The Carousel Podcast

Rick Spence is an apex expert on all things spies, occult, and conspiracy. A former professor at University of Idaho, he has a new podcast called Strange as it Seems where he tells the tales of many dark secrets you haven’t heard before. He also has a series on Great Courses.

We talk about the greatest spy in history, Kim Philby, as well as Aleister Crowly, MK Ultra, Scopalamine, Rudolf Hess being given Mexican Brain Poison, and Trotsky’s number 2 being found dead in the Adirondacks.

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Doing a big one with the most underrated account in the business, Dimes.

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Interviewing the host of the popular localist/naturalist podcast Doomer Optimism, Ashley Fitzgerald. We talk about what I see as the central issue of our political landscape, uniting “anti-excel brain” localists in a way that doesn’t alienate both sides of the political spectrum.

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I discovered the work of dissident science journalist Celia Farber in RFK Jr.’s now famous book The Real Anthony Fauci. She’s presented as a sort of truth telling muse, one of the first people to question one of the global medical establishments most unquestionable issues, AIDS, which is a foundational part of the Fauci supervillain origin story.

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I’m joined by two of the great anon frog posters, Karl Hollywood AKA Woke Capital and Covfefe Anon, to discuss the state of things. They’re the hosts of a new podcast called The Frame, along with their co-host Aimee Therese, who has been a guest on this podcast.

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I’m joined once again by clever extrapolator Walt Bismarck to discuss his recent clear-eyed observations about culture, class, and life on the internet. Specifically, why are conspiracy theories sometimes low class, but other times become social currency?

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Americans, in our commitment to capitalism, insist on free markets in ways that we don’t insist on free speech. As Kanye has showed us with his recent line of swastika merch, it’s easy to cancel people, but it’s much harder to cancel their products.

This has created a fascinating moment for art-as-commerce, where tricksters like Jacob Urowksy are using …

Hollywood composer Stephen Limbaugh (yes he’s Rush’s nephew, and composed the score for Amanda Milius’ Plot Against the President) is writing a symphony to celebrate the 250th birthday of America. He’s “building it in public” posting step by step videos of the process as he composes it.

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Chatting cultural institutions and fiction with dissident lit impresario Tooky’s Mag. We talk about the platform era, slopology, and why dissident artists are too nice to each other.

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Steve Sailer is a legendary blogger—one of the first and best to ever do it. As he says on the show, at his peak he published 15 culture articles per week, all in his signature beautiful prose. He’s known for his work on HBD, but I was more interested to talk to him about movies, of which he’s a fabulous reviewer, and about Los Angeles, of which he is a native son. He joins me live in studio!

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