Ep. 1741 - Kanye West Gives Up Antisemitism
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non-cigar-related news. President Trump's big, beautiful bill passes the House by one vote.
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The free Palestine murderer releases a manifesto. We're learning a lot more about him and about
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his victims. And Kanye-related story announces that he is done with anti-Semitism. I'm Michael
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get notes of oak and a little hint of caramel, okay? Now, you're probably wondering, how is the
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guy who just came out with a song called Heil Hitler, how is he now done with anti-Semitism?
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It is because, and you know how much I hate to say this, I told you so. There is a great
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deal more to say about this in many subjects. First, though.
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Biggest political news going on right now. The House of Representatives has just passed President
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Trump's big, beautiful bill. What is the big, beautiful bill? I actually hadn't even really
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talked about this bill so much when it was working its way through the House. The big, beautiful bill
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is everything that Trump needs to get his second term agenda started at the legislative level. He's
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passed a zillion executive orders, but at the legislative level, with a razor-thin majority in
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the House, President Trump had to get this bill through. The bill extends the 2017 tax cuts,
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makes those tax cuts permanent. Really, really important to extend those tax cuts because they're
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about to expire, and if they expire, everyone's going to have a massive tax hike. So I sat down
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with Treasury Secretary Scott Besant a few weeks ago at the White House, and I asked him how the
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bill was working its way through Congress, and he said it's a pass-fail measure. The administration
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needed to get this win. You know, the Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, so it'll make
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its way through the Senate. The bill is being passed through a process of reconciliation, so they don't
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need 60 votes. They only need 51 votes. They will get 51 votes. It's not a big deal. The House was
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always the sticking point because of that razor-thin majority and because getting the Republicans
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together in the House is like herding cats, but they did it. So kudos to President Trump and Speaker
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Johnson and all the whips. They did a great job, got that through. What else does the big, beautiful bill
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do? It does all sorts of things that are nice for conservatives. Prohibits Medicaid money from going
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toward trans and kids. That's a good thing. It allocates more money for border security. There's a lot in it.
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It's a huge bill. One of the knocks on the bill is it spends a lot of money, but our government just
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spends a lot of money, and so we can either spend the money on good things or we can throw our hands
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in the air and not get anything done, wait for the Democrats to come in and spend the money on really,
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really bad things. Overall, this is good. This was a pass-fail. The Trump administration needed to
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get past this hurdle. They successfully got past this hurdle. The Trump agenda is no longer in
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existential peril. Now we can build on what happens from here. Moving into other D.C.-related news,
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we talked yesterday about this awful shooting after a Jewish event. This young Jewish couple
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was murdered by a guy. The alleged shooter was screamed, free, free Palestine afterward.
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We're learning more about him. He had a manifesto. I'm not going to read this guy's manifesto. It does
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not deserve a public reading. However, if the manifesto is real, comes out from Ken Klippenstein,
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I think. But if it's real, sometimes these published manifestos are real. Sometimes they're
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hoaxes. But assuming it's real, it includes all the stuff you'd expect. Free Palestine and then
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just whining about the usual leftist causes. Going all the way back to the Vietnam War. In this guy's
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manifesto, he's whining about the Vietnam War and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Okay, so this is
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a run-of-the-mill leftist. And to me, this is the most interesting story about this shooter's
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background. Some people are claiming online that there is a photo of the shooter with the mayor
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of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, along with a bunch of other leftist agitators, with the United Working
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Families Group, United for All Neighborhoods, whatever. I don't know. I'm not convinced of this,
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so I'm certainly not reporting this as fact. It's making the rounds. He's a guy who vaguely looks like
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the shooter, but I don't know. It almost doesn't matter because we know with certainty that the alleged
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shooter was from Chicago, and two, was active in leftist groups in Chicago. And not only the super
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duper fringe ones, but was part of, well, the ordinary assemblage of left-wing groups that you
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see in cities like Chicago, especially in Chicago. One of the groups was the Party for Socialism and
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Liberation. Another one reportedly was the Answers Coalition, a left-wing group about the Middle East.
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He seems to have graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, typical left-wing state school
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in a very left-wing place. What do we do about this? There are all sorts of these groups, these
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community organizing groups, all these little cells that are inclined toward left-wing agitation
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that are funded by private money. Some of them are funded by laundered public money. One example that I
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give of this is that when Elon was looking at the way taxpayer money was being funded through USAID,
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a lot of that money would go out of the United States and then come right back into the United
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States. So USAID, for instance, was funding the Tide Center. The Tide Center was then taking that money
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and spending the money on BLM activism, BLM activism in the United States, to destroy our communities and
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extort companies and politicians to demand even more taxpayer money for this nonsense. And the cycle goes on
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and on and on. What we have to do as conservatives here is clamp down on some of this stuff. And
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that's going to run counter to the narrative that we've heard for the past five or ten years on the
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right, which is that we need more free speech and we need to answer bad speech with more speech and
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we shouldn't clamp down on anything. Nah, we got to ditch that kind of libertarian stuff. We got to get
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back to a proper conservative like Joe McCarthy, okay? We need to have standards and norms, something I
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talk about on the show a lot. We need more surveillance on these left-wing groups that are
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radicals, that are contrary to the interests of the United States, that are contrary to our political
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tradition. I'm not saying we need mass surveillance or Big Brother or anything like that, but we need
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to recognize that certain things are really beyond the pale. And when you're calling for the destruction
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of the country, the dismantling of the country, when you're calling in some cases for violence,
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violence, then it is the legitimate role of the civil authority to go in and discourage those
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groups, okay? We have let them run amok for far too long. We let them run amok a lot in the 60s and
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70s. And there were other terrorist attacks then as a result of it. So we got to be able to flex our
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muscles a little bit. This is something that Trump and the Trump movement is a little more comfortable
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with than the feckless Republicans that have existed for most of the past few decades. We got to get more
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comfortable with it. We have a right to feel safe on our streets. We have a right to exclude from the
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public square really pernicious ideas and movements. That's not a fascist, reactionary, authoritarian
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kind of program. That's the same sort of thing William F. Buckley Jr. was calling for when he founded
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the modern conservative movement. That is mainstream stuff. It should almost sound milquetoast, frankly.
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We need to do that. More on the victims is coming out. There's a real irony to this. These victims were
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targeted ostensibly because they're Jews. Free Palestine from the river to the sea. It was after the
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American Jewish Committee gala. This poor young couple in their 20s are planning on getting engaged next
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week. The male victim in this case, Jeroen Lashinsky, who's a Christian. According to reporting
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from the New York Times and according to this guy's friends, he grew up in a culturally mixed family
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with a Jewish father and a Christian mother and was a practicing Christian. According to Ronan
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Chauval, the dean of the Argaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, where Mr. Lashinsky
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participated in a year-long program in classical liberal conservative thought after earning a master's
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degree in government diplomacy. He was a devout Christian, Dr. Chauval said, but he had tied his fate to the
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people of Israel. This guy, I think he was born in Germany and was deeply tied to Israel. He was a
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Christian. It's not that that should make it really any better if you kill innocent people. That's just
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wrong. That's just immoral and unjust. But there's this deep irony here that this guy who was targeted
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because he's a Jew who's a Christian. He believed in Christ. Not that that would have made any
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difference to the enemies of the Jews, enemies of Christians, apparently, enemies of our civilization,
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and enemies of our country as well. The people who are going out there with the Kefi is shrieking
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about colonization and free, free Palestine and the river to the sea and all that stuff. You think they
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love America? You think they're on the side of the patriotic Americans? I don't think so. I don't
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think so. And, you know, on this civilizational point, some have observed that Judaism is contrary
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to Christianity, which is true. Modern rabbinic Judaism, by definition, rejects Christianity.
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Now, Christians would say that Christianity is the fulfillment of the Old Testament and Judaism.
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Obviously, especially in the first century, there were a lot of Jewish converts to Christianity,
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and there were Jewish converts to Christianity even up until today. But it's true that Judaism
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is contrary to Christianity because it rejects the resurrection.
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Some have floated the idea of an alliance with Muslims, and I'm happy to have Muslims vote for
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Republicans, and that's great stuff. And in some ways, I can talk to Muslims much more easily than to
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atheist liberals because at least they understand that God exists. But while we're pointing out that Jews
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reject the resurrection, we should also point out that Muslims reject the crucifixion.
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Muslims, it's in the Quran, do not believe that Christ was crucified. And it reminds me of a line
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from St. Paul, which is, many are walking now, and I tell you even weeping, who are enemies of the cross
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of Christ. That line causes people to scratch their heads sometimes. It's unfortunate to reject the
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resurrection, and everyone should recognize the resurrection because it really happened,
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and there's a lot of evidence for it, and it's a great sign of our hope that we have,
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that our Redeemer lives. Christ conquers death on the cross, on the crucifixion. The cross is the
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axle on which the entire cosmos turns. And if you think that we can just paper over that fundamental
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distinction, you have ignored at the very least 1,400 years of history in our civilization.
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Now, in the midst of this awful news story out of D.C., a very surprising headline to some people,
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it's actually not that surprising to me, Kanye West, the auteur behind Heil Hitler,
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is rejecting anti-Semitism. We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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Kanye West rejects anti-Semitism. I covered on the show a week or two ago this song,
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Heil Hitler, taking the internet by storm before it was taken down from all the platforms other than X.
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I think one of the only places on YouTube you can still hear even part of the song is on my reaction
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to it. And I had a different reaction than pretty much everyone had to the song. There were a lot
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of people who said, this is awful. Kanye is exalting Hitler, and he's a Nazi, and this is
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terrible, and no one should listen to it. We should take it down. That wasn't my reaction.
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Similarly, there was a reaction from people who like Hitler and don't like the Jews, and said,
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this is awesome. Kanye is exalting Hitler, and he doesn't like the Jews, and everyone should
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listen to this song. And that also was not my reaction, because I listened to the song, and
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because I take Kanye West seriously as a popular artist, and I recognize that he actually does have
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a talent in popular music. I said, hold on, what's he doing here? And then when you listen to the
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lyrics, you realize he opens up, he says, they took my bank accounts, they took my kids, I'm hooked on
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nitrous drugs, I like to watch men be intimate with my woman, and I'm all messed up, man.
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I'm all, I'm just, I'm really messed up, and I can't see my kids, and I became a Nazi. I'm the
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villain. Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler, all my ninjas are Nazis, Heil Hitler. That's the song. I said,
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well, that's really interesting, because if you just listen to the lyrics, Kanye West is not saying
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Hitler's good. If he says, I'm a bad guy now, I'm the villain, so therefore I'm a Nazi, so therefore
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Heil Hitler, then he's saying the Nazis and Hitler are bad. You don't need an advanced degree in music
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criticism or literary criticism to recognize that's what he's saying. It's the plain meaning of what
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he's saying. So, well, that's kind of weird. What does that mean? He's a guy saying, I got all these
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problems, and I'm not in my right mind. I'm full of wrath and anger, and I'm hooked on drugs, and I've
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got all these perversions. I'm just in a really bad place, and I'm not thinking clearly, so now I'm a
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Nazi, and I'm the villain. And I said, in my review of the song, and I said, yeah, song's kind of a bop,
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really. We're just listening to it, you know? Just forget about the lyrics. You just listen to it. It's kind
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of a bop. And then even the images in the song were really interesting, because it was all these black
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guys wearing animal skins, as if to say we're not human beings. We're not intellectual. We're not using our
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intellect and our will in a reasonable way. We've just become animals, and we're instinct and wrath, and all
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things. And I said, the music is interesting, and the lyrics, if you pay attention to them,
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are interesting, too. If you can get past the initial shock of the song, you say, what's he
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really saying here? There's clearly a more esoteric meaning to the song. And then Kanye West posts this
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yesterday. Tweets out, I'm done with anti-Semitism. Next tweet, I love all people. Next tweet, God forgive
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me for the pain I've caused. Next tweet, I forgive those who've caused me pain. Next tweet, thank you, God.
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Next tweet, and this is the tweet that explains a lot of it. I simply got a FaceTime from my kids,
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and I want to save the world again. That last tweet is what should clear up any doubt about
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whether or not the first tweets were earnest. Because you could see a world in which Kanye
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were being ironic. Yeah, I'm done with anti-Semitism. Wink, wink, Heil Hitler or something.
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But it's not what he, no, no, I'm done with anti-Semitism. I love all people. And then he said,
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God forgive me the pain I've caused. Would he really just joke about that? It doesn't sound like a joke.
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I forgive those who've caused me pain. He has been caused pain. And he said, I forgive those.
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Thank you, God. I don't think he would joke with that kind of a tweet.
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And then the explanatory tweet. I got, I simply got a single FaceTime call from my kids.
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And I want to be a good guy again. I want to save the world again. I want to be a good guy. I asked
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the question I, man, I'd love to say, I told you so on this one. I said, the whole point of Kanye's song
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is, I'm the bad guy. And the question that it raises is, how can I be a good guy again?
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And then he gives the answer right here. This is the answer. Wow. The whole, the, the inciting
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incident of the song was, I can't see my kids. And now I'm willing to, I'm willing to become the
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worst villain imaginable, which is to say a Nazi in our, in our mythos, in the, in the popular
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imagination. I'm going to, but the obvious question was, how can I be a good guy again?
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And he gives you the answer. Okay. You fix the inciting incident. I can see my kids again.
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Well, thank God. And this, you have to remember that before Kanye did his Hitler album and before
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he started wearing the KKK uniforms, before he did all that, he did put out an album a few years ago
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called Jesus is King, which was by pop music standards, pretty beautiful album. And you got
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to remember even now, what, 15, 20 years ago, Kanye put out one of the most popular songs of the
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2000s, Jesus walks. God showed me the way because the devil's trying to keep me down.
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Jesus walks with me. So there's this, this tension in Kanye's songs, which is why if you judge Kanye
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based on some tweet or based on some shallow reading of his music, you're going to miss the
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good stuff because Kanye West, I'm not saying Kanye West, I'm not even saying he doesn't hate the Jews
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or that he doesn't have Nazi sympathies or whatever. I'm not even denying an exoteric meaning.
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I'm not denying that he's hooked on nitrous oxide. I'm not denying that he likes watching men be
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intimate with his women. I am not denying that he's full of wrath and all the things that he has
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said, I'm not denying that those things have some kind of literal truth to it. But Kanye West is not
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primarily a philosopher or a political commentator or a historian or any of that. Kanye West, if he is
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anything at all, is an artist, a popular artist. And so if the value that an artist brings is in his
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art. When artists start mouthing off about some stupid political campaign or something, they're
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usually much less interesting. That's not just forget about Kanye. That's true of Taylor Swift or
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any of these people. We always say, hey, artists, shut your mouths and do your art and stop talking
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about politics where you have no expertise and where you're not particularly talented.
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But the value that the artist brings is in the art and the art that Kanye has made by popular music
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standards. Again, I'm not comparing it with Bach or something, but by popular standards, he's quite
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interesting. And for anyone who was paying attention to him as an artist, you would have noticed that.
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That was all there. And so you wouldn't be surprised when Kanye sends out a bunch of tweets
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like that. Those tweets are a total vindication of the point of view that I was articulating in my
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take on the song. And again, it doesn't take a genius, really. You just have to recognize who
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people are and what they're doing. This was the subject of my commencement speech at Ave Maria this
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year. I said, every commencement speech tells you to go change the world. Don't change the world.
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That's not primarily your job. Primarily, your job is to interpret the world.
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This is in the story of Christ visiting Mary and Martha. Mary symbolizes contemplation. Martha,
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the act of life. Christ says to Martha, your sister Mary has the better part. It will not be taken away
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from her. We don't want to change the world because the world just is as it is. You actually can't change
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the world because you can't fundamentally change reality. Your job is to see the world as it is.
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And do the right thing within the world. Take the next right step for you. Recognize the meaning
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behind the world, the great love that moves the sun and the other stars. Allow that, the meaning behind
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the creation of the world to change you. And a consequence of this is you'll have lower blood
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pressure, okay? Your life will go a lot better when you're not constantly banging your head against
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the wall because you can't understand the world. And indeed, that was in the Kanye song. He said,
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And the tweets yesterday signify, I'm getting my sense back.
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Pretty good stuff. No, no, he could completely go off the rails tomorrow. I mean, that is something that
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artists sometimes fall into. But what he's saying here is an answer to the song.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Stray1239 who says, reporter, what would it take for you to
00:25:22.740
believe that there is not a genocide in South Africa? Me, if they stopped doing a genocide in
00:25:27.220
South Africa? Yeah, I guess if like major politicians in South Africa stopped chanting,
00:25:31.660
kill the boy, shoot to kill, kill the farmer. I guess if they stopped saying that, for instance,
00:25:37.100
that would be one step in the right direction. Or if the sitting president of South Africa,
00:25:40.880
Cyril Ramaphosa doesn't start laughing when President Trump plays that clip in the Oval
00:25:45.080
Office, that would be like one of the first things that would tune me in to that. Speaking of art,
00:25:51.280
we turn to artificial intelligence. Speaking of art and the absolute self-destruction of the
00:25:57.740
establishment media, the Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list for 2025.
00:26:04.940
There's got all sorts of books on there by authors you probably have heard of, some of them at least.
00:26:11.660
There's one problem with the summer reading list. Many of the books don't exist.
00:26:18.880
Was this a big gag? Is this some kind of modern art? Is it? No, no, no. They just,
00:26:23.500
they meant to publish a summer reading list. It's just that no one wrote it. The guy who was supposed
00:26:30.420
to write it plugged it into artificial intelligence, one of the AI platforms. And the AI platform sped out
00:26:38.100
an article with a bunch of books that don't exist. And this guy sent it to his editor, and then his
00:26:44.060
editor published it. This is not just, you know, a student turning in a bad assignment generated by AI.
00:26:52.280
This is not even just an employee turning in some bad work to his boss with AI.
00:26:56.740
The assignment that the writer turned in was about reading. It was about writing. It was about
00:27:07.620
literature. And no one involved, all the way up to publication, seems to have read much of anything
00:27:15.220
at all. Absolutely pathetic. I've used AI a little bit. I use it now sometimes more than I use Google.
00:27:23.360
I never use it for writing because it's not good at writing. And I don't, I won't use a ghost writer.
00:27:28.860
I'm very precious about my writing because writing is a reflection of thought. So if I give away my
00:27:33.680
writing, I'm really giving away my thought. But I will use it sometimes for research. Hey, spit me out
00:27:39.840
20 studies on this subject. Hey, spit me out 10 books that could help point me in the right direction
00:27:44.380
on a subject. And I have to triple check it every time because the AI is not reliable. And sometimes
00:27:50.240
the AI will spit out books that don't exist, citations that are totally false. It's a little
00:27:56.000
better on scientific studies, but maybe a scientific study that doesn't exist.
00:28:01.440
AI can be a great tool to aid in your research. I don't encourage you to use it for your writing
00:28:06.240
because it's bad writing. And more to the point, it will make your writing worse when you actually
00:28:11.060
do have to write. The way that people currently use AI is going to make them very, very dumb.
00:28:17.360
If you use AI in order to augment your own learning and your own thought and your own
00:28:23.780
writing, it could be helpful. If you're going to use it as the vast majority of people appear
00:28:28.620
to be using it, which is to substitute in for your own reading and substitute in for your
00:28:33.220
own writing, you're going to become a grunting baboon, indistinguishable from the dumb idol
00:28:37.220
that you worship. That's what's really happening. I just thought, I was talking about this the
00:28:40.640
other day, sweet little Lisa. The way people correspond now, they get an email, you get some
00:28:45.300
long document. They have AI read the document for them. Then they have AI respond to the document
00:28:48.740
for them. Then they send it to someone else. And then the person they're sending it to has AI read
00:28:53.080
it and has AI write it. It's just computers talking to each other. And we lose our ability to speak.
00:28:57.600
We certainly lose our ability to write. I've noticed this now for 15, 20 years, just working
00:29:03.540
both as a student and then into the professional world and in politics. People are terrible at writing.
00:29:11.120
People are terrible at spelling these days. And people don't know the fundamentals, the basics
00:29:15.120
of composition. That was before AI hit. You have to be very, very careful. My friend Spencer
00:29:22.280
Klavan made a good point. When the Bible tells us not to worship dumb idols, lest we become like them,
00:29:29.720
this is what he's talking about. When we worship the dumb idol, the box of rocks that is AI,
00:29:36.060
we will become like that dumb idol. We'll think we're getting smarter. We will lose our ability
00:29:40.620
to speak the distinguishing feature of human beings. Speaking of embarrassing moments,
00:29:46.540
Caroline Leavitt, press secretary over at the White House, just completely destroyed
00:29:50.860
a CNN, I'm sorry, an NBC lady, Yamiche, Yamiche something or other,
00:29:58.220
over President Trump's South Africa meeting. Listen to the exchange.
00:30:02.360
The president showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South
00:30:08.700
Africans and he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn't
00:30:12.460
showing that. So I wonder, why did the president choose to show that it's not true that the video
00:30:17.000
was showing a burial site? It is unsubstantiated that that's the case.
00:30:20.860
No, it's it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent the video showed images of
00:30:29.940
crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because
00:30:37.520
of the color of their skin. And those crosses are representing their lives. Those crosses are
00:30:43.320
representing their lives in the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it.
00:30:50.640
I'm disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed because it did not show
00:30:54.180
that. But even more, what I'm asking you is who at the White House...
00:30:56.380
It did show that. It showed white crosses representing people who have perished because
00:31:01.080
White House verifies the videos that the president shows and what protocols are in place when there's
00:31:05.380
unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to show.
00:31:09.200
Yamiche, what's unsubstantiated about the video? The video shows crosses that represent the dead
00:31:14.560
bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government.
00:31:18.180
Listen to this exchange. Listen to this obtuse woman from NBC. She's referring to the conversation
00:31:23.960
in the Oval Office. And Trump said, he says, listen, here's a big South African politician
00:31:28.600
chanting, kill the boy, kill the farmer, shoot the kill. And the South African presidents are
00:31:35.060
laughing, chuckling about it. And then everyone's all the liberal reporters trying to get him off
00:31:39.340
the subject. And he says, no, look, look at all these reports of all the dead South African
00:31:44.060
white farmers being murdered by their neighbors and being persecuted by the government.
00:31:49.780
He says, look, look at this, a thousand crosses laid out for the dead white, white farmers.
00:31:55.600
And then as a stray remark, he says, it's a burial site. That's a stray remark.
00:32:01.780
And he says, you know, but these are here to mark the dead farmers. And that's what this obtuse
00:32:07.360
reporter gloms onto. Says, oh, actually fact check the dead, the murdered white farmers weren't
00:32:14.880
actually buried exactly immediately underneath the white crosses. Fact check, 10,000 Pinocchios. I mean,
00:32:20.500
yeah, they were all murdered and that is all real, but they were buried in a slightly different
00:32:24.320
place. So fact check, how are we going to correctify this misinformation?
00:32:30.380
You want to talk about missing the point? Now, of course, this woman at NBC, she's not missing the
00:32:34.220
point. She's trying to evade the point. White farmers are being slaughtered in South Africa
00:32:39.860
because they're white farmers. They're being killed by their countrymen and it's being encouraged by
00:32:44.660
their government, which is why a small number of them are asking to be led into the United States
00:32:49.480
as refugees. And the libs have finally found the one group of refugees they don't like,
00:32:54.360
actual refugees, not just economic migrants. And they don't like them because they're white.
00:32:58.920
Talk about obtuse. And I listened to this exchange. I wanted to bang my head against a wall.
00:33:02.700
Oh, actually fact check, they were, the South African farmers were buried a quarter mile down
00:33:07.120
the road, not directly underneath the crosses, 10,000 Pinocchios. Keep it up, lady. Keep it up.
00:33:13.480
Oh, I hope this is the line. I hope this is the line from the libs and the media going into
00:33:19.460
the midterm elections in 2028. Yeah. White people are being murdered because of their skin color
00:33:27.280
and terrorists in America are murdering Jews, a Christian Jew actually, because they're Jews and
00:33:34.260
they don't like Israel or whatever. And MS-13 gangsters are raping and killing university students,
00:33:41.020
young girls in America. But you know, actually technically here's why that's all fine. Please,
00:33:46.400
please let that be your headlines. We're not going to have to deal with a one vote majority anymore
00:33:51.960
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Hi, Michael. I hope all is well. I know my fiance loves me, but I'm scared he is starting to think
00:35:58.740
of me as a sugar mama. He's always paid for everything, even though I make more money than
00:36:02.620
him. However, we have been discussing weddings, and he seems upset about the amount he spent on
00:36:06.920
the engagement ring that he bought for me. He expects me to pay for the entire wedding.
00:36:11.260
I have more money than him, so I don't mind, but I don't want him to think of me as a
00:36:14.860
sugar mama. I also never wanted a big wedding, but he's a bridezilla. The band that he wants is
00:36:20.020
almost $15,000 alone. He's also been hinting that he wants me to buy him a side-by-side that
00:36:24.860
costs $25,000 on top of the elaborate wedding for which he expects for me to pay. It scares me
00:36:30.720
because a friend that introduced me to him said he always wanted to meet a rich girl.
00:36:33.620
I'm by no means rich, but I have significantly more than him. I worked so hard to get to a seven-figure
00:36:39.860
net worth, and I don't want to lose it. I would prefer to save my money and buy a house for the two
00:36:46.000
of us. Another short subject is that he wants to move in now, that we're engaged. I've always said
00:36:50.720
I wanted to wait until marriage. I plan to have a prenup drawn, even though I don't believe in
00:36:54.560
divorce. Another issue is that my dad won't attend my wedding because my fiance is a holiday
00:36:59.580
Catholic, whereby he only attends church on Christmas Eve, and I'm Christian. My fiance and
00:37:05.620
I are both upset that my dad refuses to attend. I need advice. Sounds to me like you don't want to
00:37:13.640
marry this guy. That might be hard for you to hear, but I think you actually asked me the question
00:37:19.260
so that I could tell you that. Sounds to me like you see a lot of red flags, and I see a lot of red
00:37:24.960
flags too, and you want permission not to marry this guy. That's very impressive. You've amassed
00:37:30.500
a seven-figure net worth. That's pretty, as a single woman, you've got over a million dollars.
00:37:35.180
That's pretty impressive. But you say, okay, well, hold on. He wants me to pay for something.
00:37:40.880
He paid for this, and he wants me to pay for that. I thought you were getting married.
00:37:45.700
If you're getting married, it's all going to be the same money. Your money is going to be his money.
00:37:50.640
His money is going to be your money. It's all the same. Now, you say that you view marriage this
00:37:56.820
way because you say you refuse to accept divorce, but then you say you want a prenup, which is to
00:38:01.840
say you do accept divorce in principle. You're torn on these things. You say he wants the big
00:38:07.640
band for the wedding. I'm kind of a cheapskate. Elisa is like that too. We're similar in our view
00:38:12.720
of money. So we did not have a band at the wedding. I prefer bands to DJs, but it was too expensive.
00:38:17.640
And the band that we were looking at was only like 10 grand. Then he says he wants a side-by-side.
00:38:22.700
I don't even know what that is. But all this stuff, please buy me this, buy me that. I want to move
00:38:26.680
in. That's a big red flag. You want to move in before you're married. Why? Hold on. Oh, because
00:38:30.480
you don't have a strong Christian foundation because, as you say, he just wants to go to mass
00:38:34.620
on Christmas Eve for some reason, whatever. Why? Why? But you're Christian. So now you've got big
00:38:39.840
problems in this engagement. You don't seem to view the world the same way. You're not on the same
00:38:46.080
page, but you're about to become one flesh. And you say you don't want to get divorced,
00:38:50.820
but you're already preparing yourself to get divorced. You want to buy a house for the two
00:38:55.840
of you. No, you both want to buy a house together. You're in a tight position. So I would figure that
00:39:01.380
out first. I would figure out, what's your view on religion going to be? You have an obligation to
00:39:07.760
go to church every Sunday. Are you going to do that? But he's not going to do that? What about when
00:39:12.040
you have kids? Are you just going to take the kids? Your husband's not going to go?
00:39:16.760
Then the kids are going to see daddy doesn't have to go to church. They're going to fall away from
00:39:19.300
the faith. I promise you that. Then what about money? What happens when he wants to spend all
00:39:25.400
your money and you don't want to spend money? He's the head of your household. No, you're going to
00:39:29.060
have separate bank accounts. You're going to have separate bank accounts. You have separate
00:39:32.940
properties. You're going to have set. Why are you getting married in the first place?
00:39:36.160
Your family already doesn't like the wedding. You have, it's a little tough love, but you need
00:39:43.580
to hear it. And you're asking me to tell it to you. You have set yourself up for a divorce.
00:39:49.800
I'm not saying you and he can't get married. You have to get on the same page on very basic
00:39:54.580
questions. Finances are why people get divorced. A deeper issue is religion, but finances are the
00:40:00.180
proximate reason why people get divorced. And you're going into this thing on totally different
00:40:05.020
pages when it comes to finances. You need to be on the same page when it comes to finances,
00:40:08.860
such that you trust him to lead the household, such that you trust him to be in possession of
00:40:13.180
your money and never split it up because you're never going to get divorced. If you can't get on
00:40:18.240
the same page, dump him and don't get married to him. Go find another guy. Next one.
00:40:24.040
Hi, Michael. Brandy here. First, thank you so much for your contribution to truth and the
00:40:29.340
dissemination of conservative information. Recently, my father and I have had many conversations
00:40:34.600
about the future of the family unit. My children are all in their twenties and thirties and they're
00:40:40.240
part of a generation who are considering whether or not to have children. My father is a hardcore
00:40:45.500
atheist. And until 10 years ago, I was too. Praise God. I am now saved. Worth noting is that my father
00:40:53.080
disowned me for seven years after accepting Christ as my savior. My heavenly father was a boundary I stuck
00:40:59.280
to, and we have now reconciled agreeing to disagree. Being saved has contributed to a
00:41:04.600
significant amount of hope and resilience in every facet of my life. His focus on science,
00:41:10.180
innovation, AI, and liberal doom and gloom leaves him hopeless for a future generation. He is a major
00:41:16.840
influence in the lives of my children, and I fear they're falling into the same hopelessness and will
00:41:21.720
buy into not wanting to bring children into the world. Do you have any advice as to how I can
00:41:27.300
positively interact with my father and children, which may encourage all to look at the value of
00:41:32.720
the family in a more positive light? Thanks much and have a great day.
00:41:37.460
Sorry to hear you going through that. Your father sounds like a
00:41:41.160
That's a nice little euphemism. I barely even know what that means because I barely speak French.
00:41:47.880
You, I'm glad you've reconciled with your father. You owe your father some respect. You have to honor
00:41:53.280
your father. It's a commandment, but you don't owe him your kids. You don't owe him your life. You're
00:42:00.160
grateful to him for helping to bring you your life, but you owe him honor and respect. If your father,
00:42:06.580
you need to pray for your father. You need to try to bring him to Christ. If your father is going to
00:42:12.000
lead your kids down a bad path, you need to seriously circumscribe his relationship with
00:42:19.300
them. Not saying cut him off or anything necessarily, but you got to, you got to tell him,
00:42:23.360
Hey dad, enough with the atheist stuff to the kids. We're raising the kids Christian. And you,
00:42:29.760
I'm not saying you have to go to church though. You should not saying you have to go to confession
00:42:33.360
though. You should, but you're not going to spread the atheist stuff to my kids. I have to protect my
00:42:39.800
kids. It's better for someone who would, who would cause the little ones to stumble to have a
00:42:45.760
millstone tied around his neck. Okay. It's my responsibility. It's my responsibility as a
00:42:48.960
daughter to give you honor and respect, but it's my responsibility to protect my kids from scandal
00:42:53.120
that you're causing them. So cut it out or we're going to have to rethink things. That's what you got
00:42:57.500
to say to him. And it's out of love. It's the love for your father. It's love for your kids. And out of
00:43:01.640
the responsibility that you have in your position as a daughter and a mother. Next one.
00:43:06.760
Hey, Michael, when you were discussing organ donation and brain death, you mentioned that
00:43:11.360
the organ recovery process is what essentially kills the patient, um, taking the organs. But
00:43:17.700
I want to make you think a little bit deeper because if you are a full organ donor, you donate
00:43:25.400
your heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, all of it, those organs. And let's say every,
00:43:31.420
all the recipients don't go into rejection and all of those organs are functioning sometimes for
00:43:38.400
many decades in another human body. Are you really dead? Are you, are you alive until all of your
00:43:47.380
organs are truly dead? Where is your soul in that instance? Are you stuck in some type of limbo?
00:43:57.940
Yeah, you're really dead in that instance. When you ask, where is your soul? Uh, this is a basic
00:44:04.480
question that has confused people in modernity, though it did not confuse the ancients and the
00:44:10.640
scholastics because it's just a misunderstanding. It's a category of what the soul is. The soul is not
00:44:15.300
just some part of my body. It's not just in my brain or something. The soul is the substantial form
00:44:22.460
of your body. Human beings are composite substances. We're not just body and we're not just soul. We're
00:44:29.000
not just body like, uh, you know, the, like a brute animal, but we're not just soul. Like, uh, you're not
00:44:36.120
just pure intellect, say like, uh, like an angel. Actually, I'm, I'm, I'm explaining this in a, in a
00:44:41.460
crude and imprecise way because animals have, have a soul in a certain sense, a soul that is proper to
00:44:47.520
them. Uh, the soul, which is what gives them unity as a being, which is why pigs are not just a random
00:44:53.280
assemblage of bacon, but they're an actual creature that is, that has integrity and that can distinguish
00:44:59.420
itself one pig from another. The, the soul is what gives you shape as a human. You're not merely the
00:45:08.320
sum of your organs. So when you cease to exist as an individual, then there's still, you're going to
00:45:15.280
have organs all over the place and bones and muck and guck and stuff, but that's not you.
00:45:19.620
Your soul is the substantial form of your body, of you. It's not reducible just to one part of you.
00:45:29.600
Uh, there's an interesting discussion to be had on even what the intellect is, which is why I was
00:45:33.740
talking about the intellect, which is a different but related matter because a lot of people think
00:45:37.120
that the intellect is reducible also to the body and it's not. And, uh, St. Thomas Aquinas drawing on
00:45:42.380
Aristotle has lots of good arguments as to why that is the case, but it's not. The, the, the intellect
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is not just a functioning of the brain. Intellect uses the brain, but the intellect is not corporeal,
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