China Is Growing Babies In Robots (feat. Kirk Cameron)
The 9941 Podcast
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the Granger Smith Podcast, Granger sits down with Kirk Cameron for a wide-ranging conversation on family, faith, and the life of the church.
They share about family rhythms, Sunday dinners, and the importance of fellowship before moving into deeper discussions about worship, what church gatherings are meant to be, and how Christians can stay rooted in a culture that often feels hostile to their faith.
Granger and Kirk also talk about the blessings of cultural Christianity and make an important distinction: cultural Christianity isn’t the same as being a “lukewarm Christian.” Rather, it points to the benefit of living in a society shaped by Christian values, even while rejecting the idea of half-hearted faith.
Later in the episode, they respond to an email about a headline out of China describing a “pregnancy robot” being developed with an artificial womb. They ask what this technology might mean for families, infertility, and most importantly, God’s design for life.
It’s an episode filled with personal stories, church history, and honest reflection on how faith speaks into the modern world.
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| 0:00.0 | as if technology couldn't get crazier with AI, robotics, whatnot. |
| 0:06.6 | Now we're hearing that in development right now is a robot, |
| 0:13.2 | and this is not fake news, this is in development, a robot that could actually carry a baby in a womb from fetus to birth. |
| 0:23.2 | We gotta unpack this. |
| 0:24.7 | We'll do that right now. |
| 0:38.1 | You're like full Tennessee now. You're like full Tennessee now. |
| 0:39.6 | You got the shirt on. |
| 0:46.9 | You got the classic white brick in the background that is like a Nashville house has white brick on it. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.3 | It's kind of everywhere. |
| 0:52.8 | And we're really liking it. |
| 0:55.4 | The beard's coming in nice and full, no patchy spots. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't know. I don't know if it's the Hattie Bees chicken or if it's the whiskey, but it's all coming in nice and full now. I was going to ask if you had loveless biscuits for breakfast |
| 1:08.0 | this morning. That would complete it. Have you been a loveless cafe yet? |
| 1:11.7 | Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's great over there. There's so many good places. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, if you want to get fat, move to the south. Yeah. So right. I used to live in Nashville. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. Do you have a fire pit? Like, will we get to see some Kirk around with the Bible and around the |
| 1:30.8 | fire pit one of these days? Of course. I mean, you know, I didn't learn how to how to burn my trash until I came |
| 1:38.1 | to the south. We can't do that in California. But here, you know, it's all, it's how we keep warm in the winter. |
| 1:49.9 | We do have a fire pit and I love sitting around it. |
| 1:54.1 | I love when my family comes over for Sunday night dinners. |
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