In a typical week, as well as researching, writing and producing my own content, I also listen to a lot of stuff. This has long been my habit. I will listen to something while driving, washing dishes, cooking, playing video games, smoking a cigar; whatever I’m doing I’ll usually have something on. Generally, I like to have a panoramic view of what everyone is saying across the dissident right. I’m always especially interested in divergent views and the reasons for them. My mode, in some ways, has always been a kind of metareview of takes and to act as an aggregation engine of important information. In this post I want to outline the people I pay attention to and why. Unlike most people, I do not write anyone off de facto. It is human to use ethos, which is to say someone’s character and what you make of them, as a basic shorthand and heuristic for whether to pay attention to them. I find most people do this and will typically write off maybe one in two of the people I am about to list. I, however, focus on their cognitive abilities rather than their character or whether I agree with them. A lot of people filter out people with whom they disagree. I do not, because there is always the possibility that they are right, and I am wrong. Sometimes someone can be wrong in interesting ways. Sometimes people can be wrong on almost everything but their reasons, nonetheless, are worth considering. Incidentally, I pay no attention to anyone in the mainstream media or on so-called bread tube or anyone on the so-called centre right including The Spectator. I consider these people to be entirely worthless and a waste of time. Not all enemies are a waste of time to listen to, but when someone is nothing but a conduit and lackey of power, you’d be better off repeatedly speaking to a Morrowind NPC. The only role of such people is to be mocked and deconstructed by us.
Now, in the interests of space, I am not including everyone I’ve ever watched or listened to. First, I am excluding people who I strongly feature on my own YouTube channel who are typically included in what is called by some ‘the AA Sphere’ – who include, among others, Charlemagne, Radical Liberation, Turnip, Prudentialist, Semiogogue, Lambda, Skeptical Waves, Panama Hat, Ferro and the Pasta Posse. I’m in touch with these guys in realtime every day so I somewhat know most of their takes. I do my best to catch their stuff when I can – Semiogogue often streams after Cigar Stream on Wednesday nights, and I usually can’t sleep so am often around for that live. I am also including only those people on my current rotation. I tend to gravitate towards mavericks and renegades. If someone does not appear here, it is not necessarily intended as a diss, it may be that I am familiar enough with someone that I could generally anticipate their takes on any given issue – take Ed Dutton who I met in person last week, I kinda know the drill with Ed, if you know what I mean.
Bronze Age Pervert
https://bronzeagepervert.gumroad.com/l/BronzeAgePervert
Perhaps owing to his shitposting on twitter and hilarious comedy accent and the other ‘performance’ elements of his style, BAP is not taken as seriously as he should be. He is by far one of the most well-read, insightful, fully rounded, and consistently excellent voices in the dissident right. I have still not worked my way through the entire back catalogue since getting my (paid) sub in January, but almost every single episode has something of tremendous value. BAP’s key strength, however, is in the areas of geopolitics and revisionist history, especially history pertaining to the exploits of the ‘international gangsters’ who run the Global American Empire. He also has excellent guests such as Fisted by Foucault and Thomas777. Definitely worth the money.
The Duran
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran
These guys, who have risen to real prominence since the conflict in Ukraine start, have been one of my go-to sources for geopolitical and European news for many years. While they definitely have a pro-Russian slant, the have a close eye for detail and pay attention to the actual statements made by governments and leaders. Out of the two of them, Alexander Mercouris – who is a former barrister who was debarred some shady reason or other – does most of the talking, and Alex Christoforou – who I think is a Greek Cypriot – plays the host. However, while Mercouris is a great source of information, I believe his political thinking is quite shallow and basically liberal, albeit with an anti-globalist bent. I believe Christoforou is the more redpilled of the two of them, a more unabashed populist, and this comes out from time to time. I’ll typically go to The Duran if there’s a big European story. Obviously on the current big story they are indispensable.
Greg Johnson
https://counter-currents.com/tag/podcasts/
There are typically two shows on the Counter-Currents feed (paid sub), The Writers’ Bloc, and a show that Greg Johnson presents. I typically will catch the latter and might dip into the former depending on the guest. Johnson usually takes a strong and distinct line on any given topic and is (very) often not where everyone else is. He’s an intelligent and well-read guy, obviously he has a particular agenda, but beyond that his takes a quite nuanced and always worth considering.
Guide to Kulchur
https://guidingthestorm.com/
https://cult.gumroad.com/
Frodi has been around a long time and is one of the calming and wise voices in the DR. He has a great podcast (paid sub) as well as content he puts out for free on Odysee – I find it easier to catch it all on the podcast feed. Frodi’s longer form interviews tend to be quite penetrating and get beyond a mere surface-level analysis. They are also a bit more evergreen than typical rank punditry because of their intellectual nature. I also quite like the shorter ones he does when he’s walking through a forest or whatever.
Millennial Woes
https://odysee.com/@millennialwoes:4
Aside from the epic Millenniyule (which is a great way of surveying who is who and what is on everyone’s agenda), Woes has a lovely little show every Monday night called Gram of Woes, which he records on Telegram and then uploads to Odysee later in the week. On Monday nights I’m usually free after doing The Deepest Lore and around the time Woes is on usually driving for my pilgrimage to a certain fast-food establishment. It’s become a strange sort of ritual, but it’s a very cosy and intimate show – just Woes giving takes and some super chatters. He’s older, a bit more detached, and therefore has a more measured perspective on many issues.
Morgoth’s Review
https://www.youtube.com/c/MorgothsReview1
https://odysee.com/@MorgothReviews:5/morgcast17:7
Whenever Morgoth drops a video, I’ll go out of my way to watch it. The Poet of the North is one of the very few can’t-miss voices on YouTube. His longer form podcast, The Morgcast, is on Odysee. He has concentrated on the dystopian transhumanist techno-future of late and always in a thought-provoking way. His film reviews with Endeavour are also nice for a relaxing change of pace.
Richard Spencer
This YT channel seems to collect all his miscellaneous appearances: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXqgaFcMJUSWBq9T9s0Xsfg
Everyone hates Spencer. I mean the left hate him and want to punch him, the establishment right like to use him to virtue signal to their left, and almost everyone on the dissident right says he’s either a fed or a cringe contrarian. My view is simply that he is a perpetual liberal arts student who – unfortunately for himself and everyone else – miscast himself as a movement leader. While he’s often wildly wrong, sometimes he has insights no one else catches because he’s coming at the situation from a unique perspective. He is often a good stress test for opinions that spread across the right like wildfire. Spencer is often an astute critic of the boomer cons and the MAGA grift complex – he arrives at positions that are deeply unpopular when he voices them but then become received wisdom 1-2+ years down the line. I’ve seen that pattern play out more than once. His film reviews with Mark Brahmin contain some next-level analysis.
Scrump and Evelyn
https://www.youtube.com/c/scrumpmonkey/
I don’t know exactly what their show is called but it’s typically on every Monday, before Woes, and therefore I tend to catch it live when I’m cruising for burgers after Deepest Lore. These guys have done some excellent work taking the idea of becoming a dissident vanguard seriously. They did a series deconstructing boomer truth by revising twentieth century history, they’ve been reading key texts by the likes of Sam Francis and Uncle Ted, as well as setting up their own IRL events. Quietly they’ve been building up some very high-quality streams.
Thomas777
https://realthomas777.substack.com/s/mindphaser-official-podcast-of-the
The Shaman is full of obscure historical details and intelligent takes. His knowledge of the American post-war right is, no exaggeration, likely in the top 0.1 percentile in the world, but he is also good on geopolitics and historical revisionism. If you have any lingering shreds of Boomer Truth left in your system, Thomas should help you purge them. His has launched his new podcast Mindphaser (I have a paid sub) but he also makes a lot of outside appearances, I made a PDF to help track them down here: https://t.me/BertieBassett4Life/1453. I consider all ‘new Thomas’ to be vital listening.
Vox Day
https://unauthorized.tv/channel/darkstream/
I have a full (paid) sub to unauthorized.tv, but I only actually watch Vox Day’s Darkstream. With Vox, you have to take the rough with the smooth. When Vox is on he’s very on – for example, his streams on the military strategy and tactics on the Ukraine situation recently have been uniformly excellent. However, the man has no filter, so in the middle of all this we were also subjected to the toe-curling cringe of him miming and dancing to his own cover of ‘Bitch’ by Meredith Brooks as a way to own Scott Adams. Attacking Adams for his prediction record when Vox, as far as I saw, failed to walk back any of the stuff around Trump crossing the Rubicon shows a certain lack of self-awareness. But then self-awareness has never been his strong suit – I just skip the stuff where he’s talking about his comics or whatever. What Vox Day has is the power of raw intelligence combined with a certain level of knowledge and information mining. It can lead to him being very right or very wrong, but it’s almost always well-reasoned.
I’m genuinely shocked at how one channel can change me so much. I was a economic commie and AA destroyed that. Then I was a classic liberal and now I roll my eyes at the “conservatives” I use to listen to. Thanks AA
One of AAs many super powers: being able to listen to 25 hours worth of podcasts in a single day