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31:033.5K views · 2d ago · 31:03
Massive protests have filled the streets across France—with hundreds of thousands of students, workers, and citizens pushing back against failing public systems, inflation, and political gridlock. But what does this unrest say about the status of the political center across Western democracies?
7:541.9K views · 6d ago · 7:54
Understanding this, the question becomes what can Gen Z learn from the excesses of earlier generations? This is an excerpt from the episode "Millennials and Gen Z Were in Trouble Once Baby Boomers Decided Greed Was Good" (
36:101.7K views · 1w ago · 36:10
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana continue their “Streaming Between the Lines” series and discuss the 2022 documentary “Theodore Roosevelt” (directed by Malcolm Venville), exploring the 26th President’s legacy as a fighter against corruption and for working people as well as his efforts to regulate industry and protect public interests.
7:301.1K views · 1w ago · 7:30
Excerpt from the episode "Assessing the AI Doomsday Warnings: the Call is Coming from Inside the House ( In that episode, James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana took a look at what appears to be an increasing number of warnings that humans may already be losing control of artificial intelligence systems and these systems may kill us all, discussed how many of the warnings seem to be that coming from AI professionals, and considered whether American society’s investment into AI is…
37:073.9K views · 2w ago · 37:07
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at a recent attempt to quantify the extent to which culture, as opposed to genetic evolution, enabled humans to quickly adapt to different conditions and rapidly spread out all over world, discuss elements from Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" which touched on this concept a decade ago, and consider how the convergence of culture that defines the modern age may make humans less equipped for long term survival.
30:256.8K views · 3w ago · 30:25
Guest: AI Doomsday Warnings
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at what appears to be an increasing number of warnings that humans may already be losing control of artificial intelligence systems and these systems may kill us all, discuss how many of the warnings seem to be that coming from AI professionals, and consider whether American society’s investment into AI is already so substantial that it would be unable to turn back no matter the consequence.
5:443.2K views · 3w ago · 5:44
Why do people support leaders who pick their pockets? In this clip, Tunde Ogunlana and James Keys break down the profound and disturbing Lyndon B. Johnson quote on social hierarchy, the psychology of transference, and how modern political movements weaponize status to distract from massive financial grift.
25:283.1K views · 1mo ago · 25:28
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at the controversy involving Macklemore, Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft and discuss why our society has trouble dealing with an issue at the intersection humanity and antiwar sentiment, antisemitism, and oligarch control.
24:042.2K views · 1mo ago · 24:04
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss Nikole Hannah Jones’ decision to send her own daughter to an under resourced public school and how her effort to be a part of the solution to the problems facing inner city public schools and consider whether the systemic issues in American education are solvable.
6:302.8K views · 1mo ago · 6:30
Excerpt from the episode "Jay-Z Selling Out Mainstream Black America Is Understood Through Eugene Robinson’s 'Disintegration' " ( In that episode, James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discussed the Jay-Z’s deal with Target to exclusively release the 30th anniversary edition of his first album Reasonable Doubt despite (or taking advantage of) efforts from black activists to maintain boycott against Target for its rollback of DEI initiatives.
37:313.8K views · 1mo ago · 37:31
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at some recent research that investigates how having power really can change a person down to a hormonal and brain chemistry level, and consider whether this refutes or explains the old idiom that power tends to corrupt and absolute power absolutely corrupts. The guys also discuss how certain personality traits and power tend to come together and how accountability, or the lack thereof, plays a role in how power is exercised.
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