Obama’s Legacy, Al Mohler’s Update, and Jimmy’s Upcoming Surgery
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
Fortis Institute
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
• Is AI actually helping you find the truth—or quietly deciding what truth you're allowed to see?
• Todd connects the architecture of the Obama Presidential Center to a much bigger worldview battle.
• Why do buildings, algorithms, and modern culture seem to be telling the same story about America?
Segment 2
• Has the church become so concerned about saving America that it's losing sight of its primary mission?
• What's more dangerous: a compromised nation or a compromised church?
• Todd examines whether Christians are confusing political influence with biblical priorities.
Segment 3
• Dr. Albert Mohler shares a surprisingly transparent update about ongoing health struggles.
• What does it look like to suffer publicly while trusting God's sovereignty?
• Why is a theology of suffering essential before life gets really hard?
Segment 4
• Todd and Jimmy discuss sanctification, humility, and why God's priorities are often different from ours—before ending with a few classic dad jokes.
• Jimmy opens up about living with MS, chronic weakness, and upcoming surgery.
• Can suffering actually make you more dependent on God and more compassionate toward others?
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| 0:00.0 | Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one. |
| 0:08.0 | If it brings her to the same point that it brings you, it doesn't matter whether she called it God along the way or not. |
| 0:13.0 | That understanding works for you, and so therefore it is absolutely right for you. |
| 0:17.0 | All beliefs have become only relatively true, and of course to the world, religion is just some personalized experience, not a divine revelation, |
| 0:27.2 | and the church is catching the disease. |
| 0:30.0 | It's time for Wretched Radio with Taunt Friel. |
| 0:33.7 | Thank you again, Barack Obama. |
| 0:37.8 | This is Wretched Radio. |
| 0:40.4 | He might not be president anymore. |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, he's not being president as soon as Joe Biden was done. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi-yo! |
| 0:46.5 | Jimmy, that was a political joke right there. |
| 0:48.6 | But he's still speaking. |
| 0:50.2 | He's saying volumes and he's not even using his mouth. |
| 0:53.7 | That's right. |
| 0:54.2 | His lips aren't moving. |
| 0:55.8 | But Barack Obama is speaking. |
| 0:57.6 | How is he talking through a building? |
| 0:59.5 | It's the Obama presidential center. |
| 1:01.2 | It's not a library, we're told. |
| 1:03.1 | It's a presidential center located in Chicago, Illinois, to the tune of $850 million. |
| 1:09.6 | Color me confused, because I usually am, |
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