Fact Check This Podcast

Covering a couple of different topics that tie to Trump and what he's been pushing over the last year and a half, and how that's impacting different parts of the world. Opinion | Trump's Indiscriminate War on Migrants Is a War on the Best of America | Common Dreams The dramatic Trumpification of Latin America

After discussing the unhealthy relationship both teens and their parents have with cellphones with Steve and Dag following today's The Morning After, I decided to read through this article that I had found a while back that suggests parents should consider underachieving. Opinion | Parents, Consider Underachieving - The New York Times

A Salon author reads his own progressive mindset into LotR and then doesn't understand why some popular right-wingers love the books so much. So, par for the course for Salon. Glance – inkl news

According to Esquire the negative backlash to the final season of The Boys, and to the finale in particular, is because the audience just missed the point. It's not because the writers and showrunners decided to go over the top with the heavy-handed politicizing and turned it into pure dog crap... The Boys Finale Backlash Shows Fans Missed Homelander’s Point

When it first came out, The Boys was a cultural phenomenon. So how, just a few years later, did it devolve into just a hollow sounding board for cultural platitudes?

The creator of the Invincible comics, and now animated series, explains why some characters go race and gender swapped from the comics to the tv show. I'd like to look at that reasoning in light of the current social moment we're living in.

Trey and I are going to look back at Gamergate and the consequences it had on gaming in the United States, and also at the aftermath and pushback that has come from those consequences.

Who would have thought a video game where you're tasked with protecting a little girl would become something so controversial. Of course, the controversy only exists in the minds of the most depraved nutjobs of society. The Way Some Gamers Talk About Pragmata's Diana Is Disgusting, And Must Be Stopped mary morgan on X: "lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things u...

I'm not quite ready to do this again, but I did want to share some stuff from Sean's Celebration of Life and Funeral with everyone. Also, if you want to follow along with the writing that's helped me work my way through everything, you can find that on my Substack Fact Check This Substack | Justin Campbell | Substack

Leftists all across the internet screw up what The Lord of the Rings is actually about. They believe it's about power, when it's actually about good and evil. And their own failure to identify evil is why they get the Right's (and the right) interpretation of the story so very wrong. The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it. | 67nj Humble Flow on X: &q...

The art of making you feel bad to push an objective; broken down and explained so you can be as unmoved by bullshit as I am. Quickie Post — Weaponized Empathy | It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together

Looking at some charts and data from an interesting article on X (I kind of like the format of the X articles, very similar to Substack), and follow that up (since it's relatively short and I think they go well together) with one about "speaking your truth." Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies vittorio on X: "Why Young W...

After years of SJWs trying to turn the word in to a slur and make sure anyone who called someone else a "retard" was ostracized from polite society, now the worm has turned and we're back baby! Bring back the 90's when we could call everyone all the slurs we wanted. History of the R-Word, MAGA's Favorite Slur The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It - The N...

America is moving past using "racism" as a takedown for anyone who says something even the slightest bit politically incorrect or, god-forbid, actually true. Axios blames Trump...naturally. How Trump flipped America's race conversation Appeals Monthly Zine... | APPEALS JAN2026 | MagCloud

What's the solution to lower population growth? Well, it's not to import a bunch of loud, dirty, third-worlders who can't integrate into western society. It's to get white people to start making babies! At least, that's what The Economist thinks the MAGA fertility fanatics want. And honestly, I'm 100% here for it! Make America procreate again: among the MAGA fertility fanat...

"The structural burden of men’s declining social networks" and how men's struggles with friendships are driving women away from the dating scene. Yes, this sounds insane, but it's also a little bit sad, and very pathetic. But I think worth exploring and discussing. Mankeeping Is Why Women Are Done With Dating The structural burden of men’s declining social networks | The Clayman...

Some people will spend their whole lives killing themselves to get a high paying job just so they can afford to live in peace...and that's racist! According to some Atlantic author whose name no one can pronounce... Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? - The Atlantic

In the wake of a big win by a full-blown communist (I don't care how many leftists say Mamdani is a socialist, he's not), let's check in on someone who left the oppression of a red state to go live in New York, and just how well that's worked out for him. Blue State Blues - by River Page - The Free Press

Of all the things to get upset about, leave it to the soft-bellied, weak-chinned left to get their gender-neutral panties in a bunch over a bunch of college kids talking crap in a group chat.. ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat - POLITICO

It's time to try trusting the science, instead of trusting an irrational hatred for what a couple of politicians say. Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology | Environmental Health | Full Text

Only ignorant, racist, rednecks stereotype people, right? At least, according to the progressive intellectual class. But science has actually proven that that isn't the only case of stereotyping. Smart People Are More Likely to Stereotype - The Atlantic Why being intelligent could mean you're more prone to making stereotypical judgements | World Economic Forum Highly Intelligent People May...

Today we'll be looking at two different articles at the same time, one that talks about the "myth" of the alpha male, and another that looks at the "myth" of the male bread-winner. The myth of the "male alpha": a man who does not exist - Evidence Network The Myth of the Male Breadwinner | TIME

We're back at it, this time joined by friends Alan and Eric, to talk about blocking people on social media, the failures of the education system, and a whole bunch of other not-really-news-but-still-kinda-news topics.

Why does the Left not only hate guns, but also imagination and beautiful storytelling? Spartan history: Real origins of the phrase Molon Labe and the false right-wing myth.

There are a couple of interesting topics that come up from time to time regarding morality and inclusivity between the political spectrums. I'd like to take some time to look at a couple of those charts and what they mean. The Right Has More Diversity of Thought Than the Left - Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events - Actualized.org Forum I believe that liberals tend to be...