Episode 1277: Can We Trust Anything Online Anymore? A Christian Look at AI, Social Media and All Those Rigged Charts
The RELEVANT Podcast
RELEVANT Magazine
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on The RELEVANT Podcast, we dive into the strange new digital reality Christians are wrestling with — from AI artists topping the Christian charts to foreign troll farms shaping what we see online, even in faith spaces. Throughout the show, we keep asking one big question: can we trust anything online anymore?
Plus, we talk Kristen Bell’s surprise appearance on a Fox News Bible podcast (and her feelings about that), Nate Bargatze’s real-life theme park, weird holiday debates, outlawed pickleball, Thanksgiving pizza and a lot more. It’s a holiday-week hangout episode with Cameron, Jesse and Emily — no guest, just chaos, honesty and a lot of laughs.
0:35 – Why do our YouTube views explode days later?
6:00 – Thanksgiving: the obligation holiday?
7:30 – When do you become the “main house” for holidays?
8:30 – Jesse’s traumatic Big Lots Thanksgiving miracle
14:20 – RELEVANT Buzz: AI tops the Christian charts
24:30 – Kristen Bell accidentally starring in a Fox News Bible podcast
30:40 – Nate Bargatze is opening a theme park?!
36:30 – SLICES: Pickleball banned in California
39:30 – The Elvis Judge saga
43:00 – Thanksgiving pizza: yes or no?
44:30 – ONE HAS TO GO: Holiday Edition
50:30 – Matching Christmas pajamas
51:15 – Final thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 1277, and it's a relevant podcast here in Orlando. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host Camer Strang and joining me from Loverland, Virginia. |
| 0:13.3 | It's Jesse Carey. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:15.2 | From Nashville, our managing editor downtown, Emily Brown. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:19.5 | Happy holiday week. |
| 0:22.8 | Okay, I got to say something. |
| 0:25.8 | Emily and I have been looking at our YouTube. |
| 0:28.6 | You know, people have been watching the show. |
| 0:31.6 | And it was so weird. |
| 0:33.4 | And Jesse, you have a lot more experience in the YouTube podcast world than we do. |
| 0:37.2 | But we'll put a new episode up. |
| 0:39.1 | And we'll notice day one, 350 views. |
| 0:43.8 | Day 2, 580 views. |
| 0:46.8 | Day 3, 9,000 views. |
| 0:49.3 | Day 4, 28,000 views. |
| 0:51.9 | Day 5, 53,000 views. |
| 1:14.3 | What in the world, first of all? And this isn't like, oh, this will happen on one show. This is like all of our shows every week. It is like day three. All of a sudden people. And then the algorithm goes, oh, people like this. And they start showing it. And numbers go bonkers. So I can't say, hey, everybody, happy Thanksgiving because you guys are probably watching this four days later than when I would have said the greeting. |
| 1:18.5 | So I don't know what to do. |
| 1:19.7 | Jesse, is this something that is just unique to us or do other people experience this? |
| 1:23.4 | I think my theory is that the people behind the YouTube algorithm make it intentionally impossible to try to completely figure out. |
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