The Carousel Podcast

Mar 07 2025 92 ep. 82 mins 70
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Writer Isaac Simpson explores the world through modern propaganda.

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183. Karl Hollywood & Covfefe Anon

Mar 07 2025 124 mins  
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. This is a free episode, but many eps are paywalled. Please become a paid subscriber now. The Carousel is a reader-sup

182. Why Conspiracy Theories are Low Class

Mar 05 2025 50 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comFIRST 50 MINUTES FREE. PAID SUBSCRIBE $6 NOW FOR FULL EPISODES INCLUDING THE VIDEOS.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 cla

181. How to Get 60 Million Views and Sell Out of Your DTC Energy Drink

Mar 03 2025 45 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comAmericans, 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

180. American Symphony - Stephen Limbaugh

Feb 28 2025 102 mins  
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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge

179. Tooky's Mag

Feb 26 2025 32 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comChatting 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. First thirty minutes free…please become a paid subscriber at thecarousel.substack.com. Also a note: I told ever

178. Steve Sailer

Feb 23 2025 90 mins  
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 m

177. Understanding BlackRock - Will Hild

Feb 20 2025 44 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comFIRST 45 MINUTES FREE. TO GET THE FULL EPISODE PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!Also, sorry for not great quality on my microphone in the first few minutes. It’s fixed after about 8 minutes.I’m joined by the fantastic Will Hild, skilled fighter of the Borg, particularly BlackRock on which he is an expert, and

176. The Futility of Counterculture - Wokal Distance

Feb 19 2025 93 mins  
Wokal Distance AKA Michael Young is a cultural researcher at the Center for Renewing America. We discuss the history of American culture and counterculture—specifically how the cycle of commodified non-conformity is used to control the masses and expand the very capitalism that its proponents (originally the Critical Theorists) sought to undermine. Also, where does this leave the

175. Kevin Dolan - Natal Conference

Feb 14 2025 30 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comReturning guest Kevin Dolan AKA Bennett’s Phylactery talks about his smash hit Natalism Conference, which was tweeted about by Elon Musk last year. It’s coming up on March 28th in Austin, use code CAROUSEL to buy now!FIRST 30 MINUTES FREE…BECOME MEMBER OF THE CAROUSEL TO HEAR FULL EPISODE.Th

How to Astroturf the Super Bowl

Feb 13 2025 7 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thecarousel.substack.comWhy are the Kelce’s so cringe? Why are the Super Bowl ads so lame? Why does it seem like we’re being played like a bunch of FanDuel slop loving marionettes? Because we are!All these questions and more answered in this very special MEMBERS ONLY episode with the best propaganda analyst in the bu