The Pugnacious Pilgrim Podcast

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. It’s been a long time without us, and a lot has happened while we’ve been away, but the best news of all is this: the boys are back in town. We originally had plans to tackle at least two other topics this week, but with things blowing up in Ukraine (literally), we decided to shift gears and talk about the hysteria of the world being on the brink of...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. We started the show off on a somber note. It’s officially, official. Tom Brady has retired from the NFL and Jason is distraught, disheartened, and disappointed. But then he was also publicly dissed, by Mike for his awkward and unbecoming man-crush. Trying to save the episode from a total loss, we quickly shifted gears to discuss Spotify’s conundrum o...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Today marks one full year…no, not of President Biden…but rather one year of the Pugnacious Pilgrim Podcast. Mike and I started today’s show dealing with some formal business for our pilgrims and bringing them up to speed on some of the current issues Mike and I are dealing with. We then shifted gears to shed a bit of light on why we feel it is very i...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. After months of clandestine efforts to infiltrate the ranks of the United States Military, Mike and I were finally able to get a covert interview with a real United States Serviceman, G.I. Joe. Doing our best to protect his identity, we pressed in with questions about how the military is handling the vaccine mandate as well as the difficulty of waiti...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, we should start things off by wishing everyone a Happy Insurrection Day. That’s right, today marks one year since the protest on the Capitol gave the democrats all the evidence they needed to label President Trump an enemy of the people and a the biggest threat to democracy since September 11th. With all the political pageantry from the left, t...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, this year is ending on a high note. Jake from State Farm, joined us on the podcast again and we had a lot to catch up on. Jake told us a story about his new hat which brought up a natural question about Stormy Daniels. We than discussed the unexpected “let’s go Brandon” moment on Christmas Eve, followed by the very expected “MAGA hate” response...

Hello Pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, it’s Christmas—or at least it was—and Mike and I wanted to take some time to dive into the “coming of Christ” and what it means for the world. But first we tackled a few items of business, as Mike pitched the new initiatives we’ve taken on at the Pugnacious Pilgrim. Next we covered the promise, from the White House, in the season of love, peace...

Hello Pilgrims and Happy week before Christmas week! Mike and I kicked things off by taking some time to address the criticism we received from our last episode of the podcast. We hold ourselves to the absolute highest standards, professionally and morally, and when we fail our listeners…we do our very best to own it with humility and apologize. We then moved into our primary topic of the evening,...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Mike and I took a bit of time to celebrate our emancipation, and boy does it feel good to be free…but not as good as we would have expected; considering the circumstances. As we continued to drag our feet, out of intense fear of the main theme for this episode of our podcast, we decided to waste a bit of time talking about Jussie Smollett and his fau...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Jason had the privilege of sitting in the presence of greatness, as Mike “Kingpin” Rogers co-hosted the show the night after bowling a 198. In today’s episode, Mike and Jason tackled the topic of Propaganda: Media, Message, and manipulation. We did our best to expose how propaganda works and how it seeks to control how people think and interact with...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, it’s thanksgiving week and what kind of pilgrims would we be if we didn’t take this episode to talk about all the things we are thankful for. In a culture that seems to thrive on grumbling, complaining, and finding every single reason possible to be offended, Mike and I discussed the way that Christians can shine in a bleak world; namely, with...

A special episode today. In this season of gratitude, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you for the things we are grateful for. #GrowOn #BeBraveAmerica #PugnaciousPilgrimPodcast

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. In today’s episode, Mike and Jason finally get to discuss (in detail) just what the heck their new “God is Judgmental” shirt even means. And, of course, due to some more technical difficulties, our sound quality is a bit off the mark. But that didn’t stop us from pressing on and pressing into this much needed conversation. With eternity on the line a...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, depravity struck our quaint little lake town again, and Mike and I made the last minute decision to shift gears and tackle a conversation with a direct impact on our local community. Small town news became a national headline, as a couple teenage girls decided to record themselves bullying another teenaged girl from their school, with disgustin...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. It’s November, which means only one thing. Mike is on his yearly mission to SAVE THE DEER.Our topic this week was “The Lost Art of Listening” and we looked no further than local politics to discuss just how divisive issues can become and how difficult it can be, at times, to wade through the muck of disunity in order to reach common ground. We then o...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Even though the show started off a bit rocky, with a few more technical difficulties, Jason steered the bus back in a good direction, by paying Mike his (long overdue) “Friendship Fee”, live on camera. This was a great opportunity for Jason and Mike to introduce their new line of Pugnacious Pilgrim Propaganda, including T-Shirts, coffee mugs, pint gl...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Mike and Jason pushed through a couple minor technical issues at the start of the show, but jumped in strong with the breaking news which hit the press on Wednesday, that not only was gain of function research being conducted in a lap in Wuhan China, but that the NIH actually did fund the research with a grant. This was a natural springboard in to ou...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. We’ve been marketing ourselves on a few new platforms recently, so we took a bit of time to welcome our newest pilgrims and help them get a better idea about who we are and why we do what we do. Then we shifted gears to discuss how words have meaning, until the meaning of the words are changed. Like, anti-vaxxer for example. The definition of this wo...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Jason brought Mike up to speed on what he missed while he was protecting ducks in Northern Minnesota. He shared how the nation seems to be uniting, in their encouragement for a guy named Brandon. We also discussed the awkward moment ESPN had to censure a black woman, because she decided to go against the approved narratives on what it means to identi...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. We stated today’s episode with a lesson on American history, as Jason discussed his crazy homeschool field trip to Boston and how his family’s walk down the freedom trail helped him rediscover a passion for the American Dream. Then, using a few quotes from Samual Adams (the patriot, not the beer) Mike and Jason discussed just how relevant and apropos...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. We streamed. We laughed. We had a good time. We also spent our entire show trying to understand how parents can raise Christian children in a Christless culture. Enjoy the podcast and stay Pugnacious! #GrowOn #BeBraveAmerica #PugnaciousPilgrimPodcast

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. Well, we went live today (on Youtube) and although things didn’t go down without a hitch, we still had some fun and enjoyed the interaction we received with those that jumped in with us. We started the show talking about the passing of Mike’s favorite comic of all time and how he seemed to walk a line in comedy that most folks have become afraid to w...

The world threw us a curveball today. We had our plans on what we were going to discuss, but with President Biden’s edict being released, our plans changed. However, this reality fit well with the primary topic of the show today, as we discussed how much of a priority science should play in our lives and how much evidence should we need before we simply, TRUST THE SCIENCE. Thanks again for joining...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. The cameras were rolling for the first time, as the boys attempted a dry run of the video version of the show. And, as expected, there were a few kinks as a couple of dinks tried to come to grips with podcasting in high definition. Mike and Jason jumped into a couple of newsworthy topics, including Texas’ 6-week abortion ban, San Francisco’s commitme...

Hello pilgrims and welcome back to the podcast. The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived. That’s right, we finally raised enough money to entice Derek to join us on the Podcast. And now you all know he’s an actual person and not just some figment of Mike’s imagination. With Derek manning the guest-host chair, we tacked a few topics before diving into an interview with a local nurs...