All Episodes
The Defiance and Obedience Podcast — 123 episodes
Your ER Can't Fix You or "Why America Needs Direct Primary Care" - Ep 123
Training Kids to Go Out or "Give Them Hard, Now, Don't Wait" Ep 122
Taxes and Flourishing or "Why Do They Hate Their People?" Ep 121
Lincoln's Pragmatism, Tariff Talk and Machine Guns in Kentucky - Ep 120
From Conconully to the USS Benfold or "Small Towns and Big Principles" - Ep 119
A Farmer Joins the Show or "The Life and Passions of Dean Pakinas" - Ep 118
Are You Paying Attention to Your Kids? From School Walkouts to Everyday Attention-Seeking - Ep 117
Bad Shoot AND Stupid Guy? or "Josh Breaks Down the Alex Pretti Incident" Ep 116
Raising Kids For Responsibility and Tension or "Children Who Can Stand" Ep 115
Knowing Their Frame and Pitfalls or "How to Parent with Faith and Prudence" Ep 114
Minnesota Fraud and Pickle Beer or "I'll Take Some Piss with My Fraud"
Christmas Cheer or "Fathers, Get your Joy On!" - Ep 112
Leading in Gratitude over the Holidays or "Fathers, Take the Lead" - Ep 111
Tis the Season to Party Or "Celebrate Like a Christian" - Ep 110
Feasting on Purpose or "Feeding Souls with Sacrificial Feasting"
One Body, Many Members or "Do Your Part" - Ep 108
Off Grid or Off the Reservation? or "Socialism Sucks" - Ep 107
Raising Men that Bear Weight or "Raising Stout Boys" Ep 106
What Is Government Good For? or "Uncle Sam, Stay in Your Lane" - Episode 105
Fatherhood Demands Action or "Protection Demands Attention" - Episode 104
Forgiveness, Tylenol and Fatherhood or "Healthy Skepticism and Strong Fathers"
The Doctor Brings Common Sense or "Thomas Paine Still Makes Sense"
A Heavy Week Calls For Truth or "Why Christ's Lordship Matters"
Marveling at Fermentation and Confounded by Fatherhood or, "Why We Should Never Stop Growing"
Freedom and Lagers or "Why Our Celebration Should Reflect Mindful Gratitude and Not Mindless Indulgence" Ep 99
Preserving Knowledge and Things of the Past or "The Wonder of Old Things that Still Work" - Episode 98
Many Interests Under One God or "When You Worship the Creator of ALL Things" - Episode 97
Faith That Works and Businesses that Care - Episode 96
"The Glory of a Crisp Pilsner and an Honored Parent" - Episode 95
When Soft Culture Clashes with Entrenched Values or "Why Pluralism Ultimately Gets Plundered"
More Than Sourdough or "Raising Daughters That Have Grit and Grace"
From Genesis to Jesus or "Why Building Culture Matters" - Episode 92
Hitler and Camping Trips or "The Value of Telling Stories" - Ep 91
Actual Care, Not Just Stated Coverage or "Why Direct Primary Care is Awesome"
Building Stout Children Through Adversity and Repentance Or "A Better Stout than Barrel-Aged"
Fellowship Over Food or "Well-ordered Menu Loves"
Culture-Confusers and Culture-Shapers or "Mission Clarity in a World of Confusion"
The Unknowns of Aliens and Raising Perfect Children or "How to Wonder But not Wander"
DOGE Goes Ham On Gov Fat or The Weightloss Program America Needed
First Week Checkup or "TRUMP RETURNS"
The 7 Year Update: 2nd Interview with Headmaster Jonathan Sarr
Life in the Negative World or What Changed Since the 1950's?
What's the DEAL with Ozempic? or "America Has Problems"
Cybertrucks and Psychos or Why 2025 is Going to be Spicy
Principles for the Holidays or Embracing Good Gifts
Theology of Laughter or Why Laughter is Necessary for a Christian
From Education to Assassins
Cure Your Funk With Thanksgiving or Why Gratitude Wins
Post-Election Craze or What Do We Do Now?
Vote for Your Neighbor or Why Not Voting is A Dereliction
A Healthy Loyalty to Your Neighbor and A Healthy Distrust of Government or The Pledge and 9/11, Revisited
Looming Elections and Dad Duties or Gird Up Your Loins, Men
Stupid or Liar? Or How Much Do you Trust The Government?
Embody What You Want To Reproduce or Living Consistently - Ep 71
Slay Your Sin For the Sake of All *and other hot tips* - Episode 70
Gun Rights, COVID Clarity, and Father's Leading Out Front - Ep 69
Find Your Why and Lean In Or Everything Starts With You, Dad - Episode 68
Children Exploited and A Murder Victimized? - Episode 67
Fathers, Defenders, Repenters: The Call to Live Up to Our Calling - Ep 66
Guns, Beer, and Raising Resilient Kids - Ep 65
Training That Never Ends or How to Build Kids and Dogs that You Don't Hate - Episode 64
America, the Land of Homeless, Home of the Censored - Episode 63
Repentance and other Strategies for Reversing Course. - Ep 62
Training Dogs and Kids - Episode 61
The Second Amendment is Not for "Self Defense" - Ep 60
Opportunistic Arguments, Nefarious Politicians, and a Lasting Legacy - Episode 59
BY WHAT STANDARD? or The Constitution Doesn't Work Without the Bible - Episode 58
Putin, Gun Laws, and Other Forms of Overreach - Episode 57
Grab Your Handle on the Battering Ram or How Are You Leading Your Household? - Episode 56
Courage, Justice, and Responsibility in a World Gone Crazy - Episode 55
Rogan, Biden and Cops - A Cabin Fireside Chat - Episode 54
Identifying as a Proverbs 31 Woman and other Sound Wisdom - Episode 53
Walking Defiantly in Obedience or Contrarianism is the Way - Episode 52
A Russian Breaks Down the COVID Game Film with Confusing Analogies - Episode 51
The Contraratics Dry with Cal - A Car Ride - Episode 50
A Gun Nerd and Beer Nut - Episode 49
One Year In and Fear Still Looms - Episode 48
President Who? A Recap On the Story We're Living - Episode 47
An SBR, the ATF, and the Gravity of Robust Christianity - Episode 46
Back to the Basics: Beer, Guns and Whiskey (and some Politics) - Ep 45
More Holes Dug than Filled - A Breakdown of the Last Presidential Debate - Ep 44
Upholding the Law While Submitting to Christ - with Your Neighborhood LEO (Ep 43)
The Need for Principled Resistance to Tyranny - Episode 42
Abandon Logic and Take to the Streets with Nate Lugg - Ep 40
Never a Better Time to Be a Contraratic - Episode 40
Masking the Truth, Things that Shoot and Raising Brave Boys with Chuck Dropping In - Episode 39
When Things Get Messy, Call In The Russians with Philip Kulishov - Episode 38
Redefining Kindness, Blackness, and Parental Responsibility - Episode 37
Introducing a Phased Plan with Many Phases - Episode 36
Growth through Trials, Politicians with Appetites and Sunsets that Speak - Episode 35
COVID Craziness, Economic Impact, And Civil Disobedience with Philip Kulishov - Episode 34
Living in Freedom, not in Fear - Episode 33 with Brian Ronk
Tattoos or No?
Josh's New Years Resolutions
Grace. Love. Beer. - 5 Rights Brewing - Episode 30
Bye to Beto, Mormons in Mexico, and Kuyperianism in Action - Episode 29
Tumor Talk, Blurred Vision, and Ammo Economics - Episode 28
The Contrarian OG Stops By - Episode 27
A Beer From Oregon And Gun Laws from Hell
Lean in to What Matters
Mike Tython, Ignoring Gun Laws, and Selling Out
Let the Beer Be Heavy and the Babies Live
Droppin' Bullets Like It's Hot - Episode 21
Female Body Slams, Insane Politicians, and Pot Virgins
Gun Nerdery, Bad Beers, And Socialism is AWESOME - Episode 19
It's Worse than We Thought - Episode 17 PART 2
Conceal Your Carry And Use The Other Door - Episode 17 PART ONE
An Extra White Beer, A Racist Wall, and All the Guns - Episode 16
This Is My Fight Song PART 2 with Brian Ronk - Episode 15
Voting Like Your Rights Depend On It (Or Not) with Brian Ronk - Episode 14 - PART 1
Military, Education, and Manhood with Brian Ronk PART 2 - Episode 13
Kavanaugh and Military Contrarianism with Brian Ronk PART 1 - Episode 12
People Are Bad, Guns Are A Tool, And Jesus Is A Contraratic - Episode 11
Raising Men In a Confused Culture - Episode 10
Motivational Speakers, Gun Printing and Sharp Words - Episode 9
Laughter Warfare: Why Classical Christian Education Matters - Episode 8
Whiskey on the Rocks of Political Hypocrisy - Episode 7
A Company That Aims to Serve, Men That Claim to Be Women, and Children That Need Representation - Episode 6
Suppressed Shooting, Loony Gun Laws, and a Hero with a Gun - Episode 5
Russian, Conservative, Americanism with Phillip Kulishov - Episode 4
White-Canadian Privilege, Alfie Evans and a Hop Salad
Pledge of Allegiance Contrarianism and a Review of the Glock 43 - Episode 2
Welcome to the Contraratics - Episode 1