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Hosted by Dr. Rob and Dr. David · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 64 episodes
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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.
Dr. Rob and Dr. David hosts Shrink The Nation, a news show with 64 episodes published.
What would it take to convince you that you're wrong? Dr. David and Dr. Robby are finally recording in the same room, with an irresponsible-looking assortment of bourbon, and a conversation about Sen. John Fetterman's un
Why can a few words change what people are willing to pay before anything in the real world has actually changed? Dr. David and Dr. Rob start with a sudden move in oil prices and end up somewhere much bigger: the strange
A demon is useful because it gives uncertainty an address. This episode begins with a Tennessee church that identified a bookstore across the street as a center of demonic activity. Dr. David and Dr. Rob examine what hap
Two experts can examine the same evidence and reach different conclusions. What happens next often depends less on the evidence than on who delivered it. Dr. David and Dr. Rob begin with Donald Trump’s strange persistenc
This week wasn't really about communism. It was about something much deeper. As headlines piled up, from democratic socialists in New York to China's alleged election interference, Homeland Security's election review, an
Why do some scandals end political careers while others barely leave a scratch? Why do certain tragedies dominate the news while others disappear almost overnight? And why do we seem so willing to forgive people on our o
July Fourth is supposed to be a story about public trust, public duty, and public sacrifice. In this episode, David and Rob ask what happens when those public things get converted into private assets. The conversation st
Why do humans keep reaching for villains? In this episode of Shrink the Nation , Dr. David and Dr. Rob look at scapegoating, grievance, and the strange comfort of having one explanation for everything that hurts. They st
This week on Shrink the Nation, Dr. David and Dr. Rob explore what happens when personal frustration gets transformed into political identity. From the strange saga surrounding the Director of National Intelligence nomin
Andrew Tate sells a very old idea of power. Strength. Control. Dominance. The ability to take what you want and make other people submit. It's a model humans recognize instantly because it's ancient. But there's a proble
This week, Dr. David and Dr. Rob explore what happens when confidence outruns competence. The conversation begins with the brief appointment of Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence and expands into a br
What happens when the most powerful military in history presents a president with a perfectly crafted plan, but the smartest move might be doing nothing? This week, Dr. David and Dr. Rob dive into the psychology of decis
In Season 2, Episode 19, Dr. David and Dr. Rob return after a week off, bruised by life and bourbon, to talk about the psychology of pretending physics does not apply. The war with Iran may be getting described as someth
We had a weekend full of life issues and couldn’t record in time for our usual Tuesday release. Rather than jam out a thin version of the show, we’re taking the week off and coming back with a real episode next Tuesday.
In Season 2, Episode 18, Dr. David and Dr. Rob look at what happens when taboo ideas get dressed up as jokes. The episode starts with reports of young Republican group chats using Nazi language and imagery, then follows
In Season 2, Episode 17, Dr. David and Dr. Rob start with Old Crow in a fancy bottle and end up with the central problem of American politics right now: putting confidence in the place where competence is supposed to go.
Dr. David and Dr. Rob look at what happens when political power stops treating checks and balances as legitimate constraints and starts treating them as personal insults. The episode starts with Trump’s tariff refunds: c
This week we come back to the Iran ceasefire clock, and the part that still doesn’t add up: the difference between military objectives and an actual political goal. We can destroy capabilities. We can “win” battles. But
This week was weirdly quiet, unless you count the whole “we were going to destroy civilization… then put it on pause” thing. So we go where the psychology actually is. Hungary just voted out Viktor Orbán after a long str
This week we watch the same pattern run twice: people take jobs they’re not qualified for because proximity to power feels like a plan… and then they’re surprised when they get discarded the second they become inconvenie
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