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The Carousel Podcast
Writer Isaac Simpson explores the world through modern propaganda. thecarousel.substack.com
Episodes
The Carousel PodcastCEO Murder, Tennessee Trans, Regulatory Capture - EP161
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…
The Carousel Podcast161. Park MacDougald
Star Tablet writer Park MacDougald joins me to talk about one of Tablet’s specialties: understanding political power networks.The Carousel is a…
The Carousel Podcast141. Titus Techera
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…
The Carousel PodcastAddress on Jewishness
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…
The Carousel Podcast127. Nic Dollinger
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…
The Carousel Podcast92. Maarek - Good Ol' Boyz
Shootin’ the sh*t with Good Ol’ Boyz host Maarek. One the smartest political history guys on the dissident right. Southern supremacist. Fantastic…
The Carousel Podcast80. Gwen Kansen
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…
The Carousel Podcast65. Meta Prime
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…
The Carousel PodcastSPECIAL RELEASE 64. Israeli Settler Baruch Kogan
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…
The Carousel Podcast63. William Wheelwright
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…
The Carousel Podcast62. Sean Monahan
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…
The Carousel Podcast61. Josh Lekach
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…
The Carousel Podcast60. Matt Loberstein - Rhizal Shoes
Another day another based founder. Matt Loberstein built Rhizal Shoes, a “grounded” and “barefoot” shoe company after getting sick of shilling white label DTC…
The Carousel Podcast59. ~poldec-tonteg - Blimp DAO
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…
The Carousel Podcast58. Harry Bergeron - Cancellation Insurance
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…
The Carousel Podcast57. Insect Brah
Nabokov, Teddy Roosevelt, Ernst Junger: all amateur entomologists driven by the overwhelming urge to know and categorize the natural world. Insect Brah is the…
The Carousel Podcast56. Charles Mayfield - Farrow
Welcome entrepreneur Charles Mayfield to The Carousel. His skincare company Farrow uses an unprecedented and borderline forgotten substance as its key…
The Carousel Podcast55. Adam Singer and Chris Gadek
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…
The Carousel Podcast54. Paul McNiel
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…
The Carousel Podcast53. Alex Garner
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…
The Carousel Podcast52. David Pinsen of Zero Hedge
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…
The Carousel Podcast51. Civil Rights Attorney David Pivtorak
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…
The Carousel Podcast50. Paulos of Myth Pilot
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 Carousel Podcast49. Wide Dog, Twitter Blue
Celebrated digital artist Wide Dog joins me for episode 49 of The Carousel Podcast. Mr. Dog won first place in the Passage Prize art category last year.Last…
The Carousel Podcast48. Astral on VICE
Dissident arts impresario Astral returns to The Carousel for a conversation about the decline and fall of VICE. I freelanced briefly for VICE in the 2010s…
The Carousel Podcast47. Lomez
Lomez. The name alone sends shivers of fear up the spines of our enemies. A leader of the culture wars, he founded of Passage Publishing, a top publisher in…
The Carousel Podcast46. Matthew David Wilder
On episode 46 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by filmmaker Matthew David Wilder. He wrote Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog (2016) and wrote and directed Your…
The Carousel Podcast45. Arthur Kwon Lee
Cancelled fine artist Arthur Kwon Lee has one of the best "coming out as based” stories I’ve ever heard. At the top of the art game in New York, represented by…
The Carousel Podcast44. J.L. Mackey
Ezra Ballinger, protagonist of The Cowboy Church, would appreciate me keepin’ this short. So I will.J.L. Mackey is an author, poaster, and all around DisLit…
The Carousel Podcast43. Raw Egg Nationalist
In our biggest episode to date, the infamous Raw Egg Nationalist drops by to discuss the hilarious ads in Man’s World Number 10.REN leads the battle against…
The Carousel Podcast42. Inez Stepman
Today we have Inez Stepman, a thinker I discovered recently and am incredibly impressed by. Her gender analysis is rooted in Red Pill theory—she admittedly…
The Carousel PodcastSPECIAL RELEASE 41. Ash
Two important legal stories (besides the Trump indictment) came to the fore this week, and no one better to explain them than bodybuilder, Twitter anon, and…
The Carousel Podcast40. Daniel Algarin
Welcome filmmaker Daniel Algarin to The Carousel. A working Hollywood creative director/editor, Algarin came up under David Fincher at Rock, Paper, Scissors…
The Carousel Podcast39. Last Things
Last Things takes a spin on The Carousel for episode 39.Fantastic video essayist, podcaster, and conversationalist, Last Things analyzes our broken culture via…
The Carousel Podcast38. Scott Mannion
YouTuber Scott Mannion hops on the Carousel for Episode 38. Mannion specializes in Anglo Saxon symbology and meaning—his video essays and Substacks combine…
The Carousel Podcast37. Yuri Bezmenov
Meet Yuri Bezmenov, an ambitious new anon Substacking up a storm. His namesake, a KGB defector from the 1980s, recently re-rose to prominence via this eerily…
The Carousel PodcastSPECIAL RELEASE 36. Asher Penn
Please welcome Asher Penn to The Carousel.Asher is founder of Sex Magazine and the man behind the Delicious Tacos short film that Curtis Yarvin can’t stop…
The Carousel Podcast35. Ryan Zickgraf
Please welcome journalist Ryan Zickgraf to The Carousel. Zickgraf writes for Compact and Jacobin from a leftist perspective, and occupies the leftward fork of…
The Carousel Podcast34. Gio Pennacchietti
Today we’ve got Gio. Visual artist, writer, and YouTuber Gio Pennachietti is the consummate taxonomist of online dissident spheres. His Content Minded Corner…
The Carousel PodcastSPECIAL RELEASE 33. Magdalene Taylor
SPECIAL EPISODE Magdalene Taylor's OpEd for the New York Times, "Have Most Sex Please," went viral this week—titillating incels and upsetting asexuals across…
The Carousel Podcast32. Athenian Stranger
Higher education appears to be a lost cause. It’s shirked its responsibility to teach the classics or even hard skills like, you know, “writing.” Explore the…
The Carousel Podcast31. Bennett's Phylactery
No one better encapsulates the plight of the right than Bennett's Phylactery AKA Kevin Dolan. A famous Mormon Twitter anon, he was doxxed by a "ring" of…
The Carousel Podcast30. The Distributist Dave Green
The Distributist AKA Dave Green is one of the top thinkers of the populist right. I describe him as Yarvin Lite: he effectively conveys boundless knowledge and…
The Carousel Podcast29. Peachy Keenan
On episode 29 of The Carousel podcast, I’m joined by based firebrand Peachy Keenan. We talk about her conversion from Sex in the City atheist to based mother…
The Carousel Podcast28. Kino Corner
On Episode 28 of The Carousel Podcast, I host film YouTuber Kino Corner. Mr. Corner is known for his series on “Literally Me” films—movies with sigma male…
The Carousel Podcast27. Bog Beef
On Episode 27 of The Carousel Podcast, my subject is Bog Beef—populist commentator and co-host of The Good Ol’ Boyz podcast.SHOW NOTESThis episode will be a…
The Carousel Podcast26. Kevin Kautzman
On episode 26 of The Carousel Interrogations, I provoke warrior playwright Kevin Kautzman. Beyond his incredible prolificness as a playwright and theater…
The Carousel Podcast25. Luthemplaer
On Episode 25 of the Carousel Podcast, I’m joined by Luthemplaer (formerly Cringewalker), the digital creator behind this infamous Kanye image and the…
The Carousel Podcast24. T.R. Hudson
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…
The Carousel Podcast23. Lafayette Lee
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…
The Carousel Podcast22. Balenciaga Bulls*t
On episode 22 of The Carousel podcast, social media expert Nathan Baker (@NateyBakes) joins me to discuss the recent Balenciaga controversy, various World Cup…
The Carousel Podcast21. World Cup Virtue Signaling
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…
The Carousel Podcast20. Dan Baltic
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 Carousel Podcast18. The Prudentialist
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…
The Carousel Podcast17. When all you can TERF is think about
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…
The Carousel Podcast16a. Musk and Twitter Ads
Recurring guest Astral joins me for a joint episode (Episode 16) of The Carousel podcast. Recently-Twitter-banned Astral wonders how and why Twitter…
The Carousel Podcast16. Rich Cromwell
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…
The Carousel Podcast15. Founding Dungeons and Dragons
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…
The Carousel Podcast14. Matt Forney
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…
The Carousel Podcast13. Astral
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…