Talking in Tongues and Prayer Healing

Crackpot

Conspiracy, Comedy, Humor, Paranormal, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Bible mentions speaking in tongues, but what is it and why does it occur? This week Zach shares stories of people speaking in tongues and presents them up next to the scientific investigations into what happens in the brain during an active glossolalia episode.

In the second half of the show, prepare to throw away all your medicine and cancel your next doctor’s appointment as the boys discuss the power of healing prayer! Does it work? (YES!) Is it real? (VERY!) And what has been observed in scientific studies? (Quite a lot actually). Tune in this week to learn all about these little understood religious phenomena.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to crackpot, the podcast for each and every week.
0:18.1	We dive into a different conspiracy theory and we discuss the merits or the demerits of each.
0:22.7	We're your host. I'm Tim. And I'm Zach. Hello, Zach.
0:26.6	Hello, Tim. How are you? Well and good. Thank you. How are you?
0:31.3	About the same. Thank you. I'm doing gooder still because I'm sitting in this awesome chair.
0:37.1	It is a nice chair. I guess. It looks comfortable. I'll give you that much. Have you said to it yet? No. You haven't let me? That was a trick question. You think I'm going to say yes? Dude, if you did, I would call the police. I know you would. I would say, we have somebody here trying to steal something. Uh-huh. Because once you're sitting at, dude, you will not want to get out of it. Fair enough, man. Anyways, we're not talking about chairs today, folks. We're talking about something entirely different. Very different. Yeah. I don't think there's a mention of a chair in anything else. I'll try to work it in. So, that's sweet.
1:12.1	Yeah, you might be able to.
1:17.6	So today, and I just told you this a few minutes ago before we started taping, I don't really know what to call this episode specifically.
1:21.7	And I'll say that it's because the first half of the show we're talking about talking
1:27.3	in tongues, like the religious phenomenon,
1:30.3	right?
1:30.4	Yeah.
1:31.3	That's the first half.
1:32.5	Love it.
1:33.2	And the second half is essentially like the power of prayer.
1:37.7	That's so cool, man.
1:39.1	Prayer healing, all that kind of stuff.
1:41.1	It's a real thing.
1:42.4	Yeah.
1:43.3	So like, let me give the disclaimer here. Uh-huh. I come in peace. I grew up in a very conservative Christian household. And I don't know, like, truthfully, like, I don't really know where I'm at. Like, I don't go to church today, but, like, I don't really know where I'm at with stuff. And so the intent of this show isn't to debunk anything.
2:02.4	Sure.
2:02.7	The intent is to jump into a topic that has fascinated me endlessly, or topics, I should say, since I was like three years old. Yeah, yeah. And finally look into this stuff a little bit. That's perfect. If we laugh or joke, it's not making fun of spiritual beliefs at all because it's like that's fine.
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