WHAT A MAN IN A LEAF SUIT REVEALS ABOUT OUR CULTURAL COLLAPSE

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1

• A man claims to be a fig tree—seriously.

• New identities like “plantkin” and “botanakin” are gaining traction.

• Don’t mock the confused—show compassion and call out the doctors enabling delusion.

Segment 2

• A UMC “pastor” dressed as a fig tree but butchers Luke 13.

• Twisting Scripture to affirm fruitless living is spiritual malpractice.

• Her “sermon” includes anti-capitalist rants and vague “giving to the earth” theology.

Segment 3

• Dr. Greg Gifford’s new book Lies My Therapist Told Me tackles the mental health crisis.

• The use of SSRIs has skyrocketed—45 million Americans are on them.

• School shootings spiked post-Columbine—what changed?

Segment 4

• PBS gets defunded—could Planned Parenthood be next?

• Shocking: minors are being fast-tracked to hormone treatments through virtual clinics.

• Planned Parenthood still receives $700 million in taxpayer funding—why?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Richard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.6	Every once in a while, we got to be the religious people.
0:11.2	There are 720 churches in Charlotte.
0:13.4	I'm sure we can find one where you can stuff your face.
0:16.5	Shut up.
0:17.2	Quit pointing out the problem.
0:19.3	Men will be proud, arrogant, abusive. You watch some of today's
0:23.5	rock star pastors, and you will see every characteristic poll listed played out in vivid detail
0:29.3	on the church stage. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:36.1	No, I know how Lurch felt.
0:38.5	This is Ritchett Radio, courtesy of the United Methodist Church.
0:44.8	A sermon on a fig tree that is, well, it's blasphemous, and it raises the question, what can
0:51.6	we do about these Protestant preachers who are so abiblical?
0:57.1	And they give everybody reason to run to the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodoxy.
1:01.9	Get me away from this nonsense. I'm looking at a video. This was posted at not the B.
1:07.2	It is a guy, presumably a pastor. He's standing at some sort of a lectern in some sort of a church.
1:13.9	He's dressed up in a costume of it appears to be or what's supposed to be a fig tree.
1:19.3	So this adult male is preaching presumably from the Bible while wearing a costume.
1:27.7	I don't believe he's a tree.
1:30.1	He's an herbivori.
1:31.8	Hey, Jimmy, we can start a new trend.
1:34.5	We could have a convention.
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