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Is the UK Turning Into a Police State? Aug 07, 2025

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From sweeping policing powers to massive street protests, it seems Keir Starmer's government has lost the plot. Has Britain crossed the line? And is there anything Brits themselves can do about it?

In this special episode, we're joined by Jonam Ross, a British citizen who escaped a coercive cult and went on to study behavioural science, psychological warfare, and hypnosis to understand how the human mind can be hijacked, and how people can free themselves from manipulation and ideological capture.

Now, Jonam runs The Fractal Effect, using his insights into influence to help values-driven leaders wield ethical influence with precision and turn good ideas into cultural movements.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:16 Keir Starmer Cracks Down on Protestors

00:04:40 Labour’s Orwellian Crime and Policing Bill

00:08:27 Is Free Speech Dead in Britain?

00:14:49 Is There a Silver Lining?

00:18:05 Immigration is Now the #1 Issue in the UK

00:21:53 A Perfect Storm is Brewing in Britain

00:31:20 Labour is Heading for a Landslide Defeat

00:36:25 Why Everything is Now Falling Apart

00:53:00 What Brits Can Do Right Now

01:11:20 Stop Waiting for Permission

01:23:30 What Happens Next?

01:31:15 What Changes are Possible and Necessary

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Is Canada Going To Collapse? Aug 05, 2025

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The Liberals have driven Canada into the ground over the last 10 years. There's now a growing secessionist movement in the Western Provinces.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:56 What is the State of Canada Today?

00:06:19 Canada’s Immigration Crisis

00:11:55 Western Alienation

00:15:10 Canada’s Economic Crisis

00:17:00 Vancouver’s Insane Housing Bubble

00:21:57 How Canada is Becoming a Police State

00:29:13 Terrorism Charges for Trucker Convoy Protestors

00:32:47 Does Alberta Want Out of Canada?

00:43:53 Alberta Secession Referendum

00:54:55 Can Alberta Learn From Quebec?

01:04:52 Are There Alternatives to Independence?

01:16:41 Will Trump Strike a Deal With Alberta?

01:27:34 Nothing Ever Happens…Until it Does

01:38:51 How Canada and Alberta Are Moving in Different Directions

01:44:37 Which Path Will Alberta Take?

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Is Conservatism Dead? Jul 30, 2025

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Calling yourself a Conservative 10 years ago was the response to Republicans being too moderate. Now, is the term Conservative itself too moderate? If so, what replaces it?

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00:00:00 Intro

00:01:20 What Is Conservatism?

00:15:39 (1980-2008) Did Conservatism Conserve Anything?

00:29:25 (2008-2020) The Right Feels Like Something Has Changed

00:42:06 (2020-Today) The Overton Window Has Been Blown Out

00:55:11 The Left Thought They Had Already Won

01:10:55 Francis Fukuyama And The End of History

01:17:10 Is Conservatism Dead?

01:25:36 Can Classical Liberalism Sustain Itself?

01:39:37 What Replaces Conservatism?

01:45:25 The Theological Nature Of Politics

01:55:29 The Danger of Ideological Solutions

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Here's Why The Housing Market Is Permanently Broken Jul 29, 2025

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The housing market is broken and has been for a long time. But why is that? How did things get so bad, and what can be done to ensure that Zoomers and younger Millennials have the opportunity to buy a home of their own one day?

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:40 What Buying A Home Is Like Today

00:08:42 What Led To The 2008 Housing Crash?

00:18:39 The Data Behind America’s Broken Housing Market

00:39:51 What Broke the Housing Market

00:50:00 Homes Have Almost Never Been Cheaper…In Gold

01:07:30 Are Things About To Get Even Worse?

01:15:22 The Blue State Model Has Failed Spectacularly

01:28:45 What You Can Do About This And Why All Hope Isn’t Lost

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Buying Her - Inside the World of Prostitution w/Benjamin Nolot Jul 26, 2025

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Watch the trailer here: https://buyingher.com/

Sound of Freedom opened our eyes to a portion of the world of human trafficking we didn't realize was going on. "Buying Her" reveals that the problem is not what we think it is, by speaking with both the women who are bought and the men who pay for them.

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Have Republicans Already Won 2026? Jul 24, 2025

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History shows Republicans should lose the 2026 midterm elections, but with the Democratic Party in disarray, broke, and now also on the losing end of several redistricting battles, can Republicans actually defy history and win next year?

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00:00:00 Intro

00:04:24 What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterms

00:08:57 Have Democrats Learned Anything?

00:28:53 The Democratic Party is Now Broke

00:31:59 Gen Z Men Hate the Democratic Party

00:48:23 The Senate Map is a Disaster for Democrats

00:54:09 Republicans are Polling Far Better Than in 2018

00:56:04 How Redistricting Could Cost Democrats the House

01:07:00 Do Republicans Really Have a Shot in 2026?

01:28:35 Our Predictions for 2026

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Churchill, Franco, and Rhodesia: Rethinking the Villains and Heroes of History Jul 22, 2025

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The last few years have awakened many people to just how much we have been lied to. And this realization is causing many on the Right to reevaluate our understanding of history to see what went wrong. This is leading to some productive discussions…and some other discussions that are becoming quite dark. Today we address three points in history to ask the question “Does the revisionist narrative have a point?” Get ready as we question Winston Churchill’s legacy, Franco and the Spanish Civil War and Decolonization and Rhodesia.

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:15 - Why The Right is Revisiting History

00:11:05 - The Postwar Consensus on World War II

00:28:50 - Was Churchill the Villain of World War II?

00:50:46 - Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

01:12:40 - Was Franco a Hero or a Villain?

01:27:42 - Rhodesia, Ian Smith, and the Great Betrayal

01:45:34 - Was Ian Smith Right About Rhodesia?

01:48:35 - Why Does All of This Matter Now?

01:51:50 - History Grants Moral Legitimacy

02:02:33 - The Messy Questions the Right Must Now Ask

02:14:20 - What Comes Next

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What Killed The American Dream? Jul 17, 2025

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Everyone feels as if the American Dream has slipped away…but why? Why is it that when the stock market goes up, or the talking heads tell us the economy is booming, it never feels that way? Something HAS changed. So what is it? Why has it changed? And what can we actually do about it?

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:30 - “Remember When $50K Was A Lot of Money?”

00:09:30 - How We Got Here: The Reserve Currency Trap

00:18:31 - The Triffin Dilema

00:26:31 - Jacques Rueff’s Haunting Prediction

00:36:55 - Hyperfinancialization

00:44:11 - Why The Middle Class is Vanishing

00:45:23 - The Losers From Globalization

00:54:14 - The Winners From Globalization

01:01:17 - Why The System is Breaking Now

01:06:58 - Does The Left Have a Point?

01:20:29 - What Gave Rise to the Populist Right?

01:29:20 - Can Avoid Catastrophe?

01:34:38 - What Can You as an Individual Do About it?

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The Most Dangerous Marxist You've Never Heard Of Jul 15, 2025

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It seems like the entire world is going mad. We’re constantly told the most insane things imaginable, and that we’re bad guys if we don’t believe it. So how exactly did this happen? Where did it come from? What if there was one man who not only predicted most of the insanity that’s going on today, but he was actually the author of it all?

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:00 - The insanity all around us

00:08:39 - Who is Antonio Gramsci?

00:12:29 - Why did Gramsci become a Marxist?

00:18:14 - Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

00:21:30 - Why Did Lenin Succeed in Russia and Gramsci Failed in Italy?

00:23:24 - The Role of Intellectuals

00:34:00 - Cultural Hegemony and War of Position

00:48:00 - State and Civil Society

00:59:00 - The Long March Through the Institutions

01:22:21 - The Long March is Over

01:38:50 - The Left Cannot Course Correct

01:45:18 - What Comes Next?

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The Consequences of Blaming Men for Everything Jul 10, 2025

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Young men are going to revolt, but what should that revolt actually look like? Nick spoke at Live Action's annual conference to lay out what a return to real masculinity should really mean, from politics to relationships.

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00:00 - Why Moral Arguments No Longer Work With The Left

04:15 - How Society Blames Men

07:15 - Society Wants to Destroy Men

11:20 - Young Men Are Going to Revolt