PAST, PRESENT, PUSHBACK

The Book of Revelation is the most debated, most misunderstood, and most relevant book in the Bible right now. Written around 95 AD by John while exiled on the island of Patmos, Revelation describes a sequence of end-time events that billions of people believe are unfolding before our eyes -- the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Mark of the Beast, the number 666, the rise of the Antichrist, wars and rumors of wars, a one-world economic system that controls who can buy and sell, and the secon

EPISODE DESCRIPTION - Ready to publishSports fans are living through the rarest kind of chaos right now - NFL Week 3 shocks, WNBA playoff upsets, MLB October heating up, and NBA Media Day all hitting at once. Mexo and CDA break down the biggest wins, the wildest injuries, and the matchups that could swing everything this week.The conversation starts with the kind of NFL slate that makes every fan feel something - the Falcons stunning the Packers, the Commanders taking down the Seahawks, the Stee

It is the last episode of September and Past Present Pushback is doing something different. We are looking back at everything covered this month -- the origin of police, traditional vs. modern gender roles, the trucker strike rumor, why food keeps getting recalled, and the full history of Labor Day. XO hits AZ and CDA with multiple choice Q&A questions from each episode -- they pick their answer and tell you exactly why. Then we get personal -- XO asks each host about the soundtrack to their lif

In 1940, the U.S. military believed Black men were not mentally or physically capable of flying combat aircraft. The Army labeled it an experiment. The NAACP called it a compromise they didn't fully support. The white commanders in the field tried to get them removed from combat duty. And the men themselves -- academics, scientists, Olympians, and some of the most qualified pilots in the world -- just kept flying. In this episode of Past Present Pushback, XO, AZ, and CDA go through the full orig

Most people know that police exist but very few people know where they actually came from, who built them, and what they were originally designed to do. The history of policing is not one story -- it is several stories running at the same time. Ancient night watches and constables going back to medieval England. Sir Robert Peel, who built the first modern police force in London in 1829, partly based on tactics he developed controlling the Irish during British occupation. Northern cities in Ameri

The conversation about traditional versus modern gender roles is everywhere right now -- on social media, in group chats, at cookouts, between couples. And nowhere is it more layered and more urgent than in the Black community. In 1890, 80% of Black households were headed by two parents. By 2024, only 31% of Black Americans are married -- the lowest rate of any racial group in America. Black women are now the most educated demographic in the country. Nearly twice as many Black women graduate col

It feels like every week there's a new food recall. McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Boar's Head deli meat. Cucumbers. Carrots. Onions. Lettuce. Mushroom chocolate bars. Tofu with ink in it. Meat with metal shavings. It seems like everything is being recalled -- and people want to know why. In this episode, XO, AZ, and CDA sit in the man cave and go through the full picture. The documented statistics on what's actually happening with food recalls. What Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli actually are

Most people know Labor Day as the end of summer -- barbecues, sales, and the last Monday off before fall. Almost nobody knows the actual story behind it. The story of workers who labored 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, including children as young as 5. The story of the Haymarket Affair of 1886 -- where a bomb was thrown at police during a labor rally and workers were executed for it. The story of the Pullman Strike of 1894 -- where over 30 workers were killed when the federal government se

Project 2025 is a 900-page plan written by over 350 conservative policy experts and coordinated by the Heritage Foundation to fundamentally restructure the entire United States federal government. It calls for eliminating the Department of Education, cutting Medicaid, ending DEI programs across all federal agencies, restricting voting access, overhauling criminal justice, and replacing thousands of career government workers with political loyalists. Many people first heard about it during the 20

Between 1865 and 1950, nearly 6,500 Black people were lynched in the United States. Many of those deaths were public spectacles — advertised in newspapers, attended by crowds of thousands, with postcards made of the bodies and mailed as souvenirs. Congress introduced more than 200 anti-lynching bills over the course of a century. The Senate blocked every single one. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act was finally signed into law in 2022 — making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time. It

In 2005, the NRA's then-president Marion Hammer drafted a bill in Florida. She brought it to two Florida state legislators who were both members of ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council. Governor Jeb Bush signed it. And within a year, 13 more states had passed nearly identical laws. Today Stand Your Ground exists in some form in more than half of U.S. states. And the research is clear: in Stand Your Ground states, homicides involving white shooters and Black victims are ruled justifia

Every American student is taught that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. That the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 ended slavery in America. That Lincoln was the Great Emancipator. But the full story is more complicated than that — and more important. The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to Confederate states where Lincoln had no actual authority to enforce it. It specifically exempted the border states where slavery continued legally. In practice, it did not immediately free a