FTBOMT Volume 1 Episode 2
Behind the Green Door
2025-01-16
They say the camera adds twenty pounds, which is probably true, but layers of bulky clothes and too much food and beer during the holidays is the main reason I look like Santa on winter break. I was not going to post it because I did not like how I looked, but then I remembered that I do not care that much about how I look. That and it is a good motivation to stick to the diet and exercise regime.
I had to do some edits and splice in the Jared Taylor clip, so I learned a few things about video editing. The main thing I learned is that the things you are most likely to do are made more difficult by the software. If I wanted to add a fairy dust overlay to the video, that is just a click of a button. Clipping out the part where I sneezed took an hour to get right.
The main snag in this idea thus far is that it is cold right now. When I shot that video, it was about twenty degrees in the barn. Even with a bunch of shirts on I was feeling it, which had me thinking about going inside rather than recording. I also must do something about the lights. Not only it is terrible for recording video, but it is also terrible for working on stuff too. That is another item on the project list.
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Welcome to the bed of my truck, or the back of my truck.
Not really sure which one I'm going to go with,
or if I'm going to stick with this label or title.
At least for now, I will.
I mean,
given that the battery on my truck is not completely dead,
it's not going to be going anywhere,
so this will be a good place to sit and talk in front of the camera.
But I didn't think it through because it's 17 degrees out right now.
At least that's what it says on my thermometer up at the house,
which means it's probably 20 degrees in here.
So I've got my Tim Pool hat on.
It's my flannel here.
I'm trying to stay a little warm.
It's miserable though.
It's not a garage to work in in the winter, at least not yet until I get some heat in here.
And since the battery of my truck is completely dead now, I'm not really sure why that is.
Well, it's not going to be going anywhere.
Well, anyway, what I'm going to do for this first video is to try and do two things.
One is actually make it through the whole video and get it to work.
But the other thing is to splice another video in.
I have a video of Jared Taylor talking to Dick Banania on The Dick Banania Show.
And he says some spicy things about West Virginia that I thought was worth talking about.
So here we go.
West Virginia is a strange problem.
It is full of white people,
but some of the lowest grade white people I believe I've ever seen in my life.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't disagree.
We are not all superior human capital.
And I remember I spent a couple of days in the capital of West Virginia.
Let's see.
Charleston, Charleston, West Virginia.
And after walking around for a while,
I thought to myself,
boy,
there must be a city ordinance that says,
in order to live in this city,
you have to be fat and have a tattoo and smoke cigarettes.
Really?
Look, I'm not saying, I mean, like in all human groups, whites are on a bell curve.
And somehow those at one unfortunate end of the bell curve seem to have ended up in
West Virginia.
Now,
these are still my brothers and sisters,
and I want to bring them along in as useful a way as possible.
I want them to be the best white people they can possibly be.
But West Virginia is not where the best ones are.
Well, if that worked, then you're seeing this.
Of course, if it didn't work, then you're not seeing it and you don't know any of this stuff.
So we'll see what happens.
But the funny thing is,
I think a lot of people sent it to me,
sent me the clip of it,
and were slightly offended.
And even people who don't live in West Virginia or live in Appalachia or live in rural America,
found it a bit offensive, and I think it's understandable.
There's a certain snobbishness there you can see in that clip.
But I think also the fact that Jared seems so enthusiastic for saying bad things
about poor white people to a guy like Dick Bennett,
Well, not just with Jared.
I think with that whole scene, that whole older guy scene of old white nationalism.
He doesn't call himself a white nationalist,
but that whole scene of sort of paleos and all that,
they still operate as if it's 1950s America,
where the country's 90% white.
and you can make those kinds of comments when it's a 90 percent white white country
as a white person saying hey white people you need to clean up your act it's
perfectly reasonable it's perfectly reasonable for black people wealthy say
successful black people like bill cosby used to do to go after poor blacks for
their behavior because you know after after all if you're a minority you want your
people to clean up their act like that but when we're in a situation where
that we are now,
where you're really trying to get people to start thinking in terms of racial
solidarity and thinking of themselves as maybe not necessarily minority yet,
but on their way.
Well, you can't spend time criticizing people.
You certainly can't talk that way.
That kind of language and that kind of attitude,
particularly in front of someone who's an asshole like Dick Bonannia,
way and it's it speaks to an old-fashioned attitude an attitude that's way out of
date you know that kind of approach to racial politics just simply doesn't work in
2025 again it would have worked in maybe 1985 for sure 1955 definitely but
certainly not in 2025 when
clearly we're on our way to being a minority in the united states there's really
nothing to stop it and particularly when younger people under the age of say 25 or
already a minority or at least feel that way you can't talk that way now you can do
this privately sort of private gathering you can make these kinds of points but you
have to make them in a different way though you have to make them as a part of
uplift rather than as ridicule and mocking and you can never make it around people
who are clearly outside of
our group, our world, whatever it might be.
You never fraternize with the enemy in general.
And that's the first mistake that Jared made in my view.
But you need to be cautious about how you handle these kinds of internal criticisms
in general when you're trying to get people to start thinking collectively rather
than thinking individually.
And the old guys can't do that.
The old guys are incapable.
And I say old guys, look, there's people my age who struggle with this stuff.
They still got that libertarian crap in their brain and or the conservatism crap in their brain.
And they just can't think collectively.
They can't think like a partisan.
Partisans always think about what's good for our team and what's bad for the other team.
That's it.
That's all you think about.
Everything is shaped towards that.
And when you're dealing with someone who's on the other team or just not on your team,
well,
then you don't tolerate any criticism of your team.
That's just how it
understands that's how it works and that's how it has to work for us so I think you
know look Jared's a nice guy and you know he is what he is and I'm not going to
criticize him for it but I think it's it's a good example of that kind of politics
really is it needs to be phased out we need to stop thinking that way we need to
break from the past and start thinking about the world as it is and how it's going
to be going forward

