Inescapable

Benjamin Grundy & Aaron Wright

Aaron and Ben are stepping away to recharge and figure out what comes next. Season one was an experiment, and your support made it worthwhile. The plan is to come back with something better. (All Inescapable Plus+ members will receive pro-rata refunds of their last payment with 7 days) Leave your email below and we'll see you on the other side: https://inescapablepodcast.carrd.co/

  1. 1.14 - Inescapable Podcast - The Finale

    2 DAYS AGO

    1.14 - Inescapable Podcast - The Finale

    WATCH THE VIDEO HERE I know this is not the episode you wanted, but some of you may have sensed this coming. This is our last episode. We both need time away to figure out if the passion is still there. When we wrapped up Mysterious Universe we promised ourselves that whatever came next had to be fun, creatively energising, and something we both felt passionate about. Those qualities showed up in moments, but the subject matter ground us down more than it lifted us up. To everyone who supported this experiment, thank you. And to those who wrote to tell us what the show meant to you, we're sorry we couldn't keep it going for longer. We're taking time to recharge and figure out what comes next. The plan is to come back with something better. If you'd like to be notified when that happens please leave your email below: https://inescapablepodcast.carrd.co/ For now, that's us signing off. Thanks for everything. Ben & Aaron (All Inescapable Plus+ members will receive pro-rata refunds of their last payment within the next 7 days)

    13 min
  2. 1.13 - Inescapable Podcast - Cheat, Lie, Win

    6 DAYS AGO

    1.13 - Inescapable Podcast - Cheat, Lie, Win

    A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board.A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board. Three passengers are dead, the ship is stuck in Cape Verde, and 23 infected travellers have scattered across the world. The media is already calling it the next pandemic. We're not buying it. The bigger story this week is AI and cheating. A Columbia student built a suite of tools to cheat through his entire degree, used them to land big tech internship interviews, then got put on probation for selling access to other students. It turns out his professors were grading with AI the whole time anyway. Now there's hardware that feeds live answers into your ear during job interviews, and a startup raised millions selling exactly that. We get into what it means that deception has gone from shameful to a product with a pitch deck. Also this week: the Met Gala's annual parade of costumed degeneracy, Western scholars and the decolonisation of history, new footage from the Titanic debris field, men who snap and drive bulldozers into things, and a robot Buddhist monk in South Korea. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak - BBC News 23 hantavirus cruise passengers returned home to ‘all corners,’ including Australia — and one is already sick | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines KLM air stewardess 'infected with hantavirus' after contact with fatal victim on flight - Daily Star CIA Docs: U.S. Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Korean War POWs Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows | WIRED Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast Gamer on X: "@Mericamemed https://t.co/avfgGJ7LEX" / X Is Cluely Scamming Investors? The $120M Red Flags - YouTube Cluely (Cheating Tool for Literally Everything) - YouTube A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool | WIRED Met Gala urine bottle protest targets Jeff Bezos The Rock Claims The "Most Masculine Men" Wear a Skirt While Sporting One at Met Gala - Geeks + Gamers Yet Another Wasted Met Gala - The Atlantic AI told users it was sentient - it caused them to have delusions - BBC News

    1hr 8min
  3. 1.12 - Inescapable Podcast - Trust Collapse

    1 MAY

    1.12 - Inescapable Podcast - Trust Collapse

    Something has shifted. Content creators are burning out, Australians are stuck in survival mode, and a Victorian-era melancholy has settled over the West. We get into why. India has overtaken England as Australia's biggest source of migrants, and questions of cohesion, identity and social trust are getting harder to dismiss. We examine how low-trust cultures get imported at scale, what happens when enough people stop playing by the rules, and what holds a society together once trust begins to erode. In Plus we cover a stack of stories the mainstream media buried, ignored, or got completely wrong. Diaspora influence, street violence, and a political class unwilling to confront what rapid demographic change actually produces. We also look at the Fuentes assault charge that got dropped, Johannesburg erupting over mass immigration, and a Canadian military platoon that's 83% non-citizens and already falling apart.  WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO Links Landmark shift as India overtakes England to become Australia's biggest source of migrants - with 32 per cent of the population now born overseas | Daily Mail Online "Australia is now home to more people born in India than any other overseas nation. Education and affordable housing are among the driving factors in the population boom. @izzy_quinlan #9News https://t.co/s8r8ACdR68" / X "Nepal is the only country of birth shown that has a lower median age in 2025 than the median age of Australian-born population. The median age of the Australian-born population is 35.0 years compared to 43.0 years for overseas-born. https://t.co/xRg54IZkL3" / X "HOW SOCIAL TRUST IS ERODED - A VISIT TO INDIA A few years ago now I spent some time in India. One of the more lasting impressions I have from that period was the degree to which the low trust environment there (of a kind) wore me down mentally and transformed my attitude https://t.co/xo3kevY09M" / X "Reminder that India is openly telling us they’re flooding the West with their migrants to build a diaspora to control us and, in their terms, do it like the “Jewish community” https://t.co/paeKGog5Eg" / X Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora Vigilantes track down aboriginal suspected of killing girl The Hidden Sign China is Collapsing "Sharon Granites was sleeping on a mattress surrounded by empty Jim Beam bottles when a criminal drifter allegedly took her hand and led her into the Alice Springs night. Scientists Document Unprecedented Chimpanzee "Civil War"—And It May Reveal the Roots of Human Conflict - The Debrief "BASED AF man on #bbcqt asks Green Party’s @rachelmillward to specify the racial hatred she’s seen & exactly where it’s coming from. Watch her squirm. https://t.co/PCrou9xj0x" / X "Case dism...

    1hr 17min
  4. 1.11 - Inescapable Podcast - Hate For Profit

    24 APR

    1.11 - Inescapable Podcast - Hate For Profit

    The SPLC has been indicted on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. America's most powerful civil rights organisation spent decades funding the extremist groups it claimed to fight. We trace how the SPLC built a $471 million empire on manufactured hate — fake chapters, phantom hate groups, informants paid to stoke the racism their donors bankrolled them to stop. When the KKK collapsed, they needed new villains. Also: families sleeping in cars on the Sunshine Coast while the government claims immigration is under control. Tony Burke says assimilation is optional. A Greens candidate campaigns in Punjabi — and he isn't Punjabi. In Plus: Sydney's Phantom Pooper terrorises a posh suburb, Canada's $200 million spaceport is a slab of concrete, JD Vance says UFOs are demons, and a Pentagon report funded to expose Chinese racism concludes it's actually a military advantage. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges | AP News ""You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of the KKK and other groups?" Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that." https://t.co/AIqDnzr10L" / X THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SPLC Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center eBook : O'Neil, Tyler Home | Carolyn Yeager African Boutique German U-Boats - Sharkhunters International - U-Bootwaffe History Wildman's Shop Watch Telemarketers The GOP continually loses because instead of coming to the correct conclusion, which is that the SPLC saw White independents advocating for their own interests and immediately tried to infiltrate and sabotage it, and gain info to feed to feds, their takeaway is… this. "In 2017 Alex Jones correctly predicted that the events of Charlottesville were orchestrated by leftist groups. He exposed the craigslist ads that were offering $25/hr for actors and alleged they were used to agitate crowds. The leftist group SPCL has just been indicted for https://t.co/L1Jbjp8jzf" / X "So the NGO that is cited as an authority on “extremism” is tracking the decline of the White population like its quarterly earnings… while actively funding the “White Extremist” groups that they use to demonize White people’s resistance to the decline. Get it?" / X "Hang on. If they don’t want our way of life, our culture, our customs, or our religion—why are they here? Why should we welcome them? https://t.co/csihehddvY" / X "Why the West is Replacing Its White Population: The Imperatives (and Fatal Flaws) of Post-Fordism" / X  "NEWS: Australia’s birth rate hits another record low Fertility falls to ~1.48 in 2025 — **2nd straight rec...

    1hr 26min
  5. 1.10 - Inescapable Podcast - The Femosphere

    17 APR

    1.10 - Inescapable Podcast - The Femosphere

    Victoria Police are struggling to recruit as trust in the force collapses, and a new video captures what that looks like on the ground. We cover the Geelong refinery fire, one of the worst in Australia's history, coming just days after the ABC warned the country had never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis. We look at the rise of what's being called a new, angrier feminism, drawing on Emily Lawford's New Statesman piece on the young women reshaping British politics, and expanding on our Plus discussion of Jay Stone's research into feminisation as the engine behind woke ideology. We also get into testosterone decline and what the latest research points to as a likely cause. In the Plus+ extension, we look at the cultural forces accelerating that decline through the feminization of modern life. From literature and sexuality to education, identity and social expectations, the discussion examines how softness, emotionalism and degeneracy have been elevated as cultural ideals while strength, discipline and clarity are pushed further aside. The result is a civilisation becoming weaker, less stable and increasingly detached from reality. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Australia has never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis - ABC News Major fire at one of Australia's two oil refineries "Australia has never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis - ABC writes. Then 3 days later you have a major fire reported at Viva Energy refinery in Australia. https://t.co/AkQ3eKphdL" / X Fuel Crisis Australia — Live Oil Reserves, Petrol Prices & Supply Dashboard Uncovered ballots prompt new count in seat of Narungga won by One Nation - ABC News Liberals to offer $5,000 to overseas officers to relocate under plan to recruit 3,000 police - ABC News Melbourne police officer's height sparks debate Liberals to offer $5,000 to overseas officers to relocate under plan to recruit 3,000 police - ABC News " BREAKING The Irish Government is Making Ads Recruiting Military Age Muslim Men From PAKISTAN, to Join the Irish Gardai & Police the Irish People This is AFTER the Pakistani r*pe gangs were exposed across Britain This is TREASON @DewsNewz @HarrisonHSmith https://t.co/aEVqPn0rWQ" / X The jobs Australians won’t do | The Spectator Australia Meet the Angry Young Women - New Statesman TikTok Destroyed A Generation Bird Sex Identification Instrument

    1hr 11min
  6. 1.09 - Inescapable Podcast - Blood and Bureaucrats

    10 APR

    1.09 - Inescapable Podcast - Blood and Bureaucrats

    The US-Iran ceasefire is already fraying. We go through what's actually happened in the last 24 hours: the ten-point plan Iran had on the table for weeks before Trump presented it as a win, the Pakistan PM's copy-paste tweet, Israel's strikes on Lebanon, and the Strait of Hormuz closing again. The signals are contradictory and the official narrative doesn't hold up. From there we get into Ben Roberts-Smith. His arrest and the campaign to strip his VC have split opinion sharply. We look at what his case reveals about how Australia treats its soldiers, what combat actually does to people, and whether this country still has any appetite for what war requires. In the Plus+ extension: the Fabian Society, Annie Besant, George Bernard Shaw, and the eugenics program that ran underneath progressive thought in the early 20th century. The Fabians wanted to remake society from the top down and they were patient about it. We trace how their ideas moved from the drawing room into education, law, and bureaucracy, and how utopian language kept covering for what was a project of population management and elite control. Watch on YouTube Links New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers - The New York Times The Empire Backs Down, For Now Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework Did Trump Just Make Iran Great Again? What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran? "Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," https://t.co/lm2vSEElkb" / X SAS hero Ben Roberts Smith arrested over alleged war crimes Patriotic Aussies rally behind war hero Ben-Roberts Smith Australian Defence Force takes out war breach adverts in newspapers | The West Australian Ben Roberts-Smith and the confused battlefield | The Spectator Australia The Truth of War: Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle eBook : Lewis, Doctor Tom: Kindle Store Overview | Air Force War Hero or Poli...

    1hr 17min
  7. 1.08 - Inescapable Podcast - 133 Days Later

    3 APR

    1.08 - Inescapable Podcast - 133 Days Later

    Joel Davis is granted bail after 133 days at Long Bay over a Telegram post, with twenty conditions attached. We look at the case and the two-tier justice it exposes. Then: the federal government's $150 million package to monitor politicians' social media for "ominous characters," while ordinary Australians don't feel safe in their own homes. From there, black teen takeovers. Three hundred black teenagers rampaged through Clapham over five days. Fifty shut down Werribee Plaza in Australia. The same pattern in Chicago. Social media coordinates the crowds, officials reach for euphemisms, and one commentator's response cut through all of it: I want my country back. In the Plus+ extension we trace the word "racism" back to Magnus Hirschfeld, the Weimar-era sexologist who also coined "transvestite," ran the first trans clinic, and whose work seeded much of modern gender theory. Then: a string of violent incidents, axe attacks, train platform pushings, that look random until patterns emerge. We examine the role of online contagion, copycat behaviour, and ideology in what's starting to look less like isolated breakdowns and more like a trend. Watch on YouTube Links Joel Davis granted bail after 133 days in isolation Police to monitor MPs' social media for 'ominous characters' Fury as black teen thugs go on looting rampages in Britain Fifty African teens brawl at Melbourne shopping centre Brawl Chaos at Werribee Plaza - YouTube I want my country back. "JUST IN: Victims of violent Chicago ‘Teen Takeover’ attack (video below) speak out, reveal that no arrests have been made. The victims stated that the attack was completely unprovoked and unexpected. “Everything went crazy… They said they were going to kill us…” Chicago is https://t.co/6QeGHutEvz" / X "‘According to police, a group of over 300 kids showed up at the sky-zone trampoline park to partake in what participants are calling a "Sky-zone Takeover". At some point, the takeover went in the downhill when large fights broke out amongst the participants… https://t.co/x64cbLb9nk" / X "BREAKING: Atlanta police say they will ARREST THE PARENTS of teenagers found breaking the law at “planned” take overs happening this weekend https://t.co/BTkT561j3V" / X “Unruly young people” "Teen Takeover" 'White Girl Bleed a Lot' | Chicago Public Library 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry:' The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it. by Colin Flaherty Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America eBook Plus+ Extension The extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE.

    1hr 15min
  8. 1.07 - Inescapable - The New Constables

    27 MAR

    1.07 - Inescapable - The New Constables

    Australia's fuel crisis is accelerating and the cracks are starting to show. Service stations are running dry, truckers are stranded, bin collections are being cut, and a government is scrambling to catch up with a second emergency cabinet meeting. We track how bad it has actually gotten on the ground, why the same scenes are playing out from Chile to Thailand, and why some financial analysts are bracing for a global depression.  From there we get into remigration, the increasingly mainstream argument that mass immigration and national identity are on a collision course, and spend time with the framework of Jayant Bhandari, an Indian migrant who pulls no punches in critiquing his own culture and questioning whether it can ever truly assimilate into Western society. It is a confronting conversation that cuts across resource strain, demographic change, and what holds a civilization together. In the Plus+ extension, we turn to Australia's culture war battlegrounds: Indigenous recognition, the Welcome to Country industry, historical narratives, and the media's role in shaping all of it. Competing versions of the country's past and future are being constructed in real time, and we dig into what that means for where Australia is actually headed. WATCH ON YOUTUBE JOIN PLUS+ Links PM calls second emergency national cabinet meeting over fuel crisis - ABC News More than 500 service stations across NSW and Victoria have run out of fuel as supply crisis worsens | Sky News Australia Bin collection under threat as diesel shortage threatens halt in operations | Sky News Australia BREAKING: AUSTRALIA NEARLY OUT OF DIESEL FUEL 164+ gas stations across Australia are without diesel. Also, supermarkets are OUT OF FOOD as semis unable to make deliveries with NO DIESEL. Reports say criminals have started siphoning gas out of cars parked on the streets. https://t.co/84bh6JkQAs" / X Oil Will “Sail” Past $230 | Rory Johnston on Why Iran War Has"Terrified" The Oil Market - YouTube Crude Oil To Diesel Process Petroleum Refinery Distillation Plant - Buy Crude Oil To Diesel Process Petroleum Refinery Distillation Plant petroleum Refinery Distillation Plant Oil Purifier crude Oil To Diesel Refining Machine petroleum Refining Machine Oil Purifier dual Stage Oil Purifier For Refinery diesel Refining Plant Oil Purifier Product on Alibaba.com "So the NSW Police are now basically promoting the idea of ethnically divided enclaves in Australia... People need to realise that the metanarrative has changed from that of assimilation to DIVERSITY and INCLUSION. These words contradict the idea of assimilation. One means that https://t.co/QwS9wjq859" / X What’s News!? on X: "https://t.co/gttG42W8Lz" / X India: It’s Worse Tha...

    1hr 18min
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Aaron and Ben are stepping away to recharge and figure out what comes next. Season one was an experiment, and your support made it worthwhile. The plan is to come back with something better. (All Inescapable Plus+ members will receive pro-rata refunds of their last payment with 7 days) Leave your email below and we'll see you on the other side: https://inescapablepodcast.carrd.co/

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