Let's Chop It Up Rich Podcast

Apostate Prophet was born in Germany and raised in a devout Muslim home, taught that Islam was the absolute truth and that questions were something to push down, not deal with. When he left Islam 12 years ago, his father told him he could no longer consider him his son. They haven’t spoken in about eight years.He tells Rich about the day an FBI agent came to his door with news of death threats against his life, and why he chose to take the very name that marks him for death in Islam. After a decade as a hardcore atheist who swore he would never be deceived again, he describes the night he finally prayed, “God, if you hear me, help me. Show me the way, and if you show it to me, I will follow you,” and how everything changed after that.He and Rich get into what Muslims are taught about Muhammad and the Quran, what happened in the cave, and why he says that if he were ever killed for speaking out, it would only prove his point. They touch on topics like: “What does apostate really mean in Islam?” and “Can a hardcore atheist come to Christ?” Listen now!

Kandy and Nina were together for eight years and married for two of them...they had been told online that a person could be a gay Christian, and because the business and the house and the car kept coming, they took it as God blessing the relationship.One of them tells Rich about watching a sermon on Witchcraft and then going through the whole apartment before sunrise, pulling out every crystal and every bracelet she could find. The other describes standing alone in her salon screaming at God for proof, offering up the business, the car and the house, and asking only to keep her wife.They and Rich get into what it cost to end the marriage and stay best friends, and why they tell people that part of their story is not for everybody. They touch on topics like: "Is God calling you to be straight?" and "What do you do when your church is not ready for you?" Listen now!

Nik Keswani was a Vine star at fourteen...he was raised Hindu, born with dwarfism, blind in his left eye by nine, and he had been through so many operations that he says he had already accepted dying before he ever got famous.He tells Rich he blew up right after recovering from a surgery that left him hating God, and that by fifteen he had thirty thousand dollar sponsorships, a fake ID, and a spot in Hollywood clubs. He also walks through an exorcism he sat in as a Christian, where he says the demon admitted his dwarfism was a failed attempt to kill him in his mother's womb.He and Rich get into the years Nik spent believing God hated him for the body he was born in, and what changed when he took a hard look at Paul. They touch on topics like: "Why would God let somebody be born this way?" and "What did the demon admit during the exorcism?" Listen now!

Jen spent twenty five years as a professional psychic medium...it was her full time job, she was all the way in, and she believed she could speak things into existence and call in spirit guides who would heal people because she asked them to.She breaks down how the readings actually worked, that what was answering her is a very good guesser that hands you your great grandfather's name and your birthdays to set the hook, and she admits to doing readings on people without their consent, her own daughter included.She and Rich get into why some of it comes true anyway, and what it took for her to walk away from the income and the identity she had built over half her life. They touch on topics like: "Why does a reading sometimes come true?" and "What is really answering you?" Listen now!

Teresa Celeste is an actress who was never really raised in church...she says she sat in a congregation or two and could tell the Holy Spirit was not in the room, and she found God outside of it.She turned down the role that would have been her first time on television, a voodoo lady who had to pull tarot cards on camera, and she cried over it before taking a smaller part instead, because to her it is still spiritual whether or not you are acting.She and Rich get into what Hollywood costs a believer and why she says the person in the mirror is usually the real problem. They touch on topics like: "Is it still witchcraft if you are only acting?" and "Why does everybody in Hollywood mumble the name of Jesus?" Listen now!

Fivio Foreign says he made up demon time...he was one of the top names in what he calls the most demonic corner of hip hop, famous off beef and diss records, and he has been sober since the first of January.He tells Rich about the spiritual warfare he has been in since he was twelve, hearing a sound in his ear and waking up with scratches on his neck and chest, and about the years he could not sleep without drinking and taking whatever he could get his hands on.Fivio and Rich get into what he walked away from and what it cost him, including the fact that his own label had no idea he was making music for God until they started seeing it. They touch on topics like: "What does the enemy trade you for your soul?" and "What happens when the industry finds out you changed?" Listen now!

Richie the Barber is back for part two...the first time he sat down with Rich he held the names back, because the people involved have real power and some of them are gatekeepers, and this time he says the Lord released him to tell the rest of it.He describes walking backstage at a celebrity's birthday party at twenty-three and finding a ritual already underway, with an altar, a woman with blackened hands and silver teeth, drums, and a line of famous faces waiting their turn for a mark on the forehead and a drink the room called the gold juice.Rich and Richie get into how deep the darkness in Hollywood actually runs and what it costs a person to walk out of it. They touch on topics like: "What do celebrities have to do to move up?" and "Can somebody that far in still get saved?" Listen now!

Paloma calls herself a spiritualist, not a witch...she says that label comes from people not understanding what she actually does, and she keeps religious statues she rescued from a closing church in Canada in her space so that nobody who believes in both things feels discriminated against.Rich tells her how he was healed of an incurable condition after a three-day water fast, and how his wife came through three and a half years of breast cancer into remission, while Paloma makes her case that most disease in the body starts as trauma a person never got to release.Rich and Paloma find far more common ground than either of them expected, and he ends up praying with her over a broken relationship with her sister. They touch on topics like: "Can you believe in Jesus and still practice something else?" and "Why do Christians lead with fear instead of love?" Listen now!

Mark Fox calls himself a warlock...raised heavy evangelical and homeschooled, he walked away after years of praying for a God he says never once showed up, and now practices witchcraft and African traditional religions.He tells Rich to his face that the Holy Spirit is something men invented and still control, and walks through the voodoo, Islam and everything else he tried while looking for something real.Rich and Mark go back and forth about Christianity and Witchcraft and debate which one is worth following more. They touch on topics like: "Who is the ultimate highest power?" and "Is Jesus even real?" Listen now!

Aftrthght chops it up with Rich about the LA music scene he was coming up in, including an open Satanist in his own genre who had the connections he wanted, and the woman practicing witchcraft that man introduced him to.He recounts the night a dose of psychedelics turned on him: a voice speaking out of his own mouth cursing Jesus, hours on his apartment floor certain he was taking his last breath, and the deliverance that came when he called on Jesus one final time.He and Rich get into what he sees in the Christian rap community now — that a rapper holding a platform is a minister of the gospel whether or not he claims the title.