The Carousel Podcast

Talkin' about sex, baby, with Filthy Armenian, host of Filthy Armenian Adventures.

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Following up from yesterday with a better set up. Please provide more feedback!!! E.g., should I look directly in the camera? Tryna smooth out all kinks...be brutal.

**SINGLE TRACK AUDIO HAS BEEN FIXED, PERHAPS THE HARDEST SINGLE TASK I’VE SURMOUNTED DURING MY 39 YEARS ON THIS EARTH. BUT I CAN’T CHANGE THE YOUTUBE VIDEO AUDIO THOUGH SO LISTEN HERE.

YouTube version:

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Responding to all the talk about MartyrMade on Tucker, Jewishness in general, and where we’re headed in 8 weeks.

Also sorry for the middling sound quality, that will be fixed next time.

Please let me know what you think of these! Should I keep doing them?

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Talking movies with Granite Mtn Movie Club.

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Enjoying a conversation with art chad supreme Bobby Mars. We talk about public art, particularly his awesome new piece about a ridiculous new mural to globalism recently erected in Saginaw, MI. Famous Spanish artist Okuda, who could not look more like the gay Riddler, received paid hundreds of thousands to paint Corporate Memphis over rust belt blight. You couldn’t write a more perfect allegory.

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Talking about food, kids, and lame Twitter accounts with Queens born flier poster and gonzo writer Stained Hanes.

Stained Hanes new book

Stained Hanes on Instagram

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Delving into communism and South Africa (particularly microstate Orania) with new media mogul Will Tanner. Will is the founder and publisher of The American Tribune, and tweeter of many banger threads about Rhodesia and other things.

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I'm joined by Matt Pegas, co-host of the New Write podcast, to talk about astrology and LA super clubs.

Matt's new book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY8PNKG7

Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/Mpegz696

New Write Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/NewWrite

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Talking Musk's big win against GRAM, the conglomerate of advertisers pressuring him to censor speech on X, with friend of the show and advertising guru Adam Singer.

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It’s an art kid double header with troublemaker Nic Dolinger, following yesterday’s episode with effete art boi Noah Kumin. We learn yet more about Dimes Square, despite protestations, of course, that there is no Dimes Square and everyone involved in it is too cool to be involved in anything ever.

No video with this one because I accidentally somehow deleted it. Sorry!

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Talking about the age old question of whether money denigrates art with Dimes Square culture kid Noah Kumin, founder of The Mars Review of Books.

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Learning some bible, beginning with the story of Deborah, with pastor Andrew Isker, AKA Boniface Option AKA Eight Century Woodchipper.

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I’m joined by one of the great interviewers, Benjamin Boyce, for an interview of his own. On his show Calmversations, he interviews detransitioners, which serves as a starting point for our conversation about metaphysics, morality, and the Death of God.

Here’s our prior episode together on his show.

Here’s video version of this episode:

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What do the infamous Groypers actually believe? Are they as bad as everyone says? Is Nick Fuentes really gay?

I’m joined by real life actual Groyper Ace to discuss the much maligned subgroup behind AFPAC, to find some common ground, or lack thereof.

Cracking the nut of local media, the based way, with Virgil Davis Hunt of the Nashville Pamphleteer. Pamphleteer is similar to Michigan Enjoyer—filling the void where alt weeklies like Village Voice, LA Weekly, and VICE (originally Voice of Montreal) used to be. The local perspective, focused more on the culture of your physical space than the theoretical universal one that lives in your mind, is inherently anti-globalist. It is the communist-of-soul, the deranged utili-topian, who clings to to the perspective that what’s happening to people thousands of miles away is equal to what’s happening to themselves and th...

A few days ago, a Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry tweeted a chart showing the plummeting birth rate of Oman. Oman is a hereditary monarchy under sharia law—the last place you would expect the longhouse and the resulting TFR decline to touch. Pascal tweeted: “Something incredibly bizarre is happening, all over the world, and it is completely unstudied.”

And it’s true. We can blame American wokeness all we want, but in fact we’re facing a worldwide problem that seems to permeate everywhere. It’s such a huge change occurring right in front of our eyes that we can barely s...

Podfather Pete Quiñones, host of The Pete Quiñones Show, joins me to talk about building culture. I became interested in having him on after hearing his awesome episode with Kingpilled about the PayPal Mafia’s attempts to build a counter elite.

There’s a big difference between tech dorks who say they are pirates (“come join our little pirate ship!”) and real actual modern pirates. Walt Bismarck is the latter. We discuss the modern practice of Job Stacking, and his new organization BisBuc where young men “get rich plundering anti-White corporations.”

PS: here’s his sexual morals article we discuss at the beginning:

Talking about rainbows in churches with intelligent Christian anon Kruptos.

Talking about Biden replacement drama with based politics king Vish Burra from Staten Island.

To get involved in helping Trump, first listen to the episode, then go here: https://trumpforce47.com/

And, follow Vish on Twitter

Targaryen v. Baratheon, Ali v. Fraser, Dylan v. van Zandt…all cerebral incumbents facing off against challengers driven by pure heart. Bob Dylan was the greatest, to be sure, but van Zandt brought something he could never quite touch.

I’m joined by lurker anon Elmore Collins to discuss his fascinating piece in Man’s World, “On Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan: a Quiet Poet and a Dishonest Activist.” Given Dylan’s vital role in the Toxic Boomerality that has come to dominate the universe, it’s no surprise that he draws criticism. But his dominance is also undeni...

What happens if you try to make an “offensive” energy drink and sell it on Twitter?

I’m joined by first-time ever podcast guest Jacob Urowsky, founder of dissident twitter energy drink sensation KEYED, to find out.

KEYED is now available for pre-order at www.keyedenergy.com.

Master wordcel and “our favorite gay flamingo” Spencer Klavan joins me to talk about his viral article “A Matter of Taste.”

Klavan is an editor of the American Mind, my editor there, and I can vouch for both his intelligence and coolness. I was psyched to see a piece of his spark such shockwaves through the E-Right.

It led to a full feature section in American Mind, “How the Right Recovers Art” addressing the much-discussed topic of why we lack right wing culture institutions, at least ones that people respect.

My response piece was called “...

On playing it at is lays with handsome bearded Christian, Kingpilled. Check out his YouTube where he does a ton of streams.

We chat about his appearance on The Pete Quinones Show, where he discusses the PayPal Mafia building a counter-elite. This is the idea that Thiel etc are working to create parallel institutions on a grand scale.

That episode is here:

Video of our chat here:

Talking about Machiavelli, MAGA, and matriarchy with Nationalism expert David Polansky.

Check out David’s website Strange Frequencies, and his great new essay on Machiavelli in Aeon here.

Celebrating the inauguration of White Boy Summer with WBS Apparel.

Discussing the greatest writer of all time with thïccøq.

Returning guest and all-time Carousel hall of famer Kevin Dolan AKA Bennett’s Phylactery AKA ExtradeadJCB comes on to discuss his buzzy, controversial Natal Conference!

It was recently covered in “not that bad” fashion by Politico.

The guest you've all been waiting for, Dagger AKA C*mp*mper14**, the last honest man on the Dissident Right, is finally here for his first podcast recording ever. We talk about the libt*rd fantasy film Civil War written and directed by Alex Garland.

This week I’m joined by promising young man Nate Hochman. One of our pre-eminent thinkers, Nate writes for American Spectator, among other places. He serves as Senior Adviser for DC think tank America 2100.

Good friend Astral joins me again, this time to talk about his “racist” (see not racist) new fiction “Alyssa.” It’s a provocative, ultra-honest tale told from the perspective of man dating a stripper. It explores natural thoughts and feelings deemed evil and foreign by the mainstream, but that somehow occur anyway. We all must grapple with them, whether we like it or not.

I call Astral “man with the golden voice” because his podcast Astral Flight Simulation drives women mad with desire. One of the most irresistible podcasters in the game, despite his deeply dark and taboo perspect...

Jessica Solce is the filmmaker behind Death Athletic, a documentary about Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed.

Cody Wilson rose to prominence as one of the first purveyors of 3D printed guns. Solce’s fantastic documentary follows Wilson through DD’s inception story, his legal struggles to affirm the second amendment, and the personal controversies that have haunted him since becoming public enemy #1.

I highly recommend this film, it’s packed with intrigue, nuance, and stuff you didn’t know before.

Watch Death Athletic

Jessica on Twitter

Dissident fashion maven O.W. Root of Necktie Salvage joins me to talk about the history of western menswear, particularly his speciality “Ivy Prep.”

Talking Rufo v. Yarvin and cocaine conservatism with Patrick Casey of Restoring Order.

Patrick was recently booted off YouTube, follow him on Rumble here and Twitter here.

On this week’s Carousel, I’m joined by legendary poster and science fiction author Zero HP Lovecraft, a foundational pillar of the art right alongside BAP and Tacos.

We discuss Zero’s recent thread on how universal suffrage careens ever-closer to pitting the Male Party against the Female Party.

Zero on Twitter

I’m joined by fantastic writer and analyst PCM Christ of Fictions by P.C.M. Christ and the Book Maggot podcast to discuss Generation Alpha and mimesis as the art of our time.

I’m joined by returning guest Anthony Arroyo to talk about memecoins in the Age of Aquarius.

He has a freshly minted memecoin called $BLIMP. It goes up, it goes down, it goes up again. Why? What means?

In a way, memecoins are bets on mimesis itself; fundraising tools, coalition builders, and also completely frivolous. They give us a good sense of where we are in the increasingly bug-like hivemind that makes up humanity.

I’ve written a bit about blimp resurgence movement before.

I plan to finish this series in the...

Very special guest Jake Adelstein, author of the gonzo memoir behind the fantastic HBO MAX show Tokyo Vice. Last week I wrote a piece on the show, an expanded version of a very viral tweet about why MAX doesn’t market it.

Jake has a great new podcast from Campside Media called The Evaporated about Japan’s epidemic of missing people. Both suicide and intentional disappearances are very common in Japan, where the stigma of social shame can be overwhelming.

I’d also like to direct readers to his follow up to Tokyo Vice, Tokyo Noir...

On this week’s Carousel, please welcome John Carter of Postcards from Barsoom. We talk about sexual politics, women having it all, and “Escaping Sexual Niflheim.” We also talk about Japan—Japan seemingly inescapable these days—where John lived for three years.

John Carter on Twitter

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On this week’s Carousel we have young stud and fellow mischling Adem Luz Rienspects. We hung out at the ball this weekend in Vegas. Total killer. Love this kid. Still haven’t read his book Mixtape Hyperborea which is slightly embarrassing, but it’s very highly regarded and reviewed.

Note, the event we talk about on the podcast isn’t the Astral Ball, but a Mars Review of Books reading at Hadrian’s in LA featuring Delicious Tacos , Illegal Thot, and others that was really quite good. Just so as not to confuse you.

The Caro...

On this week’s Carousel I’m joined by finance genius Dmitry AKA BacktheBunny, a powerful dissident thinker who teaches me, finally, what the Fed actually does and why it’s a misunderstanding to say “F**k the Fed.”

Follow him on Twitter for money-ist of money takes.

On this week’s Carousel I’m joined by Sean Patrick Tario founder of Mark 37, maker of the Ghost Phone and other tech allowing you to opt-out of the obviously insane decision to continue using Google, etc.

PS, I’m having a party in Vegas. Next Friday, March 8, 8pm, on the strip. Sean and many other based individuals will be there, including its host Filthy Armenian. It’s being put on by RePlatform based freedom economy conference.

Tickets to the ball cost $100. If you’re reading this, you’re invited. Buy here.

Blaze editor Matt Himes hops on the Carousel to discuss gender relations in mainstream media. He has a podcast on this very topic that I recently appeared on to discuss the Netflix film Fair Play.

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My favorite website on earth is Blood Satellite’s homepage. The humorist, podcaster, marketer, and writer Dimes joins me to talk about the world of deep fried propaganda.

Shootin’ the sh*t with Good Ol’ Boyz host Maarek. One the smartest political history guys on the dissident right. Southern supremacist. Fantastic conversationalist and very unique guy.

I had his cohost Bog Beef on an earlier episode.

Video of Maarek episode:

Talking about the shortcomings of democracy and the NFL playoffs with legendary poaster Covfefe Anon. We deep dive on the Kelce/Swift conspiracy.

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Constantin von Hoffmeister of Arktos Journal—“Making Anti-Globalism Global Since 2009”—takes a spin on The Carousel.

His brand new book Esoteric Trumpism, foreworded by Raw Egg Nationalist, explores the rise of anti-globalism in the context of Spengler’s Decline of the West; Trump figures straining against “the tide of decline.”

Constantin on Twitter

Constantin on Telegram

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Incisive young podcaster J. Burden of the The J. Burden Show hops on The Carousel to discuss the state of American Conservatism.

I had Zero Hedge writer David Pinsen on again to talk about the NFL playoffs. We discuss racial disparities, coaches’ kayfabe, and why the Dissident Right should care more about the NFL.

Pinsen’s column on Zero Hedge

I’m joined by author Marty Phillips to talk about New Right literature. He has a Substack, but the best place to read his truly unique and incredibly crafted sci fi is on his iconic yellow website.

You can find Marty on Twitter, and buy his books on Amazon.

Today I’m joined by returning guest and ad sales expert Chris Gadek to discuss the question on everyone’s mind, at least anyone who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks.

Why is every single commercial now a pharma ad?

Commercials during the NFL playoffs used to shill beer, cars, burgers, insurance. Now it’s 70-80% pharma ads—deeply uncomfortable arguments for everything from psoriasis and alopecia drugs to “the vaccine” itself.

According to Chris, the answer lies unsurprisingly in Covid. You’ll notice that the majority of these ads emanate fr...

Everyone’s favorite based film and tv analyst Last Things joins me to discuss his exciting new “film festival.” The Last Picture Show is now available on Gumroad.

It features New Right creators like Bog Beef, RealThomas777 , Lafayette Lee , J. Burden, Auron MacIntyre, and Justin Murphy discussing their favorites. My episode is about True Detective Season 1, but you’ll have to buy a pass to the film festival to watch it or hear it.

The trailer, created by design genius Dora:

Here’s one free episode featuring Thomas777:

Last Things on Twitter

Dudley Newright of New Right Poast and NRP Radio joins me to discuss the best New Right memes, articles, and tweets of 2023. The ultimate ontologist of our scene, he’s been hard at work indexing and classifying the funniest and most insightful sh*t from the past year:

We discuss his favorites, my favorites, and how exactly he categorizes a meme (it’s the right way, not the wrong way).

T.R. Hudson ( The Writings of T.R. Hudson ) returns to The Carousel to discuss his new book The Perfect and the Wicked, a generational family epic inspired by the Kennedys.

His last book, Automaton, is one of my personal favorite works of dissident fiction. We talk about it on a previous episode:

You can follow T.R. on Twitter. He also publishes the literary magazine The Double Dealer .

Everyone is celebrating our big Gay victory right now, and rightfully so, but let me briefly interrupt you with analysis of an older victory: Bud Light. Joining me is one of the brightest stars not just on the Dissident Right, but on the entire right:

Auron MacIntyre !

We chat about his recent piece “Don’t End the Bud Light Boycott.”

We argue (healthily) about Budweiser’s brazen attempts to buy the right back by bribing Dana White and Kid Rock, both of whom were platformed by Tucker Carlson for just such a purpose.

Dan...

We wondered just how dirty the regime would play to disrupt democracy and prevent Trump from taking office again. Now we know.

Raw Egg Nationalist joins me to discuss the breaking news out of Maine. The state joined Colorado in preventing Trump from appearing on the ballot The Colorado decision came from its Longhouse harridan supreme court, while the Maine was a unprecedented “ruling” from its Longhouse harridan secretary of state, a former ACLU director.

This has never happened before, even close, as no unelected official (a judge or a secretary of state) has ever had...

We round out EWOMAN WEEK with a final episode with not just any egirl, but certified autistic egirl Gwen Kansen. Gwen writes deeply insightful essays for Hobart Pulp and other publications about her experiences as autistic person and single woman living in New York City.

Next up on EWOMAN WEEK, we have infamous ingenues Catherine (jardinsecret888) and the poster formerly known as Mommy Milkers (currently @tigbittybroad).

They host the new podcast Temple of Friendship on Patreon.

The first episode features Filthy Armenian, on whose awesome gonzo podcast I appeared last month. We explored the Colorado “suicide” bridge in Pasadena.

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Starting E-WOMAN WEEK off with bang, we have Twitter legend Aimee Terese for a chat about relationships, gender dynamics, which things are retarded, which things are gay, and which things are both gay and retarded.

Check out Aimee Terese’s Pod of The Valkyries, which she hosts with Peachy Keenan and Inez Stepman, both of whom have appeared as guests on this show. Also worth mentioning that my agency WILL designed the podcast art for Pod of the Valkyries.

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If you’ve been on Twitter/X recently, you’ve probably seen Chris Orzechowski’s ads popping up not in the TL, but in the comments. An interesting way to advertise to your dissident sphere and an attempt at building a reliable brick in our parallel economy.

Chris is one of those “email copywriting” guys, but he’s based as they come, and understands the performance marketing world in a deep way. He’s got a new book called The Moat, and plenty of insights to share about making money.

Chris’ website: https://theemailcopywriter.com/

Chris’ new...

It’s the AI Episode. DC AI policy guy Brian Chau convinces me, an AI skeptic, that machine learning actually is all it’s cracked up to be.

The key lay in Brian’s description of gradient descent, the so-called “workhorse behind machine learning.”

Basically, gradient descent is how you teach a computer through mathematics to climb or descend a linear hill. Sort of how you give the computer the ability to “see” in the right direction. The computer responds to right and wrong inputs by creating its own vast calculus that humans can’t reproduce—in tha...

Substack starYuri Bezmenov of How to Subvert Subversion joins me celebrate breaking 8,000 subscribers on the platform.

The Swampist works in advertising for The Blaze. He used to work at New Founding and Cambridge Analytica—all around digital media guru.

He calls himself Swampist because he currently lives in New Orleans (a swamp) and used to live in DC (also a swamp), both of which are places I've also lived. We talk a lot about New Orleans and the way things are.

Formerly a radio host, he shows me how it's done.

Before there was WILL, there was only Beck & Stone—the sole based marketing agency doing top tier work on the level of the big longhouses. Beck & Stone is the long shadow of one man: Andrew Beck, Claremont fellow, design genius, creative force of nature. He, perhaps more than any single person, has hacked the path of the parallel economy. And usually from behind the scenes.

But, as he will tell you, he is a reluctant leader. He cares first and foremost about the quality of the work. The politics can get fucked.

Full analysis of the lawsuit Elon just filed against Media Matters with based class action attorney David Pivtorak.

https://twitter.com/piv4law

https://www.piv4law.com/

In this special rush release episode of The Carousel, I’m joined by legendary movie impresario Hadrian Belove.

Some refer to Hadrian as “the original cancelled man” due to his absurd banishment from CineFamily—the notorious, celebrity-studded LA film enjoyment club—at the cusp of MeToo. Wrong place, wrong time.

But we’re not here to talk about the past. Hadrian was in part responsible for planning this year’s Urbit Assembly in Lisbon, which wrapped last week. In doing so, he brought in KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics) to intermingle with the digital sovereignty ne...

Zuki AKA Zukiman AKA 6ukim9. Extremely controversial, widely reviled Twitter personality, known for sharing all sorts of uncomfortable details…and occasionally deeply insightful truths.

The dissident OG joins me at WILL global HQ to discuss motorcycle radicalism, his thoughts about rebellion, and of course the famous crack story.

NOTE: here's the principle of The Carousel: I don't deplatform—I don't believe in it. I'll give anyone a chance to say their piece, insofar as they aren't doxxing anyone on the air. I'll have anyone from groypers to antifa to hostile journalists to known federal agents on h...

Joe Rodgers is the print editor of Bitcoin Magazine, a beautifully printed and terribly underrated contribution to the dissident sphere. They’re ahead of the curve on pretty much every topic, from SBF to El Salvador, and have published anons like Aristophanes and comedians like Tim Dillon. All around based and redpilled—and with 3M followers on Twitter. So big that they were just sued by their arch enemy, the Fed, over parody meme merch.

Connective tissue has so far failed to grow between the dissident right and Bitcoin HODLers; odd because there’s so much overlap and mu...

Swarthy Dutchman Ian Piepenbrock also runs his own marketing agency called Gobsmacked out of The Netherlands. It specializes in making beautiful videos for factories and other industry—reindustrializing Europe one brand at a time.

We talk about his insatiable love for black women, and argue about whether the Dutch or the Jews are the cheaper people.

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Jeremy Carl: Yale, Claremont, Trump White House, Montana. Our guy in every sense of the phrase, Carl is one of those fortunate few who makes a living making good points. His incisive Twitter takes and threads (great one on Dominique Venner) mark the tip of the iceberg of a wide body of work in the vein of Christopher Caldwell and Christopher Rufo.

He focuses on the intersection of culture/identity and law/policy—check out his work in American Mind and American Greatness—and is rapidly becoming the go-to guy on anti-white racism, a designation that, for reas...

The Adderall-fueled writer’s room of the American left has decided, quite insanely, to make a propaganda initiative out of the notion of “banned books.” They know that Americans balk at the idea of burning and banning books, so Gavin Newsom et al are pretending that elementary schools eschewing 2SLGBTQIA+ manuals on how to give queer b******s are “banning books.” Very typical Alinksy-style opportunism. Of course, it is in fact the hegemonic left increasingly banning books they don’t like… while fake handwringing over banned books.

Here are just a few books that have been effectively banned via var...

On this week’s Carousel we have anon Meta Prime. I like to think of him as the halfway house of the Dissident Right. Not an insult; it’s a beautiful role to play. He helps people who have recently “broken free from the mainstream delusion,” escape not into nothingness (total disconnection from friends/family/work) or toxicity (conspiritard obsessions), but into a meaningful existence as a noticer and rejector of the mainstream narrative.

His steps towards a healthy dissident lifestyle are as follows:

* Awakening

* Framework Building

* Self-Improvement

* Creation

* W...

Rushing this one out to provide on-the-ground perspective of the Hamas attack in Israel, October 6th, 2023, on 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.

Just minutes ago, Israel officially declared war in response to a series of coordinated attacks on both civilian and military targets, along with a rocket barrage.

I’m joined by based Twitter friend and Israeli Settler Baruch Kogan. One of my favorite accounts, his wry commentary always makes me laugh. He's also a fascinating dude; he lives in a small Jewish settlement on a hill in Samaria, where he is currently po...

Ladies and gentlemen, William Wheelwright.

NOTE: Due human error, this episode was not properly uploaded to Spotify and Apple. I am re-uploading it now, along with episode 61 with Sean Josh Lekach.

People call him trend forecaster but this is wrong. Sean Monahan, like Brad Troemel, is artist-as-analyst. He thinks like an agency strategist, but he’s rejected the longhouse. This has led him to a strange sort of celebrity among culturenauts. He keeps naming zeitgeists—Vibe Shift, Normcore—and making gorgeous PDFs, but PDFs do not an artist make. What makes Sean an artist is his absolute refusal to play ball; the extrem...

Josh Lekach toughed the gauntlets of both Los Angeles and Coca Cola to freer existence as a public thought criminal. His podcast WRONG OPINION is now part of Gavin McInnes’ Censored.tv.]

He’s known for repeatedly breaking the internet, most recently with this post about a very happy 30ish woman who prefers cooking shakshuka to having children.

We talk about Costa Rica (where Josh moved with his family during COVID), propaganda songs, and the Josh Lekach brand (or lack thereof).

Another day another based founder. Matt Loberstein built Rhizal Shoes, a “grounded” and “barefoot” shoe company after getting sick of shilling white label DTC crap and wanting to create something actually beautiful.

His shoes are the very definition of Anti-Synthetic Capitalism, the term now memorialized via The New York Times article which referenced WILL, Hestia Cigarettes, and I.

We also call the movement “The New Natural.”

The brand name Rhizal comes from micorrhizal/rhizome, symbiotic relationship between roots, plants, fungi, and the earth.

The “Barefoot” footwear movement revives simpler shoe structures; it believes in e...

On this week’s Carousel, I’m joined by a close friend of mine: ~poldec-tonteg from Urbit and BlimpDAO. He is the voice and face of the Urbit Foundation, and host of Urbit’s Zero K Podcast.

We’re here to talk about rise, fall, and rise of blimps. Why is this relevant? What does it mean? Listen now.

Cancellation insurance…we’ve all thought about it. In the world of Patreon, Substack, and Twitter profit sharing, the so-called Creator Economy has never been bigger, or more essential for thinkers and artists outside the ever-narrowing Overton Window of woke popular culture.

My guest today Harry Bergeron is a Twitter anon and entrepreneur working on a “cancellation parachute” called Pluribus. I’ve opened up The Carousel to him to share his thoughts, both on the above pod and in the following short article.

YouTube version:

Nabokov, Teddy Roosevelt, Ernst Junger: all amateur entomologists driven by the overwhelming urge to know and categorize the natural world. Insect Brah is the Twitter version. His exotic ontological posts recall the Judge from Blood Meridian, “whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

His day job is chef, where he integrates his fascination with nature into every menu. We talk about working in the service industry, our all time favorite meals, the relationship between God and bugs, and discovering new frogs.

Insect Brah’s book

Welcome entrepreneur Charles Mayfield to The Carousel. His skincare company Farrow uses an unprecedented and borderline forgotten substance as its key ingredient: pig lard.

Rubbing ultra high-end pig fat on our faces sounds insane only because we’ve been so utterly alienated from the natural animal products that used to dominate our lives. They’ve since been replaced by synthetic chemicals that are cheap to make, but expensive to our bodies. Mayfield explains that synthetic lotions came to exist in the first place only because humans stopped handling animal guts on a daily basis.

But anim...

Should we love billboards or hate them?

In this episode, advertising chads Adam Singer and Chris Gadek (founders of AdQuick) expound on the meaning of Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising and tackle the notoriously impossible task of measuring billboard impact.

We talk billboard history, including the one that launched the Sunset Strip:

We also chat about the death of creativity in the marketing longhouse, the end of ZIRP marketing, and why data reliance produces over-milked nostalgia cows.

Check our my appearance on the AdQuick podcast here:

Also watch this episode on...

Paul McNiel is the man behind Wagon Box, a “network state” project in Wyoming.

He essentially “bought” a town, and is now retrofitting it as a parallel-economy destination DAO for dissidents and other breeds of opt-outers who want nothing to do with mainstream society. The values of the project are pro-local, anti-corporatist, and anti-elitist: the polar opposite of everything Jackson Hole has become. That being said, he’s well-aware of the prospect of becoming just the type of parachuter he seeks to resist.

He and I were both featured prominently in James Pogue's Vanity Fair exploratio...

Alex Garner tweets as Alexander the Great. It’s a fitting name, because he reminds me of a roman legion commander, perhaps the modern Miami version.

A former Coca Cola employee and founder of the mixed-cocktail brand Yumix, he’s obsessed with the notions of tribes in today’s online/offline world. How do you evaluate someone’s character if you can’t see them in person? But how do you meet anyone interesting if everyone interesting is on Twitter? As Indian Bronson pointed out, and as I have personally experienced (with Indian Bronson himself), is that people in...

On episode 52 of the Carousel, I’m joined by David Pinsen from one of my favorite publications: Zero Hedge.

A finance guy, Pinsen covers the ins-and-outs of world affairs from an investor’s perspective. His column Portfolio Armor deftly combines culture and politics with economic predictions and outlooks, a mixture which I’ve always found to be the best method for understanding why things are happening. As Western culture declines, and the media (even my beloved Wall Street Journal) right along with it, I look to people like Pinsen and publications like Zero Hedge to get the real s...

By now you’ve seen the video of Armenian dads fighting Antifa on the streets of Glendale. If you’re curious about why, listen to this calm and rational Armenian mom describe how the school indoctrinates her children with extreme gender ideology. The dads showed up to voice their displeasure, they were confronted with the Regime’s shock troops: Antifa. One member is a convicted pedophile, which seems to be a common theme. Somebody save us.

A couple of years ago, an attorney named David Pivtorak decided to do something. Having grown up in the Soviet Union under...

Monsters are the heroes of our enemies.

On episode 50 of The Carousel, I’m joined by the enigmatic Paulos , one of our best Substackers. Myth Pilot explores the formation of contemporary myths, monsters, heroes, and egregores.

It’s not as esoteric as it sounds. Paulos bridges today’s headlines with something deep and profound, proving that today’s heroes and monsters are new manifestations of a ancient fight.

We discuss his sensational piece Heroes Rise // Monsters Fall. Something strange is happening to our public statuary—a strange, slithering, serpentine-feminine Medusa-signaling suddenly dominates the shapes of...

Celebrated digital artist Wide Dog joins me for episode 49 of The Carousel Podcast. Mr. Dog won first place in the Passage Prize art category last year.

Last week, Wide Dog and I, along with a team of anons, released a speculative Twitter brand video for Twitter Blue called “It’s Never Over.” It received over 100k views in an hour, and now has over 250k.

Watch it on Twitter here

It’s purpose? A salvo against woke marketing; proof that talented anons can create beautiful, effective propaganda in our free time. The fact that it...

Dissident arts impresario Astral returns to The Carousel for a conversation about the decline and fall of VICE.

I freelanced briefly for VICE in the 2010s. Astral followed its rise from Montreal skateboarding/punk culture. It recently completed its full cycle from counterculture to regime propaganda as George Soros will acquire it out of bankruptcy in the coming months.

We cover the history of Gonzo media. Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Larry Clarke/Harmony Korine, Big Brother Magazine, Terry Richardson up to the crazy super chat streamers of today like @bellyoftheworld.

Follow Astral...

Lomez. The name alone sends shivers of fear up the spines of our enemies. A leader of the culture wars, he founded of Passage Publishing, a top publisher in the dissident sphere and facilitator of the Passage Prize, our version of the Pulitzer.

Where most culture warriors have mastered the art of complaining, Lomez stands as an exception. He’s growing an a new and desperately needed high art regime from acorn seed.

This is not to say he’s not a fantastic writer in his own right—his recent Longhouse piece in First Things blew t...

On episode 46 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by filmmaker Matthew David Wilder. He wrote Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog (2016) and wrote and directed Your Name Here (2008) with Bill Pullman and Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc (AKA American Martyr) (2020) which reimagines Joan of Arc as an alt-right American terrorist.

EXCLUSIVE LINK TO FULL REGARDING THE CASE OF JOAN OF ARC FILM

We talk about David’s path from trailer park to Yale, our experiences living in New York and LA, and of course the culture wars through the lens writing and art. <...

Cancelled fine artist Arthur Kwon Lee has one of the best "coming out as based” stories I’ve ever heard.

At the top of the art game in New York, represented by all the right people and having followed art world cursus honorum perfectly, he sits at a table with a diverse group of artists and a typical gatekeeper harridan in charge of shilling their work to her silver spoon rolodex of wealthy friends.

She proposes that he partner with a black artist for a BLM meets Stop Asian Hate crossover classic, certain to sell amon...

Ezra Ballinger, protagonist of The Cowboy Church, would appreciate me keepin’ this short. So I will.

J.L. Mackey is an author, poaster, and all around DisLit staple. He’s hilarious, to-the-point, and embodies the criteria for a new, based kind of Southern Gothic, something we attempt to define on the pod.

His cinematic latest novella The Cowboy Church tracks Ballinger, a simple bar owner beset by chronic and crushing arthritis, as he faces off against a private equity type mogul.

I’d highly recommend the read. Like most DisLit standouts (Automaton by The Wr...

In our biggest episode to date, the infamous Raw Egg Nationalist drops by to discuss the hilarious ads in Man’s World Number 10.

REN leads the battle against food globohomogenization, offering a reliable stream of redpills about the patented bugs and tumors that provide globalists with higher margins on their food supply investments. His magazine Man’s World has been heralded as a new, based Vice filling the gaping hole where real journalism for men used to be. He published my piece on Ketamine in an earlier issue.

He’s less heralded for his work on the...

Today we have Inez Stepman, a thinker I discovered recently and am incredibly impressed by. Her gender analysis is rooted in Red Pill theory—she admittedly came up reading Chateau Heartiste—and she’s the first woman I’ve ever heard bring up the concept of hypergamy.

She joins Peachy Keenan and Aimee Therese on the Mount Rushmore of Female Dissident Right (FDR), although I’m not sure she would agree with this characterization. She’s got a JD from UVA and now works for the Independent Women’s Forum, a right-leaning think tank which recently filed an amicus brie...

Two important legal stories (besides the Trump indictment) came to the fore this week, and no one better to explain them than bodybuilder, Twitter anon, and high-powered attorney Ash.

First, the political prosecution of of Douglas Mackey (AKA Ricky Vaughn) reached its third day of deliberations, with the jury receiving an Allen Charge—intense pressure from the judge to reach a verdict—on Wednesday. Mackey is on trial for sharing a joke meme encouraging Hillary Clinton supporters to “vote by text” during 2016 election. Despite many Dems making the exact same joke, encouraging Trump supporters to vote by text, Ma...

Welcome filmmaker Daniel Algarin to The Carousel. A working Hollywood creative director/editor, Algarin came up under David Fincher at Rock, Paper, Scissors, and has found great success cutting trailers for major film releases.

But, unlike your typical Hollywood hack, Algarin actually has something to say. His viral YouTube hit Dread Pirate Roberts depicts Silk Road-founder Ross Ulbricht in his own words in the moments before his arrest. It’s the perfect short. Incisive, cinematic, perfectly-crafted, thematically-complex—a successful attempt to bring filmic quality to the small screen.

If you haven’t watched it yet, I can’...

Last Things takes a spin on The Carousel for episode 39.

Fantastic video essayist, podcaster, and conversationalist, Last Things analyzes our broken culture via popular movies and TV. His beliefs that "horror is fundamentally right wing" and that "the left can't see, the right can't speak," have become insightful memes.

We cover much, but our conversation focuses on one key theme: how critical art, in the form of works like The Boys and Black Mirror, is captured and converted into propaganda by the very regime it seeks to critique. Deleuze labels a variation of this process "...

YouTuber Scott Mannion hops on the Carousel for Episode 38.

Mannion specializes in Anglo Saxon symbology and meaning—his video essays and Substacks combine historical analysis with beautiful prose to unearth the roots that ground individuals in their cultures, and cultures in their lands. He digs deep into the littlest elements of being, the origins of materials of the Barbour jacket for example, to reveal the essence of our ancestries. His organization Greenwood encourages members to rediscover metaphysical hierarchies and become reacquainted with deep connections they probably never knew they had.

We talk about the Queen’s bu...

Meet Yuri Bezmenov, an ambitious new anon Substacking up a storm. His namesake, a KGB defector from the 1980s, recently re-rose to prominence via this eerily prescient video about the process of demoralization.

The current Yuri is a native New Yorker, the son of Chinese immigrants, which gives him a unique perspective on ideological subversion. His beat covers the signs and symbols of subversion in places like Austin, New York, and Karenland FUPAZ (his word for the network of American cities run by zombie Progressives). We talk about Red Guards, struggle sessions, urban male-female dynamics, and of...

Please welcome Asher Penn to The Carousel.

Asher is founder of Sex Magazine and the man behind the Delicious Tacos short film that Curtis Yarvin can’t stop blogging about.

Asher and I discuss the genesis of the project, Peter Vack, the quality of Tacos’ writing, and the state of sex in film and advertising.

As one of Tacos’ biggest fans, I fully support this project, and gave $100 to the Kickstarter. The trailer captures the essence of Tacos in a way I didn’t think was possible on-screen.

Why is this project...

Please welcome journalist Ryan Zickgraf to The Carousel.

Zickgraf writes for Compact and Jacobin from a leftist perspective, and occupies the leftward fork of the horsehoe directly across from me, and from whence I came.

I found him via his interesting NFL article in Compact, “It’s Not Your Grandaddy’s NFL,” which I see as a companion piece to my “The NFL’s Eggshell PR Problem.”

We also share in common a background in city journalism, him with The Chicago Reader and WaPo as an Atlanta correspondent. He was cancelled(ish) from the Reader aft...

Today we’ve got Gio.

Visual artist, writer, and YouTuber Gio Pennachietti is the consummate taxonomist of online dissident spheres. His Content Minded Corner provides a vast perspective on the opposing ideologies and idiosyncrasies of our digital ocean.

We chat about the definition of “content,” the meaning of counterculture, and why he uses so many euphemisms.

Content Minded Corner Substack

Gio on YouTube

Gio on Twitter

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Magdalene Taylor's OpEd for the New York Times, "Have Most Sex Please," went viral this week—titillating incels and upsetting asexuals across the land.

While many will disagree, I see Magdalene as a bridge between the mainstream and heretical spheres—that rare journalist who still approaches her material with clear, open eyes. It's not often, after all, that we see a NYT piece that's positive about sex without being "sex positive" (a boner-killing academic term that paints sex as an elaborate and exhausting project to undertake).

In this episode, Magdalene diagnoses our...

Higher education appears to be a lost cause. It’s shirked its responsibility to teach the classics or even hard skills like, you know, “writing.” Explore the sentence structure of a Berkeley grad, any Berkeley grad, and tell me if you disagree.

Twitter anon Athenian Stranger builds projects and hosts spaces to help educate followers on the classic books. In doing so, he provides both EXIT and RETVRN for young people interested in learning about the real history—not the woke revisionist one—of their culture, the Western tradition.

In this episode, we dissect four chapters f...

No one better encapsulates the plight of the right than Bennett's Phylactery AKA Kevin Dolan.

A famous Mormon Twitter anon, he was doxxed by a "ring" of activists and fired from his prestigious consulting job. The doxxers drew out the process for maximum pain, revealing all sorts of personal information and aiming for total destruction of a man for nothing but a few humorous sh*tposts.

They did not succeed. Dolan responded by founding Exit, a group for men working to build careers and families outside the mainstream economy. And it's working. Who wants to...

The Distributist AKA Dave Green is one of the top thinkers of the populist right. I describe him as Yarvin Lite: he effectively conveys boundless knowledge and earthshaking redpills to the common listener in ways that betray true genius mixed with the genuine desire to effect positive change.

His YouTube livestreams and video essays are long and dense, yet somehow completely addictive—his 4 hour Lessons from 2022 took me through a long hike and a long drive and I still didn’t want to get out of the car when I got home.

Our conversation centers arou...

On episode 29 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by based firebrand Peachy Keenan. We talk about her conversion from Sex in the City atheist to based mother of five.

SHOW NOTES

Peachy Keenan. Tweeter of bangers, writer for American Mind, and author of new book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. A machine gun of deft insights and genuinely funny one-liners, Peachy is a must-follow in our scene for spicy takes on the news. But that’s not all, she also provides genuine policy analysis grounded in political philosophy and, of c...

On Episode 28 of The Carousel Podcast, I host film YouTuber Kino Corner.

Mr. Corner is known for his series on “Literally Me” films—movies with sigma male protagonists whose refusal to play along with the absurd morality of a broken world resonates with young men. “That character is, like, literally me!”

We discuss the trend of populist “eat the rich” films. In my recent Substack, The Rise of the Populist Genre Film, I attempted to name this micro-genre Populist Death Match.

We examine three films from 2022, The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, and Glass Onion, all of...

On Episode 27 of The Carousel Podcast, my subject is Bog Beef—populist commentator and co-host of The Good Ol’ Boyz podcast.

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This episode will be a lot about labels, so let me try to label my guest. Bog Beef: Bant King. Good Old Boyz, hosted with Maarek, the finest prestige bantcast in the game. 

You guys do everything from cover the news of the day (with well informed color commentary on every imaginable topic from car culture to Schopenauer), to analyze X Files episodes, to host famous think...

On episode 26 of The Carousel Interrogations, I provoke warrior playwright Kevin Kautzman. Beyond his incredible prolificness as a playwright and theater impresario, Kautzman hosts one of the top new podcasts not just in the dissident sphere, but on the entire internet: Art of Darkness. Here’s the notes:

Art of Darkness co-host Kevin Kautzman

An independent podcast that tells the life stories of great artists over the span of about three hours. Two hosts, Kautzman and Brad Kelly, who take turns episode by episode alternately telling the narrative and providing color commentary. It’s been comp...

On Episode 25 of the Carousel Podcast, I’m joined by Luthemplaer (formerly Cringewalker), the digital creator behind this infamous Kanye image and the Restoration Bureau—a series of propaganda posters from a future where the globalist regime has been defeated.

We discuss his work, as well as the history of propaganda, particularly Weimar versus Nazi propaganda relating to feminism, the workplace, and population control.

During this podcast we refer to imagery at length, so it’s probably best to watch the YouTube version.

Luthemplaer on Twitter

The Restoration Bureau on Telegram

L...

On Episode 24 of The Carousel Podcast, I’m joined by sci-fi anon author T.R. Hudson to talk about his awesome book Automaton.

The book follows a lapsed super-soldier traveling across a post-apocalyptic America divided east versus west, libertarian corporate versus woke neoliberal. The protagonist has been stuck in an eternally “on” position, which makes him emotionless but powerful—which I took as a metaphor for autism.

I highly recommend this book. It makes for a fascinating, exciting, and even indulgent holiday read. A real page turner!

T.R. Hudson on Twitter

Automa...

On the week’s The Carousel Podcast, I’m happy to welcome my favorite political writer of the moment, Twitter anon Lafayette Lee. Our lengthy and wonderful discussion covers patriotism, political strategy, and of course the recent Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Milo, Tim Pool debacle, as well as the larger Trump and DeSantis discussion (notice I’m not saying Trump v. DeSantis).

But, a quick bit of HOUSEKEEPING (kill me please), as things are going to change a bit for The Carousel Podcast. After twenty or so episodes of experimentation, I’m getting a feel for the pod’s ni...

On episode 22 of The Carousel podcast, social media expert Nathan Baker (@NateyBakes) joins me to discuss the recent Balenciaga controversy, various World Cup virtue signaling, NHL trans fixation, Tampax, and his experiences representing Twitter advertisers.

Here’s the tweet that launched the Balenciaga controversy, pointing out various ways the company seems to be sexualizing children and hinting at pedophilia.

The mainstream media’s “response” story, calling the whole thing absurd, which is a bit strange given that Balenciaga has already apologized and removed the campaigns: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/balenciaga-child-ad-conspiracy-theory

Various World Cup virt...

On episode 21 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by Pavel Fuksa, an award-winning Prague-based art director and illustrator who’s worked at Saatchi, J Walter Thompson, and Y&R. He now runs his own design studio.

We cover the European advertising world and how it’s handling the woke takeover, particularly with regard to the World Cup which starts on Sunday.

Islamic theocracy Qatar remains infamous for just the kind of human rights abuses involving women, homosexuality, and slave labor that woke global brands/agencies supposedly stand against. Thus we see teams taking actions, like D...

On episode 20 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by Dan Baltic, author of the new novel Nutcrankr, released just yesterday by Terror House Press. He’s also the host of the fantastic New Write podcast and a hell of a shitpoaster in his own right.

Dan and I have quite a bit of overlap, being both trained lawyers and lapsed progressive half-Jews raised secular, who found our way to dissidence after a few sad attempts at professional writing via appropriate channels.

Nutcrankr is satire. It tells the tale of Spencer Grunhauer, a pathetic frog whos...

**NOTE: This podcast contains a recorded Twitter Space conducted outside in Southern California, and thus the sound quality is far from perfect.

On Episode 19 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by writer/director Propane 2001 to discuss an unauthorized brand video for Salomon we created together. It’s inspired by Julius Evola, the controversial vitalist philosopher whose work has recently resurged among young men seeking meaning and purpose in their lives.

Specifically, the video draws from Evola’s Meditations on the Peaks, a series of essays about finding heroism and transcendence in mountain climbing published betwee...

On episode 18 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by The Prudentialist, a highly-respected YouTuber and Substacker known for his meticulous-research and his calm, professional presence in the dissident sphere.

For the centrists and rationalists among you, The Prudentialist provides an accessible entry point for serious alternative discussion of the ideas and issues of the day. The already-initiated may view him as a based warrior shoring up the flanks with solid, consistent work and total knowledge not just of the scene, but of its source materials.

Topics include:

* Tactics for sounding professional

...

On Episode 17 of The Carousel pod, I’m joined by most-interesting-woman-in-advertising Åsk Dabitch Wäppling to chat about ad-world contrarianism.

Åsk is founder and publisher of Adland, current CTO of Brown and Red studio, and former art director at Saatchi, BBDO, and Publicis. She presents a fearless independent perspective on our occupied industry and other issues. She is for example an outspoken TERF, although the label doesn’t necessarily fit.

Topics include:

* Stalkers and Faraday cage purses.

* Being banned from awards juries for speaking out against chemically castrating children and womanhood erasure...

Recurring guest Astral joins me for a joint episode (Episode 16) of The Carousel podcast. Recently-Twitter-banned Astral wonders how and why Twitter advertising impressions relate to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. Also covered:

* Why Musk balked on the Twitter deal—all just a negotiating tactic?

* How selling social media impressions to advertisers—the backbone of the entire internet—is a fake enterprise.

* Why Twitter is so much worse at monetizing ads than Facebook and Google.

* Is Musk the Red Caesar that will conquer America?

* Whether Cambridge Analytica actually helped T...

On episode 15 of The Carousel, I talk with Federalist writer, Arkansas resident, and fellow marketing guy Rich Cromwell. Topics include:

* Bourdain’s last days and Cromwell’s incisive take on Asia Argento.

* Walmart going woke.

* Voting for Obama.

* Outing yourself as a conservative.

* Raising girls in a world with trans propaganda.

* Food as propaganda.

* Women in the workplace.

* Utilitarianism.

* Desantis.

Rich on Twitter.

Rich at the Federalist.

Rich’s podcast Coffee and Cochon.

On episode 14 of The Carousel Podcast, the creators When We Were Wizards podcast tell the story of the founding of Dungeons and Dragons. Why is it so fascinating?

Because for millennia, there were only six types of tabletop games: dice, miniatures, boards, tiles, cards, pen-and-paper. In 1972, a group of oddballs sitting around a table in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin gave birth to a seventh type: the role playing game. Not only did it change gaming—and later video gaming—forever, but its fantasy-fandom ecosystem defines global popular culture today. It’s almost impossible to understate D&D’s impact o...

Matt Forney. A name you’ve probably heard before. A dabbler in thought crime since 2012, Forney has been canceled many times including by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a mark of certain distinction.

Today, he’s largely disavowed his past and re-dedicated his life to more serious literary pursuits. He runs Terror House Press, a top publisher of dissident writing. He publishes sordid poetry about his adventures; a chapbook Sex Pest is forthcoming.

Many talk of escaping the American disaster, but Forney is one of very few who’s actually done it. Supporting himself through copywr...

Astral joins me for episode 12 of The Carousel podcast. Creator of the powerful Astral Flight Simulation Substack and pod, Astral plays the role of dissident impresario: chronicler, connector, true believer. If BAP is Kurtz, Astral is The Harlequin.

Topics include:

* Astral’s unique brand of comparative literary analysis. He creates his own independent academia.

* The course of his ideological transformation from left to right after discovering Curtis Yarvin. How BAP’s vitalism pulled him out of a depression.

* The longhouse and whether the correct term is matriarchy or gynocracy.

* Astr...

On episode 11 of The Carousel Podcast, I’m joined by the ultimate disgraced propagandist: Brett Craig.

Brett’s story is one of the craziest, most infuriating, and most illustrative stories not just in advertising, but in all modern culture. A real-life Don Draper cancelled at the peak of his (or anybody’s) advertising career—Chief Creative Officer of Deutsch. He tells the tale from beginning to end, packing in insider detail only he could know.

* How a new ideology began to creep into advertising around 2018.

* The post-George Floyd environment in the agency world.

* B...

EPISODE 10: Self-made millionaire Pine Baron comes on to discuss the absurd new Inflation Reduction Act AKA The Inflation Will Continue Unabated Act of 2022.

Pine Baron is a financial marketer and founder of new investment research brand Wealthpin. Like me, he is a small business owner. We both pay our taxes in full, and spend quite a bit of money on accounting in order to do so.

Yet we’re both concerned about this bill…

Topics include:

* The middling bureaucratic bugworld of top-of-funnel brand marketing versus the savage masculine enterprise of direct resp...

EPISODE 9: Katie Kahn joins me to critique Alex Lee Moyer’s new documentary on Alex Jones, Alex’s War. She attempts to convince me that it doesn’t go deep enough and largely succeeds. We also chat about dissident culture, inevitably gossiping about Red Scare, which is like the Godwin’s Law of 2022.

Topics include:

* Katie’s personal knowledge of Bohemian Grove.

* Alex Jones’ strange cast of supporting characters including protege Owen Shroyer and chief bullhorn operator Ali Alexander.

* The stories the documentary omits, like Alex’s supplement shilling, alcoholism, new wife, recent d...

On episode 8 of The Carousel Podcast I chat with restaurants veteran Michael Nemcik about shifts in mainstream culinary propaganda.

He began his career as a line cook at Hooters Orlando and worked his way up to manager/beverage director at some of the best restaurants in LA. He possesses encyclopedic knowledge of food and wine and has as close to perfect taste as one can get.

Recent trends have him concerned about the industry he knows and loves. Including…

* The overwhelming inaccuracies and “snowflakery” of the hit Hulu show The Bear. Nemcik recently moved...

“The idea of the outsider in the sense of brand identity versus being truly on the outside, not having any group at all.”

Writer Caleb Caudell plays outsider to an outsider movement. In this episode of The Carousel:

* There’s grifters in any movement. How do you identify them? Should you?

* The scrubbing away of human longing and its replacement by branding and products.

* Individual freedom as a poor substitute for freedom of association.

* The faux localism of multi-use commercial spaces in small American cities.

* My sh*tty fo...

Dan Baltic and Matt Pegas of New Write Podcast join me to talk about the advertising industry, why it’s so hard to break into, why it’s reviled, and why we should take it seriously.

In the second half, we discuss literature, specifically Matt’s awesome book Dragon Day, Terror House Press, Michel Houellebecq, and whether books should be judged by their covers.

In this podcast, I converse with legendary dissident writer and author Delicious Tacos. We talk about a whole buncha stuff including…

* Delicious Tacos’ brand or lack thereof.

* What’s hack and what isn’t.

* How to think about Twitter.

* Whether marketing people should all be killed.

* The future of men and women.

Here is his website.

Here are two of my favorite things he’s written: Mark, Autopilot.

Here is his latest book: Savage Spear of the Unicorn.

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As a raw milk drinker, I try to avoid pasteurized milk in my coffee. Oat milk so effectively replaced it, there had to be a catch. Indeed there was. Spin around a box of Oat Drink Barista Edition and you’ll find it’s made of rapeseed oil, AKA canola oil.

Imagine guzzling canola oil straight from the bottle—totally disgusting, no matter how cute Oatly’s copywriting might be. Originally developed as engine lubricants, seed oils like soybean oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil, grapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil are unhealthy for many reasons.

Onc...