01:00 NYT: People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves: People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html
20:00 New York: America’s First Post-Secular City, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqvb4MwJqA
22:00 NYT: He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel: And the feeling isn’t good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/aaron-renn-christianity-conservative-negative-world.html
25:00 The three worlds of American Christianity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Worlds_of_Evangelicalism
30:00 Telegraph: Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more ‘masculine’ alternative, https://www.yahoo.com/news/young-men-leaving-traditional-churches-171506770.html
51:00 Laws around porn are changing, https://www.youtube.com/live/xrFLz75-dIc
53:00 How elites reconcile and move on, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/joe-rogan-christianity
55:00 Aaron Renn: The Personal Roots of Political Disputes, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/critical-theory
59:30 Aella vs. Arrogant Red Pill Man, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/supplementary-material-24-dialogos-with-greek-gods-the-metaphysics-of-pepe-and-red-pilled-embarrassment
1:10:00 Aaron Renn: The Vibe Shift and the Decline of Double Standards: How the rehiring of a controversial DOGE staffer reflects America’s changing approach to cancel culture, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/spiritual-boomerism
1:14:00 Aaron Renn: Andrew Tate or Panda Express: Which Way Young Man? What a fast-food debate tells us about masculinity, social class, and Spiritual Boomerism, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/spiritual-boomerism
1:37:00 Hunter Biden struggles to sell his paintings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEUki_wXVI
1:42:45 From Harding to Trump: The REAL History of American Conservatism | Matthew Continetti, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KITCo1ZKLiY
1:45:30 Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlMkcqXAIg
1:52:00 Chaos sets in as Trump II resembles Trump I
1:58:00 Paris Hilton song ADHD promotes nonsense about ADHD being a superpower
2:04:30 Why Is ADHD So Impairing?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1x8exxGso
2:06:30 Michael joins
2:09:00 Andrew Tate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate
2:27:50 Video: My Ex-Best Friend Ashley St. Clair PLAYED Elon Musk! I BROUGHT RECEIPTS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LrJjOjRTM
2:46:00 Gavin Newsome is a formidable Democratic presidential candidate
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3:04:00 Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 4) || Rabbi Adam Mintz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTyh1htZoaM
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