The Carousel Podcast

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

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’...

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 t...

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 They’ve since been replaced by synthetic chemicals that ar...

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 longhou...

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...

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 i...

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 hap...

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 se...

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 an...

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 sa...

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 Go...

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 re...

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...

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 friend...

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...

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...

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 agr...

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 Wednesd...

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 ow...

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...

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,...

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...

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 Kicksta...

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...