Elephants in Rooms

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Elephants in Rooms episodes

  • Why are cities liberal and rural areas conservative?

    "Why are cities liberal and rural areas conservative? What's really driven that rift? I dive into the politics, psychology and statistics behind America's split." -- Ken

    ► Video "How did Korea get so insane?":    • How did North Korea get so insane? 

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/2icJa

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    19 min
  • The myths about gay tolerance through history

    "So what was it like for gays throughout various parts of history? I look at the evolution of social norms and the myths surrounding tolerance towards homosexuals throughout ancient history"   –Ken

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/ONooU

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    22 min
  • Did we get Thomas Jefferson wrong?

    "I really thought that Thomas Jefferson having children with Sally Hemings was a settled fact. I was wrong." –Ken

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/83Lzy

    Scanned “Nature” magazine:  https://www.tjheritage.org/jefferson-...


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    22 min
  • What nobody says about Black deaths

    "It's undeniable that the average Black American lives a shorter lifespan than others. But the answers aren't the neat and 'obvious' ones that most people believe."  –Ken

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/ZK0dd

    ► CORRECTION:  @forrest7482  correctly pointed out that the Stanford "food desert" study I mention at 7:38 was also the same as the NYU study I mentioned as a separate study. It was a joint study, not two separate ones.

    It's one of a handful of studies that come to the same basic conclusion.  Like this one in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science....  And a few others I found via Perplexity:  https://www.perplexity.ai/search/c793...


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    20 min
  • Former members unveil Scientology's secrets

    "To outsiders, Scientology seems a bit crazy. And dangerous. But to thousands of people who join it, what's the appeal? How does it often attract smart, successful people?" — Ken

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    22 min
  • Should innocent people talk to the police?

    "For my whole life I never thought talking the police could hurt an innocent person. That wrong, and here's what you should know."   –Ken

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/Pk0Ue

    ► James Duane video:    • Don't Talk to the Police 

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    18 min
  • "Guilty" ... "death penalty" ... then something no one expected.

    "This is a different EIR video. Not about single question, but about lessons I learned from a pivotal event in my life. It's certainly the hardest video I've ever produced."  --Ken

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    ► Here's the link to that old magazine ... kind of crazy stuff. https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/06... 

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    14 min
  • Why the polls were wrong. Again. And again.

    "Political polling used to be pretty accurate, but not in the last decade. What's going on? It's not just all about Trump."    –Ken


    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/PTem7

    ► New York Times piece mentioned:  https://archive.ph/f7oHK

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    23 min
  • Why charity backfires

    "We think of charity as always being a good thing.  But it isn't."   –Ken

    ► Script Sources and Notes: https://shorturl.at/WumIj

    ► Amazon link to "Toxic Charity" book:  https://amzn.to/4cbWjTk

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    20 min

About Elephants in Rooms

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Hi, I’m Ken LaCorte. I spent 20 years behind-the-scenes at Fox News and now host “Elephants in Rooms”.

Here, we jump into topics that many people avoid and that the mainstream narrative…

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