The Carousel Podcast

Chatting about how there has not been one good movie that came out all year with Last Things , Adem Luz Rienspects , and Erewhon Groyper . HAPPY NEW YEAR The Carousel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

Discussing the many shifted vibes with Dudley Newright and Constantin von Hoffmeister . Which Luigi Mangione manifesto is real? Will Daniel Penny’s exoneration lead to a cultural shift? Did Romania end democracy in the name of democracy? What’s happening in Syria? Why have literary men disappeared ? The Carousel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider...

Talking with Murshak and Basil about the public murder of United HealthCare CEO, the Tennessee trans supreme court case, and Andreesen’s AI chat on Rogan. Also you’ll notice new music and format. Will explain more soon. The Carousel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...

Star Tablet writer Park MacDougald joins me to talk about one of Tablet’s specialties: understanding political power networks. The Carousel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack...

Talking with fascinating poster Titus Techera about his article “ The Third Wave of Journalism ,” in which he argues that the era of heroic objective journalism was no more than a fleeting manifestation of Boomer naivety, and that the internet has heralded a return to the natural state of pamphleteering. “The three waves of journalism—the successive attempts to connect political technologies, that...

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? The Carousel is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a...

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! The Carousel is a reader-sup...

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: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.c...

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarous...

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...

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 favor...

Ladies and gentlemen, William Wheelwright . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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....

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 f...

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...

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...