The Auron MacIntyre Show - Scyldings Conference AMA ｜ 6⧸26⧸23

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00:00:39.560 So The Prudentialist and I joined a number of people this weekend at the Skildings Conference for Nashville.

00:00:49.080 It was a very good event, very interesting.

00:00:51.860 Met a lot of people who have known forever online.

00:00:54.300 People like Charlemagne and The Distributist and Last Things and many others.

00:00:59.420 Finally got to meet them in person and of course hang out with The Prudentialist as well.

00:01:05.040 We're probably going to have some more people join us later on as the show kind of continues.

00:01:09.800 But I thought today would just be a good time to go ahead and have a nice casual stream, kind of catch up with everybody.

00:01:17.300 Tell everybody kind of about what happened with the event and maybe take some questions from the audience.

00:01:23.800 But of course, Prudentialist, it's great to have you back on, man.

00:01:26.300 Yeah, it's like I just saw you yesterday, so it's good to be back on.

00:01:30.160 Yeah, well, we survived a tornado together or pretty close.

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00:01:39.120 But yeah, no, that had a fun time on the way back.

00:01:42.800 But yeah, no, it was really great to catch up with everybody.

00:01:45.440 And like I said, we'll talk a little bit about what happened, our favorite parts about it, what we think is kind of good things that have come out of the event.

00:01:53.080 Like I said, we'll probably have more people kind of joining us as time goes on.

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00:01:58.900 This is also kind of just serving as kind of a casual ask me anything stream as well as, you know, kind of an after action report for the Skildings Conference.

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00:03:33.920 So, for those who don't know, there was a conference in the Nashville area this weekend with the Skildings event.

00:03:43.280 It's put on by the Beowulf Foundation.

00:03:46.440 And it's a great opportunity to meet many people who are kind of from our sphere.

00:03:51.280 A lot of people who are often on this show get to interact with a lot.

00:03:56.560 Again, I got to see all kinds of people that I've talked to for years.

00:03:59.980 I've known.

00:04:00.800 I feel, you know, I feel very friendly towards.

00:04:02.980 Consider them friends.

00:04:04.200 But, you know, kind of finally get to make those in-person connections.

00:04:07.480 Shake hands.

00:04:08.160 Break bread together.

00:04:09.480 A good time was had by all.

00:04:11.260 It was really great to meet a lot of people, too.

00:04:13.400 You know, there's, of course, the speakers who are creators and those kind of things.

00:04:17.360 But it was also great to meet a lot of people who were people who are in chat, who are often super chatting, those kind of things.

00:04:24.520 People who I've seen around the channel for a very long time.

00:04:27.900 I got to meet people like Narco Republican, who's been, you know, watching the channel since he's.

00:04:32.700 Yeah, I had like 200 subscribers.

00:04:34.520 And I was making, you know, Magic Arena videos.

00:04:38.180 You know, this is my background for the things you're doing.

00:04:40.760 So it was fun to meet a lot of people who have been, you know, kind of along for the ride for a long time and get to put names with kind of faces or, you know, internet handles, I guess, with faces and everything.

00:04:53.040 So that was very cool.

00:04:54.520 But Prudentialist, were there any people that you were looking forward to meeting that you hadn't got to meet in real life yet?

00:04:59.700 Well, I had the pleasure of going and speaking at the first one that we had last year in February of 2022.

00:05:05.880 It was very funny because every time that we seem to have these events, something happens in Russia.

00:05:10.000 So the last year, it was days before the war.

00:05:12.500 And then this whole Wagner thing happened while we were there and everyone was talking about it.

00:05:16.720 And it's just like, well, everyone's going to have to wait for takes until we get home, I suppose.

00:05:20.360 But I was actually really pleasantly.

00:05:22.180 I didn't know that Last Things was coming.

00:05:23.940 So that was like a really pleasant surprise to get a tap on my shoulder.

00:05:26.620 And it's like, hey, I'm Last Things.

00:05:27.780 And I was like, oh, that's great.

00:05:28.660 It's wonderful.

00:05:29.100 But no, I mean, it's always good to see and hear from the people that listen that you consider colleagues or fellow travelers and things like that.

00:05:37.920 And it's a warm sense of camaraderie to know that you aren't alone physically.

00:05:42.520 Like we can always see it by like the people that are watching it on chat or that are sending you questions and things like that.

00:05:48.400 But it's a lot different when you get to shake their hand and buy them a drink or ask what they thought of the latest talk or what's going on in the world.

00:05:57.060 So it was just a genuine pleasure to see people I had already met, but it had been like a year and some change.

00:06:02.860 So it was like a nice way to have the gang back together again.

00:06:07.260 Yeah, I didn't get to go to it last year.

00:06:09.080 And so it was definitely great to be able to participate this year and get to speak and everything.

00:06:13.760 And it was really fantastic.

00:06:15.540 You know, we've got more conferences that I think are a little more based now.

00:06:20.820 Things that are kind of looking in a new direction, looking at things like the new right.

00:06:24.360 You're seeing things like NatCon now.

00:06:27.780 But those are still pretty mainstream.

00:06:30.540 It's still, you know, a lot of people who are talking to mainstream publications.

00:06:36.040 This was good because it was really a lot of guys, again, from very much our neck of the woods.

00:06:41.200 It really allowed you to kind of meet people that you had always, you know, seen on Twitter or seen in the stream chats of different events that you had always talked to on different, you know, unpopular opinion shows or something.

00:06:58.160 But you actually got to see those people in person.

00:07:01.720 And that was really fantastic.

00:07:03.720 There was a lot of standout speeches, too.

00:07:06.700 I was blown away by the quality of speakers.

00:07:10.180 I was familiar, of course, with a lot of people.

00:07:12.360 Your speech was great.

00:07:14.080 David Distributus' speech was a home run.

00:07:17.220 He did a fantastic job.

00:07:19.700 Charlemagne's was great.

00:07:20.580 There's a lot of people who I expected to carry in.

00:07:23.360 But then there are people like George Bagby, who just did a phenomenal job, who, you know, I had not heard kind of speak publicly before.

00:07:31.320 And he really did an amazing job.

00:07:33.420 There was the very tall gentleman who did the speech on the cannon with Nick Land.

00:07:38.440 And I don't know if you remember his.

00:07:40.220 Mr. Grant Brooks.

00:07:41.240 Yeah.

00:07:41.420 Yes.

00:07:41.680 Nick Land's The Cannon Wars from Contact Mag.

00:07:44.460 It was a great talk.

00:07:45.380 Yeah, just just a lot of people who I was maybe peripherally, peripherally aware of.

00:07:51.900 But I didn't know we're going to be kind of delivering some really hard hitting speeches and really some really good talks.

00:07:58.740 And so it was just a high quality throughout.

00:08:01.400 I was very impressed.

00:08:02.120 Yeah, I mean, it was it was a good crop of many returning speakers from the previous year.

00:08:08.140 You did have your heavy hitters like David the Distributus, Charlemagne and Radical Liberation, Stephen Carson.

00:08:14.720 And so just to also see the new crop of like fresh blood from the what's happened over the last year and a half and where the direction of our conversation is going.

00:08:24.620 Like last year, everyone was kind of nervous to just see, well, like, well, we've never done this sort of thing before, so let's see how it goes.

00:08:30.680 And by the end of the event last year, everyone was like, OK, we we know why we're here.

00:08:36.040 We know what we're doing.

00:08:36.800 This isn't a social event.

00:08:37.780 This is to have a serious conversation about where politically we need to go forward.

00:08:42.180 And from here, everyone kind of slipped right back into that mode.

00:08:45.580 We're like, we know why we're here.

00:08:46.880 We have a theme for what we're discussing.

00:08:48.900 And this is how we're going to hash it out over the course of this, you know, three, three, well, two days and one and three nights of discussion, which was very fruitful.

00:08:59.120 Yeah, it was also really nice to see the level of camaraderie.

00:09:02.800 I was not there last year, so I didn't get to see kind of how some of this formed.

00:09:08.640 But you could already tell how close many people had kind of become over that year.

00:09:14.280 There were a lot there.

00:09:15.700 There was one couple that had gotten engaged.

00:09:18.040 Funny, like one of the two females, I guess, that was there last year ended up, you know, finding a fiance. 0.99

00:09:26.560 And so they were there.

00:09:27.780 Everyone was very excited for them.

00:09:30.260 It was really great to see some people coming around, you know, guys like Ryan Turnipseed and Bagby, who had experienced, you know, cancellations and just the amount of support.

00:09:41.360 And the outpouring of, you know, kind of goodwill for them.

00:09:44.660 And you could tell how much, you know, Ryan gave a very moving kind of, you know, just, you know, thank you to everyone who had kind of gathered around him and rallied around him and given him that moral support.

00:09:56.160 So it was just really fantastic to see those friendships forming the people who had who had spent some time together, maybe maybe had been hesitant about seeing each other in real life, you know, in the first event, really bonding, becoming friends and building those kind of those kind of relationships that can only exist once you finally met in real life.

00:10:16.920 You know, shaking the hand, broken the bread, just really encouraging.

00:10:21.460 Yeah, I mean, that was one of the best parts about it, right, is to put names to faces and recognize that, you know, the things that we talk about over on streams and discussion can also translate into the real world quite easily.

00:10:33.640 And that there are organizations such as the Fayetteville Foundation and whatnot that are putting things really where sort of like they're trying to walk the walk now that everyone's sort of been talking the talk now for quite some time on the Internet.

00:10:45.300 And it's just like, well, we want to facilitate more people just making friends with like minded political ideas.

00:10:52.700 We want to make sure that, you know, if you're out in the cities, there's probably someone that we know on the Internet that is in your area and that you can have friendships with those people and to do things that aren't necessarily politically related, but to, you know, go hiking, bowling, visiting like national historical sites and whatnot.

00:11:08.080 And so that was probably something that is the real mainstay takeaway from it all.

00:11:12.860 But I mean, the discussions were focused around this concept of forging foundations like it was very much of we know why we're here to discuss, you know, positive and negative visions going forward.

00:11:25.420 What are those visions going to look like?

00:11:27.300 What do we believe in?

00:11:28.640 How can we affirm the ideas that we already have been talking about?

00:11:31.800 And what does it really mean in sort of this world of hectic anarcho-tyranny that how do we keep going forward and or how do we organize?

00:11:41.280 And that was the myriad of discussion was held on that in the speeches.

00:11:45.020 Yeah, it was really nice to see that mix.

00:11:47.480 You know, you it's weird because I had never really spoken at a conference like this.

00:11:52.820 I had not had that opportunity before.

00:11:55.300 I'm used to, you know, I was a teacher, so I'm used to kind of speaking in front of people.

00:11:59.320 But, you know, when you go into these situations that some of these are going to be kind of motivational speeches, they're going to be there to raise people's spirits.

00:12:08.280 And that's where, you know, speeches like yours and Dave's really, you know, rang in, you know, in those did that uplifted people.

00:12:16.500 And then you had the speeches, you know, that I thought there were going to be more technical speeches.

00:12:21.480 But I think mine was, you know, the only one doing the technical thing.

00:12:24.080 I kind of felt bad because I was the one who decided to to geek out while everybody else was was doing very heartfelt speeches in many ways.

00:12:32.340 And then we had a number of guys who did very practical ones.

00:12:35.420 That was really refreshing.

00:12:36.500 The number of of guys who said, OK, this is how we're going to set up, you know, businesses.

00:12:42.200 This is how we're going to set up fraternal organizations.

00:12:44.840 This is how we're going to set up mutual aid societies that help people in times of need.

00:12:49.700 This is how we're going to network socially.

00:12:52.460 You know, this is how we're going to spiritually prepare ourselves, you know, in a world that is very much against us.

00:13:00.680 There are a lot of really kind of rubber meets the road speeches.

00:13:04.680 It wasn't it wasn't all just a bunch of people talking about theory.

00:13:08.600 It was a lot of people explaining how this can be directly applicable, how we can rally around each other.

00:13:14.880 That was really encouraging.

00:13:16.880 Yeah, I mean, it was a healthy mix of sort of the lofty idealism versus well, not even just versus because I think idealism also has to be translated into, well, how do you put ideas into practice?

00:13:29.280 I think everyone had a little bit of that.

00:13:32.040 And I think that, you know, everything that we've talked about, either you and I together or separately in our own work was addressed.

00:13:38.080 I mean, everything from like Carl Schmitt's political biology to practical business skills that would be necessary to hire people, references to other existing institutions that are helpful and friendly to the side.

00:13:51.820 You know, whether that be the Bayouville Foundation or here in the United States, new founding to make sure that you can get hired by people that aren't going to fire you because you think men are men and women are women.

00:14:00.920 So it was an excellent way to sort of understand that, you know, we can talk about these high minded political ideals, but we can also translate them quite well into mechanics.

00:14:10.560 And I mean, your PowerPoint presentation, speech discussion lecture did a really good job of that sort of explaining that, like, what people call wokeness, you know, it's not going away.

00:14:20.740 It's this, you know, general homogenizing sort of ideology that is going to be here for some time, because that's how you get power.

00:14:28.280 And it's important for us to understand how things work mechanically so we can develop the tools, organizations and systems to get around that or to facilitate power.

00:14:38.560 It was also really great that the rad libs were just absolutely lovely people like, you know, of course, I've talked to Stephen so many times online and I always knew he's a great guy.

00:14:50.660 But they really they really brought that kind of mentorship, kind of, you know, warm paternalistic aspect to everything.

00:15:00.440 You could tell that everyone was was really glad to see them.

00:15:04.160 There was a number of other you'd be surprised.

00:15:07.100 There were a number of people.

00:15:08.460 I wasn't the oldest person there.

00:15:10.400 There was, you know, in our sphere, I'm the old man.

00:15:15.000 I'm the grandpa.

00:15:15.720 But there were a number of people who were very excited about what is happening kind of in these spheres with with the younger people, with many of the zoomers or millennials who are trying to build things, who are taking these the issues seriously, who are putting in the work. 0.71

00:15:30.900 They were very encouraged and they were very excited.

00:15:34.020 Again, it was just nice to see kind of this cross section of, yeah, you have, you know, you have Catholics and Orthodox and evangelicals.

00:15:43.860 You had pagans.

00:15:44.800 You had people from New England.

00:15:46.400 We had people from Australia.

00:15:47.900 We had people from the South, of course.

00:15:50.440 You know, we had people all the way from, you know, from the Pacific Northwest.

00:15:54.460 But everybody's coming together, you know, this cross section of ages and religions and things.

00:16:00.020 But everybody has an understanding that we had, again, the theme of the event was forging a common foundation.

00:16:07.100 And I think that everyone did that.

00:16:10.100 I know that sounds really cliche and simple, but I feel like that really did happen.

00:16:16.340 You really saw a lot of bridges.

00:16:19.380 It's very easy to get petty and put into your own little Internet ghetto and have everybody argue over little doctrinal differences or strategic differences.

00:16:30.020 But when you're sitting there, you're shaking someone's hand, you realize that you share so much more with these people than you disagree with them with.

00:16:38.000 And it becomes very easy to kind of cross those bridges and find a way forward that's really going to help everyone out.

00:16:45.260 Absolutely.

00:16:46.040 I mean, that was the big thing that we took away from it yesterday or last year's event.

00:16:49.620 And I was very happy to see that translate over.

00:16:52.180 This is that, you know, if you're on Twitter, if you're, you know, you see people responding to other people with YouTube videos or essays or streams covering other people's content.

00:17:00.260 Like, you know, the content grind or what people call like, you know, e-drama or whatever, that disappears out the window instantaneously.

00:17:07.440 The moment you shake their hand and you're here to actually work and do business.

00:17:11.480 And that's like the real pleasant thing about it is that all that sort of troll gazing, navel gazing on the Internet, you know, it very much is an online phenomenon.

00:17:21.640 It's not those type of people really don't exist in the real world.

00:17:24.580 And if they do, like, you know, those are the narcissists that didn't like show up or they decided to just tweet about it rather than come to the event itself.

00:17:31.400 So it was a pleasure to know that despite very real differences in, say, backgrounds or socializations, religion or ideologies, that, no, we actually can come together and work very quickly and efficiently to address the problems of modernity today.

00:17:48.560 Yeah, absolutely.

00:17:49.800 You're right that there's that there's that bit of a self-selection, you know, by bias in everyone showing up there.

00:17:56.860 These are people who are committed.

00:17:58.040 They're making the trip.

00:17:58.980 You know, there are people who are looking to work together.

00:18:02.180 And so it really does filter out a lot of the drama, a lot of the, you know, hanger on type stuff.

00:18:07.380 It's people who are serious.

00:18:08.680 They're making the commitment.

00:18:10.420 They're there to make a difference.

00:18:11.960 And you can tell, you know, when you're talking to people that everyone is there because they're taking it seriously.

00:18:17.440 I mean, lots of fun.

00:18:18.360 You know, people having a great time, to be sure, as well.

00:18:21.220 But, you know, everyone's sitting down for the talks.

00:18:23.820 Everybody's taking notes.

00:18:24.840 Everyone wants to hear what everybody has to say.

00:18:26.700 They're, you know, they're making those connections.

00:18:30.200 We saw the old Glory Club was a big function this year.

00:18:34.860 They were a big part of the event, working on kind of that mutual aid and fraternal order type of option that allows people to get together, basket weave, build those, that camaraderie.

00:18:47.840 And allows them to do it locally in a local chapter that is still very specific and centered around the interests and needs of the community that it's in, but still has the ability to kind of work together in kind of a confederal way with each other.

00:19:03.120 And so that you have kind of that structure when they need it.

00:19:06.280 Just really encouraging.

00:19:08.040 Yeah.

00:19:08.460 I mean, this is where everyone is really getting to show what they've been working on, not just within their speeches, but also the organization and the need to actually make sure that there are tangible infrastructure on the ground that people can rely on and that they can use.

00:19:23.960 I mean, yeah, the old Glory Club was there, they had outlined their projects and plans for chapters that will allow people to have sort of that fraternity and to ensure that they can work together, whether it be, you know, preserving historical documents or being aware of like the history of their own state or chapter.

00:19:41.240 And talking about, you know, how they can work on local issues that matter to them and know that they aren't alone, while also on the broader picture, you know, work with and learn from other organizations that can ensure if someone is, you know, canceled or if we have someone who's been like one of our people that's been affected by a natural disaster, we can take care of them because that was a commonly held practice and tradition, you know, a century ago in this country.

00:20:08.540 And we would like to bring it back. And I think that as we've kind of seen this sort of collapse of competency in our government, you're going to want to rely on those that you can trust and that you can rely on.

00:20:19.080 And I think that that was a really big hounding theme, not just out of the organizations that were present, but also the talks.

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00:20:56.500 And it's also really great, you know, obviously, you guys, if you haven't been to one of these events,

00:21:02.620 you're probably mostly just seeing content creators, right?

00:21:06.400 Which is certainly part of the scene, for sure.

00:21:09.100 There are certainly content creators there.

00:21:11.000 But a lot of people talking there weren't content creators at all.

00:21:14.100 A lot of people in attendance weren't content creators at all.

00:21:16.640 They're bringing very specific skills.

00:21:18.540 You have businessmen.

00:21:19.360 You have lawyers.

00:21:20.400 You have finance guys.

00:21:21.600 People who are excellent at organization.

00:21:23.860 People who are, you know, high-level managers.

00:21:27.320 People who know what they're doing.

00:21:29.260 Have life skills.

00:21:30.580 Bringing lots of different, diverse talent sets to this thing.

00:21:35.760 Because, again, you know, if you can make content or if that's where you're gifted, that's great.

00:21:40.020 You know, but that is...

00:21:41.380 But there's only so much that someone like I or Prudentialist can do for somebody

00:21:45.040 who is running into a legal issue or needs employment or is trying to figure out a financial problem

00:21:50.400 or figuring out what the best way is to, you know, raise and homeschool kids, right?

00:21:54.640 Like, there are all these other skill sets that are actually way more important than content creation

00:22:01.560 to the building of a community.

00:22:03.760 And it's nice that, you know, obviously we can put some of that stuff forward.

00:22:08.040 But you don't really see it all in action.

00:22:10.220 You don't really see how it's all fitting together and forming a real community

00:22:13.700 until you end up in an event like this where you really start seeing those different organizations,

00:22:18.740 those different skill sets, those different meetings coming together

00:22:21.920 and figuring out how you're going to take those steps forward.

00:22:24.680 Again, if you're doing content creation, that's great.

00:22:27.340 You know, I would never discourage somebody if they feel like they're talented in that field.

00:22:30.840 But just know there's so much more that's needed and often way more important.

00:22:35.380 And that is happening.

00:22:36.780 Like, again, you don't see those people because they're not on the stream.

00:22:40.220 They're not, you know, making a video essay.

00:22:42.360 They don't have a sub stack.

00:22:43.700 But they are still doing incredibly important work that's really making a difference.

00:22:48.460 Yeah.

00:22:48.680 I mean, that was one of the nice things to see was the diversity of skill sets,

00:22:52.600 not from the speakers or the people that you see online regularly,

00:22:56.740 but just the regular attendees.

00:22:58.260 I mean, everyone from computer programmers to homesteaders to search engine optimization

00:23:04.140 and marketing people alongside, you know, plumbers and tradesmen.

00:23:08.680 And it was all there.

00:23:10.100 And people were recognizing that, like, everyone's got a role to play in the years ahead when we I think everyone is kind of on board with the agreement that like things will get worse before they get better.

00:23:20.860 And you're going to want a good cadre of people that know how to take care of things when things are no longer being maintained by sovereign authority in the United States.

00:23:31.420 So, I mean, that was a very pleasant thing to see alongside the fact that those people who aren't the content creators asking questions with the speeches or asking, like, how can we get involved in things?

00:23:43.000 You know, illustrating that there are a lot more people that aren't just, you know, the commentariat class, not to dig it ourselves, but like, you know, there are people out there that are just like, well, these are things that I've done before in the past with like small businesses and like, who should we be targeting?

00:23:58.080 And it's just like, well, those are the people that you really want on your side when push comes to shove.

00:24:03.680 And so it was a pleasure to see, you know, the diversity of skill set, but like also just the age range, you know, you had plenty of people that were Stephen's age or older than, you know, you or Stephen, just asking, like, well, how do we get involved?

00:24:16.080 Like, because I've been just depressed with the Republican Party for like 40 years.

00:24:19.380 And it's just like, well, welcome to the Internet, you know, like, it's nice that you're here.

00:24:23.200 So we'll work on getting you involved.

00:24:25.900 We'll print shirts and jackets.

00:24:27.360 Don't you worry, you know?

00:24:28.460 Yeah, it's really encouraging to see these guys who are kind of elder statesmen who have, you know, that that gravitas, that experience, that position of leadership, possibly, or that that potential for leadership.

00:24:40.880 But like you said, they've been trapped in the Republican machine for years or they've been, you know, they've just been doing things or looking for opportunities and not really finding them.

00:24:50.300 And then they see this group of kind of young guys getting together, motivated, have a new avenue, have a new, you know, outlook, and they're excited.

00:24:59.880 You know, they want to be involved.

00:25:01.020 This is what they have been looking for.

00:25:03.120 And so it was really it was really nice to see the excitement in them and, you know, that they were they were really enthused about kind of the get up and go and the ability to kind of look beyond the standard solutions and find new opportunities.

00:25:17.840 And then that they wanted to jump in on that and be involved and lend their support was just extremely encouraging to be sure.

00:25:26.300 So we've got a number of kind of just hellos and chats and everything that are stacking up.

00:25:33.360 And guys, this is an Ask Me Anything episode.

00:25:35.300 So most of this will kind of be just dedicated to talking to you guys.

00:25:39.340 Like I said, I think we're going to have some more people come in, but I'm not sure we had.

00:25:43.160 There's a lot of travel like my flight was delayed by three hours.

00:25:46.300 I know a bunch of people who had, you know, five hour or even 24 hour delays kind of coming out of the of the event.

00:25:54.260 I know Prudentialist had a pretty wild drive back, you know, so we just had a lot of travel concerns.

00:26:02.240 But I think everybody got home safe.

00:26:04.500 But, you know, I'm not sure when or if people are going to be able to come in.

00:26:08.100 But I did want to be able to to kind of just have this opportunity for people who were at the event to kind of share their thoughts or, you know, just chat at us while we're going and then have an opportunity for you guys, you know, just just kind of a cozy stream to hang out for a little bit.

00:26:23.780 But before we do that, obviously, I have the Prudentialist and he is our international relations guy.

00:26:32.060 And well, there were some international relations over the weekend that we we didn't get to comment or kind of know about so much.

00:26:40.560 So I know if you're still catching up, you know, I don't want to push you too hard for a professional opinion.

00:26:44.900 But I did want to just kind of get your reaction.

00:26:47.460 So Russia, is it over?

00:26:49.800 Are they back?

00:26:50.440 What's going on?

00:26:51.480 I believe that the not happening gang had the victory.

00:26:55.660 It seems like they keep chalking up what wins on the chalkboard there.

00:26:59.500 I don't know.

00:27:00.500 I saw the news and I had a friend of mine who is in Russia message me and he was just like, who would have thought that Tim Pool would be right about the South and the Civil War just happened to be in southern Russia.

00:27:11.840 And then he messaged me later saying, like, actually, we're all safe.

00:27:15.020 Well, things are fine now.

00:27:16.080 So I was like, OK, good to know.

00:27:18.500 All I could think about was that section from Machiavelli's The Prince about mercenaries and all that sort of the Lindiest of all Lindy concepts.

00:27:28.260 So good to know.

00:27:29.620 I will probably put out more like I'll probably examine it a little more.

00:27:33.880 But I know that the Wagner PMC group, you know, they've they've been sort of using their position as a private military organization to, you know, talk about and criticize the Russian government with war.

00:27:45.340 But when you're only taking up a small column of maybe like five or six thousand men up to Rostov on Don and then not and then go back and then have the president of Russia say, like, you can join the Russian army or go to Belarus like we're not having this.

00:27:58.600 So not good PR for the Russians in any way, shape or form.

00:28:02.700 And this is also on the heels of what looks like a counteroffensive that did not bode well for the Ukrainians.

00:28:08.620 But again, we were all kind of off our phones this weekend.

00:28:12.300 So these are these are literally just hot off the press's takes.

00:28:15.640 You're not getting something that's researched here.

00:28:17.400 But yes, people were asking me, like, you picked a heck of a weekend to not be paying attention to the news.

00:28:22.700 And I was like, good, you know, like I'm here for something else.

00:28:26.700 Yeah, sometimes it's great to unplug and we barely got to look at the phone the whole time, which was great.

00:28:32.680 But yeah, it turns out that the wheels didn't stop turning while we were at the event.

00:28:37.320 But just for people who don't know, what is Wagner?

00:28:42.800 It seems to be just like a private military contract organization.

00:28:46.360 I'm very reminded of Blackwater earlier in the days of the Iraq war.

00:28:52.420 But whereas there's more of a coordination between, say, like the Russian military and this organization.

00:29:00.040 And I mean, they have like a corporate headquarters in, I believe, Russia.

00:29:03.140 And so it just seems that they're quite well on their way of being another force that doesn't require a larger mobilization of Russian military forces.

00:29:12.500 And of course, that comes with its own issues being sort of an entity that you don't see very often with respects to, you know, power conflict between like traditional nation states.

00:29:22.760 So it's interesting to see in 2023 sort of privatized military contractors that sort of work in conjunction with the state that is far more in the thick of it than, say, you know, other parts of the Russian military.

00:29:39.840 But I plan on doing a deep dive on them actually later this month.

00:29:44.700 So I would just say stay tuned for that.

00:29:46.620 Absolutely.

00:29:47.220 Guys, definitely make sure to check that out.

00:29:50.180 All right.

00:29:50.760 So we've got some super chats.

00:29:52.660 We've got some people just talking about the event.

00:29:55.040 But I'll probably swing by guys.

00:29:57.420 This is an AMA.

00:29:58.340 So, I mean, if you want a super chat, of course, always appreciated.

00:30:01.500 But if you just have a general question that you want to drop in the chat as well, just make sure that you at me when you do that so that I know that that question is for us.

00:30:11.380 We'll get priority to the super chats, but we'll we'll answer other questions as well.

00:30:16.400 That's kind of the point here.

00:30:17.760 Oh, look, we got we got a Red Hawk here.

00:30:20.140 Let me go.

00:30:20.540 All right.

00:30:20.980 Him the stream.

00:30:22.540 Mr. Red Hawk, how are you doing?

00:30:24.580 I am well.

00:30:25.900 I've been driving for 11 and a half hours.

00:30:28.340 I have not even unpacked my car yet.

00:30:30.180 I bring news from the front.

00:30:31.960 So it's a pleasure to speak with you, gentlemen.

00:30:36.420 Yeah, it's good to hear from you again.

00:30:37.880 I also just drove like 10 and a half hours.

00:30:40.280 So I know how you feel.

00:30:42.320 Yeah, I just spent my time sitting in an airport.

00:30:44.920 But so but still, that was that was very, very fun.

00:30:50.060 But Red Hawk, first time I got to meet you there, were you at the event last year?

00:30:53.820 I was.

00:30:54.380 Yes.

00:30:55.440 What was what was your favorite part this year?

00:30:58.560 Did you notice a change maybe, you know, in the attitudes?

00:31:01.740 Did you see anything, any improvements, different speakers?

00:31:05.620 How did you feel about it?

00:31:06.480 I would definitely say that the energy in the last year's event in February of 2022 was definitely slightly different to, you know, the event that we just had over the weekend here in that people were kind of, you know, walking on eggshells at the start of last year.

00:31:23.420 They weren't quite sure, you know, like, okay, am I actually with friends here, you know, like, where's the, you know, where's the Fed, you know, of course, and all that nonsense.

00:31:32.740 But over the course of, you know, 36 hours, 48 hours, however long we were there for, people were, you know, discussing all manner of topics and internet drama just didn't seem to matter at all.

00:31:46.320 People were sharing cigars, sharing drinks, sharing ideas, and immediately when we got to the event this year, we had maybe I'd say maybe 60% repeats and 40% new people at the event this year.

00:31:57.280 And those 60% that knew people from last year recognized them immediately, everyone came up and embraced each other in hugs, everyone was buying each other drinks, they were catching up, you know, and it just seemed across the board, everybody just had improved, like, remarkably from last year, you know, people, people had gotten engaged, people had started businesses, people had, you know, developed new ideas, or what have you.

00:32:19.720 But it was just immediately, I recognize friends, I recognize we're all here, we're all serious, we're all in business, let's get back to work exactly where we left off from last year, it was almost seamless, you know, as if no time had passed at all.

00:32:33.060 Yeah, I hadn't been there last year, obviously, but I really got that feeling of just like, you know, a lot of personal and community W's, you know, you could really feel a lot of people excited about all this progress that had been made, all this personal improvement, all of this professional improvement, all of these different organizations and projects that had advanced, there's just a big, you know, a lot of optimism and a lot of excitement of kind of how well things had advanced,

00:33:02.360 given that year.

00:33:04.100 Yeah, absolutely true, for sure. You know, the the energy was just ecstatic, it was electric, I'm sure anybody in the chat who's there at the event is probably still working with their, you know, post event high, you know, right now on the hype and everything. And yeah, it was, it's a fantastic time. And everybody should, you know, absolutely come to next year's event, you absolutely will not regret it. Oh, I was walking around, I made a, I made it absolutely personal point of mind to try and talk to as many people as possible. But the issue, and I'm

00:33:32.340 sure you gentlemen experienced this as well at these events is, everyone there is extremely intelligent, extremely well put together. And you just simply do not have, you know, 130 hours at a conference to talk to each person for one hour, because you will end up talking to any one person for one hour, because they all have something to say, they all have something to contribute. They're all serious people, they all have their own skills to bring to, you know, whatever foundations that we are trying to forge right now, whether it's businesses,

00:34:02.340 families, you know, everybody there, not just the content creators, has important, it has a very important, you know, part to play.

00:34:10.700 Yeah, I really felt that I know what you're talking about, you felt, you know, people who I didn't know, I had never interacted with, I was meeting for the first time, just immediately fall into really fascinating conversations for half an hour, an hour, not even realize the time had passed.

00:34:24.640 It's like, it's like, it's like what college is supposed to be in theory, I guess, you know, without all the pause. But yeah, but you know, you just run into all these people who are all very accomplished, very intelligent experts, and in so many areas, bringing up really interesting, I had so many people come up to me like, hey, I read this thing. Have you thought about this thinker? Have you gotten to this? Have you? Have you ever heard about the historical thing that connects to all of these things? And I, you know, just constantly, like, okay, I got to take notes, hold on, you know,

00:34:52.680 to make sure, because so many people are bringing up new ideas and are just thoroughly interesting. There's, you're right, there's no way to have all the conversations you want to have. But I could definitely feel the, you know, how exciting it was that kind of each person you run into, you could just organically have a fascinating conversation with, it's just adding something. And again, not just along those content creation lines, but everyone just bringing, you know, their own specialty, their own experience, that just kind of plugs into the whole picture and makes things work.

00:35:18.940 Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, it's always interesting to hear the different, you know, stories that people have as to how they arrived at the event and the positions that they now currently hold. There were some people that were at the event this year that had just come across like populist delusion last year. And then there were some people who were, you know, deep in this material for five, six, seven, some even like 10 years, you know, so there's a wide range of people who are on, you know, their, you know, quote, unquote, red pill journey, you know, as it were.

00:35:46.400 But all around, fantastic event all across the board. The organizers did a fantastic job. Everyone was well taken care of. The rooms were fantastic. The venue was fantastic. The staff were great. You know, I, you know, full marks 10 out of 10 all across the board.

00:36:03.020 Absolutely. All right. Well, I'm going to go ahead and start grabbing some, some remarks and some questions here, guys. Just feel free to jump in as we go. Like I said, this is real casual. This is just cozy friends stream. So we'll just go ahead and see what everybody was doing here.

00:36:18.820 So, uh, Polly B says, uh, skilledings was amazing. It's worth making the sacrifice to attend, which I did. My only regret was that I didn't get to meet more people, didn't talk to Orrin personally, but I don't like to impose on myself. Oh, you should have, man. I had, I met so many people. It was so great. Uh, especially, like I said, these people who I've seen in chat for years at this point, you know, who are around when, uh, when the channel was only a couple hundred, uh, you know, uh, people, it was just really cool to, to finally put names with faces and then to get to talk to these people.

00:36:47.520 They were so kind. Uh, and they, they have, like I said, they all have their own stories of how they got there, how they had plugged in, you know, uh, how they had talked to their, you know, their parents or their, their spouse or, you know, whatever about these ideas and how that had changed things. It was, it was very cool to just hear every one of those stories in person. Uh, I thought that was really amazing.

00:37:07.260 Yeah. I mean, the, the countless number of conversations from people that had introduced themselves is like, Hey, I was this person that's been commenting on your, your threads or your videos since like you started.

00:37:17.520 Uh, it's nice to meet you. Like, it's always a, like a, a great thing to finally see the people that are encouraging you to keep going or to suggest ideas or books and things like that.

00:37:28.020 Uh, I had wrote down more literature recommendations than, uh, ever before, you know, like you go, you go read through like unqualified reservations or whatever.

00:37:35.880 And like, you thought you have a book list then wait till there were like 40 or 50 guys telling you like, you need to read this book, that book, you know, have you read this essay? Have you read this treatise?

00:37:43.880 And it's like, okay, I'm going to write this down, uh, and hopefully add it to my never ending and ever growing list of books to read.

00:37:52.240 Yeah. No, I feel like I'll just get buried under that wave of books. Yeah.

00:37:55.400 Indeed. And in addition to the discussion on books, um, you know, coming to these events, you get, uh, access to limited edition prints of Imperium Press books, as well as, uh, Mr. George Bagby setting up his own, uh, personal library bookstore at the event with hundreds of books.

00:38:10.760 All of, you know, you know, some of them were literature, some of them were nonfiction, some of them were about the civil war, some about the Russian revolution.

00:38:17.500 There was a plethora of books and I picked up a couple of myself. I don't know if you gentlemen, uh, there were some books I did buy out of like the mean, like I saw a human smoke and I was like, Oh, you know, Yarvin references that all the time.

00:38:30.840 Like, uh, I might as well get a physical copy of it. Cause I hate you reading. And Mr. Bagby was selling physical copies of books. And that's what I am is, uh, buy physical media kids. That's what's, that's the important thing.

00:38:42.320 Yeah. I, I picked up the abridged version of decline of the West, which was, I'm looking forward to, uh, digging into cause I've not read a Spangler yet.

00:38:49.360 So yeah, no, well worth your time. All right, let's see here. We've got, uh, some of the star for, uh, $2. Uh, Hey guys, great to meet you both this weekend. Well, thank you very much, man. Yeah, no, it was fantastic to meet everybody.

00:39:02.360 Uh, let's see here. We got, uh, Duke and Ashley for $5. Uh, had a pleasure seeing the two of you along with everyone else over the weekend. Yep. Absolutely. Great to see everybody. Just grab some of these here. Um, uh, we had Cody, uh, Bassett, who was there. Hello, gentlemen. It was wonderful having met you both. Thank you, sir.

00:39:25.300 Thank you.

00:39:26.300 Let's see. Uh, here, you, but yeah, like to echo, uh, Red Hawk's point, like even people that were just like in the comment section that we see, or even in chat right now, like every single one of those people have like their own like skillset or ideas. And they're just like, I'm too busy to make content, but like, here's all the things that you should be looking at or considering it from this angle.

00:39:49.560 And it does really illustrate like, at least in this corner of politics and the internet, that you really do have some of the smartest commenters and reply guys out there and you too can make it. The world's richest man right now is a reply guy on Twitter. So like, give us your feedback.

00:40:05.160 Yeah. Um, uh, Polly B here says mechanics H fat guys. And I, and I don't know if he's joking there or not, but seriously, uh, I, I know there's a, there was a guy I met there who's a butcher and, uh, you know, they're, they're, uh, still bringing, like, like you said, all these different references, you know, they have their, their own careers. They're going their own ways. They're not in content creation or anything, but they're still exploring all of these ideas. They're still, uh, kind of, kind of just doing the work, uh, in the meantime.

00:40:31.160 And they're bringing all these different, uh, encouraging ideas, all these different skill sets and you need all these people. Absolutely. Like I said, there's the, the very encouraging thing was kind of how it wasn't dominated by content creators and how great it was to have some very, uh, applicable, practical, uh, advice, uh, being brought by people, uh, again, lawyers, uh, you know, finance guys, uh, businessmen, just people who are established.

00:40:57.720 They know what they're doing. They, they bring a, uh, an essential, uh, quality to everything. And they're giving you, you know, it's not all just Spangler and elite theory and everything. It's a lot of very much. Okay. How do you go home and make your area better? How do you get together with people? How do you move this ball forward? Uh, it's not all theory. It's things that you can take right into your community and make a difference.

00:41:20.820 Absolutely.

00:41:23.820 We've got, uh, Christian Smitherman here for $5. Very encouraging to meet and hear from y'all this weekend. And the food was pretty good. Yeah, no, it was very nice. They everything was, uh, you know, the event was very well handled, uh, you know, uh, big ups to the, uh, the Beowulf society and, uh, skilled things that the, uh, event was catered throughout and, uh, everybody was well taken care of. Uh, things were, uh, always on time. Uh, they managed to pack a ton of content and speak.

00:41:50.800 Uh, and everything in there. Uh, so kudos to them, people, uh, putting that stuff together. It's often a thankless job, but, uh, they did a phenomenal job of making sure everything was good. Even the food.

00:42:02.460 Yes.

00:42:07.980 Uh, Sean here, just, uh, you know, dropping the Machiavelli, uh, wisdom about, uh, Russia.

00:42:14.720 Kind of needed.

00:42:16.900 Uh, deep voice or, and yeah, no, I was, I've just been talking all weekend guys.

00:42:20.800 So, uh, yeah, absolutely.

00:42:22.980 And the combination of being up until like three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, because nobody wants to stop having conversations with people.

00:42:30.420 We are all very sleep deprived and our voices are very dry.

00:42:34.460 Yes.

00:42:35.080 I definitely ran into a lot of, uh, things where I'm like, all right, I'm going to turn in, I'm going to turn in.

00:42:40.000 And then someone's like, Hey, have you read this? Hey, did you thought about this yet? Blah, blah, blah.

00:42:43.340 And then I look at me, you know, the watch and it's two hours later and I'm like, Oh no, what happened?

00:42:47.620 I didn't even realize it.

00:42:50.120 Uh, let's see here.

00:42:52.400 Le fromage for $10.

00:42:54.020 Hey, hey fellas, if you could pick up one political group to absorb, uh, dialectically, i.e. Marxists, libertarians, et cetera, what would you pick?

00:43:02.760 Love y'all's work.

00:43:04.020 Hmm.

00:43:04.720 That's a very interesting question.

00:43:06.860 A political group to absorb dialectically.

00:43:09.080 Well, I, I, I'm going to echo a point made by one of the event organizers.

00:43:13.580 I'm pretty sure we have already absorbed dialectically.

00:43:16.200 The Marxists did make that point to everybody over and over again.

00:43:20.600 If you're using the word superstructure and the base and things like that, you know, you're sort of already within that sphere of things, which I mean, uh, kind of makes sense because some of our favorite writers out there like Nick Land or whatever, like you kind of have to know that stuff in order to understand him.

00:43:34.600 Uh, and he's kind of gone on a pretty far different direction on the right these days.

00:43:39.480 So I feel like we've already, we've done one of these and we already have the libertarians.

00:43:43.900 So, uh, I'm sure there's some far off group that we may not know about that it'll be next on our horizon.

00:43:49.560 Who knows?

00:43:50.640 Look, I definitely did not deliver a class analysis based on the expand global expansion of capital.

00:43:56.460 That did not happen at the event, but no, I think, yeah, I, interesting.

00:44:00.800 I don't know, uh, one group in particular.

00:44:03.920 It's funny because I feel like, um, the, you know, many of these groups have always been, uh, flirting with, uh, kind of, uh, disaffected Marxists, right?

00:44:12.560 Like that's kind of the, the red scare type crowd, uh, or, uh, uh, what was the other podcast that kind of broke up?

00:44:19.640 Um, what's left?

00:44:21.420 Uh, yeah, that went in the fed post one.

00:44:23.780 Um, but yeah, yeah, I feel like those people have always been hovering around.

00:44:27.920 And then of course we're always talking to libertarians.

00:44:30.120 I've, I've been on Tom would show a bunch.

00:44:33.480 Uh, I've been, uh, you know, Dave Smith.

00:44:35.700 I mean, in some ways, radical liberation, I guess, kind of is still in those spheres.

00:44:40.800 Uh, those are a lot of the paleo libertarian guys, especially have always still overlapped very much with this.

00:44:46.700 So, um, I think that there's definitely a lot of that there.

00:44:52.160 Let's see.

00:44:52.740 We've got, uh, Florida Henry here for $20.

00:44:55.180 Thank you very much.

00:44:56.200 Uh, coming from a conservative Southern Democrat farming family.

00:44:59.060 I have, uh, I've come to the conclusion that Reaganism is the disaster that gave us, uh, all this power to corporations and a cult similar to socialists.

00:45:08.340 Your opinion.

00:45:09.240 Thanks.

00:45:10.060 Uh, yeah, zombie Reaganism is obviously a disaster, uh, especially for the conservative movement.

00:45:15.400 Still, uh, people still trying to, you know, you, you'll still see the national review or other people go like, well, but you know, Reagan wouldn't have agreed with this as, as if that has any bearing on what's going on.

00:45:25.520 Uh, but I think the biggest thing is a lot of people, and, and of course, AA has talked about this and he's absolutely right that a lot of times, uh, you know, administrations like Reagan's are the opportunity to lock in, uh, the ratchet to, to, to kind of lock in those gains that have been made by the left, uh, from the other side.

00:45:43.440 And, uh, we, of course, we've all talked about this a number of times how, you know, when, when the Democrats are in power, you get all the social aspects of liberalism.

00:45:51.980 Uh, and when the Republicans are in power, you get all the kind of the business free market aspects of liberalism.

00:45:57.700 Uh, but those are the only things that advance.

00:45:59.580 And so obviously Reaganism, uh, very much along that free market side of things.

00:46:04.720 Don't get me wrong.

00:46:05.860 Uh, Reagan's probably still better than many of the alternatives that could have been, uh, in charge in that situation.

00:46:11.560 Uh, but, uh, the, the constant need to reference him, the constant reverence, uh, the inability to kind of look at what went wrong during those times.

00:46:20.100 Uh, certainly a problem for the right, for sure.

00:46:22.680 Yeah, we are not in the political paradigm of the 1980s.

00:46:26.040 And I mean, thankfully hindsight is 2020.

00:46:29.080 And I think that one of the key aspects of Reaganism that you can definitely look at was sort of the, uh, accelerationism of, uh, sort of the managerial state.

00:46:39.560 I mean, you can cut taxes, you can cut regulation, you can do X, Y, and Z, but there's also a lot of laws passed, signed, sealed, delivered that has sort of entrenched our own, uh, political backdrop for like what we might call political correctness a few years ago or wokeness or whatever term that you may want to use for it.

00:46:56.900 Because, I mean, uh, he's also the example of signing like the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into law.

00:47:01.500 And so that constant Republican, uh, you know, political pandering to groups that will never vote for them.

00:47:06.900 You know, these are the sort of things that we see happen, uh, all the time.

00:47:10.440 And so, yeah, like the, the Reaganism that we keep trying to resurrect from like the, the national review types is just, it's a part of the problem and we need to stop venerating it.

00:47:21.040 Absolutely. Uh, let's see. Uh, I know I'm not going to pronounce correctly the, how, how do we say this one?

00:47:29.300 Oh, oh man. L. Flemplar or Luthemplar.

00:47:32.940 Okay. But, but yes, I know who it is. Uh, thank you very much, sir. I appreciate it. Uh, it was, it was good meeting you for sure.

00:47:39.540 Uh, enjoyed the event a great deal and seeing folks are, uh, and seeing folks are not, are real and not AI cyber demons.

00:47:46.240 Well, you know, we can, let's, let's not make our judgments yet. I could still be a computer algorithm.

00:47:50.280 I've been accused of it before. Uh, what, what are your folks, uh, favorite speakers and themes?

00:47:56.220 Yeah, I already talked a little bit about this. Like I said, I really enjoyed, of course, uh, I feel like both, uh, Dave and, uh, and, uh, uh, uh, uh, Prudentialist gave, uh, kind of, kind of very encouraging speeches.

00:48:08.980 Uh, Stephen's speech also very encouraging. Um, I, I feel like, uh, Bagby's speech was a real sleeper hit.

00:48:16.280 I didn't realize, uh, you know, I didn't, I didn't really know what to expect, but, uh, his was very excellent.

00:48:21.680 Uh, again, the speech on kind of the, the Canon, uh, you know, looking at Nick Landon, the Canon, the Western Canon, also really good.

00:48:28.820 Uh, a lot of them though. I, I, like I said, they're very, you know, very consistent theme of very high quality speakers.

00:48:34.540 Yeah, I agree. Um, my personal favorite was probably, uh, not me, not yous about, uh, not falling into ideological purity, especially, you know, the discussion around the event of forming a common, uh, foundation.

00:48:46.340 Uh, Charlemagne's is very good. Uh, Bagby's will probably be the first one I reread when the event book comes out.

00:48:53.020 Um, cause that one was like you said, or on a very sleeper one for sure. Um, but yeah, all the, uh, event speakers did a fantastic job and every one of those speeches was top notch.

00:49:02.400 Yeah. Yeah. I think, uh, Mr. Bagby's speech is probably, yeah, will be the one that I reread the, the, is the same way.

00:49:08.520 It was probably the best one to have a man who spent, you know, most of his career teaching a classical education, give me a classical oration and the, the need to address things like honor.

00:49:20.720 And what we're kind of up against is this like entropic homogenizing force that is ever expanding that will eat away at your history.

00:49:27.780 And he wants to defend that. And it was just an excellent speech. Uh, I mean, all of them were very good. Um, but I, I think my favorite one though, is sort of just, it's not meant to be petty, but I liked how Oren's speech was introduced as like, I have a disagreement with someone and I have the slides to prove my point.

00:49:44.200 Um, which was quite a delight to see like an old fashioned, like, here's why you're wrong. And I have the slides to proof it.

00:49:51.020 I've, I've brought my, I've brought my slide deck. I'm ready for the, I have the receipts. Yeah, no, well about them. That's one of the reasons also I really liked Bagby's because like he said, uh, you know, in, in some ways Bagby and I were, were having a similar discussion.

00:50:04.380 We were like, we were both talking about a similar topic. I was talking about it from kind of the mechanical, uh, power analysis, political theory side, but he really brought that dynamic, uh, you know, classicist, uh, you know, understanding.

00:50:19.060 He, he, he grounded in something that was very meaningful and soulful, uh, and just, uh, brought, uh, a real life to it that I thought was really compelling.

00:50:27.960 And you're right. That's, that's one that will be great. For those who don't know, there's a, there's a event book after, uh, that has a lot of, that has all of the speeches so that you can reread them.

00:50:38.360 You can go over them and everything. And you're right. That one's going to profit the most from it because he, he had all the references.

00:50:43.080 He was weaving it all together from all these classics and it was, it was really compelling.

00:50:47.580 Uh, another $10. Thank you very much, sir. On a personal note, it was very touching last year to receive a call at 3am from all he chaps encouraging me while I was stuck in Belgium.

00:50:58.940 And I hope I reflected that friendly demeanor this year. Yeah. Like I said, it was, it was, there was, again, I wasn't there last year the way that Red Hawk and Prudentialist were,

00:51:07.860 but I felt that I could feel how many people had grown close together. You could feel the friendships that had developed, obviously, you know, a marriage, uh, you know, like there, you could just feel how much, uh, the community had been built by the last one.

00:51:22.420 Even though I was, even though I was new, I could still just tell from the way people are interacting, how much it meant to them to see everyone again, to, to once again, see their friends in person and, uh, and, and get to share the, their, their lives with each other.

00:51:34.560 The year in between, uh, you could, you could just have that energy the whole time.

00:51:38.280 Yeah. I, and again, whether it be the camaraderie of, you know, drinks and cigars after the speeches or just, uh, feedback, you know, and, and writing notes and taking care of what everyone is wanting to accomplish in their lives, you know, like you, you, you will make friends that last a lifetime there.

00:51:55.820 Yeah. I think the other thing to mention as well as the excellent, uh, Q and A's that would occur at the end of every single talk, you know, all the questions were very topical, very on point.

00:52:05.620 Again, everyone having something to say and not just the content creators.

00:52:09.320 So there is, uh, particularly after, um, Mr. Brooks's speech, the Q and A after that was probably the best one on the entire event.

00:52:16.560 It was almost like each question from the audience was playing off of the, you know, previous question before.

00:52:22.300 And it's almost like people are figuring out ideas literally in real time.

00:52:25.480 Yeah, no, that's, that's a really good point.

00:52:27.320 Yeah. You, you, during many of these Q and A's, you can see ideas forming.

00:52:31.560 You could see each person realizing something and adding the next question, build, putting the next brick in the building, uh, kind of in real time.

00:52:38.840 Uh, you were almost workshopping, uh, these ideas and expanding them on the fly as you were going.

00:52:45.000 Uh, which again, is something, obviously it's great to have these chats to have, you know, your questions on these live streams and things, but there's always that extra magic of kind of doing it in real life.

00:52:54.880 And then as soon as, you know, the great thing is as soon as you got out of the Q and A section session, uh, everyone just immediately broke off and started having another smaller, you know, tighter version of the Q and A on the same topic.

00:53:06.560 You know, you, those discussions didn't end as soon as the talk was over.

00:53:10.560 People were talking about those subjects and expanding them for hours afterwards and small groups and working on those things further.

00:53:16.960 Indeed. And any disagreements are absolutely held in good faith as well, which is extremely refreshing, especially coming from right wing Twitter, where it seems like any, you know, uh, disagreement is just amplified at infinitum.

00:53:30.580 So it's very nice to just be in person, put faces to names and everyone just understands.

00:53:36.260 Yeah, we're all here. Uh, we're here and we're serious. And no, again, any disagreement is in wonderful, good faith, which is so refreshing.

00:53:44.800 Absolutely. Yeah. Again, it's just, it's a lot easier to have productive, good faith conversations when you're across the table from somebody, um, rather than getting, you know, snarky, misunderstood messages back and forth on Twitter.

00:53:59.700 It's just an entirely different environment.

00:54:02.960 Uh, Merrick here for $5. Uh, I'm a humble Weaver organizer who attended the event and I met, uh, other Weaver organizers and had an extremely productive conversation.

00:54:12.260 Yeah, no, man. I, like I said, those are, again, what I love about this event was how not creator focused it was.

00:54:19.560 Yeah. A number of the speakers were, were content creators cause that's who, you know, that's kind of the, the forward facing part of, of the thing.

00:54:26.600 But there are so many people who are essential, uh, parts of this again, you know, uh, you know, lawyers and, and businessmen, people who are handing the social aspect, you know, that again, so many people are isolated.

00:54:38.800 So many people have a hard time finding a good friend group, finding like, like-minded people, uh, having the ability to build community.

00:54:45.660 And so those Weaver organizers are essential links in the chain, you know, without those, you're, you're never going to get events like this because those, uh, Weaver organizers are putting together those communities that then develop into, you know, these conferences that create those opportunities, hopefully end up turning into, you know, old glory club chapters and those kinds of things.

00:55:05.320 Uh, and, and I'm, I'm so glad that, you know, even for people who have these different roles, they're getting together with other people who are doing the same thing and they're learning lessons, they're building skill sets.

00:55:15.440 Uh, so it's, again, it's not just content creators talking about ideas somewhere in a corner, all these different people who are doing essential parts and essential, uh, skill building, essential, uh, community building are also able to network, you know, get, get the best ideas, uh, learn from each other, build with each other.

00:55:32.300 I think that's just really amazing.

00:55:34.640 Like I get the point that like everything is political, but I mean, there's a lot that can be said about having a cadre of people that aren't doing necessarily explicitly political things, but you know, like they, they meet and they work on trades or they work together on teaching like their kids, automotive mechanics or things like that.

00:55:51.900 Like you want to be the type of people that can pass down skills that are going to be, uh, you know, slashed by education budgets when it comes to things like prioritizing diversity.

00:56:02.840 I mean, this is the things that we've seen throughout the history of like the U S education system with universities.

00:56:07.240 Like when they want to focus on say like diversity, like what cut, like, well, the classics get cut, uh, automotive stuff gets cut, languages get cut.

00:56:15.640 So like, if you have these skillsets, it is important when we say basket weaving to meet up IRL, to meet up in the real world and to, uh, organize things to say like, well, we're, we're going to do this.

00:56:26.380 We're going to work on cars or we're going to work on, you know, uh, a hiking trip or, or getting like losing weight, you know, things that are going to be generally, genuinely necessary when, you know, things are looking worse politically that you have people that you can rely on and that you can set an example in your own neighborhood as well.

00:56:44.640 Looks like we have Charlemagne. He came in. I didn't, I didn't know if he was going to make it, but great to have you, sir.

00:56:50.800 Yes. Well, I'm still, uh, in Tennessee, so I figured I might as well join.

00:56:54.760 Still, still trapped there.

00:56:57.840 Yep. Yeah. One of those things where the gate just, you know, stops bothering to show your flight information because it's, it's gone that wrong.

00:57:05.080 Yeah. There, there's quite a mess with the, again, I know, uh, a number of people who had a full day delay coming or going with the flights and everything.

00:57:13.200 So, uh, sorry, sorry, you're stuck there, but of course, uh, happy to have you, uh, for sure.

00:57:18.020 Or, uh, did you feel like there was a particular speech or a particular aspect of the conference that you thought was a big growth or that really hit you this year?

00:57:27.720 Well, definitely Mr. Bagby's speech hit the hardest.

00:57:31.120 Uh, I really liked how he narrated a very specific example of the sort of Maoist indoctrination that's deeply seated in everyone, uh, at work.

00:57:45.500 And it's, it was very illustrative, I think, even more than, uh, Ryan Turnip Seed's, uh, case with the Lutheran church, just how deeply ingrained, uh, the, um, the, the Maoist political correctnesses in people.

00:58:01.180 Uh, like, like at a school, you know, there, there was no one really, uh, persecuting it.

00:58:07.360 It was sort of entirely self-inflicted wounds, uh, which I think makes his case very interesting because there was really zero political pressure there.

00:58:15.480 They could have just ignored that Rod Dreher article that chose not to.

00:58:19.660 Yeah. I think everybody really felt, uh, that that was a very powerful speech and, and brought in, like you said, uh, very different, you know, it came from that, that had that classical background weaved in.

00:58:30.460 It had very important themes.

00:58:32.120 It also, uh, highlighted very specific and interesting, uh, cases and problems like you're talking about there.

00:58:38.340 So I think for a lot of people, uh, that, that Bagby speech was a real standout.

00:58:42.660 Yeah. I think the other thing about this as well is that, um, uh, the speakers for the speeches were not, you know, coordinating beforehand what they were going to talk about yet.

00:58:52.760 Many of the speeches just naturally flowed together very, very well, which tells you there's a lot of convergent, you know, information going on here.

00:59:00.460 So a lot of people coming from very diverse backgrounds are all still united under what we were talking about, forging a common foundation and Charlemagne, uh, your speech had some crossovers with Bagby's who also had some crossovers with Mr. Brooks, you know?

00:59:14.140 So it was very interesting how people are all coming to the same conclusions from many different angles.

00:59:21.820 Absolutely. Let's see here. We've got, uh, Zang Wei for $5.

00:59:25.900 I can afford a ticket for next year now that I'm selling AI-generated nudes of Harry Sisson and Peter Thiel.

00:59:31.960 Easy money, boys. Uh, yeah, thank you, sir.

00:59:34.020 Yeah, it's, they're, they're not the, they're not the cheapest, uh, tickets for sure.

00:59:38.340 It's definitely, uh, an investment.

00:59:39.940 Uh, but I assure you no one is, is pocketing things, uh, there.

00:59:44.000 It's a, it's a very nice conference in a, in a, in a good venue.

00:59:47.880 Uh, you know, they, uh, you, every, everything that's being spent there is being put back into the event.

00:59:53.260 Uh, it's certainly a commitment for sure.

00:59:55.240 I understand that not everyone can do it, uh, but, uh, for those that can, I think they really felt it was, uh, well worth their time.

01:00:01.960 Yeah, that way it was an investment in and of itself.

01:00:05.220 And this isn't something where the event organizers are like sitting in their Scrooge McDuck vault full of cash, you know, grifting off these like content creators and people that want to hear the speeches.

01:00:14.520 Uh, and they pretty much more or less broke even.

01:00:16.480 And so, and I mean, that's kind of how the way these things go and the venue was wonderful.

01:00:20.900 The location was wonderful.

01:00:22.040 The staff was excellent.

01:00:23.000 The food was great.

01:00:23.580 Like you really did get your money's worth, uh, in that respect, but, uh, you know, good luck with your, uh, fundraising activities.

01:00:30.580 I'm sure that only illustrates how bad things have gotten with our current political class.

01:00:34.660 Well, also with the, um, you know, the added price, it ups the barrier to entry.

01:00:39.540 So everyone there is very serious.

01:00:41.320 And also, and I'm sure you guys witnessed this, uh, everyone passed the physiognomy test with from flying colors, which is very, very nice.

01:00:48.940 Yeah.

01:00:49.740 Very true.

01:00:50.720 All right.

01:00:51.380 Uh, Chase here for $20.

01:00:53.340 Thank you very much, sir.

01:00:54.260 Appreciate it.

01:00:55.200 Uh, hi, Oren.

01:00:56.040 Could you clarify your reference to true believers in contrast with Mr.

01:00:59.420 Bagby's reference to administrators applying DEI will policy yet they did not actually understand the depths of the ideology.

01:01:06.100 Thanks.

01:01:06.620 No, that's a really good question.

01:01:07.820 Uh, and it kind of touches on, uh, on what Charlemagne was just saying, uh, kind of with, uh, how interesting it is, how his, uh, how his story played out.

01:01:17.420 So I think the big difference here that you're looking at is when I was giving my speech, I was talking about people who are completely on board and bought in.

01:01:26.960 They are the, the, the, the true managerial elite, those who are, uh, you know, who, who are originating or actively enforcing with great gusto, uh, these things at a corporate level or at a government level.

01:01:39.720 Uh, Bagby was talking about how even a classical Christian school is infected by this.

01:01:45.980 So they ostensibly, you know, guys like Rob Dreher oppose this stuff, right?

01:01:51.600 In theory, they oppose the wokeness.

01:01:54.000 These, you have, so, you know, it's now a cottage industry on the right, you know, I'm against the wokeness, but it turns out they're not really against the wokeness.

01:02:01.060 In fact, they have onboarded many of their, uh, uh, their kind of social, uh, standards, uh, and, and kind of many of their ideological points, but without really understanding them.

01:02:12.800 And so they kind of reflexively felt the need to cancel somebody like Mr. Bagby who had done nothing wrong and, uh, was an excellent, uh, was an excellent, uh, you know, employee.

01:02:23.200 But they still felt compelled to make these actions just because that's the zeitgeist, right?

01:02:29.160 Like, uh, once an accusation has been made, once somebody has been sullied, it really doesn't matter if you understand the ramifications of what you're talking about or what you mean.

01:02:37.820 You still just need to apply it because it kind of, that's what, that's what you do.

01:02:42.240 That's how you prove you're one of the good ones.

01:02:44.060 And so, uh, I don't think that most of the people who probably were involved in that classical Christian school were true believers in the woke.

01:02:52.200 That wasn't who I was talking about when I was talking about true believers.

01:02:55.420 I was talking about the kind of the direct enforcers, uh, the, the, those who were completely bought into the managerial, uh, ideology in things like corporations, universities, uh, as opposed to Bagby, who was talking more about these people who are kind of peripherally connected to it and felt the social pressure of it, even though they're in an organization that theoretically is actively organized to stop this kind of mouse infiltration.

01:03:19.900 And they failed even at that.

01:03:22.200 But I don't know.

01:03:23.980 Oh, no.

01:03:26.480 The brakes on my plane are busted and they're repairing them.

01:03:30.000 I warned you about this.

01:03:31.460 I predicted this by a Leninism.

01:03:33.420 It's coming.

01:03:34.420 I actually had the same thing.

01:03:35.660 I, I had my plane, uh, was, uh, was broken.

01:03:38.740 Uh, they, they had the, uh, some door was broken and they had to go get us a new plane because they, they didn't have anybody to fix it.

01:03:45.380 So yes, the complex systems are falling apart right before us.

01:03:48.760 So all of us had a hard time returning from the conference because violinism was in full swing.

01:03:53.940 So I was thinking about what you, uh, asked when I first came on and one of the interesting things about the conference this year, year, as opposed to last year is last year.

01:04:04.460 The speeches really set the tone for what everyone went away thinking about and pondered for the next year.

01:04:11.240 But I feel like at this event, while we had very interesting speeches, I feel like everyone really understood what we were doing, the projects everyone was working on, how we were organizing.

01:04:21.840 And even if there were no speeches at all, I feel like we would have all come away very much on the same page about what our aims are.

01:04:29.140 And I thought that was really interesting.

01:04:31.160 My name is Natalie Wilson.

01:04:33.160 Get the background announcement there.

01:04:36.920 All right.

01:04:37.160 So, uh, might want to throw that mute on there, Charlie.

01:04:39.720 There you go.

01:04:40.100 All right.

01:04:40.380 So, uh, roll pepper here.

01:04:41.520 See, this is a very cozy stream, guys.

01:04:43.000 You're getting, you're getting the most casual of all streams.

01:04:45.440 Uh, so roll pepper here for 99.

01:04:47.560 Thank you very much, sir.

01:04:48.780 Uh, I've let the fear keep me from events like this and basket weaving, but to be there and to find no horde of protesters, only friends discussing, uh, ideas, life, and how to move forward was liberating.

01:05:02.360 Yeah.

01:05:02.940 I, you know, one of the great things and, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, Red Hawk touched on this as well.

01:05:08.920 That barrier to entry, it seems high.

01:05:11.600 And, uh, we're not trying to sell tickets here or anything, guys.

01:05:14.520 I'm not, you know, I'm not telling anybody they need to do this, but that barrier of entry meant that the people there were serious.

01:05:20.520 Uh, and that everyone there was, uh, on the same page, uh, this isn't the kind of event that attracts bad attention because everyone there knows what they're doing and they're there with a purpose.

01:05:33.040 They're there to build community.

01:05:34.320 Uh, and so I think it can help to kind of eschew some of that fear of, oh, there's going to be bad actors in here because no one can just casually walk in and start, uh, you know, agitating, causing problems.

01:05:46.440 And if they did, everyone would immediately ostracize them because kind of everybody there is on the same page.

01:05:52.880 They know what they're there for.

01:05:53.880 They're there for business, not there to troll.

01:05:55.880 They're not there to be edgy boys.

01:05:57.240 Uh, they're there to build community, get things done.

01:05:59.620 And none of that is really tolerated.

01:06:01.080 Yeah, indeed.

01:06:02.720 And then I don't know if you guys, uh, mentioned this before I came on, but the crowd at this year's event was slightly older, uh, than last year's.

01:06:10.040 Um, you know, we did have, you know, people from, there were Gen Xers, there were boomers, millennials, uh, zoomers, of course, I'd say the average age is somewhere around like, you know, maybe like 28 to 32 is probably where the average age of that event was this year. 0.59

01:06:24.280 It was probably a little bit earlier, uh, last year, but yeah, uh, it's very interesting to see how, you know, everyone is coming to the same conclusions here.

01:06:34.360 Uh, yeah, no, absolutely.

01:06:36.180 We, we talked about the age thing earlier, but I mean, it really was this great convergence of like, didn't matter what part of the country you were from.

01:06:43.240 And then some even traveled from outside of the, uh, us from Australia.

01:06:47.300 Uh, everyone was here with the deep fascination to know, like, all right, we kind of all get the vibe of how bad things are.

01:06:53.700 Uh, where do we go from here?

01:06:55.260 And a lot of those speeches were outlying both, you know, political, theological, and mechanical ways to, to get to it.

01:07:04.780 Uh, see you in the camp.

01:07:06.420 Uh, thank you for your super chat, but I'm not putting that up there.

01:07:09.400 Um, it's referencing the, the Patriot front stuff from this weekend.

01:07:13.180 And, uh, I don't know what the level of validity of that is, but I don't traffic in doxes. 1.00

01:07:19.300 Uh, we just don't do that here.

01:07:20.840 Uh, whether, whether, whether we think that that was a kind of a fake thing or not, uh, I'm never putting out someone's information like that.

01:07:27.760 That's, that's just not how we do things here.

01:07:30.080 Uh, so I, I understand kind of your point there, but, uh, we're, we're, we're just not going to be public, publicizing that either way.

01:07:37.080 Cause, uh, that's, that's just not how we, we handle ourselves.

01:07:40.480 Uh, let's see.

01:07:43.100 Had a bunch of other chats here.

01:07:45.180 Got through all the raging mandrill.

01:07:47.540 It was good to see you, sir.

01:07:48.640 I see you in the, uh, in the, uh, chats there.

01:07:51.780 Mr. Santa Claus.

01:07:52.800 Haven't seen you in a while, man.

01:07:54.280 Uh, great to have the big man back.

01:07:56.600 Uh, let's see.

01:07:57.620 All right.

01:07:59.120 I think we got through all the, uh, through all the super chats there and we are over the hour.

01:08:05.500 I don't want to go too late cause I know everybody's recovering from, uh, uh, from their, their, their plane flights or their drives or some, some are still stranded in the airport.

01:08:14.220 So, uh, uh, so I don't want to keep everybody too long, but, uh, is there anything that we didn't touch on that anyone wanted to, uh, talk about any kind of, uh, points that didn't get to want to get to that.

01:08:24.400 If they wanted to wrap up before we kind of, uh, in the stream.

01:08:27.540 I think the thing that I want to, uh, address is the, the panel show from the, uh, the old glory club.

01:08:32.960 Um, you know, we did a fantastic showing at the event here and announcing our ideas to start up, uh, many chapters, uh, throughout the entire country.

01:08:41.100 So definitely, uh, watch this space, uh, check out the old glory club.

01:08:44.620 And if you're interested in starting up a, uh, you know, fraternal chapter in a city near you, uh, definitely look into us.

01:08:50.920 We've got big plans coming.

01:08:52.760 Yeah, no.

01:08:53.440 I think a lot of people were very excited about the, kind of the, the old glory club and its birth and kind of what it's going to be doing.

01:09:00.460 Uh, I think that was a big, a big point for everybody.

01:09:02.720 And that panel was very fun.

01:09:04.500 Uh, so that, that was definitely good as well.

01:09:07.140 Uh, we've got one more chat here.

01:09:08.900 Let me grab that, uh, life of Brian here for 499.

01:09:11.860 Thank you very much.

01:09:13.080 Uh, true believers come in two types, in my opinion, good girls who just follow and enforce received wisdom, whatever it is. 1.00

01:09:19.640 And the real biter, nasty Bolshevik commissars. 0.97

01:09:22.580 Yeah, no, I mean, that, that's absolutely true.

01:09:24.220 The inside of that, there is that dynamic.

01:09:26.220 Most people are just going along to get along.

01:09:29.280 Most people will just kind of enforce the rules of society.

01:09:33.100 They're always kind of just, and this is, this is very, this is kind of what happens with the conservatives, right?

01:09:38.340 A rule exists.

01:09:39.280 And so we enforce it.

01:09:40.820 Even, we don't really think about where that rule came from.

01:09:43.680 We don't think about whether that rule came from our enemies.

01:09:46.200 Uh, we don't think about whether that rule was, uh, aimed at us.

01:09:48.740 We're the rule enforcers and followers.

01:09:51.140 So that is our job, no matter what the rule is.

01:09:53.760 And so they'll just unthinkingly embrace frames of their enemies, rules of their enemies, punishing what should be friends.

01:10:00.640 Uh, and then, uh, there are those that are, there are the particularly nasty ones.

01:10:04.920 Like you said, the, the ones who are, who are really running the inquisition, who are really running the, uh, you know, uh, those HR departments and things, and, uh, really, truly do want to destroy people and root them out.

01:10:16.140 Uh, they're motivated by the, the, the nastiness and the power and the kind of the sociopathy.

01:10:22.000 And so you're, you're right to make that distinction.

01:10:23.980 That's a good one.

01:10:27.100 Did you have anything there, Cheryl, let me, before we go.

01:10:29.620 Yes, there was a lot of camaraderie this year.

01:10:31.960 Uh, the first event, uh, people tended to, uh, flock to the, the e-celebs, but this year people tended to have much more camaraderie right off the get-go and forming their own groups and hanging out with each other rather than just sort of, uh, you know, forming these, these orbits.

01:10:48.360 And I think this demonstrates the success of the event and the success of the event in tandem with basket weaving, because that's where some of the camaraderie comes from, comes from.

01:10:59.340 So, uh, it's clear that these things are working and that's why you should come to them, both the basket weaves and the event, because it is doing what it's supposed to do.

01:11:09.980 And we've only just started really doing this.

01:11:12.760 Yeah.

01:11:13.180 Like I said, it was so encouraging.

01:11:15.040 Like you said, that it's not just everybody clustered around the content creators that there was, uh, I often just kind of walked up to conversations and listened, you know, just, just to kind of hear what was going on, to hear where people were going.

01:11:27.060 I was learning a lot, you know, from people who aren't in the content creation sphere, who maybe I hadn't met before, uh, but we're, we're really, uh, talking and, uh, having interesting conversations, building interesting things.

01:11:37.800 And so, uh, that, that was an aspect, like I said, I, uh, Charlamagne, I agree with you.

01:11:42.220 That's just really great.

01:11:43.040 It's how, how much those relationships had already been built, how many people who were outside of any kind of, uh, you know, content creation or forward facing stuff had, were already bonding together and getting those things done.

01:11:53.620 And the fact that you're going to have those basket weaving events, you're going to have those old glory clubs to kind of continue that growth, I think is really essential.

01:12:01.940 Yeah, absolutely.

01:12:03.480 Yeah.

01:12:04.720 Uh, we've got Ben Dover here, uh, for $20.

01:12:07.780 Thank you very much.

01:12:08.660 You're doing the Lord's work.

01:12:09.960 Uh, God bless you all.

01:12:11.380 Well, thank you very much.

01:12:12.260 And I, like I said, I, uh, am encouraged about how many people on how many fronts were just, uh, you know, taking the ball and running with it.

01:12:19.800 Uh, looking for new avenues to help out each other, to, to make things, uh, better for each other, uh, make sure people are able to find work, to find community, uh, to, to, to, uh, you know, just, like I said, just all these things that weren't related to the stupid internet drama or arguing over one little piece of policy or whatever.

01:12:41.400 But instead were about really, uh, coming together, you know, building a brotherhood, uh, building fraternal organizations, uh, that, that just, that warmed my heart.

01:12:50.200 It was a fantastic thing to see.

01:12:51.840 And because so many of these guys were in that, like you said, that kind of 28 to 32, uh, two or 33, uh, band, it was people who are just in a phase of their life where they obviously really needed that.

01:13:03.740 And those things become incredibly important and they're in a position to, to take other people under, under their wing and kind of benefit them.

01:13:10.800 And, uh, just, just really good to see people very excited about their opportunity to give back and make a difference.

01:13:17.880 That was really great.

01:13:21.320 Uh, sensible SO centrist, uh, here.

01:13:25.080 Oh yeah, it was great meeting you too, sir.

01:13:26.660 That was, you had a good speech as well.

01:13:28.540 Uh, very well done, but, uh, sorry, uh, 10 Canadian here. 0.99

01:13:31.500 He says, I'm very glad to have met all of the, uh, all at the event of the whole thing was fantastic.

01:13:37.020 Currently enjoying solidarity with Charlie while being waiting for my delayed flight.

01:13:40.980 Yeah.

01:13:41.160 Sorry about that, man.

01:13:42.180 That's, that's brutal.

01:13:43.400 It seems to have hit so many, uh, you know, the, the, the weather was not great there.

01:13:48.080 It seems like, uh, airlines are not able to keep their planes in good repair.

01:13:52.460 Uh, a lot of people getting hit by that.

01:13:54.420 So sorry, you are also stuck in an airport, but, uh, it was great meeting you, uh, you did, you had a great speech as well.

01:14:00.860 And, uh, really fantastic to kind of put, put names with faces and every, uh, everything that was really good.

01:14:07.620 All right, guys, I think we made it through all the super chats.

01:14:10.360 Uh, I don't want to keep everybody here.

01:14:12.060 We're running a little long, so we're going to go ahead and wrap this up.

01:14:15.380 But of course, uh, if, uh, you know, this is your first time here, make sure that you go ahead and subscribe to the channel.

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01:14:30.980 And if you do that, make sure that you leave a rating or a review so that it helps with the algorithm.

01:14:36.780 Uh, again, guys really enjoyed this event.

01:14:38.740 If you're excited about that, all the information with the Beowulf, uh, you know, foundation and Skildings is there.

01:14:46.260 You can get involved in basket weaving.

01:14:48.140 You can look into the Old Glory Club.

01:14:49.860 Uh, you can look into joining these communities, adding your voice, adding your talent, uh, you know, having a chance to help out others and build a community.

01:14:58.860 That is all there for you.

01:15:00.320 So make sure you do that.

01:15:02.140 Thanks for coming by.

01:15:02.900 And as always, I'll talk to you next time.

The Auron MacIntyre Show - June 27, 2023

Scyldings Conference AMA ｜ 6⧸26⧸23

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