Delving into communism and South Africa (particularly microstate Orania) with new media mogul Will Tanner. Will is the founder and publisher of The American Tribune, and tweeter of many banger threads about Rhodesia and other things.

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I'm joined by Matt Pegas, co-host of the New Write podcast, to talk about astrology and LA super clubs.

Matt's new book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY8PNKG7

Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/Mpegz696

New Write Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/NewWrite

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Talking Musk's big win against GRAM, the conglomerate of advertisers pressuring him to censor speech on X, with friend of the show and advertising guru Adam Singer.

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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.

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Talking about the age old question of whether money denigrates art with Dimes Square culture kid Noah Kumin, founder of The Mars Review of Books.

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Learning some bible, beginning with the story of Deborah, with pastor Andrew Isker, AKA Boniface Option AKA Eight Century Woodchipper.

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I’m joined by one of the great interviewers, Benjamin Boyce, for an interview of his own. On his show Calmversations, he interviews detransitioners, which serves as a starting point for our conversation about metaphysics, morality, and the Death of God.

Here’s our prior episode together on his show.

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What do the infamous Groypers actually believe? Are they as bad as everyone says? Is Nick Fuentes really gay?

I’m joined by real life actual Groyper Ace to discuss the much maligned subgroup behind AFPAC, to find some common ground, or lack thereof.

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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:

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