Powers & Principalities: Episode 433 by Our Interesting Times (January 3, 2026)
Powers & Principalities: Episode 433 by Our Interesting Times
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Trump Nabs Maduro, More Somali Fraud & Jewish Presidents
Trump Nabs Maduro, More Somali Fraud & Jewish Presidents
Powers and Principalities is a long-running podcast series co-hosted by Tim Kelly and Joseph Atwill. It forms part of Tim Kelly’s broader podcast, Our Interesting Times, and focuses on in-depth discussions of historical revisionism, deep state influences, psychological operations, media manipulation, and critiques of establishment narratives.
Tim Kelly (full name Timothy Kelly) is an independent podcaster best known as the host of Our Interesting Times, a long-running show focused on alternative perspectives on history, politics, power structures, and critiques of mainstream narratives. Background and Personal Life Tim Kelly keeps a relatively low public profile regarding his personal biography. From interviews and descriptions:
- He is a traditional Catholic, married, and father to 7 children.
- He describes himself primarily through his work as a researcher and commentator on “interesting” (often hidden or revisionist) aspects of current and historical events.
Podcasting Work
- Our Interesting Times (launched around 2015): His flagship podcast, hosted on Podomatic (tkelly6785757.podomatic.com), with nearly 1,000 episodes as of early 2026. It features in-depth interviews with authors, researchers, and thinkers on topics like historical revisionism, deep politics, media manipulation, and cultural engineering.
- Frequent guests include E. Michael Jones, James Perloff, Donald Jeffries, and many others discussing subjects such as World War II myths, technocracy, oligarchic influence, and psychological operations.
- Powers & Principalities: A recurring series (hundreds of episodes) co-hosted with Joseph Atwill (author of Caesar’s Messiah). These are often guest-free discussions delving into conspiracy-related themes, CIA influence in media/politics, Frankfurt School critiques, and current events through a lens of elite control and psyops.
Joseph Atwill (often called Joe Atwill) is an American independent scholar and author best known for his highly controversial thesis on the origins of Christianity.
Background: Atwill spent part of his youth in Japan, attending St. Mary’s International School, a Jesuit-run military academy where he studied Greek, Latin, and the Bible. He later studied computer science in college and co-founded several software companies before shifting focus to biblical and historical research around 1995.
After college (where he studied computer science), he co-founded software companies in the 1980s, including Ferguson Tool Company (with early IBM programmer David Ferguson) and Amalgamated Software of North America (ASNA). Around 1995, he sold his shares and exited the industry, providing the financial independence to pursue full-time independent research on biblical studies and history.
Mentioned by Joe Atwill in this podcast: Holocaust Encyclopedia
All roads lead to the City of London… TRUMP KIDNAPS MADURO! TOM LUONGO EXPOSES THE REASONS WHY!
Why did Trump kidnap Maduro? Oil, minerals, drugs, voting machines, or was it something even darker that the MSM won’t even mention? Was this an assault on the City of London? Tom Luongo lays it all out.
Tom Luongo exposes what’s really going on with TRUMP & MADURO
The statement “You cannot have ethos without telos” captures a profound insight from ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle’s framework. Telos (τέλος) refers to the end, purpose, goal, or final cause of something—the inherent reason it exists or the ultimate aim it serves. Aristotle argued that everything in nature, human action, and society has a telos: an acorn’s telos is to become an oak tree; a knife’s is to cut effectively; a human life’s is eudaimonia (flourishing through virtuous activity).Ethos (ἦθος), in its original ethical sense (distinct from the modern rhetorical meaning of “credibility”), denotes character, moral habit, or the customary way of being that shapes virtuous behavior. It is the disposition formed by repeated actions aligned with excellence. Aristotle ties them inextricably in the Nicomachean Ethics: True ethos—good moral character—emerges only through actions directed toward the proper telos. Virtues (arete) are habits that enable us to fulfill our human purpose (rational, social flourishing). Without a guiding telos, actions lack direction, and character becomes aimless or malformed. You can’t cultivate genuine ethos (moral integrity) in a vacuum; it requires orientation toward an end worth pursuing. In modern terms:
- Institutions (e.g., universities) falter when they lose a clear telos (truth-seeking vs. other agendas), eroding their ethical ethos.
- Personal character similarly depends on purposeful living—drift without aim, and habits devolve into vice or emptiness.
The phrase isn’t a direct Aristotle quote but distills his teleological ethics: Character (ethos) is meaningless or impossible without purpose (telos). To build one is to pursue the other.