{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sword&Spade","title":"Fathers, Stop Waiting Until You Know What You're Doing w/ Brandon Sheard","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3630,"description":"Jason Craig sits down with Brandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith, a professed melancholic who set out to build a walled Eden where virtue would grow on trees. Instead, he found that he had picked every battle at once—home education, home medicine, home food, the family business—and run out of hours, energy, and gas. They talk about what limitation teaches a father, why the children raised in that garden went places he never scoped out for them, and what it costs a man to omit rather than lead.\nIn This Episode, We Cover:\nThe crisp, detailed vision of an ordered homestead that a perfectionist cannot reach, and the technique for everything that gums up the works\nEutrapelia, the virtue of right recreation, and why a man who calls hand-milking the cow his play has not learned it\nThe whole slate of battles picked at the start—home education, no doctor visits, all the food, the family business—and the sheer limitation that ends it\nEducation as the meeting of two freedoms, and the son who wrote a screenplay instead of reciting Purgatorio at the milking stand\nThe pile of omission that outweighs anything a father does imperfectly, and why sloth, not lust or pride, is the father's real problem\nResources Mentioned:\nFraternus\nFarmstead Meatsmith\nFraternus Membership\nThe Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli\nFind Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle by Tyler Blanski\nChapters:\n00:00: Introduction\n04:28: A Melancholic's Perfectionism and the Walled Eden\n09:41: Picking Every Battle at Once\n14:29: Sheer Limitation and the End of the Energy Reserves\n20:22: Education as the Meeting of Two Freedoms\n26:13: Father Actively and the Pile of Omission\n31:17: Sloth, Not Lust, Is the Father's Problem\n36:54: Creating the Conditions Where Virtue Is Less of a Struggle\n45:07: Circling the Wagons and the Corruption Inside\n52:48: Lauren, Matrimony, and Turning Hearts to Children\nJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1fxXTM8hCaOlZ1_SUD3cLJ3cmPKvLGnXHcYZar2Vno8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTI1/ZjhjODE1ZGY4YTNj/OWQxNTMzMzA2Mzcx/MTg3NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}