Owen Morgan's Fireside Chat

Paula White's $1,000 Passover offer promises seven supernatural blessings and a crystal cross while Benny Hinn's screeners turned away a disabled child. The tithe pitch asks for the first tenth of your gross income and credits 30 million pounds of food and a village in Israel to the donors, and the broadcast carrying it runs on RT. Benny Hinn's crusade intercepted Janice Brulotte and her eight-yea...

The universe's fine-tuning defeats atheism, Fox News argues, but the design analogy collapses the moment anyone asks who ever watched life get painted. Brandon Carter's anthropic principle, presented in Krakow in 1973 for Copernicus's 500th birthday, never pointed where the article claims, and the Allan Sandage and Fred Hoyle quotes about a super intellect monkeying with physics prove nothing abou...

Maine's Supreme Judicial Court backed Matthew Brideen's veto over Calvary Chapel after hell sermons gave 12-year-old Ava panic attacks. Judge Jennifer Noffsinger's 18-page ruling documents what Emily Bickford hid from the girl's father: an anti-abortion protest disguised as a trip to the state capital, an overnight church retreat with no phone contact, and a baptism he only learned about from a th...

Josh Howerton's Lakepointe Church runs 400 AI facial-recognition cameras on its own staff while he preaches against mass surveillance. The Coram AI system Lakepointe bought advertises that it identifies persons of interest, tracks license plates and enforces compliance, and insiders count those 400-plus cameras on the Rockwall campus alone, sitting in most staff offices under a rationale of catchi...

Lance Wallnau claims Trump is handing local churches $1.3 trillion in frozen USAID money so Christians can buy converts. The self-described prophet pitches the workaround openly: build a charity that requires church attendance, and federal dollars follow the gospel through the door. Hemant Mehta's reporting on the Trump administration's $2 billion in faith-based grants traces where the money actua...

Janet Porter's war-on-Christmas sitcom builds a whole episode around an HOA fining her nativity scene, and none of it happens in real life. What a Girl Wants ran one season on the Christian Broadcasting Network, and its eighth episode stacks every persecution fantasy at once: a homeowners association head who answers Merry Christmas with happy holidays, a $50 violation notice for a manger on the l...

Erica Anderson's Federalist piece brands Dolly Parton's inclusive faith as a False Gospel, a claim that ignores her decades of non-judgmental advocacy. Michael, a current Mormon, claims mormons arent responsible for the curse of Ham narrative by blaming Southern Protestantism rather than LDS doctrine, exposing the racial bias Brigham Young imported from his upbringing. then, we dissect the absurdi...

Bannon promises prison for himself and everyone in the room if Republicans lose the midterms, and he means it. Steve Bannon's own audio does the work here: the call to codify Trump's executive orders past the Senate's structural barriers, the boast that Lindsey Graham and the self-described constitutionalists are being talked into a maximalist strategy before the chance disappears forever, and the...

Jeffrey Jackson calls Jehovah's Witnesses the most moral group on earth while a Pennsylvania grand jury indicts five of them for child abuse. The two witness rule did the damage: elders demanded two eyewitnesses to an act nobody witnesses, the Old Testament passage it came from explicitly excluded gross criminal conduct, and the 1990s loosening to two victims of separate events still let accused a...

Katie Sousa's new book claims aliens harvested her eggs to breed a hybrid named Starburst, and Trinity Broadcasting Network airs her show anyway. 0:19 - Katie Souza's claim that aliens harvested her eggs to create a hybrid named Starburst 20:57 - Christian nationalists like Andrew Wommack and Monty Fritz calling to outlaw Islam 30:48 - The Satanic Temple's Iowa Capitol holiday display and the ACLU...

Pastor Alvin Christian left his food bank freezers empty rather than accept donations tied to LGBTQ groups, starving 800 families a day. 7:49 - The MDK alpha-male bootcamp's abusive berating and crying-man breakdown videos 18:20 - Pastor Alvin Christian's food bank starving families over LGBTQ-linked donations 23:35 - OAN anchor Alison Steinberg's abortion rant and glee over Biden's COVID diagnosi...

Kent Christmas prophesies a death angel will kill members of Congress, then praises suicide bombers as the Christian model. 0:00 - You're listening to the Telltale channel. If you 0:20 - Kent Christmas's death angel prophecies and praise for suicide bombing 14:52 - Kat Kerr's Dorian prophecy, Charlie Kirk in heaven, and firing squad wishes 26:03 - James Taylor's Oklahoma campaign: furry hoax, Bibl...

- Monty Fritz wants Islam declared not a religion so he can ban mosques, and says courts shouldn't have final say over anything - we break down why that argument is a dictatorship with better branding. - Steven Anderson says his daughter Miriam fabricated CPS allegations against him, but his own leaked phone call and his line about what happens "in my bedroom" tell a different story. - Kenneth Cop...

- Kim Davis owes $565,285.91 after refusing same-sex marriage licenses, and a new lawsuit says she quietly moved a $400,000+ inheritance to family right before denying it under oath. We trace the property transfers, break down her attorney Matt Staver's bizarre verb-tense defense of her sworn testimony, and look at why Liberty Counsel is suddenly nowhere to be found. - Trump's own attorney general...

Kenneth Copeland shoves a wheelchair-bound man backward while praising Jesus, and the man still can't stand. That's just the opening of this deep dive into the Christian nationalist grift machine, where we trace fabricated history, fake persecution stories, and outright calls for violence back to their sources. We break down Gene Bailey's book Killing America, which uses the David and Goliath stor...

Donald Trump says he's a believer in 'Race Horse Theory' - the old 1950s euphemism for eugenics - and it's not a one-off. We pull the supercut of Trump talking about 'good genes,' German blood, and winning bloodlines going back decades, and trace race horse theory straight to the eugenics movement that helped pave the way for Nazi Germany. Then we fact-check pseudo-historian David Barton's claims...

- Jack Posobiec told Piers Morgan on live television he never promoted Pizzagate, so we pulled his own old footage where he says Comet Ping Pong had kids trafficked in a secret back room, plus the tweet he sent days before an armed man stormed the restaurant with an AR-15. His words, his tape, his lie. - Steven Anderson's own adult children, Miriam, Isaac, Solomon, and John, say their father beat...

0:00 - Greg Locke's home raided by FBI and IRS agents revealed 1:04 - Details on son's overdose death and prior house shooting cover-up 3:23 - Church background, social media following, and mass deliverance ministry 4:01 - Locke's book-burning events and YouTube account termination 6:02 - Locke defends burnings, compares critics to Taliban persecution claims 7:14 - Gay counter-protester burns a Bi...

A Kentucky church staged a mock firing squad execution in front of children at Vacation Bible School and the pastor says he's 'befuddled' by the backlash. We break down exactly why that defense fails. Then: Pastor Tony Spell, the COVID-defying Louisiana preacher who packed his church while morgues filled up, attempted to run over a protester with a church bus, got arrested for felony battery after...

Kunneman claims God told him on 9/11 that a man from New York City would rise with Solomon-like wisdom — and he's retroactively pinning that on Trump. This episode tears that apart claim by claim. We also fact-check the MAGA forum panic over the Iran peace deal, where the $300 billion reparations figure circulating on Patriots.win turns out to have zero credible sourcing — the actual number is $24...

Jehovah's Witnesses are running a slick TikTok campaign claiming members are your doctors and lawyers — while the organization effectively bans higher education. This episode tears apart that PR campaign claim by claim. Then: a licensed psychiatrist is pushing to add Trump Derangement Syndrome to the DSM, arguing women who dislike Trump just hate men. The APA will never approve it, but the fact th...

Jehovah's Witnesses just won court rulings in Norway and Sweden by arguing their shunning practices don't coerce members. A 2002 Watchtower article still live on their own website says otherwise. This episode tears apart the legal strategy, the scriptural justification, and the organizational spin in the latest Governing Body Update. We trace the disfellowshipping doctrine back to its actual origi...

Pastor Lance Wallnau prays over life-size cardboard cutouts of Trump, Elon Musk, and Mike Lindell, claiming Trump has a divine 'Cyrus anointing.' We examine Wallnau's bizarre shrine, Michelle Bachmann's push for Trump to attack Iran before midterms to trigger the rapture, and Indiana candidate Micah Beckwith calling the firing squad a 'blessing' that leads to salvation. Plus: a former MAGA member...

Tina Peters gave her county clerk credentials to right-wing extremists who stole voter data and handed it to Mike Lindell. She was convicted of election tampering and sentenced to 9 years—not for giving a false name during COVID, as her defenders claim. This episode traces every claim made by Alex Jones and Peters' legal team, fact-checks the election fraud narrative, and explains exactly what fed...

Franklin Graham quoted a completely fabricated Abraham Lincoln line at America's 250th celebration—claiming freedom requires Jesus. We trace the fake quote, debunk Paula White's slavery revisionism, and expose how Christian nationalists are weaponizing religion to strip rights. This episode covers Trump's golden statues (yes, multiple), the cult-like devotion of allies who once called him a con ar...