Shawn Ryan

Ryan says he arranged with SIG Sauer to re-equip a local sheriff's SWAT team because it lacked reliable firearms.

“they don't have reliable weapons over there. And so I made a couple of phone calls”

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Ryan argues erratic U.S. trade policy toward Canada, including escalating tariffs, makes the U.S. an unreliable partner.

“if I was a foreign country, there's no way in fucking hell I would do business with the United States”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:37:41

Ryan believes his interview with Pete Hegseth influenced Hegseth's selection as Secretary of Defense five days after its release.

“Now, I'm not saying, like, I'm the guy. But for that one, that interview definitely had some influence”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:35:36

Ryan says he has learned he never wants to involve himself in the U.S. political system or vouch for any politician again.

“I've learned I never want to involve myself in the U.S. political system or vouch for any man again”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 0:54

Ryan recounts hitting back at a congressman who attacked him earlier in the year, saying the congressman is no longer in office.

“I went right back at him and now he's no longer in fucking Congress”

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Ryan argues that starting public conversations has more impact than lobbying decision makers directly.

“It's the conversation that happens that engages the population has a much, much bigger impact than going directly to the decision maker”

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Ryan says psychedelics open a forbidden realm and that he received strict guidance from God not to use them anymore.

“you're just in a forbidden realm that maybe we should or should not be fucking around in. But I won't be fucking around in that realm anymore”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 55:01

Ryan says an ibogaine and 5-MeO session left him with a feeling of what hell is like, which he never wants to experience again.

“I just got back from a Ibogaine 5-MeO experience. Didn't go great. Found hell. Hell. Hell”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 9:04

Ryan says psychedelic treatment in Mexico four years ago led him to stop drinking entirely.

“I began treatment in Mexico four years ago. I haven't had a drop of booze since”

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Ryan says he quit drinking through ibogaine treatment and helped push through Tennessee legislation related to it.

“I helped the Tennessee chapter get pushed through here in Tennessee, actually, just a couple of weeks ago, and it passed”

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Ryan claims ibogaine immediately cures most addictions and says it helped him quit drinking over four years ago.

“it is curing addiction immediately. Opiates, alcohol, pretty much anything but benzos”

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Ryan says many veterans in his special-operations community are now turning to spiritual warfare.

“there's just so many of us that are diving into spiritual warfare and learning about it”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:50:56

Ryan says he has worked with respected exorcists and experienced frightening events that he considers proof of God's existence.

“I've talked to some of the most respected exorcists in the country and I've been working with them and things have happened and like really scary shit”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 27:41

Ryan argued that regardless of which party holds office, modern politics amounts to human sacrifice through war or gender medicine.

“They're either going to send our youth to war to die for another country, or they're going to psychologically mutilate their brains”

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Ryan says his show lost a long-time sponsor less than a week into its Bible series because the sponsor does not advertise on faith-based content.

“We have one canceled because they don't advertise on faith-based content”

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Ryan says belief in God is no longer faith but fact for him.

“Yeah, it's not faith to me anymore. It's fact. It is 100% fact”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 28:35

Ryan says that as a deployed SEAL he resented liberal Democrats criticizing the war but now concludes they were right.

“the only gripe was coming home and listening to all the liberal Democrats bitching about the war. Turns out they were right the whole fucking time”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:46:32

Ryan relays Pete Blaber's account that Delta Force identified supposed WMD imagery as a water truck, an air conditioner, and a man urinating, and that this was ignored before the invasion.

“that's a water truck, huge water truck, because they're in the middle of the desert and they need water”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 20:37

Ryan says special operators he knows believe they are fighting for Israel rather than the United States, which he says harms morale.

“Everybody knows what this is. Everybody knows they're fighting for Israel. It's a joke”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:42:58

Ryan argues the claim that Trump was influenced by Israel is documented in mainstream reporting rather than being a conspiracy theory.

“It's not absurd that you're saying that the president's being influenced by Israel at all. all the publications are talking about this”

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Ryan says the Glacier app is iOS-only for now, with an Android version planned within a couple of months.

“It's just for iOS right now. We'll have Android out in a couple months”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:31:41

Ryan claims many VPN companies advertised by podcasters are secretly owned by China, Israel or Russia.

“a lot of the VPN companies that podcasters are representing are owned by China or they're owned by Israel or they're owned by Russia”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:28:32

Ryan recounted surviving a blacked-out suicide attempt in his running car and asked whether a guardian angel intervened.

“I had a suicide attempt. And same thing. I was hammered, blacked out. Don't remember how I got home”

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Ryan described an encounter in Sedona with an unfamiliar older man who seemed to read his mind and which he said saved his soul and brought him to Christ.

“that's basically what saved my soul and brought me to Christ”

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Ryan describes hearing footsteps in a Civil War-era cabin during a filmed shoot, with static appearing in the audio instead.

“we pulled the footage and you can hear static in the, in the audio instead of the footsteps”

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Ryan argues that criticizing politicians differs from celebrity gossip because their decisions affect citizens and future generations.

“sometimes maybe you have a responsibility to say something”

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Ryan argues the U.S. failure to stop Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz means gas prices will not come back down and has made Iran a global power.

“hello, new gas prices, like they're not fucking coming back down. We just turned Iran into”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:41:41

Ryan argues Fox News, like other outlets, hides the full picture on subjects such as the Epstein files and the Iran war.

“They're hiding the full picture of the Epstein files. They're hiding the full picture of everything. The Iran war”

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Ryan says that in the year leading up to the last presidential election he leaned into his audience and was driven by praise and metrics.

“I leaned into the audience there for about probably a little over a year, like leading up to the last presidential election”

The Tucker Carlson Show: Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding God (Jul 24, 2026) · Listen from 49:46

Ryan criticized the administration for granting glyphosate makers immunity despite campaigning on making America healthy.

“Then they give immunity to the foreign glyphosate companies and call it a national security concern”

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Ryan argued that local politicians cannot resist the financial influence of the world's most powerful corporations.

“What local politician is going to be able to stand up against that or resist that kind of a bribe?”

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