Real ANSWERS & Real DRINKS with Professor Jacob | YES or NO
It’s producer vs. host in this very special episode of YES or NO, as Michael Knowles takes on his associate producer—the infamous Professor Jacob—in a battle of stiff drinks and even stiffer opinions.
From outrageous cultural hot takes to rapid-fire questions you can’t un-hear, the two go head-to-head to see who really knows whom better. Will Michael out-guess the man behind the curtain? Or will Professor Jacob school him on his own show?
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Do people who spend ten years in the friend zone deserve to be there?
Ouch.
This is a brutal question.
This is terrible.
I need to take a drink before we talk about this.
Welcome back!
Welcome back to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
My guest today is Professor Jacob.
How do we play?
I'll ask the professor a yes or no question.
He will select his answer away from my prying eyes.
Then I'll guess how he answered.
If I guess correctly, I get a point.
If I guess incorrectly, I lose a point.
No matter what, I will probably drink.
Then it's the professor's turn.
Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand.
Whoever has the most points at the end wins, and the stakes could be higher.
Let's get started.
I have a wager for you.
Okay.
First of all, Professor, I'm really glad that they allow underage drinking on this show now.
That's really great.
Thank you.
12 years old.
That's outrageous.
I'm very pleased that you're here.
The audience, I think, mostly knows Professor Jacob.
For those who have not followed the lore and the legend, Professor Jacob is my child laborer on the show and my associate producer.
So here's a wager.
If I win, that means you lose.
That's true.
And if you lose, I want a Michael Knowles modification to your beloved Camaro.
Okay.
Done.
Done?
Done deal.
Okay.
You've got to pop a 15-milli lip pill.
Oh, kid, don't.
I've got an old man heart.
I'm not young and vibrant like you.
You put me on them, and I surpassed you, so you've got to get on my level now.
15?
That's like a pack of cigarettes at once.
It might be two, but that's my word.
All right, whatever.
I'm so good at the game, it'll be fine.
No big deal.
All right.
Okay.
Man, I really hate that idea.
You ready?
I'm ready.
So the rules, if you were a woman, I'd say you go first, but you're not.
I'm not.
You're a man.
Are you going to be a man someday?
When is your bar mitzvah?
It was a few months ago.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Being a Jew at the Daily Wire is a double-edged sword, because although you will constantly be made fun of, you know you can never be fired.
Obviously, because we work for Mossad.
Very true.
Okay.
This is a lot harder than...
Ah!
Yes!
My thought was this.
You could be fired.
First of all, it was horribly phrased.
Being a Jew at the Daily Wire is a double-edged sword.
It's technically the thing we're having a referendum on, but it's obviously could you be fired or not.
but these were written by semi-literate people, so that's fine.
You could be fired because you work for me, and I like you somewhat, and Ben does not like you.
So Ben, owning more of the company, could fire you.
Yeah, but I think the question isn't, it would be, does Ben hate things that you like more than he likes me?
And I think Ben likes me, and I don't think he would let me get fired.
Ben has no idea that you work for this company.
Not one time has he been made aware of your existence.
He has specifically talked about me being the only other Jew at the company.
So I think that's...
It is true.
They say that there are all these Jews around Daily Wire.
I am with half the Jews at the Daily Wire right now.
It's insane.
So I have to drink?
You do have to drink.
And I might have to do a 15-milli lip pill and have my entire heart explode.
It's not looking good for you.
Uh-uh.
Okay, you're up.
Is it wise to trust spiritual advice from a man who is so out of shape that he gets winded blessing his food?
Oh, man.
And you have to guess how I would answer.
Is it wise to take spiritual advice from a man who gets winded blessings?
It is wise.
You knew that.
I just, I mean, you don't.
I'm just...
I don't ever weigh in on the wisdom of listening to my show.
I just do my show.
I think you've told people it's wise to listen to your show before.
All right, maybe I have.
Maybe I have.
First of all, Latin is a very complicated language, and some of the words are very long.
Wouldn't it be a fat person who would get winded, not a skinny person?
Sometimes people call us skinny fat because we look nice and thin and hot and sexy, but we don't actually go to the gym or anything like that.
But I don't know.
I think I'm in great shape.
We'll find out if I have to pop that 15 millilipoli.
That's true.
So I get to drink.
Mm-hmm.
Before this prompt is read, take a look at this video.
Oh.
It ends on that frame.
That's great.
So, all of those cars, they look kind of similar, so they're different cars, but they all have belonged to you.
Correct.
All five of them.
You smashed them all up real good.
Not entirely true.
In another one of those videos, a friend of mine was the one behind the...
Yeah.
Okay.
Of all these moments caught on camera, Interesting.
You had your girlfriend's name stitched in pink on the headrest in your car.
And you've got to be truthful in your answers.
You've got to be truthful in your answers.
You clicked it?
I clicked it.
How truthful are you going to be with me and with yourself?
Michael, I'm a nice Jewish boy.
I'm not going to lie to you.
That's not what I do.
You wrongly said no.
Yeah, but wrongly you said that.
I mean, listen, I'm a guy in love.
I put her name on the head.
I don't see how that's worse than almost dying five times.
I think that's a little worse than having a girlfriend.
We all die.
Some of us never live, Jacob.
Are you...
You're going to...
I want to say a phrase that I know you hate so much.
What's the phrase?
Happy wife.
Happy life.
Oh.
Listen, she liked it, and because she liked it, I liked it.
But first, I'll have the privilege of vomiting from that nauseating phrase.
I hear it all the time.
Happy wife, happy life.
Which is true.
You will have a happy life if your wife is happy.
But you don't make your wife happy by simping in this egregious and nauseating way.
That's what modern liberalism tells you to do.
You know, do women want a guy who says, "Oh, hey, honey, I switched your name on my..." Or does a woman want Gary Cooper or Sean Connery, you know, or like...
I mean, think back to World War II.
Well, she's not your wife.
Hold on.
She's not your wife.
She's your girlfriend.
Your wife.
You still shouldn't do it, but it's your girlfriend.
A man can be optimistic.
Wow.
Do I get to drink for that one?
You get to, yeah.
I'm going to drink for that one.
I haven't even drank it.
I'm going to drink anyway.
I'm not bragging.
I guess I am bragging.
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You're up.
Alright.
Okay, now we have a video.
to play first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, New York.
Oh, come be sure you're going with me, babe.
The question that goes along with this video, this only happens in a video game, right?
Wow.
That is deep.
Hold on.
Is the man who wrote these prompts, not me, producer Ben Davies wrote these prompts, is he making a...
I think he's been spending too much time on X. Wow.
That's what I think Mr. Davies is.
He's been spending too much time on the anti-Semitic portion of X, also known as X. What do...
Or is the question, was 9-11 a controlled demolition?
I think the latter is the question they're trying to ask here.
Okay.
You locked it in?
It's locked in.
I got it correct.
You got it correct.
I know this is going to lose me internet points because all of YouTube is going to say it's an inside job or whatever.
I just don't see it.
I don't buy it.
I've gone down so many of the rabbit holes.
I was skeptical of the theories at first because it was The buildings didn't melt.
No one's saying they melted.
It didn't liquefy or anything.
From the start, I said, "These are not people dealing with a full deck of cards." But there are all sorts of questions.
How'd they find the passport of the guy?
Remember one of the hijackers, they said they found his passport on the sidewalk?
I thought it was.
So that's a weird one.
I'm not saying there aren't any major geopolitical event.
Pearl Harbor, for instance.
There were all sorts of questions and all kinds of intel reports.
Why didn't you know?
But the idea that they just rigged the thing with explosives and the planes were just theatrics or something.
Shoot me.
I don't buy it.
Sorry, I know that's unpopular now.
I don't buy it.
They also have to ask the question, why did Al-Qaeda claim responsibility and have been doing it consistently so for 24 years?
Like, that's my biggest thing.
Because they were hypnotized by George Bush and Colin Powell and, just judging by Twitter, a certain ancient nomadic tribe, I think, convinced them to be Muslim and to claim responsibility.
It's true.
It's true.
I wish, I should have just said I believe in the theories just to get my point back.
Do people who spend ten years in the friend zone deserve to be there?
Ouch.
This is your answer.
Do people who spend ten years in the friend zone deserve this?
This is a brutal question.
This is terrible.
Do people who spend 10 years in the friend zone deserve to be there?
*music*
I need to take a drink before we talk about this.
If you say yes, that's kind of a chivalrous, like I should have tried harder to pick up my chickie.
If you say no, it's kind of like, You just didn't see what a giga cool Chad Sigma guy I am.
So which one do you think I'm...
Yeah, that's the question.
You're staring at a giga Chad.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
But hold on, you want me to push no.
No, I want you to give me, like, some honor and respect in this answer.
Come on.
Ah!
Oh, this 15 milli is going to be brutal.
That's awful, dude.
Oh, dude.
Dude, I don't exercise.
Yeah.
You could be taking years off my life.
You say no.
So you say, no, I'm sorry, you say that you did deserve to be in there.
I'm sorry, that hypothetically someone would deserve to be in the friend zone if you were there for ten years.
There might be a girl in the audience that put your boy in the friend zone for ten years, but it worked out.
It worked out.
It worked out.
I'm gonna call her out.
My reasoning for this is, looking back, right, girls don't put guys in the friend zone that like, that, I wasn't forward.
I intentionally tried to become her friend as a way to try romantically.
It happens.
I was 16. That's what happens.
You thought I'll pretend to be gay and that'll turn her on.
That's my end.
But actually it wasn't the friend zone.
It turned into the brother zone.
I got called her brother.
Terrible.
So now you're accusing her of defective incest.
That's what I'm saying.
It was bad.
It went far.
So what about the young guys who are watching this show right now who might be in a similar position to you?
They're 15, 16 years old.
They've got the hots for some girl.
How do they avoid the mistakes that you made?
Oh, man.
I would tell them, number one, If a girl rejects you, do not say, okay, you want to be best friends?
I wouldn't say that.
That's terrible.
I wouldn't do that.
You didn't do that.
I didn't just say it like that, but I got really close and then, you know.
So you were forward.
You said, hey, honey, you want to go to the sock hop this Friday or whatever?
I expressed interest and it did not.
And she said, no, I want to go chill with Giga Chad.
And then you were like, okay, let's keep chatting then.
Basically.
Wow.
My advice is be forward.
If it doesn't work out, step back a little bit.
Yeah.
Go make somebody out of yourself.
Yeah.
And then try again.
That's what I did.
Wow.
And it worked out.
Become a TikTok star.
Become a TikTok star.
Work for the future president of the United States, Michael Knowles.
Come on.
You make me blush, except I'm too tan right now, so it covers it up.
And then final step is get on yes or no with him, and then you'll...
And that will truly end your relationship in the moment.
Okay.
Would it be unchivalrous to tell the audience which one is your girlfriend?
She's going to get mad at me, but not.
Would it be unchivalrous if I...
Give her the spotlight.
She deserves it.
All right, Justin, do you want to say hello?
Wow.
I made it out.
Was that good advice?
Yeah.
Boom.
Okay.
I told you.
You're right.
It worked.
It worked in the long run.
The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
Exactly.
It bends toward destiny, some would say.
Wow.
Here we go.
Should Judaism have its own pope called the Rabbi Maximus who lives in the Oivetican?
And instead of the mitre or the Saturno, it's like a big strimal.
Like a big white strimal.
Wow.
What do I think?
I love a good pun.
You love a good pun?
I love a good pun.
Okay.
What are we thinking here?
Okay.
Yeah.
You love a good pun, but you love reverse psychology.
And you doubled down on that, I love a good pun way too much.
You forget, I work with you every day.
You walked in here, you were like, oh, I'm not taking that.
Do you think the Jews should have a pope?
No, I don't.
Why not?
Because they already have one?
Wow.
Unfortunately not, no.
In the Old Testament, Moses outlines 70 elders that get to...
give advice to the people of Israel and, you know, and that really spread out through the rabbis and everything like that.
But there is no, like, besides the Messiah, there is no, like, definitive singular figure who Like in the old days, like King David or something?
there were kings, but you look at King Saul, he was opposed by the prophets and people looked to the prophets.
They didn't just look, they didn't look, they didn't look to King Saul as if he was, if he was, you know.
Yeah.
Listen to sometimes the cardinals Okay, all right.
No Oye Vedican.
Hey, hold on.
Hold on.
Before we go any further, you need to go to dailywire.com slash shop so that you can get your copy of the Yes or No Game.
You can figure out who knows whom best among your family and friends.
You can drink.
You don't have to drink.
You could play it totally dry.
You will get the cards.
You will get a little scoring mechanism.
You'll get the game pieces.
But Professor Jacob is not yet included.
Back to it.
All right, professor.
Now it's time for rapid fire.
It's kind of dramatic.
Let's do it.
I'm going to read you a series of prompts.
You are going to respond back to back to back.
30 seconds.
Is playing Fortnite as an adult a turnoff to women?
You have to be honest.
Yes, obviously.
Did you stop wearing a yarmulke because you're afraid it'll cause a bald spot?
Yes, it obviously will.
Do Jews run Hollywood?
You gotta be truthful.
Obviously they do.
These are the easiest questions.
These are so obvious.
Alright, well it didn't help me at all because I didn't get any extra points.
Alright, you're up.
Yeah.
Alright.
We're doing rapid fire again.
Ready?
Yes.
Are Zins more addictive than cigars?
Is Revenge of the Sith better than Barbie?
Would 100 Professor Jacobs win in a fight with a gorilla?
100 Professor Jacobs.
One hundred Professor Jacobs.
Yeah!
How did you not know?
I said...
On the show, I said that there's no number of men without weapons who could beat the gorilla.
That's the major premise.
Minor premise.
Professor Jacob is a man.
Conclusion.
Professor Jacobs, I don't care if there's a million of you, you can't beat the gorilla.
I thought you'd have more faith in me, man.
I don't.
Okay.
I do not.
It's nothing on you.
You do Krav Maga.
You do a little jujitsu.
The next time that we go traveling and you ask me to be your bodyguard, I'm going to say, I can't handle these people.
Sorry, get a gorilla.
Go get the gorilla.
Yeah, all right.
All right, Professor, are you aware of the rules in this final round?
I am.
I don't know that I am, but from memory, This could decide the game.
And I'm going to read the prompt.
We both answer as we would answer.
Then we move the glasses to guess how the other person would answer.
And then I'm going to win, and my face is going to be on your car.
Oh, no.
Ready?
I'm ready.
Okay.
Would Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan, which would have been four times larger than any proposed U.S. military operation in history, have been morally better than dropping the atomic bomb?
Morally better, meaning less morally dubious.
Would it have been less morally better likely?
You're going to lock in your answer?
What if I already did?
You already locked in your answer.
Yes.
I think I have to move your drink.
Yeah, probably.
I'm not saying it's not exactly a complex issue, but the targeting of civilians is morally sus.
I agree, but...
And if you look at it from the eyes of the president at the time, he had to make a decision.
The Japanese, who refused to surrender, they're going to lose a certain amount of people in this war.
Or I'm going to send my boys, the sons of the citizens, of the moms, of the dads that are hard workers in my country, I'm going to send three times that to Japan and they're going to die just because I don't want to.
It's war, Michael.
They shouldn't have bombed Pearl Harbor.
But we're talking about the moral justifications here.
That's my moral justification.
Yeah, they shouldn't have bombed Pearl Harbor.
But you say, well, the Japanese are going to lose a certain number of people.
But people aren't all interchangeable.
So there's a difference in war between targeting civilians and targeting combatants.
Correct.
And this actually is central to So with the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were targeting civilians.
With a planned invasion, they'd be targeting It's a little dubious.
It's a little morally dubious, okay?
And the reasoning that you're taking up is utilitarian reasoning, which is morally not quite right.
I don't know.
I think you should prioritize Americans before you prioritize people that started a war with your country.
Should we, to end a war faster, if you could end a war faster by nuking the entire civilian population of a country, and it would end the war faster, or you'd have to drag the war out another three months by only fighting armed combatants with proportionality and right intentions and all the rest.
would it be justified to nuke the whole civilian population?
If I was the president of the United States and I was faced If I was told that if I dropped that bomb on that area to end the war, the amount of people that would die is a fraction of the amount of my own soldiers that are going to die?
That's not the question I asked you.
I asked you a more illustrative question.
Would you nuke the entire civilian population of a country if it would end the war faster and save many, many lives of your own soldiers?
More soldiers than civilians?
That's my question.
Sure.
It would save more of your civilians.
But you'd have to nuke the entire...
You'd have to nuke the entire civilian population.
would you do it?
I'm not saying, look, I'm not trying to push this off as it's like something easy, but if I'm going to be the leader It's a yes.
It's a yes.
Wow, okay.
I would.
Got to pull back our Cicero, huh?
All right, yeah.
Did I move Michael's glass to yes?
No, no.
I moved his glass to no.
Yes!
Wait.
Yes!
Wait, wait, wait.
Did I?
Was it more?
Let's go!
Oh!
Suck it!
Go back to the tape.
Wait, go to the question.
Go to the tape.
Go to the question.
I don't know what I did.
I'm hammered.
He can say he doesn't know.
Go back to the tape.
Did I get my points?
Let's go, kid.
Okay, baby.
Good luck.
Good luck on your last one and enjoy your new car modification.
Guess what it's going to be?
You're putting my mug on your car seat.
That's what you're doing.
You're getting rid of the girlfriend one and you're putting my beautiful face stitched in pink on your car seat.
That's what's going on.
You're up, kid.
Let's go, Reese.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Final question.
Was thou shall not worship any graven image originally written in the lesser known Hebrew tongue-in-cheek sense explaining why it's not blasphemous when Catholics do it?
Was thou shall not worship any graven image originally written in the lesser known Hebrew Can you translate?
Yeah, yeah, let me try to translate from Davies.
"Now shall I worship any graven" originally written in the lesser known Hebrew tongue-in-cheek sense explaining why it's not.
He's an iconoclastic Protestant and he's accusing Catholics, like you would do too, of Is it okay to have icons in a Catholic church?
And I have to guess how you would answer.
But I know how you would answer, sucker.
So you're going to have to change a car seat.
Unless you're a liar and commit an evil sin and break a different commandment.
But now you're going to have to get a new car seat.
We ready?
Start the clock.
Okay, hold on.
I want to make sure I don't make the same mistake you did.
was thou shalt not worship any grave image, originally written in the tongue-in-cheek sense, explaining why Catholics say okay.
Professor Jacob would say, You've got to put like in your answer.
Unless you want to be a filthy liar and burn in hell forever.
What do you want to do?
I don't want to do that.
What do you want to do?
Is making me take a sin worth burning in hell forever?
No, it's not.
You ready?
You ready?
No!
You lose even more points!
because it's not written in a tongue-in-cheek sense, it just plainly doesn't mean what the Protestants and some of the Jews It's not tongue-in-cheek.
What does it mean?
A graven image, an idolatrous, dumb idol that the Canaanites worshipped like a Baal is not the same thing as venerating an image.
Because all human communication, all human thought is mediated by images.
Even if you close your eyes in a perfectly whitewashed room and you pray to God, you're going to have some The icons in the church that you're referring to,
where are the things they represent currently?
Where are they right now?
Certain images are of, like, saints and things.
So there might be relics of the bodies of saints.
But, of course, a human being is soul and body together, and at death are soul and body separate.
But, you know, like an icon of St. Thomas, for instance.
Where is St. Thomas right now?
Well, his soul is in heaven and his body is on earth and in reliquaries all over the world.
It's good that you mention in heaven and in earth, because, you see, you talk about how, you know, I'm Jewish, isn't that?
We both share the Ten Commandments.
Yes.
And what does the Ten Commandments say about making a graven image of something that's in the heavens above or on the lands beneath?
What book of the Bible is that?
That is the book of Exodus.
Book of Exodus, okay.
The Ten Commandments.
And what else is in the book of Exodus?
In the book of Exodus?
Yeah.
I know what you're going to say.
You're going to talk about the graven image of the angels on the side of the...
Hold on.
You're telling me, you're telling me, right at almost exactly the same time that God tells the Israelites, don't make...
He immediately tells you to craft images of angels who are in heaven.
So my interpretation of that would mean, okay, well then that means that God, because God can't contradict himself, this is like the first principle of, you know, it's Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction, from which we have to reason, that would mean that God cannot be He's saying don't create any idols, because idols are very wrong, but images are just the way that our experience of the world is mediated.
One evidence of this is that immediately after God says don't do this thing that you think he's saying, he immediately tells you to do that exact thing.
And God would not do that because we're not Muslims and we don't believe that Allah is pure will, unbounded by reason.
Producer Davies is probably going to have to stop us because this might go for a while.
I'm going to give a counterpoint, give a hypothetical.
I understand your logic.
I understand why you believe what you believe.
Let's say the street in front of the office, the speed limit is 30 miles an hour.
Once every two years, NASCAR comes and they do an event on this street.
They shut it down.
I'm sure you've seen it.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Are you to tell me that the law that has been set before this exemption was created, right?
No, no, no.
These moral laws are from all time.
Okay.
They're eternal.
God's moral law is not bound by time.
It's not constantly changing, like the lib sign.
Morality is always a balding man.
But what I'm trying to say, you're saying that the...
I understand.
We can have icons.
You can have icons.
Okay.
Not icons, but icons.
My question now to you is what you're essentially saying is because the police gave permission to the NASCAR to go fast down the street for one specific instance, the law that existed before to not speed on that street after NASCAR is over, I can go ahead and speed down the street as many times as I want.
That would be an interesting rebuttal if...
But he doesn't say, "Except for this one time when I'm telling you to." That part, you're just adding that in, like some people add words to the Bible.
Adding it in?
Yeah.
There's no "except for this one time" that's a really special case and only this time.
Does the word "except" change everything?
It certainly would.
How would it?
Because in what God says, "Do this, don't do this, and do this." So you say, "Okay, well, how do I reconcile these two things?" They're not in contradiction with each other, okay, so let me try to make sense of it.
If merely he had said, don't do this except this time, then I have no paradox to resolve.
That's not what happens here.
So it would seem to me, especially just reasoning from the fact that we always have images, we're always arguing for, we're always mediating our ideas and our discourse through images, that there's no problem with images.
The problem is with images.
And so, even for instance, even with the exception, would you say that the cherubim that the ancient Israelites were ordered to carve for the ark, would you say that those are idols?
Does God command that the Israelites construct an idol?
I think if the...
They're not God.
They're not God exactly.
But it's a graven image.
But to create an image used in liturgy, the liturgy of going through the desert, the Exodus, which is the figure of all history, would that not… Isn't your objection as a Jew to the images and the statues in the Catholic churches that they're idolatrous?
Or is that not your objection?
My objection is that they're not idolatrous because God specifically commanded them to create it.
But are the images in the Catholic churches idolatrous?
In the Catholic churches?
Yes.
Why are they idolatrous?
Why could they not be?
You just said that the statue in the Ark is not idolatrous because God said to create it.
Let's say God did not say to create it.
Let's say that the Israelites misinterpreted and they just created it on their own.
Would the statue in the Ark necessarily be idolatrous?
Would it be an idol?
Or is there something, or is there a distinction between an idol and...
a different kind of statue of something in heaven.
It depends how the Hebrews would view the angels on the side of the So are the images in the Catholic Church necessarily idolatrous?
Or does it depend on how the Catholics view the images?
But just because something's not classified as an idol doesn't mean that it's an exception from the rule in the Ten Commandments not to make any graven images.
Right, right.
I don't think it's an exception.
That's the prohibition of a physical act.
But, okay, so you're saying that the images and the statues in the Catholic Church are not necessarily idols.
It depends upon how the Catholics view them.
I mean, I think If that's true for the Israelites, that's true for the Catholics, isn't it?
I'm going to get some hate for this because I...
Let's go.
I'm going to get some hate.
I love my Catholic friends to death.
I'm going to put that out there.
I love them.
But I think the only idol that I would name would be Jesus on the crucifix because that's perceived to be God.
And to make an image of God is idolatrous.
So you're not saying it's idolatrous specifically because of the Catholics, right?
Correct.
And you're not even saying it's idolatrous because you...
But you're saying that to make any image of God would be idolatrous.
I think, yeah, any image of God would be idolatrous.
Why?
Because it specifically says, God is not...
God, first, to get into the specifics, God says he's not a man in the Old Testament.
And I think he specifically says that he's not a man so that we don't look to man to In the book of Exodus, book of Deuteronomy.
What does he say specifically?
I'm not saying both.
I'm saying it's one of them.
I can't remember which book that's in.
But he says he's not a man specifically.
Not a man who changes his mind.
Immutability, he doesn't change.
But could you make an image of a thing without confusing the image for the thing itself?
Do you ever write down the word God?
Of course I write down the word God.
But that's an image.
to represent God.
But graven means to construct out of like a...
I mean, I don't know if I would consider script an image.
It is an image.
Because you communicate with the Bible script.
I don't know if writing the Bible is a sin.
But you wouldn't say it is.
You would say it's not a sin.
just as making other kinds of images that represent God but are not taken to be God or not since.
No, I just, I think you draw a little bit, like you cut too many corners to try and get around the I'm just explaining what signs and symbols are.
You're taking a commandment that says not to make good.
Yeah.
Which they made something that was supposed to represent God in heaven.
Yeah, yeah.
And he punished, they killed a bunch of people for it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is a commandment given right after that, not to make any graven images.
He specifically says, nothing in the heavens, nothing on the earth, nothing.
And then he tells you to make an image of something in heaven.
Correct.
And then I'll just reference you back to the NASCAR example I gave you.
It's like just because he gives you specific permission to do something at a certain time doesn't mean that the laws that he specifically outlined being eternal are null and void.
He says that murder is wrong.
He says that murder is wrong.
Yeah.
But he also told the Israelites to go into Canaan and not spare anybody when they go in and take over.
Yeah, that was a justified war.
That gets us back to our justified war point.
But you know what else it gets us back to?
I'm reminded of this.
What?
Speaking of creating images.
Not of anything in heaven, yet.
You've got to make an image of something on Earth.
You've got to make a nice, beautiful icon.
This little terrestrial mug.
And you've got to stitch that in pink on your car.
And I'm going to have to be smiling.
And I'm going to look like this.
Can I say that's against my religion?
You can say that all you want, but you're stitching it.
Just like this.
This is what it's going to look like on Professor Jacob's car.
Destiny, I'm very sorry about that.
She says it's okay, too.
There you go.
All right, now you've got two.
Professor Jacob, thank you for joining me on today's episode of Yes or No.
Everyone should go check out his Instagram, @JacobFalach.
And Professor, is your TikTok still I haven't used that thing in like a year.
They banned me seven times.
Seven times, lost like half a million followers.
And then I was like, you know what?
They banned my biggest account because I talked about gas prices.
That's it?
Hold on.
Of all the things you've talked about, gas prices.
They banned me because of a video talking about gas prices under Biden.
And the reasoning was child endangerment.
Wow.
What does that even mean?
I don't know.
Making you drink on this show, I think today it qualifies as child endangerment.
Yeah, especially.
And then putting you behind the wheel of that Camaro with my face on it, that might be endangerment too.
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Here's a headline from The Fortune.
The Vatican asked all Pope Francis funeral attendees to wear black.
Trump wore a blue suit.
Oh my God.
I mean, this is the worst thing.
You just made an image of God, by the way.
How dare Trump be the only person at this funeral wearing a blue suit instead of black like the Vatican asked.
Let me show you something.
This right here is the image that the fortune used.
Pretty damning, right?
Trump is the only one in frame wearing a blue suit.
Now here is the full image, zoomed out.
There is a sea of people wearing a blue suit.
But it's not just a sea of random people.
If we zoom in a little bit, we'll see that your boy Joe Biden is wearing a blue suit as well.
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