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The Charlie Kirk Show

The Exorcist Files with Fr. Carlos Martins and Ryan Bethea

The Charlie Kirk Show

Charlie Kirk

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.665.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Martins was an atheist as a young man. Now, he isn't just a Catholic priest, he works as an exorcist. Father Martins and producer Ryan Bethea of the new podcast series exploring his work, The Exorcist Files, join Charlie for one of the most fascinating hours ever on the show, exploring the questions many people have about exorcism, including: What distinguishes demonic possession from normal mental illness? Why can't demons blaspheme the name of God? How does demonic possession happen? And most importantly, how does it end?

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Today on the Charlie Kirk Show an entire hour with an exorcist. Father, Carlos Martins, joins us and walks us through what he has seen as an exorcist. Ryan Bethay also joins us, who's the producer of the new podcast called The Exorcist Files, powerful, insightful, and spiritually challenging. Get involved a turning point USA today at TPSA.com. That is TPSA.com. Start a high school chapter or a college chapter at TPUSA.com. Email me your thoughts as always freedom at Charliekirk.com. Buckle up everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

0:40.4

I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an

0:45.1

amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point

0:50.4

USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives,

0:56.2

and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.

1:02.6

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1:14.7

We have a very special hour in store for you. I've been looking forward to this and we're going to

1:19.5

learn a lot with us is Father Carlos Martens as well as Ryan Bethay. Welcome to both of you.

1:29.2

Now Ryan, that's how you say your last name, right?

1:35.3

It's Bethay or Bethea? Well done. You're the first person in like two years to get that correct, so I applaud you. I've only known you for eight years. So I'm glad I can say the last name correctly.

1:41.4

Welcome to you both. This is a heavy topic, and I mean that in the best

1:44.8

possible way. I do want to begin our conversation with playing the cut to the trailer of your

1:50.5

upcoming film, or the podcast product, I should say, The Exorcist Files. Let's play Cut 75.

1:57.9

What Hollywood portrayed in the movie The Exorcist with levitations, vomiting, spitting at the priest with an uncanny marksmanship, all of that has not been a movie for me.

2:09.0

I have seen that first.

2:10.5

My name is Father Carlos Martins.

2:13.3

I am a priest of the Catholic Church.

2:15.4

I was an atheist until as a young adult the Lord brought me out of darkness.

2:19.3

And since then I've been living in his love.

2:25.3

But I've also seen things, very evil things, things that I wish weren't true.

2:30.3

The job of the exorcist, properly speaking, is not to cast out the devil. The job of the exorcist, properly speaking, is not to cast out the devil.

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