Reformed Bracket Kickoff!

Bracket Kickoff for the 2025 Best Reformed Podcast

Well, hello, hello. Welcome everyone to the live stream for the 2025 best reform podcast. Bracket kickoff. We've still got some people coming in. Um, I see some people dropping out coming in, but we got a full house tonight.

How you guys all doing out there?

Doing good good.

All right. Let's see. Let's see. Let's get brandon back in there. It's like he's jumping in. Uh adam from rockwall bible said he's going to be coming in. So, um, yeah, so this is the kickoff. What we do is we do a live stream before we kick off.

I do a live stream after each. Uh round of voting, um, which this year just so everyone watching and you guys listening.

Um.

It'll be uh 64 then down to 32. Then down to 16 then down to 8 then down to 4 and then the final 2. Uh, so we're gonna have a little more voting because we expanded it to 128 Podcasts this year. So on monday, we're going to be going through and we're going to be doing 16 a day 16 match-ups, basically.

Hold on. We got someone coming in here. Is that uh, Who did we get back there? Okay, we got Uh parker, but um, I want to introduce all you guys for everyone watching. These are our sponsors. These are the guys who came on board and said yeah, we want to see you do this again.

Uh, we want to be part of it, uh, because we believe in podcasting we believe in getting those guys exposure. Uh, we love bringing glory to god. I think this is a fun thing that we can do online and people really get into it.

Uh, and of course as soon as I start talking people start jumping in hold on here guys. That's why it's a live stream. Is that uh, is that adam from rockwell?

Hey, it is.

It is. All right, and we can hear you cool. So everyone's got audio. Everyone's got visual. Excellent. I was just going over. I'm going to start where where i'm looking at my screen and kind of just work around the screen.

It might be out of order for you guys. But what I want you to do is, um, Is say, you know, uh, what's your product? What's your service? Uh as a sponsor what you do how you heard about the bracket whatever and give us a little 30 seconds.

About what you do too because the cool thing we all have in common here is we are all believers. We're all building something.

Um.

We all want to glorify god in both our personal lives and our professional lives. And that's why i'm ecstatic to partner with each one of you because I know each one of you personally. I've met you i've talked To you.

I know you're good guys and as christians. I think we really need to stick together in the business world like if we know a guy who Manages wealth. I want to go to the believer if i'm getting my bible rebound.

I want to go to the believer. I'm getting my cigars and my coffee in my uh podcast edited. I want to go to the believers. So, um, that's why I wanted to talk to you guys for a minute. So on this live stream Let's start start out with josiah stowe.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and uh, what business you bring to the table?

Dominion Wealth Strategists and Reformed Finance

Yeah, so good to be here. Uh, I am a california native that transplanted to louisville, kentucky after five years in the army as a chaplain's assistant. Worked at the southern baptist theological seminary handling their 31 million dollar annual operating budget before eventually transitioning into personal finance.

Uh, and we basically just do everything so full service financial planning and wealth management from a distinctly reformed point of view. So we help you with your budgeting help you with debt paydowns and savings accounts and life insurance and retirement planning and estate planning.

And business coaching kind of the whole nine yards and we do that all for free. Uh, we're independent brokerage agents. So we we get paid on the back end when we set you up with a with a carrier with a with a company.

They pay us because as far as they're concerned, we just brought them a client. They didn't have to go looking for it. So it's a way for us to kind of structure our business and pull into the egyptians while providing top tier financial planning without compromise.

Now not only do you have the best url in the business reformed dot money, right? You just type that in. Take you right there. But um, give me your tagline because I love your guys's tagline. You have two.

Yeah, yeah.

All of life. Yeah all of christ for all of life and all of finance for christendom. And then uh from baptism to burial. Dominion's got you covered from baptism to burial. I like that.

All right. So guys make sure you go support dominion wealth strategist, uh, terry man. You're the next one in line. Patriarch cigars. Tell me a little bit about the business. Telling me a little bit about the prize pack that you're giving out, too.

Patriarch Cigars and Christian Fellowship

Yeah, so my name is terry man. Um I'm one of three partners in patriarchy art company. We're based out of uh, southern oregon.

Um.

Basically, uh. A couple buddies and I at our local church. Uh, our wives were not real happy with our cigar budget. So we thought what can we do to to try to help that and so we started a cigar company.

And uh, that's that's kind of how it started. Um, but really we we've got A real similar vision. I think a lot of you guys we've actually we've talked to josiah. Um, We just want to build something that's christian and I think cigars are a great way to do that.

Yeah, he's going right. There we go. There we go.

You know, it's just If you're a cigar guy, you know when you come around a great cigar with some some guys it's just a great time to slow down and have some good fellowship and uh, we we just Thought it was a great thing for some christian brothers to be involved in and are ultimately we want to have you know a local brick and mortar here cigar lounge a place that people can just meet and um, you know, whether it's bible studies to just just whatever kind of Fellowship, we just want to facilitate that any way that we can.

Um, and we're all three partners. I'm, um myself. Uh, brian ferguson and ethan harris. Uh, we're all full-time. I'm a logger. We've got a family logging company. Brian's a cattle rancher and ethan's a forester with with warehouser.

Um, you know, so this is kind of our our hobby side gig that's turning into a lot of work.

Yeah, I don't think you can have a more masculine cigar. So that's what I want to say too. So you have a prize pack you're giving out a legacy cigar prize pack. But yours is cool because it won't necessarily go to whoever the final winner is.

But you are our most reformed In content judge so you get to pick there's two sponsors here that do something special you get to pick Uh who you feel exudes the most reformed man whether in content or gifts or post throughout the whole entire Uh 10 days and then we're going to allow you to award them that cigar pack.

So I think that's pretty cool. What's what's included in that legacy? Are there any good?

Yeah, so what we've got it's it's it's basically our entire line right now is our legacy line. That's what we started with. Uh, so there's two different cameroon cigars. There's a toro and a box press that'll be in there.

There's a really great, uh, nicaraguan piro maduro. Uh, there's a another piro. That's a habano. Um, and then our new sumatra, uh, and that and that's actually real sumatra tobacco from sumatra from indonesia.

And that is my personal favorite that cigar is a baller. It's just nice. It's it's really good. So we'll ship that out to you and i'm i've been checking the mail greg every day. You said I was going to be the reform czar.

So i've been waiting for my funny hat and my robe. But i'm pretty excited about that. But yeah, well, we're reformed. We're not catholic or eastern orthodox. Well, I still want a funny hat my head gets cold, you know, i'll see what I can find.

All right, moving right along, uh, the real parker brown. Watch well podcast, but here on behalf of he's the owner of vindicated productions. Uh professional audio video editing. And give us a little bit, uh about your company, uh parker and what you do.

Vindicated Productions and Creative Podcast Editing

Yeah, so we started um, I started this Um a few years back. Um got really into video editing. I started uh filming, uh weddings. And uh did that for a while. And then the brides got really tough to deal with.

So I was like, I don't want to do that anymore, but I I fell in love with the podcasting space made some great friends and.

Got really good really quick parker. Just so you know reform guys can be just as catty as brides. Yeah.

Yeah, well, I mean that's that's I mean if you've been on twitter for you know, five minutes you've. You you you find that out real quick. But um, but no what I mean, it's real simple. Uh, we we do podcast editing so that we can put the creator in the best possible.

Uh position or or seat that they that they enjoy, uh to be in so they they create. They do all of their filming so that they can be in uh, complete creative control. And then they upload Their raw files to the cloud.

They I download it and I edit it for them and send it back. Um, so that's awesome.

That's what we do.

Can I just say really quick too is I will go through my reels and I will sometimes skip over someone's podcast. That's did a little clip, but I always find myself watching all of yours and after about 10 of those I was like Why am I naturally gravitating towards that your quick edits?

Um, you're always in hd. Uh your text on the screen grabs you so you have not only the technical. But you really do have a creative eye for that stuff and I would say anyone listening that has a podcast.

That's at that space. They go look at I want someone to professionally edit do the audio. Even help me a little bit creatively to get more views and have people actually stay on my site or my reel instead of bouncing.

I would absolutely suggest you but you're the second guy that is going to be doing something special. Um, you're going to be looking over all the content for the whole week and you're going to be giving away a prize pack.

Which is one month of free editing a 500 value from you vindicated productions. For for the best contents that that's posted in that 11 days. So although terry's looking for most reformed and he's looking for kind of a theme you're looking for.

What. Visual pleasing. Uh, if it's funny if it's engaging.

And tell us about that. Yeah, so you get four free episodes five hundred dollar value. And um, you know, obviously we're video production. So we want to see people get in there and uh, you know create create some mischief get up to some shenanigans with the video and.

And uh, just really have a good time. So the the person that that has the best creative idea whether it be a gif or a meme or video content. Emphasis on the video, but we're looking at all of it, you know regular tweets all the way up to video.

Whoever has the best one will award them with the four.

The four free episodes so you're one of those ones if you're podcast watching right now both terry and parker. You could win something even if you don't get down to the final one or two. So, um be active be involved.

Moving right along. Brandon wood. Eschatology matters. My man from amsterdam. Uh, tell us a little bit about the podcast how that's been going and uh about your prize pack as well.

Eschatology Matters and the Importance of End-Times Teaching

All right, brother, thanks for Including us in this. I just want to say that parker if you were doing this last year You would have had to have picked us because we had the video of Uh us cutting keith foskey's head off.

So it would have been a winner.

We.

And we had our own we had our own theme song and everything. I feel like we we we should almost win. Just because of that, but anyways, um, we'll see what we can do this year.

Um, well you guys got. You guys gotta step it up for sure.

I'm not worried bro. We got this but uh. Uh, i'm a co-founder of eschatology matters, uh, we. We are essentially a content publisher, uh a lot of people know us from youtube because that's where we spend a lot of our our time and energy, but we are on.

Uh, the fight life peace network and we do podcasts on apple and spotify.

Uh.

We're not huge, but we we continue to grow every year very steadily and god's been good in that and we just want to.

Um.

You know, I was raised dispensational in in a charismatic dispensational environment, which was pretty Intense and so I had a pretty skewed view of eschatology and so our goal is to. People usually fall into two ditches.

They are very fanatical about eschatology and you can think of all the cults that have been started because of eschatology. Or they're very indifferent because they don't think that it really matters.

And so our goal is to go right down the middle and say hey, this should be a source of joy And motivation for you in your daily christian life. And so that's what. That's what we're about. Um. And so I I used to host conferences.

I might host one this year, but until I do i've got i'm sitting on a lot of books that uh Companies have sent me and so i've got some stuff to give away.

Um.

And I don't know if the winner I know we haven't talked about this. I don't know if you want, you know someone that's Participating or uh voting to get these or if you're wanting the podcast that wins to get them.

I don't know if they'll need them, but I have a Uh commentary on revelation, uh here this is actually it's from james hamilton. It's historic I'm post no, by the way, but um I think that's useful uh, while the bridegroom tarries by uh banner of truth, it's a really good book uh, and then My partner josh howard who started eschatology matters with me.

He rants and raves about this book. So this is an eschatology of victory by my by marcella's kick.

And.

I mean, this is his go-to when he's talking to people about eschatology and i'll throw in i'll throw in a few more. There'll probably be Six seven books that um, we'll give to the winner. So.

Yeah, so we originally had you in with the final winner. But sometimes that winner does say if you want to bless someone else with that. So keep an eye out just be watching the whole bracket. If the final winner says I don't necessarily need those we'll bless someone in.

Uh in the bracket with those, um, so awesome. Glad to have you here brandon. Thanks for jumping on uh, and then of course we come to squirrely. Joe. Joe morris. I just had some this morning, baby. Look at this.

The best reformed coffee that you're gonna have. On the internet joe. How you doing brother? Tell us about what you do. I think everyone knows right now, but they probably know. Yeah, you're everywhere.

All right now tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah glad to be here.

Squirrely Joe's Coffee and Supporting the Bracket

Uh, so joe morris owner of squirrely joe's coffee. Um, you know, we go to a lot of conferences and people just started calling me squirrely joe. So I never even intended for that. So we're just gonna go with it.

Um, but yeah, so we are a specialty roaster. So, you know, we import green coffee. We roast it. We ship it out. Super easy process, um, you know, we're just trying to provide good coffee. And uh, you know, I know all these guys on here except for adam.

Uh, good to meet you adam. Haven't met you before. Um, but i've met everybody else, um done some stuff with uh, several podcasts in the bracket.

So.

Um, and they're all on the left side. All the ones that I deal with are on the left side. So i've only got one shot to win with all the podcasts we do business with so, okay. Um, but yeah, you know, we're gonna be giving out prizes too.

So we don't have like a big grand prize so what we're kind of going to do this year is. Uh, i'm just gonna scroll my feed and and just pick a random person. Every day of voting and they're going to get a free bag of coffee.

So.

Um.

So basically the the you know, the entry is engage In some way with the bracket and you are entering in to to get a free bag of coffee. Uh, and then I will say that one of the podcasts that we work with.

They are sending me some swag to do some giveaways.

So.

If any of the other podcasts that I deal with want to. Maybe sweeten the pot and you know buy a few votes. You can send me some stuff and we'll do some giveaways for you, too. So.

Hey, I don't mind and i'm a politician i'm not against buying some, you know, swaying some votes, right? Uh, and by the way guys for those watching this is the one that I got addicted to in tullahoma compassion drank that for three days straight.

Uh, because I think you sponsored, uh, jeff's rice, uh, jeffrey rice's conference a few years ago. And I went how have I not heard of these guys? And then once you drink coffee, uh, you know five or six cups on 14 hour conference days for three days straight.

Uh, you pretty much get addicted to it. You go. This is my new coffee. So, um. Go go check out squirrelly joe's premium coffee here and last but not least We have adam from rockwall bibles who reached out to me and said would you would you be willing to uh, To give away one of my bibles.

I said willing are you? I have an obsession with that thing. It's beautiful. Oh, look at this thing. It is a esv creeds and confession uh, gray. Uh cow hide I think is this is half yap, right?

Is that half full? Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That's like a semi app.

Semi app. Okay. I mean just absolutely gorgeous. It's almost got like a grayish, uh, olive color to it stamped. Um, but i'm talking too much about. I should let the expert, uh adam from rockwell bibles Tell me about this bible that the winner is going to get an absolutely gorgeous bible.

Rockwall Bibles and a Rebound ESV Creeds and Confessions Edition

Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's a uh, well you well you kind of mentioned it esv um. With creeds and confessions, so really nice bible to have rebound. That's one of the more popular ones.

Um.

And yeah, it's in like a gray. Gray cow hide man. I I labored over what what leather to use for that one and the design so.

Um.

Yeah, yeah that it's a it's a pretty sweet bible I kind of wanted to keep it but. Right here. We better give it away.

Yeah, he shall reign forever and ever etched in the back. You got a great great spine here. So yeah, a podcaster is going to have an absolutely gorgeous bible and thank you for doing that taking your time.

Now I took it out of the box. It's it's fully wrapped. It's going to come in uh in its own box with its bubble wrap and everything, but we'll get that sent out. So adam, thanks so much for um for donating that taking your time.

Tell us a little bit tell us a little bit about the business. How long you been doing it? What kind of stuff do you do? Do you do just bibles or do you do all books?

Yeah, yeah, I can do uh, basically any book as long as it's a sewn binding. Uh, we've been selling rebinds for about a year now. Uh, it's gone gone really well. Um, and so I had plenty of business. So I just want to thank everyone out there who has uh put in orders with us.

Um, you know, i'm i'm kind of slow at work and I just do it part-time so I have a. Have a regular day job and then three three girls under four. So um, it's just kind of uh when I can get to them thing and.

Uh, but it's been it's been really good and the lord has blessed it. Uh, and in you know proceeds from from me selling bibles it kind of started off as a way for for me to eventually uh pay for their christian education, so whether that be uh, you know a christian school or.

Uh, maybe starting a school someday or or homeschool. One of the three um, so, you know when you buy a bible from us, that's what it's going to go to.

Oh, you can't have a better sales pitch than that. Yeah. The christian school. Exactly about a caesar school. Yeah, awesome. Hey, let's let's try to make it full time for you. Then we can just be rebinding bibles all day.

Um, all right, cool. We got a few minutes left here guys, so I just wanted to go over the.

Uh.

Oh my gosh, I mean we got. I don't know if we can see that. Um, I have a copy in front of me. But we've got 128 Podcasts on the list. I've gotten all but five of their social media contact. I'm waiting on the final five.

So they will be tagged in each one. That way if you're not familiar with it, you can always click through on x or their social medias and check them out. I started this, uh four years ago. Uh with 16 and it was just podcasts that had been on my podcast.

Then we expanded it to 32 then 64 and now this year 128 past winners have included dividing line, which uh, james white bowed out this year. He said i'll tell you what give my spot to someone else. Uh for a new up and coming podcast since he's a past winner and I appreciate that.

That's why you won't see james white from dividing line in here. Haunted cosmos is one. Apologia one, uh one year and they're back in it. So we've got a lot of good podcasts here. Do any of you guys look at any of these and maybe because I don't know every single podcast.

I know probably 80 of them. Um, but i've been in contact with every one of them. Uh, do you guys does anyone see on here like a dark horse that could go really far into the bracket just looking at these 128.

I know there's a lot here but um. Throw it out for me if you've been looking and you go man. One of these might make it farther than we think.

Yeah, I mean eschatology matters for sure.

That is true. You you guys are like, uh low-key sneaky can weasel your way into uh, you know some situations for sure as we've seen.

You know, uh, hey, I appreciate that brother.

Yeah, I don't know. It'll just depend on the response they make to cory. I think I think cory's really. Um, he's putting in the work with the with the videos man.

Um.

Cory wing from civically. Civically minded. Yeah civically minded. He's. He is laying a smack down on eschatology matters right now. So they're gonna have to brayden. You guys are gonna have to do something to to uh.

Put him down.

Well, he's gotten a lot of Shares on that video of the most reformed man with his pipe and his hat and yeah. That that was really good. Um, but I yeah, I agree with you parker. Uh, he's really he's really starting off strong early.

Another one is even andrew rapaport from rap report because I agree into this. And he goes deep into his like email list and he goes over to his facebook page and posts it. He's like guys go vote for me.

He went a couple rounds last year and almost beat. Uh, James white which is a tall order but came came pretty close and you go man. He might have a path that takes him far into the bracket. Um, just thinking is always a sneaky one if they actually post about it if virgil and those guys actually post and go hey.

Listeners go vote. He could be one that goes far. It really comes down to for all the podcasts listening to this is only on x so if you have interaction. Or you repost i've seen much smaller podcasts meet larger podcasts just because they were engaged and said hey guys.

Could you vote for me and move them to the next? Uh, you know to the next round in the bracket, which I found very interesting. So it's just not necessarily how big the podcast how many listeners or how many?

X followers you have it really is a like how active are you during that 11 day period? And will people respond to the request, you know?

Yeah, and i'm i'm just gonna i'm gonna stay it right now. I think watch. Well, I think we've got a good chance.

Oh, I I. Uh, who are you up against in. Uh, we're up against the ezra institute. Oh, yeah, because you're already taking him down. You've already got uh, we've got names rolling.

We've got a video being filmed uh tomorrow. So I mean I really hope they can take a joke.

I I I think you I think you legit I think you legit. Have a shot. Just because I don't think that joe and them do a whole lot as far as did they.

Interact with it last year greg. They were like five days too late brandon. So their team reached out to me X and said hey, we didn't know this was going on. Can can we still vote? I said you lost already.

You you got to start at the beginning. So well.

I'm having a dilemma here because i'm Sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. As long as I have a dilemma here i'm friends with nathaniel, right? And i'm friends with parker and i'm like do I tell nathaniel he better get out?

Do I just let it go? So parker has a better shot.

So you can do like I really like the uh, the disqualified due to inactivity rule.

Look it.

You guys can do whatever you want as the one who makes the bracket and does the post. I don't get in. I retweet everyone equally. I'm an equal retweeter, right? I'm a dei retweeter. But what I do is is I don't I don't go through first and say oh by the way.

They see it when they get tagged in the post so from there they're on, you know, they've been warned. So if they've got a very active Uh acts where they're on there every day or they have a social media manager that's actually looking at it They'll see it and they'll retweet it.

If not, then uh, the other person going up against them has the advantage. That's kind of the way I feel about it. All right. I'll go ahead.

No, go ahead brother.

I was just gonna say there's two of you here that are actually in the bracket that are on this Call right now. We're on this live stream um outside of that. Outside of youtube with your own podcast. What podcasts on this list.

And anyone can answer. Have you guys listened to the most do you think? Out of uh. Everyone on here some of these go back. For pretty far. I mean you talk about like apologia. Let me go in 10 years as a podcast.

Yeah, well, so, uh I don't know if this is uh is if this is a fair take but i've edited for reformation red pill so. Due to editing some of their stuff for them. I uh, i've listened to joshua haynes voice a lot.

Oh, they're clients. So, okay. That's a little conflict of interest I think.

Well, I mean i've got i've got a haunted cosmos shirt on right now, I don't know if anybody can see that but.

Oh, that's funny.

I it's the only podcast shirt I had and I thought you know, I don't care. I'll i'll i'll put a plug in for them. Maybe they'll maybe they'll notice me one of these days and want to want to advertise my cigars but right.

I mean, I those guys. And and theology applied. Those are probably the ones i've listened to the most but.

Um.

Yeah, I don't know if there's a lot of possibilities for dark horses in this thing. I I was talking to ethan our other partner about this today and man There's just so many that you could point to. He's really watching the base boomer and the heidel cast.

So yeah, we'll see.

Yeah, so. Another funny one too is center for baptist leadership. Yeah, and and william wolf. Asked me to write it that way because that's the name of the podcast and I said brother unless I tag you Uh with your name I don't know if you'll get any votes.

I don't know if anyone listens to center for baptist leadership now. I i'm, sorry william if you're watching i'm sure it's a very popular podcast, but everyone just knows william wolf. You know what? I mean?

They just know the name because that he's he's on x that way. So I told him I said don't blame me if the new startup for the king podcast, uh, you know. Uh, maybe gets past you in the first round. You got to be out there retweeting it.

I don't care if you are meeting with trump or not. You say mr. President. I have a bracket to attend to. I need to go retweet greg's tweet.

You asked president trump to tweet out the bracket.

There you go. Mr. President. You uh. Yeah, can you can you tweet this out? But uh, yeah, so overall man i'm excited because we have 128. When we get down to that 64. It'll clear things up a little bit and then it really gets fun in the third round at that 32 because once you get through Two rounds then it really starts getting into tough competition and you've got people who've been voting for you multiple times.

So the 32 and the sweet 16 are always very exciting. But just for everyone watching, uh, just so you know, we're going to start monday night. That's the 10th at 9 a .m. Eastern standard we're going to start from the upper left.

In the upper right side and we're going to do 16 matchups. So we'll get rid of 32 a day. So there's going to be four days of just first round voting then it goes down to 64. At eight matchups, so that's eight or i'm with uh, 16 a day.

So that's two days of second round voting and so on and so forth when we get down to the final 16. We'll probably do four a day essentially it works out to about 11 days and for anyone watching. Uh, I do not work, uh do brackets or do any podcasts on sunday?

So we will go monday through saturday. We will skip sunday and then we get right back to it monday tuesday wednesday and finish up on thursday. So. Um, you know if you're on x daily or every other day, I would say be on daily check in at real real dmw podcast.

You're going to have multiple votes going all day. They're all 24 hour votes. So they'll start at 9 a .m. They'll end at 9 a .m each day. So we'll have 24 hour votes and you get to vote for one or the other.

And then we tell him up at the end of the day and we put him in the uh bracket. So you can see it and you you will be able to see every day. Who is it who's advanced to the next round that seems to work out the best?

But guys, did you have any uh final words for anyone out there? Uh for the couple hundred people watching right now, well at least on x. I can't see on my youtube um, uh that are that are watching anything about the bracket you want to tell them.

I would just say that um I would just say go vote because you know, we all know that you know, all of us guys that make content how much work it goes. It goes into, you know, Bringing a message to an audience and uh, even even just voting.

You know voting for your favorite podcast goes a long way. So I would say just go vote and support the podcast that you really really like. And even if you don't support them vote. Just vote for someone that you Like when you see the poll just vote for somebody because it means a lot to us who create the content.

You know, I just want to echo that very quickly. Yeah, I just say share share this stuff vote you know, uh promote all the stuff you can and You know, i'm i'm judging everybody's Reform so you got to tag me in it if i'm going to see it.

So tag patriarch cigars and uh, hey, I I have no standards I can be bought so.