Liz "dictator for the day" teases Truanon’s chaotic vision of a 300-year-old DJ Khaled-esque self directing her younger podcast persona, then pivots to Apollo Kibaloy—Filipino cult leader, FBI-wanted televangelist linked to trafficking and rape—whose church’s twisted doctrines demand deeper scrutiny. [Automatically generated summary]
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Liz Dictates
00:03:07
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| Hey, everyone. | |
| It's Liz. | |
| Bryce is here, but I'm not going to let him talk because I'm going to be dictator for the day. | |
| And welcome, everyone, to Truanon. | |
| Hello, no one else here. | |
| Bye. | |
| I'm Liz, like I've already announced. | |
| Hi, guys. | |
| No, don't talk. | |
| Sorry. | |
| He's that person's here. | |
| And also, we're joined by, as you know, and hello, everyone. | |
| It's Truanon featuring Liz. | |
| Hello, everyone. | |
| Hello. | |
| How about this? | |
| I'll only speak when spoken to. | |
| No, I don't want to do that. | |
| I'm not dictator for the day. | |
| That would be fun. | |
| Maybe I'd do the whole episode one day like that, but you have to be here for it. | |
| But I just don't let you talk. | |
| I just, I'll just sit there. | |
| My dream is so. | |
| Let me tell you how I envision. | |
| You know how people are like, I envision myself here in five years. | |
| Do you guys do that, by the way? | |
| I don't do that. | |
| Like a life milestone. | |
| Like you think of like, where am I going to be in five years, 10 years? | |
| Yeah. | |
| All the fucking time. | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| It just never really occurred to me to think like that because it's, I kind of, I'm kind of already in the fourth dimension, if you feel me. | |
| Like I've seen, have you seen interstellar? | |
| Maybe you should think about it. | |
| Yeah, but I kind of just feel like I'm doing like the interstellar thing where like I feel like I'm already have experienced every amount of time, like even before my life, if that makes sense. | |
| You're like a, you're like looper, but like opposite. | |
| I'm kind of doing a reverse looper. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Or in an inverted looper. | |
| Yeah, inverted looper. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The word inverted. | |
| An looper. | |
| Honestly, that word has been attached to my name a little too much lately, but you're right. | |
| I'm pretty much hitting him with the inverted looper. | |
| My thing is, though, I have started imagining myself in five years. | |
| And what I see is this: Liz, you sort of sitting there in some kind of studio, right? | |
| Behind the glass. | |
| Just you. | |
| And young Chomsie sort of hunched over like a gollum, kind of over like some boards or whatever, putting sliders up. | |
| I am 300 and I look like DJ Khaled, whatever, how you pronounce it. | |
| I'm DJ Khaled. | |
| I am bursting out of a half-button shirt. | |
| I've got a chain thick as your wrist wrapped around my neck. | |
| Okay. | |
| And rings that sound like well-shod horses going down a street made of silver. | |
| Like I am just clackling. | |
| And I'm pressing the button to talk. | |
| And I'm being like, Liz, can you be a little more clear? | |
| And I'm just, I'm directing your podcast. | |
| I'm kind of just in the background. | |
| You're just, you just hit it and you go, another one. | |
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Directing the Podcast
00:01:48
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| Another one. | |
| Liz, let's take that again. | |
| Another one. | |
| Another one. | |
| That's terrible. | |
| That's not going to happen. | |
| That's kind of never going to happen. | |
| You know why? | |
| Because I would never stop your sonorous and commanding voice from hitting the airwaves and being such a lovely little gift on our listeners' ears. | |
| Hello, everyone. | |
| Welcome to Truly. | |
| Hello. | |
| Welcome to Truan. | |
| Liz, we are talking today. | |
| We're going over. | |
| We're getting on the motherfucking ship. | |
| We're getting on the plane. | |
| We're going to the Philippines and we are meeting with the Son of God. | |
| We are talking about Pastor. | |
| Well, I don't know. | |
| Pastor is a strong enough word, right? | |
| It's what he calls himself. | |
| Apollo Kibaloy. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Pastor, TV pastor, NGO practitioner in the dark arts of NGOs. | |
| Media mogul and human trafficker, rapist, and all-around horrible criminal. | |
| I mean, this guy is, just to give you a little taste of this guy, here are the aliases the FBI put on his most wanted flyer. | |
| The appointed son of God, aka Sir, aka pastor, aka ACQ. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So who is this guy, Brace? | |
| First of all, having Sir as an alias is the craziest thing I've ever heard, but Apollo Kibaloy is a really big televangelist from the Philippines who runs a church that is slight, and we go into this a little bit in the episode, but it's slightly different than I would say a mainstream Christian church in terms of its beliefs and practices. | |
| It's a cult. | |
| It's a cult. | |