The Will Spencer Podcast

Will Spencer

The Will Spencer Podcast is a weekly interview show featuring extended discussions with authors, leaders, and influencers who can help us make sense of our changing world today. I release new episodes every week on Friday.

  1. 2d ago

    Former White Power Skinhead: "What Did I Win? Nothing." with David Ladwig

    In the nineties, David Ladwig was a white power skinhead. Today he's a husband, father and grandfather, active in prison ministry. And he's hearing the old jokes again, this time in church. David grew up with an abusive, alcoholic father, professed Christ at twelve, joined the Marine Corps, and around 1994 started running with white power guys. He stayed for about six years. He didn't come in through philosophy. He had a lot of anger, and the movement gave it somewhere to go. We talk about:How grievance lands on something already broken ("I started feeling like a victim because I'm white")The meetings that ran like a liturgy, and how the talk would "ramp, ramp, ramp"Street fights, and what he actually wonWhy the keyboard warriors stay home while young men end up with blood on their handsWhy the jokes showing up in churches worry himWhat he'd say to his younger self, and why no man is a lost cause Resources mentioned:Reach David Ladwig: timetoturnitoff@gmail.com My Fight Laugh Feast essay on genocide: [LINK] Join the new Walk the Narrow book club (starts Nov 11): [LINK] Black Sun book club on David Lane: [LINK] Reading list:Walk the Narrow by Raven's Anvil (our next book club) Warrant for Genocide by Norman Cohn Connect:Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  2. Oct 23

    Hiding Your Power Level is Lying - Season Introduction

    New season. The question that taught me what it means to be a man, why Christian men "hiding their power level" are lying, and my plan for this season, including the guests and our next book club. It starts with a story from a men's initiation weekend I went through in 2013: a man in the middle of a silent room, a broken promise, and one question. "Number 34, what did you choose to do instead?" That question taught me what accountability and integrity are, and what it means to be a man. Then I turn it on something I've watched grow all year: Christian men "hiding their power level." There's another word for it. It's called lying. So here's the plan for this season. I've read more than four thousand pages on the far right this year, and now I'm going straight to the authors who wrote them. I lay out who I'm reaching out to, why many of them are on the left, the three questions you can ask any man you're worried about, and what a real repudiation sounds like. And I'm announcing our next book club: Walk the Narrow, by Raven's Anvil. Let's get to work. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Walk the Narrow book club (live sessions plus weekly office hours for paid subscribers): [LINK] My interview with the former director of the ManKind Project's Chicago branch: [LINK] Timothy Van Den Broek's sermon on John 8:44 (October 4, 2026): [LINK] My podcast intro with Mark Musser: [LINK] Every Man Gets Forged, my talk at New Saint Andrews College: [LINK] My article for Christ Over All: [LINK] Our Black Sun read-through: [LINK] Executive Order 14401 (April 18, 2026): [LINK] Reading list from this episode:Walk the Narrow by Raven's Anvil (our next book club)The Redeemed Man by Joel Beeke et al.Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind (new edition, introduction by Jerry Mitchell)Bring the War Home by Kathleen BelewBlack Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-ClarkeIt Came From Something Awful by Dale BeranThe Beast Reawakens by Martin A. LeeFascism: A Quick Immersion by Roger GriffinIn Search of Anti-Semitism by William F. Buckley Jr. THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  3. Oct 16

    Every Man Gets Forged: On the Radicalization of Young Christian Men - Season Premiere

    Season premiere. My full Disputatio lecture at New Saint Andrews College on the radicalization of young Christian men, antisemitism on the right, and how white nationalist ideas are entering the Reformed church. On Friday, September 18, 2026, I spoke at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. The talk is titled "Every Man Gets Forged: On the Radicalization of Young Christian Men." The talk covers two things. The first is the pipeline pulling young men, many of them professing Christians and conservatives, from an absent father through porn, video games, shame, and the Manosphere, until they blame the Jews for everything wrong in their lives. The second matters more: the old movement waiting at the end of that path, which traded the armband for a suit decades ago and is now tunneling into the Reformed church and conservative politics. It doesn't sound foreign when it arrives. It sounds like us. This episode is the full talk, from the podium. Next week, I'll lay out what this season looks like and who I'll be sitting down with. Let's get to work. Mentioned in this episode: About Disputatio at New Saint Andrews College: [LINK]My article for Christ Over All, with the membership question for pastors: [LINK]New Saint Andrews granted permission to share the talk, but not the Q&A. You can watch the Q&A on their page here: [LINK] Reading list from the talk: Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind (start here)Bring the War Home by Kathleen BelewBlack Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-ClarkeIt Came From Something Awful by Dale BeranLost Boys by James BloodworthWarrant for Genocide by Norman CohnIn Search of Anti-Semitism by William F. Buckley Jr. Connect: Substack: [LINK]Men's mentorship: [LINK]

  4. Aug 7

    Where's Will? A Fatherhood Update and What's Next

    After three months away, I'm back with an update. Our son Isaiah was born at home on May 4, and I spent the summer being a dad instead of doing interviews. I don't regret a minute of it. In this short episode I catch you up on where I've been, what happened while I was gone, and why new interviews start after Labor Day. Thank you for the messages and the prayers. They meant more than you know. THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  5. May 9

    Welcome, Isaiah

    A brief personal update from Will: our son Isaiah was born on Monday morning. Mom, baby, and big sister are all doing well. Praise God. New episodes will resume in a week or two. Thank you for your patience, and for your prayers. THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  6. May 1

    How Christian Men Are Being Pulled Into Holocaust Denial | Hitler Hated Christ

    Hitler Hated Christ has spent the better part of a decade compiling primary historical sources documenting Adolf Hitler's hostility toward Christ and Christianity, and refuting the Holocaust denial and revisionism circulating in dissident-right and online hyper-nationalist Christian spaces. He runs the Substack Hitler Hated Christ, the YouTube channel @NotOurGuy, and engages daily on X under the same name. He works under a pseudonym for reasons that should be obvious after listening. In this conversation we build an affirmative case for the historical reality of the Holocaust. Not to score points. Not to call everyone a Nazi. To assemble the documents, speeches, diaries, and photographs into a picture so clear that the memes don't survive contact with the evidence. We trace Hitler's racial antisemitism from Mein Kampf through Nazi state policy, examine the means, motive, and opportunity behind the Holocaust, and address the most common denialist talking points head-on. We also discuss the spiritual cost of doing this work, why the "Hitler was a Christian Prince" myth has gained traction among self-identified Christian men, and why pastors who launder this material no longer deserve the title. If you care about young men and the future of the church, this material is essential listening. ⭐️ VIDEOS MENTIONED IN MONOLOGUE ⭐️Why People Deny the Holocaust and How We Know It Actually Happened https://youtu.be/xDwgd1YUQM8?si=6DtmCf9YlvMdulJq MartinezPolitics and David Cole https://youtu.be/MgPcx5tNZW8?si=RpH2pABe38krEOQu Stone Choir and the Big Lie Lies https://youtu.be/SFz5pDQdOp0?si=F5H4NelaqjhOYNDO TOPICS DISCUSSEDWhy "Hitler was a Christian Prince" is a lie that doesn't survive contact with Mein KampfThe pantheistic worship of nature underneath Nazi racial ideologyHow the gassing motif appeared in Nazi rhetoric fifteen years before the campsThe 1933 Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary DiseasesThe Wannsee Conference and the architecture of the Final SolutionWhy "liquidation" in the Goebbels diaries means exactly what it sounds likeThe "extermination ghetto" as an internal Nazi administrative categoryHow David Irving conceded gassings and mass killing — and what's left of denialism after thatWhy Holocaust denial in Germany is rare among neo-Nazis (they don't deny it; they celebrate it)The spiritual cost of engaging this material, and why the body of Christ is essential to it GUEST LINKSHitler Hated Christ on Substack — https://hitlerhatedchrist.com YouTube — @NotOurGuy X — @not_our_guy THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  7. Apr 24

    Every Conspiracy Ends Here | Black Sun Session 7

    Something has been poisoning the conservative movement for thirty years. It's in the podcasts, the reels, and the content you consume every day. And there is a documented trail from a forged document designed to justify genocide straight to your Spotify subscriptions. Black Sun Session 7. In this episode, Will Spencer covers Chapter 14 of Black Sun — Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order — tracing the line from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion through Bill Cooper and David Icke into the conspiracy content millions consume today. He asks the question nobody in the conspiracy world wants to answer: what has it actually produced? Purchase Black Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814731554 TOPICS COVEREDWhat has the conspiracy world actually produced?Bill Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, and the Protocols reprinted in fullDavid Icke, entryism, and the New Age transmission beltThe Protocols weaponized conspiracy thinking into antisemitismCooper's explicit calls for violenceQAnon, the QAnon Shaman, and the storm that never cameThe Islam-far right alliance: Iraq then, Iran nowTucker Carlson, Russell Brand, and the killing of Charlie KirkCOVID as the floodgate for thirty years of conspiracy infrastructureRon Paul vs. Alex Jones: two models of questioning authorityThe conspiracy worldview as a prison: self-sealing, fruitless, endlessBlurry Creatures, Haunted Cosmos, and conspiracy as mainstream entertainmentWill's testimony: twenty years in the New Age conspiracy worldThe theological exit: afraid men don't build Exiting the New Age If this episode hit close to home, Will's course breaks down the New Age worldview from the inside, including how conspiracy beliefs function as a spiritual counterfeit. https://willspencer.co/exit BOOKS MENTIONEDBlack Sun — Nicholas Goodrick-ClarkeBehold a Pale Horse — Bill CooperThe Robots' Rebellion — David IckeWarrant for Genocide — Norman CohnThe Plot — Will EisnerA Rumor About the Jews — Stephen Eric BronnerNazi Ecology — Dr. Mark MusserAntisemite and Jew — Jean-Paul SartreLibido Dominandi — E. Michael JonesThe Archaic Revival — Terence McKennaNone Dare Call It Conspiracy — Gary AllenSecret Societies and Their Power in the 20th Century — Jan van HelsingThe Illuminatus Trilogy — Robert Anton WilsonThe Turner Diaries — William Luther Pierce ABOUT THE BOOK CLUBThe Book Club is a private reading group where we work through serious books slowly and carefully — not for hot takes or outrage, but for Christian spiritual and intellectual formation. Learn more and join here: https://www.willspencer.blog/7a2894cd THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

  8. Apr 17

    Why Good Men Lose Their Minds Over the Jewish Question — Christopher Kuehl

    Christopher Kuehl has spent nearly two decades watching how Christians lose their bearings over the question of Israel and the Jewish people. Christopher has traveled to more than thirty countries, lived in Israel multiple times, worked as a photographer for Sony and Rolling Stone, and founded four technology companies. He is currently earning his master's degree in theology and serves as COO of Restore7 and founder of Present Witness, a ministry addressing modern theological questions around Israel, the Jewish people, and the church. Christopher is the author of Is God a Zionist? Finding God's Story in a World Obsessed with Israel. In this conversation we explore why good men and women lose their minds over the Jewish question, how antisemitism captures its adherents and becomes the gravity around which everything spins, and why the modern state of Israel has become a theological flashpoint the church cannot afford to handle carelessly. We also discuss the shared pre-Jesus seeking path that led both Christopher and me through Burning Man, ayahuasca, and the New Age before we found Christ — and why the New Age cannot syncretize the Old Testament. If you've watched friends or family fall into obsessive antisemitism, or you're trying to make sense of Israel theologically, this conversation offers a framework for thinking clearly. 👉 Exiting the New Age — A course for people leaving the New Age and those who love them: https://willspencer.co/exit 👉 Mentorship for men: https://willspencer.co/mentorship TOPICS DISCUSSEDThe scapegoating pattern across historyWhy October 7th was a break point for the churchHow antisemitism captures and consumes its adherentsThe New Age connection to modern antisemitismThe shared pre-Jesus seeking path through Burning Man, ayahuasca, and the New AgeWhat the church fathers assumed about Jewish exile — and why 1948 changed everythingE. Michael Jones and the online anti-Jewish movementSartre's Anti-Semite and Jew and the character of obsessionNon-dispensational Zionism and the voice of many watersJewish people coming to Christ through New Age seeking in IsraelWhy the Old Testament is the one thing the New Age cannot syncretizeChristianity becoming "trendy" without addressing the Jewish question GUEST LINKSIs God a Zionist? Finding God's Story in a World Obsessed with Israel — Christopher Kuehl https://www.presentwitness.org/igaz Buy "Is God A Zionist?" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNP65L8N THE WILL SPENCER PODCAST Website: https://willspencer.co Substack: https://willspencer.blog YouTube: https://youtube.com/@willspencerpod X: https://x.com/willspencer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willspencer/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-will-spencer-podcast/id1533933447 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymQAvmnT446AP7IKE1Hbb Stuck on something you can't fix on your own? I mentor Christian men one-on-one for 12 weeks. We start with three hours where I mostly listen, then weekly calls and daily access to me in between, under the authority of Scripture. If you're serious, book a call: https://willspencer.co/mentorship Exiting the New Age (course, $29): https://willspencer.co/exit Support the show: https://willspencerpod.captivate.fm/support

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The Will Spencer Podcast is a weekly interview show featuring extended discussions with authors, leaders, and influencers who can help us make sense of our changing world today. I release new episodes every week on Friday.

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  • Creator
    Will Spencer
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    276
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