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.
If You Don’t Understand Welfare, You Don’t Understand the Debt | EP 25
Welfare was never the government's job. Josh breaks down how a system built for widows and orphans turned into a federal program paying for kids who never existed, and how we bring it back home.
Early American poor relief was local. The man handing out aid knew your family, and if you could work, you worked. Then 1935 brought federal matching money, the Great Society loosened the rules, and the church handed off its most personal command to a program office in D.C. Josh walks through the Minnesota fraud cases, steak on EBT, and his two-step plan: move welfare to the states and towns, then let churches and private charity replace it.
In this episode:
– How local poor relief kept fraud small and work expected
– Why 1935 was the hinge, and what the Great Society did to the family
– How resettlement contracts and remote paperwork fed the Minnesota fraud
– Who really deserves credit for the 1996 welfare reform
– Josh's plan to end federal welfare, step by step
Chapters
0:00 Who used to take care of the widow down the street?
3:03 How did early America keep welfare honest?
6:40 1935: the year Washington took over welfare
11:08 Did LBJ build welfare to buy votes?
13:50 How did 29,000 become 100,000 in Minnesota?
17:46 Steak on EBT and the cash card nobody talks about
20:18 Should we end welfare entirely?
26:37 Start with your own house
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16 Oct 2026
My Father-in-Law Sued the NCAA and Took On Tennessee's Elites | EP 24 | Chris Spencer
Chris Spencer sued the NCAA, built the made-for-TV college basketball tournament business, and then took on Tennessee's political establishment in a state Senate race. They spent over $2 million to beat him. He's also Josh's father-in-law.
Chris tells the story of being put out of business by the NCAA, fighting a four-year antitrust case while getting up at night with a newborn, and losing $12 million on appeal before building it all back. Then Josh and Chris break down how PAC money and open primaries protect establishment Republicans, and what a young man should do when the pressure feels like too much.
In this episode:
– How hard seasons forge a man, but only when he leans on God
– Why the NCAA tried to shut him down, and how he fought back
– How $2 million in PAC money beat a grassroots campaign
– Why Josh wants to ban PACs and make every donation public within 24 hours
– Why real leadership looks like washing feet
Chapters
0:00 Meet Chris Spencer
3:52 Taking On the NCAA
13:12 Back in Business in Las Vegas
16:07 What Forged Him
19:53 Running Against Tennessee's Establishment
24:57 $2 Million Against One Candidate
29:15 Ban the PACs, Close the Primaries
36:28 A Message to Young Men Who Feel Betrayed
44:17 Pick a Side
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13 Oct 2026
Ilhan Omar's Home Searched: Did She Ever Become American?
Federal agents searched Ilhan Omar's home Monday in a criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork. The same month, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen in Minnesota was arrested for plotting an attack on the Mall of America. Josh asks the question tying both stories together: did they ever actually become Americans?
Josh breaks down Trump's Russia diesel deal, the PERM suspension hitting Microsoft and the H-1B pipeline, what AI could do to 135 million American jobs, and why immigration worked in the Ellis Island era. Then he turns it to you: belonging to this country is a decision, and so is every right step you take this week.
Chapters
0:00 Ilhan Omar's Home Searched and the Mall of America Plot
1:10 Diesel Prices and Trump's Russia Deal
4:54 H-1B Visas, PERM and the Cheap Labor Racket
10:28 The GOP, the Midterms and the AI Era
14:07 Citizenship vs. Being an American
21:36 Why Ellis Island Immigration Worked
23:57 Ilhan Omar: Assimilation Was Never the Goal
27:53 AI, Jobs and Time to Assimilate
31:00 One Right Decision at a Time
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