Diogenes Club | E11 - Belief and Calling Out The Bullshit
In this 11th installment of the Diogenes Club — Nick Paro, Walter Rhein, and Evan Fields welcome special guest Frederic Poag — essayist and masculinity guru — with “The Ballad of Frederick Poag,” an epic poem Walter composed in Frederic’s honor. The ballad sets the episode’s emotional mood: this is a room of men who have chosen humor and solidarity as survival tools while the world outside burns. The poem is funny, yes — and it is also a form of life and love — the care of men for each other, for women as a whole, for the next generation — is ultimately what this episode is about.
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