HeyJaredThe Reality Taboo
A wide-ranging discussion of politics, religion, current events...no topic is off limits.
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AfD Wins Big, Macklemore Gets Banned (opens the original)
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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 rall
Clancy and Coxon: The Human Threat and the Machine Threat (opens the original)
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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) (opens the original)
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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 t
Did zionism kill Jason Arday? (opens the original)
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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? (opens the original)
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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 embrace
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