Evan and EV return to the show to discuss Meinschaft's Empire of Liberty, arguably their landmark recording to date. Released in the year of the United States' 250th anniversary, the album depicts contemporary Americana as a fragmented and distorted landscape, eerie and beautiful. A rural grotesque befitting of Flannery O'Connor made manifest as electronic sound.

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OST:

Meinschaft "Biting the Hand" https://music.apple.com/us/album/biting-the-hand/6771633191?i=6771633203
Scott Walker "Bolivia 95" https://music.apple.com/us/album/bolivia-95/1877073621?i=1877073724
Laibach "Satanic Versus" https://music.apple.com/us/album/satanic-versus/828068604?i=828068627
The Doors "Moonlight Drive" https://music.apple.com/us/album/moonlight-drive/1622362830?i=1622362928
Elliot Smith "Pretty (Ugly Before)
LINKS:
Buy Empire of Liberty at Discriminate Audio's Bandcamp https://discriminateaudio.bandcamp.com/album/empire-of-liberty
Read Discipline Mag's review of the album https://disciplinemag.com/reviews/meinschaft-empire-of-liberty-album-review/

Adam and Matt discuss the massive runaway successes of the low budget horror films Obsession and Backrooms, try and identify what people have responded two in them, and discuss whether they're actually any good or not.

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SOUNDTRACK
Dead Can Dance "A Passage in Time"
Cro-Mags "Show You No Mercy" https://music.apple.com/us/album/show-you-no-mercy/1533125261?i=1533125279
Porter Ricks "Port of Call"  https://music.apple.com/us/album/port-of-call/496491073?i=496491084
Otis Redding "Pain in my Heart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/pain-in-my-heart/995810749?i=995810862

Artist Faina Brodsky illuminates on the difficulty (or not) of being beautiful in the art world and her and Adam wade into performance enhancing drugs and looksmaxxing.

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OST:
UV Pop "Sleep Don't Talk" https://music.apple.com/us/album/sleep-dont-talk/1676648297?i=1676648709
Anenzephalia "Final Pulse" https://music.apple.com/us/album/final-pulse-live/281189783?i=281189890
Of the Wand and Moon "MEgin Runar" https://music.apple.com/us/album/final-pulse-live/281189783?i=281189890
The Lollipop Shoppe "Someone I Knew" https://music.apple.com/us/album/someone-i-knew/1735833654?i=1735834048

We recorded this two weeks ago, when it looked like Spencer Pratt would still have a statistical shot at taking second place and advancing in the Los Angeles mayoral race.

New records by Ye, Drake, JPEG Mafia and Bladee discussed

Sorry for the hiatus, Adam was busy writing this for Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/god-of-euphoria-sam-levinson

Adam and Matthew discuss the return of Sam Levinson's pop art spectacle Euphoria, new art work by Nordic photographer Torbjorn Rodland, and the final collapse of Tucker Carlson and the "retard right's" credibility.

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OST:

Miss Kittin and the Hacker "Stock Exchange" https://music.apple.com/us/album/stock-exchange/308664562?i=308664609
Husker Du "Everything Falls Apart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/everything-falls-apart/1249140194?i=1249140590
Bulbous Creation "Fever Machine Man" https://music.apple.com/us/album/fever-machine-man/924210928?i=924210938
Inquisition "Memories within an Empty Castle in Ruins" https://music.apple.com/us/album/memories-within-an-empty-castle-in-ruins/1725034200?i=1725034595
Inxs "Never Tear Us Apart" https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-tear-us-apart-2017-remaster/1614037635?i=1614037849

LINKS:

Adam on the return of Euphoria https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-sam-levinson-and-shlock

The Prodigal Jasian Son (w/ David Jager)Nov 25, 2025

Since we last posted, Adam became a father.

Writer David Jager joins the show and he, Adam and Matt wade into some of his recent writing topics, like the Cape Cod cult origins of the Palestarded suicide martyr Aaron Bushnell and the brilliance of Gavin McInnes.

OST:
Acid Mothers Temple "Mammary Intercourse"
Merzbow "Nil Vagina Mail Action 4"
Boyd Rice "Disney Land Can Wait"
Amen Corner "Black Thorn"
Mac Miller "Cinderella"
Follow David on X: @highroadjives
David's Website: https://www.davidhiroshijager.net/

The boys reconnect. Adam reflects on early fatherhood, Mattio documents his trip to Mexico City to see Ye, and both chronicle the absolute abysmal moral panic unleashed by the Epstein Files.

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SOUNDTRACK:

Clipse "Keys Open Doors"
Midgards Soner "November 30"
Asylum Party "Play Alone"
Wolfsmond "Dusterworld" https://music.apple.com/us/album/d%C3%BCsterwald/1321259736?i=1321259959
NOFX "S&M Airlines"  https://music.apple.com/us/album/s-m-airlines/1485033293?i=1485033300

LINKS:

Adam on the life and career of Kanye West as a long, slowly unfolding performance art platform: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/kanyes-apology-and-fame-as-ultimate

Adam on "Epstein Apophenia" https://x.com/tabletmag/status/2018333211227460069?s=20

A catch up episode, covering the Iran war, antisemite influencers, and Adam being iced out by old friends

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SOUNDTRACK

Rhythm and Sound "See mi Yah" https://music.apple.com/us/album/see-mi-yah/52996963?i=52995478
Toiling Midgets "4-track Mind" https://music.apple.com/us/album/aarons-song/1513830226?i=1513830228
6 Comm "Like Stukas Angels Fall" https://music.apple.com/us/album/pipes-of-gold/311867520?i=311867695
X Marks the Pedwalk "Human Desolation" https://music.apple.com/us/album/desolation/946071535?i=946071548
Forteresse "La moisson de la liberte" https://music.apple.com/us/album/la-moisson-de-la-libert%C3%A9/1796587075?i=1796587076
Tricky "Makes me Wanna Die" https://music.apple.com/us/album/makes-me-wanna-die/1443717694?i=1443717885

LINKS:

Adam on Elena Velez and incongruities in gendered cancellation https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/cancellation-and-female-narcissism

Adam speaks to the self-described "former artist" and current tech worker Daniel Keller to discuss the performative Luddism of the art world, Judaism, the war on Iran, the imminent conflict with China, and a positive conception of artificial technology...

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OST:
November Novelet "Magic"
Bill Fay "I Hear you Calling" 
Punish Yourself "Let's Build a Station in Space" 
Crucifier "Stronger than Passing Time"
Sol Invictus "Lax Tallionis"
LINKS:
Daniel's website: https://danielvkeller.com/
Follow Daniel on X: @dnlklr

Montreal-based conceptual artist Dante Guthrie joins the show to discuss the distinctions between the Canuck and U.S. art worlds, bodybuilding, photography, music and more.

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Soundtrack:
Riisteyt "Pyhaa Sotaa" https://music.apple.com/us/album/pyhaa-sotaa/217539543?i=217539617
Kim Wilde "Love Blonde" https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-blonde/1757418172?i=1757418484
Arpanet "Wireframe Images" https://music.apple.com/us/album/wireframe-images/1743290695?i=1743290706 
Mirrors "Shirley" https://music.apple.com/us/album/shirley/940314215?i=940314223
Sorcier Des Glaces "Through the Veil of Forests" https://music.apple.com/us/album/through-the-veils-of-frost/1694163404?i=1694163807

Follow Dante Guthrie at Instagram: @minisuperjimmydaniel