American Noah

By Nathan Payne | pablosmoglives | 6 May 2025

I've been following Tony Lamb on YouTube for several years. We've become friends, and so I stopped by his house recently for a visit. One day, we went out for breakfast, to the restaurant of the unknown soldier. After 4 years in Mexico, it is strange to sit in the diner with all the veterans, eating American food with all those American flags and military baseball caps. Not what I'm used to, but nice. Like Mexico, the worse the restaurant looks on the outside, the better the food, and the restaurant of the unknown soldier in the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas is no exception. Nothing special, except that it's full of truckers from the 80s. And it's good. Which makes it pretty special, I suppose.

I was able to participate in one of Tony's weekly end-times warning videos this weekend. I call him the American Noah (one of many, perhaps), since, like Noah, his message has remained fundamentally the same for many years. And it's a message of warning. I would call him the American Jonah, except that Nineveh listened to Jonah's warning, while it doesn't look like America will. Also, Noah's story is a foreshadowing of the Rapture, and Tony's message is definitely in that camp.

Watch his videos, read his books, and heed the warning. It has been a real privilege to spend some time with the American Noah, driving through the park, and eating an unmarked American breakfast at the restaurant of the unknown soldier (in Mexico, sometimes the hotels will serve an "American breakfast," even as you can't find any "Mexican restaurants" in the entire country. They're just restaurants. And in America, an "American breakfast" is just breakfast. Gunpowder coffee grounds and all). While I did get my Spanish fix at the local tortilla mercado, and I was able to buy a chile-mango popsicle from the Mexican girl riding the frozen bicycle through the neighborhood, it is nice to be back in the land of country-fried steaks and concealed carry.

80s truckers rule.