How do nonproductive conformists justify their grip on our society? By calling themselves the Creative Class. Tom Frank on the creativity con.
0:00 Plutocracy and the Hijacking of Creativity
7:39 How World War Two Changed Creativity Forever
12:26 The Psychologists and the Space Race
15:17 The Evolution of Words
17:13 Passive Investing vs. Work
22:57 How Is Creativity Measured?
28:47 The Unwritten Story of the Obama Administration
34:13 The 5 Industries Abusing Creativity and Innovation
39:01 How Was Offshoring Manufacturing Creative or Innovative?
49:38 The Death of Creativity
59:11 The Transformation of Universities
1:02:25 How Much Real Innovation Is There?
1:08:20 Silicon Valley and Debt
1:14:00 AI Destroying Creativity
1:19:49 Will Trump Do What Needs to Be Done?
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How do nonproductive conformists justify their grip on our society? By calling themselves the Creative Class. Tom Frank on the creativity con.
0:00 Plutocracy and the Hijacking of Creativity
7:39 How World War Two Changed Creativity Forever
12:26 The Psychologists and the Space Race
15:17 The Evolution of Words
17:13 Passive Investing vs. Work
22:57 How Is Creativity Measured?
28:47 The Unwritten Story of the Obama Administration
34:13 The 5 Industries Abusing Creativity and Innovation
39:01 How Was Offshoring Manufacturing Creative or Innovative?
49:38 The Death of Creativity
59:11 The Transformation of Universities
1:02:25 How Much Real Innovation Is There?
1:08:20 Silicon Valley and Debt
1:14:00 AI Destroying Creativity
1:19:49 Will Trump Do What Needs to Be Done?
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Every civilization that practices human sacrifice is destroyed. That’s the iron law of history. Bradley Pierce on how to save the United States from the fate of the Aztecs.
0:00 Is Abortion Really Healthcare?
3:30 The History of Abortion
10:48 Why Is Human Sacrifice So Prevalent in Every Culture Throughout History?
17:43 Why Are There Christian Leaders Supporting Abortion?
18:57 Is Humanity Seeing Judgment From God?
23:05 Is There Any Validity to Pro-Abortion Arguments?
30:27 Why Does Trump Support Abortion?
39:20 Is Popular Opinion Against Abortion?
41:01 The Abortion Pill Loophole
49:22 The Betrayal of the Pro-Life Movement
1:02:34 Are Christians, Jews, and Muslims Supporting Abortion Abolitionists?
1:05:12 The Case for Abortion Abolition
1:10:00 Who Is Allied With the Abolitionists?
1:12:36 Pierce's Family
Christians can’t stand by as Israel bombs churches and murders thousands of children. Next weekend, John Kiriakou headlines the Not In Christ’s Name rally outside Washington.
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Was there a second JFK assassin? Can the government plant thoughts in your brain? Is Atlantis real? Chad Robichaux explores these questions and more in the new TCN series, “Shadow Figures.”
0:00 Monologue
1:07 The Shocking Truth About the JFK Assassination
7:46 JFK and UFOs
10:16 Did Lee Harvey Oswald Act Alone?
21:24 The Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
26:15 What Happened to Everyone on the Plane?
27:31 Atlantis and Biblical Giants
34:02 How Did They Build the Pyramids?
37:30 Did a Global Flood Take Out Atlantis?
43:07 Why Don't Our Institutions Care About These Discoveries?
44:23 Is There Archaeological Evidence of Biblical Giants?
50:46 The Spiritual War
55:22 Robichaux's War Experience
1:05:10 The Dangers of SSRIs
1:06:59 Project Blue Beam and Telepathy
1:12:23 Will We Ever Know the Truth About These Things?
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Neocons and climate hysterics have at least one thing in common: they know nothing about energy. Without it, things fall apart. Morgan Downey on the economic effects of American intervention.
0:00 Where Are We Globally on Energy?
4:33 Are We Living in a Simulation?
11:49 Wars Threatening the World’s Natural Gas Supply
14:31 Where Did This Self-Destructive Mindset Come From?
22:13 How Energy Prices Make Everything Expensive
25:23 Who Really Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
28:12 The US Energy Boom and Europe’s Growing Dependence
36:04 How Governments Killed Their Own Energy Industries
48:46 How Western Sanctions Made China Richer
55:45 Is the West Paying for China’s Oil They’re Stockpiling for War?
1:08:13 China’s Secret Plan to Turn Coal Into Oil
1:11:14 Did the Iran War Derail China’s Taiwan Invasion Plans?
1:19:04 Where is Venezuela’s Oil Going?
1:21:17 How the Iran and Ukraine Wars Affect Global Energy
1:30:00 How the CIA’s Secret War on Russian Oil Backfired
1:32:38 The Oil Tanker Crisis Nobody Is Prepared For
1:45:06 Why Killing Iran’s Leaders Made Everything Worse
1:55:44 Israel, the Iran War, and a Looming Global Food Crisis
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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The people developing AI tell us it will destroy the world. Why aren’t we holding them accountable for that? Tech investor Ali Partovi on the only way to stop this insanity.
0:00 Should We Be Worried About AI?
2:12 The Crimes of AI
8:27 Is Science Giving Birth to a New Species?
20:14 Why Haven’t Any AI Developers Faced Penalties for This?
33:28 The Worship of AI as a God
37:59 Are There Efforts to Prevent AI-Powered Hacking?
41:43 The Lies About AI Innovation
47:08 AI Hacking Banks
50:04 Has There Been Any Effort to Criminally Charge Anyone for These AI Hacks?
55:52 How Do Large Language Models Actually Work?
1:01:47 The Influence of AI Over People and Politics
1:07:57 Partovi’s Efforts to Sway Politicians and Lawmakers into Doing What’s Best for Americans
1:16:28 Why Partovi Is Offering Sway for Free
1:25:05 Is Partovi Optimistic About Our Future?
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Will Republicans get crushed next week? Could there be a third party president in 2028? Is James Talarico the creepiest man alive? We answer these and other questions in this midterm edition of Ask Tucker.
0:00 Intro
0:32 Should We Give the Republicans One Last Chance?
2:07 Tucker's Thoughts on James Talarico
3:30 What Are the Chances of Forming a Third Party?
5:31 Will Democrats Winning Have Any Effect on the Wars in Iran and Russia?
9:38 Who Are the Three Best and Three Worst Politicians?
13:48 How Does the Donor Class Control Politicians?
20:03 Is Socialism Gaining Traction?
25:17 What Does Charlie Kirk's Murder Mean for the Future of the Republican Party?
31:39 Will We See a Blue Wave of Islamists and Marxists?
34:29 What Would the Midterms Look Like Without the Iran War?
38:45 Will Uncle Buck Run for President?
40:40 Why Is Trump Pushing Data Centers?