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Gene and Ben discuss the SPLC controversy, global energy chokepoints, and the decline of trust in institutions.

Send us Fan Mail The week starts with a literal chipmunk voice button mistake and somehow ends with us arguing about global energy chokepoints, collapsing literacy, and why people no longer trust the institutions that claim to protect them. That’s the vibe: two friends, Gene and Ben, trying to sort signal from noise while the headlines keep accelerating. We dig into the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy and why financial allegations land differently than political accusations, th...

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