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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Find Out crew sits down with author and internet veteran Jason Pargin to explore how the far-right won over a generation of young men—and how progressives can fight to win them back. We discuss: How Jason's 2012 Cracked article on personal growth went viral Why the left's purity culture and tone-policing are losing battles Why platforms like Twitch, TikTok, and Substack are shaping politics What it will take to win young men back—and what we're getting wrong right now Jason also reflects on his new novel I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom and his journey from longform blogging to TikTok stardom. Follow Jason: @JasonKPargin Support the pod: findoutpodcast.com | findoutpodcast.substack.com #FindOutPodcast 👕 **Merch** made in the USA & union-made: https://findoutpodcast.com 📬 Subscribe to bonus content: https://findoutpodcast.substack.com 📱 Follow us everywhere: @FindOutPodcast 📣 Share this episode & tag us #FindOutPodcast 📥 Send us feedback and tips: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out podcast.
0:19.2	Notice a little different at the beginning there.
0:21.4	We actually got our act together and have an intro to the podcast now. So I guess that means
0:26.8	we're actually official. And with that, we have a very special guest today that Rich is actually
0:32.8	going to introduce. And then we're going to dive into all kinds of interesting topics. So Rich,
0:36.2	take it from here.
0:43.4	Yeah, thanks. Yeah, so I'm very excited. A little bit of a fanboy, which is, it's a weird,
0:52.0	he's a weird person to fanboy over, but I read, this is an objective truth, right? I read an article in 2012 and cracked. And I think it was 2011 or 2012 was about when it was
0:56.5	published. I was like 30 at the time. And it was six harsh truths that will make you a better
1:01.8	person. And it was like, okay, and this went around and a bunch of friends sent it to me. And it's
1:06.2	basically a like eight page long evisceration of the young male mindset, like the resting state that a 25-year-old
1:16.2	man might find themselves in. And it was, I mean, it spoke on every level. It's about professional
1:24.3	development. It's about personal health, physical health. It's about finding
1:28.2	girls. It's about what you, what you were entertained by. He kind of just touches all of the
1:32.8	bases, but he did it in a way that didn't emasculate the reader. He didn't shame you. It was
1:39.0	just this article that was like, you can be better and you should be better and you should contribute to
1:44.9	society because that's what society needs and that's how you can become a better person
1:49.6	and you will be very pleased if you do this. That changed my whole trajectory as far as like
1:55.6	how I thought of myself as a young man in this country. And it was a it was a sort of a new year's resolution i think it was
2:04.5	published in january or december or something and so it was like hey get ready for the new year and
2:08.2	don't be a fucking loser basically and and i took it as that it was very effective and now it's like
2:13.7	a tradition that my wife and i we both both read the article every January and we have
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