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Dr. Vern Poythress | Making Sense Of Creation & The Fall

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:49:27 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Vern Poythress about his upcoming book, Making Sense of Creation and Fall. In his book, Dr. Poythress sets out to explain the dynamic and multi-faceted reality of Genesis 1-3. In our discussion we talk about how a person can properly interpret Genesis 1-3, why different words in the text are meant to illuminate distinct characteristics in God, and why Genesis 1-3 sets the tone for how we understand the entire Bible. I hope you enjoy!

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Mary Rooke | Why Trump Went To War With Iran & How To Stop The Fall Of America

Andy Schmitt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:39:18 GMT

In this episode I talked with Mary Rooke, a reporter from the Daily Caller. We discussed Trump’s speech on Wednesday night, why America is in a war with an Iran, why Tucker Carlson was right, and how to rebuild America. I hope you enjoy!

Mary’s Substack: https://substack.com/@maryrooke

Daily Caller: https://dailycaller.com/author/MaryR/

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Geoff Shepard | What Actually Happened During The Watergate Scandal

Andy Schmitt — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:27:45 GMT

Geoff Shepard came to Washington, DC in 1969 as a White House Fellow, after graduating from Harvard Law School. He served on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff for five years, including a year as deputy counsel on the president’s Watergate defense team. He has written three books and produced two documentary films, as well as an off-Broadway stage play about the internal prosecutorial documents he’s uncovered, many of which are posted on his website, www.shepardonwatergate.com .

In this interview Geoff and I discussed how Richard Nixon came to be the President, what actually happened in Watergate, and how law fare has changed American politics over the past 50 years. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Stephen Hicks | How Friedrich Nietzsche Influenced The Modern Age

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:36:45 GMT

In this episode I talked with Dr. Stephen Hicks. Dr. Hicks is a philosophy professor and author. He has taught many classes at Peterson Academy including ones on Logic, Postmodern Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy.

In this conversation we discussed Friedrich Nietzsche’s ethical philosophy, why he hated egalitarianism, if he was a narcissist, and why most people in the West operate out of Nietzsche’s philosophy without knowing it. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Scott Jensen | Is It Possible To Fix The Fraud In Minnesota?

Andy Schmitt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:02:11 GMT

In this episode I talked with Dr. Scott Jensen. Dr. Jensen is running for State Auditor in Minnesota, a campaign that he announced right after dropping out of the Minnesota gubernatorial race. Jensen is a doctor, former Minnesota State Senator, and 2022 Republican Gubernatorial candidate that raised more money than any Republican in Minnesota history and received more votes than any Republican in Minnesota state history.

In light of the recent uncovering of fraud in Minnesota, some estimating $9 billion, Dr. Jensen has decided to run for State Auditor and try to fix the deep rooted fraud in Minnesota. We discussed his decision to run and his views on the Republican Party and the tactics they use to win elections. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden | Did Jeffrey Epstein Plan COVID-19?

Andy Schmitt — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:58:36 GMT

In this episode I talked with Dr. Mary Talley Bowden. We discussed the Epstein files and the communications between Epstein and other billionaires related to pandemic preparedness that were happening as early as 2013. We talked about Trump’s involvement in the Epstein files and why Trump wants to brush over the scandal. We also discussed Mary’s organization, Americans for Health Freedom, and their goal to pull the COVID vaccine off the market and her efforts to make Ivermectin and over the counter drug. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. David Deavel | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning To The West

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:32:23 GMT

In this episode I talked with Dr. David Deavel from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He is the Associate Professor of Theology and is the author and editor of several books including a book called Solzhenitsyn and American Culture.

We discussed the contents of his book and the life and legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We talked about why Russian culture — their music, literature, and art — is so rich while their political history is not. We discussed Solzhenitsyn’s time in the Gulags and how he learned of the evil of Communism. We also talked about his 1978 speech at Harvard in which he gives a warning to America and where the West is headed. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Keith Campbell | Narcissism, Hypnosis, And The Future

Andy Schmitt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:06:34 GMT

In this episode I talked with Dr. Keith Campbell. Dr. Campbell is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 200 papers and several books including the latest, The New Science of Narcissism.

Dr. Campbell has appeared in most major media outlets, including the Today Show, CNN, and the Joe Rogan Experience. He has given a TEDx talk and was the educator behind the the TED Ed lesson on narcissism.

Dr. Campbell is also co-founder of Wealth Science Analytics, a boutique psychological consulting firm dedicated to combining state-of-the-art research, AI, machine learning, and deep knowledge about the inter-workings of high-performance teams.

We discussed his class on Peterson Academy on Narcissism and how to tell if your pastor or social worker is a narcissist. We also talked about how to analyze the personality of Jesus and how the evangelical church has aimed to feminize Christ over the past 60 years. We discussed hypnosis and propaganda and the future of Western civilization in the age of Artificial Intelligence and social unrest. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Michael Ward | Artificial Intelligence & The Abolition Of Man

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:37:56 GMT

If you’re like me and grew up in the public school system, you may have been taught that language, reality, and truth are merely subjective. That there is no true meaning and therefore, no true values, and purpose in life. This is the philosophical illusion that most modern Westerners are born into without even knowing it. In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Abolition of Man, he attacks that very subjectivist philosophical system. But he doesn’t begin his argument in a way that you may expect, in fact, he starts his abolition of subjectivism by discussing a particular green textbook that, in his time, was being used to teach children this dangerous postmodern philosophy. Lewis goes on to explain that men who adhere to this philosophy and adopt all of its inconsistencies don’t merely exist in a constant state of confusion – no, they actually cease to men altogether. He says that this ideology actually leads to a full-on abolition of man – the end of humanity itself. But to understand what Lewis is trying to tell us modern people, you need to read his book along with another book written by the Oxford professor, Dr. Michael Ward – author of Planer Narnia and many other books and actor in a James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. His book, After Humanity is a guide to CS Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. So, I had a conversation with Dr. Ward about Lewis, technology, postmodernism, Artificial Intelligence, contraceptives, and logical positivism. We discussed what happens when man denies objective reality and forfeits his nature and purpose and we ask the daunting and pressing question of the modern age: What comes After Humanity?

After Humanity - Michael Ward

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Rebeccah Heinrichs | Why Christians Must Defend Israel

Andy Schmitt — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:03:25 GMT

Over the past year Jew hatred has become a massive trend not just among liberals, but also among self-proclaimed “conservatives” like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes. If you listen to them, you probably think the “Jews” are secretly running our society and controlling out lives. You may be convinced of the arguments made by those on the far right about isolationism and Christian Nationalism, whatever that is, and about how Americans need to stay completely out of the rest of the world are thoughtful and legitimate. You may have heard theological, philosophical, and political arguments for these things. But you would be wrong. In fact, you would be missing the whole point of what these bad faith actors like Tucker and Candace are actually doing. What their actual goal is. But Rebeccah Heinrich hasn’t missed the point. In fact, she wrote a piece for The Free Press last summer called “The Right’s 1939 Project” in which she dismantles the arguments made by self-proclaimed Conservative Christians like Tucker, Candace, and Fuentes and compares their post World War 2 revisionist history to the infamous 1619 project from the New York Times in 2019. Rebeccah then, later on, wrote a piece on the National Review about why Christians should support Israel. It’s my opinion that Rebeccah is one of the only people in Conservative circles who is seeing the whole problem facing our culture and calling it out for what it is. And so, this is my conversation with Rebeecah Heinrich – I hope you enjoy!

Christians Should Defend the Jewish People - Rebeccah Heinrichs

The Right’s 1939 Project - Rebeccah Heinrichs

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Jonathan Freedland | How To Defy Tyrants & Nazi's

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:55:25 GMT

In 1943 a group of high society anti-Nazi’s from Germany met together to discuss ways in which they could defy the Nazi regime and rebuild Germany after the war. What they didn’t know is that at that meeting there was a spy. Someone who would betray them all. In Jonathan Freedland’s new book, The Traitors Circle, he tells this unknown story of those within the Nazi regime that chose to give up everything to defy and disrupt Hitler’s plans. Why? Well, it’s not as clear cut as you could imagine. In fact, most of these anti-Nazi’s could have stayed silent, looked the other way, and remained comfortable in their high society lives until the war was over. But they didn’t. In my conversation with Jonathan Freedland, we talked about what or who could convince a group of men and women who did not need to give their lives up to sacrifice for the ultimate good of not only Germany, but the world. I hope you enjoy.

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Zineb Riboua | How Zohran Mamdani Became The Mayor Of New York City

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:01:27 GMT

Zohran Mamdani was just elected to be the next Mayor of New York City. How did an anti-American, anti-Capitalism, anti-Jew, anti-Western millennial become the most powerful person in the largest city in the United States? I wanted to know. So, I talked with Zineb Riboua – a research fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She’s written extensively on the Middle East and the ongoing power struggles in one of the most violent and unstable regions in the world. But what does Middle Eastern politics have to do with New York City and Zohran Mamandi?

Zineb argues that the ideology that led the Left to believe that Israel and Britian were the fundamentally evil powers in Europe and the Middle East because of their “colonialization” is the same ideology that Zohran used to capture the attention and votes of the suicidal Democratic ideologues in New York City. The younger generations white colonialization guilt and Third Worldism philosophy were key factors in Zohrans ability to manipulate the American people in the largest city in the country to vote for a self-proclaimed Marxist Socialist. So, what happens to New York City next? Will it sprout into a utopia or fall into oblivion? Here’s my conversation with Zineb Riboua. I hope you enjoy!

Zineb’s article on The Free Press:

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What the Right Gets Wrong About Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani is routinely labeled a “socialist” or an “Islamist sympathizer.” The right brands him a radical. The establishment (whatever that vague term encompasses) casts him as a provocateur, a liar who eats with his hands for clout. But these tags overlook the deeper ideological current animating his worldview. Mamdani, in truth, draws from a very distinct left-wing tradition: Third Worldism, a postcolonial moral project born in the mid-20th century that recasts politics as a global uprising against Western hegemony…

6 months ago · 186 likes · 307 comments · Zineb Riboua

Zineb’s Substack, Beyond The Ideological:

Zineb on The Hudson Institute: https://www.hudson.org/experts/1467-zineb-riboua

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The End Of America.

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:31:04 GMT

Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk. What do all of those names have in common? An utter lack of virtue and theological direction. Why? Because they play Marxist power games and refuse to deal with the core, fundamental problems our society faces — instead, they spend their time fighting to control the narrative and build artificial gods and platforms. And what happens when a society is filled with wickedness and immorality? Chaos.

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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden | Is The Medical Industry Beyond Saving?

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:55:55 GMT

The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic started almost five years ago. You would think that in five years we would know more about what actually happened leading up to the pandemic and why, during the pandemic so many of our medical “experts” were so wrong about so many different things. If you remember, the legacy media publicly humiliated people who were using ivermectin and doctors who were giving it to their sick and almost dying patients. Mary Talley Bowden was one of those doctors. She was publicly shamed by some of the largest media outlets in the world for trying to give ivermectin to a patient who was dying during the pandemic. For doing so, she lost certain medical privileges and has been continuously investigated by the Texas Medical Board.

This saga has culminated, in the past week, in a public reprimand (and who know what that even means) of Mary. You might be wondering what the goal of this reprimand is? Well, to put it simply, it’s to destroy her career and reputation for speaking truth against the medical regime during the COVID pandemic. They want her silenced. Who is they? You’ll be surprised to learn that the man leading the Texas Medical Board is none other than Republican Governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott. I thought the Republicans were the ones fighting against the authoritarians and oligarchs who tried to kill millions of people and control our lives during COVID – I guess I was wrong.

Mary has spent years of her life fighting for her and your medical freedom. She’s spent $250,000 on legal fees and has persevered through public humiliation because she believes what was done during COVID was immoral and evil. This is my interview with Mary Talley Bowden. I hope you enjoy!

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Dr. Peter McCullough | Does Tylenol Cause Autism?

Andy Schmitt — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:00:21 GMT

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump Administration have talked quite a bit about the fact that there is a 400% increase in autism rates in children up to 8 years old between 2000 and 2022. They claim that in America we’ve gone from 1 in 150 children having autism to 1 in 31 children having autism. This spike in autism rates has had its effect on millions of families across the country and has raised serious questions related to the food we eat, the vaccines we take, and the medicine we consume on a regular basis. And now RFK Jr. announced that Tylenol, when taken late in pregnancy, is connected to the rise in autism rates. This announcement brought about a frenzy of reaction from left wing and right wing media outlets and liberal lunatics on TikTok.

Much of the liberal mainstream media claimed that RFK Jr. was a quack conspiracy theorist who has no business lecturing the American people on health and medicine. And the liberals on TikTok thought it best to stick it to the Trump administration by downing as much Tylenol as humanly possible while pregnant. But aside from what the liberal regime is saying, I wanted to know more about this new study that the White House released and its legitimacy. I want to know if Tylenol causes autism or is only associated with autism.

So, I reached out to Dr. Peter McCullough. You may know him from the days of COVID in 2020. Dr. McCullough was one of a few doctors across America who challenged the mainstream narrative related to the COVID Vaccine’s and treatments. His career and his reputation were publicly condemned and ridiculed for this. To this day Wikipedia says that “McCullough has promoted misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19, its treatments, and mRNA vaccines.” Now THAT statement is an objective lie.

Dr. McCullough was willing to put his life’s work on the line during COVID and challenge the mainstream narrative, and he was right about everything he said. I thought it would be interesting to hear from Dr. McCullough about the new White House initiatives related to autism and their approach to learning about the autism epidemic. Are RFK Jr and his team actually just liars and conspiracy theorists? Or is the America Medical Industry stuck in a downward spiral of political ideological capture and a denial of facts and truth? Here’s my interview with Dr. Peter McCullough. I hope you enjoy.

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Josh Code | How 50,000 Christians In Nigeria Have Been Murdered

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:37:41 GMT

In this episode I talked with a Free Press reporter, Josh Code. He recently wrote an article on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In this article he interviewed a Christian man in Nigeria who was taken captive by Muslims and beaten for his participation in helping two women escape from their hometown after converting from Islam to Christianity. We talked about the American Government’s response to the Christian persecution in Nigeria and why this persecution is even happening in the first place. We finally discussed the problems with liberal Christianity and what the story of persecution in Nigeria can teach Christians in the West. I hope you enjoy!

Other Free Press stories from Josh Code:

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A Muscle Man’s Message to America’s Lost Boys

It was raining when I met Jordan Castro at his office on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., so I opened my umbrella over us. As we walked to a nearby Chipotle, he shrank out from under it…

7 months ago · 190 likes · 191 comments · Josh Code

The Free Press

Arrested Again—for Holding a Sign

Last week, a 75-year-old grandmother named Rose Docherty was arrested in Scotland, for standing outside a hospital where abortions are performed while holding a sign that read: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want…

7 months ago · 55 likes · 22 comments · Josh Code

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Tanya Lukyanova | Is The IDF Murdering Children?

Andy Schmitt — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:02:18 GMT

In this episode, I talked with Tanya Lukyanova from The Free Press. Tanya is a video journalist who grew up in Russia and is now living in the United States. She has reported on Russia’s authoritarian decline from her home country and has reported on the war in Israel. Two weeks ago she released a video about a viral story that was dominating headlines related to the war in Israel — the story was about a young Gazan boy who was supposedly murdered in cold blood by the Israeli Defense Forces.

This story, created by Anthony “Tony” Aguilar was given legitimacy by mainstream media like MSNBC, CNN, and even Tucker Carlson. The only problem was that Anthony Aguilar made the story up out of thin air. The supposed murdered child was found weeks later and confirmed alive. Tanya reported on this for The Free Press and revealed that the entire story was blown up out of proportion for propagandistic purposes.

This conversation begins with Tanya discussing her reporting on Russia and her upbringing in Russia. She explains how the country has changed in her lifetime and how Putin is thinking through the war in Ukraine. We also talked about what the government needs to do, if anything, when media outlets are lying on purpose to conjure up paranoia and support for anti-American ideology and enemies. I hope you enjoy!

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What To Do If Your Pastor Doesn’t Talk About Charlie Kirk

Andy Schmitt — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:09:32 GMT

In this episode I talk about what you should do if your pastors fails to talk about Charlie Kirk. I discuss what is happening in the political realm and why the extremists on the political Right and Left are both pushing narratives about the assassination of Charlie Kirk that are beneficial to their liberal ideology. I also discuss what you should do if your pastor lectured you in 2020 about your inherent racism in light of the death of a fentanyl addict, George Floyd, but refuses to talk about the Evangelist, Charlie Kirk. I hope you enjoy!

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Robert P. George | The Murder Of Charlie Kirk And The Reality Of This Cultural Moment

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:05:11 GMT

In this episode, I talked with Professor Robert P. George from Princeton University. We discussed the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Robert George’s friendship with Kirk, and the implications of the current cultural moment that we exist in.

We also talked about his new book, ‘Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in our Cultural Moment’.

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Larry Sanger | How The Co-Founder Of Wikipedia Became Anglican

Andy Schmitt — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:19:05 GMT

In this episode I talked with Larry Sanger. As you may know, Larry is the Co-Founder of Wikipedia and a recent convert to Christianity. Sanger has his PhD in Philosophy from Ohio State University and created Wikipedia’s first introduction pages and home page when the company started in the early 2000s. In recent years, Sanger has been outspoken against Wikipedia and its politically liberal bias. In his announcement of his conversion, he made it clear that he had not chosen a denomination and was not actively a member of any particular church or denomination.

In our conversation, Larry and I talked about his most recent announcement that he is joining the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA). We discussed how he came to the conclusion that the ACNA was the best Church for him to join, how he studied many different denominations on his journey to Anglicanism, and what criteria he used to guide his search for a church. This is an important conversation as Sanger gives a thorough breakdown of his logical and philosophical method of studying both the Bible and church history on his way to the Anglican Church. I hope you enjoy!

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