With her though, I can't stand Nick Fuentes and the Groypers, and I assumed that's basically what this show would be. Blonde likes him, Vince has been close to him for years, Dave has ties to him, etc. It's only reinforced by having Franssen on, since he used to be a Fuentes acolyte. Is the show worth a try or would I just be wasting my time?
Nick Fuentes and the Groypers really have nothing to do with Blonde's new podcast.
Mentioning Nick is relevant wrt their podcast because
- 3 of the hosts (all but MacGregor) have mentioned in passing that they are supportive of Nick, which is unusual for this space
- Rebecca has said on air that she's playing nice with the Groypers because she "fears their wrath"
- Vincent James claimed on air that it's possible that they could one day get Fuentes as a guest because he personally knew Nick in Chicago before Nick Fuentes became Nicholas J. Fuentes
- the show is obsessed with noticing
- the show is definitely beyond MAGA and Trump-critical - Rebecca claims she didn't vote at all in Nov, James wore a MAGA hat in the early episodes but mostly as troll, Reilly is part of the Idaho Republicans and seems the most normie but isn't a Trump simp, MacGregor is a passport bro recently returned to the Eastern Seaboard and is a blackpilled, "there is no political solution, global market crash is inevitable" manosphere type
Is the show worth a watch?
- I think it has potential, but it's still rough around the edges.
- They have horrendous tech issues every episode, but it is improving (they are running the streams off Starlink; the Rumble feeds seem to have platform-specific buffering and audio issues so I'd recommend watching it on Blonde's old YT channel; early episodes had Powerchats interrupting audio with the hosts oblivious or not playing at all; the 4th mic Cameron MacGregor is Zooming in and is constantly disconnecting; they sometimes start the stream, have audio issues, then delete the stream and start another, etc)
- the show really lacks structure, particularly with the 4 hosts. Episodes only have a vague overall topic (JFK assassination, Uncle Ted, H1B visas, Trudeau resigning, etc). They last about 2 hours, but it can be pretty chaotic with 4 hosts and little format. The remote manosphere MacGregor guy seems like the most well-versed and interesting of the 4, but the fact that he's Zooming in remotely really kills a lot of the natural flow with the 3 other in-studio hosts.
Pros
- it's really nice to see Blonde happy and reinvigorated. The podcast is live and in-studio at Dave Reilly's Idaho home. Blonde is putting a lot of effort into her appearance, seems to have good chemistry with her hosts, appears to be doing at least some show prep, has moved on from the Matt drama and barely mentions it on air and hasn't been using her two young daughters or husband as an excuse to dip out yet.
- Blonde is in a "Don't Give a Fuck" stage wrt YT censorship. She repeatedly states on air she doesn't care if her channel gets yeeted. So there's few topics that they won't touch. They did make an effort to clean up their language on recent episodes trying to keep things Christian and family friendly, but the topics sure aren't.
- It's nice to listen to a show that touches topics like the JQ, white nationalism, open racism, open misogyny, etc if you are in to that sort of thing. There's not many shows like it.
- It's also nice to listen to a dissident RW show that isn't just Trump ballwashing or "Can you believe what the libs did now""
- Their mission statement for the show is to rise above the partisan, culture war slop to talk about real solutions for Whites in America and to cope with the Great Replacement and globalism. I haven't actually seen them produce much actionable stuff yet, but it's a nice explicit goal at least.
I think I've listened to parts of all ten Blonde episodes since they launched, though I don't think I finished the last few (partially out of boredom, they are 2 hours long and fairly rudderless).
I haven't watched any Matt content since the split, though I had mostly stopped watching their formulaic show anyways (I was primarily skipping to the movie review by the end).
I thought Matt handled the split like a little bitch and Blonde mostly took the high road, but implied that Christiansen's whole "Mr. Nice Guy/Most Honest Man in Town" shtick was really just an on-air facade. He was also hiding his Jewess wife from his audience the whole time.
