for Governor? And Other Signs We’ve Lost the Plot

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Congress: Family Therapy for the Republic

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Daddy Issues, Data Issues and Divine Right Delusions

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The Medal, The Martial, and The Meme

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The Shutdown, MTG Defection and Non-Legal Tender: Because You're Not Crazy, This is Nuts!

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The American Divorce: When Red and Blue Call It Quits

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The Psychology of Political Violence: Fear, Belonging, and the Seduction of Us vs Them

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The American Shadow: Jung, History, and The Stuff We Don’t Talk About

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The Algorithm Made Me Do It: Curated Realities and the American Experiment

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#GirlBossBurnout: When Empowerment Becomes Another Job (And How to Clock Out)

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Paranoid Nation: Why Conspiracies Feel So Good (and Steal Your Power)

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Allison Has Notes: Smurfette, Patriarchy, and the “Male Loneliness” Panic

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The Death of Shame

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Your Aunt Is the Propagandist Now

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Tapping Out: Hormones vs. Hype

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Testo-Rage & Tenderness: Empathy for Gen Z Men

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Uncle Sam Back on the Couch: Bourbon, Archetypes, and the American Psyche

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America on the Couch: A Psychological Exploration

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Presidents, Projection, and the Madness of Expectations

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The Power and Weight of Projection... And Some Other Stuff

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Back Into the Void (With Notes this Time!)

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Is Anything Even Real Anymore? (The Nihilism Episode)

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"The Moops": A Cultural Reference

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Cognitive Dissonance Nation

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America's Grandiosity Complex

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Why are we even doing this?

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59

Pre-Launch Episode

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