VCP: The Overton Window is Wide Open

Vance Crowe [00:00:03] Okay. It has been a little while since I've sat down to talk just directly to you. Business has been growing, my family's been growing, and I have had the rare opportunity to just stop and observe what's going on in culture. And I've actually started to notice something that I think is worth bringing up with you. I think it's worth bringing up because I think there's going to be a culture change that's gonna be massive. And I am not here to tell you that this culture change is good or it's bad, or that you should participate in it. I just want you to be aware of it. And I think that the reason I want you to be aware of it is because it's the awareness itself that I think can help you avoid the mob. And, and longtime listeners of the podcast know that that is what I believe to be the greatest threat to all of humanity, is always joining a mob, joining a group of people that are angry and that think that they have a solution. And so they shout and yell, and they turn over their animal-like instincts to this mob. And they imagine that whatever they destroy in the process is gonna solve their problems. And I hate that. And I think it is very, very dangerous. And so I think one of the ways that you prevent yourself from joining the mob is to make cold observations about what's happening. And I don't think there's just one mob that's gonna come, but I, I, what I wanted to describe is the culture change that I think is coming.

Vance Crowe [00:01:36] And then kind of explore, you know, who are these mobs that are gonna, that are gonna sprout up, that are gonna be led by emotion and probably fervent leaders. And, and that way you can make this cold and objective observation about the right thing for you, which I am going to suggest is always to not join the mob. So I think, you know, when Trump got all elected, there's all this talk about draining the swamp, and then we're gonna get rid of all these people that are pedophiles in our, in our government system. We're gonna, we're gonna get rid of all the illegal immigrants, we're going to stop going to war. And there were all these people that were like, yeah, finally, finally, we are going to get rid of this ruling class elites that have been taking from us, but not giving. And then none of it really happened. And in fact, even if you look around and you say, well, the, there are illegals being deported and, and we're making these strides in, in bringing the economy back, okay? But I think there are a lot of people that would point to the way that Trump said, if you are still interested in, in Epstein, then you're not on maga, you are not a part of our team. And I think you can say that is where a line got drawn in the sand, and he created enemies from within his own community, right?

Vance Crowe [00:03:07] And I think there are a lot of older people, boomers you might say, that are like, eh, that's just the way that it is, right? This is just the horse trading that happens. He said some things and now he got in there and he realizes he can't do it. Or there might be other people that are like, no, no, no, this is like five D chess and you just gotta hang on for a little bit longer. You know, he's, he's gonna come around and then we're gonna get to find out who all these bad people were. And then on top of that, there are some people that are like, well, we may not get Epstein, but we are finding out that Trump is gonna go after Obama, somebody that was in office, you know, a, a decade ago, and we're gonna find him for all these bad things that he did. And whoever that's working for, I can tell you that it is not working for young men, young men that are struggling to find jobs that know that AI is just pounding on the door to try and break through and make it so they can't earn a living. And these young men who have been told, particularly white young men, you have this privilege, you have all of these advantages and, and we need to level the playing field, and you're a racist and you're doing all these bad things. So these young men are like, whoa, I supported you. And now this thing that I said was important, the fact that we were, you know, trading the, the sanctity of young girls to be able to create blackmail on leaders and elites that now maybe some other country controls.

Vance Crowe [00:04:42] And this is what's determining whether we're gonna go bomb another country and maybe go to war for them, and we're gonna send all this money out to them. Like these young men are, are, they're not having it, right? They either didn't go to college or they did go to college, they have huge debt, and now they're trying to find a job in this wild economy. And they're looking around and they're like, wait a second. I, I put my, my faith, I put work in for this. I I put my reputation on the line and now you're throwing me out. Will they go start looking for somebody else to, to, to, to listen to? And I think they are encountering a guy named Nick Fuentes. Now, for anybody that doesn't know Nick Fuentes is a conservative figure. He's 26 years old. And several years ago when there was this huge cancel culture movement, he was one of the people that was targeted and completely thrown out of social media, ev every single platform, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, everybody through him out and said, he has radical ideas. These are unthinkable ideas. He, he says things like, I don't wanna live near black people, and the Jews are the cause of all these problems. Now, in our society, if we talk about the Overton window, these are unthinkable ideas. These are ideas that if in any part of culture you bring these things up, you are going to be thrown out. You will never get a corporate job.

Vance Crowe [00:06:13] And corporate America went out and said, not only are you, we are not gonna hire you, we're gonna make sure that ads that we run don't run anywhere near you, and any platform that has you on we're not going to support. And so he got thrown off on those platforms just like people like Alex Jones did. But it went even further. He got de banked, his banks came to him and said, no, we are, we are not going to allow you to run any kind of credit cards. We're not going to allow you to have people donate money to you. And so he was completely thrown out, and this happened when he was like in his early twenties, right? And so he kind of went away, right? People didn't hear about him, they didn't know anything about him, but he started off on other platforms. He built up his own platform. There's platforms like Rumble, I don't even know where these other ones are. Like, there, there are places where you can go on the internet where you could broadcast and you could make it so people can send you donations. But Nick Fuentes came back and as he came back, he was saying things that nobody really was saying out in the world. He was talking about like, Hey, Trump is not gonna solve your problems. Hey, when, when they get into office, you're being tricked. This is not gonna work. And so now when Trump turned on his base and said, you're not a part of MAGA if you want to come after these Epstein files, people started saying, wait a second, no, that, that's not right. And who is it that, that was right all along about this? Oh, Nick Fuentes.

Vance Crowe [00:07:45] And so these young people are hearing these ideas, and they are now coming to the very clear conclusion that it does not matter who you elect, that even the guy that got shot at, even the guy that the entire establishment came after him, tried to put him in jail, tried to do all these things, when he gets into office, he's not doing anything for us either. So they are not interested in trying to do the Elon Musk path. They're not interested in like, oh, well, let's start a new party. And that new party is going to, you know, be some blend between, you know, the left that feels like the left went too crazy. And the libertarians and the, you know, Elon Musk, who's talking about this America Party instead, Nick Fuentes followers who call themselves Groypers. They're going out there and saying, no, we want chaos in this system. You guys don't want us to participate in maga you don't want us to be a part of, of, you know, the economy and, and, and making the right decisions about not going to bomb Iran. Well, we're not gonna play in this system anymore. We are going to vote for Democrats. We are going to try and put as many political memes out into the world that are gonna cause chaos as we can. And I think one of the reasons that the growers are growing in, in numbers is that they are, they are breaking the narratives that have been used for several generations to describe who are we as Americans?

Vance Crowe [00:09:29] What is our founding story? Who is us and who is them? And they are coming to conclusions that in the past had been completely unthinkable. You know, e ever since maybe the seventies and eighties, when there started to be a politically correct culture that would say, Hey, banks, you are not allowed to base your lending on certain neighborhoods to certain groups of people. You're not allowed to do that. And, and then over time, these ideas became entrenched into society. And they said, no, not only can you not choose who you lend to based on their race, you are not even allowed to say or make any observations about race whatsoever. And so when Nick Fuentes comes out and makes observations that are, you know, have some basis in research, then people that are in the regular Overton window say, you are thrown out. And the Groypers are saying, wait a second, nobody ever told me this. Nobody ever told me this thing about race. Nobody ever told me this thing about history. And so now what's happening is the narratives that used to hold us together are being shredded. And in the United States, we have, we don't have this like thick cultural history that transcends hundreds of years, right? We are not all Irish or Hungarian or Russian.

Vance Crowe [00:11:01] We have been a melting pot. And this melting pot is based on these ideas about where we came from. Who is we, who is them? Who should we let in, who should we not let in? And that has been controlled by the dominating force, and the Groypers don't believe those narratives anymore, and they are putting out new information that is challenging what people used to believe. And just like COVID where we discovered the government is absolutely willing to say things that are not true, that they know aren't true in order to get social cohesion, in order to get people to do what they want them to do. And they're saying this is true about the factors that led us to World War ii. The same thing is true of how our political system is,

Vance Crowe [00:11:53] Is being run by other governments who are using, you know, young women to entrap powerful men in, in sex schemes, and then use that power to be able to get them to go to war with other countries on their behalf. And so I bring this up because I think it'd be very easy if these concepts, these people you've never heard of that when the mainstream media or however you consume news brings them up, they do it with an eye roll, they do it with a dismissiveness that you do not take these ideas seriously, that you think like, oh, those are just crazy people. Those are people far away. This is not something that's going to affect things. I'm here to tell you that it is. I'm here to tell you that the system as we see it right now, is definitely cracking up. And I'll give you an example. You know, the, it's so easy for us all to be like, Hey, Facebook, that's young people don't join that, right? That's for older people, young people join Instagram. Well, now that is also true now of things like YouTube and other platforms like Instagram, wherever, wherever people were posting things, well, the new generation is not there. And the reason that they're not there is because those platforms were completely contained. They said, these are the ideas you're allowed to hear and ideas that are outside of this Overton window, you're not allowed to hear.

Vance Crowe [00:13:28] So people went on to other platforms, and those platforms put themselves forward as, Hey, we're, we are going to allow you to say what you want. We are going to be a free speech platform. And where there is free speech, there are new ideas that people haven't heard, and who is going to flock to new ideas? They haven't heard the younger generation, particularly the younger generation, that has been pushed around and kicked around and told that all of the, all of the narratives that we have, point to the fact that you are bad or wrong. And I, I wouldn't just say that the culture change is Nick Fuentes and the Roers. He's a big part of it. Another person that I would bring up that maybe you've never heard of is a, is a man named Sam Hyde. Sam Hyde has one of the funniest TED Talks that you have ever seen. Although if you watch it and you don't know what you're watching, it is so extremely uncomfortable that I can barely describe it. But so Sam Hyde goes to this TEDx talk, you know, where people stand up and normally they're citing these, you know, statistics and facts and they, they package together a story that makes the audience feel good and, and, you know, is all tied together in a bow. Well, Sam Hyde stands on stage, and I don't wanna ruin it for you, but he shatters that narrative

Vance Crowe [00:14:51] And he does it in a way that only a, a complete a, a person that is so willing to completely embody an idea the way that I, I understand Andy Kaufman used to. And so I recommend you go, go to YouTube, type in Sam Hyde TEDx talk, and you'll watch truly a different mind do something on stage that is shocking. Well, Sam Hyde, similarly used to be on mainstream, used to have a comedy show on, on what was called Adult Swim, and he got canceled on there for some of the jokes that he was making. And so he went out and created his own comedy platform where they make their own sketches, they do their own reality shows. Now, they are not polished like corporate America, but they own themselves completely all the way down to how their payments get processed. And what this has enabled them to do is to say things that you can't say on other platforms. And so now young people are going there and they are hearing ideas that they've never heard before. And Sam Hyde will, you know, talk about, you know, how to improve yourself about how to what, why the narrative is stacked against you. I, I particularly like, he did a video on Bitcoin that actually was one of the best explanations about Bitcoin that I've ever heard.

Vance Crowe [00:16:21] And trust me, I've heard thousands of descriptions of this. But he was talking about it in terms that a young person that is working their ass off and always having their value stripped from them through inflation, he explains it in a way that young person that maybe doesn't have an education could get. In any case, Sam Hyde is also talking about counter-cultural ideas. He has things that cannot be said in the normal Overton window, and his audience is growing as well. And so, as I am seeing ideas that used to be totally unacceptable, they would get you thrown out, have now moved into radical, and I would even say acceptable ideas. And I think that these ideas, when you first encounter them, are going to make you deeply uncomfortable. And you're gonna look around and be like, wait, wait, wait. You're not allowed to say that. And maybe you are, and maybe you're not, and maybe you should say it, maybe you shouldn't. You be the decider as to whether these are good ideas, whether they are a benefit to society. But one thing you should recognize is they are breaking in. These ideas are now getting proliferated, and they are growing. And this, I believe, is the signal that culture is about to change.

Vance Crowe [00:17:49] And I think that this change is something, it's something unexpected. It's, it's something where the outcome is not, it's not obvious to me what it's gonna be. I think a lot of people right now look at the economy. They, they see, you know, the Kobeissi Letter say, Hey, you know, the amount of debt is going way up and, and young people can't afford their mortgages and they can't buy things. And, and so we kind of all sense that there is some kind of economic cataclysm that maybe is just hanging right off the edge. And so we sense there's gonna be this big epic moment, like a September 11th, or like the bank's failing, but I'm not so sure that's what's gonna happen. What I think could happen is that culture change is happening underneath the surface. What people to believe to be true, what they, who they respect, who they are following, this is changing really fast underneath the surface. And if you are only connected to mainstream outlets, even if they're the podcasts that are within that Overton window, you are never going to hear about these ideas, which is why I am bringing them up. You know, a couple of years ago, Kanye West started saying outlandish things about, about culture. He was talking about how the Jews ran the media and about how things were unfair.

Vance Crowe [00:19:27] He, he puts out music and, and slams Adidas for what they're doing. And he was doing this two years ago when people were like, clearly he's having a bipolar or manic disorder. Something is terribly wrong here, but, you know, one thing that I always do is try and watch artists and try and say like, what is it that they are expressing? Because oftentimes artists, whether they're a singer or a painter, a sculptor, whatever, they can see the future before other people can. And what Kanye West was saying two years ago was totally unacceptable. It was pushed completely out of society. And now, two years later, this is in society, this is in platforms. And even though I was saying some of these platforms like YouTube are, are becoming kind of old fashioned or passe, even those places have had to open up the Overton window. And now people like Sam Hyde who are talking about things like, oh, this is the Jewish control of the media, or these, these are the countries that are actually controlling us, or this is what's going on with COVID. Even those guys, as long as they bleep out the words that they're not allowed to say, they're allowed to have their ideas on, on YouTube and why? Well, 'cause YouTube is a business. And at the end of the day, they know that if they do not allow these ideas to be published on their platform, people are going to leave in droves from their platform.

Vance Crowe [00:20:59] And so you're watching these ideas that used to only be allowed on rumble, now come onto YouTube. And the old way of canceling these ideas of reinforcing where is the Overton window, those don't work anymore. And I, I bring all of this up because I see it. I don't know what it means exactly, but I can tell you that when culture changes, so too does power. And I think the places that people have gone when they felt afraid and when they wanted somebody to lead them are not going to be where they went. I think there are very, very few people under the age of 35 that are gonna say, oh, when Trump's term is up, let me, let me elect JD Vance, let me continue to make sure the power structure and the conservative mindset stays in there. I don't think they're doing that. And so if your worldview is informed by Donald Trump just got in, good or bad, this is what's gonna come next. It's JD Vance, it's, it's Dan Bongino, it's Tulsi Gabbard. I think you're wrong. I think those people are going to be blacklisted in the future society. And so who will be there? What is going to happen?

Vance Crowe [00:22:32] I think there's gonna be a huge drop off in college education. And I think that's not all that profound to say, but I do think that that means that the narrative is gonna change much faster. So, I don't know, man, I, I find these ideas to be fascinating and wild and interesting and, and, and I am completely capable of listening to these ideas and being like, Hmm, I wonder what the other side thinks of these things. And I go to the left and I see very few new ideas, very few people that are getting away from the narrative of what's going on. And I can tell you that the young people are gonna go to where it's most exciting. They're going to go to the ideas that make them feel like they have control. And I don't think that, I don't think the future three years from now is going to look anything like it does right now. Yeah. And I wanted to bring that up with you. So this is gonna kind of round out that idea. I, I think that if you want to see the future of culture, you've gotta get out of where you're at and you've gotta find some ideas that you find to be really taxing, to really challenge who you are and what you think and, and what you were taught.

Vance Crowe [00:24:06] And then see why are these people liking these ideas? Is it because they're actually good ideas or is it because it makes them feel empowered? And if I don't like these ideas, where are the counter ideas to these gonna come from? 'cause right now, the, these people like Sam Hyde, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Alex Jones, they are completely un cancelable. The the system is not going to stop them. So you are either going to choose, do I like these ideas or these ideas that I'm going to follow? Are my children going to follow these ideas? Or what will be the counterbalance force? I don't see any other counterbalance force out there. I don't see anybody out there producing anything anywhere close to as compelling as what they're doing. And so I bring it to you and I ask you like, do you see, this is your Overton window getting opened up and new ideas being put in there? And what do you think the world looks like as inflation gets worse and unemployment goes up and AI becomes the dominant force in the working world, where do you think people go for ideas? Who do you think they're gonna listen to? Is it gonna be the guy that told them nothing to see here, Epstein didn't happen? Or is it gonna be the guy that says, Hey, it's okay, you, you know, like, like it's okay for you to choose who you wanna live by.

Vance Crowe [00:25:40] Hey, did you know these things about world history that you've never heard before? You may not like what I'm saying, but what I'm saying is actually accurate. This, this is happening and I don't know what's gonna happen, but I think it's worth you hearing about, so I bring it up with you. Let me know your thoughts on this. As always, I believe that a really good thing to do in a time of uncertainty is to buy a Bitcoin. I, I've heard a bunch of really shitty stupid arguments against Bitcoin lately where people were just going out on, on X and being like, it's a Ponzi scheme. Okay, well explain to me what a Ponzi scheme is and then draw out for me what Bitcoin is and explain to me how those two are the same thing. And most of the time people are like, well, you, you know what it is, it's that people are gonna pay you, you buy it so that people will pay you more for it in the future. And it's like, yes, that's actually literally everything that you buy that you don't consume, you buy it because you assume that the value of it is going to go up. And, and so that, yes, you're right, Bitcoin is guilty as charged of that. You buy it now in in the anticipation that it is going to be worth more later and you can sell it in the future. But here's the kicker, here's the thing. Most people don't realize. I'm not waiting for Bitcoin's price to go up in terms of dollars so that I, I can trade Bitcoin for dollars. I'm going to use the price appreciation of Bitcoin to buy the things that I will consume, but it will cost me much, much, much, much less in terms of Bitcoin.

Vance Crowe [00:27:19] Other arguments that I've heard, I could go into, maybe I'll do an entire session on this, but when it all comes down to it, the answer to the chaos that comes from inflation and new ideas in the Overton window being opened up is to provide for you and your family. And the best way that I know how to do that is to develop your skills, offer something that the market wants, and store your value in something that is not going to be diluted. And I think that's Bitcoin. And if you wanna buy Bitcoin and you wanna support the show, you can do that on river.com. And I will share a link in the show notes. And otherwise, send me a note, let me know what you thought of these ideas. Let me know if you've heard of these people and these new ideas. The Roers, Nick Fuentes, Sam Hyde, and, and let me know if you think I'm totally off base. I'm, I'm always interested in what people see and think and, and as always, you can feel free to disagree.