Valuetainment - April 27, 2025


＂I Want A Religious Experience＂ – Andrew Callaghan OPENS UP On Faith, Death & Purpose

Topics
heaven dogs Future Looks Bright
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Charles Burton Khomeini Rogan Aramaic Jehovah Ethan Shah
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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

214.2

Word count

1,350

Sentence count

166

Harmful content

Hate speech

6

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Summary

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On this episode of the podcast, we're joined by our good friend and long-time co-worker, Charlie. We talk about a variety of topics, including whether or not we believe in an afterlife, and what it means to be a Christian in 2019.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So what are you?
00:00:01.060 What do you believe in?
00:00:01.960 Me?
00:00:02.320 Man, that's the thing, man.
00:00:03.840 Like you said, I'm 27.
00:00:04.820 I'm still trying to figure things out.
00:00:06.140 Like my opinions sort of change as I'm learning more stuff about life.
00:00:09.080 I would like to think that there's an afterlife.
00:00:12.540 When I was a kid, my grandma told me that, you know, there was,
00:00:15.900 and that all my great-grandparents were there watching the Phillies games,
00:00:19.480 and the Phillies always win in heaven.
00:00:22.400 That sounded nice.
00:00:23.480 I was like, oh, that sounds great because they're losing right now.
00:00:25.480 But as I'm getting older, man, I don't know.
00:00:27.080 Sometimes I watch a bug die or a dog.
00:00:30.920 You know, we just had to put down a puppy.
00:00:33.640 Never mind.
00:00:34.140 Anyways, I think to myself, like, man, what makes me different from all these
00:00:39.280 animals and wildlife that's passing away?
00:00:41.820 Is there something special about the human spirit that allows us to occupy
00:00:44.620 the kingdom of heaven?
00:00:45.700 Are we more than animal?
00:00:47.880 Well, listen, I don't know if you ever watched Charlie All Dogs Go to Heaven.
00:00:51.640 You ever saw the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven?
00:00:53.300 I believe All Dogs Go to Heaven.
00:00:54.760 I don't know about cats, but I think all dogs go to heaven.
00:00:57.980 But do they get their own specific heaven, or are they with us?
00:01:01.480 I think they're hanging out with us.
00:01:02.620 I can't imagine going to heaven and not seeing dogs.
00:01:04.600 So dogs are the only species in heaven or all other domesticated pet breeds?
00:01:08.540 I don't know.
00:01:09.820 That's a pay grade that I haven't reached at level 32 or 33 to know if they're going to be there or not.
00:01:17.000 I'm kind of going based on faith.
00:01:18.360 I'm hoping they're going to be there because we love animals.
00:01:20.300 But if my dad's version of faith to him, he is hoping animals don't go to heaven
00:01:26.880 because my dad can't stand dogs.
00:01:29.360 Because they poo everywhere? 0.97
00:01:30.420 Because my dad is a clean freak, and God forbid an animal touches him.
00:01:34.920 He loses his mind.
00:01:36.060 Till today, his mother, my grandmother, had 12 cats, 2 dogs, 2 parrots, 12 birds, 2 snakes.
00:01:43.740 All her kids love dogs and animals except for my dad.
00:01:47.100 She had four kids.
00:01:47.980 They all love animals.
00:01:48.780 My dad can't stand them.
00:01:50.540 So my dad's depiction of heaven, it's just human beings.
00:01:54.160 So mine, I'm hoping there's some animals.
00:01:56.060 But we'll see.
00:01:56.700 So you don't have a faith.
00:01:57.740 You don't have something you believe in right now.
00:01:58.940 No, I'd like to, though.
00:01:59.840 I'd like to have some sort of ecstatic religious experience.
00:02:02.540 Well, you know, you're 27.
00:02:04.820 You're going through it.
00:02:05.780 You know, the way, the journey you're going on is so awesome that I'm really curious to know who you are three years from now, six years from now.
00:02:16.680 But sincerely, I want to know where you're going to be 10 years from now.
00:02:19.800 You know, there are certain people you watch who are coming up and you're like, I think this guy's going to change a lot of times.
00:02:25.780 And I can't wait to meet the next guy.
00:02:28.100 You know what I'm saying?
00:02:29.180 Look, 10 years ago, Rogan was a Sanders guy.
00:02:31.520 And then all of a sudden, wait, what?
00:02:33.600 He was one of the reasons why Trump got elected.
00:02:35.360 They hug each other at UFC as if they're best friends.
00:02:37.400 This is not the same guy.
00:02:39.500 When I was on Rogan's podcast, he's like, I'll never have, you know.
00:02:42.620 Yeah.
00:02:42.960 He was thinking about it, but at one point he told Lex I'll never have him on.
00:02:46.220 He called me all this other stuff.
00:02:47.860 What happened to him?
00:02:48.680 What evolution did he go through?
00:02:50.160 I think last week Rogan just said, I'm no longer drinking alcohol.
00:02:52.860 Yeah.
00:02:53.180 Or two weeks ago.
00:02:53.840 I stopped about 39 days ago.
00:02:55.460 Really?
00:02:55.840 Yeah.
00:02:56.320 How is it so far for you?
00:02:57.280 It's just fantastic, man.
00:02:58.540 Like, you know, I used to spend so much time socializing, it became like a second job.
00:03:02.800 You know what I mean?
00:03:03.260 I'm like, I get off work.
00:03:04.320 It felt like partying was a job.
00:03:06.540 And I just have much more time on my hands, much more emotional regulation.
00:03:09.780 That's why I'm putting up three videos a week now as opposed to one.
00:03:12.100 I wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning, I've been running, get to work, edit, put something out.
00:03:16.560 And you edit your own stuff out here.
00:03:18.160 Yeah.
00:03:18.820 One thing I wanted to ask you, wait, what'd you say?
00:03:20.440 I hear you edit your own videos.
00:03:22.060 I edit my own videos mostly, but I have a new team of editors.
00:03:24.820 Shout out to Charlie, Nate, Gabe, and Ethan.
00:03:28.400 Those are my first four editors.
00:03:29.720 Great names.
00:03:29.860 My first four Channel 5 employees.
00:03:31.140 Charlie.
00:03:31.540 Of history.
00:03:32.200 Charlie.
00:03:32.820 Charlie Brady.
00:03:33.800 He edited the video about West Virginia Greyhound racing.
00:03:36.020 Oh, very cool.
00:03:36.760 I wanted to ask you though, what religion was your father?
00:03:39.620 Or is your father?
00:03:40.000 Mom and dad, both Christians.
00:03:41.820 And they're from?
00:03:42.780 Iran.
00:03:43.440 Iran.
00:03:43.940 Yeah.
00:03:44.080 Is that the dominant religion there?
00:03:46.080 No.
00:03:46.540 But remember, my dad's a Syrian and my mother's Armenian.
00:03:50.500 So I speak Armenian.
00:03:51.700 I speak Aramaic.
00:03:53.280 But I lived in Iran for almost 11 years.
00:03:55.160 Went to Germany.
00:03:55.640 Then we came here.
00:03:56.540 Were Christians expelled under the Shah?
00:03:58.420 Not under the Shah.
00:03:59.520 The Shah was like open.
00:04:00.700 Oh, I mean Khomeini. 0.99
00:04:01.520 Sorry.
00:04:01.820 Yeah.
00:04:02.020 Under Khomeini, you do not want to.
00:04:05.420 You're walking on eggshells under Khomeini when you were a Christian at my time.
00:04:09.700 It was uncomfortable.
00:04:11.520 It was, you couldn't go out and be too public about it.
00:04:16.400 See, there's a couple things when, you know, you talk about Iran and you talk about America.
00:04:22.460 And for me, when you grow up as a kid, you're like, whoa, why can't I be a Christian here?
00:04:28.180 Why can't I be public about it?
00:04:29.660 Why is this so judgmental and unsafe and you've got to be careful and all this other stuff?
00:04:34.540 And then you come to America, you're like, yeah, you're a Muslim? 1.00
00:04:38.100 Great.
00:04:38.720 Go to Detroit.
00:04:39.400 Take over Detroit.
00:04:40.480 Yeah.
00:04:40.740 Take over Dearborn.
00:04:41.980 Do what you want to do.
00:04:42.800 You want to be a Scientologist?
00:04:44.300 Go to LA.
00:04:45.340 Build it up.
00:04:45.740 Go to Tampa.
00:04:46.620 No problem.
00:04:47.160 You want to be a Mormon? 0.99
00:04:47.960 Go to Utah.
00:04:49.040 Do your thing.
00:04:49.640 You want to be Jehovah? 1.00
00:04:50.220 You want to, so it's like, you know, it allows you to do it.
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00:05:06.980 I'm excited about what's going to be happening.
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00:05:09.520 You question things.
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00:06:17.900 Bye.
00:06:17.960 Bye.