All right, so this is about
Pastor Greg Locke of the Global
Vision Bible Church in Tennessee.
And he went on a crazy right-wing
rant where he insisted that Joe
Biden is quote, demon possessed,
and that Trump is still president.
This is amazing, take a look.
>> God's about to bring the whole
house down, ladies and gentlemen.
[APPLAUSE] >> These bunch of sex
trafficking mongrels are about to
be exposed.
[APPLAUSE] >> These bunch of
pedophiles in Hollywood
are going to be exposed for
who they are.
[APPLAUSE] >> I don't care what you
think about fraudulent sleepy Joe,
he's a sex trafficking demon
possessed mongrel,
he's of the left.
He ain't no better than the Pope
and Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks and
the rest of that wicked crowd.
God is going to bring the whole
house down.
[APPLAUSE] >> I said he's going to
bring the whole house down.
[APPLAUSE] >> He's going to burn
the whole thing to the ground.
[APPLAUSE] >> He's going to expose
all these bunch of pedophiles.
[APPLAUSE] >> I'm telling you He's
going to expose Kamala Harris for
the Jezebel demon that she is.
>> Jenk, thoughts?
>> [LAUGH] Look, man,
he had me at Jezebel demon.
[LAUGH] This guy's old school.
This guy's going to Jezebel,
really, we're going
back to Jezebel.
That's what we're going
back to, okay?
And let alone mongrel, I mean,
I haven't heard mongrel in a while.
So, but really, isn't that crazy?
I mean,
with less yelling, this probably
what you're getting in a lot of
churches across the country.
I mean, why do you think two-thirds
of Republicans,
one-third of the country thinks
that Joe Biden is fraudulent and
stole the election, etc.
because they're hearing it from
so-called leaders like this, and
yeah, I mean he's nuts.
To me another amazing part was,
okay, so
we got the Pope, apparently this is
old school Protestant too,
the Catholics are no good.
I think the KKK used to throw
Catholics in there with the Jews,
and they used to say the Turks for
referring to Muslims, for
all the evil people in the world.
And then you got Oprah, okay?
So poor Oprah, I get it,
is that she hits every demographic
they despise and
I feel terrible for her.
But I never understood
the Tom Hanks thing, right?
And then today I was thinking
about it man they're obsessed with
hating Tom Hanks.
Who hates Tom Hanks?
What, that's so random, right?
And then I thought Brett,
maybe its not random, he played
a gay character who had AIDS in
Philadelphia, and in Bosom Buddies,
he was cross dressing.
[LAUGH] >> So maybe they think that
he's gay or something.
And so they're like, okay, yeah,
Oprah, she's black and who else
are we going to throw in there?
Tom Hanks, I saw that movie,
he's gay.
[LAUGH] Because as long as we're
making stuff up, right?
>> Yeah, it's like, who else can I
add to this list of generally well
liked people, if you have
an opinion about them, whatsoever.
I get the Oprah thing but not
really even that, Oprah, the person
who gave all those cars to people.
The only Oprah bit lately has been
who is entertaining some interviews
with Harry and Megan,
I wouldn't even pull Oprah out of
the zeitgeist grab bag.
That's what's so weird.
And that's the particular flavor
that I love the most is the folks
that they choose to fixate on.
Because at that point when they're
in their tent, revival or whatever,
this is the same group
that you're right.
The KKK throws them in with the,
I like that he cherry picks
other groups that have bad
things as though that completely
represents all of them.
But ten revivals,
where you're demonizing Catholics,
and you're leaving out the fact
that ten revivals that look a lot
like this, end up with burning
crosses on people's lawns.
And I'm not saying that this guy
does it, and I know he's going on
this litigious warpath right now,
but this is simply just a con.
I don't even need to go past what
happened in this revival or
whatever this speech was that
he gave.
It's just so crazy what he's chosen
to fixate on.
But that's not it,
there's more behind it.
He also had additional thoughts
on the January 6th Capital riots.
>> Thank God. >> So let's take
a listen to that, yeah.
>> I don't know why pastors don't
talk about this stuff.
Well, I do,
they don't want to seem crazy.
[LAUGH] >> I'm already crazy.
[APPLAUSE] >> People like,
do you really think it's that much
of an epidemic?
Do you honestly believe, probably
I'm going to get some more crazy.
Do you honestly believe,
Pastor Locke,
that the military uncovered tunnels
beneath the Capitol building and
beneath the White House and
in the Five Fingered Lake?
Do you really believe that they
found kids?
Yeah, both live ones and dead ones,
and if you disagree with that, and
if you try to discount that, and
if you try to cover that, and if
you try to keep that on the deal,
you're just as complicit as hunter
Biden and unprecedented bunch
of crack smoking perverts.
[LAUGH] >> I
have not seen that much of
the video until this moment.
[LAUGH] >> Here's what I like
about it.
I like that this guy who is
theoretically out there to spread
the word of God as a preacher,
right?
Lessons and the word,
to take them earnestly,
lessons about the word of God, this
guy makes it so much about him.
And they call me, I've been crazy.
I will tell you talk about Pastor
Tim, Pastor Greg or whatever.
Dude, these things,
if you are doing what you say
you're out there to do, what,
spreading the word of the Lord is.
This whole thing is about you and
these crazy theories about
Finger Lake catacombs full of kids.
Just take a second and realize
that, I went to Catholic school,
sorry, I was a half Jew, half
Protestant in a Catholic school.
But we read the Bible and
there's a lot of crazy ass stuff in
there.
But that aspect of it,
I don't see how in this day and
age, you can take this as your
marching orders for what to do.
>> Okay, let's continue on
the funny stuff and then I'll have
something serious then.
It's so hard to pick my
favorite line.
The crack smoking perverts.
[LAUGH] >> I mean,
if I had a dollar for
every crack smoking pervert I knew,
[LAUGH] why do I say I'd like that,
because I do the story I told
earlier on the bonus episode.
because of the people we were
trying to buy crack at the motel
that I was staying at.
[LAUGH] Okay, but anyways and
then the Five Fingered Lakes, No,
it isn't finger lakes, so
sometimes they're called
the Five Finger Lakes.
They're definitely not called
the Five Fingered Lakes, okay?
But it's tough to beat,
I'm already crazy.
[LAUGH] Well, look I gotta give him
points for honesty on that one.
Hard to argue, that's one point
that was super hard to argue with.
But Brett,
the serious point is everyone in
that room was having the time of
their lives agreeing 100% with him.
I mean, you saw, they're ecstatic,
they're clapping like crazy, etc.
And the folks in that room think
we're crazy.
They think my God,
those guys there.
They don't even believe in the
satanic cults in the underground
Finger Lakes and the dead kids,
I mean, those guys are nuts.
And they do,
they think we're totally crazy.
And so we live in not just
the little different realities,
these folks live amongst us, and
they think we live amongst them.
And then every once in a while
cable news anchors will
say that we should do kumbaya.
How do you do kumbaya with them?
I mean, which of the Fingered Lakes
do we go to do the Kumbaya?
We don't even agree that we should
use logic, or facts or anything.
I don't know what to do
with America when we have two
massively different realities.
>> I'm already crazy.
>> I don't either, and apparently
so things kind of devolved into,
it was reported by Newsweek.
So the crazy pastor then threatened
the publication of Newsweek.
I do want to say, before we play
this, how can you bring a lawsuit
against someone for essentially,
and forgive me if I'm wrong,
for calling out the crazy
things you're proclaiming,
when you yourself have already
admitted that you are crazy?
At that point they're
just reporting your own
words back to you.
But here's how that part of
it went.
>> Newsweek has been covering
us for the last few months nearly
every single week.
Hands down, almost every single
week without fail or
without question, they
do an anti gridlock, an anti-Global
Vision Bible Church rant.
But this past week,
they crossed the line.
I made this statement for which,
by the way,
I stand by my statement and
won't apologize.
I said, in regards to our
First Amendment, we've always kept
our church open and
we will never close.
And if they come to our tent to
impede upon our First Amendment
right, then we'll meet them at
the door of the tent with our
Second Amendment right.
>> Cool, this guy,
here's my take on it.
This is just my personal opinion on
what this guy is doing.
It's all about the beginning of it.
Now, Newsweek has been covering us
for an entire week and
I am loving every second of it.
That's why I do my hair just
like this.
That's why I spend most of my
day on that.
That's why I go do the palates that
I have been doing,
the power palates, so
I get this hottie Christ body.
And he loves every single second
of it.
And it's possible that,
to interpret from his actions,
that maybe he felt bad that he
wasn't being covered anymore.
So he needed to up the ante, and
that aspect of it is in every part
of the news, in everybody, and
the thing I would like to equate
him with is Tucker Carlson does
the exact same thing.
They're using the same buzzwords,
they're always trying to get
crazier and crazier.
And it's not because they
necessarily want the biggest tent.
They just feel like
they are perfectly content to cater
to this specific audience and
maybe grow it marginally.
But to create that fervor,
that detached speaking in tongues
ecstasy that will keep people
coming back.
And really, the way I feel about
pastors like this is,
line their pockets, and
I hope that someone does research
into his closets to find out how
many skeletons are in there.
because usually that's where you
find the most of them.
I'm not saying that that's what's
happening, but I'm saying, all the
people that he's accusing of doing
these terrible, terrible things.
It just seems like he's kind of
making himself out to be suspect
number 1 for the bad behavior.
And again, this is the exact
kind of stuff that Jesus,
see there he is,
there's his whole crowd outside.
But this is the kind of stuff that
if you read about Jesus,
Jesus would tell you not ever,
ever to do.
>> Yeah, so my last thoughts on
this, first of all,
he says Newsweek,
I can't believe they covered me and
then quoted me correctly.
And the downside is where?
So they quoted you on using
your Second Amendment rights.
What is that a reference to?
It's not a reference to rainbows
and ponies, it's a reference to
weapons and using them if
the government comes to enforce
illegal regulation or law.
So you're basically threatening,
that you might use guns to kill
government officials.
Okay, I mean, you just set it right
there, I might use my
Second Amendment rights.
What else do you mean
by Second Amendment rights?
The government comes here to shut
down our revival here at the tent,
we're going to
use our Second Amendment rights and
go hunting instead.
Probably not, okay,
[LAUGH] it doesn't seem like that's
what you meant.
But look I talked to a couple of
QAnon people on the conversation,
and so there's two layers to this.
One is, they genuinely believe in
the religious mythology.
So they think, well, and
one of them said this to me,
we drink the blood of Christ every
Sunday, and we eat his body every
Sunday in communion.
And so, of course,
the same worshipers are drinking
the blood of the children and
eating their body.
They think that's a perfectly
rational thing to think, right?
And so I'm stunned by that, I hope
you guys are stunned by that.
But there's tons and tons, millions
upon millions of people in this
country that think that that's a
perfectly rational sentence, right?
>> It doesn't make any sense
because it's not that the people at
communion are eating actual bodies
of the, whatever it would be if
it's not the innocents,
it's the wicked, that then turns
into the blood of Christ and
the body of Christ.
They're eating Nilla wafers, man,
and they are drinking wine.
>> No, but I think that some of
them think it's literal.
I get that the overwhelming
majority know that it's
not literal.
It's a wafer, obviously, right?
>> But the thing is it doesn't make
sense for Christians to think, for
Protestants to think that,
Lutherans, Episcopalians, all that.
It only makes sense for Catholics
to believe that, because Catholics
believe in transubstantiation,
which is, after the dude in the
robes says the Eucharist, it turns
into the body and blood of Christ.
That's only Catholics, and
Martin Luther was like,
that's weird.
It just symbolizes it that the Son
of God did all these crazy things.
So the Christians shouldn't
be in that anyway.
It makes less sense for
the Christians to be there in that
sense, but in the sense of speaking
in tongues, writhing on the floor,
getting bitten by snakes, and
poisonous snakes, and
believing your way through it.
It is in line with that, and
I'm not saying this guy's doing
any of that.
I'm just saying that, I do want to
point out this one last thing,
that over time, this is the last
graphic, GOP voters have actually
through stuff like this left to
their own devices to just ruminate
in the Köppen den over Trump.
GOP voters have become less likely
to blame Trump for January 6th,
overtime.
They have had time to think
about it, and
after reviewing all the evidence,
it's not just that they get to talk
to each other for a long time and
be like actually, no.
I've changed my mind because
no one's holding me accountable and
I'm not much further from the facts
timewise.
Tragedy plus time equals
30% instead
of 41% blaming Donald Trump for
all these events in January 6th.
>> Yeah, in case you missed it
there, more Republicans believe
Joe Biden was responsible for
January 6th than Donald Trump.
But I want to say it one more time.
And they think by overwhelming
margins that the Democrats were
more responsible than Republicans
is 52 to 22.
The Democrats dressed up in Trump
and MAGA outfits and
went to go execute Democrats.
And they believe it,
they really believe it.
And so part of the reason they
believe it though is because of
the alternate reality.
In their reality, the illegals came
in and voted, and Hugo Chavez
fixed the elections, etc.
They really believe it.
So they think the Democrats stole
the election, so
they had that Capital riot coming.
So yeah, maybe the Trump guys did
it, but it was the Democrats
fault for stealing the election, so
they genuinely believe that.
And then finally,
going back to Brett's point, look,
we covered a lot of religious
right-wingers in this country who
spoke out against LGBTQ folks.
And eventually the most rapid of
them would almost always reveal
themselves.
And I remember Alan Keyes doing
this, and I remember that crazy
pastor in Harlem doing this.
Where they would say, well, look,
if you let people be gay,
obviously, everybody would be gay
so that's why we can't allow it.
And we were like, no, no, everybody
wouldn't obviously be gay.
They would be all across
the spectrum, right?
So, and that pastor that came on
and Anna and I interviewed him, and
he said no, obviously Starbucks is
putting semen in the coffee to make
it more delicious.
Okay, that happened,
that was an interview on TYT, okay?
And so in this case though,
an unfortunate number of folks
are believing, well,
Democrats want to molest children,
of course they do, right?
And some portion of them,
by the way, think that because they
were molested, and
they think, it happened to me.
So I think it probably happens to
tons of people or to everybody, and
I feel sick to my stomach thinking
about how they were abused.
And then other people came in and
took advantage of their abuse to
sell them a bag of goods and
to sell them lies, etc.
And then there is, of course,
the other side of the folks who
do that type of thing and
think that everybody wants to do
that type of thing.
And so I don't know who's in what
camp, but either way, this entire
phenomenon is deeply disturbing.
And yeah, it's fun to watch that
crazy pastor.
Those of us in the rational reality
think ha ha, this guy's crazy and
he says it himself.
And that's part of why they get so
mad if you quote them,
if you just show the tape of what
they're saying, they get furious.
Like now what,
you're going to quote me?
Okay, right?
But a third of the country,
generally, not specifically with
everything he said, but generally
believes them, and thinks, yeah,
the Democrats stole this election.
And yes, they're a huge percentage,
not a third, but 10 to 15% of
the country thinks, yeah,
Democrats have sex with children,
murder them, and drink their blood.
If you don't
think that's dangerous,
you're not paying attention.
I don't know what the end result of
this phenomenon is going to be, but
we've got tens of millions of
people in this country who
have totally lost their minds.