Church Soup LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE

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No, my Wi-Fi is off. It's hardline. Welcome back to Church Soup, the greatest evangelical news show in the history of the internet. I'm Keith Foskey, the Harbor Freight Doug Wilson, King of the Amillennialists, and little known fact, doppelganger for J .D. Vance.

Hey guys, how are you all doing tonight? This is our first ever live Church Soup. We're calling it Foskey and Friends. I have two people in the studio with me, my wife, the love of my life, the most beautiful person in the world to me, and to my right, someone who's beautiful in his own right, Uncle Rich, the Reformed Baptist from all of my denominational videos.

And not only do I have these beautiful people in the studio, but I have a entire selection of wonderful people coming in from around the United States to talk about this election night. And I'm gonna bring them in now.

Boy, look at that. It is a crowd of folks here. We have, starting right to my left, or your right, I don't know, I don't know what, we have David K. Martin. He is a audio book narrator, a good friend of the show, been on several times, and one of the funniest memesters in all of the internet.

He is a meme lord, and I'm glad to call him my friend. Hi, David, it's good to have you.

Hi, Keith, thanks.

Yes, do you hear that buttery voice? It's awesome. I don't have a voice like that. My voice sounds like I'm whining all the time. Beside him, we have the man, the myth, the legend, the man whose name is always on his screen, Andrew Rappaport.

Andrew is the head of Striving for Eternity Ministries, and he looks like he's been around for eternity because of all the white in his beard. Andrew, how you doing, buddy?

Stop your whining.

Yeah.

You are always in such a good mood. You came in tonight like somebody kicked your cat, man. We don't know who's won the election yet. You can save your disappointment for later, okay? Next, yes.

Our squirrel.

Did somebody steal your squirrel?

Yeah, somebody killed a squirrel, Keith.

Did someone shoot your peanut?

Justice for peanut.

Yeah, someone came up to our squirrel, my squirrel and my raccoon. They took it out the back and shot it.

Okay, justice for peanut. Down on the next row, we have Parker. This is Parker from Watch Well Podcast, quickly becoming one of my favorite people in the whole world. Parker is, I don't know if you guys saw that, but he clacked the time, what's that thing called again?

It was just a clapper.

The clapper. Yeah, yeah. We were playing with that at Fight, Laugh, Feast. I got to spend some time with him last week at Fight, Laugh, Feast. Had a good time. Parker's, along with his cousin, Nick, run the Watch Well Podcast, which is where they talk about the theology from movies.

And he has said publicly that that's the podcast I should have done. That was like

Actually, correction. So I have said publicly that the only person that does our podcast better than us is you, Keith.

I was gonna say, who knows more about movies?

That's the correct quote.

Okay.

Well, thank you for that wonderful vote of confidence there. Beside him, we have Corey Wing from Civically Minded. He's a Presbyterian, so halfway through this broadcast, he's gonna get drunk.

He's also muted.

Is he muted?

He's got to unmute himself. That's the thing, Keith, I forgot. I was supposed to have a fake cigar for you, so we could all be Presbyterian here.

Oh, okay.

I want to start a pipe. Corey, are you there? Did I lose you?

He just has to unmute.

Oh, I'll unmute him.

Okay.

Now it's muted.

Yes.

Yes, you are live.

Thank you. I can't be as buttery as David already was, but yes, I can drink more than all of you after, so there is that. But no, I'm happy to be here and I'm in the battleground state of North Carolina.

Awesome, awesome. Sorry, I'm answering a quick question here. Spencer Smith is supposed to be jumping on with us here soon. I'm just throwing out. He's asking me when. I'm saying now. Pop in whenever and for however long.

Greg just asked for the link too, Keith.

Oh, okay. I'll drop it in for him.

I sent it to him.

Oh, you did.

You're awesome. See, this is what it's like. You're doing professional work. Now, right beside Corey, at least from my screen, I am looking at one of the most glorious men in all of Calvinism, one of the friendliest, nicest, sweetest.

And I have to tell you about this guy. When I was, I preached at his church a couple months ago and the day I was getting ready to drive home, my car wouldn't start. Claude Ramsey had one of his elders come, change my alternator in the driveway, did all the work, wouldn't take a dime for it.

Well, his wife is wonderful too. Brought breakfast for us, sat and talked to my, I just want to say nobody is nicer than Claude Ramsey. So Claude, thank you for coming on the show today. I know you didn't want to get praise for that, but I just wanted to say, I'll never forget the kindness that you and your church showed us that day.

That was so wonderful. So thank you. Praise the Lord.

Well, that was Kenny. Christopher is the man's, the elder's name. So he gets credit.

And skillful. I mean, to change an alternator in a driveway. It was awesome. At an Airbnb. Yeah, at an Airbnb. And rounding out the bottom row all by himself, but certainly not alone in the area of my love.

He is loved by me so much. And I'm going to say, he's my not yet Calvinist friend, Matthew Henson. I think you're the only one in this group that's not yet a Calvinist.

That's quite all right. Some of the precincts we canvassed for amendment four, I felt very much the same way. So that's okay. Used to being outnumbered, but in much better company and much better spirits tonight.

Well, praise the Lord.

And he's been a Calvinist in eternity. So he's got that.

I hear that a lot. That's okay.

That's all right.

I was going to say you didn't know this Matthew, but we're actually, we're not going to talk about the election. We're having an intervention.

I knew it.

I knew it.

A different type of election.

That's right.

A different type of election.

Well, let me go get my,.

It's not in the background. And yes, I know I look like I am operating from a supply closet. It's just the place I have to work from, but I was going to go get my reform dogmatics off the shelf and say, I'm at least reading.

Okay. So, you know, I'm working on it.

I am going to do one thing. I'm going to pull just you up. I want you to show everybody your shirt.

Oh, that's right.

Yep.

He's wearing a shirt with my face on it. That means he's awesome. And Richard's face.

Yep.

And Jake, who couldn't be with us tonight. He was invited. Jake Korn. One of the original guys from CWAC, what we used to call conversations with a Calvinist.

Yep.

And, and that's my man.

And you will note that this shirt is very worn out because I wear it all the stinking time.

You love to have my face on your chest.

Okay.

Not weird at all.

Nope.

We're going to go a different direction now.

Let's go with Greg Moore from the Dead Men Walking podcast. He was on the cross politic and he decided to jump over here with us. So I just want to say, thank you for coming down from the ivory tower and hanging out with the common folks.

I'm very thankful that you're willing to

The Harbor Freight election night.

Yes, the Harbor Freight.

Hey, Dollar General Jeff Durbin had to show up. Set you guys straight. What's going on?

That's so weird. Yeah, man.

You, you was hobnobbing. We was at Fight, Laugh, Feast. I'm seeing pictures of you with Doug and you just hanging out with all the people.

Oh, please.

I really enjoyed that interview with Dusty and Doug that you did at Fight, Laugh, Feast. That was great.

And

Did you see the picture? Did you see the picture with Doug on, Doug and me and Dusty was in the middle?

Yeah.

I said that was a Doug sandwich with a Deaver filling.

Okay.

That sounds a very Harris Waltz-like, that's true.

See, you had to make it weird. That's why we invited you.

Well, I'm just, I'm just saying, Waltz, he looks like a guy that, you know, eats bananas for the shape and not the taste. So I'm coming in hot.

But we got Andrew.

We got your covenants.

Hey, is there other, is there any

I'm going to give you my happy covenants.

Oh, oops, I hit the mute button. I didn't mean to do that at all.

Okay. Yeah.

He is also Presbyterian. Can I just say that?

You can say that.

Well, you missed the part where we said Corey was going to be drunk halfway through this broadcast because he's Presbyterian.

I've got champagne here on the, on the desk. So maybe I'll join him. Who knows?

No, always in, always in measure with our drink and our smoke, how we think, how we talk. We reflect Christ in everything we do. Bring glory to God. Except for that last joke I said. Sorry, Lord.

I'm sorry.

But Claude Ramsey, good to see you too, brother. Haven't talked to you in a while.

Good to see you, man.

Well, guys, I do want to have some, I want to have some fun tonight. We're already having a little bit of fun. I want to, we got comments all over the place. We're going to be trying to respond to comments if we can.

Dollar General Jeff Durbin. That's hilarious.

Yeah.

Oh, you didn't hear that? That's, that was the original joke.

That's so funny.

Me and Greg were together at the original Tullahoma Conference, the first one. That's where we met. And they took a picture of me dressed as, dressed as Doug and he was, and he was in his suit, but it was that red velvet suit that you have.

And it looked very Durbin-esque. And we said, we were the Harbor Freight, Doug Wilson and Jeff Durbin. That picture went out. A lot of people thought it was funny. And that began the joke.

That's so funny.

So that's, so it's, yeah. We were going to start a thing called Off-Brand Theology. And we were going to have, was it, was it Sam? Sam say was going to be the Harbor Freight votey?

No, he was going to be the Timu votey.

Timu votey. That's what it was.

Or the wish votey.

I don't know. And Sam, was Samuel say the one that put the bread up on his face and made himself a sandwich during the podcast? Yes. Yes.

He said, am I a sandwich? That was when I debated him on whether or not, okay. Real quick, we'll ask everybody to vote on this. Is a hamburger a sandwich?

David? Sure.

Andrew?

Well, it depends on definition of a sandwich.

No, no, it doesn't. It's a yes or no question. You obfuscating man, you. Say that again?

What is a sandwich?

Instead of what is a hamburger?

Okay, listen here. I, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, okay. Parker?

Sure.

Cory, is a hamburger a sandwich?

Yes.

Thank you. Claude?

Yes.

I'm going to go with no, just to be opposite all you guys.

All right.

Matthew, is a hamburger a sandwich?

I'm going to have to go back to what someone else said earlier. By what standard are we judging a hamburger as a sandwich?

He stole my line. He stepped on my line.

Dang it.

I said you were one of my best friends. Quickly backing that decision up.

I will say you have two pieces of bread and something tasty in between. It counts as a sandwich. I'm that's what I'm going to do.

Hank Smith said that. Hank Smith already. Oh, this is Hank Smith. Two slices of bread.

Oh, there he goes.

Something in between makes a sandwich, which means if, if you put bread on both sides of Waltz's head, you'd have an idiot sandwich.

Yep.

I would say, according, technically, according to Earl Sandwich, who invented this sandwich because he didn't have enough room on the table to play poker. Yes, it is a sandwich.

Earl Sandwich.

Was his name Earl?

A hundred percent.

Go Google.

Or was he an Earl? Like the Earl, like the dude.

Hold on, hold on.

Two things can be true at once.

Google now, not Wikipedia.

Okay.

His usual source is Wikipedia.

No, just at 1 a .m. in the morning in Waffle House and you're annoying me.

I didn't ask my two co-hosts that are with me. Richard is a hamburger sandwich.

Yes.

Jennifer, you, she who is both beautiful and wise. No, just kidding. I was going to say, in our house, your decisions have to be my decisions. I'm, you know, it's a patriarchy here. You're going to decide the way I tell you.

It sounds like the same thing.

It is nice to see you with your beautiful wife and your bodyguard tonight, though.

Yeah, it is.

This is my bodyguard. As I become, as I become internet infamous, I'm going to have a guy to take care of me. You know, he is supposed to be coming to Tullahoma with me.

All right.

That's the plan. I mean, last year, you know, I didn't have anybody ride with me. I'm going to hopefully have Richard ride with me.

So according to Google, yes, a hamburger is technically a sandwich.

So

Why do I feel a butt coming off of me?

The definition of a sandwich in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. So there you go.

Big, big tech tampering in our podcast tonight. I just can't believe it.

I love this.

How long should we trust Google?

It's a Big Mac, a club sandwich. That's James. That's my buddy from church, James. That was a great question. It's a Big Mac, a club sandwich. All right. Okay, so how are we doing in the election? Let's actually get to what we're supposed to be talking about tonight, because if not, we're just going to keep going off the rails.

So far, Trump has been called in several key states. My own state, specifically. I want to ask this question, go around the room. Does anybody think that it's possible that any of the major states that have been called, Florida being one of them, Texas as well, does anyone think any of these are going to be reversed?

Last year, we saw this big deal that happened in the middle of the night. You know, there was that, you know, the lines were going up and then there was that big jump. Does anybody see anything changing in Florida, Texas, or any of these other major battleground states?

Matthew's shaking his head no. Why don't you tell us what you're thinking, buddy?

Well, Fox News was absolutely infamous for calling Arizona like seven weeks before the election or whatever last year. Basically, and I saw some jokes about that when Trump was, when Trump, like at the Republican National Convention, when he won the nomination for the Republican Party, there were some tweets out there that like, Fox News has just called Arizona for Joe Biden, you know, like that earlier or whatever.

And no, I don't know that we've ever seen a major organization reverse a call because what they're doing is they're running basically space math and witchcraft on the remaining vote outstanding. And they're saying, all right, if there's 80 in and 20 remaining, where's the 20 coming from?

Which is why a lot of races in Florida were called. Even when amendment four was looking like it had right at 59 and change, the panhandle hadn't reported yet because they're an hour behind. So people were already calling amendment four as a failure because the panhandle is so conservative.

So they're taking into account all that kind of information.

Pensacola. Sorry?

Pensacola.

Thank you. Every single time it's like, oh no, we might lose by a point. And the panhandle comes in like Helms deep. Like, nope, we're not doing that.

Love it. Yeah.

Hey, I want to just real quick. Andrew's got something for me to pull up. What is this? I'm pulling up here, Andrew.

That is the current decision desk right now. New state to call is that there is another, Trump is according to decision desk, leading by 226 electoral points to 108 for Harris. Montana just went for Trump.

So they are still predicting a Trump win.

Predicting a Trump win. What were the numbers? Cause I can't, it's too far away from my eyes and my eyes are getting really bad, y 'all. What's the number for Trump? Say that again?

It's called getting old.

Yeah, been doing that for a little while. What's the Trump number right now?

226.

226 for Trump, 108 for Harris right now.

And the magic number is 270.

270, yes.

All right, all right.

Yeah, but it's all down to seven states cause California is going to get called. Oregon's going to get called. Washington's going to get called. It's just their Pacific time zone. So they haven't even reported any results.

It's well, North Carolina, some have called it, some haven't, but it's going into the night. It's Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada. Trump wins those. And then he needs Michigan, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania.

One of the three. That is the only real math that matters at this point.

So right now Trump is probably trending half of percent in Michigan, in my home state. They look like he's trending a percent in Pennsylvania. So both of those are close, but very winnable for him.

The New York Times.

I will say this, right now he's trending in Pennsylvania, my home state. He is trending in Wisconsin. Now the interesting thing with Wisconsin is that Wisconsin is a state where RFK sued to get himself removed from the ballot and they would not let him off the ballot.

So if that difference between Kamala and Trump is the difference of RFK, you will know that that might've been a factor.

Yeah, that's a really good point, Andrew. Andrew, just to let you know, he's on the ballot in Michigan too. And right now he's at 0 .4. So he's at that half percent margin to where Trump would actually be predicted to win by a full percent.

So it's very slim margins in the swing states and not pulling Kennedy off the ballot might come into contention.

You know what's interesting about that? I just want to throw this out. I don't know how it works everywhere else, but when I walked in today, they printed the ballot. Like it wasn't, like they printed it and handed it to me.

Every ballot is printed.

Don't you go to vote at Toys R Us? What are they doing down there in Florida?

Did they do this for you?

Did they do it for you today?

Matthew, you're in Florida.

Yeah, I'm an Epsom printer.

Actually, I think it was. Don't be hating on Epsom.

I will have you know that Florida is the third most populous state in the nation and we knew who won by 9 p .m. So I don't want to hear it, okay? We got all of our stuff done, signed, sealed, delivered.

We knew who our amendments were going to. We knew who our electoral votes were going to. We were done in time for Jeopardy tonight, y 'all.

But what I'm saying, the only reason I brought up the printed ballot is they could have taken somebody off at any point because it's digital until it becomes paper, right?

Yes.

Why is this whole, why are they keeping somebody on who says, I'm no longer running?

No, because the Democratic secretaries, here's Trump's biggest thing to overcome. Five out of the seven states that he needs to win, and he doesn't need to win all seven of them, the pool of the ones we're talking about.

Five out of the seven have a Democratic governor and a Democratic secretary of state running the election. And at a 5%, 10 margin, that doesn't matter. Down around a 0 .1, 0 .2, 0 .3 when we're getting into some hanging chads, oh, you better believe that's going to matter.

So it's a hanging chad situation.

I will just say too, the New York Times has an excellent election dashboard up and they've got this needle, right? That just causes all kinds of people anxiety and stuff. It's currently predicting an 80, that is eight zero percent chance of a Trump victory right now over the whole election, right?

So not any particular state.

So Keith, here's a couple of interesting things to note. You see in Wisconsin, Michigan, you had Colonel West, who is a Democrat who is also running for president. He has, he sued, they sued to get him off the ballot while they also sued to keep RFK on the ballot in those states.

Now, here's an interesting thing on the decision desk right now, is that New Jersey went from Kamala Harris to leaning Kamala Harris. I will say that if Donald Trump wins New Jersey, this election is over.

Okay, I'm hearing some sound. Somebody in comment said that we're getting some feedback. I'm not sure whose microphones are, I hope it's not mine. I'm going to mute myself out.

Hey, Parker, what do you think? Is Trump going for Ohio? I think he's leading there, isn't he?

Yeah, I was actually just looking at that. It looks like it's leaning Ohio. I was actually going to ask you, Greg, does he have any chance of winning Michigan? Because I was seeing reports that Trump is winning 18 to 29, 18 to 29 year olds by 5 in Michigan.

So that's his saving grace there. So when at eight o 'clock, when I started on the cross-politic live stream, we had 8 reporting, she was at 56%. When I jumped over to you guys, she was down to 51 with 16 reporting.

So the trend is down. You got to realize that 16%, most of that's Wayne County, which is Detroit, which is heavily Democratic. So I feel good if she's up five or six points in the first two or three hours of reporting, that always levels itself back out because Wayne County is one of the first to start reporting with the largest amount of ballots.

The whole middle of the state, which is all red, has not even been reported. So I think I saw a New York Times or Wall Street Journal said they're predicting Trump by half a percentage point in Michigan, but it is going to be extremely close.

I want to throw something up here. We just got a good comment that came in. This is from Sheldon, no last name given. I'm just going to go, Sheldon said,. Trump was also winning until 2 a .m. in 2020.

Corey, you haven't said a whole lot tonight. I want to hear your thoughts. Do you think we're going to see a repeat of last year? And I already kind of asked this question about the battle states, but overall, do you think that there's a surprise coming in the middle of the night after we all go to bed and wake up in the morning with a Kamala presidency?

Yes and no. Do I think that they're going to try to cheat? Do I think there's a surprise coming? Of course, they're crooked and they're evil. So yes, I absolutely think that they're going to try anything they can to cheat.

That's why getting

Corey's not a partisan, by the way. Absolutely, straight from the middle.

You can tell from what I'm wearing.

I am at all.

That's right. They're going to try to cheat, but that's why it was so important to get the vote out and to do the groundwork that we needed to do, especially in swing states like Ohio and Greggs, Michigan, my North Carolina, because it's vital that we get the numbers up high enough to where a ballot dump at two in the morning is not going to be as powerful as it was back in 2020.

But again, North Carolina, where I live, is one of those weird swing states where there's no doubt Josh Stein's already won the governorship, who's a Democrat. Robinson was just too inflammatory. He was too, there was too much.

It's too much to overcome. But even where I was just watching just called it for North Carolina as well. So it looks like we're going to go Trump for president and then a Democrat for governor. So, I mean, there's a lot of weird stuff still to play out tonight.

So I don't want to get overly excited, but I think she's even more unlikable than Hillary Clinton. And so I think we're heading more towards a 2016, liberal tears, weeping from Russell Moore, things like that than what we saw in 2020.

Hey, Keith, can I get jump in here for one second? Cause I got to jump back over to the cross politic live stream. I just wanted to comment on what he said very quickly. Is that okay?

Yeah, go ahead, man. You got the floor.

Oh no, you don't have to give me the floor. I would just say too, that this is a different situation than 2020 because actually for the first time, the GOP and the Republican voters have taken full advantage of the early voting to where exit poll voting has said we're up seven, 8 in just about all voting in the early vote.

So it's actually backfiring on the Democrats, the extended voting in early voting times. Now, what we have to watch for that though, is are we just chipping into the normal bump we get on election day?

Because on election day, the Republicans,.

There's always more votes.

It has always been that the Democrats lead in the early voting, and then the Republicans kind of even it out on day of. But now for the first time, Republicans are actually leading in the early vote. So we just need to know, did more people that were going to vote on election day from the GOP go, ah, I'll just go vote early, or did we actually make that swing by Trump and Vance kind of courting the alternative Republican, meaning the Joe Rogan and the Theo Vaughn and the Tim Dillon show voters that went, you know what, I can't stand Harris.

I can't stand the craziness. I saw these guys on my favorite podcast. I'm gonna go vote for them. So that's really what it's gonna come down to. And I think it might make the difference, the Gen Z vote in probably five of those seven swing states.

Awesome.

That is, that's, yeah, that's an encouraging thought. Now, hey, before you go, because you said you got to go back to the ivory tower and we understand, we understand. You've slummed it long enough. But before you go, I want to give you an opportunity because somebody just asked this question in channel.

Somebody said, hey, who's, what's the happy Calvinist channel? So I'm gonna give each of you a minute to tell everybody where to find you. I know not everybody here is a podcaster. David's an audio book narrator, but you can still talk about your website.

Everybody go around the room. We'll let Greg go first, cause he's probably gonna drop out after he does his part. And then we're gonna, we're gonna give everybody an opportunity to share.

Real quick, they just called Georgia for Trump.

Oh, they called Georgia for Trump.

Let's go.

Hey, in fact, while we're doing this, some y 'all shout it out. If you see something and it's solid, shout it out. Okay, Greg, you, you, you're on, man.

Give us

All right, very quickly before I take off, my name is Greg Moore. I'm the host of the Dead Man Walking podcast. You can find me at dmwpodcast .com. But if you're trying to pick a new podcast, put me low on the rung.

I want you guys listening to your Calvinist. I want you listening to Watch Well with Parker Brown. I want you listening to Happy Calvinist with Claude Ramsey. And I want you listening to Striving for Eternity with Andrew Rappaport and Civically Minded.

You guys have a great group. You're having a lot more fun on this stream than I am, but go do it, guys. Have fun.

Well, God bless you, brother. Thank you for coming in. We love you. And we'll see you Love you, Greg.

See you, guys.

Love you, man.

All right, my friend. Now, Matthew, I know you're not a podcaster. You're one of my team. You're my team member, but you're also an elder at your church. So do you have anything you wanna shout out for your church?

Um, I spent 13 hours on my feet today, guys. I'm surviving off the adrenaline of the fact that we killed Amendment 4. So that's like, listen, I care about the presidency. I care very much about the Senate.

This matters to me. But like, that was the thing for me, living here in Florida, is we had to kill that one and we did. And so, as I did in pre-show, because I still have some in here, this is a mini bottle of champagne and a toast to be poured to the fact that we have defeated this amendment.