Blood & Rain

Crucibles of Poison.Living Faith.Stories of visionary brain chemistry. 

Yes it’s real. Yes it’s back. Yes it’s here to stay. I am what I am. I’m not what I was. I am what I will be. I am what God intends me to be by His grace in an ongoing battle against sin.Talking about the long hiatus and the way forward.

Sainthood is something often thought of as far in the past, captured only in the confines of books and starting at us through the frames of icons. Saint Anthony the Great feels like a superhero at times, Saint George reads like a fairytale, and Saint John the Apostle attained a level of bear-perfection most cannot truly fathom. Yet a Saint with no shoes walked the streets of Belgrade, Shanghai, Paris, Brussels, and San Francisco with no shoes, performing miracles of healing and clairvoyance through a life of asceticism that can only be understood as superhuman. Saint John Maximovitch came from a novel Russian family, attended military school and law school, abandoned the world after the events of the Bolshevik Revolution, and was tonsured a monk at seminary in Belgrade. His duty to Christ would see him leave no student or orphan left behind under the watch of his care making sure every last person in his flock was fed both literally and spiritually as well as educated to the highest standard.He crossed battlefields in Shanghai to visit the sick, he secured asylum for Orthodox refugees to America, and served as both Archbishop of Western Europe and Western America before his repose in Seattle in 1966. To this day, the cathedral he has built in San Francisco feels like a fortress of Heaven, pouring this palpable grade in the Northwest corner of San Francisco, a city that is in desperate need of God’s Grace.His remains remain in tact, having not decomposed after nearly sixty years since his passing. Letters asking for his intercession have seen the quick curing of cancer and other grave diseases, as if he his still caring for all of us, his beloved flock. Words could be spoken in praise of him for hours and still would not do his life a justice. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 94Saint John of San Francisco Enjoy.

Return to Vocal Visceral Bleeding

If one is to understand America in the evolution it’s in now, the iteration of which will remain until America is destroyed or evolves once again, you’ll read “The Great Gatsby.” New York is a microcosm for the health and psyche of the nation, and the author of America’s magnum opus is a man who places his soul into its titular character. Fitzgerald wrote in a time of the American identity crisis masked with glitz and glam that was known as the Jazz Age. Aristocratic families fell out of fashion in the rise of the chaotic nouveau riche Broadway, Hollywood, and niche subsections of the industrialist class. Christianity was under attack by the spirit of shellshock  from WW1, questioning Christian monarchy and its moral framework let alone its eternal truth. Bilphism, occultism, and Nietzscheanism all crept into the gaps where Christianity once dwelled including the corners of Fitzgerald’s rare, gorgeous mind. American was questioning hierarchy, as European hierarchy was outperformed overseas by raw, American zeal. The question of how high America could climb and how hard it could fall was answered in the work of Fitzgerald, a man of the highest highs and lowest lows. Fitzgerald first started writing and gaining popularity for and from Ivy League men who fell enamored with the black hole hearts of flapper women in his novels “This Side of Paradise,” a novel that began the movement that was literary Modernism, “The Beautiful & Damned,” and his short stories known as the “Tales of the Jazz Age.”But he sacrificed his career and popularity to depart from this subject matter to write a or THE Great American novel. He wound up succeeding in this endeavor, but only posthumously. And like his titular character, he fell into a downward spiral by the hand of alcoholism learned form his father and a femme fatale wife who spun into insanity causing his career to become one of financial survival in short stories opposed to fully-realized genius in novels. Despite this handicap, he became our great nation’s greatest writer. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 93:“An Intro to F. Scott Fitzgerald”

The most fantastical period of European history is rooted in the events surrounding one man, one Caesar of his age embodying both Julius and Augustus as a general and political operator respectively. He moulded Europe to his will for better or for worse often times for worse fueled by his ambitious and precise tactics, his “living off the land” logistical strategies, his consolidation of legislature in his Napoleonic code, his theatrics in war and in coup, his crowning himself Emperor without any attempt to legitimize his power before God, his countless beatings of Central-European foes, his ambitious continental system to lift the continent from the mercantile yoke of Britain, his ill-fated invasion of Russia, and his return that almost secured his hold of Europe and therefore the world just narrowly bested by Wellington. What followed his defeat as the greatest victory of the new order instituted by Hugo Grotius in the Ius Publicum Europeuam: the Congress of Vienna.Instead of dismantling France, his possessions were reorganized with France retaining its pre-Napoleonic Wars. The ramifications of his life echo perpetually into and beyond our lives today. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 92:Ius Publicum Europeuam Part 3

The return of the Tsar.The restoration of Constantinople.Orthodox America. The question is always “how?”There is a notion that is common amongst modern Christians that if the world is not to the perfect standard of Christianity (as judged by themselves), then there is no point in partaking in the discourse of politics and to even go as far as being nihilistic about everything surrounding our world in its form today.Fifty years ago, Father Seraphim Rose wrote to the few Orthodox Christians in the West who were shellshocked at a world so antithetical to the Orthodox Faith. America still in invincible form amidst the rise of material capitalism as a state religion with enlightenment ideas surrounding, and the Soviet Union waging war on Christianity directly. There was little hope for our world to reflect God then. Yet today, 10,000 churches have been rebuilt in Russia, church attendance is climbing there, and the state is funding the Church to rapidly expand and return to its place as the bedrock of the Russian people. In America, Orthodox Christianity has 10xd in four years going from 600,000 to 6 million members across all jurisdictions. Yet there is still this utter pessimism that is the result of a lingering liberalism and nihilism after the conversions still within the minds of many here in the West. Twenty years ago, the thought of an America increasingly Orthodox with a potential President to be listening to ideas that are increasingly classical this shifting the discourse to values increasingly close to those of our own would never have entered our minds. Yet this pessimism remains. God has dominion over all, and when one thinks with this mindset, one can detach from his prideful perfectionist projection on the Faith of leaders, and begin to see how God is using them to enact his will. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 91“Orthodoxy & Modern Politics” Featuring: Principality of SpiritEnjoy. 

The bid for an American Napoleon originating from the American South in a Louisiana that stopped looking after its people. A boy born in one of the poorest counties in America to an upper middle class family by that county’s standards and a low class by America’s standards. High school kingpin and political operator inspired by Napoleon, the Count of Monte Cristo, and the downtrodden men of his state. Former seminarian turned traveling salesman turned lawyer. Innovator of campaigning by both automobile and radio. The Caesar of Louisiana becoming governor and destroying its bureaucratic state building infrastructure never thought possible. Challenger of FDR for the fate of America only to be unceremoniously assassinated before the election he was picked to win. The man who famously declared that every man should be a king but there should be no crowns. The Kingfish. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 90“Huey Long” Featuring: John Slaughter Enjoy.

What is often defined as the golden age of television is centered around one common thread: the antihero. America’s obsession with the flawed protagonist not always operating in the interest of upholding the highest morality standard is a reflection on its idleness as a nation in the post-Cold War Era. No clear enemy and Godlessness lead to fascinations in behaviors that point downward. We grew bored with heroes as they should be. We grew bored with flawed heroes who eventually conquer their one fatal flaw. We only wanted the ones who plunge into indulgence of spiritual and sometimes indirect physical suicide. All that glitters is unfortunately not always gold. I’m joined by @bloodsatellite in a discussion that was originally supposed to be regarding the benefits of studying leftist thinkers like Derrida and Foucault, but it spontaneously shifted into a discussion about the great anti-heroes of television’s golden age. Despite this subject matter, it was a comedic, jovial, and dare I say, fun conversation. We discussed Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Mr. Robot, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, and the Sopranos among others. Give it a listen. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 90: “Anti-Heroes of Television” Enjoy.

In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of the nation state: the Peace of Westphalia. It is in this peace that the European consensus was cemented for 300 years, with empires being outsourced to possessions overseas, and the German people never truly recovering from the war that begged for this peace in the first place: the Thirty Years War. With the exception of somewhat grander conflicts like the Nine Years War and Seven Years War, the consensus of Ius Publicum Europeaum was maintained amidst the many punitive wars that it permitted from its inception. This status quo however would receive its first major threat and test in the form of the French Revolution and its consequences. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 88 “Ius Publicum Europeaum Part 2” Featuring: Mercatores Enjoy.

The Son of God and Son of man has not only given humanity the opportunity for salvation of the soul, but He has called upon us in the material to act in accordance with our prayers on the road to Salvation. God saw it necessary to make material our Salvation by becoming flesh, and it is in a material world where the fruits of our Faith are visible through our demeanor reflecting theosis or through our deeds.I’m joined by Prismatic Orthodox to discuss prayer and it’s lack of fruits when not coupled with action in his beautifully spoken understanding of synergy in the Orthodox Faith.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 87 “No Prayer Without Action”Featuring: Prismatic OrthodoxEnjoy. 

For the first time on Blood & Rain, we have a co-host, a member of the Anti-Fragile Athletes and aspiring professor from the Netherlands, Adam who will go by the moniker, “Mercatores.” After two years of fascination with political theory, Mercatores will be my bi-weekly partner in crime on Blood & Rain when discussing various topics of political theory we both find a fascination in studying. The first of these episodes is regarding the work of Hugo Grotius, who was called by King Henry IV, “the miracle of Holland.” Grotius was a lawyer, jurist, professor, and political theorist whose key texts laid the groundwork for the Peace of Westphalia, European Public Law or “Ius Publicum Europeaum,” and the dawn of true mercantilism. In this part one episode, we chronicle the early life of Grotius, his influences from Spain in Francisco Vittoria and Francisco Suarez, his magnum opus, and the peace of Westphalia. In part two, we will discuss the impact of Westphalia upon the next 300 years and its influences on Nuremberg which dictates the order of the world today. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 86:“Ius Publicum Europeaum Pt 1”Featuring: Mercatores Enjoy.

The “Zillennials”and an intense Generation Z contingent displays the opposite behavior and sentiments of the Millennial and Generation Z majority. Within the context of America and Europe’s fracturing hold that has lasted since Nuremberg, the vacuum to come will likely be filled by the aforementioned faction with the backing of their fringe Generation X counterparts. The question is how much pain it will take to push through. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 85: Gen Z VanguardFeaturing: J. Burden 

The DR’s resident geopolitical analyst, The Prudentialist joins me to discuss how he got into geopolitics, his view on the current American situation both domestically and internationally, his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, his views on the necessary steps for Orthodox expansion in America, and his recent article on “re-enchantment” of the West. 

In the midst of Orthodox Lent, I’m joined by the Instagram “DR Sphere” favorite, Principality of Spirit to discuss the importance of Orthodox laymen studying political theory and Orthodox political theory. 

Knut Hamsun is a forgotten writer whose importance is second only to Shakespeare when discussing the world of fiction. This is the first of many episodes on the magnificent writer of Norway who pioneered stream of consciousness literature and inspired Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Sartre, as I look to become an amateur scholar on the man himself and his illustrious work. 

Blood & Rain defined as a mission and ethos. De-centralized micro cold wars ahead. 

Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthyRest In Peace John SteinbeckRest In Peace Ernest HemingwayThe American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.Fitzgerald.Twain.Poe.Faulkner.Steinbeck.But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon due to their destructive essences.Hemingway wrote with a blank slate and wrote to go far beyond the frontier, far beyond where anyone could help him, writing something truly new, truly authentic.McCarthy wrote with red colored glasses, seeing fire, bloodshed, and vice color every being of all his characters within fictional, American borders. Add these to the open questions rooted in America asked by Steinbeck and you have the mind and style of an author writing new, not so shiny science fiction.The first of these is "Automaton," a story of decay, the war of two ideas for America's future, the ugly truths of the martial way, and rugged individualism for better or for worse. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 73"Automaton" Featuring: TR HudsonEnjoy.

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all the same. It’s intoxicating.It’s alluring. It was personified in Gatsby. The illusion of a higher ideal than God as proposed by Nietzsche under the influence of the same malicious spirit. Now they can all be called the beautiful and damned. The Blood & Rain Late Night Podcast #1:Fitzgerald & False godsEnjoy. 

The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. This ethos gave America a canon of literature, poetry, and plays that have defined key attributes of not only the South but America entirely: sorrowful decline due to the shortcomings of fallen mankind. The lifespan of this movement is at its end, yet what came before it is what is closest to eternal in America. To move to the South is to inevitably adopt Southern pleasantries, affinities for all things gentile, and a slow, steady way of life the roots of which are traditionally English.The Southern Gothic ethos will die soon, and a founding myth will be required to move forward both as something rooted in the everlasting and something new. Greece: The IliadRome: The AeneidEngland: Paradise LostVirginia: “A Country Squire’s Notebook”The Blood & Rain Podcast: Episode 71“A Country Squire’s Notebook”Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt 

Virgil foreseeing the Messiah.Semitic terrorists slaughtering Romans en masse. The myth of “Judeo-Christian” values.The origins of Norse Pagan beliefs in Asia Minor.Other tribes being given a promise. The mythology of man is both less and more divisive in relation to the truth of Christendom both before and after it’s creation. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 70“Old Covenants”Featuring: ÆluthemplarEnjoy. 

A post-enlightenment worldview bears an inevitability of a neo-chivalric society.This is natural.For 90 years, the current suspension of traditional default settings has subdued many from understanding natural hierarchy.While one can not forecast the details, the metaphysics remain the same.The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 69“Neo-Chivalric Society”Featuring: Principality of SpiritEnjoy.

There are two states:Ready & Not“May we not be found fallen and idle, but watching and upright in activity ready to accompany him into the joy and divine palace of His Glory…”A man is called to readiness SpirituallyMentally Physically Im that order.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 67:“Physical and Spiritual Readiness”Featuring: Father Michael ButlerEnjoy. 

The world was burned, and the bedrock was destroyed. Grass roots movements and new subcultures will likely form out of communal planning and more likely by accident. It is metaphysically demanded. Top down decisions change political structure and the state of the economy. From the bottom comes what is undeniable and identifiable. Portland, Maine.Buffalo, New York.Charleston, South Carolina.El Cajon, California. Indianapolis, Indiana. What is next can come from anywhere. “May you live in interesting times.”The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 66 “New American Bedrock”Featuring: @totallynotanacreon

“I don’t know how things are going to change, I just know they’re going to.”The babbling and rambling and gambling in Washington and Westminster alike have in truth, little to do with the grand scheme of things. There was a false god being chased after off a cliff, and the trauma sustained has left countries in a state of amnesia.Who were we?Who are we?Who were we trying to be when chasing Utopia?Who should we be?How will we get there?“I don’t know, I just know it’s going to happen.” The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 65“Western Amnesia” Featuring: YouTube’s own J. BurdenLink in bio. Enjoy.

Everything is War. (And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.)Whether hot or cold, everything is War.The “Cold War,” as we knew it in the 20th Century is re-emerging in a “close to kinetic war” sense, but a new kind of granularity has emerged along with it.The return of the nation state appears imminent, and localism and nationalism alike will engulf our lives when this return takes place.The prelude to this Cold War that will catch fire in short, allegedly “random” instances is that of a Cold War of Culture.The ground is shift beneath every man’s feet, and the fabricated norms it supports will collapse as the shifts conclude.What will life look like after?Four men take the time to trade predictions in a long-awaited long form panel.What is clear is that great men are needed, identity will become tangible again, and Faith, vitality, and poetry will be in plain sight once more.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 64:Culture Cold WarFeaturing: @letters_from_the_ruins @thesaxoncross and @zenoviel

Every Era in every field is ushered in by the work of a great man. Populism has nothing to offer in the realm of permanent solutions. Elite classes are replaced with new elites. To know the current elites is to know how to defeat them. To become the Great Men to usher in the New Era, listen to this Podcast. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 63 “Who Rules Us?” Featuring: @Zenoviel

“We are a People.” Wherever we are in this world, “We are a People” Blood & Rain Episode 62 “Rising from Ruin” Featuring: @Letters_from_the_Ruins

“The Wanderer” “Dixie” Pieces of dying cultures undying. Culture is a strange word. No one knows exactly what it is in the mind, but it is fully understood in a visceral way. It is both existential and by choice. It changes with war in the total sense. Combat Famine Immigration Adding to culture without destroying it is a tricky thing, and many are asking how this can be possible with each passing minute. The preservation of culture is a tricky thing, and murder of culture is impossible. How diverse can a culture become before two separate aspects of it are recognizably different? What is foreign, and what is welcome? What is diversity, and what is death? The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 61 “Death & Diversity” Featuring: The Saxon Cross Enjoy.

Anti-Fragile: To grow stronger with the addition of hardship or pressure. Faith: Can not grow without hardship or pressure. To believe that we are abandoned by God in hard times is to have a moment of fragility in our Faith. For our Faith to be perfect is to be impossible. But it is something we must strive for. A habit of Faith that is necessary is to strive to turn to God in prayer when presented with hardship and pressure for what it is: an opportunity to grow closer to God. In the physical realm of things, men are called to be Anti-Fragile in every way as God created them to be. Effective protectors are Anti-Fragile. Effective providers are Anti-Fragile. Effective husband are Anti-Fragile. Effective fathers are Anti-Fragile. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 60: “True Faith is Anti-Fragile” Featuring @naturep1lled Enjoy.

The Story before the Story. The Prelude Chapter of “Sleepless” Read aloud. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 59 “Sleepless” Enjoy.

Christian. Husband. Father. Entrepreneur. Writer. (Ryan)King. Vocal advocate for true masculinity in an age when masculinity is either distorted or feminized. Ryan King has taken Instagram by storm with his precise, nuances writing about true masculinity, marriage, fatherhood, male and female polarity, confidence, and intensity with the name, @thewisdomofkings In a time when young boys are given the false ultimatum of feminization or Andrew Tate and his nonsense, Ryan King is laying out the path for them to become true men. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 58 Ryan King & The Wisdom of Kings

“A Withdrawal is needed in order to Return”

Six Weeks ago I drove to Oklahoma on my way North. I met @nature.pilled2.0 @evolacademy and @thesteadfastalliance for the first time. That weekend, the largest assembly of satanists in human history, and the spiritual warfare was evident then and is still evident now. I had received notice of nightmares and attacks from many. Prayer however, is more powerful, My journey North from Texas was something that bore more prayers and more spiritual strengthening than any other point in my life. This stop along the way was a conversation amongst brothers that was worth its weight in gold to each of us. We hope it serves you as well. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 55 At Long Last Link in bio.

Blood & (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Text “I don’t care how I get there, but I’m going to get there.” You’re the young aspiring lifter walking into a gym having no clue what you’re doing. You take a machine for a spin for a set of 20. You do Dumbell curls for 10 sets. You do the Stephen Amell “Arrow” workout from a 2014 issue of Muscle & Fitness and assume you’ll have that body in six weeks despite already making a habit of going to your breaking point in a Muay Thai gym on top of a noodle shop or in a high school swim team setting in the chilled waters of Wisconsin. You go harder than anyone in the gym, especially when your body is telling you that you shouldn’t. But then, you meet a mentor. You meet a high school coach with a default setting of investing in young men. Or you meet a sage of strength in an unlikely setting of [insert sanitized commercial chain gym here] and ask to be taught. You walk into a strongman gym and get taught how to Turkish getup by a Bellator middleweight. Or you start a podcast on YouTube and interview some of those that chose the path of strength before you. You start learning the why of programming through lessons of elders and the research of your own accord. Suddenly, you’re not that confused, skinny kid making up for his ignorance with pure fury anymore. Suddenly, you’re a mentor. Suddenly, it’s your turn to pass on the knowledge and to be kind. “To teach a man to be strong is to be kind.” The Blood & Rain Podcast Presents: The Blood & (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Colin Zastrow Enjoy.

How can you trailblaze, if no one has shown you where the wilderness begins? Why would you go through what is known without a mentor? “I needed to learn it the hard way.” How would you know if there was no one to tell you whether that mantra was truth or illusion in your latest use of it? To the self-deprecating, they feel unworthy of such a service. Yet mentoring served the mentor as much as the student. To the loner, the prospect of a mentor can be terrifying, as a distorted view of autonomy can be shattered. Some have a will to carry them on their own to where they aim to go, but much of that energy could have been channeled to go even further had it been guided by a mentor. Every man needs that mentor. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 54 Every man must be Mentored.

Blessed is this Theophany As is every Theophany To try to place faith into words is impossible. To try to quantify the goodness of a God who blesses beyond measure is fruitless. To contemplate the grandeur of His plan is an endless pursuit. It is a war being on this Earth. God grants us many comforts and times of peace. But there is a constant struggle of word, and deed, and thought we must engage in at all times. Every word, deed, or though is either a victory for death and dust. Or a victory for life and God. Whether voluntary or involuntary. We can speak on this in thousands of ways. Here are a few of them in humility from two brothers in Christ. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 53 God is beyond words. @prismatic.orthodox Enjoy.

It’s been 1 Year of the Blood & Rain Podcast I was blessed to learn from my guests. The experience has served me, and it hope the podcast has served many of you. Things are very different a year later, and are about change even more. Here’s all I have to say. -Arthur The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 52 “Onward” #bloodandrain #afuryunrivaled

Don’t talk to me about what this man stood for. I personally don’t care. Link him with whatever you want, I won’t look it up and will probably say “you’re right.” Do you know why he wrote this? He’s dead, and I can’t ask. What did I hear when I first listened to it? I heard all of THIS: America. For better or for worse. Not evil. Not innocent. No nation is innocent. Self-destruction being “cool” is on its last legs. Hating your country is three steps away from hating yourself. Hating the external can lead to the hatred the internal. The fractal nature is far more bidirectional that your parents ever told you. The nature of most things is. The principles on paper need a far greater execution. If you’re outsourcing it to the Olympic cycle of the ballot box, you’re a shill for oligarchical eclipsing. Execute these principles in the world around you, So Democracy can come to the USA. The Blood & Rain Poetry Podcast Episode 3 “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen

AUSTRALIA. You’ve likely heard echos of the macro level waves of human rights infringement happening in the gorgeous land far to the South. Many are likely wondering what the true nature of the situation there is. Some are hearing the small shards of truth making it through the white noise of the world, and many are still falling prey to weapon used narratives. So hear about the situation from two people living in the situation there every day, even now. Then use that brain God gave you and DECIDE. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 51 FREE AUSTRALIA

The fall of man’s great civilizations is never seen as a cyclical circumstance for the men who live in the remains of their crumbled homes. The only views these men have historically possessed are those of tragedy and of mourning, rooted in the finite endings of their former glorious homelands. Yet, the fall mankind is experiencing now only manifests itself physically in small flashes. The fall is more metaphysical and has to do with mankind. Mankind itself is in ruins. Mankind is in a state of void and limbo that is not consciously and clearly understood by its majority. Yet one man can see in things visible and invisible, the ruins that surround mankind now. But there is no gloom and sorrow in his being. Mourning is not his default temperament. He writes to his fellow man about the cyclical nature of this fall of mankind. He writes of these ruins as a foundation to rebuild a greater mankind. He writes of these ruins as the catalyst of a post-modern Renaissance. This is not a Renaissance of resurrecting a zeitgeist-laced, “former golden era,” in a futile attempt to recapture “what was lost.” This is a Renaissance of understanding that frameworks not bound by time and space are what were forgotten in our fall. These are the same frameworks that when honored, can rebuild a world with a far stronger integrity and an expression that is uniquely our own. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 50 The Letters From The Ruins

Billions of people on this planet spend far too much time watching others aggressively pursue games with the throw, bounce, and kick of a ball. It’s hilariously nonsensical. If you can tell me every year’s pitching rotation of the San Francisco Giants for the past 30 years but can’t tell me what your son is increasingly fascinated by in his formative years, you’re failing as a father, plain and simple. The glorification of these kinds of athletes is strange at best. What is most confusing is that people rarely take the lessons from the people they’re so frequently observing and discussing and applying them to their lives. This is most likely due to the fact that most are watching these sports to fill a void of consciousness. But there are truly valuable lessons one can strip from the greatest minds and forces of will who have ever existed who just so happened to apply those minds and wills towards games with a ball. These are some of those lessons. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 49 Lessons from Sportsball that actually Matter

It’s an incredibly common question: “What’s wrong with our country?” Crowds only tend to ask it when remotely removed from their country’s victories or golden ages of prosperity. Often times, the issues are far more difficult to recognize, let alone properly define. When undercurrents of discord pull people into a drowning frenzy, the issues then become far more real. History possesses other zeitgeists entirely when a sizable portion of society have stopped and said, “I don’t know what’s wrong, but I just know there’s something wrong.” The United States and very likely, the majority of the Western world as a whole currently possesses both of the aforementioned dynamics. The next step after recognizing these present dynamics is that of hypothesizing potential solutions. The “experts” may just waltz in during the eleventh hour to be entrusted with a grand plan of multiple potential solutions, all of which will conveniently spend a lot of the people’s money without those “experts” truly having to buy in themselves. There are few true experts however. But what is far more important than the scarcity of truly masterful grand strategists, is the decay of culture in the countries of the Western world. Somewhere along the line, the act of destroying a society became a religion amongst a plethora of confused and disgruntled citizens. There are now far fewer things to destroy. And while destruction is part of the natural process of creation, it is creation in the form of reconstruction that must now take center stage. This has less to do with a return of neoclassical architecture, but has far more to do with a revitalization of the essence of our day to day lives while being truly (American, French, Polish, German, British, and so on.) In order to heal the culture of one’s country, one has to realize he must buy in wholeheartedly for better or for worse and realize his choice is a vital one among millions. His choice reflects the grand choice of a country to either heal or kill itself. One bright mind understands this perfectly. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 48 “Rebuilding Social Capital” Featuring: “Totallynotanacreon” Enjoy. #bloodandrain #blooandrainpodcast

Oh what we’d do with all of that money...You want to talk to me about your dream car?You want to talk to me about your Lake Como/Laguna Beach/Hillsborough/Marylebone Manor?Save it. Not only your money, but your breath. More often than not, the acquisition of wealth is an excuse for laziness. More wealth thought of as more cushion makes the kind weak. More wealth should be an invitation to amplify the sharp mind that you cultivated in hardship through the expansive and abundant resources unlocking all of its new avenues to be utilized fully. More wealth should mean doubling down on the development of your self. More wealth should mean doubling the reach of your acts of service. More wealth should be an extension of the steadfast self within. You should be just as lean despite there being “more of you.”You are not your wealth, for you cant take it with you after death. It is merely an extension of you.May you not fall and become lazy, but instead have courage that being roused into action you may use that wealth like a True King.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 47“May you use that wealth like a True King”Enjoy. #bloodandrain #bloodandrainpodcast 

They say there’s no hope for the future.I don’t really know who “they” are, but they’re not my “we” for a reason.Every single generation has an assortment of problems for their future that seem unsolvable and far more horrifying than they truly are.A weak-minded generation raised with a smartphone is the doomer line as of late. If you paid attention to tik tok and only tik tok for your gauging of the next generation, then you’d believe the next group up to be one to summon a bleak fate. However, the statistics of this next generation up reflect a collective psyche that is renouncing the vices, excuses, and victimhood of the Millenial Generation’s degeneracy inherited from Baby Boomer “battle cries” coupled with a quietly infuriated Generation X’s simultaneous standoffish and intrigued reaction to said degeneracy. The next generation up is less interested in vices but far more fascinated with the virtues found in church.The next generation up is unsatisfied with weakness and seeking strength.Some were taught this by millennials and parents who were able to deprogram themselves.Some, like an eighteen year old young man from Wisconsin knew something was wrong and decided to better himself through a painful, confusing process of trial and error. Such agency at such a young age is truly admirable.Thankfully, the numbers reflect that the future is a lot less like tik tok and a lot more like this guy. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 46“Resurrecting Faith & Strength” Featuring Colin Zastrow 

Listen.

It’s safe to say the world needs more Barbarians. Barbarians are those who challenge “conventional” thinking and live on the edge of society and perhaps more importantly, themselves.The conventional thinking is deteriorating society, and society is begging for the balance of power to change hands.Barbarians of both the traditional, rural origin and those who grew up in the concrete jungle alike have a call to balance themselves as well.A man who has read “War & Peace,” can deadlift 500+, can start a company from nothing, knock you out, meditate for an hour straight, run ten miles, and run grünfeld defense is building a dangerous man of mind and body that is a direct threat to the crumbling status quo.These are the kinds of things that are objective personal developments as men.But then there is the inexplainable, the metaphysical, the strangely, viscerally specific.Prayers for guidance being answered or dictation from high above. This path that overrides the pinnacles of human logic that singles out what man truly must do. Knowing this path is hard enough information to receive, but following this path has a far greater degree of difficulty. It takes an immense strength and an immense faith, but when you’re following it, those around you know.You will speak with a weight that is truly unshakable.The Blood & Rain PodcastBarbarians and Metaphysics with Meta BrohEnjoy.

You all asked some questions. Some were very interesting. Some started intriguing trains of thought. Some changed my mind. Some not so much... Regardless, they’ve all been answered. How to prepare for your first Muay Thai fight. How to overcome distractions in the form of people and distractions of an uncontrolled mind. Film and television suggestions for men, for when some bizarre reason, you need a “break” from reading. Forgiveness: when it’s deserved and undeserved and both expressed and unexpressed. Old ghosts and why they need to be vanquished. And that dumb question...the question that made me want to take a shot with Ulysses S. Grant up there on the photo. Yes there’s such a thing, and yes you know who you are. The Blood & Rain Podcast AMA #3 Enjoy.

“How do I write?”“How do I start making content?”Did you expect some kind of step by step template guide?How to make content in sixty seconds?Oh you want me to spoon feed you right?I can’t do that.You should want to punch me in the face if I did that. I could give you every trick under the sun of how to refine your content. I could point you towards Hemingway to be as refined and concise through using the fewest, most powerful words possible. I could point you to Fitzgerald who used as few or many words to paint gorgeous prose that drips off of the page. I could tell to stretch your ideal muscle, which I have, do, and will continue to do. I could tell you to be inspired, you need to actually consume something inspiring. I could tell you that you need to live in order to write, and that honestly just goes without saying. I could tell you you just need actually do the damn thing and just write like no one is watching cause no one actually is, unless you’re like me and enjoy writing in crowded places, but regardless, I watch my six, meaning no one is seeing each word emerge in ink on parchment. I could tell you to forget about an idea and walk around the block to find clarity. But really, the best thing I could do is be as raw and cutting as possible and attempt to give you some form of baptism where you’re just close enough to drowning that the intensity and presence is dialed up to 11 but far enough that you have the room to realize exactly who you are. Then, you can start.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 43“I’m Never Content with my Content”Enjoy.

Every good podcast needs a resident health expert.But what does health mean for men?Health has become an ambiguous word in these nonsensical times. Health was programmed into weaponized narratives as “whole grains,” “pressed juicers,” and trying to squeeze the life out of an almond to get milk. Health comes down to one thing for men:Testosterone.It’s a cliche at this point to present it as such, yet it’s been presented in the form of testosterone supplements and fragile concerns about “cardio making men fat.”But when it comes to learning how to craft your diet and environment to boost your testosterone levels to those of a Prehistoric savage, there is a decision to be made. A. Don’t pursue testosterone and see life squeeze you for all that you have until you’re left with NOTHING.B. Pursue optimum testosterone, and the world is your oyster. The large choice is yours to make.The smaller details though?Well, the resident health expert of the Blood & Rain podcast has you covered with guiding you in the right direction with all of those decisions. He’s like the Dr. Rhonda Patrick of the podcast except he isn’t a shill for omega 3s and actually knows what the fuck he’s talking about. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 41: Primal Thrive: “When your T is High, the world is your Oyster.”Enjoy.