In a parallel life, Candice Owens and Russell Brand were walking very separate paths, very separate worlds, running into each other in Cliveden, Ireland. Suddenly, suddenly, the conversations of right and left converge around Christianity. In this episode, we talk about how we met, how we became friends, and how we ended up on the same side of the political aisle as each other. We also talk about why Candace has chosen to speak publicly about her faith, and why Russell chose not to do the same. This episode is sponsored by Pfizer. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers. Our ad-free version of Stay Free With Russell Brand is available on all major podcast directories, including Audible, iTunes, Podcoin, and Podcoin. We'll be back with a fantastic live show tomorrow at The Grove Theater in Los Angeles. Stay Free with Russell Brand! Thank you for listening and Good Luck Out There! See you in the Badger Den. Stay Free! - Russell Brand Timestamps: 3:00 4:30 5:15 6:00 | What does God have in store for you? 7:30 | What are you waiting for? 8:15 | How do you feel about it? 9:40 | What do you know about God? 10:20 | What is your purpose? 11: What is the purpose of God s work? 13:30 // What is God s purpose for you in this life? 15:40 16:40 // What does it matter? 17: How do I know what I'm going to do? 18:10 | What am I supposed to be? 19:30 + 16:10 21:20 22:40 + 15:30 Is God's purpose in all of that? 16 + 17:10 + 17? 22 + 15 + 16? 14:15 + 15? +16:20 +15 +16 +17:20) +15? & 15:00 +17 +16? 20:30 & 15 +16 15 +15 ? & +15 +17? And so much more? +16, And 15:15) & 16:30) And
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00:03:06.000In a parallel life, Candice Owens, things could have been so different.
00:03:11.000We were walking very separate paths, very separate worlds, running into each other in Cliveden.
00:03:18.000Suddenly, suddenly the conversations, you eventually marry an Englishman, suddenly the conversation, weird, and suddenly the conversations of right and left all converge around Christianity.
00:03:31.000I actually love our story, like me and you.
00:03:34.000I just think it's amazing because we were on such opposite sides and in a way we both abandoned parts of our side and realized that there's like a higher thing that's happening and it like all of the other stuff is just nonsense.
00:03:46.000You and I have a very weird, like, you know, just weird.
00:03:50.000What you mimed there was the double helix DNA, Candice, and I feel the same thing.
00:03:57.000The first time I met you, you were in the UK.
00:03:59.000You came to our house, our studio there, and my favorite bit was not on camera.
00:04:04.000When I was, I said something like, you know, we talked about immigration, I think, and I was like, you know, listen, but what about compassion or something?
00:04:10.000And you went, oh, We're all gonna be okay.
00:04:14.000You sort of danced around my house and I realized...
00:04:17.000There are some things that transcend left and right division, things like spirit and the spirit of play.
00:04:24.000And now, do you feel like that this is something that's happened willing, like with you, and obviously with me, both of us have had some kind of, I don't know how you're experiencing it, I'm not projecting, I'm telling you my thing, like a traumatic external I know, it's been very overwhelming.
00:04:43.000in a tundra now, I didn't plan for this, I didn't intend for this, but this is happening to me,
00:04:50.000and what am I going to do? What's my response to this going to be? Curiously, given our obvious
00:04:56.000differences, we've both had the same response. I know, it's been very overwhelming, that's how
00:05:02.000I would describe it, and I did not expect it, and I felt it building, I would probably say,
00:05:06.000at the beginning of last year, and now that I look at it, obviously God was always walking me in that
00:05:13.000direction, because my husband had a conversion to the Catholic faith.
00:06:13.000It was very powerful and very comforting and I finally don't feel like I'm just sort of swimming in a universe and not really understanding what the purpose is.
00:06:25.000We'll still talk about politics, I figure, but having both of us embarked on different journeys, It, as I'm sure it must, reframe the whole way you relate to the political discourse.
00:06:42.000For example, we've noticed that your content has moved from being on the frenetic 24-hour cycle that many YouTubers will be familiar with What are the clips?
00:07:05.000And while you've been doing that Candice, are you aware that it's in some ways comparable to the sort of post-modern ideas of historical relativism and You know, of course there's the trope that history is written by the winners, but also there's a kind of Foucauldian idea of history as archaeology, that you can mine different seams of history.
00:07:29.000History is not just Napoleon did this, and George III did that.
00:07:33.000History is diverse, diffuse, nebulous, and it seems that that's something that's interesting you, in particular when you've talked about genocide, and American genocide, and And Hitler, and I can't work out Candace, knowing you as I do, I don't, you know, and I mean as I do, like to a point with a, I would say a degree of connection and understanding, but we've not spent loads of time together.
00:07:55.000I sense in you previously you are a provocateur.
00:08:00.000But I also sense that you are genuinely very, very curious about quite profound subjects and you obviously occupy now an incredibly unique space.
00:08:08.000So can you tell me what that change in particular is?
00:08:10.000Moving to deeper and longer forms of analysis.
00:08:14.000What's happened there and how you relate that to post-modernity, for example?
00:08:18.000Yeah, so what I would say is that I'm a provocateur in the sense that the truth is provocative.
00:08:23.000The truth is provocative enough, you don't need to actually add anything to the truth, you just have to be willing to tell it.
00:08:28.000and most people are not because when you start arriving at truth, and I'm talking about,
00:08:33.000I always thought I was chasing truth, like, you know, Black Lives Matter, it's fraudulent,
00:08:36.000you know, they're taking money, okay, that's a little truth, but what is the truth?
00:08:41.000The truth, you're at the Bible suddenly, right?
00:08:44.000And then you start to realize that it's not, these people are not attacking Donald Trump,
00:08:48.000they're not attacking this, it's not about racism, sexism, it's always been about Jesus Christ, right?
00:08:52.000It has always been about Jesus Christ, that is the person that has always been attacked.
00:08:57.000And so for me, there were things politically that I would say catalyzed the inevitable leaning of me
00:09:05.000And one of the things was just, as you just mentioned, like genocide, right?
00:09:10.000I was severely propagandized in school.
00:09:12.000Everyone was, depends on where you grew up, but we were severely propagandized into this Now I look back and it's an absurd belief that the only people that have ever experienced genocide, it was World War II, it was done by the Nazis, and it happened to the Jews.
00:09:27.000And what that does when you are traumatized in a classroom, and I'm saying traumatized for a reason because these are Soviet tactics, to introduce very heavy, scary concepts to a child traumatizes them.
00:09:40.000Thomas Sowell wrote about this extensively, how the Soviets recognized this, and it leaves an indelible mark on your mind.
00:09:45.000And so it transforms you into a person that defends things in your life that you don't even comprehend, right?
00:09:52.000You have a trigger-friendly, suddenly something happens in Israel, and you're just like, Israel can do whatever they want.
00:09:59.000And actually what I'm doing is I'm responding to a trigger, a childhood trigger.
00:10:04.000of this fear that's been instilled in me through the three years of programming about the Holocaust, right?
00:10:10.000There's no question that, you know, what the Germans did or the German Nazis did was horrific.
00:10:16.000All things that are done in wars are horrific.
00:10:18.000But then as I started looking back and I stumbled across that BBC documentary, which I am challenging every person to watch, The Savage Peace, and I recognized that a Holocaust was committed against the Germans during peacetime by the Allies.
00:10:39.000This took place in modern Czechoslovakia.
00:10:44.000And to hear the Czech citizens talking about what happened and how they were basically This was done, and a large part of our conditioning in America is to make it so that we never peel back that onion and recognize what we were doing.
00:10:58.000Twelve million Germans were ethnically cleansed.
00:11:02.000They had nothing to do with Adolf Hitler.
00:11:05.000They were removed out of their homes, their belongings were taken, they were lined up, they were shot, and then speech laws were passed so that they could never talk about what they experienced.
00:11:19.000And they're just so grateful because a German friend with me shared what happened to his ancestors during this time.
00:11:24.000And I said, how did you never share this with me?
00:11:27.000You know, there's a fear of talking about what actually happened because of this version of history, which is very slim.
00:11:35.000And if you question that narrative, which I have done and I'm doing, and because it's important for us to know the whole truth, And I want to talk about the way Christians were persecuted, which for some reason really deeply upsets people when you talk about Christian persecution.
00:11:50.000They will attack you with everything that they have.
00:11:52.000I am being attacked every single day, and I've never been more clear, more happy, and have never felt more strength and more certainty in terms of what I'm doing.
00:12:03.000I think, Candice, but when you say that there are unexplored and seldom discussed narratives when it comes to ethnic cleansing or the extermination of peoples, the example you've just given of German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia It is interesting that that's an argument that's also used by people with regard to this particular issue on the diametrically opposed side in that recent debate between Mehdi Hussein and Douglas Murray, both of whom I think are extremely well-equipped communicators.
00:12:41.000Douglas Murray uses the idea that antisemitism in the sort of common dialectic Highlights Israeli war crimes in a way that this is of course the not only his argument but a relatively popular argument in defending Israel's actions if that is indeed what the function of the debate is.
00:13:07.000Is highlighting Israel's actions while ignoring sort of Muslim violence on other Muslims or the genocides in Syria.
00:13:17.000Now, so when we say that the Holocaust is but one example of genocide, that genocide is not an event that was unique to World War II.
00:13:29.000I think all of us are kind of peripherally aware of the Uyghurs being sort of persecuted and executed in China.
00:13:35.000Or the various Congolese massacres and the Tutsi people across the continent of Africa.
00:13:42.000We're aware that genocide appears to be a part of human history.
00:13:47.000Are you saying that in some way and in particular the idea of Holocaust and genocide has been appropriated and used to facilitate Israeli foreign policy and if that is what you're saying, I wonder how we look at, for example, as a British person,
00:14:08.000Britain's role in the Balkanization and, um, and re-bordering of that region, you know, the Balfour Treaty and the Second World War.
00:14:17.000Because if we're going to start looking at various narratives, which I suppose we must, I suppose we must, then how is it that we find truth there when there are so many, it seems to me at least, potential truths?
00:14:29.000Right, so one of the things that I did when I started becoming interested in this and recognizing that I had been severely lied to, and it was in large part again due to that BBC documentary, The Savage Peace, it's excellent, it's very hard to find, but I've shared it on my Twitter for people that are looking for it, is I wanted to make sure that I was reading sources that would not So I started reading Israeli historians and was very shocked to discover that Theodor Herzl wrote in his book, this is a person who's hailed as a hero, that he would kill as many Jews as he needed to to get Israel established as a state.
00:15:02.000That was just something that he felt was a sacrifice that needed to happen if Israel needed to become a state.
00:15:07.000And you know, this is long before World War II.
00:15:12.000I think absolutely, just to be clear, that genocide and Holocaust has been appropriated to further Israel's interest.
00:15:22.000Right now, there's a clip of me going viral.
00:15:25.000I did an entire episode talking about the German genocide and the German Holocaust, and I raised one issue in that episode, which people should be Confounded by, which is that if Israel is the state that needed to exist, as we are told in America, because of the Holocaust, because Jews needed a home, and because they were put into concentration camps, then why is it that a Jewish man who ran a concentration camp in peacetime and mass murdered Christians in Czechoslovakia, why is it that that man was protected by the state of Israel?
00:15:56.000Even though he was wanted for war crimes.
00:15:58.000I just shared it on my Twitter as well.
00:16:01.000He was protected by them until the day he died.
00:16:03.000There's a lot of criminals who, mass murdered Christians, who were protected by the state of Israel.
00:16:08.000If you have a right as a Jew to know your history, and I don't doubt that you do, I believe that you do, I've learned your history in the same way that you've learned it.
00:16:14.000I understand that learning your history is traumatic.
00:16:16.000It was traumatic for me to learn it as well.
00:16:18.000Please do not stop Christians from winning their history.
00:16:22.000Why don't we learn about the Bolsheviks?
00:16:24.000Why don't we learn about Henrikh Yagoda?
00:16:25.000He was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
00:16:28.000He was putting Christians into gulags.
00:16:31.000The Bolsheviks were beheading priests.
00:17:47.000You knowing the history is what's wrong if you step outside of the bounds of what we put into your textbook.
00:17:51.000Well, I'm stepping outside of those boundaries.
00:17:53.000I am demanding to know more, and I'm spending a lot of time studying, and I want other people to be encouraged to pursue truth, not what is being told to you in a classroom that is being run like a Soviet propaganda cell.
00:18:06.000You're a phenomenal iconoclast and I suppose early in your career in punditry you addressed the most immediate issue, I suppose, as a black woman talking about the cultural use of blackness and the various political ideas that have been utilized, exploited, criticized, maybe ignored, it depends on your position.
00:18:30.000We've argued about that before in some weird bizarro world where I As a proud black woman to defend the rights of my sisters against you, you racist!
00:18:41.000And now it's like you've moved into a sort of new terrain of iconoclasm.
00:18:47.000And I suppose just to sort of mention in passing, because as you must be, I'm aware of the avalanche of commentary that will no doubt surround this conversation in success that might be drawing attention to the distinctions when it comes to the holocaust of matters of race that the the jews are a race as well as a religion the concentrated time period and the scale that all of those issues are probably you know that we could spend hours on all of those things but i'm actually very very interested candice in what you are saying when you talk about the persecution and
00:19:24.000Are you suggesting that there is something significant and a story untold when it comes to the persecution of Christians?
00:19:32.000Yes, I believe Christians have been intentionally persecuted and I believe that Christians in the West were not aware of these persecutions because of severe propagandist successful efforts that have happened in our school system and the more that you, like I said, peel back the onion and I've spent time and I know that you know that I was baptized in London and I've spent time speaking to a lot of European priests and I believe that Catholics have been holding the candle.
00:19:56.000And when I sat down with one of them, because I wanted to ask every question, you know, and I wanted to, you know, poke the bear, play devil's advocate, say bad things about Catholics and say, well, what about this?
00:20:08.000In this period of study in London and it was just incredible to have this priest, one in particular, look at me and just say, you Americans know nothing.
00:20:17.000I mean, you know nothing about your own history.
00:20:21.000You Christians know nothing in America.
00:20:22.000America has become a playground for Protestantism intentionally because what does the Bible tell us?
00:20:28.000Anything that is not whole necessarily becomes polluted and becomes devilish, right?
00:20:33.000So the idea is to continually divide, right?
00:20:35.000The Christians as being divided amongst thousands of Protestant faiths, all believing my truth, my truth, my truth, which is a form of leftism.
00:20:49.000And I believe that that has always been a threat.
00:20:52.000I believe that all of the wars have been about breaking up Christian empires.
00:20:56.000And when even examining, you know, the start of the Russian Revolution, the assassination of the czar, most Americans don't know that, but they do know the part where they're like, well, there were these Jewish pogroms and, you know, Jews left Russia and they came to America.
00:21:09.000Okay, well, how were we able to sift through which Jews that left Russia, as they did, Were the ones that were terrorists who were mass killing Christians.
00:21:24.000When you read Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and just in the first couple of pages of his book about the gulags, he speaks about how, isn't it amazing that there were trials for the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials, trials, trials, trials, but the Bolsheviks got away with it.
00:21:43.000They got to live out the rest of their lives and die.
00:21:46.000That should make you ask a lot of questions.
00:21:49.000How is it possible that they ran gulags, they created gulag systems, they mass killed Christians, they mass drowned us in barges, they tortured us, and there were no consequences?
00:21:59.000How is it possible when he says that they looked up at the end of World War II and recognized and were able to see people that were going, this is it, the heroes have won, and these people were still being persecuted and mass killed and we did nothing?
00:22:12.000These are questions everybody should want to know.
00:22:14.000You've read in your textbook that we were the heroes, the allies won, we put an end to concentration camps, but we locked arms with Stalin?
00:22:23.000He was able to just go on doing what he was doing?
00:22:43.000Right now we're having children in school that 40% of kids in America cannot pass a basic reading exam.
00:22:51.000So the future will be, I will tell you what history is.
00:22:53.000You won't even be able to read a book.
00:22:54.000At least right now I can go back and I can find old history books and learn more about history and sit down with priests who I believe have been holding the candle for Christians for a very long time.
00:23:03.000In the future, your history will be told to you.
00:23:08.000The Christians are always the bad guys.
00:23:10.000Every time you learn about Christian history, we're always the bad guys.
00:23:12.000You learn about the Spanish Inquisition, we're lied about what actually took place then because it makes Catholics and Christians look bad.
00:23:18.000You know, we're told about the Dark Ages and then the Age of Enlightenment.
00:23:24.000It was an age of remarkable Christian progress, remarkable Christian experimentation.
00:23:30.000And so I am just very passionate now about using my platform to awaken Christians around the world, because I believe that when Christians are awakened, a lot of the evils in the world will stop.
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00:24:55.000It feels to me that perhaps some of the things you are describing, and you're describing a lot of things Candice, are perhaps because in some ways Christianity through its various forms of institutionalization became meshed onto power, whether that's through Roman Catholicism and the establishment of the Vatican or even the conversion of Constantine, it seems that the point that power And Christianity melded together.
00:25:27.000That there was a complexity that means, at least now, that we truly are living in an individualistic, materialistic, progressive, and late-rational, post-Enlightenment age.
00:25:40.000That Christianity is sort of in the quagmire with old, discarded ideas, somehow replaced with some of the forms of progressivism that you in your previous incarnation focused on quite heavily.
00:25:56.000And I suppose there's an assumption that Christianity doesn't require any protection, doesn't require any special spaces.
00:26:05.000I've heard people say, for example, that, oh, this return to Christianity that seems to be happening culturally, this new intrigue and excitement, a kind of a new awakening, a sort of what might be what precedes a second coming or a rapture, is an attempt by the culture to reboot the last thing that works.
00:26:25.000True Christianity, Candice, would by its nature be anti-establishment, somehow challenging to people in positions of power and to powerful institutions.
00:26:40.000It seems that you've embraced this aspect of Christianity, but when you look At the modern political stage with like what's happening in my country, a new centralist authoritarian globalist government coming to power with an extraordinary portion of the votes.
00:26:56.000What's happened in France, a kind of machination and alloying of political groups in order to maintain Macron's centrist authoritarian globalist power.
00:27:06.000What is required is a kind of inversion, a new radicalism and yet the only type of radicalism that's sort of discussed is either technological radicalism and advanced citizen management or maybe Islam.
00:27:18.000I wonder what you think about the necessity for this new Christian awakening to become politicized or at least to become a challenge to existing political power?
00:27:30.000What you're saying is, you've said a lot and it's very important and I hope people listen to what you've just said twice and I want to slow it down because it's really important.
00:27:37.000What they've actually done and what I'm talking about is I fully believe that the West has been infiltrated by Marxists.
00:28:42.000In my view, COVID was this experiment that the science class, the satanic class, was running to see whether or not they had successfully made themselves gods, right?
00:28:51.000They were telling people things that made no sense, made no sense.
00:28:54.000Some things should have come online and said to you, your intuition,
00:30:20.000We right now have People in America that are Hollywood actresses that stay on stage and they cry.
00:30:26.000Michelle Fields did this, Michelle Williams, pardon, did this and she thanked God that she was able to get an abortion because otherwise she wouldn't have won this statue.
00:31:00.000And so, yes, I don't even know what your original question was.
00:31:04.000I just wanted to slow down what you said because there was a lot in there that was actually really important about what is happening right now in our society.
00:31:11.000And the return to actual faith, real faith, biblical faith, understanding that you have a creator and this is not it, is the most important thing.
00:31:20.000It's beautiful what you're saying Candice, the simple idea of there being a creator if unacknowledged in a sense does not quell the almost certain truth that something must be nominated to occupy that space and in the absence of a divine creator a secular one is appointed and anointed and I suppose that's what you're saying is the sort of satanic dimension of Marxism as a person that sort of grew up with a Kind of autodidactic, casual and radical appreciation for Marx, an easy adulation for Che Guevara, that was actually, if I may say, built on anti-establishmentism, challenging power, the idea that the Bolshevik revolution was about usurping and toppling unelected elites in order to empower ordinary people and that Che Guevara, and I know more about Che Guevara
00:32:17.000Now of course, and I recognise the complexity that's wrapped up in that man, was a radical idealist that travelled from nation to nation, and I'm aware of his, you know, like the crimes and the persecution of gay folk and all of that kind of stuff, but that...
00:32:33.000In a way what I was excited about when it came to Marxism were ideas of revolution, radicalism and attacking the establishment.
00:32:43.000Now what it seems when you talk about Marxism and say that we've got this insidious new form of our Marxism that's infiltrated political systems across the world.
00:32:54.000What you appear mostly to be interested in is the anointing of the state as the apex of power and how this literally godless ideology permits oddly pagan ideas like child sacrifice to resurface in new formats.
00:33:15.000I imagine if Michelle Williams were to have the opportunity to talk about what she meant when she won that statue, she Might talk about individual rights, individual freedom, bodily autonomy.
00:33:27.000But there's, I think, the reason that abortion remains such a hotly contested and complex subject for all of us is everyone that has been involved in abortion knows that something that you're doing is transgressive.
00:33:43.000Now, during, when we found out that my little boy had a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, it was in utero at 26 weeks, Scan and it was in a sort of a very difficult time in my life more broadly and he ultimately my you know was born during all of the intensity of the Allegations and the media for all that like, you know, I alluded to at the beginning of our conversation Obviously my wife and I were offered late-term Termination we were told like this condition is likely that there will be these accompanying conditions, etc
00:34:23.000And my wife in particular, I have to say, was certain about having our son.
00:34:31.000Now this idea that you have a kind of abortion with child sacrifice is a complex one and I know as a Catholic it's a matter of creed for you and I can certainly understand and appreciate that.
00:34:47.000Because in a way, Candice, with the subjects like abortion and the intensity that it brings up and the furore and the discomfort and the anguish and the agony, isn't it that we have to assume, in order for us to live like that, we have to have faith like that?
00:35:06.000The fact that abortion is discussed in the terms that it is, Is an indicator that the individual has indeed usurped God as the summit of being.
00:35:17.000And you can see all the things that flow from that.
00:35:22.000Our current threshold of knowledge is the absolute threshold.
00:35:27.000Even when people go, no of course we will learn more.
00:35:30.000It isn't accompanied by the kind of humility that ought be evident when people have to recognize that there's been epoch after epoch of new revelation of new revelation and that down down there in the quantum mysteries there are extraordinary activities and paradoxes that appear to be approaching the cones of the unknowable, the koans of the unknowable.
00:35:57.000My son, of course, you know, he's really well and he's beautiful and he's fantastic.
00:36:00.000He had heart surgery when he was 12 weeks old and he's a really, really beautiful boy.
00:36:05.000But I feel like with your point on abortion, isn't it an indicator that, you know, isn't it an indicator that we are some distance away from having a deep faith and a deep vision?
00:36:19.000And is it therefore, would you agree, difficult to condemn Or judge individuals who are all, in a sense, occupants of a culture that has a sort of a nihilism as its central thrust.
00:36:36.000I don't judge those people at all, and I'm glad you brought up the word anguish, because that's right.
00:36:39.000A lot of the times when you're seeing these women, they look anguished to me, and I used to be pro-choice, so I don't pass judgment at all.
00:36:45.000I came out of the same public school system with the same talking points, the same rhetoric, the same false belief in science, which taught me when I was in school that it was a clump of cells.
00:36:54.000Imagine my shock when I saw my son on the screen at five weeks, and I could see him dancing because of the power of ultrasounds today.
00:37:08.000This is why I say thinking about things in the context of conservatism, republicanism, to me is a nonsense because you're speaking to these people as if they knew.
00:37:18.000Calling people child murderers who have had an abortion is not going to bring people over to your side, right?
00:37:23.000But having an open conversation and saying, I thought the exact same thing as you, and here's the thing that makes them defend it the hardest.
00:37:30.000Because they believe that they're not allowed to change.
00:37:32.000They believe that once you have done something wrong, you can't do something right.
00:37:41.000If you got an abortion because you believed that this was something you had to do because you were propagandized in the school just like me.
00:37:48.000They weren't like, I want to go kill a kid today.
00:37:51.000They actually believed, they were told from the time that they were children, that if they had this child it was going to ruin their entire life and ruin their entire prospects.
00:38:26.000Your background, my background, I mean the things that we've done in the past, and look at the grace of God that we're able to have this platform, have people listening to us.
00:38:44.000And so yes, I believe that we have been walked into everything that is antithetical to the Bible by people who...
00:38:52.000I actually believe in child sacrifice, people that are Satanists, and a lot of people are just asleep at the wheel following them.
00:38:59.000You know, it's the same reason that people do drugs.
00:39:01.000It's the same reason that people watch pornography.
00:39:03.000And I look back and the Catholic faith always was strong on this stuff, right?
00:39:07.000Against pornography, against birth control, and when I look at where society is today, I just go, man, the Catholics had it right the entire time.
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00:40:46.000There's a beautiful moment in Corinthians 1 where Paul says, did you not know that your body is a temple?
00:40:56.000And when I heard this in a sermon recently, what got me was almost the grammatical frame in this,
00:41:03.000of course, being in modern English rather than the various languages
00:41:08.000it may first have been written in and interpreted from.
00:41:11.000But what I liked was the gentleness of, did you not know that your body is a temple?
00:41:15.000And the invitation for us to consider that indeed, as he says, that they know not what they do,
00:41:22.000that many of us are operating out of ignorance.
00:41:26.000To a question that we were circling a little earlier, perhaps the greatest problem of all is one of antithesis.
00:41:35.000When you consider global power, it does appear to be an attempt to replicate in every way omniscience, Omnipotence, the kind of qualities of an all-loving father, the kind of citizen management that WF acolytes and devotees declare involves control over seeds and nature, being able to control and manipulate seeds, control over data and information, control over every aspect of a human being,
00:42:09.000It is indeed an attempt to usher in a new era where the role of the creator has been translocated into bureaucracies.
00:42:19.000It's curious to me that the aesthetics of these new bureaucracies in say figures like Justin Trudeau is always kind of banal and anodyne and somewhat beautiful and verbally at least liberal and then elsewhere figures like Keir Starmer Macron, there seems to be a sort of spectrum of kind of either banality and a kind of anodyne, sanitized, managerial, bureaucratic political system, loud, vivid, lurid culture systems that are divisive and disorienting.
00:42:54.000Rather than what you might regard, except unless you choose particular issues to scrutinize, outright diabolical evil.
00:43:04.000So I wonder what you think of the two recent election results in the UK and France, and do you consider these apparent national electoral victories to be, in a sense, victories for globalism?
00:43:21.000I do always consider these to be victories for globalism.
00:43:23.000I was particularly interested in the French elections.
00:43:26.000You know, I've been following and covering the Emmanuel Brigitte Macron story.
00:43:29.000It's utterly deranged and very bizarre that you have a person... I mean, the press can't deny it.
00:43:34.000Emmanuel Macron, no matter which way you slice it, was statutorily raped by Brigitte.
00:44:05.000Know that there's something very not right with that.
00:44:08.000Women at the age of 40 are not attracted to 14-year-old little boys.
00:44:12.000And so, look, I was especially paying attention to this election because you saw this rise of people saying like this is wrong the system is
00:44:18.000wrong and then suddenly like just at the end they were like ha ha
00:44:24.000Like this is this is the way it's going to be and I my commentary has been that it's become very apparent that
00:44:29.000Democracy is an illusion and I think that it's been an illusion for a very long time
00:44:33.000Plausibly forever again to keep people dumb and deluded and constantly going. Oh, well, at least we're not Russia at
00:44:39.000least we're not this You know, we're we're nothing like that
00:44:42.000Tell me what it is about Russia that you think we're not and I will point you to the time in history that we did
00:44:47.000something ten times worse I mean, I think Putin notoriously said when someone—it might have been Biden—called him a killer, and he said, it takes a killer to know a killer, right?
00:45:08.000And people are awake now and recognizing, what are we even talking about?
00:45:11.000Every single thing that we complain about or every person that we think is evil, we've got someone in our own government that we can point to who has done something 10 times worse.
00:45:18.000And that is a remarkably scary recognition.
00:45:23.000I think that process can be scary for a lot of people.
00:45:25.000And I know that I've been forcing people to read this book.
00:45:31.000Um, which is about MKUltra, the government program and everything they were up to in the 60s when JFK got shot.
00:45:36.000And it's, there's something about reading it that is so, you come to terms with the fact that the elements of your government are in fact demonic.
00:45:44.000And there always has been a war on the spirit of man.
00:45:47.000Um, and when I say the spirit of man, I'm talking about the Holy Spirit.
00:45:49.000There has been a war against crisis, which obviously is what I believe it is.
00:45:54.000But the answer to that, because I know people go through this and then they feel depressed about recognizing these institutions, the answer to that, by the way, is faith, right?
00:46:03.000It's understanding that you are saved, that Jesus Christ is a person that came here and your belief in him will save you.
00:46:13.000And I'm telling you, you have to have that understanding to get through the dark, recognition of realizing that this world is being
00:46:23.000controlled by satanists. I don't use that word lightly. It's literally being controlled by
00:46:27.000people who know the Bible, understand the Bible and are trying to recreate it and invert it onto its
00:46:33.000head. And that's scary, but it's real.
00:46:36.000Do you think that's why it is so banalized and why it's not evocative and demonic and
00:46:44.000satanic and pentagrams and excitement? It's kind of a sort of a banal managerial safety
00:46:50.000and convenience. We're just responding to this crisis.
00:46:53.000There's a lot again I want to ask you about that there, you know, there are no discernible
00:46:57.000or meaningful points of difference between sometimes parties in individual nations.
00:47:02.000Or nations in global conflicts that the points of difference, if unpacked, would yield similarities, ultimately because what has happened is we've become mired in materialism, we've become mired in usury, and debt, and corrupt financial systems, and corrupt belief systems, and corrupt sexual systems, like that everything has become sort of almost ubiquitously Corrupted and I take your point seriously about the Satanic rule and dark power in higher places and principalities of darkness.
00:47:35.000It's something I've been thinking about a great deal myself.
00:47:38.000I wanted to ask you about the Christ is King stuff though because that's another one of those moments that I was taken to potentially be anti-semitic, deliberately provocative.
00:47:51.000You did a lot with your eyes there and your eyebrows.
00:47:57.000So can you tell me, and do you sometimes delight in that?
00:48:00.000Do you like saying things that are provocative?
00:48:02.000And if not, why do you keep saying things like, Macron's wife's got a willy, Obama's wife's got... Why do you keep saying everyone's wife's got penises?
00:48:11.000I never said Obama's wife had a penis.
00:48:25.000So to unpack that, first and foremost, I was shocked when Andrew Clavin came out with that episode.
00:48:31.000I guess that was going to be the agreed upon attack on me.
00:48:35.000The ADL on the very same day kind of ran with this Christ is King bit.
00:48:41.000It was a very coordinated attack and I think what it was was that there was actually nothing that I said That you could present to the public as Candace as an awful human being.
00:48:49.000So you just kind of went back and found something and Andrew Klavan went back to a tweet of an actual biblical passage that I shared back in November and said, look, she said Christ is King and this must be a rallying cry.
00:49:02.000And genuinely, I feel bad for him because the backlash was severe and it was swept.
00:49:06.000But that to me is what happens when you just you thought you were going to take on Jesus Christ during Easter week.
00:49:11.000I mean, the whole plan was just weird and maniacal.
00:49:14.000But what I will say is I was so grateful for that because I just saw that I genuinely believe that God inspired Andrew to attack me in that way.
00:49:26.000I see beauty in the way that he attacked me because I was already on this path internally of realizing that I have this platform and I am a Christian.
00:49:33.000I have not been using this platform to speak about Christianity and I was just becoming more and more committed into my faith and then that attack To me was like a sign from God.
00:50:22.000And he's sitting here telling me she's not a man, but didn't actually read the piece of the journalist who is not being sued, who created, for three years, looked into this.
00:51:24.000And I think that Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron are an example of that.
00:51:27.000And that extends, we know that network is real because of Epstein.
00:51:30.000That was very clearly a blackmail ring against politicians, which brought me to being shocked by the Diddy lawsuit,
00:51:38.000and the idea that you have all of these rappers that are similarly being blackmailed
00:51:42.000because they're being drugged, and they do something on camera,
00:51:45.000and then they have them basically controlled.
00:51:48.000So blackmail rings exist and there are people that are in positions of power who are being blackmailed.
00:51:53.000That's a fact and that's a reality that we have to be able to stomach and be able to face.
00:51:58.000Yes, I suppose that even if these stories sometimes seem ridiculous because they are so ghoulish, garish and improbable, the idea that there are blackmail rings, it's been around for a little while now that there are deep state agencies from various nations that have assets like Epstein and you seem to be suggesting and you're not alone in that, Diddy, figures within entertainment, figures that are approximate to government, organizing scenarios where I suppose, based on that sort of sinful nature, that tendency that all of us have, to some degree or another, to create our own domain of power, often through pleasure, always through self, always through self and through pride in some form, that if you're going to have a system where people in apparent positions of power are not ultimately powerful,
00:52:50.000Then you have to have means and measures to control them.
00:52:53.000And, you know, increasingly, the way that news narratives are changing so fast these days, I suppose, again, like technology, you alluded to the Bolshevik revolution having a technological component, even in so much as their pamphleteering ingenuity afforded them sort of an advance on the opposition, as it were, even though I still sort of feel like the serf class needed a break.
00:53:13.000It seems like that now that news narratives change so fast in the post-debate, you know, Trump-Biden debate, it seems to me that you can see the outline of separate camps within the Democrat establishment.
00:53:27.000One, kind of, we're keeping Joe Biden no matter what.
00:53:32.000I wonder if you feel that the debate was... do you feel Do you feel that that was an accident?
00:53:38.000Or do you feel that they must have known, like everybody else, that this guy was not going to be out of hand on a 90-minute on-screen performance?
00:53:45.000And what do you make of the emergent camps?
00:53:48.000Like one camp now that it seems to be open season and open ridicule on CNN and on establishment media, and it wasn't just two months ago.
00:53:58.000And yet in other media assets, presumably strongly establishment affiliated ones, mourning Joe MSNBC, there still seems to be an attempt to advocate for Joe Biden.
00:54:10.000What do you think is the ulterior movement there?
00:54:15.000So I didn't see MSNBC covering for him, actually.
00:54:19.000I saw that they had a doctor on and they were saying he had Parkinson's yesterday.
00:54:22.000So I think MSNBC has thrown him under the bus as well.
00:54:24.000And so for me, for them all to be in lockstep, suddenly talking about the things that we knew were apparent all the way back in 2020, when we were saying that obviously he is on the decline, obviously he's got some dementia issues, and now they all suddenly agree.
00:54:37.000That is obviously, in my view, a design.
00:54:40.000Like, there has been a button pressed, and by the button I mean the CIA.
00:54:43.000It's very obvious the CIA controls America.
00:54:46.000That's why they freaked out when Trump became president, because that was like an accident.
00:54:50.000And anybody who doesn't believe that, go watch Putin's interview with Tucker.
00:54:54.000He basically laughed at the assertion that he deals with presidents.
00:54:56.000He's like, I don't deal with your presidents, you know, I deal with the CIA.
00:54:59.000And that was honest, and this is part of the reason they did not want that interview to be aired, because Americans are supposed to be dumb and drugged and deluded into believing that when they go and they vote, that the president that they elect is totally in control and can, you know, actually make decisions, when in reality, and I would say arguably since JFK was shot, there has been a shadow government.
00:55:18.000The CIA obviously was behind the assassination of JFK.
00:55:25.000Because they have been controlling our presidents ever since, and I think through mechanisms of blackmail.
00:55:31.000And Trump somehow disrupted that, and that is why the full weight of the establishment came down on him when he ran.
00:55:37.000I think they genuinely just believed that Hillary was going to win, and they didn't have the right mechanisms in place to get her over the line.
00:55:43.000So I am struck by it in a way where I'm very aware of the fact that this entire political song and dance is a nonsense and that we essentially have a gang that's running America and they have decided that Biden no longer serves them because they literally cannot put him in front of a camera, right?
00:56:01.000So he's deteriorated so far now that they just have to keep hiding him.
00:56:05.000They need someone that can at least talk, right?
00:56:26.000If there is, as you just said, a shadow government that ultimately controls America, why go to so much trouble to engage in potentially and allegedly electoral fraud or the jailing of Donald Trump through lawfare and various measures of persecution?
00:56:45.000If indeed there is, my personal My position also is that Donald Trump was a kind of berserker that sort of got in there and that it wasn't controlled in the way that they would prefer and that it's caused kind of chaos and so I get you there.
00:57:00.000But do you imagine which of the following scenarios is more likely?
00:57:04.000Dems put in someone that's more electable, Trump jailed, election deferred, election stolen.
00:57:16.000I think the point of what they were doing to Trump—I think I actually heard Andrew Tate say this recently—the point is the process, right?
00:57:23.000The process is what they're trying to make him so tired and so exhausted that he won't run.
00:57:29.000Allegations did not stop from the moment he announced that he was running for president of the United States.
00:57:33.000Unfortunately, Trump is built different, and he's staying in the race, and they're probably just going, shaking their heads, going.
00:57:39.000Clearly, this man cannot be stopped via the traditional means.
00:57:43.000I believe that they likely have a plan in place.
00:57:48.000I'm nervous and this is me, I will admit, being conspiratorial here.
00:57:52.000I am nervous about who Trump picks as his VP because I think if it's someone that they view as establishment, like if it was like a Nikki Haley, then Trump would just magically drop dead of a heart attack and Nikki Haley would be the President of the United States.
00:58:24.000And I'm obviously concerned about that, but I'm not as concerned as I was, I think, back in 2020 because, I don't know, I just, I know that God is in control, you know?
00:58:36.000And I want to know, given what you've said about shadow governments and the way that power operates, it seems less and less relevant the differences between someone that might have cultural pedigree or heritage on the left versus on the right.
00:58:50.000given as well that both of us have come to Christ in time since we last communicated, the
00:58:56.000affiliations or affinity with various cultural or political institutions seem less relevant when of course
00:59:03.000the priority becomes a relationship with Christ, the willingness to surrender,
00:59:07.000everything about yourself, the willingness to take on his burden, to carry his cross, to wear his yoke, all of these
00:59:14.000things now become a priority. But I still wonder, Candice, how
00:59:19.000given that this, in the last year in a way that we hadn't seen before, there are
00:59:25.000divisions emerging in the anti-establishment space and your story is a
00:59:29.000perhaps the most obvious example of that.
00:59:32.000There was this sort of, let's call it conservative or right-wing movement forming that had a sort of an advocacy expression through Turning Point and had a media presence, most notably through Daily Wire, I think we'd have to say.
00:59:47.000What does this the kind of these recent ramifications suggest and is it possible and is it desirable for us to create new forms of alliance in media as new and independent media increasingly becomes About political advocacy and indeed isn't that why it's being surveilled, censored, shut down, prominent voices being subject to smearing.
01:00:13.000I mean that's what we're kind of obviously experiencing, the legitimization of censorship through new categories like disinformation etc.
01:00:20.000Is there, what do you think the obligation is for us to try to find ways to work together and how possible is that?
01:00:29.000It's very possible, and we just do it.
01:00:30.000I mean, we obviously know who the media fears, the people that they attack the hardest.
01:00:34.000They absolutely detest you because you're not a controlled actor, as you once were, and you're talking about real issues.
01:01:26.000How dare he go out and talk about Putin?
01:01:28.000And the public is aware that there's a reason why we are so successful.
01:01:31.000There's a reason why our podcasts are so successful.
01:01:34.000People are still watching our show because they know they're being lied to by the establishment and they know that the voices that are willing to keep talking about these topics are the ones that they can trust.
01:01:43.000And so I think in the future, I think next year, I don't know.
01:01:47.000I just think a lot of us are going to come together.
01:01:49.000I think it's going to be like me, you, Tucker, some other independent voices, and we're just going to, we will be the new media and we'll be independent from one another, but somehow together.
01:02:06.000Heavenly Father, thank you for this time together with Candice.
01:02:09.000Please pray for Candice's ongoing success, for her ongoing journey walking with you.
01:02:15.000I pray for happiness for her and her husband and for our children.
01:02:18.000We ask, Lord, that we be able to put aside egotism, narcissism, hedonism, all of the temptations and obstacles placed before us by a culture that would prefer us dumb and distracted.
01:03:20.000I've been chatting a lot to Jeff Cave in.
01:03:23.000My mate Jonathan Rumi, who plays Our Lord and Saviour in The Chosen, is a convert himself.
01:03:28.000I know you went straight for the Catholicism there, but when I was sort of like... Also, can I tell you something?
01:03:34.000It's because... Because of the type of person I am, I still toy with the idea that I will at some point be ordained, and given that I'm married and have children, I cannot ever be Pope, Candice!
01:04:45.000My life has gone from wanting to meet celebrities in Hollywood to genuinely, I think the priests are Just the coolest people in the entire world.
01:04:53.000They've just been holding the candle, you know?
01:04:54.000Instead of turning up at Galliano shows with Kanye, you're going to be wandering around the Vatican with Bishop Emmanuel Mari, although he's Orthodox.
01:05:05.000Yeah, I'm not yet confirmed because I'm still in study.
01:05:07.000I'm going to do my confirmation in Italy.
01:05:10.000I'm taking this very seriously and I just don't want to make any mistakes and I realise I have this platform and it's very easy to make a mistake and I just want to do what's right.
01:05:23.000But the studying period in London, I mean, I would just jump at the opportunity to live there for a year.
01:05:51.000Well, I hope you enjoyed that conversation.
01:05:52.000Let me know which aspects of it you're still struggling to comprehend and consume.
01:05:58.000And indeed, how an abiding faith in a power like this one can help us navigate the tumult and chaos that will likely arise in the coming months.
01:06:09.000See you tomorrow for a live show that we can undertake together.
01:06:12.000I'm looking forward to seeing you all.
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