10/09/2025
This conversation of the is, like himself, going to offend some of you. Link in bio to watch or listen, or search for it on the pod platforms or YT.
In a little over 6 months the 23 year-old Australian-born, Nashville-based artist has amassed a huge following on social media, mostly for his outspoken takes on all the hot button social issues. Under the banner of, 'Common Sense', Jack has thrown himself against the liberal monolith that is the contemporary music business with the fury, humor, and dare I say charm, of a first rate provocateur.
We taped this interview in mid-August, when his follower count had just crossed over 300K. Seven weeks later he’s well over half a million. I point this out to indicate the impact his message is having on culture — especially young men. He’s worth your attention — at the very least — because he has theirs.
Another reason I reached out to Jack is because, well, I saw him doing something courageous. Speaking out against what he thinks is wrong or stupid, and accepting the knocks that come.
As someone whose a little —as opposed to waaaay — left of center, I’ve at times felt like a coward for not speaking up against the more egregious examples of a left that has increasingly seemed to have lost its mind. Why?
Because my desire to reap the benefits of pop culture’s shinier largesse — to be on Tiny Desk, say— preempted any moral compunction I might have to speak out against what I felt to be wrong. Not only is this cowardice, but worse, it allowed a community of which I am part (the creative community if that’s not clear) to careen even farther out of step with a general public struggling to maintain some kind of hold on normalcy.
The current state of the democratic party is the probably result of similar inactions by thousands of people like me — moderates who kept their heads down out of fear of being called a name rather than tap their friends and colleagues back a click before everyone talked themselves insane.
Continued in comments or just listen to the frickin episode
