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TIMpactful Topics with Tim Messer — 275 episodes
Ep. 276 | Socialism: The World's Longest Running Failed Group Project
Ep. 275 | The Freaky Friday Files: From Mountain Impalement to Roach Submarines
Ep. 274 | Love Your Neighbor...But Lock Your Front Door
Ep. 273 | The Freaky Friday Files, the Final Four, the Fifth Amendment, and Fart Charting
Ep. 272 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do...Even with the A's
Ep 271 | Avenal: Where Recall Elections Are Just Suggestions
Ep 270 | Freaky Friday: Batman, Bureaucracy & Burning Questions
Ep 269 | Chaos on Land... and at Sea: A Shipwreck and City Council Chaos
Ep 268 | Donuts, Deli Meat & Dirty Money | The Freaky Friday Files
Ep 267 | Only in America: Weddings, World Cups & Weird Smalltown Politics
Ep 266 | The Freaky Friday Files
Ep 265 | Bonus Episode: New California Laws That Went Into Effect July 1st
Ep 264 | NYC: Where Even Sin Gets a Permit
Ep 263 | Debut of The Freaky Friday Files | Falling Into the Caitlin Clark Rabbit Hole
Ep 262 | Why Lake Tahoe is Gen X's Las Vegas | Fresno County's June Declaration
Ep 261 | When a Baseball Cap Becomes a National Debate
Ep 260 | Today's Forecast: 100% Chance of Overreaction
Ep 259 | Friends vs. Seinfeld: A Gen X Verdict
Ep 258 | The Curious Case of California's Endless Vote Count
Ep 257 | John Fetterman: From Stroke Recovery to Political Recovery
Ep 256 | Algorithms, Iced Tea, and the Class of 2026
Ep 255 | Campaigns, Conspiracies & Chiropractic: Don J. Grundmann
Ep 254 | Six Months Later: My Stroke Story
Ep 253 | Playoff Pandemonium & Political Insanity--California Style
Ep 252 | The Patriarchy Strikes Back | "Toxic Masculinity": The Phrase That Means Everything and Nothing
Ep 251 | Toxic Empathy: When Compassion Becomes Destruction
Ep 250 | The Episcopal Church: Where Sin Gets a Rebrand
Ep 249 | California Manifold of Madness: Lego Swaps and Luxury Bear Fraud
Ep 248 | The Delta King Hotel: Riverboat Chic with a Side of Stair Climbing
Ep 247 | Faith That Works: The Book of James in Real Life | You May Be Gen X...
Ep 246 | Special Monday Edition: Dinner, D.C., and a Deranged Plan
Ep 245 | Scandals, Silence, and Scoreboards: The CSUB Circus
Ep 244 | Cruise Ship Chaos: When Partying Too Hard Results in Lawsuits and Even Death
Ep 243 | The Moment Protestants Start Idolizing the Pope is the Moment They Forget Why the Reformation Happened
Ep 242 | Not Your Savior: When Politics Gets Blasphemous
Ep 241 | Artemis II: Moon Mission or Misplaced Priorities?
Ep 240 | The Iran Ceasefire: Two Narratives, One Messy Reality
Ep 239 | The Awkward Intersection Between Faith and Sports | Canada's "Combatting Hate Act"
Ep 238 | Barkley Immigration Detour | Jaden Ivey Cut for His Religious Convictions
Ep 237 | No Kings Day Part 3 | Latest Tiger Woods Accident | TSA Woes Continue
Ep 236 | A Line of Fire: The Train Wreck I Couldn't Stop Watching
Ep 235 | Christian Buzzwords That Sound Deep But Mean Nothing
Ep 234 | The Spiritual Gift of Sitting in the Same Pew Every Week
Ep 233 | The $10,000 Childhood: How Travel Sports Hijacked the American Family Calendar
Ep 232 | Samurai Swords and Slam Dunks: The Wild West Years of Fresno State Basketball
Ep 231 | CSU Bakersfield Basketball Drama
Ep 230 | JUCO Basketball and the NIL Wild West
Ep 229 | That Ain't in There: Bible Misquotes
Ep 228 | SOTU Brief Preview | NYPD Pummeled with Snowballs | Destroying Talarico's Biblical Same-Sex Marriage Claims
Ep 227 | Do Women Have to Work Harder to Vote? | What Does the Bible Say (And Not Say) About Abortion?
Ep 226 | Toys That Tried to End Us: 70s & 80s Edition
Ep 225 | Bless Your Heart: Surviving the Social Justice Pop Quiz
Ep 224 | Super Bowl Recap: The Seahawks' Defense Stifled the Patriots | Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Broken Down Simply
Ep 223 | Why I'm Sitting Out the Super Bowl (Maybe) and Why That's Hard to Admit
Ep 222 | Deconstructing Deconstruction
Ep 221 | In Defense of the 90s: Why the Best Music Came from the Most Depressed People
Ep 220 | How Christians Can Pursue Unity and Truth in a Divided Nation (Truth Without Being a Jerk) | The Paper Bag Paradox
Ep 219 | The Renee Good Shooting - Everyone's Mad For Different Reasons | How Can a Christian Navigate the Transgenders in Sports Debate?
Ep 218 | A New Year's Eve Message
Ep 217 | An Announcement to My Listeners
Ep 216 | Trump vs. MTG: The Loudest Split in Politics | Consent...but Make It Diapers
Ep 215 | Movie Review Monday! When Santa Snaps: A Review of Fatman
Ep 214 | From Urine to Uterus: DIY Face Masks Gone Wild
Ep 213 | The City Council Meeting That Needed a Parental Advisory Label | Ballad of the Nepo Babies: Bronny & Shedeur Get Cooked
Ep 212 | When the Flight Attendant Needs a Flight Attendant | When Protesting Goes Wrong | Old Timers Who Are Still Getting it Done in the Arena and On the Court
Ep 211 | Outrage Olympics: Why Everyone's Mad About Everyone | The 50-year Mortgage Idea is Absurd | The Penny Gets Retired
Ep 210 | The Free Lunch Fallacy: Why Socialism Never Works
Ep 209| Grace, Conspiracies & Reality TV: Why Everyone's Judging Everyone
Ep 208 | Shutdown Shenanigans: The Pain Deepens | Why Scream is Better Than I Know What You Did Last Summer | "The Perfect Neighbor" is a Susan
Ep 207 | Civilization Will Collapse in 2040 (According to a Computer)
Ep 206 | Full-Court Press...From the FBI
Ep 205 | 6/7, Ozempic Vagina, and the Kratom Conundrum
Ep 204 | TDS: Identifying the Symptoms and the Road to Recovery
Ep 203 | Why You Should Vote No on California Proposition 50
Ep 202 | The Lost Art of Critical Thinking | Malachi vs. the Modern Church: When "Woke" Replaces "Holy"
Ep 201 | Halftime of the Apocalypse
Ep 200 | Nebuchadnezzar 2.0: Trump vs. Newsom | NPR/PBS | Taylor Swift's New Album
Ep 199 | The Secret Constitution of Humanity | Football "Back In My Day"
Ep 198 | California's Road Charge: The Road to Broke | The Clock Strikes Twelve on a Solar Fairy Tale
Ep 197 | The Bullet Train That Never Left the Station | My Idea: The Bullet Train to Blackjack (With a Stop in Fresno)
Ep 196 | Is Freedom of Speech Really in Danger? | Taylor Swift: High Priestess of the Pop Cult
Ep 195 | Why Do The Raiders Suck? Plus, The Latest On: The Kirk Assassination | NC Train Stabbing | Colorado School Shooting | Luigi Mangione | Ryan Routh
Ep 194 | Why Are So Many People Gleefully Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Murder?
Ep 193 | Charlie Kirk Assassinated! | The Train Stabbing They Didn't Want You to Know About
Ep 192 | What is Christian Nationalism?
Ep 191 | Progressive Churches: Gospel or Gimmick?
Ep 190 | Special Edition: Minnesota Shooting Reminds Us of the Modern Attack on Christianity
Ep 189 | My Take on Swift and Kelce's Big Announcement | The Great Woke Word Purge of 2025
Ep 188 | Fat, Skinny, Crazy… and Other Words We Can’t Use Anymore
Ep 187 | The Wizard of Oz: The Yellow Brick Horror Show
Ep 186 | Bible Characters Who Would Crush It on Reality TV | Cancel Culture vs. the Apostle Paul
Ep 185 | Why Was the Word "Paradox" Spoken to Me?
Ep 184 | Is Gavin Newsom the Anti-Christ (Asking for a Friend)
Ep 183 | Presidential Fitness Test Trauma | What is Toxic Positivity?
Ep 182 | Scroll, Snap, Sin: Social Media and the Slow Collapse of Civilization
Ep 181 | Locked Down and Dumbed Down: How COVID Rules Wrecked Our Kids
Ep 180 | Should I Create an OnlyFans Account? | Late Night Comedy is Dead
Ep 179 | The Las Vegas Shooting: Nothing to See Here Folks
Ep 178 | Civil War: The Left's Fanfiction for Armed Resurrection
Ep 177 | Letters from Below: A Modern Look at Screwtape | Shane Gillis ESPY Performance | You May Be a Dummy
Ep 176 | California ICE Raids: The Christian Case for Lawful Borders
Ep 175 | The Poop Cruise: A Floating Monument to First-World Fragility
Ep 174 | Crimes Against Decency: Alligator Alcatraz Awaits
Ep 173 | Guadalupe Floods, Epstein Files, and the Death of Decency
Ep 172 | Trump's Big Beautiful Bill: Walls, Work, and Woke-Free Healthcare
Ep 171 | Fourth of July: Fireworks, Freedom, and Feelings
Ep 170 | Scams Through the Decades - From Rotary to Robocalls
Ep 169 | What If California Became Its Own Country? | National Days No One Asked For, But We Celebrate Anyway
Ep 168 | Sermon Bingo: Phrases You Hear Every Sunday
Ep 167 | What Do Jews Believe About Jesus? A Christian Look
Ep 166 | Wars and Rumors of Wars, Guns and Kings: The Week the World Went Off Script
Ep 165 | Sanctuary Cities or Lawless Circus?
Ep 164 | Graduation Be Bussin', Apparently
Ep 163 | Why Does it Hurt So Much? Dealing With Loss God's Way
Ep 162 | Why Don't Teenagers Chase Athletic Excellence Like Generations Before Them?
Ep 161 | Satan in the Suburbs: The 1980's Panic That Rocked America
Ep 160 | Why the U.S. Should Totally (Maybe) Acquire Greenland | Should We Reopen Alcatraz?
Ep 159 | Should We Annex Canada? The 51st State Debate
Ep 158 | The Most Hated Woman in America: The Story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Ep 157 | Which U.S. States Are Most Likely to Survive an Alien Invasion?
Ep 156 | Saturday Brief - Shadeur Sanders’ Freefall in the NFL Draft
Ep 155 | What is the Mandela Effect?
Ep 154 | I Finally Made My First Trip to Yosemite!
Ep 153 | Modern Day Pharisees: Are We Overcomplicating Faith?
Ep 152 | Happy Happy Tax Day!!
Ep 151 | Flashback Friday | Helicopter Mishaps | My Mount Rushmore of Superheroes
Ep 150 | Christian Pet Peeves: Things We Love to Hate (but Should Probably Pray About)
Ep 149 | The Recent Seismic Activity From a Biblical Perspective | Torpedo Bats in Major League Baseball
Ep 148 | The Massive Myanmar Earthquake Should Have Us Paying Attention
Ep 147 | Is NIL Ruining March Madness?
Ep 146 | Is the Illuminati Real?
Ep 145 | Why March is the Best Time of the Year For Sports Fans | My NFL Mt. Rushmore
Ep 144 | My Mt. Rushmores of Sitcom Dads and Women of the Bible.
Ep 143 | My Mt. Rushmore Picks for NBA Players, Canadian Rock Stars, and Men in the Bible
Ep 142 | Spring Training Trip Recap | Zelenskyy FAFO | Epstein Files Disappointment | Tate Brothers Return to U.S. | Newsom's New Podcast | Gene Hackman's Death
Ep 141 | Faith, Fertility, and Ethics: A Christian Perspective on IVF
Ep 140 | Is the Earth Flat?
Ep 139 | Should Women Be Pastors?
Ep 138 | Recap of Date Night With My Wife
Ep 137 | News Nuggets on a Tuesday
Ep 136 | Was the Moon Landing Fake?
Ep 135 | What is Fur Con? What is a Furry?
Ep 134 | Woke Bishop Makes Headlines at National Prayer Service
Ep 133 | Digging Deep: The World of Travel Volleyball
Ep 132 | National Quitters Day from a Biblical Perspective
Ep 131 | Down with Daylight Saving Time!
Ep 130 | The Blaze of Bureaucracy - The 2025 LA Fires
Ep 129 | First Show of 2025: Catching Up on Newsworthy Events of the Last Two Weeks
Ep 128 | It’s a Wonderful Life in a Nutshell
Ep 127 | Fresno State Football's Coaching Shakeup | Gun Control Hypocrisy Again | De'Vondre Campbell is Done | Mystics Owner's Absurd Comments About Caitlin Clark | Hunter Wins Heisman
Ep 126 | Is God the Answer to School Shootings?
Ep 125 | Drones Gone Wild | Belichick Gets Hired | Caitlin Clark Goes Woke | Campbell Quits on the 49ers | Trump Continues to Win | Hannah Kobayashi is Located
Ep 124 | Daniel Penny Found Not Guilty! | UHC CEO Murderer Captured!
Ep 123 | Deodorant on Lockdown | Aaron Rodgers | UHC CEO Executed on the Street | Daniel Penny Trial
Ep 122 | A Look at Basketball Referees | San Jose State Volleyball Season is Over | Last Weekend's Flag Planting in College Football
Ep 121 | Latest on San Jose St. Volleyball Controversy | My Fantasy Football Rant | What I'm Thankful For
California Ridiculosity
What is DOGE and Why Does America Need It?
What is the 4B Movement?
What a Crazy Week!
Special Election Brief
Why is the NBA so Unwatchable?
Joe Biden, Mark Cuban "Help" Kamala Harris.
Is Halloween Evil?
Let's Give a Shout Out to Middle-Aged Guys
A Relatively Lighthearted Look at the Presidential Election
Props 36 and 47 Are Two Reasons Why You Should Do Your Homework When Voting
A Christian Guide to the Ballot Box
The Argument for Pete Rose
Hurricane Helene Response, Showering Other Countries with Money, Hurricane Milton Prep, and Weather Manipulation
Krazy George: A Bay Area Treasure
Israel, VP Debate, and Pete Rose
I Experienced the End of an Era in Oakland
Waiting on God Pt. 2
Waiting on God Pt. 1
I’m Excited to Officiate Another Wedding Today!
It's the 100th EPISODE!
Olympic Boxing Controversy and the New Title IX Goes Into Effect
How Are People Reacting to the Mocking of The Last Supper?
It's Been a News Overload the Past Few Weeks, and Chick-fil-A Has Been Dethroned!
Trump Assassination Attempt Fails and I Review the Netflix miniseries, Eric
What Happens to the Missing Socks?
Biden's Poor Debate Performance Spurs Panic, the Lakers Draft Bronny James, and Hire J.J. Redick
Briefly Previewing Tomorrow's Presidential Debate
Ten Commandments Controversy in Louisiana
One Year Anniversary Episode!
Celtics Go for the Sweep, Caitlin Clark, and Another NBA Legend Passes
Weekend Recap: Four Hostages Rescued, Caitlin Clark Gets snubbed, Celtics Take a 2-0 Lead, and George Lopez Walks Off Stage
D-Day, Caitlin Clark, and the NBA Finals
MLB Decides to Include Negro League Stats
Talking About the Big Redhead, Bill Walton
Is This the End for the Talking Points Podcast?
Harrison Butker receives blowback for faith-based speech
Special Saturday Edition of Talking Points
Breaking Down My NBA Mt. Rushmore, But First a Word About "Peaceful Protesters"
Are You a Lukewarm Christian?
Title IX is Now a Female Athlete's Worst Enemy
The World's Oldest Conjoined Twins Die at 62
Mike Schmidt May Be the Best 3rd Baseman of All Time
Bakersfield Woman Goes Viral For All the Wrong Reasons
Football Legend (and Murderer) O.J. Simpson Has Died
A Brief History of the Rainbow
Caitlyn Clark, NHL, and the Oakland A's
Marriage is Racist Now?
The Rudest Things to do When Visiting Someone's Home
March Madness is Upon Us
Bonus Episode: Talking Point Tidbits SOTU Recap
MSNBC Thinks the Border Crisis is Hilarious
Super Tuesday is Here
Yesterday's Dueling Border Visits
Dr. Phil Dropping Truth Bombs
What Would an Infiltration Look Like?
It's Official: The NBA Sucks
Tay Tay Wins Her First Super Bowl.
Brief Saturday Super Bowl Preview
"The Greatest Night in Pop" Was a Fun Trip Down Memory Lane.
Did I Predict the Israel Conflict in My Latest Book?
Hans Schmidt: A True Miracle Story
Weekend Recap
NBC Censors C.J. Stroud's Proclamation of Faith
Special Saturday Edition of The Tim Messer Show.
Grumpy Joe Gives Another Divisive Campaign Speech
The First Episode of 2024
It's the Final Episode of the Year!
Patrick Mahomes Melted Down at the Wrong People Sunday
What Did Hunter Biden Spend His Money On?
I'm Talking Football Today
Let's Talk a Little About Christmas Movies
A Lot Going On Today
Happy Thanksgiving Eve
Did Snoop Dogg Really Give Up Smoke?
Let's Talk About the Great American Smokeout
I am a Volleyball Dad.
Saturday Brief
My Weird Dream and Off the Wall News Stories
The New Speaker of the House is a Christian (Gasp!)
It's Not Just a Gun Violence Issue, it's a Young Adult Violence Issue.
America Has a Hate Problem
It was a Good Weekend
Talking Points Brief: Helping You Interpret Some of the Gen Z Vocabulary
If You Were Going to Purposely Destroy a Nation, How Would You Do It?
There Have Been an Alarming Number of Anti-Israel Protesters Throughout This Country
Israel is at War!
The Sports World Lost a Legend
Who Cares About This Kelce/Swift "Romance"
What Does the Bible Say About Masculinity?
Does the Bible Address Climate Change?
You May Be a Dummy If You Do These Things
The Significance of Yesterday's 9\11 Anniversary
Chino Valley Unified School District Sued by AG Bonta
What Happened at Burning Man?
My New Book is in Production
The Latest Celebrity to Walk Back "Anti-Trans" Comments
Sage Steele, Lou Holtz, and Standing Up for What You Believe In
Was Yesterday Biden's Jump the Shark Moment?
Jumping the Shark
We Participated in a School Prayer Walk Saturday
Saturday Bonus: Kirk Cameron's "See You at the Library"
An Interview With My Wife
Let's Talk About Forgiveness
We Must Intercede on Behalf of Our Children!
It Was a Busy News Week
Is Digital Currency Fulfilling Bible Prophecy?
Dealing With Anger
Waiting on God
Are You Thinking About Getting Baptized?
Sacrifice is Supposed to Hurt
A Look Back at the Week That Was
What Are You Devoting Your Time and Attention To?
I'm No Democrat, But RFK Jr. is a Beast
Funnnn Friiiiiday!
Tragic End for Titan Submersible and New Democratic Presidential Hopeful Enters the Race
Dodgers Pride Night is Now Behind Us
My Biggest Pet Peeves
Special Saturday Edition of The Tim Messer Show.