In this episode, Father Timothy Pavlatos shares his journey from Orthodox upbringing and academic pursuits in theology and psychology to his deep engagement with spiritual warfare, humility, and mental health. Our conversation explores the “Silent War”—the spiritual battle within the mind, the role of demons versus trauma, and how humility and prayer are essential in overcoming mental and spiritual struggles. We discuss the book “Saint Silouan the Athonite," touching on topics like fighting t...

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026

In this episode of the Let’s be friends podcast, we are joined by Anthony Westage. Anthony is the host of the Reversion Podcast and Substack, where he writes about current events, theology concerned with the end of the world, human history, and the final destiny of souls—a place where you can "reclaim your mind in the age of distraction." Join Anthony and me as we discuss the hidden connections between the Protestant Reformation, Kabbalah, and the spiritual evolution of Protestant Christiani...

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2026

Join Michaela Nikolaenko and me as we discuss how our view on spiritual warfare has changed. Michaela and I have a similar path; we are both ex-occultists and ex-Protestants and now newly Orthodox Christians. During our journey into the Orthodox faith, we both fell victim to misconceptions about spiritual warfare. As occultists, we both encountered demons. Not realizing what they truly were yet, we were tricked into believing they were our spiritual "friends," trying to utilize them on our p...

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2026

Join Father Seraphim Holland as he shares his journey from grief to grace following the loss of his son, Daniel. Discover how prayer, fasting, and divine signs transformed his suffering into a profound spiritual awakening. This episode delves into the power of intercession, the significance of the 40 days after death, and the importance of fasting and how to fast as an Orthodox Christian. The episode breaks down the spiritual importance of fasting, prostrations, and obedience—keys to spiritu...

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2026

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast, with us today is returning guest and friend Buck Johnson. In this episode Buck and I dive into the mysteries and revelations we are currently facing today. In our convesratioin we discuss the profound book "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" by Fathe Serpahim Rose. We also explore the hot topic of UFOs, the controversial Epstein files, and the intricate web of conspiracies laid, meant to trap us and lead us astry. We also unravel the facade...

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2026

I didn't grow up a Christian; in fact, I never even believed Jesus was real until 5 years ago, when I had a radical encounter with Jesus while I was knee-deep in the occult, working as a psychic medium. Watch the video on YouTube I always believed in God; I just didn't know who he was, so I went searching in the psychedelic realm for him. I didn't like what I thought Christianity was, and since I didn't believe in Jesus, I automatically thought the Bible and Christians were fake too. Most of...

Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2026

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast. Back on the show, Father Peter Heers is here for part 2 of our chat about baptism. You may know Father Peter Heers from his popular online and YouTube account, Orthodox Ethos. Father Peter is a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States of America and assistant priest of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox Church in Houston, TX. He is also the founder of Uncut Mountain Press. In this episode we discuss the...

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2026

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast. With us today is Father Peter Heers. You may know Father Peter Heers from his popular online and YouTube account, Orthodox Ethos. Father Peter is a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States of America and assistant priest of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox Church in Houston, TX. He is also the founder of Uncut Mountain Press. In this episode he unpacks why the ancient Church insisted on baptism,...

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2026

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast with us today is Father Paul Truebenbach. Father Paul is the presiding priest of St. Peter and Paul’s Orthodox Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. You may know Father Paul from his popular YouTube channel, where he discusses life-changing Orthodox books, the lives of the Saints, and shares his 15 part Catechism series. In our episode today we discuss "the good struggle." Struggle is an essential part of the true Christian life. If we truly are to...

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2026

Welcome back to the Let's Be Friends podcast! With us today is guest Father Turbo Qualls. The allure of the occult has fascinated humankind for centuries, promising secret knowledge, power and healing. However, practicing the occult and New Age can lead to major psychological distress and spiritual turmoil. Join Father Turbo and me in a deep conversation about psychological/spiritual healing from an Orthodox perspective. Father Turbo is an Orthodox priest and the rector at St. Mary of E...

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2026

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast! With us today is a new friend, Father Seraphim Holland, of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. You may know Father Seraphim Holland from his social media or YouTube channel, OrthodoxNet, or maybe, like me, he came into your algorithm when a Protestant woman named Sarah came to him on the streets of Athens, storm-trooping him with evangelism. Father Seraphim responded to her with such love, patience, knowledge, and kindness—he caught my attention, ...

Transcribed - Published: 8 December 2025

On this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, we are once again joined by frequent contributor and impromptu co-host, Nick Hinton. Recently, we discussed how psyops are being used to convince conspiracy theorists that we are in the apocalyptic last days of the Bible. However, these “prophecies” require no spiritual eyes to discern. Instead, they must be decoded using occult knowledge that truly makes people crazy. So, who’s actually orchestrating these psyops? Why do they want to drive pe...

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2025

On today’s episode of Let’s Be Friends, our frequent guest and contributor Nick Hinton returns to take a second look at the fake apocalypse theory we discussed back in 2022. Since then, it seems some of the predictions we made have come to pass, including the false revival, the right-wing taking over the country, conspiracies going mainstream, and the arrival of an AI antichrist spirit that’s influencing leaders like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. We also discuss other subjects from the previou...

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2025

Ready to untie the red thread holding the New Age, Gnostic Christianity, and the antichrist together? Join me in an episode explaining and exposing the fabrics of Kabbalah, also known as Jewish mysticism. Learn how it's woven itself into the biggest psychological operation to exist, Lucifer's lie sewn into the Garden of Eden. In this episode I discuss what tempted Eve, Lucifer's fall, how everything stems from Kabbalah, the meaning of 6,000,000, Saturn worship and the hexagram, ...

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2025

Join me in a special edition episode of the Symbolism Syndrome Radio Dispatch, where I go over all 40 @symbolismsyndrome Instagram posts covering all angles and depths of the Charlie Kirk Psyop. This Symbolism Syndrome Radio Dispatch is an in-depth discussion of posts and content from the Symbolism Syndrome Instagram page. This full episode is available with the Friendship Membership in either audio only, or following along with me via a video recording where I visually move through the photo...

Transcribed - Published: 29 September 2025

Have you figured the Charlie Kirk Psyop out yet? Over the past two weeks I have dove deeper into the massive ritual and psychological operation the world witnessed on Sept 10th, which I am calling the Charlie Kirk Psyop. Join me as I delve into what I confidently believe to be a profound mind-programming ritual. In this episode I discuss my theories surrounding the Charlie Kirk "assassination": Erik Kirk's involvement, the connection to child trafficking, fake Christians, the danger of biomet...

Transcribed - Published: 25 September 2025

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast. Last week was a dark and heavy, emotional eclipse for us all. The world witnessed and mourned the death of the conservative king, Charlie Kirk. Ever since 2020 the world has not been the same; even five years later we all see there is no going back. In fact, we seem to be at some midway point, a turning point to 2030—Agenda 2030? Nothing seems natural about what we all witnessed of the Charlie Kirk assertion, and we want answers. Join me as I disc...

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast. I am here today, new friend Michaela Nikolaenko. Michaela is the host of the Raised and Redeemed Podcast, a Christian author, and an ex-New Ager. Michaela was radically saved from child abuse trauma, substance abuse, ungodly relationships, and the occult. And now she is an Orthodox Christian, a mom, a wife, and a storyteller, and TODAY she is here to share her story—her testimony—with us! In this episode we discuss the dangers of occult practices ...

Transcribed - Published: 9 September 2025

On this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, we become enemies! I am joined again by frequent contributor and impromptu co-host Nick Hinton. And we definitely DO NOT talk about Christianity. Instead, we discuss the conspiracy theory that the Covid pandemic and the vaccine was actually a plot to inject people with an AI hive mind. We also discuss the original eastern and mystical meaning of symbolism, as well as the possibility that many of these psyops are symbolic themselves. Want...

Transcribed - Published: 18 August 2025

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast for a special episode; this one is not to be missed, unless of course you don’t want to know what the purpose of life is. In this episode I discuss something very important that happened to me last week and how it took me 42 years to get to. We are all searching for something in this life, trying to fill that emptiness inside of us. Some of us have been traumatized; others are fighting addiction or deep loss. Whatever your afflictions have been, I ...

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2025

I live in Austin, Texas, and last week we had a catastrophic flood. A rain bomb hit Austin, Texas, dumping 4 months of rain in 24 hours. Microbursts causing rain bombs are becoming more common, but why? Texas isn’t the only place that has experienced strange weather or super heavy rains. We saw them last September in North Carolina, when a relentless downpour exceeded a year's worth of rain in just 24 hours. Triggering flash floods, impassable roads, and rescues. In this episode, we div...

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2025

Welcome back to the Let’s Be Friends podcast! This podcast started in 2021 during a time of tension in the world to provide a place for friends to get together and talk about anything and everything. Through time the topics and conversations on the show have evolved. I have gone from discussing the occult, exposing the New Age, and diving deep into the bottom of the rabbit hole to following the Jesus “freak”—quincy—”to eventually finding sanity and becoming an Orthodox Christian. ...

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast! Back on the show is contributor urfavwretch, also known as Lala and the host of the Balanced Banter Podcast. Join us as we discuss how we have both been on a similar journey the past few years, having both left the New Age behind in 2021 after finding Christ and then both entering Protestant churches, until… we found the Orthodox church. We also have an unfiltered conversation about dispensationalism and how it sparked futurism, a Christian eschat...

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends Podcast. In this episode we have returning guest and friend Buck Johnson. Buck is the host of the podcast “Counterflow with Buck Johnson.” He is also a musician, firefighter, and Orthodox Christian. In this episode we are going to hear Buck’s testimony of how he went from being an atheist to an Orthodox Christian. In our chat, we discuss many topics, including what an atheist really believes, waking up in 2020, recognizing there is a spiritual battle...

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

47 is the number of chaos magic, and 1947 was the year that seeded the chaotic jungle we live in today, where the 47th president was elected via chaos magic. Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast. Join me as I discuss the many foretelling and earth-shaking events of the year that broke the world. Some key events I discuss… UFO crash-landing in Roswell.The CIA was created in 1947.The AK-47 goes into production.The Sikhote-Alin meteorite falls from the sky.The Diary of Anne Frank was pub...

Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2025

Welcome back! It's been a while. It's been three months since I last posted an episode on here, so consider this my comeback and the official start of season 2 of the podcast. A new page has turned; this podcast is not the same as when it started in May 2021. Join me in this episode as I revisit the different themes of the show throughout the years and how it has all followed my awakening, my journey through mind programming, and into the hands of God. The second half of the episode is a chat...

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

In this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, I share four words that recently changed my life: “May it be blessed”. With all the chaos surrounding us in the world today, I thought I would share something that has positively shifted my life. The concept is from a book of transcribed homilies by Elder Symeon on saying the prayer "May it be blessed" as a means to advance in the spiritual life and subject one's will to God. It is considered more powerful than even the Jesus Prayer. I also sha...

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2024

In this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, I am joined by returning guest and friend Lala. Lala is also a podcast host, and you may know her as Blznopsyop, Lalabeamz, or now Urfavwretch. Lala was one of the first guests on Let’s be friends, and she has been on a very similar journey over the past couple years, which we discuss in our chat. In our conversation, we discuss focusing on the evil inside ourselves instead of the evil outside in this world. We talk about th...

Transcribed - Published: 4 September 2024

In this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, I discuss the concept of enlightenment and how I believe there are two different ones: one intended by God and the other from the fallen angels. To help better understand the different illuminations happening in our world today, I discuss the difference between angels and demons, who is Lucifer the “light bearer," breakdown a thread I wrote that went viral on the enlightenment symbolism of the Olympics closing ceremony, the meaning of da...

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2024

In this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast we have frequent guest and contributor Nick Hinton on to discuss the literal theatre of politics and how to find sanity in an insane world through the wisdom of the Orthodox Saints. Building off of previous discussions in last year’s Fake Apocalypse series, we expand on concepts like Futurist end times interpretations, hyperreal psyops, weaponized schizophrenia, and false enlightenment, which seem to have become much more relevant recently.&nbs...

Transcribed - Published: 17 July 2024

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast! It's been a while since I recorded a new episode, so I thought it would be good to do a "State of the Union," or rather, a State of the World, including my little world. This episode dives into the ultimate false flag, the conspiracy world. Follow me as I explain how this ritual started with the assassination of Kennedy and the creation of the "conspiracy theorist." In this chat, I discuss what's curre...

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024

In this episode, I discuss the longest con ever created, the original ritual. A con—spiracy that was started thousands of years ago by the 33% who fell from God, the fallen angels. Join me as I discuss the history of the world and how many major events, patterns, networks, and tactics all tie together exposing what seems to be a ritual to rebirth Babalon, the same thing the fallen angels have been trying since the dawn of time. In it, I discuss Egypt and the origin of mind control, Pe...

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2024

On this episode of the Let’s Be Friends podcast, our frequent contributor and guest Nicholas Hinton has returned to wrap up and conclude the Fake Apocalypse series we started a few months ago. In it, we discuss how Christianity looked in pre-denominational times. We also discuss Paul the Apostle’s concept of the Great Falling Away and how it may have began as early as 1054 AD during an event in church history now known as the Great Schism. The Great Schism planted the seeds for the Protesta...

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2024

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast! Back on the show is my favorite Canadian Trish, who you may know online as @my.tinfoil hat. Join us in a comedic conversation as we discuss what Trish calls the "Tin Foil Era". In our chat we also discuss many conspiratorial topics like the story behind Justin Castro, the nephilim, gray "aliens" at the mall, Big Mike, funny new age delusions, lizard people and is WW3 on the horizon. I also ask Trish more practical questions in a gam...

Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2024

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast! Nick and I finally recorded the Q & A for the intermission of our 6 part series The Fake Apocalypse & the False Gospel of Churchianity. Part 1: Hyper-Real Psyops & Evil ShepherdsIn Part 1, we discuss a bit about where Nick’s been, what’s happened, and how he came to the conclusion that conspiracy theories and even the church can be deceptive, and are actually being used in much grander scheme than he once believed. Tools in this sche...

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2024

Join me in a candid chat about what it really means to be crazy. Are we insane, or has the world around us gone crazy? Is it possible to go too deep into the rabbit hole that you may never come back? What is the purpose of conspiracy, it isn’t to program us to be….. crazy, is it? This episode was originally recorded for my Friendship Membership, but I decided to share it with everyone to give a taste of what you get as a member of the Let's be friends Friendship Membersh...

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2024

Welcome back to the Let's be Friends Podcast. Today my guest is Let's be Friends’ contributor and author Nicholas Hinton. After nearly three years of radio silence, Nick recently started posting threads again, where he has shared some of what he’s been researching since his hiatus. This episode of Let’s Be Friends is only Part 3 in a new series Nick and I will be doing together as we dive deeper into his work. In Part 3, we discuss the subliminal scripting of the fake apocalypse narra...

Transcribed - Published: 21 December 2023

Welcome back to the Let's be Friends Podcast. Today my guest is Let's be Friends’ contributor and author Nicholas Hinton. After nearly three years of radio silence, Nick recently started posting threads again, where he has shared some of what he’s been researching since his hiatus. This episode of Let’s Be Friends is only Part 2 in a new series Nick and I will be doing together as we dive deeper into his work. In Part 2, we discuss the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump, Elon Musk,...

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2023

Welcome back to the Let's be Friends Podcast. Today my guest is Let's be Friends’ contributor and author Nicholas Hinton. After nearly three years of radio silence, Nick recently started posting threads again, where he has shared some of what he’s been researching since his hiatus. This episode of Let’s Be Friends is only Part 1 in a new series Nick and I will be doing together as we dive deeper into his work. In Part 1, we discuss a bit about where Nick’s been, what’s happened...

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2023

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast! Our guest today is not-so-new friend and favorite Canadian Trish, who you may know as @my.tinfoil.hat. Today we know Trish as an outspoken “Conspiracy & Controversy Jokester,” making us laugh in the midst of the madness. But before her recent awakening to the world, its madness looked... very different to her. In this episode Trish shares her testimony and story of being saved in the most unlikely place, during the most bizarr...

Transcribed - Published: 19 October 2023

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast for part 2 of "My Testimony". My testimony is my story of a lost soul in a fallen world, searching in all the wrong places for "the truth" and always finding trouble. I was misdiagnosed bipolar for almost a decade, in and out of treatment programs and therapy for most of my life. Endlessly doing psychedelics, astral projecting and mind melding with unknown spirits, until I started working as a psychic medium in 2021 and Jesus saved m...

Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2023

Welcome back for a special episode of the Let's be friends podcast in which I share my full Testimony. Many of you first heard my story "Jesus Christ Saved My Life" March 2022 when I first shared my testimony. A lot has happened since then. In this updated version of my testimony guest host Caroline Dooner interviews me and I share all. My story includes many major life shifts like waking up in 2020, an 8 year misdiagnosis of bipolar, psychedelics and the occult, falling too d...

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2023

Welcome back to the Lets be friends podcast! With us today is a new friend Isaac Weishaupt. Issac is the founder of IlluminatiWatcher.com, the host of the “Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture” podcast and the author of many books on occult symbolism and Hollywood conspiracies. Issac has been on the leading edge of conspiracy theories surrounding the elusive “Illuminati” and its infiltration of the entertainment industry for a very long time, long enough to be shadow banned & almost can...

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2023

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast for a special 9/11 story time. We have all heard the normal questions about what may have happened that fateful September morning. Like, how did 2 “planes” make 3 towers freecall in 11 seconds? Or why how can jet fuel burn steal beams? I am here to share a new angle on how this all went down (pun intended), have you heard the story of the American Airlines flight 11 hero Betty Ong? Betty Ann Ong was an American flight attendant aboard Ame...

Transcribed - Published: 11 September 2023

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends Podcast! Join me in a scavenger hunt like episode, where I piece together a common blue thread throughout the events of 2023. I recorded this episode on the evening of this year’s beautiful and rare super blue moon. This August’s second full moon may have been rare, but looking back on the events of this year it seems they weren't rare, but rather scripted. Follow me as as I discuss all the blue symbolism woven through these events....

Transcribed - Published: 1 September 2023

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast for a special live studio conversation with authors Nick Hinton and Conrad. In our conversation we discuss how our world has turned into a hyperreality, an endless echo chamber maze of conspiracy twisted with truth. We discuss the dangers of going too deep into the rabbit hole and what we all discovered at the bottom–how the entire conspiracy culture realm is really just, a con. Want more Let's be friends? Join the Friendship M...

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2023

Welcome back to the Let's be friends podcast, in this episode I pull back the curtain exposing the real theatre at play. The "Illuminati" may actually not be who you thought they were–they may in fact just be a bunch of clowns. We're all familiar with the phrase "order out of chaos," but have you ever wondered who actually creates the chaos? In this episode I discuss the history of Discordianism, or those who worship Eris also known as Discordia, the Goddess of strife and discord.&nb...

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2023

Welcome to the Let’s be friends podcast, back with us today is my friend blznopsyop! Blznopsyop is my favorite pattern/network/tactic finder who has recently been unraveling a twisted network of psyops, which includes The Sound of Freedom movie. As she puts it, “The movie Sound of Freedom has the scent of another controlled narrative. One only has to probe a bit into the funding behind this movie to raise serious question marks about the motive”. Human trafficking is a very real top...

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2023

Welcome back to the Let’s be friends podcast with us today is a new friend Lewis Ungit, author of The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies. With the current rise in psychedelic popularity, this episode takes a closer look into the history, culture, and philosophy about these drugs becoming mainstream, what the potential downsides are, and how they historically affected individuals and societies throughout time. In our conversation, we...

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2023

Titanic (gate) Welcome back to let’s be friends podcast for a special episode about Oceangate–or as I am referring to as Titanicgate. The whole world has heard of the infamous tiny Titan submarine that went missing this week, which eventually tragically imploded. After taking a closer look at the many suspicious details surrounding this event, the original storyline also seems to be imploding. Join me as I take a look into the many meanings of Titan, the odd and problematic attributes o...

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2023