FAITH & FREEDOM, WITH SHEMANE NUGENT, DECEMBER 28TH, 2025

Summary

Podcast Summary: Real America's Voice "Faith & Freedom with Shemane Nugent"

Episode Date: December 28, 2025
Guests: Ted Nugent, Sheriff Mark Lamb, Pastor Anthony Thomas
Host: Shemane Nugent

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Overview

This episode of "Faith & Freedom" explores navigating turbulent times through the lens of faith, family values, and defending American freedoms. With Christmas as the backdrop, host Shemane Nugent is joined by her husband Ted Nugent, “America’s Sheriff” Mark Lamb, and Pastor Anthony Thomas. The discussion moves from confronting national crises—like the drug epidemic and human trafficking—to how individuals and communities can thrive spiritually amidst darkness. The tone is passionate and unapologetic, with recurring calls for faith, personal responsibility, and community action.

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Main Segments & Discussion Highlights

1. Opening Reflections: Choosing Faith Over Fear

(03:10 – 04:45)

• Shemane Nugent sets a hopeful tone despite "ugly headlines" and turmoil.
  • Quote: “Light wins. God wins. He always has. So this Christmas, let's choose faith over fear, family over frenzy, and the kind of peace that only comes from God.” (03:12)
• Ted Nugent provides musical accompaniment in the background.

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2. America’s Border Crisis & the Fentanyl Epidemic

(04:45 – 11:51)

Guest: Sheriff Mark Lamb (Pinal County, AZ)

• Lamb gives firsthand insights into the fentanyl crisis and border security failures.
  • Quote: "Fentanyl... has been the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45." (06:07)
  • He commends Trump for declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction and cracking down on drug dealers.
• Ted Nugent calls drug abuse "chemical warfare on America."
  • Quote: "Isn't it conclusive ... that the attack of America, the chemical warfare on America with the drugs ... is a chemical war on America? And Biden let it happen." (06:22)
• Discussion includes both personal responsibility (don’t use drugs) and compassion for families impacted by hidden fentanyl in pills.
  • Lamb shares a personal tragedy: his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter were killed by a drug-impaired driver, despite his son turning his life around and overcoming addiction.
    • Quote: "I had a son ... who struggled with drug addiction and even into fentanyl... Today marks a three-year anniversary that we lost my 22-year-old son, my 11-month-old granddaughter and my daughter-in-law." (09:17)

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3. Faith, Grief, & National Renewal

(11:51 – 13:45)

• Lamb credits faith in Christ with carrying his family through their grief.
  • Quote: “The only way we push through this is through faith in God and Jesus Christ ... That is really what’s carried us through.” (10:59)
• Emphasizes the need for "God and the Constitution" in American public life.
  • Quote: “These Democrats, they need some God in the Constitution because their policies are hurting America to include allowing these drugs to have filtered into this country.” (11:34)

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4. Human Trafficking and "Looking Evil in the Eye"

(17:09 – 21:42)

• Focus shifts to human trafficking across the border and government complicity.
  • Lamb: "They allowed so much human trafficking to occur and we paid for it. They were using tax dollars ... and those tax dollars were funding people coming into this country." (18:37)
• The cartels abuse children and women for labor and sex trades; government policy and NGOs indirectly facilitate this.
• Lamb describes his methods for staying resilient:
  1. Be authentic and true to who God made you.
  2. Get comfortable with doing uncomfortable, necessary work—face evil.
  3. Surrender the outcome to God; control what you can, let God handle the rest.
  • Quote: "You have to surrender the outcome. In the end, we can only control our attitudes and our work output. The rest of it is in God’s control.” (20:53)

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5. Psychological Toll of Police Work & Running for Congress

(21:42 – 27:48)

• Ted Nugent asks how law enforcement deals with trauma from confronting evil.
  • Lamb says the average police officer witnesses 400–700 traumatic events (vs. 2–4 for civilians).
  • Brain mapping technology and support groups are discussed.
• Lamb explains his run for Congress to further defend law enforcement and all Americans, seeking "principally driven Americans" for office.
  • Quote: "I want to defend God, family, freedom and the Constitution. And I know it's not going to be easy ... we need men and women that have a mandate higher than the ballot box. And I want to be that.” (26:57)
• Supported by endorsements from Trump and House Freedom Fund.

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6. Spiritual Resilience & Finding Beauty in Darkness

(33:11 – 41:14)

Guest: Pastor Anthony Thomas

• Why faith and a higher spiritual perspective are critical in times of affliction and grief.
  • Quote (Anthony Thomas): “There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty and the other is affliction.” (34:09)
  • Bible prophecies about “deep darkness” are noted, but believers are called to “arise and shine.”
• The importance of moving forward and not being stuck in past trauma.
  • Quote: “God moves us forward, not backward ... we either die at that spot and become a shell of an individual or ... we become what the Bible calls an overcomer.” (39:11)
• Surround yourself with overcomers and battle-tested leaders.

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7. Spiritual Warfare in 2025: Worship as a Weapon

(46:58 – 55:19)

• Shemane asks about fighting spiritual battles in the modern age.
• Pastor Anthony gives Ted Nugent a personal prophecy about new songs as “spiritual warfare.”
  • Quote (Thomas): “God is going to give you now new songs this year. ... And it is going to cause absolute great warfare in the spirit realm when you release those songs.” (47:53)
• Worship and authentic music are painted as crucial in countering evil.
  • Quote: “When we worship God... our sword ... is absolutely cutting down evil things.” (49:23)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Shemane Nugent: “Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.” (03:10, recurring motif)
• Ted Nugent: “Clean and sober is the only way to have a real fulfilling American dream.” (08:09)
• Sheriff Mark Lamb: “You have to surrender the outcome ... the rest of it is in God’s control.” (20:53)
• Pastor Anthony Thomas: “Beauty will always supersede affliction if you’re in God’s kingdom.” (35:24)
• Ted Nugent: “Relish the opportunity to be an outsider because it’s the outsiders who change the world.” (17:09, recurring)
• Pastor Anthony Thomas (to Ted): “You are a battle ax from heaven. ... Your best days and [Shemane’s] best days are yet ahead, not behind.” (54:49)

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Key Timestamps

• Faith versus fear & opening prayer – 03:10
• Fentanyl crisis & border security – 05:04
• Personal tragedy and grief – 09:17
• Human trafficking & governmental complicity – 18:37
• Sheriff Lamb’s run for Congress – 24:30
• Pastor Anthony on finding beauty and moving forward – 34:09, 39:11
• Spiritual warfare and prophecy for Ted – 47:53
• Closing encouragements & resources – 58:59

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Resources & Calls to Action

• Sheriff Mark Lamb:
  • Website: marklamus.com
  • Instagram: @americansheriff
  • “I want to be that for not just the people in my district. But Americans.” (27:48)
• Pastor Anthony Thomas:
  • Church: tipofthespearchurch.org
• Ted & Shemane:
  • Ted: tednugent.com
  • Shemane: shemanenugent.rocks
  • Hunter Nation: hunternation.org

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Tone & Style

This episode is marked by passion, spiritual conviction, and real-world grit. The conversation pivots between dire social realities and deep faith-based optimism. The hosts and guests blend tough talk with compassion, stress personal responsibility, and repeatedly reference spiritual principles in addressing both national and deeply personal crises. Humor, music, and the distinctive voice of Ted Nugent lighten the mood and reinforce the show’s underlying theme: even in darkness, faith and freedom persevere.

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For listeners seeking a conversation that blends rugged realism with spiritual hope, "Faith & Freedom" offers authenticity, vulnerability, and a clear call to purpose.

Transcript

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[Chemaine Nugent]

Perhaps you were born for such a time as this. Hello and welcome to Faith and Freedom. I'm Chemaine Nugent. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and I truly mean that. And yes, the headlines are kind of ugly. The world feels like it's spinning out of control. But here's what I know. Light wins. God wins. He always has. So this Christmas, let's choose faith over fear, family over frenzy, and the kind of peace that only comes from God. Now, peace doesn't mean we sit back and do nothing. It means we protect what matters. I've got my husband, Ted Nugent here playing background music, but it's soaring down. There's a few people like Ted who have fought harder for American families. Families. Then our next guest. Very few people, Ted. And our next guest, Mark Lamb. He's America's sheriff. Eight years protecting Arizona's borders, a Trump endorsed candidate for Congress, and a man who's seen firsthand what's happening at the border. Sheriff Mark Lamb. Welcome, Mark, I love you.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

And to Ted's point, I'm also a man who pulls people over who drive too slow in the left lane.

[Ted Nugent]

Come on, brother. You and I are blood brothers for real justice. I love the Mark Lamb justice, purity. In all sincerity. We do. We know you put your life on the line every day. Shimane and I have such love, such respect, such admiration and appreciation for the heroes of law enforcement who adhere to their sacred constitutional oath. And you are one of them. God bless you, my friend.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Thank you.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

God bless you, too.

[Chemaine Nugent]

We wanted to bring you in not just because you're a friend of ours, a friend of this show you've been on many times, but you're on the border. You see what's happening. Talk about how fentanyl is killing Americans by tens of thousands. What are you actually seeing in Arizona?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Well, look, fentanyl. I started this back in Shamain. I started in 2018 going around the country talking about fentanyl. 2019. And most, even law enforcement hadn't heard about it. 2020, 2021. Within a few years, everybody had heard about it. And everybody at this point has been affected by fentanyl. And what we see, what we saw over the years under the Biden administration was complete and utter ignorance or, or defiance of protecting our borders and the American people. This is why I'm okay with them bombing these boats out in the ocean, because they're bringing in something that's far more dangerous than a bomb or any type of weapon like that. This has killed more Americans than any other thing. So it is continues to be a problem. Although we are seeing a huge rise in cocaine coming back in. And don't think, I mean, the cocaine gets laced with fentanyl as well. So this has been a huge issue. It's been the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. And I'm glad that President Trump came in. Not only did he put a, put a stop to the illegal immigration, he has gone after these drug dealers and he just declared fentanyl a weapons of mass destruction, which I couldn't agree more with.

[Ted Nugent]

You know, Mark, I'm just a guitar player, but I've been a sheriff deputy in Lake county, Michigan for 40 years now. I've actually done raids with U.S. marshal heroes. They really are the heroes. And I've got 14 felony arrests that I've been in on. So that's why my guitar playing so damn sexy. But the point being is that isn't it conclusive? And nobody's saying this, that the attack of America, the chemical warfare on America with the drugs, the fentanyl, the cocaine, the methamphetamine, that is a chemical war on America. And Biden let it happen. And worse than that, Mark, nobody said this, but I have to. The real criminals, the real villains of America, the real enemies of America with the fentanyl and the cocaine, the methamphetamine and all the dope are the idiot Americans that use it. Just quit buying it. Quit turning yourself into a liability, a numb nut, uncomfortably dumb liability. And quit encouraging and rewarding and paying off the enemies of America with their chemical warfare. Am I right, mark? La them 100%.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Look, a lot of these folks, this business is driven by the demand here in America. And it's not just the demand in America, it's the demand in other countries too. These transnational criminal organizations are bringing drugs in to more than just America. We just happen to have a lot of people that are using drugs, addicted to drugs. But I want to peel off a little bit of that because I think a lot of the deaths in America were young people or people that didn't know they were taking fentanyl. Maybe they take a fake Ritalin Pill or Xanax or are or something else that they use to stay awake for a test and then that ends up killing them. So a lot of it are people that are addicted to drugs and have been for many years. But there's a lot of people that have been victimized and been killed with this poison not knowing they had taken fentanyl. And I think that's an important distinction to make because there's a lot of parents out there who raise good kids who made one mistake and now they don't have their children with them anymore.

[Ted Nugent]

Well, you know you make a great point, but I'm just a guitar player. I celebrated my 77th birthday and that's 77 years clean and sober. If you want to stay up and be bright eyed and bushy tailed for a test or for anything else, just get some good sleep, eat proper food and take good care of yourself and be clean and sober. If you're clean and sober and take care of your sacred temple, you won't need any outside influence from Big Pharma and the chemical warfare independence. You will be so much more happy, so much more fulfilled, so much more dynamic and alive if you just stay clean and sober, avoid Big Pharma and avoid all this. What is it? Peer pressure. I don't have any peers and you can't pressure me. Only she can pressure me. So I think that's the important message. Clean and sober is the only way to have a real fulfilling American dream. So America, let's get on it.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

And if I could add just one more thing to that. I had a son, I have five kids, one of my kids and today marks three years. And I'll tell you what marks three years of but I had a son who struggled with drug addiction and even into fentanyl. And when he and his girlfriend at that time found out that they she was pregnant, they went cold turkey. My son went cold turkey off of fentanyl. And December 16th of 2022 he had been clean for well over a year and a half. He had 11 month old baby and his dog and my daughter in law were struck and killed by a somebody driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. And so Today marks a three year anniversary that we lost my 22 year old son, my 11 month old granddaughter and my daughter in law. But to your point, these guys were the success story of somebody who got off of drugs and turned their life around only to be killed by somebody who was using drugs and who had careless disregard for those around him.

[Ted Nugent]

Well, thank you for your Strength. And our prayers go out to those people that have succumbed to that weakness and become addicted to this fake life support system. So to overcome that, become clean and sober and get clean and sober, it really shows strength. But we all have that strength before we get weak. So my prayer is that Americans will realize this is the only quality of life experiment in self government in the world. And you're only going to enjoy it fully in if you're clean and sober and take good care of yourself. So prayers for those who are struggling and congratulations to your family. We're so sorry to hear of your heartbreak.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Yeah, so sorry to hear about that. Mark, that means when we met you in person in Naples, Florida, that must have just happened just before that.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Yeah, when we had met, it was just a few months before that. And you know, it was something we still deal with. It never goes away. It's like a loss or anybody dealing with grief, it's the frequency that's always in the background. You know, the only way we push through this is through faith in God and Jesus Christ and, and just knowing that we're going to see the, our kids again. And we just have faith in, in the Lord's plan. And that is really what's carried us through. And really what we need in this country again is God in the Constitution. And that's how we make it through a lot of these issues, including addiction to drugs, including, you know, bad policies. These, these Democrats, they need some God in the Constitution because their policies are hurting America to include allowing these drugs to have filtered into this country, flowed into this country for so many years.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Mark, I want to talk to you about that. I want to get deep into. You're a man of faith. You've looked evil in the eye. And how do you, how do you reconcile that? How do you deal with that? But can you stick around for one more segment?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

I can.

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[Ted Nugent]

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider because it's the outsiders who change the world.

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Perhaps you were born for such a time as this. I think we're going to have to keep this up. We're going to have to hire Ted to be the band for the Faith and Freedom Show. We're talking with Sheriff Mark Lamb. He's America's sheriff. We hear about human trafficking Onto a more serious topic. We hear a lot about human trafficking, but I don't think people really understand the scope. Sheriff Mark Lamb joins us to talk more about that. Mark, welcome back.

[Ted Nugent]

Welcome back. Mark, we love you.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Thanks for having me back.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

I think the guitar is probably better. The people would rather hear that than me, I think.

[Ted Nugent]

But how about does it sound pretty good? Just an acoustic guitar?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Sound good.

[Ted Nugent]

I love my guitar. I'm playing some gigs these days, Mark, just showing up to places with my rhythm section in Texas John Kutz on drums and Johnny Big on bass guitar. It is out of body. My songs have a life of their own. But let's talk about the most important thing in the world. How can we allow the evil, sinful abuse of children that seems to be widespread. You know, I know there's a, as an oath keeper, you can't just shoot these people, but we need to start killing child sex traffickers. We need to put them in cages or end their lives. Am I right?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Well, the scriptures say it's better that a millstone be tied around their neck and sunk to the bottom of the ocean than to abuse children, take advantage of children. Look, what we saw under the Biden administration was atrocious. We talked about the drugs piece of it in the first segment. The other piece of it was the fact that they allowed so much human trafficking to occur and we paid for it. They were using tax dollars, funneling them through NGOs could, so they could wash their hands later on. And those tax dollars were funding people coming into this country. What allowed the cartels to do was abuse children, put them into the hard labor trade, the sex trade. Same with the women. A lot of women were being raped when they were coming across. Men are being extorted.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

They.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

And we continue to see that even though that this administration has virtually stopped the flow of humans into this country, we still have millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people, well, millions that came in and certainly tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands who are currently being trafficked for sex every day. And the cartels continue to make money on them as we speak.

[Chemaine Nugent]

It's just unbelievable, unfathomable. And to think that our tax dollars went to pay for that. You're a man of faith. How do you handle that when you are face to face with evil like that?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Well, first of all, we go head to head with evil. But at the same time, there's things that we don't get there in time, we can't stop. And we see what happened with all these children. And every day more and more children are being victimized. There's three things that I've always that have helped me in my life and in my career in law enforcement is one is you have to be authentic, which I think Americans are hungry. That's why Ted and you, Shamayne, are so loved, because you're authentic Americans. So I think that you've got to be authentic and true to who God made you. Number two, you've got to be comfortable with doing the uncomfortable work you've got to get comfortable with doing the uncomfortable work and doing what is right and facing evil is not comfortable. But the third thing that helps me out the most has helped me through my career and even with the loss of our own children was you have to surrender the outcome. In the end, we can only control our attitudes and our work output. The rest of it is in God's control. And you have to have faith that God is watching over and that he is just, he is writing the scales of justice in his way. And I think that has been what has helped me the most as I have traversed a very difficult career where you see some, really, you see what evil in this world is. The majority of Americans have no concept of how evil people can be and how power drives these people. That's why even people at the very top, throughout the world and even in this country are guilty of some of these most heinous crimes. And so I think I just have to, I have to continue to have faith in God, do what I can, work hard, have the right attitude. And unfortunately, you got to surrender the outcome on a lot of it.

[Ted Nugent]

You know, Mark, again, because I got such a big mouth, I stand up for a God, family, country, constitution, the Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, law and order, good over evil, self defense, and all those radical concepts I always have just instinctually, I always went against the grain, against the wind, in the political correct, brain deadness that surrounded me in my rock and roll career. And I see a change coming. And when I see guys like you and I talk to these different sheriffs around the country and chiefs, police and state trooper commanders, the good ones, the ones that stick absolutely to their sacred constitutional oath. And I'm contacted often after a couple of sheriffs in Detroit went to a home and found these kids living in feces, living with dogs, malnourished, near death, and they go through trauma. You guys witness pure evil. When you, when you see a dismembered corpse, when you see a child who has been trafficked for sex by evil, evil monsters. And somehow they get a hold of me because I have a big mouth because I'm exactly what the founding fathers wanted all of us to be. To be suspicious of all authority and demand constitutional accountability. I help them get through it. But after I help them and tell them to be strong and they did the right thing. And you chose this warrior career, so you're going to have to face evil because your job is to fight the evil. So you've got to face it, it and Then when I'm done with them, then I come unglued and I feel shattered. I cry because these guys, these grown men, cry after witnessing. I know you have faith in God, but how do you help your fellow deputies and your fellow law enforcement friends get through some of these times when they literally have to look into the belly of the beast? Do you have a counseling system? Do you have a campfire? Do you get together with their families? Do you have a priest and a pastor that can help them through this ugly quagmire?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Well, that's a great question, Ted. And look, I've always been an unapologetic defender of this profession. The average police officer through their career will experience 400 to 700 traumatic experiences where the average citizen only experiences two to four. So that takes a major toll on it. And I've been a defender of it, a supporter of the people that put on the badge. I now work for a company called the Tanya, which does brain mapping, which helps these guys really deal with the trauma that comes along with the job. Helps them sleep better, feel better. They don't really. While those memories exist, they are no longer traumatic in their brain. So I've been trying to do what I can. And the other thing I'm doing is running for Congress because we need those same fighters, those same shepherds, those sheepdogs that I defend my herd here in Pinal County. Now, I want to be able to defend our congressional district here in Arizona, but also all Americans on a country level, on a national level. So I'm running for Congress in the place of Andy Biggs, who's been a phenomenal congressman and a great defender of freedom in the Constitution. He's running for governor in Arizona, so I'm running for his seat now in Arizona. And I wish that I would love to have all the support we can get because I want to continue to be the defender of those who put on the badge our military, our law enforcement, law enforcement, first responders, and frankly, I want to defend all of our American citizens. So if you like that, please support, come to Marklam us. I would love to have your support, but Ted and basically I do what I can, wherever I can to defend the men and women that put on this badge.

[Ted Nugent]

Well, Barbino, Congressman, God bless you. MARK Lamb, US I'm going to support you all the way because it starts at the legislator. It starts when the policies are established. And if you, if the policies like in California and New York and Illinois, they're on the side of the evildoers, the Policy supports the evildoers, and they literally condemn the victims. It's like nothing we've ever seen before. So we're going to help you every way we can.

[Chemaine Nugent]

And you have a Trump endorsement, right?

[Ted Nugent]

Hallelujah. You have a Nugent endorsement. That's right.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

I was honored to get his endorsement. He said, I'm honored to endorse MAGA Warrior Sheriff Mark Lamb. And so after, for the next few days, I would answer the phone when anybody would call me, I'd be like, MAGA Warrior here. We also have the endorsement of the House Freedom Fund and a lot of other endorsements, but what I'm seeking is the endorsement of the people. That's what matters. I am honored to have President Trump's endorsement. I look forward to getting in the foxhole with him. I've been in there for the last several years. You know, I've been a staunch defender of his policies. I think they've been good for America. And I look forward to being able to go to Washington, D.C. to continue to fight alongside President Trump in fixing and making America great again.

[Chemaine Nugent]

And, you know, when you do go to Washington, D.C. because you will get elected, you're. You're going into the eye of the storm, you're going into the devil's den, and you've got to get. You've got to have prayer warriors behind you. So please, when, after this all takes place, come back here. We're going to start a prayer warrior group for Sheriff Mark Lamb, because you're going to need it. And we need more people like you in our political offices who aren't going to be compromised.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Right. I look forward. I mean, look, I want to defend God, family, freedom in the Constitution. And I know it's not going to be easy. I told my wife when we made this decision, bite down on your mouthpiece, because this is not going to be an easy run. And I will take all the prayers I can give because, honestly, that's what's carried us through this point. And it will be prayers that will continue to carry us through. But we need principally driven Americans right now in office more than ever that are not afraid to stand up for the values that built this country. We owe it to our founding fathers. We owe it to our grandchildren and great grandchildren, because every day we continue down this path, we are eating the bread of our great grandchildren and our. And our grandchildren because we want to be comfortable today. We need men and women that have a mandate higher than the ballot box. And I want to be that for not just the people in my district. But Americans.

[Ted Nugent]

Well, Godspeed, Mark. We're with you all the way, man.

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[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

God bless you too.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Where can people follow you and support your campaign?

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Go to marklam us and please support there. You can follow me. I'm on Instagram at American Sheriff and I'm just. I'll take all the support I can get. Like you said, she meant prayers. I'll take the prayers.

[Ted Nugent]

Coming your way, Mark. Non stop promise.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Thank you so much for joining Ted and I here on faith and freedom. Mark, we're gonna keep you in our prayers and come back anytime, please.

[Ted Nugent]

Merry Christmas.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Happy New Year.

[Ted Nugent]

Live it up, my friend.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Okay, we're gonna be right back with Pastor Anthony Thomas and more warriors. Will you play some more for us, honey?

[Ted Nugent]

For Anthony, I'll do anything.

[Chemaine Nugent]

All right, Stick around. We'll be right back.

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[Ted Nugent]

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[Chemaine Nugent]

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[Chemaine Nugent]

Happy people, we've been talking about battles at the border, but there's another battle going on, and it's for your soul. My next guest knows something about warfare. Pastor Anthony Thomas served in the US Military before God called him to be a different kind of fighter. Now he leads Tip of the Spear Church, and he's here to bring us spiritual clarity, courage, and reset hearts. Pastor Anthony Thomas, welcome back to faith and freedom.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Thank you, Shemaine. Thank you, Ted. Happy belated.

[Chemaine Nugent]

So, Pastor Anthony, when we talk about resetting our mind, bodies and spirits, resetting our heart, we just spent two segments talking about some heavy stuff. Cartels and trafficking and drug addiction and the border. How do we train our eyes to find beauty in life when the world feels so dark?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

There's a great quote. His name's Simone. Well, I read this probably 15, 20 years ago. It was one of those ones that just stuck out. And I've never forgot. He said there are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty and the other is affliction. And I have always put this life I've pastored now, in February, it'll be 20 years full time. I have seen great beauty in this life, and I've seen great affliction. And I think the thing is there is both in this life. One of the questions Jesus and God the Father always ask the prophets of old, he always would show them something prophetically. And then he would say, what do you see? And many times they would share what they saw. And this is the key. What they saw was accurate yet incomplete. And so we could look around and there is a lot of things going to hell in a hand basket right now. And there's a lot of things where evil is abounding. And the Bible prophesied it. Isaiah said, deep darkness will cover the face of the earth. But he said, but arise and shine. So we see in the middle of this, no matter what affliction is going around, no matter what evil, no matter what darkness, God calls us to be like the eagles that get above the clouds, above the situation, the circumstance, and can see from a higher perspective. And when you can see from a higher perspective, you will always see. Beauty will always supersede affliction if you're in God's kingdom.

[Ted Nugent]

You know, Anthony, I have a song called Crave and it says a simple life I will not have. It doesn't satisfy me. I don't believe in the status quo. It kind of leaves me weak. A mountain high is what I climb. I swim a river deep and if you want the time of your life, Try to keep up with me. It's because I fight the evil of bureaucrats abusing power every day. And then God enlightens me every afternoon as I seek what our TV is titled. TV show Spirit of the Wild. I literally immersed myself into God's miracle as a participant, as a thoughtful, conscientious spiritual warrior to, you know, it's called recreation. Hunting with the bow and arrow, fishing, the outdoor lifestyle, because it recreates the spirit. Spirit, am I onto something here?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

You are. And I I that song you said, how profound. When you talk of a top of a mountain or the bottom of a river, Paul said it's actually a very biblical statement. Philippians 3:10, one of my favorite scriptures. Paul said that I might know him and the power of his resurrection. There's your mountaintop. And the fellowship of his sufferings, there's the bottom. And the thing is this. If we're going to know Christ and we're going to walk with him, there's nothing greater in this life than knowing Christ. Adam, the Bible says, and. And all the way in Genesis, it said he walked with God in the cool of the day. There's nothing greater than walking with him. But if you're going to walk with Christ, as Ted said in his song, you're going to hit great mountaintops where it you just can't even put words to how amazing it is. And you're going to swim sometimes down to depths of things, of sufferings, of affliction. But to walk with Christ, there is a comfort in knowing he is with you in both. And I don't care who you are, if you're going to be a leader in this life and you're going to lead people, you have to go to both terrains because there are certain things you do not know until you're at the top. And there's certain lessons of life you do not know till you're at the bottom. Both of us teach us aspects of Christ and following him, that unless you've been there, you can never lead people through those terrains. So I think that's profound and I think you're spot on. And I think that recreate goes back to Spurgeon. One of my favorite sayings, he said, eclipse your former self. The Bible says we move from faith to faith and glory to glory. We are always recreating or moving to the next phase of who God called us to be before we in this life.

[Chemaine Nugent]

And you say moving forward. So on moving forward, there's a Lot of people who just feel stuck right now, especially with the holidays. You know, maybe they're stuck in uncertainty. They live by themselves or they lost loved ones, like our friend Sheriff Mark Lamb. I mean, this is a difficult time for a lot of people. So you say God moves us forward, not backward. What does that look like in practicality? You know, there is a Bible quote, brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press forward. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. And that's Philippians that you were talking about. 3, 13.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Yeah. Yeah. My dad gives me a lot of battlefield wisdom. He was a Tet offensive warrior, and he told me this from a very young age. I've never forgot it. He said, son, there are certain men that die at certain places in their life. He goes, there are shells of men. You can see them. But at some point in life, they went through a circumstance where they chose to die at that spot, and they never moved on. This life will throw you some hard stuff. Bible promises you will get knocked off your horse. The Bible says a righteous man falls seven times, but he gets back up. So what we don't know in this life is we don't know the things that are going to be sent by Satan to knock us off. We know with certainty there will be things. And when they hit us and hit us hard, we have two options. We either die at that spot and become a shell of an individual and become a victim, or we become what the Bible calls an overcomer. And we choose to say, God, no matter what, get me back up on my horse and move me forward. And I've been through a lot of shots in this life, things that have knocked me flat on my backside. And the ones that hit you the hardest are the ones you never see coming. But you have a choice. And I've had to walk that out many times and go, no matter what, God, get me back on my horse and let me move forward. Let me end this life as an overcomer, not as someone that was a victim or someone that was overcome. And when you have an overcoming spirit about you, it is contagious to people you lead. On the other hand, if you're a victim, it is contagious to people you're around in a negative sense. And so I choose to be an overcomer. I choose to find a way to find victory, and that is always in Christ. And those are the kind of people that I like to hang out with, that I consider friends, every friend that I know. They're all leaders. They've all been knocked off their horse many times. And. But the grace is by God, we've got back up and we've moved forward. Those are the type of people you should surround yourself with, and those are the type of leaders you should follow.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Yeah.

[Ted Nugent]

You know Shimane's podcast here on Real America Voice? We'd like to thank Real America's voice because there's nothing more important than faith and freedom. And there's a colloquialism that I often cite, especially when I do my children's charity and I speak to groups. I have campfires of their sunrise safaris. Families come from all around the world to hunt with me because I'm so much fun. The campfires are so uninhibited and so open and so honest. And what you're saying, Pastor Anthony, there's such wisdom that Shimane brings forth, whether it's Sheriff Lamb or the heroes of the military or just wise men like you. But it can be summarized thusly that I repeat often. We give the world the best we got and we get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got. Anyway, you know, that describes everybody in my band, my crew, my hunting buddies, my different businesses, the people that we meet with, the Vietnam vets every month, the time I spend with heroes who've lost an arm or a leg or their skin, or families that celebrated a flag draped coffin coming home. We give the world the best we got and we get kicked in the teeth. Faith, Give the. Give the world the best you got Anyway, does that sum it up pretty good?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

It does. And that's the thing I love about both of you guys individually and as a couple. I also got to meet Sheriff Mark Lamb. He came and spoke at a Naples event, and he had a great speech and shared a lot of things. But when he shared at the end the story of what he went through, his children, the anointing of God came in the room after that, and I went up after and introduced myself to him. And he said, pastor, if I was in Naples, I go to your church. And I said, brother, I want to thank you for sharing what you shared. It put a lot of courage into a lot of people. And that's the kind of people I like being around, is those who have been through some real stuff. Those, like you said, are still fighting, hooking and jabbing that have taken a lot of shots. They're battle tested but nevertheless they move forward and I think that's the type of people we should put in as leaders in this life.

[Chemaine Nugent]

I totally agree. Pastor Anthony Thomas, can you stick around one more segment? We don't want to let you go just yet.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Be my honor.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Okay, Stay tuned. Ted and I will be back. I think this is my new co host.

[Ted Nugent]

Faith and Freedom Baby, grab your guitar.

[Chemaine Nugent]

And play us out.

[Ted Nugent]

I could do that. I could play you out.

[Chemaine Nugent]

We'll be right back. Don't go away.

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[Chemaine Nugent]

Perhaps you were born for such a time as this. You know, we talk about good and evil on this Faith and Freedom show, and it is real. What I want to know from Pastor Anthony Thomas, who's going to be joining us again, how do believers fight back and what does spiritual warfare actually look like in 2025? How do we have the discernment and the wisdom and the courage to stand firm? And my favorite, one of my favorite Bible verses for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age. Coming back here on Faith and Freedom, Pastor Anthony Thomas. So, Pastor Anthony, what are your thoughts on that? How do we fight spiritual warfare in 2025?

[Ted Nugent]

I know how. How would you fight it?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

I'm gonna, I'm gonna give a word to Ted here because God gave it to me when he started playing. And it ties in with your question. The Bible says God is inhabited in the praises of his people. The worshipers always went before the warriors in battle. And this is a word for you, Ted. I know you just turned 77. Seven's the number of perfection. Double sevens is double perfection, the book of Revelation says. And they sang a new song. You look at every time in history where the season is going to change. God will always send a new song. And the song brings warfare in the atmosphere because the song ushers forth what God's next agenda is for the next season. This is a word the Lord gave me to give you, Ted. He is going to give you now new songs this year. There are songs that heaven is going to open up over your life where you will get downloads and instantaneously you will hear a new sound and new songs from heaven. And it is going to cause absolute great warfare in the spirit realm when you release those songs. So to answer your question, Shmaine, and this connects with the music, remember this. The ultimate thing is giving worship to God. And when we worship him, the Bible is very clear. It says let the high Praise of Psalms 149. It says Let the high praises of God be in our mouth and a two edged sword in our hand. When we worship God, why we're worshiping our sword is absolutely cutting down evil things. And I believe this. I believe God is going to give worship leaders new sounds and new songs that didn't originate from man. They're not cheap knockoffs they got from someone else, but they got in the presence of God and they heard the new sound. And then when that happens, that's when preachers listen to the sound. That's why I love working with anointed worshipers and begin to preach messages that have the fire of heaven on it. But remember, before there was utterance in heaven, it always was preceded by a song. And that's why God has such an emphasis on worshipers today and getting in the presence of God. Like I said, Ted, I. I'm going to be absolutely excited here. Some of the songs God's going to give you this year to release and it is going to release a heavenly atmosphere to destroy the powers of hell. And it's very excited because when we worship God, every other false God has to bow. When the presence of God comes, it.

[Ted Nugent]

Sounds like the motivation for stranglehold. In other words, I'm relentless. Here I come again now, baby, Like a dog in heat. But you're right, Anthony, I don't want to presume I have a. Well, I'm stopping myself. I was going to say presume I have a special connection to God, but I don't presume it. I do have a special connection with God. And when I pick up the guitar, I do not think of chords, I do not think of tempo, I do not think of groove. I do not think of lyrics. I do not think of anything is that it's. It's got to be divine intervention. It, it. Something channels through me. Whether it's a fun crazy song or it's a. Or it's a tribute to Fred Bear or it's a Spirit of the buffalo or Spirit of the wild or earth tones, these melodies, I, I really believe that I just channel my connection with God's miracle as a participant, as a hunter, a fisherman, a trapper, as a naturalist, as a farmer, as there's a rancher, as a man of the earth. I'm. I'm not. I'm not out of. I'm not out of my mind when I think that, am I?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

No, you're not. David was the greatest rock star in the whole Bible, and he wrote most of the psalms. Many of them were about life and what was going on around him or about issues of people, of heroes. But then there were certain psalms where God took him up. That's what the scripture says. Come up here. And when you come up, all of a sudden, you will get songs that now articulate what's going on in heaven. That was Jesus's prayer on earth as it is in heaven. And I think God has given you a variety of different songs, just like he did David speaking in all types of things. But I think in the next few years, you're going to get songs that will really articulate heaven's atmosphere and heaven's reality and heaven. And I think it's going to blow even you away when you get them, because you will feel the glory of God. That word, glory, one of my favorite ones in the Bible, the Hebrew word is kabad. It means the weight of God's presence. And when you hear a song that comes from heaven, there is a tangible weight that comes in to a room in an atmosphere that there's no other explanation other than God is in our midst.

[Chemaine Nugent]

And, hey, I got it. I got an idea. When we come to Naples in February, maybe you get a new worship leader.

[Ted Nugent]

I'll get up there. But, you know, you say God said, daniel, come on up. You mean I. Come on, come on up. Come on, come on up. Come on, come on, come on, come on, baby. Come on, come on, come on, come on up. Are you kidding me? I mean, I'm not kidding. When I. When I speak to biblically enlightened individuals or constitutionally enlightened individuals, where I helped teach a Second Amendment class at Hillsdale College with the great Attorney General Kris Kobach, I would state instinctual belief systems that I've always lived, like, I have the right to keep and bear arms, period. And I would make statements about that, and Kris Kobach would come in and go, you know, Thomas Jefferson said that exact same thing. Now, I didn't know that, but truth is truth, whether it comes from me or Thomas Jefferson or Pastor Anthony or Shemaine Nugent or anybody who thinks and follows their instinctual Gut. And we will speak the truth. So you don't need authorization to stand up and speak the truth. In fact, we have an obligation now more than ever to stand up and speak the truth. That's why faith and freedom is so important. Thank you. Real America's voice. How important could this be, Anthony?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

It couldn't be more important. I think I. I love the term musicians, or they call their guitar their battle ax. And that's really what it is. It is an ax to cut wicked things down. Just like the preacher's voice is meant to be a flamethrower and to put heat in people's hearts and burn wicked stuff up. We're in the battle. Whatever gifts God's given us, let us use them for his glory. That's awesome.

[Chemaine Nugent]

I love it.

[Ted Nugent]

You're speaking my language, brother.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Hallelujah.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Pastor Anthony Thomas, thank you so much for that word for Ted. You never know. Maybe Ted Music, you know, the most.

[Ted Nugent]

Dangerous thing in the world is to give me more confidence. You realize that, don't you?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

There. There. There is nothing like when God gives confidence because God backs it. Man's confidence. With a lot of stuff we can say we can't back it. But when God says, you are something, you are something. You are a battle ax from heaven. God prepared you for this. And there is wicked things that you have to cut down before your life comes to an end. I believe that. I believe that's why he's putting us in your heart and spirit right now. Your best days and shaman's best days are yet ahead, not behind.

[Ted Nugent]

I believe that. Yes, indeed. Especially with her at my side.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Oh, agreed.

[Chemaine Nugent]

I'm glad I got that on film. Pastor Anthony Thomas, Tip of the Spirit Church, thank you so much for joining us. If you want to find out more about Pastor Anthony, watch, watch his messages. You could go to rumble and tip of the spear. Naples, is it, Anthony?

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Tip of the. Tip of the Spirit. Church.org Tip of the Spirit.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Church.org Pastor Anthony Thomas, God bless you. Thank you so much.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

God bless you guys. Have a great day.

[Ted Nugent]

We love you, buddy. Merry Christmas. Happy independence every day. Happy Thanksgiving every day.

[Chemaine Nugent]

You know, we have covered a lot today. Some. Some heavy stuff. But we have to remember that God gave us joy for a reason. And, you know, Ted, you've done my show many, many times, and I have fought to end the show with something to make you smile and laugh.

[Ted Nugent]

I thought that's what I was doing.

[Chemaine Nugent]

When you're not with me all the time, I have to do it on my own. So this is how I do it take a look I love.

[Mindset Coach]

Let me tell you girl you my little boo thing so I don't give a hoot what you do say girl I know you a little too tight I'll be shooting that shot like 2k girl I know Tell them I'm tell him I'm next Tell them you find a little something fresh I know Tell them I'm tell him I'm next Tell them you found a little something fresh I know Put a little gold in the teeth and the fingers hot to the nose I keep okay I see a brother holding your seat no beef but I'm trying to get to know you at least don't take my talking to your own I can keep it chill like the so beyond blonde I'mma keep it real when your man long gone if you looking for a friend and you got the wrong song girl what's good one switch up if you book tonight that's fiction I'm outside, no pictures you want me? Go figure to the back, to the front you a 10 baby girl but I know I hate to the back to the you a 10 baby girl.

[Ted Nugent]

But I'm the one.

[Chemaine Nugent]

That's how I always end my Hallelujah.

[Ted Nugent]

I love a good groove, especially it involves puppies. We love our dogs. Once again, thank you for supporting Shaman's Truth Logic Common Sense on faith and freedom. Thank you real America's voice. I have a spirit Campfire. The First Amendment is the first battle cry of our founding founding fathers because King George would shut you up, tell you what religion to adhere to, invade your home and not let you protest the people who represent you. Now we have an experiment in self government. So I hope you all vote. Those core values that faith and freedom stand for, we're going to put on the screen post production hunternation.org it's not about hunting, it's about voting traditional family values. If you don't vote what you believe in, you're just not in the asset column. America's dream experiment and self government pivots upon the voice and the voting of the American people. So please join [e-mail] and realize that there's a lot of conservatives and Christians and constitutionalists that don't vote. And that's unforgivable.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Hunternation.org and if you want to find out more about Ted, go to Ted nugent.com and my website is Shamane Nugent Rocks. You can sign up for my free newsletter and I've got a special gift for you. Hopefully we'll put this QR code up. So just take a photo of that QR code and you get a special gift, my toxin detection toolkit. Say that 10 times fast.

[Ted Nugent]

Very important.

[Chemaine Nugent]

You know, life is hard, especially this time of year, and we have to laugh. Yes. We have to find joy. And that's not ignoring the battle that's actually winning it, I think. So if you're ready to protect your peace and health this holiday season, grab my book abundantly. Well, it's the perfect guide for staying grounded when the world just falls apart. And if you want to know our story, really, it's the story about how I became on this Faith and Freedom show, my having my own podcast because doctors couldn't tell me what was wrong with me. I had to fight for that information myself. And I wrote a book about it called Killer House, which Ted, you wrote the forward for.

[Ted Nugent]

And it's all about a lesson.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Yeah, the struggle that we lost our home, that was once on MTV Cribs. So faith and freedom right now, in.

[Ted Nugent]

Spite of it being on MTV Cribs. But bottom line is mold and poisonous toxic mold is a real health threat in America. So get Chemain's book Killer House, really important. And thank you for supporting us. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Independence Day, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Veterans Day, Happy Memorial Day, every day.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Thank you so much for being my co host.

[Ted Nugent]

I love being your co host for 36 years.

[Chemaine Nugent]

37.

[Ted Nugent]

37 next month. Hallelujah. Soon.

[Sheriff Mark Lamb]

Next week.

[Chemaine Nugent]

37 or 38.

[Ted Nugent]

See you at the shot show. Shmiel Goatee, shooting, hunting, outdoor.

[Pastor Anthony Thomas]

Ted.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Bye everyone.

[Ted Nugent]

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider because it's the outsiders who change the world.

[Chemaine Nugent]

Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.

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[Chemaine Nugent]

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[Chemaine Nugent]

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