Making Warrior Poets: An Interview with John Lovell
The King's Hall
Brian Sauvé & Eric Conn
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Lux Coffee, |
| 0:02.8 | caffeinating the new Christendom with Artisan Roast Coffee. |
| 0:35.7 | Thank you. For many centuries, there was one book that was read more frequently than any other save the Bible in Scotland. |
| 0:39.1 | That work, of course, was a poem called The Wallace, |
| 0:42.2 | which was a long, romantic, biographical poem attributed to a man with the moniker of Blind Harry. |
| 0:45.9 | The poem commemorates the life of William Wallace, |
| 0:48.7 | who was born around 1270 AD and died in 1305. |
| 0:53.0 | Wallace was one of Scotland's greatest national heroes and helped lead a successful |
| 0:57.4 | military resistance against the English king, Edward I. Blind Harry's poem portrays Wallace as the |
| 1:04.1 | ideal man or hero in the Scottish mind, courageous, patriotic, chivalrous, and deeply devout. It was this poem and retelling of |
| 1:13.4 | the life of Wallace that inspired screenwriter Randall Wallace to write his script for the movie |
| 1:18.8 | Braveheart, which released in 1995 and featured actor Mel Gibson as William Wallace. The movie |
| 1:24.9 | performed exceptionally well and is a man favorite even decades later. |
| 1:28.9 | As the film opens, we hear Mel Gibson's voiceover. In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of |
| 1:34.8 | Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Benickburn. They fought like warrior poets. |
| 1:41.0 | They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom. It was the phrase Warrior Poets that inspired our guest in today's episode, John Lovell, |
| 1:49.0 | to start as media company, The Warrior Poets Society. |
| 1:52.0 | Since its inception, Warrior Poet Society has expanded on YouTube, |
| 1:56.0 | created its own clothing line, and even has its own line of shadow systems pistols. Beyond all that, |
| 2:01.8 | John is a Christian homeschooling father who pastors a church, Grace City, Rome, which is located in |
| 2:07.1 | Rome, Georgia. In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with John to discuss a number of topics, |
| 2:12.8 | feminism, the need for personal defense training after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, |
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