Curtis Yarvin & Mike Gallagher Run Into Dr. Craig & Nick

Autocratic Despair: The Podcast · Jul 30, 2026 · 43m · transcript

This week is about a question neither of us expected to spend an episode on: what do you actually do when you find yourself sharing a room with someone who's helping build the thing you're terrified of? Not online. Not in the abstract. In your coffee shop. At your gym. Three feet away, ordering a drink.

The despair numbers set the tone — Craig's mellow, a four, which on his logarithmic scale is still plenty bad but for him counts as "stay the course." I came in higher, and hauling a genuine moral conundrum behind me.

Here's mine. My gym is my sanctuary. I found it after fleeing a Planet…