Ep. 396 - The Far-Right's Obsession with Lord of the Rings

This is it. The end of Fact Check This Podcast. And we’re going to go out with a bang, talk to old friends, and solve all of the world’s problems over some drinks. So join us for the finale.

Young men won't date woke women. Young women won't date Trump supporters. Politics has become the jumping-off point of the dating world. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Based on the tone of the articles we'll be looking at today, that mostly seems to depend on which of the aforementioned category you fall in to.The Dangerous Rise Of Anti Woke MenMajority of Women Won’t Date a Trump Supporter - NewsweekGen Z men are becoming more conservative. It's impacting dating

Covering a couple of different topics that tie to Trump and what he's been pushing over the last year and a half, and how that's impacting different parts of the world.Opinion | Trump's Indiscriminate War on Migrants Is a War on the Best of America | Common DreamsThe dramatic Trumpification of Latin America

After discussing the unhealthy relationship both teens and their parents have with cellphones with Steve and Dag following today's The Morning After, I decided to read through this article that I had found a while back that suggests parents should consider underachieving.Opinion | Parents, Consider Underachieving - The New York Times

A Salon author reads his own progressive mindset into LotR and then doesn't understand why some popular right-wingers love the books so much. So, par for the course for Salon.Glance – inkl news

According to Esquire the negative backlash to the final season of The Boys, and to the finale in particular, is because the audience just missed the point. It's not because the writers and showrunners decided to go over the top with the heavy-handed politicizing and turned it into pure dog crap... The Boys Finale Backlash Shows Fans Missed Homelander’s Point

When it first came out, The Boys was a cultural phenomenon. So how, just a few years later, did it devolve into just a hollow sounding board for cultural platitudes?

The creator of the Invincible comics, and now animated series, explains why some characters go race and gender swapped from the comics to the tv show. I'd like to look at that reasoning in light of the current social moment we're living in.

Trey and I are going to look back at Gamergate and the consequences it had on gaming in the United States, and also at the aftermath and pushback that has come from those consequences.

Who would have thought a video game where you're tasked with protecting a little girl would become something so controversial. Of course, the controversy only exists in the minds of the most depraved nutjobs of society.The Way Some Gamers Talk About Pragmata's Diana Is Disgusting, And Must Be Stoppedmary morgan on X: "lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up: childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys). men first experience paternal instincts" / X