This week on Disaffected, we tackle the sickening aftermath of Austin Metcalf's murder—a 17-year-old stabbed to death by Karmelo Anthony over a seat at a track meet. Anthony's family shamelessly spins the story, raising half a million dollars as fake victims of racism, while Metcalf's father inexplicably downplays race and rushes to forgive. Host Joshua Slocum cuts through the bullshit, exposing a culture poisoned by identity politics, entitlement, and moral cowardice.

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-Kevin's sick this week and the studio's a mystery to Josh, so come join him in the living room for talk on parents handicapping children, military boss ladies getting fired for insubordination, how a confessed killer raked in 400,000 sympathy dollars, and more!

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A 17-year-old white kid is stabbed to death, and his father rushes to show compassion for the killer. In what universe does that make sense? In this one. We break down the murder of Austin Metcalf and the psychotic cultural reflex that demands white people perform sympathy for their own destruction. Then we go to Colorado, where the state is writing laws that will let your ex cut your son’s genitals off — and punish you for saying his name. If you think that sounds like exaggeration, you’re exactly who this episode is for.

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The most famous drag queen in American history once declared, “Filth is my life.” Fifty years later, filth is everyone’s life. From Divine to Vivian Musk, from John Waters to Teen Vogue, the culture hasn’t just slid downhill—it swan-dived into a dumpster in heels. Let’s toast to that.

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Fully grown adults on national news are pretending they don't understand the constitution and the separation of powers. CNN's Kassie Hunt is the poster girl for belligerent, ignorant, and malicious girl-bossery. 

Shameless whores have taken over public life in America. The amount of brazen pornographic obscenity put out by young women in public, and out on the streets, has never been seen before. It's time to re-take "shaming" and put it to good use. 

Come back to 1960 to hear a group of 40 middle class black professionals talk about the danger to middle class values posed by ghetto "negroes" (their word, yes, spoken by black people). You've never heard anything like this.

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-Happy Covid-versary! It's five years since the before times ended and New Normal began. We look back on the insanity over masks, social distancing, and government authoritarianism. How much of this is permanent? 

-Can woke really be eradicated, or is it like kudzu? We're still in the tantrum phase, or the extinction burst, for leftists. Come watch grown men have emotional meltdowns in congressional hearings over transvesite lawmakers. 

-Potpourri du Moquerie: featuring 'masc' gay men with vaginas and breasts, tranny protests at Target, and troon-tards on TikTok!

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Essayist Kate Wand joins the show to talk about baby boomer parenting styles and the millennials it created. Kate tells some stories of her own narcissism-inflected upbringing and how the patterns learned in such a childhood can make adult interactions difficult. 

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-Author Adam B. Coleman (@Wrong_speak on X) joins us to talk about his upcoming memoir of father abandonment, The Children We Left Behind. We talk about the society-wide neglect of children's needs in the West. 

-Trump's address to Congress brought out the most scandalous and shocking behavior by Democrats most of us have ever seen during our lifetimes. What the hell is going on with these people? 

-Gen Z bosses in minis, ratchet Congress-hos, and more. Let's mock 'em all!

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-The left half of the country, and a good portion of the right, is defenseless against covert narcissism. They're treating Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a poor bullied little boy, and castigating Trump and Vance as "bullies." This is the biggest moral reversal of the current Trump era. 

-As children pay for the crimes of their abusive parents, so do normal, tough men pay for the crime of setting limits and boundaries. The reaction to the oval office meeting this week shows more than half the country will turn on their own president working in their own interests. It's a pure form of Cluster B reversal that should be preserved in amber for posterity. 

-Potpourri due Moquerie takes on Wisconsin's ban on the words "mother" and "husband," troons gone wild who still get called ladies in headlines, and deviant demands to Kenyon College to venerate trannies above all other gods. 

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This episode was recorded in January, 2025.

Dr. Mark McDonald is a psychiatrist and commentator. Along with Dr. Jeff Barke, his podcast Informed Dissent discusses mental and physical health, politics, and culture. 

Mark joins Josh to talk about the explosion of Cluster B, narcissistic personality traits and behaviors in society, and how the mental health establishment not only doesn't recognize it, but is contributing to the prevalence of these behaviors. 

We also discuss the effect of feminist and leftist ideologies on our collective mental health, and how these have upended traditional and sane understandings of good health, behavior, and personal responsibility. 

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