Sword&Spade

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Sword&Spade is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Sword&Spade, a education show with 33 episodes published.

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  Episode #33

  Don’t Let Homeschooling Emasculate Your Son w/ Adam Taylor, Thomas Fickley & Patrick Faus

  Aug 13, 20261h 1m

  Recording on location at the Kingfisher Folkfest, Jason Craig puts a blunt question to an expert panel featuring Adam Taylor of St. Martin's Academy, Thomas Fickley of St. Dunstan's Academy, and educational consultant Patrick Faus. That question? How do you keep your homeschool from emasculating your son? In This Episode, We Cover: Why anthropology determines formation, and what changes in a boy around twelve to fourteen Christopher Alexander's teenage cottage, and why the walls of a boy's childhood keep him a boy John Senior's objection to homeschooling, and the full arc Adam's father traveled on it What a father with only two hours a day can actually do, and why asking him to be a second mother fails Why the brotherhood a man keeps among other men is the thing his sons beg to join Resources Mentioned: Fraternus The Ways of the Fathers St. Martin's Academy St. Dunstan's Academy The Children's Tradition Adam Taylor at the Cornbread Catholic Conference Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 03:15: Anthropology Determines Formation 05:56: The Age When a Boy Needs Men 08:41: The Teenage Cottage and the Walls of Boyhood 13:08: Egalitarianism Is Not a Homeschool Problem 18:20: John Senior's Objection to Homeschooling 30:36: What a Father Does With Two Hours 35:45: Responsibility, Risk, and the Boy at Your Elbow 44:26: They Don't Want an Education, They Want to Be Known 54:15: Brotherhood Is What Your Boys Beg to Join JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #31

  What Recorded Music Took From Us (and How to Get it Back) w/ Andrew Tolkmith

  Jul 30, 202659 min

  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. In This Episode, We Cover: Why recorded music turned listening into private consumption—and what it replaced The difference between music you choose and music a people hands down How a real folk song gets made, using Tom Dooley as the example Why every priest vows to pray the psalms daily but is not bound to say Mass daily Three songs Andrew says every father should have in his home Resources Mentioned: "We Are What We Sing" in New Polity, Issue 6.1 Word on Fire Luminor The Stillwater Hobos, My Love, She's in America Kingfisher Folk Fest Fraternus JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 0:38: Inside Word on Fire's literary imprints 2:51: The article—"We Are What We Sing" 6:54: When recording turned music into a product 14:50: The concert and the community it counterfeits 18:11: Tom Dooley and how a folk song is born 26:30: Canongate, the Stillwater Hobos, and a music he never inherited 42:56: The vow to sing—the divine office 52:48: Three songs for a father's home 57:59: Kingfisher Folk Fest, August 1

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  Episode #30

  Stop Waiting for a Bigger Life than This One w/ Tyler Blanski

  Jul 23, 202655 min

  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. In This Episode, We Cover: 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 The collapse of a six-year plan to become an Anglican priest, and the salary that forced a move into business 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 The tension the book is really about: turning the other cheek while flying a flag that says don't tread on me 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 Resources Mentioned: Fraternus Find Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle by Tyler Blanski Tyler Blanski The Minnesota Catholic The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead by Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 01:56: A Boring Dad Who Once Wanted to Be Radical for Jesus 09:02: The Priesthood That Didn't Happen and the Job That Did 13:11: The Friends Around the Fire Who Made This Book 16:42: Can You Be Catholic and American at the Same Time? 22:10: Detachment, Divided Interests, and Pleasing Your Wife 24:44: Suburbia, Homesteading, and Where Fathers Actually Live 32:55: Don't Let Your Love Grow Cold 44:33: Our Lady of Grasshoppers and the Outpost of Normality 51:10: Savor Your Wife, Your Children, and the Life You Have JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #29

  Your Money is Making the World Worse w/ Joseph Pearce

  Jul 16, 20261h 15m

  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? In This Episode, We Cover: 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 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 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 How the modern fixation on race grew out of the Enlightenment rather than Christianity, and why identitarianism takes root in fatherless, rootless young lives 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 Resources Mentioned Fraternus The American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, and Future by Jason Craig & Jared Staudt "Race and Education" by Joseph Pearce (The Imaginative Conservative) Small Is Still Beautiful by Joseph Pearce Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher Chapters 00:00: Welcome, Seersucker, and Backyard Poultry 04:52: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, Made Flesh 06:11: "Small Is Still Beautiful" and Localist Economics 08:33: Freedom Is in Your Pocket, Every Dollar Is a Vote 16:38: The Butcher vs. the Regulators 36:46: Pearce's Radical Past as a "Serious Revolutionary" 41:02: "All the Young Men Are Nazis" and Online Identitarianism 44:19: Race as an Enlightenment Invention, Not a Christian One 52:49: Fatherlessness and the Real Hunger for Identity 1:08:54: Raising a Catholic Family, the Hearth of Civilization JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #28

  Stop Watching Videos of Men Making Things w/ Joe Maki

  Jul 9, 20261h 15m

  Joe Maki spent his working life in manufacturing—grinding, cutting, and polishing fake bones on a production floor—until his brother Mike told him to quit dreaming about laser-engraved tabletops and learn how to hold a tape measure. Two years later the table was finished. Six years ago, after his first child was born, he picked up clay for the first time since high school, and his first commission now hangs as the main altar crucifix in a church in Cleveland. In this conversation with Jason Craig, Joe argues that craft is a virtue before it is a skill, that artificial intelligence inverts the sacramental nature of the world, and that a man's vocation as husband and father has to outrank his vocation as an artist. In This Episode, We Cover: Why the medievals saw almost no difference between building a table and painting an icon, and what was lost when "fine art" arrived in the eighteenth century What two weeks at a Benedictine monastery with no deadlines does to a workaholic, and why farmers keep the same clock the monks do The difference between making a beautiful cup and making a chalice, and why AI-generated art and AI-generated prayer fail on the same grounds Jacques Maritain's rope between the artist and God, and why pulling on it is supposed to hurt The warning a German priest gave Joe about liturgical art, and the practice of doing clay with his kids that came out of it Resources Mentioned: Joe Maki's studio and shop The Way of the Rood: The Stations of the Cross, Composed in the Tradition of the Medieval Poem, The Dream of the Rood by Joe Maki Joe's Substack The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead by Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn Fraternus Chapters: 00:00: The vocation that comes first 03:07: Fake bones, a giant laser, and a tape measure 07:35: The first crucifix, and a church made entirely custom 15:42: Art is a virtue, and a virtue is a habit 21:03: Monks, farmers, and the death of the deadline 27:29: A cup, a chalice, and a prayer written by a machine 32:06: Pulling on the rope: the tension of the artist 36:00: Artificial intelligence and the artificial world 44:51: "Don't do it"—a priest's warning to a young artist 01:08:53: The joy of building something together JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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