Paranormal Apocalypse - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 5/17/26
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Guest Host Richard Syrett and Author Maxim W. Furek discuss cults, weaponized religion, the current political landscape and the doomsday clock.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Now here's a highlight from coast-to-coast AM on I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:08.9 | Maxim Furik is here, and his new book is, |
| 0:11.5 | Paranormal Apocalypse. |
| 0:13.4 | Is this how it ends? |
| 0:15.8 | We were talking about cults, |
| 0:18.3 | and I think a lot of that same manipulation not only exists in in in the |
| 0:26.4 | cult with cult leaders like Jim Jones you mentioned Charlie Manson Otto |
| 0:31.4 | Adolf Hitler we could add someone like that to the list but I mean it seems to |
| 0:36.5 | be what about weaponized religion? |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, you know, that really gets into the political and it gets into what's happening today. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, we have that what's the so-called religious right tends to be conservative, |
| 0:56.7 | it tends to be lockstep with church and state, and it's alarming because it's a great way to go |
| 1:05.2 | and mobilize people. Again, utilizing the Bible and Christianity and all of that, all of what that represents. |
| 1:15.6 | And it's my understanding that on the 4th of July there's going to be a massive get-together at the White House with this religious right. |
| 1:26.6 | And so you're absolutely right. It's |
| 1:30.3 | utilizing religion. It's weaponizing religion. And it's wrong on so many different levels, |
| 1:37.3 | you know, because, you know, it's not just Christianity. That's one. There's so many religions |
| 1:43.3 | out there and we have to take a look at all of them. |
| 1:45.3 | And one thing that I think that we sorely miss, you know, I look at the Judeo-Christian |
| 1:53.0 | Islamic tradition. |
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