Who Said It Better: Pete Hegseth or Samuel L. Jackson?
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3.5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is getting clowned for delivering a “prayer” he said originated from Ezekiel 25:17. The problem is, the rendition he recited was from a scene in Pulp Fiction delivered by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Hegseth said it was a combat search and rescue prayer meant to reflect the biblical passage, however, his words were the very same lines from the movie script. We let you hear the line by line comparison between the two, and then hear who the Pentagon is blaming in its official statement on the controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.7 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:14.7 | It is Friday, April 17th, and who said it better? |
| 0:19.6 | Pete Hexeth or Samuel L. Jackson. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome to the most fun episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:26.2 | You will ever, ever hear. |
| 0:29.3 | Robs, you cannot make this stuff up. |
| 0:32.6 | Pete Hax-F is saying a prayer, |
| 0:35.1 | and he's actually just quoting Pope F fiction. Yeah, you have been very excited |
| 0:41.5 | about this episode. I am. Because this, I guess, is a story that tickled you is the best way to put it. |
| 0:47.6 | It's been tickled. It's wildly amusing. This is wildly amusing. Are you kidding me? Pete |
| 0:53.4 | Hexeth got up in front of a crowd and said, this is a prayer |
| 0:56.5 | that has been recited by our soldiers, by our warriors out there, and he quotes Samuel L. Jackson. |
| 1:04.1 | Let me ask you this. Is it possible that soldiers, this search and rescue, these combat mission teams, |
| 1:10.3 | maybe they use this prayer because they |
| 1:12.7 | love Pulp Fiction and they think it's fun to have this maybe mix of some parts Bible, some |
| 1:20.5 | parts Hollywood, I don't know, maybe that is something that they pray to. |
| 1:24.6 | That makes perfect sense to me. It just wasn't billed that way |
| 1:28.3 | and it makes it look like he was unaware. |
| 1:30.5 | Is that not right? |
| 1:31.2 | Isn't this just a bad look? |
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