Barbarian Banter

About Barbarian Banter

Your new favorite show hosted by Jonas Kilker and Dane MillerHass discussing topics history, mythology, philosophy and all much more

Publisher

Jonas Kilker and Dane MillerHass

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2026

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Did Christianity Destroy the Heroic Ideal? | With The Ark

   SEA PEOPLES SUMMER MERCH: https://barbarian-banter-shop.fourthwall.com-Follow The Ark: YouTube:  @HeroicIdeal  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCPCFdebTsIdOmNysycTKEZQ) Course & Community: https://heroic-ideal.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heroic_idealTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heroicideal-What happened to the heroic ideal in the modern West, and is Christianity really to blame for its decline? Did Christian morality undermine the older pagan virtues of honor, glory, strength, and heroic sacrifice, or has modernity distorted Christianity just as much as it has weakened the traditions that came before it? Why could medieval Christian knights still embody an unmistakably heroic warrior ethos, while modern Christianity often appears increasingly pacifistic and egalitarian? And if the heroic ideal survived for centuries after Europe converted, what actually caused it to disappear? Pasted textJoined by The Ark, we trace these questions through paganism, Christianity, mythology, and the history of Western civilization. We discuss the tension between biblical Christianity and the older Indo-European heroic tradition, the strange synthesis of pagan warrior culture and Christianity found in medieval chivalry and Arthurian legend, and whether Christ Himself can be understood as a heroic figure. The conversation also explores how modernity, industrialization, liberalism, over-civilization, and the disappearance of the frontier may have transformed Western values more radically than Christianity ever did. Pasted textFrom Jordan Peterson and the search for a deeper foundation beneath “Judeo-Christian values,” to Roman paganism, Christopaganism, mythology, Stoicism, religious identity, film, and the possibility of reviving heroic storytelling, this episode asks what elements of the ancient Western worldview can still be recovered—and what a genuinely heroic culture might look like today. The Ark ultimately argues for understanding Western civilization through a heroic tradition stretching from ancient Greece and Rome through the Norse sagas and medieval world, rather than treating Christianity as the sole beginning of the Western story. Pasted textTimestamps: 00:00 – Jordan Peterson as a Gateway07:05 – Why Modern Life Feels Fake15:54 – Christianity, Paganism, and Common Ground27:35 – Christopaganism and Arthurian Christianity31:30 – Warrior Christianity and Heroic Tradition36:01 – Did Christianity Kill Heroism?46:04 – Modernity and the Death of Heroism52:48 – Rewriting the Story of the West01:00:19 – Dogma, Death, and Religious Identity01:11:59 – Storytelling, Film, and Cultural Renewal01:17:29 – Practicing Roman Paganism Today01:21:05 – Audience Questions and Creator Culture01:28:27 – Pagan Gods, Myth, and Syncretism01:33:00 – Stoicism, Virtue, and Human Nature01:35:17 – American Paganism and Final Q&A-Jonas’ Links:YouTube:  @Jonaskilker  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCk2Htm-q_pgACH0AFD9f5kA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonaskilker/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonaskilkerX: https://x.com/jonaskilkerJonas’ Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/mythic-vitalism Patreon: https://patreon.com/jonaskilkerDanes Links: Youtube:  @Thegreatdane269  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCeugu7TM69ueS_qsV6LtcZA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_great_dane469/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegreatdane13X: https://x.com/thegreatdane269?s=20 Substack: https://substack.com/@danemillerhassDane’s Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/under-construction

2. 

   11 Oct 2026

   How To Live Without Asking Permission | With Harry Miller & Cooper O'Hearn

   SEA PEOPLES SUMMER MERCH: https://barbarian-banter-shop.fourthwall.com-Follow Harry: YouTube:  @h_miller76  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCb76Wwc25E5W-V_7kDGQM9g) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/h_miller76/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@h_miller76X: https://x.com/h_miller76Substack: https://hsmiller76.substack.com/Follow Cooper: YouTube:  @ScenesofNewYork  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCbPKihw728r7eEiuFo3Eyyg) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cooper_ohearn/-How much of the life you want is actually waiting for permission you never needed? Why do so many people spend years talking about the things they want to create, careers they want to pursue, or adventures they want to have without ever beginning? And what happens when comfort, social media, fear, and the need for approval slowly replace direct experience? In the first-ever in-person episode of Barbarian Banter, we sit down with Harry Miller and Cooper O’Hearn to talk about what separates wanting a life from actually building one. Fresh off our expedition through Kyrgyzstan, we get into documentary filmmaking, storytelling, adventure, and the strange process of turning real experiences into something meaningful on screen. Cooper breaks down why beautiful cinematography is no longer enough, why modern filmmaking can look incredible while saying nothing, and how algorithms, short-form content, AI, and endless optimization are changing the way creators think. From there, the conversation turns toward online identity, virality, authenticity, audience expectations, and why creating something you actually believe in matters more than becoming a servant to engagement.The second half moves deeper into fear, vocation, religion, and action. We talk about learning whether you truly love the work or merely the status attached to it, deliberately putting yourself in uncomfortable situations, making opportunities instead of waiting for them, Christianity and the pagan heroic ideal, Christ as a heroic figure, René Girard, spirituality, adventure, nostalgia, and the problem of rumination. Again and again, the conversation returns to the same basic principle: eventually you have to stop imagining what you could do and accept the consequences of actually doing it. Timestamps:00:15 – Barbarian Banter Finally Goes Live03:49 – Filmmaking, Storytelling, and Kyrgyzstan24:49 – Why Beautiful Content Feels Empty32:14 – AI, Creativity, and Original Thought39:13 – Social Media and Digital Attention48:44 – Becoming Your Online Persona01:04:43 – Loving the Work, Not Status01:14:00 – Make Your Own Opportunities01:29:28 – Nostalgia, Memory, and Moving Forward01:34:34 – Fear, Discomfort, and Taking Action01:47:35 – Christianity and the Pagan Hero02:03:57 – Christ, Paganism, and Spirituality02:13:44 – Mogging, Adventure, and Audience Questions02:23:02 – Rumination, Fear, and Just Doing It02:31:56 – What Comes Next-Jonas’ Links:YouTube:  @Jonaskilker  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCk2Htm-q_pgACH0AFD9f5kA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonaskilker/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonaskilkerX: https://x.com/jonaskilkerJonas’ Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/mythic-vitalism Patreon: https://patreon.com/jonaskilkerDanes Links: Youtube:  @Thegreatdane269  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCeugu7TM69ueS_qsV6LtcZA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_great_dane469/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegreatdane13X: https://x.com/thegreatdane269?s=20 Substack: https://substack.com/@danemillerhassDane’s Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/under-construction

3. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Sun and Steel: Yukio Mishima’s Philosophy of Death

   SEA PEOPLES SUMMER MERCH: https://barbarian-banter-shop.fourthwall.com-Follow Patrick: Patricks Book: https://www.amazon.com/Promethean-Dreams-Patrick-Saltykov/dp/1957583223YouTube:  @thewarriorphilosopher  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCMK2p1MVWUrff3eZ69xBhcg) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarriorphilosophers/X: https://x.com/TWarPhilosopher-What does it mean to live as though death is not merely an ending, but a measure of life itself? In the second half of Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima pushes beyond the body into questions of identity, honor, sacrifice, meaning, and the strange desire to lose oneself in something larger. Can the individual ever reach the highest forms of existence alone? Why did Mishima believe beauty required the presence of death? And how did these ideas eventually converge in his military life, his failed coup, and his final attempt to turn philosophy into action? Joined by Patrick Saltykov of The Warrior Philosopher, we dig much deeper into Mishima himself: his aristocratic and samurai family background, traumatic childhood, fascination with masculinity and martyrdom, sexuality, literary development, Japanese aesthetics, and the tension between his Western individualism and Eastern ideas of selfhood. The result is a broader picture of Sun and Steel as both philosophy and autobiography—a record of Mishima trying to reconcile art with action, imagination with reality, and the private individual with the warrior community. -Timestamps:00:00 – Introducing Patrick 02:04 – Recap of Part 105:42 – Mishima’s Aristocratic and Military Roots12:29 – Childhood, Trauma, and Forbidden Masculinity16:26 – Saint Sebastian, Beauty, and Death26:13 – Destroying Beauty to Finally Live29:48 – Death, Action, and the Opponent33:38 – Bataille and Dissolving the Self42:20 – Japanese Beauty, Emptiness, and Impermanence46:42 – Reconciling Art With Physical Action55:50 – Sexuality, Death, and Bridging Flesh58:27 – Forging a Warrior’s Writing Style01:01:46 – Tatenokai and Mishima’s Final Drama01:11:36 – Honor, Beauty, and Heroic Death01:27:09 – Mishima’s Strange Vision of Happiness01:30:16 – Death and the Reality Within01:40:14 – Uniforms and Dissolving Individual Identity01:45:50 – The Union of Will and Duty01:49:47 – Kamikaze Letters and the Absolute01:54:52 – Tragedy and Becoming the Group02:01:39 – Memento Mori and Sublime Experience02:13:23 – Modern Initiation and Rites of Passage02:23:37 – Agnosticism, Spirituality, and Symbolic Meaning02:27:31 – Putting Philosophy Into Practice02:31:31 – Patrick’s Future and Final Thoughts-Jonas’ Links:YouTube:  @Jonaskilker  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCk2Htm-q_pgACH0AFD9f5kA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonaskilker/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonaskilkerX: https://x.com/jonaskilkerJonas’ Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/mythic-vitalism Patreon: https://patreon.com/jonaskilkerDanes Links: Youtube:  @Thegreatdane269  (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCeugu7TM69ueS_qsV6LtcZA) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_great_dane469/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegreatdane13X: https://x.com/thegreatdane269?s=20 Substack: https://substack.com/@danemillerhassDane’s Merch: https://constantinegraphicsco.com/collections/under-construction

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