Shrink The Nation
By Dr. Rob and Dr. David
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Shrink The Nation is a political psychology podcast where two military psychiatrists break down current events, cognitive dissonance, polarization, propaganda, trust collapse, and why facts stop working.
Dr. David and Dr. Robby analyze the behavior underneath the headlines: blame-shifting, grievance politics, media manipulation, institutional failure, authoritarian behavior, group dynamics, and the psychology of modern American politics. Sharp, funny, clinically informed, and built for people who want to understand the machinery without pretending everything is normal.
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What Would Change Your Mind? The Psychology of Political Certainty
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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The Future Gets a Vote: Oil Prices, Politics, and the Psychology of Prediction
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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The Politics of Possession: Demons, Communists, and the Iran War
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Whose Evidence Counts? Trump, Peptides, and Selective Skepticism
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The Grand Unified Conspiracy: Why We Need One Story to Explain Everything
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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The Outrage Economy: Why Modern Politics Competes for Your Moral Attention
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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When the Grift Has Paperwork: Trump, Crypto, and Public Office
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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The Department of Blame Management
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The Enemy You Needed:
Private Wounds, Public Targets, and the Politics of Blame
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Andrew Tate, MAGA, and the Myth of Power: Status, Dominance and the Performance of Power
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Out of Your Element, Donnie:
Ballrooms, Bureaucrats, and Bad Ideas
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Strategy or Theatre? Decisions, Delusions and Second Order Effects
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Hopium, Hormuz, and the Price of Pretend
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May 26, 2026 |
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No Episode This Week (We’re Not Going to Fake One)
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May 19, 2026 |
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When the Joke Is the Test
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May 12, 2026 |
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Old Crow in a Gold Bottle: Confidence, Competence, and the Cost of Pretend
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May 05, 2026 |
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Just a Guy: Power, Loyalty, and the Refusal to Be Checked
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Divine Cosplay and Movement Without Strategy
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Myth of Inevitable Power (Hungary’s Snap-Back Moment)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Cosplay Cabinet, Real Consequences
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Deepfakes, White Male Fragility, and the New Loyalty Tests
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Jessica Foster Isn't Real. The Loyalty Is.
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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When Looking Real Replaces Knowing Anything
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Trump, Iran, and the Psychology of Impulsive Power: When Hope Is Not a Strategy
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Trump vs. the Supreme Court: IEEPA Tariffs, Delegitimizing the Referee, and Gaza’s “Board of Peace”
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Pam Bondi’s “Search History” Folder: How DOJ Audit Logs Become a Threat to Congressional Oversight
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The “You Sh*t My Pants” Defense: Trump’s Truth Social, Plausible Deniability, and Chaos as Strategy
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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When Tribes Shrink: The Melania Documentary & the Killing of Alex Pretti
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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The White House Is Sh*tposting: AI Memes, Greenland Penguins, and Reality Drift
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Iran Protests, “Insurrection” Talk & the Cockpit Wings Rule
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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When Power Stops Explaining Itself: Venezuela, Numbness, and the Psychology of Control
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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When Invasion Feels Normal: How We Learned to Shrug
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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2025 Year in Review: Anxiety, Control, and the Collapse of Trust in American Politics
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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The Cracking Avatar: Trump, Spectacle Politics, and Why Restraint Feels Radical
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Power, Projection, and Gerrymandering: Why Restraint Feels Radical in American Politics
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Moral Displacement, Pajama Wars, and the Rise of AI Propaganda
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Holiday Chaos, Narco-Terror, and the Rush Hour Reboot Nobody Asked For
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Identity Crisis Nation: Resignations, Ratings, and the AI Martyr Machine
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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McConaughey for Governor? And Other Signs We’ve Lost the Plot
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Congress: Family Therapy for the Republic
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Daddy Issues, Data Issues and Divine Right Delusions
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Medal, The Martial, and The Meme
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Shutdown, MTG Defection and Non-Legal Tender: Because You're Not Crazy, This is Nuts!
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The American Divorce: When Red and Blue Call It Quits
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Psychology of Political Violence: Fear, Belonging, and the Seduction of Us vs Them
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The American Shadow: Jung, History, and The Stuff We Don’t Talk About
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Algorithm Made Me Do It: Curated Realities and the American Experiment
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#GirlBossBurnout: When Empowerment Becomes Another Job (And How to Clock Out)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Paranoid Nation: Why Conspiracies Feel So Good (and Steal Your Power)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Allison Has Notes: Smurfette, Patriarchy, and the “Male Loneliness” Panic
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The Death of Shame
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Your Aunt Is the Propagandist Now
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Tapping Out: Hormones vs. Hype
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Testo-Rage & Tenderness: Empathy for Gen Z Men
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Uncle Sam Back on the Couch: Bourbon, Archetypes, and the American Psyche
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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America on the Couch: A Psychological Exploration
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Presidents, Projection, and the Madness of Expectations
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Power and Weight of Projection... And Some Other Stuff
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Back Into the Void (With Notes this Time!)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Is Anything Even Real Anymore? (The Nihilism Episode)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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"The Moops": A Cultural Reference
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Cognitive Dissonance Nation
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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America's Grandiosity Complex
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Why are we even doing this?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Pre-Launch Episode
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Jul 07, 2025 |