October 5, 2025 • 14 mins
Hello, welcome to this week's Blonde Intelligence. I am your host Ms. Roni and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. A wave of viral “rapture” timelines convinced people to hand over cars, quit six‑figure jobs, and even surrender children—only to wake up the next morning still here. We dig into the deeper question behind the headlines: who told you that you were ready for heaven, and what happens when belief outruns responsibility? With a candid, story‑driven look at faith, judgment, and everyday ethics, we unpack how grief, algorithms, and certainty theater can push smart people into irreversible choices.
We move from street‑level stories—a man Ubering to work after giving away his truck, a mother celebrating “freedom” after transferring six kids to CPS—to the frameworks people use to justify them: scripture about trumpets and timelines, folklore and prophecy, and broader metaphysical ideas about reincarnation, energy, and the persistence of spirit. Along the way we contrast spectacle with substance, asking what moral readiness actually looks like if judgment precedes reward, and how the golden rule can anchor decisions when emotions run hot.
True to our indie roots, we also pull lessons from the creative life: test your assumptions, seek outside counsel, and build a plan B that doesn’t hurt the people who trust you. If faith is real, it can survive a fact check—and if hope is sturdy, it doesn’t need a countdown clock. Stream for a grounded take on belief without the burnout, accountability without the shame, and practical steps that keep your future intact. If this conversation resonates, follow the show on your favorite platform, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so others can find us too. @BlondeIntelligence
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SPEAKER_01 (00:03):
Learn about the indie artist from the indie
artists.
SPEAKER_02 (00:06):
I'm Shannon Key.
I'm an artist.
SPEAKER_01 (00:09):
My name is Lauren, as you already said.
SPEAKER_02 (00:11):
I am a singer-songwriter.
So I'm all PM.
I originally come from theCaribbean, St.
Vincent, and Grenadines.
SPEAKER_03 (00:17):
My name is Brian Dusav.
I'm an East Coast Canadianrocker.
SPEAKER_01 (00:23):
And then I found myself in Las Vegas, where I'm
at currently, for dancing forCircle Du Soleil with my own
solos.
I also learned from musicindustry professionals.
SPEAKER_02 (00:33):
I'm a music producer.
I've been producingprofessionally for about 14
years.
I have uh worked with a couplepeople in the industry.
Uh Gregmy nominated, Trev Rich,Misha from 702.
SPEAKER_03 (00:46):
After I got my deal with Universal Music, after the
Alicia Keys and Gunner Record,and many other that I've done,
and then Alicia Keys was thenumber one adult RB song of the
year.
SPEAKER_01 (00:58):
I asked the question.
SPEAKER_03 (01:01):
That's a great question.
SPEAKER_01 (01:02):
Yeah, that's a good question.
SPEAKER_03 (01:05):
Ooh, uh, that is a good question.
Wow.
I love all these questions.
These are great.
Like most of the questions thatI get are like, you know, tell
me about Justin Bieber.
SPEAKER_01 (01:16):
Indie Artist Music Hustle is for the indie artists,
their fans, industryprofessionals, and the music
lover.
Subscribe on YouTube, Facebook,or the podcast on Apple,
Spotify, Pandora, or BlondeIntelligence Facebook page.
Don't forget to add me to yourplaylist.
Bye.
SPEAKER_02 (01:37):
It's been really fun, especially hoping someone
across the pond.
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (01:44):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to this week's BlondeIntelligence.
I'm your host, Miss Ronnie,where I always seek to give you
exquisite cranier repertoire.
This week I'm gonna talk alittle bit about these people
who thought they was going homein the rapture.
And I try not to make fun ofpeople, but some of the things
(02:09):
that I seen and the videos Ilooked at and I heard is
ridiculous.
And I guess I want to post it aquestion.
Um, who decided that you weregoing to heaven?
Now, I know in severalteachings, whether you consider
yourself religious, spiritual,whatever, it don't even matter.
(02:32):
But there are some books that'swritten, such as the Bible, the
Quran.
There are certain things thatyou have to do on this earth in
order to go home and live inheaven.
Whether you believe in Jesus oryou believe in Jesus only, you
believe in um what is it?
Um uh God only, Yahweh, uh theprophet Muhammad, whatever,
(02:59):
Allah, Yahweh, like I said,however you want to paint it to
be, because I've always believedthat God is all things, He
created all things, good andevil, and that's the way I live
my life, and do unto others asyou would have them to do unto
(03:20):
you.
So I was looking at some ofthese stories, and I didn't
write them down because I amliterally laying on the couch
recording this podcast.
But one woman gave away herchildren, she had six children,
and she said she was going hometo live with Jesus and gave her
(03:43):
children to CPS custody.
And when they say the rapturedidn't happen, we don't know the
rapture didn't happen.
We just know that you didn'tfloat away, and nobody told you
about anybody floating away.
And I'm gonna leave it at thatbecause just because you didn't
go don't mean that it didn'thappen.
(04:05):
I don't know what people areexpecting, but it could be a
rapture every day.
Because there are several peoplethat die every day.
You don't know whether soul goto or what people believe.
There could be a rapture everyday, and you don't even know it
because you didn't get to go.
But back to the lady with thesix children who gave her
(04:26):
children to CPS, and she done apost afterwards saying that she
has been living her best life.
She realized that her childrenwere, I guess, holding her back
or holding her down.
(04:48):
And my first thought was, Wereyou doing it by yourself?
Where are these children'sdaddy?
That you feel like giving yourchildren over to CPS because you
were going to you was going toheaven was a smart idea.
No none of these people, no onethought about what if I don't
(05:10):
go?
And I'm like, what the wholeMary popping hell shit.
But then there was one man saidthat he thought he was going
home to live with Jesus.
And he was using profanity.
And I will say that studies saythat people who use profanity
(05:33):
are some of the most honestpeople that you will ever meet.
And in this day and age, yeah,when people go to cussing or
saying curse words or usingprofanity, however you want to
say it, most of the time theyare upset.
But a person that just usesprofanity in a vulgar way, I
(05:55):
don't know.
But I also think that usingprofanity is a part of an
expression.
I don't know what literarydevice you would put on it, but
they make the words a little bitmore colorful.
But anyway, this man gave awayhis truck because he thought he
(06:16):
was going home to live withJesus.
And again, I don't know who toldthese people that they were
going home and that the rapturehappened at that time, because
from my understanding, no manknows the day nor the hour the
Son of Man shall return.
And these people didn't even gothrough judgment day, for which
(06:36):
we're not supposed to judge,we're gonna be judged by the
Heavenly Father, and then youwere chosen to go home or
something in that order.
I don't know, because it'sdifferent from my understanding,
the dead and Christ supposed torise first.
So I don't know how these peoplethought that they was gonna be
(06:59):
lifted up into the air and gohome with Jesus since the dead
and Christ are supposed to risefirst.
You know, I'm just a littleconfused on what rules they had
for going to heaven.
No.
So back to the man.
Anyway, the man had to go towork.
And he woke up and realized thathe wasn't in heaven, and he had
(07:23):
to take an Uber to work.
And when he got there, his bossasked him, Why are you late?
He said, I had to catch Uber.
He was like, Why?
He was like, Because I wassupposed to F and go home and
live with Jesus, but I had to goto F and work.
Okay.
Is your heaven not having towork?
(07:45):
I mean, I'm sure that you canhave pieces of heaven on earth
because another understandingthat I may have wrong, but
during the what they call it,the revelations, that hell is
gonna be on earth.
And so we're probably aroundthat time, and they talk about
(08:10):
the book of Revelation and thethe six small horns and the I
mean the six large horns and theone small horn.
And I listened to psychicreaders talk about how the small
horn represents the UnitedStates.
So it's a whole lot of thingsthat will go into the decisions
that you would make on is thisreally the rapture.
(08:33):
You have people outside playingtrumpets because they're
signaling the rapture.
But who appointed him or her toplay the trumpet?
I thought the angels wassupposed to sound the trumpets.
(08:53):
You know, so I'm a littleconfused on again the rules that
these people had for therapture.
Then they said that it allstemmed from a TikTok video.
A woman who had just lost herhusband decided that Jesus was
(09:16):
talking to her, telling her thatit was time.
(09:39):
And it will let you know thatsome of these things are
ludicrous.
And I wonder why do people be soready to look for other
alternative to this life.
Now, I think I take from alittle bit of all religions
(10:01):
because I believe inreincarnation, not as animals,
but when I think of born again,I think of reincarnation, that
you're able to right the wrongsin the next life.
But I also believe in witchesand warlocks that can travel
(10:21):
through lifetimes and come backas certain people because they
say the spirit don't die, andscience say the energy is not
destroyed, it's transferred.
So I know that a lot a lot ofthe I would say explanations for
(10:42):
phenomena, especially likethrough mythology, stems from
natural phenomena not being ableto be understood or explained.
So people came up with their ownum reasoning for such as why
thunderstorms happen.
(11:03):
And I think that God is amysterious God and that
everything that everybody saysis all an incorporation of what
God said it was gonna be, andwhatever book that you read or
whatever your beliefs are, somepeople praise the sign.
Hey, do what you do, but I juststill ponder the question who
(11:31):
decided that you were going toheaven and that you were going
at that time, because if youhadn't been judged, you have to
look back over all the things inyour life and try to right the
wrongs that you have done.
I I try to treat people like howI want to be treated, but I also
am the type of person that willstand up for myself.
And if you lie to me, I can seeit.
(11:54):
If you lie on me, I know it.
And I don't even try tocounteract you or anything,
because I said before, the truthalways prevails.
But saying you're living yourbest life because you sent your
children to CPS and that youwoke up and you were still at
Effenberg, and I mean just someof the stories.
(12:15):
One woman, she said yes to theperson who sold me your car for
$500, you're not getting itback.
These people sold houses, gaveaway cars, burnt money.
Uh one man had a$250,000 a yearjob that he quit.
Why you just didn't takevacation time?
(12:36):
I'm like totally appalled at thelack of planning and
follow-through and plan B's forthese people.
But that's all I have for thisweek.
And I may come back because Iwanted to talk about the Cardi
and Nikki situation.
Above the Cardi and Nikkisituation.
(12:59):
But I will save that for a latertime because I'm sure that it
will be more to come out onthat.
But anyway, you can find thepodcast on all your podcasts,
favorite podcasting platforms.
And when I say that, I mean youcan find me on Apple, you can
find me on Spotify, on iHeart,on Pandora, all your favorite
(13:23):
places that you consume music,you can consume this podcast.
You can also catch me.
I think my podcast is listed onYouTube.
It's listed.
I haven't done a live video in along time.
But um, and you can also copyour merch.
I do um both my merchandise andcustom merchandise for tumblers
(13:47):
and hats and t-shirts.
So if you want to copy yourmerch or make an order, you can
hit me on my website atwww.blonde
B-L-O-N-D-E-intelligence.com.
And I will see you later.
SPEAKER_00 (14:06):
Bye.
Hey girl, let me tell you aboutthis podcast.
Girl, everybody has a podcastthese days.
But this one interviews new andinteresting indie artists.
It's called Indie Artist MusicHustle with Blonde Intelligence.
Really?
Where can I find it?
It's on all podcastingplatforms, streams live on
social media and onrpentradio.com.
(14:28):
What'd you say it was calledagain?
It's called Indie Artist MusicHustle with Blonde Intelligence.
Girl, I'm gonna have to checkher out.
Give it a check, girl.
Learn about the indie artist from the indie
artists.
SPEAKER_02 (00:06):
I'm Shannon Key.
I'm an artist.
SPEAKER_01 (00:09):
My name is Lauren, as you already said.
SPEAKER_02 (00:11):
I am a singer-songwriter.
So I'm all PM.
I originally come from theCaribbean, St.
Vincent, and Grenadines.
SPEAKER_03 (00:17):
My name is Brian Dusav.
I'm an East Coast Canadianrocker.
SPEAKER_01 (00:23):
And then I found myself in Las Vegas, where I'm
at currently, for dancing forCircle Du Soleil with my own
solos.
I also learned from musicindustry professionals.
SPEAKER_02 (00:33):
I'm a music producer.
I've been producingprofessionally for about 14
years.
I have uh worked with a couplepeople in the industry.
Uh Gregmy nominated, Trev Rich,Misha from 702.
SPEAKER_03 (00:46):
After I got my deal with Universal Music, after the
Alicia Keys and Gunner Record,and many other that I've done,
and then Alicia Keys was thenumber one adult RB song of the
year.
SPEAKER_01 (00:58):
I asked the question.
SPEAKER_03 (01:01):
That's a great question.
SPEAKER_01 (01:02):
Yeah, that's a good question.
SPEAKER_03 (01:05):
Ooh, uh, that is a good question.
Wow.
I love all these questions.
These are great.
Like most of the questions thatI get are like, you know, tell
me about Justin Bieber.
SPEAKER_01 (01:16):
Indie Artist Music Hustle is for the indie artists,
their fans, industryprofessionals, and the music
lover.
Subscribe on YouTube, Facebook,or the podcast on Apple,
Spotify, Pandora, or BlondeIntelligence Facebook page.
Don't forget to add me to yourplaylist.
Bye.
SPEAKER_02 (01:37):
It's been really fun, especially hoping someone
across the pond.
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (01:44):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to this week's BlondeIntelligence.
I'm your host, Miss Ronnie,where I always seek to give you
exquisite cranier repertoire.
This week I'm gonna talk alittle bit about these people
who thought they was going homein the rapture.
And I try not to make fun ofpeople, but some of the things
(02:09):
that I seen and the videos Ilooked at and I heard is
ridiculous.
And I guess I want to post it aquestion.
Um, who decided that you weregoing to heaven?
Now, I know in severalteachings, whether you consider
yourself religious, spiritual,whatever, it don't even matter.
(02:32):
But there are some books that'swritten, such as the Bible, the
Quran.
There are certain things thatyou have to do on this earth in
order to go home and live inheaven.
Whether you believe in Jesus oryou believe in Jesus only, you
believe in um what is it?
Um uh God only, Yahweh, uh theprophet Muhammad, whatever,
(02:59):
Allah, Yahweh, like I said,however you want to paint it to
be, because I've always believedthat God is all things, He
created all things, good andevil, and that's the way I live
my life, and do unto others asyou would have them to do unto
(03:20):
you.
So I was looking at some ofthese stories, and I didn't
write them down because I amliterally laying on the couch
recording this podcast.
But one woman gave away herchildren, she had six children,
and she said she was going hometo live with Jesus and gave her
(03:43):
children to CPS custody.
And when they say the rapturedidn't happen, we don't know the
rapture didn't happen.
We just know that you didn'tfloat away, and nobody told you
about anybody floating away.
And I'm gonna leave it at thatbecause just because you didn't
go don't mean that it didn'thappen.
(04:05):
I don't know what people areexpecting, but it could be a
rapture every day.
Because there are several peoplethat die every day.
You don't know whether soul goto or what people believe.
There could be a rapture everyday, and you don't even know it
because you didn't get to go.
But back to the lady with thesix children who gave her
(04:26):
children to CPS, and she done apost afterwards saying that she
has been living her best life.
She realized that her childrenwere, I guess, holding her back
or holding her down.
(04:48):
And my first thought was, Wereyou doing it by yourself?
Where are these children'sdaddy?
That you feel like giving yourchildren over to CPS because you
were going to you was going toheaven was a smart idea.
No none of these people, no onethought about what if I don't
(05:10):
go?
And I'm like, what the wholeMary popping hell shit.
But then there was one man saidthat he thought he was going
home to live with Jesus.
And he was using profanity.
And I will say that studies saythat people who use profanity
(05:33):
are some of the most honestpeople that you will ever meet.
And in this day and age, yeah,when people go to cussing or
saying curse words or usingprofanity, however you want to
say it, most of the time theyare upset.
But a person that just usesprofanity in a vulgar way, I
(05:55):
don't know.
But I also think that usingprofanity is a part of an
expression.
I don't know what literarydevice you would put on it, but
they make the words a little bitmore colorful.
But anyway, this man gave awayhis truck because he thought he
(06:16):
was going home to live withJesus.
And again, I don't know who toldthese people that they were
going home and that the rapturehappened at that time, because
from my understanding, no manknows the day nor the hour the
Son of Man shall return.
And these people didn't even gothrough judgment day, for which
(06:36):
we're not supposed to judge,we're gonna be judged by the
Heavenly Father, and then youwere chosen to go home or
something in that order.
I don't know, because it'sdifferent from my understanding,
the dead and Christ supposed torise first.
So I don't know how these peoplethought that they was gonna be
(06:59):
lifted up into the air and gohome with Jesus since the dead
and Christ are supposed to risefirst.
You know, I'm just a littleconfused on what rules they had
for going to heaven.
No.
So back to the man.
Anyway, the man had to go towork.
And he woke up and realized thathe wasn't in heaven, and he had
(07:23):
to take an Uber to work.
And when he got there, his bossasked him, Why are you late?
He said, I had to catch Uber.
He was like, Why?
He was like, Because I wassupposed to F and go home and
live with Jesus, but I had to goto F and work.
Okay.
Is your heaven not having towork?
(07:45):
I mean, I'm sure that you canhave pieces of heaven on earth
because another understandingthat I may have wrong, but
during the what they call it,the revelations, that hell is
gonna be on earth.
And so we're probably aroundthat time, and they talk about
(08:10):
the book of Revelation and thethe six small horns and the I
mean the six large horns and theone small horn.
And I listened to psychicreaders talk about how the small
horn represents the UnitedStates.
So it's a whole lot of thingsthat will go into the decisions
that you would make on is thisreally the rapture.
(08:33):
You have people outside playingtrumpets because they're
signaling the rapture.
But who appointed him or her toplay the trumpet?
I thought the angels wassupposed to sound the trumpets.
(08:53):
You know, so I'm a littleconfused on again the rules that
these people had for therapture.
Then they said that it allstemmed from a TikTok video.
A woman who had just lost herhusband decided that Jesus was
(09:16):
talking to her, telling her thatit was time.
(09:39):
And it will let you know thatsome of these things are
ludicrous.
And I wonder why do people be soready to look for other
alternative to this life.
Now, I think I take from alittle bit of all religions
(10:01):
because I believe inreincarnation, not as animals,
but when I think of born again,I think of reincarnation, that
you're able to right the wrongsin the next life.
But I also believe in witchesand warlocks that can travel
(10:21):
through lifetimes and come backas certain people because they
say the spirit don't die, andscience say the energy is not
destroyed, it's transferred.
So I know that a lot a lot ofthe I would say explanations for
(10:42):
phenomena, especially likethrough mythology, stems from
natural phenomena not being ableto be understood or explained.
So people came up with their ownum reasoning for such as why
thunderstorms happen.
(11:03):
And I think that God is amysterious God and that
everything that everybody saysis all an incorporation of what
God said it was gonna be, andwhatever book that you read or
whatever your beliefs are, somepeople praise the sign.
Hey, do what you do, but I juststill ponder the question who
(11:31):
decided that you were going toheaven and that you were going
at that time, because if youhadn't been judged, you have to
look back over all the things inyour life and try to right the
wrongs that you have done.
I I try to treat people like howI want to be treated, but I also
am the type of person that willstand up for myself.
And if you lie to me, I can seeit.
(11:54):
If you lie on me, I know it.
And I don't even try tocounteract you or anything,
because I said before, the truthalways prevails.
But saying you're living yourbest life because you sent your
children to CPS and that youwoke up and you were still at
Effenberg, and I mean just someof the stories.
(12:15):
One woman, she said yes to theperson who sold me your car for
$500, you're not getting itback.
These people sold houses, gaveaway cars, burnt money.
Uh one man had a$250,000 a yearjob that he quit.
Why you just didn't takevacation time?
(12:36):
I'm like totally appalled at thelack of planning and
follow-through and plan B's forthese people.
But that's all I have for thisweek.
And I may come back because Iwanted to talk about the Cardi
and Nikki situation.
Above the Cardi and Nikkisituation.
(12:59):
But I will save that for a latertime because I'm sure that it
will be more to come out onthat.
But anyway, you can find thepodcast on all your podcasts,
favorite podcasting platforms.
And when I say that, I mean youcan find me on Apple, you can
find me on Spotify, on iHeart,on Pandora, all your favorite
(13:23):
places that you consume music,you can consume this podcast.
You can also catch me.
I think my podcast is listed onYouTube.
It's listed.
I haven't done a live video in along time.
But um, and you can also copyour merch.
I do um both my merchandise andcustom merchandise for tumblers
(13:47):
and hats and t-shirts.
So if you want to copy yourmerch or make an order, you can
hit me on my website atwww.blonde
B-L-O-N-D-E-intelligence.com.
And I will see you later.
SPEAKER_00 (14:06):
Bye.
Hey girl, let me tell you aboutthis podcast.
Girl, everybody has a podcastthese days.
But this one interviews new andinteresting indie artists.
It's called Indie Artist MusicHustle with Blonde Intelligence.
Really?
Where can I find it?
It's on all podcastingplatforms, streams live on
social media and onrpentradio.com.
(14:28):
What'd you say it was calledagain?
It's called Indie Artist MusicHustle with Blonde Intelligence.
Girl, I'm gonna have to checkher out.
Give it a check, girl.
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