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 story to tell Christians they'll be rewarded by God for killing their enemies, and we check his claims about the Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan, and separation of church and state against what actually happened. We look at Sarah Huckabee Sanders' manufactured war on her own Christian identity, the misrepresented facts behind Kennedy v. Bremerton, and Florida candidate Rod Joseph's claim that being gay is biologically impossible, a claim that falls apart the moment you look at actual animal behavior. Tennessee candidate Matt Fritz wants Islam banned outright. Christian influencer Sarah Elizabeth Tenney says she had six kids to keep the white race from going extinct.Every claim gets checked against primary sources. Every quote gets played in context. If you've wondered how Christian nationalist rhetoric turns fabricated grievance into a justification for real violence, this traces it step by step. Subscribe for more debunks, and leave a review if fact-checking like this matters to you.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 about founding fathers landing in debtors' prison over war debts and his rewrite of how long slavery actually lasted in America - both provably false, and we show you the receipts. We also break down self-proclaimed prophet Amanda Grace's numerology claim that Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga's names spell out a secret 2028 Democratic plot, watch Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison get asked whether the new Trump commemorative coin could ever rival the $30 million 1933 Double Eagle, and look at a pro-Trump Catholic group raising real money to put a giant cross on the moon. Every claim in this episode gets checked against the actual historical record, source by source. If you want to understand how religious and political operators twist history, science, and scripture to sell a story, this one has the paper trail. Subscribe and check out the website for more fact-checked breakdowns.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

- 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 them and their mother with extension cords, paddles, and chairs and called it biblical discipline. We play his sermon where he tells God to kill them unless they publicly recant, and we go through why longtime allies inside his own IFB network are finally breaking away.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

0:00 - Greg Locke's home raided by FBI and IRS agents revealed1:04 - Details on son's overdose death and prior house shooting cover-up3:23 - Church background, social media following, and mass deliverance ministry4:01 - Locke's book-burning events and YouTube account termination6:02 - Locke defends burnings, compares critics to Taliban persecution claims7:14 - Gay counter-protester burns a Bible at Locke's event9:19 - Book exposing Locke's alleged financial mismanagement by ex-pastors12:23 - Analyzing Locke's rebuttal about the house purchase controversy13:46 - Locke's church sermon begins addressing the raid directly17:02 - Locke describes dramatic raid: agents, guns, and family treatment20:09 - Locke recounts search warrants, seized devices, and sheriff's favoritism25:37 - Investigation scope expands: years of records, subpoenas issued28:55 - Analyzing Locke's 2022 claim of dissolving church's tax-exempt status32:02 - Discussion of Locke's adoption agency and political motivations33:40 - Locke claims innocence, deflects blame onto investigators and haters39:04 - Critique of tax-exempt status abuse and church's lack of public benefit45:48 - Bank accounts frozen, church left without income or payment options47:04 - Skepticism grows: banks don't freeze accounts without cause52:04 - Comparison to Kenneth Copeland's pandemic-era tithing manipulation55:34 - Locke solicits donations despite likely having substantial personal wealth59:35 - Locke closes with Moses analogy, calls congregation to worship and giveGreg Locke says the FBI raided his home over financial mismanagement. The truth is worse: agents were investigating alleged financial malfeasance, and records show his megachurch bought him a $1.6 million house while the church itself doesn't own a building. We go through Locke's July 12th sermon line by line - the tears, the claims of persecution, the sixty federal agents, the canceled bank accounts - and check every detail against the public record. We trace his 2022 claim that he 'dissolved' his church's 501c3 tax-exempt status, which state filings show he never actually did, and revisit the time he blamed a shooting at his house on Christian persecution when it was actually his son's drug dealer. We also break down why a pastor with a 2.2 million-follower platform and monetized media is still telling his congregation to give more. This is Global Vision Bible Church in Wilson County, Tennessee - book burnings, mass deliverance services, and now a federal investigation reaching back to 2020. If you've ever wondered how a church avoids taxes while its pastor lives large, this episode walks through exactly how it works and where Greg Locke's own story stops adding up. Subscribe for more investigations into religious grifters and the money behind them.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 beating a 20-year-old neighbor, and was caught on body camera harassing the victim's father from a lawn mower less than two days later. Spell built his brand on free speech and religious freedom. He then physically attacked a man for exercising that same free speech on his own property. We walk through the body cam footage, the legal exposure, and the pattern of behavior that defines Spell's ministry. We also examine what the Vacation Bible School firing squad stunt actually models for developing minds, and why the pastor's 32-year-tradition defense makes the case against him, not for him. Subscribe, leave a review, and find more at oamorgan.com.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 billion in frozen Iranian assets being released, which is still more than the $3 billion Obama-era release that MAGA spent years condemning. Hank Kunneman prophesied Trump would win in 2020, was wrong, never properly accounted for it, and now hides behind the convenient excuse that prophecies are conditional on human free will. We follow the logic of that excuse to its embarrassing conclusion. Plus: Christian nationalism dressed up as biblical history, AI compared to the Tower of Babel, and a guest who thinks Pol Pot is a relevant argument against food stamps. Subscribe and leave a review if this is the kind of homework you want done for you.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 that a credentialed doctor is pitching this is worth examining. Oklahoma Christian nationalist Dusty Devers just lost his election — we break down exactly what voters rejected: no-fault divorce bans, IVF framed as mass murder, and Biblical law placed above the Constitution. Plus, the Mormon Church is suing podcaster John Dehlin over the word Mormon — a term the Church itself has been discouraging for years. And Maine GOP candidate Bobby Charles repeats the debunked litter boxes in classrooms story while promising to personally counsel women out of abortions. Every claim gets checked. Subscribe and leave a review if this episode delivered.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 origin in 1952 — no biblical mandate, just a policy decision — and read the Watchtower's own instructions for how members should treat shunned relatives. We also cover a Christian nationalist figure who called Black culture murderous and evil at a conference where neo-Nazi vendors were distributing flyers, and whose response focused more on tarot cards than the actual white supremacist material. The JW legal victories in Scandinavia are being framed as religious freedom wins. What they actually secured is continued government funding for a group that systematically cuts members off from their families for leaving. Subscribe, leave a review, and find more at oamorgan.com.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 describes his seven-year journey inside the movement and why COVID deaths in Florida finally broke the spell. We trace the Christian nationalist belief that only Christians should hold office, fact-check claims about Trump 'leading from a biblical perspective,' and expose how end-times theology is driving real foreign policy. Candace Taylor claimed God ordained her congressional run—she got 12% in the primary. Every claim sourced, every quote verified. Subscribe for weekly debunks of religious grifters and cult leaders.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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 federal law she violated. We cover the illegal data sharing, the bogus "92,000 deleted files" claim, why physical ballot recounts prove the machines weren't tampered with, and how her supporters are rewriting her crimes as heroism. Plus: a mega church pastor in West Virginia told a teenager to literally eat Bible pages to receive God's power, complete with instructions to consume chapters from 10 different translations. We examine the health risks of consuming paper, ink, and mineral fillers not meant for human consumption. Subscribe for more debunks of religious grifters and election fraud conspiracies.🔥 Support the Show:Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreonRead my books:📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople📖 Understanding Jehovah''s Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw🎥 Watch on YouTube:Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltaleTelltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@telltalefiresidechatTelltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@telltaleunfilteredPixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreamsTwitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitchBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.