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July 30, 2026
What Recorded Music Took From Us (and How to Get it Back) w/ Andrew Tolkmith
<p>Andrew Tolkmith is the assistant literary editor at Word on Fire and author of "We Are What We Sing" in the Winter 2025 issue of New Polity. Today, he joins Jason Craig to make the case that folk music is not a genre but the way a people expresses itself, and that most men have inherited nothing to sing. They trace what recorded music replaced, how a song like Tom Dooley is born and handed down, and why the Church has always been a singing people.<br> </p><p><strong>In This Episode, We Cover:</strong></p><ul><li>Why recorded music turned listening into private consumption—and what it replaced</li><li>The difference between music you choose and music a people hands down</li><li>How a real folk song gets made, using Tom Dooley as the example</li><li>Why every priest vows to pray the psalms daily but is not bound to say Mass daily</li><li>Three songs Andrew says every father should have in his home</li></ul><p> <br><strong>Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-1">"We Are What We Sing" in New Polity, Issue 6.1</a></li><li><a href="https://www.wordonfire.org/luminor/">Word on Fire Luminor</a></li><li><a href="https://thestillwaterhobos.bandcamp.com/album/my-love-shes-in-america">The Stillwater Hobos, My Love, She's in America</a></li><li><a href="https://kingfisherfest.com/">Kingfisher Folk Fest</a></li><li><a href="https://fraternus.org/">Fraternus</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: <a href="https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/">https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/</a></p><p>Produced by <a href="https://saintkolbestudios.com/">Saint Kolbe Studios</a></p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><ul><li>00:00: Introduction</li><li>0:38: Inside Word on Fire's literary imprints</li><li>2:51: The article—"We Are What We Sing"</li><li>6:54: When recording turned music into a product</li><li>14:50: The concert and the community it counterfeits</li><li>18:11: Tom Dooley and how a folk song is born</li><li>26:30: Canongate, the Stillwater Hobos, and a music he never inherited</li><li>42:56: The vow to sing—the divine office</li><li>52:48: Three songs for a father's home</li><li>57:59: Kingfisher Folk Fest, August 1</li></ul>
July 23, 2026
Stop Waiting for a Bigger Life than This One w/ Tyler Blanski
<p>Jason Craig sits down with Tyler Blanski, author of Find Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle, who grew up certain that following Christ meant dreadlocks, an urban church plant, and probably a prison cell in a third world country. Now, he mows his lawn in a Minneapolis suburb and calls it his vocation. They talk about what it costs a man to trade a radical vision of Jesus for an ordinary one, why nothing about being a husband or father works without friendship in order, and what to say to the guy in his forties who can feel his fire going out.</p><p><strong>In This Episode, We Cover:</strong></p><ul><li>Why a boy raised on missionary stories believed following Christ meant selling everything—and had to be converted toward an ordinary life in the suburbs</li><li>The collapse of a six-year plan to become an Anglican priest, and the salary that forced a move into business</li><li>Why the book was born around fires and in parish book clubs, and why every good thing comes out of some fight with a friend</li><li>The tension the book is really about: turning the other cheek while flying a flag that says don't tread on me</li><li>The counsel for a man in his forties who's lost his fire—savor your wife, your children, and the life in front of you</li></ul><p><strong>Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://fraternus.org/">Fraternus</a></li><li><a href="https://www.avemariapress.com/products/find-your-fight">Find Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle by Tyler Blanski</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tylerblanski.com">Tyler Blanski</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theminnesotacatholic.com/">The Minnesota Catholic</a></li><li><a href="https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-liturgy-of-the-land-cultivating-a-catholic-homestead/">The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead by Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn</a></li></ul><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><ul><li>00:00: Introduction</li><li>01:56: A Boring Dad Who Once Wanted to Be Radical for Jesus</li><li>09:02: The Priesthood That Didn't Happen and the Job That Did</li><li>13:11: The Friends Around the Fire Who Made This Book</li><li>16:42: Can You Be Catholic and American at the Same Time?</li><li>22:10: Detachment, Divided Interests, and Pleasing Your Wife</li><li>24:44: Suburbia, Homesteading, and Where Fathers Actually Live</li><li>32:55: Don't Let Your Love Grow Cold</li><li>44:33: Our Lady of Grasshoppers and the Outpost of Normality</li><li>51:10: Savor Your Wife, Your Children, and the Life You Have</li></ul><p>JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: <a href="https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/">https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/</a></p><p>Produced by <a href="https://saintkolbestudios.com/">Saint Kolbe Studios</a>.</p>
July 16, 2026
Your Money is Making the World Worse w/ Joseph Pearce
<p>Jason Craig welcomes his old friend Joseph Pearce. They make the practical case for localism and "small is beautiful" economics, tell the story of a whole community rallying to save its butcher from the regulators, and then turn to the hardest question facing Catholic fathers right now: why are so many good young men being pulled toward online white nationalism, and what do we put in front of them instead? </p><p><strong>In This Episode, We Cover:</strong></p><ul><li>Why "small is beautiful" isn't romantic nostalgia but a workable answer to big government and globalism, and what Pearce means when he says freedom is in your pocket</li><li>What it actually looks like when neighbors organize to defend a local butcher against zoning boards and inspectors, and why real localism means getting your hands dirty</li><li>How Pearce left the National Front and hardcore white nationalism behind for the Catholic faith, and why he understands the pull it still has on young men</li><li>How the modern fixation on race grew out of the Enlightenment rather than Christianity, and why identitarianism takes root in fatherless, rootless young lives</li><li>The remedy Craig and Pearce keep returning to: handing young men the wisdom of the ages and the Church instead of the loud, childless voices online, because the solid Christian family is the hearth of civilization</li></ul><p><strong>Resources Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://fraternus.org/">Fraternus</a></li><li><a href="https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-american-catholic-land-movement-past-present-and-future/">The American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, and Future by Jason Craig & Jared Staudt</a></li><li><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/04/race-education-joseph-pearce.html">"Race and Education" by Joseph Pearce (The Imaginative Conservative)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.regnery.com/9781933859057/small-is-still-beautiful/">Small Is Still Beautiful by Joseph Pearce</a></li><li><a href="https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780061997761">Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher</a></li></ul><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><ul><li>00:00: Welcome, Seersucker, and Backyard Poultry</li><li>04:52: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, Made Flesh</li><li>06:11: "Small Is Still Beautiful" and Localist Economics</li><li>08:33: Freedom Is in Your Pocket, Every Dollar Is a Vote</li><li>16:38: The Butcher vs. the Regulators</li><li>36:46: Pearce's Radical Past as a "Serious Revolutionary"</li><li>41:02: "All the Young Men Are Nazis" and Online Identitarianism</li><li>44:19: Race as an Enlightenment Invention, Not a Christian One</li><li>52:49: Fatherlessness and the Real Hunger for Identity</li><li>1:08:54: Raising a Catholic Family, the Hearth of Civilization</li></ul><p>JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: <a href="https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/">https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/</a></p><p>Produced by <a href="https://saintkolbestudios.com/">Saint Kolbe Studios</a>.</p>
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