I heard some ridiculous things about this guy, so I started digging into his background, and hit a brick wall because Google has become completely useless. He has an unusual name, so you’d think it would be easy to find diverse sources about him. You can’t. Google search results are saturated with autobiographical claims by Robichaux himself, about and by the foundation he established, his podcast, his youtube channel, and puff pieces by organizations that support him, like Focus on the Family (you ought to be suspicious of anything Focus on the Family supports.) All I learned was that he’s really good at optimizing his presence on the internet.
AI doesn’t help, either. Here’s the AI summary of the man.
Chad Robichaux is a former Force Recon Marine, bestselling author, and founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, which helps veterans and first responders recover from PTSD and trauma. He has dedicated his life to helping others find healing and purpose after serving in combat.
I finally found one source that demonstrated any critical thinking, and it was Reddit. Sorry. That’s never a reliable source, but at least some people are asking questions.
I’m sorry, but can I get some clarification on Chad Robichaux? It seems like he tells stories like he was deployed as a Marine Recon member to Afghanistan eight times doing all this insane high speed stuff with JSOC.
However, I’ve heard other claims that he never deployed as a member of the military and was instead overseas as a contractor. That seems like a MASSIVE difference and very dishonest if it’s being presented that he was a member of the military getting into all these insane black ops missions.
Right. He spends a lot of time on his podcast and interviews, bragging about all his black ops missions, while simultaneously claiming to be this great righteous humanitarian. I’m already suspicious, and what is more plausible is that he’s a profiteering contractor who exploited the war, and afterwards turned into a grifter exploiting veterans. I was primed to doubt and mistrust this bozo by an interview he did with Tucker Carlson, where it was clear that he’s an obsessive liar and conspiracy theorist.
Let’s start with a standard stupid claim about archaeology. Did you know that ancient Egyptians and Native Americans couldn’t possibly have built megalithic stone structures?
CHAD ROBICHAUX (GUEST): I’ve stood in front of the megalith structures of Machu Picchu. When you stand there and you’re looking at a 300-ton rock that’s carved at such precision, it’s like, the Inca didn’t build this. Maybe they built stuff on top of it, but the Inca didn’t build this. Like, some primitive little mountain tribal person didn’t build this. There has to be a preexisting — they had help from someone, and they probably did it with preexisting technology. I don’t believe, by the way, we’ve — and you said this — I don’t believe we’ve evolved. I think we’ve devolved.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Well, so a lot of those structures, Machu Picchu is a great example, but the megaliths in Jordan, the mounds in Illinois, like —but some of the stonework, we don’t, there are no masons today who could build it.
ROBICHAUX: No.
CARLSON: So like, what does that tell you? In 2026. No, with modern tools you couldn’t build that. So, no one’s explained any of this stuff. I’m just amazed by how incurious official institutions are in this. Like, how can National Geographic or the Smithsonian — like, if I’m the editor of National Geographic, I’m, I don’t know. I’m assigning piece after piece, like, how were the pyramids built? How did they get the stones 300 feet in the air? Like, how did that happen? No one even asks. And it’s considered wrong to ask.
That’s all too familiar racism and ignorance, and Carlson is pandering to it. We know how these structures were built. Scientists and engineers have been asking the questions for centuries, and working to understand the clever engineering and social structures that could use brute force and material understanding to get stones 300 feet in the air
. Everyone asks. The answers are easy to find, at least if you can escape the vortex of suck that is Google.
It’s clear, though, that Tucker Carlson is an unreliable kook who is trying to imitate the Joe Rogan strategy of bringing in even kookier kooks to make him appear reasonable. Don’t be fooled!
At least he’s useful for exposing the even wackier beliefs of gomers like Chad Robichaux. Robichaux babbles about Nephilim.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, if your theory that Genesis 3 and the Book of Enoch are not just folklore, but are describing physical reality, If that’s true, if you’re right, then there would be actual physical giants. I mean, that’s what those accounts describe, giants.
CHAD ROBICHAUX (GUEST): Right.
…
ROBICHAUX: From my research, and this is something I’ve been very interested in, and those who I’ve spoken to who have spent their life researching this, every time there is evidence of giants, it goes to the Smithsonian and never to be seen again, which is quite strange.
CARLSON: No, they’ve denied it. Not that that means much, but do you think that’s true? That the Smithsonian has suppressed archaeological evidence for whatever reason?
ROBICHAUX: I’ve spoke to several people. Even beyond the physical evidence that we have today, if we believe the Bible and believe every part of the Bible, the Bible talks about giants and talks about Goliath. And talks about other giants in the Bible. So you can’t believe part of the Bible and not believe all of it. So I believe it cover-to-cover. So I believe giants did exist. I believe the, you know, modern day stories are true as well. I believe the giant of Kandahar is a true story. In fact, Tim Alberino interviewed the pilot in private that flew him out, so it’s a firsthand testimony there. So I believe —
What if we don’t believe the Bible and believe every part of the Bible
? Where’s your credibility then?
He’d rather believe that the Smithsonian is suppressing evidence than that maybe the Bible is an untrustworthy collection of old myths.
TUCKER CARLSON: For those of us who are not familiar with the giant of Kandahar. Kandahar, Afghanistan.
ROBICHAUX: So I have some time in Afghanistan. However, I didn’t see any giants there. But the story of the — is some Marines getting this gunfight with this giant, and —
CARLSON: This is in the 2000s during GWAT?
ROBICHAUX: During GWAT, and a team goes back, and they actually — a team goes back because these Marines didn’t come back out. Team goes back and actually kill this giant, and it’s brought into a facility, and the US aircraft flies the body back.
He wasn’t there, but he obligingly parrots a story about a giant being killed by American forces. There are very tall people that some would call “giants,” but that’s not what these clowns are talking about.
ROBICHAUX: But I do believe this exists, and if you look at the Nephilim, which is the offspring of human women and the fallen angels, a lot of people would bring that to the modern day Sasquatch and Bigfoot. Once you start talking about this, it sounds crazy. However, no one’s found Bigfoot yet, including us, and we did two episodes of Shadow Figures on it. And I believe the reason no one’s found Bigfoot is because it’s not some primitive ape, it’s actually intelligent. Ancient and intelligent being, and not one, but a species of them that whether they’re elusive for whatever motivation they’re elusive for, but that’s why we’ve not been able to spot them or see them. You know, we get fuzzy videos, and with game cameras all over, right, you’re a hunter, there’s game cameras all over the world, why don’t we have a picture of Bigfoot? And I believe because it’s not some just primitive ape, some wild animal.
CARLSON: I was just thinking that exact same thing.
Two gullible idiots chatting about total nonsense. This is what the internet has brought us.
Such an astonishing amount of bullshit.
I’d suggest you look for a new default search engine, now that Google’s fried. I’ve been trying out Kagi and previously used Duck Duck Go with the “noai” at the beginning of the url.
Yeah, the blatant racism is irritating. One retort I’d like to try, “Just because white people can’t figure out how ancient people did it doesn’t mean it was aliens.”
How many of those giants turned out to be windmills?
When I was still wasting time on Facebook, I’d run across a lot of this “ancient aliens built this megalithic structure, because primitive earthlings couldn’t possibly” crap. Like: beings with interstellar travel and other tech have nothing better to do on random planets they visit than pile up rocks?
Jason Colavito also has written about that train wreck. The blog contains links to further explanations of the “Kandahar Giant”.
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/tucker-carlson-launches-new-show-claiming-atlantis-was-home-to-bible-giants
But…but…but… there ARE pictures of Sasquatch. The Patterson–Gimlin film.
Whether one believes the film is authentic or not, by their own standards of proof these two chuckle heads are wrong about ‘Bigfoot’ never being photographed.
Wait a minute! I thought Hebrew slaves built the pyramids in Egypt, and then migrated to the Americas to build the Incan and Aztec megaliths. Who’s this rube trying to fool? He must be some godless atheist or something.
Anyway, it’s been a while since the Nephilim crossed my path. Here’s a fairly short take on the Nephilim by Dan McClellan from a few years ago. The beginning says it all. The two citations in Genesis and Numbers conflict with one another.
The Onion recently parodied him with a guest on the Jim Haggerty Show – 31:00
https://www.youtube.com/live/uGxFU6ZZAj0?is=uSls4AkCWKt6vAbq
Nobody and nobody important.
Another generic right wingnut scammer on Youtube and TikTok.
None of these guys have ever had an original thought in their lives.
They are just recycling ancient myths and stories. Nephilim, Bigfoot, UFO aliens, Area 51, demons, Democrats, Universities, etc..
Well, he’s right about that if nothing else..
Whoah! They did two full epsidoes of some (TV) show and didn’t find! Gee, it must be real and real smart and elusive to avoid bein’ seen on two whole episodes of whatevsdafuck. I mean the lowgick there is un’scape’ball..
More bovine feces than a farmer who accidentally ordered a herd of a 100 bulls and one cow instead of vice-versa..
Yeah, the entire Incan civilisation that was in many respects vastly ahead of Europe at the time (guns and virri aside) was just, y’know, “primitive” and “little” and a “mountain tribal person” singular fer fucks sake! Yeesh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire
Largest land empire in South America? Meh.. no biggie..Oh wait.
Yeah , they built on a few other older empires eg Olmecs and stuff as Mysterious Cities of Godl has taught me since primary school but still, actually rather impressive even if those ancestor civilisations didn’tbuild giant golden condors and solar sail and hundred oared vessels. (Solaris, no, the other 1980’s cartoon one.*)
Gah wot?
Oh . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror
Who won that one again?
So there’ll be a relaible source to chase up there, yeah? Yeah?
.* See : Solaris déploie sa voile solaire et ses rames – Les Mystérieuses Cités d’Or • S1E07 Biased here but reckon its beats Asterix Loved that old show.
Zannen boku wa francais cést tiahen.Tres mal. Je regrette.
Denying the true origin of achievement does sound like something a black ops person would do.
And yet, hundreds of millions of people do exactly that. Does he also believe the parts of the Bible that say that pi = 3 and the earth is flat?
Behind the Bastards podcast
Part One: Richard Marcinko: The Founder of SEAL Team 6
Part Two: Richard Marcinko: The Founder of SEAL Team 6
Part Three: How the Navy SEALs lost their mind
Part Four: How the Navy SEALs lost their mind
So you can’t believe part of the Bible and not believe all of it.
First: Yes, we can, just as we believe only some parts of the Iliad. Or the Koran.
And second: Does this guy also believe all that stuff in the Bible about loving your neighbor, welcoming the stranger, doing unto others, etc.? He sure doesn’t act like he believes those bits.
As a Marine I find his use of his (supposed) Recon Marine history disturbing.
He seems to have flooded Google with his Recon story, hard to determine what exactly he was.
The bible massively contradicts itself everywhere, anyway.
You inevitably have to pick and choose which parts to accept and which to reject.
It starts in Genesis with two different creation myths, and two different Big Boat genocide stories.
Remember, the bible says insects have four legs. So researchers like PZ are suppressing the truth. Bad PZ, Bad!
This is like a summary of everything wrong with Trump’s America.
I found it very easy to Google him, but I can’t copy it because PZ has prohibited me from pasting AI output.
I got that at first. So it told it: “nope — not the persona. the real person.”
I got a bunch of info, but PZ does not want me to past bottish output, so I’ll summarise.
For example, he was in the Marine Corps Reserves in the 90s but when he went to Afghanistan he was a civilian contractor doing administrative, supply-chain, and procurement work.
He is the CEO and founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a Christian non-profit established in 2011.
His academic background consists of a high school equivalency credential, two business degrees from private universities, and a religious counseling certificate.
He was born in Louisiana but now lives in The Woodlands, Texas and his business is headquartered in Murrieta, California.
Super-easy.
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Recursive Rabbit @1:
Alas, you are only stripping visible generative AI features from the user interface, but internally it relies on it, mostly via Microsoft Bing. Exactly the same search internally.
Here, for you: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/ai-features/about-noaiduckduckgocom