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  • Dad Saves America

    Nvidia Collapse, Midterm Fallout, and Doomsday Preppers

    11/14/2026 | 1h 30 mins.
    Nvidia founder Jensen Huang resigned as CEO after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Meanwhile, Anthropic's IPO filing warns its own AI could pose catastrophic or even existential risks, and the Pentagon is preparing military bases to keep running if an attack takes down the grid.
    Here in Texas, Democrats filed 23 gun control bills in a single day. In California, Democrats are now age-restricting the workout supplement creatine, so they’re coming after your guns on two fronts. With cyber attacks escalating, supply chains fragile, and slow police response times, it's worth asking how self-defense and “public safety” have gotten so out of balance.
    Is it time for all of us to become preppers?
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  • Dad Saves America

    I Debated a Marxist Professor for 4 Hours.

    11/12/2026 | 3h 43 mins.
    I sat down with Professor Andrew Hartman, a Marxist historian at Illinois State University and author of “Karl Marx in America,” for a good-faith, no-holds-barred debate over capitalism, private property, and Marx’s role in America history.
    We get into:
    * What Marx actually meant by abolishing private property
    * Why every communist regime turned militantly against religion
    * The role of entrepreneurship in the American economy
    * Whether wanting a better life for your kids makes you greedy
    * How the Frankfurt School shaped identity politics
    * The Great Depression and the New Deal
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    Outline:
    [0:00] Why hasn’t Marx caught on in America?
    [3:21] From Howard Zinn to Karl Marx
    [8:19] What is Marxism?
    [19:23] Land, property, and capital
    [32:55] Marx’s four intellectual traditions
    [39:14] “Religion is the opiate of the masses”
    [48:28] Marx wasn’t a Luddite
    [56:01] Exploitation and the labor theory of value
    [1:07:03] What does society owe us?
    [1:19:20] Shared prosperity vs economic freedom
    [1:30:53] Do workers only gain power collectively?
    [1:38:41] Does entrepreneurship require capital?
    [1:56:14] Positive vs negative freedom
    [2:01:19] Humans are incredibly malleable
    [2:08:53] The socialist calculation debate
    [2:16:13] Is entrepreneurship worth celebrating?
    [2:26:17] Was Marx a parasite?
    [2:28:47] Did unions and the New Deal build the middle class?
    [2:35:24] Why are history departments so left-wing?
    [2:44:55] Is identity politics Marxist?
    [2:54:17] Millennial socialism and the downwardly mobile elite
    [3:02:11] How can workplace democracy work?
    [3:08:45] What really caused the Great Depression?
    [3:19:49] Power, private equity, and the tax code
    [3:31:22] What does a better America look like?
    [3:35:10] Would socialism protect free speech?
    [3:39:33] Treat young men as individuals
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  • Dad Saves America

    Did Democrats Win the Midterms or Did Trump Just Lose?

    11/07/2026 | 1h 9 mins.
    Democrats took the House and the Senate, and even Texas went blue. Voters blamed high gas prices on the war in Iran, the incoming House Oversight chairman told the administration to lawyer up, and President Trump said Republicans didn’t turn out because he wasn’t on the ballot.
    Looking past the candidates, though, America didn’t take as hard-left a turn as you’d think. Anti-tax, anti-crime, and anti-election fraud measures passed across the country.
    Since the Civil War, the president's party has lost House seats in 38 of 42 midterms. So is this really a realignment, or just the pendulum swinging back?
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    Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/did-democrats-win-the-midterms-or?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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  • Dad Saves America

    Why Islam Keeps Bringing War to the West - Raymond Ibrahim

    11/05/2026 | 1h 25 mins.
    I sat down with Raymond Ibrahim, historian and author of “Sword and Scimitar” and “Defenders of the West,” to discuss what Christians need to know about Islam, the real history of the Crusades, and why the West keeps believing lies about both.
    We get into:
    * What the Quran and Hadith actually teach about Christians
    * Why Bin Laden told the West one story and Al-Qaeda another
    * The 500 years of Islamic conquest before the First Crusade
    * How Muslims justify “religion of peace” propaganda
    * The false history holding together the Red-Green Alliance
    * The modern heresy of “doormat Christianity”
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    Outline:
    [0:00] Muhammad deified tribalism
    [10:27] What is the Islamic dilemma?
    [16:26] The Quran, the Hadith, and Islamic law
    [30:41] The two faces of Al Qaeda
    [36:38] The Crusades were a defensive war
    [44:54] Fake history is more dangerous than fake news
    [51:11] Is Islam any more brutal than the Old Testament?
    [55:41] Why Muhammad got more radical over time
    [1:01:29] Why does the left ally with Islam?
    [1:07:16] The Enlightenment is not what we think it is
    [1:12:46] Muscular vs passive Christianity
    [1:21:03] Pop culture attacks dads because they matter
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  • Dad Saves America

    Zombie Politicians, Boomer Vampires, and the AI Skeleton Key

    10/30/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
    From mailers pushing trans kids to leave their families to an AI discovery that could break the internet, this Halloween is shaping up to be a scary one. And that’s before I start thinking about the midterms on Tuesday.
    Who's steering us through the chaos? A geriatric political class that can barely follow any of it, and a retiree generation that, per a new Cato poll, overwhelmingly backs higher taxes on young workers to protect its own Social Security checks. Meanwhile, the young left's preferred model is France, which is on fire.
    Caught between zombies, vampires, and Jacobins, which scares you most?
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    Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/zombie-politicians-boomer-vampires?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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    Visit our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.dadsavesamerica.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


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About Dad Saves America
Proud papa, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and arm-chair philosopher John Papola explores the biggest issues facing our country through the lens of fatherhood, releasing exclusive interviews and deep dives every week. We need to make sure the next generation of Americans is raised to thrive in a free society and be champions of civilization. Dad Saves America has hosted all sorts of experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew, Michael Shellenberger, Bret Weinstein, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Adam Carolla. www.dadsavesamerica.com
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