The Flabbergastingly Stupefying Confabulations of Victor Marx (E385)
Cajun karate black belt, ex-marine, gun disarm master, demon hunter, pedophile hunter, and Colorado gubernatorial candidate, Victor Marx (no relation), has a storied past that’s details have evolved with him over the years leading to, at times, more questions than answers. Was he a state champion trumpet player? Did he kill a man at 7 years old? And just how many demons has he exorcised?
Today Travis breaks down Marx’s claims and as the stories get stranger, Julian and Jake also slowly break down until they grind to a halt on the side of the interstate. Later we are joined by the investigations editor for The American Prospect and senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, Maureen Tkacik. Her June investigation, “Onward Christian Soldier,” examines Marx’s purported rescue work, the ministry and political networks surrounding him, and the making of his “hardcore pastor” persona.
Onward Christian Soldier - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/2026/06/30/onward-christian-soldier-victor-marx-colorado/
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Comments (88)
I got what I wished for with this ep. thanks guys!! < 3
Mentioning “Cajun mafia” w/o referencing Steven Seagal. Nice restraint.
Never expected glant havners ex best friend Darcy to blow this up (listen to no gods no mayors)
Calvary Chapel is genuinely a vile institution every time I've been to one when I was practicing it gave me awful vibes.
I love this show. Long time fan. Can we get even a 10% decrease in “Jake Schtick”? I just think some times him trying to shoehorn a joke into a serious place is just so unwelcome.
Jake, make this happen https://www.threads.com/share/BAULwROpYJ/
Free Burma Rangers sounds like Rambo 4
Rambo 4 was actually heavily based on the reporting work that FBR does, but obviously a highly Rambo-ized take. FBR does very good work helping some important causes near and dear to me as a leftist, but they do swim amidst an absolute sea of these types of grifters. They don't tend to be ones to stick around FBR long, though.
Tkacik referencing the Epstein Files as reasoning for the Marx childhood murder story having plausibility raises my hackles after seeing so many people online now claiming Epstein was eating babies etc because "its in the files". That's more on me being extremely freaked out by widespread Epstein misinfo rn
I find it interesting how this guy seems closer to his insane father figures than with his mom. He partied with the step dad that supposedly forced him to kill a man and forgave and was mentored by his father who supposedly raped his mom at gunpoint but there seems to be no mention of his mom in his adult life. Is she dead? Does she agree with his childhood stories??
Came for a fun story, left with a beautiful falsetto 🙏
Victor sounds like Dr. Steve Brule
It'd be funny if the "Pedophile Hunters Fund" were a legal aid fund for people who are denied hunting licenses because they are pedophiles
As a Denverite, I volunteer for any boots on the ground coverage the QAA team might need.
i hope this isn’t against the rules to recommend other podcasts but Blood Work just did a great episode on Haiti and Jimmy Barbecue
When they asked the guy how many people he killed. He very clearly wasnt hemming and hawing like he didnt want to admit awful things he knows he has done. He was trying to figure out how to sound as badass as possible. And then he felt like an idiot when the reporter kinda pushed a little instead of fawning over his mysterious bs.
He’s like the father in that movie Big Fish, but like much more sinister.
Great guest
Beautiful falseto!
“Cajun Liar, a trickster of old” really sent me
This guy is the result of every Steven Seagal movie pumped through a Pentecostal AI filter and left to ferment in the blistering humid heat of unbridled global warming.
Jake! Word of advice from someone who did vocal training for years, when doing a falsetto try to yawn halfway before singing. that space where you've started a yawn but haven't actually made noise yet is the perfect space for singing, and I think that's what you need to put your beautiful falsetto over the edge
I saw the beach boys live like three times. Jake nailed it.
Other issues aside, trauma affects memory and the retelling of events. So adding or taking away details from a story actually shouldn’t impact credibility. That’s copaganda. It’s probably fair to say that some level of child abuse did happen.
Jake's falsetto sounds like a choir of angels
Yessss, I have been waiting for this
my partner and I looked at each other and shouted in unison "ZEKE PETRI!?!?"
When your state is mentioned on QAA… 😮💨
Victor Marx used to be a piece of shit. Slicked back hair, white bathing suit, sloppy steaks, white couch. But people can change.
Are we sure Victor Marx isn't a Danny McBride character? When I hear Victor speak, Danny is all I see!
Beautiful falsetto, Jake. I’m jealous
Cajun Karate Kid is the movie that I want Jake to write.
Put ghostbusters in there too, given the over-the-phone exorcisms
Turns out this guys is really a bunch of True Detective-ass tropes in a trenchcoat
I think he got that "growling" father and escape through a little window from The Shining
God the interview about killing someone really did remind me of Jaque
🎵 I wish they all could be Rockatansky, Jakes 🎶
Every time they mention Karl Marx i basically jump out of my skin a little
Spoke too soon! Fucking jimmy barbecue!
Attaining a seventh degree black belt in his fathers martial art system has the same energy as the rainbow belt from The Art of Self-Defense
Jimmy Barbecue
In what world is Jacques gonsulin not already evil Jacques
This one was very funny
love you my divas
It were justerfied.
Absolutely incredible falsetto Jake
I wish Victor Marx could teach me karate, girls
NSA? I’d have to bet this guy is incorporating Splinter Cell lore.
BEAUTIFUL falsetto Jake 😎
I had a coworker from the Deep South who explained to me that after her grandfather dies her aunt spent several hours alone with his corpse before calling the police and never explained what she did in that time. Their preacher said not to ask about it because the aunt was "cloaked in the Lord's forgiveness". My coworker made a gesture like putting on a cloak as she did that. Evidently this made the aunt immune to reorecussions for whatever she did. I assume she split the loot with the preacher. Anyway my point is Pentacostal preachers are all like level five clerics, but that mom casting a door ward was really impressive. She must have done some levels of cleric before switching to mom.
I have been waiting for this one.
Driving a Fart Focus is so funny
Not sure if it will be covered but theres an amazing article that makes you guess whether a quote is said by homelander or Victor marx, it's harder than you'd think, it's basically like flipping a coin lol
His story reminds me of Nathan Reynolds’ that he told on The Confessionals
Jake your falsetto needs work.
My step dad is a warlock woulda made such a good tumblr back in the day
I've been waiting for this episode ever since he had the beef with Candace! Looking into him felt like I had no idea what was real and what wasn't. The story sounded completely insane
Killing it with the falsetto rockatansky
I can't believe Marx turned down a position as a karate instructor just to grind from the rap.
There’s something so funny to me about everyone agreeing that this guy sucks shit, but they all also have to mention that the double disarm *is* cool. Maureen Tkacik commenting on it unprompted after the main hosts agreed earlier was hilarious.
Beautiful falsetto, Jakey!
If the phrase “some kinda Cajun liar” hadn’t been followed with a Jacques Gonsoulin shout out, my brain would have melted —thank you, Brotha Julian!
Jake, don’t hide your light under a bushel
Jake has the voice of an angel. The kind of angel that Victor Marx would reach out to for help during an exorcism
Yes Jake you do have a beautiful falsetto. Loveliest thing I've heard on the pod in a while 😁❤️
Oh hell yes. I heard a little about this dude and I'm so glad y'all are dissecting this grifter.
Beautiful falsetto, Jake
Was that Mike love?? Oh no just Jake’s beautiful falsetto
Like Into the Cavortex, this might be an all-timer.
You have a beautiful falsetto, Jake!
AHHH I SUGGESTED AN EPISODE on this beautiful gubernatorial candidate can’t wait
Kyle Clark mentioned as well, so pleased. Brutal + perfect local news guy
Honestly I was very impressed by the falsetto!
With the Cajun Karate thing as a sort of perfect, Seagal kind of synchronicity.
Dude's another Mike Warnke with Cartman level scams 😅
That’s exactly who he reminded me of
Heavenly falsetto @jake
Victor Marx reminds me of Praying Medic (with a bit of Mike Warnke mixed in). Praying Medic instructed people “contesting cases” in the “court of heaven” to claim protection under the “blood of Jesus.” This invocation, available in a book Praying Medic sold to “fund his ministry,” took the place of any kind of legal argument or judicial procedure (which is quite convenient if you’re a true believing Evangelical Christian, apparently.) Also, for what it’s worth, the “Free Myanmar Rangers” likely organize support to the opposition in Myanmar (a range of rebel groups fighting the military junta on behalf of a range of national minorities- mostly folks who reside in the highlands of the national interior.) The largest of these groups tend to espouse Christian identity- since many of the the highlanders were converted to Christianity by British missionaries when it was a colony. The ruling military junta is Bamar chauvinist (the ethnolinguistic identity of the majority of the coastal, lowland and urban areas). The junta also uses Buddhist identity to organize support (including Buddhist chauvinists who are deeply Islamophobic.) I can see evangelical Christians in the US coding the civil war as a “war against Christians.” The reality is much more complicated.
Genuinely great job for giving a pretty good rundown of one of the longest and most insane civil wars in history that I have a strange fascination with and really didn’t expect to see referenced here
This is a Steven Seagal level liar.
My immediate thought was the guy bloodsport is based on, who if I recall won a katana in a fighting tournament and then sold it to ransom orphans from pirates
I'm a little sad that you all aren't covering Mike Lindell's campaign and Julian didn't even know about it. He was a classic character of the QAA canon.
Well, he lost the primary so "THERE WERE A LOT OF IRREGULARITIES THERE THAT WE ARE STILL LOOKING INTO" Oh hush Mike
You have beautiful falsetto, Jake!
Agree!
Why does this feel like a new golden era for the OG trio? Their dynamic is better than it’s ever been! I’m loving it. Parasocial relationship intensifies.
They opened up their relationship.
Hell yeah brothers