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A podcast where Andy Schmitt talks with theologians, authors, and reporters about Orthodox Christian belief and its connection to godly living in every aspect of ones life.

  1. 4D AGO

    #163 // Dr. Mary Talley Bowden | Did Jeffrey Epstein Plan COVID-19?

    In this episode I talked with Dr. Mary Talley Bowden. We discussed the Epstein files and the communications between Epstein and other billionaires related to pandemic preparedness that were happening as early as 2013. We talked about Trump’s involvement in the Epstein files and why Trump wants to brush over the scandal. We also discussed Mary’s organization, Americans for Health Freedom, and their goal to pull the COVID vaccine off the market and her efforts to make Ivermectin and over the counter drug. I hope you enjoy! Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 13m

  2. JAN 28

    #162 // Dr. David Deavel | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning To The West

    In this episode I talked with Dr. David Deavel from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He is the Associate Professor of Theology and is the author and editor of several books including a book called Solzhenitsyn and American Culture. We discussed the contents of his book and the life and legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We talked about why Russian culture — their music, literature, and art — is so rich while their political history is not. We discussed Solzhenitsyn’s time in the Gulags and how he learned of the evil of Communism. We also talked about his 1978 speech at Harvard in which he gives a warning to America and where the West is headed. I hope you enjoy! Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 22m

  3. JAN 20

    #161 // Dr. Keith Campbell | Narcissism, Hypnosis, And The Future

    In this episode I talked with Dr. Keith Campbell. Dr. Campbell is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 200 papers and several books including the latest, The New Science of Narcissism. Dr. Campbell has appeared in most major media outlets, including the Today Show, CNN, and the Joe Rogan Experience. He has given a TEDx talk and was the educator behind the the TED Ed lesson on narcissism. Dr. Campbell is also co-founder of Wealth Science Analytics, a boutique psychological consulting firm dedicated to combining state-of-the-art research, AI, machine learning, and deep knowledge about the inter-workings of high-performance teams. We discussed his class on Peterson Academy on Narcissism and how to tell if your pastor or social worker is a narcissist. We also talked about how to analyze the personality of Jesus and how the evangelical church has aimed to feminize Christ over the past 60 years. We discussed hypnosis and propaganda and the future of Western civilization in the age of Artificial Intelligence and social unrest. I hope you enjoy! Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    2h 11m

  4. 12/18/2025

    #160 // Dr. Michael Ward | Artificial Intelligence & The Abolition Of Man

    If you’re like me and grew up in the public school system, you may have been taught that language, reality, and truth are merely subjective. That there is no true meaning and therefore, no true values, and purpose in life. This is the philosophical illusion that most modern Westerners are born into without even knowing it. In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Abolition of Man, he attacks that very subjectivist philosophical system. But he doesn’t begin his argument in a way that you may expect, in fact, he starts his abolition of subjectivism by discussing a particular green textbook that, in his time, was being used to teach children this dangerous postmodern philosophy. Lewis goes on to explain that men who adhere to this philosophy and adopt all of its inconsistencies don’t merely exist in a constant state of confusion – no, they actually cease to men altogether. He says that this ideology actually leads to a full-on abolition of man – the end of humanity itself. But to understand what Lewis is trying to tell us modern people, you need to read his book along with another book written by the Oxford professor, Dr. Michael Ward – author of Planer Narnia and many other books and actor in a James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. His book, After Humanity is a guide to CS Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. So, I had a conversation with Dr. Ward about Lewis, technology, postmodernism, Artificial Intelligence, contraceptives, and logical positivism. We discussed what happens when man denies objective reality and forfeits his nature and purpose and we ask the daunting and pressing question of the modern age: What comes After Humanity? After Humanity - Michael Ward Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 33m

  5. 12/12/2025

    #159 // Rebeccah Heinrichs | Why Christians Must Defend Israel

    Over the past year Jew hatred has become a massive trend not just among liberals, but also among self-proclaimed “conservatives” like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes. If you listen to them, you probably think the “Jews” are secretly running our society and controlling out lives. You may be convinced of the arguments made by those on the far right about isolationism and Christian Nationalism, whatever that is, and about how Americans need to stay completely out of the rest of the world are thoughtful and legitimate. You may have heard theological, philosophical, and political arguments for these things. But you would be wrong. In fact, you would be missing the whole point of what these bad faith actors like Tucker and Candace are actually doing. What their actual goal is. But Rebeccah Heinrich hasn’t missed the point. In fact, she wrote a piece for The Free Press last summer called “The Right’s 1939 Project” in which she dismantles the arguments made by self-proclaimed Conservative Christians like Tucker, Candace, and Fuentes and compares their post World War 2 revisionist history to the infamous 1619 project from the New York Times in 2019. Rebeccah then, later on, wrote a piece on the National Review about why Christians should support Israel. It’s my opinion that Rebeccah is one of the only people in Conservative circles who is seeing the whole problem facing our culture and calling it out for what it is. And so, this is my conversation with Rebeecah Heinrich – I hope you enjoy!   Christians Should Defend the Jewish People - Rebeccah Heinrichs The Right’s 1939 Project - Rebeccah Heinrichs Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    43 min

  6. 12/04/2025

    #158 // Jonathan Freedland | How To Defy Tyrants & Nazis

    In 1943 a group of high society anti-Nazi’s from Germany met together to discuss ways in which they could defy the Nazi regime and rebuild Germany after the war. What they didn’t know is that at that meeting there was a spy. Someone who would betray them all. In Jonathan Freedland’s new book, The Traitors Circle, he tells this unknown story of those within the Nazi regime that chose to give up everything to defy and disrupt Hitler’s plans. Why? Well, it’s not as clear cut as you could imagine. In fact, most of these anti-Nazi’s could have stayed silent, looked the other way, and remained comfortable in their high society lives until the war was over. But they didn’t. In my conversation with Jonathan Freedland, we talked about what or who could convince a group of men and women who did not need to give their lives up to sacrifice for the ultimate good of not only Germany, but the world. I hope you enjoy. Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 4m

  7. 11/19/2025

    #157 // Zineb Riboua | How Zohran Mamdani Became The Mayor Of New York City

    Zohran Mamdani was just elected to be the next Mayor of New York City. How did an anti-American, anti-Capitalism, anti-Jew, anti-Western millennial become the most powerful person in the largest city in the United States? I wanted to know. So, I talked with Zineb Riboua – a research fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She’s written extensively on the Middle East and the ongoing power struggles in one of the most violent and unstable regions in the world. But what does Middle Eastern politics have to do with New York City and Zohran Mamandi? Zineb argues that the ideology that led the Left to believe that Israel and Britian were the fundamentally evil powers in Europe and the Middle East because of their “colonialization” is the same ideology that Zohran used to capture the attention and votes of the suicidal Democratic ideologues in New York City. The younger generations white colonialization guilt and Third Worldism philosophy were key factors in Zohrans ability to manipulate the American people in the largest city in the country to vote for a self-proclaimed Marxist Socialist. So, what happens to New York City next? Will it sprout into a utopia or fall into oblivion? Here’s my conversation with Zineb Riboua. I hope you enjoy!    Zineb's article on The Free Press: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-right-gets-wrong-about-zohran    Zineb's Substack, Beyond The Ideological: https://www.zinebriboua.com    Zineb on The Hudson Institute: https://www.hudson.org/experts/1467-zineb-riboua Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 15m

  8. 11/05/2025 · BONUS

    The End Of America.

    Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk. What do all of those names have in common? An utter lack of virtue and theological direction. Why? Because they play Marxist power games and refuse to deal with the core, fundamental problems our society faces — instead, they spend their time fighting to control the narrative and build artificial gods and platforms. And what happens when a society is filled with wickedness and immorality? Chaos. Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 32m
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A podcast where Andy Schmitt talks with theologians, authors, and reporters about Orthodox Christian belief and its connection to godly living in every aspect of ones life.

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  • Creator
    Andy Schmitt
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    214
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    Explicit
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    © 2019-2025 Schmitt Media Company LLC
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