 Where would you like to be in? Let's start with Peter and James. OK. Tell me about them. Peter Bogosian is a philosophy professor, and James Lindsay is an author with a background in mathematics. They're part of an intellectual movement that has begun pushing back at a problem they see inside the university system. You know, you think, oh, these people are studying racism and sexism and, OK, somebody should be doing that and good. Then you start looking at it, and they publish some crazy stuff. I mean, crazy stuff. Then you start looking at the methods that they're using, and there's no method. It's just a bunch of opinions people are stringing together and they're pretending to be social scientists. These people have manufactured their own corpus of literature, and they publish in these journals, and they use that to credential themselves to sit at the adult table and have conversations that influence public policy, university policy. What an entire generation of students will learn. Microaggressions are real! Microaggressions are real! It's hijacked our institutions. Everybody's petrified of calling this out because they're afraid of being called a bigot or a racist or a homophobe. Well, I'm not afraid. Only a handful of people know about this because one league destroys the whole thing. One single league and we're buried. Our goal is to publish as many papers as we can that are unbelievably sophisticated parodies, and we're going to publish these in tier one journals. So we're trying to go right to the source and say, look, the whole enterprise is bogus, and we're hoping that if we can get to the source and show that the scholarship that everything's coming out of is itself a fraud, nobody has to listen to these people anymore. It's hard to convey to people who are not in this world what an insane idea this is. I mean, literally to delegitimize an entire body of scholarship upon which university architecture is predicated, they give tens of thousands of actual degrees in this stuff, they have professors in these institutes, do you get that? We're going after all of it. It is essential to note that critical race theory is originally an American phenomenon and the evidence that America was a racially divided society with blacks as second class citizens until very recently is indisputable. However, with its recent descent into post-modern discourse analysis and conceptions of society is entirely under the lane by systems of white supremacy operating in mysterious ways, critical race theory has become quite unhinged. It threatens to undo much of the progress that has been made on racial equality. Using methods which assume racism to be present in any interaction between a white person and a person of racial minority results in always finding it and further entrenching the belief in an ever present white supremacy. A similar pattern has emerged within feminism where again everything is seen in terms of a hidden system of patriarchy which hides beneath a benign surface. The job of the feminist is to detect it. Going through life in order to direct ways in which men are belittling you is unlikely to lead to female empowerment. Hello, love. Hello. Peter and James recruited a third author to their academic publishing sting, a feminist historian they referred to as the Oracle. Hello. Hello. Way to meet you. Thank you. Helen has a remarkable ability. When most people read something or try to learn something and they're like, wow, this is bullshit, they'll just stop instantly. But not Helen. Helen will do something extraordinary. She will keep learning about it and keep reading it and keep digging down. And it's absolutely remarkable. So why do you know so much about it but you're not of it? Well, I had to study literary theory for several years as part of studying literature. But I just became interested in it. It's such a counter-intuitive and sort of complicated on the surface but underneath quite simple ideology, framework for belief. And that's what's always interested me. I studied religion because I was interested in how these very complex systems of thought that are internally consistent but need not actually have any basis in reality, how they can spread and how they can be used for different purposes and build on themselves and grow. And this is something that we're seeing with postmodernism and sort of it's successes within sort of social justice. What are they building? What is this thing? Because there's reams and reams and reams of scholarship. And so it's upside down world. There's reams and reams of this stuff. What is it? They are building a new culture and social... They're building a new cultural and social reality. And the goal is to voice that upon you. It is. It's something like a cult or like a religion or something that is based in kind of broken social science. It's pretty full-on. It's the truth. They're religious fucking maniacs. All right, so this is the foyer. Got a lot of China stuff. This is my wife's office and that's kind of her sacred place so don't go in there. This is the kitchen. That's Teddy. Here's the fridge. Help yourself. Recycling trash. No fat goes in the recycling. There's coffee every morning right there. Here's where we eat dinner every night. That's the table. Those are my grandparents. They fled the Armenian massacre. We usually have a lot of Chinese people living here so if you run into them, they don't really speak English. Just say hello and wave and they'll wave back. Okay, here's TV room. We have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon. You just put the TV on and just put what you want and you can figure it out. So my son isn't living in China now. You can have his bedroom. These are narrow stairs, be careful. This is my daughter's room. She makes me ring the bell every time I want to go in. In his room, in his bed, make yourself at home. There's his bed. Got it from Costco. Very comfortable, or IKEA. Very comfortable. Richard Baldwin is a retired professor who donated his identity to the project. This way the team had real academic credentials to submit their papers with. I was bringing speakers to the college and so I chose him and I wrote him and he agreed to do it and I got him there and we just bonded immediately because it was like, we could tell each other everything. I mean, we trust each other for some reason from the first time we met. It's like we hit it off. We sense in each other an honesty, a belief in truth and somehow I almost felt like we had met in another lifetime. I would almost make him be reincarnation because we clicked immediately and so even after he left, after we had a great time, we kept in touch and that was three years ago but we've kept in touch emailing or texting, stuff like that. He's clean. I'm not one look at me and that would be an instantly torpedoed and they would know and I couldn't manufacture a fake name or a fake identity and so he was perfect and then, yeah, go ahead and then I befriended him on Facebook and I eliminated all of our social media contacts so that no one would connect us. They decided to start off by coming up with a research paper about social justice bodybuilding. How about pornography? Yeah, we could talk about pornography for sure because if you go online, you can find female bodybuilding porn. I'll take your word for it, but that, so that right there is a hook. So now we have- Denise Massino is a former competitor and she, everybody in the bodybuilding world knows that she's done all that stuff. She tons of- What's your name? Denise Massino. Massino? Massino. M-A-S-S-I-N-O, I think. Oh my holy shit. Oh my gosh. Do you need a porn video set? See what I'm talking about? And she's got this enormous click and enormous stuff from all those drugs and it's like, she's big. Wow, that is just extraordinary. Wow, that's, all right, we're gonna have to use her in this somehow. Oh God, so let's link fat studies in here somehow. Maybe we can make the claim that female bodybuilders should be, oh God, that's fucking good. Female bodybuilders should be morbidly obese. And there should be, instead of this unnatural testosterone or whatever drugs, you know, bovine growth hormone or whatever these people take, maybe instead of that, they should be twinkies. So it'll be more egalitarian and then middle American women can participate in these body physique shows to help with their self-esteem. Now that's a paper right there. Now that, now any rational person who would, they would think that's just totally, like that's crazy. Like that's an absolutely insane idea. The more ridiculous we can be, the more attention it'll get in the media. Bodybuilding is crazy. Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners are all homosexuals and closeted and wanting to engage in BDSM sex, but can't, it's crazy. It also probably will end up in the decent journal, which is even crazier. Mike, you look just, it's a lot. Just incredulous and overwhelmed and it's just total disbelief. It's just hard for me to believe that any of this is going to work. Look, I guess you believe based upon the outcome, right? That's what you believe.