Jason & The Argonauts, Envious Old Kings, and Young Men’s Tribes with Thomas Achord

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Send us a text! Boomers, and old men in general, have a hard time letting go of thrones, seats of power, or inheritances. Instead of passing them on, in envy they crush young men, whom they see as threats. Is this a new phenomenon? It turns out, it’s a tale as old as time. In this episode, we talk with Thomas Achord about Jason and the Argonauts, an Ancient Greek tale, and how it applies today. 2025 New Christendom Press Conference: https://www.newchristendompress.com/2025 Sign up fo...

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0:00.0	This episode of the Hardman podcast is brought to you by backwards planning financial,
0:05.0	keep wise partners, Livingstone Studios, Mount Athos, and our supporters at patreon.com. Welcome to this episode of the Hard Men podcast.
0:29.2	I am your host, Eric Con, and joined today by Thomas Acord.
0:32.8	Thomas, thanks for joining me.
0:35.0	Thanks for having me on.
0:35.8	It's great.
0:37.2	So, Thomas, I want to ask, we're going to talk about a few things in this episode.
0:40.5	We're going to talk about Jason the Argonauts.
0:42.1	An episode you guys did for Ars Politica.
0:44.8	I believe that one was with you and Stephen Wolfe.
0:47.9	I listen to do it with my boys.
0:49.1	Everybody love that.
0:50.5	So we'll delve into that. But first for people who aren't familiar with Ars Politica,
0:54.6	a course podcast on the new Christendom network of podcasts, we've also got the lone bulwark.
1:02.1	But I just want to ask you, in general, Ars Politica, you guys started this actually quite some time ago,
1:07.1	you and Steven. And just kind of like, what is the scope of the show? What's it
1:11.1	about? How did you guys get into it? Sure. Yeah, we started this years ago, maybe 2020 or 21.
1:17.3	And the idea was to get together and talk about political philosophy and the intersection with that
1:22.9	in Christian theology. And we focus more on political philosophy because that's something that
1:27.1	he and I both have
1:27.8	in common. We both also studied Christian theology, but in different areas. So we try to talk about
1:33.5	Christian political theory. And we do that in so many different ways. We talk about literature. We talk about
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