The Reality Taboo

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.

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 the killing was never about race, rejecting White grievance activists, and extending grace to the family of his son's killer. The other side raised $630,000 for Anthony's defense and called Metcalf a racist anyway.

Jeff Metcalf is a case study in a pa...

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 says as much about his faction as it does about the result.

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

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 data actually showed — an absolute risk reduction of less than one percent, a two-month follow-up window, and a control group dissolved before long-term safety comparisons were possible. Then they trace how politicians, doctors, and the media didn't just spin that data — they flatly misrepresented it.

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 a clip of the head of NPR explaining a favorite observation of the show - that the truth is merely incidental

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 American right — a man who understands that the fringes, the dissidents, and the dispossessed need a tent, and who is building one? Jeff makes the case for fraud; Ness isn't so sure. Using Burnham's Machiavellians and Pareto's fox-lion distinction, Reality Taboo asks the Tucker question: charlatan or...

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 Brigade connection, and the Christianity pivot. Is this accountability, or elite competition by other means?

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

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

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 standardized tests like the SAT and LSAT, and the policy implications of what the research shows.

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 Russia investigation, and the career of Robert Mueller.

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

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. If this is the standard, how does MLK survive it? Plus: Jasmine Crockett's Texas Senate collapse, her fugitive security guard, and a quick look at the SAVE Act.

Ness discusses perceptions of discrimination in America and how they compare to empirical realities on the ground

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

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 framework that is architecturally designed not to see the connection. They also break down the Cass Review, the Fox Varian malpractice verdict, the Sage Blair case, and what Gallup's 2025 data reveals about a generational identity shift nobody can adequately explain. When ideology overrides clinical rigor, somebody pays the price.

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 looking at fertility trends in the US

Seedance 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clYnx7a8TI

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 over this country." Jeff and Ness break down the Thompson sentencing controversy, Judge Tracy Davis's path to the bench, Rep. Gene Wu's racial coalition rhetoric, what Abraham Lincoln's actual views on race say about the myths of America, and whether AI is coming for white-collar jobs.

Ness discusses the Epstein document dump

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.

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

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 Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus, and two 20th Century cases where federal troops were deployed to overcome state resistance. They also discuss the role of Christianity in the MAGA movement.

Ness discusses the removal of Maduro, the defunding of American state media, the validity of IQ and Audrey Hale's manifesto

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.

Ness narrates Vox Day's foreword to Jon Del Arroz's book Churchianity: How Modern American Churches Corrupted Generations of Christians

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 as third-hand testimony. Erika Kirk told CBS she didn't date or drink in New York, yet evidence clearly contradicts this—and platforming Nicki Minaj contradicts Charlie's own criticism of the rapper.

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

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 assertions on December 15th. Will Owens be exposed as a grifter monetizing tragedy, or vindicated as a truth-teller uncovering a massive conspiracy?

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

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 is accidental or the entire point.

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.

The MAGA right is tearing itself apart again — this time over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. Kevin Roberts’s whiplash defense and walkback exposed just how fragile the conservative establishment still is. Ness and Jeff break down the widening split between Conservatism Inc. (Ben Shapiro, the Wall Street Journal), the dissidents like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes, and the fence-sitters struggling to straddle both worlds, like JD Vance and Matt Walsh.

Ness discusses exit polling from the off-year shellacking the right experienced in last Tuesday's elections and the internecine conflict on the American right

Jeff and Ness raise questions — and explore possible answers — about the official story surrounding Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Ness discusses how the demographic transformation paved the way for Mamdani, how cultural imperialism dies with the boomers and how swords are the new words when it comes to seizing power

Ness and Jeff break down the friend–enemy distinction shaping Trump’s second administration, the cultural autopsy of DOGE, and the modern absurdity of “born this way”.

Ness discusses $4000 gold, a Kentucky miscarriage of justice, why Charlie Kirk's killing was maximally public and the gender transitioning of given names in America

Ness discusses gold's record dollar-denominated valuation, a radical miscarriage of justice in Kentucky, lingering questions around Charlie Kirk's murder and the onomastic tendency for boy names to become girl names over time