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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.

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00:01:53.980 Welcome back to the show.

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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.

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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.

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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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

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, 0.97

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, 1.00

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. 0.96

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. 0.77

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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 0.66

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. 1.00

00:20:26.920 And let's, I really feel bad about this.

00:20:29.040 Let's take the cops away 0.54

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.65

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. 0.94

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, 0.56

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 0.66

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. 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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 0.65

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 0.93

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 1.00

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 1.00

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! 0.99

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 0.96

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 1.00

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. 0.96

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. 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.86

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.

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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. 0.84

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,

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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 0.96

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. 0.81

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. 0.60

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 0.99

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 0.90

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 0.97

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 0.66

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, 0.94

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 0.89

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 0.87

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. 0.80

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 0.98

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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The Michael Knowles Show - November 07, 2025

Ep. 1852 - Sydney Sweeney Is Lib Journos’ Kryptonite

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