The following present is Del Marvis Studios Production. Welcome back to truth seekers from
around the world. It's time for another edition of the Flat Earth Files.
I hope this podcast finds you well. I hope you're having a little better
whether than we are. We've got snow Tuesday, another couple evnches coming tonight.
The chickens are not pleased. The chickens are not pleased, but we'll
continue on. I hope everybody had a great week. We have a very
special guest standing by Liza, who will be joining us in just a moment.
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let's bring on our very special guest for this evening. Joining us tonight is
Liza. Eliza, how are you doing tonight? I'm doing great, George.
Thank you so much for letting me have this opportunity to speak with you.
For sure, and you have a very special connection to the flat Earth
community. I'll let you explain that I do. I do. I am
married to a flat earther, the fittest flat Earther, as he likes to
be known, and I yeah, I mean that's my connection pretty much to
the community is that I have been fully engulfed and exposed to all that is
truth and I am trying to find my way through it as the spouse of
someone who is new to the community. And of course that is Tyler who
joined us. I forgot to pull it up before we got started, but
he joined us several months ago. And of course most people who have seen
flat Earth Banjo his work. Of course, I think he does most of
his stuff on TikTok, right, he does. He's big on TikTok.
He does have a following on Instagram as well, but he's much bigger on
TikTok. And again that is fittest flatter. Yeah, there you go,
Tyler, And I think it was episode eighty five. I want to say,
and I'll on bed that in the in the show notes as well.
So go ahead, introduce yourself to the audience, and let's kind of start
the journey of you know, your husband, who you see go through this
huge transition which so many people, you know, we've actually even had people
in the show before who have wrote these kind of books how to get through
these times because it is such an emotional transition. You're not the same person
when you enter this phase of truth, if you will, you're definitely not.
So again, I am wiva, married to the fittest flatter there.
I'm forty four years old. My husband and I've been together for over twenty
five years, so since we were babies, basically just out of high school,
so we have been each other's first love and only love for that entire
time. So him finding his journey to truth was very uprooting and very challenging,
and I'm happy to say that we are in a stronger place than we
ever were before and that it is possible to come through it together when one
person is seeking so much truth and another person like myself, is more resistant,
And yeah, I really am here just to share my experience as watching
the challenges that he's gone through, the challenges that I've faced with it,
and hope that we're able to help somebody else who maybe goes through this in
the future, and maybe you two down the road can kind of write a
book, you know, a survivor's God, a survivor's guide right to the
truth, because it changes everything your perception, how you watch movies, how
you watch TV, and if you would. By the way, I can't
believe you've been married for twenty five years. You look like you're thirty at
the most. Well, I appreciate that, but I will tell you that
I was very lucky. My wife was very receptive to the truth, and
we've been together for twenty five years and kind of similar on when we come
out the other side of this truth, it was definitely stronger, and we
also made some bold decisions that I think we wouldn't have made before, and
that includes homeschooling and things of that nature, because when I went through the
deep part of the truth dive, not you know, everybody talks about the
JFK and the moon landing like even that the quote enormoist of normies, you
know, will are willing to have that type of conversation, but when you
get into flat Earth and a lot of these deeper things, it's a game
changer. So I guess the first question I should ask you is, you
know, when he first started to go through this, was it I'm trying
to properly put this in the right perspective, So I guess what was the
one thing that happened to him that made him like, oh my gosh,
how we perceive reality is not as it seems. Sure, So I think
for him this has been something that has been inside of him for many,
many, many years that maybe just didn't bubble to the surface as grandly as
it did in the last year. You know, he definitely questioned nine to
eleven years ago, and it was kind of a sensitive subject. As you
can imagine, many people were affected by that in one way or another.
So the topic of questioning where all that came from, who was behind it,
and things like that people didn't really want to talk about. And I
think for me, I was always open to the idea that I don't know
anything, and I'm okay with saying I don't know anything, but I think
that I'm sensitive to other people's reactions, and I was always kind of like,
I respect what you think and what you feel, but like, let's
not maybe share that because people are sensitive and I didn't want to send to
others. But in the last let's say a year and a half, our
marriage was actually on some rocky ground. We had been through a lot in
twenty five years, and we went through a separation in twenty twenty two and
took some time apart, and I think during that time we had some really
deep conversations which were good. And one of the things he's always shared with
me is that he felt like he had this deeper purpose and he just hadn't
found what that was for himself yet. So fast forward months later, we're
back under the same roof navigating still our relationship, seeing if things are going
to pan out for our future. And we have four dogs at the time,
and then we lose one and then our next one is on his way
out the door, and Tyler is the primary caregiver for this dog and has
been for several years doing everything that this dog could need and not do for
himself. And I would say in about April of last year, it was
the last couple of months of life for our dog, and Tyler really started
to dive into like near death experiences, people who had come back from that,
what their journey was like, and we were starting to watch them together,
and I was supportive in the beginning. I was like, this feels
like he's trying to make sense of everything. He's trying to come to terms.
And I was like, I respect that, and however, he has
to get there. So we would watch some of those things together. He'd
watch someone on his own, and then while I watched it all unfold in
front of me, it still feels like it almost happened over night, and
like I missed something somewhere. But he went from that on the rabbit hole
with the pyramids and reptilians and all sorts of different things, and then it
was kind of like I didn't know where to go from there. Right,
this is like completely new territory for me. And I wasn't sure what being
a good wife meant at that point and what was the right thing to do
and what wasn't the right thing to do. And that's kind of where the
struggle began. Interesting And again a couple of things to take away from that.
You know, when we lose someone close or you know, we add
our bagel for twelve years and it's devastating, and I think we all go
through a bit of transition and self searching and you know, exploring when we
have those types of things. It was the same for me when I lost
my father five years ago. It's you get into a very deep reflection and
I guess there is a kind of you know, what is my purpose here
right? And what will I be known for when I'm when I've moved on.
The Other thing is, you know, when you're having these type of
conversations you had mentioned, you know, now might not be the time to
bring up these certain you know, whether it be a dinner party or you're
aut with some friends, you know, like, really, don't bring this
up that that is something I struggle with all the time. And whether it
be I'm at my sister's house and they have the big fantasy football party or
it's the big family event or whatever, and like there's the perfect intro for
me to mention something, right, and it's do I really want to bring
that up and just be the ball and chain of the party, because you
know, I've tried these things in the past. Do you put your head
down and keep trying, or do you just try to be because again,
every situation is not the same. But you know, as passionate as I
am about how I perceive things, at the same time, I realized that
because I've tried before, people aren't really ready for that. So I think
that as a truth there a lot of people can understand that when is the
appropriate time to bring these things up right? And that is something I'm sure
Tyler deals with a lot as well. How do you perceive that? I
mean, I agree, I think I was younger than when the nine to
eleven stuff came up, I think, and I would like to stay I'm
matured since then and become more accepting. It's interesting because at the beginning,
you know, I was like, what's the big deal? So he has
different opinions and different views on so many different things. But like, that's
what makes the world interesting, right is people can have different perspectives and thoughts
and views on things. So in the one sense, I was like,
I'm okay with this. Then there was you know, we have our surrounding
community of our friends and family who we have been around for twenty five years
and lived here, our whole lives, and you know, it was like
I would never say, don't be you don't represent yourself for who you are,
because that's the person I married. Whether you change today and you're different,
like it's still to you and these are still your thoughts and ideas,
and I value you as a human being and I want you to be you.
Like if I don't, I shouldn't be with you, Like that's not
fair. But it was challenging because you have these conflicting things going on,
like I have his family, who he again is so passionate in everything he's
ever done in his life and flat earth and truth is no different. And
he came in very hot at the beginning. It was not this flow,
steady burn of like let me show you like one thing this week or whatever
it was like. And I wasn't a part of this because I was living
under the same roof and I was hearing him talk about it, but like
he wasn't messaging me and texting me and sending me every video he found because
I was right next to him most of the time. But our friends and
family, we're getting the rapid fire text messages of all these videos, all
these things. And then I'm getting the phone calls like should we be concerned?
Is everything okay? And my initial response is why would you be concerned?
Like how is this any different than any other aspect of life? And
then it goes to you go out together and like you said, watching movies,
everything you do is different for him, and we go out and it's
like the air no fault of his own, almost gets sucked out of the
room because people who we don't see every day but are getting in the text
messages and things want to mirage him with questions and want to prove him wrong
and say something's wrong with him. And then it's like are we out with
friends anymore? Or is this like an interrogation? And am I even in
the room anymore? Because you just kind of get swept the background. So
it was definitely challenging. And all of our relationships just like one or two,
but all of our relationships in our life, whether it be with our
friends or is family in particular, are completely different now than they were eight
months ago. Yeah, I'd looked at his very first email he sent me
on July eighteenth, twenty twenty three, and you could you know, I
remember to this day reading that email and you can feel the energy coming from
the email. And he's always been We've had seventy one emails back and forth
just since j yeah, since Jillight. And it's both ways because you know,
he's very passionate and they're I feel his frustration because again, I have
a friend. We've been friend since nineteen eighty three, so it's been like
forty years. We've been friends since our sophomore year of high school. And
that guy could talk about you know, Elvis Presley and led Zeppelin for twelve
hours at a click. And then I bring up something that I'm passionate about.
And sometimes I'll even go light and bring a little lesser things because listen,
flat Earth is one of the big It's like it's like getting hit with
a rock on your head and people they look at you and they say,
are you okay? Did you hit your head? Did you smoke a little
something before we met up? And it's just it's frustrating because we as truthers
understand the impact of the truth, like who really is running things down here
and how evil the earth really is and how you know, Satan you can't
create anything, but he deceives. He deceives and everything is such a big
deception. And you know, when we come on that knowledge, because I
went on a two week trip, like when I when I came on to
flat earth, I was, It completely changed who I was. And again
I was excited with the information, and like Tyler, I was going to
my friends and family like thinking that they would be blown away and excited to
hear these things. And nothing could be further from the truth. Yeah,
and it's really unfortunate because he, like you, like you said, he
was so excited and really just like has always been the most compassionate, empathetic,
like loving and caring individual out of anybody I've ever met. It's why
I was drawn to him at such an early age and why I knew like
right away that he was going to be my husband many years before we got
married. And everybody has always looked at him in that light. Nobody's ever
looked at him in a different light. But with that being said, all
of this happening, unfortunately has put blinders on a lot of people, and
unfortunately it seems that like the people that he loves the most and cares about
the most is where he struggles the most, and that's really hard to watch,
and it's really hard to know what my role is as far as a
support system for him, because I want to go to battle, right like,
I want to fight everybody and be like, don't treat him this way,
don't do this. But at the same time, he's a grown man
and perfectly capable of defending himself. But it is a hurtful thing to watch,
especially from family. Yeah, it is, and it almost you become
at least for me. I don't want to speak for Tyler, but for
me it became someone who was almost like living with a secret because I have
put these things out there before, and when you get that reception where you're
just immediately shut down, I feel like I can't be myself because these are
the things that interest me. This is my passion, and I want to
have these conversations and all my other family members have the opportunity to talk about
those things that they're passionate about. No matter how trivial that seems to me,
I still give them the platform and the interest. When they tell me
about their new TV show that they found and I say that's you know,
that's cool, and I tell they tell me the plot there's this new show
called Like Them or They or something. It's just the hottest thing. And
I just listen to people and I say, that's that's cool. But if
I turn around and say, you know, hey, you want to hear
the truth about you know, World War two where the Gulf of Talking was
a lie or any of that stuff, they just crazy Uncle George, and
then just you lose reception. It's very frustrating, and I think most of
this is due because of this matrix that was created the thirteen years that when
you go through school where you're taught not to question everything. You were told
what to believe. Right in fourteen ninety two, Christopher Columbus Sale the Ocean
blue and everything else, and you're just supposed to trust and accept it.
They just don't teach critical thinking anymore, which is something we implemented here at
our homeschool a couple of times a week. Simple things like you have one
hundred dollars, go online to the grocery store and you need to come up
with two weeks of food, or you have five hundred dollars, you got
to get to Los Angeles, go on travel lot, just little things to
just kind of provoke the mind, not just you know, a B or
c that kind of thing, because that just doesn't really bring creativity. And
it just breaks my heart to see people who aren't willing to think outside the
box or even listen to these type of things because they've been trained to believe
that way. I fully agree with you. You know, it's interesting because
I always thought that I was an open minded individual. And you know,
when Tyler first approached me with everything, I was like, I'm so accepting,
I'm so tolerant, Like I can be around anyone that believes anything and
as long as they're kind and caring in their approach, like I'm down for
it. But I realized as this journey has gone on, like I wasn't
open minded at all, Like I had a completely misconception, a confused idea
of what open minded was. To me, open mindedness was acceptance and tolerance,
And in reality, that's not open mindedness at all. That's tolerance,
and Tyler has brought me to see that, Like open mindedness is the willingness
to say, you know what, Like I have my beliefs, I have
my ideas, but I'm willing to challenge those and I'm willing to accept the
fact that they may not be correct, and that there could be another version
of this out there, and that mine may have been wrong all this time.
And I think I'm much better about that now. Like again I said
it earlier, I'm definitely okay with saying I know nothing and anything is a
possibility and I just don't know. But it's very difficult to stay in that
place and to continue to be open minded when you have outside forces. Are
friends, for example, you know, they look at me now and they're
kind of like, has he like brainwashed you yet? Has he brought you
in on his way of thinking yet? Like they don't like outright say it,
but it's like you go out to lunch or you see a friend and
the conversation is usually well do you believe in plat Earth or what do you
think? And like do you agree with him? And then you know his
family's perspective is really upsetting. That one is still you know, Tyler played
football for many years in high school and a long time, and they're very
much so like, is this CTE is that it's a brain tumor and they
haven't really let that lie yet, And that puts a lot of pressure on
you as a spouse, right Like, on the one hand, you're like,
I'm supposed to be supportive and by your side and do all these things
with you together as a partner. But then you have this outside force saying,
well, on the one percent, the one percent chance that something that
they're saying is true and that they could be right, would I then feel
all the blame, which I would if they're right and something was wrong with
him? And many months ago, that's where I struggled. It was everybody's
saying he's sick, there's a tumor, cte, a mental disorder, something.
And then I'm like, well, shoot, I'm the one that lives
with him. I'm the one that's here every day, and if I'm missing
it in six months from now something catastrophics, I will own that and be
like, oh my god, why didn't I listen? But as the journey
has gone on, I'm like, no, I'm the one that's here every
day, and I'm the one that sees the transition. I'm the one that
listens and participates. And I've actually listened to quite a few of your podcasts,
which have really helped me hear other people's stories and things like that,
and I'm like, I feel like if our family and friends were to open
themselves up to hearing more people that have gone through similar journeys, they would
recognize this is not like an isolated thing. This is not someone who with
mental disease or someone who has a physical disease. This is truly about someone
who goes through a life changing experience and goes on a journey of truth seeking,
uncovers a lot of truth, and then gets to where they get to
and you come to the understanding like a person can't go through all that,
discover all the deceit and lives that they've discovered, and come out the other
side and be the person they were before. And I'm good with that,
and I understand that, and I love and accept my husband for who he
is today, and the person he is today is the person I want to
be with. But so many of our friends and family are still like waiting
for him to go back and hoping he will go back, and trying to
find a way to make him go back, And I'm like, that's never
going to happen. And until they come to terms with that, their relationship
can't move forward in a positive direction. You know, that's a very important
point that you made. Is you know that they jokingly say once you go
flat, you'd ever go back. But on top of that, once you
take your journey to the truth and you see these things, there's no going
back. This has been me for the last decade one hundred percent. And
you know, the more you research, the easier you discern the type of
lives. Like you know, you're told as a child, if you work
hard and go to college, that you could be president of the United States.
What was the headline today, Michelle Obama sneaking into the race. You
got people from the same families, the Obamas, the Bushes, the Clintons
that are running that are president of the United States. But you think that
Steve from Iowa, or George from Delaware, or Larry from Nebraska, whatever,
you be president. These you know, these people are selected, not
elected. And that is one of the biggest example I used to people who
get worked up and that this is another divisive topic. Right, it's twenty
twenty four, it's an election year, and you saw how deviceive the country
was four years ago, and it's just part of the old playbook. And
we you know, the truth or slash critical thinkers. You know, we
see these things and we know what's coming. And the same people who laugh
at us get all excited about MAGA or riding with Biden or whatever it is.
And it's just how do you not see that they're all on the same
team and we're the ones who lose all the time. And it's just one
example out of thousands to say, stop believing in this show that they put
on and again there's no going back. And it's hurtful to me when I
hear things like that, the relationship he's gone through, and hearing things like
does he have CTE? Because I've had that mention to me once or twice
too, man that I adem us to really, you know, scramble to
his brains. I've heard that before too, and that's not the case at
all. And it's very frustrating, and it's, to be quite frank,
it's it's rude, and that's being nice just because I have a different belief
from you and most of these people we will tell you. You know,
they'll cite the Constitution and freedom of speech, but if if that speech goes
against their beliefs, they'll automatically put up they don't want to hear it.
So it's really it's a catch twenty two. It's us. It's sometimes it's
maddening to be honest with you completely. And you know, Tyler also being
a teacher puts him in an uncomfortable position as well. Right, Like we
were having this conversation today with the freedom of speech and stuff. It's like,
you do have freedom of speech to an extent. When I was looking
at different things, say, like everything's really geared towards protecting the school system
and protecting what they want people to think and believe, and doesn't really protect
the teacher, like you know, his social media and stuff like that,
Like he's sharing his beliefs, he's sharing what he finds to be true and
what he's passionate about. And you know, really they could pull the plug
on him at any time with his career. But you know, he has
to decide who he wants to be a person and what's important to him,
and I think he stands true to that, So I mean, I support
that completely. It's a little scary at times, you know, with him
being the breadwinner of the family, but I don't want him to be someone
he's not and he would never ask that of me, So I just,
yeah, I find all that to be really interesting but also very upsetting,
just the way that the world works and that people are okay with that.
Yeah, I was very I'll never forget waking up a few years ago and
having an email from PayPal and it said, we've shut down your personal account,
your business account. You need to take the PayPal logo off your website
because you know, I did an episode on Blackrock and they said you're done.
And you know that's what I used for donations and things like that,
and that was you know, of course, the the prideful part of me
is like you know, I was. I served this country for twenty four
years, and part of the lie I was told when I was over in
Iraq for all that time was, you know, I was defending the constitution,
so you know, where's my freedom of speech? And that's really when
I got punched in the face and realized that that that's just another another big
lie. And you're right. We saw doctors lose their license if they spoke
up against COVID. We've seen so much to get canceled over the last several
years, and people will still look at you in the face and tell you
we live in a free country. You know, we have that document that
tells us we live in a free country, but if the government doesn't abide
by it, then you should probably realize that we don't. And there are
we're in a time now where you do have to be careful. But you
know, I feel like Tyler the same way. Right you have to stand
toll in your convictions, and if you want to make change in the world
and you believe in what you say, it's really hard like to just keep
your mouth closed and sit on the sidelines, especially when you see everything that's
going on in the world. There's so much you know, there was probably
as much evil back in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, they just
hit it better. But it seems like in the last decade or so they're
not hiding it anymore, and we live in a really upside down society.
Would you agree with that? I do agree. I think there's a lot
going on in the world right now. I often say this to Tyler,
and I'm like, I'm really not sure if it's any different than it's ever
been like for all I know, especially with him huncovering so much truth and
different things. For all, I know this is the way it's always been,
but because neither one of us was ever looking before, we just didn't
have the privilege or the lack of privilege to be it right in front of
our face. But yes, I mean I go through all the different things
every day and I'm like, this is really blowing my mind just how much
is happening at once. And I do think that for me that was again
another reason I struggled with Tyler's just like truth is this number one thing in
life, and whether it was about the world truth that he's come across in
the last eight months, even before that, truth was always the most important
thing to him, And for me, I value truth, but I value
love and ki above it. So when this all started taking place, I
was like, I'm pretty uncomfortable with some of the stuff that you're trying to
share with me, and I find some of it to be really evil and
dark. And while I want you to share with me the cool, interesting
things, I'm not sure I'm on board with learning all the darkness. And
I know there's evil. I don't just like shut a blind eye and be
like there's no evil, but I'm like I don't know that I want to
know every single thing that's evil, and I still struggle with that. But
again, for him, it's like truth is truth, and he's like,
I'm not going to not look at something because you think it's evil or because
somebody else says it's evil. He's like, I want to know the darkness
so I can find the light in all the things. And that is an
area that we struggled, but we've made a lot of compromise on and we've
worked through. But I just I don't know. I think that that could
partially be why so many people are resistant is because so many people struggle with
mental health and different things and they don't want to rock that boat. And
I have respect for that and understand that, but at the same time,
I think that you can't not allow the people in your life to be who
they are. That's a great point and it's important. The two things that
you mentioned is compromise, because anytime you have a relationship relationship with someone,
compromise is very important. And I completely get it because you know, when
you're going down the rabbit holes, some of them are very very dark,
very very dark, and they're hard to un see. As well. One
thing I wanted to ask you that I haven't really asked you yet was what
was that very first conversation like when he kind of explained flat earth to you?
Well, he went and looked into flat earth, I want to say,
maybe many a year ago. You know, there was that Netflix documentary
that came out The Law Yes, and he, you know, watched it
and was like, oh, yeah, No. I tried to get on
board with that because I'm an open minded guy and I just couldn't get on
board right. So I knew that he was looking and then honestly, by
the time he came to be a flat earther, my initial reaction was,
what's the big deal? My initial reaction was I'm not surprised. You've dug
up everything under the sun in the past several months, Like, why would
one more thing that happen? And how is this any different than anything else
you've tried to share with me or shown me. And on top of that,
I did the totally unallowed thing and I googled it, and I googled
and said how does one become a flat earther? And the response I found
rings so true to who my husband and was like usually there's a marital issue
going on, or some sort of life changing circumstance going on, or a
loss of a family member, and I'm like, well, here we are.
We were separated, we're still kind of navigating that. Here we are
we lost our dog, a terrible loss for both of us, but especially
my husband. And then it was like and then they're seeking something to hold
onto. So they go and start looking at things in rabbit holes and finding
truth, and they discover there's a lot of deceit in the world, and
I'm like, yep, right in line with what's going on here. And
then it was like and then they get to flat Earth. Then they can't
discern that that's not true. And I was like, interesting, that that's
the one thing that they put the stop on. They have no problem admitting
the government has lied about almost everything and saying that your person uncover all this
truth and the government is liars about everything, but that this one thing is
true. So I took it with a grain of salt, and I was
like, all right, who's to say that. He told me before Googling.
He's like, don't use Google. Google's going to tell you what they
want you to think of flat Earth, there's and all the things, and
I was like, don't tell me where to do my research, let me
do my thing, let me be me. Yeah, but I still I
was like, all right, I'm not just going to take Google's word for
it, but I'm like I shared with him. I was like, the
story adds up, so like it's not a stretch for me that there's something
else that you believe you're being lied to about. But again, I was
like, I don't get why this matters so much. And it took him
saying it over and over again to me on why it mattered so much for
me to really get it. And I've always been a believer in God.
My family grew up Catholic, raised me Catholic. We say grace at every
meal that we have as a family together in my family's home, and you
know, they all go to church and my grandparents go to church every day,
like it is a thing for us. My relationship to God was a
little different. Matt Tyler and Tyler's Stanley I always thought was big God believers,
but like they were not the church going unless it was you know,
funeral or wedding, and so I kind of had my own relationship with God
privately, and you know, would do praying when I prayed, and didn't
really have it in our marriage so much. But when Tyler became a flat
earther and explained now that he knows God is real and that this has changed
to me is I was like, well, that's that's different. Like I'm
on board with this. I like that we're like coming together in this.
I like that you have found God in your own way and all right.
And I think that made me more receptive because that was like, wait a
minute, I'm finally seeing that there's a positive coming from all this versus all
the turmoil it's causing in every direction. But like, if you found God,
to me, that's something we should be celebrating and something we should be
talking more about one hundred percent. And I get overwhelmed sometimes when I get
emails. We get them every week. You know, people who have not
you know, have never you know, been a part of God right or
you know have maybe growing up went to church and then as an adult kind
of you know, you know, busy with work and you know the old
cats in the cradle and kind of forgot about God and then they stumble on
the podcast. And this isn't like me, you know, patting my back.
This is to all the people like yourself who come on and open themselves
up and saying that they've you know, they've come back to God and there
is That was the exact reason why the very first episode we ever did was
called Why the Lie, because I think it was important to let people know
that this is just not some fringe podcast where we think, you know,
this isn't another secret society that is cloaking that the true nature of our earth,
that this is literally the hand of Satan deceive people. And everything in
your textbooks goes along with that. You know, the Earth is fourteen and
a half billion years old, the moon was caused by Mars crashing into it
and the moon broke off, and you know, dinosaurs, Big Bang theory,
evolution and everything else. And that's something I talk to my local ministers
about all the time. I was dropping some salt off to them the other
day when we got our snow, and it's like, you know, we
spend an hour or two a week in church and then we send the children
off to thirty five hours a week and these schools that go against everything that
we preach on Sundays. How do you navigate that? How do you fight
that battle? And obviously not everybody is in the same position where I am,
where I'm able to homeschool my daughter because I'm in a different place in
my life. A lot of people are out there, they're single parents working
two jobs. My goodness, at the grocery prices are through the roof,
insurance rates have doubled everything. You know, people, it's tough for people
to even you know, make ends meet, let alone try to you know,
homeschool their child. But you shouldn't have to have those type of worries
where especially if you're you follow Christ, your believer in God, that you
know, all the work that you put into them at home and at church
is going to get completely undone when you send them off to school. And
I think that's one of the biggest battles that we face today. Yeah,
I agree. I think it's really unfortunate that God was forced out of schools
and I think that should have been a big warning flag for a lot of
people. And I think people just kind of took it lying down and were
like church and state, okay. And I think it's a mistake because I
look at you know, we said the pledgeable legiance and different things when I
was young and in school, and I mean, I know times have changed
and all the things, but like I think, the first school shooting was
literally the year I graduated high school, and all that stuff has gotten worse
over the years and has gotten deeper and deeper the more we have pushed got
out of our schools. And I think that, well, I obviously can't
predict what would have happened. I do feel deep in my heart that things
would have been much different if it didn't work out that way. Was that
Columbine? Yes, you know, it's funny. I graduated PLDC, which
is when you get your stripes in the army. That day, we just
finished school and I was back in my barracks room, eat a pizza and
drink and a beer, and I turned on the TV and that was literally
going on. And that's funny. That date, that April nineteenth, April
twentieth date has a very occultish date to it. Waco and Oklahoma City happened
on April nineteenth. The shooting happened at eleven nineteen. In reverse that you
got your nine to one one so I do think all of these major type
of events are well I'm not even going to get into that particular conversation tonight.
That's for another day. But I think you're right. I think right
around that timeframe, the ninety nine to two thousand and one, when we
had nine to eleven, I think that was another point where evil really weird
its ugly head and the world really stopped hide and how evil it actually was.
You know, that is something that I think about all the time.
Is just when I was in school and I graduated in eighty seven and things
were so different. We didn't have all these things to worry about, misgendering
and I mean just craziness that's gone. And in the church today you have
the entire Methodist Church. We grew up Methodist three years ago, the church
actually split because half of the church except at LGBT. There's churches now in
the Methodist Church that have actual like drag queen pastors. And you know,
it has gone from the schools which we were just talking about, but now
this evil has actually entered the churches, which is really scary to think about.
Yeah, it is, So where do we go from here? I
know you had mentioned that the Flat Earth Conversation how the original one went.
How has the last eight months been, and how have you been navigating and
have you taken the time to do some research yourself. I know you had
mentioned listening to some of the podcasts. I guess I should ask you where
are you and your kind of journey to the truth. I know we mentioned
beforehand that you're not completely on board with flat earth, and I know much
of today was talking about your support and being on the other side as a
spouse, if you will, of a flat earth or someone in the truth
community, and all the things that you've had to deal with. But where
are you personally on this? So while I am not someone who's a proclaimed
flat earther, I would say I'm not someone who's a proclaimed what we I
I see the things my husband shows me, and I'm like, I understand
how you get to where you are. I don't take time to do research.
To be honest with you, I feel like that's where we find our
cheet and our balance in our home because Tyler invests so much time and then
I do not. And then we can talk and I can listen and we
can share, and then I can also share other things that are maybe different
than what he would normally spend his time on, and we find our balance
that way. That's just what works for us. I know that listening to
your podcast when he was on it back in July was one of the first
things that really helped us get over the hurdles that we were facing. And
you know, it took months and months, but we've gone on more road
trips in the past year for some reason than we ever have in our entire
relationship, and the hours in the car are a great time to have conversation
and listen to podcasts instead of just listening to music and numbing it out right.
And he went on your podcast and then I think we had a road
trip that was significant. I think are one too. I think we went
to South Carolina and he was like, will you listen, and I'm like,
absolutely, I will listen. I am on board and I listened,
and at the end of it, he kind of paused and was like,
well, and I was like, I really enjoyed it. I'm like,
I didn't expect to really enjoy it. I don't know what I expected,
but I'm like it is just refreshing to hear like minded people sharing ideas and
for their not to be judgment and for their not to be pointing fingers and
hostility and anger, which is all I'd witnessed. And I think that makes
it really hard for someone in my position is to witness so much anger and
so much turmoil among the people that you've always seen get along so well,
and to try and be like, why is this happening? And how do
I make this stop happening? So definitely listening to him on your podcast was
a huge turning point for me. I was nervous in the early months of
how my family would react. My family has always been the judgmental side and
his family has always been the more accepting side. And it's interesting that the
rules are reversed in my family. I mean, I love him very much,
so if they ever listen to this, I love you. But they
nitpicked me apart, like my entire existence. And I really was like,
oh, there we go. The moment they find out all of this,
it is going to spiral. And my dad, my dad's a character,
but my dad is very malleable for lack of a better word, and you
know, he was a one day fishing and hanging out in our backyard,
and I had a cousin in from college that was visiting who you know,
red pilled or whatever you all call it on your side during COVID, and
he's younger, and he, you know, has found his way to a
lot of different truth And they were just talking and my cousin and Tyler were
talking and I was like, oh, like all right, so like my
cousin's okay with this. This is comfortable for me. Like usually I would
be like I need to get up and walk away, but I'm like,
they're not speaking poorly to each other. I can sit around for this.
And then my dad kind of chirped in and he's like, wait, what's
fletter And I was like, it's when people believe that the Earth is not
a globe and a spinning ball, and they believe it's something different and that
there's like an ice wall and stuff. And he was like, all right,
I'm on board with that. He was like the only reason I ever
thought it was a globe is what I was told. And I was like,
I could literally tell you tomorrow it's globe, and he'd probably go back
to be like, okay, you said, it's like whoa fine but like
just the fact that like he wasn't like what are you serious, and like
didn't have immediate judgement. Sure, I was like, well, this feels
good, Like this feels like a safe space and is okay. And then
on our trip to South Carolina, we listened to several more of your podcasts
with different individuals, and I was like, oh, like this is really
a thing, Like this is really a community. And you know, We've
gone on a couple of road trips since and I've listened to yours, I've
listened to some other people's podcasts, and my one overwhelming takeaway is that there's
not a single person that I've seen who has come to the truth or flat
Earth that is out to hurt others, and that is not someone who just
genuinely cares for people. And majority have come to God. Not everybody's come
to God, but majority have come to God. And like this is a
really strong, positive community that I'm really happy that my husband is found,
and I'm really happy he's a part of and I'm really happy that he has
since he doesn't have it in his normal circle of people in his life.
And I think for me that has made me more open and more receptive to
listening to more, to learning more and accepting more things to be truth.
But again not something that I spend my time researching, but definitely something where
like I'm not like when is this podcast over or when is this book over?
I'm like, oh no, Like I'm interested from start to finish and
hearing and it's part of the reason why I wanted to come talk to you
today was simply I've listened to so many of them, and the thing that
I keep hearing is, oh, well, my spouse and I divorced because
I was a truther and they weren't a truther, or you know, my
mom has disowned me, or the different things, and I'm like, this
is so sad. These are relationships that were so strong and thought they had
such a deep foundation, and then because somebody came to a different journey in
their life, we're basically just like written off. And I'm like, it
doesn't have to work out like that. And I didn't want that to be
our story. Like from the beginning, when we struggled every day, I
was like, I don't know, we're going to make it through this,
but I don't want our story to be We didn't make it through this,
and I don't want it to be because we couldn't find our way to navigate
this and go through it. And I really I just hope that like other
people who are in my shoes today, tomorrow, whenever, are like there
are examples of people that can find their way through this, and it doesn't
have to be a bad thing that happens in your life. It can turn
out to be like a really positive thing. And I will tell you this
has been one of the most important conversations that I have had, because I
get emails all the time, not even including the people who have come on
the program before that are going through difficulties because one person is so strong about
the truth and the other one is completely opposed to it. So hearing your
story and coming out the other side stronger than before is very important to share.
I have a couple more questions to ask you besides flat Earth. One
of the more divisive things that have come up in recent years was COVID.
Was that something that affect you were the extended family and became divisive very much
so. Tyler and I I think were kind of on the same page,
which you know, up until the last eight months we were always on the
same page, like we were the same brain and thought alike, did alike,
and all the things. But we did not want to get the vaccine.
I my reasons weren't necessarily because I thought the government was doing things out
of evil intention. It was more so like this feels like a rash decision
and doesn't feel like it is something that has been tested nearly long enough,
and like so many things that have been made and created in the past years
down the line, and you're like, oh, that ended up being really
bad for you and really terrible. And I was like, if we're staying
in our homes and we are on lockdown and we are wearing these masks and
all these other things, I'm like, why do I need to leave my
home and go being in a group of a large group of people and get
jabbed in the arm. At my knowledge at the time was I did know
a significant about a significant amount about vaccines because I had worked for homeopathic doctors
in the past, and I was like, there's really bad stuff in there.
Number one, number two. They're putting the virus inside you so that
your body can combat it. And I'm like, I just I don't support
this, but we got a lot of pressure from both of our families.
My family was very strongly opinionated about it because my father has a compromised immune
system. He's been in a wheelchair since I was one years old and has
gone through so many struggles in the last forty four years. And then my
health at the time was terrible. I was one hundred pounds heavier than I
am now. I had never taken care of myself and my mom was like,
this will be terrible if you get it, and then we have to
take care of you, and basically guilted me in that way. And then
Tyler's family was well, listen to the doctors, listen to the government,
this is the right thing to do. As well as my niece was being
born and it was the first grandchild on that side of the family, and
it was being leveraged as if you're not vaccinated, you can't be around the
family, and it was like, well, family was everything to Tyler.
Him and his family have always been so tightly knit that it was like,
oh, I don't want to do this, but I also don't want to
not be around my family, and what do we do? So we did.
We caved and we both to this day, I regret it and really
are upset that we didn't stand in our own convictions and let people pressure us.
But in the end, we made our own decisions right. Nobody held
our hand and forced us. We made those decisions. But would we do
it again now? And his family is all still getting vaccinated, which is
their choice. Sure, sure, but even today, like that's a really
hard thing for Tyler, especially because he's like, knowing what I know,
sharing it with them, they refuse to look at it, and then they
go and get the vaccine and all of them are sick all the time and
all these things. It's like, he's like, how do I live a
life where I am around them and socialize with them and spend time with them
when one I can't really talk about what I believe in and be myself,
And two the things and the choices they are making are so against what I
feel and believe. And I'm watching like the ramifications right in front of me,
and he's like, and I can't stop the train that's come. You
can't. And then on top of all that, you're belittled for that,
and it's just you know, you're damned if you do, and you're damned
if you don't one of those situations. If you don't bring up you're guilt.
You feel guilty for not saying what you believe in. If you do
bring it up, you know, they belittle to you. You get the
eye roll and everything else. So and listen to everybody who's listening to this
podcast feels the exact same way. And when you said listen to the government,
it's just that is like one of the scariest things. Reagan was the
guy who said the nine words you never want to hear is I'm from the
government and I'm here to help. It's just they can't get out of their
own way. So that was a big red flag for me. You know,
if the government's behind it, no thanks, hard passed. Something I
really did want to bring up was and of course there's no correct answer for
this, but have you obviously you have thought about this, But how do
you guys have that conversation about trying to mend that bred like you and your
husband, Tyler, you guys were able to compromise. How can Tyler and
his parents get to that point? You know, we talk about it all
the time all the time, because they'll have a day or two where nothing
comes up, and then day three a hurtful jab is thrown or something is
said. And for a long time I was, you know, trying to
keep the peace, and I was like, you can't control them, You
can only control you, Like, what can you do to adapt and what
can you do to compromise and make the situation better? To be perfectly honest,
I'm at the point now where I've seen too much and I'm kind of
like the hurt is there and I really want. I know how important his
family is to him, and I respect it so much. I don't really
have a relationship with them the way that I used to because of the separation
and things have inspired since then, but I still want that for him.
And one thing I've learned in years of working on myself is that relationships are
your choice and they are not guaranteed. And blood doesn't guarantee a relationship and
it doesn't mean you have to have that relationship. And I think so many
of us were led to think that at one point. We were led to
think, Hey, they're family, their blood, anything goes you forgive and
forget no matter what because they're blood. And I just don't think that rings
true for me anymore. I think that you have to choose people in your
life who build you up, and if somebody is tearing you down, you
have to stand up for yourself and say, hey, this doesn't feel good
to me, This isn't the type of relationship I want to encourage in my
life. Here is what I need in order for our relationship to work.
Tell me what you need for a relationship to work. If we can agree,
let's move forward. But if we can't agree, then we have to
part ways, whether it be a temporary parting or a permanent parting. But
this has to be in the best interest for both of us. And if
it's not, then what are we doing? And you know, Tyler and
I are making a lot of life changes in the last year, and one
of the things that we intend to do is to move, which is a
huge thing for us because, like I said, we've been in the same
town our whole lives and we're fully intending to take that step together and move
somewhere different that is going to be far away, and we're both on board.
But it is a struggle to leave for him with the relationships in the
way that they are, and I know it's important that he wants them to
mend. But then like, in my opinion, and again I'm no expert,
but in my opinion, maybe the distance will help, you know,
maybe saying, you know what, we weren't very respectful while it was here,
and now that he's away, like we realize, like how much of
a great person we're losing by not having that close relationship with him. And
he's distanced, far away, and maybe they'll be like, I don't agree
with everything he says, but I can't have a relationship with someone if I'm
expecting them not to be who they are. And maybe they'll come to a
point where they're willing to compromise, and right now we're just not there.
So it's it's sad and I'm hoping and praying on it that like everybody understands
that they play a part in this and that there has to be compromised on
both sides. One hundred percent, that really comes full circle. You know,
when I was in the military, a platoon start, you always had
the soldiers you spent The old joke is you spend ninety percent of your time
on one person you're trying to fix that person, and while it's not the
exact same situation, a lot of times you can spend so much time trying
to get that one person to think your way or just you know, to
see things, and you may forget about the other relationships that are going on.
And that is something that I've put forth. At the same time,
we all have family struggles within our family. We all try to be supportive,
but it is very frustrating. And everybody who's listening to this podcast completely
can resonate with what you just mentioned with not being able to be ourselves around
our own family members who have known us our entire lives, right, and
it's something we're passionate about, and the fact that we can't have these type
of conversations can be disappointing and you feel disenfranchised and you don't feel authentic when
you're around people and you can't share your basic convictions with them. Yeah,
and it's like, how are you supposed to like consider that a relationship anymore?
Like if you're not being authentic to yourself and you're just playing the part
that they've placed you in, like that's not really a relationships. So you're
going to mourn that loss but like, really you're mourning the loss of somebody
that you weren't anyways. So it's like, is that the boundaries for yourself?
Respect yourself and say this is who I am, this is what I
need. I would love for you to be a part of that journey with
me, and if you want to be, you're welcomed. And if you
don't, then you know, love you, but we're going to have a
distance between us. Yeah, this has been tremendous and I hope for all
the people listening who may be in relationships with others who who are having struggles,
I hope you'll share this episode with your loved ones and hopefully it will
help them bridge and you know kind of some like you said, you know,
meet halfway and still be able to move on, and like you and
Tyler, you came out the other side stronger. Was there anything else that
you wanted to mention that you had in your mind that you wanted to mention
to the audience so that we haven't talked about yet. I really just think
that in any relationship, whether it's about letters, whether it's about anything,
it really comes down to listening and talking and accepting your person. And I
think that it's really important that you build up the people in your life and
that you don't tear them down. I just think that that is so critical
to survival. I think when we feel beaten down, it just takes away
so much of who we are. And like, my biggest thing is like
I want people to know they're not alone. Like that was my biggest struggle
in all of this is I felt so alone for so many months, Like
I didn't talk to friends or family. I was like, I don't know
anybody else that had become a truther, and I don't know anybody that knew
anybody that had become a truther. And I was like, how do I
tell somebody what I'm going through when I don't want them to judge me my
husband, our relationship, and I just want them to like help me through
it. And I really just like felt so isolated and I don't want that
for anybody. So yeah, I think that is just like my biggest thing
is like there are people who have been through it. I think listening to
podcasts, even if it's not one like ours today where it's like talking about
the relationship aspect, can be so beneficial just to hear that there are other
people out there going through a similar situation and just really pray on everything.
Yeah, praying is very important, and also I think it would be awesome.
And again I'm just throwing it out there. I'm not trying to put
you on the spot, but this would make a heck of a book.
It really would. Because podcasts are awesome too, Don't get me wrong.
I'm listening to these type of conversations. But there's a whole other audience for
books too, and that this is a platform, a category, if you
will, that is really not broached to its fullest. You know, there's
a million books on whatever, just the most generic fringe things, but there's
not really a whole lot of books out there who people who see things differently
and how to compromise. And that is the big word, to compromise.
And we as truthers have to remember the same thing. If you know the
person we're talking to, as long as they're not breaking us down, if
we have the conversation and they don't agree with us, you can't tear them
down as well and just yell at them. How can you not see this?
You just have to respect their journey and what they see so it is.
I should mention that it is kind of a double edged sword. You
have to respect other people's opinion as well, but the fact that you know
it tears down and people you know ridicule you that that is unacceptable, but
it does work both ways. But you know coming on here is I appreciate
it so much you sharing this story. It's very important, and we're going
to have Liza's email in the show notes, so make sure you check it
out if you'd like to reach out to her. Her email address will be
in the show notes. And I hope you consider continuing sharing your story because
it's very important. There are so many people out there who are going through
this. So again, I appreciate you coming on, and I would like
to give you the final word. I really appreciate you. I appreciate you
being open to our email to you saying what we'd been talking about. And
you know, Tyler and I have so many deep, meaningful conversations these days,
and you know, I really came to them of a place of like,
gosh, I wish I had someone like George or a podcast like what
you have on here, where I could have gone and been like, that's
a resource. For me because I really I looked high and low when we
start going through things and couldn't find any anything that came close to not being
judgmental or felt like it was like a safe space to really hear what was
going on. So I just hope that this does that for somebody, even
if it's just one person. I hope that people continue to be themselves and
who they are and have people that love them and support them and build them
up. And again, I know you've been such a godsend to my husband
and to our marriage in general, and I really just am so grateful for
that. Tyler is very grateful to you, and fit is flat Earther is
very grateful to you. And I just appreciate you taking the time to talk
with me and share my story. I appreciate you what's very humbling, and
I'm glad to be just a small part of this community. I'm so glad
people so many people have come on to share their stories, and it's so
important for people to realize that they're not alone, that there are, you
know, hundreds of thousands of like minded people out there, and it's just
finding that community, and more and more people are finding that community. And
I look forward to having more of these type of conversations. And again,
thank you so much Liza for joining us. I'll have that episode with Tyler
in the show notes, and we'll have Liza's email address if you'd like to
reach out to her. The next podcast will be Sunday night at eight pm
Eastern Time with Kara, who I'll be interviewing in about ninety minutes. And
I hope everybody is a great weekend. If you're in the way of this
storm, be careful, God bless you all. Keep your head on a
swivel. And until we meet again, my friends, we will see you.
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