**WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE AND POLITICAL SATIRE** Cool Hand James is one of my favorite comedy creators on YouTube. He has a bloodhound's sense for grifters, and a laser-sharp targeting system on their scams. Plus a gravelly voice, a thick British accent, deadpan delivery, and a devil-may-care attitude for calling out creatures of the online ecosystem that monetize attention through manipulation. Yes, I laughed, a lot. But James also got me thinking about how easy it is to take people seriously o...
Apr 13, 2023•3 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 110
An overview of the massive success I had in the month of March (thank you!), plus a breakdown of my recent men's retreat, and a preview of upcoming events and episodes of the podcast. MEETUP WITH ANNELIESE / FEMININE NOT FEMINIST https://renofmen.com/meetup Saturday, April 15 3-6pm at the Bottle & Bean in Chandler, AZ INTERESTED IN JOINING THE FORUM? Email [email protected] with the subject line "Forum" to schedule an explore call to see if there's a fit. SPONSOR - REFORMATION COFFEE Hand-roaste...
Apr 07, 2023•14 min•Season 4Ep. 109
Jim Clair is a writer. That's it. He got his start in Direct Response copywriting, from which he's retired. Now he reads, thinks, writes, and works to surface the deceptions, flawed beliefs, and lies of the worlds through which he's traveled, on his way to a better, fuller life. He also bullies sciolists, talks better reading, and limns success Polytheism. And if you don't know what those things mean, you're about to find out. In our conversation, Jim and I discussed: Edward Gibbon's Classic "De...
Mar 30, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Season 4Ep. 108
Spencer Smith is the director and creator of the outstanding Third Adam series of documentaries, as well as a preacher, evangelist, husband, and father of four. Better than anyone I've seen, Spencer Smith has documented the existence of the so-called Divine Feminine and its efforts to infiltrate American culture and the American Evangelical Church. This is one of those things you have to see for yourself to understand. And once you do, you'll see it everywhere. And the spiritual warfare that we'...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 51 min•Season 4Ep. 107
Lawson Speaks Truth is a fiery and inspiring creator and community leader guiding men in biblical masculinity, fatherhood, and courtship. His content is challenging in a way that calls men to a higher standard. But he doesn't just call men to that higher standard, he works hard to embody it himself. He lives like his beliefs are true. His faith touches the ground, and roots itself firmly in the Earth, even against the opposition of an institution. In our conversation we discussed: Homebirth vs. ...
Mar 17, 2023•2 hr 54 min•Season 4Ep. 106
Tomer Strolight is the editor in chief of Swan Bitcoin. We’re living in an era where war has been declared on money. Not on physical bills or bank accounts, but on money’s value through inflation. But there’s a weapon we can use in this war to protect the value of our hard-earned wealth: Bitcoin. There’s another aspect of it, as well. Bitcoin creates spiritual transformations in the men who understand it. A brighter world begins to take shape in our imaginations. And Tomer is one of the men who’...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 105
Lewis Ungit is the author of the outstanding book: “The Return of the Dragon: The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies.” I have extensive experience with “plant medicines” like ayahuasca and huachuma, which Christ saved me from. But had I known the truth of how these drugs were used in the societies that they originate from, I would have thought twice. Because when he says the SHOCKING way drugs and religion shape people and societies, he means it. In our conversation we di...
Mar 03, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 104
"Exiting the New Age" Seminar Monday Feb. 27 - 5:30pm PST on Zoom https://www.eventbrite.com/e/534636440987 Use code: PODCAST for 15% off . If interested in the first ever Renaissance Men's Retreat, email [email protected] to set up a call to see if there's a fit to join the squad. . RENAISSANCE MENTORSHIP The world says masculinity is toxic. Everything the world says is backwards. That means masculinity is medicine. Find out more: https://renofmen.com/mentorship THE RENAISSANCE OF MEN https://w...
Feb 24, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 103
Gabe Finochio is a Christian educator, content creator, musician, and meme magician. You might follow him and his creations on Instagram as Woke Jesus Christ, Silly Graham Ministries or TheosU Memes (RIP). If you do, you'll know he's helped create a Christian meme language all his own. But not long into this discussion I realized that behind his "serrated edge," he also has a rich perspective on theology, morality, politics, culture, sovereignty, the decline of the United States, and more. Which...
Feb 16, 2023•3 hr 59 min•Season 4Ep. 102
“Will’s Notes” are short, shareable essays about various topics related to masculinity, femininity, politics, religion, the Renaissance, and more. In this episode... I explain the concept of a “Cult of Personality” as it applies to the men’s movement, plus how to identify them, and why they’re so dangerous. "EXITING THE NEW AGE" SEMINAR Monday, February 27 - 5:30pm PST on Zoom Tickets: Eventbrite.com RENAISSANCE MENTORSHIP The world says masculinity is toxic. Everything the world says is backwar...
Feb 10, 2023•13 min•Season 4Ep. 101
~ My 100th Episode! ~ My guest this week is George Thomas, but you may know him better by his pen name, Quintus Curtius. He's an attorney, MIT graduate, former marine officer, author, and the translator of the timeless work of philosophy, Cicero's "On Duties." Cicero wrote "On Duties" to his son, passing along fatherly wisdom to aid the boy in his education. And the gift that Quintus Curtius has given all of us, as men and women, is to reach back across more than 2000 years, just before the Chri...
Feb 02, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 100
Mike Pantile is a husband, father, personal trainer, and Instagram content creator with a flaming sword of righteous and inspiring words. He cuts up Manosphere sacred cows like pickup, promiscuity, and "red pill" ideologies like they're nothing. His battle isn't against other men, though, but against the bad ideas he'd internalized and that almost took him, his marriage, and his entire life down. So to see him crusading for the power of truth to redeem both men and women is testimony that I'm ex...
Jan 27, 2023•3 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 99
Gabe Rench is a husband, father of three, and serial entrepreneur. But you may know him better as the Waterboy, co-founder of the Fight Laugh Feast Network and co-host of the popular Christian news and commentary podcast Cross Politic. A lot of men say things like "This is the hill I'm willing to die on." But do you know which hill you're willing to build on? Because if you ask me, it's time we start listening to the wisdom of men like Gabe, and get to work building. In our conversation we discu...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 98
Ross Hillier is a strength and fitness coach, host of the Nomad Strength podcast, husband, father of two, and brother in Christ. The tagline on his website reads, "building men into leaders through strength and fitness." Sometimes it seems in the Christian world that these ideas make men uncomfortable. To that I say, good. Because how can Christian men expect to take dominion over an entire nation if they can't do it over their own bodies? In our conversation, Ross and I discussed: His transitio...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 97
Nate Spearing is a husband and father of 5, a former Army Ranger and elite special forces operator, general contractor, triple entrepreneur, podcast host, public speaker, brother in Christ, a friend. Put it all together, and he's the first man I've ever met who rises to the high standards of the renowned science fiction author Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers) who said, “Specialization is for insects.” In our conversation, Nate and I discussed: Christian Women, the Internet, and Modesty Dishon...
Jan 05, 2023•4 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 96
For more information about the Renaissance Mentorship, visit: https://renofmen.com/mentorship Mention the code INTRODUCTION for 15% off the program in January 2023 Episode 5 of Rewire the West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vyQvexaTI THE RENAISSANCE OF MEN https://www.renofmen.com https://www.instagram.com/renofmen/ https://twitter.com/renofmen https://youtube.com/@renofmen...
Dec 30, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 95
In this episode, I read my 2020 essay "To Lose the World and Gain My Soul", which inspired the Renaissance of Men. Read the Essay: https://willspencer.co/to-lose-the-world-and-gain-my-soul/ Episode 5 of Rewire the West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vyQvexaTI Renaissance Mentorship: https://renofmen.com/mentorship ### Merry Christmas! THE RENAISSANCE OF MEN https://www.renofmen.com https://www.instagram.com/renofmen/ https://twitter.com/renofmen https://youtube.com/@renofmen...
Dec 23, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 94
Evan Amato is the founder of Rewire the West, a website and YouTube channel that helps men and women rediscover beauty, truth, and virtue in today's Western culture. The key word is RE-discover, as in it's already there. The West has a centuries-long tradition of the arts that we can turn to, if only we know where to turn. And that's Evan's goal: to create resources that point us in the right direction and kick us in the behind to send us on our way. He and I produced a series of videos together...
Dec 17, 2022•3 hr 52 min•Season 4Ep. 93
Will Knowland is a husband, father of 7, and educator. You might have seen his Knowland Knows videos on YouTube, his articles on Substack, or scorching tweets where he takes down degeneracy, promiscuity, the Manosphere and more. He was an educator at the prestigious UK boarding school Eton, which has produced 20 UK prime ministers. But he was sacked, or "fired" for producing a video called "The Patriarchy Paradox" which undermines all the core arguments of feminism. That didn't stop him, though....
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 4Ep. 92
Pastor Doug Wilson is the author, elder, preacher, teacher, and recalcitrant troublemaker from Moscow, Idaho. And Christiana Hale is the author of “Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to the CS Lewis Ransom Trilogy.” They were both my teachers in helping me understand a trilogy of books that have impacted my faith more deeply than I could have imagined. Because in this 80-year old series, CS Lewis aims to reinspire the modern imagination about the spiritual and material shape of the cosmos… before t...
Dec 01, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 91
Alison Armstrong is a speaker, thought leader, friend, and bestselling author of The Keys to the Kingdom, and The Queen's Code. In 2018, as I was discovering that the men's movement was much bigger than I realized, reading Tomassi and Donovan, and listening to Michler and Peterson, I also discovered Alison's books. I saw myself reflected in them to a degree that I still find striking. Now, almost 9 years after publishing the Queen's Code in print, she's finally released it in audiobook version, ...
Nov 22, 2022•3 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 90
Jeremy Stalnecker is a former Marine infantry officer and an Iraq War Veteran who earned a Navy Commendation Medal with V for Combat Valor. He's also a former pastor, and the CEO and Co-Founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a Christian organization supporting veterans and first responders, helping them adjust to civilian life and deal with PTSD from a biblical perspective. He knows how capital T trauma, of the sort even civilians can't imagine, doesn't need to define us, as men. We can't let tr...
Nov 17, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 89
Episode 3 of my three-part series, Live at ReformCon 2022. Pastor Toby Sumpter and the Reverend Dr. Joe Boot are two men who need no introduction. I admire them both for being two of the boldest men to carry and plant the flag of Christ in culture, and for their moral, intellectual, and even spiritual courage. Toby Sumpter hails from Moscow, Idaho, where he's a pastor, author, husband, father, blogger, and co-host of the popular podcast Cross Politic, hosts of the Fight Laugh Feast conference. P...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 88
Episode 2 of my three-part series, Live At ReformCon 2022 Jeremiah Roberts and Andrew Soncrant are the hosts of the hit international podcast Cultish. The show explores what they call "The Kingdom of the Cults", or the broad array of religions and practices around the world that mimic the behavior of a cult. They’ve covered Mormonism, astrology, tarot, faith healing, Reiki, polygamy, flat earth, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Enneagram, and even right wing politics and many sects of so-call...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 4Ep. 87
This past week, I hosted a podcast booth at ReformCon in Mesa, Arizona, a two-day conference put on by Apologia Church about reclaiming culture for Christ. The point of the conference is that it's not enough to be adept theologically. We must apply that theological rigor to the culture and institutions that surround us. At the conference, I conducted five sit-down interviews, to be released over three episodes. In this episode I interview: Pastor David Reece from Armored Republic. In the intervi...
Nov 05, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 86
Dale Partridge is the Pastor of Reformation Fellowship in Sedona, AZ. He heads up an impressive content creation network on the web, social media, and in print that evangelizes Reformed theology in a crisp, clear, and aesthetic way. Dale understands that perhaps one of the most important wars that any of us fight today is the war for attention. So what differentiates his content is not just theological rigor, but economy of exposition. In our conversation we discussed - His book "the Manliness o...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 85
William Butler (WB) Yeats (1865-1939) is an acclaimed Irish poet and the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. He said, "The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write." That statement takes shape in this, one of the last poems in his life. In this episode, I explore Yeats complicated and checkered past, and show the kind of fruit borne in the lives of those who practice mystical and occult arts. And I highlight the differences between the res...
Oct 22, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 84
Ryan King, known better on Instagram as TheWisdomOfKings is a husband, father, entrepreneur, content creator, and friend. In a short time he's come into a small community, and become the friend, brother, father figure, and role model many of us didn't know we needed. His growth hasn't been meteoric, more like a diesel truck. Because his writing is real, authentic, and grounded. It's not based on theory, but experience. His words say, "All those things you guys talk about, I've done." Having flow...
Oct 14, 2022•4 hr 36 min•Season 4Ep. 83
Dr. Ben Merkle is the President of New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. If we’re going to fight the culture war at the highest level, we need higher education. Following decades of the Marxist “Long March Through the Institutions,” America has an uphill battle to reclaim our colleges and universities. But in Idaho a small school named New St. Andrews (NSA) is leading the charge against our broken higher education system. And the leader of New St. Andrews is Dr. Ben Merkle. NSA’s website rea...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 82
2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE Rob, Katie, Barb, and Andrea might be names you don’t immediately recognize. But if you listen to this podcast, the contribution they made to my life should be familiar: they introduced me to Christ at Burning Man, and baptized me 5 years later, almost to the day. They ran a ministry at that New Age, pagan, hedonistic festival, for over a decade, reaching out to some of the most lost and rebellious seekers. But even those men and women were in need of a Father’s blessi...
Sep 29, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 81
