Welcome back to the show and apologies for missing yesterday's, as I've said, I have a home full of many young children and they can at times consume he morning making it impossible to record, so I don't fight it, and just welcome it.

But today, I decided it importantly to get into why I call the show, "The Dissident Dad Show" and why it has nothing to do with doomerish, actually. Instead it's about why disciplined dissidence beats doom, how to question institutions without losing hope, and what it looks like to guard a home in a noisy age. The goal as a dad is simple and hard; raise free minds, keep a clean house, and stay accountable to truth.

• quick family and homestead updates in deep snow
• defining dissident as disciplined, not doomer
• naming modern “untouchables” across school, media, politics, money
• separating signal from noise in news and culture
• rejecting nihilism in favor of responsibility
• auditing personal beliefs with the same rigor as institutions
• building family standards, skills, and boundaries
• hope rooted in agency, faith, and daily action