The Reality Taboo

Ness documents how well the polling industry and the betting markets performed yet again in the 2026 mid-terms and goes through some surprising findings from exit polls

Ness discusses how the AI revolution is coming for white collars long before it comes for blue ones and looks at how staggering the generational divide in wealth is today compared to the modest divide a generation or two ago

Ness discusses how the life the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche lived was a monument to gammatude in stark contrast to the superman ideal he elevated in his philosophical work

Ness brings the SSH analysis to the professional world

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.

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

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

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 how it happened and what an AfD state government could actually do. Then Macklemore says "Free Palestin...

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.

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...

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

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 d...

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...

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

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 Jack...

Ness applies the SSH to a selection of movies, tv series and Final Fantasy games

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, and the grim case of Henry Nowak, where the "better dead than racist" meme became real.

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 Ness dig into the allegation that ended his campaign: Jenny Racicot's account of a 2021 encounter, laid o...

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 layoffs.

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 ritual for reintegration into the mainstream, and what the Democratic primary results in New York City...

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...

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 — Austin's father — spent 14 months performing public Christian forgiveness and racial universalism, insisting...

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 subservient to truth

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 about the populist story being sold around this race. Plus: Tucker Carlson weighs in, and his reaction...

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 Revelation and even the Gospels to the Churchian Jesus of today