The Michael Knowles Show - November 07, 2025


Ep. 1852 - Sydney Sweeney Is Lib Journos’ Kryptonite


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

175.66072

Word Count

8,995

Sentence Count

802

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

Kanye West apologizes to a rabbi for threatening to go DEFCON 3 on the Jews, and another American mayor gets caught not being an American citizen. Plus, a Mayflower Cigar kind of morning.


Transcript

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00:01:34.320 Sidney Sweeney knocks down a liberal journalist's leading questions better than the entire Republican Party put together.
00:01:40.360 Kanye West apologizes to a rabbi for threatening to go DEFCON 3 on the Jews some time ago.
00:01:46.340 And another American mayor gets caught not being an American citizen.
00:01:52.500 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:53.160 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:53.980 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:16.720 Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto has just had a really lovely apology from Kanye West.
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00:03:47.800 Folks, this morning is a Mayflower cigar kind of morning because I'll tell you why.
00:03:52.460 Ready?
00:03:56.120 Now I will tell you why.
00:03:57.560 Because last night I had a great time down in Jacksonville.
00:04:00.300 I did an event with Megyn Kelly.
00:04:02.520 Megyn's on this big speaking tour, encouraged in large part to carry on the legacy of Charlie.
00:04:08.240 So we had a great time.
00:04:09.140 I think that's going up on Megyn's show today.
00:04:11.200 But because of all the craziness with the government shutdown and as of 7 a.m. this morning, Central's 700 flights already canceled, I said, I got to get back.
00:04:21.040 For a lot of reasons, we have exciting stuff to announce on the show today.
00:04:24.600 I have a great dinner that I'm going to tonight with my wife.
00:04:26.960 Anyway, I said, I've got to be here.
00:04:28.300 I don't care if I don't sleep yet again this week.
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00:04:38.580 Now, we might be all feeling really nice in our homes, in our enclaves, in our communities.
00:04:45.120 There's a big problem in the country, namely that our political order is completely falling apart.
00:04:48.900 And one evidence of this is that we keep running into these mayors and superintendents and public officials who are not actually Americans.
00:05:01.720 This latest one right out of Kansas.
00:05:04.980 Well, you know, I'll tell you, here's the local news story.
00:05:07.020 See for yourself.
00:05:07.520 The mayor of Coldwater accused of election fraud.
00:05:13.480 The charges come hours after he secured a second term in office.
00:05:17.340 Attorney General Chris Kobach charged Mayor Jose Joe Ceballos with six felonies, three counts each of voting without being qualified and election perjury.
00:05:28.920 Kobach claims Ceballos is lawfully living in the U.S., but is a citizen of Mexico, making him ineligible to vote.
00:05:36.080 The AG alleges the mayor illegally cast ballots in the August 2024 primary and November 2022 and 2023 general elections.
00:05:46.000 In large part, our system right now is based on trust.
00:05:49.280 Trust that when the person signed the registration or signs the poll books saying that he's a qualified elector or that he is a United States citizen, that the person is telling the truth.
00:05:58.960 That's the line.
00:06:01.040 This is the takeaway from this story, from the illegal alien who was a superintendent in Iowa or Idaho or wherever it was.
00:06:08.980 And this is the statement that typifies our political order right now.
00:06:14.000 Our system is based on trust.
00:06:18.780 And the system is no longer working.
00:06:21.780 What conclusion must we draw from that?
00:06:24.180 We no longer have a high trust society.
00:06:28.300 I got to give this mayor, Ceballos, credit.
00:06:31.100 He tried to hide it.
00:06:32.720 His name is Jose Ceballos.
00:06:34.740 He said, hey, Jose Ceballos, are you sure that you're eligible to be the mayor of a town in America?
00:06:41.100 Oh, yeah, totally, man.
00:06:42.680 Don't call me Jose.
00:06:44.100 You know, my name is Joe.
00:06:47.060 Yeah, Joe DiMaggio Ceballos, man.
00:06:50.500 Okay, well, I trust you.
00:06:52.660 I guess you'll be the mayor now.
00:06:54.220 And then it turns out he's a citizen of Mexico.
00:06:58.040 He's not an American.
00:06:59.120 And you know what's so crazy about this?
00:07:01.840 If he were a citizen of Mexico, he could still be mayor.
00:07:05.740 Notice what they're charging him for.
00:07:07.860 They're not charging him for being mayor of an American town when you're not actually an American.
00:07:12.160 Because I guess that's not against the law.
00:07:14.660 They're charging him with voting illegally.
00:07:17.520 It's not running that got him into trouble.
00:07:19.880 It's not serving as mayor that got him into trouble.
00:07:22.160 It's voting for himself.
00:07:24.160 The voting is the one that you're still, I guess, technically not allowed to do.
00:07:27.740 But hold on.
00:07:28.260 I was told by the Democrats forever now that non-citizens are not voting in our elections.
00:07:35.620 Buddy, not only are they voting in our elections, they're winning our elections.
00:07:40.120 This is really distressing.
00:07:43.820 So, look, I hope they get him on this.
00:07:45.680 I hope they ship him back to Mexico.
00:07:46.860 I don't know, maybe he's a nice guy, but this is really, really bad.
00:07:50.340 This further erodes trust in our society, the trust that really no longer exists anyway.
00:07:56.040 We used to live in a high-trust society.
00:07:58.520 Now we live in a low-trust society.
00:08:00.420 And the consequences of that are not just that sometimes Mexicans end up serving as our mayors.
00:08:05.200 The consequences of that are extremely widespread.
00:08:07.880 You know when you talk to your grandma and grandpa, and your grandma and grandpa say,
00:08:12.940 you know, when I was a kid, we didn't lock our doors at night in our neighborhood, and now we have to.
00:08:18.320 That's not just because the time keeps ticking on their watches.
00:08:22.040 That's not just because there's something magical about the year 2025 that did not exist in the year 1945.
00:08:28.200 The reason that we have to lock our doors at night now in neighborhoods where we used to not have to lock our doors at night
00:08:34.680 is because we're no longer a high-trust society.
00:08:37.720 The reason that we have massive regulation and all sorts of rules and big nanny government coming in,
00:08:43.880 you know, Zoran Mamdani in New York, he just said,
00:08:45.700 there's no problem too big for government to solve.
00:08:48.380 There's no issue too small for government to care about.
00:08:50.280 The reason that government is getting involved in so many things that it didn't used to get involved in
00:08:54.980 is because we used to be able to get away with it because we all trusted each other.
00:09:00.880 Because we were all kind of the same in myriad ways, and now we're not the same in basically any way.
00:09:07.640 This is the inevitable consequence of becoming a low-trust society.
00:09:12.540 How did we become a low-trust society?
00:09:14.380 Mass migration was a big part of it.
00:09:15.960 But we now have foreigners, people who don't share our customs, often don't share our language,
00:09:21.340 sometimes don't share our religion, don't share our common patriotism, our heritage in this country.
00:09:28.720 As a result, you've got to legislate every nitty-gritty tiny little thing.
00:09:32.400 You've got to double-check every little thing.
00:09:35.160 Next time a liberal says to you, this is ridiculous.
00:09:38.240 We've never had an issue with non-citizens voting before.
00:09:41.160 This is a made-up problem.
00:09:43.120 Conservatives are imagining this.
00:09:45.460 We didn't used to have to check this.
00:09:46.860 Why do we have to check this now?
00:09:47.940 We have to check this now because we're no longer in a high-trust society.
00:09:50.820 Now we're in a low-trust society.
00:09:52.900 So if you don't like that, if you don't like voter ID,
00:09:57.280 look, I wish we didn't need voter ID.
00:09:59.440 We didn't used to need voter ID all the time.
00:10:02.040 It wasn't as pressing an issue.
00:10:04.120 Because our communities were more tightly knit.
00:10:07.240 We knew each other.
00:10:07.840 We had a more robust civil society.
00:10:09.280 We had front porches where people would walk down the street at night,
00:10:13.080 and people would have conversations.
00:10:14.180 All the stuff that your parents and grandparents talk about that we no longer have.
00:10:18.640 We don't even build houses with front porches anymore.
00:10:22.220 That has changed the political order.
00:10:24.340 That's changed the calculus.
00:10:26.560 And I don't like it.
00:10:28.480 I like societies where we can all kind of trust each other,
00:10:32.140 where kids can go ride their bikes all around.
00:10:34.120 Even when I was a kid, I could ride my bike all around town.
00:10:36.360 It was no big deal.
00:10:37.360 Now parents don't really let their kids do that.
00:10:39.720 When I was a kid, we'd go all over the place trick-or-treating.
00:10:42.820 We just had Halloween.
00:10:43.960 Now, have you noticed the decline in trick-or-treating?
00:10:47.040 Have you noticed the rise of a horrific phenomenon?
00:10:49.980 What do they call it?
00:10:51.720 Trunk-or-treating?
00:10:52.820 Trunk-or-treating.
00:10:53.880 Where parents within actual communities that trust each other,
00:10:58.160 they'll all just go to a parking lot,
00:11:00.320 and they'll have their kids walk around the parking lot to trick-or-treat in cars.
00:11:04.500 Why?
00:11:05.100 Because they don't trust the people who live next to them anymore.
00:11:07.520 Because they don't know who it is.
00:11:08.580 Maybe it's a boarding house filled with a bunch of illegal aliens,
00:11:13.020 a boarding house run by Trendy Aragua or something.
00:11:14.940 That happens.
00:11:17.040 Maybe it's just that you don't want to send your normal kid to the house
00:11:22.800 with the weird rainbow flags,
00:11:24.400 and in this house, we believe in blah, blah, blah kind of signs.
00:11:28.160 Maybe it's because a huge number of Democrats justify political violence
00:11:33.180 against Republicans and our children.
00:11:34.920 And then the Democrats who openly say that,
00:11:38.580 we elect attorney general in Virginia.
00:11:42.360 I get why parents want to do trunk-or-treat.
00:11:45.900 I wouldn't do it myself, but I get why people do it.
00:11:48.680 I get why people lock their doors at night.
00:11:50.380 I get all of it.
00:11:51.400 I get why we need voter ID.
00:11:53.660 You say, look, we didn't use staff to do that.
00:11:56.440 Now we do.
00:11:57.800 And so if you, like me, don't like that,
00:12:00.700 and I think they're playing Democrats who don't like it,
00:12:02.260 but they're playing liberals who don't like the fact
00:12:04.600 that we now live in a low-trust society,
00:12:06.140 then you have to do things to restore the political order
00:12:10.360 that we used to have.
00:12:12.140 And it's not all that complicated.
00:12:14.160 It ain't rocket science.
00:12:15.340 You need to drastically reduce all immigration.
00:12:18.340 You need to enforce standards and norms.
00:12:21.400 You need to promote civil society.
00:12:24.220 You need religion in the public square.
00:12:26.780 You're not going to have a high-trust society
00:12:28.340 if you don't have public religion.
00:12:30.460 You need to get on the same page.
00:12:32.240 You need to stop promoting political violence.
00:12:34.020 You need to punish people who do promote political violence.
00:12:35.820 You need to just do all the normal things
00:12:38.320 that normal countries do.
00:12:40.380 I think restoring a high-trust society is worth doing.
00:12:44.800 I think doing all those things is good anyway.
00:12:47.120 But there is a good that even,
00:12:49.460 certainly people in the center
00:12:50.600 and even a lot of people on the left would like,
00:12:54.500 we actually can agree on that political goal.
00:12:57.640 Okay, now we have to do the things
00:12:59.660 that get us to that political goal.
00:13:02.600 Unfortunately, the society is so declined in trust
00:13:06.040 that you have very prominent political figures
00:13:09.540 going on relatively prominent political news channels
00:13:13.160 explaining how they can't even trust the police.
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00:17:25.720 Speaking of high trust and low trust societies,
00:17:28.720 Simone Sanders,
00:17:30.060 who is not just a bloviating left-wing talking head on TV.
00:17:34.920 Simone Sanders has been a senior advisor to President Biden,
00:17:38.120 to would-be President Harris.
00:17:39.920 She was vice president at least.
00:17:41.160 She's a very serious Democrat figure.
00:17:44.000 She just goes on MSNBC
00:17:45.360 to explain how the police don't make her more safe.
00:17:48.700 You don't think more police make streets safer?
00:17:54.160 No, Joe.
00:17:54.820 I'm a black woman in America.
00:17:56.080 I do not always think that more police make streets safer.
00:17:59.200 When you walk down the streets of Georgetown,
00:18:01.360 you don't see a police officer on every corner,
00:18:03.040 but you don't feel unsafe.
00:18:04.340 So what is it about talking about places like Southeast D.C., right?
00:18:08.160 Ward 8, if you will,
00:18:09.600 that people say, well, we need more officers to make us safe.
00:18:12.500 I think we have to rethink what safety means in America.
00:18:16.820 What is it?
00:18:17.760 What is it about those places?
00:18:20.860 She's saying, as a black woman,
00:18:22.740 she's kind of doing the Karine Jean-Pierre thing.
00:18:24.680 Any question she gets, Karine Jean-Pierre says,
00:18:26.380 well, I am a queer black woman.
00:18:28.740 I am a black queer woman.
00:18:31.260 Okay, Simone Sanders says,
00:18:32.700 police don't make me safe.
00:18:34.220 Their job is to make us safe,
00:18:35.780 but they don't make me safe because I'm a black woman.
00:18:40.100 What's the evidence for this?
00:18:41.380 She goes, well, I'll tell you why.
00:18:43.180 Because in Georgetown,
00:18:44.460 they don't have police all over the streets,
00:18:45.940 and Georgetown is really safe.
00:18:47.760 But if you go to Southeast D.C.,
00:18:49.420 they have a lot of cops,
00:18:51.760 and it's less safe.
00:18:54.080 Okay.
00:18:57.300 Maybe this is an honest misunderstanding on her part.
00:19:01.420 The difference between Georgetown,
00:19:04.000 really nice part of D.C.,
00:19:05.220 and less nice parts of D.C.,
00:19:07.340 is not primarily that there are more or less cops there.
00:19:11.860 It's that there are more criminals in the less nice parts.
00:19:15.680 There are fewer criminals in Georgetown.
00:19:18.000 There are more criminals in the less nice parts.
00:19:20.720 If you take the cops away from the less nice parts,
00:19:23.960 her theory is that crime will go down.
00:19:25.660 If you add more cops to Georgetown,
00:19:29.320 her theory is that crime will go up in beautiful Georgetown.
00:19:32.320 So there is a way to test this theory.
00:19:35.340 I guess we've already sort of tested this theory,
00:19:37.340 which is President Trump took control of Washington, D.C.,
00:19:40.620 the federal city,
00:19:41.820 and he added more cops and troops to the streets,
00:19:44.680 and crime went way, way down.
00:19:45.880 The D.C. local government was trying to argue
00:19:50.260 the crime had already been going down.
00:19:51.520 We found out the reason the crime seemed to be going down
00:19:53.440 on paper is because they were cooking the books,
00:19:56.200 and now you have cops under investigation
00:19:58.220 for cooking the books in D.C.
00:19:59.460 But we all saw what happened.
00:20:00.620 I've been to D.C. since then.
00:20:02.120 Trump adds the cops.
00:20:03.740 Crime goes down in D.C.
00:20:04.720 But let's test it.
00:20:06.060 Let's just test it.
00:20:08.220 If Simone Sanders' theory is right,
00:20:11.640 then if we add cops to Georgetown,
00:20:13.480 we should see a massive spike in crime.
00:20:16.080 I'm sorry to make the elite of Georgetown
00:20:18.520 the guinea pigs here,
00:20:19.540 but I'm willing to do it.
00:20:20.480 I feel confident to do it.
00:20:21.840 Let's just try it.
00:20:22.880 Let's do one month.
00:20:24.240 Let's add a bunch of cops to Georgetown.
00:20:26.920 And let's, I really feel bad about this.
00:20:29.040 Let's take the cops away
00:20:30.240 from the less nice parts of D.C.
00:20:31.920 And let's just see what happens.
00:20:34.660 Because you know what we all know is going to happen?
00:20:37.980 Crime is not going to change at all in Georgetown.
00:20:41.320 Unless the cops start investigating
00:20:43.420 insider trading or something,
00:20:44.740 crime is not going to change in Georgetown.
00:20:47.420 Crime will go back to where it had been
00:20:49.720 in the less nice parts of D.C.
00:20:51.880 And then, that's my offer to Simone Sanders.
00:20:55.520 I'm sure she watches the show all the time.
00:20:57.560 That's my offer.
00:20:58.600 And then, when that happens,
00:21:01.680 can we all agree that cops make you more safe?
00:21:06.540 You have a thesis.
00:21:07.640 You have a hypothesis.
00:21:08.240 It's easily testable.
00:21:11.200 We will come to a clear conclusion.
00:21:13.220 Can we all agree on those terms
00:21:15.140 and then agree to accept the conclusion?
00:21:19.140 Because we all know,
00:21:21.340 across races,
00:21:22.920 across sexes,
00:21:24.360 across geographic boundaries,
00:21:26.020 we all know that the cops make us more safe.
00:21:28.580 And there are a handful of political hacks
00:21:31.740 who are arguing otherwise.
00:21:34.160 Because, I don't know,
00:21:35.460 they want to spur on some kind of anarcho-tyranny
00:21:37.700 that allows them to take even more power.
00:21:39.400 Whatever it is.
00:21:40.480 I don't care.
00:21:41.540 Let's test it.
00:21:42.520 Do we agree on the terms, Simone Sanders?
00:21:44.760 Do we agree on the terms, liberals?
00:21:47.140 Okay.
00:21:48.160 Then let's try it.
00:21:49.200 Let's watch that crime spike in Georgetown.
00:21:51.960 Oh no, there's cops here.
00:21:53.140 We got to start robbing liquor stores.
00:21:55.020 Speaking of racial politics,
00:21:56.760 you know Shannon Sharp?
00:21:58.200 He's some sports guy or something.
00:21:59.680 I don't know.
00:21:59.960 He got in hot water for some sex scandal recently.
00:22:02.840 I guess he has a podcast
00:22:04.000 because everyone has a podcast.
00:22:05.480 Some guy goes on Shannon Sharp's show,
00:22:08.020 a black guy,
00:22:09.080 to explain how he intends to track down
00:22:12.920 the descendants of the white people
00:22:16.960 who reputedly purchased
00:22:20.040 this guy's ancestors as slaves.
00:22:23.020 He's going to go track them.
00:22:24.260 He's going to hunt them down
00:22:25.280 in their current homes.
00:22:28.460 Found the white family
00:22:29.960 that purchased the first black wood
00:22:33.100 of my bloodline
00:22:34.280 off the slave ships in Charleston.
00:22:37.100 Yep.
00:22:37.640 That's what we came up with.
00:22:38.840 If I wanted to today,
00:22:41.080 I could find the white wood descendants
00:22:44.220 in Southern Georgia
00:22:45.500 and pull up on their house.
00:22:50.000 One day I will.
00:22:51.340 Yeah.
00:22:51.500 They ain't got no money, though.
00:22:56.200 I zillowed they crib.
00:22:58.460 They broke.
00:23:01.780 That's the thing we were talking about
00:23:02.960 with slavery, man.
00:23:03.940 It was a lot of white people fumbled.
00:23:05.780 Like, yo.
00:23:06.220 They fumbled the bag.
00:23:07.040 Yeah, you had working for you,
00:23:09.360 you still couldn't come up.
00:23:12.060 How you broke and you had slaves.
00:23:14.880 Yeah, that was bad.
00:23:16.060 That was gold.
00:23:17.320 They fumbled, bro.
00:23:19.660 They fumbled.
00:23:20.600 I actually love this clip
00:23:22.240 because, look,
00:23:22.720 they're making jokes,
00:23:23.740 but there's a little bit of truth
00:23:24.920 to the jokes, right?
00:23:26.920 And the truth to the joke
00:23:29.460 is leading them to make an argument
00:23:31.820 that they are then undermining
00:23:33.360 with the conclusion of the joke.
00:23:35.060 But the first part,
00:23:35.880 I think they're being pretty serious,
00:23:36.840 you know?
00:23:37.900 They're these white people.
00:23:39.580 And they're the descendants
00:23:40.300 of the guys who bought my ancestors.
00:23:42.420 And I hate that.
00:23:43.520 I hate that.
00:23:44.460 I'm going to go track them down.
00:23:46.220 And then you see Shannon Sharp there.
00:23:47.700 He goes, yeah, slave ships.
00:23:48.760 That's what we came off of.
00:23:50.660 And if you look on his wrist,
00:23:52.780 he's wearing what appears to be
00:23:54.140 a Patek Philippe Nautilus watch,
00:23:56.300 possibly in a precious metal.
00:23:58.000 That's like a $100,000 watch.
00:24:00.480 And he's not laughing at that part.
00:24:02.780 He says, yeah.
00:24:03.420 He's got the watch up there.
00:24:04.520 He goes, yeah.
00:24:05.700 And that's what we came off of.
00:24:07.240 I don't think you came off that ship.
00:24:09.640 I don't think the guys
00:24:10.420 who came off those ships
00:24:11.240 are buying Patek Philippe's.
00:24:12.300 Their descendants are,
00:24:13.240 some of them.
00:24:14.720 And then you get to the punchline
00:24:16.360 of the joke,
00:24:17.180 which is, yeah,
00:24:17.900 you know,
00:24:18.180 the thing about those white people,
00:24:19.280 I want to go track them down.
00:24:20.300 They don't have any money, though.
00:24:21.740 They don't have any money.
00:24:24.240 Which is a fine conclusion to come to.
00:24:28.200 The people who came here as slaves
00:24:29.860 are rich and famous
00:24:31.760 and dripping in gold jewelry.
00:24:34.580 Some of them.
00:24:36.240 And the people who bought the slaves,
00:24:38.660 their descendants,
00:24:40.160 don't have any money anymore.
00:24:42.520 So what conclusion
00:24:43.460 are we to draw from this?
00:24:46.380 I don't know that they intend
00:24:47.540 this to be the conclusion,
00:24:48.240 but the conclusion is obviously
00:24:49.380 that the racial politics
00:24:51.040 of reparations
00:24:52.100 and constant hand-wringing
00:24:53.880 over slavery or whatever
00:24:54.740 is ridiculous.
00:24:57.060 It's totally impractical.
00:24:59.440 There's no way really
00:25:00.620 to ascribe guilt
00:25:01.800 to someone whose ancestors
00:25:03.500 did something 400 years earlier.
00:25:05.560 Even in the case of slavery,
00:25:06.700 it's difficult because
00:25:07.460 one of,
00:25:08.120 I think actually the first guy
00:25:08.980 to be recognized
00:25:09.680 as an owner of a slave
00:25:11.520 arbitrarily for life
00:25:12.920 was a black guy.
00:25:14.000 He was an Angolan guy.
00:25:14.860 It's got one of these kind of
00:25:15.740 funny little quirks of history.
00:25:17.380 So let's say,
00:25:18.800 let's say you're descended
00:25:19.660 from white people
00:25:20.280 and black people
00:25:20.920 or even slave owners
00:25:22.520 and slaves.
00:25:23.240 To what degree
00:25:24.120 are you owed reparations?
00:25:25.840 To what degree
00:25:26.560 should,
00:25:27.900 are you guilty
00:25:28.560 or victimized?
00:25:30.060 And should you have people
00:25:31.260 show up to your house
00:25:32.000 or should you show up
00:25:32.620 to other people's houses?
00:25:33.480 It's very,
00:25:34.340 very silly.
00:25:34.780 But it also shows you
00:25:37.720 why people need to forgive.
00:25:40.640 You know,
00:25:40.820 we're talking about
00:25:41.200 high-trust societies.
00:25:43.180 One of the reasons
00:25:44.300 that you have to forgive people,
00:25:46.400 why our Lord calls on us
00:25:47.540 to forgive others
00:25:48.260 as we ask forgiveness
00:25:49.680 of our Father in heaven,
00:25:51.100 to forgive people's debts
00:25:52.340 and sins,
00:25:53.680 the same meaning
00:25:55.120 in the Lord's Prayer,
00:25:56.640 as we would have
00:25:57.900 our debts forgiven us,
00:25:59.380 is because otherwise
00:26:00.260 it'll just destroy you.
00:26:02.360 So I'm glad
00:26:03.020 these guys are laughing
00:26:03.720 about it in the end.
00:26:04.460 A lot of people
00:26:04.840 aren't laughing about it.
00:26:05.800 A lot of people
00:26:06.180 are seriously talking
00:26:06.960 about reparations.
00:26:07.760 For goodness sakes,
00:26:08.300 Gavin Newsom in California
00:26:09.440 is talking about,
00:26:10.760 he just established
00:26:11.520 a massive reparations office
00:26:12.920 for a state
00:26:14.280 that entered the Union
00:26:15.520 as a free state.
00:26:16.840 In fact,
00:26:17.200 the entry of that state
00:26:18.220 into the Union
00:26:18.720 was one of the causes
00:26:19.640 of the Civil War
00:26:20.500 because they never had slavery.
00:26:23.660 This is a real
00:26:24.520 practical instantiation of that.
00:26:26.800 If people in America
00:26:27.940 don't just kind of like
00:26:29.600 get over it
00:26:30.400 and have charity
00:26:31.520 for one another
00:26:32.040 and recognize one another
00:26:33.040 as countrymen,
00:26:34.860 then you don't have a society.
00:26:35.940 Practically speaking,
00:26:36.680 you don't have a society.
00:26:38.640 And if you want to go
00:26:39.500 show up to people's houses
00:26:40.400 and demand all sorts of stuff
00:26:41.820 and say,
00:26:42.180 well, your ancestor
00:26:42.940 was mean to my ancestor,
00:26:44.180 whatever,
00:26:45.160 I don't think it's going
00:26:45.760 to work out very well.
00:26:46.780 And if we start playing
00:26:47.340 that game,
00:26:47.820 I want Shannon Sharp's watch.
00:26:49.160 It's a nice looking watch.
00:26:51.000 Speaking of notable
00:26:52.340 Hollywood conversations,
00:26:54.440 didn't have this,
00:26:55.220 oh, actually,
00:26:56.260 there's two Hollywood conversations
00:26:57.600 I want to get to.
00:26:59.260 Kanye apologizing to a rabbi
00:27:00.800 and even more importantly,
00:27:03.220 Sidney Sweeney
00:27:03.820 destroying a liberal journalist.
00:27:05.060 We'll get to that
00:27:05.380 in one second.
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00:28:16.940 slash America.
00:28:18.720 Sydney Sweeney
00:28:20.580 just sits down
00:28:21.640 for an interview
00:28:22.640 with some lib journalist,
00:28:24.000 and she's going to get grilled
00:28:25.440 over the jeans ad,
00:28:27.820 over her perception
00:28:29.440 as not being
00:28:30.660 a faithful left-wing
00:28:32.160 liberal Democrat
00:28:33.100 campaigning
00:28:33.780 for Kamala Harris
00:28:35.100 or whatever.
00:28:36.720 And you get a little nervous
00:28:38.460 in these situations
00:28:39.340 because whenever anyone
00:28:40.320 in Hollywood
00:28:40.920 steps out at all
00:28:43.200 politically,
00:28:44.400 is not totally
00:28:45.480 towing the party line
00:28:46.440 for the Dems,
00:28:47.040 they get grilled on it
00:28:48.880 and usually they cave.
00:28:50.020 Usually they fumble.
00:28:51.020 Usually they apologize.
00:28:52.480 Usually they say,
00:28:52.980 no, I didn't mean that.
00:28:54.080 I'm just,
00:28:54.420 I'm not like those Republicans.
00:28:55.920 No, I don't,
00:28:56.320 I'm a Republican,
00:28:56.940 but I don't like Trump.
00:28:57.800 No, I didn't mean to say,
00:28:58.860 I'm sorry.
00:28:59.600 I'm sorry.
00:29:02.420 Now watch Sydney Sweeney.
00:29:05.680 The president tweeted
00:29:06.920 about the jeans ad
00:29:08.140 or Truth Social
00:29:09.300 about the jeans ad,
00:29:10.520 and that just seems to me
00:29:13.160 like a very crazy moment
00:29:16.740 for anyone.
00:29:19.280 And I wondered
00:29:20.000 what that was like.
00:29:23.760 It was surreal.
00:29:24.500 It was surreal.
00:29:25.320 But the risk is that,
00:29:26.620 you know,
00:29:27.160 there's a chance
00:29:28.480 that somebody will
00:29:29.680 get some idea
00:29:30.900 about what you think
00:29:32.760 about certain issues
00:29:34.020 and feel like,
00:29:36.720 I don't want to see Christy
00:29:38.180 because of that.
00:29:38.980 Like, do you worry about that?
00:29:40.620 No.
00:29:41.800 No.
00:29:42.580 The criticism of the content,
00:29:44.180 which was basically
00:29:45.680 that maybe specifically
00:29:47.080 in this political climate,
00:29:48.280 like, white people
00:29:50.140 shouldn't joke
00:29:51.120 about genetic superiority.
00:29:53.660 Like, that was kind of
00:29:54.600 like the criticism,
00:29:55.720 broadly speaking.
00:29:56.600 And since you are
00:29:57.580 talking about this,
00:29:58.080 I just wanted to give you
00:29:58.780 an opportunity
00:29:59.420 to talk about that
00:30:00.380 specifically.
00:30:01.440 I think that when I
00:30:03.280 have an issue
00:30:05.820 that I want to speak about,
00:30:07.460 people will hear.
00:30:08.040 I love her.
00:30:10.840 I love her.
00:30:11.700 I love her so much
00:30:12.620 as my sister
00:30:15.060 in the mystical body.
00:30:16.600 I love her as
00:30:17.680 my fellow countrymen.
00:30:19.440 I'm not saying anything
00:30:20.380 inappropriate or untoward.
00:30:21.620 I love her.
00:30:22.640 And I want
00:30:23.440 every Republican,
00:30:26.460 politician,
00:30:27.240 speaker,
00:30:27.720 activist,
00:30:28.540 layperson,
00:30:29.500 I don't know,
00:30:29.820 the ordinary
00:30:30.480 to pay attention here.
00:30:34.000 This was a master class.
00:30:36.020 This woman,
00:30:37.980 Sidney Sweeney,
00:30:39.220 has better message discipline
00:30:40.820 than the entire
00:30:41.540 Republican Party
00:30:42.180 put together.
00:30:43.100 Look at this setup.
00:30:45.120 This is perfect
00:30:46.620 liberal interviewer setup.
00:30:48.380 From the kind of inflection,
00:30:49.940 ha ha,
00:30:50.320 and her kind of questions,
00:30:52.000 and her kind of
00:30:52.680 feigned indifference,
00:30:54.500 but absolute fury
00:30:56.200 broiling underneath
00:30:57.000 the surface.
00:30:58.100 Says,
00:30:58.460 ha ha,
00:30:59.080 oh yeah,
00:30:59.900 you know,
00:31:00.200 the president tweeted
00:31:01.020 about your jeans ad.
00:31:02.180 Ha ha ha,
00:31:02.980 isn't that,
00:31:03.580 wow,
00:31:03.880 the president tweeted
00:31:04.700 about it,
00:31:05.060 Trump tweeted
00:31:05.860 about it.
00:31:06.800 Like,
00:31:07.400 what was that like,
00:31:08.860 Sidney?
00:31:09.580 And you see
00:31:10.320 the liberal journalist
00:31:11.200 kind of like,
00:31:11.740 she's a little uncomfortable,
00:31:12.820 she's kind of trying
00:31:13.260 to go in for the kill,
00:31:14.120 she's fidgeting.
00:31:14.900 Ha ha ha.
00:31:15.800 And then Sidney Sweeney
00:31:17.220 cuts to her.
00:31:18.200 It's the new Anakin meme.
00:31:20.240 It's the new,
00:31:20.880 she's just totally
00:31:21.940 in possession of herself.
00:31:24.860 Doesn't flinch
00:31:25.840 one muscle
00:31:27.060 on her face.
00:31:28.120 This,
00:31:28.600 this is
00:31:29.680 the value
00:31:30.440 of good acting training.
00:31:32.780 Confidence,
00:31:33.340 she's just there.
00:31:34.580 Doesn't flinch at all.
00:31:36.440 What was your,
00:31:37.100 ha ha ha ha,
00:31:37.640 what was your reaction
00:31:38.360 to that?
00:31:39.520 Oh,
00:31:39.860 it was wild.
00:31:44.480 Wild like good,
00:31:45.280 wild like bad,
00:31:45.960 wild like,
00:31:46.320 you kind of give me
00:31:46.940 something,
00:31:47.360 don't you?
00:31:48.600 Don't you?
00:31:50.000 I mean,
00:31:50.420 don't you think?
00:31:51.240 It's like,
00:31:51.680 I mean,
00:31:51.940 that ad was like,
00:31:52.880 kind of,
00:31:53.460 ha ha ha.
00:31:54.320 Well,
00:31:54.500 it was like,
00:31:54.900 kind of like a little bit
00:31:56.040 controversial,
00:31:57.120 wasn't it?
00:31:57.640 Like,
00:31:57.820 kind of,
00:31:58.140 don't you like,
00:31:58.760 have any trepidation
00:32:00.220 and regret?
00:32:03.540 No.
00:32:07.840 And then she goes in
00:32:08.720 for the kill.
00:32:09.160 The liberal journo
00:32:10.000 is there.
00:32:10.440 She goes,
00:32:10.700 huh,
00:32:11.120 yeah,
00:32:11.360 but like,
00:32:11.880 look,
00:32:12.300 like,
00:32:12.640 the criticism of it,
00:32:15.380 the criticism,
00:32:16.540 they always do this.
00:32:17.740 It's so general,
00:32:19.160 it's so passive,
00:32:19.960 it's a passive voice
00:32:20.780 very often.
00:32:22.620 It's not my criticism,
00:32:24.180 it's not I'm criticizing you
00:32:25.220 because,
00:32:25.600 it's not my team
00:32:26.500 is criticizing you,
00:32:27.060 no,
00:32:27.380 the criticism of it,
00:32:29.100 some critics say
00:32:30.520 that it's inappropriate
00:32:32.040 for white people
00:32:34.200 to even joke about
00:32:36.020 genetics or anything.
00:32:37.740 I mean,
00:32:38.080 we hear endlessly
00:32:38.980 about black excellence,
00:32:40.200 we hear endlessly
00:32:40.740 about La Raza
00:32:41.540 and how Mexicans
00:32:42.340 are the superior race
00:32:43.320 and we hear endlessly
00:32:44.220 about all this kind of nonsense
00:32:45.440 but white people
00:32:46.380 aren't allowed to do that,
00:32:47.120 right?
00:32:47.700 Do you want,
00:32:48.380 so I just want to give you
00:32:49.000 an opportunity.
00:32:50.340 You know,
00:32:50.800 like this thing
00:32:51.340 that you've avoided
00:32:52.000 talking about
00:32:52.740 that really is nobody's business
00:32:54.040 because you're a Hollywood starlet
00:32:55.520 doing a jeans ad
00:32:56.520 but like,
00:32:57.140 I want to give you
00:32:57.640 an opportunity
00:32:58.540 to grovel
00:32:59.880 and apologize to me
00:33:01.160 and to be called liberal.
00:33:03.660 I want to give you
00:33:04.540 that opportunity
00:33:05.100 and Sidney Sweeney
00:33:07.900 doesn't bat
00:33:08.860 an eyelash.
00:33:10.220 I think
00:33:12.720 when I have something
00:33:13.440 to say
00:33:14.020 about an issue,
00:33:15.640 people will hear it.
00:33:19.720 And then the liberal jersey,
00:33:21.100 I got nothing.
00:33:24.380 I print it,
00:33:28.020 frame it.
00:33:29.000 It's already become a meme
00:33:30.200 but just study that.
00:33:32.860 Study that.
00:33:33.620 If you're in office,
00:33:34.860 if you want to run for office,
00:33:35.880 if you want to be an activist,
00:33:37.460 if you're just like a guy
00:33:39.000 with conservative views
00:33:40.400 standing around the water cooler,
00:33:42.540 study that.
00:33:43.580 That's it.
00:33:44.700 No apologies,
00:33:46.100 no provocation,
00:33:47.560 no prevarication,
00:33:49.160 no equivocation.
00:33:50.620 Am I rapping?
00:33:51.480 I'm like becoming a rapper.
00:33:52.540 We'll get to Kanye West
00:33:53.320 in a second.
00:33:54.680 Nothing.
00:33:55.900 Total confidence.
00:33:58.060 Don't give them
00:33:58.920 an inch more
00:34:00.160 than you have to.
00:34:01.480 Don't.
00:34:03.580 Don't.
00:34:05.060 Yeah,
00:34:05.620 like you did that jeans ad,
00:34:07.280 right?
00:34:08.340 Yep.
00:34:09.920 But like surely
00:34:10.980 you have something
00:34:11.500 to say about it,
00:34:12.160 right?
00:34:13.380 Nope.
00:34:17.340 This actually is
00:34:18.960 a fact about acting,
00:34:21.340 about good acting,
00:34:22.560 is a lot of people think
00:34:24.120 that like to be
00:34:25.040 a good actor,
00:34:25.820 I don't know,
00:34:26.420 you have to just like
00:34:26.980 be doing stuff all the time.
00:34:28.900 You'll notice weaker actors
00:34:30.400 in movies and on stage,
00:34:31.700 they're always like moving.
00:34:32.660 They don't feel comfortable
00:34:33.260 in their body.
00:34:33.700 And there's a great power
00:34:34.680 to stillness
00:34:35.520 on a stage
00:34:36.780 or on film
00:34:37.600 to intentionality
00:34:39.340 and she's got it in spades.
00:34:42.080 Girl's a great actress
00:34:43.200 and a great model
00:34:44.860 for how we should conduct
00:34:46.100 political discourse,
00:34:46.920 especially on the right.
00:34:47.580 Really love it.
00:34:49.020 Love it.
00:34:49.560 Great stuff.
00:34:50.400 Okay,
00:34:50.700 speaking of other notable
00:34:52.100 Hollywood conversations,
00:34:54.040 yay!
00:34:55.280 The artist formerly known
00:34:56.620 as Kanye West
00:34:57.440 You know,
00:34:58.800 he has had some things
00:35:00.280 to say about
00:35:01.400 a certain ancient
00:35:02.860 nomadic tribe.
00:35:04.400 I'm not going to say
00:35:05.360 what kind of tribe.
00:35:06.980 It was a Jewish tribe.
00:35:08.680 And so he's been going on
00:35:09.680 for a year or two now
00:35:11.100 about how he was going to go
00:35:13.580 death con three on the Jews,
00:35:15.560 on how the Jews
00:35:16.860 like control everything
00:35:17.680 and he doesn't like them
00:35:19.000 and whatever.
00:35:19.560 He's kind of going on
00:35:20.220 all this stuff.
00:35:21.120 And I've pointed out
00:35:22.180 that even like
00:35:23.760 when he had that,
00:35:24.360 he had that song
00:35:24.960 in Ohio Hitler
00:35:25.600 and I said,
00:35:26.540 I think people are
00:35:27.160 misunderstanding the song.
00:35:28.220 I think it's actually
00:35:28.680 more artistic and nuanced
00:35:29.840 than people are giving it
00:35:30.480 credit for.
00:35:31.240 And I think there's
00:35:32.220 clearly some introspection
00:35:34.020 in the song
00:35:34.560 and there's a great deal
00:35:35.160 of irony in the song.
00:35:36.440 And people made fun of me.
00:35:38.040 Even people who liked
00:35:39.680 that Kanye West
00:35:40.920 was attacking the Jews
00:35:41.880 made fun of me
00:35:43.120 for my reaction
00:35:44.300 to the song.
00:35:44.880 And I said,
00:35:45.080 no,
00:35:45.220 I think I'm getting it.
00:35:46.780 You know,
00:35:47.000 it says nothing to do
00:35:48.340 with Kanye as an artist
00:35:49.360 or the Jews as a people
00:35:50.480 or I'm just like
00:35:51.680 analyzing the lyrics
00:35:52.980 and the music here.
00:35:53.780 And I think I'm saying,
00:35:55.120 you know,
00:35:55.380 Kanye is a pretty talented
00:35:57.700 popular artist
00:35:58.740 and musician.
00:35:59.600 I think there's something
00:36:00.680 else going on here.
00:36:01.460 And I was totally right.
00:36:02.920 I was totally right.
00:36:03.960 You know how much
00:36:04.380 I hate to say it.
00:36:06.160 So Kanye comes out
00:36:07.360 and has this meeting
00:36:08.780 with a rabbi
00:36:09.560 who doesn't even appear
00:36:10.700 to speak English.
00:36:11.440 The rabbi's name is
00:36:12.340 Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto.
00:36:16.220 Here's what he said.
00:36:16.740 I feel really blessed
00:36:19.520 to be able to sit here
00:36:20.360 with you today
00:36:20.940 and just take accountability.
00:36:25.600 I was dealing with
00:36:28.080 some various issues
00:36:33.260 dealing with bipolar also.
00:36:39.120 So it would take
00:36:40.360 the ideas I had
00:36:41.860 and hadn't taken them
00:36:43.120 to an extreme
00:36:43.980 where I would forget
00:36:45.320 about the protection
00:36:46.280 of the people around me
00:36:47.520 and myself.
00:36:53.500 So I wanted to come
00:36:54.860 and take accountability.
00:36:56.020 Sometimes with,
00:36:57.280 you know,
00:36:57.620 people aren't that knowledgeable
00:36:58.700 about the bipolar
00:36:59.780 and the cause
00:37:02.380 or what causes it
00:37:04.220 and the way you act
00:37:06.060 when you have this disease.
00:37:08.120 So it's like
00:37:13.760 if you left the house
00:37:15.780 and you left your kid
00:37:16.580 at the house
00:37:17.180 and your kid went
00:37:18.620 and messed up the kitchen
00:37:19.540 and messed up the garage
00:37:20.460 and messed up the living room.
00:37:22.000 Now when you get back,
00:37:23.260 it's your responsibility
00:37:25.520 because that's your child.
00:37:28.700 And that's the way
00:37:29.580 I look at it.
00:37:30.320 It's like,
00:37:30.580 I got to go clean up
00:37:31.440 the kitchen.
00:37:31.880 I got to clean up
00:37:32.680 the living room.
00:37:33.300 I got to clean up
00:37:33.860 the garage.
00:37:34.960 So it goes on
00:37:35.680 and on and on.
00:37:36.720 I really love this
00:37:37.540 and I want to be very clear
00:37:38.800 about what I love about this
00:37:39.920 because there are two
00:37:41.580 types of behavior
00:37:42.680 that I hate.
00:37:45.060 One type of behavior
00:37:46.080 I hate
00:37:46.600 are the groveling
00:37:47.900 humiliation rituals
00:37:49.000 where you go,
00:37:50.080 you know,
00:37:50.240 you say something
00:37:51.040 and you get all this blowback
00:37:52.260 and then you have to make
00:37:53.620 a fake apology
00:37:54.520 whether it,
00:37:55.660 and often it's on racial lines.
00:37:57.260 Al Sharpton would do this
00:37:58.120 all the time.
00:37:59.060 So, you know,
00:37:59.500 you make some comment
00:38:00.280 about black people
00:38:01.060 and then, you know,
00:38:02.200 it's,
00:38:02.800 you don't really feel bad about it.
00:38:04.660 You don't,
00:38:05.080 you didn't intend any harm.
00:38:06.400 It's not like a,
00:38:07.140 it's not really a big deal.
00:38:08.060 It's blown out of proportion.
00:38:09.060 And then you got to go
00:38:09.860 and like kiss up to Al Sharpton
00:38:11.880 and apologize
00:38:12.520 to the black people generally.
00:38:14.160 And it's like this humiliating thing.
00:38:16.300 And it's just a way
00:38:16.980 basically for,
00:38:18.300 for one group
00:38:19.260 to demonstrate power
00:38:20.920 over the person
00:38:21.840 who has transgressed.
00:38:23.740 Or it could be the Jews.
00:38:25.340 You know,
00:38:25.480 you got to go,
00:38:26.060 you make some comment
00:38:26.860 that's perfectly innocuous
00:38:28.440 and not intended
00:38:29.220 to offend anyone.
00:38:29.940 And you got to go show up
00:38:30.860 to the ADL
00:38:31.580 and kiss up to the ADL,
00:38:33.080 some of the worst people
00:38:33.760 on the planet.
00:38:34.220 And,
00:38:34.780 you know,
00:38:35.780 give some fake,
00:38:37.120 insincere apology
00:38:38.080 to the Jewish people broadly.
00:38:39.500 You never really intended
00:38:40.420 to offend them.
00:38:41.400 It was,
00:38:41.940 you know,
00:38:42.340 it's just a nasty sort of thing.
00:38:44.000 That's not what this is.
00:38:46.420 Because that's one error
00:38:47.600 that I hate.
00:38:48.800 There's another error,
00:38:49.800 which is when you do something
00:38:51.000 that is legitimately wrong
00:38:52.420 and immoral
00:38:53.700 and unchristian
00:38:54.520 and you don't apologize.
00:38:56.700 And there are all sorts of reasons
00:38:57.600 people don't apologize
00:38:58.340 these days
00:38:58.840 because you don't want
00:38:59.520 to give people an inch
00:39:00.200 because often people
00:39:01.000 don't accept apologies.
00:39:01.960 Christ tells us
00:39:03.140 to apologize,
00:39:04.120 you know,
00:39:04.400 to have humility,
00:39:06.020 to,
00:39:06.320 you know,
00:39:07.480 forgive those
00:39:07.960 who trespass against us.
00:39:08.840 As I mentioned earlier,
00:39:09.540 as we seek forgiveness
00:39:11.620 from our Father in Heaven,
00:39:12.800 you know,
00:39:13.280 to go try to make right
00:39:14.080 with our brother
00:39:14.540 and all the rest of it.
00:39:16.760 Not just seven times,
00:39:18.180 but 70 times,
00:39:20.240 77 times,
00:39:21.020 7 million times.
00:39:23.400 What Kanye is doing here
00:39:24.800 is like a manly thing to do.
00:39:27.200 He's sitting there
00:39:27.800 and he's saying,
00:39:28.720 yeah,
00:39:28.900 look,
00:39:29.240 I didn't mean to do all that.
00:39:30.620 That was kind of rough.
00:39:31.580 And,
00:39:31.800 you know,
00:39:32.640 look,
00:39:32.920 I'm bipolar.
00:39:33.800 And it's,
00:39:34.200 I love his analogy too.
00:39:35.520 He goes,
00:39:35.840 it's kind of like,
00:39:36.440 you know,
00:39:36.580 you got a kid
00:39:37.020 and your kid like screws up
00:39:37.900 the kitchen
00:39:38.600 and then you got to go in
00:39:39.460 and clean it up.
00:39:40.260 Well,
00:39:40.540 yeah,
00:39:40.740 I'm the kid.
00:39:41.620 I'm the kid and the adult here.
00:39:42.960 And so I got it.
00:39:43.460 And I didn't mean to call for like
00:39:44.600 going death country on the Jews.
00:39:45.980 He's not going out there
00:39:46.580 and saying like,
00:39:47.120 I love Israel.
00:39:47.700 It's the greatest country ever.
00:39:48.520 And he's not going out there
00:39:49.420 and saying like,
00:39:49.800 I'm going to convert to Judaism
00:39:50.620 or something.
00:39:51.080 He's just saying,
00:39:51.580 I did something
00:39:52.520 that is legitimately wrong.
00:39:54.340 I shouldn't have done that.
00:39:56.100 Here,
00:39:56.560 I'm not excusing it.
00:39:57.460 Here are some reasons why I did it.
00:39:58.620 Anyway,
00:39:59.020 pal.
00:39:59.300 Hey,
00:39:59.520 anyway,
00:39:59.800 to you,
00:40:00.720 particular rabbi,
00:40:01.720 I'm sorry.
00:40:02.960 And I'm going to sit here like a man.
00:40:04.320 I'm going to say that.
00:40:05.100 And then the rabbi accepts his apology.
00:40:06.660 That's kind of a nice thing.
00:40:09.600 I like that.
00:40:10.040 You can't really do that
00:40:10.960 in the culture
00:40:11.640 that doesn't accept apologies.
00:40:13.340 You can't really do that
00:40:13.980 in the culture
00:40:14.460 if you're like a kind of
00:40:16.300 weak,
00:40:16.620 squishy person.
00:40:17.520 But if you're Kanye,
00:40:18.660 who I've said,
00:40:19.820 Kanye is going to reinvent himself
00:40:20.880 many times.
00:40:21.440 He's a very interesting artist.
00:40:22.440 He's eccentric.
00:40:23.020 He's all these things.
00:40:24.460 You're going to confound
00:40:25.160 expectations that way.
00:40:26.920 I thought it was a nice,
00:40:27.640 nice exchange.
00:40:29.720 It is good on him.
00:40:31.720 You know,
00:40:31.840 as someone who is a Catholic,
00:40:34.200 who I don't really care that much
00:40:35.420 about the state of Israel.
00:40:36.160 I mostly care.
00:40:36.660 I mean,
00:40:36.900 I care about it
00:40:37.360 as a matter of justice
00:40:38.120 and like nation states
00:40:38.900 and everything,
00:40:39.540 world order.
00:40:40.220 I care about the holy sites especially,
00:40:41.680 but very philo-Semitic.
00:40:43.260 Love the Jews as a people,
00:40:45.100 even though some,
00:40:46.100 like the ADL or whatever,
00:40:47.080 are quite annoying.
00:40:48.560 But this is nice.
00:40:50.040 This is really nice to see.
00:40:51.600 And Kanye is going to irritate
00:40:52.640 everybody with this.
00:40:54.400 He's going to irritate
00:40:55.200 the people who don't want
00:40:55.820 to forgive him.
00:40:56.360 He's going to irritate
00:40:56.900 the people who genuinely
00:40:57.720 hate the Jews.
00:40:58.520 And that's probably
00:40:59.880 how you know he's right.
00:41:00.840 But good.
00:41:01.140 It was really nice.
00:41:02.580 Friendly Fire returns
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00:42:02.100 My favorite comment yesterday
00:42:03.120 is from the drummer's workshop,
00:42:04.980 Norm's Music,
00:42:06.300 who, look,
00:42:08.220 I picked the comment
00:42:09.220 before I saw it was him
00:42:10.060 and then I said,
00:42:10.440 this comment's so good,
00:42:11.200 it had to be him.
00:42:12.920 We need to have him,
00:42:14.220 we need to give him
00:42:14.920 a producer credit on the show.
00:42:16.320 He has so many great,
00:42:16.960 but anyway,
00:42:17.420 his observation was
00:42:18.300 about the New York election.
00:42:20.200 He said,
00:42:20.440 like Sinatra said,
00:42:21.980 if you can mecca here,
00:42:25.120 you can mecca anywhere.
00:42:28.680 It's up to you,
00:42:30.100 New Yorkistan.
00:42:30.960 It's true.
00:42:31.420 If you can mecca New York,
00:42:32.580 you can mecca anywhere.
00:42:33.420 It's so true.
00:42:34.460 I'm a sucker for a good pun
00:42:35.380 and it's a good point.
00:42:36.600 Finally, finally,
00:42:37.280 we've arrived at
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00:42:48.500 Hi, Michael.
00:42:49.920 My question for you
00:42:51.200 is about Christian morality.
00:42:53.500 I'm Jewish,
00:42:55.620 so I don't really
00:42:56.440 know much about it.
00:42:57.960 But from what I understand,
00:42:59.940 you and the Christians
00:43:02.380 believe that the only way
00:43:06.340 a person can get into heaven
00:43:07.820 is by accepting Jesus
00:43:09.740 in their life in some way.
00:43:12.840 And no matter what
00:43:14.800 they've done in their lives,
00:43:16.380 if they accept him,
00:43:17.960 they go to heaven.
00:43:19.720 Now, the problem is,
00:43:22.860 by that metric,
00:43:24.320 you can take Hitler
00:43:26.780 and all his henchmen
00:43:27.920 and if they would have
00:43:29.560 accepted Jesus
00:43:30.420 before they died,
00:43:31.420 they could all be
00:43:32.000 sitting in heaven.
00:43:33.540 And the six million
00:43:35.340 Jewish people
00:43:36.180 who they murdered
00:43:37.340 would be sitting in hell.
00:43:40.620 And that is
00:43:43.100 in objectively evil stance
00:43:46.460 and unacceptable.
00:43:47.560 and my question
00:43:49.900 for you
00:43:50.540 is
00:43:51.040 how can
00:43:53.400 assist them
00:43:55.720 with such a sense
00:43:56.780 of morality
00:43:57.340 be a good thing?
00:43:59.040 Thank you
00:43:59.660 for taking my question.
00:44:01.920 Excellent,
00:44:02.500 excellent question.
00:44:03.700 You have to rewind
00:44:04.780 to figure out
00:44:06.400 this question
00:44:06.940 because your question
00:44:08.080 is presuming things
00:44:09.180 that you really
00:44:09.680 have to examine.
00:44:10.700 First of all,
00:44:11.240 what do we mean
00:44:11.620 by go to heaven?
00:44:12.520 We mean be saved.
00:44:14.360 What do we mean
00:44:15.680 by be saved?
00:44:16.400 We mean escape
00:44:17.400 the consequences
00:44:18.280 of death.
00:44:20.920 What is death?
00:44:22.140 Death is an observable fact.
00:44:23.720 We die.
00:44:24.200 We're mortal.
00:44:25.400 And we believe,
00:44:26.940 and Jews believe,
00:44:27.980 that that was not
00:44:29.500 always the plan.
00:44:30.940 That we die
00:44:32.500 because we sinned.
00:44:34.920 Because we sinned
00:44:35.760 in the Garden of Eden.
00:44:36.520 We were going to live
00:44:37.100 in paradise forever
00:44:37.800 in the Garden of Eden,
00:44:38.920 but because
00:44:39.840 our first ancestors sinned,
00:44:42.580 sin pervaded the world
00:44:43.520 and therefore death
00:44:44.200 pervaded the world.
00:44:44.980 And that's just a fact
00:44:45.860 and no one denies it.
00:44:47.400 We die.
00:44:48.420 We all sin
00:44:49.180 and we all die.
00:44:51.460 So that's how we begin.
00:44:54.500 But we might be saved.
00:44:56.420 How can we be saved?
00:44:59.080 Can you save yourself?
00:45:01.180 Can you save yourself
00:45:02.700 of your own doing?
00:45:05.540 Or are you not capable
00:45:07.480 of saving yourself?
00:45:08.800 Do you need a savior?
00:45:11.040 Seems to me,
00:45:12.300 pretty clearly,
00:45:12.980 you can't save yourself.
00:45:15.760 You can't really
00:45:17.600 stop yourself from sinning,
00:45:18.900 at least committing
00:45:19.440 venial sins.
00:45:21.080 And if you're not
00:45:21.860 in a state of grace,
00:45:22.580 it seems to me
00:45:23.020 you can't stop yourself
00:45:24.860 from committing mortal sins.
00:45:26.040 And I think this is just,
00:45:27.020 again, I'm not,
00:45:27.760 this isn't like pie in the sky.
00:45:28.780 This is pretty practical.
00:45:29.820 I think you can observe
00:45:30.520 that fact.
00:45:31.640 You can't really save yourself.
00:45:33.640 If you want to get
00:45:34.520 a little more abstract about it,
00:45:36.460 you, by sinning,
00:45:38.840 commit an offense
00:45:40.020 and incur a debt
00:45:41.280 against God,
00:45:44.980 who is perfect,
00:45:45.600 who is all good,
00:45:46.180 who is infinitely good
00:45:47.000 and infinitely perfect.
00:45:48.040 And you can't pay that debt.
00:45:50.580 The debt is too large.
00:45:52.040 You don't have the resources
00:45:53.040 to pay that debt.
00:45:54.480 So you can't save yourself.
00:45:56.020 And practically,
00:45:56.640 we can observe that.
00:45:57.580 So you need a savior.
00:45:59.800 We don't deserve salvation
00:46:02.560 because we sin.
00:46:04.600 In the course of justice,
00:46:06.260 none of us should see salvation.
00:46:09.060 So,
00:46:09.780 how do we get salvation?
00:46:12.500 Well,
00:46:13.060 God sends his only begotten son
00:46:15.520 to die for us.
00:46:16.780 And it's pretty easy
00:46:18.280 to get salvation
00:46:18.960 in the sense that
00:46:20.580 we just take his yoke upon us
00:46:22.940 and his yoke is easy
00:46:23.920 and his burden is light.
00:46:24.980 Now you say,
00:46:25.560 okay, all right,
00:46:26.200 I get all that.
00:46:26.980 Maybe I even agree
00:46:27.920 with all of that.
00:46:29.900 And maybe,
00:46:30.800 maybe you would even admit
00:46:32.540 that all of that
00:46:33.260 is prefigured
00:46:33.880 in the Old Testament.
00:46:35.300 That God gives us the law,
00:46:36.720 but we can't actually
00:46:37.800 accomplish the law
00:46:38.880 because we continue to sin.
00:46:40.440 And so we now understand
00:46:41.500 that the law
00:46:42.480 is not the means
00:46:43.160 to our salvation.
00:46:44.300 The law is the means
00:46:45.720 of showing us our sin
00:46:47.200 and our need for grace.
00:46:48.860 And God gives us that grace,
00:46:50.540 which is great
00:46:51.160 because the grace
00:46:52.360 is more of a sure thing
00:46:53.500 than our saving ourselves.
00:46:56.720 So,
00:46:57.400 now what?
00:46:58.920 Well,
00:46:59.180 first of all,
00:47:00.240 faith looks like something.
00:47:02.780 Faith entails works.
00:47:04.120 Faith without works is dead.
00:47:06.480 As we read in,
00:47:07.860 it's James 2.24, right?
00:47:10.160 Man is justified by works
00:47:11.680 and not by faith alone.
00:47:12.660 It's actually the only time
00:47:13.480 that the phrase faith alone
00:47:14.340 appears in the Bible.
00:47:15.640 Martin Luther added the word alone
00:47:17.000 after the word faith
00:47:18.140 in his version of the Bible,
00:47:19.640 but it wasn't there.
00:47:20.480 He had to add that word in.
00:47:21.160 The only time it actually
00:47:21.780 appears in the Bible
00:47:22.460 is when James writes,
00:47:24.100 man is justified by works
00:47:25.100 by not by faith alone.
00:47:26.140 Now,
00:47:26.380 don't take that to mean
00:47:27.220 that you can earn your salvation.
00:47:28.680 That's not what justified
00:47:29.520 actually means in that context.
00:47:30.840 And that's a broader conversation
00:47:32.080 between Protestants and Catholics.
00:47:33.180 That's quite interesting,
00:47:34.000 but beside the point right now.
00:47:36.960 Faith looks like something.
00:47:38.380 You follow Christ.
00:47:39.240 You do take his yoke upon you.
00:47:41.420 His yoke is easy
00:47:41.960 and his burden is light,
00:47:42.640 but you have to do stuff.
00:47:45.360 And
00:47:45.720 there are works
00:47:47.720 that are fruits of your faith.
00:47:49.200 And there are sacraments
00:47:50.000 that our Lord gives us.
00:47:50.820 He gives his apostles
00:47:51.920 and their successors
00:47:52.920 the ability to forgive
00:47:54.520 and retain sins.
00:47:55.960 He gives us
00:47:56.700 the blessed sacrament
00:47:58.180 of the Eucharist.
00:47:58.780 He says,
00:47:58.960 whoever eats my flesh
00:47:59.800 and drinks my blood
00:48:00.560 has life in him.
00:48:01.640 If you don't eat my flesh
00:48:02.520 and drink my blood,
00:48:03.340 you have no life in you.
00:48:04.680 My flesh is true food.
00:48:05.780 My blood is true drink.
00:48:08.820 And
00:48:09.140 people
00:48:09.660 have a trouble with this.
00:48:11.300 This is a stumbling block
00:48:11.980 for a lot of people.
00:48:12.460 A lot of them go away,
00:48:13.020 but not the apostles.
00:48:14.200 He says,
00:48:14.640 because Peter says,
00:48:15.820 Lord,
00:48:16.040 to whom shall we go?
00:48:16.920 And he institutes this
00:48:17.740 at the Last Supper.
00:48:18.460 So it's all there for you.
00:48:19.800 Now you say,
00:48:20.340 well,
00:48:20.440 hold on.
00:48:20.920 That means that
00:48:21.960 if Hitler
00:48:23.360 had accepted Christ,
00:48:24.700 he would go to heaven.
00:48:25.260 And if Hitler's victims
00:48:27.620 or any evil man's victims
00:48:28.960 don't accept Christ,
00:48:31.180 then
00:48:31.940 they don't go to heaven.
00:48:34.480 And
00:48:34.720 maybe that's true.
00:48:37.120 I guess that's kind of
00:48:37.980 on dubious premises though,
00:48:39.200 because
00:48:39.700 Hitler didn't accept Christ.
00:48:41.780 To our knowledge,
00:48:42.940 he was an enemy
00:48:43.740 of the church.
00:48:44.600 He wanted to kidnap
00:48:45.600 and possibly kill the Pope.
00:48:47.080 He said the Pope
00:48:47.640 was his personal enemy
00:48:48.540 and he wanted to,
00:48:49.940 he endeavored to destroy
00:48:50.880 the church in Germany
00:48:51.660 and he tried to create
00:48:52.360 his own false Christianity
00:48:53.340 called positive Christianity,
00:48:54.360 which took Christ
00:48:56.220 out of it.
00:48:57.780 So it doesn't really
00:48:59.040 work that way.
00:49:01.440 Now,
00:49:01.700 does this mean
00:49:02.700 that you just have to
00:49:04.020 like say some magic words
00:49:05.280 and then you're saved?
00:49:06.480 No,
00:49:06.980 not exactly.
00:49:08.280 It's about,
00:49:09.100 it's about a revolution
00:49:10.560 of the heart.
00:49:11.840 It's about repentance,
00:49:12.900 which is changing
00:49:13.520 one's mind,
00:49:14.180 changing one's direction.
00:49:15.760 It's about
00:49:16.520 love.
00:49:18.560 You know,
00:49:18.680 it's recognizing that
00:49:19.780 what is,
00:49:20.580 what is figured
00:49:21.480 in the Old Testament
00:49:22.500 is all good.
00:49:23.260 It's all true.
00:49:23.680 Not a jot or tittle changes,
00:49:25.280 but it is a figure
00:49:26.180 to point us
00:49:26.900 to something else.
00:49:28.680 It's a figure
00:49:29.400 that shows us our sin
00:49:30.280 to point us
00:49:30.920 to the need for grace.
00:49:32.460 It's a figure
00:49:33.160 that shows us
00:49:34.000 what the Messiah
00:49:35.040 really means.
00:49:36.260 And we,
00:49:36.960 in our terrestrial
00:49:38.100 myopia,
00:49:40.420 we expect
00:49:41.200 a terrestrial savior,
00:49:43.060 a terrestrial kingdom,
00:49:44.380 a terrestrial king,
00:49:45.760 but we get so much more.
00:49:47.500 We get,
00:49:47.720 there's a spiritual kingdom
00:49:48.680 that we can look to.
00:49:50.000 And that,
00:49:50.260 that is Jerusalem.
00:49:51.480 Sorry,
00:49:51.940 that's heaven,
00:49:52.480 which is the,
00:49:52.940 which is the spiritual Jerusalem.
00:49:55.720 So it's,
00:49:56.320 it's all kind of there.
00:49:57.820 What's kind of funny
00:49:58.600 about your question,
00:49:59.080 which is a very,
00:49:59.720 very good question,
00:50:00.440 is implicit
00:50:01.940 in your question,
00:50:03.980 implicit even
00:50:04.640 in the idea
00:50:05.360 of heaven
00:50:05.800 is all
00:50:08.700 of the stuff
00:50:09.380 that comes along
00:50:10.120 with it
00:50:10.500 and ultimately
00:50:11.580 the source and summit,
00:50:12.560 which is Christ.
00:50:13.280 It's all there.
00:50:13.900 It's not something
00:50:14.320 to be angry about
00:50:16.600 or to be ashamed about.
00:50:17.380 It's something
00:50:17.560 to be grateful for.
00:50:18.360 And it comes
00:50:19.920 from the,
00:50:20.440 I think,
00:50:20.860 inescapable premise
00:50:22.180 that,
00:50:22.920 no,
00:50:23.060 we can't save ourselves
00:50:24.140 and we don't have to,
00:50:26.380 which is a great thing.
00:50:27.180 We should thank God
00:50:27.660 for that.
00:50:28.220 Okay.
00:50:28.940 There's so much more
00:50:29.760 I want to get to
00:50:30.180 in the mailbag.
00:50:30.680 That question was so good,
00:50:32.040 though,
00:50:32.760 that I,
00:50:34.220 well,
00:50:34.480 maybe we'll get to more
00:50:35.020 in the member segmentum.
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