The Carousel Podcast

Welcome filmmaker Daniel Algarin to The Carousel. A working Hollywood creative director/editor, Algarin came up under David Fincher at Rock, Paper, Scissors, and has found great success cutting trailers for major film releases. But, unlike your typical Hollywood hack, Algarin actually has something to say. His viral YouTube hit Dread Pirate Roberts depicts Silk Road-founder Ross Ulbricht in his own words in the moments before his arrest. It’s the perfect short. Incisive, cinematic, perfectly-crafted, thematically-complex—a successful attempt to bring filmic quality to the small screen.If you haven’t watched it yet, I can’t think of a better way to spend four minutes of your time: Check out Algarin’s Substack Thoughtcrime for more of his work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

Last Things takes a spin on The Carousel for episode 39.Fantastic video essayist, podcaster, and conversationalist, Last Things analyzes our broken culture via popular movies and TV. His beliefs that "horror is fundamentally right wing" and that "the left can't see, the right can't speak," have become insightful memes. We cover much, but our conversation focuses on one key theme: how critical art, in the form of works like The Boys and Black Mirror, is captured and converted into propaganda by the very regime it seeks to critique. Deleuze labels a variation of this process "Deterritorialization" and "Reterritorialization"—how anything genuine is hollowed out and sold back to us with nothing more than the mask of what it used to represent.Last Things on TwitterLast Things on YouTube This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

YouTuber Scott Mannion hops on the Carousel for Episode 38. Mannion specializes in Anglo Saxon symbology and meaning—his video essays and Substacks combine historical analysis with beautiful prose to unearth the roots that ground individuals in their cultures, and cultures in their lands. He digs deep into the littlest elements of being, the origins of materials of the Barbour jacket for example, to reveal the essence of our ancestries. His organization Greenwood encourages members to rediscover metaphysical hierarchies and become reacquainted with deep connections they probably never knew they had.We talk about the Queen’s burial ceremony, the U.S. Constitution, Daseins, and the role of the based brand maker in the modern world.Scott on YouTubeScott on Twitter This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 prescient video about the process of demoralization. The current Yuri is a native New Yorker, the son of Chinese immigrants, which gives him a unique perspective on ideological subversion. His beat covers the signs and symbols of subversion in places like Austin, New York, and Karenland FUPAZ (his word for the network of American cities run by zombie Progressives). We talk about Red Guards, struggle sessions, urban male-female dynamics, and of course how to subvert the subversion that’s become the norm.Yuri Bezmenov on TwitterThe Carousel is a reader-supported publication. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 blogging about. Asher and I discuss the genesis of the project, Peter Vack, the quality of Tacos’ writing, and the state of sex in film and advertising.As one of Tacos’ biggest fans, I fully support this project, and gave $100 to the Kickstarter. The trailer captures the essence of Tacos in a way I didn’t think was possible on-screen.Why is this project so important? Yarvin puts it better than I ever could,“[Untitled Delicious Tacos Short Film] is nothing less than a kind of supergroup counterculture event…Tacos is the Hemingway, the Raymond Carver, of our scene. It needs film. Peter Vack is a badass veteran of the NY underground film scene and famous for the infamous Mike Crumplar struggle session. It needs provocative underground magazines—Asher Penn is well-known for his SEX Magazine. It needs dangerous music—I can’t even mention the former name of musician Negative XP.”Check out the trailer and give to the Kickstarter here. There are only a few days left! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 horsehoe directly across from me, and from whence I came.I found him via his interesting NFL article in Compact, “It’s Not Your Grandaddy’s NFL,” which I see as a companion piece to my “The NFL’s Eggshell PR Problem.” We also share in common a background in city journalism, him with The Chicago Reader and WaPo as an Atlanta correspondent. He was cancelled(ish) from the Reader after a woke takeover.We talk about Perry Abbasi’s attempted cancellation by the Reader, sports gambling, Mobile, Alabama, and why and how corporations woke wash labor abuses away.Ryan on Twitter Ryan’s Substack The Third RailRyan on Authory This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

Today we’ve got Gio. Visual artist, writer, and YouTuber Gio Pennachietti is the consummate taxonomist of online dissident spheres. His Content Minded Corner provides a vast perspective on the opposing ideologies and idiosyncrasies of our digital ocean. We chat about the definition of “content,” the meaning of counterculture, and why he uses so many euphemisms.Content Minded Corner SubstackGio on YouTubeGio on Twitter This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 land. While many will disagree, I see Magdalene as a bridge between the mainstream and heretical spheres—that rare journalist who still approaches her material with clear, open eyes. It's not often, after all, that we see a NYT piece that's positive about sex without being "sex positive" (a boner-killing academic term that paints sex as an elaborate and exhausting project to undertake). In this episode, Magdalene diagnoses our sexless society and provides the perspective of "26 year old living in Brooklyn." We talk about attraction, female sexuality, and the depolarization of the sexes. Maybe, just maybe, she's a genuine whitepill. Her articleHer Substack "Many Such Cases"Her TwitterThe Carousel is a reader-supported publication. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 sentence structure of a Berkeley grad, any Berkeley grad, and tell me if you disagree. Twitter anon Athenian Stranger builds projects and hosts spaces to help educate followers on the classic books. In doing so, he provides both EXIT and RETVRN for young people interested in learning about the real history—not the woke revisionist one—of their culture, the Western tradition. In this episode, we dissect four chapters from Thus Spake Zarathustra. If you want to read along with us, here are the chapters in question:* “Of the Friend”* “The Thousand and One Goals”* “Of Old and Young Women”* “Of Great Events”We don’t just chat about Nietzsche broadly. We dive deep into each of these chapters, into their nuances, references, and annotations, to discover what Nietzsche truly means. Athenian impressively unpacks each in all its glory.The Carousel is a reader-supported publication.Athenian on TwitterAthenian’s Underground University on Telegram This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

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 activists and fired from his prestigious consulting job. The doxxers drew out the process for maximum pain, revealing all sorts of personal information and aiming for total destruction of a man for nothing but a few humorous sh*tposts.They did not succeed. Dolan responded by founding Exit, a group for men working to build careers and families outside the mainstream economy. And it's working. Who wants to constantly bow? Who wants to constantly censor themselves for fear of targeted financial destruction?By far my most spiritual episode, we chat about his doxxing, God, the longhouse workplace, and the four Christian tribes of early America as described in Albion's Seed.Exit GroupBennett's Phylactery on Twitter This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe