On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga I interview this podcast’s youngest guest to date: my seventeen year old intern, who wishes to be known simply as “Walt’s Intern.”
Walt’s Intern has been an enormous asset to this publication over the past months, and I even have him to thank for teaching me how to use AI voice converters.
Speaking with this strapping young feller and hearing his exuberant and confident takes on the world was a huge breath of fresh air. But it also made me realize just how quickly I’ve been growing old and out of touch! This kid might just be the one who finally convinces me to adopt a healthier lifestyle...
Topics include:
WI’s earliest political memories as a middle schooler during Covid
How WI was first exposed to the DR / Post-AR via Sam Hyde and Frogtwitter
WI’s memories of Pewdiepie getting canceled by Buzzfeed etc.
Why Walt doesn’t really fit in with the modern Dissident Right and remains attached to the more aggressive and big tent Alt Right mindset
How tools like Dall-E and Suno make it far easier to create professional-quality content than was ever possible prior to AI
WI’s stance in retrospect on the Covid vaccines and lockdowns
Were the reported Covid death numbers trustworthy?
Walt’s take that Covid tremendously increased the value of asymmetric life strategies (PPE loans / job stacking) and further stratified our social hierarchy
Gen Z is far less white than earlier generations and this gives them different sensibilities on racial matters, a greater appreciation for hip hop etc.
The disturbing Zoomer / Gen Alpha fixation on anti-aging skincare
Does pushback against age gaps come more from Millennial girls or Zoomer girls?
Having a gf/bf at an early age is now coded as low prestige among young people.
What causes Walt to talk so fast and why does this bother people?
How the ADHD “hunter brain” can be useful in asymmetric ecologies
Is college a bad bet for young guys?
WI’s aspirations to become a film director
How decentralized patronage networks like BisBuc can support right wing art by massively empowering sophisticated midsize patrons and removing the need to e-beg for $10 subscriptions / angle for Thielbux
How AI art threatens “technician” type artists who draw furry porn etc. and don’t actually possess any novel creative vision
Is AI art more primordially engaging / addictive because of how LLMs work?
Will hyper-specialized AI-generated content (i.e. feature length films and video games) make it impossible for people to relate to one another over culture?
Are leftists ever right about anything? Does WI support the French Revolution?
Why climate activism is the one left-coded issue WI embraces
Walt’s objection to BAPism and its extreme reverence for male beauty
WI bullies Walt for being a fat sleep-deprived methhead
Walt’s disembodied “brain in a vat” mindset and lack of concern for bodily health
Is everyone *really* meant to live into old age? Fast vs. slow life strategies
How easy would it be to assassinate Walt Bismarck? What’s the likelihood that it might happen one day?
WI sees cancellation as mostly a thing of the past
Once you become a public figure you can’t really control your reputation
Zoomers are better at dealing with haters than Millennials
WI thinks Walt overestimates problems with Zoomer guys and actually sees NEETmaxxing as a vital force
Walter is out of touch with what the kids are thinking these days
Could Negative XP overthrow the social order?
Will humanity ultimately speciate / culturally bifurcate between people who can resist dopamine tarps and people who can’t?
Give the Boomers props—they are fantastically agentic and iron willed!
How both Boomers and Millennials have Main Character Syndrome
Liberalism didn’t used to be so effeminate and gay—it was associated with vital younger guys rebelling against their stodgy religious fathers
Midwits in particular are shredded by dopamine traps that grugs and bigbrains can both avoid
Is Walt Bismarck a doomer or merely sleep deprived?
Why the Florida Man is more Faustian than other American types
Is Walt Jewish? Why do both Jews and anti-Semites think Walt acts Jewish?
Are white homosexuals more extraverted about it than minority gays?
Walt wants Wypipo to act more like Jews and Indians in their business dealings and generally start to close ranks
Bringing in low IQ third world migrants is good even for blue collar guys (who can then become contractors more easily)
Is the median normie conservative closer to Barstoolers or Trads?
“Karen” is a hateful racial slur towards white women people embraced cynically in 2020 to benefit from lower standards, resulting in the Crisis of Competence
Interviewing my seventeen year old intern