Weekly Round-up 5/5/2024

It's over

Hell of a week, folks.

All those pills I took really paid off. This was an unusually productive period for me.

The highlight (at least for me) was the new episode reviewing the Fallout TV show. This is officially the most popular episode of the podcast. I watched the show (which is very bad but not for the reasons you’d expect) twice so you don’t have to.

Then we had my take on the campus takeovers sweeping across America. I think the best short-term and long-term move is to send a clear message that breaking the law and school rules is not acceptable, regardless of what you’re protesting for or against. The more it seems like officials are taking a side, the harder the larger phenomenon of violent leftist activism is to control.

After that there was analysis of Kristi Noem shooting that dog. I argue that this incident reflects a larger cultural problem in conservative spaces today: a fundamental artificially, argumentativeness, and bad taste that turns people away.

Finally, late last night, I released a new podcast episode reviewing the book “Forging the Thunderbolt” by Mildred Hanson Gillie. People love book episodes, and I think this is one of the most important books for rightwingers today to read.

Alright, that’s all I’ve got. Now I will return to my cave and slumber for several weeks. Please become a paid subscriber right now to have access to all the paywalled content on this Substack. Ever subscriber really does make a difference in my life.

Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled):

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Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid)

Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free)

Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a shit on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free)

Ep4: "The Glorious Cause" is the best book on the American Revolution (that I've found) (Free)

Ep5: Your opinion on The Killer (2023) determines whether or not you have bad taste (Paid)

Ep6: Bitter master director Ridley Scott takes his time shitting out historical epic no one wanted (Free)

Ep7: This is the one (1) movie that you absolutely need to watch literally right now (Paid)

Ep8: Revenge thriller episode (Paid)

Ep9: Ride with the Devil (1999) is the best Civil War movie that I know you haven't seen yet (Free)

Ep10: 🚨ALERT🚨 Japanese launch devastating surprise attack on moviegoers' heartstrings (Paid)

Ep11: Total Recall (1990) was the sci-fi slaughterhouse America needed and deserved (Paid)

Ep12: I watched a bunch of the new DailyWire+ original movies last week... (Paid)

Ep13: If you don't force your family to watch this movie for Christmas, they will despise you (Paid)

Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) (Free)

Ep15: "A Disease in the Public Mind" is the most important book to read about the Civil War and America today (Free)

Ep16: Someone finally made a good Afghanistan War movie and nobody noticed (Paid)

Ep17: If you don't watch this new movie in theaters, you are betraying me and yourself (Paid)

Ep18: Michael Mann’s Ferrari is the death-song of Esoteric Boomerism (Heat is overrated btw) (Paid)

Ep19: This forgotten Russian Civil War memoir shows why "Ruralite retreat" localism is dumb (Free)

Ep20: "In ‘First Man,’ Triumph for White Male Dreams" -The Harvard Crimson (Paid)

Ep21: Hunt: Showdown is a late 1800s horror-shooter that simulates normal life in Maryland (Paid)

Ep22: COMBAT DROP! Surprise Emergency Free Starship Troopers (1997) Sunday Show (Free)

Ep23: Dune 2 was unironically really bad and you’re actually stupid if you enjoyed it (Free)

Ep24: Witness (1985) is a masterclass in the lost art of the popular thriller (Paid)

Ep25: Returning to the scene of the crime against cinema, the Dune 2 rewatch episode (Paid)

Ep26: I rewatched The Lord of the Rings and all I could think about was how bad Dune 2 was (Paid)

Ep27: The new Road House movie is an obscene act of cultural terrorism (Paid)

Ep28: This is most important Dune 2 podcast episode that you'll ever listen to (Paid)

Ep29: If you don't follow this esoteric health advice you are actually going to die (Paid)

Ep30: Free ($0) sample episode - What is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl about? (Free)

Ep31: Alex Garland's Civil War (2024) is a shocking bland film that says nothing in the most dishonest way possible (Paid)

Ep32: Canadians accidentally made a sci-fi movie about the Ukraine War in 1995 (Paid)

Ep33: The new Fallout TV show is really, really, bad (Paid)

Ep34: I found the single most important American history book for rightwingers to read today (Paid)

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