How To (Realistically) Retake the West: With Tectone

Tectone joins Malcolm and Simone for a wide-ranging conversation on preparing for fatherhood, protecting children from cultural influences through homeschooling and private education, and building supportive networks among like-minded families. They discuss the evolution of the online right from its early days through Gamergate and into a focus on authenticity and family values.

The discussion covers practical advice on raising multiple children, the challenges of public schooling, video game recommendations, and strategies for sustaining independent content creation. Tectone shares personal stories from his background and experiences navigating online communities while emphasizing long-term planning for the next generation.

Episode Transcript

Malcolm Collins: Hello! I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are thrilled to have on one of the meme lords of the Internet, Tectone, easily if we’re talking about OGs of the intellectual and cultural movement that has become the new right, one of the sort of instigating members, leading members, and still one of the, not just, I think, in terms of setting the tone, widest of audience members, but also you’ve done a really good job recently in bringing people together on your show, like, you know, bringing together Muno and Nux and stuff like that to get a feeling of community, which I think is really important in building this. but there’s a few things I was excited to talk to you about. One is you’ve got a kid on the way. Right?

Tectone:Yes. I do. I’m very excited.

Malcolm Collins:Have you what are your plans for how you keep your kid from getting brainwashed? Like, are you doing schooling? Are you doing homeschooling? Are you doing, like have you thought about this?

Tectone:I’ve thought about everything. And, also, for everybody who’s new to me, hello. My name is John, or you can call me Tectone, whatever you guys like. And, also, thank you all for inviting me on your show. I was very irresponsible today, and I missed my stream because a new game came out called Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave. Oh my god.

Malcolm Collins:Oh, it’s a new Fire Emblem game?

Tectone:It’s unbelievable. It’s unfucking believable.

Malcolm Collins:The last one kind of sucked. It’s it’s not like the last one.

Tectone:Yeah. The last one what was it wasn’t three houses. Three houses was amazing.

Malcolm Collins:Three houses was so I held a guard. Obviously, best waifu ever.

Tectone:Of course.

Simone Collins:I get it.

Malcolm Collins:I almost I I

Tectone:struggle with my Second Yeah.

Malcolm Collins:Oh, yes. Of course. Yeah. We’ve got human rights. I forgot.

Tectone:Yes. Oh, yeah. That too. I was talking about Tharja. Tharja is

Malcolm Collins:my favorite female character in Iron Man

Tectone:and then Edelgard. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins:No. And then there was this intermediate one that was, like, you couldn’t even, like, date the characters or something. Yeah. And and then there was and so now there’s a new one, and it’s, like, actually more three houses y?

Tectone:Yes. It’s very three houses y. There’s four separate, like, playthroughs you can go through. And then the more you do, the more they link up together, which is incredible. I’m, like, 20 deep so far. I barely slept. Oh my god. but yeah. And then and then I saw the new Resident Evil movie, which, good lord, what a catastrophe. terrible. The the critics are just lying about it. They said it was incredible. It was dog s**t.

Malcolm Collins:Oh, no. It’s a shame. Do do you did you watch the first resident evil movie when it came out?

Tectone:No. Oh, god. It was

Malcolm Collins:so good for when it came out. Really? Yeah. They, and the special effects, they were so like, they made the dogs that were, like, the zombie dogs by putting spaghetti sauce on them. And and and it the effect came out looking really good. If you haven’t seen the original original resident evil Yeah. I’d I’d strongly recommend it. It’s it’s one of those it’s like, I mean, of course, you’ve seen the original Mortal Kombats. Right? Like

Tectone:Yeah. I have.

Malcolm Collins:Yeah. It’s it’s it’s it’s takes itself more seriously than those do. But I think it’s, like, similar sorts of, like, quality. I don’t know. Maybe you don’t like those. I thought those movies were amazing.

Tectone:No. They’re fun. it was also hilarious because, in the theater, I bumped into Eli Double Tap and Brandon Herrera in the movie theater. So I was like, damn, bro. What y’all doing here? I didn’t know they liked resident evil, so that was hilarious. But, anyways, circling back to us.

Malcolm Collins:Well, hold on. I’ve gotta give mortal combat advice for childbearing.

Tectone:Sure.

Malcolm Collins:So every night, and I actually learned this from my brother, but if you have boys, the thing boys love doing more than, you know, being hugged or loved is having somebody in a fight with them. And so what I do is I I go, Alexa, like, put on the Mortal Kombat song, and then we do, like, a fake fight every night when I’m putting them together. And because, you know, we got five kids. So

Tectone:Five kids?

Malcolm Collins:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Tectone:Wow. What a hope

Malcolm Collins:I know you guys said it. Three is what you’re aiming for.

Tectone:Three is the minimum. Good. We’re we’re shooting for seven. Five, that’s awesome. Wow.

Simone Collins:You’re doing it right. You’re doing it right.

Tectone:Yeah. We got we got

Simone Collins:Plus you get economies of scale, so it’s all good.

Tectone:Yeah. We got we got one going right now, which I can’t wait.

Malcolm Collins:So so children are like Pokemon. They are meant to be fought and then bred. And by that, I mean, you have to find them partners because dating markets don’t work anymore.

Tectone:Yeah. No. It’s true. I mean, I I can’t imagine my kid going on Tinder to find somebody to

Malcolm Collins:Oh, it’s so hard. Yeah. Oh. It’s awful. We I’ll actually, like, hook you up with this before you go further, but we are building a system of parents that are, like, based, and we’re gonna be building, like, a London season for them. Not, like, in London, but basically, once a year, all of the the sort of based sane families are gonna have, like, one location where all the kids do to do a series of, like, meeting each other parties like you used to do at London during the season for, like, marriage. And That’s cool. Yeah.

Tectone:I mean, I hope very cool. Yeah.

Malcolm Collins:Our kids are young now. So but, anyway, yes. To the kids, what’s your plan here?

Tectone:Okay. So, my wife is in her second trimester, which has been awesome. first trimester was pretty hard for her, but, I just made sure to take care of her as best I could. It’s very hard as a husband to see your wife, you know, not feeling well, and there’s quite literally nothing you can do. Yeah. Especially with, like, you know, medicine coming out, like, acetaminophen increasing the, autism chance in children. Wondering, should we take this?