This is big, very big--even Little Me is a member of Audible (alhough I'm still wishing 'Noticing' had included your great review of the Neil Young bio 'Shakey').
Let this be remembered. Let's count some of the incremental steps over the last few years. First out of Twitter jail, then touring to promote book, and now permitted to make videos for Youtube consumption.
As I've been constantly and consistently saying, Steve, these are victories in your change of fortunes. These are good things and hopefully, it will slowly continue to improve in the right direction.
I do believe that if you can be a guest on Tucker Carlson, that Joe Rogan can be more than a theoretical in the cards for the next step, as well as appearing on popular podcaster's Theo Vonn's show as well.
Getting posted on Youtube? Now, anything is more than possible and doable.
I also hope you won’t mind if I leave a word for John Derbyshire upon his retirement. I’m likely far from alone in finding your writing via his. What would the audience for non-mainstream conservative commentary look like if he hadn’t been at NR hooking some of the normies?
Dennis Mangan is still around, mostly concentrating on fitness these days.
Roissy presumably got married and retired from the Internet. Porter, writing from deep within the belly of the beast, left the Internet. Niccolo Soldo and his commenter army are here on Substack. Zman is still very active and finally escaped from metro DC. Vox Day, Rollo Tomassi, still around, Dalrock, retired.
Hans-Herman Hoppe is still with us. Jared Taylor still going strong.
And of course our genial host, who really is an Alt-Right founding father.
As a result of their persistent, trenchant writings the conservative dialogue has finally been wrested from the ideologues and the neo-conservatives. I don't think anybody like Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake or George W Bush is ever going to be influential in the Republican Party again.
Just downloaded; I have an Audible subscription already. Unfortunately, I just started my 47 hour book on the Battle of Antietam by Scott Hartwig (To Antietam Creek: The September Campaign of 1862). You're next in the queue.
I'm bogged down in Robert Caro's The Power Broker!
I'd love to see offered at Audible.com Vincent Cannato's 2002 book The Ungovernable City, John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York. (Spoiler: he didn't.)
Speaking of Caro, someone told me he's finished 900+ pages of his 5th LBJ bio. His last volume left off in 1964, before LBJ's reelection campaign. So if he did only one final volume, he would have to cover from 1964 to 1973 when LBJ died—plus, given Caro's style, he would no doubt want to do a extensive afterword.
And given Caro's style, one volume would not be enough. He would need 3 more, perhaps two if he made crazy-long volumes (even for him). I think he blew it in the last volume on the JFK assassination, there was way too much ink spent on the pomp and ceremony of JFK's funeral.
Now Caro's facing death and I don't think he can finish the project in his normal style. If I were him, I'd make the 5th volume cover up to, say, 1966 or so, and prepare extensive notes so that my wife could finish up the remaining volume(s)....
Caro is 90 this year, his wife is 22 years younger, and she is his "sole research assistant for his books" (quoth the Wiki, evermore). He hates to gloss over stuff, so in his position I would work with the wife to get it all the material for the remaining years laid out, then do the 5th volume in his usually insanely-detailed manner, maybe going up to 1967 or so (which for him, covering three years, would be close to 1000 pages).
The first LBJ volume covered 33 years; the second one covered seven years; the third covered 10 years; the fourth covered six years—so there's nine years left, BUT those nine years (or four of those nine, anyway) were the most eventful of Johnson's life. It seems that Caro, if he wants to finish it before his dies, will have to do some glossing over, and the guy HATES to gloss over. I say stick to the normal style and let the wife take up the torch after the Grim Reaper visits.
LBJ died when he was 64, which is kind of creepy b/c I'm 63 this year. But then I'm not pouring Jack Daniel's over my cornflakes each morning.....
This is big, very big--even Little Me is a member of Audible (alhough I'm still wishing 'Noticing' had included your great review of the Neil Young bio 'Shakey').
I wonder how capitalized Sailerisms like Obviously Bad Guys come across in audio.
Let this be remembered. Let's count some of the incremental steps over the last few years. First out of Twitter jail, then touring to promote book, and now permitted to make videos for Youtube consumption.
As I've been constantly and consistently saying, Steve, these are victories in your change of fortunes. These are good things and hopefully, it will slowly continue to improve in the right direction.
I do believe that if you can be a guest on Tucker Carlson, that Joe Rogan can be more than a theoretical in the cards for the next step, as well as appearing on popular podcaster's Theo Vonn's show as well.
Getting posted on Youtube? Now, anything is more than possible and doable.
Keep up the amazing work you've always done.
Indeed, and let me second the motion in all of its parts.
Ken
This is a big deal. No chance they’d offer it before Trump vibe shift. Pathway to mainstream acceptance.
Congratulations, I hope it does well.
I also hope you won’t mind if I leave a word for John Derbyshire upon his retirement. I’m likely far from alone in finding your writing via his. What would the audience for non-mainstream conservative commentary look like if he hadn’t been at NR hooking some of the normies?
May his retirement be peaceful and long.
I've missed Derb's monthly diary for a while now, and am already missing Radio Derb.
The last Radio Derb:
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=34296
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2025-06-06.html
God bless John Derbyshire and his family.
Dennis Mangan is still around, mostly concentrating on fitness these days.
Roissy presumably got married and retired from the Internet. Porter, writing from deep within the belly of the beast, left the Internet. Niccolo Soldo and his commenter army are here on Substack. Zman is still very active and finally escaped from metro DC. Vox Day, Rollo Tomassi, still around, Dalrock, retired.
Hans-Herman Hoppe is still with us. Jared Taylor still going strong.
And of course our genial host, who really is an Alt-Right founding father.
As a result of their persistent, trenchant writings the conservative dialogue has finally been wrested from the ideologues and the neo-conservatives. I don't think anybody like Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake or George W Bush is ever going to be influential in the Republican Party again.
Just downloaded; I have an Audible subscription already. Unfortunately, I just started my 47 hour book on the Battle of Antietam by Scott Hartwig (To Antietam Creek: The September Campaign of 1862). You're next in the queue.
I'm bogged down in Robert Caro's The Power Broker!
I'd love to see offered at Audible.com Vincent Cannato's 2002 book The Ungovernable City, John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York. (Spoiler: he didn't.)
Speaking of Caro, someone told me he's finished 900+ pages of his 5th LBJ bio. His last volume left off in 1964, before LBJ's reelection campaign. So if he did only one final volume, he would have to cover from 1964 to 1973 when LBJ died—plus, given Caro's style, he would no doubt want to do a extensive afterword.
And given Caro's style, one volume would not be enough. He would need 3 more, perhaps two if he made crazy-long volumes (even for him). I think he blew it in the last volume on the JFK assassination, there was way too much ink spent on the pomp and ceremony of JFK's funeral.
Now Caro's facing death and I don't think he can finish the project in his normal style. If I were him, I'd make the 5th volume cover up to, say, 1966 or so, and prepare extensive notes so that my wife could finish up the remaining volume(s)....
That Caro has 900 unpublished pages seems pretty good. That's probably a lot more than George R.R. Martin has.
Caro is 90 this year, his wife is 22 years younger, and she is his "sole research assistant for his books" (quoth the Wiki, evermore). He hates to gloss over stuff, so in his position I would work with the wife to get it all the material for the remaining years laid out, then do the 5th volume in his usually insanely-detailed manner, maybe going up to 1967 or so (which for him, covering three years, would be close to 1000 pages).
The first LBJ volume covered 33 years; the second one covered seven years; the third covered 10 years; the fourth covered six years—so there's nine years left, BUT those nine years (or four of those nine, anyway) were the most eventful of Johnson's life. It seems that Caro, if he wants to finish it before his dies, will have to do some glossing over, and the guy HATES to gloss over. I say stick to the normal style and let the wife take up the torch after the Grim Reaper visits.
LBJ died when he was 64, which is kind of creepy b/c I'm 63 this year. But then I'm not pouring Jack Daniel's over my cornflakes each morning.....
My audiobook is also available for $21.99 from Apple Audio Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/noticing-an-essential-reader-1973-2023-unabridged/id1819512169
If you had told me yesterday that Sly Stone was still alive, I wouldn't have believed it; I thought he died long ago. Instead, he died today at 82.
The AP obituary mentioned his band included "Black and white" members, at which point I stopped reading.
Let’s fucking goooo