The Shrugging Out Podcast

Episode 213, The War on Whites

2021-03-01T15:39:00.001-06:00

The Civil War in progress has quickly morphed into a War on Whites in America.

Corporations and public institutions are using the pandemic and the January 6 Capitol protest to reconfigure themselves around Anti-Whiteness as a key mission.

The key question is whether the increasing persecution of Whites will be fast enough to crush Whites underfoot before the persecution process itself wakes up enough Whites in time to stop it.

This is the last episode of TSOP that will ever be recorded. Thanks to all who have listened over the years. Take care of yourselves.

Episode 212, Revolution In Progress

2020-10-10T12:42:00.002-05:00

The wait is over! The much-anticipated modern American revolution, or depending on the exact configuration of the combatants, Civil War 2, is now in progress.

Be sure to check out Jim's Blog.

Episode 211, OK Boomer

2019-11-29T10:21:00.001-06:00

How bad is the Baby Boomer generation?

Why do so many people despise Boomers?

What happened on the Baby Boomers' watch?

What do Boomers get wrong about the world?

Did anything good happen while the Boomers were in charge?

Should Boomers be blamed for what's happened?

Episode 210, Overcome Your Programming

2019-07-26T10:06:00.000-05:00

All of us have been programmed, from early life and through school, and in some cases beyond, to hold dear a number of assumptions about how the world works, or should work.

In this show, I go over some of this programming, and being a Boomer, most will be programming specific to Boomers.

Harmful programming.

For Boomers, this programming is as harmful as the GOTO is to computer programming. (If you caught that reference, you’re a computer programmer too.)

The assumptions—the programming—I cover in this show have either been proven harmful already, or will soon be proven to be harmful as events unfold. Deeply ingrained programming such as these are tough to erase, but erase them you must.

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Episode 209--Sorry, Not Sorry

2019-04-11T12:59:00.000-05:00

Sorry about that. Really.

No kidding, I'm sorry for being away from the podcast for so long.

This show covers a host of topics where I am...

Sorry and responsible for...such as taking six freaking months to record another podcast
Sorry about, but not responsible for...such as the failure of conventional conservative politics to make anything happen for what, at least two decades?
Not sorry about...such as the Russian collusion hoax collapsing on the progressive lefties
Sorry, but not sorry about...such as the abundance of hate crime hoaxes

Other sorry/not sorry topics--guess which way I go on these:

Making barn wood furniture
Ben Shapiro and "creedal Americanism"
Whites becoming the persecuted majority (huh?)
Joe Rogan and Dan Carlin's delusional nation of entrepreneurs
ELCA church hitting hard times
The Zerg rush at the Mexican border
Russia collusion hoax collapse
Southern Poverty Law Center #metoo
Smollett hate crime hoax
It's OK to be white hate crimes

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Episode 208, Two-Three-Two

2018-10-16T09:05:00.000-05:00

For as long as anyone can remember, political power in America has been wielded by two parties--Republican and Democrat. More than two just hasn't worked, not for very long.

Of course, within those two parties there have been factions and coalitions and the kind of churn you see in European politics. It's just that in the end, in America, the factions and coalitions generally churn themselves into lining up behind either the R or the D.

In this show, I argue that the parties are reconfiguring before our eyes, temporarily creating three blocs distributed across the two. And that, assuming American politics really can only support two major parties, the three blocs will soon realign. They'll still be called Republicans and Democrats, but not something your father would recognize.

Episode 207, Guide to the Dissident Right

2018-08-21T08:08:00.002-05:00

The picture to the right, which I found after recording this show, is a fairly useful illustration of the variety of tribes in and around the dissident right.

In this episode:

What trends led to the rise of the dissident right?
What are the key issues motivating the DR?
Glossary of DR terms (so the Normies will know the difference between a bugman and a dindu)
Tribalism, and why it is important (not just for understanding the DR)
A mini-Who's Who in the dissident right
What is the future for the dissident right?

No big brain takes here, but a reasonably objective and balanced overview of the dissident right, I think. In the end, I'm generally, though not totally, supportive of the dissident right and the effect it is having in countering the Progressive Lefty bulldozer. (Though "acceleration"--a DR term referring to a deliberate hastening of The Collapse--may turn out to be a better strategy.)

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Episode 206, Liberty Ridge Five Years In, Part 2

2018-07-04T13:59:00.000-05:00

Part 2 of two-part series.

This episode:

Making furniture from reclaimed barnwood
The indispensability of the basic farm tractor
Last winter was the coldest winter so far
Living with a well and septic system
Backup electrical power
What if the stuff hits the fan?
What have we learned in five years about living in the country?

Pictured: Baby chick brooder fashioned from oval stock tank (hillbilly bathtub) and homemade lid. Be sure to clamp or weight the lid to keep predators out--baby chicks are apparently delicious.

Errata: I refer to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the surprise winner of the Democrat primary in New York's 19th Congressional district, as an "unwise Latina", which is correct, but I incorrectly name her "Gomez". Must have been thinking of the Addams Family patriarch.

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Episode 205, Liberty Ridge--Five Years In

2018-06-19T08:28:00.001-05:00

Hard to believe, but we've been living at Liberty Ridge for five years now, or will by the time mid-July rolls around.

Time for an update on what's been accomplished at the Liberty Ridge homestead, and what we've learned in the process about:

Setting up a pretty big vegetable garden (pictured)
Using concrete blocks for raised beds
Collecting rain water for irrigation
Delivering water to the garden
Overcoming problems with bugs
Making tomato cages from rebar mesh
Using hog panels for trellising
Handling a pretty big (and then suddenly small) flock of chickens

That's enough for this show--part 2 coming soon.

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Episode 204, Listener Don Returns to Liberty Ridge

2018-05-28T15:00:00.001-05:00

Long time listeners of TSOP will remember Don, a friend of the show and a good friend of mine.

Don is a materials scientist and craftsman of the very first order. These days, he mostly works with wood, mostly using hand tools, which are a mixture of vintage, modern, and of his own design and manufacture. Don’s written multiple books on craftsmanship, and has an unbridled passion for wood finishes, with a conditional preference for hand-brushed or hand-rubbed shellac.

We recorded this show from the front porch of my home on Liberty Ridge. You may hear some sounds of nature in the background. Birds, mostly, though at one point my dog Lexi heard or smelled something in the woods and took off noisily to chase it.

Here are the questions I asked Don:

What brings you to Arkansas?
Trump—love him or hate him?
At least, thank God, we can trust the FBI....
John Derbyshire, Steve Sailer, the Z-man and others and the “dissident right? Are you a member too?
Is the Pope Catholic?
One year from now—what will be in the headlines?
What happened to Apu? (the Indian character on The Simpsons)
What makes shellac such a fantastic finish for wood?

Don’s a very thoughtful and articulate observer of American politics and culture, and we agree on most topics. I hope you enjoy his musings as much as I did.

Pictured: My new Nicholson bench, which I constructed during the Woodworking With Hand Tools workshop Don conducted recently in Northwest Arkansas.

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