Honor and Sportsmanship - The Crackpot Podcast Ep 18

James LaFond and Lynn Lockhart discuss traditions of ethics, honor and sportsmanship.

James explains how sportsmanship is a substitute for the honor system of a warrior, and how even sportsmanship is degraded in the modern world.

The Crackpot Podcast features prolific author and urban survival expert James LaFond, and Lynn Lockhart.

Photo courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina

Audio:

0:00:45 Illustration of Seminole King from Bartram's Travels Through North & South Carolina
0:02:40 Quote from Evola, "honeyed universal love"
0:05:15 Honor and sportsmanship
0:08:50 Joseph Campbell's lectures
0:12:10 Upper & lower classes vs merchant class
0:16:20 Protestantism abandons mysticism and brings God to the bank
0:17:33 "The Fancy" as described in Pierce Egan's Boxiana
0:18:30 Is sportsmanship an Anglo-Saxon cultural trait?
0:24:15 Gorilla Wall Paul
0:26:45 Deception in sports and war
0:28:00 Illusion of an American in-group, anarchotyrrany, a sector of society is at war with all others
0:31:25 Pseudonyms
0:41:55 Texas church shooting, gun control
0:43:15 Local reporting on crime in Baltimore improving?
0:47:20 The slave instinct
0:50:05 Materialism in the late Hellenistic period
0:50:55 Atheism vs. spiritualism in civilization
0:55:35 Plagues?
0:56:20 Current events from 2 weeks ago, Trump's remarks on Japan's martial culture
1:00:30 Veterans of WWII vs. Veterans of the Middle Eastern wars of the 21st century
1:04:20 American culture and the impact to other cultures
1:07:25 Christianity vs Materialism in America
1:12:00 Reverent Chandler
1:12:15 Election night 2016 YouTube Meltdown playlist

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

Anarchotyranny Update - The Crackpot Podcast

The Crackpot Podcast, Special Episode 17

James LaFond describes the scene in Baltimore after the daylight execution of a police detective.

After a police detective was shot on Nov 15 and died of his wounds the following day, law enforcement activity in Baltimore has taken on a new tone and purpose.  James LaFond predicts this event will be an important marker in Baltimore's history, on par with the Freddie Gray riots of Spring 2015.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Audio:





YouTube:

The Crackpot Podcast features prolific author and urban survival expert James LaFond, and Lynn Lockhart.

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart & James LaFond

Coed Sports & Severed Heads - The Crackpot Podcast Ep 16

Episode 16 of the Crackpot Podcast with LaFond & Lockhart brings you discussions of professional sports, domestic violence, insects and the slave instinct, totally unsubstantiated speculation on the Las Vegas shooting, child rearing, description of 19th century art and more.

Please note that if you subscribe to RSS, you should now be getting the podcast delivered to your device automatically, as we are hosting the mp3 at Archive rather than on Google Drive.

Audio only:

00:02:30  Quote from Seneca
00:04:13  The importance of the physical world
00:05:15  Darwin and the slave instinct
00:07:02  Specialization is for insects
00:11:10  Evola
00:12:20  At first James thought Lynn was a dude
00:16:20  Queens more likely to go to war than kings historically
00:20:25  Sports as a spectator vs a participant
00:27:25  College sports
00:31:05  NFL, Ray Rice
00:35:25  Coed sports in ancient Greece
00:38:40  Origins of ball sports
00:39:45  Lacrosse
00:43:00  The importance of tool use for women's self defense
00:46:50  Preschool
00:50:06  Las Vegas update
01:01:30  Self censorship
01:03:31  Today's art, by Baroness Hyde de Neuville an 1821 sketch of a war dance for President Monroe, as seen in American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans, Vol. 2.
01:16:50  Update on James' coaching and training availability.
01:23:50  Current events from two weeks ago

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

Does Boxing Cause Brain Damage? The Crackpot Podcast Ep 15

James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart talk about brain trauma in sports, self-defense skills for your children, and learn about James' family life.

Audio only:


Also note that ever Helpful Timbo has created an album for us at Archive, so you can find all our podcasts there for download, and even try your hand at the RSS feed built in there:

The Crackpot Podcast Archive

00:02:08  We learn about James' father and family
00:12:30  Drive to upgrade into suburbia, dual income households
00:13:08  James' large step-family
00:15:44  My son's here, just call his name
00:17:33  A real woman
00:17:50  Move to Baltimore
00:18:20  What does James like to eat?
00:19:03  Sisters
00:22:42  Child rearing -- Daddy's Girl
00:28:00  The importance of driving for women
00:34:20  Rwanda Rousey video
00:36:54  Ball sports for women, soccer is damaging women's knees
00:40:10  Boxing
00:42:40  Skill set vs. basic physical ability
00:44:00  The truth about martial arts
00:45:30  Tactical awareness
00:48:36  The changing predation environment
00:51:21  Matt Yglesias
00:52:39  Domestication
00:55:35  James the White supremacist (he's not)
00:57:30  James' criteria for defending victims of crime
01:00:14  Boxing, stick fighting and brain trauma
01:02:00  Marvin Hagler's highlight reel

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart & James LaFond

Repeat After Me, There is No Such Thing as a Conspiracy

Episode 14 of the Crackpot Podcast has landed in Area 51 (which we did not cover, alas), with LaFond & Lockhart.  

mp3 link for download

00:00:40 Intro to the topic from God's Own Prototype
00:02:45 Importance of conspiracy theories in African American community
00:03:40 JFK assassination
00:05:00 Assassination of Philip of Macedon
00:06:16 Las Vegas
00:07:03 Where was James when JFK was killed?  Eating peas in his high chair.
00:08:47 LBJ as the exploiter of the assassination
00:10:04 Moon landing (the reason I said "forward" then "backward" is because I was thinking of both the manned landing and the earlier missions to drop stuff off on the moon)
00:13:55 Expansionary empire vs decadent empire
00:15:40 Will China colonize the moon?
00:24:43 9/11
00:31:16 Fluoridation of tap water
00:36:03 International cosmopolitan global banking conspiracy
00:39:07 Clinton Foundation
00:40:30 Election 2016, fond memories
00:46:08 James makes a prediction that has already come true (Trump released JFK documents despite deep state pressure)
00:50:01 Seth Rich, Wikileaks, Julian Assange
00:52:03 The Filthy Few
00:54:35 Tony Rooster's convenience store boss
00:57:45 Barack Obama's birth certificate
01:00:55 Roanoke Colony book by Lee Miller
01:05:31 Justin W. R. Justice
01:08:04 T. Spoone Slickens

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

The Belligerent Confederate States of Appalachia

The Crackpot Podcast Episode 13 with LaFond & Lockhart

Many thanks to John Paul Barber for the inspiration for this episode!

Direct link to mp3 download

In preparing this episode, it dawned on me that my carefully timestamped show notes in the last episode were probably off by 25 seconds or so, because I may have added the intro track after I took the notes, maybe.  I can't remember and I am not going to check.  But I will do it right this time.

0:01:05 James' Myth of 20th Century podcast appearance
0:01:24 Lynn reads quote from John Paul Barber
0:03:30 James recounts his experiences in Appalachia, and using that setting in fiction
0:07:33 James discusses keeping Appalachia out of the future Peoples' Republic of African North America
0:08:25 James tells some of the history of the Scots-Irish people
0:10:23 White Indians
0:12:37 James Watt Raine, The Land of Saddle-Bags, or Saddlebag Folk
0:15:30 James LaFond the White Devil adviser to the ghost of Nathan Bedford Forrest
0:17:15 Lynn angling for a job in the new administration of the Belligerent Confederate States of Appalachia
0:19:30 Education policy
0:21:27 Criminal justice policy
0:25:35 Family law
0:33:56 Novel, North & South, the importance of the extended family
0:40:40 Big Ron and the junkie as a revenue unit
0:41:37 Department of Defense or Department of War
0:44:50 James' fictional Islamic America
0:49:37 The fate of cities in case of an American break up
0:52:31 Arsen Darnay, Hostage for Hinterland
0:55:22 Does the military have any regional loyalties?
0:56:50 Preservation of power is the top priority
0:59:13 Crackpot moment, Lynn pours cold water all over it, I forgot to mention the main thing, which is that journalists are morons
1:02:50 The Khan offers Lynn a promotion
1:05:05 Discussion of wind energy
1:08:18 California wildfires
1:09:10 Capitalism or pastoral agriculture  -- banking is at the root
1:15:25 Cool Hand Luke carwash scene

(c) 2017 James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart

Crackpot Podcast Ep 12 Spooky Halloween

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Crackpot Podcast with James LaFond and Lynn Lockhart!  This is the Spooky Halloween Episode!

Ep 12 downloadable mp3

00:45 2017's Halloween story, Animal Control
03:36 Buzz Bunny (earlier anthropomorphic story)
05:15 Discussion of how wildlife could use weapons
07:11 What was Halloween like for James growing up?
08:50 What was Halloween like when James' kids were small?
10:58 How James learned to use the speedbag
14:09 Adventures of the neighborhood possum (opossum?) Hiss
16:10 Did James ever have to hand out candy?
16:55 Real Halloween in Baltimore
17:27 Interlude for local emergency response activity
19:50 A Hoodrat Halloween (Kindle & paperback)
23:41 Where is Oliver?
24:36 Oliver, you must finish taping A Hoodrat Halloween!!
26:03 Listening to music while writing fiction
27:02 Hurt Yurt origin story
31:31 How to do self service trick-or-treating
35:12 Skulker Jones, Sympathy for the Devil
41:15 Hemavore
41:52 The Filthy Few
43:20 DoomFawn (Kindle & paperback)

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

Crackpot Podcast Ep 11 The West, The Courthouse

Hello friends, welcome back to the Crackpot Podcast! 

In our first episode taped after James' well deserved break, we talk about the West and the Courthouse.  Special thanks to John Paul Barber for suggesting the intro and outro music.  Enjoy!

Intro music:  Lungs by Townes Van Zandt
2d annual trip West complete
Kamiss Valley Utah
Mushroom gathering
Western desert
Swayze Mountain
Pine nuts
Unlocked doors
Four old Coons
Ishmael's book
Break for napping child
Meadows and Benches
Park City hipsters
Issues with public lands
Confederate Battle Flag importance to non-Southerners
Sentiments on military service in Northern Utah, stemming from WWII
Managerial invasion of rural Utah municipal governments
Jury duty, including potty break for child
More details to be included in 2nd edition of Logic of Steel
Las Vegas
Outro music: Whale Meat Again by Jim Capaldi

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

Ep 10 Charlottesville & Trails

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Crackpot Podcast.  This is the last episode taped prior to James' trip and this is the first time I have nothing on deck since we started this.  If you are a fan of the podcast, please note that we are planning to resume taping once our schedules permit.  Special thanks to BobCatMaster for suggesting the main topic and to Tony Rooster for the photo of the poster found in Red Portland below:

Photo courtesy of Tony Rooster

Part 1, Charlottesville:

On seeking battle
On giving battle
Reminder not to actually do any of this stuff -- JAMES LAFOND AND LYNN LOCKHART EXHORT YOU TO REFRAIN FROM STREET VIOLENCE
The Anabasis of Xenophon
The importance of group cohesion
How do you build up your masculinity
Mayweather vs. MacGregor
Boxing, stickfighting, rugby, football
Stoics, Spartans, silence
Kent State
Propaganda not battle
Media manipulates footage
On naked war, Pankration psychology
Equipment
Armored ball cap
Eye protection
Gloves, open hand strike
Light colored shirts show blood
On cohesion, pig echelon, rugby
Marseilles
NO to white supremacy
Explorer of the body of lies
Don't fight in the streets!


Part 2, starting approx 1:03:37, Trails:

Trails: Big Ron & Ishmael
Big Game in the West vs urban Baltimore
Gorilla Wall Paul
Advice and experience from veterans
Drug trade with Afgahnistan
Quiet, friendly hero in his environment

(c) 2017 James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart

Wyman Park Dell: Gloria Victis

James, I was surprised by how this series that you and Mescaline Franklin made affected me.  I have never had any more than an average interest in the Civil War.  I felt affronted by the mobs and motions to desecrate Civil War monuments mostly on aesthetic grounds, and of course, an instinctual aversion to smelly antifa mobs and whatever it is they say they want.

As the videos unfolded, I could see that you played the part of a latter day Plato, walking the grounds with your acolyte as you reached back into Plato's own era to reveal the meaning carved into the very landscape you trod.

You had covered this ground before, in the piece your wrote for Counter Currents in February of last year, Iron and Paint.  Readers should view that article for your careful descriptions of the statuary and to contrast the images of the park in winter with the summertime videos.  Lee and Jackson appear in deep shade in mid summer, and wrapped in the skeletal fingers of leafless trees on a misty winter's day.  You give the following caution, which is the strongest argument against dismantling these monuments, and which you have ably demonstrated in the video series:

One must be careful not to isolate individual works of art that comprise larger municipal monuments, as these entire parks are often integrated metaphoric schemes, which were conceived in the context of a general education that no longer exists.

You go on to describe the bond between Jackson and Lee and the significance of that bond to the composition of the monument.  The piece is a perfect companion to the video series, and all viewers are strongly encouraged to read it, and the accompanying piece posted on your main site.  I will not recapitulate them here.

James, of all the lurid video related to the events in Charlottesville and other antifa-attended riots, the one that disturbed me the most was of a mob in Durham toppling and then beating a Confederate statue as though it were a detested criminal caught in the midst of a vile act.  The two inscriptions briefly visible in the video state "DEDICATED MAY 10, 1924," and "IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS WHO WORE THE GRAY."  As noted with respect to the Lee Jackson monument, there is no mention of slavery, no mention of the Confederacy.

That this level of opprobrium could be summoned by a group so far removed from the original conflict suggests to me that this group, bravely attacking an inanimate object made in the form of a long vanquished enemy, is unrelated to either the Union or the Confederate side of the Civil War.  These Civil War monuments were created by the victors, or by the defeated under the grace and sanction of the victors, as tokens of reconciliation.  They are now being destroyed by an entirely different group, a third party which has conquered the victors of the Civil War and is intent on humiliating the defeated side of that war and, in a way, erasing the victorious side so that they can take its place.  It is as though a second civil war has already ended, and the conquerors are already busy rewriting the history books, just as pretenders have done since the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt altered the hieroglyphs describing their defeated rivals, and through the 20th century, when Mao directed university students to destroy ancient Chinese treasures in the name of continuous revolution.

Today's university students are tasked with destroying any legacy of white heterosexual men and they are well on their gleeful way.

-Lynn

Lynn, thank you.

Don't expect me to top that.  I will add that the statues of Confederate men of old have committed a terrible crime:

They, by being, suggest that things were not as simple in the past as they are now, that there was a time in this country when mankind was not strictly divided, as it is today, into a small free-speaking group of evil dissenters arrayed against a vast monolithic society of goodness and perfection, but that once upon a time, where now blooms the Garden of Secular Eden, forces beyond the ken of men placed them--good and evil both--at odds, side-by-side and face-to-face, forcing them into hellish warfare in which a young evil strove against an elder evil, one in the name of tradition and the other in the name of progress, both with the same undying animus, to snuff out the human soul.

View the entire 10 part video series at the Wyman Park Dell playlist at my YouTube channel, and use the Wyman Park Dell tag to see all the related blog posts.

(c) 2017 Mescaline Franklin, James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart

James LaFond HQ: Parts 10 & 11

Take a last look at James LaFond's potentially endangered living arrangements.

Part 10, Photos:

The Harm City Charmer shows you his friends on the bus and how to hold a pencil for lethal effect.

Part 11, Daily Gear:

James shows off his footwear and backpacks of choice.

(c) 2017 Lili Hun, James LaFond

Wyman Park Dell, Parts 6, 7, 8 & 9

In these videos, James and Mescaline examine the Lee Jackson Monument, since removed from Wyman Park Dell, and discuss the importance of the placement of the statue, the symbolism of various elements of the design and inscriptions, and the consequences of the statue's removal.

Wyman Park Dell 6:  Lee, Jackson, This City Doesn't Deserve You Guys

Wyman Park Dell 7:  Low Intensity, Post-Modern Civil War

Wyman Park Dell 8: Straight as the Needle to the Pole

Wyman Park Dell 9: So Great is My Confidence

(c) 2017 James LaFond, Mescaline Franklin & Lynn Lockhart

James LaFond HQ: Parts 7, 8 & 9

Come see the cerebral side of the Crackpot's home: his extensive library and personal research notes.

Part 7, The Library:

Part 8, The Research I:

Part 9, The Research II:

(c) 2017 Lili Hun & James LaFond

James LaFond YouTube Roundup

Hello readers, viewers and listeners,

Perhaps you have noticed that each time you visit YouTube, or search YouTube for your favorite videos, things appear in a rather scrambled order.  In order to address this problem, and to satisfy my compulsive organizational urges, I have created the following summary of all the material on my channel, as well as James' interviews with other parties.  Series and those podcasts that appear in multiple parts will link to playlists.

I will update this post as more content is added.

Crackpot Podcast Episodes:

Episode 28 YouTube. Episode 28 mp3.
Episode 27 YouTube. Episode 27 mp3.
Episode 26 YouTube. Episode 26 mp3.
Episode 25 YouTube. Episode 25 mp3.
Episode 24 YouTube. Episode 24 mp3.
Episode 23 YouTube. Episode 23 mp3.
Episode 22 YouTube. Episode 22 mp3
Episode 21 YouTube. Episode 21 mp3.
Episode 20 YouTube. Episode 20 mp3.
Episode 19 YouTube. Episode 19 mp3.
Episode 18 YouTube. Episode 18 mp3.
Episode 17 YouTube. Episode 17 mp3.
Episode 16 YouTube. Episode 16 mp3.
Episode 15 YouTube.  Episode 15 mp3.
Episode 14 YouTube. Episode 14 mp3.
Episode 13 YouTube. Episode 13 mp3.
Episode 12 YouTube. Episode 12 mp3.
Episode 11 YouTube. Episode 11 mp3.
Episode 10 YouTube. Episode 10 mp3.
Episode 9 YouTube. Episode 9 mp3.
Episode 8 YouTube. Episode 8 mp3.
Episode 7 YouTube. Episode 7 mp3.
Episode 6 YouTube (playlist). Episode 6 mp3.
Episode 5 YoutTube (playlist). Episode 5 mp3.
Episode 4 YouTube (playlist). Episode 4 mp3.
Episode 3 YouTube (playlist). Episode 3 mp3.
Episode 2 YouTube. Episode 2 mp3.
Episode 1 YouTube (playlist). Episode 1 mp3.

Other Lynn Lockhart Channel:

Wyman Park Dell Civil War Monument (playlist).
James LaFond HQ tour (playlist).
Training videos.

Interviews:

Interview with Kevin Michael Grace of 2Kevins.
Interview with the Roaming Viking.
Roaming Viking excerpt: Origins of Boxing.
Interview with The Rebel Yell.
Beyond The Wire, interview with Myth of the 20th Century
Second interview with the Roaming Viking.

Sports, Ritual Hegemony with Myth of the 20th Century.

Interview on writing with Robert Stark.

LA Riots with Myth of the 20th Century.

Interviews with some anonymous guy, many topics.

Malcolm X with Myth of the 20th Century.

See also, training and fight videos at the Modern Agonistics link at jameslafond.com.

(c) 2017 Lynn Lockhart

How Police Help the Thugs, Crackpot Podcast Episode 8, James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart

Welcome to Episode 8, enjoy!

How police help criminals
Uncle Crush & corrupt magistrates
Big Nate
Vance
Haynes
Crazy Mark
Ghetto Grocer diplomacy
The justice system/prison system
Bar security
The pink assault rifle
BTG Photos
Police protect gangsters from one another
Night time attacks in daylight
Sikh liquor stores
Respect for elders
Z-man & Skittle
Michael Brown
Summer of love in Silicon Valley
7th grade desert island marauders
BGF -- prisons, policing, etc.
Opiates death spike in Baltimore
Literacy in Baltimore

Wyman Park Dell Civil War Monument, Parts 4 & 5

In Parts 4 & 5 of this series, James and Mescaline approach the Lee Jackson monument, noting the significance of its placement and setting.  James goes on to describe the impact of modern industrialization on warfare, tracing the lessons of the Civil War forward to World War I and World War II, through to the invasion of Iraq.

See Part 1, and Parts 2 & 3.


Part 4, A Heroic Class in Charge:

Part 5, Christians & Gentlemen

(c) 2017 Mescaline Franklin, James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart

James LaFond HQ, Parts 4, 5 & 6

Learn more about the Crackpot's state-of-the-medieval-art home defense system, and watch for an unscheduled appearance by the Khan.

James LaFond HQ Part 4, Yurt Defense II:

James LaFond HQ Part 5, Yurt Defense III:

James LaFond HQ Part 6, The Softer Side:

(c) 2017 Lili Hun, James LaFond

American Empire & The Valley of ...

Wyman Park Dell Parts 2 & 3

James LaFond and Mescaline Franklin continue their observations of Wyman Park Dell in Baltimore.  See the Part 1 here.

Part 2: American Empire

Part 3: Valley of ...

(c) 2017 James LaFond, Mescaline Franklin & Lynn Lockhart

James LaFond Headquarters: Parts 1, 2 & 3

James has invited his readers into his secret lair on Caucasian Avenue in Baltimore.  Come inside the Toxic Treehouse, the Yo-Resistant Yurt, the Bullet-Blocking, Blade-Bristling Building....

(c) 2017 Lili Hun, James LaFond

James and Lynn talk Fiction Crackpot Podcast Episode 7

Welcome, friends, to long awaited Episode 7 of the Crackpot Podcast with James LaFond and Lynn Lockhart.  In this episode, we talk fiction, writing it and reading it, with a few digressions along the way.

Website uncertainty weighing on James' mind
World building as a fiction writer
Obsessive fans of complex worlds
Moby Dick, The Pale Usher
The Worm Ouroboros, through Ch. 1
English literature
Innocence of children in English society
Greek myth and literature in the wrastling (The Worm)
Fiction reading is so stressful
Heroism
Risk taking & masculinity
Some Charlottesville talk
An example of heroism in Baltimore
Impulsiveness Conan vs committee meetings
Star Trek TNG
RetroGenesis
Link to the crazies beating a statue
End of the world literature
Planet Buzzkill
Bimbos at the end of the world
Rahab
Back to The Worm, with the monkey-tailed ambassador
Could we interview the Khan?
Current events -- Charlottesville
Crackpot explanation for this insanity
James Damore

(c) 2017 James LaFond & Lynn Lockhart