The Carousel Podcast

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 a...

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 HOUS...

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 hinti...

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...

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...

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-initiate...

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 outspok...

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 f...

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...

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 ro...

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...

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 tra...

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 e...

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 c...

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 suppo...

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 hi...

“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...

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. This is a public episode. If you'd l...

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 , Autop...

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 a...