The Buddy Foy Jr Show
Buddy Foy Junior Show: A powerful blend of faith, truth, and boldness in today’s complex world. Hosted by Buddy Foy Junior, this podcast explores the deep intersections of Scripture, culture, and personal growth. In an era where government and big business are increasingly intertwined, Buddy emphasizes the importance of staying vigilant—reminding listeners that we must actively speak out and stand firm in our convictions.
With a background as a serial entrepreneur, TV reality star, and advocate for small business rights, Buddy shares insights on leadership, perseverance, and patriotism. Each episode encourages you to live with purpose, embrace faith, and take action—because real change starts when we step up and speak out. Whether you're seeking spiritual inspiration or practical wisdom, this show inspires believers and entrepreneurs alike to carry the torch forward.
The Buddy Foy Jr Show
Hit by a Spiritual Sledgehammer at virgin Mary’s House
From an empty-nester European getaway to a spiritual jolt in a Turkish mosque — this episode is the turning point.
Buddy recounts how a simple stop at the House of the Virgin Mary turned into one of the most unexpected, eye-opening conversations of his life. A bold Turkish tour guide, a plaque quoting the Quran about Jesus and Mary, and a candid dialogue about faith, idolatry, extremism, and hypocrisy set the stage for a powerful revelation.
In this episode, Buddy dives into:
- His emotional visit to Mary’s House in Ephesus
- The Quran passages about Jesus and Mary that stunned him
- A raw, respectful conversation with a Muslim guide who had read the Bible cover to cover
- How Christians appear to Muslims — and the hard mirror moment Buddy had to face
- Why public faith in Turkey convicted him about private faith in America
- The dangers of spiritual division, religious superiority, and taking the devil’s bait
- Why America resembles Revelation 2’s warning to the church in Ephesus:
“You have abandoned your first love.” - A call for repentance, courage, public prayer, and a return to biblical living
- How to start today: noon prayer alarms, public habits of faith, church attendance, and leading your family spiritually
- And why America needs a revival fueled not by politics — but by bold, everyday believers
This one is raw. Honest. Challenging. And hopeful.
If you’re ready to live your faith out loud — start here.
This is the Buddy For Junior Show — where faith, truth, and courage come together. Join us as we explore life’s deeper purpose and carry the torch of conviction. The show begins now.
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Folks, welcome. Welcome to the Buddy for Junior Show. I'm back on U.S. soil. For those of you that are just joining, check out some last episodes. My wife and I did an empty nestor tour all over Europe. We hit Istanbul also, and then back to America. Barcelona, Italy, France, Turkey. And I had an incredible journey. What started off as an empty nestor marriage retreat turned into a rekindling, turned into a spiritual sledgehammer. I mean these spiritual revelations and experiences and encounters that hit me in the head like a sledgehammer, all for the right reasons. And we're going to unpack that here today. We've been unpacking it and we will continue to unpack my experience. Before we continue with my in-gensed experience at the Virgin Mary's house in an encounter with the tour guide, I want to share something and clarify the air. Are you an Islamic? Listen, folks, I am a Christian. I believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The only way I think otherwise is if Jesus Christ himself comes down, touches me on the head, and tells me otherwise. Okay? So let's just clear the air and leave it there. Now, let me take you to the journey at Mary's house. We're driving. Now there's 12 of us, it's a small vanaton intimate group. This tour guide, rough and tough dude, dude's no joke. No joke. He is looking and talking, and we're going. We get to Mary's house, and the whole time I'm thinking, is this guy a Muslim or a Christian? We get to Mary's property. He tells us what to do. He gives us half an hour. Jen and I go to the house. We walk through. My wife starts crying. She's very emotional. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling the spirit. I'm being inspired. I walk out, I see a plaque. I read it. Can I read it to you, folks? This is a plaque outside in three languages. We give Jesus, son of Mary, the clear signs and confirm him with the Holy Spirit. Quran, chapter 2, verse 87 and 253. Mary, God has chosen thee and purified thee. He has chosen thee above all women. Quran chapter 3, verse 42. Mary, God gives the good tidings of a word from him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary. High honored shall be in this world and the next. Near station to God. Chapter 3, verse 45. Quran. So folks, I'm not schooled in the Quran. I get out of there. I'm confused. And my wife knows, man, when it's in my head, I'm on a mission. I say, where's the John? Have you seen you see him? Do you see the tour guide? She says, Yeah, I think he's down there. He said he'd be at the at the head of the parking lot. Because he gave us all half an hour. So she goes and continues her thing, their shops and whatnot. And I go down and I find him. He's drinking tea. Now I fully know that a little bit of the Turkish culture is enjoyed over tea. So I approach him. By the way, folks, I'm not a dove. I don't wear velvet gloves. I'm approaching him like a gorilla. Okay, I'm a gorilla. I sometimes even sound like a gorilla. Sometimes I even look like one. And I approach him in this New York, you know, bravada, and I say, look, it, can I talk to you for a second? First of all, where'd you get the tea? He brings me, we get the tea. As we're drinking the tea, I lean into him and I ask him, Are you a Christian or are you a Muslim? He says, I'm a Muslim. I said, is there anything I can do to convince you of Jesus Christ? He goes, convince me? What that he's real? I know Jesus Christ is real. He goes, buddy, I just don't believe. He goes, can't let me can't teach you some things. I said, let's have a conversation. Because I just walked outside Mary's house. I read an excerpt plaque. And you guys have the Virgin Mary in the Quran. We need to unpack this. And I need to understand how you're not Christian when you give tours of Christian sites all year long. And we dove in, folks. We dove in. He asked me, first of all, have you read the Quran? I said, I just read an excerpt of it. We laughed. He goes, Well, I've read your book. I've read the Bible. I've read the Old Testament, the New Testament, cover to cover. I've read the Quran. I've studied ancient Greek history and I understand the paganist of the past. So this is the conversation you're getting the buddy. I said, okay, rock and roll. Let's go there. He goes, all right, first of all, by the way, my Catholic friends listening to this, don't be offended. I'm sharing you a conversation I had to learn, to learn about how this faith has grown so quickly. Not through me um loving their theology, but through me being completely enthralled by their commitment, their consistency, their their lifestyle of constant prayer as a community and outward-facing communities and the public. So he says, We believe that Jesus Christ existed. He was not crucified, but he was ascendant. We believe he's a prophet. We believe somebody else took his position to um fool, okay, to pull a quick one over on the authorities. And it was not Jesus on our cross. Jesus was taken up to heaven. He the Lord, our creator, Allah, would never become man. He's just too an all-powerful. So okay. Um you're wrong. What can I do to convince you otherwise? Since you're read my book, you read the Jesus' book, you read the Bible. He says, Okay, well, let me can I just share a few things with you? He says, sure. He says, when you leave Mary's house, what are your people doing that we give tours to, 80 million of them every year throughout our country? And the majority of them are Christian. What are you all doing when you leave these tours? Meanwhile, I'm looking around, folks. People are carrying bags, it's got merchandise in it. And he stops me. He goes, Have you ever been to a mosque? I said, Yes, in fact, two of them in Istanbul. And the experience was quite um revealing and frankly inspiring on how open you all are. And I I'm changing my, I'm gonna start being as open, which is why I'm having this conversation with you, with my Christian faith, in public. And he says, okay. He goes, so you know there's no signs, there's no pictures, there's no idols anywhere in a in a mosque. I said, yes, I'm aware of that. I'm aware that these mosques are old Christian churches, Catholic churches that you all conquered. You put plaster and mosaic tile over the paintings and the drawings of Mary, of Jesus, of the apostles. He says, Yes. I only know this, folks, because of the tours I took of museums, etc., and then being in a mosque in a live environment. So he says, okay, so you all leave the Mary's house and our our historic, your historic history, and you go purchase these statues, these paintings, these idols. And it kind of hit me. I said, okay. I go, I'm not sure I'm agreeing with you, but I'm tracking with your point of view. He says, all right, so you want me to convert to believing that Jesus Christ is divine, and you walk around here buying idols when your book and my book say, Thou shalt not worship an idol. I said, okay. That's an interesting perspective. I'm on board with you. Let's let's continue. I said, but you do know not all Christians have idol, what you consider to be idol worship inside their house. He goes, No, but the Catholic Church is the dominant force and it's your microphone. And we need to dive into that in this conversation. I said, perfect. So as the dialogue went on, we you know he showed me how to read the Quran properly, gave me some advice, what book to get, uh, what to look for. And it was it was a great back and forth, folks. And in the middle of it, I turned to him, I said, okay, I have one more for you. And he, like I said, folks, he saw me coming from Newark Airport. He said, I already know what you're gonna ask me. Why do people in caves in Afghanistan, for example, read my book, my Quran, walk out and behead and murder people? I said, Yeah. Because, buddy, I can't answer that question on where they see it in my book because it doesn't say it anywhere in my book. It does not say that anywhere in my book, unless you take it out of context. Now, I'm gonna read it, so I didn't want to argue with him. I just wanted to have a dialogue to understand where his head's at and where his people's head's at. So I said, okay. I go, um, and he turns to me and he says, by the way, I want to be perfectly clear. The devil is clever. He knows how to infiltrate you and your faith. He knows how to infiltrate me and my faith. He knows my book better than me and 50 Muslims behind me, and he knows your book better than you and 50 Christians behind you. The devil knows how to infiltrate both of our theologies and the people who do things in the name of this book. The devil tricks them and he wants to divide me and you. And I agree, folks. Like I'm on board with all this. I think he does it politically, I think he does it with theology, he does it with everything. So he turns to me and says, I'll give you an example. Christian crusaders, your Christian, early Christian converts going around to pagans and murdering them and burning them inside of their worship houses if they don't convert. And he goes, and the mother of all in your generation, the cloth in children. I said, Okay, I got it. He goes, I'm just talking, buddy. We're having a conversation as gentlemen, and hypocrisy is an issue, the devil's an issue, and we need to understand that we have facets of our leadership, of our people who do things in the name of your God and of my God, which we believe is the same God. Allah in Arabic means God. A Christian, he shared it with me. A Christian, you go to Arayah, you go to an Arab nation and they speak Arabic. I may be getting that a little bit wrong, but they speak Arabic. They will, you say, hey, Christian, who's God? Allah. You go, so we're we're saying God, like you are, and went through the similarities. And I gotta tell you, it was eye-opening, folks. It was completely uh inspiring. And I say this and I share this because I believe we as a country, we need to be careful of the bait we take. We need to be careful of the enemies we make. We need to be careful of our idol worship. And folks, more than anything, we need to turn and repent and get back to our Christian values. I spoke of Revelations chapter two, which I was inspired to talk about last week at Ephesus, where the apostle John was uh was removed from the city, was exiled, and that's where he came up with the vision and he was visited and he wrote the book of Revelations and he turned to Ephesus and he said, You lost your first love. You're doing all these other things right, but your heart is in the wrong place. Folks, that's America. We need to repent and turn back to our first love. The hand of God was on the foundation of our founding. Our Jude Christian values need to be turned back into and leaned into, folks. We need to repent, we need to get back to our ways, and the Islam faith growing faster on our world, that should wake us up. Not to envy their beliefs, but to learn from their boldness, their consistency, okay, while we get back to the truth in knowing Christ. That's it, folks. We need to repent and get back to our Christian values. And we can learn through observation of what we might consider the enemy. Perhaps there's a little bit more in common that we have with each other than we don't. And we can not take debate on the devil's division in distracting us in war, in fighting, in this division, instead, focus on our own house, focus on our own families, focus on our own communities, and focus on our belief system penetrating the marketplace, penetrating the public square, us getting out of our closet and coming out to the public, us practicing and putting forth our journey towards Christ. And if we do it as a nation, we start as a family, we then build to a community, we then roll it out together. And we can return to our creator, and we can take back the demonic spirits within our country. That's what I'm suggesting here. We may not have the five calls to prayer blasting all over our communities, because that's what I heard in Turkey, everywhere I was. And instead of being insulted by it, be inspired by it. What I mean by that is, what are we doing to remind ourselves to pray? How about we do this? I got a call to action. How about tomorrow and every day you set your alarm for noon? Stop what you're doing, thank Jesus Christ, thank our creator. If you're Jewish, thank your creator, which we have in common. Thank him for something, anything. Then pray for someone. Let's practice living out loud, our faith. It's uncomfortable, it's different. We've put Jesus in a closet, we've hidden in another one. Well, let's get out of it. Practice it. Pray for someone. You can do this privately. And then just one day a week, pray over your meal in public. Pray over it in public. Get uncomfortable, folks. Get uncomfortable. And folks, we got to get to church. This CEO program needs to be blown up. Christian Easter only. Christmas Easter only. That's over. We got to be going to church, if not once a week, twice a week, midweek Bible study, or get in a group. We cannot outlaw, we cannot outlaw the spread of Islam that fears us, which it shouldn't fear us if we learn about it, folks. We are a country freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. But we can out-repent, we can out-pray, we can out-worship, we can out-attend, and we can out-be public. Because that's what the Lord expects of us. I'll put a scripture below in the description that justifies what I'm saying right now. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a movement going on with our youth. There are football teams giving themselves to Christ. There is an outward, boldly movement sparked through Charlie Kirk and his assassination that we can lead into, we can provide energy to, we can advance along with the movement or not. Young folks, you that love TikTok and love trending and want to be trending, and you have FOMO, the biggest FOMO you should be worried about right now is that you're missing out if you're not involved in a Christian movement. You're missing out in a God opportunity that your generation is sparking all over the world. So there's your FOMO, kids. If your parents ain't, isn't or if your parents aren't encouraging you, you drag them to church. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Don't take the bait. Get back to church. Pray daily. Pray over your food. And let's get this country back on track. God bless America. God bless you. I'll talk to you next week.
