Spiritual warfare
Subject in Christianity
Spiritual warfare has come up in 5 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including Live Free with Josh Howerton, The Shawn Ryan Show, The Tucker Carlson Show. 4 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jonathan PokludaAmerican pastor in Waco, Texas, author of Welcome to Adulting and Your Story Has a Villain, former leader of The Porch young adults ministry
Pokluda recommends a weekly accountability practice built around three questions on spiritual input, output and confession.
“How did you feed your soul? How did you feed others? How did you feed your flesh? Input, output, confession”
Live Free with Josh Howerton: 8 Ways Christians Open the Door to the DEMONIC (ft. Jonathan Pokluda) | Live Free with Josh Howerton (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 46:11
Pokluda recounts being sued within two weeks of signing the contract for his book on spiritual warfare.
“I was sued. I got sued within 14 days of signing it”
Live Free with Josh Howerton: 8 Ways Christians Open the Door to the DEMONIC (ft. Jonathan Pokluda) | Live Free with Josh Howerton (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 37:47
Pokluda says Satan knows his eventual fate and therefore pursues a destructive scorched-earth strategy.
“He knows his destiny is the lake of fire. And so he's running a scorched earth strategy”
Live Free with Josh Howerton: 8 Ways Christians Open the Door to the DEMONIC (ft. Jonathan Pokluda) | Live Free with Josh Howerton (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 29:34
Pokluda holds that Satan is not omnipresent and instead leads an army of fallen angels as demons.
“Like Satan has never probably been anywhere near me. He's not omnipresent”
Live Free with Josh Howerton: 8 Ways Christians Open the Door to the DEMONIC (ft. Jonathan Pokluda) | Live Free with Josh Howerton (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 24:56
Shawn RyanFormer U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, host of the Shawn Ryan Show
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”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in America (Jul 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:00
Chad RippergerAmerican Catholic priest and exorcist, author on demonic influence
Ripperger argued voting alone cannot solve society's problems because the battle is spiritual, with prayer the primary remedy.
“that's just not going to ultimately change because this is a spiritual battle The main thing for people to remember”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in America (Jul 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:14:54
Ripperger recommended asking Our Lady and the angels to keep oneself or one's corporation hidden from harmful people.
“ask your guardian angel or the angels to keep you hidden from the wrong kinds of people. And it has a phenomenally good effect”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in America (Jul 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:02:57
Ripperger said he concluded about a decade ago that public life is no longer a battle of ideas but of good and evil.
“this is no longer a battle of ideas. It's no longer a battle of, you know, do people have differences of opinions? This is a battle of good and evil”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in America (Jul 23, 2026) · Listen from 3:25
Josh DuhamelAmerican actor, producer, and founder of the health company Gatlan, from Minot, North Dakota
Duhamel said he believes in dark forces and that people who are not spiritually connected are susceptible to them.
“I do believe that there are, you know, dark forces at play. Me too. And if you're not spiritually connected, you're really susceptible”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #310 Josh Duhamel - Transformers Star Reveals His 26-Acre Off-Grid Survival Compound (Jun 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:56
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Live Free with Josh Howerton · 2 episodes
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 2 episodes
- The Tucker Carlson Show · 1 episode
Episodes
8 Ways Christians Open the Door to the DEMONIC (ft. Jonathan Pokluda) | Live Free with Josh HowertonLive Free with Josh Howerton · Oct 5, 2026 · 1 h 36 min
Pastor Carlos Erazo and Jonathan Pokluda discuss spiritual warfare, demonic footholds, occult practices, signs of revival, and a simple method for sharing the gospel.
- How to Find a GOOD Church (and When to Leave) ft. Ed Newton & Matt Chewning | Live Free with Josh Howerton
Live Free with Josh Howerton · Sep 30, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Pastor Josh Howerton and pastors Ed Newton and Matt Chewning discuss revival in American churches and answer listener questions on church health, family, marriage and salvation.
Shawn Ryan: Trump’s Betrayal, Iran, Government Spying, Encounters With Demons, and Finding GodThe Tucker Carlson Show · Jul 24, 2026 · 1 h 54 min
Tucker Carlson talks with podcaster and former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan about his disillusionment with politics, a harrowing ibogaine experience, spiritual conversion, surveillance, and the Iran war.
#324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in AmericaThe Shawn Ryan Show · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 h 46 min
Exorcist Father Chad Ripperger tells Shawn Ryan about UFO disclosure, the angelic hierarchy and fall, spiritual warfare, guardian angels, prayer, heaven, and divine mercy.
- #310 Josh Duhamel - Transformers Star Reveals His 26-Acre Off-Grid Survival Compound
The Shawn Ryan Show · Jun 4, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Actor Josh Duhamel talks with Shawn Ryan about fatherhood, his off-grid Minnesota compound and prepping, AI and social division, faith, and his hormone-therapy company Gatlan.