Show Notes
Wednesday LIVE with Nick Freitas, Jared Monroe, and John Strand. What is a conservative? What defines the American right? In 2026 those questions no longer have an obvious answer — and the fight over it is tearing the Conservative Movement apart in real time.
In this live panel, Jeremy Boreing sits down with three men who have each answered that question with their lives, to ask what conservatism is actually supposed to be — not what it's against, but what it's for. Because right now the movement is at war with itself over almost everything.
The Tate brothers were arrested, and while most of the right saw justice being done, a loud corridor of the movement rushed to their defense. There's the JD Vance–Marco Rubio split, the fight over Iran, and — of all things — Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey, which the right fighting about savagely. Underneath every one of those fights is the same question: who gets to define this movement, and the country the movement claims it wants to conserve?
In this episode: – What is a conservative? Propositional Americanism vs. the purity death spiral — and the real fight underneath the JD Vance / Marco Rubio foreign-policy noise. – "What is a man for?" The Tate arrest, the young men sold strength at no cost, and what the outrage machine and the Tate brand have in common. The Odyssey. How the oldest story in Western civilization became a casting-war loyalty test — and what that costs the movement that claims to defend it.
GUESTS:
Nick Freitas — former U.S. Army Special Forces weapons sergeant with two combat tours in Iraq, and a ten-year veteran of the Virginia House of Delegates who chose not to seek re-election.
Jared Monroe — known for years as "Not Gay Jared" alongside Steven Crowder, now running his own independent media operation.
John Strand — a former America's Frontline Doctors figure from Simone Gold's COVID-skeptic operation, author of Patriot Plea, and a Congressional candidate in Florida’s 19th district.
This is a conversation about American conservatism, the MAGA coalition, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and what American conservatism becomes if it forgets what it was ever trying to conserve. Three men, three very different roads, one question.
0:00 – Cold Open: Tate Brothers' Arrest, The Odyssey's Record Debut & Crisis on the Right 5:49 – Reacting to Nolan's The Odyssey: Conservative Story, "Woke" Casting? 11:22 – Ceding Cultural Ground: Why Conservatives Stopped Making Art 19:28 – Parenting Through Pop Culture: Turning Media Into Teaching Moments 26:48 – Nolan's Bold Choices & the "Want-to-Want-Tos" of Conservative Film 30:36 – Candace Owens, the Kirk Assassination Conspiracies & the Cult of "Receipts" 41:47 – COVID, the Groyper War & the Rise of Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes 53:42 – The Founders, Human Nature & the Constitutional Order 59:24 – Escaping the Internet: Real Community & the "Severance" Effect 1:05:24 – Mass Immigration, Assimilation & the Great Replacement Debate 1:11:05 – Nice Jesus vs. Angry Jesus: Christian Tribalism Online 1:18:19 – Community, Comedy & Why Gen Z Is Returning to Movie Theaters 1:23:23 – Faith, Family & the Jewish Model of Legacy 1:28:32 – Great Man vs. Good Man: Redefining Masculine Legacy 1:37:49 – Jeremy's Razors, Voting & Defining Conservatism in 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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