#48 - Megan Basham
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I spoke with @megbasham about how lifestyle influencers shape political opinion on Instagram, why she says the 2020 playbook is returning, and why she is urging Christians to speak up instead of appeasing.
📷 TIMESTAMPS(0:00) Megan Basham Joins(1:18) What Is Happening In Minneapolis?(2:09) Influencers Push Anti-ICE Messaging(6:14) Paid Propaganda And Covid Parallels(16:22) Is This An Underground Network?(26:19) Greenland, Trump, And Just War Theory
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, folks. It's my privilege to have as my guest right now, Megan Basham. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, Megan, that's your real name, isn't it? |
| 0:14.1 | It is. Ironically so, Providence had a hand. |
| 0:17.6 | You bash him. You really know, but you do great, great, great work. You were the Daily Wire. |
| 0:24.8 | You're the author of Shepherds for Sale. You're a truth teller. You're very courageous, |
| 0:32.5 | and I'm thrilled that you're so prominent on X, that you're putting the stuff that you do out there. |
| 0:39.9 | But many people listening right now might not be aware of some of the things you've been talking |
| 0:46.0 | about. So I thought I want to get you on here to talk about those things. So where do we start? |
| 0:49.0 | Because there's a lot going on this week. I'll tell you how it starts for me. |
| 0:55.6 | I start covering something. |
| 0:56.6 | I'll be in the middle of it. |
| 0:57.6 | And then I get so mad. |
| 1:00.0 | And I message your producer and I say, |
| 1:01.4 | Chris, I'm so mad about these things. |
| 1:04.2 | Can I come on the Eric Mattaxia show and talk about it? |
| 1:05.8 | And so that's usually how it begins. |
| 1:12.2 | And, you know, obviously all of us are closely following what has been happening with immigration enforcement and the harassment that ICE officers on the ground have faced in Minneapolis. |
| 1:18.8 | And, you know, we've seen some really tragic and sad, unfortunate stories and results from that. |
| 1:25.5 | And, you know, what's been difficult for me is to see all of the |
| 1:29.0 | sort of grown-ups in the room who should be saying things like, you don't interfere with |
| 1:35.1 | the operation of law enforcement. You don't bodily obstruct them when they're trying to |
| 1:41.2 | conduct an arrest. And you're not seeing that. Instead, what you're |
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