Pressure Tested with Josh Thifault

Pressure Tested

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.

  1. 2d ago

    Should America Be a Christian Nation? | Joshua Haymes | EP 22

    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. 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. Follow Joshua: reformationredpill.com | godsaveamerica.cc In this episode: – Why Joshua believes a Christian America is the only way to save the West – Who leads the home, and how a husband earns his wife's trust – The 19th Amendment, the household vote, and where Josh pushes back – Israel, Christian Zionism, and sending missionaries instead of flags – Immigration, national identity, and the point Josh won't concede 🔸 Pressure Tested is the show for men who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but Jesus. Every week, we will have honest conversations about the pressures men actually carry — faith, marriage, fatherhood, work, discipline, and the weight of leading well when folding would be easier. No performance. No polish. Just the real work of becoming. We do this because strength is for responsibility, not image. Masculinity isn't a performance. It's faith over fear, ownership over excuse, and brotherhood over isolation. "The testing of your faith produces endurance." — James 1:3 ▶ Follow and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SHOW YouTube — Pressure Tested Show Rumble — Pressure Tested Show Instagram — @pressuretestedshow JOSH Instagram — @joshthifault X — @joshthifault TikTok — @joshthifault Website — pressuretested.com

  2. 5d ago

    The Truth About the Cornell Frat Case | EP 21

    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? 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.  In this episode: – Why the Cornell headline and the signed record don't match – Why the double standard on sexual sin is a lie for men and women – Why fathers, not youth group, have to form their sons – Self-control as strength (Proverbs 25:28) – The path back: there's no past Jesus can't redeem

  3. Oct 2

    The Christian Fight Club Saving Young Men | Luke Waters | EP 20

    Young men are drifting into screens, isolation, and despair. Luke Waters started a Christian fight club to pull them out. 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. In this episode:– The hollow man vs. the scornful man, and why pride sits at the center of both– How eight strangers and a pair of boxing gloves in a garage became a movement aiming for 1,000 chapters– Three books every young man should read: Joshua 10, Carry a Big Stick, and The Iliad– Luke's first steps for any man ready to break free from fake love and fake adventure– Why Legion 12's motto is "Fear God Only" Chapters0:00 Young Men Are Drifting0:54 Meet Luke Waters, Founder of Legion 123:50 The Two Ditches: Hollow Man vs. Scornful Man6:02 Why He Started Legion 127:56 Christian Fight Club in a Garage9:07 The Vision: 1,000 Chapters in Five Years10:32 Refounding the Christian Fraternity11:43 Political Fix or Spiritual War?13:46 Living a Fake Life16:00 "Fear God Only": The Legion 12 Motto18:22 The Men Who Forged Him19:28 Three Books Every Young Man Should Read20:53 His Most Contrarian Take on Toxic Masculinity22:14 Is America Seeing a Revival?23:20 Luke's Daily Prayer and Discipline25:16 First Steps to Break Free27:20 Get Off the Couch28:16 The 40 Martyrs Behind the Name Legion 1230:10 Stop Drifting, Start Building

  4. Sep 29

    Why Young Men Are Abandoning the GOP

    Why are young men checking out on the GOP before the 2026 midterms? The answer is Simple. Republicans have a courage problem.  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.  In this episode:– The receipts: Iran and the pump, Sea Island, the dog party, the Save America Act– The 2026 Senate map: North Carolina, Iowa, Texas, New Hampshire, Michigan– Why checking out is the cheapest courage on the internet, and real men are called to do instead

  5. Sep 25

    EP 18 | Can an Immigrant Become Fully American? Both Sides Get It Wrong

    They’re lying to you. Both of them. 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. 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. Learn English. Take the oath. Mean it. Keep the law. Now the win the right slept on. Fraud. Not waste. Waste is a sloppy office. Fraud is a business model. 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. Then we open Article I, Section 8 and ask what the federal government is even for.You’re the generation both sides want. Don’t give them your 20s. If that sentence offends you, this episode is not for you.

  6. Sep 22

    EP 17 | Let’s Be Honest About Trump

    Diesel just printed a number AAA has never printed before: $6.53 a gallon. Regular is $4.48. 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 $50 a tank before you even get paid. 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. 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. 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. I close with two things you can do this week that will actually change your life. Not another lecture. A plan. 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.

  7. Sep 18

    EP 16 | What a Coma Taught Him About God, Men, and America | Christian Hodges

    He should be dead. 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: I surrender.Doctors told his parents he’d never talk again. Never write again. Wouldn’t be “normal” for five years. Twenty-four hours after that prayer, he was released from the hospital… running laps down the hallway. The neurosurgeon who’s seen this condition a handful of times in a 40-year career still can’t fully explain it. Christian’s on the show today. We don’t dance around it.How that week rewired him.Why alcohol is quietly wrecking a generation of men’s testosterone. Why the modern American church keeps handing guys milk instead of steak. Why so many of his friends are walking out of dead Protestant churches and into Catholicism.Then we get into the actual gold rush sitting in front of you right now: AI + a blue-collar trade. 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. This is a guy who was not supposed to speak again.Now he will not shut up about the truth young men need to hear. Quit sitting on the sidelines of your own life. Go find out what you were actually built for.

  8. Sep 15

    EP 15 | AI Is the New Gold Rush for Young Men | With Chad Blackburn

    A $20,000-a-month consultant is sitting next to a $40-a-month subscription. One of them just became obsolete. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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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.

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