Conspirituality Podcast: “Y’allidarity” (w/ Nathan Evans Fox) [Introducing Antifascist Dad Podcast]

Release Date: October 14, 2025
Hosts: Matthew Remsky, with guest Nathan Evans Fox
Main Theme:
This special episode is a crosspost launch of Matthew Remsky’s side project, Antifascist Dad, centering on navigating fatherhood, activism, and the fight against fascist currents—especially as they intersect with New Age, spiritual, and wellness subcultures. The feature interview is with Appalachian musician and labor advocate Nathan Evans Fox. The conversation unpacks “y’allidarity”—a grassroots, kin-driven solidarity—and examines how resilience, mutual aid, and radical inclusivity contest mythic narratives about Appalachian culture.

Episode Overview

• Introduction of New Side Project: Matthew introduces Antifascist Dad, a podcast focusing on antifascist family values, generational resilience, and actionable solidarity—an explicitly activist extension of Conspirituality’s mission.
• Guest Feature: Nathan Evans Fox, Appalachian songwriter and labor advocate, whose viral hymn “Y’allidarity” amplifies the overlooked strength, kinship, and radical potential of his home region.
• Key Subjects:
  • Contrasting “hillbilly elegy” narratives of despair with traditions of solidarity.
  • The complexities of spiritual and religious roots as both a potential wellspring and a challenge for inclusive, progressive movement-building.
  • Critical discussion about cultural resilience, masculinity, labor struggle, and mutual aid.
  • Subversive reinterpretations of Christian themes and Americana.

Key Segments & Timestamps

00:00 – 02:04 | Ad Section & Podcast Introduction

(Skip to 02:04 for main content)

02:04 – 05:21 | Project Announcements & Rationale

• Matthew explains the genesis of Antifascist Dad, linked to his concerns about the intergenerational perpetuation of bullying and fascism, and the corresponding tradition of antifascist resistance.
• “Generations of bullies grow up to be generations of fascists…But also, a deep heritage of antifascist young people and families…have learned how to keep each other safe while fighting back. That’s what I focus on with my kids and that’s what I want to do here.” — Matthew Remsky [03:27]

05:21 – 11:26 | Fascist Squish & Antifascist News of the Week

• Matthew inaugurates the news segment, highlighting current antifascist actions, with a focus on the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to bring aid to Gaza and facing IDF harassment. He amplifies the broader context of worker and dockworker solidarity in Italy for Palestine:
  • “It’s a real moment of workers’ solidarity with a colonized people, or as my guest Nathan Evans Fox might call it, y’allidarity.” [10:49]

11:26 – 17:57 | Introducing Nathan Evans Fox & Appalachian Hymns of Solidarity

• Nathan’s song “Y’allidarity” is played:
  • “When the Lord comes back, the rich getting scared of gotta act mean to be treated fair...I’m praying for the mighty to fall, else ain’t no use in prayer at all.” [04:39]
  • “When the Lord comes back, I’ll do my best to share my okra and cigarettes...break every law I can’t respect.” [11:26]
• Matthew underscores the song’s origin as an answer to stereotyped and privatized narratives of Appalachian despair, specifically as pushback against J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.

17:57 – 23:32 | Y’allidarity: Definitions and Reclaiming Kin

• “What is y’allidarity—and can anyone take part in it?”
  • “Yes, anyone can take part, but you gotta act right…which is being about loving your neighbor and making kin, making sure everybody gets to eat.” — Nathan Evans Fox [18:10]
• Nathan identifies exclusionary white victim narratives as myth, and instead centers kinship and mutual aid as authentic Appalachian strengths:
  • “Appalachia has meaningful history of labor struggle…the first thing that North American culture wants to do…is erase that culture.” [19:38]
  • “The history of what is best about the South and Appalachia…was never bootstraps community. It was always kinship—just people looking out for each other.” [22:42]

23:32 – 32:59 | Religion, Charisma & the Roots/Perils of Spiritual Community

• Nathan recounts growing up in charismatic, fundamentalist, unaffiliated Appalachian churches, with experiences of speaking in tongues, spiritual ecstasy, and a radical inclusivity:
  • “One of the good things…I really liked about being in these messy, underground, charismatic movements was that truly anybody could be there…There was just space for everyone to be who they were.” — Nathan Evans Fox [25:00]
  • He contextualizes this spiritual culture as having deep Black roots, carried into white churches:
    • “…all the holy rolling and speaking in tongues are actually the echoes of West African ecstatic worship…none of it is originally about whiteness or wanting power.” — Matthew Remsky summarizing Fox [16:52]
• They discuss how such charismatic, anti-institutional tradition can paradoxically foster both resilience and unaccountability—and how it has been exploited by political actors, including the rise of Trump.

32:59 – 41:06 | Line-by-Line: Radical Theology in Song

• Nathan explains song lyrics as a politics of abundance and acceptance, contrasting with the exclusionary logic of police, capitalism, and toxic masculinity:
  • “The cops killed Jesus, I mean, it’s that simple.” — Nathan Evans Fox [33:19]
  • “Jesus just walked among us…there were no creeds, no confessions until after he died. When you’re in the presence of a friend, you just be.” [34:06]
  • “Capitalism is making us prove things all the time, every day.” — Matthew Remsky [35:11]
• The conversation humorously and poignantly explores “big truck” culture, masculinity, work, and the distinction between authentic folk enjoyment and performative status displays.

41:06 – 43:35 | What Stays, What Changes: Guns, Beans, and Honey Buns

• The meaning of “all the guns are for shooting clays”—an embrace of cultural rootedness separate from violence:
  • “Abolition is just about nurturing the things you already have that keep people alive…remaking society…can just be changing around how we do things.” — Nathan Evans Fox [41:36]
• Continuing the culinary metaphors, Nathan describes Appalachian staples (pinta beans, cornbread, “convenience store” honey buns) as symbols of persistent, joyful community.

43:35 – 45:58 | (Partial) Wrap-Up: Survival, Mean-ness, and Resilience

• Matthew teases the rest of the interview on Patreon (second half exclusive for now), including Fox’s advice for young musical activists and a reflection on how the “generosity of hillbilly culture comes from a survival muscle, which, under forever work and war, can also flex mean.” [44:06]
• Fascist Dad of the Week: J.D. Vance, called out for perpetuating racist and defamatory rumors, exemplifying “real fascist dad stuff—look you straight in the eye and lie because nothing matters more than power.” — Matthew Remsky [46:01]

Notable Quotes

• Matthew Remsky [03:27]:
  “Generations of bullies grow up to be generations of fascists…But also, a deep heritage of antifascist young people and families…have learned how to keep each other safe while fighting back.”
• Nathan Evans Fox [18:10]:
  “Yes, anyone can take part, but you gotta act right…which is being about loving your neighbor and making kin, making sure everybody gets to eat.”
• Nathan Evans Fox [22:42]:
  “It was never bootstraps community. It was always kinship—just people looking out for each other, whether that's neighbors or blood family or whatever it is.”
• Nathan Evans Fox [25:00]:
  “...truly anybody could be there…There was just space for everyone to be who they were…organized around the fact that we all spoke in tongues. We all spoke in a language none of us could understand.”
• Nathan Evans Fox [33:19]:
  “Well, because the cops killed Jesus. I mean, it's that simple. Yeah, it's really that simple.”
• Matthew Remsky [35:11]:
  “The broader context I hear…is that capitalism is making us prove things all the time, like every day.”
• Nathan Evans Fox [41:36]:
  “Abolition is just about nurturing the things you already have that keep people alive…remaking of society can just be changing around how we do things…”

Tone, Atmosphere, & Style

• The conversation weaves humor and directness with deep empathy; it’s grounded, unpretentious, and playful, balancing personal anecdotes with sharp systemic critique.
• The exchange is richly referential, mixing Appalachian vernacular, labor history, and both Christian and leftist radical traditions.
• Musical interludes reinforce the argument that song and communal art are forms of resistance, belonging, and visioning for liberation.

Recommended Listening Flow (Segment Highlights)

• Start at 02:04 — skip ads and opening promos
• 11:26–17:57 — Nathan Fox’s music and the origins of “Y’allidarity”
• 18:00–23:32 — The meaning and practice of Appalachian kinship and solidarity
• 23:55–32:59 — Religious roots, transformation, and spiritual politics
• 33:05–38:09 — Deconstructing masculinity, abundance, and mutual aid in song lyrics
• 41:22–43:35 — On culture, abolition, and what traditions can be saved rather than discarded

Summary for New Listeners:
This episode is a warm, incisive, and revelatory plunge into the cultural and spiritual undercurrents of antifascist activism in America—rooted in the “real” South and Appalachia. Rather than reducing the region to cliches, Matthew Remsky and Nathan Evans Fox surface its radical histories and lived practices of kinship. Through music, storytelling, and truthful critique, they expose the contradictions of both dominant right-wing and polite liberal mythologies, model a vision of activism that is deeply personal and accessible, and offer counter-narratives in which kin, community, and tradition can be reclaimed—as long as we act right.