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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Tough Love with Charlie and Erika Kirk
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, a conversation with my wife, Erica Kirk, about dating, marriage, and relationships. Now, some of this you might find very offensive, especially if you are in your 30s as a female and you're unmarried. If you find it offensive, then that's more of a problem with you than with what we say, because what we just say is true, and maybe you need to hear it. It's hard truth, speaking plainly, in love, so that maybe the Holy Spirit wants you to hear that. So that is your warning, so enjoy the conversation. Email us freedom at charliekirk .com, subscribe to our podcast, open up your podcast application, and type in charliekirkshow. Get involved with turningpointusa at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today of turningpointusa at tpusa .com. If you want to read the entire Bible in a year, my wife does a Bible ministry, biblein365 .com. That is biblein365 .com, or you can go to proclaimstreetwear .com. That is proclaimstreetwear .com, and get your made in America gear. It's pretty amazing. Check it out right now. Proclaimstreetwear .com. Enjoy this conversation. It's unscripted, telling the truth that people need to hear. I think you'll enjoy it. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "noble" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, I began with an anecdote because that is from the book, "'Build the Life You Want," which is a book about science, molecules, caffeine, and the other part of that science, which is how and why people feel emotions, how they can manage it, and how they can build the life you want. But I wanna stress, this is, I'm sure some people put it in the self-help section at Barnes & Noble or Amazon, but it really is a book about the science of the brain, Arthur. How are you trying to do the elevator pitch to people who don't like self-help books, but this isn't a self-help book, even though it will help you? Yeah, the way that I talk about it is that most self-help books actually don't help you very much, and part of the reason is they don't give you knowledge or action or a way to understand the mechanisms that are going on in the serious business that is your brain. This is a book about how you work. This is the owner's manual for your emotions, starting with actually how they're produced in the limbic system of your brain. You can't manage yourself unless you understand yourself. You can't actually change your habits unless you know what's going on in your brain. Now, it's not an academic book. I mean, this is written for everybody. My co-author and I wrote the book. We passed chapters back and forth, and we said, okay, will everybody who's interested be able to understand this? Yeah. If they wanna go deeper into the science, they can go to the back of the book and look at the end notes. Nobody's gonna do that. The truth of the matter is, however, when you look on the internet and says, get happier with one weird trick, don't trust it. It never works. You need the science. You need the knowledge. This book is about that. You mentioned your co-author, who is this humble little person by the name of Oprah Winfrey. She genuinely is humble, but I have said for decades and decades, when Rush was alive, I said the two people in America with the largest sustained audience over 30 years are Russian Oprah. Now there's only Oprah. I don't think anyone is a better communicator over 30 years than Oprah. So you have to give us the backstory. She explains that she was a fan of yours and a reader of yours, but who reached out to you to say, let's do a book with Oprah, and how did your thinking process go when that happened? It was an extraordinary thing. When you write a column, my column has about, you have a column in the Washington Post and your radio show reaches hundreds of thousands and millions of people every week. You don't know who's actually following Hugh Hewitt. And I don't know who's reading my column in the Atlantic on Thursday mornings. The column called How to Build a Life. Well, it turns out one of them religiously was Oprah Winfrey. She was reading it all the way through the coronavirus epidemic. And I was writing my column for everybody and I still do. It's not a political column. It's a column about how to live a better life. And when my last book came out, that you and I talked about on your show as well, it was called From Strength to Strength. She read that literally on the first day that it came out. She got it on the first day, downloaded it to her iPad, read it on the first day and called me. And she says, hey, this is Oprah Winfrey. And I'm like, yeah, and I'm Batman, right? I mean, yeah, sure, this is Oprah Winfrey. But it was the voice, man. It was the voice I've been hearing since I was a young guy. And so the result is that it was Oprah Winfrey. She had me on her podcast where she talks about books. Extraordinary interviewer. I mean, like you, she is so knowledgeable about the book that she was quoting the book Verbatim to me by memory while she was interviewing me about the book. And we really hit it off too. I mean, we're different people with different experiences. I mean, she didn't run the American Enterprise Institute. She ran mass media over a 25 year period, very different worlds that we come from. But you know what? We both are dedicated to lifting people up and bringing them together through different kinds of ideas. And she likes to actually find scientists who can do this. And so she said, why don't we do more together? So we got together in California and we had some dinner and we hung out a little bit. And finally we wound up, it was her idea. She said, why don't we write a book? And I'll be kind of the host and you be the guest and we'll write this thing and we'll get it into the hands of millions of people and lift them up with these particular ideas. In other words, let's take the stuff you teach at Harvard and let's bring it to the whole world and let's do it together. And I said, oh man, yeah. So we got together in her tea house in Montecito, California and over a three day period, we hammered out a book outline. Then I went away to, looked at the Pacific ocean myself for about six weeks over last holiday season and past chapters back and forth. And the result is the book that was just released. And I mean, it was great. I mean, she said, trust me, this is gonna be a big deal. I said, I don't know, I mean, hope so. And it's being done by a lot of people. Built the life you want is a big deal. It's already a big deal. Now I am routinely recommending people from strength to strength. I think I've recommended from strength to strength at least a hundred times and I'm not exaggerating because I think it makes a great deal of difference. This is the natural sequence. I would go first with from strength to strength but I would go get this one when everyone's talking about it. Talk to me a little bit, Arthur, about your reception at other events. I last saw Arthur, he gave the speech to my 45th college reunion class this past June and I knew it was gonna blow away everyone and it did blow everyone away. Just like your Harvard Business School, let's unpack why Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey suddenly have a secret sauce that everyone wants to order. What is that? Yeah, the whole idea is basically this. There is a lot that people don't understand about their own happiness. They start with a bunch of misconceptions about happiness that we can dispel. Like anything else, if you start in the wrong place, you're not gonna be able to find what you're looking for. And the number one thing that people get wrong about happiness that we talk about in this book is they think it's a feeling. I mean, most people think that they're chasing a feeling, the feeling of happiness, but that's wrong. Happiness has feelings associated with it like your Thanksgiving dinner has the smell of the turkey associated with it. That is nothing more than evidence of happiness. So we start off with a scientific definition of what happiness is and then we go into strategies where you can manage your emotions and build a life on these pillars of happiness. The happiness pillars are basically enjoyment with life, satisfaction in life, and meaning in life. That sounds simple, but it isn't, Hugh, because what we talk about in the book is the fact that they get these things wrong as well. But once you understand how your brain is processing each one of these macronutrients of happiness, you're off to the races. And I'm living proof, man. I mean, this is me search, not research. You know, over the past five years, since I've been doing really the bench science on this work and talking to the best neuroscientists in this field and writing about it in my column and in my papers, it's changed my life. I mean, I've been a social scientist for decades, but when I focused on this, my life really, really changed and I've seen it with my students and I've seen it with executives and people all over the country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 14 Ukraine's Top Tranny Gets Fired. Russell Brand vs. The World. Thinking About Rome?
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, happy Saturday. Thought Crimes, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? We ask that question more than you might believe. We also talk about the differences between men and women, micro versus macro. We cover Russell Brand, Ukraine, and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Become a member to listen to our show advertiser free at charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. And as always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. What you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. The revolution continues, we can still commit thought crimes. For now, joining us tonight is fan favorite, 10 out of 10 rated, Blake Neff. Say hi, Blake. Hello. That's where he goes. Hi, Blake. Andrew. Andrew Colvitt. Yes. Hello, sir. Andrew and Jack Pessobic. I can't wait for the Halloween episode where Blake is like, Okay, let's dive right into it. Jack, true or false? We got a tranny fired. True. 100 % true. Although, if I might add, the tranny has not just been fired. This is in the quote unquote Sarah Ashton Cirillo, actually known as Mike Ashton Cirillo, the spokes tranny for the Ukrainian military. Not just fired, but actually placed under military investigation. So very excited. Not a good thing to be under military. So do we have the tape? We have the tape of her talking about the Russian devils. And then the question is, was there a Russian devil that was taken up by other means, which actually segues to our second topic? We'll see. That is a real thought, crime. But Jack, build this out. You're on some sort of Ukrainian hit list. Ukrainian government wants you dead. So Jack, tell us about it, and then we'll get to it. So yeah, the Ukrainian government, specifically their intelligence service, the SBU, has this roughly to peacemaker, but it's been referred to as a kill list or a hit list where they will place people that they consider to be quote enemies of Ukraine. And now Elon Musk appeared on this list at one point. The pope appeared on this list at one point. Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald are on this list. And while we might think it's funny or silly, there's actually an American hostage right now that's being held by the Ukrainian government, a blogger and YouTuber by the name of Gonzalo Lira, who was living in Ukraine and was posting on his YouTube channel that he disagreed with Zelensky's government. He was then summarily arrested by the special services of Ukraine and has since disappeared. There have also been people that were placed on this list, including an Italian journalist, Andrea Rochelli, and numerous Russian bloggers, as well as one girl who's the daughter of a Russian political figure who were assassinated in Russia using car bombs and other improvised explosive devices after being placed on this list. After their killings, their entries on this dossier list wrote liquidated. So I was placed on this list and I was made aware of that earlier this week, right around the same time that you were really exposing everything, this American, I guess the word is American recruit for Ukrainian forces. Ashton Cirillo was saying in this completely unhinged rant, saying all Russian propagandists will be hunted down wherever you are and your teeth will Nash as we we we show you justice, only he's not the one who was dishing out the justice. It turns out he's actually the one who's facing justice now. And so let's play the tape here. And this is now play cut 22. Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "noble" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5-ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments.com right now. Hey everybody, a conversation with my wife, Erica Kirk, about dating, marriage, and relationships. Now, some of this you might find very offensive, especially if you are in your 30s as a female and you're unmarried. If you find it offensive, then that's more of a problem with you than with what we say, because what we just say is true, and maybe you need to hear it. It's hard truth, speaking plainly, in love, so that maybe the Holy Spirit wants you to hear that. So that is your warning, so enjoy the conversation. Email us freedom at charliekirk.com, subscribe to our podcast, open up your podcast application, and type in charliekirkshow. Get involved with turningpointusa at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Start a high school or college chapter today of turningpointusa at tpusa.com. If you want to read the entire Bible in a year, my wife does a Bible ministry, biblein365.com. That is biblein365.com, or you can go to proclaimstreetwear.com. That is proclaimstreetwear.com, and get your made in America gear. It's pretty amazing. Check it out right now. Proclaimstreetwear.com. Enjoy this conversation. It's unscripted, telling the truth that people need to hear. I think you'll enjoy it. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
Mark Levin
Read the 5-Star Reviews on 'The Democrat Party Hates America'
"Or if you're going to go out this weekend, say to Costco or Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, BJ's, Sam's Club, any independent book store, these various warehouse stores and so forth. You can pick up a copy. You can actually page through first, it take a look at it. And don't be afraid to pick it up because of the title and liberal is going to give you a look. Who cares? And if you go into one of these stores and I haven't they put it out yet. And I ask you to tell them to put it out and ask them why they haven't. Because I can tell you this, their headquarters want these books out. They've ordered a lot of them actually. And so this is an opportunity for us really to dig in, to spread the word, be the Thomas Pains. All the work's been done. It's between two covers. I think you're going to be extremely impressed and I think you're going to be so informed that you're going to be excited about communicating what's in the book including the family and friends and others. And it's the kind of book also that you may want to give to somebody else and say, hey look, before you have an opinion will you read it? I can tell you right now. I have a couple of friends who, they're not acquaintances. And I know they're Democrats. And some of them are African Americans. So I said to them, I want you to do me a favor. Before you read any other part of the book, read chapter 2. Go back to chapter 1, but I want you to read chapter 2 because I want to really hook them into what's taking place here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from A Full Hour with Roseanne Barr
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey, everybody. It's The Charlie Kirk Show. Roseanne joins the program, the legendary Roseanne Barr. Check out her show, The Roseanne Barr Podcast. I think you'll really enjoy this conversation. We dive into her story, cancel culture humor. And at the end, we have a hilarious word association game. You're going to listen all the way through the end. You will laugh. Text it to your friends. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. That is freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino's Last Book Signing Ever, This Weekend in Naples
"One so hopefully last mention maybe tomorrow i get a new book the out gift of failure but there's a book signing it's my last one it's also probably my last book so this is probably my last book signing maybe ever is this weekend this saturday september 23rd 5 p .m in naples florida at the barnes and noble at uh 5377 tamiami trail barnes and noble at naples tamiami trail 5 p .m this saturday september 23rd like i said probably my last one uh ever and you know it's not that big of a deal i mean the world's not gonna end if i don't write another book or anything like that i just uh there's something to say and uh you know that i think belongs better in a book and most of it belongs on the show now so you want to check that out i'd love to see you there love to say hello the prior three book signings were just insane we
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: Everyone Deserves a Second Chance
"Whatever so serious note yesterday i was telling you a story i was doing this uh book signing and i'm leaving and and i run into this guy and i have been tired whenever it's not a sob story everybody's tired everybody you know who cares but i was candid with you and i should have given this guy more of my time and i felt bad i came out and paula was like you know we gotta go we gotta go and it's not her fault i told her we gotta go it's not like she was being rude so the guy as i was walking out of the barnes and noble in jensen beach he said to me you know i spent 18 years in the pen the penitentiary was in jail obviously and i told you the story yesterday i want to do the whole thing over again but i've i've always had a soft spot for people who done really bad things but try to repent i you know i think we're all sinners and we're all worthy of a second shot and you know i'm not suggesting any their of their crimes are going to go away and the victims are going to be uh... feel any better about not but you know if jesus could forgive someone on the cross to his right and say well you in heaven for repenting then i can certainly try to do the same thing so i i want to make i sure put this out of the beginning of the show you know for those you out there drugs alcohol gambling addictions you're down and out fired from a job maybe dropped out of school and you think you know can't get any worse for me will number one i can't but you see the nice part about it not when you think you can't get any worse is there's a whole lot more side for you then down side once you've kinda hit the bottom are close to it the only way to go you know is up and i don't like dumb cliches because they're
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Democrat Party Hates America with Mark Levin and Julie Kelly
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, it's time for The Charlie Kirk Show. The great one, Mark Levin joins the program about his new book, The Democrat Party Hates America. You should all purchase a copy. And then Julie Kelly joins us to react. Merrick Garland, January 6th, and Ray Epps. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast, open up your podcast application, and type in charliekirkshow and get involved with Turning Point USA, the nation's most important student movement at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is the great one, Mark Levin. Mark, thank you for taking the time. I have to say your book right here, The Democrat Party Hates America, is a noteworthy, remarkable, and impressive accomplishment, Mark. The footnotes alone could be its own book. Mark, congratulations, and please introduce the book to our audience. First of all, thank you, Charlie, for all your support all the time. You're a beacon of liberty out there, my brother. Thank you. Well, I decided to put the title in this book when I finished it. Let's look around today, even before we get into any history background on The Democrat Party Hates America. You look at the border. You look at our value of our currency. You look at what's going on in our classrooms. You look what's going on in our courtrooms. You look what's going on with the price of fuel, and soon to be the elimination of the combustion engine. You look at what's going on in the streets, particularly in our inner cities, where people are being mugged, raped, and brutalized, and murdered with very little consequence. And I can go on and on and on. This is the news that we're faced with almost every day. This is what you, Charlie, and I have to deal with almost every day when we talk about it. This is what the American people see every day. Well, these aren't natural disasters. Somebody's causing all these things to happen. So who's causing all these things to happen? It's man -made. Who are these men? What's the Democrat Party behind every single one of these? And when you go back in history, the Democrat Party has never accepted America and Americanism. It's never accepted the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't even accept it today. Never accepts the Constitution. It is rewriting our history about our founding. It's done this before. So we have a party that was the party of the Confederacy, the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of eugenics, the party of the Klan, the party of lynching. And all of a sudden it keeps attacking the American history. That's their history. It's not America's history. It's their history. And then today, of course, they are also attacking America. But like good chameleons, they've shifted the way they do it. So whereas they used to be the party of anti -black racism, now they're the party of anti -white racism. Why? Because they don't like white people. Well, many of these are white people. Because they're Marxists. So in order to attack the race founding of the nation, which was founded largely by white people and Europeans, you need to attack that. So you have the 1690 project, you have critical race theory, you have monuments being pulled down, you have all these things going on. Because the goal now is to destroy the connection of the American people with their history, the destruction of the American culture, and so forth and so on. So you got to look at the Democrat Party through the lens of power, their power. Because the Democrat Party, Charlie, is not a typical political party. It's an autocratic entity that doesn't seek to win elections. It seeks to control elections, control the outcome of elections, to diminish the viability of any opposition parties or any opposition of any kind. And so this book gets very deep into the history, as you know. It's very hard to do an interview or answer an interview on this book because it is so comprehensive. It is comprehensive. It is. Yeah. And I've spent a lot of time, Mark, flipping through it. I want to just isolate one sentence that I think is super powerful. Page 23 of the Democrat Party Hates America. The Democrat Party has evolved into an anti -American political and cultural entity. It's an institutional home for the Marxist ideology in its Americanized forms. Mark, part of the challenge I have with people that have a muscle memory of a past that no longer exists, 1980s, 1990s, it's hard, Mark, for some people I talk to for them to believe that the leading American political party that controls the White House and the United States Senate and all the bureaucracies has contempt for the country they govern. That's why I think your book is so important, Mark. It really challenges limiting beliefs. You do it in a fabulous way. But I want to just isolate. This is a party that has bitterness towards what you and I love. This is no longer a policy debate. We want different things. Mark Levin. 100 percent. I'd always amazes when people say to me, well, can't we get something going here? The bipartisan. I don't know. Should we have done something bipartisan with the Confederacy? Some things are right and some things are wrong. When people are, as they say, they use the phrase fundamentally transforming America. Shouldn't we believe them? When one of the leading Democrat lights in the Democrat Party is a Marxist by the name of Bernie Sanders, shouldn't we understand that? When 10 to 15 percent of the Democrat caucus in the House of Representatives are Marxists, shouldn't we accept that and have to deal with it? So what I've tried to do in this book is rather than deal with the ephemeral or the ambiguous, it's to put a label on it. American Marxism sort of set the stage. But the fact of the matter is we have a political entity, which is more than a party. It's your typical autocratic party that wants to do what? That wants to devour this society. That wants to replace the country. They want allegiance to the party, not to the country. They don't give a damn about the country. Your fuel prices, the open border, elections. They have a fourth branch of government that they've created with some help of Republicans, but it's their government, which issues more regulations and laws than Congress ever could. We don't even have a representative republic anymore. You and I, we're not asking members of Congress to eliminate the incandescent light bulb because apparently it kills people. They're going through our homes. They're eliminating all kinds of appliances. Any government that has the power to eliminate a light bulb has no limits on its power. And so what this party does is every waking hour of its leadership is to try and destroy the status quo, destroy our traditions, destroy our customs, destroy real law and order, particularly in our communities, as they empower and centralize the police state. If people want to really understand... Let me just say this to you, Charlie. There was a great review done by Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker, founder of the American Thinker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Fake "Christians" Who Fear Death More Than God with John Zmirak
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, John Ziermach joins us to talk about weak liberal Christians, Donald Trump, and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. That is freedom at charliekirk .com. You can get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Evidence: How Hunters 459 Crimes Connect to Joe Biden with Marco Polo Founder Garrett Ziegler
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, a whole conversation top to bottom about the Hunter Biden laptop and the Marco Polo report. You're going to want to listen to this. Hunter is suing our next guest because of the truth he is telling. Garrett Ziegler, listen to it carefully. You'll be very moved. I certainly was. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today. Get involved in the most important movement in America at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter at tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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"The same one eternity of thy In the interopening hymn as we shall conquer through the blood the words are coming up now on the screen we're going to stand and sing this one together and let's really lift our voices on to the Lord Let's now then sing Make the world with music great While the heart and voice we sing Praises to our Lord and King Hallelujah Hail the noble servant son To the nations all around Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Give the glory all to God Hallelujah, Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Hallelujah Through the blood we shall prevail Over earth and heaven still God and life can never fail Hallelujah Keep your weapons sharp and bright Up the lonely ark of time Fighting is our great delight Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Give the glory all to God Hallelujah, Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Hallelujah Never asking arms or mind Walls of fire the saints are gone Enemies we shout the fun Hallelujah Forward with the sword and shield Victory wakes us on the field Stand your ground and never yield Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Give the glory all to God Hallelujah, Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Hallelujah Sing your songs ye saints of life Soon we shall escape from life Hallelujah, Hallelujah Faced in grace we then shall see If we glide upon the tree Drive the glory which shall be Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Give the glory all to God Hallelujah, Hallelujah We shall conquer through the blood Hallelujah Amen.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The State of the American Church LIVE from TPUSA Faiths Pastors Summit
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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 13 Willard Romney's Revenge? Dems Legitimizing Prostitution? Oliver The Fake?
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey, everybody. Happy Saturday. Thought Crimes. I joined late to this because I was at our Pastor Summit. But Andrew, Blake, and Jack carry the water for the first part of the episode. Talk about Mitt Romney. Talk about the Virginia Hooker. And then we also talk about Oliver Anthony, who I call a ginger Bernie Sanders with a banjo. Thought Crimes, where we say things that you're not even allowed to think in Western society. This is your warning. I'm just warning you that, yes, there is things in this episode that are not always appropriate for homeschoolers. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's edition, this week's edition of Thought Crime. Are you ready to commit thought crime? Because we've got a lot. Let's go around the horn. I'm not even sure because we got a lot of craziness going on right now. Our gas prices are up almost a full dollar here since last week, almost. And I was in California about a week ago. And I think are you guys hitting about six, almost $6 a gallon right now? Yeah, we are. Yeah, it's about five. How do you do it? I mean, honestly, Santa Barbara is a small town, so we don't drive a whole bunch. We don't feel it as much as probably like, you know, our Los Angeles friends. But I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, California is and actually this, this includes Arizona, Nevada, I believe, Washington and Oregon are considered the same sort of gas island. So they are as it has to do with where the oil comes from. It has to do with where they're getting refined. California has all these special additives and regulations that the refineries, these these benchmarks that refineries need to hit. So it can only come from certain refineries. So it limits the supply even more. It's a whole problem. So Charlie will be here in a little bit. He's at the Pastor Summit right now. He's dealing with some stuff. He's taking care of business on assignment, of course, for Turning Point USA, the faith coalition. But we're here. We're going to hold down the fort until Charlie returns. So shoot us your emails freedom at Charlie kirk .com. Let's get into the first topic here. This one, I think we've all talked about it, but we haven't all mentioned it together. This one, the the revenge or should we say the elegy for Willard Romney? Willard Mitt Romney has announced he's quitting the Senate total rage quit right before the 2024 election. So he's going to serve out the remainder of his term. And of course, as befits his character, he's riding off into the sunset by having the globalists at the Atlantic publish a completely obnoxious passive aggressive interview, trashing his colleagues, trashing Trump, trashing the GOP base. So what is the final word on the GOP 2012 standard bearer, the man who was the nominee for president in 2012? And, Blake, I think you actually have an excerpt from the from this article that's by McKay Coppins in the Atlantic. Oh, well, yeah, exactly, Jack. It's it's amazing. So, of course, he's everything about Romney is, you know, the supposed like, you know, politeness and decorum and all the damage that Trump does to our democracy by being always the last Boy Scout. Yeah, yeah, the last Boy Scout. So naturally, what he does is he announces he's retiring. And then, you know, in perfect timing with it, McKay Coppins has this biography that he's putting out that's, you know, all about Romney and has all these like data points in it. And he's basically just like Romney doing like a drive by shooting on other members of the Republican Party as he leaves. Let's see, like one of the lines from it. This is a summary as Axios summarizes it helpfully for us. Romney shares a unique disgust for senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, who he thought were too smart to believe Trump won the 2020 election. But, quote, put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the Constitution. And then the even wilder one is for Senator J .D. Vance of Ohio. He says, quote, I don't know that I can disrespect someone more than J .D. Vance. That is a direct quote from Senator Romney describing Senator Vance, who he still has to, you know, share a Senate chamber with for the next year before he actually quits. But, you know, J .D., I mean, can can someone explain what what what is J .D. Vance done in his time in the Senate that's been so ill reputable? It could. Does anyone have what when he went to East Palestine and it seems it seems his crime is that went on there? I'm trying to figure this out. It seems his crime is that, you know, J .D. Vance came out of Ohio. He went to Yale, I believe it was. And then he was in finance and was, you know, and then wrote his memoir, which was very well received. And he's this up and comer on the coast. And then I guess he moved back to Ohio, started doing too many appearances on Tucker Carlson tonight. And like, according to Romney, it was like the transformation was just was just too jarring, like it was too too much of a transformation for for Mr. Romney, who himself has basically transmuted into this like Democrat, I guess. But that doesn't count. This is an interesting this is an interesting take on on all of it. And Andrew, maybe you can give us a sense of it, because what I think that Romney is really upset about here is that he's considering J .D. Vance a class a class traitor. He's calling him a class traitor and saying, look, you're allowed to make money in finance. You're allowed to make go to Yale. You're allowed to go to the great schools. But the one thing and you're certainly allowed to run for the Senate. But the one thing you're not allowed to do is actually go out to the people of your state, listen to the their interests and listen to their issues and then grow and go and try to actually represent them in the United States Senate. This I is think class traitor. I think that's really smart framing, Jack, because at some level, a lot of this is much more about vibe. It's much more about what Mitt Romney thinks is classy versus gross or respectable versus, you know, essentially untoward and beyond the pale. Right. So it's all based on his own little framework of of class structure, of decorum, those sorts of things. So it says here in this, he says he was also highly critical of Senator J .D. Vance, Republican of Ohio, who reinvented his persona to become a Trump acolyte after publishing a bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy about the working class that Romney loved. So Romney loved the book. So at some level, I think it was just like, so I love this book. And how can this kind of become like a Trump bootlicker? Go ahead. Right. So I can there's there and just real quickly, it's kind of like because in the book, J .D. Vance's conclusions, I would say I don't offer this as criticism. I just say it's sort of it's an evolution on J .D. Vance's part because he sort of just says in the book, well, that that sort of that blase classic Republican line of, you know, and everybody just needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I can do it. So can you. And we should cut taxes for big businesses and the one percent pays most of the income tax and that that's kind of it. And then when he went to actually run for office and started really engaging with people politically, that's when he shifted, not socially. Right. But he shifted economically to become more of a populist. Blake, what you're saying? Well, what's so telling in this article is like some of the just a little specific anecdotes that it does pick. And I almost wonder if Coppins is like subtly trolling Romney. Apparently Romney lives by himself and his family in D .C. It mentions let me get let me get the line here. It talks about his his his pad that he lives in. And it says the place had not been Romney's first choice for Washington residents when he was elected in twenty eighteen. He'd had his eye on a newly remodeled condo at the Watergate with glittering views of the Potomac. His wife, Ann, fell in love with the place, but his soon to be staffers and colleagues warned him about the commute, which, by the way, it's like a mile and a half to the Capitol. So he grudgingly chose practicality over luxury and settled for the two point four million dollar townhouse instead. And then, of course, this is not good enough for for Ann. So she never visits him when he's in D .C. So it turns into a gross bachelor pad that has it mentions there's crumbs everywhere.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Gad Saad (Encore)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It's always a joy to have someone on for the first time. I have heard such good things about today's guest. His name is Gad Saad. At least, I think that's how it's pronounced, or God Saad. G -A -D, first name, second name, S -A -A -D, Ph .D. He's one of the best -known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, so it sounds to me like he's interested in truth. He's professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the research chair in evolutionary behavioral sciences and Darwinian consumption. It goes on and on. It is just a joy to have Gad Saad as my guest. Welcome to the program, and congratulations on the new book. Thank you so much, sir. Such a pleasure to meet you. I've seen you on television before, so I feel as though I know you, but it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Well, that's very generous of you. So for my audience who isn't familiar with you, what is your background? I mean, you've been a voice for truth, which is a very rare thing, especially in a university setting. Where were you raised, and what is your background? How did you get to be who you are today? Sure. So I grew up in Lebanon. I was born in Lebanon. We were part of the last steadfastly refusing to leave Jews in Lebanon. Most of my extended family had left by the late 60s. They had left some to France, some to Canada, many to Israel, but my family had remained in Lebanon. We were well entrenched within Lebanese society. And then when the civil war broke out in 1975, when I was 10 years old, it became very, very difficult to be Jewish in Lebanon. So we experienced the first year of the civil war, and then luckily were able to leave. So that's my background in terms of where I was born. Grew up in Montreal, Canada, and then went to the United States to finish my studies, and then was a visiting professor at several universities in the US. But much of my career has been spent at a Canadian university, Montreal University. My general research area, just again for the folks who don't necessarily know who I am, evolutionary I marry psychology and evolutionary biology to human behavior in general, and consumer behavior in particular. What are the biological underpinnings that make us do the things that we do? So that's been my scientific work. But in the process of establishing my academic career, I started noticing that there was a second war that I was facing. The first war was the Lebanese civil war. The second war was the war on reality, the war on common sense, on reason, on evidence -based thinking. Which then led me to write my previous book, not the book that we'll be talking about today, but my previous book was called The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. And so I've been one of the few voices in academia that holds no sacred cow to be untouchable. I critique any ideology that I feel like critiquing. Of course, it has made my academic career at times difficult, but you have to defend the truth. Well, you say you have to defend the truth, and I say you have to defend the truth. But many in the academy are not willing to defend the truth, nor even to defend the concept of truth. They don't seem to believe in the idea of truth the way Socrates did. They don't even seem to believe in defending reality, that there is a world, a real world, that there are things that are possible that are things that are impossible. I mean, that is kind of where we are today. So to believe in reality or truth in the academy is a rare thing indeed. And what do you suppose it is about you that made you willing to fight the battle for truth to not be silenced? Thank you. That's a great question. So I think it's just my personhood, the combination random of genes that make me who I am. Okay, now hold on. You're making it sound fatalistic. You're making it sound like it's not noble. It's just a fatalistic thing. It's just your genes are making you behave this way, just as Hitler's genes made him do what he did. That's clearly not what you're saying, is it? No, no. I mean, of course, I also have personal agency because I could say, hey, I'm going to succumb to cowardice and not rise up to the call to defend the truth. So you're right. So thank you for that. Maybe I was being falsely modest in my deterministic explanation, but in any case, I'm just, I mean, I'm a very, I think anybody who knows me knows that I'm a very warm, fun, affable guy, but I'm also very combative. Not because I want to be combative just to annoy people, but in a sense, I have this code of personal conduct, Eric, that makes it that when I go to bed at night and put my head on the pillow, for me to be able to not suffer from insomnia, I need to feel that I never modulated my words for pragmatic reasons, for careerist reasons. Then I would feel that I'm a fraud, that I'm a charlatan. And because of that exacting, punishing code of personal conduct, whenever I see nonsense, I attack it. Well, I'm just guessing, but having lived through what you and your family lived through in Lebanon, I mean, my father came to this country from Greece in the 50s. My mother came from East Germany in the 50s. And having stories, whether your own or those of your forebears, of people who saw that there were consequences to how one lived and that the world can be a very evil place, and that if you go along with it, you're complicit in the evil. I think many Americans and many Canadians haven't been forced to face that. They don't understand that there is a real battle for truth and that I have to be careful not to go along with things because then I am complicit. I'm just guessing that growing up in a home, as you did having left Lebanon under those circumstances, that that might be a part of why you're a brave voice in this culture. I think you're spot on. And if you look just anecdotally at some of the most vociferous defenders of Western traditions, they're exactly the type that you've mentioned. It's Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is of Somali background. It's precisely because we have sampled from the large buffet of possible societies, right? We realize that the Western experience is an anomalous one. It's not the standard default society. That's not how humans have organized themselves. And so because we've sampled from that buffet, we come to the West and say, guys, be careful, you're not going down the right track. So I think you're exactly right, Eric. Yeah, I think, you know, anytime I meet somebody who has Cuban background or whatever, they typically, they get it. Somebody who's come from Romania or some Eastern Bloc country, they all get it. They all seem to understand, you know, we have to fight for what is right and true. We have to fight for freedom. These aren't normal. This is not the default situation. But many Americans and many people who've had the privilege of growing up in the West, they don't have a clue that what we have is a glorious, fragile thing. It's worth fighting for. Because you're new to the program, I do want you to talk about your book, The Parasitic Mind, before we talk about the brand new book. Tell us a little bit about that so my audience can understand where you're coming from. Sure. Thanks for that question. So in The Parasitic Mind, what I try to do is find some metaphor for why it is that living agents can engage in such maladaptive behaviors. And so I found it in what's called the neuroparasitological framework. The idea is that if you look at the animal kingdom, there are all sorts of parasitic infestations that happen. A tapeworm can infest your intestinal tract, but a neuroparasite is one that looks to, if you like, alter the neuronal circuitry of its host to suit its own reproductive interest. And so I had my epiphany, so I thought, well, okay, well, human beings can certainly be parasitized by actual physical brainworms, but there's another class of brainworms that they can be parasitized by. And I call those idea pathogens or parasitic ideas. So to your earlier point about, you know, in the academy, we no longer talk about some objective truth. Well, that's the granddaddy of all idea pathogens, postmodernism, social constructivism is another one. Radical feminism is another one. Identity politics is another one. Cultural relativism, biophobia, the fear of using biology to explain human behavior is another one. So what I do in the book is I trace the origin of many of these parasitic ideas and their downstream negative consequences. And then if I've done a good job, I offer a mind vaccine against these parasitic ideas. That's the general idea of the book. Okay, I wanna pick up on that. We are talking to GAD, G -A -D, SAD, S -A -A -D. And we'll be right back. I wear the black for those who've never read. Or listen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Biden War on Speech with Sen J.D. Vance and Owen Shroyer
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, it's the end of Charlie Kirk Show. Senator J .D. Vance to talk about his fight against mask mandates. And then Owen Schroyer, very powerful interview about a young man who's going to go to months in prison for a speech crime. A speech crime. You have to listen to this and text it to your friends. It is so wrong. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast application and type in Charlie Kirk Show. That's Charlie Kirk Show. Get involved with Turning Point USA at cpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
Mark Levin
Upcoming Book Signings With Mark Levin in NJ, VA & CA
"A meal you can enjoy yourself and get in line and we can all say hi to each other and by the way Ridgewood New Jersey September 23rd they have great restaurants in that town it's a fantastic little town it's a fantastic independent bookstore Barnes and Noble has always been supportive of what we do so there's that and then finally Saturday October 21 the Reagan Presidential Foundation now unfortunately we have a sold -out auditorium but there are still a few spots left I am told I checked yesterday from muckety the mucks there there's only a few spots left as I understand it from those who want to purchase a ticket you are insured a book and a place online so we can meet and greet and I can sign your book it's obviously expensive less than the whole four or five hours there and not only that I like the way they do it which is and most of them do it this way now you get frame a time you know need to be here I'm giving an example 130 to 230 so you're not necessarily standing there for five hours although I got to tell you people have met their wives and their husbands in lives these I mean before they were wives and husbands Mr. Badouz and they make dear friends so it's really an event every one of these all three of these they're really events and they're really fantastic so I hope you'll join us one of the things I'm hoping we're able to do it just because I'm competitive is that we knock off this guy I think his name is Walter Isaacson a so -called historian who was one of the advisors to Joe Biden who's sort of written this weird book about Elon Musk now can you I tell a
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Real Christian Nationalism with Lance Wallnau
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, today on The Charlie Kirk Show, Lance Wallnau joins us for a spirited conversation about Christian nationalism and why the church needs to get involved. As we are live here at our TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit, 1 ,100 pastors from across the country join us for our third training in the last 13 months. We are doing a lot at TPUSA, very proud of the work they are doing. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA today at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
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"Back and forth so much. And basketball. You could be leading because you've played each other doing the same thing the same number of minutes and seconds and you are defeating the other team because you've done the same thing. He was like, in baseball, he's like, it infuriates me when they do that too because like it's not like you can just bleed out the clock and you can play conservatively and all that. He's like, you have to get the outs and you're not done until you get the outs. And so he was like, it was a classic like obviously like older guy who's fine and shit to just be upset about, which I was laughing, but I was like, he made a good point about the golf where the point about leading is sort of bullshit because they haven't played the same they haven't done it. I do that with my own brand when tigers playing though. Like when he's ten shots off the lead, like on or however many shots like 8 shots off the lead and he has a tee time that's earlier on Sunday than the rest of them. I'm like, oh, he's only, he's only 5 shots off the lead and John rom hasn't even teed off yet. So it's like tigers through 13 and John Ron hasn't cheated off it. I'm like, wow, tires within 6 and then Jonathan's gonna go out there and shoot a 65 and the lead is gonna grow, go grow. But with Tiger, I'm always like, he's kind of close. If those other guys for whatever reason, just shoot even par today, he's gonna be right there. I'm dealing with that with the islanders right now. We're in a playoff spot, but we have 5 games in hand on every team behind us, but for right now, we're sitting pretty at number one in the wild card, no problem. Sure, the other teams have ten points that they can play with and they're only 5 points back, but also, I mean, buffalo boy over here, they're squandering. We got 5 games in hand on average. You have 5 games ahead of everyone. You just lost last night there, shit show. It's like watching, if you're watching track with a staggered start, you think the guy at the top, you're like, that's my guy. He's winning right now. It's like, no, no, no. It's all the same length. They're just staggered differently.
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"Reason I brought this up is because my brother just got a stealth to deliver today and he's all jacked up because we got the dad by classic next week. I was still too on my mind, but captain Connor texted me yesterday. He goes, curious on your thoughts. I hit my style too yesterday for the first time. It felt significantly better than the original stealth. Is that possible that one year to the next, it's that much better. Curious how you feel about it. And it's a good question because I think we all kind of think that like how good the technology would be so much better for one year than X I go, I agree. Trent agrees as well. Their claim, this is Tara made's claim that I'm referencing is that the new one is more forgiving than the OG stealth. They're both really hot, carbon, all that, but this one is supposed to be more forgiving. And he goes, dude, the first shot I hit immediately felt different. I used to be a travesty off the T, me too. This club fixed me. However they did it, it deserves a Nobel Prize, a Nobel Prize. So. Roaring review from captain Connor of the stealth two that I took note of and figured that I had to put this in. What a difference between getting a noble prize and a Nobel Prize. Just putting the emphasis on the B and the E what is it? It's also spelled differently. Oh, right? Yeah, and oh BLE would be noble. Nobel Prize would just be we've determined that you acted in a noble way so we're giving you a problem. They spelled the same way, spelled differently, Nobel is the reverse. All right, because that's going to say what a fucking difference in just the way you say something. You get a letter in the mail, is this, did I win the greatest achievement of my life? Or is someone just when I carried that dog up three flights of stairs the other day? Are they giving me a Nobel Prize for that? The Nobel Prize are 5 separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Holy shit. Categories. Do you have the categories in front of you? And by the way, I agree with you. Yes, TaylorMade's dealt two is an incredible golf club. I am obsessed with the tailor made stealth two hybrid and three wood. The three wood has this weight that can go from the front to the back, I put it up on my Instagram of the day and people are like, what is that weapon? They had never seen anything like that. You can adjust it based off how high and how low you want to hit it. It's a crazy piece of technology and the waiting of the hybrid, like the weight of it, just like feeling it in your hands. It's got nice girth to it, something about it just feels really good in my hands. It's a foreign feeling of that girth. You know what I mean? Like that real thick, it's really, really thick. Every year and they fit us and it's great and they give us all the numbers and they tell us what the differences are.
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"And can you get to his position and not be like that? Can you be unpolished and get to the top of golf? Was pretty much the same way, right? Yes. Is the least polished guy? And he is there for it's a myriad of different reasons, but guys like Seth wah, that's in the charge of PGA of America and he's like the most real guy of all time. Yeah. They came on our show. It was like, he looked like a golden brown cookie, and he was like, just coming from Florida and he was like, shooting the shit, saying his kids love bar so he watches our stuff like that. That's a guy that had to make massive decisions this year regarding Liv and players playing in his championship and I also do want to apologize to the PJ of America. I go back on what I said there's no way the Waste Management. There's no way the Waste Management's ahead of the fucking PGA Championship. Did the PGA of America threaten you? No, it's just after watching finishing full swing. I meant to put this in my notes the other day. After finishing full swing and watching people weep after winning the PGA Championship and just the whole deal of JT winning and the whole watching him do it, there's no way anything's above a major. I don't care what it is. There's no way. It's just a show, this is just a show based on whatever the most recent piece of content we consumed is what we believe through and through. I think that's how life works. Yeah. I mean, obviously you have your memory. I'm Michael pillars of beliefs, but there's things that sway me. Like, I'm definitely easily swayed. And it's gotta be infuriating for the listeners where I always have different opinions on things. But that's how I've always been. I've always been like that. I could vote one party and a vote the next party in the next election, I'm always different. I'm the best person to ever go to like a presidential election because I'll just whatever you say to me, I'm swaying both ways. If you say something that's oh my God, they really are. Dude, they really are. I'm constantly changing my shades. I'm constantly changing. How many IRS agents? I don't know who I don't even know, yeah, I swear to God, I could change on the drop of a hat. All right, but that PGA Championship response made me feel like Seth wow has mister Bren somewhere. He didn't, I just happened to bring those two things up back to back. I promise you, I haven't talked to him. I just, I remember saying it, and I was getting caught up in the crowds, we had just gone to the Waste Management. There's no fucking way the Waste Management's more important than the PGA Championship. There's no way. Watching mito Pereira like crumble and all that stuff. It just wasn't the same as saw hit crumbling at the waste manager. It just wasn't the same. It ruined, it sent me to live. Like he could never play golf on the PGA Tour again. It literally didn't want to come back in public again. He blew the major with that ridiculous swing on 18.
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"Horton's remained in england. Through brief reign of james into the rule of william and mary who still provided for her albeit at a much reduced pension day provided for her until horton's died in sixteen ninety nine at age fifty. Three some euphemistically say that. She drank herself to death but more realistic scholars understand that it was most likely suicide. The diarist john. Evelyn wrote of her death that she was quote reported to have hastened her death by the intemperate drinking strong spirits. It's understood that the euphemism meant that she drank a number of tonics that were known to cause death at last her jealous husband. Our mind would be able to get his claws into her. After hortense's death. He did pay her english shuts and he claimed her remains carting her casket along to all of his remote visits to the french countryside. The way he tried to take her in life only in a coffin was horton's finally silent and obedient eventually. She was buried with her uncle as she had requested. But in the end that didn't matter when the french revolution came her. Bones and cardinal mazarin bounds would be thrown into the river so ends these strange. Fantastic life horton's manzini. Who did all she could to live her life on her own terms who took lovers and charmed kings and wrote her own story in her own words before anyone else fully understood the power of that stick around after brief sponsor break to hear a little bit more about her legacy. The world is racing to get back to normal and people are racing to start meeting up in person again but after the year. We've all had getting back to feeling normal aches so if you're feeling overwhelmed by it all you're not alone. It's important to find the support that you need to face those feelings and move forward. I've had some issues with anxiety and depression. And i've needed a therapist to help. Guide me through those feelings in a professional way. Talk space can provide the support. You need to help you feel better with just a single message. Talks pace offers individual and couples therapy in addition to medication prescription services so whether you're experiencing anxiety depression or any other problem talks base. Is the number one online therapy platform to help you. Sort through any issue so start feeling better with a single message match with a licensed therapist when you go to talk space dot com and get one hundred dollars off your first month with the promo code. Noble that's one hundred dollars off when you use noble at talk space dot com twenty twenty. It was full of unique challenges that made us change our whole way of life. We don't know what twenty twenty one will bring but with the great courses plus we can help to make this our year by continuing to learn with purpose you get access to thousands of hours of video and audio courses from experts in fields like building financial plans living sustainably even playing guitar lick a pro. Personally i am enjoying the course. King arthur history and legend. I am learning so much about the authority and meth how it began. How it prospered and how. It's gone onto influence art literature and movies. Great courses plus has something for everyone and download the great courses plus app to watch or listen to lectures on any device anytime anywhere. So what is your purpose this year. What new things will you learn. Sign up for the great courses plus and find out. Use my special. You are l. A great courses plus dot com slash noble and you get fourteen days of unlimited access for free so go now to the great courses plus dot com slash noble. When strange footnote in. These story of horton's manzini is that her granddaughter would become the mother two daughters herself and four of those daughters would go on to become mistresses of louis the fifteenth. There's another horton's legacy that. I find more personally relevant. While in england. Her salons became the center of culture and trends the food and beverages. She served not only became trendy but also became associated with the upper class and the intellectual elite hortense's final affair and affair of the mind not the body was with the.
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"Horton's attempted to end her marriage legally but she had no power or recourse against the demands of her husband. Who insisted that she returned to him. Still king louis. The fourteenth took mercy on her the girl he had grown up alongside at court and whose sister he had once loved. He offered horton's his protection and an annual pension of twenty four thousand livre. Horton was also offered the protection of her former suitor. The duke of savoy. Who allowed horton to come and live on his property. And who may or may not have been having an affair with horton's at the time depending on who you read it was there at the duke's comfortable estate and chambray that hortense wrote her memoirs it was a brilliant strategic. Move on her part. Even though horton was at this time still in her twenties. It was a chance for her to frame her life on her terms to tell her escape from her husband which was already well known as a scandalous piece of gossip but to tell it with her as the heroine. The book was a wild success so popular that it actually spawned imitations there were fake memoirs that claim to be written by her sister. Marie who had also by this point run away from her own unhappy marriage. Marie actually eventually did follow. Hortense's lead and she wrote her own own memoir claiming that she needed to set the record straight from all the fakes while in chambray hortense wrote that she had finally found the piece that had eluded her for the early part of her life but peace wouldn't last long. The duke of savoy died and whether or not he and horton were actually lovers. His widow believed that they were and she cast horton's out hortense's own husband took advantage of the tumultuous situation to freeze all of hortense's income including the money that she was receiving from the king. Hortense's options were running dry. And she had few places left to turn fortunately for her. She was about to receive an interesting offer. The english ambassador to france a weasel faced man named ralph montagu was unhappy with his position in england. He blamed it on charles. The second favorite mistress louise deke. Hall duchess of portsmouth montague needed his own way to advance himself to gain the king's favour to return to the inner circle. His answer was horton's manzini by this point. Horton's was a bona fide celebrity beautiful and rich in terms of clout but poor in terms of money montague suggested a mutually beneficial arrangement tried to become king. Charles the second mistress after all. He had been charmed by her a lifetime ago when he wanted to marry her and now she was famous so horton snuck into england on the pretense of visiting one of her nieces. Mary of modina. Who was married to king charles seconds younger brother james. The duke of york. The seduction plan worked almost instantly. Charles was appropriately charmed by hortense and accepted her into his retinue of mistresses and illustrious group of women that included portsmouth the duchess of cleveland. And the actress nell gwynne. Portsmouth was apparently distraught and came to montague weeping when she found out that the king was giving his attention to horton's instead of her. And i'm sure and you did his best to conceal his glee but portsmouth didn't need to weep for long though horton was one of the king's mistresses and though he gave generous stipend her. She didn't remain the favourite for long and soon enough he returned to louima's portsmouth's arms horton's famous and attractive as she was was to social for the king's tastes tastes and by that i mean she tended to flirt and do more than flirt with other men and women. There was the relationship with the kings illegitimate daughter and the daughter of one of her fellow mistresses and which we discussed earlier and husband was so scandalized by the fencing in their underwear thing that he whisked her away from london to the country where it said and spend weeks in bed doing nothing but crying and kissing a portrait of horton's horton's also had a relationship whether flirtatious or more with the prince of monaco. Which so miffed king that. He cut off horton salary though he reinstated it a few days later the king of england for his part light horton's plenty and couldn't for the life of him understand why king of france couldn't find a way to provide for this charming creature but hortense's real coup in england wasn't finding her way into the king's bed. It was the parties and society events that she held in her living room. The term salon is a little anachronistic here. But it's what best described what horton was doing bringing scientists philosophers and writers to talk and drink and gamble. The salons were widely influential in terms of culture. The scientific articles that she brought up would become widely read and popular in the case of a paper by fonteneau. It actually led to it being translated and horton set. London fashion what to wear. What eat what to drink. The salons were also tremendously important when it came to women during a time when women were thought to be frivolous and unable to handle their own finances. Horton's and her friends were playing cards and gambling women gambling alongside men losing and winning money as equals all the while her incredibly litigious stubborn and jealous husband back in france was attempting to get the cords to force his wife to come back to him. After the death of king. Charles the second in england. The throne went to his younger brother. James a catholic which didn't sit well with the protestant population in sixteen eighty eight the glorious revolution england bloodlessly overthrew james to leapfrog the throne to his daughter and son-in-law who ruled jointly as william and mary the next year hortense's husband armand filed a lawsuit in france which said that horton's had no right to her dowry and either needed to return to him or be locked away in a convent. The court ruled in his favor. But hortense's lawyers had an angle horton had racked up a considerable debt. In england and english law prevented her from leaving the country until those debts were paid. Well that's ridiculous. armand scoffed. My wife had no legal right to contract debts. Without her husband's permission. He refused to pay. Let alone recognize those debts and so legally he and horton. Were in a stalemate..
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"Secrecy surrounding the romanovs. So join me an experience. Your own mind-blowing moments with wondering right now. My listeners can get this special offer a month. Free of unlimited access to the entire library. Go to one drip dot com slash noble to sign up today. That's w. o. N. d. r. i. u. m. dot com slash noble one gram dot com slash noble. After his first failed marriage vincenzo. Gonzaga went on to live a long life with another wife and plenty of kids. The same wasn't true for margarita. Being a woman. Unable to consummate marriage in sixteenth century. Italy meant margarita was deposited by powerful family into a nunnery where she remained in isolation for the next six decades of her life until she ultimately died at age. Seventy five but even within the walls of the convent. Margarita had a life. There was a musician rumored to be a secret lover who visited her until her family increased security when margarita got older. She was elected abbess of the convent several times in a row. She had thoughts and dreams and plans. But because of the disaster with vincenzo gonzaga. When she was fourteen years old her entire life was one of pious confinement. She's a side note in the story. Now another casualty of agendas life one of the characters from history who are so often forgotten. Who if circumstances had been a little different might have been so much more. Noble blood is a production of iheartradio and grim mild from aaron minke. The show is written and hosted by dana schwartz. Executive producers include aaron. Minke alex williams. And matt frederick. The show is produced by reema ill kayeli and trevor. Young noble blood is on social media at noble blood tales. And you can learn more about the show over at noble blood tales dot com for more podcasts from iheartradio visit the iheartradio app apple podcasts. Or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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"Palace. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> She was at <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> into a party. <Music> <Advertisement> <Music> <Advertisement> <Music> <Advertisement> <Silence> <Advertisement> <SpeakerChange> <Silence> <Advertisement> <Music> <Speech_Music_Female> <Speech_Female> That's the <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> story of queen. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Or should <Speech_Female> i say king christina <Speech_Female> of sweden <Speech_Female> but keep listening <Speech_Female> after a brief sponsor <Speech_Female> break to <Speech_Female> hear a little bit more <Speech_Female> about how her <Speech_Female> story has been told <Speech_Female> popular culture. <Music> <Advertisement> <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> <Silence> <Silence> <Music> <SpeakerChange> <Music> <Speech_Music_Female> Several movies <Speech_Female> and in books <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> have been written about <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> christina of sweden <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> but <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> one of the most interesting <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> is the critically <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> acclaimed nineteen <Speech_Music_Female> thirty three. <Speech_Female> Mgm film <Speech_Female> queen christina <Speech_Female> featuring <Speech_Female> the swedish <Speech_Female> actress. Greta garbo <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> that movie <Speech_Female> made the <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> incredibly hollywood <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> choice <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> to turn christina <Speech_Female> into a <Speech_Female> classic romantic <Speech_Female> heroine <Speech_Female> by inventing a <Speech_Female> male love and trust <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> a spanish <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> ambassador <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> whom she is unable <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> to marry because <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> he's catholic. <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Of <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> course that has the <Speech_Female> added benefit of <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> turning christina's <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> conversion to catholicism <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> into a move of <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> love and not <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> philosophy. <Speech_Female> I <Speech_Female> doubt the real christina <Speech_Female> would have loved <Speech_Music_Female> that twisting <Speech_Female> of her narrative. <Speech_Female> But i do <Speech_Female> think she would have liked <Speech_Female> greta garbo. <Speech_Female> You see <Speech_Female> just like <Speech_Female> christina. Herself <Speech_Female> there are rumours. <Speech_Female> That garbo <Speech_Female> was also queer <Speech_Female> that you <Speech_Female> might have been bisexual <Speech_Female> or even <Speech_Female> gay. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> There's a scene <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> in the film <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> where christina <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> kisses her lady in <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> waiting ebba <Speech_Female> and although <Speech_Female> it's played completely <Speech_Female> platonic. <Speech_Female> Louis <Speech_Female> maybe secretly <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> garbo knew <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> how the scene <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> was supposed to be <Music> played. <Music> <Music> <Speech_Music_Female> <Silence> <Advertisement> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> Noble blood is <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> production of iheartradio <Speech_Music_Male> and grim <Speech_Music_Male> and mild from aaron <Speech_Music_Male> minke. <Speech_Music_Male> The show is written <Speech_Music_Male> hosted by dana schwartz <Speech_Music_Male> and produced <Speech_Music_Male> by aaron. Minke <Speech_Music_Male> matt frederick <Speech_Music_Male> alex williams <Speech_Male> and trevor <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> young noble <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> blood is on social <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> media at noble <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> blood tales. <Speech_Music_Male> <Advertisement> And you can learn more about <Speech_Male> the show over at <Speech_Music_Male> noble blood tales dot <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> com for <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> more podcasts from iheartradio <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Music_Male> visit the iheartradio <Speech_Music_Male> app apple <Speech_Music_Male> podcasts. Or <Speech_Music_Male> wherever you <SpeakerChange> listen to your <Speech_Music_Male> favorite shows. <Music>
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"Christina did have one relationship with a man a relationship that would come to define the rest of her life it was a friendship with the jesuits secretary and interpreter for the portuguese ambassador to sweden. She and the ambassador spoke of religion and philosophy of copernicus t cobrai bacon and coupler when christina expressed her fascination with catholocism the secretary smuggled one of her letters to italy and invited to more jesuit scholars to sneak into stock. Come in disguise. Chat with kristina not only does christina not want to get married. She wanted to convert to catholicism. Now that's all well and good for a person but not a person who the monarch of a country especially not since one of the terms of the peace treaty. At austin brooke was that the religion of the ruler determined the religion of kingdom christina. Almost twenty seven years old had reigned for nearly two decades. Her days were filled with ten hours of lessons. Policy meetings on financial manusha. It was in short hell of a lot of work for someone who didn't want the job on june. Sixth sixteen fifty four christina abdicated the swedish throne on behalf of her cousin charles for the ceremony. She wore all of her royal. Regalia atop of simple white taffeta gown. Her council one by one came up. Removed the royal items but the final counselor was supposed to remove christina's crown wasn't able to do it and so christina stood in silence for a moment and then just took off her crown herself. She gestured for the new king. Charles to come up and sit in the throne she vacated but he politely refused and the two of them left the ceremony together. Three days later christina left sweden cristina's journey from sweden was forcing her to travel through denmark. Still one of the country's enemies until she cut her hair short wore men's clothing and posed under the fake name. Count donna to sneak across the border while traveling through sympathetic catholic kingdoms christina privately converted to catholicism although she kept it a secret temporarily because she still needed alimony from the swedish government and she didn't want to compromise when she did eventually announce her conversion it was at the palace of habsburg. Archduke ferdinand charles in australia. He threw her a multi day party so extravagant. It nearly led to his financial ruin. That event is a good keystone for what christina's life would look like as she continued around europe attending parties plays and concerts at the behest of various catholic nobleman. Finally her travels took her to rome. Where pope alexander the seven an early adopter of having a mustache and a square little goatee to the mustache. Welcomed her as a triumph. He threw her an opulent reception. That began with a procession with six thousand. Onlookers crowding the streets to catch a glimpse of her the rest of the parade included camels and elephants. It was the roman quivalent of the prince. Ali song from aladdin. The pope was thrilled to have a monarch. Even a former monarch publicly converted to catholicism. Maybe it was the first step in sweden coming back to the church or maybe christina could influence other royals to follow her lead. Christina entered the vatican through gates specially designed by the sculptor bernini bernini also designed. The coach that she wrote in christina would remain in rome for a good question of her adult life only occasionally popping into other countries when there seemed like there might be an open position for monarch in the hopes that maybe she wouldn't have to financially rely on the pope any longer for a period. The most promising vacant position for christina was the throne of naples. It wasn't actually vacant. It was currently occupied by spain. But it had gone back and forth between spain and france and christina thought that she might be able to persuade france to sponsor her becoming queen and naples if only to weaken their enemy so christina traveled to france to meet with the teenage king louis the fourteen and his mother the region's queen anne but their reaction was a little lukewarm but christina's time in france would lead to what became one of the defining instance of her adult life. She caught a trader in her midsts and the woman who had been raised to be king knew exactly what to do with him. Cristina's court was staying in the grand apartments at the palace phones and blue outside of paris. She had already met with queen. Anne about the whole naples thing and she was set to return back to rome but there were rumors of plague in italy and christina. Figured that if she stuck around france a little bit longer. She might persuade the french to hurry up with that military support. While she was there christina discovered that her master of the house a man named rinaldo me she had been copying her letters and sending them to the pope in short. It was a full the trail behind her back around one pm when afternoon. She summoned manal detour chambers and publicly accused him with evidence of the letters. He denied wrongdoing but christina just rolled her eyes she allowed him to receive confession and though he and the priest both begged christina for mercy christina didn't grant it won't elda she was disloyal and so that very afternoon she sentenced him to death while dash. She stood before christina in her chambers. He was stabbed in the stomach. And the neck. By christina servants. The problem was modeled as she was wearing chain. Mail and the weapons didn't kill him and so he was chased around the joining room for several minutes. Until one of christina servants managed to stab him in the throat christina. Didn't regret it at all. The only thing she said she was sorry for was that she had been forced to undertake the execution at all. She didn't ask god's forgiveness she asked god to forgive one desi though her. let's say informal trial and execution was fully legal because he was a member of her court. The action made christina massively lower. Both in france and back in rome were mulder. She's family was politically important. The pope who had once thrown her passive parade now described christina as quote a woman born of a million barbarously brought up and living with barbarous thoughts with a ferocious and almost intolerable.
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"When christina was twelve her guardian krantz catherine died from that point on oxen's gerna appointed a group to be christina's collective guardians rather than giving her individual foster parents. The idea was that because christina ricci to have so much power she shouldn't be biased in favor of any nobleman and grow to pick favorites as an adult. Technically the king of sweden already at six years old christina received an absolutely phenomenal education. She was tutored as if she were a boy. In politics. philosophy and theology and to the point of fluency in seven languages. Not counting swedish christina was very possibly the best educated woman of the entire seventeenth century. Axel oxen's dare not even hired a french ballet troupe to teach krisztina move gracefully. That lesson was the one that never quite took. Christina was ever accused of being graceful. By the time she was an adult she swore like a sailor refused to brush. Her hair neglected all sense of fashion or polite decorum. She was uncomfortable. Blunt and outright refused things that she saw as feminine from a young age she was drawn to the catholic doctrine particularly the idea of celibacy as a teenager. She was briefly secretly engaged to her cousin. Charles but pretty quickly christina made it very clear to everyone around her that she had no intention of ever getting married. Christina's most important romantic relationship was with a girl named us bar. The daughter of political family. I bought arrived to court as a teenager to serve. As one of christina's ladies in waiting the two were inseparable. They shared a bed and wrote a few of letters to each other. It's almost besides the point to ask if the relationship was explicitly sexual when it was so obviously romantic christina referred to eber as bell and whenever finally got married it was to amanda christina selected who would keep close at court. I am not a queer scholar who determine whether or not it's academically useful to call christina when she wouldn't have thought of herself in those terms but it seems unnecessarily reductive a little silly to discount what.
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"Gentle princesses christina. That was neither. She was strange looking and strange in her habits. Probably the best educated woman in of her day she loved music and theater and other women and still she's one of only three women to be buried in the papal vatican grottos of course there was murder along the way. What good story doesn't have murder. Christina may have abdicated her throne but she never gave up having the power of life and death over her courtly subjects. I'm dana schwartz. And.
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"noble" Discussed on Noble Blood
"Before we start just a little quick note. I wrote a book. It's called anatomy a love story and it's coming out next february. It's a story about love and dead bodies in nineteenth century at umbrella. And if you like this podcast. I have a really good feeling that you're also really gonna like this book. So here's where. I have to get a little bit earnest and say preorders are incredibly important for authors basically publishers. Look at those numbers and decide. How many eyeballs. They're going to put the book in front of when it actually published so if you're interested at all or even on the funds to me favor at least check it out and see if your intrigued enough for preorder so much to me. Also if you want to support the show you can always get access to bibliography material and episode scripts on our patriotic at patriotair dot com slash noble blood tales. Welcome to noble blood. Production of iheartradio and grim mild from aaron minke listener discretion is advised christina of sweden had an unusual birth. She was born on a frosty december. Day to the king of sweden gustavus adolphus wife. Maria eleonora the couple had achieved four pregnancies before christina but they hadn't had a single child survived past infancy. One son was still boring. A daughter died before her first birthday. And so this. New pregnancy was a source of joy but also of profound anxiety for the royal family. A slew of doctors were sent to examine the queen and one by one they all turned to the king with knowing smiles and said it's a boy. Christina came out screaming a horse. Strong low pitched voice and to came out covered in the downy fur that sometimes covers newborns. It was probably a combination of those factors. And the fact that having a male heir at this point was already a foregone conclusion that christina was initially declared it to be a boy when the mistake was identified. The attendance were humiliated. The air in the royal chambers was still and stifling with the awkwardness of the entire situation king. Gustav is broke the tension if he was disappointed at not having a male heir. He didn't show it. She'll be clever. He said she has made fools of us. All the king adored his daughter and from that point on he correctly assumed that he and his wife wouldn't be having any more children and that christina was going to be his heir if she was a woman. Well that was okay by him. Technically christine it never became a queen after her father's death. People called her queen christina of sweden but her actual formal title was king. Swedish law didn't include the terminology for a non queen concert or aucoin queen just married to the king without monarchical power in her own right christina's accidental mis 'gendering at birth turned out to be just the first in a long line of unusual happenings in possibly one of the strangest lives of renaissance royal history. Christina was a woman who lived with a peculiar knack for doing things on her terms fond of wearing men's clothing and not combing her hair with absolutely no interest in getting married to a man and a much bigger interest in pursuing romantic relationships with women. Christina was not the king between really wanted which especially became true when she decided that she wanted to convert to catholicism even though her kingdom was deeply lutheran and so citing burnout christina applegate and spent the next several decades of her life bouncing between various european courts throwing elaborate parties so expensive they could bring her hosts financial ruin and ultimately landing at the vatican where she was a guest under five separate pokes back when she was raining in sweden one her political enemies said of her quote christina was bringing everything to ruin and that she cared for nothing sport and pleasure so often disney movies an history stories. This podcast often included fall into the trap of telling the tales of.
DJ Force X in Conversation
"noble" Discussed on DJ Force X in Conversation
"It come about ziegler's that's actually one of the songs that started out as as jam more as a guitar pro. We a lot in gets up role but this song is actually one of the songs that just came about just like instantly and we just click on it Everybody at the same time. So it's like an natural progression of the song generally just meet jamming demane riffs injuries room and immediately started avon playing that and we just kept it on the beach and is like one of the few times it has happened for us because we got him so we are normally a band. Tuned challenge ourselves and write stuff and can talk ra which we barely can play but rick like To learning like we really really tried to save Reach to learn but this on came totally natural promise. So this is like yeah. Sold song was eight. Nice and it's not as late is an. I think you can hear that is more organic than some of the stuff on the first record which is like to me. I can link here the the the the comma lewdness of all the difference complicated arts than we've woven together in all different times majors and stuff like that plunges phones in yet gruesome like the through regarding different It's quite funny story because we were just chatting about having features in general and we started listening to zodda ban coal the End we over hype about end the project in general. I'll guide from end in this pretty new band and we didn't realize it but i would like. Oh yeah brennan houston comets sites. Oh god it's from didn't realize a difference in so i didn't realize it was him like totally different vocal style years. I'm part so. I was really like okay. He can do while minutes. Amazing he's a really good Also absolutely is lakes author is i had the had correspondent manu is just like the nicest guy first of all and very responsive and there's some parts that for simpler really say a word and late late him he just got it instantly. This tried something. Yeah john kelly is. If i remember right he li- extended it to you. Send it to him and like within a week or like four days. The first thing and it was just awesome. Yeah just click voicing in different at her excellent and you guys like Econ album but you said before before you coming out later. This year is called. Modern dismay through. Prime collective is while in. August leap everyone lookout for that. But some actually thinking about just while run at. Are you guys release any more singles anytime soon from that record is front real soon of no ainge within i night. It's not like i just like was editing music video. Nansen do all the teasers type it out and the ad releasing a are single from the album cold external change in april s fighter and the in six weeks. And then yes. Third one is the first one English art yes. We have two more. That's right now for the really went sideways coming back for that yet we do. Does anyone remember. I said.
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"noble" Discussed on Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"But what role does how we relate to that thing play in The Suffering that we feel from it and not lives. Is there a story that's possible to cut through to reveal something else underneath? My guess is, if you're like most people, the story that typically found I hope found by me over and over, and over Jack, is some version of wanting things to be different, wanting people to behave differently or maybe even wanting myself to be different or off self to be behave different and the key word. And all of that is wanting and this is basically the essence of the second Noble Truth. The most proximal, cause of our suffering, is this wanting or this craving for something other than what is right here, Nepali word for this, the way, the ancient language of the Buddha was Tom. Hi and means there's t a n h a So when I was putting this together yesterday, I immediately had like this, this comes to mind other family, I met back, when I was a medical student many years ago and haven't thought about them on surprised to say, for a long, long time, but remarkable family, they were a powerful example, of happiness that can be found by letting go of the craving for something other than what we have. And instead working with with the system and kindness with, what is actually here, So in this family, there were two adult children who had both inherited a genetic disorder that made them dangerously susceptible to talk to a certain kind of skin cancer. This kind of skin. Cancer typically is very easily treated you, you've just take a little session coming down, has gone and and no big deal for them. However, cutting it out, was never enough. It continually came back, fast, a big and spreading show being citizens, had to get bigger and bigger and bigger, they books Community, they would die early of this illness of this cancer at some point. And by the time I met, um, the brother was hospitalized for his second hand amputation. The Smith Sure had already lost both hands and he was in, in, in there for his second hand amputation. Every time I went into his room, it was full of life, family..
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"noble" Discussed on Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"Sense at me, And I called it before opening my mouth. And have this moment of being able to open to what was like, this little waterfall of hurt with Contracting into what the amygdala wanted to do, which is fight and defend and say well no you got that wrong. I didn't blah blah blah blah blah. You know and so just and of course we don't want to wage and they're the the instinct is to bounce out but when the more we learn to stand there, we learn to find that that standing in even that little moment of fire, it does transform something and that standing there with acknowledgement of couch. That that had some steamed to it and I'm feeling it that without Contracting them to the story of you shouldn't be that transformed into. Oh wow. I bet she's feeling some seeing right now to and from that place of being able to understand that, it's just directed at me out of her, sitting totally changed what came out of my mouth and it became a really sweet moment. Instead of one of those moments that the parent then regret later. So, I finish with the quote from Philip Moffat. These descriptions speak to the capacity of fully consciously, receiving life, as it is to voluntarily, received the distress of life and mindfully bear with Consciousness and compassion. And it's a critical threshold for Spiritual Development. It is a vital first step and it empowers. All further unfolding it is both absolutely ordinary. And mystically transforming. This Choice gives your life meaning. And ironically it also gives meaning to your suffering, transforming it from being senseless. To be in a crucial part of your liberation. This is the beauty of the insights of the first Noble Truth. So, let's sit for a minute. Just notice whatever is coming up in your body mind and hardness moment. What is it like to voluntarily receive the fullness of the moment? Consciousness and compassion. Just as it is. Thank you..
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"noble" Discussed on Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"Whatever word, do, whatever word you want to use for. And the work is not to escape this. The work instead is how do I learn to meet it off and and be with it here and now in a way that matters and opens my life instead of contracts it down. So really how do I get to that third Noble Truth? Which I like the way Sylvia board and steam describe defines. She says at this way peace is possible in the middle of a complicated life. The mind can remain at ease. That's what I want the ability to be at ease. In a way that allows my most responsive self. To open up and meet whatever pain my own or others in this complicated life in a way that matters. And this knowing what we need to bear and how to Bear it and knowing what we need to let go of and how to let go of it. That's the key. Let me give one more example of this difference between. You can call it pain and suffering or essential suffering and subjective suffering whatever way you want to look at it. What is unavoidable? And what is avoidable? When I was a family practice resident out in New Mexico, I did my residency in a training program that did a lot of Obi. I delivered in a lot, a lot of babies.
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"noble" Discussed on Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
"To be in pain, whether emotional or physical and be at peace. That's a radical orientation that I have to say, I have now met many times in my life. It's really helpful to know that both of those things can be true. I can have pain and I can be at peace. And neither one, the gates, the other That's really useful in a world that is challenging complex and full of pain and duka. My third thing, I'm going to share around that gift is the way we get to that is by orienting a life towards meaningfulness towards what really really matters in our life. I like one of the other things for a living off. It says, in his book, he says that we often make the mistake of thinking that the opposite of suffering is happiness. It's not. What this man in Calcutta really shared with me, was something far more rich and far more complicated than straightforward happiness. And when we have a life with a prime objective of personal happiness, we really are cutting ourselves off at the knees. It can only get us so far in a world where suffering, the first Noble Truth is a natural part of life. And so, if we are to engage with the wholeness of life, we need some orientation that allows us to engage deeply wrong with the fact of suffering with the fact of dukkha. A life oriented towards meaning. On the other hand gives us endless opportunities for continual opening in less opportunities. So the key to this, which is another thing that just, I remember so strongly about that gift. Is being in touch with the felt sense of meaningfulness, sacredness of the moment. Now, but offers us, this very radical path, possible for being able to meet the pain, and all of life's that arises physical emotional with out Contracting into suffering kind of like the key piece here is not that we're trying to get rid of pain. We can't let that life doesn't exist, but we can need it without Contracting into suffering wage. So want to look at these a little bit. The first is that difference between pain and suffering one and it's really helpful, it's very helpful to have a practical working idea of different kinds of pain or suffering. One way, that these are often distinguished or looked at is that you define pain as what is unavoidable? Suffering, as what we add on. Top to it, on top of it. And we can learn to avoid. Philip moffatt's book. I gives an example from Helen Luke, the union psychologist, I'm sure some of you have read her remarkable thinker Observer, of the nature of mind and and human life. And what he notes is that what she's describing in Western psychological language, really is the same thing as the first Noble Truth, the same basic wisdom. So she identified as what she calls, two kinds of suffering, the one you are to bear and the other, you are too abandoned the one to be born. She calls essential suffering, meaning the objective experiences of pain and loss. The stuff screen weird to let go of as the neurotic inferior or narcissistic sufferings. And that is off of our subjective reactions to the realities of loss, to the realities of anxiety, to the realities of disappointment, So Moffitt says of her definition that this, this idea of essential suffering is really the Willing conscious acceptance of touka as a part of Being Human. So in other words, there is this radical acceptance that there will be pain that there will be suffering. In life..