Ep. 1256 – How the Left Became Gollum examines how media bias (BBC’s 2021 Trump speech edit, NYT’s Pulitzer-winning Epstein-Trump smear) shields corrupt elites—like Summers’ post-conviction emails to Epstein or Two Way’s AI "idolatry"—from accountability. The host ties inflation, AI-driven porn, and cultural decay to feminism’s disruption of traditional roles, arguing birth control stripped women of their spiritual purpose while media now glorifies shallow narratives. Drawing from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, they suggest God uses even flawed systems (e.g., Gollum’s role) for greater good, urging listeners to prioritize divine purpose over pride or material validation. [Automatically generated summary]
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Many people blame the troubles of the world on the news media.
Many say that journalists have become out-of-touch elites, so committed to the destructive lies of leftism that their minds have become gnarled and pocked with hatred of those everyday Americans whose better values threaten to expose journalists to themselves as golem-like creatures eaten away by their own corruption until they look into the mirrors of their imaginations and see horrific images of their bodies riddled with leprous decay as a physical representation of the spiritual degeneracy.
that clearly foreshadows an eternity of desolation in bleak and endless severance from the God who created them and who now, even in his omniscience, himself turns to alternative forms of media in the hopes of getting some honest news once in a while.
Of course, many people still trust the news media and softly murmur to themselves that Walter Cronkite seems awfully nice before they retreat into a corner of the assisted care facility and stare at the blank wall with roomy eyes, fondly watching a parade of misty memories from a distant past that now seems much better than it actually was.
Recently, unseemly revelations have detracted even more from the news media's reputation, so that trust in the honesty of journalists has now fallen to just 28% of journalists and their journalists, so they're obviously lying and don't trust journalists any more than the rest of us do.
In formerly Great Britain, for instance, the British Broadcasting Corporation has recently become mired in scandal.
The once-respected news organization, often affectionately referred to as Auntie, because it reminds viewers of the sort of gray-haired old lady whose silhouette can sometimes be seen at the second-story window of a Gothic mansion while her delusional, hectoring, high-pitched rants drift down to the desolate motel below until in the last reel we find out the silhouette is really Norman Bates in a dress and a wig and the real auntie is the rotten corpse of a once respected news organization.
What was I talking about?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Recently, the BBC was exposed deceptively, editing a speech by Donald Trump for a 2024 report that was clearly meant to influence American voters against Trump's reelection.
In Trump's original speech, delivered to a group of protesters on January 6th after Trump's 2021 election loss, Trump said, quote, God bless America, land that I love, stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above, unquote.
In the BBC edited version, Trump said, quote, kill them all, storm the Capitol and kill them all, kill, kill, kill, insurrection now, destroy democracy, and kill them all, unquote.
BBC President Cor Blimey issued a statement saying that the minor discrepancy was the result of an innocent mistake in which producers confused the Trump speech with the film Starship Troopers because they think of Americans as just so many gigantic alien bugs.
To be fair, not all news organizations have sunk out of sight into the BBC's tar pit of disgrace, shame, corruption, decadence, degradation, and vice.
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With some outlets, you can still see the tops of their heads for a few final moments before the tar closes over them.
For example, the New York Times, a former newspaper, was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for linking Donald Trump's name to Jeffrey Epstein's name a record number of times without once explaining that no one has ever plausibly accused Trump of doing anything wrong with Epstein.
The Pulitzer Committee says it hopes the Times Prize for irrelevantly linking Trump and Epstein will encourage other former news outlets to distract people from the fact that Trump has closed the border, brought peace to the Middle East, drawn in trillions of dollars in new investments to the U.S., lowered inflation, and bettered our trading deals in ways that promise to cut the deficit.
Not to mention the fact that he barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep while sleazy journalists like George Stephanopoulos and Katie Couric were still attending dinners in Epstein's honor.
In a statement carved into the clay of a goat-headed idol, the Pulitzer Committee said it would continue to give news outlets like the Times awards for what they do best, namely lie.
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He says, Clavin, I have burned through your Cameron Winter series in a matter of weeks, all of them.
My question is, why oh why has Daily Wire not opted to make movies out of the series?
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The new one is after that, The Dark.
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And the reason I took this is not just because it advertises the book, which is great, but it asked me a question I get asked almost every week.
Almost every week, somebody says, why doesn't the Daily Wire make your books into movies or ask you to write a movie and all this stuff.
Now, I want to answer that question because, like I said, I get asked at least once a week and sometimes more.
And I don't want anybody to think that there is any tension between me and the Daily Wire.
There's not.
But Daily Wire is essentially a political outlet and has always been.
And political sensibilities differ from artistic sensibilities.
I am first and foremost an artist.
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And I do something different.
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And I work in a way and with priorities that make me a little difficult sometimes to deal with.
I am so thrilled that you guys are buying my books because I write them for you.
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And so that is the way I care about.
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But I work almost entirely for joy.
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I work on things that make me joyful because I feel that that is what that's God's way of telling me what he wants me to do.
And so I work on things that make me joyful.
And my beloved friend, Jeremy Boring, the God King and founder of the Daily Wire, and my friend Ben Shapiro, who I'm extremely fond of, sometimes this drives them crazy because I just think I know that would be a good thing for me to do.
I know it would be popular, but it wouldn't give me joy.
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If they would, you know, they can make me an offer if they want me to write something or if they want to take one of my books and make it.
And when they do, I will be around.
But meanwhile, I don't write these books to be movies.
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And sometimes they just don't connect with the Daily Wires.
And that is absolutely fine.
I'm thrilled that you're buying the books and I'm thrilled to be reading them.
It is what gives me joy.
So let us get right to today's episode, How the Left Became Gollum.
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I've talked before about this policy in the media dealing with Donald Trump, which is good news is no news.
Trump delivers these humongous victories, these humongous wins.
And no, we're not going to display the Trump happiness montage.
We've done that already.
So, just put it in your head.
You can sing it in your head because I'm getting tired of doing it.
But every time Trump does something amazing, the news vanishes.
I mean, the other day, my wife turned to me and she said, What's happening in Gaza?
I'm not hearing about that.
Yeah, because the peace deal is working.
I mean, he ends the war in Gaza started by the Gazans in their role as Iran-supporting terrorists called Hamas, right?
This is Hamas, who represents Iran, who wants America dead.
They only want to kill the Jews to get the Jews out of the way so they can go after the great Satan, which is us.
And he's devastated Iran's nuclear capabilities.
And now the anti-Semitic demons at the United Nations have approved his peace plan.
He's dealing with Saudi Arabia.
He's got the crown prince who came over this week, and he's making deals with them for weapons and for investments.
The prince says he's going to put a trillion dollars into the American economy.
That would be nice.
And he's hoping Trump is hoping to bring them into the Abraham Accords, which would be spectacular, a spectacular event in human history.
It would actually make history books for years, if not decades, if not centuries to come.
But that's not the news.
That is not the news.
You know, Hamas can murder civilians.
That's not the news.
Iran is executing dissidents, not the news.
The only time that area gets in the news is if some kooky Israeli settler attacks a Gazan, then it's news.
You know, that's the news.
The border's not news.
He solved the border problem, disappears from the story.
The money from tariffs that he's bringing in, not news.
U.S. investments, all these investments in the U.S., not news.
And by the way, I should make an exception when I talk about the major news outlets for my journalist spirit animal, Brett Baer, who covers everything very fairly over at Fox.
He does a really good job.
But really, the news should basically sound like this.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with the military.
We're going to win with health care and for our veterans.
We're gonna win with every single facet.
Zip-ba-dee-doo-dah, zip-ba-dee-ay.
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
Yay!
You say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
We're going to wait more.
So clearly I've lost control of my own show, but instead of that, which is really what's happening as far as policy is concerned, everything is Jeffrey Epstein.
Now, I told you that Trump made a mistake dismissing the Epstein files and he should have just released them.
He should have said, here they are.
They're all out here.
And he's never graceful about admitting mistakes.
It's not one of his skills.
There would be nothing wrong with him calling out and saying, you know what, I've reconsidered.
I was reacting to the press, and that was dumb.
But instead, the Congress, you know, Mike Johnson in the House, you know, basically said, look, we're going to vote to release them.
We're going to put them in a bad position.
So finally, he changed his mind.
And I love, this is another thing the press does.
may notice this, everything is told in terms of whether people kowtowed to Trump, submitted to Trump, or defied him.
So if Trump calls me up, you know, which he doesn't, but if he did and he called me up and he said, you know, Clavin, I'd like you to make a speech about the importance of taking back the culture.
I would be like, yes, sir, Mr. President, I'm on it.
Thank you.
I'm honored that you would ask.
And it would be like Clavin kow-tows to the president.
He just submitted, he bows to the president.
If Trump called me up and said, you know, I'd like you to assassinate one of my enemies.
And I said, hey, you know, really, Mr. President, I can't do that.
It would be defiance against Trump.
Instead of the fact that I'm doing the same thing in both cases, trying to serve the president of the United States or refusing to do something that I can't possibly do.
And this is a case in which Trump made a mistake and Congress corrected it.
And that's what they should do.
Mostly, they should be hoping that the president, the Republican president, the Republicans should be hoping that he gets his way.
They should be helping him get his way.
If they have a vast, terrible objection to it, yes, they have to stand up to him.
But mostly they should be facilitating what he's doing in the hopes that it works and they win the presidency for years and years to come.
That is the way to do it.
So Trump changed course.
Now both the House and the Senate instantaneously voted that the Epstein papers have to be released within 30 days.
And so we should get some interesting things.
I don't think it's going to lead to much in terms of arrests.
But the people who are saying, and a lot of people on the right are saying this, Trump is doing such wonderful things.
This is purely a distraction.
It happened a long time ago.
Who cares?
I think they're wrong.
The Jeffrey Epstein story goes beyond the crimes of Epstein and anyone who participated in it.
And it speaks of something.
It tells a story about something that happened to our elite classes as a result of the corruption of information, the corruption of especially of the news media, but also of the Hollywood and the entertainment media, all of the late night comics having the same exact political opinions, and of course the Academy training up people to believe certain things that don't happen to be true.
Look, just, but think about this.
The fact that Bill Clinton could bang a girl young enough to be his daughter while married in the Oval Office, which is a place we own, not him, and journalists would first try to kill the story, which they did, and then were forced to print it by Drudge because that was one of the first victories of the new media.
They forced them on it.
And then there were feminists writing, I believe in the New York Times it was, that all women should basically perform oral sex on the president because he's protecting abortion, which is really interesting because that tells you how degrading, degraded women have been by both birth control and abortion.
They think it's made them free, but it's turned them into absolute degraded creatures.
The fact that Barack Obama could belong, these are just examples, that he could belong to a church where they preached that America deserved to be hit on 9-11.
They've deserved it.
That was the chickens coming home to roost.
And then he made this cheap, low, race-baiting speech explaining away the fact that he was at this radical, anti-American church that actually reflected his true feelings.
And the New York Times, one of their top columnists, wrote, said, this is a symphony of a speech.
It's a beautiful symphony of the speech.
It explains so much about the black experience.
The fact that Joe Biden could descend into dementia while the press pretended it wasn't happened, this is the ring of Gaiji's.
This is the ring from Lord of the Rings.
It made these people invisible, and it turned them into Gollum.
Turned them into low, twisted, corrupt people because they knew nobody could see them.
That is how the ring works.
They were protected by the ring of the news media.
And they still are, if the New York Times had anything to say about it, if it weren't for the Daily Wire and all the other rebel media out there that has taken the ring away.
They have stolen from them this ring of invisibility.
And here, if you want to see how the Democrats reacted, here is one very prominent Democrat's reaction to losing the protection of the legacy media.
So this is cut two.
Where is it?
No!
The process is lost!
You killed him.
The process is lost!
Yeah they were very emotional about it.
And here's another reaction, which comes from Lawrence Summers.
Now, Lawrence Summers, big Democrat, former Harvard president, Treasury Secretary under Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under Obama.
And now, if you read the New York Times, which I hope you won't, but if you read the New York Times, they're saying, well, he was also associated with Donald Trump.
No, he's a big damn.
They're lying.
And they're just lying.
They're just disguising the fact that this is a Democrat.
And what was he caught as doing?
Well, here's what he said, his golem routine, as he stood up before the students at Harvard University and reiterated something he had said online about how ashamed he was of how he dealt with Jeffrey Epstein's cut three.
Some of you will have seen my statement of LeGrat expressing my shame with respect to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein.
And that I've said that I'm going to step back on public for a time, but I think it's very important that I fulfill my teaching obligations.
And so with your information, we're going to go forward and talk about the material in the class.
So right after this, he was told, no, you're not.
You're out.
Your teaching days are over.
Harvard is now investigating him and all this stuff.
Why?
Now, I saw this underreported.
And even in good venues, I saw this underreported.
This is a story so amazing and tells us so much about the gollum nature of our elite classes.
Remember, this is a top guy.
This is a man of dignity.
This is a Harvard University president.
This is the guy who was doing Scott Bassant's job.
He was the Treasury Secretary.
This is a top-notch guy.
Do you know why?
Do you know why he's ashamed?
Okay, what he's ashamed of because they released these about, I think it was like 20,000 letters, emails or something to Jeffrey Epstein, and some of them were his.
I tried to explain.
My wife is visiting some relatives.
She's away for a week, so I was on the phone with her and I was trying to explain the story and I could not stop laughing.
And I have that horrible habit of laughing at corruption, but also it's just so indicative of what's going on.
After Epstein had been convicted of human trafficking with a young girl, and up to one day before he was arrested again because of the pressure that was brought on law enforcement to do it.
Lawrence Summers, Harvard, once Harvard president, Treasury Secretary, one of the top guys in the economic system of Barack Obama, was writing emails to Jeffrey Epstein asking him for advice.
And this is a married man.
This is a guy who's been married since I think 2005.
Asking Jeffrey Epstein's advice on how to get a woman he is mentoring into bed.
He's writing, I'm going to crack up again.
The woman is much younger than him, but she's not underage.
She's like 30 at the time, and she's an economist.
And he's writing, you know, dear Jeff, you know, you're a child molester.
Give me some advice on how I get a younger woman into bed.
This is what he's doing.
It's like, you know, how do I go hard?
You know, I don't want to get in the friend zone.
You know, I don't want to get, I don't want to, you know, you're not, you know, go horizontal with me.
These are all phrases that he used.
You know, you're a child trafficker.
Could you give me some?
I mean, you can't believe that this is happening.
And who's his enemy?
Who is scolding him for this?
Elizabeth Warren.
Here's Elizabeth Warren Cut 4.
Larry Summers has shown terrible judgment.
I mean, like historically bad judgment in his relationship with Mr. Epstein after it was publicly known about Mr. Epstein's criminal violations with underage girls.
No one should trust Larry Summers' judgment, and Larry Summers should not be trusted in a position of responsibility or in a position of teaching our students.
She pretended to be an Indian.
She pretended to be an Indian to steal victim privileges from actual Indians and get better treatment at universities and in jobs.
It's like, hey, Indian folks, I know the Trail of Tears were tough, but you don't mind if a white girl steals a little bit of that good old victim stuff.
I mean, that's what it's there for, really, is the way white women feel good, so why shouldn't I take advantage of it?
So you've got one guy going, dear Jeffrey, you're a child trafficker.
How do I get a woman in bed if she's much younger and I don't want her in the friends, you know, and you molest people, so please, you know, give me some advice.
And, you know, Pocahontas is like, you know, white man, speak with forked tongue.
The great spirit is angry.
This is what's happening at the top levels, at the top levels of our elite system.
This is the clericy.
These are the people who set our opinions.
These are people who educate our children.
These are the people who make our laws.
It's like, dear Jeff, you know, because you go, you know, it's like my tribe is coming down.
These people are utterly corrupt.
They're totally gollum.
These are the people, this golem all the way down.
I mean, all of them are like this.
And it's like, well, I shouldn't say that.
Of course, there are some honest people, but this is what's been covering it up.
And we want to see this stuff.
And the people have a right to see it.
This is a story of what happened because of the media, because the media was on one side, because they were making excuses, because they gave them invisibility, because they turned them into gollum.
And you know what?
Look, nobody's perfect.
Nobody's righteous.
I get that.
I'm not trying to be unforgiving, but Lawrence Summers did not apologize to this, was not ashamed of this, did not draw back from any of his public perks and his responsibilities until it became known, until it was there to be read in the public eye, until it was released.
He'd have gone on doing just exactly what he was doing before.
I mean, if they brought Epstein back to life, oh, I'm glad you came back to life because you're a child trafficker.
How do I get the girl into bed?
You know, he'd have been doing the same thing.
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Elizabeth Warren has never, she has never fessed up.
She has never said, you know, it's like, oh, it was, well, that's what they taught me in my family.
It was a, you know, it was what the American, it was our legend of our family.
She's never just said, yeah, I wanted to steal things.
I did the wrong thing and bad on me.
You know, they've never done it.
And then it even has an effect on us because Trump, you know, sometimes is rude and, you know, like he called a reporter a piggy the other day.
And I don't like to pick on Trump because I think he's doing such a great job.
But no, this is one thing that really bothers me about him.
And we go like, that's what we want.
We want him to call the press piggies.
You know, and why?
Because the press, the New York Times, has been defending and hiding the cruelty, the corruption, the evil of our elites.
I mean, these are the people who handled, remember, the elites are the people who handled the pandemic, who shut our churches, who lied to us about where the leak came from, who are still lying about that.
These are the people who caused riots, who called for riots over the death of some drug-using punk who put a police officer in prison for life when he doesn't belong there in prison at all.
These are the same people who engineered that disaster and blamed us for it and silenced us when we called them out.
And now we get to see them and that's not a story.
The hell it isn't.
It is a story.
And, you know, so we, when they call out Trump for being rude, for actually being rude, our idea is, no, up yours, you know, up yours.
You cover up for these guys' crimes.
What do we care if Trump has a little peccadillo here and there?
But remember this, even Frodo is corrupted by the ring, right?
I mean, if we react that way, if we just say we're going to lower ourselves to those standards, we become Frodo.
We become corrupted by the ring as well.
It's just appalling.
It's appalling that this stuff is going on.
It's appalling that it wasn't prosecuted to the full extent of the law in the first place.
It's all appalling.
And I want to know every inch of it.
It is not an unimportant story.
It doesn't matter whether people get, I mean, I'd love to see these people get arrested.
I'd love to see them flogged.
But that's not the point.
The point is, this is the story of our times, that elites went bad because the press went bad and didn't let us see what was going on.
They were the ring of gaijes.
They turned them invisible and they became gollum.
And that leads me to the next story, which is about AI.
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Chapter 2, I-I-I-I.
And by I, I mean A-I.
We were talking about this on Friendly Fire.
A really good discussion we had on Friendly Fire.
The show is getting better.
We kind of got off to a slow start, but I think now the show is getting much better and we're fixing some of it.
It's really fun.
But the problem is, if you listen to that, you get everybody's opinion.
So I thought, here, you can just come here and get to the right opinion right away, cut away the fat.
Donald Trump is very big on AI.
And he's trying to stop states from regulating it because he wants the big stock market boom to continue.
And Nvidia's huge profits just gave that another boost.
But people are really worried.
And Matt Walsh was talking about this on Friendly Fire, that they're worried it's going to destroy jobs.
They're worried it's going to destroy like all the jobs, like everybody's job.
He's going to drive cars.
It's going to serve meals.
It's going to be the doctors.
And we're just going to be sitting there with nothing to do.
And this is why Peter Thiel said he believes people voted for Mamdani because they see this gigantic train coming down the tracks that's going to wipe away their jobs.
Now, Ben and I at Friendly Fire were taking the other side, and we were pointing out that every technology brings huge changes and does destroy jobs, but then creates even more jobs than existed before.
And we don't see why that shouldn't happen.
But that's not to be complacent about it, because if you take, just for instance, the Industrial Revolution, those changes destroyed families, destroyed industries, generations, you know, the Luddites, Luddite is people who smashed machines.
The reason they were smashing machines is because they were taking away their home industries, taking away their children into the cities, where instead of having them grow up on the farms, and it stole women's home industries and their financial power, which led to feminism, which has been an utter disaster for both women and men.
So it's not like you can be complacent about those things, but we don't know what those things are going to be.
We don't know what those problems are going to be yet.
And so we have to, you know, people always talk about regulating industry.
I think I've said this before.
You don't regulate industry.
You regulate humanity.
When you're regulating an industry against pollution, it's not the industry you're regulating.
It's people who are too greedy to spend the money it takes to clean up what they're throwing away.
That's what it is.
When they brought children into factories, you're not regulating the factories.
You're regulating the people who are hiring the who are hiring children instead of letting them grow up and having workers that they treat well and all that sort of thing.
So those are the regulations.
And so when we're conservatives say, well, you can't have regulations, you always need regulations.
If men were angels, you wouldn't need regulations.
You wouldn't need governments.
But men are not angels and they do bad things and you have to have regulations to stop them.
So, you know, it's a stupid conversation, regulations or no regulations.
You want light regulations that keep people safe and honest, but you don't want to regulate things because some jackass bureaucrat is sitting around with a pen and doesn't know what to do with it, so he writes a regulation, which is how these things actually work.
All right.
So these are human problems.
And these human problems, and AI is going to present tremendous human problems.
One thing we talked about at length is porn.
I mean, porn is already, you know, I'm a free speech absolutist.
If we were living in a world where you had to go to a store and buy Playboy and it had a photograph of a naked woman and you did, you know, you took it home and abused your body watching this naked woman, my thing would be that's your business.
But when you have this toxic crap pouring out of these machines and reaching into your home when you don't even know it and destroying the minds of boys, you know, actually rewiring the minds of boys so that they can't make love to an actual woman because they're expecting her to act like this flickering image on a screen.
It is absolutely destructive and it's going to have to be regulated eventually.
And yet it's bringing in so much money that it's going to be tough to get people to regulate it.
So now you've got AI and it's going to be able to create your favorite actress doing to you whatever strange, weird fantasy you have.
That is going to be immensely destructive.
The other thing, and this is not unconnected, there's a company out called Two Way, it's 2WAI, and they have invented an app where you record your mom, say, and then when your mom dies, it will recreate her as a little bot.
And so you can talk to the bot.
And they have this insanely creepy ad for it where they show this dead woman talking to her daughter who is now pregnant.
Here's just a little clip of this.
It's clip 10.
He's getting bigger.
See?
Oh, honey, that's wonderful.
Kicking like crazy.
He's listening.
Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him.
You used to love that.
He feels like he's dancing in there.
Oh, honey.
Mom, would you tell Charlie that bedtime story you always used to tell me?
Once upon a time, there was a baby unicorn who didn't know he knew how to fly.
If that doesn't creep you out, you're already lost.
I love the fact that this is named the guy who runs this thing is called Calem Worthy, which is what I would name him if I were writing this as a horror story, which I might.
That's exactly the name I would give him.
It's such a weird, you know, kind of sinister name.
I like also like the fact that he's a Canadian, he's an actor, and he worked on the Disney Channel.
So that's three strikes right there.
So this is it.
But this is idolatry.
And in the Bible, it tells you this is the projection of consciousness onto a man-made object, right?
That's idolatry.
And the Bible says the people who do that, who commit idolatry, become like the objects they make because they see human beings as outward appearances with no incarnate souls, with no inner lives.
And that's why these guys, these guys, that's why these guys think that AI is conscious because they can't tell the difference between something pretending to be conscious and a person who is conscious.
And they say, well, how do you know if it can fool you, if it passes the Turing test?
I know.
I know because it's a machine.
We're not machines.
We are organic unities.
You can't take away, you can take away parts of our body, but you can't disassemble us and put us back together again.
We can be handicapped by not having eyes, by being blind or something like that.
But basically, then we are handicapped because we don't have the full power and equipment of human beings.
That's what a handicap is.
But because AI doesn't have the heart and the loins and the senses and the fingertips that people have, as I've said many times, it is essentially just a mechanical sociopath.
And to prove that, here's a report from NPR, NPR's A. Mart Tinez.
Children's toys that talk using AI chatbots are expected to be in high demand this holiday season.
A new report by a consumer advocacy group is raising concerns after they found that some toys were doing terrible things.
Here is a consumer watchdog public interest research group, Teresa Murray, talking on NPR.
Cut six.
The toys will talk about a lot of topics that some parents might find concerning.
It could be how to find dangerous objects in the home, such as matches and knives and how to like those matches.
It could be about religion and whether God is real and what happened to grandma who died.
And it could be very sexually explicit topics that some parents may not be comfortable with their kids hearing about.
So you're bringing a doll into your home, it's like that movie, Megan, as the guy on NPR said.
You bring a doll into your home and it starts to tell your kids there's no God.
It starts to tell your kids about sex.
It starts to tell your kids about where to find the weapons in the house and all this stuff.
I mean, it's very, very horrific and sinister.
So the problem with AI, the problem with everything always, is people, right?
It's the people who do not understand what people are.
And that has to do, obviously, with our separation from our spiritual lives, with our separation from our religion.
And no, Mr. Knowles, no, that's not going to be solved by government imposing Catholicism on people.
But behold, Christ stands at the door and knocks.
We should not be afraid to encourage people to let him in, which means we're going to have to keep these ardent atheists, these people who believe this stuff, who believe that a child's body can be mutilated and his sex can be changed, thereby, which is taking away from the fact that a woman is a complete thing, a complete person, a complete entity.
A man is a complete thing, a complete entity.
You can't just butcher him up and turn him into a woman.
All of those things, we have to keep them out of our government, which is one of the things we have to look forward to in the new year.
We have to start thinking about the midterms coming up.
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Chapter three, Maga Fracture.
So polls are out showing the Trump administration is in trouble with voters and not just in trouble with voters, but in trouble with the people who should be MAGA voters.
And I think the reason for that is pretty simple.
They have not openly addressed the Biden inflation, which just sent prices soaring.
And now people are blaming Trump for it.
And it says 76% of voters view the economy negatively.
That's worse than the 67% who felt that way in July and the 70% who said the same at the end of former President Biden's term.
And large numbers overall, and among Republicans, say their costs for groceries, utilities, healthcare, and housing have gone up this year.
So here's the thing about this is that when prices go up, they go up for one reason.
They go up because of government spending.
They go up because the government prints money.
And when you print, if you have one of something, it's one valuable.
If you have two of something, it's half that much valuable.
And when you print money for no reason, just because you need some money, but there's no added value being created, it sends prices up.
That is why prices go up.
The Biden administration did that.
These are the expenditures that they're trying to save by closing the government because they're trying to prop up the disaster that is Obamacare.
They're not going to be able to do it forever.
And pretty soon they're going to be selling you on medical-assisted suicide to keep your prices down because Obamacare is a complete and utter disaster.
It's a complete and utter disaster.
That's why the numbers went up.
And now Trump is being blamed for it.
That's unfair, but it's also politics.
And this is really important.
It's really important that Zoram Mamdani came out and said affordability.
And you think like, yeah, but he's a communist.
He's going to destroy everything.
You're right.
He is.
He's one of the scummiest people I've ever seen run for office.
And that's saying quite a lot.
But people need to know that the government hears what they're doing.
I mean, the worst thing a government can do, and I said this during the Biden administration, I'll say it now, is show people a chart showing them that their concerns and their worries, especially economic worries, are ridiculous.
I mean, that's what they did during the Biden administration.
Here's a chart showing that you really are doing great.
And people were saying, I can't afford to buy my kids Christmas presents.
I can't afford to buy my kids, you know, the food that they need.
Yeah, but the chart, you're not looking at the chart.
Everything's great on the chart.
You can't do that.
You will lose the election, and that will be a disaster because you know as soon as the Democrats get back in power in Congress, the impeachments will start and the investigations and all the things that they are going to do that they did before.
It'll just be like the first administration, which would be a true disaster and a true loss.
Now, I know that Trump is doing something visionary, and I've been making this argument from the beginning that he is trying to re-jigger, rearrange the American economy so we can deal with China.
So our supply lines don't run through our major opponent, our major enemy.
That is what has to be done.
So we have money to spend on the military so we can challenge them if they go into Taiwan.
So we have allies who are spending enough on their defenses that we don't have to rush over to Europe or into the Middle East to save people, to stop the Chinese from taking places over.
All this America-first stuff is real, a lot of fun until you look around and all of the world belongs to somebody else.
Then it's not so much fun.
I am not a neoconservative.
I think we should stay out of wars as much as we possibly can and certainly keep our own soldiers out of war.
But that's a good reason to strengthen Israel, which will fight for things that we believe in, but will also fight against enemies that we don't want in there.
It's a good reason to strengthen Europe and NATO and say, you guys have got to step up and pay more.
All of these things Trump is doing, it is amazing.
It is really important.
But he is not saying to people, has not been saying to people, that he's going to bring prices down.
Here he is saying it now because he's gotten the message cut seven.
The problem with the Democrats, they lie.
They do it so well.
They talk about affordability.
But I'm the one that's getting the prices down.
As an example, they had the highest inflation in the history of our country.
I have it down now to a normal level, and it's going down further.
So here's the thing.
You know, you can bring inflation down, but you bring prices down by putting people out of work so there's no demand for the things that they buy, and that brings the prices down.
You don't want to do that because they just had a good employment number for September just came out because it was delayed by the government shutdown.
So you want the economy to keep ticking along.
So that means prices are not going to come down.
You know, I mean, you can raise interest rates.
That makes money tight, also brings prices down.
But then people can't buy homes, and that's another thing that people are complaining about.
But the other thing you can do is you can do what Trump has done, which is bring inflation down, and then you can bring wages up.
And those are things that you can only do through, that you have to do through free market means by giving people investments in the companies they work in.
So you come to work for me, I give you some of my stock.
I say, you know, that's what they, smart companies are doing more and more, is you come to work with me, and as part of your pay package, you'll get a little bit of stock.
That means that you care about the company.
Now you're invested in capitalism and now you want to do things.
Trump is arranging to have savings accounts that are kind of overseen by the government so that they can help you out with health care and things like that.
That's a good idea too.
And personally, I would like to see more women leaving the workforce and taking care of kids and creating homes and children and people.
That would be a great thing.
I have no way.
I have no idea how you get people to do that except for showing some respect, like I would say, reverence for that role in human affairs, which has been taken away by these horrible, screechy feminists.
So those are things that can be done.
He's got to start turning to that.
And of course, With the weakness of unpopularity, that's when some of the rifts, the rifts come out in the MAGA movement.
MAGA starts to fight.
Now, some of this is just the left-wing press playing up every fight between Republicans while playing down the fact that the Democrat Party is in a civil war, essentially, between socialists and honest people on the left.
And they side, they don't care about that in the press because they side with the socialists because they're corrupt elites who want more power and socialism gives elites more power under a fake moral gloss.
So that's why they like that.
So the battle over Epstein, you know, again, Trump goofed, and the Congress corrected that and people put pressure on him and he had to admit it.
He didn't like it, but he did it.
So that's just one of those things that happened.
Everybody makes mistakes.
That was a rare one for Trump.
He's usually politically more astute.
But that time he made a mistake.
And with this, he has to course correct and start talking to people and doing things that they can see that make it easier for them to afford things.
It doesn't matter whether prices go down or wages go up.
You know, if prices have low inflation, but wages go up higher, that'll help.
You know, then you can afford the things that you need, and then inflation doesn't feel like inflation anymore.
And the one thing that, of course, is a big deal, and so far this is still pretty inside baseball.
I know that a lot of especially Jewish commentators are concerned about it and very loud about it.
And they should be.
They should be concerned about it.
But it's still kind of under the radar in terms of a national question is this question of this America first stuff, which has morphed into stupid, not just evil anti-Semitism, evil Jew hatred, but into stupidity.
I mean, again, I am America first.
I'm America only.
I care about America.
That's what I care about.
And if you said to me, you have to let other countries go down the drain and save America, I would say, hey, you know, not what I want to do, but I would let it happen.
But that's not the way the world works.
The world is a community.
It's very, very tiny.
It's smaller and smaller every day.
We have to have friends.
We have to have alliances.
We have to show up for those friends.
We have to show up for those alliances.
Trump has made the point, very important point, that we've let them take advantage of us.
We don't have to do that anymore.
We should stop doing that.
They should pay for their own defenses.
They should pay more for their own defense.
But they also have to be responsible to us on our side as well.
And so those are the things we want to see.
We want to return to the founding principles.
That is the whole thing.
And this is in some ways so easy.
So easy.
If people stop worrying about their losing audience share, if people stop worrying about the way they look and who's going to attack them and what so-and-so is going to say about me on Twitter, if they stop worrying about whether Kansas Owens is going to dream up some nutty conspiracy theory and include you in it, or Tucker Carlson is going to attack you or say his worst insult, I never heard of him.
That's Tucker's worst insult, as if his ignorance is our problem.
You know what hate is.
You know the sound of hate.
You're not fooled.
Nobody is fooled.
Nobody is fooled out there.
They know Jew hate when they see it.
They know all kinds of hatred when they see it.
They know when facts are being distorted.
They all know it.
Do the right thing.
This country became this country because of one man more than any other, which is George Washington, because his inner virtue made an outward show.
That was, you know, you go back through his notes when he was a kid and he was saying, this is the way I'm going to behave because this is the virtuous way I'm going to behave.
You know, that's hard to do.
It takes discipline, but you have to do it.
It takes sacrifice.
George Washington stepped out in front of bullets.
But that's what made America America for all this time, a long time.
And that is what will make America great again, is if we do the right thing and stick to the virtuous path, which is what I'll close on.
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Final chapter, The End of The Rings.
So we've taken a look at the incredible corruption of our elites, which is exemplified in the Epstein story.
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The fact that, you know, they can't get these things released all these years later.
The fact that we have to beg them to just tell us the damn truth about what was going on and what people were doing on this island and which people were doing what.
You know, we have this incredible example of corruption because of the invisibility, because we weren't allowed to see what was happening.
That's when the corruption soars.
When you don't have sunlight, sunlight is the great disinfectant.
And so now we want a more open society.
We want open information as much as we can possibly get it.
And the more transparent our government is and the more honest the press is, which is going to be a long, long road, the better our country will be.
And we, as conservatives, namely the good guys, have to make sure that happens and we have to make sure it happens virtuously.
We have to be more virtuous than the bad guys, which is tough and it's painful.
You know, it's important to remember something about the Lord of the Rings if you don't remember it.
Frodo, who's the hero of the story, whose assignment is to destroy the ring of invisibility, he doesn't.
That's not what happens.
He himself is taken over by the ring, the temptation of the ring, and after working his way to the top of Mount Doom, where he's supposed to throw it in so it'll be dissolved, he can't bring himself to do it and he chooses not to do it.
And Gollum, who is utterly corrupt at that point, bites his finger off with the ring to save it and Dancing in Joy falls into Mount Doom, which is J.R.R. Tolkien telling you that God will use even the worst things, the bad things, the corrupt things, for the good.
So it's God writing the story in spite of human corruption.
And the one thing that, you know, Gollum is still alive because first Bilbo Baggins and then Frodo refused to kill him and Sam Ganji, they refused to kill him.
They show him mercy.
And so that mercy works into God's plan, keeps him alive so that he can fall accidentally into the volcano and destroy the ring.
And if I were a Freudian, which I'm not, I would point out that there is something kind of sexual about putting your finger through a ring and having the world be saved by somebody biting that finger off.
Maybe it's not a castration, but it's certainly a circumcision.
He's taken away one of your fingers that has gone through the ring.
But Freud thought that our spiritual issues were actual symbols for sex.
They were just actual metaphors for our sexual drive because he was a materialist.
He was an atheist.
But I think it's the other way around.
And spoiler alert, I'm right, and Freud was wrong.
This sex is a symbol of our spiritual life.
And it's an important symbol because sex in a way is where our physical life and our spiritual life most obviously are conjoined.
And so it does come back to sex.
And I know I talk about sex a lot, but this is why.
You know, when I look at AI, I think, oh my God, the porn is going to be irresistible to anybody who hasn't got God backing him up.
And even to some people who have got God backing them up, it's going to be irresistible.
It's going to be brilliant porn, and it's going to strip you of your, it's going to alienate you from your sexual life and from the life of love and family and devotion that will make you a man out of you and that will make families and will make women women again and all of these things.
Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein had a wonderful evil line in one of his emails.
He said, a woman is just a life support system for a vagina, which is, again, this thing that we're talking about of stripping people of their inner lives.
What makes me funny about this is I wrote a screenplay once in which there was a gangster who was such a low, disgusting, ugly gangster.
He was named Toad.
And Toad at one point said almost exactly that.
He said, a vagina is a wonderful idea.
Too bad they come with women attached.
So he said exactly what Jeffrey Epstein said because he was my villain and I was giving him the worst possible thing I could get him to say.
Here is a weird cultural thing that spoke to me over the weekend.
Because of circumstances, last weekend, my wife and I got tickets to two shows in one weekend, which is more than we would usually do.
But they were classic shows, Ibsen's Wild Duck, and the Kennedy Center put on a wonderful production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, which is a hilarious opera with Mozart music.
So I don't know anything better than that.
And at the same time, I just happened to be reading a nice little ghost novel called The Folly by Gemma Amore, which was quite well done.
And all of them dealt with one subject, which is the fidelity of women and the legitimacy of children.
The women acting in a virtuous way and men protecting that virtue or not, and the children who come out of relationships and what it means and the effects that it has on people.
Bad effects when those children are what we used to call illegitimate, meaning fathered by someone not the woman's husband.
And until the invention of birth control, that was the story of women.
You look back at the earliest novels, you look back at early movies, it was whether or not a woman would protect this magical thing she had inside of her, which is the womb, the place where life is created, the place where the flesh and the spirit come together.
Because woman is not a life support system for a vagina.
She is a complete human being who is also the portal into life, which makes women's lives constrained and complex at the same time, because you're an individual if you're a woman, but you are going to be your purpose in life as a creature is to bring life into the world.
That is your purpose in life.
And so it's different for each person because she's an individual, but it's also the same for every woman because it is the same thing.
Masculinity has a lot of different expressions.
It's a lot less written down.
It's a lot less connected to the flesh.
You know, Elon Musk was beaten up as a child, so you might think, well, he's a wuss.
He's not a man.
But now because he is a man, he is driven possibly by those experiences.
He's a driven man to get us to Mars and to create new cars and create new AI and all this stuff.
And so that's a very manly thing.
But women lose more of their individual selves in surrendering to their femininity, which is most highly expressed in motherhood, than men do in surrendering to their self, which is basically in work and protection and fatherhood and all those things, are less constraining and it's not fair.
And the promise of birth control was that it would even the score, but it has done the opposite.
It has stripped women of their story.
A woman's story inherently, and I'm going to get beat up late for this, but I don't care because it's true, inherently is how is this individual woman going to get to the place where she can bring life into the world in the best possible way, which is in our society, I think in every society, in a married relationship with one person that will, with one man that will create a family.
And that is a woman's story.
And the fact that birth control allowed women to think that that was not their story has not made them free to live any story.
It has simply left them without a story.
There are no movies about women that are profound, that say anything profound about women.
They're all trashy, little romantic comedies or kind of complaining stories that don't really say anything and that make women victims.
The story of women, the great stories of women, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and Jane Austen novels, these are all stories of how a woman is going to, in her individual life, do that magical thing that women do.
You know, I was at a panel discussion and a Catholic man, a very smart Catholic man, and it seemed like a really nice guy, said that contraception was inherently evil.
So after the panel was over, I went up to him and I said, well, if contraception is evil, why is the rhythm method okay?
Because it just seems to be like, you know, with Jews have the Shabbos goi, a non-Jew who does things for them on the Sabbath because they're not supposed to do anything.
I always think like, hey, if it's not supposed to be done, don't do it.
And if it's supposed to be done, do it.
You know, don't hire some guy to do it for you because he's not a Jew because it's wrong, you know.
So I thought this is the same kind of thing.
If it's wrong to have practice birth control, why is it right to practice the rhythm method, for instance?
And this fellow said, well, at least that doesn't separate it from the act, from the human act that creates life.
And so you're still responsible to that.
And I thought, well, that's actually a pretty decent answer.
I mean, I think, look, there's a lot of wisdom in the old ideas of chastity.
There's a lot of different wisdom in the old ideas of where a woman's virtue lies.
I don't know if we can bring that back, but I think if we do, it's going to be because women declare it and men basically follow it.
I mean, men are always going to be seducers.
They're always going to be dogs, but good men can show themselves to be good men by not doing that and by joining into the making of families, which is what women do.
The inner life is everything.
See, this is the thing.
The AI guys, they think the inner life is nothing.
The corrupt elites, they think our inner lives are nothing.
All of these people who don't care about the spiritual world, they think that the inner life is nothing, but it's everything.
It's everything that makes you perfect.
It is everything that will make you immortal.
When you love somebody, love is the same for everybody, but it's different for each person.
It's an amazing thing, and that love reshapes your soul into the image of God, who is love.
And that when you become that image of God, you become an immortal.
It doesn't matter whether you're a clerk somewhere, you know, making a few bucks a year and just getting by.
And it doesn't matter whether you're a famous person.
We know plenty of famous people who end up dead in a bathtub with drugs in their veins, you know, because they're so unhappy.
It doesn't matter.
That inner life that you live is everything.
And it's what we've forgotten and it's what we have to learn again.
And listen, we're going to have to do it in spite of elites.
We're going to have to do it in spite of AI.
We're going to have to do it in spite of all the things plucking at us, trying to make us throw away the one thing we have that is eternally valuable.
And only through virtue and only through taking care of ourselves and each other can we get to that place and make America truly great again.
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Send me your questions, send me your criticisms, send me your disagreements, or send me things that are true, whichever you choose.
I will answer as many as I can.
Now, this time I want to cheat just a little bit because there was a comment on, I believe it was YouTube, from Ethafled Lady of Mercia, 9572.
I don't know how many of those there can be, but I guess there's 9,572 of them, talking about Frankenstein, which I talked about Del Toro's Frankenstein, which is on Netflix, and was talking about the way that he always makes the monster not just the good guy, but the love interest, which he does in this movie, and it ruins the story, even though the story is visually beautiful.
And she says, apparently, I am the only human who watched Del Toro's Frankenstein and interpreted Elizabeth's relationship with the monster as maternal rather than romantic.
As a current mother of a toddler, I identified the monster right away as a giant infant, and that really played on my emotions for the rest of the film.
I thought the contrast between Frankenstein's harsh treatment and impatience contrasted with Elizabeth's instinctual tenderness, enhanced the idea of the necessity of the role of women in a family.
Is that just me projecting, or did anyone else see it that way?
Well, my daughter, Faith Moore, who has a podcast called Storytime for Grown-Ups, in which she just finished reading Frankenstein.
I'm sure it's still there.
You can go get it.
And she gives notes along the way.
She also said the same thing and pointed out to me that the mother and Elizabeth are both played by the same actress in the movie.
And this is, to me, the problem, because he's not just saying that her relationship to the monster is maternal.
She's also saying that it's romantic.
And I believe that Sigmund Freud would be right in this case that this is Del Toro's problem.
That sometimes, you know, he was raised a Catholic.
I don't think he is a Catholic anymore.
But sometimes the sexual message of Catholicism, which can be very good and very moral, can become oppressive if it's taught in the wrong way.
And people begin to feel that their natural desires make them monsters.
And I think Del Toro's problem is he wants to be loved as a monster.
He wants mommy to love him, even though he's a monster, and he wants that monster self, which is sexual, to come out to mommy.
And I think that that's why he has the love interest and the mother played by the same person and fall in love with the monster.
And I think it ruins the story because the original story is written by a woman who is saying exactly what you are saying.
The commenter is saying that she's pointing out the urgency, the necessity of women.
The monster has no mother and needs a mother, and the monster wants desperately a wife.
And in Del Toro's Frankenstein, he says, I want a companion.
But no, he wants a wife.
He wants a woman.
And so a book written by a woman, you know, to emphasize the urgent importance of women and their godliness and their connectedness to the spirit, that's what she was writing about, is changed by a man into a weird sexual fantasy and it ruins the picture.
But no, you're not deceived in that.
From Felix, hello, Mr. Clayman.
I don't have time for this, but could you please give your opinion on the sin of pride?
What is the sin referring to?
I just finished reading C.S. Lucas' Mere Christianity.
It's caused me some serious concern about how broad the sin of pride actually is.
Thank you for the time, Felix.
Listen, I'm going to tell, I may go a little bit long on this, but I have to tell this story that happened to me recently.
I'm promoting my books.
I promote my books because I think I should, because I think you'll love them.
I think the books are there.
I write them for you.
And I go out and I'm selling after that the dark, which I hope you'll all go out and buy.
But I started to notice, this was the second book I had promoted in a single year, and I started to notice that I was losing my mirth, as Hamlet would say.
I was not happy.
I was not my usual hilarious self.
And so I took a walk and I conversed with God.
And I said, what is going wrong?
Why am I miserable?
Nothing bad is happening in my life.
Why am I unhappy?
And I had a revelation as I was talking to God, as sometimes happens.
He answers these questions.
And I suddenly realized that the problem was that I was promoting the book for myself instead of because it was something God had given me and I wanted to pass on as his gift to you.
And, you know, I take pride that he gives me these inspirations and that I work hard, I show up and all that stuff.
But I'm not promoting my books because I need that love.
I'm promoting it because I think that that's the right thing to do.
And I had lost my way.
I was promoting it for myself instead of to the glory of God.
And the minute I saw that, I thought, ah, that's the sin of pride.
And I've sinned and that's why I'm miserable.
I want the wrong thing.
I'm worried about the outcome.
And the outcome is always with God.
I try never to worry.
I want you to buy the book.
I hope the book goes through the roof.
But I try never to worry about it because the outcome is up to God.
He's going to do what he wants to do.
And that's going to be all right with me.
But I had lost that sense of myself because I got tired and I got overinvolved in it.
And suddenly I was illuminated and I saw that I had committed the sin of pride.
And at that moment, a hand, at a very moment, the very moment the revelation came to me, a hand touched me on the shoulder.
And I turned around and it was a fan.
He had recognized me and he started chatting with me very briefly.
And I won't go into details because it's personal, both his side and mine.
But he told me some problem he was having and I gave him a sentence of advice.
I told him the way I didn't tell him what to do.
I told him what I do in my life.
And he walked away and I realized that that advice I'd given, of course, of course, had been the exact advice I needed to hear.
And obviously, this was a God moment.
And I felt in that moment the tremendous love of God.
And this is important because I think when we talk about sin, which means missing the target, we sometimes feel this guilt that mires us in our sin, that helps us not get out of our sin instead of feeling that God loves us.
And he's just waiting for us to get it, to get it.
You know, ask him, what the hell is going wrong?
Why am I feeling guilty?
Why am I doing wrong?
Oh, I did that wrong.
I got to stop that.
All of that stuff.
Satan is called the accuser because he wants you mired in that accusation.
But what I realized in that moment, it was like, oh yeah, I made a mistake.
I asked God why I wasn't happy.
He told me and I was set free.
He sent the words out of my mouth that I needed to hear in this conversation with another person whose even his name was meaningful in this conversation.
I can't tell you what it was, but his name was incredibly meaningful to the conversation.
So the sin of pride is when you stop doing things for God and start doing them for yourself.
And we make it every day, all of us make it every day.
When you start to think that it's important whether people know your name instead of whether people enjoy the things that you do or are helped by the things you do, when you start to think it's important that you're, you know, getting thanked by your boss instead of that you're doing a great job and your boss should thank you whether he does or not.
The outcomes are with God.
The work of instantiating who God meant you to be is with you.
That's what you do.
You get the victory.
God gets the glory.
And that's how that works.
And the sin of pride takes you away from that.
But don't beat yourself up about it.
Just ask God where you're going wrong and try and readjust because my mirth all came back to me in that moment.
All right.
It did go a little long, but I will stop there and we will get to member block, which means those of you who are not members are now facing a claven-less Thanksgiving, which is a thankless Thanksgiving.
All the food, all the family, all the people you love, will it mean anything without me?
Oh, yeah, it probably will.
But anyway, it'll be a clavenless time.
So you want to hold on for member block, become a member today.