Most Americans (and many Canadians!) tend to view the political climate in Canada as hopeless, being run indirectly by LGBT activists, leftist public officials, neo-Marxist advisors, and most of it aided and abetted by a very liberal media establishment.
Even if this hyperbole were true, there are some people with conservative principles willing to step into the breach and run for office. My guest this week is one of them. Tanya Granic Allen is a wife, mother, professional communicator, parental rights advocate—and a practicing Catholic.
In 2018, despite rising popularity among Ontario voters, she was removed (illegally?) by Premier Doug Ford as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership. That’s a longer side-bar story, but in this interview, she talks about “social conservative” values and how they shape voters’ decisions as much as economic or other factors. Her presidency of PAFE (Parents As First Educators) put pro-family, anti-sex education concerns in the public’s mind, which is a rare set of priorities in a Canadian politician. (Even privately pro-life ones are generally chicken to talk about it.)
But this unabashedly pro-life Catholic leader is a sign of great hope for a country under the spell of rabid secularism for too long.
Most Americans (and many Canadians!) tend to view the political climate in Canada as hopeless, being run indirectly by LGBT activists, leftist public officials, neo-Marxist advisors, and most of it aided and abetted by a very liberal media establishment.
Even if this hyperbole were true, there are some people with conservative principles willing to step into the breach and run for office. My guest this week is one of them. Tanya Granic Allen is a wife, mother, professional communicator, parental rights advocate—and a practicing Catholic.
In 2018, despite rising popularity among Ontario voters, she was removed (illegally?) by Premier Doug Ford as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership. That’s a longer side-bar story, but in this interview, she talks about “social conservative” values and how they shape voters’ decisions as much as economic or other factors. Her presidency of PAFE (Parents As First Educators) put pro-family, anti-sex education concerns in the public’s mind, which is a rare set of priorities in a Canadian politician. (Even privately pro-life ones are generally chicken to talk about it.)
But this unabashedly pro-life Catholic leader is a sign of great hope for a country under the spell of rabid secularism for too long.
Kyle Kemper is an entrepreneur, husband, and father. His mother Margaret (whose former husband was Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau) is also Justin Trudeau’s mother by her second husband Fred Kemper. This family connection to Justin gives Kyle Kemper a unique personal perspective on the tyrannical way his half-brother is governing Canada with police state tactics.
The cryptocurrency guru (he founded and runs Swiss Key) has choice words for what has happened to his native land during the (planned, fake, oligarchic) Covid “crisis,” thanks in large part to Justin’s role as a sock puppet to powerful international interests.
POINTS COVERED
👉When Kemper first had the green light/red pill experience regarding the Covid lie
👉How the media and law enforcement agencies collude with the Canadian government to persecute and deceive is own citizens
👉Why vax passports are about mining your data and invading your privacy more than “health”
👉Kemper’s reply to the rumor that Fidel Castro is Justin’s biological father
👉How the Canadian government is using the recent massive gun theft as a false flag to justify militarized action against the truckers in Ottawa and elsewhere
👉How Justin Trudeau is a compliant servant of the New World Order
👉The organizations at the “top:” WEF, WHO, the Bilderberg Group, Freemasonry, the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, the Council on Foreign Relations, and yes, the Vatican
RESOURCES MENTIONED
👉The Unified Wallet: Unlocking the Digital Golden Age by Kyle J. Kemper
👉Swiss Key: a crypto wallet founded by Kemper
👉Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley
👉The Quigley Formula talk by G. Edward Griffin
Tucker Carlson is very good at what he does, which is engage guests and topics on his prime time-slotted Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. With aplomb and wit—which is hard when your guest is an angry eedjit,as the Irish say—he gets down to brass tacks on whatever the topic is.
His brand new book is titled Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. And he means it. His thesis: you can have egalitarianism AND oligarchy. One of the has got to go. Yet the book, like its creator, is often hilarious in its own way.
Most books by Christians about the atheism v theism debate start with the reasonableness of faith. Popular radio host and author Eric Metaxas starts with the reasonableness of science as filled with evidential power for the existence of God as can be known by faith. His brand new book is titled Is Atheism Dead? And what a stemwinder it is. Truly thought-provoking stuff hiding in plain sight—evidence of intentional and intelligent design.
This week’s guest is a mentor and kind of spiritual mother to Milo Yiannopoulos (whose very candid interview with me was Episode 101) and wrote the bracing Foreword to his latest book (see link below). Dr Rachel Fulton Brown is a tenured professor of history at the University of Chicago, and a renowned medieval scholar with a speciality in the area of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
She is also a fervent convert to the Catholic Faith. In this episode we dive deep into the biblical and historical roots of the role of the Blessed Mother in salvation history, and suggest ways to answer objections to the truth about Mary.
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“Have you gotten the vaccine?” My boss says I have to take the vaccine.” “The vaccine is safe, right?” “What if I don’t take it?”
The world is awash with questions about the Covid 19 vaccine. Truthful answers are hard to come by. One reliable source for answers is renowned cardiac physician, scholar, and professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough, MD.
He says he can no longer recommend the Covid vaccines in conscience to pregnant women of any age. The evidence of injuries and deaths, he says, is overwhelming, and deliberately understated by the media. He sat down for an uncensored conversation that will be of particular interest to parents.
After this interview, you will know:
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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POINTS COVERED
👉The brief history of Fauci’s corruption and manifest crimes
👉The deaths of thousands of homosexuals with AIDS who were killed with Fauci-endorsed AZT
👉How the oligarchs who operate the pandemic have funneled more billions into the pockets of already-billionaires
👉How under Fauci’s reign, allergic, autoimmune, and chronic illnesses have mushroomed to afflict 54 percent of children, up from 12.8 percent when he took over NIAID in 1984
👉Why allergic diseases like asthma, eczema, food allergies, allergic rhinitis, and anaphylaxis suddenly exploded beginning in 1989, five years after he came to power.
👉Fauci’s historic role as the leading architect of “agency capture”—the corporate seizure of America’s public health agencies by the pharmaceutical industry.
👉The connections between the cabal that killed Kennedy’s father and uncle, and the cabal currently imposing global lockdowns and mass death today.
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👉If you received the Covid vax and are nervous about it there is HOPE. You don't want to miss our next Hope is Fuel Course Where we discuss solutions to get you back on track. Coming July 2023! www.hopeisfuel.com
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Dr. Ann Gillies, PhD, has been a lone voice for psychological health in a context of aggressive LGBTQ+ propaganda in her native Canada. She has been a close observer of the culture wars in the key battleground of sexuality, gender, and human flourishing. Collating research from the famed Dr. Judith Reisman (RIP) and based on her own clinical experience and training, she has a very important antidote to “the crazy,” titled, Closing the Floodgates: Setting the Record Straight about Gender and Sexuality.
She joined me to talk about the roots of the homosexualist movement, the ravages of porn, scary changes to Canadian law, pedophile grooming, and the way forward for Christians and other social conservatives.
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On Twitter, mathematics Ph.D. (Cornell) Dr. Briggs is @famedcelebrity, and his website subtitle is “Statistician to the Stars”—both digs at our culture’s silly celeb worship. He co-authored an important book about the Covid scam titled The Price of Panic, and has a new one out, that does many things well, including explaining the difference between conservative and based; and scores of examples of fallacies and how to spot them.
A very enjoyable exchange with a natural raconteur, practicing Catholic, and man of hard science and logic.
👉Resources mentioned in this episode:
Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind) said, “When it comes to comedy, Tom Leopold has an extra gene. You may not know it, but he has probably made you laugh.” Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, NPR, This Is Spinal Tap) called him “a semi-precious stone in the crown of comedy,” appellations Leopold treasures.
Indeed, he may well be one of the most prolific and successful comedy writers ever, having written for sitcoms in the US and the UK, material for Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jonathan Winters, Michael McKean, Chris Guest, Chevy Chase, et al.
Raised Jewish, the natural raconteur was baptized and received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 2011. The conservative-minded comedy writer and one-time actor has some fascinating insights into what we call the culture, especially important for the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Tucker Carlson is very good at what he does, which is engage guests and topics on his prime time-slotted Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. With aplomb and wit—which is hard when your guest is an angry eedjit,as the Irish say—he gets down to brass tacks on whatever the topic is.
His brand new book is titled Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. And he means it. His thesis: you can have egalitarianism AND oligarchy. One of the has got to go. Yet the book, like its creator, is often hilarious in its own way.
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Dr. Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., is one of the most banned, maligned, censored, lied about—and unread—researchers in the world. She was jailed illegally for five days by order of the Fauci Machine, she was a highly regarded cancer researcher until she starting blowing the whistle on the endemic (pandemic?) corruption that taints the biopharmaceutical industry.
Mikovits also has a new book that summarizes the story so far of her fight for truth and against medical tyranny. And the featured expert in the internet phenom documentary Plandemic has a message for the world.
Watch this episode on our website: https://www.patrickcoffin.media/crushing-covid-corruption/
“Have you gotten the vaccine?” My boss says I have to take the vaccine.” “The vaccine is safe, right?” “What if I don’t take it?”
The world is awash with questions about the Covid 19 vaccine. Truthful answers are hard to come by. One reliable source for answers is renowned cardiac physician, scholar, and professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough, MD.
He says he can no longer recommend the Covid vaccines in conscience to pregnant women of any age. The evidence of injuries and deaths, he says, is overwhelming, and deliberately understated by the media. He sat down for an uncensored conversation that will be of particular interest to parents.
Join us on July 22nd, 2023 for our FREE* Vax Regret Solutions event.
Featuring: Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Jeff Barke, Dr. Leland Stillman, Dr. Tess Lawrie, Jessica Sutta (The Pussycat Dolls), Brianne Dressen (REACT19), and Dr. Salome Masghati.
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Dr. Ryan Cole is Medical Director and CEO of Cole Diagnostics, an independent full service pathology laboratory located in Boise, Idaho and serving patients regionally and nationally. He is also an unusually clear communicator when to comes to exposing lies told in the name of “science.” Dr. Cole was a featured presenter at the Truth Over Fear summit (check out the link), and has been telling anyone who will listen that this is a false pandemic, that masks do not work, and the mRNA injection is not even a vaccine. Here he reviews the least you need to know about the whole Covid phenomenon, both big picture, and local examples. A good interview to share with friends, skeptics, and those who are both.
In this Interview You Will Learn:
Resources Recommended in this Episode:
Watch this episode on our website: https://www.patrickcoffin.media/ending-long-covid-tyranny/
Learn the truth about Covid-19 and the dangers of the unapproved experimental vaccine from top renowned doctors at the Truth Over Fear Summit: www.restoretheculture.com
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“Have you gotten the vaccine?” My boss says I have to take the vaccine.” “The vaccine is safe, right?” “What if I don’t take it?”
The world is awash with questions about the Covid 19 vaccine. Truthful answers are hard to come by. One reliable source for answers is renowned cardiac physician, scholar, and professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough, MD.
He says he can no longer recommend the Covid vaccines in conscience to pregnant women of any age. The evidence of injuries and deaths, he says, is overwhelming, and deliberately understated by the media. He sat down for an uncensored conversation that will be of particular interest to parents.
After this interview, you will know:
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Join us on July 22nd, 2023 for our FREE* Vax Regret Solutions event.
Featuring: Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Jeff Barke, Dr. Leland Stillman, Dr. Tess Lawrie, Jessica Sutta (The Pussycat Dolls), Brianne Dressen (REACT19), and Dr. Salome Masghati.
POINTS COVERED
👉The brief history of Fauci’s corruption and manifest crimes
👉The deaths of thousands of homosexuals with AIDS who were killed with Fauci-endorsed AZT
👉How the oligarchs who operate the pandemic have funneled more billions into the pockets of already-billionaires
👉How under Fauci’s reign, allergic, autoimmune, and chronic illnesses have mushroomed to afflict 54 percent of children, up from 12.8 percent when he took over NIAID in 1984
👉Why allergic diseases like asthma, eczema, food allergies, allergic rhinitis, and anaphylaxis suddenly exploded beginning in 1989, five years after he came to power.
👉Fauci’s historic role as the leading architect of “agency capture”—the corporate seizure of America’s public health agencies by the pharmaceutical industry.
👉The connections between the cabal that killed Kennedy’s father and uncle, and the cabal currently imposing global lockdowns and mass death today.
RESOURCES
👉Get a copy of the book here: https://amzn.to/3qAMU0a
👉If you received the Covid vax and are nervous about it there is HOPE. You don't want to miss our next Hope is Fuel Course Where we discuss solutions to get you back on track. Coming July 2023! www.hopeisfuel.com
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Peter Breggin is known as “the conscience of psychiatry” for his decades’ worth of patient advocacy, his opposition to psychotropic drugs and lobotomies, and his 100+ expert testimonies at lawsuit trials against Big Pharma. An author or co-author of over 20 books, he has, with his wife Ginger Ross Breggin, released perhaps his most important work, Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey.
It’s not a book about Covid. It’s THE book about Covid.
This is what Dr.Breggin and I discuss in this interview: the meticulously researched account of the origins of SARS-Cov2, the massive deceptions on the part of the Communist Chinese, and the elite billionaires who pull the global financial strings behind the scenes on the whole phenomenon. If you’re brand new to what’s really going on, this is a good place to start.
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Tim Gordon and I discovered over time that we are both somewhat afflicted with above-average anxiety. In this frank conversation, we get into some of the fears and anxieties (they are virtual synonyms) that have plagued us and how we got through rough spots.
Catholics, particularly Catholic men, can often have a hard time accepting that they are so afflicted, as though feeling nervous is a moral flaw or sign of weakness. This false belief, of course, becomes the basis for the next round of anxiety. We both think this very personal and transparent interview will be an important episode of The Patrick Coffin Show. Many suffer in silence. No more!
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Ryan J. Moreau is a Husband, Father of five, Entrepreneur, Catholic revert, North Idaho transplant and the CEO of Hope Is Fuel, a “movement” he co-founded with Patrick Coffin. Ryan’s journey to “hope” has not been without some serious bumps and bruises. While he’s experienced the highs and lows that most come to expect with an entrepreneurial career, it was his ten year journey back to the fullness of the faith and his suffering through two serious bouts of anxiety and depression that reminds us all of how God still can draw straight with crooked lines.
With Hope Is Fuel, Ryan is not interested in growing his own personal brand. This project has always been about bringing more truth, greater unity, a stronger community and a life that is deeply rooted in prayer. In fact, when joining Patrick to launch Hope Is Fuel, Ryan has been convicted to make sure that this project remains grounded in Catholic Philosophy while appealing to a wider, more secular audience.
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Professor Janet Smith is the leading English language expert on Humanae Vitae and a renowned writer and speaker. She has never considered herself a “Traditionalist” but has come to love the Extraordinary Form Traditional Latin Mass. Recently retired as a professor from the Sacred Heart major seminary in Detroit she has some vital insights into the July 16, 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes.
You're not going to hear this line of thinking anywhere else.
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Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind) said, “When it comes to comedy, Tom Leopold has an extra gene. You may not know it, but he has probably made you laugh.” Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, NPR, This Is Spinal Tap) called him “a semi-precious stone in the crown of comedy,” appellations Leopold treasures.
Indeed, he may well be one of the most prolific and successful comedy writers ever, having written for sitcoms in the US and the UK, material for Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jonathan Winters, Michael McKean, Chris Guest, Chevy Chase, et al.
Raised Jewish, the natural raconteur was baptized and received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 2011. The conservative-minded comedy writer and one-time actor has some fascinating insights into what we call the culture, especially important for the Covid-19 lockdown.
Did you ever wonder why certain movies resonate with audiences all over the world? Why some grab you for two hours in the dark, but then like so much cinematic MSG, you forget these flash-in-the-pans by the time you get to the car – while others hold you in their spell for years?
This is the mystery I explore with Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith in Irvine, CA. Digging into a fascinating section of his book The Soul’s Upward Yearning: Clues to Our Transcendent Nature from Experience and Reason, Father Spitzer and I talk about the Power of Myth at work in four of the top movie franchises of Hollywood history: Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia films.
Turns out, these examples all share certain common elements that invite the viewer (or reader, if the book) into an adventure that forces a choice, a crisis, which leads ultimately a catharsis, or cleansing of the soul. But, as is his wont, the Jesuit scholar goes deeper than the platitudes about nice music and great dialogue. You’ll learn about Rudolf Otto and the numinous, Carl Jung and archetypes, Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey, and Mircea Eliade and mythical structure.
I know, I know, it this sounds too deep for mere mortals. Give it a chance. Stretching a bit mentally pays handsome dividends, including a new appreciation for what makes great movies great.
We all know about the Sixties, both the decade and the cultural ethos it generated. But do we know the players, leaders, architects, and financiers who created the Sexual Revolution that made the Sixties infamous?
Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse, author and foundress of The Ruth Institute, has the answers. Her stemwinder of a book, The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along, tells the sordid tale, naming names and taking no prisoners.
In this interview you will learn:
Resources recommended in this episode:
The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along by Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse
Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control by Dr. E. Michael Jones
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson