Alan’s channel is great. Love his insights.

This guy is based. 100% ahead of the curve too.

What a excellent conversation. As a man, in my seventies, who grew up in the South West, but now live in Southern Mississippi, these points, all strike a chord. Thank you Jon & Alan for the wonderful conversation, as I enjoyed my Toro cigar. Blessings.

@thepipecottage and Alan are awesome!!!!

Chesterton said, " I find no contradiction between a pipe of tobacco, a pint of good ale, and the cross." At least, that is the gist.

Gentlemen, what a great video. Most enjoyable and educational. Thank you both

Excellent interview with Mr. Harrelson, Jon! It is refreshing to hear the old, classic Southern accent spoken so well, redolent with the rhythms and cadences of the Tidewater and the Deep South. While my kin here in Tennessee speak with either the accent of Greater Appalachia or something akin to Mr. Harrelson's (My mother's side of the family originally came here from old Virginia and North Carolina back in the late 18th/early 19th century), many young folks, either due to apathy or too much exposure to pop culture, sound like some version of Valley Guys or Girls! That said, I believe y'all are right about the divide being primarily a spiritual one, even if many are unaware of it. Still, I have grown utterly sick and tired of those in the church who argue that any love of family, home, or heritage, is well nigh - if not actually - a form of idolatry. The rootlessness they encourage, whether intended or not, has had deep and lasting effects on what passes for American "culture", and the very idea of family and community they ostensibly want to strengthen through their (truncated) Gospel. In fact, when I hear that now-buzzword, "community", from them, I can't help but contrast it with the forms of genuine community I saw in my family's home county, and, while imperfect, indicate a greater understanding of it in my people's blood and bones, than these so-called experts on church planting and community building in the church now.

Alan has such a wonderful southern cadence. I've been watching his pipe and "gentleman philosophy" videos for awhile now. Nice to unexpectedly see "worlds colliding" here on Conversations that Matter.

Oh, man - you KNOW I'm 'down with' *so much* of what you men are discussing, especially the land, and the heritage, and the campfire...

Alan thank you for introducing me to Jon's channel. I answered that question for my family as I wanted the Generations that follow to have a legacy of Land Stewardship. I will be enjoying 5 Generations together on our land this weekend. Yes, several Generations will be representing your Pipe Cottage Social at JM Boswell's Saturday.

Such a great conversation. So much truth.

Great conversation!

I could listen to him talk all day.

So many of the things I like and admire about America seem to be disappearing by the day. It’s losing its spirit and character and becoming a bland, generic mess shaped by corporations and foolish ideas. You can say the same about most of Europe too. God bless Alan and those like him for upholding traditional thoughts, ideas and things that really matter and mean something.

Respect for Dr. Alan Harrelson brought me to your channel. I've enjoyed the conversation. I'll check out your other content, as well.

I've been subscribed to the Pipe Cottage for a good while. Alan is absolutely right that doing the Lord's will does not mean smooth sailing. One of my professors in seminary said that too many people run through open windows too fast and they forget that the Devil can open a window too. Wisdom is not in taking a road because it's easy or difficult, but in discerning spirits from God versus spirits from the Devil.

Very good video-----loved it-----worth the time to watch and listen.

Really like the new intro music.

There's a lady who flies a "Don't Tread on Me" flag here at a church in California. - She's also a legacy family member of a founding member of a local christian university.

Very enlightening. Of course I’ve heard of people moving from Red to Blue as they become more educated and wealthy, but it never occurred to me that people were freely choosing to move from Blue to Red. thank you so much for this unique perspective!

I love this man's accent! Also Kentucky is the best southern state. I used to live in Louisville a couple years ago before I took a pastoral position in south west KY. Town is 8000 people. There's problems but a lot of pros too. I hope to get some land in Kentucky too though I don't know if it's going to be over 200 acres. Anyway this was a great show thanks again Jon

I'd like to know how he approached his move in regard to a local church. I've looked a fair amount into buying land and moving but one major downside would be leaving a very good church to go somewhere with very few options, which may or may not be solid. It also usually means being further from the church, which limits the involvement in things that aren't on Sundays (i.e. we have Wednesday church, small group meetings, men's morning Bible study, etc.)

ok.... I really want to talk like this guy now

Wow, I’ve been thinking of moving to Appalachia for years now. My hubby won’t go for it, But that’s where my roots lie, and my dreams live. If I could,‘I’d go to SW VA. Now I’m in Northern VA, been here 35+ years. Wish I could “escape.”

I will definitely start looking out for Alan's content, btw, I'm from Eastern KY and everything he said about it is true, I live in NC now but I still miss it sometimes

I just rode up through these areas on my way to Cedarville University. There were so many ghost towns.

Enjoyed the conversation. Relaxing. Now I think Church of God would frown on tobacco in any form. However... I have thought not long ago what it would be like to smoke a pipe. I wonder what triggered the change... ok... over to his youtube channel.

It seems somewhat strange that he is all for National Forests. I’m not saying that they are all wrong, but to have that much land tied up in government ownership hurts people who make a living off the land or who would like to. Obviously he has another source of income but many who live there probably don’t. We have the same situation in AZ and there are definitely downsides to that much government ownership.

If you could get John Weaver it might be a fascinating conversation.

By the way, I saw the Jefferson Davis monument in Kentucky but thought it was 60% as high as the one in DC. It's near Clarksville Tennessee.

Is escapism ever consistent with the Gospel amd the great comission?

Living in such a rural area sounds like a dream, but the often the long commute to work in a city is someone's too much of a sacrifice in time with the family.

I want to start smoking a pipe, but I would prefer it if someone would just tell me what I should purchase to get started. Just give me a push in the right direction

He's right~ Louisville is awful!! The rest of KY is great

I understand the desire to participate in the Great Sort and flee liberal states but if we don't turn to defend what we have now, when will we? I get conservative Californians fleeing to red states, but if the most conservative all end up congregating in the back woods it will essentially hand over the entire national level of politics over. And logically speaking, we all can't move into the woods of Eastern Kentucky and buy tons of acreage. We as conservatives need to be able to lock-down the rural areas as well as come up with a robust urban political-machine to defend our interests nationally. Like it or not, our nation is ruled from cities, to abandon cities is to give the nation over completely to the regressives.

You don’t need nor want all the land, just the land next to yours.

Pray for Allan, in his latest video he says he is converting to Roman Catholicism.

It's great to have a wider range of content on the channel, but I found Alan Harrelson unconvincing. If he can afford to own a large amount of land without trying to make a living from it, good luck to him, but I don't believe that has much to do with the American agrarian tradition, or provides a very useful example for most young men wondering how to live.

Come on dude you get nicotine with pipe smoke...maybe not as much. Spurgeon smoked cigars.

So we accept King James’ Bible, but not his *Counterblaste to Tobacco?* Please explain.

why does he delete any comment that isn't in praise of him? I commented that many people have an issue with him because he is new to pipe smoking and perhaps he shouldn't be giving advice on pipe smoking when most of his knowledge isn't correct. He deletes it. Be wary of this person, he smells of charlatanism

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