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Welcome to The Mighty Philbert — the channel where we dig deep, ask hard questions, and refuse to smile politely at bad theology. Whether you're crawling out of evangelicalism, recovering from purity culture, or just wondering why your Sunday school teacher thought dinosaurs rode the Ark, you're in the right place. Hosted by a proud GenX survivor of church trauma and theological gaslighting, this channel serves up weekly doses of counter-apologetics, Christian deconstruction, and cultural commentary with a heavy side of sarcasm and '90s nostalgia. We’re talking real talk about religion, belief, and how to rebuild your worldview without all the baggage. New episodes every week. Bring your questions, bring your doubts — and maybe your flannel. Because sometimes faith needs a second opinion.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to The Mighty Philbert, the channel where we dig deep, ask hard questions, and refuse to smile politely at bad theology. Whether you're crawling out of evangelicalism, recovering from purity culture, or just wondering why your Sunday school teacher thought dinosaurs rode the Ark, you're in the right place.
The Mighty Philbert Podcast is hosted by Phil Barksdale. The show has published 133 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "S03E40 Finding Meaning After Loss" (25 October 2026, 102 minutes), "S03E39 Halloween TV that Traumatized Gen X" (21 October 2026, 24 minutes), and "S03E38 Behind Closed Doors" (18 October 2026, 26 minutes).
The Mighty Philbert Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 133 episodes.
Booking probability for The Mighty Philbert Podcast is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Mighty Philbert Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Mighty Philbert Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Phil Barksdale hosts The Mighty Philbert Podcast, a society podcast with 133 episodes published.
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Episode #40
Send us Fan Mail Grief doesn't follow a schedule. It doesn't come with an expiration date, and nobody gets to tell you when you should be over it. Join me LIVE on Saturday, October 24, at 7 PM as we explore David...
Episode #39
Send us Fan Mail Remember when a black-and-white television show could scare the living hell out of you? For Gen X, Halloween wasn't just about costumes and candy. It was about late-night monster movies, creepy...
Episode #38
Send us Fan Mail Growing up Gen X, many of us heard the same warning: "What happens in this house stays in this house." But what happened when the family secrets weren't simply embarrassing? What happened when the...
Episode #37
Send us Fan Mail Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s wasn't always the carefree adventure we remember. While Generation X was riding bicycles, watching MTV, and surviving the Satanic Panic, America was confronting a...
Episode #36
Send us Fan Mail Halloween was different when we were kids! We had homemade popcorn balls, caramel apples, school costume contests, pillowcases full of candy, and the freedom to roam all over town. Today, Halloween...
Episode #35
Send us Fan Mail We grew up alone. We watched the American family change. Now it's time to talk about what happened when Gen X grew up and started relationships of our own. In the first episode of this series, we...
Episode #34
Send us Fan Mail On September 30, 2026, Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Gail Pike by lethal injection. She survived. As of this video, Pike is reportedly in critical condition, Governor Bill Lee has halted...
Episode #33
Send us Fan Mail Generation X grew up during one of the biggest transformations of the American family in modern history. Divorce rates soared during the 1960s and '70s, reaching historic highs just as Gen X was growing...
Episode #32
Send us Fan Mail Generation X has become known as the “latchkey generation.” We came home from school, unlocked the door, called Mom at work, made ourselves something to eat, watched TV—and somehow managed not to burn...
Episode #31
Send us Fan Mail What if something unusual in your blood became evidence of an ancient extraterrestrial experiment? Rh-negative blood is a completely real genetic variation—but around it has grown one of the strangest...
Episode #30
Send us Fan Mail Remember when there was absolutely NOTHING to do? Not “nothing good on Netflix.” Not “I've already watched everything on YouTube.” I mean genuinely... nothing. Your friends weren't home. Nothing was on...
Episode #29
Send us Fan Mail We were promised the Information Age. Every library. Every newspaper. Scientific research. History. Art. Music. Knowledge from around the world—all available from our computers. And here's the weird...
Episode #28
Send us Fan Mail Gen X may have been the last generation to grow up in a world where being unreachable was completely normal. We left the house, made plans in advance, drove without GPS, encountered busy signals, waited...
Episode #27
Send us Fan Mail Vinyl records. Paperbacks. Film cameras. Old iPods. Wired headphones. “Dumb” technology. Some young people are even deliberately looking for ways to spend less time staring at their phones. And as a Gen...
Episode #26
Send us Fan Mail What if Cheers, Frasier, MASH*, Law & Order, The X-Files and hundreds of other television shows were all part of the same universe? And what if that entire universe existed inside the imagination of one...
Episode #25
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, this confused Gen Xer goes down the "It's Me, It's Verity" rabbit hole to find out who—or what—Verity actually is and why this bizarre Minecraft horror character has caught on. But the...
Episode #24
Send us Fan Mail Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were friends—but their radically different beliefs about the supernatural eventually helped tear that friendship apart. Houdini spent years exposing fraudulent...
Episode #23
Send us Fan Mail You remember it. You're absolutely certain you remember it. There's only one problem. It apparently never happened that way. Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. The Berenstain Bears were the...
Episode #22
Send us Fan Mail Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland sits the Large Hadron Collider — the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed. Operated by CERN, it was built to help scientists...
Episode #21
Send us Fan Mail On February 3, 1959, the world lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper in one of the most famous tragedies in music history—a day forever remembered as "The Day the Music Died." But what if...
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SUNY Oswego dean of the College of Communications, Media and the Arts, SUNY Oswego School of Communication, Media and the Arts
founder and lead M&A advisor, Business Succession Group
radio evangelist turned exorcist, Spiritual Freedom Church
author and Christian faith expert
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