Matthew Pegas Podcasts

Matt and guest co-host Evan Papadakis do an in person interview with cartoonist Sterling Bartlett about his comic book HOW DID WE GET HERE?, his history as a painter and designer, disillusionment with the art world, and more.Sterling Twitter Matt Twitter Evan Substack Sterling Instagram Buy How Did We Get Here Link to Apocalypse Confidential Comic…

On New Millennium Boyz . Recorded at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park 9.11.23. Video version below:https://youtu.be/nDMhOvoYQbU

Recorded 8/19/23Dan sits down with Raw Egg Nationalist, the Editor-in-Chief of "Man's World" and author of "The Eggs Benedict Option." Topics include REN's new food company, Kindred Harvest, the new Man's World website, and the craft of writing.REN TwitterDan TwitterMatt Twitter

Dan sits down with Caleb Caudell, the author of "Novelty," a collection of short stories steeped in a style that can only be called Middle American Gothic. Topics include character voice, dating, and "gentle contempt." Bonfire Books published "Novelty," as well as Caleb's first novel, "The Neighbor."Caleb TwitterDan TwitterMatt Twitter…

Matt and Dan sit down with Justin Lee: Associate Editor of First Things Magazine and writer of both Fiction and Non-Fiction. Topics include Justin's recent article Rewilding American Christianity, the necessity of re-enchantment, and the genre of horror viewed from a conservative Christian perspective.Justin Twitter Dan TwitterMatt Twitter…

Recorded 7/15/23Dan and Matt chat with fiction writer J.L. Mackey about his gritty novella "The Cowboy Church," the literary magazine he recently helped revive "The Double Dealer," and taking the Southern Gothic tradition back from the crawdad carpetbaggers.J.L. TwitterDan TwitterMatt Twitter

Recorded 6/25/23Dan and Matt chat with Other Life founder Justin Murphy about his online projects, his excellent book "Based Deleuze," and living life as a writer and scholar in this age of the Twilight of the Institutions. Dan TwitterMatt TwitterJustin Twitter

Recorded 6/10/23Matt and Dan sit down with Lomez to discuss Exiting the Longhouse, Rewilding, and the future of Passage Publishing.Lomez Twitter Matt TwitterDan Twitter

Recorded 6/3/23Matt and Dan sit down with Peachy Keenan to discuss her new book "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War" (available NOW from Regnery Publishing).Other topics covered include New Write's live event on May 18th (at which Peachy was a reader), Peachy's takes on the pop-cultural landscape, and being Gen-X. This…

Recorded 5/13/23Dan and Matt are joined by YouTuber, filmmaker, and movie critic extraordinaire The Kino Corner. Topics include "Literally Me" sigma heroes, f*cked-up movies, Paul Schrader, and the possibility of a based cinema.Matt TwitterDan Twitter Kino Twitter

Matt catches up with long-time friend, poet and semi-retired poster Brandon Adamson from deep inside his Cancerian shell of calculated stand-off-ishness. Topics discussed include Brandon's latest collection of poetry, his past work, astrology, and the sufferings, sorrows and joys of having a terminally online audience. Matt TwitterBrandon TwitterBr…

Recorded April 23rd, 2023Katherine Dee returns to discuss her latest projects, her article "Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made", digital spirituality, Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads and much more.Matt TwitterKatherine TwitterKatherine Substack

Recorded 4/16/23Matt and Dan are joined by Curtis Yarvin to discuss the new compendium of his blog Unqualified Reservations, available now from Passage Press, as well as his recent Substack article "Acorns For The Culture War."Matt TwitterDan TwitterCurtis Substack

Recorded 4/2/23Matt sits down with screenwriter and director Matthew David Wilder to discuss his career in Hollywood, focusing on his 2018 movie "Regarding The Case of Joan of Arc", but also touching on "Your Name Here" (2008), Dog Eat Dog (2016, written by Matthew and directed by Paul Schrader), and others. Along the way Matt and Matt delve into c…

Recorded 4/3/23Matt and Dan are joined by Documentarian Josiah McGarvie to discuss his new film "The Dividers" chronicling 4chan's epic battle against Shia LaBeouf and Luke Turner's 2017 performance art piece "He Will Not Divide Us". The Dividers is now available on Movie Plus and Amazon. Josiah TwitterDividers TwitterMatt TwitterDan Twitter…

Recorded 3.11.23 Originally posted as an episode of Matt's Black Album Project. Matt and Chris discuss how memes and magick matter, Synchronicity by Carl Jung and Synchronicity by The Police, Willhelm Reich, Aeonic shift, and much more.Matt TwitterChris Gabriel Twitter

Recorded 3.11.23Matt sits down with Ara Hagopian: a writer and polemicist active on Twitter, and an MFA candidate at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Matt and Ara discuss the unpleasant experience of defending your thesis in front of a room full of people who don't understand it, writing creatively about the internet, and getting mogged by a…

Recorded 3/4/23 Matt and Dan sit down with Brendan Luso to discuss Tales From the Mall, his 13-part radio drama, The Isolation Chamber, the duty of the artist to bring light into the world, and much more. Brendan Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 2/26/23 Matt and Dan are joined by the artist formerly known as Blauergeist: writer, podcaster, editor, poaster and resident life enjoyer Jacob Everett. Topics include Apocalypse Confidential (which Jacob founded in 2021), the definition of the "weird right", Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, and cigars. Jacob Everett Twitter Matt Pegas Twit…

Recorded 1/21/23 Matt and Dan sit down with Max Thrax, the managing editor of Apocalypse Confidential, to discuss his novel GOD IS A KILLER, pulp fiction, neo-noir and the dark heart of New England. Max Thrax Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 1/16/23 Matt and Dan discuss the oeuvre of Mel Gibson, analyzing him as a serious filmmaker with a vision animated as much by Traditional Catholicism as by a profound appreciation for the transformative power of violence. Topics of primary focus include Apocalypto, The Passion, and Mel's status as a truly successful, big-budget yet disside…

Recorded 12/26/22 Matt and Dan review the Year in Podcasting, discussing all of the New Write episodes from 2022 and hinting at big plans for 2023. Dan Baltic Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter

Recorded 12/10/22 Dan sits down with playwright, filmmaker, and renegade scholar Phoebe Nir, the mastermind behind the summer's infamous De Vere Ball. Topics include her darkly humorous coming-of-age film, Eco Village, the lost city of Atlantis, and the true authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Dan Baltic Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter…

Recorded 12/3/22 Dan sits down with the founder of the Exit Group, Bennett's Phylactery, to discuss how men can reclaim sovereignty over their lives by exiting the Regime. Topics include the health of the family as a barometer for social policy, the possibilities of remote work, and Bennett's excellent short story about a girl who's "cancelled" for…

Recorded 11/19/22 Matt and Dan sit down with noted "bro scientist" Raw Egg Nationalist to discuss his latest book The Eggs Benedict Option, the Man's World Digest and upcoming Man's World Annual 2022, and his appearance on the Tucker Carlson Originals documentary, "End of Men." Slonk this episode! Raw Egg Nationalist Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan …

Recorded 10/29/22 Matt and Dan are joined by returning guest, Kevin Kautzman, to discuss the literary podcast he cohosts with Brad Kelly, Art of Darkness, as well as his St. Paul, MN-based theatre company, Bad Mouth Theatre Company, and his excellent play exploring the rabbit holes of social media, MODERATION. Topics include theatre as a dissident …

Recorded 10/23/22 Matt and Dan are joined by IM-1776 Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Mark Granza, to discuss the future of both his publication and the national-populist right. Topics include the difference between art and propaganda, the "Tom Wolfe Model" and the state of Florida. IM 1776 Twitter Mark Granza Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twit…

Recorded 10/22/22 Matt is joined by legendary poaster Thomas777 and Aaron Cummings, host of the Lound Sound Epicenter Podcast to discuss Thomas's book STEELSTORM. Topics covered include Thomas's literary influences, historical revisionism, and how the 20th century continues to haunt us. In the second hour of the show, Matt and Aaron talk rock & rol…

Recorded 10/15/22 Matt is joined by pop artist and occultist Alex Kazemi to discuss his book Pop Magick: A Simple Guide to Bending Your Reality. Other topics include Alex's social media abstention, his friendship with Mike Ma, his collaborations and dialogues with celebrities, and coming of age-- as a younger millennial-- in a cultural depression. …

Recorded 9/24/22 Matt and Dan are joined by Samuel Finlay to discuss his novel BREAKFAST WITH THE DIRT CULT, which chronicles both the author's experience as an American soldier in Afghanistan in the early 2000's and the cultural decline at home. Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded: 9/10/22 Matt and Dan are joined by returning guest Isaac Simpson-- host/writer of "The Carousel" podcast/Substack-- to discuss his recent viral piece "There's Gonna Be a War in Montana," the Fall of Mar-a-Lago, the Rise of Dark Brandon, and why the frogs are gonna win. Isaac Simpson Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter…

Recorded 8/27/22 Matt and Dan do a deep-dive into the popular early 2000s television show Entourage. Topics include to what extent was this era a high water mark for a certain type of man, whether Entourage was a "show about nothing" and thus the spiritual heir to Seinfeld, and Dan's recent dinner date at Nobu, where he claims the spirit of the era…

Recorded 8/14/22 Dan and Matt join Mr. Prudentialist on his popular livestream. Topics include the growth of fiction among frogs and fellow travelers, the self-published man, and the anon to literary legend pipeline. Prudentialist Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 8/06/22 Matt and Dan are joined by Stained Hanes, the founder of 718TV, Cars & Women Magazine, and general man-about-town in NYC. Topics include dissident street art, luchador masks, Hanes' contribution to Ending Bigly, Eh?, and debate over which NYC borough is the most based. Stained Hanes Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter…

Recorded 7/31/22 Matt and Dan do a deep-dive into A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, discussing the extent to which Dunces foreshadows The Current Year, the echoes of Dunces in Dan's novel, Nutcrankr, and why Dunces offers a whitepill for outsiders everywhere. Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter…

Recorded 7/9/22 Dan is joined by Steff, whose work has been published by Expat Press, Apocalypse Confidential, Maximus, and many other esteemed literary magazines. Dan and Steff discuss the politics of poetry, identitarianism vs. perennialism, and the proper role of the artist in public life. Dan Baltic Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter…

Recorded July 2, 2022 Matt and Dan are joined by Bog Beef and Maarek, "two autodidact Southern gamers" who are co-hosts of the very funny and insightful politics and culture podcast Good Ol' Boyz, available on Patreon and most other podcatchers and streaming weekly on Twitch. The boys discuss the films of 80s action powerhouse and skilled martial a…

Recorded June 19th, 2022 Matt and Dan are joined by Isaac Simpson, also known as Disgraced Propagandist on Twitter, who blogs and podcasts at The Carousel on Substack about the hidden world of branding, advertising, and public relations. Topics include the vibe shift, Isaac's "red-pill" journey, hype-dads, and the sonnenrad as a midway point betwee…

Recorded 6/4/22 Matt and Dan are joined by friend and fellow traveler, Astral, to discuss the online literary scene and the work of mutual frens, before delving into literary analysis of canonical works of fiction beloved by the Right, including Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian,…

Recorded 6/1/22 Matt and Dan talk about Top Gun: Maverick, as well as the original, covering topics including the decline of American Empire, masculinity on the silver screen, and whether Mav is the ultimate Sigma male. Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 5/30/22 Matt and Dan are joined by Raw Egg Nationalist to discuss his holistic packaging of nutrition and anti-globalist politics as well as Man's World and the quest to make Men's magazines great again. Raw Egg Nationalist Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded May 21st, 2022 Matt and Dan talk with the online right's minister of aesthetics himself, Gio Pennacchietti, about judging Passage Prize's visual category, the definition of right-wing art, the usefulness of critical theory, and his incipient mission of cataloging the history of our scene in a manner eclipsing Angela Nagle's 2017 book. Matt…

Recorded May 1st, 2022 On a trip through the east of San Diego County, Matt and friend-of-the-pod Robert Stark tease the notion of a speculative new spiritual movement, field-recording a conversation on cults, the new age movement, Matt's Substack article "The Renaissance of the Ritual", Robert's novel "Vaporfornia", California as a fertile soil fo…

Recorded 4/27/22 Matt chats with Default Friend, AKA Katherine Dee, about the role of technology in our lives, the intersection between the internet and the occult, how her work compares and contrasts with Frog Twitter, her excellent new advice column with Delicious Tacos, and other topics. Default Friend Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitt…

Recorded 4/22/22 Matt and Dan are joined by the king of esoteric RW fiction himself, 0HP Lovecraft, to talk about Passage Prize, God-Shaped-Holes, Sacred Terror, and a microwave that tried to killed someone. 0HP Website 0HP Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 4/9/22 Matt and Dan are joined by top-tier poaster Howling Mutant to discuss comedy Twitter, hornyposting, and River's Edge, among other topics. Howling Mutant Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

Recorded 4/2/22 Matt and Dan are joined in-person by Delicious Tacos to talk about writing, cats and the sufferings, sorrows and joys of becoming a middle-aged man. Delicious Tacos Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter $3 Tacos: Savage Spear of the Unicorn Hot Naked Kittens Other Titles: Finally Some Good News The Pussy…

Recorded 3/31/22 Matt and Dan step into the world of Eris-- sometimes known as Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich-- to field-record a conversation on her novel and Matt's, life in the San Fernando Valley, and the ever-present tensions between moon and sun, Venus and Mars, cliterature and literary phalology. Eris Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitte…

Recorded 3/22/22 Joined by Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist, Matt and Dan reflect on the evolution of the Twitter-Sphere, podcasting as art, Euphoria, web-addiction, and kids these days. Jack Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter Matt's old blog (referenced)

Recorded 3/19/22 Matt and Dan are joined by Art Of Darkness co-host Brad Kelly to discuss his novel House Of Sleep, Matt's recent Mike Ma inspired Substack article "Renaissance Of The Ritual", and a range of other topics including psychedelics and tarot. Brad Kelly Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter…