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The Reality Taboo

The Reality Taboo

di Ness and Jeff

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Stagione 126

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 Rockefeller, Walmart, and Nvidia, then pivot to a fresh Economist/YouGov poll on how Americans feel about whether the country has drifted from or lived up to its founding ideals — plus the one constitutional amendment nearly everyone agrees on. And UFC Freedom 250 talk.

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Fertility and Homosexuality

Jeff and Ness discuss the decline in fertility rates, and differences in how heterosexuals and homosexuals understand morality.

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 marketing than warning.

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 publishing industry's AI authorship crisis and debate whether a fully AI-generated book would be worth reading. Plus: a comparison of public reaction to Lindsay Clancy and Shiloh Hendrix ("better dead than racist"), and a quick take on Tyler Robinson's not guilty plea in the Kirk case.

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

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 plagiarism findings that unraveled his thesis and publications, the biographical claims that shifted or disappeared under scrutiny, and the fight over what it all means, from the "lynching" framing embraced by his defenders to the charge that his career is proof of a rotten, affirmative-action-run-amok academy.

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 rewrites James Garfield's actual record on Chinese exclusion into a 2025 morality play. Plus: male names that have quietly become female names over the decades, and a quick hit on how religiosity correlates with fertility, abortion support, and death penalty support.

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

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 race-swapping in popular culture, touching on Nolan's The Odyssey and Amazon's The Rings of Power versus Peter Jackson's original trilogy.

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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