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The Tim & April Show

42. Are Dictators So Bad? Trump’s Power Grabs & MAGA’s Cracker Barrel Outrage

The Tim & April Show

The New Evangelicals

News, News Commentary, Christianity, Politics, Religion & Spirituality

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of The Tim and April Show, April brings on Janice Lagata to discuss various pressing topics including Trump's authoritarian tendencies, the ongoing gun violence crisis in America, and the cultural outrage surrounding Cracker Barrel's logo change. They delve into Trump's comments about being a dictator, his misleading claims about ending wars, and the troubling signs of a dictatorship in America. Chapters 05:52 Gun Violence and Tragedy Acknowledgment 11:49 Trump's Dictatorial Remarks 17:29 Trump's Claims on Ending Wars 26:28 Rapture Predictions and Christian Nationalism 32:16 Wrap-Up and Final Thoughts Janice's Website | Janicelagata.com Janice's Patreon | Janicelagata ____________________________________________________ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you'd like to support our work, you can DONATE here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Us On Instagram @thenewevangelicals  Subscribe On YouTube @thenewevangelicals Tim on Instagram | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Timwhitakerspeaks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ April on Instagram | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Aprilajoy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The New Evangelicals exists to support those who are tired of how evangelical church has been done before and want to see an authentic faith lived out with Jesus at the center. This show is produced by Josh Gilbert Media | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Joshgilbertmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We are committed to building a caring community that emulates the ways of Jesus by reclaiming the evangelical tradition and embracing values that build a better way forward. If you’ve been marginalized by your faith, you are welcome here. We’ve built an empathetic and inclusive space that encourages authentic conversations, connections and faith. Whether you consider yourself a Christian, an exvangelical, someone who's questioning your faith, or someone who's left the faith entirely, you are welcome here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to a new evangelicals production.

0:05.0

The Tim and April show, where we unravel faith, politics, and culture.

0:22.1

Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Tim and April show. I am April of the Tim and April

0:28.2

show. And today I am joined by yet another guest host. She's the last guest host,

0:33.9

because Tim comes back next week, but she is not the least of the guest host. She is a storyteller,

0:40.1

content creator, writer, musician, all around, awesome person. Welcome Janice Lagata. Welcome, Janice.

0:48.0

Hello, hello. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yes, I'm so glad you hear. If you were one of the few faithfuls

0:56.6

that attempted to join our live, which would be yesterday, it failed. It failed miserably. It just

1:06.0

crashed and burned pretty much right from the start. And so I was like, you know what? I am taking this as a sign.

1:14.6

We're not meant to go live today. And that's okay. So we ended that live within a minute. I don't even

1:19.7

think it was a whole minute. And we decided we're just going to record this show and post it as a video and

1:26.5

podcast later. So that's what we're going to do. So, yeah,

1:30.3

I don't have to do my usual super chat spiel because we're not live. So, hurrah, haro.

1:38.8

Janice has been on the show before. Actually, have you been on the Tim and April show before?

1:42.3

Or were you just when we did the T&E recap? That's a good question. I can neither confirm nor deny. I feel like you're a friend of the show, yeah, already. But if not, Janice is awesome. We'll have her links in the show notes. She's got a Patreon. She's got a website. She's got lots of cool things happening.

2:09.9

So before we get into the show, and we're going to get to Trump talking about being kind of a dictator, even though he's not one, even though people might want to have one.

2:16.3

And then all of the ways in which he is actually acting like a dictator, we're going to give an update on Kilmar, Brago-Garcia.

2:17.7

We're going to talk about the whole Cracker Barrow, Cracker Barrel controversy. And I love Alden is our graphic designer.

2:25.7

And so he made our little logo to look like the new Cracker Barrel logo that everyone was

2:30.1

pissed about. Yeah. And then we've got a new rapture update that's going to be in our

2:37.1

weird Christian segment later. And if we have time, we'll get to Charlie Kirk, Taylor Swift

2:41.6

engagement, because that's, she is not engaged to Charlie Kirk. Let me clarify that.

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