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This Theology Full of Messianic Fervor Wants War in Iran (Full LOCALS Version)

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We discuss the new war in Iran, specifically how Evangelical Dispensationalist theology seems to be purposefully driving us deeper into war.


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SPEAKER_10

Oh no, I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_09

But how do we not talk about this topic? What topic? Which one I mean, everything happening. Come on, like everything happening. Are you still confident that this Iran war is going to remain a small little skirmish in Iran?

SPEAKER_10

Define confident.

SPEAKER_09

I I mean when I when I when I said I was worried about the Iran war, I wasn't worried about direct conflict with Iran. I was more worried about it escalating into a wider more like into a wider war. That was always my worry. I said I'm not worried about like Iran, I'm worried about it escalating into a wider conflict. And I'm the things I'm watching right now seem very much like this is going to escalate into a wider conflict. I mean watching wrong stuff though, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_10

We've already seen, you know, I Iran's response has been largely to two missiles at every state in the region. Um, you know, we know uh the whole Afghan-Pakistan thing is probably tied into Iran right now. Uh Israel has sent troops into southern Lebanon, but they yet they haven't yet passed the area that they've gone into a few times recently. So I mean, obviously, it's it already is a little bit bigger than just Iran, but so far it's nothing out of what anyone would have expected.

SPEAKER_09

What it what what well I think what's surprising people is uh the way Iran works. Like they thought they were gonna take out their leadership and maybe they could get a regime change. And Iran's system is set up very differently there. So they basically ever since the 80s, yeah. Yeah, they basically had us that if you wipe out the leadership, so all these individual provinces basically are autonomous.

SPEAKER_10

Every every local military commander right is semi-autonomous and semi-autonomous, but they're just operating on their own.

SPEAKER_09

They all know their, they all know the the plan. And it's kind of crazy that we didn't well, maybe maybe we did know this was going to happen. I don't know, but what it looks like they're doing is trying to disrupt the world economy in the places that they're striking. It's not just American air bases and stuff. It's like they're they're hitting things that will probably disrupt oil, oil distribution, things like that. You're gonna see a spike in oil prices, you're gonna see it's gonna they're they're looking to disrupt the world economy.

SPEAKER_10

And what's funny, kind of, is you're right, yeah. They're you know, they're hitting uh every major oil um field in that they can, you know, shutting them down. And uh the gas prices had their largest single-day jump since 2005 is 12 the national average of the 12 cent jump yesterday today. Um but the hitting the the oil economy like that is actually gonna hurt like their supposed ally, China, way more than us. And them being taken out of play and Venezuela being taken out of play has already hit China. Um, and this is in the middle of which could force China's hand, though. Well, except Pres that President uh Z or whatever you want, G over there

Setting The Table: Why Talk War Now

SPEAKER_10

has decimated their military leadership over the last year in purges. There was some some talk that he was doing it because there was some talk of a coup among the Chinese military who are no longer happy with his president for life gig. Um, so he's decimated their military leadership. So right now, the thinking is that China's in like no position to to push anything right now, but who knows? A lot of times when you're at your lowest is when you're the most dangerous.

SPEAKER_09

So here's my here's my worry um that it will escalate into a wider conflict because Israel wants it to escalate into a wider conflict. Like, Israel seems to want hegemony over the Middle East, yeah, and that includes us, they don't want us there anymore. So, like it getting us to to to strike Iran is kind of like a two-pronged thing. It it's gonna get us to exhaust our resources and it's gonna put us in a situation, especially if it's a prolonged war, it's it's gonna put us in a bad situation.

SPEAKER_10

Israel is also exhausting their resources, yeah. To the point where their their in their uh interceptors, their the you know, the missiles they use to intercept the incoming Iranian missiles. I mean, they were running low after the little 12-day war in 2025, to the point where at the end of that war, Iranian missiles were starting to hit. Yeah, they're they're I think they said at that time the world supply of what we call our THAAD interceptors. We the Israel used 25% of the world supply then.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. So I mean and they take a year to make. Like they're not they're not like these quick things you could just ramp up production and get them going real quick.

SPEAKER_10

Like they're gonna take months to make our our highest level interceptors, yeah. But we have mid-level mid-level interceptors that supposedly we can produce 25,000 of in a year, okay. Um, and and that are much that are actually cheaper than the Iranian ballistic missiles.

SPEAKER_09

So it's hard. Now Iran now Iran is also blowing off all their old crap right now, getting us to use up those those interceptors,

Will The Iran Fight Escalate

SPEAKER_09

and they haven't even started using their good stuff yet, and that's kind of been their plan all along is let's let's get them to deplete their their stuff with our garbage.

SPEAKER_10

That's what they're saying, and that would make sense, but we don't it's hard to say do they really have a bunch of their newest ones left? I don't who knows.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, this the thing with with war is you don't know what information to trust. Yep, you don't know what to trust because everybody's got a bias, and everybody wants their side to come through, so you're getting information from all these different sources, and it's like like I was hearing that Iran's got these missiles that they go in, and once they get over Israeli airspace, Israel send up an interceptor, and then the thing breaks into like five different missiles that'll come down. So some of them are gonna hit, like they may intercept one or two, but out of the out of the five, three of them are gonna hit. They also have um uh what are uh what are they called? The um the hypersonic missiles now that go like Mach 5, they're coming at 11,000 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_10

So five or six thousand miles an hour.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, whatever. But um I don't know. I think I did see like a video that said they come in at Mach 10 or Mach 11 or something.

SPEAKER_10

I don't know if Iran has any of those, but China and Russia definitely do, yeah. Uh have at least some.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. Um Kale's saying Obama gave those to them. Um, I watched uh Kale and uh Skojak's new Kale and uh Steve Skojak are doing uh a podcast now called Monitoring the Situation. I'm really enjoying it. I think it's really good. But Steve sucks on Israel, dude. He's really good on like the AI stuff, he's really good on like he's he's really good on some stuff, but his takes on Israel are so bad. Like so bad. Like I just can't, and I'm not even like a conspiracy guy with Israel, I'm more of uh looking at the biblical story guy when it comes to looking at Israel, and like it's just so blatantly obvious that we were dragged into this war by Israel.

SPEAKER_10

I mean, Rubio said it, like Rubio literally said it's like today. The reporter that so uh a reporter at a press conference today said, Yesterday you said this, and and Ruby goes, No, I didn't. Were you there? The guy goes, Yeah, I'm the one who asked you the question.

SPEAKER_09

He's like he's basically like, Well, Israel was going to strike Iran, and we knew if they struck Iran, Iran would have struck back at our bases, so preemptively we jumped in, and so look, there's an element where I do think America got involved to restrain Israel a bit. Because it was like if they went in it alone, the and then here's the thing um, because part of me is like the best case scenario that could happen here is like if Israel was just decimated. Uh but I mean that's a horrible situation because Israel will literally nuke the Middle East if they think they're under that kind of threat.

SPEAKER_10

Plus, say what you want about Israel indoor Jews and whatnot, but like the vast majority of Israeli citizens are are innocent of all this, you know. Yeah, yeah. So I it's like you can't you can't say I want your country decimated, I want your no, I meant I may mean their military capabilities and stuff. I know what you mean.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I know I'm not wishing for death on anybody. I really think the whole thing is atrocious, but man, I I don't know. You you just see the the way they behave, and it just seems like they are looking to like all the things you you've been telling me about this stuff, like we've been talking about like the multipolar world that's coming up, and um you were the one that made me start thinking about like well, Israel kind of is a superpower now, and they're going to and they're trying to position themselves as a superpower, and they want hegemony in that region over there. They want they want they want the promise that Abraham was given. Yeah, they want the promise that Abraham was given, and that promise, I mean, if you listen to the Tucker interview with Mike Huckabee, he's like, Well, that technically, I mean, when they when you hear the chance from the river to the sea, that's actually a Israeli chant. It's actually an Israeli chant from the river to the sea because they want that area, yeah. Red Sea, Jordan River, yeah, all that. Because that's the land that was promised to Abraham. So they they they kind of twisted it on you and they make it sound like it's the Palestinians that chant it, and that's you know, that's that's wicked, but really it's a it's a Jewish chant they want from the river to the sea. And I don't I don't see them stopping until they have that. I mean, I think this whole incursion on Iran, and as soon as they took out Iran, you're already seeing the the former prime minister of of um of Israel talking about oh, Turkey's the next target. Turkey's the

Oil, Proxies, And Global Markets

SPEAKER_09

next target.

SPEAKER_10

It's like Yeah, that would trigger Article 5 of NATO.

SPEAKER_09

I mean, wasn't wasn't the island of um is it Kyprus? Cyprus, Cyprus was hit, right? Cyprus was like uh Iran bombed Cyprus, and they're technically a UN like they're part technically part of NATO. I mean it's it hasn't triggered anything yet, but you see, like France is starting to talk about them building their nuclear arsenal.

SPEAKER_10

Um Poland today announced that they were going to start investigating how to attain nuclear weapons. Yeah, I just it's it's because now everyone is waking up to the fact that to be uh an actual like autonomous um sovereign state in the world now, you need nuclear weapons, otherwise, you are truly just a puppet state of another state with nuclear weapons. You know, I I wouldn't call Israel a superpower, but they are one of the few sovereign states in the world because they do have nuclear weapons. They have nukes.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, the whole reason you don't want Iran to get nukes is because then all of a sudden Iran is actually sovereign, and you can't actually go and do something like this because they can threaten nuclear war.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, like the one the one of the worst things we ever let happen was Pakistan and India getting nuclear weapons. Yeah. Now they only ever have them facing at each other, but still, it's like it's yeah, it's still changing the whole dynamic of everything.

SPEAKER_09

I don't know, man. And and the other thing that really makes I know people don't like when I say this, but I don't think Trump's leaving, dude. Like the I think everybody thinks it's like what do they have on Trump? Are they black? Is it the Epstein stuff? Are they blackmailing him? They're is it Miriam Adelson and her money? And I'm like, no, I think he wants a third term, and I think that he thinks that's his ticket to a third term, whether it's through a legitimate election or by starting a conflict so big that he could go, I'm suspending elections or something. Like, I really do see Trump acting like a Roman emperor, he's building a freaking triumph arch here in Washington. The things he's doing, he's behaving as if he's not leaving. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying I don't know what's going to happen.

SPEAKER_10

I was gonna say behaving as if he's I don't know how it could be achieved, you know. It certainly can't be achieved constitutionally. No, I think I think which I I don't personally care anymore about necessarily.

SPEAKER_09

That's the kind of the point, right? Like, so we're looking at we're looking at the end of the republic and the and the empire beginning. Well, and every republic's been dead since 1860. I know, but what I'm um you know what I mean, though, right? Like, yeah, like the facade of the republic, and it's we're entering empire phase, and everything.

SPEAKER_10

The Roman Empire was really dead for 100-150 years before Caesar, you know, and you had all the struggles therein.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it just seems like, and and the thing is, like, instead of focusing our attention on us to fix things at home, this is this all kind of just started in my head when I saw Doge uncovered all this crap, and Trump acted like he was going to do something about it, and then he did nothing about it. Like they they passed a budget after all this fraud and the NGOs was discovered, and the next budget comes along, and they should have struck all that stuff from the budget, and Trump went, nope, put it right through. And he pressured everyone, what he did to uh Thomas Massey because he was against it. Anybody who spoke out against it, Trump came down on, and they passed that budget and they shifted a lot of that NGO money right to the State Department. The State Department just shifted it to different NGOs, and the same crap is still happening. Those NGOs, all they are is CIA operations to overturn governments that don't do what we want. Like that's actually all they that's all they are.

SPEAKER_10

And I mean it it kind of makes sense, like in a sense, um the NGOs and and intergovernmental organizations and all those that all that like that was part of the the the liberal international order that yeah was created after World War II. But like your your intelligence organs like the CIA and whatnot, their job is always to promote you know the the US US the US cars policy. So they they their their their job, whether it's legal, constitutional, whatnot, is to bend your you know your liberal non-governmental organizations to uh to the purposes of the American government.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, yeah, the person can't be seen to do right. They're like, yeah, let's just have USA do it. USAID go do it, you know. It's still like an outcrop of the CIA and stuff. And like we you you and I talked about this, where it's like there are different factions within the intelligence agency, it's not like it's one unified intelligence agency. So you do have the Trump faction fighting against the Obama faction, essentially. Like Obama's faction framed Trump, right? Like they they literally framed Trump and went through the whole Russia Gate nonsense and probably stole the 2020 election. I mean, that was that apparatus against what. What we see getting put into place right now.

SPEAKER_10

There is some uh Bo Mo says there's something to be said about how it is legitimately easier for Trump to topple governments than

Missiles, Interceptors, And Munitions Math

SPEAKER_10

it is for him to get the Senate to do something. Adds to the Romaness of the situation. I think so. It's so comparable to like to Caesar. It was easier for him to go and conquer Gaul than it was for the Roman Senate to get anything done.

SPEAKER_09

Dude, it's it's crazy. Like that, and what we saw happen with Venezuela, like boosted Trump's ego. He's like, Oh, look, I can just go and do this, you know. And I think he thought he was gonna do the same thing in Iran. Like, it is his, you know, you're talking about an uh a guy who's being told from everybody, man, you look what you did in Venezuela, look how flawless that operation was. You just went in and took out Maduro. It's like, oh we're just gonna go in and we're just gonna go take out Khomeini. It's like they did it. They did.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, and my the problem is Iran's been preparing it for 40 years, you know, ever since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, they've been they've they've been in this constant flux of war. Venezuela wasn't ready for that, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, all of a sudden they wake up and their president's in an American jail and they're like, oh no.

SPEAKER_09

Well, well, so what uh what Kale and Steve were talking about is how even when we took out Khomeini, it was like he was being guarded by Chinese equipment. And when we went in and took him out, we basically showed the Chinese, like, your equipment isn't gonna stand up. We're gonna decimate you.

SPEAKER_10

I mean, right now it's in an act of war, it's hard to to know exactly where we stand with what's happened so far in Iran. But so far, you know, so six Americans are dead. We know that they're probably that they've said, but six, but up to this point, right now, we currently have B-52 bombers originally made in the 1950s, just flying figure eights over Iran, attacking whatever they can find. So that means we've decimated Iran's air force, we've decimated their their ground to air, their surface-to-air missiles, you know, their air defense. So literally all they have left is obviously their ground forces, which are under now constant bombardment from the air, and they're they're they're ground, you know, their surface-to-surface missiles, which they're obviously using to effect, of course. But you know, at this point, if we had constant munitions, there there'd be nothing to stop us from just doing it.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's it's just the fact that we probably have to be cautious that we don't burn out too quickly, right?

SPEAKER_10

We we have to make sure we have munitions left in case China decides to get smart or something like that.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's similar to um like what we were doing in Ukraine was trying to get Russia to burn up all their stuff, you know. It was like, let's let's just expend, let's just put Russia to the brink and make them expend all their munitions, everything. So if we do catch a conflict with them, they're already worn out from this war, and it might be easier for us.

SPEAKER_10

And it sounds like Russia uh they they sound open to if we make some guarantees on behalf of Ukraine, it sounds like they're willing to come to the table now.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's an interesting thing because I thought even with Ukraine, part of what I was like thinking was just maybe they were doing that to see what the new battleground even looks like, right? Like we've been in the mountains of Afghanistan for 20 years, and it's like, what the hell does a war with Russia look like? We better start something small and have a proxy war so we actually understand the technology we're up against, what we're gonna have to do to win this one. So it's like we'll burn Ukrainians so I mean it's so evil, but like we'll burn them we'll bring burn Ukraine's men and fight a proxy war to kind of get a better idea of what kind of what kind of military equipment we even need for this next phase that we're coming up on.

SPEAKER_10

Well, it's like so you know, Ukraine starts in what 2022, and the drones come out of nowhere on both sides, no one was ready for it. You know, you have you you you have even have uh M18 M1 Abrams tanks getting taken out by you know a thousand dollar drones out of nowhere, and like that was just un unthinkable. But now, you know, at the end of or beginning of 2026 here, remember when that um airport down in the south, uh I forget which airport it was, was closed in Mexico, like just just in Mexico, or you're talking about no no I forget if it was uh the chat will remind me what airport it was was down in the southwest. Where the oh yeah, the government closed it, Santa Fe. Yeah, the government said it could be closed for up to three days, but a few hours later it opened. What it was is there was drones coming in across the border from Mexico, and the military base that was there wanted to close the airport so they could use their anti-drone technology to take out the drones, and it's now it's some you know sort of electronic anti-drone warfare technology that didn't exist three, four years ago that now we're using to take out Mexican, you know, cartel drone. So wow, I didn't I never even heard that story El Paso okay, it was El Paso, not Santa Fe.

SPEAKER_09

Um, yeah, either way. I mean, yeah, it's just man, they the way things are escalating, though, it just seems like the whole world is preparing for war, including us. Like we the whole thing with Venezuela, talking about Greenland, all this stuff. We're preparing for something. And then you then now this thing in Iran kicks off, and it seems like Israel wants to be in charge of the river to the sea. Yeah. Um, who knows what's gonna happen with Europe? Like, I don't I don't even know what's going to happen with Europe. Because it seems like, especially like you see Trump even saying, like, talking about Spain today. Like, if you knew what was going on in Spain with their elections and stuff, like they're they're legalizing a half a million Muslim immigrants to try and they're socialist government, yeah, to rig the elections there. They're they're telling X um, we're gonna fine you personally, you're gonna find Elon Musk personally if he doesn't fight hate speech. And all of that is to control speech, and all of that is to control elections, and it's all because it's gonna be used against the United States if Trump, if there is another election and Trump loses or something. Like in the next

Information Fog And New Weapons

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election, you won't be able to see, like X will have to monitor everything if Elon doesn't want to get sued. There's so much crazy stuff happening, like where that liberal world order that was under Obama that was very intertwined with Europe, like very intertwined with Europe. There was coordination between our deep state and Europe's deep state, and they were they had all these intertwined agencies that were working together, and now it's just like they they are losing their minds because Trump won, and they're scrambling to try to come up with a game plan. So it just seems like everything is getting more intense.

SPEAKER_10

I think we'll see NATO fall apart, um, and you'll see so Britain Britain could go one of two ways, right? It could completely fall to to the Muslims, you know, the to the Pakistanis and Indians and and whatnot. Um but who knows? If the restore the restore Britain thing works, they might actually become a solid ally again, but they have a lot of work there to do, obviously, with their migrant problem. But you have nations like Poland, right, which has done a pretty good job avoiding migrants. Um, you know, not hot now talking about wanting to attain nuclear weapons. Um obviously nuclear weapons are inherently immoral from a Catholic perspective, but from like a global politics, realist sort of perspective, you know, I could see a block of countries between America, Poland, maybe a maybe Britain, if depending on what happens there. But like Hungary, maybe, you know, some of the Central and Eastern European nations still being kind of allies with America, neutral or yeah, Italy uh under Maloney is doing well. Yeah, um, so who I mean I think NATO as an organization falls apart, but I still think you'd have probably a core a core of European nations, yeah, first America, especially the big ones, like yeah. I I don't know. I mean, I like it. I've said it before, we're just entering a if if this isn't the end, right? Yeah, we're entering a a a sort of realist, real politic sort of world order again.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's um it's well, first off, uh like Bobby just texted me. Um, and he's right, he's right 100%. Like the the move on Venezuela and the move on Iran are the same same move. Yeah, it's it's to it's it's about China and and their oil, like like China was getting Venezuela's oil, they're also getting Iran's oil. So it is the same moving chess pieces on the board, locking up the same thing. It's just and and it's funny because you're watching you're watching people like I tried watching Eric Salmons today. It's like, dude, I don't like I'll listen to Dave Smith if I want to hear your libertarian take, dude. Like, what are you talking about, man? It's just like he's talking about forever wars and he's talking about blowback, and it's like, yeah, whatever. That's not the real issue here. It's just it's just like, yeah, those things are probably sure they're issues, but it's not what this thing is about.

SPEAKER_10

This thing is something much bigger, and it's um yeah, uh as Adrian and I were were talking about last night on Guns and Rosaries, between from Venezuela and Iran, those those two nations account for 20% of China's oil, and it is by far the cheapest 20%, right? Because they were able to buy it at huge discounts because they were the only ones willing to buy it because of the sanctioned by us, right? So the other so now 20% of their oil availability is just plain gone. The other 80%, not only do they not get a discount on, well, boy, now it's getting jagged up way higher, yeah. Right. So so they're they're that that's gonna cause problems in China. Like I said earlier, you have the military purges that that the their military has gone through. I don't know. Um, I don't know how it's gonna work out, but yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_09

I like I said, I I I worry that it's going to escalate into a major conflict because I feel like I feel like Israel will keep pushing for that because that's it's it's what they did in World War II, also. And that's I mean, look, I'm not defending the guy in any way whatsoever. But if you listen to mustache man's speeches, his whole point was they're pushing the bankers and all these guys are pushing for war. I don't want war, but they're pushing

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for war, and if they do this, I'm gonna take them out. Like, that's literally what he's saying, right? And it's go ahead.

SPEAKER_10

It was he didn't want war with Britain, yeah, or or France, even right? But he did well, he did want war with Russia, yes, 100%.

SPEAKER_09

He did want war with he wanted to fight the the communists, yeah. Yeah, but it but there was all these things being interplayed in the background, and it seems like that's kind of what's happening now, and I'm not you know, whatever it's I I think I think the the area that it this war is most likely to escalate in, is you're right, is is there Israel will push for for maybe taking more of Lebanon, maybe all of Lebanon.

SPEAKER_10

Do they then go further into Syria? I don't know, you know what about what does Jordan mean?

SPEAKER_09

Does it mean just stick in a puppet government, right? Does it mean like they like they have a puppet government in Syria, but that puppet government in Syria is literally murdering Christians? Is well that puppet government in Syria is ISIS, it's ISIS that we created the leader, was ISIS, ISIS, and then they change their name to like the Freedoms Council or something, and they're like, Yep, you're the leader, it's fine. But all these guys, like, you gotta be insane to for that guy to even take that spot. It's like we yeah, the CIA does this thing, they create ISIS to go and fight someone, and then they turn on them, they put a puppet leader in, they put a puppet leader in, and when that puppet leader acts up and doesn't do exactly what they want, they go and kill you. Like you're just setting yourself up to get killed.

SPEAKER_10

Hamas was created and funded by by by Israel to oppose the Palestinian you know liberation front.

SPEAKER_09

And now they're dealing with that. Right. We create we create this thing, we teach them how to fight, we arm them, and then when they become a problem, we just go and wipe them out. But they all of all of the puppet governments in the Middle East eventually get like we put these puppet governments in, and then we still take them out. I don't even if the like Iran was willing to come to the negotiating table, they were like, Yeah, look, we won't even have these sunrise clauses on it. Like, we'll do whatever you want. All we're asking is like that we're allowed to have uh a national nuclear program for like nuclear energy or something, and it's like like Iran wanted to negotiate, and we and Israel was like, Don't let those negotiations ruin our war, you know. Like Iran won Israel wanted this war, yeah, regardless. They wanted this war.

SPEAKER_10

So that's I mean, you can't, I don't think you can deny that in good faith at this point, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, and then up, and then uh there oh, and there is this crazy element that we're we're looking at, which is um you're dealing with I saw a story today come out that the US military, um where did I put that in there? Yeah, the US military one.

SPEAKER_10

Um if you did it, I uh I have it bookmarked too.

SPEAKER_09

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. So the Substack? Yeah, the Substack one. Okay, let me pull it up here. Oh, here it is. Yeah, yeah, I got it.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_09

So uh US troops were told Iran war is for Armageddon, return of Jesus. Advocacy groups report commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military. A combat unit command commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that President Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth, according to the complaint by a non-commissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations. Uh, MRF have told me Monday night. Uh they're keeping the complaints anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment. One complainant identified themselves as an NCO in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone, but in ready support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim and one Jew. The thing is, and I know you guys could get annoyed with some of the things I talk about on this show, but like the this stuff is psychotic. Like the you're talking about play do uh play Pastor Greg Laurie's video, Rob. Um not John Hagee, uh Pastor Greg Lori, I put that one in, right?

SPEAKER_10

Let me look. Not John Hage? No, the other one. Is that the one you called psychotic theology? Yes, psychotic theology.

SPEAKER_09

Play that guy.

SPEAKER_10

Dude, this is absolutely insane. Um before I play this, I would I would just caution. I I uh it's hard to say whether that info about commanders supposedly saying that stuff is fully accurate. Like, I don't know that organization. It could be a very leftist organization that just wants to excuse well.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, so even if that's not actually being told to our military, though, right? It it's still it's still something you see pastors going out and talking about. You say, like, this is a very real thing, right? So even when Netanyahu goes and bombs Iriam, what does he do? Now, Netanyahu is a freaking atheist. The guy is not actually a religious Jew in any way whatsoever. And what does he do? On on Saturday, we read from the Torah about the Amalekites, and we did told to destroy the Amalekites, and it's like these guys are he knows what he's doing, he's building messianic fervor amongst the Jews. Because if, like, when I talk to um Gideon Lazar, yeah, he I've I speak with him privately about this stuff, and he's like, Anthony, I'm telling you, there is messianic fervor in Israel right now. Like, they all think this is it, like this is it, and they are they so everything you're seeing, even if Netanyahu isn't a religious guy, like what he's doing is is playing into this mindset because he knows the fanatics are gonna love it, but even their even their I'm sorry, even their messianic fervor isn't religious in the sense we would think about it.

SPEAKER_10

No, it's not like when well, like the evangelical messianic fervor is thinking of the second coming and the end of the world, right? The Jews, that's not what messianic fervor is to them, yeah, yeah. Not at all.

SPEAKER_09

It's like man, I don't know if Christians really understand this. Like for the Jews, the Messiah is not God come to earth, it's not God incarnate in any sense of the word. It is just a literac king, it's just they just need a descendant of David to take the reins as they're on their empire build. That's all they need, right? So they were so like during the time of Christ, they're all expecting the Messiah. Like that

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was meant or Kale meant to say Barabbas, but yeah, Barabbas 100% Barabbas style messianism, right? Look, this is this is why in Dune, in Dune, um uh Paul and in Dune, what's it uh Atreides and Bull Paul Atreides, like the least on Al-Gahib, right? Like that that is he is an antichrist, he is an antichrist, right? Like he comes in and he and and they're building like that's the Jewish Messiah. If you really understand that movie, that movie is about the Jewish Messiah, man. He comes in and he whips up Messian Ferb and he's like, I will take you to paradise. That's that's what this is, man. That's what this is for them. For us, it like the messiah is God incarnate, he is the logos, he is, you know, it's such a different thing. Where these crazy Christian Zionists like what you're gonna hear Pastor Laurie talk about right now is like these people think the wars that we're creating are a good thing because that will cause the rapture of the church. It's like and I and I was arguing with somebody on Twitter about this today because they're like, humans can't bring about the antichrist. It's like, no, like humans literally are going to bring about the antichrist. Like, this is how this is how real this got this is how God works. Like humans do this stuff, right? People like God's not gonna come and and like no, it's gonna be us, first off.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, the antichrist isn't like some the son of the devil and you know incarnated, like you you see Constantine or you know, movies like that. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_09

No, he's just some guy they're gonna put on the throne. That's it, they're gonna they're gonna call him their Davidic king, and they're gonna and they're gonna be whipped into messianic fervor, and they're like the whole thing comes down to when you go through the old testament, you have to understand that you're talking about a people who for 6,000 years have been promised that they are going to rule all the nations and crush them like a potter's clay, they will rule them with an iron rod. Now, we as Christians understand this prophecy is meant for Christ, and Christ, today I have begotten you. You are my only son. You will, I will draw my people to Zion, you will rule the nations with an iron rod. But that iron rod is the cross, and we all come on our knees. When I am lifted up, I will draw all men to me. Like it is it is a kingdom not of this world, and they're waiting for something like their carnal reading of the scriptures is so dangerous. And look, I work in Jewish neighborhoods in the city. I'm telling you, when something happens to a people when they are told for 6,000 years that they are God's chosen people, but they're waiting for that promise to come true, and it has not come true, and especially for the last 2,000 years. Last 2,000 years they've they've been dispersed amongst the nations, and it's it's this is what we're dealing with right now. That they're and they have their own homeland for the first time in 2,000 years. How can there not be messianic fervor? They want their borders to be wider than it was under the Davidic kingdom, because the Davidic kingdom did not stretch from the river to the sea. They want the promise given to Abraham that you will be the father of all nations, but they don't see it as the way we did as Christians, where we're all brought in through a covenant. They see it as it's their covenant and they rule over the nations, and that's what we're looking at. So listen to listen to Pastor Greg Laurie.

SPEAKER_08

We know that Persia, modern Iran, plays a role in the end time scenario because the Bible does say a large force to the north of Israel will march on her, known as Magog, and one of her allies will be Persia. Where does this fit in? I don't know. We'll see. It'll all play out in God's perfect timing. But I can say this when we see this kind of activity in that part of the world, it reminds me of the words of Jesus who said, When you see these things begin to happen, look up because your redemption is drawing near. As far as I can see, the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the rapture of the church.

SPEAKER_09

That's like this is this is what I this is why this is so psychotic. These people, they think they're not gonna have to live through the tribulation. They don't understand the battle of Armageddon, is not going to be over in Israel, and we're all fine over here. Rob, I did I actually did want to talk about your tweet. I said I want to I want to talk about this a little bit. Uh the cross will conquer the crescent moon alongside the star of uh because um I agree with you obviously, but where we are in church history, um, and where we are in the story, I don't it's not gonna happen the way it was in the crusades, man.

SPEAKER_10

No, no, not necessarily.

SPEAKER_09

The cross is gonna conquer the crescent and the star of Rafin through the blood of the martyrs. Yeah, that's that's actually how this is going to go. So it's like I under I understand this.

SPEAKER_10

Um that that is what I meant by it.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's it's going to be like we are looking at persecution on the horizon. Like that's and that and all of us need to be prepared for that, and not this religious liberty. Oh, they're they're making

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Catholics pay for birth control persecution. I mean real persecution, like that's what's coming, and it's going to come because Christ told us that would like we have we have to be if we're in those times, obviously we don't know, but well, even if we were just approaching like the minor tribulation or chastisement, yeah. Chastisement's coming, something's coming. So no matter what, whether we're whether you know the the thing is, these people are right in one aspect that like these like they see that this stuff does need to happen, but the idea that they could bring it about is so insane. They they they think they're gonna avoid it, not realizing they will will actually be the ones persecuting the church of Christ, and they will fall for the antichrist, like they will absolutely fall for the antichrist because especially because they think Trump has been chosen by God to deliver this like this stuff is nuts, man. Uh go to the other the other pastor. Give me a second. The other pastor is even crazier. Um I don't know if you guys saw this guy. Um let me do let me find it. Like when you when you go to um uh apocalypse 17, even um like hang on, let me pull it up. Apocalypse 17. I think it's in six, verse six. So it's like um all right, so the woman, all right, so and he carried me away in a spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication, and on her forehead was written the name a name of mystery, Babylon the Great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. This is a description of Israel mixing with the former nations of Christianity, the former nations of Christendom, drunk on the blood of the martyrs, and the kings of the earth who were formerly of Christendom playing, playing, drinking her blasphemous like man, I cannot unsee the image when I see the way Israel is involved in the goings-on of the American government, the new Rome. Like, because this beast, this mystery Babylon is basically the return of Babylon. End of the the pagan religions, like the mystery Babylon is the mystery religions of Babylon, and but it's it's the it's the Babylonian Empire, which then returns in the Roman Empire. So when John is talking about it, John's describing it in the apocalypse, he's seeing Babylon returns in Rome. So he's like the beast that was, is not, and will be. So this period after Christ's ascension, the the king, the the the beast that was is not, and the and the demons are bound. Now they're able to manipulate on the on a personal level here and there, but for the most part, this the demons are bound under the abyss, and God's spirit covers the earth, and all the nations are gathered in and they come to Zion. But Zion is spiritual Zion. Rome. Rome is the new Zion. Rome becomes the Roman Empire transforms. So, like we're gonna do that because I don't want to blow the Pajot clip I have because he gets into that. But so it's um the like the the demons are bound, but then they're unleashed at the end of time for a period in order for these things to play out. And it's like, I don't know, man, how could that not be what's happening right now?

SPEAKER_10

You see, everything that's happening in the church, too. It's just especially when you hear um people like Father Ripper or you know, exorcists say that um you know, prior to the 60s, uh exorcisms were a pretty quick deal, right? The the the store, the treasury of grace that the church had, you know, access to was so abundant that the exorcisms were quick and fairly easy. But yeah, after after the 60s, after Vatican II, after the Pope lays down his tiara, the you know it's it's like that the catacomb was gone. Okay, so the humans are no longer restrained, and now exorcism takes literally one, two, three years.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's like repeated sessions have to go on over and over. Some something I thought of the other day. I don't know if I don't know if you're gonna like this insight, but the the council and nostra tate and the laying down of the papal tiara, it's basically the church telling us the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled. Like the church no longer goes out and and has these missions, right? Like, we're no longer converting the pagan nations. Think about dude, throughout history, we went and we converted the pagan nations, none were allowed to exist, yeah, except the Jews.

SPEAKER_10

The Jews are the only ones we allowed to continue, and and they were allowed to kind of exist as a nation with inside Christian. They were not allowed to have their own state, but yeah, right.

SPEAKER_09

But they were allowed to exist as a people, we let them worship their God. Like it was like a it was uh if you go to Augustine, Augustine talks about how they're almost a witness people to the truth of Christianity, and that's why we kind of allowed them. There's no other pagan nation that's allowed to exist except for them, right? And what happens in Nosheritate is all of a sudden the church is like the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled. We're we're no longer gonna convert to pagans. So now all the pagans can come and we'll we'll put, you know, we we'll we'll say we'll find the good things in your religion. Like we're done with missions, the Great Commission is over, and the church is telling us that in a really subtle way, if you have eyes to see, that's like it's like the Holy Spirit is still protecting the church from teaching heresy, like blatant heresy. But in in in some way, that council, what it's doing is letting us all know the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled and we're in something different now. The church, the this crisis is unlike any other crisis.

SPEAKER_10

Is this I mean, even the fact that the council declined to actually teach anything dogmatically, yeah. It's not the first time it's ever happened, but it's like one of two or maybe three times. But it's like you said, the it's it's like the church was saying, now we're we don't need to teach anything, we don't, you know, we don't need to

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convert anything.

SPEAKER_09

Even Leo the other day saying to in this ecumenical meeting, he's like, it is not our job to build Christendom. Like, I'm telling you, it's like he's he's he's making a prophecy without knowing he's making a prophecy. It's kind of like when Caiaphas says it's better that one man die than a whole nation dies, you know. It's like he's making a prophecy about Christ. Like he he's unintentionally prophesying, and I think Leo is doing that when he says that. Like it's it's like the church is not about building Christendom anymore. That's why they can't they came up with religious freedom, all this stuff, man. This is this is like you guys, this stuff is uh somebody somebody pointed out uh Ann Catherine Emicks Emmerich's um vision, and she's seeing the church at the end times, and and it's like the bishops are all like deformed and stuff because they're all so mired in filth in the end times. But there's a few that are still holy. But I said, but notice she doesn't say they're not bishops, right? Yeah, like she doesn't say they're not bishops, they are bishops, but they're wicked men, and that's what we're dealing with, you know. It's uh and the church in in some mystical way through the Holy Spirit, we're being told where we are. Like, you have to read the signs of the times, the time of the Gentiles has been fulfilled, man. It's it's interesting. So, all right, so we can do we can do the um the other pastor, which is kind of wild. Yeah, this guy's nuts.

SPEAKER_02

God bless you, Mr. President, for being a friend of Israel.

SPEAKER_10

The guy up front is like, What did I get myself into?

SPEAKER_09

Well, well, understand this also. Like, if you go, if you go to St. John Chrysostom, he like he says straight out, if you even have sympathy for their cause, you will be damned. If you even have sympathy for the cause of the Jews, you'll be damned. Like you'll get you'll get caught up in it, and you will like you're seeing God bless you, bro. Like and remember that when the Pharisees crucified Christ, they thought they were doing God's will. Oh, he's a blasphemer, he's a false prophet, he's a false messiah, he's not the one. And they thought they were doing God's will. The problem is their father was the devil, right? These people, they're this fervor they're whipped up in, their father is the devil. Like if you're getting caught up in this stuff and you think you're gonna bring about the this is the freaking crazy false messianism, too, man. This is this stuff is nuts. But look, yeah, somebody's saying Pastor Hagee is cringe, but look at the size of the congregation cheering for this. Let's uh finish this one out.

SPEAKER_02

God bless you for having the courage to do what others feared to do. God bless our fighting forces in the Middle East in the brilliant execution. God bless our forces in the Middle East in the brilliant execution of Operation Epic Fury. Today we will discover in Bible prophecy that God has an Operation Fury. He has planned for Iran and Russia in the near future. Stay tuned in the television audience. Let's read Psalms 122, 6 through 9. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, peace be unto you. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. Can we pray together?

SPEAKER_09

You can turn it off. But this is this is what I mean. This is a carnal reading of the scriptures. These are all passages that are fulfilled in Christ. These are all passages that are fulfilled in Christ. And these people think that they're still waiting to be fulfilled now. They read the Old Testament like it's a separate book from the New Testament, and that Old Testament applies to Israel, and the New Testament applies to the Christians. They see it as a dual covenant, whether they admit that or not, they're all psychotic. They read the Old Testament as if those are the promises for the Jews, and it's it's like it's like two different gods.

SPEAKER_10

100%, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

It's you know what uh what was that Marcian Marcionism or something?

SPEAKER_10

Marcionism, yeah. Whether the old testament god is a brutal kind of evil demiurge, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it's like this stuff is uh is pretty nuts. And then the last thing I want to do before we uh head out of here, uh uh Jonathan Peugeot talked about Israel, and he doesn't usually talk about it, but he was he was being interviewed by a guy, and a guy asked him about Israel, and and Jonathan didn't even get into anything controversial, and you can see the guy got really uncomfortable. But I thought there was a couple of things in it that are interesting that you could kind of see the dynamic that played out the first time that we could see are going to play out this the in the final time.

SPEAKER_01

Definite article pass, they don't let me save the Jew. That's that's the line apparently you can't cross the definite article. But I'm obsessed with Jewish people, but it seems like the world is the right is obsessed with Jewish people again. I'm like, what hasn't that what what happened there? Man, the left is now obsessed with Jewish people, and everybody else isn't. I mean, I'm not obsessed with Albanians or Welsh people, you know, there's five million Welsh people, they're in a small country, like they're pretty equivalent to Israel in many ways. I'm not constantly thinking about why am I obsessed with Jews, Jonathan?

SPEAKER_09

Daryl, if you're in RCIA, you have to be so cautious, man. You have to be so cautious in RCIA. Yeah, man. You're gonna be taught a lot of bad stuff. So he wrote, Catholics have a problem with the Old Testament, told at RCIA tonight that Adam and Eve were not married, despite that being clear in Genesis. And this came from the tutor. I'm telling you, when my wife went to RCIA, I had blowouts with the people teaching RCIA. You have to be so careful what parish you go to for RCIA. I mean, you seem like you have a pretty good grasp on the Catholic faith, and that's why you might be becoming Catholic, but please don't be led astray by these lunatics that are especially the women running the freaking RCIA.

SPEAKER_10

And trust me, we know it's a woman running your RCIA.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it sounds it sounds like a woman. So I mean, I my I my my wife's RCIA instructor tried telling us that the Catholic Church invented the priesthood in like the 600s. I was like, what?

SPEAKER_10

After every RCIA session that I went to with my wife, we would have to set aside

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an hour afterward for me to correct through everything and correct what they were teaching her.

SPEAKER_09

And that was before I was a trad, so I'm sure now I'd have to spend probably two hours after Yeah, Daryl, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to uh like shoot me a DM or you know, email or something if you hear something shady in there that you're not sure about, like there's easy ways to find sources that you know because you're you're gonna hear some shady stuff. But uh all right, let's go back to Jonathan.

SPEAKER_00

I have to admit, I didn't think we were gonna go there, but I'm fine. I'll talk about anything. That's totally fine. Already canceled, there's nothing like that. Okay, so there is a very deep relationship between in the West, between Christians and Jews. It's there from the very beginning. You know, the story of the relationship between Christians and Jews is the craziest story in the world. It's actually people don't realize how crazy this relationship is. That is, think about it this way. Let me just I can tell it in five minutes, and you'll see how crazy it is. So in Israel, during the time where the Romans have taken your nation, right? So the Romans are in charge, the Romans are brutally kind of holding down the the isra the Jewish nation. The Jewish nation are pretty rebellious, they're rowdy, they cause a lot of trouble. The Romans are annoyed with them, and so there's this massive tension. This Messiah appears, and this he's kind of a rabble rouse. He says wild things, things that the religious authorities don't like, but that they're also afraid of because they don't want the Romans to clamp down, so they kill him. Uh, and then people start to follow him, start to convert, and people outside start to convert, and they persecute those people. The Jewish authorities persecute those people that convert, and then the Romans start persecuting them. Who would have thought?

SPEAKER_09

The Romans accuse them of having burned down something, there's something he's leaving out there, and that the Romans persecute them because the Jews are antagonizing the Romans to persecute them, hey, these guys are cannibals. The Jews are are egging the Romans on to persecute them. Like it's not just you know, the the the the firework, the Roman candle, is is they would take Christians and dump them in oil and put them up on on posts, and and and this was at the behest of the Jews of the time. And and that's like what you're when you're when you're reading about uh uh when you're reading in the in the apocalypse, like in Apocalypse 3, where John's talking about the synagogue of Satan, and he's talking about those who say they are Jews but are not, like the main enmity is between Jews and Christians from the beginning. The Jews, the first martyr is cruci is is killed by the Jews. The like if there's this enmity from the beginning that is there, and then the Romans start to persecute the the Christians on behalf of the Jews, and then the Romans turn on the Jews. So God finish finish this thing out. It's not on. You don't have it on screen.

SPEAKER_00

Uh you don't want to do that, yeah. Persecute those people that convert, and then the Romans start persecuting them. Who would have thought? The Romans accuse them of having burnt down uh part of Rome, and they start to like massively persecute them. Then the Romans destroy Jerusalem, burn it down, the whole thing, no more temple, no more really, no more nothing. The most, the biggest destruction that Israel has ever dealt with, you know, since the exile of Babylon or whatever. And so you have this weird situation. And so this like so the Jews are spread out during the Roman Empire, the Christians are there, they're being persecuted. And then the weirdest thing in the world happens, which is the Romans start to follow that Messiah that they killed before the destruction of Jerusalem, and then everything flips. All of a sudden, those Christians that were persecuted for centuries are now in power, and they're the same power that destroyed the temple. Now, think about that. That is wild. That is the wildest.

SPEAKER_01

And I think it sounds even more wild. Like if you were to tell that story and say, okay, there's this group of people called the Welsh, right? And they were occupied by the Romans, and then like God was born into the Welsh. So God was kind of Welsh, but then the Welsh kind of killed God, so the Welsh also responsible. And then the Welsh had like the money because they weren't allowed to own land. Like that, you'd see how wild it was, right? If you just used another you use different terms.

SPEAKER_00

So you now you have this weird relationship, which is that as the Christianity grows in the Roman Empire, they eliminate all the cults. So now there are no more of the pagan cults, no other religion is allowed in Europe except one, which is Judaism. Why? And so the Christians preserve the Jews in Europe, they they they let them exist as Jews, and they're the only ones, no one else is allowed to continue to exist. And it's a it's a very weird, tenuous relationship. And so the Jews become the outsiders in with us, right? The symbolic other. Yeah, they become the the official other, they become the remnant of an old world, they become like a residue of the old world that is still among us and is in some ways acts as a margin in every way. So the Jews act as margins in every single way. They, you know, they they they have all of these kind of uh flexible positions, they don't own land, they have all of these roles that are really the role of. Margin. And so when it goes well, it's beautiful and it's wonderful. It's a it's it you because you need that. You actually need innovative scientists, comedian, you need otherness in you because or else you become completely hermetic and you close off. So when it goes well,

Prophecy, Zionism, And Messianic Fervor

SPEAKER_00

it's beautiful, and then when it doesn't go well, then it's kind of horrible. Um, you know, because on the one hand, you have this problem, which means now you have someone with other intentions inside you, so you have people that have other allegiances that are part of you, and so when things start to go wrong, they become they're suspicious of them, and then sometimes maybe they also care more about themselves than you, and so that's a problem, too. And so they have this problem that sets itself up. So we have a long story. I mean, it's like 1500 years.

SPEAKER_09

It's like this gets into like uh E. Michael Jones with Jewish Revolutionary Spirit stuff, right? They're the the Christians do preserve the Jews as like a witness people to Christianity, but the Jews are not happy with their stat their status ever, and that's why they get behind every revolution to try to undo Christianity because they're like we're claiming that the God of Abraham gave us the promises, and look at how prosperous we've been for 2,000 years. Like the prosperity that God has blessed us with drives them insane. It it's like it drives them insane when you see the fruits of Christendom. So they're always trying to undermine it. They're but they're behind the the the Protestant Reformation, they're behind the Russian Revolution, they're behind they're behind every one of these major things because they reject logos, or at least involved in them, if not. Yeah, yeah, like but they're always egging them on, in other words. I'm not saying they cause them all, but they're always, you know, they see tensions in Christendom, they're like, ooh, we can we could lead to uh uh an undoing of the thing that's been, you know, and now we're in a situation where they do have their own homeland again, and they are trying to bring about the these like there and and what's interesting is when you read about Christ's return, he's gonna return through the like the western gate of where the temple was, is going to be in Israel when he returns. It's like there's so many things that are set up right now that it's I don't think anybody's crazy for thinking you know that that something something like that like if you're reading the signs of the times, it does it does have that vibe. None of us know the day or the hour, and this has been going on for 50 years. So, you know, it could be another 50 years. Let's pray for that. These people that are trying to bring it about are psychotic. We don't we don't want it. Like you don't, you don't you don't want to bring about it's gonna be it's gonna lead to tons of Christian person, like real the real Christians are going to suffer persecution through this period. It's gonna be it's gonna be a rough period. So, you know, we can like what what I've been hoping is that the theater of war is over there. Like like right now, the theater of war is the Middle East.

SPEAKER_08

I hope it stays there.

SPEAKER_09

I hope if if wider war breaks out, I hope it stays in Europe. Um, I do think we're gonna be dealing with our own problems at home. I think we're gonna be dealing with civil war here at home. I think you're gonna be dealing with um Jews inflaming the tensions between Muslims and Christians in the US. Um yeah, it's shellfish. Can't be Jewish. What do you mean? It's not Jewish, it's shellfish. The Jews can't even eat lobster. What's wrong with you? You guys don't even know. I don't even know what you're saying. So um, yeah, uh, and one of my frustrations with all the Catholics talking about Zionism right now is none of them are uh discussing the implications of it. They all understand it's a heresy, and they all understand like you can't support Zionism, but it's almost like they don't understand why and what's happening in Israel right now.

SPEAKER_10

They just know it's the big, big current thing.

SPEAKER_09

It's the big current thing, so they're jumping on it, and it's like, oh, you know, Catholics can't be Zionists, but I'm talking everybody from Michael Matt to every everybody that I've watched. They they're um they're none of them are saying things that are untrue, they're just not discussing the implications of it. And and it really was the Romans 9 through 11 stuff that made me really understand like God is allowing them to gather back into this land, and then just thinking about like how they interpret the scriptures there, their whole thing is just this carnal, like talking to Maudsley, man, listening to him break down some of the Christian Zionism stuff and this demonic reading of the scriptures, and how they they read the old testament and they're like, This is how this is gonna be fulfilled, and it's so disgusting and evil. And um that yeah, that it's been uh it's really, really interesting because you know who first got me to think about this is really funny. Was uh like a leftist Catholic. Oh um, it was a guy who was a Protestant preacher who converted, he was on the journey home. His name's Jason something. Man, I can't remember his last name, but he started a podcast called like the drunk expastors, and I checked it out, and and he he didn't want to do the the EWTN thing, so he was a pastor and he became Catholic, and he saw like everybody writing their conversion stories and going through all this stuff, and he goes, You know what? I don't want to be a professional Catholic, and he kind of just like he he wound up taking a very liberal view of Catholicism, but he had some pretty good insights early on before he winds up going there, and one of the things he talked about was Jason Stellman, yes, Jason Stellman, and one of the things he talked about was how our foreign policy was shaped by Chris Christian dispensationalists because he came from that world, like he he came from the Christian Christian dispensationalist world and he became Catholic, and he was talking about it on like one of the early episodes when I used to listen to them, and he was like, Yeah, he's like, I don't know if most Catholics understand why we're so emphatic in our government about supporting Israel, and he got into and that was like my first clue into holy cow, this stuff is crazy, and that was years ago, it was like seven years ago or something, and from there, conversations I've had with Rob and and then listening to Scott Hahn, like Scott Hahn maybe maybe semite. I don't know what to tell you guys. And when I saw the Gavin Scott Hahn interview, I was just like it it kind of upset me because I know Scott Hahn sees the same stuff I do, and he doesn't speak out publicly about it. And it's like uh it's a bit of it's a bit of cowardice on his part, I think. Like he he skirts around the interview. He it's like it's like he knows he'll lose certain privileges if he actually starts talking talking about this stuff well. And um I just think he he thinks the same thing I do, because I know people in his orbit. And he says things behind the scenes behind closed doors. And I just wonder why a guy that well-versed sees this this obsession with Catholic Zionism, doesn't present it in a way like kind of like we do, where it's like, look, this is this is what's happening in salvation history, this is why you can't support Zionism. It's not it's not just Zionism is a heresy and it's Chris Christian dispensationalists and stuff. It's like, no, it's because they're trying to build the kingdom of Satan on earth. It was it was Maudsley who first gave me that phrase, and I've never ever not had it sit with me, and I just been pondering it for a year and a half, just because I used to be one of the, you know, Israel has a right to exist, guys, and it's man, do I have a different opinion on that stuff now.

SPEAKER_10

So things have definitely changed the last five, six years.

SPEAKER_09

I would say so. I think all of us, all of us, right? All of us have come around to a very different position on this stuff, and I know it gets tiresome sometimes, but like when you're seeing war break out in Iran, we kind of have to have the conversation. And there's always new people checking out the show, and uh they may not have heard it. So I know you guys get tired of me and my rants and me talking about this stuff. I we'll try to do it a little differently each episode, like this one. I think we played some clips and did it that way, but um it's it's stuff that does need to be talked about, and it's stuff I want you guys to be able to go and explain. So sometimes you got to hear something three or four times before you can go and explain. I had to listen to the Romans 9 through 11 six-hour lecture series multiple times before I actually understood the subject matter and was able to relay it. So I try to bring it down to a level where people can understand it.

Pastors, Rapture Talk, And Theology Critique

SPEAKER_09

My boat will be an escape pod.

SPEAKER_10

We're gonna mount some of my guns on that thing, and it's gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_09

My boat's gonna be an escape pod to get the hell off Long Island because if they ever did shut down the bridges of New York, I'd be screwed without that boat. Um, yeah, guys, pray for peace, man. Because like like men have their own machinations, but God could do something. Our late what another thing is like our lady hasn't appeared in a long time. And it's like she gave us all these warnings that my son, I'm holding my son's hand back.

SPEAKER_10

What do you mean? Now that the pandemic is over, she appears every day at Metro Gordon.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, right. Every one of her messages that are approved by the church were like, I'm holding my son's wrath back. This is a period of mercy. Do penance, pray. So those are the only things we actually can do about it. Like, if this stuff is happening, it's happening. And all we can really do is keep our relationship right with God. So let's do that. We're gonna go over and discuss Shia now. I have I have some interesting clips that were not posted on X that I thought were really interesting. And I also like I really uh I really I really like identified with some of the some of the way he was talking, even though I have whatever, we'll do it over there. It's it's some interesting stuff we'll get into with Shia. Uh, if you guys, even if you guys have seen the clips, I think you'll I think you'll appreciate the insight. So if you guys are not members, join us over on locals. That's where we do the stuff we can't do over here. Um you think you're using the boat to get off the island if they lock it down? Uh I don't know. I'm gonna try. Could maybe get to Connecticut or Jersey. I don't know what I'll do once I'm there, or they'll be on foot.

SPEAKER_10

But I don't know, man. If the end of the world's happening, I think Jersey is the last place I would go.

SPEAKER_09

You want to know what's what's the places that actually would be struck first are like North Dakota, Montana. Like that's where our missile silos are. That's where we keep our nukes. That's what I think. It's not gonna be New York, New Jersey. They're going to be bombings, it's gonna be New York and New Jersey are happening 100%.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, probably. Just for the symbolic, just for the symbolic value, not just symbolic uh economy trade economy, you know. Uh the the all the shipping they go, yeah. No, you're getting nukes. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_09

First week. I hope I'm taking out in the blast, to be honest. I don't I have no desire to like live through some marauding bands of rapists and no way. Take me out in the blast. I don't want to live in the post-apocalyptic hellscape.

SPEAKER_10

See, and where I'm completely the opposite. I have been preparing for that my whole life. I have an armory so I can arm my block and be the warlord, the local warlord of my area.

SPEAKER_09

Well, if I can make it to Minnesota, that's where I'm going, but I better get some hard copy laminated maps because I have a feeling the internet will be down and won't be able to use GPS to get there. Alright, guys, we're going over to locals. Join us.

SPEAKER_10

Uh what should I play as a find an oldie but goody.

SPEAKER_09

Stand up to Florida and fight the alligators and the pythons.

SPEAKER_10

I don't think so many. Whatever. No, I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_09

Akita, man. We should do a kita one night.

SPEAKER_10

We've done Akita.

SPEAKER_09

We should do, we should do because you remember like back in the early days, everybody would do Fatima and Akita, and they would go through all the it's been a while. We should do it.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, we could definitely.

SPEAKER_09

I know we have, but it's been it's been a long time. We got a whole new audience now and stuff. We should we should go through Akita. Because Akita's wild, man. Fire from the sky, bishops against bishop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

We'll just play. Okay, we're gonna we're leaving now.

SPEAKER_09

We'll see you guys. People don't like it. We go over to locals, they want to see the free show. But like, if you enjoy the main show, why wouldn't you come over to local? I don't get it. Like, I don't get that. I mean, the amount of money we we spend on nonsense coffee and crap is like what's five bucks a month to come and hang with us. Yeah. Freaking people are so cheap. Uh let's see, let me get in the live chat. Hang on.

SPEAKER_10

All right. Still climbing a little.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, let people get in. Um, so the shy eclipse, let's see what we should start with. Um I sent a few to the thing. Um I want to do the one where he talks about Jesus. Not the game. Which one's that? Uh the one I said I'll legit take shallow over so many tracks. Yeah, I saw Gordon covered this today. I I don't think we'll cover it like that. I don't know. I think I think our show is very different from Gordon's. So even if you even if you checked out Gordon's show, our show is very different. We have different insights.

SPEAKER_10

We have fewer females here. You think so? Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

You think Gordon has a more female audience, a bigger female audience?

SPEAKER_10

He has more females on his show. On his show, yes, for sure. That is what I was talking about.

SPEAKER_09

No comment, no comment.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, exactly, Paul. Exactly. Okay, let me uh switch out of supporters only, real quick. Okay. Um, yeah, so language warning, everyone. New Catholic, love this show. Wife not a big fan. Yeah, and you probably haven't even been around enough to uh for the women driver jokes.

Apocalypse Readings And Babylon Imagery

SPEAKER_10

We're pretty good on the women now.

SPEAKER_09

Why doesn't she like us? Well, a lot of women don't like me. Like that. I'm just very brash and it takes a very it takes a very special kind of lady to enjoy my you know how I how I handle things.

SPEAKER_07

What would you say to Jesus if you could meet him? I want to say shit. Really?

SPEAKER_06

Nah. But I'll kiss him. I kiss him. I just kissed him, I kiss his feet. No one's like, no.

SPEAKER_07

Chill out with these questions, Andrew. My bad. I didn't know it was. I'm a real Catholic, bro. A real one. I just thought you had thought about it. No, I'm a real one, bro. I want to believe in something. Well, hey, bro, you gotta hit your head into the wall hard enough where you just go, fuck it. It's the only way, dog. That's how you find God? Yep, for me. For the hard-headed ones? Yeah, you gotta go hard. What do you think was the real life equivalent of you smashing your head on the wall? I put a gun in my mouth, I was ready to kill myself, blow my brains out, writing letters, dark days. You can for real gone, really good.

SPEAKER_09

Look, the the the I watched the whole interview, and it's a rough one to get through because first off, he talks like I did when I was 17 years old, like a wigger from freaking. It's like he he seems to me, he's he seems to me like a very immature guy, right? And I talked about this a little bit with when I had Father on. Like I've uh for years I felt like a boy playing in manhood, and it was it's because he like I had an encounter with Christ, and I believed the Catholic faith, but I was just like still kind of living a life that's pretty antithetical to it. And when you're living like that, it's like you're you're constantly heartbroken, like you're just always like just like because sin doesn't have its same luster it did before your con before you like really had your conversion. It's like it it the you like it's the sin doesn't satisfy anymore. You feel constant guilt and shame, but you're still deeply in love with Christ, like you you still know the Catholic faith is true. And he it that's kind of what he came off to me as like it's just an immature guy who's still caught up in mortal sin. And like there was a period in my life where I lived like that, and he and it you can tell by his language, the constant f bombs, and like he's on a he's on an interview talking about God, and he's still got to drop F bombs like that. That's like I'm not I'm not saying like a guy can't say the F word, like I mean I say it, but it's context matters a bit, and he seems like he has like no control over his tongue whatsoever, and he's just like he's an actor, right? And he's trying to be authentic, but he's almost acting inauthentic in that attempt, I guess, is a is a way to explain it, maybe.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, yeah, I know what you're trying to get at there. I think I think in many ways he he is immature in the sense like he was a child actor in Hollywood, and we all know what happens to child actors in Hollywood. I mean, you know, most of us have heard Bug Hall talk about it, and trauma like that, I mean, it stunts you mentally and emotionally, many of them forever, until they die at a fairly young age. You know, how many child actors do kill themselves or or die from an addiction because they never get they never get past that childhood trauma and live immaturely as a child, basically. And I think he's at that point now where he's maybe processing it in and his faith is helping him with that.

SPEAKER_09

And he's he says a couple of things in it where he's like, uh, I don't think drinking is my problem. He's like, I think I I think I have anger issues, and I think I have small man complex, like I have Napoleon syndrome, because he's a small guy, he really is like five foot three, five foot four, and there's a lot of guys who are short who always feel like they need to prove themselves. Um and uh I think he might be right about that a little bit. Um but we even saw with Bug Hall, like Bug had his conversion, was living the faith out, and then he got and he got bogged down down when he went and visited somewhere in Texas or something, and he got caught huffing paint or something. He had a relapse, right? Like when somebody's an addict, like you have these these instances of relapse, and it's it's I think God allows the addict to have those relapses sometimes to hit a little more rock bottom. To I mean, I've told the story on the show where like what my marriage was falling apart. I was still I was dealing with like adderall addiction.

SPEAKER_10

And for the record, before the show, Anthony said he wasn't gonna get into any of this.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I didn't want to get too deep, but like I think it's important to share just because people deal with substance abuse, man. Like, whatever. Like, I don't give a crap. Like, yeah, this is this is just something real that happened to me where like I was very Catholic and I was working all these night shifts, and I was taking Adderall to stay awake for the night shift, and that led to like these these outbursts of anger because you get very strung out from Adderall, and it led to such conflict in my marriage. And I and like I told the story before where I just I was in front of the crucifix at holy innocence, and I just was weeping. And just begging God, like what you promised to set us free. Like when, not just like God, you said you would set us free in this life. Not, not, I don't want, I don't want heaven when I die. I want, I want life now. And uh it's it's very it's a very important thing for Catholics to experience that because we're not Protestant. And it's not just like, oh, you keep sinning and you just go to confession and that's it. No, that like living a sacramental life should root mortal sin out of you because the Eucharist is real, and that's that's the difference in Catholic theology and Protestant theology is that we actually believe the sacraments give us actual grace, and it doesn't make not sinning easy, but it makes it possible, and you we should be able to root mortal sin out of our lives. And I think uh he's he's I don't want to judge him, but I think that he's just on a bender right now. God probably allowed him to fall like this, and he's gotta get back to living a sacramental life. Like it's just you you have to you have to take prayer seriously, and it is all he just seems like an immature guy who who it's struggling with manhood.

SPEAKER_10

He's your height, apparently. By the way, was how tall is he?

Vatican II, Missions, And The Gentile Age

SPEAKER_10

Five's nine. Is he? No way, so I've seen him if he looks like a little man syndrome, man.

SPEAKER_09

I mean, he looks tiny. I don't know. I see every time I see him like next to guys, he's like looking up and he's like, so I don't know why he's got uh Napoleon complex.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, five nine. That's funny. He's taller than me, maybe. I mean in Hollywood, so many of those guys are tall, you know, except like um hang on.

SPEAKER_09

I want to see which um I I I recorded way too many clips.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, you only sent three of them.

SPEAKER_07

I know, I'm gonna bring it with me, bro. You know what I mean? I'm not on the wagon at all.

SPEAKER_10

Do you want the drinking problem one? I have that one.

SPEAKER_07

You can bring that one up while I'm looking for the one, but we didn't know how to get to um Detroit and run program like as rigid as they want it and the deeper and oh this one was good.

SPEAKER_09

Let me send this one.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, the drinking problem one while you send that. I think set off that anger. I mean, boy, I haven't experienced it for a while, but I'll be honest with you. Big gay people are scary to me. When I'm like standing by myself and three gay dudes are next to me, touching my leg, I get scared. I'm sorry. If that's homophobic, then I then I'm that. Yeah. Does that happen a lot? No, it just happened one time recently. Well, that's why I'm got arrested. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. So you were sort of being groped and surrounded.

SPEAKER_07

I'm not gonna say that because I'm my lawyer said, Oh fuck, dude. It's okay, it's okay.

SPEAKER_10

He he is so much like you. He is.

SPEAKER_09

I'm telling you, I Rob, I relate to his I relate to him so much, especially this one. I not the one I'm sending now. There's another one I want to send. His experience with people. Um, he's just what it is.

SPEAKER_07

Hang on, let me say a weird category of I have this familiarity with people. Yeah, I'm trying to as artists.

SPEAKER_09

All right, I think this is it. The the one I'm sending now.

SPEAKER_10

You are the most disorganized person, I think.

SPEAKER_09

Well, the thing is, I recorded too many clips. I was driving home today listening to the interview again, and I was like, oh, that's a good clip. That's a good clip. So I just sent one, but I'm I'm sending a new one now, and this is the one I want to play.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, did you get it? Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, yeah, just so it should be the it should be a minute and four seconds.

SPEAKER_07

Play, you know, it's just what it is. So I'm in this weird category of I have this familiarity with people, and yet I'm trying to do this artist thing, and yet, but it's deeper than that because it's like family. You meet people, they don't give a fuck about it.

SPEAKER_09

We'll pause it real quick. So what he's saying is like when he when he meets people, they've seen him growing up, right? He was in the movie Holes and he was on sitcoms when he was a kid. So like a lot of times people will see him, and his point was like, he's like, you know, when I like I grew up watching movies with like Will Smith or something, he's like I like I grew up watching um what the hell was that show, Will Smith?

SPEAKER_10

Uh Fresh Prince.

SPEAKER_09

Fresh Prince, right? So like when you see Will Smith, you almost have this connection to him already, and it's kind of like what we talk about with the podcast, right? When when people come up to me at church and they'll they're sitting and they might have watched us for a hundred hours and sat and listened to conversations with us, so they almost feel like they're coming up to see say hello to their buddy.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, they know more about your family drama than some of your family members, exactly.

SPEAKER_09

Right? So, like sometimes guys will come up to me after church and they feel like they know me because like they're sitting and watching hours and hours of our show together.

SPEAKER_10

They're there for anyone who hasn't experienced in it, which I hadn't until you know this, like it's weird because you're right, someone will come up to you and like even if I've talked to you a couple times before, like I might not remember your name, but you know a ton about me.

SPEAKER_09

And and you really feel at a disadvantage going into yeah, it's it's a it's a it's a because okay, so it's a it's a tricky thing that happens when I when I do leave church and somebody new comes up and they're like, Oh man, I watched the show. It's like because I want them to know how grateful I am, right? Like, you want the person to know, like, oh I'm I'm so grateful that you enjoy what we do, but I don't actually know you, so it's like he he won he'll want to like be buddy buddy, and I and I and I and I'm trying my best to extend that same courtesy back, and especially like for me, like you are naturally like that.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, I am not. I'm very standoffish with people for a long time, so it's really weird when someone comes up and has watched me interact with you for years, knows a ton about me, and I'm like, I don't remember your name from the last time you told me because I don't remember anyone's name because I didn't terrible with names too, though. So um oh, she goes, hi, it's me, your token black kid.

SPEAKER_09

Um, so Shia has a very similar temperament to me, like very similar. And when he meets people, he takes that into account, and he and he's and he's tries to be he's like people people meet me on the street, and like I'm like family to them because they've been watching me and all these movies and all this stuff. He's like, and I'm just trying to like if I could bring a little joy to them by talking with them, I try to do it, you know. So that's kind of what that's the context of this clip here. So you can play it now.

SPEAKER_10

Well, I'm responding to Molly. Molly says, if anyone ever sees me in the wild, they better go total fangirl on me.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

They're your cousin in a weird way. It kind of goes back to something you mentioned earlier, which is like, you know, there are people who like cross boundaries as a public figure, but then you also want to please people. Yeah. So how do you walk that line?

SPEAKER_07

Well, you gotta be authentic, other or you know, otherwise you go to hell. Which, you know, I don't want to speak too much about it, but I know intimately about people around me, and I mean you gotta keep it authentic, I think. And I think, you know, I'm Robin Hood kinda. I don't know. I've always been kind of I don't know, man. Maybe it's like I got this gray goose sneaker soul. Does it make sense? No, no. Do you know what a gray goose sneaker is? No, I just dirty fake dirty.

SPEAKER_09

I don't remember. I'll I'll like just explain the clip. He he talks about um joy, and he's like, um he's like uh he's like, I'm just kind of in a place right now. He's like where I where I'll go out and uh just want to meet people and like have connection with people and like just just talk with people. Like he I I he has such a similar temperament to me, man. It's like that I I I do that. Like I will I like doing like these these meetings where we meet people and I'm like and I just want to have like a connection with people and get to know them and like I ask random strangers questions, dude. If I if I get brought to like a family party and I and I and there's somebody there I never met, like I go right up to them.

SPEAKER_10

All all of like uh I go to the other end of the house.

SPEAKER_09

I know we we're very different, obviously, but like we're very different, but like even like when my sisters would bring guys around and like a new guy would come around, and all my other brothers would just like ignore them. Like, I would go out of my way to talk to the new person, like whoever it is, is if it's uh like my even my wife's family, like um my wife's aunt had a husband, and he wasn't blood related to my wife. Like my wife's aunt, she was blood related to, and he was the husband who

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married in, and he always kind of was like an outcast of the family because like he you know, he married in, and I I just gravitated to him because I I always looked for the outcast, you know. It's like I always do, I always want to go and talk to the guy that he's really talking to and like make friends with them, and um, I don't know. It's it's but part of it is also the the way I see people now is also very different. I I I always like I would I used to have like if somebody annoyed me, I would just not want to be around that person, and I would I would say things like, Oh, I hate that guy. Like, I will never say that about anybody anymore. Like, I don't I don't hate anybody. And in the especially guys at work, man, there's some really annoying guys at work, you know, and it's like I've had class games also about it. My brothers are the least annoying people at work. The um the but there are guys who are uh like a bit much to deal with, and I've I've taught myself to be kind to them and like be friends with them. And like I've I've I've uh new war just launched. Where?

SPEAKER_10

Uh this is from Insider Wire. U.S. launches military operations against Ecuador narco-terror groups.

SPEAKER_09

We're going for Cuba too. Probably. We're gonna take Cuba too, which is which is I mean, that would it just makes sense. Honestly. It makes sense. It's 90 miles around Florida, right?

SPEAKER_10

I mean Southcom, Southern Command says Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launch operations against designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador. They've already got unclassified videos released from it, so it's probably actually over already.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I mean that's not a war, though, right? No, that's not really. I wouldn't consider that a war, but it's still like just shit, and the world is just popping off everywhere, man. And there, and there is something about us like Empire building right now that is really. Um, I lost I lost the locals' feed. What the hell happened? Here we go. Let me see.

SPEAKER_10

Someone goes, please don't make Anthony write about Armageddon.

SPEAKER_09

I don't want to be right about it, guys, just so you know. Like I really don't. I don't want to be right about it. Uh a lot of it is me having to talk through my thoughts on it and um trying to like make sense of it with you guys in some some aspects. Like I, you know, and I'm bouncing ideas off of you guys to see if you guys think I'm totally nuts. Usually, when you guys think I'm totally nuts, I think I'm even more right, so it's not good. But um, um, there's also a story I threw up in there, Rob.

SPEAKER_10

Someone says you can see the Anthony caused stressed the stress eye bags underneath, I would assume, my eyes when I take off my glasses.

SPEAKER_09

Well, I think I think the last episode you'd gotten to the point where you had had it with me.

SPEAKER_10

I I I definitely had a little crash out there for him.

SPEAKER_09

You had gotten to a point where you would just had it with me, and I'm like, is that the episode I went and got the bourbon in the middle? Yeah, but like we we even bickered on air, and I know we did, and I was like, but even with that, Rob, it's like I'm telling you, even even my even our relationship, because I like I I because I was mad at you that night. Like, oh I was mad at you, and we got off, and I was just like, he just lost his grandma, and he um he's doing the mint Linton meditations every day, he's still doing the Guns and Rosary show, and and like I just I actually instead of being mad at you, I was I had nothing but compassion for you, and I was like, I do appreciate that.

SPEAKER_10

I do, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

I had nothing but compassion for you because I know what you're going, like, I know the crap you're dealing with, and I'm like, all right, just so I even text you, I said, Rob, if at any point, like you're if you need like a night off or something, like I'm I know the Linton meditations are a lot, man. First off, it's it's a lot to record them every morning, yeah. It's a it's a lot to record them. It's like, and it's easy to get burnout doing this stuff, man. Like you feel like you're constantly sitting at your computer, and all you're doing is talking, you know. Yeah, you know, it's like um and and the thing is the Linton meditations are amazing, like they're really good. So I think you know, I'd I'd almost rather you do those and take a little take an even if you did once a week with me, and I'll get a guest for the second night or something, like just to give you a little bit of breathing room because you're dude, you're streaming three nights plus doing daily that's a lot. So and now, and then plus you're dealing with the the family stuff right now.

SPEAKER_10

So yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna be on on Thursday, everyone.

SPEAKER_09

By the way, just have so yeah, so I so Josh is coming on. So that's actually a good episode because we already had a guest booked. But if you do need another one, just let me know. I'll get Pantile to come on or something.

SPEAKER_10

And yeah, Pantile's uh schedules uh opened up a little.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah. We'll be talking about that soon.

SPEAKER_10

Don't worry. Don't worry. On a completely, completely unrelated, uh, completely unrelated. Someone asked, Since the world is ending soon, are you going to talk about Kyle before it is too late?

SPEAKER_09

Completely unrelated. Completely unrelated. Oh, don't worry. The Kyle rant's coming. Um, okay, so also Rob and I get a text the other day from uh a listener who's a cop, and he tells us this unbelievable story. That there was a he first off, he just had a baby. Okay, so he's got a six-month-old at home. And he goes and uh he gets called on a call and it's a baby drowned. And he's like, and I got a baby at home, and I'm like losing my mind. Thank God there was an ENT there, and like they they took care of the CPR and stuff because he he's like, I would have probably lost it. So they bring the baby to the hospital to get the baby to the hospital, and the doctor pronounces the baby dead. And like three people see the baby moving, and they're like, the baby's not dead, the baby has a heartbeat, like it's a faint heartbeat, the baby's still alive. No, the baby's dead, the doctor pronounces the baby dead, puts the baby in a freezer. Five hours later, they take the baby out of the freezer and the baby still has a heartbeat. The baby is now expected to make a full recovery. Okay. So I just was on Twitter and I saw somebody tweeted this story out. And I'm like, we just got this text. A child has made a miraculous recovery after drowning in a backyard pool in Gilbert on Super Bowl Sunday. While millions watched the Super Bowl, Gilbert police and fire crews were called to a home where a child was found in the backyard around 5:30 p.m. First responders performed life-saving measures on the scene before the child was rushed to a hospital where the child was pronounced dead at 6.20. Five hours later, Gilbert police were told the child was showing signs of life. The child was flown to another valley hospital than expected to. This is the same story, right? It has to be. Has to be the same story. Arizona's family reporter, Michaela Marshall, asked Dr. Frank, an emergency medical physician with decades of experience where the child could have been in a morgue during those

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five hours. I guess anything. The baby was in a damn freezer. I gotta find uh the message this guy sent, Robin.

SPEAKER_10

I have it, I have it right here. Read it. Okay, so um hey guys, I want to reach out because truthfully, outside my brother, there aren't very many Catholics around me. I can tell these crazy stories to. And I know you both don't even actually know me, but I think you two would enjoy this story. I'm a police officer. About two weeks ago, I celebrated my daughter's first birthday party and took a day off of work to celebrate it. The very next day at work, I went to a call with an 18-month-old boy who was found face down floating in a pool by his parents or other family at the house. By the time I got there, the fire department was already working on the child. There was an officer who had to do CPR on the kid. Thankfully, I did not have to live through that. I did, however, see the kid on the floor all pale, and truthfully, from my own experience, I thought he was already dead. I saw him and saw my daughter and this little boy, but I had a job to keep doing anyways, and I basically had to stay with the parents who were entirely inconsolable for obvious reasons. Eventually, the kid was transported to the hospital, and after being worked on, he was pronounced deceased. I was not at the hospital, so I did not witness this myself, but I was told by other officers who were there that when they called it, the head doctor went to give the death notification to the family, but a separate nurse noticed the child still had a pulse. The nurses began working on the kid again, only to get scolded by the doctor when the officer asked when the officer asked him to pause the death notification due to the kid still having a pulse. The doctor scolded the officer and the hospital staff, saying the kid was dead and nothing could help him. The parents came in to say their goodbyes and saw that the kid was still trying to breathe. The doctor told them it was just gases leaving the body. The grandma came in and said the same thing, and the doctor told her the same thing also. The child was bagged up just like any other dead body, transported to the medical examiner's office, and put in the freezer for five hours. They started the autopsy and the ME found he still had a pulse and mild brain activity. He was transported by helicopter to a children's hospital. He was put on a ventilator and given 48 hours to see if the brain activity would get better. After the 48 hours, they pulled the ventilator and the kid was breathing on his own, started moving his tongue and neck muscles, and was allegedly smiling when his parents would read to him. I was given news today that he was stable enough that his parents finally got a hold of him again, and he is expected to make a full recovery. Just needs therapy to regain motor skills. I'm very sorry for bombarding you both with such a long story. I know you both have no involvement. Yeah, that's this story was sent to us like two weeks ago. When was it sent? Uh, it was sent Wednesday, uh, February 18th. Yeah, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, this guy said. Does it say the kid's name in this in the news article? I don't know. Uh um you look for that. Uh so the the this officer who messaged us said, I've been going through so many thoughts with everything going on, and it does feel like you guys actually care about the people who watch your show. Um if you guys could please say a prayer for the little boy whose name is Vincent and his family, but also say a prayer for me. It's been a while time, and truthfully, it is only by the grace of God I've been able to shoulder this. God bless you both.

SPEAKER_09

Dude, I so I so today somebody posted this uh story. It doesn't say the child's name. Um but Super Bowl Sundays. So, I mean, it had to be. It had to be it. Yeah, it it lines up way too much, right? It's it's the it's the exact same story, and somebody, but yeah, this is in Arizona's family news. See that doctor? I want to I want to murder that doctor. Like the mother said, No, he has a pulse, the baby's moving. The grandmother came in, the baby has a pulse, the baby's moving. No, it's just gas that's leaving the body. They wanted the freaking baby's organs.

SPEAKER_10

Uh so yeah, either either it's probably a woman doctor who does abortions who wanted the baby's organs, or it's an Indian doctor who got their degree off of a you know degree mill in India.

SPEAKER_09

It's just crazy the reach of our show sometimes. Oh man, I gotta tell everybody this.

SPEAKER_10

Um, so I'm not gonna say the name of the police officer or the city they're a police officer in. I just looked him up. Um but he is a police officer in Arizona. There you go. It's the same, yeah, it's the same story for sure. Does it does it say what town in Arizona?

SPEAKER_09

Uh I don't say it's okay. Gilbert. Drowning in Gilbert. Same story. Gilbert, same killer. Yep. Okay. Um I got a I got a DM from Alex at Hallow. I sent it to you, obviously, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So um so uh Bree Solstad said, Unpopular opinion. I'm just gonna gently suggest that praying along with Hollywood actors and pop musicians through an app on your smartphone is not the best way to spend your Lent. So I quote tweeted that and I said I'd much rather pray with an accountant from Minnesota. Referencing my meditation. That's all I was saying. Like Alex from Hallow text uh DM me and said, Oh brother, sorry to hear. Have been a big fan of your content for a while, greatly appreciate all the work you do. Certainly understand the aversion to celebrities, but let me know if there's anything else you think we could do better or differently. Would greatly appreciate it.

SPEAKER_10

You should have responded. Would you be willing to admit that publicly?

SPEAKER_09

The thing is, like, no matter what I think about Hallow, like now that Alex texted me, I'm not gonna say anything bad publicly. That is such a genius move. That is such a genius move to go and you see people trashing you and DM them directly. Just go, oh man, I'm a fan of yours. Why'd you do that? Because you can't be mean to somebody that likes you. It's very hard. I said, uh no, Alex, I was just promoting Rob's Lent meditations, no aversion to what you're doing. I pray God blesses your endeavor endeavors, and I appreciate the comment. And then, like later on, I tweeted out, I said, sometimes I think I underestimate avoiding Babylon's reach, and he liked it.

SPEAKER_10

Oh man.

SPEAKER_09

You know what? Screw him. He hasn't asked me to do any readings over there.

SPEAKER_10

Well, you know, he figures people don't need to hear what a packaday sounds like, I guess. I haven't smoked a pack a day in a very long time.

SPEAKER_09

I know. Could do a single one with Robin Ann on how we should we should send them on Gather at same song. Be like, just send me the video. Send me the video. I'm gonna tweet out. Hey Alex, you want this one for Allo?

SPEAKER_10

Well, it's in the messages of Taffy.

SPEAKER_09

Get a Catholic Match uh sponsored. You guys want to hear a funny story about that? Yeah, another funny story. The guy at Catholic Match is a huge fan and used to send us like $800 super chats, and he doesn't do it anymore.

SPEAKER_10

And now he never will since we blew a spot there.

SPEAKER_09

But no, he I'm he used to give us dude, he used to give us like three four hundred dollar super chats.

SPEAKER_10

Well, I know, but you I don't

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SPEAKER_10

have you ever looked up to see the contribution totals um within within uh locals. No, yeah. So if I go through here and do a filter, um by what oh, some people give more than five bucks.

SPEAKER_09

I've never even looked.

SPEAKER_10

Oh yes, yes. Um, for instance, the I'm not gonna say the name of the top supporter in case they don't want it.

SPEAKER_09

It's they give 500 a year, right?

SPEAKER_10

Uh yeah, so the top supporter on locals is given 1500. Wow, the second supporter has given 766 in tips.

SPEAKER_09

And that's I gotta show me on this info and tell me who it is after because I mean I don't I don't want to blow anybody's spot, but you guys don't even know how grateful we are for that stuff. Yeah, I'll show you that. Honestly, if if five bucks is what you have, five bucks is what you have. We don't ask for more. Like I would never ask for more, but you get like locals is what makes this show possible, guys. Like, we can't do this without locals, it's just not possible. Like the YouTube pays nothing, and even the sponsorships, it's like they're cute, but like we got free lobster.

SPEAKER_10

It's like I mean we we do we definitely do appreciate it, but yeah, it's yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not the majority by any stretch of the imagination.

SPEAKER_09

No, no, local locals is our is our main source of income. So if it wasn't for you guys supporting us on here, it's like you you it's literally what makes it so that we're able to do this show. Like, I we could never justify the amount of time we put into it if we weren't making the locals money, but I like it's made me like I'm watching guys like Joe Wenders, right? And he's he's gonna start his streaming career, and I'm like good luck, good luck, dude. There's no money in this. Like, I don't know, I don't know how the hell you're gonna pull that one off. Same thing with Pelican. It's like Pelican, how the hell is Pelican how how? How explain it to me because I don't know if any other show has the draw we do to the locals portion, like to the paid portion. Like I don't I don't know any other show that has like a draw Matt Frat, obviously, but like like an R tier, you know what I mean? Like like an R tier is what I'm talking about. Like R tier, you got like I don't I don't think Gordon has anywhere near our local size.

SPEAKER_10

Even um, even like Brian Holdsworth, who has like three times our number of YouTube subs, has monetized less than we have, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Less than we make more, but we also split it, but we make more doing this than than Holdsworth does. He he makes way more on YouTube, don't get me wrong. He makes way more on YouTube right.

SPEAKER_10

But if he if he's making four or five times more on YouTube, it's still less than what we make in local. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, but he he has a full-time job too, which helps.

SPEAKER_09

Because you guys said it was gonna go up every month. Well, it was going to when we thought we were going to Pelican. We thought we were going to Pelican, it was gonna go up to eight bucks a month.

SPEAKER_10

So we were actually uh it turns out it went up to 15 bucks a month.

SPEAKER_09

They're charging 15 a month there, yeah. So we still we were looking to do you guys a favor. They were gonna honor the local subs and carry them over. Um I could buy a boat with the shekels I save.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, we're like Kohl's. We we just tell you how much you save. Don't think of it like you spent five dollars. We saved you however much Matt Frad charges.

SPEAKER_09

We saved you 10 bucks a month from not having to go to Pelican. Yeah, exactly. Because most of you guys would have followed us to Pelican, I think.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, if it's well, judging from their they all thought that too, but apparently not.

SPEAKER_09

I think uh I think they're I think their paid subscribers, but probably similar to ours. I don't think they have I mean they might have more, but I don't think it's much more. And they're splitting it between like six different creators. Splitting it between six different creators, but they probably have around the same as us, they're getting 15 bucks a month. And they got a very big overhead on their uh on their uh software. Their software is like 30 grand a month. I don't know how the hell I don't know how the hell they are managing. I don't know. I don't know, I don't get it. We'll see. Brad makes you sub for a year to get his locals, you can't just uh do the monthly.

SPEAKER_10

We don't even make you do a month. If you want to watch a single show, it's four bucks.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, Rob wanted to keep it at two. Like, make the make them pay four because then because it's like if they want to see the show that bad, they'll pay four, but like for another buck, you get the whole month. Why wouldn't you do it? So they have to you have to make it so it's like I'll just throw the extra buck in, you know. But people do do a lot of those one-time supports, man.

SPEAKER_10

I'll tell you guys, I try to save you guys money every chance I get, but Anthony, I'm like, no, he's easy.

SPEAKER_09

If it was up to you, we'd still be doing the show for free. You kidding me? I'm not even kidding. You're never off. I'm like, screw you, we're putting we're putting merch out. I'm like, screw you, we're charging for locals. It's been a while. I gotta I gotta do more stuff with the merch. Um, yeah, we should we should put a new shirt out for sure. Um, but I want the I want the tumblr back. I I know I yeah, I definitely want the tumbler back because I I used that tumbler all the time, and Bobby came and visited me and he stole it.

SPEAKER_10

Damn feds.

SPEAKER_09

Freaking feds stole my avoiding Babylon Tumblr.

SPEAKER_10

Well, the thing is, I was damn feds and future brother-in-laws can't trust me.

SPEAKER_09

Uh Bobby and Chrissy started their uh consecration to our lady today.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, doing it together, huh?

SPEAKER_09

And Bobby's never done one before, so it was a gift, Bobby said.

SPEAKER_10

Bobby, even if he told you it was a gift, you gotta know that comes with caveats.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, of

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SPEAKER_09

course. I'm at least gonna tell everybody you stole it. Um, all right, all right. I think there's one Raymond's course. Um, Thursday night. Are you gonna do that again or on on Josh? No, he I well, I think he's a little nervous about putting it on eternal Christendom because he he he knows I'm a loose canon. And and if we're on eternal Christendom, I would definitely push the boundaries purposefully, yeah. Oh, for sure. I'd make him nervous the whole show. So I think it's just gonna be on our channel. Um, but uh I'm sure he'll I'll what we'll do is if there's like a good clip or two, like I'll have him put it over there. I want you guys to ask him controversial questions about the Jews because Josh has been getting a little nervy, he's been getting a little nervy putting some ballsy stuff out.

SPEAKER_10

I want you guys to ask him if what he thinks about the whole Kazar, Khazarian thing, ask him about Agartha, talk about flat earth.

SPEAKER_09

That would be hilarious. He wants it to be like sophisticated theology questions.

SPEAKER_10

I want you guys to ask him about the end times, ask him if he thinks it was really the Titanic or if it was really the Olympic that sank in 1912.

SPEAKER_09

Ask him straight out if he thinks Trump is the Antichrist. Somebody has to do that. Somebody has to ask him if he thinks because I because I I think he thinks that.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, ask him if if Hitler survived the war. And if he did, did he go to Argentina or did he was he snuck into Agartha? Did Admiral Byrd really sneak Hitler into Agartha? Um Thursday morning. I don't think we're gonna be leaving, driving to the cities until like midday Thursday. So let's figure out the title and thumbnail Thursday morning so I have time to do that for you.

SPEAKER_09

Um okay. Uh well you could do it tomorrow, I guess. Set it up. Maybe we'll see.

SPEAKER_10

Tomorrow, Thursday, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

It just it's just gonna be um uh could just be uh Joshua Charles Collin. Joshua Charles Colin show. He wants it to be men, like he doesn't he wants it to like mainly be men. I think he's like afraid to have a woman on screen.

SPEAKER_10

But Molly, you know what to do then.

SPEAKER_09

Not really many women watch our show anyway, but I will give the link to um you guys first though. Am I gonna be able to post the link in the comments? Like, could didn't you disable links in the comments on YouTube?

SPEAKER_10

Oh I can post from other people, but not from if you do it from the avoiding Babylon account, you'll be fine. Which I which if I post to if you if you do it through StreamYard, it will be fine.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Okay, I think I all right. So yeah, if I do it through StreamYard, all right. Um, all right, so yeah, uh but first I'll post it in locals and I'll give locals the first shot at it, and uh you guys will get the first chance to ask questions, and then I'll I'll put it out to YouTube and the wider audience after. So um, all right, guys. We will see you on Thursday with Joshua Charles and pray for Rob and his family. And for the repose of Rob's grandmother's soul.

SPEAKER_10

And for Paul and Paul's family and child.

SPEAKER_09

Paul, Paul's, Paul's uh wife and their child. So we will uh see you guys on Thursday. Take us out, Robin.