The Jeremy Boreing Show

Last June, former Navy SEAL and podcast host Shawn Ryan tweeted, "I've fought in enough fake wars. I think I'll sit this one out." That phrase — "fake war" — is doing more damage to American veterans than anyone has been willing to say. It's Memorial Day. The 2,500 Americans who died in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the men and women who came home carrying what they did there, deserve better than a culture that has decided their cause was invented, their sacrifice was foolish, and their service was, at best, a mistake — and at worst, evil. Jeremy Boreing argues otherwise.

Jeremy gets into: Shawn Ryan's "fake wars" tweet and the audience capture behind it; the Yale / University of Amsterdam study on how China launders its positions through TikTok influencers; the 2023 moment Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America" went viral on TikTok; the polling showing nearly 1-in-3 Gen Z voters now describe Osama bin Laden's views as a force for good; why Afghanistan was justice, not a war of choice; the lie of "forever war" and what 80 years of American troops in Germany, Japan, and Korea actually bought the West; how Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and the soldiers who defeated Imperial Japan are being retroactively villainized by the same voices; the 9/11 conspiracy industry's strange second life; Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, the chemical attacks on the Kurds, and why every major Western intelligence service believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; President George W. Bush's 2007 surge and the Sunni Awakening that broke the back of the insurgency; President Barack Obama's 2011 withdrawal and the ISIS caliphate that rushed into the vacuum; the February 2016 South Carolina primary debate where Donald Trump dropped the phrase “forever wars” to take down Jeb Bush; President Joe Biden's $85 billion in American military hardware now in Taliban hands; Richard Nixon, the Christmas bombings, and how a Democratic Congress in 1975 gave away the Vietnam victory the military had already secured on the battlefield; how President Donald Trump destroyed ISIS, killed Qasem Soleimani, removed Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, and authorized strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities; how Vladimir Putin can sustain a meat grinder in Ukraine while America's two-party system can't sustain political will past one election; the 2023 survey in which 73% of veterans said it was the withdrawal, not the war, that changed how they view their service; and the just war doctrine of Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas — and how rewriting a war as "fake" manufactures moral injury that never had to exist.

This is one of the most important monologues Jeremy Boreing has delivered.

00:00 The Origin of Memorial Day 

02:19 "I've Fought in Enough Fake Wars" — The Shawn Ryan Tweet 

04:28 China, TikTok, and Bin Laden's Manifesto Going Viral 

06:04 Vietnam, Yellow Ribbons, and the Lesson We Forgot 

07:49 Afghanistan Was Not a Mistake 

12:31 The "Forever War" Lie and the 9/11 Conspiracy Industry 

15:57 Iraq: Saddam, the Surge, and the Win That Was Squandered 

22:29 Obama Threw It All Away — and ISIS Filled the Vacuum 

28:58 How Trump Won the GOP by Attacking the Wars 

34:14 Just War Doctrine and Manufactured Moral Injury 

38:12 Thank You, Veterans: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Global War on Terror 

43:24 At 3 PM Today, Stop What You’re Doing

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The internet has handed the human race an old tool with a new edge: the power to form a mob in seconds, choose a scapegoat by lunchtime, and feel the sweet relief of expulsion before dinner. Jeremy sits down with one of the most consequential builders of modern Catholic media to ask what kind of spiritual force is actually moving through our feeds — and what it costs the people wielding it.

Jeremy is joined by Father Steve Grunow, the executive director of Word on Fire — the apostolate he has built alongside Bishop Robert Barron over the last 25 years into the preeminent Catholic media institution in the world. A priest of nearly three decades, a former competitive bodybuilder, and a media operator who has spent his entire career at the intersection of evangelism and technology, Fr. Steve brings both the pulpit and the boardroom to a conversation about the spiritual stakes of the internet age.

They get into: René Girard's scapegoating mechanism and why it has metastasized inside social media; the corrupting effect of influence on those who reach for it; the satanic logic of wielding dark forces like antisemitism for clicks; the 60-year civil war inside the Catholic Church and why it has weakened the Church's immune system; the uniquely American ecumenical alliance between Catholics, Jews, and evangelical Protestants and why it is now under threat; the grotesquerie of weaponized “Christ is King” content; the rise of Catholic LARPing and a new Pharisaism online; the cultural revolution of 2016 as a false-prophet moment, with Wokism on its tripod of racialism, queer identitarianism, and sex-war feminism; the wave of young men flooding back into the Catholic Church; the bodybuilder priest and what the gym taught him about evangelism; and finally the triumph of the Lamb.

00:00  Are We Living in an Antichrist Moment?

00:48  Is Media a Tool for Evangelism?

03:29  René Girard, Scapegoating, and the Online Mob

09:00  The Roman Roads, the Gospel, and the Devil Watching

16:59  Two Kingdoms, Two Banners

31:26  Influence, Ego, and the Corrosion of Power

39:39  Wielding Dark Spiritual Forces — Antisemitism for Clicks

43:41  The Catholic Civil War and America's Ecumenical Exception

53:45  Saved by “The Wrong Blood”

1:00:20  What Beauty Really Is — and Why It's Being Destroyed

1:17:07  Catholic LARPing and the “Christ Is King” Grotesquerie

1:38:19  The Revival, the False Prophet of 2016, and the Triumph of the Lamb

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The internet is convulsing with AI hysteria. Sam Altman is paying ten thousand dollars to have his brain chemically preserved — provided he's euthanized first. Bernie Sanders and AOC want to ban every new data center in America. And the "Godfather of AI" says there's a 20% chance the machines wipe out humanity in thirty years.

Jeremy says: enough.

AI is not the apocalypse. It is not the messiah. It is a mirror and a lever — and the only real question is who picks it up. Christians and conservatives have spent fifteen years retreating from every tool that mattered. Do that with AI and we don't preserve civilization. We abandon it.

Jeremy gets into: Sam Altman's plan to be euthanized so a server can host his brain; the viral "23 atomic bombs" claim about Kevin O'Leary's 40,000-acre Utah data center — and the 6,500 bombs-a-day of solar radiation the same desert already absorbs; Bernie and AOC's AI Data Center Moratorium Act; the thirteen gunshots fired into Indianapolis councilman Ron Gibson's home after he voted for a rezoning; what AI is already doing in drug discovery, cancer detection, and farming; the real history of the Luddites — and Socrates, the railroad panic, and "railway madness"; Anthropic's Dario Amodei flirting with the idea that Claude is conscious; why Christian anthropology destroys the materialist AI worldview; the dominion mandate; Elon Musk's "superabundance" fantasy and the sweat-of-the-brow problem; the fixed-pie fallacy; Daily Wire's 18-month run as the #1 publisher on all of Facebook; the China AI race; and why this generation was handed this moment on purpose.

Christ is King. He hasn't lost the plot. Now build.

00:00 — The AI panic machine is in overdrive

01:34 — Sanders, AOC, and the data center moratorium

02:09 — The Utah data center and the "23 atomic bombs" claim

04:06 — Fracking, fear, and the industry of panic

05:14 — What AI can actually do for us

06:31 — The Luddites and every panic that came before

10:11 — What AI actually is (and isn't)

14:15 — Jobs, displacement, and the fixed-pie fallacy

26:09 — Conservatives can't sit this one out

29:21 — Build the future or lose it

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#ArtificialIntelligence #SamAltman #DataCenters #Luddites #ChristIsKing #DominionMandate #OpenAI #Anthropic #ElonMusk #ChinaAI #DailyWire #BuildersNotLuddites

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A lot of people are worried about what AI is going to do to us. The new technologies, as Jeremy puts it in this episode, invoke in all of us a kind of awe and wonder on the one hand, and a kind of fear of the future on the other. Both reactions deserve serious people taking them seriously.

Jeremy is joined by Patrick Wood, founder of Citizens for Free Speech, who has been researching the Trilateral Commission since 1978 and co-wrote two volumes on it with the late Professor Anthony Sutton, and Courtenay Turner, his co-author on Final Betrayal and host of The Courtenay Turner Podcast. Together they make the case that an unaccountable technocratic class has captured the second Trump administration, that constitutional self-government is at risk, and that the AI buildout is the infrastructure for what comes next.

Jeremy hears them out — Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, the dark enlightenment, JD Vance’s post-liberalism, the Genius Act and stablecoin tokenization, what Trump is doing in Gaza. But he also tells them where he disagrees: he pushes back on what he calls the "unified field theory" of the elite, he says he doesn’t fear the technology itself, and he makes the theological case for why there will never be a sentient AI. They get into: what "technocracy" actually meant when it was coined in 1937; the Brzezinski-to-Rockefeller intellectual through-line; Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, and the dark enlightenment’s anti-democratic vision; the Highland Rim project and Christian-nationalist network states; the Genius Act and the road to stablecoin tokenization; the proposed natural asset companies and the $126 trillion blockchain announcement; Trump’s Board of Peace, World Liberty Financial, and the Gaza experiment; JD Vance, Peter Thiel, and the post-liberal Catholic-integralist orbit; the printing press and what disruptive technology actually does to a civilization; and the two forces Jeremy calls the most powerful on this plane of existence — God’s sovereignty and self-interest.

00:00 Has a Technocratic Elite Replaced Our Constitution?

01:35 What Technocracy Actually Is

08:11 The Strongest Case for Rule by Experts

15:34 The Dark Enlightenment, Nick Land, and Curtis Yarvin

29:33 Tokenization and the End of Ownership

45:01 Why I Don’t Buy the Unified Field Theory

57:58 Why There Will Never Be a Sentient AI

01:02:13 The Printing Press Argument

01:09:29 Trump, JD Vance, and the Post-Liberal Right

01:38:13 Hope for the Future

01:50:32 God’s Sovereignty and Self-Interest

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On Tuesday, Jeremy argued the populist right is selling a poison — that something was promised to you, that something was taken from you, that the only thing left to do is name the enemies who took it and destroy them. Tonight we’re taking that out of the philosophical and into the practical.

We're six months from a midterm in a second-term presidency that the party in power usually loses by default. And the right has a problem that isn't new: we only know how to win by losing. We build careers out of being persecuted. We mistake martyrdom for strategy. We turn our defeats into the most glamorous parts of our politics. But you don't win that way. You only win by winning. And winning is unsexy. It looks like making the bed. It looks like persuading the voter who doesn't already agree with you. It looks like the slow, deeply unglamorous work of saving the country one choice at a time.

I'm joined tonight by three sharp voices in conservative media: Graham Allen, host of Dear America and a former Pentagon digital comms lead; Jesse Arm, VP of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute, who runs their polling shop and has been making the strategic case against the dissident right from inside the coalition; and our very own Joel Berry, senior producer at JBS, who spent seven years at the Babylon Bee and has been one of the most consistent Christian voices pushing back on the Tate / Fuentes wing of the dissident right.

00:00 Graham Allen Went Inside the Administration — Here's What He Found 

01:43 How the Right Built a Business Model Around Losing 

06:27 Tucker Is Still Running as a Loser — Even After We Won 

08:56 The Babylon Bee Got Banned and It Was Great for Business 

11:54 Why Democrats Keep Drifting Left of Their Own Voters 

22:50 Gen Z Is Running on Vibes, Not Ideology 

27:10 You Don't Have to Listen to Candace for Candace to Change Your Mind 

33:01 Nick Fuentes Is a Cult Leader — And This Is Exactly How It Works 

40:15 We've Arrested the Development of an Entire Generation 

47:27 The Post-Religious Right Is Worse Than the Religious Right

#TrumpChina #ThomasMassie #NYT #ConservativeMedia #Midterms2026 #GrahamAllen #JesseArm #JoelBerry

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Last week, Christina Buttons told me our culture is "deeply biased against agency." She's right. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

The left has spent two decades teaching young people that they are prisoners of systemic forces too large to fight. The populist right has spent the last few years teaching the same people that they are victims of a stolen inheritance, robbed by enemies who must be named and

destroyed. The packaging is different. The product is the same — the relief of not being responsible, and the warm, addictive feeling of having someone to blame.

It is poison — for individuals, and for republics.

In this monologue Jeremy gets into what agency actually means, why Tucker

Carlson's recent attack on Ben Shapiro is a perfect window into what the populist right is selling, and why the data on human flourishing — from the Harvard Study of Adult Development to Raj Chetty's mobility

research to Viktor Frankl's observations from the concentration camps — all points the same direction: the belief that your choices matter is one of the strongest predictors of whether your life goes well.

Jeremy also gets into René Girard's scapegoat mechanism, why the rising

antisemitism on both the left and the right has the exact shape Girard predicted, why every revolution premised on perfecting man has produced mass graves, and why Jordan Peterson's most-mocked piece of advice — clean your room — is the operational definition of agency.

And Jeremy tells us what we actually do about it. Marry the right person. Go to church. Serve your community. Work hard. Refuse, every single day, to accept the role of the victim.

The country is you and three hundred million other people who are each doing the same calculation about whether their own life is worth taking responsibility for. If enough of us decide it is, the country gets

fixed.

#Agency #TuckerCarlson #BenShapiro #JordanPeterson #Conservatism

00:00 — Agency: the most unfashionable idea in politics

01:14 — The Harvard Study, Raj Chetty, and the Shapiro–Carlson fight

06:35 — Learned helplessness and Viktor Frankl

09:44 — The left's victimhood and the right's victimhood

12:23 — René Girard, scapegoats, and where the playbook always ends

20:38 — The most important thing Jordan Peterson ever said

23:32 — The victim identity is a transfer of power

27:23 — The 1950s myth and "bad policy isn't an excuse for a bad life"

30:00 — Adam, Eve, and the original denial of agency

31:33 — Six rules to rule the world

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When Christina Buttons was 30, she was diagnosed with autism — and felt

immediate relief. The diagnosis explained her teenage mental health

crises, her social difficulties, her sense that something about her was

just "off." She joined the online autism community, started advocating,

and built an identity around it.

Then she started reporting on it. And what she found made her question

the diagnosis itself.

In this conversation, Christina walks through the broadening of the DSM

criteria, the "female autism phenotype," social camouflaging, and how a

clinical disorder became a social identity that almost anyone can adopt.

We get into the pipeline from autism to gender dysphoria, why both

diagnoses share the same demographic, and what happens to the kids with

profound autism when the label expands to cover everyone.

Then we go to California — where Gavin Newsom has restructured Medi-Cal

so federal mental health dollars now fund housing, groceries, drum

circles, and "radical inclusivity." Where schools have become psychiatric

clinics. Where a 12-year-old can receive a diagnosis and ongoing therapy

without their parents ever being told. And where the line between mental

health treatment and progressive activism has been deliberately erased.

Christina's reporting at City Journal and the Manhattan Institute is some

of the most important work being done on this beat. This is one of those

conversations you’ll think about for weeks afterward.

Chapters:

00:00 Christina Buttons on the Autism Social Contagion

01:19 Christina's Adult Diagnosis — and Why She Now Doubts It

11:02 The Real Harm of Overdiagnosis

19:50 Autism as Social Currency in LA

28:43 The Pipeline From Autism to Gender Dysphoria

31:07 Inside California's $15B Mental Health Scandal

41:00 How the Trans Agenda Hides in California Schools

50:19 Is the Internet a Trap?

1:01:53 Are We Becoming a Society Where Everyone Has a Disorder?

1:09:15 The Software-Hardware Trap of Modern Psychiatry

1:12:28 The Graceless Culture and the Loss of Agency

1:20:20 How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

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Last night Candace Owens dropped a 236-claim response video aimed at Jeremy. Tonight, Jeremy and the panel–featuring Shabbos Kestenbaum, Ami Kozak, and Billy Hallowell–unpack exactly why she did it that way — and why no amount of "evidence" she manufactures will ever satisfy the audience she's built. The trick isn't proof. It's preponderance. And it's the same trick Tucker Carlson is running, the same trick the groypers are running, and the same trick that 2010-era chain emails about Walmart concentration camps were running before any of these people had a microphone.

Jeremy is joined by Billy Hallowell, CBN host, author of Fault Lines, and director of the new documentary CBN Supernatural; Shabbos Kestenbaum, the Orthodox Jewish Harvard antisemitism plaintiff and a Gen Z voice tracking the woke right from inside it; and Ami Kozak, the Jewish creator and culture critic who's been naming the conduct, not just debating the points.

They get into Candace's 236-allegation gish gallop and why it's designed to be unanswerable; the "wine mom" cohort smearing Erika Kirk and inventing massage-tear conspiracies; Tucker Carlson as a "confusion artist" deliberately disorienting his viewers; the woke right vs. the woke left and why Gen Z men are the target market; Obama's institutional capture and Trump's permission structure for being our worst selves; why Jeremy fired Candace and would burn the company down to do it again; the "authority transfer" that happens when audiences catch institutions lying; the Afghan soldier who thought the moon was the size of a golf ball; Marco Rubio's surprisingly optimistic White House moment; the federal officials who briefed pastors on extraterrestrial "disclosure"; Jeremy's own unspoken supernatural experience; and why conspiracy theories are comfort food in a chaotic world.

00:00 “Hey guys!”

02:56 Candace's 236-Claim Response Video 

19:07 The Wine Moms Smearing Erika Kirk 

26:06 Why Gen Z Will Surprise Everyone 

39:35 Obama Broke the Institutions, Trump Broke the Manners 

52:38 "I Fired Candace. I'd Do It Again." 

1:12:24 Tucker Carlson, the Confusion Artist 

1:30:42 The Federal Pastors Briefing on Aliens

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When the Daily Wire laid off about fifty employees last week, Candace Owens told her millions of followers it was over fifty percent of the workforce. Then sixty. "Absolute bloodbath." None of it was true. But in 2026, lies are fast and the truth gets there last.

Jeremy Boreing exposes a much bigger story behind the layoffs: we are now living inside an information environment that structurally rewards being first to a frame over being right about a fact, and that the personality-driven podcast economy has done nothing to fix the failures of legacy media. In many ways, it has made them worse.

He walks through the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; the actual journalistic codes on the books since 1924 that we've simply stopped following; the Obama-era pivot from truth-telling to change-making in the newsroom; Billy Wilder's 1951 film Ace in the Hole that saw the whole thing coming; Russiagate, the lab-leak theory, and the Hunter Biden laptop as the prelude; the rise of what he calls the "grift industrial complex" — where cynicism stops being a tool and becomes the thing you serve; Candace Owens's audacious public claim that the George Farmer arrested in Nashville is not her husband George Farmer; Tucker Carlson's Dominion lawsuit, his on-the-record willingness to lie when a lie helps him win, and his recent New York Times interview where he accused unnamed neoconservatives of "treachery" and admitted, on the record, that he couldn’t confirm what he was talking about; Gresham's Law of bad journalism driving out good; and Alcuin of York's eighth-century warning that the voice of the crowd is always close to madness.

Not a defense of legacy media. Not a brief against new media. An argument that the answer to the failures of the institutions is to build better institutions — not to abandon the model of journalism altogether for crowd-sourced certainty — and that all of us, audiences and creators alike, have to be willing to question ourselves before we question the headline.

00:00 The Truth Behind the Daily Wire Layoffs 

04:23 Gell-Mann Amnesia (and the Lies You’ve Heard About Me)

07:06 When Journalism Had Real Standards

13:02 Billy Wilder Saw This Coming in 1951

15:36 The Grift Industrial Complex

20:33 George Farmer's Arrest

22:19 Tucker Carlson's Casual Lies

25:35 Gresham's Law and the Path Forward

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Anti-Zionism on the left and the right in America today is a kind of envy — envy of a country that still has permission to define itself, defend itself, and have a future. That's the opening claim Alana Newhouse makes to Jeremy Boreing in this two-hour conversation about Zionism, American identity, and the cultural project of believing in tomorrow.

Jeremy sits down with Alana Newhouse — founder and editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine, author of the breakout essays "Everything Is Broken," "Brokenness," and "Zionism for Everyone" — for a wide-ranging conversation that uses Israel as a lens for diagnosing what's wrong with America.

They get into culture as a "mixing board" (race is loud in Japan, irrelevant in Israel — every culture calibrates differently); America's twin tethers of capitalism and covenant; the four questions Alana says every country has to be able to answer (are your people happy? do they have babies? can they defend themselves? are they future-oriented?); Tucker Carlson's truth-and-lie about Israel and the black pill industrial complex aimed at demoralizing Americans; the Artemis splashdown, the F-15 weapons officer rescue in Iran, and "what are the machines for?"; Alana's four-bucket framework for any institution (conserve, reform, destroy, build new); why she's drawn to leaders like Modi and Milei but skeptical of Orban and "Make America Great Again"; the original meaning of ethnos (it's not bloodline, it's the music a people make together); why anti-Semitism is a symptom and not a cause; and the fertility hiccup, the Gen X reckoning, and the case that creation itself is an act of optimism.

Not a defense of Israeli policy. Not a brief against the contemporary right. A clinical, hopeful argument that the formula that built Israel — particularism plus pragmatism plus idealism — is exportable, and that the future belongs to whoever shows up to build it.

00:00 Anti-Zionism Is Just Envy

05:14 America's Twin Tethers — Capitalism and Covenant

12:22 The "Mixing Board" — Why Cultures Have to Be Different

25:17 The Zionism Formula and the 4 Questions Every Country Must Answer

31:59 What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong About Israel

36:30 The Black Pill Trap and the Lost Faith in the Moon Landing

45:00 Why Alana Built Tablet — Creation as an Act of Optimism

56:35 The Right's Failure on Social Media (and Why AI Is Next)

1:03:22 The 4 Buckets: Conserve, Reform, Destroy, Build New

1:21:39 When Ethnos Goes Wrong — and Why the Nation-State Still Wins

1:28:11 Modi, Milei, Orban — Looking for Joy in World Leaders

1:34:05 The Artemis Diver and the F-15 Rescue: "What Are the Machines For?"

1:46:09 Anti-Semitism Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

1:49:02 Fertility, Gen X, and the Hiccup We Have to Correct

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