R&B Talks

Reggie Payne and Brian Kirby
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The noise of our culture and the world we live in can be overwhelming. With the vast amount of information that we have access to, there is confusion as to how one should perceive the world. Reggie and Brian are two guys who seek to share their journey and wisdom garnered from their faith and life experience to lend a hand in understanding the reality we live in. We, as men, are here on this earth to be leaders, husbands, fathers, sons, friends, brothers, uncles, nephews, and witnesses. R & B Talks is one place where we try to cut through the noise of the culture and the world and help give some real transparent views on important aspects of life, men, Christianity, or whatever comes up. Join us as we have real unscripted discussions about issues and life. Just 2 guys in 2 chairs talking. ------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@randbtalks Check us out on Instagram: https://instagram.com/randbtalks?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg== Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095476576481&mibextid=LQQJ4d Also available as a podcast on your favorite platform or via RSS feed here: https://media.rss.com/randbtalks/feed.xml

  1. 3d ago

    EP148 - Define It or Drop It — The Truth Behind the 'Christian Nationalist' Label

    A rock singer calls Christian nationalism the greatest threat to American democracy. A political strategist calls it a bigger threat than al-Qaeda. Neither one says what it is. Reggie and Brian take the label apart, follow the money behind the survey that made the headlines, and land where they started on EP67: bring your faith to the ballot box, never put politics above the Gospel, and make anyone who uses the term define it. KEY TOPICS: - What gets a Christian called a "Christian nationalist": pro-life votes, the nuclear family, faith at the ballot box - PRRI's five-question survey, who founded PRRI, and who funded the research - Pew: only 10% view the term favorably, and most have no opinion - The few authors who actually claim the name, and the conservative churches drawing their own line - The DSA in its own words, and the same labeling move run in the other direction - Religious freedom: why faith in Christ must be a free choice - Give God his 40: what the number 40 in Scripture teaches about seasons of testing SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: John 18:36, Matthew 22:21, Romans 13:1-4, Philippians 3:20, Matthew 28:18-20, Numbers 14:33-34, Matthew 4:1-2 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - PRRI, "Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States" (2026) and the PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey (2023) - Pew Research Center, "How Americans Feel About Religion's Influence in Government and Public Life" (2026) - Southern Baptist Convention, "On Defending Religious Liberty" (2024) - PCA Ad Interim Committee, Partial Report on Christian Nationalism (2026) - National Women's Law Center, "Pronatalism: Just White Christian Nationalism in Disguise" - Chetty, Hendren, Kline & Saez, "Where Is the Land of Opportunity?" (2014) - Democratic Socialists of America, "What is Democratic Socialism?" - Stephen Wolfe, The Case for Christian Nationalism (2022) - Torba & Isker, Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide for Taking Dominion and Discipling Nations (2022) — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP148 - Define It or Drop It — The Truth Behind the 'Christian Nationalist' Label

  2. Oct 6

    EP147 - The Cold Open — Christian Music, False Prophets & Talking Across the Divide

    The plan was a cold open. It turned into the whole episode. Reggie and Brian follow the conversation wherever it goes, from why Christian music sounds the way it does to a gym conversation with a man who assumed a Christian couldn't talk to him, and on to why political conversation keeps collapsing. KEY TOPICS: - Why there is so little good music about ordinary life as a Christian - What counts as worship music, and playing Bethel and Hillsong songs in church - Self-proclaimed prophets and faith healers - "Those weren't Christians": disagreement is not hatred - Having a real conversation without the party labels - Dogs, shelters, and whether three is too many - Titus and a church that has been playing defense SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Titus 3:10 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Brad Wampler, Rooted in Logos podcast - Bob Dylan's gospel-era albums: Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980), Shot of Love (1981) - Bourbon & Beyond music festival, Louisville, KY — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP147 - The Cold Open — Christian Music, False Prophets & Talking Across the Divide

  3. Sep 28

    EP146 - Blessed, Not Lucky — Why Blessing Was Never Earned

    Why do Christians say "blessed" after a promotion but never in a hospital waiting room? Reggie and Brian take on the most overused word in Christian vocabulary: how it became a synonym for luck, where the instinct to read God's approval off our circumstances comes from, and what Jesus meant when he called the mourning and the persecuted blessed. The answer runs through the Beatitudes, Job, and Luke 13, and lands on a standing no circumstance can move, because nobody ever earned it. KEY TOPICS: - "Blessed" as a Christian word for "lucky," and why it goes silent in hard seasons - The reward-and-punishment ledger: the disciples in John 9 and Job's friends - Sowing and reaping vs. blessing: related, not the same - The Beatitudes and the woes of Luke 6 - Job 1:21 and blessing the name in the middle of loss - Luke 13 and Romans 3: why blessing was never earned SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Matthew 5:3–12, Luke 6:20–26, John 9:1–3, Luke 13:1–5, Job 1:21, Job 42:7, Romans 3:10–12, 23, Galatians 6:7, Deuteronomy 28 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Scripture read on air: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP146 - Blessed, Not Lucky — Why Blessing Was Never Earned

  4. Sep 15

    EP145 - Not a Species — Wings, Guardian Angels, and Where Our Picture Came From

    Say the word "angel" and almost everyone pictures the same thing — wings, a white robe, a halo. Where did that come from? Because it mostly didn't come from Scripture. Part 2 of our Unseen Realm series: what the Hebrew word behind "angel" actually means, how many angels the Bible names, whether one is assigned to you, and what they looked like the handful of times they showed up. KEY TOPICS: "Angel" is a job description, not a species — malʾāk means "one sent"Scripture names two angels. Every other name came from somewhere elseThe guardian angel, graded: dogma, clearly taught, or pious inferenceNo wings, no halos — what the text actually describesWhether a believer can command an angelSCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Matthew 18:10, Hebrews 1:14, Zechariah 5, Daniel, Tobit 12 RESOURCES MENTIONED: Michael S. Heiser, Angels (Lexham Press, 2018)Catechism of the Catholic Church §§328, 336Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I, q. 113Calvin, Institutes I.14.7 · Hodge, Systematic Theology vol. 1— R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP145 - Not a Species — Wings, Guardian Angels, and Where Our Picture Came From

  5. Sep 7

    EP144 - Guardians of the Garden — Did We Hand Our Kids a New Fruit?

    Brian brings a premise he's been sitting on for weeks: God forbade the tree to keep Adam and Eve from knowing evil — so did we build a second tree of knowledge, and then open a fruit stand for our kids? Reggie doesn't buy it. What follows is the longest sustained disagreement the two of them have had on mic, and it ends somewhere neither of them started. KEY TOPICS: Whether the fruit in Eden was ever evil on its ownUnfiltered access, kids with phones, and whether the internet is morally neutralIQ, cognition, AI shortcuts, and what technology has actually done to usAdam as guardian of the garden, and what men shuckedWhether Christians are guardians of the open world or only of their own householdsThe Lindsay Clancy verdict and the public support around itSCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Genesis 1:31, Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7, Leviticus 5:17, Ezekiel 33:6, Matthew 28:19-20 RESOURCES MENTIONED: Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy, Plymouth Superior Court — mistrial declared September 4, 2026Musgrove Family Fund (GoFundMe) — $1,060,185 raised as of September 2, 2026State v. Timothy Ray Jones Jr., Lexington County, SC — five counts, death sentence, affirmed 2023Commonwealth of Illinois v. Walsh, Will County — State's motion to deny pretrial release— R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP144 - Guardians of the Garden — Did We Hand Our Kids a New Fruit?

  6. Aug 24

    EP143 - The Other Half — Friendship, Community, and the Household We Miss

    Reggie's close friend lost his wife to stage four pancreatic cancer about six weeks after diagnosis. Standing at the funeral, Reggie realized he had known his friend since high school and had never really known her. This episode is what came out of that — a return to our male friendship episode from 101 episodes ago, and an honest look at what we left out. KEY TOPICS: - Revisiting the Lindsay Clancy case and where our position has landed - Why a friend is a family member you're not related to by blood - The household as the missing piece in how we define friendship - Men, isolation, and why the phone doesn't ring when things get hard - How community used to be a neighborhood and is now a single household - House-to-house language in the New Testament church - What happens three or four weeks after the funeral, when everyone stops calling - What not to say to a widow or widower SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Acts 2, Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 16, Genesis 3, Romans 12:15 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - R&B Talks EP42 - The Battle for Male Friendship — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP143 - The Other Half — Friendship, Community, and the Household We Miss

  7. Aug 17

    EP142 - The Face of Evil — Lindsay Clancy, Candace Owens, and a Law Signed in Massachusetts

    No guide, no brief, no research — just two guys talking about what's been sitting on them all week. A mother on trial in Massachusetts for killing her three children. A commentator who took $300,000 to defend her theories about Charlie Kirk's death and showed up without evidence. And a governor signing away every statutory limit on abortion after 24 weeks. Brian's prayer through all of it: that the face of evil becomes so blatantly visible we reject it out of the part of us built in the image of God. KEY TOPICS: The Lindsay Clancy trial — where postpartum illness stops explaining and premeditation startsForgiveness and consequence do not run concurrentlyCandace Owens, the $300,000 debate, and evidence a court would acceptMassachusetts and the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care ActBecoming foster parents, and what it costs a family to say yesSCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Luke 23:39–43, Genesis 1:27, James 1:27 RESOURCES MENTIONED: People — Lindsay Clancy trial coverageNewsNation — Massachusetts abortion lawMassachusetts H.5595, the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care ActCandace Owens vs. Andrew Wilson, PBD Podcast, August 14, 2026— R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP142 - The Face of Evil — Lindsay Clancy, Candace Owens, and a Law Signed in Massachusetts

  8. Aug 11

    EP141 - The Unseen Realm — Part 1 — What's Actually There

    Most of us were handed two categories for the spiritual world: angels and demons. The Bible has considerably more than two. In Part 1 of a five-part series, we set the rules we'll use for the rest of it — then go to the text and see what's actually in the room. KEY TOPICS: - How the two-category picture came through translation, and what got compressed - Four types of claims — textual, historical, experiential, physical — and why mixing them is where arguments go wrong - The manuscript tradition is stable: what a textual variant is, and what it isn't - Deuteronomy 32:8 and the divine council - Elohim as a residence term rather than a rank - Ha-satan: a job description before it's ever a name - Who isn't in the room — the biblical text has no category for the human dead wandering houses - What the science on hauntings can and cannot actually measure SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:17, Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Psalm 82:1, Psalm 89:5-7, 1 Kings 22:19-23, Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 3, Job 1:6, Job 38:4-7, Isaiah 8:19, 1 Samuel 28:13, 1 Corinthians 8:5-6 RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm (Lexham Press, 2015) - Michael S. Heiser, Demons documentary (Logos) - Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text; Septuagint - Translations compared: LSB, ESV, KJV — R&B Talks: 2 Guys. 2 Chairs. Real Christ-Centered Conversation.

    EP141 - The Unseen Realm — Part 1 — What's Actually There
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The noise of our culture and the world we live in can be overwhelming. With the vast amount of information that we have access to, there is confusion as to how one should perceive the world. Reggie and Brian are two guys who seek to share their journey and wisdom garnered from their faith and life experience to lend a hand in understanding the reality we live in. We, as men, are here on this earth to be leaders, husbands, fathers, sons, friends, brothers, uncles, nephews, and witnesses. R & B Talks is one place where we try to cut through the noise of the culture and the world and help give some real transparent views on important aspects of life, men, Christianity, or whatever comes up. Join us as we have real unscripted discussions about issues and life. Just 2 guys in 2 chairs talking. ------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@randbtalks Check us out on Instagram: https://instagram.com/randbtalks?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg== Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095476576481&mibextid=LQQJ4d Also available as a podcast on your favorite platform or via RSS feed here: https://media.rss.com/randbtalks/feed.xml

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  • Creator
    Reggie Payne and Brian Kirby
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    147
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © R&B Talks 2023
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