Ep. 1265 mocks Grammy Awards’ performative politics—Billie Eilish’s $3M mansion on "stolen land," Bad Bunny’s drag queen persona, and Roger Goodell’s fictionalized halftime show critiques—before pivoting to America’s elite-driven "information crisis," where Epstein files reveal systemic corruption. Comparing modern disaffection to Weimar Germany, the episode ties cultural decline to sexual and spiritual decay, urging men to reclaim purpose through resilience (like Song Sung Blue’s Mike Sardina) rather than chasing external validation or toxic far-right solutions. A 16-year-old’s despair highlights broader struggles, but the call remains: self-improvement is possible if one persists in their true path. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, last week we talked about the Oscars, and this week it's the Grammys.
And I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, please, God, kill me now before I have to hear about the Grammys.
Otherwise, I'll be forced to drown this out by sticking my fingers in my ears and whistling Dixie, which may give people the impression that I support the Confederacy.
When in fact, I think holding your fellow human beings in bondage, branding and flogging them before selling their families, is a horrible thing.
And if I were forced to choose between life as a slave and watching the Grammys, I would pretend to think about it, then suddenly break my chains and escape through the alligator-infested swamps of Mississippi, never to return to slavery until the award show was over.
Okay, maybe that's not exactly what you're thinking.
I mean, only a degenerate would think something like that.
Even just saying it out loud is morally disgusting, though obviously not as bad as the Grammys.
But this year, the Grammy Award Show was not just the usual self-celebration of a collection of semi-talented drug addicts who set disgustingly explicit words to simplistic and atonal music.
This year, we got to hear what these addicts think about politics.
How great is that?
For instance, Billie Eilish, who won best performance by a dumpy person with a weirdly skewed face who sings as if even she doesn't want to hear her crappy music, denounced ICE agents' arrest of illegal migrants by saying, quote, no one is illegal on stolen land, unquote.
In response, the Native American Fagawi tribe requested Eilish return her $3 million Los Angeles mansion since it stands on land that belongs to them.
The tribe promised to repay Eilish by burning her heart as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit after they had devoured her body in a traditional indigenous ceremony.
Eilish politely refused as she ran screaming from the award show, explaining that if everyone in California gave their land back, the Native Americans would return the state to poverty, primitivism, and savagery, and that's Gavin Newsom's job.
Bad Bunny won this year's Grammy for Best Album by a Puerto Rican drag queen.
Mr. Bunny immediately demanded that federal immigration officers stop enforcing federal immigration law or else.
ICE officers responded by crying out in agitated, high-pitched voices, oh no, Bad Bunny is angry at us.
Whatever shall we do?
Then went back to work.
Now, the Super Bowl is this Sunday, and Mr. Bunny is scheduled to do the halftime show at that all-American display of manhood by wearing a dress and denigrating America.
So NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked to comment on Bunny's speech.
Goodell said, quote, We at the NFL gave the halftime show to Mr. Bunny to make a strong statement, namely that we have so much money, we really don't give a rat's ass what our audience thinks.
And we will continue to mock the deeply held beliefs of ordinary Americans while dining on lobster caviar and champagne served on the naked backs of former athletes whose brain injuries have rendered them useless for anything but acting as furniture for the people who got rich off destroying them.
Enjoy the show, unquote.
Singer Kalani won this year's Grammy for Most Desperate attempt to extend an evanescent 15 minutes of fame by writhing around virtually naked so no one would notice she has no talent.
Kalani also denounced ICE, saying, quote, it is important for artists to speak out because our opinions matter to the sort of brain-dead 12-year-olds who listen to this crap.
I, for one, want to inspire the young minority men in our audience to stand up to law enforcement agents with violent and aggressive tactics, which is going to work out great for you.
And when you're in prison, we'll have your back.
Or actually, some muscle-bound thug in Genpoc will probably have your back, but at least you can think about how much money we're making for inspiring you to take action.
Unquote.
Now, personally, I thought these speeches were boring, conformist, ignorant, destructive, and foul-mouthed displays of misbehavior.
Or maybe that was the songs.
No, it was the speeches.
Maybe the songs.
Whatever.
Trigger warning.
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All right, we are back laughing our way through whatever the hell this is.
I've been sharing a lot of nice news with you over the last couple weeks, so I'm going to continue that pattern.
I told you about the Edgar nomination for my book, Kingdom of Cain.
It's in the critical category.
That was very shocking to me.
And if I actually win it, I'll probably, you'll never see me again.
I'll be shocked.
I'll be unconscious.
But that was nice.
And the inclusion of my short story, A Long Time Till Morning, in the Best Mystery Stories of the Year anthology.
And there's other stuff coming down the pike that I'll be able to share with you soon.
But this week, I did agree to terms for a new Cameron Winter novel.
There's one already in the pipeline for this year.
And this was the one for 2027.
So it'll still be going on.
And that's, listen, that is all because of your support and your enjoying the books.
Even though after that, the dark didn't make the times list.
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Crisis of Trust00:11:01
Chapter one, America in Transition.
So, this is not about a sex change.
I think a lot of people have finally caught up with what I've been telling you for years, that this is a period of a great transition.
A major thing is happening.
I key it most of it into the end of the boomer era, but all the things that are happening at the same time then play into that transition right there.
And I think this is the beginning of something new, but we don't know what it's going to be.
It hasn't been defined yet.
It hasn't happened.
Nobody knows the future.
That's why they call it the future.
But even though I think they've caught up with me on noticing this has happened, because it's all I've been talking about for a long time, I think that most of the comments I read are getting the nature of the transition not just wrong, but like the opposite of right.
They're getting it exactly wrong.
So, look, you can either listen to them for the next few years until they catch up with me, or you can get tomorrow's news today by coming here.
So, let me give you some examples of what I think they're getting wrong.
A lot of people are saying we're in a crisis of trust, which I love this phrase.
I hear it again and again.
I googled it and Googles AI, which is a left-wing misinformation machine.
It proves that AI, yes, can do misinformation just as well as a network newsman.
But it's just one lie after another.
And so, I googled Crisis of Trust.
It said a widespread crisis of trust is eroding confidence.
Listen to the language carefully, is eroding confidence in institutions, governments, media, and corporations driven by polarization, misinformation, and perceived failures of leadership.
Now, usually when you look this up, you also get a hit at Trump.
It's all about Trump.
It's because Trump, it's all, you know, people don't trust Trump.
But it's ridiculous.
It's not a crisis of trust that's eroding confidence in institutions.
That's like saying we're having a crisis of Islamophobia eroding our trust in Islam.
You know, there's no such thing as Islamophobia.
Nobody's phobic about Islamic people.
Nobody woke up one morning and said, you know, I don't know the reason for this, but I don't like spiders and I don't like Islamic people.
That's not what happened.
People observe that there is a worldwide epidemic of Islamic violence.
Obviously, it's not all Islamic people, but it's a core thing and it's happening all around the world against all kinds of people, against Jews, against other Muslims, against Christians, against animists, against atheists.
It's high secular people.
It's happening all over the world.
It can't all be the other people's fault.
And so people are worried about it.
And that's why they feel the thing they feel.
It's not phobic at all.
And likewise, there's no crisis of trust.
There's a crisis of trustworthiness.
Our leadership, the failure of the leadership during the pandemic, I've said this before, but it is the greatest failure of a leadership class since World War I, since Europe's leaders led them into a useless war that absolutely wiped out a generation of men, that destroyed the great culture of Europe so that it is now gone.
I mean, obviously, it took 30 years because World War II actually finished it off, but it started with World War I, and those two wars were really just one big war.
And in the absolute mishandling of the COVID epidemic, the lies, the silencing, the riots induced by the attitudes and encouragement of our mainstream elites, all of these things just showed us that we can't trust these people.
It was just the cry.
It just brought what so many of us suspected into the light and showed us that it was true.
And since they still have not taken responsibility for it, they'll still say, well, that was because of COVID.
No, it was because you screwed up during COVID.
They'll say, you know, like, oh, yeah, you know, COVID really eroded people's trust.
No, your lies, your incompetence, your mishandling, your oppression in blue states where you shut down churches and left strip joints open, let riots continue, all of those things made us realize that you guys are played out.
And they're played out because everything is the boomer.
Everything's post-World War II.
And you keep reading the newspaper, oh, no, Trump is destroying the post-war, you know, the post-war system of being.
And you think like, well, wait a minute.
war was 80 years ago.
You know, nothing lasts forever.
Nothing lasts more than a lifetime as far as ideas are concerned.
It's time to move on.
And we tried a non-boomer president, Barack Obama, and he was a disaster.
So we went back to a boomer president, Joe Biden.
And guess what?
You know, the boomers are aging out.
You know, it's obviously not me, but all the rest of us are aging out, and it's time for them to go.
And there's a sense that they're the last competent generation at all.
They're the last people who can do anything.
And there's a fear that we can't replace them.
And Barack Obama actually, you know, consolidated that fear.
So I hope, I very much hope that our elites can be replaced nonviolently, peacefully.
And I believe that thanks to Trump and the First Amendment and certain things about this country that are still very vital and vibrant, I think they can be replaced in the U.S. nonviolently.
Other countries, I'm not sure.
I look at England and I think, yeah, you know, you can lock up people for mean tweets while Pakistanis, you know, rape dozens of your women, hundreds of your women, and don't even go to jail.
But one day you're going to look out your window and, you know, there's going to be a bunch of angry men there.
And it's not going to be a revolt.
It's going to be a revolution.
I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but I think it may happen in Europe.
There may be some real upheavals there.
And the other thing that people are saying, another thing that people are saying about this transition, they're saying AI is about to transform the world.
I was reading an article by anthropic CEO Dario Mode.
He says AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in a few short years and has a 25% chance of essentially wiping out human existence.
Now, I don't buy this at all.
I think that AI is going to be a change.
It's going to be some developments.
But I think they're overplaying it and they're getting dramatic.
Barton Swain, who is my current favorite writer at the Wall Street Journal, says AI may be the new climate change.
He says, the world-wearied consumer of news might reasonably wonder if we're headed into another version of climate alarmism.
Consider a confederation of specialists, climate scientists in one version, Silicon Valley geniuses in another, joins with liberal politicians and nonprofit heads to warn of an impending catastrophe.
The only moral response to this new situation, these Olympians tell us, is to transfer authority over large parts of the economy to people like themselves.
That they would favor such a transfer under any circumstances, with or without a coming disaster, doesn't bother the mainstream press, which reports their predictions with credulity and fervor.
Meanwhile, ordinary people lacking the specialized knowledge to draw their own conclusions feel cowed into going along with it all.
And I agree, I think that's what's happening with AI.
I think it's a chance for people to panic and give government more power.
I think that's exactly what happened in New York when they elected Mom Dhammi.
I think they're all afraid of losing their jobs.
So socialism, they panicked and voted for socialism, which is giving the power to control the economy over to the state, which is the last thing you want.
Then on the right, you have guys like Tucker, if he is still on the right, guys like Tucker Carlson who says we should make self-driving trucks illegal to preserve the jobs, you know, because so many men have truck driving jobs.
But that is typical government thinking, right?
The government says, oh, we must protect, pass laws to protect buggy whip makers because these new automobiles are going to put the buggy whip makers out of work.
And then everybody will be out of work without thinking, oh, there may be new jobs like Car Mechanic that didn't exist before.
We can't stop AI developments because competition with other countries is going to make it necessary that we compete.
Otherwise, we'll be wiped off the face of the earth technologically.
So you let the technology develop.
You make sure that you react to it.
The changes that come along in keeping with our founding values humanely and with freedom in mind.
And then we could potentially have another century of American dominance, which I think is incredibly very much possible.
The biggest error, though, that commentators make in talking about this great transition is to say we're in a post-truth society.
Post-truth was actually nominated the word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2016 to describe, quote, circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
And this is another one where they just blame Trump for everything.
Oh, Trump lies all the time, so we're post-truth.
We're post-truth because people believe Trump.
The fact is Trump is often right.
In fact, a lot of times he's right.
And that's what they're really complaining about is that people are not looking to them for the truth.
The elites are complaining that their rule over communications and news and the academies and Hollywood is coming to an end.
And that's what they mean by a post-truth society.
Truth is not going anywhere.
I mean, that's the whole thing about truth.
It's like people who say, I don't believe in God, as if that has an effect on whether God exists or not.
God's like gravity.
You can believe in him or not believe in him.
Life works out a lot better if you believe in him because he's really there.
And the truth is always like that.
And what we're in, as I have told you now for at least five years, probably more, is we're in an information crisis, which is a combination of the failure of the elites and old media who are, you know, we talked about last week the war on Barry Weiss and now they just fired 300 staff at the Washington Post, which is going to complete, I personally believe they're going to hire new people, but they want to get rid of the people who are going to complain about their hiring conservatives.
I think that that's my guess, what they're doing.
But, you know, the old media is done for because they lied and lied and lied and then lied.
And after that, they lied.
So we're done with them.
And there are no reliable gatekeepers in the new media.
So it's hard to parse truth from fiction.
And that means the radical anti-American voices on the left are being amplified by irresponsible but out-of-date leftist rags like the New York Times.
And the radical anti-American voices on the right, like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, are making a lot of noise trying to seize a position in new media.
And it's tough to fight them because when we debunk their lies, we give them attention and they're playing to people's worst emotions.
So basically, you're left with, you know, straight arrow people who are trying to find the truth.
Even if we fail sometimes, you get me, you get Ben Shapiro, you get the Babylon B.
I think that's it.
I think we're relying on you to want the truth.
That's the thing.
See, in this moment, you, the audience, the people, you the people, are both the battlefield and the army.
You're the battlefield because if we win you over to hard, boiled, critical thinking, truth-seeking, then the day is ours.
And America gets another 100 years.
And you're the army because we can't win you over unless you fight for the truth, which will set us free.
The truth always makes you free.
So that is why we're going today to be talking about sex and manhood and the movies.
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The Battlefield and the Army00:09:40
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Chapter 2, The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein.
Now, obviously, a whole new tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files were released, millions, millions of pieces of paper.
And I've been clear about where I stand on this.
I think Trump mishandled this by blowing it off.
He should have had, you know, the head of the FBI, Pash Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, come out and explain why they were doing what they were doing.
And I would certainly like to see rich people who rape young people illegally put to death, but I don't think that's going to happen.
I've been clear about that as well.
I think this is now getting to be a useless exercise in information.
You know, like in a trial, you have to, they have discovery.
You've probably seen this on TV where the attorneys have to turn over all the information they have to the opposing attorneys, you know, the defense and the prosecution, especially the prosecution has to turn over what it has.
If you want to hide what you have, you turn over everything because it's millions of pieces of paper.
Somebody said that the new Epstein files, if you stack them up as pages of paper, they would make two Eiffel Towers worth of paper.
And that's how you hide stuff, right?
If you really want, if you're going to play fair and you want your opposition to know what you've got in discovery, you give them the stuff you're going to use in the trial.
And so what they're doing now is they've flooded the zone with this stuff.
And there's sensational stuff in there, but no way to know what's true.
They say Bill Gates got an STD from a Russian hooker.
Elon Musk talked about partying with Epstein, but he doesn't seem to have done it.
There's one document with this wild claim that Epstein and others ate babies or something.
And, you know, anyone can say anything.
Anyone can say anything.
The FBI has to take down what they say, but that doesn't give it any connection to truth at all.
And anyone who tells you they have the inside story in this or that they've combed through the documents and now they really understand.
No, that's not happening.
That is not happening.
Too many documents.
People are searching them using search terms.
And we don't know what's going on and we're probably not going to learn.
We may get one or two people and we may ruin a couple of reputations.
But no, I don't think we're going to really find out all that much from this.
And the worst people, as far as I'm concerned, are the people who make careless accusations against Trump, against Mamdani.
I've seen false pictures and claims that Mondani is Epstein's child.
And they put it out with pictures made with AI and all this stuff.
And they look very realistic.
And it's so damaging because now you can't tell a truth claim from these pictures.
And so it makes it useless to actually come up with the truth about this.
How can you separate the true from the false?
So, you know, I look at this, and I will tell you briefly a personal story, and I can't tell it to you in detail because I have to hide the names of people.
But, you know, most people judge elites harshly because elites have opportunities to do things they don't have.
It's easy to attack a married athlete who commits adultery because you're not a glamorous 19-year-old muscle man jacked up on testosterone with hundreds of beautiful women throwing themselves at you.
You know, they're just in a different situation.
I'm not saying it's right.
I'm not saying you can't condemn it.
I'm just saying it's easy to judge when you're not in that situation.
But working in Hollywood, small versions of those things happened to me.
And at one point, a man I trusted and had very good reason to trust invited me to go on a deep sea fishing trip on a yacht with a disgraced politician, a guy who was high-up politician who had been forced to resign because of a scandal.
And I was torn because, you know, I'm a novelist.
I want to see things.
You know, I want to see things that I haven't seen before.
But I did worry.
I had enough sense to worry that once I was out in the yacht, if there was drugs, if there were women, I'd be stuck out in the middle of the water.
So I tentatively said, yeah, you know, okay, I would go.
You know, I was kind of tempted by the glamour of it and just by the newness of it.
And I was very relieved when the trip never took place.
It was canceled.
And then the person I trusted turned out to be entirely corrupt, including a serial adulterer.
And, you know, I know because I've been tested that I won't cheat on my wife.
I know that I've been in those situations, mostly because I'm her love slave.
It's just humiliating, but there it is.
And also, I don't want to live in a state of deception with the person I love most in the world.
But here I was in a situation where I had dallied with a man who turned out to be a pretty garbagey guy.
And let's say it was Epstein.
Then you have these emails going back and forth saying, you want to go to a party?
Yeah, I'd go to a party, but it doesn't happen.
So I didn't have to back out, which I might have done, you know.
And it looks terribly bad, but it doesn't mean anything.
It's just a moment.
And that, I think, is happening.
It could be happening to Elon Musk, who has these things.
When's the greatest party going to be on your island and all this stuff?
It really does look bad.
It looks bad.
But who knows what the real situation is.
So the real situation is we don't know very much.
But the reason it keeps clinging, hanging on, and the reason it's so important, is because it speaks of the corruption of elites and the corruption of everything we see, the universities that are teaching anti-American leftism, Hollywood that is echoing those lessons, the news media that's always lying to us on behalf of the left, but it also, you know, right-wingers who pretend that they're church-going people, but in fact are having affairs and things like that.
It really speaks to our sense that these elites are done.
We are done with them and they need to go.
Rod Dreyer wrote about this in the Free Press.
He says, just about any conspiracy you want to believe about the globalist elites can find justification in the millions of Epstein documents made available on Friday.
There are weird missives to and from Epstein using the word pizza and other references to food in ways that someone might think were codes.
But the real impact of the Epstein files and the reason they refuse to fade from view is not because they show whether any specific allegation involving particular people is true or not.
No, their significance is in their cumulative effect.
The files reveal that the sleazy Epstein was connected to seemingly everybody on the left and the right alike, and that these elites lived and moved in a decadent world of their own.
Look at who runs this world.
One might reasonably conclude they're all corrupt as hell.
And he goes on to call this a Weimar moment, which, you know, I like Rod Dreyer a lot, and he's a very bright guy, very sensitive guy.
But it's really easy to compare this moment to Weimar.
There are similarities to Weimar, the sexual deviance, the extreme, you know, people on the left versus the extreme people on the right.
Weimar is the German republic that ended with the rise of Hitler.
It was an attempt to establish a democratic government in place of the imperial government that had been there before World War I, and it didn't work and it collapsed and Hitler took over.
But democracies always bear a certain kind of similarity to Weimar, always, because extremism and sexual perversion are part of human excess.
And when people are free, you know, that stuff comes to the surface.
But that doesn't mean that Hitler is on the way.
So I'm not as worried about this being Weimar.
I see the resemblances, and I am worried about corruption of elites.
But there's another meaning to the Epstein files that is important, and it's an important lesson, which is that sexual misbehavior is a symbol for spiritual degradation always.
Ancient Rome, here, now, everywhere.
Weimar, a good example.
And the reason for that is because the body has meaning.
It speaks the person.
We're not just a body, and we're not a body with a soul inside.
The body is a word that communicates the soul, which is immaterial.
It has no place to dwell.
And this is, you know, our spiritual desires and our physical desires are blended because they speak both the body, right, especially sexually.
They speak both the body and the spirit.
And, you know, they're love and pleasure.
That's why sex is such a vibrant topic, such an important topic.
It is a way to express your love, but it's also a way to get pleasure and express selfish things.
Body Has Meaning00:02:16
And the way you behave as a sexual person is who you become.
It is.
And what we yearn for are rules that narrow us down.
What are we supposed to do?
Because it's just the sex drive is so wild.
It's such a wild hair.
It just wants you to do whatever is going on in that moment, especially in men, but still in women too, to a certain degree.
And being human beings, the rules are very foggy.
I think religious people sometimes make this worse.
Churches make this worse by being very specific about what you're allowed to do and for what reason, because God wants this and God wants that.
And personally, every time I read a Christian writing on what kind of sex married couples are allowed to have, I'm always like, ew, please, shut up.
You know, leave people alone.
You know, I mean, look, there are some basic rules.
You don't degrade your spouse.
You don't hurt your spouse.
You don't humiliate your spouse.
But, you know, if you want to dress up as like Super Mario and Princess Peach, go to the hell ahead, knock yourself out.
As long as she's Peach and you're Mario, I mean, because otherwise it's just disgusting.
The body has meaning and how you live your sexual life will form you spiritually.
It is part of what will form you spiritually.
Certain amount of care, moral care is called for in your sexual life, certain sense of humor, certain flexibility, but moral care as well.
And that means that the way we look at manhood is going to set the future.
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Chapter three, why manhood?
Why do we want to talk about manhood to determine what is going to happen and what should happen and what can happen and what control we have over what's going to happen next in this country?
There's a young man named Matthew X. Wilson who works for National Review.
He writes for Public Discourse, which is a good website.
I like Public Discourse.
And he has an article, How to Take Disaffected Young Men Seriously.
And I think we all know that this is kind of a problem.
Men dropping out of family, men dropping out of society, men going to the far right.
And what he's talking about, Matthew Wilson, is guys like Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and the people who follow him, the disaffected young men who follow him.
And, you know, I hear right-wingers say that Fuentes has talent and he's funny.
And I know a lot about broadcast talent.
I am an almost perfect spotter of broadcast talent.
And it's not true.
Fuentes has a nominal amount of talent.
He could be a good mid-market DJ.
It's like when I first heard Ben, I said, Ben, you are a top-market DJ.
Fuentes is a mid-market DJ.
And he's not that funny.
He's kind of amusing, but he says things that a lot of right-wingers hold in their hearts that they feel they secretly believe, but they can't say.
And so we giggle, they giggle when he says them, and they're drawn to him and they think, wow, he has talent and humor.
That's not.
It's a delusion.
What is his lies meeting your lies?
That's what it is.
And it's just, it's thrilling because you didn't think anybody would say them and he says them.
But, you know, talent is blind.
Talent doesn't care about your morality.
Candace Owens has monster talent.
Ben Shapiro has monster talent.
One of those people is a decent human being striving to get at the truth.
And one of them will soon be crab walking across the floor, well, across the ceiling while a team of priests tries to expel the demon who's devouring her soul.
And you can figure out which one of those is which.
But Nick Fuentes has a bit of talent, and he's speaking to something that resonates in the souls of men and even in the souls of good men, right, in this current moment.
Matthew Axe Wilson explains it.
He says, very broadly, I think that disaffected right-wing young men generally share the following deeply rooted sentiments in common.
The sense that everyone's identity, community, and culture is being elevated, celebrated, and supported except for theirs.
And second, the sense that the left is deliberately working to dismantle traditional conceptions of American identity and culture, and that members of American conservatism's old guard have been either naive doormats in this insidious project or worse, willful co-conspirators.
Disaffected young men see an economic system that doesn't seem to be working for them.
They see a culture that has spun completely out of control.
They have sort of the feminization of society and the quiet persistence of deeply embedded DEI structures that seem designed to give a leg up to everyone except straight white men.
They see the tribalistic identity politics continues to be acceptable, but only for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.
Everyone gets to be affirmed, celebrated, and to feel like they belong except for you.
And the thing is, men see that because those things are there.
See, this is what I mean about truth.
That's true.
All of that stuff is true.
And of course, the oldest trick in the devil's playbook, it's right there in Genesis, is to describe the problem accurately and then say, you want to solve this problem?
Well, I will make you a king among men.
All you have to do is fall down and worship me.
Accurate description of the problems, bad solution.
That is what the devil does.
And that's what these guys, guys like Fuentes and Andrew Tate and Candace Owens are doing as well.
So the first thing that has to happen for society to come through a period of transition peacefully and well is for men to harness their desires to the good.
Men to harness their desires to the good.
Why men?
Because men mold the future.
They are the only ones with the power to mold the future.
Women create the future.
They create human beings who will make the future, but men mold it.
They take the risks.
They do the work.
They come up with the ideas and they always have the fresh idea and the first.
They are always there as always the first woman to do something because the men have already done it.
And the thing is, I know a lot of people talk as if women just have total power over men.
Women only have power over men in as much as men lack control.
Otherwise, they can't beat you up.
They can't dominate you.
They can't make you do what you don't want to do unless you don't know who you are and you don't know what you want and what you're willing to fight and die for and what you were made to be.
You know, women have power if you give them power.
Sometimes that's legitimate.
My wife has power over me because I adore her.
I would climb the walls of the world to tear down the moon and give it to her if she asked me.
And I'm fortunate.
And one of the reasons I love her is because she only uses that power occasionally on behalf of her children because I wouldn't give them anything.
But otherwise, if she were reckless with the use of that power, there would be no moon.
But what men are looking for, they're looking for leaders to tell them who they are and what they want.
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And instead, they get pimps like Andrew Tate and squirrely little nudniks like Fuentes and distorted manipulators like Tucker because they speak to the problem.
They speak to the pain and the anger that people feel and their answers, their prescriptions of what's wrong, their descriptions of what's wrong are sometimes accurate, but their answers and their solutions are wicked and they're easy because it's easy to hate and it's easy to be manipulated and all this.
So what I want to do is take a look.
I like to turn to the culture for information about what's happening and what might happen.
So what I'd like to do is take a look at what's happening in the culture to see if it offers men some better answers.
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Final chapter, fantasy versus desire.
Now, any non-evil person knows there's a weird gap between what they want and what they feel they should want.
I think everyone understands that there's a gap between what we'll call your fantasies and your desires.
Your fantasies are anything you can dream of, sometimes ugly, sometimes horrendous.
This is why Jesus said, you know, like if you, if you even lust after a woman that's committing adultery, because he's trying to tell you he knows what you're thinking.
No business.
There's no use trying to look at God and tell him you're righteous because he knows what's in your mind and your heart.
But that's not necessarily your desires, right?
I mean, you can get turned on by a scene of rough sex and porn or in a movie.
But if you've ever actually hurt a person while in a sexual situation, even by accident, you will know that that is the least sexy thing imaginable.
Hurting people is a really unsexy thing, unless you're nuts, you know, unless you're a psychopath.
But the fantasies can be there that you have plenty of fantasies, plenty of unsavory fantasies that may make you shiver at what you're capable of, but those are not really your desires because you do not want to do those things to people because you're an actually decent human being.
So desire, as opposed to fantasy, desire is important.
It's an important, you know, we have so many rules about desire that sometimes you forget that it is a good thing.
It's an important thing.
Desire is the salient of your soul.
Your desires are the salience of your soul.
A salient is something that sticks out, right?
And your true desires are given to you by God to guide you to who he wants you to be, right?
If he wants you to be a mom, he gives you a desire to be a mom.
If he wants you to be a dad or a husband or father of a family or a writer or something else, he gives you a desire to be that thing, right?
And that's different than your fantasies.
Your body desires indiscriminately.
I said your body is a word for the soul.
Words do not describe life accurately.
They're a very, very rough tool for describing life.
If I tell somebody I love them or hate them, it doesn't really describe what I'm feeling.
We just kind of know from our feelings and we apply it to that word.
The same thing is true with your body.
Your body is an imperfect representation of you, right?
And so your body's desires are indiscriminate and that creates your fantasies.
You want somebody to love.
Your body wants to screw everything in a skirt.
You want to make a living by dignified work that suits you.
Your body wants a billion dollars, which is just not something that's going to make really a big difference for good in your life, unless you just come up on it.
You want usefulness and respect, a feeling that you've done something for somebody and they respect you for it.
Your body wants fame, which is another pretty useless thing.
Your body is like a car, right?
I mean, I think Plato wrote this about it.
He said it was like a chariot.
He hadn't heard about the car yet for some reason, but he said your body is a chariot and you are there to drive it.
You're there to drive the horses, which are reason and desire and all this.
And you know all this.
You know instinctively that the things you want are not the things you want.
The things your body fantasizes about are not really what you want to be.
And so you turn, as you're trying to learn how to use your body, when you're a young man, especially, you turn to leaders and thinkers and writers to teach you how to drive the car.
And that's why I preach the culture.
That's why, you know, don't go to, I say, don't go to Fuentes, go to Dostoevsky.
Don't go to Andrew Tate, go to Shakespeare.
Don't go to Tucker.
Go to almost anybody else, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Federalist Papers, Lincoln, Churchill, go to the people who have been inspiring people to do good and inspiring people's thoughts and inspiring people's minds and hearts for centuries to help you get at the truth of who you are.
But you're still going to be surrounded by modern culture that is constantly piping things into your head.
And that's why you taking responsibility.
I've seen a lot of guys online saying this.
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They say, you know, sometimes they heard it on this show, sometimes they heard it elsewhere.
My son, sometimes they've heard it from, you know, where they'll say, oh, I read The Brothers Karamazov.
I read Crime and Punishment.
I read, you know, these books that I've been hearing about.
And yes, now I see something that I didn't know before because they're blocking out this junk culture that's piping childish stuff into our heads, like Marvel movies and superhero movies, which I know, you know, they can be enjoyable, but they are infantilizing people.
And they are not really giving you the hard lessons that you need to learn because they don't tell you anything about life because there's no sex and there's no death in them.
So, you know, we've just been through a period of cultural death.
Woke inspired cultural death.
Woke killed our culture for about five years.
Our movies, our novels, our music, our TV, they all just pretty much flatlined.
And that doesn't mean there was no good work.
You could go out and buy my books.
My books are good.
There are other people who write good books and there are a couple of good movies that have come along.
But really, you know, the most popular things sucked and they were infantile and made people infantile.
And so there's an open field of what's going to happen now.
And I pay very close attention to this and I'll tell you what I see.
The Sundance Film Festival is where indies go to promote their movies and hopefully get them picked up by studios.
And it finished recently.
They had the Sundance Film Festival.
And it's in transition too, because Robert Redford, who invented the festival, has died.
And now the festival is going to move from Sundance, a very beautiful ski resort Redford-owned, to Boulder, Colorado.
And I can tell you as a prediction, no predictions are perfect, the Sundance Film Festival is about to become irrelevant and already is irrelevant.
The Wall Street Journal's critic Kyle Smith went to the festival and he said sex was the inescapable theme of the final Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah before the film world's leading indie showcase moves to Boulder, Colorado.
You might say Sundance is leaving with a bang.
One illustrative offering was I Want Your Sex, and its title became an unofficial model for the gathering.
So he talks about the different films about sex, group sex, promiscuous sex, feminist sex, adulterous sex, S ⁇ M sex, everything but loving married sex.
And I've been reading the reviews of all these films.
I haven't seen any of them, and I can't even get a trailer because they haven't been publicized yet.
But these are getting rapturous reviews from the mainstream media.
They're pre-reviews, pre-release reviews, but like, you know, the Hollywood variety and the Hollywood Reporter giving it rapturous, oh, my, oh, it's so, what a naughty joy to watch people, as one critic put it, F their brains out.
And these films are being snapped up by studios for big money because these numb nuts think that they are still the avant-garde.
They think they're shocking us.
Oh, it's the avant-garde, you know, shock the bourgeois, shock the middle classes.
That's what they think they're doing.
They think they are the avant-garde, the advance guard.
And I am telling you that they are the Arier guard, the rear guard.
This is a culture in retreat.
And the reason is because this is not what people are looking for now.
It's not what they're searching for now.
I've told you this before, but we went through that period, golden age of TV, where you had the sopranos and you had Breaking Bad and you had The Shield and you had The Wire.
All of them stories about manly men, but gangstery men, bad men.
And the reason was that manhood had been outlawed and so only outlaws could be men.
And that was what the culture was struggling with.
And now the culture is looking at what is a good man.
And because feminism has choked the creative drive of human beings, they can't say what it is.
They cannot show women truly, so they can't show men truly.
So they're not seeing anything.
See, during the 80s and 90s, you had films like Fatal Attraction and Sea of Love and Basic Instinct that were highly sexually charged.
Basic Instinct was almost pornographic in its depiction of sex because promiscuity was still kind of fresh and AIDS had made it dangerous.
So it had underlined promiscuity at the same time.
Promiscuity was people were starting to think, maybe not such a good idea.
And so that was a story that had to be told.
And that was why you were seeing it on screen.
Films like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction and Sea of Love were all about the danger of sex, but they did it by exciting us and titillating us with very explicit sexual scenes.
This has happened before.
And you know, this is one of my go-to comparisons because it's so accurate.
In the Romantic era, the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 1800s of the 19th century, it was very much like this in England.
You don't think about England as being kind of, you know, sexually wild, but it really was.
You know, it was mostly the French who do that sort of thing.
But it really was, this was during the Napoleonic Wars.
And so they were caught on this island.
The British were caught on this island.
And on the one hand, you had kind of a culture like Jane Austen culture that was out in the provinces and so was a little bit more modest.
But in the cities, you had a lot of stuff going on.
You had homosexual scandals in the royal households.
You had murders and things like that.
And people were getting sick of it.
And then George Gordon Lord Byron came onto the scene as a young man.
He wrote a poem called Child Harold, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, it was called.
It was first published in 1812.
The first part of it was published in 1812.
And it made him a celebrity instantaneously.
Bang!
It became the most popular thing in England.
Why?
Because he was writing about how tired people were.
He was a lascivious guy.
He slept with men.
He slept with women.
He slept with anybody.
Sister, he slept with anybody who came near him.
And it was about Child Harold.
Child is an old-fashioned term for a peer, a peer.
So he's like a nobleman.
And he was writing about a guy who was tired of sexual promiscuity.
And people always say, well, Byron was popular because people were tired of war.
No, they were tired of screwing.
They were tired of immorality.
They were tired of a country that was coming apart, like Weimar, that was coming apart through sexual dysfunction.
Let me just read you just a little bit of the first, the opening of Child Harold.
It says, in Albion's Isle, that's England, there dwelt a youth who nay in virtue's way did take delight.
He was never virtuous, right?
But spent his days in riot, most uncouth, and vexed with mirth the drowsy ear of night.
Ah, me, in sooth, he was a shameless white.
That means a person, shameless person, sore given to revel and ungodly glee.
Few earthly things found favor in his sight save concubines and carnal company and flaunting wassellers of high and low degree.
So drinking and whoring was what he's up to.
He says, and now Child Harold was sore sick at heart and from his fellow Bacchanals would flee and from his native land resolved to go and visit scorching climes beyond the sea with pleasure drugged.
He almost longed for woe and even for change of scene would seek the shades below.
He'd rather go to hell than keep doing what he's doing.
That's how tired people were.
And like I said, Byron was made famous in an instant.
Why?
Because he caught the culture in a work of art, which is what every artist is trying to do.
And sometimes it makes you famous.
Sometimes it gets you canceled.
Sometimes it gets you ignored because people don't want to face it or you're a little bit ahead of your time.
But that's what every artist is trying to do is catch humanity in this moment, right?
And so, you know, the Romantic poets, of whom Byron was one, had set about to restore meaning because that's why people were indulging in lascivious and promiscuous sex because they had lost their sense of meaning because Christianity had collapsed.
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And the Romantic poets were trying to restore meaning.
And if you want to hear more about that, you can read my book, The Truth and Beauty.
That's what it's all about.
And it's an easy read.
It's not all about poetry.
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I think we've seen everything.
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I don't think, you know, women show up naked at award ceremonies.
I mean, I was looking at some of the videos when I was writing that satire of the beginning of the Grammys.
I was just thinking, you know, it's just boring.
You know, it's boring.
You hate to look at a beautiful naked woman writhing around and think, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
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So I'm noticing that I've noticed this for a couple of months, I guess, few months, that new kinds of films are sprouting up, like kind of sprigs of a new art, that this death, woke death that we've been through is coming to an end.
And one of those is a weird film called Song Sung Blue, which is a very offbeat little movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, two wonderful, wonderful actors, playing real-life performers Mike and Claire Sardina.
And there was a documentary about them, and this is based on that documentary.
I haven't seen the documentary, but I did see the film.
And the Sardinas performed a Neil Diamond tribute act, right, called Lightning and Thunder, where they'd get up and sing Neil Diamond songs.
That's why it's called Song Sung Blue, but they sing, you know, I am, he said, and what's the one that's crackling rosy and, you know, all of those Neil Diamond classics.
We call them that.
I'm not a big Neil Diamond fan, but those are all his songs.
So this film came out, and it didn't have much of an advertising budget.
It was kind of dumped, but it did quite well.
It was not a smash hit, but it did quite well.
And if you go on Rotten Tomatoes, you find out something very interesting.
The critics give it 78%, which is good.
It's a positive review.
The people give it 97%.
And the reason is this.
It offends elite sensibilities, even mine, by giving dignity to these people who pretend to be Neil Diamond.
You know, they're working class people.
They're mess-ups in a lot of ways.
But it gives them absolute respect and dignity and elevates them and shows you something beautiful about them and something human about them.
And all the reviewers, when I read them, they all say the same thing.
Say, I don't know why this movie is good.
It's so schmaltzy.
It's so, it's so, you know, sentimental.
And I said the same thing.
I was watching the trailer because I didn't think I was going to watch it.
And I thought, no, no, there's something here, something I want to see.
And I saw this is actually good.
So here's a bit of the trailer.
It shows you what the film is like.
This is cut one.
I'm not a songwriter.
I'm not a sex symbol.
I just want to entertain people.
I don't want to be a hairdresser.
I want to sing.
I want to dance.
I want a garden.
I want a cat.
I need something big.
I need something new.
What do you think?
You don't want to be a Neil Diamond impersonator.
You want to be a Neil Diamond interpreter.
I was looking for the right way to say it, and you just came right out and said it.
Tell you, Mama, good, we can't stay alone.
We should call ourselves Lightning and Thunder.
We got things we gotta catch up on.
So you be Lightning and I be Thunder.
Yeah.
That is not very professional of me, but I've been wanting to do it.
She throws herself into his arms because he sees her, because he wants her to be part of the act.
He doesn't just want her to make him the act.
He wants her to join him and be his partner.
And that's what turns her on.
And, you know, the film is not devoid of sex.
There's no explicit sex in it, but sex underlies a lot of it.
And you realize it's a sexual relationship and they play it as a sexual relationship.
But all the sex is off-screen, and it's always an expression of humanity and often an expression of love, which is what sex is supposed to be, right?
It's supposed to express the human person.
And these two people, real people, and I'm just saying how they're depicted, they are broken people.
They're divorced.
They're addicted sometimes.
They're struggling financially.
They're incredibly unlucky.
Incredibly bad things happen to them.
And the movie works because it takes them seriously and loves them, right?
And the man in it, Mike Sardinia, is a towering depiction of manhood for all his weaknesses, for all his failures, for all the times he doesn't do the right thing.
He's a Marine.
He's a veteran of Vietnam and very difficult.
He was a tunnel rat, which is one of the most difficult things they did in Vietnam.
He's beaten alcohol, which takes a real man.
And when the bad luck hits these people and everything falls apart, and it's a very, you know, a lot of tragic stuff.
It's almost soap opera, except there's real.
He becomes, he stands.
He stands and he holds everything together like with muscular strength.
He just holds this family, this world, this project together, and he becomes for one moment the thing that God clearly made him to be.
And the scene that moved me most is a scene.
I know the director, the director, writer is Craig Brewer.
He made Hustle and Flow about a pimp who becomes a rap star or something like that.
I'm sure he didn't mean this on purpose to reveal what it revealed to me.
But all this horrible stuff happens and they start to make a comeback.
And there's a scene toward the end where Hugh Jackman is as Mike Sardinia says thank you to Kate Hudson as Claire.
And this is that scene, cut four.
Hey, Claire.
I can't thank Neil because every thank you I got belongs to you, doll.
You're my August night.
You're my September morning.
my heart lighting you, my crackling rosy, you got me?
Because you're on stage.
So the reason, this is the reason I watched the movie because that scene is in the trailer.
And you think, it's not a corny, it sounds like a corny scene, but it's not a corny scene because he's corny.
He's being corny, and the film understands that, but gives him dignity in what he is, for what he is.
But what's missing from that scene?
He thanks her for what her love has made him.
And anyone with a great wife knows that gratitude.
I know that gratitude.
What's so realistic is she doesn't thank him back.
And I'm sure the male director who made this film, I think if a woman director had made it, maybe she would have caught that.
I don't think he even understood that because husbands and fathers, men, are the atmosphere in which everybody else lives.
Women and children live in the atmosphere men make under the roofs that men build in the world that men built.
And the fish can't see the water and people can't see the air.
The people can't see men.
This is Chris Rock's greatest comedy routine.
Women get all, you know, you always thank your mom.
You always say your mom because your dad makes you thank your mom.
But dads don't get thanked for everything.
There's a cut for anything.
There's a cut to.
I'm talking about the real daddy to handle the business.
Nobody ever says, hey, Daddy, thanks for knocking out this rent.
Hey, Daddy, I sure love this hot water.
Hey, Daddy, this is easy to read with all this light.
Nobody give a f about daddy.
I'm talking about daddy to handle his business.
Nobody give a f about that.
Think about everything that the real daddy does.
Pay the bills, buy the food, put a fing hoop over your head.
Everything you could ever ask for.
Make your world a better, safer place.
And what does daddy get for all his work?
The big piece of chicken.
That's all daddy get is the big piece of chicken.
That's right.
And some women don't want to give up the big piece of chicken.
Men, women, and children do not see what men have done for them.
And they don't thank them for it because men are too proud to ask to be seen.
They use the computers men created, the roads he built, the businesses men made, the freedoms men fought for, and the homes he supported, that men supported.
And they tell him he's toxic and oppressive and abusive and racist and sexist and everything else.
The culture no longer sees the men who made it, all the good things that he is.
The men who made this country made it great.
And the people breathing the atmosphere they made have not, do not say thank you.
So the new culture that comes after this transition starts here with men recovering their self-respect in a world that disrespects them.
Do not turn to the world to find yourself.
The world has lost the plot.
The world does not know you're here.
The world does not know it needs you.
The world does not know that you are going to build the future.
Go to the God that made you.
Don't worry if you don't believe in him because he's there, whether you believe in him or not.
He will answer you whether you like him or not.
He will answer you whether you believe in him or not.
Ask him, what are you specifically, you specifically meant to be?
And you know you're not that yet, but don't worry about what you're not supposed to do.
Don't worry about the Ten Commandments.
I get it.
But still, worry about what you are supposed to do.
Forget all the negative stuff.
What are you supposed to be?
And when you get the answer, and it's going to take some time, but when you get the answer, no matter what it takes, no matter where you are, no matter what mistakes you've made, what sins you've sinned, and how much you think it's impossible, start, make a plan, and get to work on making your life that life, making yourself that man.
Ernest Hemingway, one of his greatest lines, he wrote in The Old Man in the Sea.
He said, a man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
And that is the truth.
You can be run over by a car.
Tragic things can happen to you.
You may get sick and die tomorrow.
But I'm going to tell you something as an old man, a secret that is a well-kept secret.
If you live and you do what I'm telling you, you will get what you want.
You won't fulfill your fantasies, but you can achieve your desires and your dreams.
And you will.
You will get what you want if it's what you really want.
And that's what Songsong Blue is about.
I recommend it.
It's a good film.
But through the sometimes schmaltzy moments, it's about a man who gets what he wants, who becomes what he knows he can be.
He can't become Neil Diamond.
He can't become the Beatles.
He becomes, just like it said in the trailer, he becomes the thing he has the capacity to be, and he gets what they want.
And so will you.
And that will be a new culture that no one can destroy.
That will replace the culture that we have, which is played out.
It's decadent.
It's disgusting.
And it's going to be built anew.
And it's going to be built by men.
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Clavin Clapbacks.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talking.
So true.
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Claven with a K, clapbacks with a K. Ask anything you want.
I read a lot more of the letters than I can answer.
I'm sorry about that, but maybe one day I'll do a whole show just answering letters.
But I do love to hear from you and I'd like to hear what's on your mind.
This is from someone who calls himself Scarab.
He says, I'm 16 and my life has already hit the drain.
By all measures, I'm an extremely smart kid, but my grades are all completely shot, mostly because I'm lazy and don't do the homework.
I lack the motivation to do anything anymore.
I don't know why.
It seems like I wasted all the energy I had in my first 13 years or so.
And since then, life has been an utter drag.
I never complete any projects I start.
I never take anything past an idea or a prototype.
I can't even bring myself to try.
The problem, I think, mostly is that I hate myself, not your average hatred, a bubbling, roiling thing that runs hot through me on a daily basis.
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It has frozen into a dead gray crystal at the same time.
I can't stand even looking in the mirror because I hate myself that much.
What do I do?
I feel like I'm spinning a spinning tire in a mud pit.
Struggling only brings me deeper.
You're the smartest, most insightful person I know.
If I'm wasting your time, I'm so sorry.
Thank you, Scarab.
Listen, Scarab, you know, I don't know you, so I can't be 100% sure, but you sound like you're in actual trouble and you want to get help.
And I know it takes energy and you don't want help.
And you said, you're not getting help.
You have to do it.
You have to do it.
16 years old, you know very little.
And the thing you don't know most of all is you have no perspective.
You think you're in the darkest hell.
You think you're never going to get out of this.
And in fact, the light may be around the corner.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be around the corner.
And you know how our friend Shapiro says, facts don't care about your feelings.
The facts are God loves you.
He loves you.
He's proud he made you.
He thinks you're wonderful.
He thinks you'll life.
He wants to give you a beautiful life.
Your feelings are messed up.
And when you hit 16, right about that age, you hit adolescence, that's when if you have anything that's like maladjusted, it's going to get set on fire.
It's going to get worse because you got all the hormones flowing.
You're suddenly in a new world.
It's like Stephen, it's like Wizard of Oz when she steps out of a black and white world into a color world.
Suddenly you're in this foreign place of semi-adulthood and you don't know what the hell is going on.
And a lot of the things, the problems that arise arise then.
Find an adult you trust and tell them you need help.
Tell them you've got to talk to somebody and go to a professional.
Get yourself a professional person who understands what you're doing.
You do not want to do anything stupid and ruin the long part of your life over this momentary place in your life.
You don't want to hurt yourself.
You don't want to hurt yourself with drugs.
You don't want to hurt yourself with sex.
You don't want to hurt yourself with anything.
What you want to do is recover perspective.
You want to get back and say, oh, I see.
I stepped into this new world and it makes me think that there's something wrong with me.
There's nothing wrong with you.
You've got to fix your attitude.
You got to fix what you see.
And if there is something wrong with you, you got to get treatment for that.
And I just, I think it's really important that you do this and just do it.
You know, don't tell yourself you can, your feelings are too heavy.
You know, all of that stuff.
I've been there.
Believe me, I'm not talking off the top of my head.
I know what I'm talking about.
Make the effort, get the help, and move on because there's so much.
There's so much good stuff up ahead.
And you want to be able to get your hands on it and become what God made you to be.
So I'm glad you wrote in.
I hope you listened to me because this is true of anybody out there who feels like this.
16 is the hardest time because you don't know anything.
You don't have any kind of perspective.
You don't have any kind of wisdom.
But it can happen to you at other times as well.
It's always the wrong move.
To hurt yourself, to abandon yourself, to abandon your life.
Your life is always waiting there for you to have it.
So go ahead and do it, pal.
I hope you let me know.
Let me know how it goes.
Seriously, write back and tell me how you are.
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What was it like, Malin?
To be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Maradin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
You are my father.
The gods shoot war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the bull got offered you.
I was offered the same.
And?
There is a new part work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yazoo the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He's the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life.
Great light.
Great darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You.
Nephew.
The sword of a high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.