It has been a while since I have posted anything about the site performance or plans for the site, so this is overdue. Once I upgraded the server last year I did not have to worry so much about traffic patterns and so forth. I now have plenty of bandwidth and horsepower to avoid having the site tip over. The nice thing about the current age is you can always get more disk, memory and bandwidth. In the coming crash, I expect the prices for server space to collapse with everything else.
For reasons I have never understand, March is the busiest month of the year in terms of traffic and number of comments. This March saw over 220,000 unique visitors to the site, after netting out robots, crawlers and so on. I credit some of the increase to longevity, as I’ve been at this for seven years. Some of it due to fewer people writing in this format. We are up to our eyeballs in YouTube performers, but very few people write short essays anymore. It is an under-served audience.
As far as the podcast, I have no way of knowing how many people listen every week, as the metrics are pretty much useless. YouTube provides stats, but I’ve seen my listen counts go backward, so something is wrong there. Maybe when they ban people they ban their history. Spreaker’s numbers are an estimate, but I don’t think many people use their app or site. iTunes is probably the top platform for consuming audio, but they don’t provide data to you unless you pay them for it.
The only thing I can go on is the number of people who tell me they recognize my voice or e-mail about the show. Having an unusual sound, something I never knew until I started this, means people will just walk up to me and ask me if I’m the man behind the podcast. It’s happened in Europe and here, so I guess that means a lot of people on this side of the divide listen at least a little. I get a lot of e-mail about old shows, so people must be going back through the catalog too.
On the media front, some people have suggested I give D-Live a try. I’m not a fan of consuming video, so I have no interest in doing video, but our folks are doing what amounts to radio talk shows on the D-Live platform. I’ve listened to White Art Collective on there from time to time. Fuentes is now their biggest act, so it would say the tolerance levels are much higher on D-Live than other platforms. I’m thinking a Saturday night or Friday night show would be fun, but I’m open to suggestions.
Similarly, request lines are open on the podcast, as far as topics. I like to do a commentary about the news once a month and a world report once a quarter or so, but otherwise I just do what comes to mind the Sunday before the show. I’m getting requests to read and review books from small publishers lately, so I thought doing a show on a book or books might be fun. I did a show on Shapiro’s book a while back and that got a good response, but that may just be because I trashed him.
As far as the site, on the drawing board for over a year has been a plan to modernize it a bit, but time is my enemy. Some suggested a message board for donors, which is a possibility. Someone else suggested a badge for donors in the comment section, which seems like a good idea. I’ll need to do some coding for that, which is why it has not happened yet. Again, time is my enemy. I like the plain style I use, so I will not be doing any big changes on that front. Plain site. Plain language.
The travel schedule has been squashed for this year, I think. All events I was expected to attend have been postponed indefinitely. This summer I hope to escape Lagos, but this lock down could delay that depending on what happens with economy. There’s rumblings that the mortgage market is in trouble, so house buying could be a totally different thing in a few months. Even so, if I do escape, travel will be out of the question for a while, so I probably will not be on the road for the rest of the year.
The floor is now open…
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Don’t change.
I would like to echo Vizzini. DON’T CHANGE.
You can trust Vizzini, I understand he is an Appalachian. 🙂
Yeah, and moreover, you should bully the other right-wing content creators into following your clean style.
Our side has a lot of sites with decent content dragged down by terrible style. Style matters, especially for newcomers and/or right-curious types. It’s like what you wear to the interview.
The length of the articles is absolutely perfect. Students should be forced to study them in “Right Wing 101” class.
Bare-bones is a nice niche look. I still like AoS’s circa-2004 style for plain-sites. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Daily Caller’s site crashes more machines than ZeroHedge. Open both sites at once and your cubicle implodes.
Exile, speaking of sites, when is your project going to debut? I am certain I’m not alone in the eagerness of my anticipation.
Just finished the “obligatory disclaimers” and a long recommended reading list. Letting some select haters beta this weekend if all goes well. Most is behind a registration-only wall (forum for OurGuys, invite only), but I’ll break something out for public consumption as well. IRL vetting required for the forum, so it’s pretty much limited to those who were at SoCal’s MLK Appreciation Weekend 2020 for now.
Then discuss and disseminate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU i added music to your comment
Now you just made it weird! 😀
some people have suggested I give D-Live a try Please don’t do livestreams. They’re not broadcasts, they’re meandering, interminable glorified Google Hangout confabs between a wannabe leader and his flock of initiates with a peephole for the tolerated laity to spy through. Besides, they’re an extremely inefficient* form of communication. Subtracting the pre-show music, filler talk while people join in, housekeeping talk, mic problems and other technical difficulties, arguing with NinjaNazi and TurboSperg in the chat and then banning them, explaining to QMom6Gorillion why she was kicked off the Discord and reading endless Notice-Me-Senpai superchats, there’s little left that’s interesting,… Read more »
who’s making you listen to all these objectionable sessions?! give me their name and you shall be free within a fortnight!
My point is that there is not a livestream in existence, however interesting, that wouldn’t be punchier, more enjoyable & more convenient to listen to in a traditional non-interactive format. In other words, when an internet show goes to that format all else being equal, it automatically becomes a lesser show. That doesn’t necessarily mean the absolute content value decreases, just that said content is less efficiently packaged since it becomes diluted in dead air, digressions and frivolities.
Look at Lionel and Vox Day for cases in point.
The only exception being comedy shows where said frivolities supplement the material.
well, Zman is planning to do both, so you can just take the parts you like — kind of like a 6 meat buffet.
My answer: nobody is making me listen to those crappy sessions. That’s why I don’t.
DR bathwater sales are definitely a niche market now that Lauren S’s sister has left the scene.
Top kek Anon, that was a hilarious summary of the typical D-live clusterF. A sure fire way to kill your signal to noise ratio.
Like the others here have said, if it ain’t broke… right now you are lean & Spartan with heavy hitting power. If you pivot to more ‘chrome/bling’ that may or may not come along. In a Web 3.0 world having really solid content in an old school format is a bit of a rarity. To quote my favorite ‘pretend Italian’ jew ♫Don’t go changin’, to try and please me…♫
Anon, I’m giving you an upvote if for nothing else than the anthropological value of your post.
Brutal, but true. Interactivity as a feature is a permabug that skews the signal to noise ratio.
i like text presentation of information over video. in fact, i almost never watch video podcasts. one reason is that text is less ambiguous than video, another is that it is easier to go back and re-view/re-read a section with text. and the final reason is that i can hide what i am doing at work with text, easier than with video 🙂
one thing i think you could be good at, is finding historical parallels to current world conditions. not just surface similarities, but deeper societal features.
—-I can read faster than most people speak. And that’s probably true for most of you.
—-YT is great for “How-to”. Utility drops off sharply after that.
—-90% of YT-ers do not understand brevity. If you go much over 5 minutes, more than likely I am moving on. Whatever you think of Mark Dice, he seems to get that.
there’s a reason popular songs are about 3 minutes long 🙂
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
No worries on the “badge” for $$$ contributors. Think we pay for the quality content, not a cluster of glowing electronic status symbols on a website.
Keep up the good work.
Ditto the “glowing electronic status symbols.” Don’t turn this into Caddyshack.
Congrats on your success! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Maybe add occasional book review. For me, coffee with Z to kick start my brain each day. Podcast is great and I multitask while listening. Many of us have come together through you. Stay strong, my friend!
Ditto on the plain look, plain language. Far too many sites over the years have gotten bogged down in “fresh looks” to be readable any more. Or, perhaps they ran out of ideas and had to concentrate on other.
I’m guessing I’m like a lot of others and find the podcasts great for driving time, when we can pay attention while still doing other things. The problem with videos is that they require complete attention and dedicated time. My life is far too busy to set aside time for videos.
I too prefer the essays to video. I find that YT is becoming useless for anything but entertainment and cooking how-tos. One topic I’d suggest for a podcast is an exploration of evaluating places to live: urban versus rural; small, medium or large; how to avoid diversity; etc. You clearly have some perspective, having lived in Lagos for years and apparently decided to relocate. Share the thought process. In particular, I am trying to figure out how to move to a new location and successfully integrate with people who won’t be antithetical to Our Thing. I need a more robust… Read more »
Selfishly, I would welcome this kind of how-to, as I am also trying to escape from my current location this year.
This is a great suggestion.
too short legs. Although a occasional segment on relocation might be nice. Besides the white rabbit has run enuf. Need to stand our ground these days.
I highly recommen the appalacian corridor. We have a spooky reputation but, in reality, the people are really sweet. Even the few blacks are amazingly nice. I also want to encourage you cheap bastards to kick in to Z’s subscribe star. We need to start building our guys up. 220 k? That starting to pack a punch! Z hire an assistant already and start professionalizing your operation.
I dearly loved the 1990’s version of “The Outer Limits.” I thought this might be relevant: many plot lines revolve around a person or group living in their own little world; if they think of the greater world at all, it’s an illusion the overloads supply (similar to “The Matrix”). Balancing this out, however, are some positive episodes where the group accepts a new reality and escapes self-imposed prisons. Or on the downside, they remain in a cherished illusion because the real, outer world is actually hostile and too horrible to contemplate.
I would enjoy a small segment on the podcasts along the lines of “this thing here was a win for our guys, and this is how they did it.” Kind of a morale boost/object lesson.
Keep up the mind blowing work!
Your own instincts have served you well thus far. Trust in that.
Short essays are the way to go. Radio Derb in his National Review days started it all for me and podcasts. I found the Z a few years ago through the Derb. Dissidents gravitate towards each other.
It’s weird, there’s a sort of symbiosis between derb, Z, and Greg Johnson of counter currents. They laud and homage each other quite a bit. I wonder what the connection between them is.
Both John and Greg are friends of mine. We don’t agree on all things, of course, but there’s a lot of overlap.
I do wonder about the Derb-Johnson nexus. If they’ve conversed, I would love to have eavesdropped.
Yes, very similar order of intellect among those. It worries me that no new pundits are arising to fill their shoes. It gives credence to the idea that we are getting dumber as a people. I mean there are some ardent young guns like Fuentes, but no one with the general intellectual heft outside politics, or the academic credentials. Of course they may be waiting in the weeds somewhere.
I like when you discuss old books (e.g. Belloc). If you’re up for book reviews, how about ‘old book reviews’? Severian recently turned me on to Elmer Gantry. So much we don’t know we don’t know anymore.
every fukkin’ televangelist is Elmer Gantry!
Yeah, I’m 90% of the way through it (easy read), and Solomon was right, there really is nothing new under the sun.
I believe Severian’s point regarding it is to understand how powerful *preaching* is – “Don’t argue, don’t present “facts,” and for God’s sake don’t try to “reason” with them. Preach at them.”
Yes, all is vanity, a striving after the wind 🙂 I’m no believer, but in younger years I read the good book. My favorite book has always been Ecclesiastes because he is the most pessimistic, perhaps Stoic, writer. Hey if it was good for nothing else, the Byrd’s song “Turn” based on it.
Daniel Defoe’s classic (1750’s – looking back a century) “Journal of the Plague Year” springs to mind for some reason.
As I previously pointed out, some entrepreneurial soul whipped out a new paperback edition in early March this year. On Amazon $10 or so
Thank you for keeping with the written format. I’m a strange bird that hates being read to and is doubly annoyed by “how to” videos replacing text and photos.
I like the plain site, plain language as well. Been using YouTube for the podcast, but that’s only out of habit / familiarity.
Have no burning desire to see any YouTube production. Just have grown accustomed to the blog site. Plus having some personal anonymity is always a good thing especially in these crazy political times.
It also adds a bit of mystique 🙂
For the record have you pictured as David Brudnoy for no other reason than think you guys sound the same.
I don’t know, I kind of see Zman as Winston Smith’ish (but in a good way) 😛
With the mortgage market imploding people well positioned to buy a house might be able to get good deals when this is over. I on the other hand might not do so well given this house I bought in better times might lose value leaving me owing more than this place is worth. Oh well, maybe hyperinflation might kick in and I can pay the place off with a wheelbarrow full of worthless Fiat in a year or so, assuming I still have a job.
Cynically offered: Don’t overlook what happened in the housing bust of 2008-? Homeowners with a mortgage suddenly worth more than the property either just walked away or more strategically, just stayed in place and sometime for years before eviction. At times because the lenders didn’t even have a deed or proof of the mortgage. Not everybody wants a foreclosure on their credit report, but if this downturn is as bad as 2008’s, a lot of real estate is going to be frozen/bad mortgages again. If you’re suddenly unemployed and the cash flow is gone, why pay the mortgage? Already millions… Read more »
I’d say the site is fine as-is; that being said it can be a little difficult to follow who’s replying to who on longer threads.
I agree
Following the threads can get challenging when they spark a lot of interest and continue getting comments for several days or longer. Otherwise the site is well-balanced as to topics and simply great.
yeah comment section could be vastly improved with justa few tweeks. i like disquus okay.
I am concerned Disqus would bring in a lot of trolls.
Bingo!. One advantage of the captcha code and not being a “dashboard” comment program is it ditches all cut/paste trolls. Too much work for the piece rate they earn.
More book reviews would be great!
Agreed. A truncated “Essential Knowledge” booklist would be helpful.
try to cover books that don’t already have a dozen reviews 🙂
I’m betting this audience skews far more to the book-reading side of the scale than YT’s crowd, for any of their topics. Book reviews are a natural!
I’m kind of new around these parts,( negro public radio) convert. aka we hate white men radio. so I just want to thank Zman for his hard work, the podcast are epic ! I read the blog daily. I read some of the comments. a lot of them are well written and on point or counterpoint. when I loose interest in the direction of the thread, I just don’t read further. up/down vote I’m not too crazy about . keep going Zman !, I hope you don’t change it up.
Videos can be irksome as you can’t skim. When they’re not edited they’re too long, and when they’re very edited they seem phony. I really appreciate the short essay format.
Short and sweet
D-Live booted some of their spicier guys like Randbot last year but they still have content that’s pretty far beyond anything we get up to here. IIRC, that happened around the time of the Great Shoahening from YouTube that took down James Allsup and others. Having a cross-platform presence is probably the best way to go for all that it dilutes the brand somewhat. We’ve discussed here before how the trend towards video is a generational thing. I’m never going to be a “video first” person in terms of consuming content but creation-wise if I did an “open” site I’d… Read more »
Text remains, video dies with each format change.
Papyrus, my boy, it’s the Next Big Thing
Smoke signals are so 3250 BC
My two cents, fwiw, agree that you’re filling a shrinking space with the essay format. It seems, to me, a more in depth and engaging format than the wild gesticulations on video. Also, I like the Liddy style news commentary, you have a good talent for cutting through BS. Good luck getting out of Lagos. I myself am hoping I didn’t wait too long to get out of the northern NE, especially now that the New Yorkers have started to move in. Maybe I can get one of them to pay a premium on my house and acreage. Interesting times… Read more »
Very long term, a day may come when civilized people again want to live in the great old cities like NYC. Possibly, it would be highly dependent on what the laws of the new government are… 😀
If you did a video talking head show I honestly would never see it. I don’t have time to sit in front of my computer or hold my phone in my face for 30+ minutes just to watch a guy talk.
But audio podcasts I consume all day long while working. Yours are a weekly must-listen. Occasionally I miss something when I have to concentrate on a calculation or a saw cut (I make furniture), but the rest of the time what I do is like driving–can listen and drive screws or sand at the same time.
I like your plain site and plain podcasts. Content is the reason I read and listen. Video doesn’t interest me at all as it requires me to anchor to a screen. Although reading requires screen time it’s a cerebral process that needs focus…not so much with listening as I can do other things.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Best website on the internet by far. Love it the way it is.
Cheers Z and co.
You are reaching big numbers. CNN doesn’t get that many unique visitors that are actually engaged. Congratulations! Don’t change. If your site suffers from the additional work on a show, and I would have to think it would, it would be a real shame.
Congratulations on the success of the show and blog. I like the idea of a book review episode once in a while. The plain site is good too.
Comments section reflects the author and the nature of the site. Video is for passive consumption, while reading, though you’re sitting still, is active. Essays, even though short, require people to sit for a minute or two and think. You might not consider that a high bar, but apparently it is.
But revolutions, if that’s actually on the agenda, require people to do more than sit and think. They require mass participation. Moving beyond a DR ghetto, and growing the audience, might require video. I think experimenting with a video format is worth doing.
I seem to recall discussion of an upcoming Z-book. I don’t think I’m alone in requesting that whatever you do (and as stated above, your own instincts have served you well so far), please don’t let it distract from that book we’re all eagerly waiting for.
I’m a reader and use podcasts etc while driving when I gather reading is frowned upon. Don’t have a problem with length – I’m pretty sure I can read faster than you can write.
Site’s fine but would benefit from some of Unz’s comment management wizardry re commenters history etc.
No video, please.
The DR is really light on face to face and I have no useful suggestions as to how to overcome the obstacles and risks. Open a chain of gunstores as a front?
This is a quality blog, even when I disagree w the host. If I were to suggest something it would not exactly be original but it has been gradually dawning on me in real time that population replacement is the issue on the DR I care the most about. I think it is the most important and devastating. How do we deal with that? What can be done to stop it? Given that whites WILL become minority in the United States, what does that mean on the ground level?
I like the plain site. It’s all about the ideas. Form follows function, and all that. Have you considered surveying your readers to determine a percentage of those who also listen to your podcast, and how often? There is probably a high correlation between readers and listeners, so you can extrapolate a good estimate from your unique visitors. As an example, I read you every day, but listen to about 50% of the podcasts, as it depends on my time in the car. Derb posts a transcript, but I vaguely recall you saying that is a pain to produce.
Short and sweet is the Way.
Podcast on the headset while driving, nice.
This is still a good looking site, easy to read. I know in the past you had enabled highlighted posts that were unread from last visit. You seemed to have a problem with keeping that. Has anything changed that you could possibly revisit that feature?
just put up a few pics of hawt chicks, and call it done 😛
The missus and I had set up a fabulous tour of Austria in May. Everything went down the drain, mainly because the airline changed our flight so that we had to fly into Paris instead of Munich. Austria is shut tight. Deal breaker. What a hassle. Good luck, Z. Should be an interesting year.
I bet when things open up, you can do the same trip for 1/2 the price. seriously 🙂
I second those above who opt for minimal change. I like your short essay format and read them most days, along with the comments. I also listen to your Friday podcasts and enjoy them. I do like the idea of an occasional book review segment.
I feel like Z Man got pissed off about Vdare buying that castle; you could hear it in his tone when speaking about it. And now he’s trying to hold out until he’s better compensated. I can respect that. Keep it up Z Man. We’re proud of you.
I read your site and catch your podcast on You Tube. Enjoy both. Sometimes it’s hard to find a post I am looking for in the messages Other than that I think the format is fine.
I would enjoy a once a month live questions show of some kind.
Great content here.
We don’ need no sting-king bajzhes
Update: Dagnab it, Vizzini! Curses, foiled again!
Okay, we don’ need no sting-king video
Why is March different? Years ago I used to see an annual publication showing how many items of a certain product sold in which month, at least in the UK. The weird thing was that for some reason tape recorders (yes, this was back in the seventies) sold most in March compared to any other month.
I knew this must be true as the first tape recorder my father bought for me was in, er, March one year.
In my business life, I’ve often had to tackle the problem of seasonality. It almost always makes sense once you account for how seasons change behavior. For example, Florida tourism does better when it is very cold and snowy in the Northeast. I’m at a lose as to why March would make people more interested in this stuff. Maybe the change in sunlight hours makes people more energetic. Traffic does decline slowly through spring into July, the slowest month. Then it ticks back up and gets close to March levels during the holidays. Then it falls off for winter.
Do you have any data on intra-day traffic?
Is the March phenomena a function of the fucking around with the clock?
Could it be that, unlike Julius Caesar, people expect something bad to go down in March and have come to rely on your diagnostic skills? Before the Wuflu freakout, “Beware the Ides of March” was a very tired cliché yet still conveyed a grain of truth.
March is also “the cruelest month” (poet said?) and this certainly applies in Z’s latitude (I grew up just S of Lagos) so I know the climate. In March, it’s not unusual to get cold, damp, rain, sleet or a small snow, and a few days later (or earlier) you’ll have a few days of sunny pre-Spring, with emerging flowers, bugs and suchlike entities. Literally, around DC, March (or even Feb.) can give you anything from a foot of snow (gone in a day), to 90 degree summer weather. Usually of course it’s something in the middle of those extremes.… Read more »
people who file tax returns early get their checks in March; ipso facto.
I like things as they are too, Z. I am not a fan of podcasts but I do listen to yours on Spreaker every a Friday. They are ordered and presented as a formal talk and I like that you go to the effort to do that. I like Scott Adams but his style drives me nuts. You have to listen to too much prattle to get the good stuff, and while he does have something to say… his signal to noise ratio is maddening. Wouldn’t mind seeing a talk show format with a high profile guest, maybe. Cornelius Rye… Read more »
“Greatest Hits” list still top thing we want.
Absolutely scandalous that a lot of top guys–Sailer, Derbyshire, Zman–haven’t made any attempt to anthologize.
You have so much content only the hardiest (or most unemployed) souls would hack it all, but surely there are some gems back in the mists of time?
I’d tune in for a Saturday dlive chat. I barely even use youtube anymore as everyone I enjoyed has been banned. I wouldn’t mind a podcast trashing the larpers on our side. The do nothings who think posting immature memes in echo chambers while hoping something, anything will change and then magic box, bam, better future. They are so tiresome. If they’d stop larping and start taking the future a little more seriously maybe they’d be able to plan in a realistic way. Accepting we are the little people so our change is going to be from the bottom up.… Read more »
Scott Adams (Dilbert) does a daily chat like this.
Love that podcast, but the poor guy is having a nervous breakdown over the cornovirus.
I learned a ton from Adams circa 2015-16; haven’t paid much attention over the last few years as he seemed to have pitched his objectivity and become a shameless Trump shill.
Every time I go through my utube liked videos list it seems half of them are deleted…it’s sad as there was a lot of interesting stuff a few years ago.
In-fighting with those you consider beneath you lowers you and elevates them. Another thing Taleb gets right in “Anti-Fragile.” Worry about what you can do, not what those “doing it wrong” are up to.
You losers with your gay antics drive away people who actually have careers and families. Anglin going hard for the incel crowd, when their was already such overlap, was a really bad idea. Nobody wants to join team loser.
Thanks for your considerable ongoing contributions to this site. Dan. I learned a lot from this exchange.
These are the useless snarky comments from neet losers who spend all day larping online the commenter below was referring to. Whom you neet losers down voted already. If zman wants his comment section to become alt right loserfest 3.0 that’s his perogitive.
No group of misfit losers posting memes in echo chambers are ever going to effect any change.
ur neet loser larpers
I have no takes and I must scream.
“I’m getting requests to read and review books from small publishers lately, so I thought doing a show on a book or books might be fun.”
I know a guy who writes about a dystopian future where humans get to know their new Machine Overlords… with a distinct “our side of the river” feel, since you did solicit for suggestions, Z.
https://tinyurl.com/w8g6n72
Idea! No, wait, this is sterling, an absolute necessity.
A button that plays a clip from Monty Python’s Holy Grail- the King saying, “shut up, will you just shut up!!”
We’ll call it the Alzaebo button- for overwhelmingly obvious reasons.
You might consider breaking the podcast videos into individual segments. That way individual pieces can become “classics” with a life of their own on the platforms. As it is now, they’re “locked” into the podcast.
Or maybe just pull out the “higlight” segments that are on evergreen subjects that won’t become dated.
Message board is a great idea
Z there is a tech called BOXCAST that has reliable, built in analytics, its for video.
Mind you not free, but worth it for video and analytics. Built really for sports casts, news, townhalls.
nm
Z, I love the “Plain site[, p]lain language” approach you take. Your essays are the perfect length—just when I start thinking, “okay, how much more is there,” I’m getting to the penultimate (or antepenultimate) paragraph. The podcast is excellent. I’m always amazed how you make each segment almost exactly ten minutes, and the whole thing exactly an hour. I usually will listen to the podcast a minimum of three times over the weekend, time-permitting. I listen on YouTube, as it’s just the easiest way to consume it. Your old podcast on fascism was really fascinating. The metaphor of restoring an… Read more »
If you’re fixing to set up on dlive, I’ll say we have a good size community of our guys over there, who most definitely would need more grounded voices such as your own. I too am a medium-length essay guy, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed livestreaming.
Two of us counter-currents authors stream here, our show’s called The Writers’ Block. Feel free to drop in any time you like, Z. We’d be happy to have you.
https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry
Z: You mentioned a while ago your gun position. Its probably a fruitful topic you dont hit much (i often listen to the podcast while reloading). What role can gun shop culture play in our thing, how are guns as a cultural symbol involved in our thing, is hunting an inherently our thing activity and why/why not, what can we learn from the nra’s past failures and successes, what does our enemy (John Brown gun club, antifa with AKs) do with guns and how does that interface with the typical lib grabbers…
hey Zman, a spot on what the hell happened to the USPS would interest me, I go in there and it looks like east Germany, with black “girls” who have 4 inch fingernails, blond hair and smartphones in front of them. I hadn’t been in one in a long time. I started doing a little ebay thing recently and I don’t think I’m going back there again .