The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1578 - S** Parties, Drugs, & Sin: COVID Rules Architect Exposed

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

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Your movie is really funny. It's really funny. By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today. It is one of the most important contributions to cinema in American history. Your goal is to conduct an investigation into something key to the culture war. There were so many great moments in there. Were these people real that are in this movie? It's a great film.

I highly recommend everybody go see this movie. Mazel Toff is, thanks. Ben's people would say. Am I Raceless? Rated PG-13 in theaters now. New York City's COVID czar, Jay Varma, has been caught on hidden camera, admitting that he violated the very public health mandates that he implemented. And boy, did he violate them. Hat tip to Stephen Crowder for the footage you're about to see.

Viewer discretion advised. I actually was the one who convinced the mayor to make it a man to. Like New York City found out that you're having sex partings during COVID? Yeah. Yeah, it would have been a real doubt. We went to some like underground, like, dance party. meet the bank in Wall Street and we were all rolling we're all taking Molly and everybody's high and I was so happy because it hadn't done that in like a year

and a half like a year or whatever and I but I was looking around being I wonder when they see you know because this was not going to be seen this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam everything right I'm kind of sneaky about because hotels and I want people gathering there because I was like running the entire floor to the city my wife and I like had one with our friends like in August of like that first summer. So we rented a hotel. It was fun.

We all like took like you know Molly and was like 10 or 9 of us and 8 to 10 of us and we're in our room and everybody was like so pent up. Oh my bet. Yeah. Because it was being like, everybody was just like stuck together and stuff like that. Yeah.

And sometimes it isn't so much about like you can treat sex or something. It's just something about like bodies being close to each other, right? Just being like naked with friends. Like everything like that like It was like the summer of 2020. You know, you know how sometimes you just like to be naked with all your friends?

And maybe you guys are like bump and uglies, but maybe you're just, maybe you're just all being naked with friends in a hotel room or in a secret rave party fueled by Molly under a Wall Street bank while you're running the COVID response that's locking everyone down and getting people fired from their. jobs if they don't comply with the mandates that you're violating to hold orgies. He goes on. So like walk around the street, he'd be out there. There wasn't any restrictions on gathering. Like, we'd gather people. The hotels didn't want it to sign parties, but they weren't going to like. Yeah. It's so funny. It's like this because I did all this like deviant, like sexual stuff. Like on TV and all this stuff. And people like aren't too afraid, aren't you embarrassed? And I was like, I know, actually. I'm like really like, I love being my authentic side.

So the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvaccinated. I don't expect the education to change your behavior. I'm just to make it really hard for you to do your job. You got me a job. You can't go to a restaurant. You can't go to school. It's like, it's going to get vaccinated. So was it technically like kind of forcing you?

Yeah. That's what you did. You force people by making it really uncomfortable. You're going to hear a lot about how this undercover footage proves Democrat hypocrisy. And it does. The people who canceled Christmas, the people who wouldn't let you visit your dying parents and grandparents, the people who wouldn't let you have a funeral for them, they were violating their own rules while you were practically imprisoned in your home. That's true.

The Democrats are hypocrites. The bigger story for me, though, is not the hypocrisy. it's actually a simpler explanation of our present political corruption. The people who rule us are drug-addled sex freaks enthrall to persistent grave mortal sin. Yes, they believe the wrong things. Yes, they read the wrong books. Yes, they fail to live up to the standards they set.

And sometimes they intentionally violate those standards and they're hypocrites, sure. But at a more basic level, they're just degenerate. they give free reign to base passions that overwhelm their reason. And so long as they do that, they're going to act like freaks, and they're going to impose their freakishness on all of us. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls show. Welcome back to the show. J.D. Vance completely destroyed a Politico reporter with facts and logic on a top election issue, which is illegal aliens and the deportation of the people who came

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total freaks. This is crazy. Maybe the craziest part of that whole video of the COVID czar in New York City talking about all the orgies he would go to and the drugs he would do while everyone else was locked up. I think the craziest part was he said, yeah, when we went, we were at this underground rave where everyone's rolling on Molly and ecstasy, and it was underneath a Wall Street bank. And I just, it was so great because I hadn't done that for like a year or a year and a half. Excuse me? Wait, hold on. You're telling me the craziest thing about being in that rave was that it had been like 12 to 18 months since you last did it. How often do you go to these things? How often, how often do the people who rule us, who impose mandates that change our lives, sometimes deprive us

of our livelihoods that prevent us from seeing our families? How often do these people go to weird, drug-fueled freak show orgies? I'm getting the impression. it's more frequently than many of us would suspect. You hear the story about P. Diddy. You hear the story about Jeffrey Epstein. You hear, I'm remembering a story going back 15, 20 years now. Dominique Strauss-Kahn when he was caught in his sex scandal over at the IMF. And even he would talk about these kind of weird.

I don't know. Are they all just, I guess nothing changes in the history of the world. You read in the Old Testament about rulers doing a ton of weird sex stuff. And you read in history books about pagan elites. and rulers and aristocrats, not very oristo, because oristo means good, and they're quite the opposite of good. They're just doing weird, deviant stuff. In that guy's own words, he says, yeah, I would be doing weird deviant stuff. But then I'd also go on TV and tell people how they had to lock down and take the vaccine. And these are the people talking about health. The people,

the people who are telling us about public health, supposedly in charge of the public health of society, are ingesting poisonous chemicals and then going to orgies. Tells you everything you need to know about our present government. Now, speaking of sin and grace on the flip side of things, President Trump is due to visit a Marion shrine with the Polish president, Duda. This would be the national shrine of our lady of Chesto Chestohova. I always mispronounce this. Our Lady of Chesterhova, which is a very important Marion shrine.

He's going to visit with this Polish conservative leader. It's supposed to happen September 22nd on a Sunday. This is a shrine in Bucks County, which is an important county to win. In Pennsylvania, a very important state to win. And I know how the news media are going to report on this. I know how many how the liberals are going to report on this. I know how the squish conservatives are going to react to this. they're going to say, how dare this man, how dare this sinner Donald Trump show up to the national shrine of Our Lady?

How dare he? President Trump has done this sort of thing before. He visited the shrine of John Paul II and was criticized by a cardinal actually for doing that. How dare this sinner show up to this important religious site? To what? which one might respond, who do you think the shrines are for? Who do you think the shrines are for? What do you think religions are for? Is it for perfect people? Is it, oh, it's for the people who've never committed a sin in their life, right? Find me that man. Our Lord comes not for the righteous, but to bring sinners to repentance. The fact that Trump, now consistently talks about God on the campaign trail after the first assassination attempt. The fact that he held up that Bible in front of St. John's Church, the fact that he has visited now, well, one shrine, he's about to visit another

important shrine. That's a good thing. It shows you a kind of humility because, you know, Trump gets this rap of being really prideful and boastful and he puts his name in gold. And he does. But he also kind of jokes about that. One gets the sense that Trump is fairly self-aware, and he recognizes his own shortcomings. The line that I keep coming back to is when he was asked about having a beer. And he said, you know, I think I'm the first president who's never had a beer. Can you imagine if I had a beer, if I were a drinker, I'd be the worst. Probably the only good thing you can say about me is I've never had a beer.

That's what he said. That's self-awareness. That's a bit of humility. The way he holds himself, even the way he talks. he's not pretending to be Pericles. He's not even pretending to be Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan had movie star, everything was good-looking, scripted perfectly, extraordinarily eloquent speaker, and very involved in the conservative movement Ronald Reagan.

Trump isn't that guy, and he doesn't pretend to be that guy. He says, look, I know a handful of things, I know how to fix things, I know how to make things a little bit better. I'm kind of a practical guy. I talk like a practical guy. He talks like a New Yorker who builds things. He says, you know, that's, that's me. Okay, take it or leave. And I'm going to try to help fix the country. And I'm going to, I'm going to do my best and I've got my flaws. And I'm going to, you know, I'm going to show up to some religious sites sometimes, too, because I'm not a perfect guy. That's, that's beautiful. But the Libs will criticize him for anything. This one takes the cake of all of the insane criticisms leveled at Trump over the years. This one's top of the list. This is from the Atlantic. a once rather prestigious liberal magazine. Trump is no Gerald Ford. No other president has used an assassination attempt

to inflame American politics the way Donald Trump does. This is by Tom Nichols, some live. They're criticizing him for almost being assassinated and then talking about it. Because Gerald Ford, there was a period of time, rather short period of time. I think it was something like 18 days. which two people tried to kill Ford.

And it didn't work, and then he wore a bulletproof overcoat for the rest of his presidency in public. And Ford didn't talk about it quite so much. And Trump has talked about how he very nearly had the back of his skull blown off, only a slight 20-degree turn of his head at the last minute, last second, prevented him from bleeding out on a stage in Pennsylvania. And then the second time they found a muzzle going through his golf course. and he's mentioned that there have been multiple assassination attempts, and he shouldn't talk about that.

Trump is no Gerald Ford. Trump, he's no Gerald Ford. The other way he's not Gerald Ford is that the Libs didn't call Gerald Ford an existential threat to democracy in the second coming of Hitler. The Libs didn't justify and encourage the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford. The Libs are tone policing the near murder of Trump. the twice near murder of Trump.

He really shouldn't talk about it like that. You know, he should really use different words to describe how his head was almost blown off after we, the Libs have called him an existential threat to our country for 10 years. I'm done with that. I'm done with these kinds of criticisms. There's so much more to say.

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assassinated. This is the way the question was asked. I don't want there to be any ambiguity. While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend? Sixty-nine percent of respondents said no. 14 percent said they weren't sure. 17 percent of respondents said it would have been better for Trump to have been slaughtered on the green. Twenty-eight percent of Democrats and answered, yes. Only 47% of Democrat respondents indicated that America would not benefit from Trump being murdered, and 25% said they weren't sure. So the Democrats are going to try to say that they have no culpability whatsoever for the attempted assassinations of Trump. Don't let them forget these

numbers. This is ammo for the water cooler, okay, when the libs try to gaslight us on this. Biden launched his presidential campaign on the existential threat that Trump plays to, or poses to democracy and how he hangs around with Nazis. That was the first campaign ad in 2020. Kamala has kept up that line of attack, including after the first assassination attempt, including after the second assassination attempt, and three and ten Democrats today wish Trump had been assassinated. So don't tell me they have nothing to do with this. I said it in a speech at Yaff that ended up getting some play in the media, but I was totally right, so I'll say it again. Political violence today is an exclusively left-wing problem in America. It's being pushed by the left from the lowest level, all the way up to the highest level, from the Antifa anarchists who threw an explosive at the building when I was about to go on stage at the University of Pittsburgh, all the way up to the president of the United States, who has justified these assassination attempts, all the way up to Kamala Harris. the vice president who's currently the nominee who bailed violent rioters out of jail when they burned down Minneapolis during the George Floyd riots. These people promote political violence. And it's not right-wingers and it's not centrists and independents. It's the left that's doing it in every single case. That's how it goes. Not good. But you're not going to solve political problems if you don't acknowledge political problems. Now, speaking of rabid Democrats, J.D. Vance was asked,

question on the campaign trail by a Politico reporter. He was asked, actually, it's a tricky little question because the Trump campaign is running against illegal immigration, but says that it is for more legal immigration. But the Trump campaign is also running against the 300,000 Haitian migrants who were imported into the country by Biden and Harris, some of whom have been reported to be doing all sorts of weird things with animals that they should not be doing. And J.D. Vance was asked, okay, well, hold on, you say you're running against illegal immigration, you're for legal immigration. Well, those 300,000 Haitians that Biden and Harris imported, they're technically here legally. And forget about just the Haitians. There are all sorts of people

who have been imported into this country and been given temporary legal status or have been given a kind of amnesty. So what are you going to do for those people? Hi, Senator. I'm McArthur with Politico. Question for you about the Haitian migrants in Springfield. So I know you've talked a lot about how we need to deport illegal aliens, but I wanted to ask you, the majority of the Haitians in Springfield came under TPS, so they are here legally. And I know you've expressed a lot of your issues with the TPS program

and wanting to change that under a Trump-Vance administration. But I guess my question for you is if you become the vice president under a Trump administration, what will you guys do about the migrants that are already there since they did arrive legally? And a follow up to that, if you plan to deport them, how would you do that legally? Well, look, this is a media and Kamala Harris fact check that I want to clarify and clear up right now. And here's, now the media loves to say that the Haitian migrants, hundreds of thousands of them, by the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of of them all across our country, they are here legally. And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs,

mass parole and temporary protective status. She used two programs to wave a wand and to say, we're not going to deport those people here. Well, if Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally, I'm still going to call them an illegal alien. An illegal action from Kamala Harris does not make an alien legal. That is not how this works. This is a great, great answer.

And J.D. Vance is just extremely intelligent and he's really well read on the subject. And he's doing what a running mate should be doing. The lives were really upset when Trump pink J.D. Vance and they tried to portray him as a big drag on the ticket and a bad choice and all the rest. I suspect one of the big reasons they were portraying J.D. that way is because he is really effective. The point of being the running mate, your job on the campaign is to be the attention. hackdog, is to have all your facts lined up, is to know exactly how to give that soundbite to the reporters. And he did that there. And he's making an important point about policy. People don't object to the 300,000 Haitians or 20,000 Haitians in Springfield, you know, taking over this small town.

They don't object to countless Latin American migrants pouring into the country, unvetted illegally, taking over communities, driving cars into school buses and buildings, putting a drain. on government services, filling up public schools. They don't object to it because of the technical labeling of those migrants. They object to it because mass migration has, in practice, constituted an invasion of our country for decades now. And it's created a lot of social disorder and it's put a ton of strain on our resources. And it's fractured our society because these people have largely not assimilated. And Democrats have done it.

to give themselves a permanent electoral majority. That's why people object to it. They don't object to it because one immigrant is totally unvetted and an illegal alien, while one has temporary protective status and a kind of parole, while the other one has a green card, while this, well, that that. They object to it because you have to press three for English, and that's annoying. They object to it because there is increased crime in certain neighborhoods in our country. They object to it because the ducks are going missing at the public park, okay?

to use the vivid example that has been much debated over the past few weeks. That's what they object. They object to the fact of it, not the words that you use to describe it. And J.D. is saying, we're going to fix the problem in practice. We're going to deal with the facts. We're not going to be like the libs and just use mealy-mouthed euphemisms and new sorts of words to pretend that the problem doesn't exist. What the libs want to do is say, okay, we have millions and millions, maybe more than 11 or 12 million,

illegal aliens in this country. well, we're just going to call them undocumented Americans. Poof, the problem goes away. We're going to call them dreamers. There's my magic dust and now the problem goes away. No, you still have the social problems. You have to deal with the actual political issue, which is mass unassimilated migration into America in a short period of time

that screws up the labor market, that screws up the housing market, that causes crime to increase in certain areas, that brings in all sorts of terrible elements, including the criminal cartels that control the border and the poison of fentanyl that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. That's the problem. J.D. says,

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they pull all sorts of comments every day. And I don't really look at the names. But this one just keeps, this person keeps coming up. The drummer's workshop, Norm's Music, who says, my values haven't changed. My accents have. Kamala Harris. Sure, I'll say that again.

My values haven't changed. My accents have, mommy, I love you too. Ay, aye, aye. That's the latest one. Kamala. Kamala. Kama la la, Harris. Now, speaking of, Latin American countries actually.

Cuba, communist Cuba, has just done something terrible. Cuba is sentenced a man to prison, two and a half years in prison for sharing memes. Wow. Barrio Raucco, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that, is a 52-year-old barber, lives in the city of San Fuego's, and he's a member of a local dissident group, Cuba's citizens move. for reflection and conciliation, and he was arrested for sharing memes. This is what you get in a communist, totalitarian, enslaved country where people don't really have freedom or political rights. Also, that's what happens in America, because we do the

same thing. We've done the exact same thing. You might recall the name Douglas Mackey. He had this edgy Twitter account called Ricky Vaughn based on the movie Major League. He was arrested, then convicted, and then imprisoned for sharing memes. This all happened in March of 2023, was when he was found guilty. He faced up to a decade in jail. Happily, he was only sentenced to seven months in jail. So that, okay, that's one difference between us. communist Cuba. In America, well, you could be sentenced actually to much more jail time than

the Cuban Communist Party sentences. It's dissidents to. But maybe you'll get a little bit less jail time. So instead of two and a half years, maybe it'll be seven months, okay, better part of a year for the same supposed crime. Douglas Mackey posted some funny memes. One of the memes was don't skip the line, vote from home. You know, if you're a Democrat, text your vote or something like that. This is an old joke. I'd work on campaigns. when I was a youth back in my teenage years and in my 20s, and you'd be standing around talking to voters, passing out palm cards, and sometimes they'd say, hey, when's the election?

And the joke was, well, are you a Democrat or a Republican? If you're a Republican, the election's on Tuesday. But if you're a Democrat, the election's not until Wednesday. Ha, ha, ha. And it's a very old political campaign joke. So this guy, Douglas Mackey, posts a meme basically about that joke. It's just a new high-tech version of that joke. He goes to jail for seven months.

I'm not saying we're the same as Cuba. For one, it's hard to grow tobacco that's as good in America, though Connecticut Shade Tobacco is very good. So is Pennsylvania broadly, but I digress. But our government is acting increasingly in a way that is similar to totalitarian, oppressive, actually communist regimes elsewhere in the world. That should alarm us. That should give us a little bit of pause.

Now, speaking of internet culture, sort of a sad story from University of Michigan Health. One in five parents says that his or her kids don't have any friends. This is a poll of over a thousand parents with kids between six and 12 years old. They say 20% of kids potentially feel lonely or isolated during crucial years of social development. Why is this? one in five of parents of the one in five one in five of them say it's shyness or social awkwardness that's the main obstacle for their kid an additional 15% said it's because other kids are jerks it's unkind behavior from other children and then less than 10% say it's a medical condition

or disability so it's not they're not saying well you know my kids being made fun of because he's in a wheelchair or something or because he has autism or something like it's not that that's that's the lowest ranking problem, according to these parents. It's that the kids are shy and socially awkward. And this is the key. And it's a problem. Some kids go through tough times when they're kids. You know, that's just part of growing up.

However, some go through tougher times and others in certain social circumstances can be better or worse. When I was a kid, homeschooling was unusual. homeschooling was unusual. Most kids went to public school, or maybe if they were rich kids, they went to a private school. But they didn't really homeschool because there was this fear that the kids who were homeschooled would not develop social skills. They wouldn't know how to interact with people. They'd be shy and awkward and weird, and they couldn't, they wouldn't be able to get along with other people. They wouldn't be socialized into the normal culture.

Today, it's exactly the opposite. today, if you are socialized into the normal culture that you see in public school and in the mainstream, you are much more likely to be weird and shy and awkward and anxious and depressed and think that you're the opposite sex or anything in between. Today, today, if you want to be normal, that is to say, well-adjusted and basically grounded in reality, you have to avoid being socialized into the mainstream culture. Anecdotally, we see this to be true. Ever since COVID, especially homeschooling, has really taken off in America. I know so many kids who are homeschooled.

I know so many of them. Just around my local parish, I travel around the country, I go to different churches and communities. I meet a lot of people who homeschool their kids. 98.7% of the time, these kids are among the very most normal, mature, well-adjusted kids I've ever met in my whole life. It's the kids who go to the public schools. It's the kids who go even to the mainstream private schools who have all sorts of problems

and all sorts of disorders and all sorts of questions about their identity and all sorts of social problems. That is an amazing flip. that is an if you want your kid to be well adjusted and properly socialized you actually have to keep them out of the mainstream culture because the mainstream culture is is not conducive to their flourishing friendship is really important this is not just a minor problem oh whatever my kid will make friends later someday no aristotle writes about this at length that uh friendship is well basically the highest form of love that that not just any kind of friendship He has gradations of friendship.

There's friendship of utility where you just kind of... There's friendship of pleasure where you both like playing Pinnacle or something. Then there's friendship of utility where you're networking and you help each other out, maybe professionally. And it's still kind of transactional, though. And then there's friendship of virtue, friendship of the good. And Aristotle says, a virtuous friend is another self. Which sounds kind of narcissistic and self-centered, but it's really not because you're standing with another person. both looking at the good, both pursuing the good, both wishing to be better and both helping to make

each other better. It's a true friend holds up a mirror to yourself. It's like growing another brain is what a true friend is like. And that's extraordinarily important because man is a social creature and we don't just live in isolation. It's not going to work. Okay, before we get to the mailbag, I'm going to do something really weird. I just saw a great music video and I have to play it for you. It's by John Con. It was released by based records. I will narrate for those who are just listening on podcaster radio. Take it away. This is a video, black and white, Trump walking alone down a hallway. Trump, just black and white walking through crowds, wearing a maga hat, smiling, in a suit, rain coming down. It's him walking by courthouses, picking up that Marines hat, putting it

on his head. Stand and supporting different people in the White House. Walking alone out the door of the West Wing. Smiling with the MAGA hat on. And his shirt and jacket. I get back up.

That's what I do. I tend to soldier on this far. Just a loo. Kissing an older woman on the head, You know a little woman who's obviously a supporter of his. I love that lyric. I'm a fighter. No one can say that I'm a running hider.

A few short clips of Trump is a young man looking serious. Hugging the American flag. Fireworks going on. Standing there, fist in the air. I met obviously all his supporters of these deplorable, irredeemable people who were just actually good normal Americans who want a normal country. And then the video ends in the same place it started, him walking alone down a hallway.

Totally determined, serious affect. Not angry, not serious. Doing his job. Boxes out to take center stage. And of course, when he's nearly killed on the stage in Pennsylvania, blood on his face, fist in the air, fight, fight, fight. I'm basically immune to political propaganda, to most political propaganda. This one gets you a little bit misty-eyed. It's exactly the right tone. It's exactly the right tone because it rings true. I mentioned earlier in the show that Trump's not Reagan. There are a lot of similarities. They have the same campaign slogan, but he's not Reagan. This is a really good song. I highly recommend you share this with people because it captures the essence of Reagan. the real person of Trump. It captures what they have in common. It's very simple. I'm a fighter.

I'm not a run and hider. It's not a complicated song. Trump's not all that complicated a man. He's just, the guy's just a fighter, you know. And he doesn't give the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave. And he doesn't have certain attributes that other great leaders have had, you know, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or whoever. he's Trump he's Donald Trump and this is a guy who has extraordinary natural virtues that most other people lack and he just built up his business and you know so there's footage of him all the way back in the 80s or 90s and he just this guy his superpower is you just can't get him down you just can't beat him any other man four prosecutions four criminal prosecutions any other men one criminal prosecution

he'd be out of politics. And you just can't get him down. They spy on him. They malign him. They drag him into court over civil cases. They try to criminally prosecute him. They change all the election rules. They shoot him twice.

They shoot him once. They try to shoot him a second time. And this guy just gets back up and it's inspiring. Anything else, you talk about any of Trump's faults. You think Trump doesn't know about his faults? He jokes about his faults. And he shows up to religious shrines and he speaks in a way that's weirdly humble for a billionaire with his name in gold who was the president of the

United States. But he just, that's it. That's what people like about him. You just can't keep him down. And there's something deeply American about that. And there's something deeply inspiring in a time when people have become so cynical and so weak. You know, the number one new comedy in America is, am I racist? And the only way to see it is in theaters. We've claimed the number four spot at the box office and the movie already has a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The reviews are Rolling in from everywhere, Joe Rogan says it's laugh-out-loud hilarious. American thinker calls it a brilliant hysterical expose of the race hustling industry. The Wall Street Journal only needed one word to describe the movie.

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So I went out and got a degree in medium performing arts from a fancy art school. I wanted to advance and improve the field in whatever way I could. For a long time, however, I struggled with the idea that acting was lying in a way. It wasn't until I confessed the struggle to a secular professor in college that I got a great answer. She said that acting wasn't about lying, but rather it was and should be when well done. all about telling the truth. This hit me as a Christian. Jesus is the ultimate storyteller. He constantly used parables and illustrations. Why do so many Christians and Christian organizations reject and downplay the use of this art form when it could be such an amazing tool to share the ultimate truth of Christ?

The Catholic Church uses art in so many unique and beautiful ways, for example, why do both Protestants and Catholics reject this medium pretty much across the board? As you can imagine, I hit a wake-up wall after college, and I'm now not directly using my degree. But I'd really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. Happily, and I have a little extra insight into this because I was an actor. I have been an actor. I've worked as an actor. And so I'm now a Christian, and I'm now practicing Christian. I suppose I was a cradle Catholic and then fell away for 10 years. And reverting to the church has complicated my views on acting because you're absolutely right or your professor's right,

that acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. If you're any good at it, that's what you're doing. There's one TV show where I play a guy who supposedly blew up the Hindenburg. Now, I didn't really blow up the Hindenburg. You know, and I play a football player or whatever, soldier or something. I'm not really those guys, but you're living truthfully within the imaginary circumstances. But that creates problems for the actor in particular. but to a lesser degree for the audience.

Fiction creates problems, or it can create problems for the audience. There is a reason why the Church Fathers pretty much universally condemned the theater, in part because the plays that were being presented in the theaters were extraordinarily obscene, and in some cases, blasphemous, there were mockeries of Christian rights. So that's one historical reason why, presumably one could have a wholesome movie or a wholesome play. that would be less damaging. There's another fear, though, when we engage with fiction, which is the fear that Dante writes about in Conto 5 of Inferno,

which is that sometimes we can make interpretive errors and we can mistake the fictional lives of the characters for our own lives. That's what the adulterous lover Francesca de Rimini does. She's reading Lancelot in Guinevere, and she misinterprets the text, and she reads it as her own life, and then she has an adulterous fare with her brother-in-law, and it leaves to their death,

and then they end up in hell. So that's one fear is it, you can read great works of fiction or watch a great play or a great movie and understand through the imaginary circumstances truth, but you have to make sure that you can keep a distance between yourself and the play. If you become too lost in it, you lose touch with reality and that can lead you into sin and error. This risk is all the more pronounced for actors, because especially in modern acting, since Stenslovsky and the Moscow Art Theater,

which then comes to America through the group theater and people like Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler and Harold Klerman and Sanford-Misner, that new style of acting, which has been around for something like 100 years now, draws heavily on Freud, and it involves not representing something.

It's not akin to being a mime. It relies on cultivating an inner life of the character. So if you want to play, you know, a guy who's in love with a woman on screen, you really want to cultivate a kind of love and attraction for that woman, which can compromise you. If you want to play a mass murder, you have to cultivate the desire to murder people. You know, you want to cultivate that inner life so that it kind of just overflows. And then the, you know, it's like a sponge that gets overly full. And then the water that comes

out, that's the acting. It's called organic acting. Sometimes it's called method acting, which is a subset of it. But that's, you know, it's. that can be really damaging because you're constantly reshaping your soul in ways that are not always virtuous. So it's not so simple as saying theater is, you know, perfectly fine. It's just, you know, living truthfully and imaginary circumstances. That's the problem is it can be psychologically and spiritually damaging, a little bit for the audience, but especially for the actors. Not saying there's no right way to do it, but the church fathers had a point when they talked about

the worries of the theaters. Next question. Hi, Michael. This is Rachel from Michigan. My question is, why do you think the left is not promoting Kamala as the potential first female president of the United States? The left is ordinarily quick to highlight anyone who might be the first anything. When Hillary ran, they talked nonstop of a woman finally leading our country. When Obama ran, black people couldn't wait to see someone who looked like them be our first black president. Even when Pete Buttigieg ran for president, they touted him as the first openly gay man to launch a presidential campaign. But we hear crickets about this with Kamala as the current Democratic candidate.

My thoughts on their silence is that women and feminists, we want to be proud of what our gender accomplishes standing on our own merits. Kamala did not win a primary. She hasn't provided a clear platform. She would become a first solely due to circumstance rather than on her own achievements. What are your thoughts on this? I think your intuition is pretty good. Also, yeah, she's getting the nomination in a way that is cheating. So they're a little wary of that.

Also, they ran Hillary as the first woman president. She got beat. So maybe they're beginning to realize that's not the best idea. They want to run Kamalize as everything and nothing. So they're not really defining her in any way. they want her to just be a generic alternative to Trump. And so the less defined she is, the better. One correction, though, of what you said.

You said that Pete Buttigieg was running to be our first gay, openly gay president. But, of course, our actual first homosexual president was James Buchanan, the worst president in American history who very nearly destroyed the country. So that'll be something Pete can grapple with the next time he runs. Next question. Hi, Michael. I have a question regarding communion during mass. I see fellow parishioners receiving the body in different ways by hand or by the tongue, either while standing or kneeling. What are your thoughts about these different methods of receiving the Eucharist?

And is there a specific method that should be practiced more over others? Many thanks in advance for your insight and have a blessed weekend. Very good question. The church permits all of those different ways. However, I think the traditional way It probably has quite a lot to it Which is to receive the Eucharist on the tongue Not in your hand on the tongue

While kneeling Because you're kneeling while you receive our Lord You know in the holy sacrifice of the Mass In the Blessed Sacrament So that would seem to occasion kneeling If you're going to kneel before you enter a pew If you're going to kneel before an icon or something Probably you'd want to kneel when receiving the Holy Sacrament

And then the reason to receive on the tongue is the priest's hands are consecrated and your hands are not consecrated. So just really practical, it's kind of funny to speak practically about this extraordinary mystery. But, you know, if you receive the Eucharist on the hand and you really believe that this is the body, blood, soul and and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, then if there's a crumb or if a piece falls onto the floor or some, even any little tiny little crumb or remnant of it, then you're, you're disrespecting our lord you know your falls on the ground and then you're stepping on it and it's just you know really hideous to think about so i would recommend receiving on the tongue while

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