The Chris Abraham Show
by Chris Abraham
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tl:dr: Just a 55-year-old cisgender white male mansplaining his own self-importance. But good.
Full Summary: The musings of Chris Abraham as he aspires to know the world and himself while getting healthy, losing weight, becoming fit, and running his small business while living in South Arlington, Virginia. Walk with him a while and see what's up.
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- S11E4: My AI Laboratory: Oversoul, the Adjutant, and the Return of the Static Web · 21 min · Season 11 Episode 4A broken Movable Type installation. An old novel. A sunny park bench. Apparently, that is how you end up building an entire AI laboratory. Recording from Penrose Square Park in…
- S11E3: Broken Windows, Missing Wheels · 41 min · Season 11 Episode 3A brand-new SUV stripped of all four wheels and left belly-down in my apartment parking lot gets me thinking about property crime, personal boundaries, and how Americans respond…
- S11E2 The Reality of Risk & Confrontation · 1 h 4 min · Season 11 Episode 2“The First Amendment is not a force field against the Second Amendment.” The world doesn’t owe you a trust fall. In this episode of The Chris Abraham Show, I explore the distance…
- S11E1: Guns: Culture, Crime & Policing in America · 36 min · Season 11 Episode 1Welcome back to Season 11 of The Chris Abraham Show! In this season premiere, host Chris Abraham dives headfirst into the fierce philosophical and cultural debate surrounding gun…
- How I Stole 24 Months of Gameplay in 60 Seconds of Bad Decisions · 1 h 15 min · Season 10 Episode 6This episode is about the end of our Curse of Strahd campaign, and more specifically, about how I ended it. Not Sean Scanlon, our excellent Dungeon Master. Not Strahd. Not just…
- America Goes Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy—A 21-Year Warning About Endless War · 1 h 11 minIn this episode of The Chris Abraham Show, Chris revisits an argument he first made more than two decades ago—an argument about American foreign policy, intervention, and the…
- The Deportation Plan Broke So the Bombs Came Out · 11 min · Season 10 Episode 5In Season 10, Episode 5 of The Chris Abraham Show, I lay out a theory for why Donald Trump pivots to Iran. This isn’t an episode about Iran’s internal politics so much as it’s an…
- Media Capture, Populism, and the NPR Trust Problem · 26 min · Season 10 Episode 4• The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media Empire • The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media In Season 10 Episode 4, Chris Abraham swerves away from the day’s obvious headlines…
- The Ravenloft Dinner That Broke Everything Episode 27 28 29 · 1 h 9 minWelcome back to The Chris Abraham Show. This episode collects Sessions 27 28 and 29 of our Dungeons and Dragons campaign The Curse of Strahd and turns them into one continuous…
- Session Twenty-Six: The Wachter House, a Basement of Skeletons, and the Point Where Vallaki Became Hostile Territory · 60 minSession Twenty-Six picks up at a moment where survival has stopped feeling temporary. By now, the party understands that Barovia doesn’t reset between victories. Vallaki, once a…
- Green Fire on Mount Ghakis: Death, Deceit, and the Slow Collapse of Heroes in Barovia · 1 h 0 minBarovia does not kill you all at once. It lets the mountain do the arguing. Sessions Twenty Four and Twenty Five began with the kind of fragile optimism that only survives when…
- Becoming an Always-On Meshtastic Router by Accident · 52 min · Season 10 Episode 3I didn’t come to Meshtastic with a plan. I bought a cheap purple device off Etsy for about fifty-five dollars because I’d heard the word a few times and vaguely understood it…
- S10E2 Deportation Industrial Complex Goes Full DWOT · 2 h 2 min · Season 10 Episode 2This episode of The Chris Abraham Show is an unscripted, exploratory monologue that circles a single question from multiple angles: what happens to large war-oriented systems…
- S10E01 Uncle Chris Gives an Update · 32 min · Season 10 Episode 1After a long hiatus from live, human-voiced podcasting, Chris Abraham returns with the unofficial kickoff to a new season of The Chris Abraham Show. Call it Season 10, or just…
- Inside the Empire: Why the Holy Family Were Never Refugees · 5 minToday, I want to talk about a claim that shows up every Christmas season, especially online: the idea that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees — that they were undocumented…
- Inside the Empire: Why the Holy Family Were Never Refugees · 52 minWelcome back. Today we’re taking on a Christmas claim that resurfaces every year: that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees, undocumented migrants, or ancient asylum-seekers…
- The Holy Family’s Journey: A Historical Look Beyond Modern Refugee Language · 5 minDiscussions about the birth of Jesus often include the assertion that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees fleeing persecution. This framing is intended to connect the biblical…
- The Holy Family Were Not Refugees: Understanding Their Journey in Historical Context · 57 minThe story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph is one of the most recognized narratives in human history. During the Christmas season, it becomes a focal point of faith, culture, and…
- Sequestered Carbon: Why America’s Private Firearms Change the Balance of Power · 7 minThis episode examines the United States as the only modern nation where privately owned firearms—hundreds of millions of them—form a silent, decentralized balance against the…
- Sequestered Carbon: How Half a Billion Firearms Quietly Rewrite Power in America · 54 minThe United States is the only modern nation where nearly half a billion privately owned firearms—most dormant, unseen, and unorganized—form an unspoken fourth layer of power…
- The People Who Fill The Vacuum: Why Power Never Leaves A Space Empty · 6 minWhen governments fail — slowly, suddenly, or simply enough to be noticed — power doesn’t evaporate. Power reallocates. The world abhors a vacuum, and politics is physics with…
- When The State Isn’t Enough: Cash, Guns, and the Shadow Governments We Pretend Don’t Exist · 2 h 27 minWhen people debate terrorism, cartel violence, insurgency, or the so-called war on drugs, they usually argue morality — who is good, who is evil, who is defending civilization…
- Session 23: Fireball at Dawn — The Road, the Witchmark, and the Shadowless Halfling · 8 minBarovia doesn’t believe in quiet mornings. The sun doesn’t rise so much as negotiate with the fog, and when the party left Argynvostholt—bruised, burned, and out of everything…
- Session 23: The Shadowless Companion and the Vineyard Truce · 57 minIn Barovia, exhaustion isn’t just a condition. It’s a worldview. And when Session Twenty-Three began, that’s exactly where we were—drained, bruised, and barely held together…
- Session 22: Fire in the Webs – The Battle for Argynvostholt · 8 minThe screen fades in on mist. The remains of Argynvostholt rise like a broken cathedral above a grey valley. Then, faintly, the sound of boots, breathing, and whispered plans…
- The Mists of Argynvostholt: A Curse of Strahd Session Chronicle · 1 h 4 minStep into Barovia’s haunted silence in The Mists of Argynvostholt, an audio journey through one of the most intense chapters of our Curse of Strahd campaign. This is Session 22 —…
- Cities, Money, and the Great Escape · 7 minImagine watching a pot of water with frogs in it. The city adds a little heat — higher taxes, new regulations, moral lectures — and waits to see what happens. At first, nothing…
- The Age of Portable Money · 59 minI’ve been thinking a lot about how money moves — and how we still talk about it as if it doesn’t. It all started with a TikTok comment. Somebody asked, “When have rich people…
- Rumspringa for the Republic · 7 minEvery now and then, America drags its elites out of the faculty lounge and into the street fair. It doesn’t matter if the excuse is a war, a crisis, or—this time—the 250th…
- The Republic Always Wins · 1 h 13 minEvery few generations, America forgets how to argue and starts to dance instead. This time the excuse is the 250th birthday — the Semiquincentennial, a word that sounds like it…
- VIDEO: YOU BECOME WHAT YOU PRETEND TO BE · 7 min“You become what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.” — Jean-Paul Sartre In The Great Patriotic Heist, I argued that the American Left has begun performing…
- AUDIO: YOU BECOME WHAT YOU PRETEND TO BE · 1 h 14 min“You become what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.” — Jean-Paul Sartre In The Great Patriotic Heist, I argued that the American Left has begun performing…
- The Great Patriotic Heist — Uncut Audio Symposium · 1 h 0 minThis immersive, long-form audio edition gathers every commentary, Notebook LM segment, stitched reaction, and post-production note from The Great Patriotic Heist project. Think…
- The Great Patriotic Heist — Visual Briefing: How America’s New “Patriotism” Works · 6 minThis episode is a visual-audio walk-through of the Notebook LM “deck” for The Great Patriotic Heist — a multimedia explainer on how America’s political left abruptly rediscovered…
- The Mausoleum with Wi-Fi: A Letter to My Optimist Friend · 58 minHey Jason, First, thank you. Your reply to America = Afghanistan was what debate used to be — informed, generous, and disarmingly human. You didn’t just argue; you elevated. You…
- Dear Jason: On Compost, Graveyards, and the Hungry Republic Between Them · 7 minHey Jason, First, thank you. Your reply to America = Afghanistan was what debate used to be — informed, generous, and disarmingly human. You didn’t just argue; you elevated. You…
- Ashes of Vallaki, Light of Krezk · 7 minEach victory in Barovia costs a soul. Sometimes, it’s your own. The party’s story in these twin sessions begins in ash and ends in resurrection. After the execution of Traxidor…
- The Devil, the Saint, and the Dragon · 50 minIn Barovia, every escape leads to another trial. Salvation, when it comes, is never free. The night after the gallows of Vallaki, the survivors of the party—Radley, Daermon, and…
- The Three Faces of Fascism in America · 7 minFascism, Normies, and the Generational Divide “Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.” Or as I like to say, your ability to put up with a…
- Fascism, Normies, and the Generational Divide · 60 min“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.” Or as I like to say, your ability to put up with a problem is your distance from it. If you’re over…
- Charlie Kirk Blasting Cap Chain Reactions · 8 minThe killing of Charlie Kirk in Utah this September didn’t just extinguish the life of a polarizing activist. It set off a cascade — an implosion in the civic square whose blast…
- The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Detonation of the American Square · 54 minCharlie Kirk’s murder on a Utah stage in September 2025 was not just another grim entry in the catalog of American political violence. It was a detonation — the moment when a…
- Ugly Words, Dangerous Fires · 7 minWhy protecting even offensive words is the only way to prevent violence By Chris Abraham for Substack Every generation rediscovers an old lesson the hard way: words are not…
- Hate Speech, Free Speech, and the Ladder of Escalation · 1 h 2 minHow history, law, and theology warn us against turning words into weapons By Chris Abraham for Substack Some mornings I surprise myself. I wake with the smell of coffee in the…
- A Cleric's Corpse and Barbed Devils · 7 minThe provided text is an excerpt from a Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) session log detailing the exploits of a group of adventurers. Specifically, it documents Session…
- Session Nineteen: Devils in the Mist and Wachter’s Mockery · 60 minThe adventurers began this session crammed into the cellar of a decrepit Vallaki house, hidden by the wereraven Dannika Martikov after their chaotic escape from the gallows…
- Session 18 The Gallows of Vallaki · 38 minUrihorn slipped out at night to fetch his panther companion. The beast bounded over Vallaki’s palisade, jaws clutching a severed arm scavenged from some earlier raid. Urihorn…
- Session Eighteen: Gallows, Ravens, and the Wrath of Lady Wachter · 7 minIn Vallaki, justice is never blind. It is theater, staged with gallows and blood to frighten a weary people into obedience. Barovia wastes nothing, not even prisoners. Only a day…
- The Death of Charlie Kirk and America’s Two Wars · 17 minThe rifle crack that killed Charlie Kirk in Utah was an earthquake. He collapsed with a wound to the neck, was rushed to a hospital, and pronounced dead. But as with any quake…
- Charlie Kirk Aftershocks: America's Two Wars of Meaning · 6 minThe provided text, "Aftershocks: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and the Two Wars of America," analyzes the profound societal divisions exposed by Charlie Kirk's assassination…
