Actually making good on a promise from a previous episode, Austin and I chat about empire and its consequences. What does it mean when people say America's foreign policy has come home, and what does that have to do with Fight Club? Why are there so many connections between the movies In Bruges and The Prince of Egypt? Is it possible for Austin to do a good opener? 2/3 questions will be answered.

I also weirdly mess up Ralph Fiennes' and Marjorie Taylor Greene's names, but it's not like I'm going to fix that in editing.

Articles on bro culture and imperialism:

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/bro-culture-fitness-chivalry-and

https://inkstickmedia.com/the-liberal-internationalist-origins-of-right-wing-insurrection/

Stephen Wertheim's book "Tomorrow, The World"

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248663