Is Nick Fuentes the Problem or a Symptom? Megan Basham Breaks It Down

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1

• Todd is joined by Megan Basham for a conversation about today’s theological and political hot topics.

• Todd asks: what’s the draw behind Nick Fuentes for so many young men?

• Beneath the controversy lies a deeper question: why does the church no longer satisfy these men?

Segment 2

• By and large, the church isn’t effectively addressing the roles of men and women.

• Young men are craving clarity on strength, purpose, and leadership.

• The vacuum of biblical masculinity gets filled by loud, angry substitutes.

Segment 3

• “Muscular Christianity” is rising — in part as a reaction to soft preaching.

• Feminism, porn, and passivity have deformed both genders — and the pulpit rarely names it.

• The church must reclaim a vision of holiness, courage, and self-sacrifice in male leadership.

Segment 4

• Feminism blurred gender roles — and now both men and women are disoriented.

• The fix isn’t anger; it’s discipleship — training men to lead, protect, and love like Christ.

• Recovering biblical manhood begins not online, but in the local church.

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0:11.3	Oh, my goodness.
0:12.6	It's just so weird, isn't it?
0:13.7	Would these people say stuff like that?
0:15.2	I apologize for it.
0:16.2	Are you kidding me?
0:17.2	Let's all do baptism, and I have a little pool here, and we'll all feel nice and
0:21.3	relaxed. That's baptism. No, baptism is a sacred Christian right. All the various
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0:33.4	Not interested in the lightning rod, nor am I all that interested in the lightning.
0:39.4	It is the cause of the lightning that should cause every single Christian to ask,
0:44.9	what is going on out there?
0:48.0	This is Wretched Radio.
0:50.6	When somebody who's, I wouldn't say I'm non-political or apolitical, but I'm not all that political,
0:57.4	but when I feel something going on in the political realm, specifically when it involves the Jewish people,
1:05.7	when it involves conversations about church and state relations,
1:14.6	when it involves moral subjects like racism,
1:22.7	I asked myself the question, hmm, what's brewing here, theologically? And so it is. We're confronted with a real firestorm right now, courtesy of one, Nick Fuentes. You're not familiar with him?
1:30.2	Well, don't know where you've been because even I am familiar with this fellow social media
1:35.8	maven who is having a very powerful influence on what we would call the political far right. He's the lightning rod. The lightning,
1:48.8	I think, are all of the issues that he is causing to bring to all of our attention. But I want to ask
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