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    <itunes:summary>Pressure Tested is the show for young men who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but Jesus. The Left tries to beat you down. The Establishment tries to control you. We are here to fuel your rise. We are here to help you break out of the world’s system. We are here to make you unbreakable.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Should America Be a Christian Nation? | Joshua Haymes | EP 22</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Should America be a Christian nation? Pastor turned podcaster Joshua Haymes says it's the only way to save the West. Josh Thifault presses him on what that would actually take.</p><p><br></p><p>Joshua is a husband, a father of three, a former church planter, and the host of Reformation Red Pill. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he started God Save America to put Christ back into conservatism on college campuses. Josh and Joshua talk about leading a household, the 19th Amendment, no-fault divorce, Israel, immigration, and what the church owes the young man who has given up on it.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Joshua: reformationredpill.com | godsaveamerica.cc</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why Joshua believes a Christian America is the only way to save the West</p><p>– Who leads the home, and how a husband earns his wife's trust</p><p>– The 19th Amendment, the household vote, and where Josh pushes back</p><p>– Israel, Christian Zionism, and sending missionaries instead of flags</p><p>– Immigration, national identity, and the point Josh won't concede</p><p><br></p><p>🔸 Pressure Tested is the show for men who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but Jesus.</p><p><br></p><p>Every week, we will have honest conversations about the pressures men</p><p>actually carry — faith, marriage, fatherhood, work, discipline, and the weight</p><p>of leading well when folding would be easier. No performance. No polish. Just</p><p>the real work of becoming.</p><p><br></p><p>We do this because strength is for responsibility, not image. Masculinity isn't</p><p>a performance. It's faith over fear, ownership over excuse, and brotherhood over</p><p>isolation. "The testing of your faith produces endurance." — James 1:3</p><p><br></p><p>▶ Follow and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>THE SHOW</p><p>YouTube — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Rumble — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Instagram — @pressuretestedshow</p><p><br></p><p>JOSH</p><p>Instagram — @joshthifault</p><p>X — @joshthifault</p><p>TikTok — @joshthifault</p><p><br></p><p>Website — pressuretested.com</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Should America be a Christian nation? Pastor turned podcaster Joshua Haymes says it's the only way to save the West. Josh Thifault presses him on what that would actually take.</p><p><br></p><p>Joshua is a husband, a father of three, a former church planter, and the host of Reformation Red Pill. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he started God Save America to put Christ back into conservatism on college campuses. Josh and Joshua talk about leading a household, the 19th Amendment, no-fault divorce, Israel, immigration, and what the church owes the young man who has given up on it.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Joshua: reformationredpill.com | godsaveamerica.cc</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why Joshua believes a Christian America is the only way to save the West</p><p>– Who leads the home, and how a husband earns his wife's trust</p><p>– The 19th Amendment, the household vote, and where Josh pushes back</p><p>– Israel, Christian Zionism, and sending missionaries instead of flags</p><p>– Immigration, national identity, and the point Josh won't concede</p><p><br></p><p>🔸 Pressure Tested is the show for men who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but Jesus.</p><p><br></p><p>Every week, we will have honest conversations about the pressures men</p><p>actually carry — faith, marriage, fatherhood, work, discipline, and the weight</p><p>of leading well when folding would be easier. No performance. No polish. Just</p><p>the real work of becoming.</p><p><br></p><p>We do this because strength is for responsibility, not image. Masculinity isn't</p><p>a performance. It's faith over fear, ownership over excuse, and brotherhood over</p><p>isolation. "The testing of your faith produces endurance." — James 1:3</p><p><br></p><p>▶ Follow and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>THE SHOW</p><p>YouTube — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Rumble — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Instagram — @pressuretestedshow</p><p><br></p><p>JOSH</p><p>Instagram — @joshthifault</p><p>X — @joshthifault</p><p>TikTok — @joshthifault</p><p><br></p><p>Website — pressuretested.com</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Should America be a Christian nation? Pastor turned podcaster Joshua Haymes says it's the only way to save the West. Josh Thifault presses him on what that would actually take.</p><p><br></p><p>Joshua is a husband, a father of three, a former church planter, and the host of Reformation Red Pill. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he started God Save America to put Christ back into conservatism on college campuses. Josh and Joshua talk about leading a household, the 19th Amendment, no-fault divorce, Israel, immigration, and what the church owes the young man who has given up on it.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Joshua: reformationredpill.com | godsaveamerica.cc</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why Joshua believes a Christian America is the only way to save the West</p><p>– Who leads the home, and how a husband earns his wife's trust</p><p>– The 19th Amendment, the household vote, and where Josh pushes back</p><p>– Israel, Christian Zionism, and sending missionaries instead of flags</p><p>– Immigration, national identity, and the point Josh won't concede</p><p><br></p><p>🔸 Pressure Tested is the show for men who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but Jesus.</p><p><br></p><p>Every week, we will have honest conversations about the pressures men</p><p>actually carry — faith, marriage, fatherhood, work, discipline, and the weight</p><p>of leading well when folding would be easier. No performance. No polish. Just</p><p>the real work of becoming.</p><p><br></p><p>We do this because strength is for responsibility, not image. Masculinity isn't</p><p>a performance. It's faith over fear, ownership over excuse, and brotherhood over</p><p>isolation. "The testing of your faith produces endurance." — James 1:3</p><p><br></p><p>▶ Follow and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>THE SHOW</p><p>YouTube — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Rumble — Pressure Tested Show</p><p>Instagram — @pressuretestedshow</p><p><br></p><p>JOSH</p><p>Instagram — @joshthifault</p><p>X — @joshthifault</p><p>TikTok — @joshthifault</p><p><br></p><p>Website — pressuretested.com</p>]]>
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      <title>The Truth About the Cornell Frat Case | EP 21</title>
      <itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The Cornell frat case went national, but the headline and the record tell two different stories. Josh breaks down the facts, then asks the question nobody's asking: where were the men?</p><p><br></p><p>From the fraternity group chat to the signed statement, the DA's findings, and Governor Hochul handing the case to Letitia James, this episode walks through what happened and what didn't. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why the Cornell headline and the signed record don't match</p><p>– Why the double standard on sexual sin is a lie for men and women</p><p>– Why fathers, not youth group, have to form their sons</p><p>– Self-control as strength (Proverbs 25:28)</p><p>– The path back: there's no past Jesus can't redeem</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The Cornell frat case went national, but the headline and the record tell two different stories. Josh breaks down the facts, then asks the question nobody's asking: where were the men?</p><p><br></p><p>From the fraternity group chat to the signed statement, the DA's findings, and Governor Hochul handing the case to Letitia James, this episode walks through what happened and what didn't. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why the Cornell headline and the signed record don't match</p><p>– Why the double standard on sexual sin is a lie for men and women</p><p>– Why fathers, not youth group, have to form their sons</p><p>– Self-control as strength (Proverbs 25:28)</p><p>– The path back: there's no past Jesus can't redeem</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The Cornell frat case went national, but the headline and the record tell two different stories. Josh breaks down the facts, then asks the question nobody's asking: where were the men?</p><p><br></p><p>From the fraternity group chat to the signed statement, the DA's findings, and Governor Hochul handing the case to Letitia James, this episode walks through what happened and what didn't. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>– Why the Cornell headline and the signed record don't match</p><p>– Why the double standard on sexual sin is a lie for men and women</p><p>– Why fathers, not youth group, have to form their sons</p><p>– Self-control as strength (Proverbs 25:28)</p><p>– The path back: there's no past Jesus can't redeem</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>The Christian Fight Club Saving Young Men | Luke Waters | EP 20</title>
      <itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>20</podcast:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Young men are drifting into screens, isolation, and despair. Luke Waters started a Christian fight club to pull them out.</p><p>Luke is a Hillsdale College student, Eagle Scout, and founder of Legion 12, a Christian brotherhood forming young men in body, mind, and soul through boxing, jiu-jitsu, Scripture, and accountability. Josh and Luke talk about the two ditches young Christian men fall into, why the fight is spiritual before it's political, and the 40 martyrs who walked onto a frozen lake rather than deny Christ.</p><p>In this episode:<br>– The hollow man vs. the scornful man, and why pride sits at the center of both<br>– How eight strangers and a pair of boxing gloves in a garage became a movement aiming for 1,000 chapters<br>– Three books every young man should read: Joshua 10, Carry a Big Stick, and The Iliad<br>– Luke's first steps for any man ready to break free from fake love and fake adventure<br>– Why Legion 12's motto is "Fear God Only"</p><p>Chapters<br>0:00 Young Men Are Drifting<br>0:54 Meet Luke Waters, Founder of Legion 12<br>3:50 The Two Ditches: Hollow Man vs. Scornful Man<br>6:02 Why He Started Legion 12<br>7:56 Christian Fight Club in a Garage<br>9:07 The Vision: 1,000 Chapters in Five Years<br>10:32 Refounding the Christian Fraternity<br>11:43 Political Fix or Spiritual War?<br>13:46 Living a Fake Life<br>16:00 "Fear God Only": The Legion 12 Motto<br>18:22 The Men Who Forged Him<br>19:28 Three Books Every Young Man Should Read<br>20:53 His Most Contrarian Take on Toxic Masculinity<br>22:14 Is America Seeing a Revival?<br>23:20 Luke's Daily Prayer and Discipline<br>25:16 First Steps to Break Free<br>27:20 Get Off the Couch<br>28:16 The 40 Martyrs Behind the Name Legion 12<br>30:10 Stop Drifting, Start Building</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Young men are drifting into screens, isolation, and despair. Luke Waters started a Christian fight club to pull them out.</p><p>Luke is a Hillsdale College student, Eagle Scout, and founder of Legion 12, a Christian brotherhood forming young men in body, mind, and soul through boxing, jiu-jitsu, Scripture, and accountability. Josh and Luke talk about the two ditches young Christian men fall into, why the fight is spiritual before it's political, and the 40 martyrs who walked onto a frozen lake rather than deny Christ.</p><p>In this episode:<br>– The hollow man vs. the scornful man, and why pride sits at the center of both<br>– How eight strangers and a pair of boxing gloves in a garage became a movement aiming for 1,000 chapters<br>– Three books every young man should read: Joshua 10, Carry a Big Stick, and The Iliad<br>– Luke's first steps for any man ready to break free from fake love and fake adventure<br>– Why Legion 12's motto is "Fear God Only"</p><p>Chapters<br>0:00 Young Men Are Drifting<br>0:54 Meet Luke Waters, Founder of Legion 12<br>3:50 The Two Ditches: Hollow Man vs. Scornful Man<br>6:02 Why He Started Legion 12<br>7:56 Christian Fight Club in a Garage<br>9:07 The Vision: 1,000 Chapters in Five Years<br>10:32 Refounding the Christian Fraternity<br>11:43 Political Fix or Spiritual War?<br>13:46 Living a Fake Life<br>16:00 "Fear God Only": The Legion 12 Motto<br>18:22 The Men Who Forged Him<br>19:28 Three Books Every Young Man Should Read<br>20:53 His Most Contrarian Take on Toxic Masculinity<br>22:14 Is America Seeing a Revival?<br>23:20 Luke's Daily Prayer and Discipline<br>25:16 First Steps to Break Free<br>27:20 Get Off the Couch<br>28:16 The 40 Martyrs Behind the Name Legion 12<br>30:10 Stop Drifting, Start Building</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Young men are drifting into screens, isolation, and despair. Luke Waters started a Christian fight club to pull them out.</p><p>Luke is a Hillsdale College student, Eagle Scout, and founder of Legion 12, a Christian brotherhood forming young men in body, mind, and soul through boxing, jiu-jitsu, Scripture, and accountability. Josh and Luke talk about the two ditches young Christian men fall into, why the fight is spiritual before it's political, and the 40 martyrs who walked onto a frozen lake rather than deny Christ.</p><p>In this episode:<br>– The hollow man vs. the scornful man, and why pride sits at the center of both<br>– How eight strangers and a pair of boxing gloves in a garage became a movement aiming for 1,000 chapters<br>– Three books every young man should read: Joshua 10, Carry a Big Stick, and The Iliad<br>– Luke's first steps for any man ready to break free from fake love and fake adventure<br>– Why Legion 12's motto is "Fear God Only"</p><p>Chapters<br>0:00 Young Men Are Drifting<br>0:54 Meet Luke Waters, Founder of Legion 12<br>3:50 The Two Ditches: Hollow Man vs. Scornful Man<br>6:02 Why He Started Legion 12<br>7:56 Christian Fight Club in a Garage<br>9:07 The Vision: 1,000 Chapters in Five Years<br>10:32 Refounding the Christian Fraternity<br>11:43 Political Fix or Spiritual War?<br>13:46 Living a Fake Life<br>16:00 "Fear God Only": The Legion 12 Motto<br>18:22 The Men Who Forged Him<br>19:28 Three Books Every Young Man Should Read<br>20:53 His Most Contrarian Take on Toxic Masculinity<br>22:14 Is America Seeing a Revival?<br>23:20 Luke's Daily Prayer and Discipline<br>25:16 First Steps to Break Free<br>27:20 Get Off the Couch<br>28:16 The 40 Martyrs Behind the Name Legion 12<br>30:10 Stop Drifting, Start Building</p>]]>
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      <title>Why Young Men Are Abandoning the GOP</title>
      <itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>19</podcast:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Why are young men checking out on the GOP before the 2026 midterms? The answer is Simple. Republicans have a courage problem. </p><p>They hold the House, the Senate and the Presidency. What men actually see is a senator throwing his bulldog a birthday rodeo on a workday while the Save America Act sits in a drawer, record diesel, a war with Iran and no named off-ramp, and Senate donors on Sea Island. President Trump kept his word on the border. Too much of his party hasn't kept theirs. </p><p>In this episode:<br>– The receipts: Iran and the pump, Sea Island, the dog party, the Save America Act<br>– The 2026 Senate map: North Carolina, Iowa, Texas, New Hampshire, Michigan<br>– Why checking out is the cheapest courage on the internet, and real men are called to do instead</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Why are young men checking out on the GOP before the 2026 midterms? The answer is Simple. Republicans have a courage problem. </p><p>They hold the House, the Senate and the Presidency. What men actually see is a senator throwing his bulldog a birthday rodeo on a workday while the Save America Act sits in a drawer, record diesel, a war with Iran and no named off-ramp, and Senate donors on Sea Island. President Trump kept his word on the border. Too much of his party hasn't kept theirs. </p><p>In this episode:<br>– The receipts: Iran and the pump, Sea Island, the dog party, the Save America Act<br>– The 2026 Senate map: North Carolina, Iowa, Texas, New Hampshire, Michigan<br>– Why checking out is the cheapest courage on the internet, and real men are called to do instead</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Why are young men checking out on the GOP before the 2026 midterms? The answer is Simple. Republicans have a courage problem. </p><p>They hold the House, the Senate and the Presidency. What men actually see is a senator throwing his bulldog a birthday rodeo on a workday while the Save America Act sits in a drawer, record diesel, a war with Iran and no named off-ramp, and Senate donors on Sea Island. President Trump kept his word on the border. Too much of his party hasn't kept theirs. </p><p>In this episode:<br>– The receipts: Iran and the pump, Sea Island, the dog party, the Save America Act<br>– The 2026 Senate map: North Carolina, Iowa, Texas, New Hampshire, Michigan<br>– Why checking out is the cheapest courage on the internet, and real men are called to do instead</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>EP 18 | Can an Immigrant Become Fully American? Both Sides Get It Wrong</title>
      <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>18</podcast:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>They’re lying to you. Both of them.</p><p>One side walks into a daycare full of empty chairs and tells you not to count them because it’s a protected community. The other looks at the same empty room and tells you the thieves are the problem because of their skin. Same religion. Different jerseys.</p><p>America is a culture you join. Not a skin color you inherit. Washington called it birth or choice. Lincoln called it the electric cord. Teddy Roosevelt said there is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. That includes the guy who puts “native” in front of the hyphen.</p><p>Learn English. Take the oath. Mean it. Keep the law.</p><p>Now the win the right slept on.</p><p>Fraud. Not waste. Waste is a sloppy office. Fraud is a business model.</p><p>Here’s how a ghost gets paid. 40 brokers stuffed 50,000 names into Obamacare. Daycares pulling $70,000 a month with no kids in the room. Feeding Our Future. I’ll show you how to read the fraud ledger so a press release can’t lie to you. And why JD Vance’s task force is not DOGE. I’m straight on DOGE too. What it actually did. Why the scoreboard they sold you does not survive the math.</p><p>Then we open Article I, Section 8 and ask what the federal government is even for.<br>You’re the generation both sides want. Don’t give them your 20s.</p><p>If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>They’re lying to you. Both of them.</p><p>One side walks into a daycare full of empty chairs and tells you not to count them because it’s a protected community. The other looks at the same empty room and tells you the thieves are the problem because of their skin. Same religion. Different jerseys.</p><p>America is a culture you join. Not a skin color you inherit. Washington called it birth or choice. Lincoln called it the electric cord. Teddy Roosevelt said there is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. That includes the guy who puts “native” in front of the hyphen.</p><p>Learn English. Take the oath. Mean it. Keep the law.</p><p>Now the win the right slept on.</p><p>Fraud. Not waste. Waste is a sloppy office. Fraud is a business model.</p><p>Here’s how a ghost gets paid. 40 brokers stuffed 50,000 names into Obamacare. Daycares pulling $70,000 a month with no kids in the room. Feeding Our Future. I’ll show you how to read the fraud ledger so a press release can’t lie to you. And why JD Vance’s task force is not DOGE. I’m straight on DOGE too. What it actually did. Why the scoreboard they sold you does not survive the math.</p><p>Then we open Article I, Section 8 and ask what the federal government is even for.<br>You’re the generation both sides want. Don’t give them your 20s.</p><p>If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>3112</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>They’re lying to you. Both of them.</p><p>One side walks into a daycare full of empty chairs and tells you not to count them because it’s a protected community. The other looks at the same empty room and tells you the thieves are the problem because of their skin. Same religion. Different jerseys.</p><p>America is a culture you join. Not a skin color you inherit. Washington called it birth or choice. Lincoln called it the electric cord. Teddy Roosevelt said there is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. That includes the guy who puts “native” in front of the hyphen.</p><p>Learn English. Take the oath. Mean it. Keep the law.</p><p>Now the win the right slept on.</p><p>Fraud. Not waste. Waste is a sloppy office. Fraud is a business model.</p><p>Here’s how a ghost gets paid. 40 brokers stuffed 50,000 names into Obamacare. Daycares pulling $70,000 a month with no kids in the room. Feeding Our Future. I’ll show you how to read the fraud ledger so a press release can’t lie to you. And why JD Vance’s task force is not DOGE. I’m straight on DOGE too. What it actually did. Why the scoreboard they sold you does not survive the math.</p><p>Then we open Article I, Section 8 and ask what the federal government is even for.<br>You’re the generation both sides want. Don’t give them your 20s.</p><p>If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 17 | Let’s Be Honest About Trump</title>
      <itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>17</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 17 | Let’s Be Honest About Trump</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Diesel just printed a number AAA has never printed before: <strong>$6.53 a gallon.</strong> Regular is <strong>$4.48.</strong> That is not a weather report. That is a shakedown at the pump, and if you drive for a living it is eating a whole extra <strong>$50 a tank</strong> before you even get paid.</p><p>Last Wednesday the Fed hiked rates for the first time since 2023. Your credit card just got more expensive. Your car note just got more expensive. And the same crowd that spent years telling you prices were a “vibes” problem is about to show up with a script: blame Trump, ignore the math, sell you a lie that somehow costs you even more.</p><p>I’m not going to pretend the pump doesn’t hurt. I’m also not going to let a diesel receipt erase what is actually working. The border numbers. The Laken Riley Act. And a Greenland security deal that slams the door on China and Russia in the Arctic. That last one is not a press release. It’s a lock.</p><p>Then we get to the fight nobody wants to have. CIRCLE at Tufts just dropped new data on young voters, and it is not the fairy tale you’ve been hearing about Gen Z going MAGA. We won young men by less than you think. And if the whole strategy is “get them to a ballot box and call it a conversion,” we are already losing them.</p><p>I close with two things you can do this week that will actually change your life. Not another lecture. A plan.</p><p>The pump is a beating. Trump is not a failure. Both can be true at the same time. If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you. If it doesn’t, tune in.</p>]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Diesel just printed a number AAA has never printed before: <strong>$6.53 a gallon.</strong> Regular is <strong>$4.48.</strong> That is not a weather report. That is a shakedown at the pump, and if you drive for a living it is eating a whole extra <strong>$50 a tank</strong> before you even get paid.</p><p>Last Wednesday the Fed hiked rates for the first time since 2023. Your credit card just got more expensive. Your car note just got more expensive. And the same crowd that spent years telling you prices were a “vibes” problem is about to show up with a script: blame Trump, ignore the math, sell you a lie that somehow costs you even more.</p><p>I’m not going to pretend the pump doesn’t hurt. I’m also not going to let a diesel receipt erase what is actually working. The border numbers. The Laken Riley Act. And a Greenland security deal that slams the door on China and Russia in the Arctic. That last one is not a press release. It’s a lock.</p><p>Then we get to the fight nobody wants to have. CIRCLE at Tufts just dropped new data on young voters, and it is not the fairy tale you’ve been hearing about Gen Z going MAGA. We won young men by less than you think. And if the whole strategy is “get them to a ballot box and call it a conversion,” we are already losing them.</p><p>I close with two things you can do this week that will actually change your life. Not another lecture. A plan.</p><p>The pump is a beating. Trump is not a failure. Both can be true at the same time. If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you. If it doesn’t, tune in.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:34:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>1985</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Diesel just printed a number AAA has never printed before: <strong>$6.53 a gallon.</strong> Regular is <strong>$4.48.</strong> That is not a weather report. That is a shakedown at the pump, and if you drive for a living it is eating a whole extra <strong>$50 a tank</strong> before you even get paid.</p><p>Last Wednesday the Fed hiked rates for the first time since 2023. Your credit card just got more expensive. Your car note just got more expensive. And the same crowd that spent years telling you prices were a “vibes” problem is about to show up with a script: blame Trump, ignore the math, sell you a lie that somehow costs you even more.</p><p>I’m not going to pretend the pump doesn’t hurt. I’m also not going to let a diesel receipt erase what is actually working. The border numbers. The Laken Riley Act. And a Greenland security deal that slams the door on China and Russia in the Arctic. That last one is not a press release. It’s a lock.</p><p>Then we get to the fight nobody wants to have. CIRCLE at Tufts just dropped new data on young voters, and it is not the fairy tale you’ve been hearing about Gen Z going MAGA. We won young men by less than you think. And if the whole strategy is “get them to a ballot box and call it a conversion,” we are already losing them.</p><p>I close with two things you can do this week that will actually change your life. Not another lecture. A plan.</p><p>The pump is a beating. Trump is not a failure. Both can be true at the same time. If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you. If it doesn’t, tune in.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 16 | What a Coma Taught Him About God, Men, and America | Christian Hodges</title>
      <itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>16</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 16 | What a Coma Taught Him About God, Men, and America | Christian Hodges</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>He should be dead.</strong></p><p>At 17, Christian Hodges went into a coma with a swollen brain. Couldn’t speak. Couldn’t read his Bible. The only two words he could get out: <strong>I surrender.</strong><br>Doctors told his parents he’d never talk again. Never write again. Wouldn’t be “normal” for five years.</p><p>Twenty-four hours after that prayer, he was released from the hospital… running laps down the hallway.</p><p>The neurosurgeon who’s seen this condition a handful of times in a 40-year career still can’t fully explain it.</p><p>Christian’s on the show today. We don’t dance around it.<br>How that week rewired him.<br>Why alcohol is quietly wrecking a generation of men’s testosterone.</p><p>Why the modern American church keeps handing guys milk instead of steak.</p><p>Why so many of his friends are walking out of dead Protestant churches and into Catholicism.<br>Then we get into the actual gold rush sitting in front of you right now: <strong>AI + a blue-collar trade.</strong></p><p>Christian lays out how he’d take a one-man HVAC company and turn it into a seven-figure business with it. Not theory. Not motivation. A plan.</p><p>This is a guy who was not supposed to speak again.<br>Now he will not shut up about the truth young men need to hear.</p><p>Quit sitting on the sidelines of your own life.</p><p>Go find out what you were actually built for.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>He should be dead.</strong></p><p>At 17, Christian Hodges went into a coma with a swollen brain. Couldn’t speak. Couldn’t read his Bible. The only two words he could get out: <strong>I surrender.</strong><br>Doctors told his parents he’d never talk again. Never write again. Wouldn’t be “normal” for five years.</p><p>Twenty-four hours after that prayer, he was released from the hospital… running laps down the hallway.</p><p>The neurosurgeon who’s seen this condition a handful of times in a 40-year career still can’t fully explain it.</p><p>Christian’s on the show today. We don’t dance around it.<br>How that week rewired him.<br>Why alcohol is quietly wrecking a generation of men’s testosterone.</p><p>Why the modern American church keeps handing guys milk instead of steak.</p><p>Why so many of his friends are walking out of dead Protestant churches and into Catholicism.<br>Then we get into the actual gold rush sitting in front of you right now: <strong>AI + a blue-collar trade.</strong></p><p>Christian lays out how he’d take a one-man HVAC company and turn it into a seven-figure business with it. Not theory. Not motivation. A plan.</p><p>This is a guy who was not supposed to speak again.<br>Now he will not shut up about the truth young men need to hear.</p><p>Quit sitting on the sidelines of your own life.</p><p>Go find out what you were actually built for.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>3742</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>He should be dead.</strong></p><p>At 17, Christian Hodges went into a coma with a swollen brain. Couldn’t speak. Couldn’t read his Bible. The only two words he could get out: <strong>I surrender.</strong><br>Doctors told his parents he’d never talk again. Never write again. Wouldn’t be “normal” for five years.</p><p>Twenty-four hours after that prayer, he was released from the hospital… running laps down the hallway.</p><p>The neurosurgeon who’s seen this condition a handful of times in a 40-year career still can’t fully explain it.</p><p>Christian’s on the show today. We don’t dance around it.<br>How that week rewired him.<br>Why alcohol is quietly wrecking a generation of men’s testosterone.</p><p>Why the modern American church keeps handing guys milk instead of steak.</p><p>Why so many of his friends are walking out of dead Protestant churches and into Catholicism.<br>Then we get into the actual gold rush sitting in front of you right now: <strong>AI + a blue-collar trade.</strong></p><p>Christian lays out how he’d take a one-man HVAC company and turn it into a seven-figure business with it. Not theory. Not motivation. A plan.</p><p>This is a guy who was not supposed to speak again.<br>Now he will not shut up about the truth young men need to hear.</p><p>Quit sitting on the sidelines of your own life.</p><p>Go find out what you were actually built for.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 15 | AI Is the New Gold Rush for Young Men | With Chad Blackburn</title>
      <itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>15</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 15 | AI Is the New Gold Rush for Young Men | With Chad Blackburn</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p><strong>A $20,000-a-month consultant is sitting next to a $40-a-month subscription. One of them just became obsolete.</strong></p><p>I sat down with Chad Blackburn — Eagle Scout, accounting-industry insider, and the kind of guy who built a network most men only talk about — to get at what AI actually means for a young man trying to make it in America. Not the killer-robot headlines. Not the Elon Musk doom math. The real thing.</p><p>Why AI didn’t kill accounting when everyone thought Excel would. Why the walls that used to gatekeep wealth and power are coming down right now. Why the same tool that turns a lazy man into a superfluous employee turns a go-getter into a one-man army.</p><p>Chad walks through how he runs businesses while he sleeps, why he pays in Bitcoin, and why the biggest threat to conservatives isn’t AI. It’s conservatives who refuse to learn it. We get into marriage, phones off at dinner, and why Boy Scouts might be the most underrated parenting tool in America.</p><p>This is for the guy who feels like the deck is stacked against him. It isn’t stacked the way you think. Learn what you can build with the new deck.</p>]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p><strong>A $20,000-a-month consultant is sitting next to a $40-a-month subscription. One of them just became obsolete.</strong></p><p>I sat down with Chad Blackburn — Eagle Scout, accounting-industry insider, and the kind of guy who built a network most men only talk about — to get at what AI actually means for a young man trying to make it in America. Not the killer-robot headlines. Not the Elon Musk doom math. The real thing.</p><p>Why AI didn’t kill accounting when everyone thought Excel would. Why the walls that used to gatekeep wealth and power are coming down right now. Why the same tool that turns a lazy man into a superfluous employee turns a go-getter into a one-man army.</p><p>Chad walks through how he runs businesses while he sleeps, why he pays in Bitcoin, and why the biggest threat to conservatives isn’t AI. It’s conservatives who refuse to learn it. We get into marriage, phones off at dinner, and why Boy Scouts might be the most underrated parenting tool in America.</p><p>This is for the guy who feels like the deck is stacked against him. It isn’t stacked the way you think. Learn what you can build with the new deck.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:author>Pressure Tested</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>3574</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p><strong>A $20,000-a-month consultant is sitting next to a $40-a-month subscription. One of them just became obsolete.</strong></p><p>I sat down with Chad Blackburn — Eagle Scout, accounting-industry insider, and the kind of guy who built a network most men only talk about — to get at what AI actually means for a young man trying to make it in America. Not the killer-robot headlines. Not the Elon Musk doom math. The real thing.</p><p>Why AI didn’t kill accounting when everyone thought Excel would. Why the walls that used to gatekeep wealth and power are coming down right now. Why the same tool that turns a lazy man into a superfluous employee turns a go-getter into a one-man army.</p><p>Chad walks through how he runs businesses while he sleeps, why he pays in Bitcoin, and why the biggest threat to conservatives isn’t AI. It’s conservatives who refuse to learn it. We get into marriage, phones off at dinner, and why Boy Scouts might be the most underrated parenting tool in America.</p><p>This is for the guy who feels like the deck is stacked against him. It isn’t stacked the way you think. Learn what you can build with the new deck.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 14 | My Brother Charlie Kirk</title>
      <itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>14</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 14 | My Brother Charlie Kirk</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/7d92ed95</link>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Charlie Kirk was my boss for eleven years, and I'm not doing some tribute reel with the sad music. Everyone else is doing that today. I want to tell you about the guy behind the brand, the one I watched grind in a room with dozens of people in Columbus back in 2014 when campus conservatism was a joke and nobody thought he'd make it. I watched him play chess while his opponents played checkers. I watched him take the hate people threw at him and turn it into jet fuel. I watched him win the political war he set out to win in 2024, and then I watched something few talk about. The second he won, he started obsessing over revival in America. He talked about Jesus more than policy, and some people did not love that. He was building something after the election that he never got to finish. Then September 10th happened and all of our lives changed. This is about the last year of Charlie's life, the stuff that never made a clip, the verses he leaned on, and the assignment he left for the rest of us. He finished the political rebellion. He started the spiritual one. That’s on you and me now.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Charlie Kirk was my boss for eleven years, and I'm not doing some tribute reel with the sad music. Everyone else is doing that today. I want to tell you about the guy behind the brand, the one I watched grind in a room with dozens of people in Columbus back in 2014 when campus conservatism was a joke and nobody thought he'd make it. I watched him play chess while his opponents played checkers. I watched him take the hate people threw at him and turn it into jet fuel. I watched him win the political war he set out to win in 2024, and then I watched something few talk about. The second he won, he started obsessing over revival in America. He talked about Jesus more than policy, and some people did not love that. He was building something after the election that he never got to finish. Then September 10th happened and all of our lives changed. This is about the last year of Charlie's life, the stuff that never made a clip, the verses he leaned on, and the assignment he left for the rest of us. He finished the political rebellion. He started the spiritual one. That’s on you and me now.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:11:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:author>Pressure Tested</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>1539</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Charlie Kirk was my boss for eleven years, and I'm not doing some tribute reel with the sad music. Everyone else is doing that today. I want to tell you about the guy behind the brand, the one I watched grind in a room with dozens of people in Columbus back in 2014 when campus conservatism was a joke and nobody thought he'd make it. I watched him play chess while his opponents played checkers. I watched him take the hate people threw at him and turn it into jet fuel. I watched him win the political war he set out to win in 2024, and then I watched something few talk about. The second he won, he started obsessing over revival in America. He talked about Jesus more than policy, and some people did not love that. He was building something after the election that he never got to finish. Then September 10th happened and all of our lives changed. This is about the last year of Charlie's life, the stuff that never made a clip, the verses he leaned on, and the assignment he left for the rest of us. He finished the political rebellion. He started the spiritual one. That’s on you and me now.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 13 | John Rich Explains Why Success Wasn't Enough | With John Rich</title>
      <itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>13</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 13 | John Rich Explains Why Success Wasn't Enough | With John Rich</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>John Rich came on the show and we started with the flock cameras. He told me straight up it's none of their business what he drives or where he drives, and he gave his opinion on what Texas and Governor Abbott should do about the ones already up. Then we got into his own story. He grew up in a double wide trailer in Amarillo with a dad who was a street preacher. He was named ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year three years in a row, something nobody else has done, and somewhere along the way he developed a gambling addiction that had him walking out of Vegas with six figures on some nights. He told me what happened after he apologized to God and meant it: he lost his record deal, his publishing deal, and country radio dropped him. We talked about Andrew Tate, about churches that would rather keep a comfortable boomer crowd than tell anyone the truth, and about the testosterone crisis in young men and what physical labor actually does for that. He laid out why he thinks trade school is a better bet than a four year degree right now, and we closed with him praying over the guys watching.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>John Rich came on the show and we started with the flock cameras. He told me straight up it's none of their business what he drives or where he drives, and he gave his opinion on what Texas and Governor Abbott should do about the ones already up. Then we got into his own story. He grew up in a double wide trailer in Amarillo with a dad who was a street preacher. He was named ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year three years in a row, something nobody else has done, and somewhere along the way he developed a gambling addiction that had him walking out of Vegas with six figures on some nights. He told me what happened after he apologized to God and meant it: he lost his record deal, his publishing deal, and country radio dropped him. We talked about Andrew Tate, about churches that would rather keep a comfortable boomer crowd than tell anyone the truth, and about the testosterone crisis in young men and what physical labor actually does for that. He laid out why he thinks trade school is a better bet than a four year degree right now, and we closed with him praying over the guys watching.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:14:58 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>5956</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>John Rich came on the show and we started with the flock cameras. He told me straight up it's none of their business what he drives or where he drives, and he gave his opinion on what Texas and Governor Abbott should do about the ones already up. Then we got into his own story. He grew up in a double wide trailer in Amarillo with a dad who was a street preacher. He was named ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year three years in a row, something nobody else has done, and somewhere along the way he developed a gambling addiction that had him walking out of Vegas with six figures on some nights. He told me what happened after he apologized to God and meant it: he lost his record deal, his publishing deal, and country radio dropped him. We talked about Andrew Tate, about churches that would rather keep a comfortable boomer crowd than tell anyone the truth, and about the testosterone crisis in young men and what physical labor actually does for that. He laid out why he thinks trade school is a better bet than a four year degree right now, and we closed with him praying over the guys watching.</p><p><br></p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>EP 12 | I Traced Every Flock Camera's Playbook — It's Worse Than You Think</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>There's a camera on a pole near your house right now, and it doesn't need a warrant to know where you slept last night. I'm talking about Flock Safety, the license plate reader network already running in 49 states, over 120,000 cameras, scanning plates 20 billion times a month. This isn't a stolen car tool anymore. A Kentucky cop searched the mother of his child 2,048 times and called it a drug investigation. A Texas deputy ran an abortion search on a woman across 83,000 cameras. No judge signed off on either one. I walk you through the hardware, the five myths they sell your city council, the court cases that already say this is a search, and the exact three minute speech to read at your next council meeting. Knox County, Tennessee just ripped these things out of the ground with a unanimous vote. Florida is pulling them off state roads. Texas just cut the funding. This is winnable, but only if you show up. If you've got a truck, a range trip on Saturday, and a church parking lot on Sunday, you are already in this file. Learn the silhouette. Read the contract. Bring five friends to the next meeting. I'm Josh Thifault, this is Pressure Tested.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>There's a camera on a pole near your house right now, and it doesn't need a warrant to know where you slept last night. I'm talking about Flock Safety, the license plate reader network already running in 49 states, over 120,000 cameras, scanning plates 20 billion times a month. This isn't a stolen car tool anymore. A Kentucky cop searched the mother of his child 2,048 times and called it a drug investigation. A Texas deputy ran an abortion search on a woman across 83,000 cameras. No judge signed off on either one. I walk you through the hardware, the five myths they sell your city council, the court cases that already say this is a search, and the exact three minute speech to read at your next council meeting. Knox County, Tennessee just ripped these things out of the ground with a unanimous vote. Florida is pulling them off state roads. Texas just cut the funding. This is winnable, but only if you show up. If you've got a truck, a range trip on Saturday, and a church parking lot on Sunday, you are already in this file. Learn the silhouette. Read the contract. Bring five friends to the next meeting. I'm Josh Thifault, this is Pressure Tested.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>There's a camera on a pole near your house right now, and it doesn't need a warrant to know where you slept last night. I'm talking about Flock Safety, the license plate reader network already running in 49 states, over 120,000 cameras, scanning plates 20 billion times a month. This isn't a stolen car tool anymore. A Kentucky cop searched the mother of his child 2,048 times and called it a drug investigation. A Texas deputy ran an abortion search on a woman across 83,000 cameras. No judge signed off on either one. I walk you through the hardware, the five myths they sell your city council, the court cases that already say this is a search, and the exact three minute speech to read at your next council meeting. Knox County, Tennessee just ripped these things out of the ground with a unanimous vote. Florida is pulling them off state roads. Texas just cut the funding. This is winnable, but only if you show up. If you've got a truck, a range trip on Saturday, and a church parking lot on Sunday, you are already in this file. Learn the silhouette. Read the contract. Bring five friends to the next meeting. I'm Josh Thifault, this is Pressure Tested.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>EP 11 | Could You Defend Lindsay Clancy?</title>
      <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>11</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 11 | Could You Defend Lindsay Clancy?</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Three kids are dead, and every adult in that story had a system, a diagnosis, or a job title. That's not good enough. In this one I walk through the Lindsay Clancy trial out of Massachusetts, a labor and delivery nurse who killed her three kids while her husband was out picking up medicine. The defense says postpartum psychosis. The state says it was a plan. I'm not here to predict the verdict. I'm here to break down the two sermons everyone's preaching about this case, the one that turns a diagnosis into an excuse and the one that turns her into a monster so nobody has to look at the house. Then I connect it to something a federal appeals court just ruled on, AI generated images of child abuse, and why the same lazy logic, we had no choice, keeps showing up everywhere from a Massachusetts courtroom to a federal bench to Meta writing a $17 billion check like it's nothing. This isn't a true crime episode. It's about what happens when the people with the least power pay for choices adults with titles won't own. Before you click away, say their names. Then look at your own house. Who needs you the most in it?</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Three kids are dead, and every adult in that story had a system, a diagnosis, or a job title. That's not good enough. In this one I walk through the Lindsay Clancy trial out of Massachusetts, a labor and delivery nurse who killed her three kids while her husband was out picking up medicine. The defense says postpartum psychosis. The state says it was a plan. I'm not here to predict the verdict. I'm here to break down the two sermons everyone's preaching about this case, the one that turns a diagnosis into an excuse and the one that turns her into a monster so nobody has to look at the house. Then I connect it to something a federal appeals court just ruled on, AI generated images of child abuse, and why the same lazy logic, we had no choice, keeps showing up everywhere from a Massachusetts courtroom to a federal bench to Meta writing a $17 billion check like it's nothing. This isn't a true crime episode. It's about what happens when the people with the least power pay for choices adults with titles won't own. Before you click away, say their names. Then look at your own house. Who needs you the most in it?</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:08:19 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Three kids are dead, and every adult in that story had a system, a diagnosis, or a job title. That's not good enough. In this one I walk through the Lindsay Clancy trial out of Massachusetts, a labor and delivery nurse who killed her three kids while her husband was out picking up medicine. The defense says postpartum psychosis. The state says it was a plan. I'm not here to predict the verdict. I'm here to break down the two sermons everyone's preaching about this case, the one that turns a diagnosis into an excuse and the one that turns her into a monster so nobody has to look at the house. Then I connect it to something a federal appeals court just ruled on, AI generated images of child abuse, and why the same lazy logic, we had no choice, keeps showing up everywhere from a Massachusetts courtroom to a federal bench to Meta writing a $17 billion check like it's nothing. This isn't a true crime episode. It's about what happens when the people with the least power pay for choices adults with titles won't own. Before you click away, say their names. Then look at your own house. Who needs you the most in it?</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>EP 10 | Top Nashville songwriter gave up everything he worked for... but why? | With Drew Parker</title>
      <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Drew Parker wrote "Homemade" for Jake Owen, songs for Luke Combs and Blake Shelton, and had a record deal with Warner Music Nashville, the exact thing every songwriter moving to that town is scratching and clawing to get. Then he walked away from it. On this episode he tells me the whole story. Growing up singing gospel music in Georgia, driving two and a half hours for a hundred bucks to open a show for a guy nobody had heard of yet named Luke Combs. Grinding for years, writing six hundred and fifty, maybe seven hundred songs, and only landing four number ones. And then, right at the peak, after a European tour, feeling like a fraud who couldn't answer a friend's questions about his own faith. We get into the discipleship that broke him open, the manager who wasn't even a believer and started hearing a voice telling him Drew was supposed to sing about Jesus, and the exact prayer Drew prayed five days before that call came in. This is a story about obedience when it costs you the dream you spent your whole life chasing. If you've ever felt like God is asking you to walk away from the thing you built your identity around, you need to hear what Drew did next.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Drew Parker wrote "Homemade" for Jake Owen, songs for Luke Combs and Blake Shelton, and had a record deal with Warner Music Nashville, the exact thing every songwriter moving to that town is scratching and clawing to get. Then he walked away from it. On this episode he tells me the whole story. Growing up singing gospel music in Georgia, driving two and a half hours for a hundred bucks to open a show for a guy nobody had heard of yet named Luke Combs. Grinding for years, writing six hundred and fifty, maybe seven hundred songs, and only landing four number ones. And then, right at the peak, after a European tour, feeling like a fraud who couldn't answer a friend's questions about his own faith. We get into the discipleship that broke him open, the manager who wasn't even a believer and started hearing a voice telling him Drew was supposed to sing about Jesus, and the exact prayer Drew prayed five days before that call came in. This is a story about obedience when it costs you the dream you spent your whole life chasing. If you've ever felt like God is asking you to walk away from the thing you built your identity around, you need to hear what Drew did next.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:58:41 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Drew Parker wrote "Homemade" for Jake Owen, songs for Luke Combs and Blake Shelton, and had a record deal with Warner Music Nashville, the exact thing every songwriter moving to that town is scratching and clawing to get. Then he walked away from it. On this episode he tells me the whole story. Growing up singing gospel music in Georgia, driving two and a half hours for a hundred bucks to open a show for a guy nobody had heard of yet named Luke Combs. Grinding for years, writing six hundred and fifty, maybe seven hundred songs, and only landing four number ones. And then, right at the peak, after a European tour, feeling like a fraud who couldn't answer a friend's questions about his own faith. We get into the discipleship that broke him open, the manager who wasn't even a believer and started hearing a voice telling him Drew was supposed to sing about Jesus, and the exact prayer Drew prayed five days before that call came in. This is a story about obedience when it costs you the dream you spent your whole life chasing. If you've ever felt like God is asking you to walk away from the thing you built your identity around, you need to hear what Drew did next.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>EP 9 | Braeden Sorbo Draws the Line on Masculinity | With Braeden Sorbo</title>
      <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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      <itunes:title>EP 9 | Braeden Sorbo Draws the Line on Masculinity | With Braeden Sorbo</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The same book has an endorsement from Mike Huckabee and Andrew Tate. That should tell you something about the guy sitting across from me today.<br>Braeden Sorbo is 24. He's married, he wrote a book on traditional manhood, and he's already lived out more of what he preaches than most influencers twice his age ever will. We get into everything. The alpha bro grifters who tell you to get yoked and get rich while their own lives are empty. Why submission, not domination, is actually the most masculine thing a man can do. Why the 19th amendment isn't the problem and repealing it isn't the fix. The affordability numbers nobody in Washington wants to say out loud, 66% of Gen Z will never own a home. And why a Taco Bell burrito going from 89 cents to 5 dollars explains the whole midterms.<br>We talk about guys like Dan Crenshaw telling broke 24 year olds to eat their ramen and shut up. We talk about Charlie Kirk and what he was actually fighting for right up until the end. We talk about my grandfather lying about his age at 17 to fight at Normandy and then Iwo Jima, and why that kind of man barely exists anymore.<br>This isn't a rant. It's a diagnosis. Watch how Braeden actually lives, then ask yourself if you're building something real or just talking about it.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The same book has an endorsement from Mike Huckabee and Andrew Tate. That should tell you something about the guy sitting across from me today.<br>Braeden Sorbo is 24. He's married, he wrote a book on traditional manhood, and he's already lived out more of what he preaches than most influencers twice his age ever will. We get into everything. The alpha bro grifters who tell you to get yoked and get rich while their own lives are empty. Why submission, not domination, is actually the most masculine thing a man can do. Why the 19th amendment isn't the problem and repealing it isn't the fix. The affordability numbers nobody in Washington wants to say out loud, 66% of Gen Z will never own a home. And why a Taco Bell burrito going from 89 cents to 5 dollars explains the whole midterms.<br>We talk about guys like Dan Crenshaw telling broke 24 year olds to eat their ramen and shut up. We talk about Charlie Kirk and what he was actually fighting for right up until the end. We talk about my grandfather lying about his age at 17 to fight at Normandy and then Iwo Jima, and why that kind of man barely exists anymore.<br>This isn't a rant. It's a diagnosis. Watch how Braeden actually lives, then ask yourself if you're building something real or just talking about it.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>5065</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The same book has an endorsement from Mike Huckabee and Andrew Tate. That should tell you something about the guy sitting across from me today.<br>Braeden Sorbo is 24. He's married, he wrote a book on traditional manhood, and he's already lived out more of what he preaches than most influencers twice his age ever will. We get into everything. The alpha bro grifters who tell you to get yoked and get rich while their own lives are empty. Why submission, not domination, is actually the most masculine thing a man can do. Why the 19th amendment isn't the problem and repealing it isn't the fix. The affordability numbers nobody in Washington wants to say out loud, 66% of Gen Z will never own a home. And why a Taco Bell burrito going from 89 cents to 5 dollars explains the whole midterms.<br>We talk about guys like Dan Crenshaw telling broke 24 year olds to eat their ramen and shut up. We talk about Charlie Kirk and what he was actually fighting for right up until the end. We talk about my grandfather lying about his age at 17 to fight at Normandy and then Iwo Jima, and why that kind of man barely exists anymore.<br>This isn't a rant. It's a diagnosis. Watch how Braeden actually lives, then ask yourself if you're building something real or just talking about it.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>Ep 8 | They Told You Roe Ended It. It Just Moved to Carbondale. | With Scott Hord</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Everyone told me the fight was over when Roe fell. Nobody told me it just moved three hours north to a town of nineteen thousand people where twelve thousand abortions happened last year. That’s where my guest today, Scott Hord, spends his mornings. Scott left the pastorate to stand outside abortion facilities full time, and in over a decade of doing it he’s had seven guns pulled on him, been run at by trucks three times, and taken every color of slushy Sonic sells to the face. He’s also walked with 800 women who changed their minds. We get into what that actually looks like on the pavement, why the church went quiet on this issue right when it needed to get loud, and why I think the conservative movement has a massive blind spot on IVF and surrogacy that nobody running for office wants to touch. Scott also opens up about the men and women who carry the weight of an abortion for decades, sometimes their entire lives, and what it actually takes to walk them back. This isn’t a policy conversation. This is a guy who gets up before the sun most days because somebody has to be standing in that parking lot before the car pulls in. You don’t need a title, a nonprofit, or a permission slip to do something about the thing you claim to care about. Scott didn’t wait for one. Neither should you.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Everyone told me the fight was over when Roe fell. Nobody told me it just moved three hours north to a town of nineteen thousand people where twelve thousand abortions happened last year. That’s where my guest today, Scott Hord, spends his mornings. Scott left the pastorate to stand outside abortion facilities full time, and in over a decade of doing it he’s had seven guns pulled on him, been run at by trucks three times, and taken every color of slushy Sonic sells to the face. He’s also walked with 800 women who changed their minds. We get into what that actually looks like on the pavement, why the church went quiet on this issue right when it needed to get loud, and why I think the conservative movement has a massive blind spot on IVF and surrogacy that nobody running for office wants to touch. Scott also opens up about the men and women who carry the weight of an abortion for decades, sometimes their entire lives, and what it actually takes to walk them back. This isn’t a policy conversation. This is a guy who gets up before the sun most days because somebody has to be standing in that parking lot before the car pulls in. You don’t need a title, a nonprofit, or a permission slip to do something about the thing you claim to care about. Scott didn’t wait for one. Neither should you.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:32:09 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Everyone told me the fight was over when Roe fell. Nobody told me it just moved three hours north to a town of nineteen thousand people where twelve thousand abortions happened last year. That’s where my guest today, Scott Hord, spends his mornings. Scott left the pastorate to stand outside abortion facilities full time, and in over a decade of doing it he’s had seven guns pulled on him, been run at by trucks three times, and taken every color of slushy Sonic sells to the face. He’s also walked with 800 women who changed their minds. We get into what that actually looks like on the pavement, why the church went quiet on this issue right when it needed to get loud, and why I think the conservative movement has a massive blind spot on IVF and surrogacy that nobody running for office wants to touch. Scott also opens up about the men and women who carry the weight of an abortion for decades, sometimes their entire lives, and what it actually takes to walk them back. This isn’t a policy conversation. This is a guy who gets up before the sun most days because somebody has to be standing in that parking lot before the car pulls in. You don’t need a title, a nonprofit, or a permission slip to do something about the thing you claim to care about. Scott didn’t wait for one. Neither should you.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>EP 7 | Baby Gabriel Is Alive Because She Said No</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>A surrogate mother in Alaska got hit with the worst call of her life. The couple who hired her to carry their baby found out he had a serious heart defect, and they told her to abort him. She said no. She packed up, drove to Texas, and because Ken Paxton's office stepped in with an emergency order, baby Gabriel is alive right now in a Dallas hospital. This episode walks through the whole thing. The surrogacy industry that created this situation in the first place. The Texas Senate race that's now tangled up in it, Ken Paxton the flawed but life defending nominee against James Talarico, a Presbyterian preacher who says the Bible is silent on abortion. I go through Paxton's scandals honestly, I don't pretend they didn't happen, and I ask whether God can use an imperfect man for good the same way he used David and Moses and Paul. Then we go somewhere you're not expecting, into the numbers on how many American kids are being born through surrogacy for Chinese nationals and raised under Chinese law with a legal obligation to the CCP. I lay out what Scripture actually says about children, marriage and protecting the vulnerable, and I make the case that commercial surrogacy needs to end. Some of you are going to be mad at me for this one. Watch it anyway, and decide where you actually stand.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>A surrogate mother in Alaska got hit with the worst call of her life. The couple who hired her to carry their baby found out he had a serious heart defect, and they told her to abort him. She said no. She packed up, drove to Texas, and because Ken Paxton's office stepped in with an emergency order, baby Gabriel is alive right now in a Dallas hospital. This episode walks through the whole thing. The surrogacy industry that created this situation in the first place. The Texas Senate race that's now tangled up in it, Ken Paxton the flawed but life defending nominee against James Talarico, a Presbyterian preacher who says the Bible is silent on abortion. I go through Paxton's scandals honestly, I don't pretend they didn't happen, and I ask whether God can use an imperfect man for good the same way he used David and Moses and Paul. Then we go somewhere you're not expecting, into the numbers on how many American kids are being born through surrogacy for Chinese nationals and raised under Chinese law with a legal obligation to the CCP. I lay out what Scripture actually says about children, marriage and protecting the vulnerable, and I make the case that commercial surrogacy needs to end. Some of you are going to be mad at me for this one. Watch it anyway, and decide where you actually stand.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:34:49 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>A surrogate mother in Alaska got hit with the worst call of her life. The couple who hired her to carry their baby found out he had a serious heart defect, and they told her to abort him. She said no. She packed up, drove to Texas, and because Ken Paxton's office stepped in with an emergency order, baby Gabriel is alive right now in a Dallas hospital. This episode walks through the whole thing. The surrogacy industry that created this situation in the first place. The Texas Senate race that's now tangled up in it, Ken Paxton the flawed but life defending nominee against James Talarico, a Presbyterian preacher who says the Bible is silent on abortion. I go through Paxton's scandals honestly, I don't pretend they didn't happen, and I ask whether God can use an imperfect man for good the same way he used David and Moses and Paul. Then we go somewhere you're not expecting, into the numbers on how many American kids are being born through surrogacy for Chinese nationals and raised under Chinese law with a legal obligation to the CCP. I lay out what Scripture actually says about children, marriage and protecting the vulnerable, and I make the case that commercial surrogacy needs to end. Some of you are going to be mad at me for this one. Watch it anyway, and decide where you actually stand.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>EP 6 | Would you give up your dreams for $5,000 a month?</title>
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      <itunes:title>EP 6 | Would you give up your dreams for $5,000 a month?</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Two maps are trying to win your soul right now, and neither one of them is telling you the truth. Andrew Tate is sitting in a jail cell while the empire he built on being untouchable gets torn apart in real time. At the same time a Muslim socialist running for Senate in Michigan wants to raise your taxes, fund gender affirming care for minors, and hand more control of your life to the government. One map says get so strong and so rich nothing can touch you. The other says burn the system down and rebuild it in a new image. I break down why both of them are lying to you, why IBM is selling surveillance cameras to your local police department and to the Chinese government at the same time, why Chicago has more murders this year than every city in pro gun Florida combined, and why the next election cycle is going to try to buy you off with a $5,000 a month government check. I talk about the wound underneath all of it, the fatherless generation, the men nobody came after when they walked out of church. Both maps are mining that wound. Neither one can heal it. There's a third way, and it's going to cost you more than either of these movements ever will. Stick around to the end. This one's for you.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Two maps are trying to win your soul right now, and neither one of them is telling you the truth. Andrew Tate is sitting in a jail cell while the empire he built on being untouchable gets torn apart in real time. At the same time a Muslim socialist running for Senate in Michigan wants to raise your taxes, fund gender affirming care for minors, and hand more control of your life to the government. One map says get so strong and so rich nothing can touch you. The other says burn the system down and rebuild it in a new image. I break down why both of them are lying to you, why IBM is selling surveillance cameras to your local police department and to the Chinese government at the same time, why Chicago has more murders this year than every city in pro gun Florida combined, and why the next election cycle is going to try to buy you off with a $5,000 a month government check. I talk about the wound underneath all of it, the fatherless generation, the men nobody came after when they walked out of church. Both maps are mining that wound. Neither one can heal it. There's a third way, and it's going to cost you more than either of these movements ever will. Stick around to the end. This one's for you.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>1822</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Two maps are trying to win your soul right now, and neither one of them is telling you the truth. Andrew Tate is sitting in a jail cell while the empire he built on being untouchable gets torn apart in real time. At the same time a Muslim socialist running for Senate in Michigan wants to raise your taxes, fund gender affirming care for minors, and hand more control of your life to the government. One map says get so strong and so rich nothing can touch you. The other says burn the system down and rebuild it in a new image. I break down why both of them are lying to you, why IBM is selling surveillance cameras to your local police department and to the Chinese government at the same time, why Chicago has more murders this year than every city in pro gun Florida combined, and why the next election cycle is going to try to buy you off with a $5,000 a month government check. I talk about the wound underneath all of it, the fatherless generation, the men nobody came after when they walked out of church. Both maps are mining that wound. Neither one can heal it. There's a third way, and it's going to cost you more than either of these movements ever will. Stick around to the end. This one's for you.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
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      <title>EP 5 | Everyone’s Choosing a Side. Is Your Church?</title>
      <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Your church might be the reason you’re losing your faith. This weekend gave us a pile of stories that all hit the same nerve for young men. A former Miss North Carolina got stripped of her crown over her religious convictions. A Democratic Senate candidate in Texas laughed on a podcast about how “Christianity is just another word for causing trouble.” And three Muslim majority nations signed a pact that says an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them. Most of our churches can’t say that about you. I break down the Michigan Senate primary and why it’s a signal for 2028, why the manosphere feels like brotherhood but isn’t, and I tell you the real story of eating free rice and beans in Pompano Beach because I was too broke to afford meat, working for Charlie Kirk for next to nothing. That pressure didn’t break me. It forged me. Then we go to Mount Carmel, where Elijah stood alone against 850 prophets of false gods because he counted the cost and obeyed anyway. Real faith costs you something. Performance never does. If nobody in your life would say an attack on you is an attack on them, this one’s for you.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Your church might be the reason you’re losing your faith. This weekend gave us a pile of stories that all hit the same nerve for young men. A former Miss North Carolina got stripped of her crown over her religious convictions. A Democratic Senate candidate in Texas laughed on a podcast about how “Christianity is just another word for causing trouble.” And three Muslim majority nations signed a pact that says an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them. Most of our churches can’t say that about you. I break down the Michigan Senate primary and why it’s a signal for 2028, why the manosphere feels like brotherhood but isn’t, and I tell you the real story of eating free rice and beans in Pompano Beach because I was too broke to afford meat, working for Charlie Kirk for next to nothing. That pressure didn’t break me. It forged me. Then we go to Mount Carmel, where Elijah stood alone against 850 prophets of false gods because he counted the cost and obeyed anyway. Real faith costs you something. Performance never does. If nobody in your life would say an attack on you is an attack on them, this one’s for you.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:05:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>2129</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Your church might be the reason you’re losing your faith. This weekend gave us a pile of stories that all hit the same nerve for young men. A former Miss North Carolina got stripped of her crown over her religious convictions. A Democratic Senate candidate in Texas laughed on a podcast about how “Christianity is just another word for causing trouble.” And three Muslim majority nations signed a pact that says an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them. Most of our churches can’t say that about you. I break down the Michigan Senate primary and why it’s a signal for 2028, why the manosphere feels like brotherhood but isn’t, and I tell you the real story of eating free rice and beans in Pompano Beach because I was too broke to afford meat, working for Charlie Kirk for next to nothing. That pressure didn’t break me. It forged me. Then we go to Mount Carmel, where Elijah stood alone against 850 prophets of false gods because he counted the cost and obeyed anyway. Real faith costs you something. Performance never does. If nobody in your life would say an attack on you is an attack on them, this one’s for you.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 4 | Fauci Lied. Let’s REBEL against the Health Elites.</title>
      <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>4</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>EP 4 | Fauci Lied. Let’s REBEL against the Health Elites.</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tony Fauci took the Fifth 112 times in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and I don't think an innocent man does that. Not once, not twice, 112 times. Rand Paul sat right there and Fauci wouldn't touch a single question about the origins of Covid, gain of function research, or the funding behind it. Same week, RFK Jr went on CNN and refused to let Dana Bash rewrite what actually happened during the pandemic. I'm walking through both of these, plus why one of the only mainstream guys to actually apologize for how Covid played out was Stephen A Smith, talking about Kyrie Irving. I'm also getting into the science of why the elites need you weak, why your testosterone is a threat to their control, and what the Bible actually says about who owns your body. It's not the government. It's not Fauci. If you've spent the last few years wondering why you can't trust a single institution that told you to comply, this episode names exactly what happened to you and what you do next. Fauci lied, we knew, now everyone knows!</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tony Fauci took the Fifth 112 times in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and I don't think an innocent man does that. Not once, not twice, 112 times. Rand Paul sat right there and Fauci wouldn't touch a single question about the origins of Covid, gain of function research, or the funding behind it. Same week, RFK Jr went on CNN and refused to let Dana Bash rewrite what actually happened during the pandemic. I'm walking through both of these, plus why one of the only mainstream guys to actually apologize for how Covid played out was Stephen A Smith, talking about Kyrie Irving. I'm also getting into the science of why the elites need you weak, why your testosterone is a threat to their control, and what the Bible actually says about who owns your body. It's not the government. It's not Fauci. If you've spent the last few years wondering why you can't trust a single institution that told you to comply, this episode names exactly what happened to you and what you do next. Fauci lied, we knew, now everyone knows!</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:duration>2901</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Tony Fauci took the Fifth 112 times in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and I don't think an innocent man does that. Not once, not twice, 112 times. Rand Paul sat right there and Fauci wouldn't touch a single question about the origins of Covid, gain of function research, or the funding behind it. Same week, RFK Jr went on CNN and refused to let Dana Bash rewrite what actually happened during the pandemic. I'm walking through both of these, plus why one of the only mainstream guys to actually apologize for how Covid played out was Stephen A Smith, talking about Kyrie Irving. I'm also getting into the science of why the elites need you weak, why your testosterone is a threat to their control, and what the Bible actually says about who owns your body. It's not the government. It's not Fauci. If you've spent the last few years wondering why you can't trust a single institution that told you to comply, this episode names exactly what happened to you and what you do next. Fauci lied, we knew, now everyone knows!</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 3 | No Walls. No Nation.</title>
      <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Sixty thousand people poured into a Spanish city of eighty four thousand last Thursday and Friday, and the internet immediately started blaming the wrong people. I watched the theories fly all weekend. It's Israel. It's the deep state. It's some GOP committee report nobody had heard of until five minutes ago. Sometimes it really is as simple as it looks. Spain wrote weak border policy, then a court ruling made fast deportations close to impossible, and Morocco ran the same play it already tested in 2021 with about ten thousand people. That was the beta. This was the real thing. And because of the Schengen zone, breaking into one country buys you access to twenty five of them. Spain claims they sent forty eight thousand back. I don't buy it, and neither do the guys posting video from the streets. In this one I get into why the real cabal isn't who your timeline says it is, why almost no pastors said a word during the Biden years, and why the Nehemiah story is bigger than the version politicians quote at prayer breakfasts. He built the wall first. Then he reformed the culture. That order is not an accident. Proverbs says a man without self control is like a city broken into and left without walls. You can't fix Madrid tomorrow. You can secure your own house, your own mind, and your own street, and you've got primaries this week to prove it.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Sixty thousand people poured into a Spanish city of eighty four thousand last Thursday and Friday, and the internet immediately started blaming the wrong people. I watched the theories fly all weekend. It's Israel. It's the deep state. It's some GOP committee report nobody had heard of until five minutes ago. Sometimes it really is as simple as it looks. Spain wrote weak border policy, then a court ruling made fast deportations close to impossible, and Morocco ran the same play it already tested in 2021 with about ten thousand people. That was the beta. This was the real thing. And because of the Schengen zone, breaking into one country buys you access to twenty five of them. Spain claims they sent forty eight thousand back. I don't buy it, and neither do the guys posting video from the streets. In this one I get into why the real cabal isn't who your timeline says it is, why almost no pastors said a word during the Biden years, and why the Nehemiah story is bigger than the version politicians quote at prayer breakfasts. He built the wall first. Then he reformed the culture. That order is not an accident. Proverbs says a man without self control is like a city broken into and left without walls. You can't fix Madrid tomorrow. You can secure your own house, your own mind, and your own street, and you've got primaries this week to prove it.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:author>Pressure Tested</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>1790</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Sixty thousand people poured into a Spanish city of eighty four thousand last Thursday and Friday, and the internet immediately started blaming the wrong people. I watched the theories fly all weekend. It's Israel. It's the deep state. It's some GOP committee report nobody had heard of until five minutes ago. Sometimes it really is as simple as it looks. Spain wrote weak border policy, then a court ruling made fast deportations close to impossible, and Morocco ran the same play it already tested in 2021 with about ten thousand people. That was the beta. This was the real thing. And because of the Schengen zone, breaking into one country buys you access to twenty five of them. Spain claims they sent forty eight thousand back. I don't buy it, and neither do the guys posting video from the streets. In this one I get into why the real cabal isn't who your timeline says it is, why almost no pastors said a word during the Biden years, and why the Nehemiah story is bigger than the version politicians quote at prayer breakfasts. He built the wall first. Then he reformed the culture. That order is not an accident. Proverbs says a man without self control is like a city broken into and left without walls. You can't fix Madrid tomorrow. You can secure your own house, your own mind, and your own street, and you've got primaries this week to prove it.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 2 | You’re Not Powerless—And It’s Time You Knew It | With Chris Hand</title>
      <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The first episode went scorched earth, and some of you said it was too intense. So this one is about solutions. I brought on one of my best friends, Chris Hand, a conservative radio host in Nashville and the former media director at Turning Point USA, to break down everything I said in episode one and tell me where I got it wrong. Turns out he thinks I wasn't harsh enough. We get into why the American church stopped reaching young men, why so many guys are running to Catholicism, and why the answer is reforming the church instead of walking away from it. We talk about Con Inc. and how it either crushes you or buys you, and where the Republican Party actually stands right now with all the power we handed them. Then Chris tells his story. Running from the church at 18, a drinking problem he couldn't stop, nine years sober now, five kids, and exactly how he finally cut it out. We also get into why you'd probably be happier deleting social media, why the races that are hardest to research are the ones that hit your life the most, and what the bottom up rebellion actually looks like when it's just you, your house, and the one vice you already know you need to kill. Get right with God. Cut the vice. That's the whole assignment.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The first episode went scorched earth, and some of you said it was too intense. So this one is about solutions. I brought on one of my best friends, Chris Hand, a conservative radio host in Nashville and the former media director at Turning Point USA, to break down everything I said in episode one and tell me where I got it wrong. Turns out he thinks I wasn't harsh enough. We get into why the American church stopped reaching young men, why so many guys are running to Catholicism, and why the answer is reforming the church instead of walking away from it. We talk about Con Inc. and how it either crushes you or buys you, and where the Republican Party actually stands right now with all the power we handed them. Then Chris tells his story. Running from the church at 18, a drinking problem he couldn't stop, nine years sober now, five kids, and exactly how he finally cut it out. We also get into why you'd probably be happier deleting social media, why the races that are hardest to research are the ones that hit your life the most, and what the bottom up rebellion actually looks like when it's just you, your house, and the one vice you already know you need to kill. Get right with God. Cut the vice. That's the whole assignment.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:51:46 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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      <itunes:author>Pressure Tested</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>4636</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The first episode went scorched earth, and some of you said it was too intense. So this one is about solutions. I brought on one of my best friends, Chris Hand, a conservative radio host in Nashville and the former media director at Turning Point USA, to break down everything I said in episode one and tell me where I got it wrong. Turns out he thinks I wasn't harsh enough. We get into why the American church stopped reaching young men, why so many guys are running to Catholicism, and why the answer is reforming the church instead of walking away from it. We talk about Con Inc. and how it either crushes you or buys you, and where the Republican Party actually stands right now with all the power we handed them. Then Chris tells his story. Running from the church at 18, a drinking problem he couldn't stop, nine years sober now, five kids, and exactly how he finally cut it out. We also get into why you'd probably be happier deleting social media, why the races that are hardest to research are the ones that hit your life the most, and what the bottom up rebellion actually looks like when it's just you, your house, and the one vice you already know you need to kill. Get right with God. Cut the vice. That's the whole assignment.</p>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>Men’s health, biblical Christianity</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:person role="Host">Josh Thifault</podcast:person>
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      <title>EP 1 | You’re Being Controlled—And You Don’t Even See It</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I spent 14 years building a big piece of the modern conservative movement, and I've watched the slow motion car wreck up close. So let me ask the question that forced this show into existence: what exactly is our movement conserving? In this episode I go through the three things that hollowed it out. The church went soft and started catering to sin instead of forging men. A professional consultant class, Con Inc., turned the whole thing into a business. And an outrage machine that exists to steal your attention, make you mad, and sell you gold. Then there's the special interest money, from AFP to AIPAC, that buys most of Congress before a single vote gets cast. But this is not another black pill show. America doesn't get fixed from the top down by smarter people running big government. It gets fixed from the bottom up, one man at a time. I'll tell you my story too. Broke, single, drinking, going nowhere, and what changed when I finally gave it all over to God. If you're working two jobs and still barely making rent, watching the American dream drift further out of reach, and sick of boomers telling you to just work harder, this one's for you. Step into the arena with me.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I spent 14 years building a big piece of the modern conservative movement, and I've watched the slow motion car wreck up close. So let me ask the question that forced this show into existence: what exactly is our movement conserving? In this episode I go through the three things that hollowed it out. The church went soft and started catering to sin instead of forging men. A professional consultant class, Con Inc., turned the whole thing into a business. And an outrage machine that exists to steal your attention, make you mad, and sell you gold. Then there's the special interest money, from AFP to AIPAC, that buys most of Congress before a single vote gets cast. But this is not another black pill show. America doesn't get fixed from the top down by smarter people running big government. It gets fixed from the bottom up, one man at a time. I'll tell you my story too. Broke, single, drinking, going nowhere, and what changed when I finally gave it all over to God. If you're working two jobs and still barely making rent, watching the American dream drift further out of reach, and sick of boomers telling you to just work harder, this one's for you. Step into the arena with me.</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:41:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Pressure Tested</author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I spent 14 years building a big piece of the modern conservative movement, and I've watched the slow motion car wreck up close. So let me ask the question that forced this show into existence: what exactly is our movement conserving? In this episode I go through the three things that hollowed it out. The church went soft and started catering to sin instead of forging men. A professional consultant class, Con Inc., turned the whole thing into a business. And an outrage machine that exists to steal your attention, make you mad, and sell you gold. Then there's the special interest money, from AFP to AIPAC, that buys most of Congress before a single vote gets cast. But this is not another black pill show. America doesn't get fixed from the top down by smarter people running big government. It gets fixed from the bottom up, one man at a time. I'll tell you my story too. Broke, single, drinking, going nowhere, and what changed when I finally gave it all over to God. If you're working two jobs and still barely making rent, watching the American dream drift further out of reach, and sick of boomers telling you to just work harder, this one's for you. Step into the arena with me.</p>]]>
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