The Reality Taboo

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 Palestine" from the stage at MetLife Stadium and gets dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after Robert Kraft rallies fellow NFL owners behind an ultimatum.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 Jackson's original trilogy.

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 out to Politico and CNN.

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 signal about the coming realignment of elite political power.

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.