The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez

Bobby and Jeff focus on the 1980s dystopian films and ask what we can learn from the moment in cinema history. Why in the heart of the Reagan era did so many blockbuster films not only entertain the masses with harrowing tales of a miserable future, but also provoke them to question the legitimacy of their own civilization? Thanks for reading The GateKeepers! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.At the core of Anglo-Saxon concepts of progress lies the Scientific Revolution. But the Scientific Revolution depended on a deep faith in human beings' ability to record, observe, predict, project, and plan. The greatest dystopian films of the 80s all involved plots that threw out such faith. From the gasoline-starved wasteland of the Road Warrior to the robotic hellscape of Blade Runner, Terminator, and Robocop, this genre challenged audiences to confront the possibility that Western civilization can't foresee the consequences of its technological choices. Not only do the films cast doubt upon the likely survival of Anglo-Saxon civilization; they also undermine that civilization's claim to rationality and order, opening viewers to the possibility that the West is not a true civilization at all. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegk.substack.com

Bobby Lopez and David Bumgardner discuss the recent upheaval at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the rise and fall of Adam Greenway, and what this all means. SPONSORS:Pre-order your copy of the upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity by Bobby Lopez using code BOBBY for 10% off at: https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd Become a Freedom First TV subscriber to get full access to all the recordings of the FFTV exclusive shows, as well as free registration for our online summits like the upcoming Root Out The RINOs one. Sign up today using the code BOBBY for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv/subscribe.Consider investing in gold to hedge against the tanking dollar. Go to https://ourgoldguy.com for more information, and let them know Bobby Lopez sent you.Start your day off with a cup of Freedom First Coffee, the only drink that actually tastes like freedom. Use code BOBBY for a 10% discount at https://freedomfirstcoffee.com.

El Tabano and Micah Sample talk about the seemingly forced resignation of Adam Greenway and what credit must go to the Enemies within the Church and Wokepedia team for exposing what was going wrong on the Southwestern Baptist campus.SPONSORS:Pre-order your copy of the upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity by Bobby Lopez using code BOBBY for 10% off at: https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd Become a Freedom First TV subscriber to get full access to all the recordings of the FFTV exclusive shows, as well as free registration for our online summits like the upcoming Root Out The RINOs one. Sign up today using the code BOBBY for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv/subscribe.Consider investing in gold to hedge against the tanking dollar. Go to https://ourgoldguy.com for more information, and let them know Bobby Lopez sent you.Start your day off with a cup of Freedom First Coffee, the only drink that actually tastes like freedom. Use code BOBB for a 10% discount at https://freedomfirstcoffee.com.

In this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, El Tabano interviews Judith Stacey, an accomplished feminist who wrote key texts in the 1990s.Although El Tabano and she disagree on some things, we have to credit Dr Stacey for correctly predicting that conservatives would abandon “Family Values” once they felt pressure to invest real resources behind the rhetoric.Pre-order Bobby Lopez's upcoming book Cancel Proof Christianity using code BOBBY for a 10% discount at https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd Watch the entire episode exclusively on Freedom First TV. Become a subscriber using code BOBBY for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv/subscribe.

El Tábano and Jeff Younger answer this question by first considering what Ted Cruz said and how the Democrats turned the tables on him. For all the talk of "constitutional conservatism" you don't want to miss this!!!Spoiler: the GOP's not it, nor are the Democrats.To watch the full episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez, go to https://freedomfirst.tv. Become a subscriber to get access to the full library of shows from Bobby, as well as Teddy Daniels, Kandiss Taylor, Karen Kingston, Dr Mark Sherwood and more. Use code BOBBY for 25% off when you sign up at https://freedomfirst.tv/subscribe.

Jeff Dornik and Bobby Lopez at the Big Brown Gadfly talk about the phenomenon of conservatives who keep falling for the same trap over and over. Bobby asks, how many times can your fake friend rob your house before you step giving your friend a house key? The cases of Dave Rubin, Charlie Kirk, Peter Thiel, and Rosaria Butterfield are all brought up and examined.

El Tábano and Jeff Dornik do a deep dive into the problems with the Dobbs decision and the right-wing's problem with religious liberty rather than Christian morality.

Rachel Alexander and Bobby Lopez talk about the impact and meaning of the Dobbs case, which has overturned Roe v. Wade: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdfAs veterans of the conservative cause, we have so many questions to ask about this. We want to rejoice, of course!And then we need to look frankly at why this took 50 years. Who is accountable for the inordinate delay and the 65,000,000 babies that died while conservatives could not get their act together?

This episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez features special guests Judd Saul, producer of the new documentary Enemies Within the Church, and Ray Fava from the Evangelical Dark Web.

Judd Saul joined Bobby Lopez on this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the new documentary he produced alongside Trevor Loudon and Pastor Cary Gordon. Bobby was featured in the film sharing his experience with the Southern Baptist Convention and how the Marxists have taken over the schools and universities.The Big Brown Gadfly is going to be joining Freedom First TV, so be sure to become a subscriber today using code BOBBY for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv.

Ray Fava joins Bobby Lopez on The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the problems with Tom Buck, Karen Swallow Prior and Bart Barber determining the future of the SBC.Freedom First TV is launching next week, and The Big Brown Gadfly is officially joining the network! Become a subscriber today using code BOBBY for 25% off FFTV subscription at https://freedomfirst.tv

The Southern Baptist Convention is aflame with controversy and in danger of being destroyed. It is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States and a clearinghouse of power, money, and influence in conservative Western culture.I say: Let it burn to the ground. That message came to me even louder after doing this interview with whistleblower David Bumgardner.Pre-order Bobby Lopez's upcoming book, Cancel-Proof Christianity, using discount code BOBBY. https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd

Jeff Younger received national attention because he endured the unthinkable as a result of corruption in family law and education. His ex-wife battered him in court to pay child support to have their son, James, transition genders at a pre-school age, against Jeff's wishes. The struggle has prompted Jeff's courage and activism. He is now running for the Texas state legislator and has a shot at winning.In this discussion, the BBG and Jeff talk about education in the larger sense. You may be surprised that the topic does not dwell on the hot button issues brought forward by trans bathroom bills or the "don't say gay" law (misrepresented by that term) in Florida.Instead BBG and Jeff go deeper to talk about the existential crisis in USA education, beginning with why we spend so much money and time on students and cannot produce scholars as smart as the haphazardly educated people who founded America. From there they discuss the plague of high school sports, the neglect of males in the education system, and a host of problems affecting not only the humanities but the sciences as well. Pre-order Bobby Lopez's new upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity, where he lays out the strategy that Conservative Christians must take to create an alternative ecosystem to become uncancelable. Order your copy at https://gatekeepersonline.com/store today using code BOBBY for a discount.

For part three of this series, I brought on Jeff Dornik. We did some soul searching to ask what possible routes lay open for to move forward with our ideals. We both had a vague sense that we might be willing to fight alongside people who agree with us on nothing at all, other than the shared notion that the existing regime is corrupt and we need massive overhaul. Dornik felt that a possible unifying theme was liberty, though this sounds to me like libertarianism, which we both agreed was already tainted.

In my discussion with Alan Atchison and Ray Fava, we touched upon the problem of conservatives and war propaganda. Tension grew among conservatives almost immediately because an elite of establishment rightists, namely those who were counterpoised against Donald Trump, embraced the rhetoric favoring escalation and American entanglement in the Russia-Ukraine war. That Trump fed this same rhetoric in his own way only makes it more obvious that the right is dead. All signs and polls indicate that the Trump base rejects Biden's war propaganda and does not want to throw America's weight behind Ukraine. Yet there are very few elite leaders on the right who champion the true feeling of the base.As Ray Fava joined our conversation we extended the death of the right to the death of orthodox evangelical churches. Fava and Atchison have both worked diligently to fight against the liberalization of evangelical churches. I have tended to see the problem more as authoritarianism and corruption in general rather than simply one political camp or another gaining ground. Either way I see the moribund state of the political right mirrored in the moribund state of not only the Southern Baptist Convention but actually the entire range of evangelical denominations.

Brittany Klein and I both began on the left but spent the last 10 years identified with conservatives because of our stance on social issues. What happened during our “ten years on the right” is a complex story which we will tell one day. We compiled a book together, Jephthah's Daughters, which laid out the case for a child's right to a mother and father. That book came out in 2015 and got us labeled as right-wing fanatics. But for March 15, 2022, we busied ourselves with the task of diagnosing the left, the political camp where both of us began our political consciousness.Two major defections from the left stand out as prompts for the discussion: Glenn Greenwald, whose Twitter and substack feeds attest to his conviction that the political left has lost itself in crass authoritarianism; and Bill Maher, whose famous takedowns of conservatives have not died but have come to coexist in his HBO soliloquies with increasingly bitter lamentations about the left's growing extremism. There are many, however, who seem to be J-K-Rowling their way, if not to the right, at least away from the safe compounds of leftist orthodoxy.Perhaps these are isolated anecdotes. But perhaps they are not. If we are witnessing a deeper trend, it will signify a massive, perhaps twice or thrice in a lifetime, political realignment.When Brittany and I talk about our youths on the left, we can't help but feel nostalgic. There was something valuable about belonging to the political camp that championed free speech, opposed repressive puritanism, checked the power of corporations, and critiqued the sins of the military-industrial complex. We can even appreciate that once upon a time the left bore the classy honor of championing racial minorities and sexual misfits who were mistreated or devalued by mainstream society.The war in Ukraine has perhaps brought into clearer focus what we already witnessed about the left's degeneration. Or maybe it's just that now many people are realizing that something has gone terribly wrong with the left. Certainly the vibrancy of the antiwar movement in 2002 makes for a stark and sobering contrast against the left's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I will never forget the adrenaline of twenty years ago, when Colin Powell was appearing before the United Nations making the case for the United States to invade Iraq. Two girls named Rebecca, both white liberal undergrads, crossed my path at SUNY Buffalo back then. They were idealistic and convicted that they might be able to change something for the better. The three of us got together and planned a Books Not Bombs conference on the university campus. We had modules in different classrooms and held a rally in the main plaza by Capen Hall.My wife and I worked with a host of other people to raise money for buses to New York City and Washington to march against the war, on February 15 and March 15 of 2003. The energy in our camp was utopian. We marched through shoulder-to-shoulder clouds to shout for peace, never imagining a time when all the comrades around us would, twenty years later, be calling for anyone who doubted the Biden administration's position on Ukraine to be investigated, placed on trial for treason, and arrested.But here we are.Historians may argue the point but I believe quite strongly that the antiwar movement made Barack Obama's presidency possible. Ergo, it was the reaction to the invasion of Iraq that carved out the political left we know today. No other issue felt as compelling and invigorating during the 2000s as resistance to a war that we knew was pure human tragedy. While there was no Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or Instagram then, we had many mainstream liberal sites that provided consistent news to undercut the warmongering on mainstream media channels like CNN, Fox, and MSNBC.There was Democracy Now! We had Mother Jones, Salon, Atlantic Monthly, as well as countless primordial but still readable blogs in those early days. I was editor in chief of the graduate students' newspaper and ran countless editorials critiquing the Bush administration's rush to war. As the war dragged on and Americans saw the horrors of Abu Ghraib, then slowly realized that there were no WMDs, everyone who withstood peer pressure to oppose the war in 2002 became a hero by 2006. In this turbulent time were born the big careers of Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Cenk Uygur, and countless other commentators. Most importantly, Moveon.org, a website that I knew foremost as an organizing hub for people to oppose the wars in the Middle East, transitioned at some point to a Democratic Party operation headquarters. Barack Obama gained the upper hand against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the 2008 Democratic primaries largely because of the Moveon constituency. That base threw their weight to Obama for one standout reason. Obama claimed to have given a speech opposing the war in Iraq. Clinton and Biden, both senators in 2002, voted to authorize the invasion.The importance of the antiwar movement to the formation of today's world cannot be over-emphasized. I stepped away from the left with the rise of Barack Obama because I did not like his choice of Biden as a running mate. It appeared likely that Obama was going to favor the identity politics of the Democratic Party for cynical reasons, at the expense of the Party's base of antiwar and pro-worker policies. My gut instincts at the time were vindicated quickly as Obama did everything possible to advance abortion, the LGBT lobby, and superficial racial pep talks, while feeding the war machine with his escalation in Afghanistan and NATO's war in North Africa, combined with Obama's unseemly alliance with corporate America on Obamacare and in the rotten stimulus of 2009.By the time of Romney's race against Obama, I was already a committed Republican and writing for American Thinker. There was nothing wrong with being part of the GOP because the Ron Paul wing had taken antiwar activism away from the left. Obama's selling out to corporations showed me that the Democrats were no longer the antiwar party and were never going to be the worker's party again, so the only real distinction between Democrats and Republicans rested on the social issues: faith, religious liberty, sexuality, gender, and abortion. Those issues mattered to me more and more because I was now a middle-aged father trying to bring my wife and children to the Lord, and I felt God calling me to bear witness for His laws on personal conduct in the public square. That's why I ended up Republican and labeled “conservative” by 2012. In reality nothing had changed about my beliefs except their position relative to the unraveling left.While Bill Maher has a point that the left has gotten extreme and crazy – it really has – the story of the left's evolution is, of course, much more complicated. Today's Democrats came to power based on the specific stances of the antiwar movement of 2002. We were against the USA Patriot Act, against the encroachment on civil liberties, against questioning people's patriotism based on differences, against ethnic demonization, against warmongering, against crippling other countries' citizens through sanctions, against economic imperialism, against war profiteering, against corporate collusion, and against, of course, using our military might to escalate wars overseas. If not for these specific positions of the antiwar left of the early 2000s, the Democrats would have never gained the traction necessary to win back Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. Nothing of the Obama era, including the unlikely ascendancy of Joe Biden, would have ever happened.And now, firmly seated in power, the left has completely betrayed every single one of those positions. So-called “liberals” are demanding that the government monitor citizens and work with tech companies to de-platform and bar them from the public square. Now some liberals are even calling for dissidents like Tulsi Gabbard, a fellow Democrat, to be investigated, dispossessed, and possibly arrested, for being a “Russian asset.”Now the left is throwing around the ugly terms “treason,” “traitor,” and “un-American,” as if liberal Hollywood has not billed fifties McCarthyism (a walk in the park compared to today's cancel culture) as a world-historical trauma en par with the Inquisition or sack of Carthage.The left's lockstep demonization of Russia has reached new heights. I had an early taste of the anti-Russian fervor of the Obama era left in 2014, when the Human Rights Campaign sent a press release to over a million members highlighting my name and insinuating that I was involved with anti-homosexual hate groups in Russia. This was right about when Russia passed a law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors, something that in retrospect should not have seemed so terrible given that Western liberals were pushing to criminalize the promotion of heterosexuality to minors via “conversion therapy.” It was frightening back then to be labeled as a pro-Russian “exporter of hate,” especially because the anti-Russian rhetoric kept escalating into the 2020s.Bobby Lopez's upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity is now available for pre-orders. This book focuses on exactly how Christians can create a separate eco-system to ensure that we can never be cancelled by the Left. Place your order at https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd using code BOBBY for 10% off.

The documentary Enemies within the Church shows that similar human sins thrive in US evangelicalism and Eastern Europe“He who is faithful in the small will also be faithful in the great, while he who is unjust on a small scale, will also be unjust on a grand scale.” So said Jesus to his disciples in the sixteenth chapter of Luke. We should count these words among the many verses that American evangelicalism has lost sight of. Believers in Jesus Christ should understand the parallels between injustices that happen within their immediate social orbit and injustices they see writ-large on the nightly news. The little things and big things have an important and enduring relationship because people's misconduct in one's sphere mirrors and compounds their misconduct in the other.Let us consider, for argument's sake, someone who has very few resources but applies the few resources he has to abuse other people. It is safe to conjecture that such a person would probably commit war crimes if he were rich, powerful, and able to command thousands of troops to follow his bidding. If he had no regard for the damage done by his nonviolent and supposedly mild cruelties, it would not be hard to numb him to the damage done by violence. Once he's numb, anything becomes possible, because he no longer heeds the voice of the Holy Spirit.So why do I bring this up? A documentary came out about abuses of power within American evangelical churches, called Enemies within the Church. If you made it this far into the present article, you really need to go to this website (www.enemieswithinthechurch.com) and see it. I realize that most people right now are consumed with news about Ukraine. But the human concerns that drive readers to follow the Russian invasion bear upon the urgent information provided in the documentary.What does the evangelical church have to do with the price of tea in Ukraine?Americans are hearing leaders like Russell Moore denounce Putin for being a “murderer and tyrant” as well as “an abuser of evangelical Christians, other religious minorities, and even his own country's orphans.” Wow, that's rich. “Rev. Dr. Moore” has engaged in his own venal tyrannies. When he was president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, that organization didn't just attempt to liberalize tens of thousands of American churches toward an agenda fundamentally at odds with the Bible. The ERLC minions also destroyed people's careers, joined in campaigns of character assassination, and ruthlessly invaded institutions to get access to their resources, the most prominent example being the way the ERLC clique went savagely after Paige Patterson and his allies in order to install their friends and fellows at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Politics is as complicated in the church as it is at NATO. Russell Moore is an easy target for outrage. But as Enemies within the Church points out, like most supervillains of church life, Moore was promoted and protected by a host of people who have yet to be held accountable for the damage done to American evangelicalism. Documentary producer Judd Saul worked carefully to bring these abuses to light. If people don't understand the stakes and scope of the problem, if they fail to defend the bride of Christ against those who are abusing her, then American churches don't stand a chance.Many people I respect have told me there's no point fighting the fight of Enemies within the Church. They tell me the camp championed by the documentary—call it “the Christian right” if you wish—has already lost the war. Since the story about Ukraine broke, I've had heart-to-heart conversations with my friends on both left and right, especially who have been ruthlessly canceled. I've called up people like Michelle Shocked and Denise McAllister to find fellowship with those who went through cancel culture as I did. Authoritarian sins caused me and so many other Christians to lose our careers, friends, family, and reputations. It is obvious that the warmongering against Russia will bring cancel culture to a whole new level. People who question the dominant warmongering narrative should expect to be labeled pro-Putin, racist, and fascist, and forced to choose between their values and their ability to survive. What seemed like our “personal” issues with censorship and institutional abuses now appears ready to bring Western civilization into World War III and thermonuclear war. My friends may be right; perhaps all is lost. For my part I have withdrawn from social media and almost all public debate because I feel I did what God asked me to. I think God has given me leave to “cultivate my own garden” (pace Voltaire's Candide) away from the toxic sparring with people like David French, Colby Adams, Jonathan Merritt, Hannah Williams, Karen Swallow Prior, Janet Mefferd, and the rest. The wisest thing my father ever told me was, “the world is full of a--holes. Avoid them so you don't smart smelling like them.”I've also realized that almost nobody in the public square believes the ideologies they wear as labels. There is no shortage of famous people embroiled in debates about LGBT and Christianity, including the pastors who answered John Macarthur's call to protest against government bans on conversion therapy on January 16. In LGBT debates, however, most commentators do not seem to care about whether self-identified gay or trans people can turn to Christ and live out the Bible's vision for sexuality. They care about winning the debate.I know many of these self-proclaimed gospel defenders from my ten years of being involved in debates. They weren't there when these battles mattered or when their advocacy could have made a difference. They let countless people get banned, shunned, and crushed. Most of them have fallen into a predictable routine and need to perform their Christian beliefs in order to pay their bills and save themselves from loneliness and embarrassment. Culture wars and conventional ground wars have something in common. They have to be fought. They require strategy. They depend on funding, morale, and courage. To win wars you have to do something. And it saddens me to see Christians wanting to do something about Ukraine, where they can't accomplish anything valuable, while they continue to do nothing about the disastrous fall of Christ's bride at home.That's the key point getting lost in the fog of war. On the whole American Christians do not know very much about Ukraine or Russia. Unless they want to push American politicians to become entangled in yet another conflict far removed from us, full of ambiguities and devoid of clear-cut good and bad guys, we can't do anything about Ukraine from here other than pray. We should pray. But when it comes to the same timeless sins of hubris, domination, callousness to suffering, deceit, greed, vainglory, ambition, and aggression, take note—there is more than enough of that in our own church world, and evangelicals can do something about it close to home.The culture war plays a major role in the Russia-Ukraine War. The term “clash of civilizations,” coined by Samuel P. Huntington, could apply to Russia's friction with the west as much as scholars applied it to the collision of Christianity and Islam. Within the supposedly Christian west, one worldview anchored in timeless moral standards wrestles mightily against another worldview, which is not anchored anywhere but floats on the whims of postmodern, posthuman, relativist thinking. The United States has been exporting its sexual decadence, reckless consumerism, and general hedonism all over the globe. In the last fifteen years, Russia has played the counterbalance to the US in cultural terms, because Putin and other Russians have refused to go along with the west's redefinition of gender, sexuality, family, history, and morality. A lot of Christians who agree more with Putin than with Biden on morality find themselves in a difficult dilemma if they embrace the anti-Putin propaganda which boosts the anti-morality of America's political hedonism. They also find themselves in an awkward position if the situation tempts them to defend everything Putin does.Saul and Gordon came out with their film in November 2021. It is no surprise that all the platforms that need to be airing it are working hard to erase the truths the film exposed. The movie documents how people with unchristian agendas have grossly distorted scripture, even turned it against itself, in order to capitalize on the social capital that comes with America's pastorate. No matter how little talent one has, no matter whether someone believes in Christ or not, he who controls the pews has access. My own history with the documentary, and evangelical corruptionI was interviewed and appeared in the documentary because I had firsthand experience with the subject matter. I have learned the painful truth that there is nothing Christian, right, or conservative about what people perceive as the Reagan-legacy Christian right.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Dr Bobby Lopez and Jeff Dornik discuss the upcoming Cancel-Proof Christianity Summit in Ft Worth, TX, on Saturday September 25th. During this event, they'll unveil their plan to create an alternative to the current education system which will both protect conservative professors from censorship and will ensure students receive top-level quality Christian education.Speakers at this event include Dr Bobby Lopez, Jeff Dornik, Jeff Younger, Dr Paul Church, Dr Mike Spaulding, Judd Saul, Pastor Sam Jones and Doni Anthony. You can register for this event as well as the livestream at http://cancelproofchristianity.com.

The Mass Resistance Texas team joins Bobby Lopez for this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the epic battle for social conservatism in the Texas House and Senate. LGBT, abortion, school choice, carry, and much more!

If you care about Christianity in America, you need to listen to this hour review of all the problems with the largest Protestant denomination in the USA. In this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez interviews Alan Atchison of Capstone Report about the upcoming election for the next SBC president, and what to know when you decide whether to vote for Mohler, Litton, Adams, or Stone.Note: This episode was recorded prior to the SBC Presidential election. However, there is a lot of commentary one what's wrong with the SBC is that is extremely important today.We just announced our very first in-person conference in Ft Worth, TX, called Cancel-Proof Christianityon September 25th. Speakers include Jeff Younger, Dr Bobby Lopez, Dr Paul Church, Jeff Dornik, Dr Mike Spaulding, Judd Saul, Pastor Sam Jones and Doni Anthony who will be discussing the need for Christians to create our own ecosystem, starting with education. Get tickets at http://cancelproofchristianity.com

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez and Michael Foster discuss the recent struggles in Texas over gender and more broadly the masculinity crisis we keep hearing about. There is a movement of Christian men trying to revive masculinity, which is discussed in depth. Michael Foster is a writer at http://itsgoodtobeaman.com.

A livestream from Rep. Stephanie Klick's district in Texas. The "Save James" bill would ban pediatric transgender procedures. These and other bills are in the legislative mix of Texas.We just announced our very first in-person conference in Ft Worth, TX, called Cancel-Proof Christianity on September 25th. Speakers include Jeff Younger, Dr Bobby Lopez, Dr Paul Church, Jeff Dornik, Dr Mike Spaulding and Judd Saul, who will be discussing the need for Christians to create our own ecosystem, starting with education. Get tickets at http://cancelproofchristianity.com

Denise McAllister joins this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez as a guest to discuss everything hetero and painful: golddiggers, feminist drama queens, chumps, simps, white knights, divas, brats, and church scolds. Plus, can the Tik Tok generation find heterosexual love?

This episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez featured an Interview with Ray Moore about the fall from grace within Christian education. Ray Moore, a Christian education expert and leader in the Exodus Mandate Movement to get Christians out of public schools, speaks frankly on the impending downfall of the Christian education world.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez interviews Tracy Shannon of Mass Resistance about why so it seems that events like drag queen story hour always seem to proceed even when the whole community is against it.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez has Lauren Witzke on to discuss her back and forth with Ric Grenell... the question that came out of that was whether there's a place for social conservatives within the GOP.

Guest Rachel Alexander joins The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez to discuss whether anyone is sane in the traditional conservative orbit anymore. Is SCOTUS mentally lost? Are we going to focus on Trump until 2024? Will social conservatives get anywhere in the future? This and more.

A discussion on the growing marginalization of men with John Haskins, Senior Fellow of the Inter-American Institute.

Three writers who graduated from Yale say the politically toxic environment in the United States has gone too far. Eric Metaxas, John Zmirak and Bobby Lopez warn of the next phase of cancel culture: the erasure of people's prestigious degrees years or decades after graduation.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez and Britney Klein discuss Commentator Accountability vs Cancel Culture. What should the repercussions be for making a false or homophobic statement? Bobby and Britney discuss why this “accountability” is nothing more than an extortion racket and is counterproductive to the actual cause.

The January 6 conflict on Capitol Hill has given many camps a lot of mileage. The right may view that day with regret or remorse. In this episode Lopez asks what the whole affair was worth.

Alan Atchison, editor of Capstone Report (www.capstonereport.com) joins the Big Brown Gadfly to talk about the scandals rocking the Southern Baptist Convention and launch Bobby's series, "The Total Depravity of the Southern Baptist Convention."

Bobby Lopez and the team at Mass Resistance Texas discuss a lot of the current issues surrounding the Conservative Agenda, including the issue of homosexuality and transgenderism. These are important issues to focus on within state politics.

Jeff Dornik joins this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the upcoming SBC election for President. Four men will be vying for the SBC presidency next week: Al Mohler, Ed Litton, Mike Stone, and Randy Adams. I will go over the four contenders and explain my endorsement.

In this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez has as a special guest Pedro Gonzalez, who works with both American Greatness and Chronicles Magazine. He discusses the possible faces of future leadership in the conservative movement. Pedro tweets and gabs at @emeriticus and has a newsletter at contra.substack.com.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Rachel Alexander and Bobby Lopez talk about the doom of the election certification and what we can do to carry on now that the battle over election 2020 is over.

Bruno returns to The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the allegations of Election Fraud and and the MAGA movement from the perspective of the French Conservatives. This episode is the sixth episode that Bobby and Bruno have done in French. It's been a pleasant surprise to learn that there's a large group of Trump supporters in foreign countries, including France.

The team from Mass Resistance join Bobby Lopez during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss Charlie Kirk, his influence within Conservatism and whether he's good for the movement or not. On one hand he's been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, yet he's also been more a Libertarian than a Conservative. Or he could be better described as an anti-Socialist. Kirk has also been promoting the LGBTQ and Drag Queen lifestyle. Does this lifestyle have a place within Conservatism?

This episode of The Big Brown Gadfly is a special French edition featuring a conversation between host Bobby Lopez and Bruno le Gaullois about the aftermath of the 2020 Presidential Election.

John Zmirak returns for another episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez to discuss the fact that Conservatives being accused of being Christian Nationalists and whether it's even a bad thing to be one. Clearly, the Left uses the term Christian Nationalism as a slur, attempting to tie it to White Nationalism. However, what does it actually mean to be a Christian Nationalist?

Bobby Lopez talks with John Zmirak during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly about the absurd rhetorical games of anti-Trumpers who accuse Christian conservatives of idolatry merely because they like Trump's policies and support him in his fight against election fraud. This attack strategy by these Never Trumpers is a game of "gotcha" that, when actually dissected, does not hold up against scrutiny.

In the last stretch before Election 2020 is ultimately decided between Trump and Biden, Bobby and Rachel go over the final six contested states and what questions remain in each one about election integrity. While Joe Biden has now been declared the victor in the 2020 Election, that does not change the fact that we cannot concede this election. It's clear that the election was stolen, so it's vitally important that we do not let up on the push to expose this stolen election. Rachel Alexander joins Bobby Lopez during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to break down each of the states in question to figure out what really went down on Election Day and in the aftermath.

The vast majority of the visible Evangelical Elite have taken up the anti-Donald Trump position, demanding that Conservative Christians stop fighting to expose Election Fraud. They'll cite the 60 court cases that got thrown out, yet it's important to remember that courts don't like to change the outcome of an election. We shouldn't be surprised by that. The courts want to be at fault for an outrage of a belief that the election was decided by the courts.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez interviews his friend Jeff Younger, founder of the SaveJames movement, on the claims made in a forensics report regarding Antrim County, Michigan. Jeff points out that from a cybersecurity perspective the Ramsland report is reliable.

Many of the Evangelical Elite, most of which would refer to themselves as "Conservative," are throwing slanderous accusations towards Donald Trump and his supporters, including claims of "white supremacy" and "Christian Nationalism." What is actually going on here and why is this happening within Evangelicalism? Alan Atchison of Capstone Report joins Bobby Lopez in this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss these wild accusations.

Bobby teams up with Catholic commentator Stephen Herreid to analyze a rash of self-proclaimed Christian writers attacking Christians who want to fight against election fraud and support Trump. David French, Rod Dreher, Karen Swallow Prior, Beth Moore, Andrew Walker, Denny Burk, Matt Smethurst, and J.D. Greear all seem to be sounding the same alarms against Trump supporters and using the same phrases. Why?

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez teams up with one of his favorite guests, Rachel Alexander, to discuss the history of the Roman Empire (specifically, its fall and split into two realms), as well as how to interpret the Supreme Court's rejection of the Texas v. Pennsylvania case. Bobby and Rachel suggest different possibilities for how the future will play out.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez reviews the history of the JFK assassination, the Warren Commission, Watergate and civil rights history in general, showing how it relates to the recent decision by the Supreme Court to rebuff Texas's case against Pennsylvania. In arguing for Biden's claim to the presidency, liberals and some conservatives have nullified the whole purpose of the 14th amendment -- equal protection under the law and due process.

Rachel Alexander, Schumann and Jeff Dornik join Bobby Lopez to discuss the nitty gritty of how fraudsters may have pulled off stealing this election, not so much focusing on procedural battles. This is Detective Hour on The Big Brown Gadfly!

A new episode of The Big Brown Gadfly w/ Bobby Lopez talking to Alan Atchison, EIC of Capstone Report, about the 2020 election controversies & what it tells us about the Southern Baptist Convention. The common denominator is that the visible leaders from both the political and the Evangelical world are filled with lies, cheating and stealing.

Rachel Alexander joins Bobby for this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly. Her experience as a Maricopa County, Arizona election attorney gives her rich insights into the battle over votes in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Her assessment is, don't pack up yet, Trump still has a very strong fighting chance of winning.