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
WATCH MY NEW VIDEO SERIES HERE: Episode 1 - The Male Crisis of Isolation Episode 2 - Masculinity and Art Please like, subscribe, and share. A new Poetry for Men episode is taking more time than expected. So this week I fill in with announcements about the upcoming 2-year anniversary of my podcast and information about my new video series with the YouTube channel Rewire the West. Listen all the way through for a very special announcement about a popular returning guest! Full episodes return next ...
Sep 23, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Paul Robson is the Co-Founder and Leader of the European men’s work organization Maniphesto, which hosts a podcast, men’s coaching, and men’s events. I’ve spoken with him twice on his podcast, and I got the sense that beneath our American vs. European cultural differences, we’d find common ground. Because as I’ve discovered, Americans and Europeans are mirror images of each other. American externalize what is internal to Europeans, and vice versa. In that, we have a great deal to share with each...
Sep 15, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 79
For a man, there's no blessing greater than that of a friend. Yes of course, a wife, children, a home, and a successful career are important. But the value of friendship to men can't be overstated. Which is why, for all its flaws, the men's movement has had one unmistakably positive impact: to wake men up to the necessity of brotherhood. Which is why I'm grateful for this podcast series with my friend, Jonathan West. This guy means a lot to me, and to say more about that would only take away fro...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Anneliese is a wife, mother, podcast host, and the brilliant voice behind one of the most confident and outspoken Christian values-based accounts I follow, Feminine Not Feminist. Her Instagram page has grown to more than 140,000 followers in just two years. Her success proves that feminism is failing, and that women are ready for a new way forward, The Great Reconciliation. But that doesn't mean the hurdles to get there are over. Because everything in our culture incentivizes women to disrespect...
Sep 01, 2022•3 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 77
David Engelhardt is a father, attorney, Turning Point USA board member, and the author of the new book "Good Kills: God, Good, and the Sword." BUY "GOOD KILLS" HERE: https://amzn.to/3QQ3WSj He's also the pastor of Kings’ Church in New York City, and if you can think of a tougher American city to be a pastor in, during a more challenging decade, I'd love to hear it. That experience has forged him into one of the boldest, most outspoken preachers I've been blessed to encounter. The word that comes...
Aug 25, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Dino, aka The Art of Purpose, is famous as the millionaire educator who’s turning Twitter into his personal art gallery. But he’s much more than that. He’s also a husband, a new father, a former public school teacher, and a man who’s made success on Twitter possible for hundreds of students, including me. In fact, the most important decision I ever made with regard to my relationship with social media was signing up for his programs. Because social media is a big like a tidal wave that’s swamped...
Aug 18, 2022•3 hr 49 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) is the author of the classic “The Prophet” and is bestselling American poet of the 20th century. He’s honored in Arabic literature as one of the greats of their Romantic era. However, in America his critical reception has been much more mixed. While the public loves his work, critics celebrate him far less than his contemporaries, such as Robert Frost. But no one cares what elitist critics think. Beauty is a right, like air, water, and freedom of speech. Our tastes matt...
Aug 13, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Aleks Svetski is the co-author of the UnCommunist Manifesto, as well as the Founder of the Bitcoin Times and the mobile Bitcoin app Amber. BUY THE UNCOMMUNIST MANIFESTO HERE: https://amzn.to/3PXEqKq https://www.uncommunist.com/ Aleks has become well-known in the Bitcoin space for his outspoken, direct, and aggressive defense of Bitcoin, making him a so-called "toxic maximalist.” Because he understands how important Bitcoin is from a MORAL perspective. And his new book "The UnCommunist Manifesto"...
Aug 03, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Ken Curry is a marriage and family therapist in Colorado, as well as a men’s group leader, husband, father, grandfather, and author. I also consider him an elder who’s made meaning out of his life experiences, turned victories and defeats to wisdom, and allowed struggle to teach him the meaning of joy. Ken is also a Christian, a devout believer who incorporates faith into his broad and deep perspective, or perhaps his perspective is built around it. Which makes him rare in the men's movement, Ch...
Jul 29, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Jon Du Toit is a husband, father, and musician in the new band Electrum Fire. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "EXIT BABYLON" HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aYGUxMQX0U But you may know Jon better from his work as a filmmaker. He was the co-director of the Mike Cernovich documentary "Hoaxed" and has worked on projects with Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern, and InfoWars. Jon is also Canadian. He saw dark clouds gathering for his country in 2020 and had to flee with his wife, children, and parents to Me...
Jul 21, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Toby Sumpter is a pastor, author, blogger, YouTube star, husband and father, and he articulates the why of beauty, strength, marriage and children, better than anyone I've heard. Because what are beauty, strength, marriage, and children for? Have you ever thought about it? I'd understand if not. We often have a sense that these things are intrinsically valuable, in themselves and for the purposes they serve. But what is that purpose? When I first encountered this question, the answer felt just o...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 70
