The Carousel Podcast

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 their neighbors. Yet it is our local leaders who have the power to close our businesses, restrain our movements, and force our children to receive unwanted injections. The heart of the woke mind virus beats with the notion that that humans are interchangeable, and that it is racist and wrong for your empathy to stop at the end of your tribe. Alt weeklies, despite being historically left-coded, provided an essential bulwark against this globalized and thus atomized perspective susceptible to centralized control. It is not surprising, then, that this global regime so eagerly decimated local media, and now uses its remains as a skin suit to camouflage a proboscis tube hoovering our milkshakes back to centralized financial groups the world over. But localism, much like life, finds a way. This is the Nashville Pamphleteer.

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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 see it.

One explanation is technology—“the Borg” as thinkers like James Poulos call it. The idea here is that wokeness is actually just the special sauce on top of a all-powerful machine that wants to reduce human beings to easily interchangeable cogs. Immutable characteristics like race and gender get in the way of human fungibility, so there’s a ever-present inertia to get rid of them.

However, the explanation that I keep coming back to over and over again is Astral’s metaphysical one. Put simply, we were in the Age of Pisces for 2000 years, and we just shifted to the Age of Aquarius. Pisces is the last sign in the zodiac, Aquarius is the first.

The meaning? Everything is new. The whole world is upside down/underwater. All the old monsters—famine, flooding, raiding, etc—are dead. They’e been replaced by new ones like, perhaps, sterility. And with new kinds of monsters come new kinds of heroes to slay them.

Astral’s pod where he breaks this down:

Astral’s Substack

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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.

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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:

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Talking about rainbows in churches with intelligent Christian anon Kruptos.

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

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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 undeniable, even for Collins.

PS. The Carousel is in part named for van Zandt’s Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, particularly this verse:

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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.

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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 “Politics is Not Downstream from Culture,” contemplating Breitbart’s maxim in light of my personal experiences with Chief Keef.

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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:

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