Transcript [00:00] This episode is brought to you by [00:01] Cardiff, America's favorite small [00:02] business lender with over 12 billion [00:03] funded since 2004. Apply in under three [00:06] minutes for same day funding up to [00:07] 500,000 at cardiff.co/nolles. [00:10] Secretary of State Marco Rubio marks [00:12] October 7th with a speech for the ages [00:14] at the Acropolis. And the Muslim commie [00:17] mayor of the most Jewish city in America [00:19] marks the day by talking about how much [00:22] he hates Israel. Then speaking of [00:24] religion, a city council meeting in Iowa [00:27] opens with an invocation to Satan. And [00:29] most shocking of all, President Trump [00:32] reveals that he buys his suits at Joseph [00:34] A. Bank. I'm Michael Nolles. This is the [00:35] Michael Nolles show. [00:44] [music] [00:52] [music] [00:55] Welcome back to the show. The story that [00:57] will not die. There's another update in [00:58] the case of the Cornell 7. 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Okay, before we [02:53] get into the magnificent speech from the [02:55] secretary of state at the Acropolis [02:57] before we get into some of the other [02:59] speeches, President Trump gave a great [03:01] speech. Uh before we get to Natcon [03:04] Jerusalem on October 7th and Mam Donnie [03:06] and all the rest, I want to thank [03:08] everybody for the prayers and [03:10] congratulations. My fourth child was [03:12] born yesterday. Uh first baby girl, [03:15] Nolles. Very exciting. I did not wait [03:17] for you all to light my celebratory [03:19] cigar. Very, very exciting. Uh you're [03:23] probably thinking I'm a horrific husband [03:25] and father because I'm here right now [03:27] with all of you. I just love you so [03:29] much. I I will go back. I will go back [03:31] to the hospital to be with my wife and [03:33] daughter after this, but I couldn't miss [03:34] a show. It was too exciting. And plus, I [03:37] couldn't smoke a cigar at the hospital. [03:39] Do you know back when I was born and we [03:42] were a proper country, you could smoke a [03:44] cigar at the hospital. Did you know [03:46] that? A lot of people don't even [03:47] remember this. You could smoke at a [03:49] hospital until 1993. [03:52] And then President Bill Clinton ruined [03:55] everything. Bill Clinton, how ironic is [03:57] that? Bill Clinton known as something of [03:58] a cigar afficionado himself though he [04:01] didn't he didn't smoke them exactly but [04:03] he liked cigars anyway we don't we're [04:05] talking enough about Cornell we don't [04:06] have to get into that Bill Clinton [04:08] ruined it now we're not a proper country [04:09] so I anyway I had to smoke the cigar on [04:11] my drive up and with all of you to cover [04:14] some really really amazing stuff Marco [04:17] Rubio was at the Acropolis by the way [04:21] just last bit on the cigars if you want [04:23] the beautiful Mayflower smoking jacket [04:25] pre-orders end in one This is the [04:27] coveted Mayflower smoking jacket made in [04:30] uh collaboration with Shephardds, a [04:33] magnificent men'swear company with [04:35] fabric from Komo, Italy at the very best [04:37] mill. And it's made to measure. It's a [04:39] bespoke garment. 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There's a lot of [05:26] significance to that date. But the [05:29] tie-in to the Acropolis is that 3 years [05:31] ago was not the first time that October [05:33] 7th became synonymous with a Muslim [05:37] attack. Uh the first time goes back to [05:40] 1571, the battle of Leanto, when the [05:42] Ottoman Turks very nearly took over [05:45] Europe. There have been three occasions [05:47] when the Muslims nearly conquered all of [05:49] Europe. The first time was the battle of [05:50] Poier. They were uh taken back. They [05:53] were finally beaten back by Charles [05:55] Martell, Charles the Hammer, grandfather [05:57] of Charlemagne. Second time was the [05:59] Battle of Leanto in Greece. That was [06:01] October 7th, 1571. The third time was in [06:05] 1683. It was the Battle of Vienna, [06:07] largest cavalry charge in history. That [06:09] was September 11th, 1683. So even when [06:12] you see these dates crop up again and [06:13] again with Muslims in history, they do [06:15] that. That's the sort of thing that they [06:16] do. Osama bin Laden referred to that [06:18] date actually as to one of the reasons [06:20] why they chose September 11th. Uh so [06:23] same thing here. Rubio is not just [06:25] making a point about the Muslim attack [06:27] on the state of Israel three years ago [06:29] on October 7th. He's putting this into a [06:31] broader context. Uh the speech is [06:34] absolutely phenomenal. Here's just a [06:36] little clip of it. I encourage you [06:38] though to watch the whole thing. Here's [06:39] Secretary of State. [07:45] Okay, put a pause here. Thi this is such [07:47] an important framing because the speech [07:50] could very easily have been purely [07:52] defensive say we must protect these [07:55] things because you know the Muslims [07:57] tried to take them over in 1571 here in [07:59] Greece or well they do it more recently [08:02] they've done it in recent years they [08:03] keep doing it and it's not just the [08:05] Muslims it's the leftists and it's the [08:07] communists and it's all these people are [08:09] threatening us so we need to defend [08:10] against that that's not what he's [08:12] framing this as he says hey I'm here at [08:15] a [08:17] where western civilization began and [08:20] what they were pursuing, what they were [08:22] going on the offensive for was [08:25] excellence. [08:26] Now, excellence is a really key word [08:28] here because what he's referring to is [08:31] virtue. And in the modern west, we refer [08:35] to values. Even the conservatives, [08:38] forget about the leftists for a second. [08:39] Even the conservatives will say, "We [08:40] need to defend our conservative values, [08:43] our Christian values, our [08:44] Judeo-Christian values, our Western [08:46] values, our even accepting the the [08:51] framework of values is conceding [08:53] something to the left because there's a [08:55] big difference between a value and a [08:58] virtue. A value is a modern idea. A [09:02] value is a relative idea. It's a [09:04] subjective idea. You have your values. I [09:06] have my values. Our civilization, we [09:08] have certain values, but other [09:10] civilizations have their own values. [09:12] Virtue is different. Virtue is older. [09:15] Virtue is classical. And virtue is [09:18] objective. Virtue is just excellence. [09:22] Virtue, you you have athletic virtues. [09:25] The New York Yankees didn't show very [09:26] many of them last night when they were [09:28] eliminated in the ALDS. Uh luckily, my [09:31] daughter was born that day, so that it [09:32] was a good day on the whole, but it was [09:33] a little rough night. You had athletic [09:35] virtues in ancient Greece. You had moral [09:37] virtues. You can have political virtues. [09:39] But they're objective. We can know [09:41] something about them. We can be [09:42] confident. They're about something [09:44] outside of us. Something that is pulling [09:46] us to be greater than just our own uh [09:49] inclinations and our own uh individual [09:52] desires. And he's saying, "No, no, no. [09:54] What we stand for is solid. It's [09:57] excellence. We could know it. Other [09:59] people should be like us, and we should [10:02] uh defend them. Not just because we like [10:04] them or they suit our preferences, but [10:06] because they are true and there is [10:08] something about them that is perennial, [10:09] even eternal. Keep going. [11:21] put a pause here. There's been uh [11:23] commentary in certain quarters about the [11:26] threat of postliberalism [11:29] or whatever this Christian nationalism, [11:33] all these kind of populism, all these [11:35] isms that are united in as much as they [11:39] supplant the old kind of squishy liberal [11:42] neoonservative GOP consensus. There's [11:45] been a lot of talk about that and some [11:48] people have even tried to put forward [11:49] Marco Rubio as an exemplar of the [11:52] liberal neoconservative establishment [11:55] order contrary to people like President [11:58] Trump or JD Vance or any other number of [12:01] people in the Trump administration or [12:03] the conservative movement. And what [12:05] Rubio is showing here is [12:08] he's one of the real conservatives. He's [12:11] not he's not a lib. He's not going to [12:13] just be some neoconservative [12:15] establishment type because you you have [12:18] we have the justosition of value versus [12:20] virtue. Here we have the justosition of [12:22] liberalism [12:24] versus a more classical conception of [12:27] politics. Politics ordered toward [12:29] excellence, ordered toward the common [12:30] good, ordered toward the advancing of [12:32] our civilization. Liberalism, [12:35] not just in its modern leftist [12:37] progressive form, but liberalism [12:39] generally, even in the classical form, [12:42] establishes what Leo Strauss called a [12:45] low but solid ground. So, we're not [12:48] necessarily going to reach for the [12:49] highest things. We're not necessarily [12:51] going to pursue virtue. We're not [12:53] necessarily going to weigh in on the [12:55] matters that really move the human heart [12:57] and that concern the human mind. No, no. [12:59] We're going to establish a low but solid [13:02] ground of mere economic power of of [13:05] appeal to mere private interest. And you [13:08] know, we might not hit the very heights [13:10] anymore, but it's going to be a really [13:12] nice stable political order. And what [13:14] Rubio's saying in this speech is no, no, [13:17] no, no. We don't want the low but solid [13:18] ground. We want to look up. We want to [13:21] be like the builders of the parthonon. [13:22] We want to build up. We want to strive [13:24] for excellence. We want to strive for [13:25] virtue. We want to be better than [13:27] others. And we want others to look to us [13:30] as an example and to build themselves up [13:32] to. That's what we want. Rubio obviously [13:35] is Catholic, so he's approaching this [13:37] from a Christian framework. But but this [13:39] kind of speech would appeal to people [13:40] who are not Christian. This would appeal [13:42] to ancient Greeks, the kind of men who [13:44] built the parthonon. Uh this is a really [13:47] really important speech because what it [13:51] is is signaling to the American right is [13:54] sorry you guys thought I was your last [13:55] best hope to go back to the old squishy [13:57] consensus the kind of neocon kind of [13:59] libertarian kind of just make money and [14:02] ignore all the big issue stuff. I ain't [14:04] doing that. Hey, did you get the [14:05] message? I'm standing in front of the [14:06] freaking parthonon. We're going to build [14:08] up. We're not going to accept low but [14:10] solid ground. We're not going to accept [14:11] just mere peace and safety. We're going [14:13] to be excellent. and keep going. [14:26] Put a pause here. Sorry, I know I'm [14:28] going to have to stop every 10 seconds [14:29] in this excellent speech. Well delivered [14:32] by Rubio. I'm sure he had a hand in [14:33] authoring it. Whoever the speech writers [14:35] were, excellent work. He He's getting [14:37] into thumos now. Now we're talking, [14:39] baby. Thumos is the spirited part of the [14:42] soul. It's not just the It's not just [14:45] the pure facts, logical part. It's not [14:48] just the policy wonk part. It's not just [14:50] the appetitive part. [14:53] It's the spirit. It's the chest. We say, [14:56] "No, no, no. We are, by the way, this is [14:59] not merely a classical conception of [15:01] government. This is something that the [15:02] founding fathers and the framers of the [15:04] constitution were deeply concerned [15:05] with." Uh Alexander Hamilton writes [15:09] about this at length in the Federalist [15:10] Papers that we want a spirited [15:13] government. So this is going to irritate [15:15] some of the late 20th century [15:16] libertarian types. It's going to [15:18] irritate maybe some of the [15:19] neoonservative and establishment types. [15:21] But he says, "No, no. We don't want just [15:22] a tiny little government that can fit [15:24] into our pocket that we can throw away. [15:26] We don't merely view politics as as a [15:29] thing to be contained so that we can [15:31] maximize individual autonomy to the [15:33] point that we can chop our genitals [15:34] off." No, no, no, no, no. We want [15:37] spirit. We want an active government [15:40] that is within its proper limits, but [15:42] that is doing good. And in order to do [15:45] that, you have to get beyond mere [15:46] procedural questions, mere quantitative [15:48] questions of the size of government. You [15:50] have to get to qualitative questions, to [15:51] substantive questions. What is good? [15:54] What is bad? What is excellent? What is [15:57] degraded? And we're going to pursue the [15:58] former and reject the latter. Keep [16:01] going. [16:12] Absolutely right. We're doing this not [16:14] just because we have great ambitions. [16:16] We're doing this because if we are not [16:18] actively pursuing the good, if we are [16:20] not actively building, if we are not [16:21] actively excellent, not only are we [16:24] going to stagnate, we're going to die. [16:26] Superb speech. Loved it. Very, very well [16:30] done. There's there's a sense of [16:31] something eternal here about our [16:33] civilization. And this is contrary to [16:35] the view of Karl Marx. Carl Mars said [16:36] there was nothing eternal that that we [16:38] could just change everything. We could [16:40] change human nature. We could change the [16:42] through the the development of the [16:44] science of history, nothing would remain [16:45] permanent. It was all up to our practice [16:48] to do whatever we want. We shall be as [16:50] gods. Rubio says, uh, not quite. We can [16:53] we can emulate God. We can try to be [16:54] closer to God. We can pursue the good, [16:57] but those are eternal things. and we [16:59] have to change our orientation to pursue [17:01] them. We're not going to change reality [17:04] to go into accord with our subjective [17:07] feelings. Okay? Really, really good [17:08] stuff. Now, we'll get to what mom Donnie [17:10] said on October 7th. First, though, I [17:13] want to tell you about cowboy colostrum. [17:14] Go to cowboyclustrramm.com/nollesw. [17:18] We have officially entered the time of [17:19] year when everyone starts spending a lot [17:22] more time indoors. Somehow, every person [17:24] you encounter is either coughing, [17:26] sniffling, or announcing. Don't worry, [17:27] I'm pretty sure I'm not contagious [17:29] anymore. I think it's just allergies. [17:31] Very reassuring. I hear this all the [17:32] time. I saw a chart the other day. If [17:34] you have three plus kids in your home, [17:37] you are sick. Your family has some virus [17:39] in the home like 58% of the time. 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Use code nolles at [18:27] checkout. 25% off when you use code [18:29] nolles can wle at cowboyc [18:31] colostrum.com/nolles. [18:34] So let's turn from Athens over to New [18:38] York City. New York City, a great a [18:41] great city, even though the baseball [18:42] team really blew it last night. New York [18:44] City, a place uh that I've lived in. I [18:47] grew up I was born in New York. I grew [18:50] up in New York and sad to see that New [18:52] York has become Mamdanistan. [18:54] I am not Jewish, but I have many friends [18:56] who are Jewish and New York is a very [18:58] Jewish city. And on the anniversary of [19:00] October 7th, 2023, the mayor of New York [19:03] decided to take the opportunity to [19:05] discuss how much he hates the state of [19:06] Israel. You can't make it up. I [19:08] shouldn't laugh, but you can't make it [19:09] up. He says, "This day is profoundly [19:12] painful for so many New Yorkers. It [19:14] marks 3 years since the horrific war [19:15] crimes of October 7th. On that day, [19:17] Hamas killed more than 1100 Israelis and [19:19] abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside [19:21] our many friends and neighbors who still [19:22] carry that unthinkable loss. Okay, that [19:25] was what, two sentences? Three [19:27] sentences. [19:28] Now you get this novel that he wrote for [19:30] the rest of the tweet. You get that [19:33] little the little nod to, yeah, okay, I [19:35] guess it was bad that Hamas killed all [19:36] those Jews. And then he gets into what [19:39] he really wants to say. The suffering [19:41] did not begin nor end on that day. It [19:43] instead continued through the Israeli [19:45] government's devastating ongoing [19:46] genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed [19:48] more than 74,000 Palestinians, including [19:50] more than 21,000 children. Even since [19:52] the so-called ceasefire, more than 1400 [19:54] Palestinians have been killed. That [19:55] suffering is intensified with every [19:57] Israeli bomb dropped on hospitals [19:58] waiting. Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. [20:00] Terrible. We hate Israel. Israel sucks. [20:02] Israel's the worst. I mean, I'm not [20:04] defending Hamas, but like, you know, [20:05] come on. Israel's really, really bad. 3 [20:07] years later, we must refuse to accept a [20:09] world in which occupation and apartheid [20:10] continue. Okay. Yeah. Three years later, [20:11] the lesson is Israel sucks. To honor the [20:14] dead, we must fight for a world in which [20:15] every person can live in freedom, [20:16] safety, and dignity. But I'm really only [20:18] talking about the Palestinians. And I'm [20:19] going to mostly ignore Hamas. And did I [20:21] tell you, Israel sucks. That's his [20:23] tweet. That's the mayor of New York. New [20:25] York City is some of us call it. You [20:28] know, a lot of Jewish constituents in [20:29] New York. Jews have done a lot to build [20:30] up New York. Uh even even if it weren't [20:33] a largely Jewish city. Come on, man. I [20:36] don't know. It's October 7th. How about [20:37] you save your anti-Israel invective for [20:39] October 8th? Does that sound? No. Mani [20:42] can't do it. He cannot do it. And why is [20:45] he saying this? This is the part that [20:46] people aren't getting. Mani is not just [20:49] saying this because he's an ideologue [20:51] who hates the state of Israel. Mani is [20:54] saying this because it is politically [20:57] safe to say it. In other words, Mani is [21:00] saying this because most people hate the [21:03] state of Israel now in America. And this [21:04] is something that Israel supporters [21:07] largely do not understand or refuse to [21:09] understand. [21:11] If you are ardently pro-Israel, if [21:14] you're in the Israeli government, if you [21:15] are an Israel supporter in the United [21:17] States, this should freak you out. Not [21:19] just because Zoran Mamani has an [21:20] ideology you don't like. This should [21:22] freak you out because he he is allowed [21:27] to say it because he feels he has the [21:30] political cover to say it because most [21:33] people in America today especially when [21:36] you if you just look at the left and [21:38] Republicans under 40, it's basically [21:40] everybody [21:41] kind of agrees with him. That is a very [21:44] scary fact. And that is uh one reason [21:47] why NATCON, the National Conservatism [21:50] Conference took place in Jerusalem. I [21:52] was really hoping to get out there. I [21:54] you know I really enjoy going to NATCON. [21:56] I would have loved to do it. And the [21:58] reason I could not go is because I had I [22:01] had something a little more important [22:02] going on here. Very few things that [22:04] would be more important than in a great [22:05] political event, but the arrival of my [22:07] daughter was certainly one of them. So I [22:08] did not go. A number of my friends did [22:10] go and they had some pretty tough words [22:13] for people who are concerned about the [22:15] US-Israel alliance. We'll get to that in [22:16] a second. Uh before we get to that [22:18] though, I do want to stick in America [22:20] because we're talking about religion, [22:22] Islam, Judaism, Christianity. Well, [22:24] guess what's going on in Atamwa Iowa. in [22:27] Atamlwa, Iowa, the city council opened [22:31] with a prayer, with an invocation not to [22:34] God, the God of the the Jews and the [22:38] Christians and the Muslims, uh imperfect [22:40] though some of their conceptions may be. [22:42] It didn't invoke to uh with a prayer to [22:46] Jesus Christ, the second person of the [22:48] Trinity, the incarnation of God himself. [22:52] It began with an invocation to the [22:54] devil. [22:56] It is done. Hail Satan. Let us pray. [23:00] Dear dark father, let us stand now [23:02] unbowed and unfed by arcane doctrines [23:04] born of fearful minds in darkened times. [23:07] Let us embrace the luciferian impulse to [23:08] eat of the tree of knowledge and [23:10] dissipate our blissful and comforting [23:12] delusions of old. Okay, so on the one [23:15] hand, this is the most special boy of [23:18] all of Reddit. It's weird, especially [23:21] because he's bald that he's not wearing [23:22] a fedora. He's not wearing a literal [23:24] fedora tipping his cap. Hey fellow [23:27] Satanists. [23:28] God, I don't believe in a spaghetti [23:30] monster. I, you know, like all that [23:32] mid2000s Redditer nonsense. [23:35] No, no, there's something deeper about [23:38] this. And this is something a lot of [23:40] people are not going to want to hear. [23:41] But too bad. I showed up to work today [23:43] after my daughter's birth to tell you [23:45] things that you might not necessarily [23:47] want to hear. But the the the more [23:49] perceptive among you will get this. [23:52] He's not just an edge lord, this guy. [23:55] He is taking liberalism to its logical [23:58] conclusion. You you heard that line [24:00] there? He's referring to the luciferian [24:02] impulse, you know, in the garden of Eden [24:04] to taste from the tree of the knowledge [24:06] of good and evil. [24:08] Liberalism, not just the modern [24:10] progressive kind, not just the leftist [24:12] kind, but liberalism as such is [24:16] luciferian. [24:18] it there there's a reading of John [24:20] Milton's Paradise Lost in it's the [24:22] radical romantic reading of Paradise [24:23] Lost in which Lucifer in which Satan is [24:26] the hero and I don't think that that's [24:30] really what Milton is intending. Uh [24:32] Milton is showing that in a way because [24:35] Lucifer is very tempting. He's very [24:38] attractive. He he wins people over. He [24:41] persuades them. He seduces them. And so [24:43] the Satan in Paradise Lost kind of does [24:45] that. But when Satan says it's better to [24:47] reign in hell than to rule in than to [24:49] serve in heaven, [24:52] that is what liberalism says. Liberalism [24:54] says I rather than constraining my [24:56] autonomy to follow the objective moral [24:58] order and the institutions and the [25:00] traditions, I'm going to throw all of [25:02] that away and I'm going to do whatever I [25:03] want to do. When when Lucifer says in [25:07] Paradise Lost, the mind is its own [25:09] place. It can make a hell of heaven and [25:10] heaven of hell. That's what liberalism [25:13] says. Liberalism says we can't ever know [25:14] any of these great questions [25:16] objectively. We just have to do what we [25:19] want to do. We need to come to our own [25:20] conclusions. We need to live our lives [25:23] authentically in accordance with our [25:25] desires all the way up to choosing our [25:27] own sex. We can be whatever we want. The [25:29] mind is its own place. The texts don't [25:32] have any meaning. The world doesn't have [25:33] any meaning. There's no tea laws to [25:35] human nature. No. No. We just make of it [25:37] what we will. That's liberalism. That's [25:39] basic liberalism 101. [25:42] liberalism itself. I mean, I don't want [25:44] to paint with too broad a brush. I guess [25:46] yes, I do. It's just luciferian. [25:48] Liberalism, which arose as a a [25:51] competitor ideology to displace [25:54] Christianity, which had ruled the west [25:57] for a thousand years. [25:59] We should not be surprised when [26:01] liberalism leads to the invocation of [26:04] Satan at a city council meeting. And [26:06] what what the Reddit tier atheists and [26:08] Satanists will say is, "Well, you know, [26:10] you have religious freedom. So if you [26:11] get to have a Christian prayer or a [26:13] Jewish prayer or even a Muslim prayer, [26:14] why can't you have a satanic prayer?" [26:17] Checkmate, Christians. Okay, they they [26:20] can say that, but what's your answer? [26:22] What's your response? Indeed, one of the [26:25] evidences that liberalism is luciferian [26:28] is the fact that liberalism says this [26:31] can happen. Now, of course, this is not [26:33] what the founding fathers or the framers [26:34] of the Constitution intended. This is [26:36] not what John Lock or John Milton [26:37] intended who were very early classical [26:40] liberals. Some of the arctypal classical [26:42] liberals. They all said that atheists [26:44] should should be censored. They [26:45] shouldn't have any free speech or [26:46] participate in the government. But the [26:49] working out of liberalism throughout [26:51] history has led to this. If your [26:54] political ideology, let's say that [26:55] you're a good you're a good liberal, a [26:57] good classical liberal, what is your [26:59] argument to stop the invocation to Satan [27:02] at a public institution at at at a a [27:06] house of our government? [27:08] Do you have one? Probably not. A lot of [27:10] people are going to say, "Oh, who cares [27:11] if he if he, you know, makes his [27:13] invocation to Satan?" other people who [27:15] are good liberals, they're going to say, [27:16] "Well, this is wrong, but I can't quite [27:20] say why it's wrong." And I can't quite [27:22] think of a mechanism to stop it that [27:25] would not be authoritarian or [27:27] totalitarian. Meanwhile, of course, all [27:29] the framers of the Constitution would [27:31] have run this guy out of town on a rail, [27:34] then would have deported him or killed [27:35] him. There's no question about it. But [27:39] we we're not going to do that. There's [27:40] no law that would do that. There's no [27:42] Why is that? because of a weakness in [27:45] liberalism itself, which is one of the [27:48] reasons that you've seen arise in all of [27:50] these responses. Post-lberalism at its [27:53] most basic. Post liberalism is not one [27:55] thing. Post liberalism is a lot of [27:56] different things much as Protestantism [27:58] is not one thing. It's a lot of [28:00] different things. It's just all reaction [28:02] in reaction to something. Post [28:04] liberalism is in reaction to liberalism. [28:06] Protestantism is in reaction to [28:07] Catholicism. I'm actually not I'm not [28:10] having any invective here. I'm not I'm I [28:12] I'm not drawing a connection in this [28:14] commentary between uh liberalism and uh [28:18] uh Protestantism or whatever or Satanism [28:21] or anything like that. I'm I'm just [28:22] pointing out these are negative [28:23] categories and they're arising in [28:25] response to something. Okay, one of [28:28] those responses is national [28:30] conservatism. There was a Snack-Con [28:32] conference in Jerusalem on October 7th [28:35] and there was one speech [28:38] in particular I loved. We'll get to that [28:39] in a second. First, I want to tell you [28:41] about GOP votes. Go to gopvotes.org. [28:45] The midterm elections are here. If the [28:47] DSA Democrats win, they will push a [28:49] radical socialist agenda and drown [28:50] President Trump in endless [28:51] investigations. We've seen their [28:53] playbook before. They tried impeaching [28:54] him. They tried putting him in prison. [28:56] They tried everything. Do not let them [28:58] win because if we lose, they will undo [29:00] everything our movement has fought for. [29:01] I need you to vote early. You can bank [29:03] your vote and fight back against the [29:05] left's turnout machine. Go to [29:06] gpvotes.org right now and find out when [29:09] you can vote. If you live in the [29:10] critical Senate battleground states of [29:12] Maine or Ohio, early voting is already [29:14] underway starting this week. Making your [29:16] voice heard is easier than ever. You can [29:18] get election reminders, look up your [29:19] polling location, and pick a date to [29:21] vote early. Go to goop votes.org today. [29:23] Paid for by SLFPAC, not authorized by [29:26] any candidate or candidates committee. A [29:29] lot of good speeches at the NATCON [29:31] conference. Now, I'm sure I would have [29:34] delivered the very best. No, I don't [29:35] know if I would have delivered the very [29:36] best, but I but I would have agreed with [29:38] a lot of the speakers there. Uh my pal [29:40] Matt Peterson gave a particularly good [29:42] one, I thought, as I was going through [29:44] some of the speeches in the hospital [29:46] room last night. Uh here is Matt taking [29:50] on obviously a rather urgent uh issue in [29:54] Jerusalem on October 7th, which is the [29:56] US Israel alliance. [30:00] Well, many of my evangelical friends [30:02] still here stand with Israel as a [30:04] religious duty. [30:06] For many other, and they are my friends, [30:08] uh for many other Christians in America, [30:11] the idea that their religion requires [30:12] them to support the particular policies [30:14] of another nation is deeply insulting. [30:17] Many Republicans frequently complain to [30:19] me that they're done with this dynamic. [30:21] Many, again, who support Israel want me [30:24] to convey this message. They do not [30:26] think that their Christianity requires [30:28] them to blindly support whatever [30:30] decisions Israel chooses to make and [30:32] find it condescending if anyone assumes [30:34] this is the way they should think about [30:36] it. Now, this does not mean that they [30:39] see no religious ties to the Holy Land. [30:41] It means that relying on this approach [30:43] alone to American Christians is a dead [30:45] end. I submit the way forward is frank [30:49] frank policy discussions based on [30:51] reality. This means getting clear on [30:53] where interests align and do not. Uh, [30:55] and when they do not, it's okay. [30:58] >> Excellent speech. Matt's going to get a [31:00] lot of flack for this. He's going to get [31:01] flack because he's telling hard truds. [31:04] Now, nobody can say that Natan is [31:06] anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. It's put on [31:08] in part by the Herzel Institute, [31:10] [laughter] which is the Zionist [31:11] Institute. Uh, you know, the logo is the [31:14] Star of David. And the founder of [31:16] national conservatism is a superb [31:18] Israeli philosopher Yoram Hzone who [31:20] wrote that great book, The Virtue of [31:21] Nationalism. But but there is a whole [31:25] gamut of people who could listen to [31:26] Matt's speech here and be really edified [31:28] by it. some of the people who are [31:30] skeptical of the Israel alliance, who [31:32] feel that the the Israel alliance is [31:34] costing America more than it's [31:36] benefiting us, uh who don't like the the [31:39] the moral uh I don't know slogans, the [31:43] moral doineering that you have from the [31:44] pro-Israel side that suggests that the [31:46] United States has some always and [31:48] eternal obligation, moral obligation to [31:51] support the state of Israel, whether [31:52] because of theology or something else. [31:54] What Matt is saying here is that is not [31:56] resonating with people. The polls [31:58] completely bear that out. And people [32:02] understandably who listen to George [32:03] Washington, the same George Washington [32:05] who wrote the letter to the Hebrew [32:06] congregation saying that Jews are [32:08] welcome as full participants in the [32:09] American project, that same George [32:11] Washington said, "Avoid entangling [32:12] alliances." So people have a reasonable [32:16] uh take if if they're somewhat skeptical [32:18] of the Israel alliance. And you know who [32:21] else could be edified by that speech? [32:22] people who are super duper pro- Israel [32:24] because they're looking at the support [32:26] of Israel in the United States [32:27] collapsing, especially among younger [32:28] people on both sides of the aisle. And [32:30] what Matt is saying is if you want to [32:32] preserve something like that alliance, [32:34] you need to try another tactic. The old [32:37] slogans of the 1990s are just not [32:39] working anymore. And so we need to [32:42] ground uh support for that alliance on [32:45] things that are really tangible. When [32:47] our interests align, we point that out. [32:50] when they don't align, we don't push the [32:52] issue on real politique on uh imperial [32:56] interests between the United States, [32:57] Russia and China, between uh economic [33:02] interests of the United States, [33:03] strategic interests of the United [33:05] States. It's got to be more tangible. [33:06] You have to speak a different language [33:08] if you want to stop the collapse in the [33:09] polls. Here is more of Matt. [33:13] I understand that the the desire to call [33:16] out hatred, [33:18] but here's the problem. Uh, denouncing [33:20] anti-semitism in America in the abstract [33:23] these days is much like calling an [33:24] opponent racist. [33:26] Both terms have been hallowed out by the [33:29] left. The ADL, for instance, has long [33:32] since lost any power over the right by [33:34] attacking figures like Donald Trump, [33:35] Elon Musk, and TPUSA, which is why the [33:38] FBI cut ties with them last year. We [33:41] have a boy who cried wolf problem in [33:43] America and the West. The left makes [33:45] accusations like this all the time and [33:47] the younger rising right doesn't care [33:48] about being called names or abstractists [33:51] or isms from any side. And frankly, [33:53] neither do I. [33:55] But I don't. Yes, thank you. [applause] [33:59] But I do not mean to tell anyone to be [34:01] silent. Far from it. On the contrary, if [34:03] we're going to sort through the noise, [34:04] my advice is to stop using abstract [34:07] categories and isms andists and istics. [34:10] Call out and argue instead about [34:11] specific statements and positions you [34:13] think wrong or evil. Instead, ask [34:16] specific questions to specific people. [34:18] Bingo. Cheers. Spot on. Spot on. I I am [34:24] quite concerned with the spike in [34:25] anti-semitism in the United States, just [34:27] as I would be concerned with a spike in [34:28] unjust racism. I I don't I think the the [34:31] anti-semitism is a little more [34:33] pronounced at the moment, certainly on [34:34] the left, but even on the right. uh [34:37] various forms of racism ranging from the [34:39] benign to the to the deeply unjust. You [34:43] know, there that's a little less [34:44] pronounced. So, I'm concerned about [34:46] that. But I think Matt is entirely right [34:48] when he says just calling someone [34:50] anti-semitic, calling some idea in the [34:52] abstract anti-semitic, it's not going to [34:54] do anything. It's not helping. Look at [34:55] the numbers. Pew research found that [34:57] unfavorable views of the state of Israel [35:00] rose from 42% in 2022 to 60% in March of [35:04] this year. Among Republicans under 50, [35:07] 57% now hold an unfavorable view. A [35:10] clear majority of Republicans under 50. [35:13] It's not Republicans under 20 or 30. [35:14] It's 50. That's a lot. That's the [35:18] majority of even remotely plausibly [35:21] young. Middle middle middle-aged and [35:23] under Republicans. So what Matt is [35:25] saying is no no calling people [35:28] anti-Semitic just generally doesn't [35:31] work. So then there's going to be this [35:32] response which says, "Well, what? You [35:34] just want us to shut up in the face of [35:35] rising anti-semitism. We're not going to [35:36] do that. And Matt says, "That's not what [35:37] I'm telling you to do. That's certainly [35:39] not what I'm telling you to do." Oh my [35:40] goodness. Look at me here. I'm here at [35:42] the National Conservatism Conference in [35:43] Jerusalem. What I'm telling you to do is [35:47] try a a more effective tactic. Your [35:50] tactic is clearly not working. Your [35:52] tactic is having exactly the opposite of [35:54] the intended effect. And I'll tell you [35:56] exactly why. It's the same thing that [35:58] happened to racism. It's not that [35:59] there's no such thing as unjust racism. [36:01] It's that the left completely hollowed [36:03] out that term and so it's useless. It is [36:05] completely impotent. And a similar thing [36:07] has happened with anti-semitism. And the [36:09] ADL, by the way, has a lot of blame for [36:11] that. And the left largely has a lot of [36:13] blame for that. Okay. So, what do you do [36:15] now? Matt says, voice your concerns. [36:17] Make your arguments, but be specific [36:20] about it because specific arguments [36:22] about specific people, saying specific [36:24] things with specific policies, they are [36:27] much more likely to have an effect. So, [36:29] so true. And then Matt gets to young men [36:33] and this is a an issue that is bigger [36:36] even than the question of anti- [36:38] anti-semitism or the USIsrael alliance. [36:42] Understand where many of the young men [36:44] on the right are coming from. As Steven [36:47] Miller posted uh within the last 24 [36:50] hours from the White House, a nation is [36:52] its people. This has always been true. [36:55] This will always be true. But if you [36:58] were a young white American, you have [37:00] grown up in an education system and [37:02] culture that celebrated both mass [37:05] migration to America as well as [37:07] organized tribalism in America among all [37:10] those being imported there. An [37:12] educational system and political culture [37:14] that encouraged every ethnicity to join [37:17] together as an interest group against [37:18] oppression from well you. [37:23] They have been told that they must [37:24] apologize for their whiteness and that [37:26] they if they were ever to act as a group [37:27] like everyone else in America they see [37:29] as trained to do and celebrated for [37:31] doing, they are evil or Nazis. And this [37:34] anti-white sentiment and discrimination [37:36] has had very predictable results. Now, [37:39] I'm not going to go into this in detail [37:41] other than to say I'm not happy or [37:43] sanguin about the tribalization of [37:44] America, but this is the reality in [37:47] which young people have been born into. [37:49] a reality in which World War II is as [37:51] far away as the Civil War was to those [37:54] who fought in that conflict. [37:56] >> Phenomenal, phenomenal point. [37:59] He says, "Look, these young men, these [38:00] young white men in particular, have been [38:02] raised in a culture that has said that [38:04] everybody needs identity politics except [38:06] for you. And the reason that everybody [38:08] needs identity politics is to fight you. [38:10] They're they're going to impose identity [38:12] politics upon you, young white men. [38:14] They're going to view you as a discrete [38:16] group, but you're not allowed to view [38:18] yourselves that way. And don't you dare [38:20] even consider doing that because uh we [38:22] need to destroy you first. We need to [38:24] call whiteness evil. We need to call [38:27] masculinity toxic. And we need to blame [38:30] every single problem on you. We need to [38:31] discriminate against you by the law and [38:33] with the encouragement of the popular [38:35] culture. [38:37] In other words, these young men are [38:39] responding to real political phenomena. [38:43] And you might not like those political [38:45] phenomena. I certainly don't like those [38:47] political phenomena. The the young white [38:48] men definitely don't like the the [38:50] political phenomena, [38:52] but they're happening. They're real. And [38:55] burying your head in the sand is not [38:56] going to solve a thing. There is a a [38:58] kind of complimentarity between Matt's [39:01] speech in Jerusalem and Marco Rubio's [39:03] speech in Athens, which is saying, "Hey, [39:05] we have to ground our politics on things [39:08] that are real, objective, even eternal." [39:13] That's what what Matt is saying here. He [39:16] says, "It's not it's not that young men [39:18] are questioning the USIsrael alliance in [39:21] isolation. It's not that young men are [39:24] sending edgy memes and jokes to the [39:26] group chat in isolation. They're [39:28] questioning everything. Matt goes on to [39:30] say they're questioning everything. And [39:32] so you need to provide real answers to [39:34] that to real specific questions about [39:38] specific policies and people. You need [39:40] you can't assume anything. These young [39:43] men have been so maleducated. We all [39:45] have because of the absolute [39:49] insidiousness of the left which has gone [39:51] after them personally which has lied [39:54] about American history which lied to [39:56] them in a massive scandal during their [39:58] education namely COVID when they shut [39:59] down their schools and made them take [40:01] poison into their veins for no reason at [40:03] all. Yeah, no wonder they're a little [40:05] bit skeptical. [40:08] And it occurs to me listening to and it [40:10] was it wasn't just Matt speech. There [40:11] were a lot of speeches from all sorts of [40:13] people, Americans and Israelis and other [40:16] people. Europeans were there too, Jew [40:17] and Gentile alike, men and women, slave [40:20] and free. No, there were no slaves [40:22] there, but all one in Christ Jesus. Uh, [40:25] all of these speeches [40:27] gave me this takeaway, which is that [40:30] there are three groups that benefit from [40:34] dismissing young right-wing men as [40:37] Nazis. All of them. with a broad brush. [40:39] There are three groups that benefit. [40:41] Podcasters do that because they get to [40:43] up their ratings because they get to [40:44] promote sensationalism and cruelty and [40:47] nonsense and absurdity and all. So [40:50] podcasters benefit. Their their numbers [40:51] go up. Rhinos benefit because they can [40:55] try to contain the the more conservative [40:58] and classical conceptions of politics. [41:00] And leftists benefit because they've [41:02] been calling all of us Nazis. Anyone to [41:03] the right of Hillary Clinton Nazis for [41:05] 50 years. Those three groups benefit. [41:07] You know the only group that doesn't [41:08] benefit? [41:10] Conservatives. Sorry, I shouldn't say [41:12] that's the only group that doesn't [41:13] benefit. As far as I can tell, there are [41:15] three groups that that don't benefit [41:16] from that. Conservatives in America, [41:19] also Israelis and Jews. Those are the [41:22] three groups that don't benefit. And it [41:24] was a really important point that came [41:26] out of the Naton conference in [41:27] Jerusalem. So anyway, I hope I can make [41:29] it next year. We'll see. We'll see. [41:31] Sweet little Lisa, she keeps getting [41:32] pregnant, but maybe maybe next year I'll [41:34] be able to go. Okay. And so you think [41:35] that's shocking? Well, I have the most [41:38] shocking political news of any of it and [41:42] it comes from President Trump. It turns [41:43] out the president wears Joseph A. Bank [41:45] suits. We'll get to that in a moment. [41:46] First, I want to tell you about Policy [41:47] Genius. Go to policygenius.com/nollesk. [41:52] Every horror movie requires someone to [41:54] make an obviously terrible decision. The [41:56] lights go out, the basement door opens [41:58] by itself, and instead of leaving the [41:59] house, someone decides to investigate. 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That's why I'm [43:23] back in the chair right now with my [43:24] cigar with all of you. It's a beautiful [43:25] thing. shocking shocking political [43:28] content. President Trump was speaking uh [43:32] at he's doing a lot of campaign rallies [43:33] for the midterms and he shows up and [43:35] he's coming out, you know. Anyway, at [43:37] one point, you know, he's kind of in [43:38] this hero pose opening up his suit [43:41] jacket as people are wanting to do, but [43:43] the cameras spied the label of the [43:45] jacket [43:47] and it turns out that Trump wears his [43:49] suits from Joseph A. bank, which is one [43:53] of the most affordable men's wear [43:55] companies in the entire country. It's [43:57] kind of like men's warehouse. You know, [43:58] sometimes with I actually have a lot of [44:00] Joseph A. Bank clothing because I'm I'm [44:02] pretty frugal. And so, one of the [44:05] hallmarks of Joseph A. Bank is, you [44:07] know, you buy one suit and you get three [44:08] for free or whatever. It's kind of like [44:09] Men's Warehouse that way. And Joseph A. [44:11] Bank does make some suits that are a [44:12] little more expensive, but compared to [44:13] other men'sware companies, Brooks [44:15] Brothers, J Press, Paul Stewart, it's [44:17] way, way, way less expensive. And you [44:19] say, "What on earth? Why is Trump shot? [44:22] Why is Trump what is he worth? $5 [44:24] billion, seven, eight billion? Why? By [44:27] some measures, if you include the crypto [44:29] stuff, it could be tens of billions of [44:30] dollars. Why is he wearing a Joseph A [44:33] bank suit? [44:35] I have never more deeply felt that he's [44:40] just like me. For real, for real." You [44:41] know, he really I'm pretty frugal. I [44:45] like the I have a taste for the finer [44:46] things. My favorite way to get the finer [44:49] things is uh when people give them to [44:51] me. I try I I'm happy. I try to be [44:54] generous with my friends and my family, [44:56] but when it comes to spending on me, I'm [44:58] cheap. I don't have to be cheap, but I [45:00] like to be cheap. And it's the same [45:02] thing with Trump. There are these [45:04] stories of Trump being very, very [45:05] generous to people, taking care of [45:06] people's medical expenses. He doesn't [45:08] take a salary as president of the United [45:10] States. He there there's a lot of [45:11] evidence of him being very, very [45:13] generous with people. And he lo he loves [45:15] the finer things. [45:18] and he likes the finer things, [45:19] especially when he can work them as part [45:21] of his businesses. I like cigars so [45:22] much. I was spending so much money on [45:23] cigars, I had to start a cigar company. [45:25] So, I stopped spending so much money on [45:27] cigars. [45:28] And President Trump [45:30] is frugal. And that's the kind of guy I [45:33] want to be president. He's he's frugal [45:35] not because he has to be. He's frugal [45:37] for love of the game. I a love that so [45:40] much. I drive kind of an older, less [45:42] expensive car around here, and they yell [45:44] at me at the Daily Wire. I said, [45:45] "Michael," including Professor Jacob [45:46] with the stupid Camaros and he's always [45:48] crashing. He says, "Michael, get this is [45:50] embarrassing. Get a fancy car." I said, [45:51] "No way. Michael, come on. We're going [45:54] to chip in. We're going to buy you a [45:55] car. I don't want I won't take it. I [45:56] won't accept it." I like the frugality [45:59] for love of the game. That's the guy [46:02] that that explains [46:04] one [46:06] how he's so rich. You know, you got to [46:08] save pennies to spend dollars. It also [46:10] explains why he gets what lots of [46:15] Americans from lots of different [46:17] backgrounds think and experience. This [46:19] guy was born rich. He became much [46:22] richer. He has been world famous for 50 [46:26] years and he's been the most powerful [46:28] person in politics even when he was out [46:30] of office for a dozen years. [46:34] How does this guy have such a [46:35] connection? has a better connection to [46:37] broad swads of Americans than any [46:39] president in my lifetime. How does he do [46:41] it? [46:44] Joseph A. Bank is one way that he does [46:45] it. Can you imagine how high their stock [46:47] is going to jump? One last point on [46:50] this. One last point from from the [46:52] speech from I think this was a different [46:54] speech actually. Trump, you know, he's [46:56] he's called uh greedy and selfish and [46:59] egotistical and prideful and all these [47:01] things. He took a moment. He paused [47:03] during one of his speeches to make fun [47:05] of his own hair. [47:12] >> Wait a minute. [cheering] [47:18] >> Wait a minute. I'm not happy right now. [47:23] [cheering] [47:25] >> Getting a little bit thin up there. I'm [47:26] not happy. [47:27] >> He's touching his hair, looking at the [47:28] big jumbotron. [cheering] [47:30] This is not good news. Now I'm [47:32] depressed. [47:36] >> I said I look really sharp tonight. Then [47:37] I just looked at myself from the back. [47:39] This is not good. [47:41] [cheering] [47:44] Why didn't you tell me? [47:49] Why didn't you tell me? [47:50] >> Okay. Two things Trump is showing us [47:51] right here. One, he's showing us meta [47:53] politics. And I've observed this a long [47:55] time ago on the show. [47:57] Trump differed from the other [47:59] presidential candidates he ran against [48:00] in 2016 and 2020 and 2024 in that they [48:04] were all earnestly running for [48:06] president. They were doing the sort of [48:07] things you do when you run for [48:08] president. They were doing the hand [48:10] gestures and they were saying the things [48:13] and they were they were doing all of [48:14] that. And Trump did that to some degree, [48:16] too. But he added a layer to it. He was [48:20] self-consciously running for president [48:22] in as much as he would go out there. [48:24] He'd say, "Okay, I have to say [48:25] something. They tell me I have to be [48:27] presidential. DO YOU WANT IT? GET A LOAD [48:29] OF THIS. YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT as well [48:30] light up the cigarette, pull out the [48:32] stool, spotlight on him. GET A LOAD OF [48:34] THIS. This is what what they want me to [48:35] do. They want me to get a dog. Can you [48:37] would you That's what all the presidents [48:39] get dogs. I don't That's not me. I don't [48:41] think I can get a dog. I'm It wouldn't [48:43] It wouldn't be me, would it? Here's what [48:46] I got to say. The thing they want me to [48:47] say. And so he's doing a riff about [48:49] that, which reads as profoundly [48:51] authentic. [48:52] It it it reads as much more honest than [48:55] the other politicians. All those other [48:57] politicians want to say Trump lies all [48:58] the time and he'sn't lying about the w [49:00] the value of his businesses and he's [49:01] lying about his policies and he's lying [49:03] about he's exaggerating. But Trump [49:05] revealed himself to be more honest than [49:07] all the other politicians because he was [49:09] he was honestly running for president [49:12] whereas all those other guys were they [49:14] were just a layer below that. Okay, [49:15] that's one thing. The second thing he's [49:17] showing us is that he can be self- [49:18] aacing. This is a point I made and and [49:21] people have made fun of me for observing [49:22] this point, but I'm totally right about [49:23] it. They say Trump is so prideful. He [49:26] won't accept any insults. You have to [49:29] fawn over him all the time. Trump is up [49:31] there. He's giving a speech on a totally [49:32] unrelated topic. He catches a glimpse of [49:34] his thinning hair in the jumbotron. And [49:36] then he's I got to stop and he doesn't [49:38] try to hide it. He calls attention to [49:41] it. He makes it into a bit. He goes, I'm [49:43] getting a little thin up there. Now I'm [49:45] depressed. I was having a good day. Now [49:47] I'm depressed cuz I'm not looking as [49:49] good as I used to. I thought I look [49:50] good. Now I'm not looking as good. Look [49:51] at my hair. Look at my thinning hair. [49:53] Look at my age. Look at my [49:55] imperfections. [49:57] Look at what's wrong with me. That's [49:59] what he's saying. And so paradoxically, [50:02] you get Trump who's this braggard who [50:04] puts his name in gold everywhere who [50:05] ends up being the most self- aacing [50:07] politician of anybody who shows up to [50:09] the stages. [50:11] That's part of the magic. Trump showed [50:12] us this. The what the thing that totally [50:14] convinced me of this was years ago on [50:16] St. Patrick's Day. Someone asked him if [50:18] he was going to have a beer. He said, [50:18] "Me? I'm not going to have a beer." No, [50:20] I've never had a beer. I'm the only [50:21] president probably in history who can [50:23] say he's never had a beer. That sounds [50:24] like he's bragging. He says, "Could you [50:26] imagine if I did?" Gosh, that's the only [50:29] good thing you can say about me is I [50:30] never had a beer. Oh man, if I if I [50:32] drank, I'd be the worst. [50:34] That's self- aacing. That's the only [50:37] only good thing you can say about me. [50:38] Look at all my flaws. Look at my [50:39] imperfections. Whatever. I'm trying [50:41] though. I'm doing my best. Doing my best [50:43] for you guys. [50:45] crucial political skill and it it [50:48] reveals why Trump's opponents are like [50:50] wy coyote chasing the roadrunner. They [50:52] can never get him. They buy all the big [50:54] bombs and falling pianos from the Acme [50:57] Corporation and they never land on him. [50:59] They never land on him because they [51:00] don't they actually don't get what he's [51:02] doing. Okay, I have an update on the [51:05] Cornell 7. Remember I told you at the [51:06] top of the show I said I was going to [51:07] try not to get to the Cornell 7 cuz it's [51:10] so gross. Now there's now it turns out [51:12] the girl who initially said she was not [51:14] raped, then later she changed her tune [51:16] when she didn't get invited to a [51:17] Halloween party. She said she was raped. [51:18] Then the guy said, "Well, maybe we were [51:20] raped because if you were raped cuz you [51:21] were drunk, we were drunk, too. So maybe [51:23] we were raped." Anyway, one of the guys, [51:26] it appears, was like very literally, [51:28] tangibly raped by this girl. Uh, so [51:30] we're not going to get to that today. [51:31] I'm having a good day and I want to get [51:32] to that story. We'll get to that story [51:34] tomorrow. Today's theology Thursday. 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