Welcome to The Holy Post. This week, progressive philosopher and political activist Cornel West says

progressives need Jesus. What can we learn from him about critiquing our own tribe? Then,

Alan Noble talks about his new book, You Are Not Your Own, and how the modern understanding of

identity has led us all astray. Plus, Phil has a new batch of animal news. Here is episode 474.

Hey there, welcome back to the podcast. This is The Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Vischer. We are

here today with Skyjitani. Hi, Sky. Hi, Phil. And, uh, Caitlin Sheas. Hi, Caitlin. Hi, Phil.

Who is still at your still at Duke? You're still there. I have not yet quit. So, you're well,

or maybe you're good. Kicked out. Yeah. Yeah. That's fantastic. Congratulations. Thank you.

Two weeks. Two weeks now. Yeah, two full weeks. How long before you get some award?

No. You have really, you have ruined the internet for me because of the constant mentioning of

this award. And your tiny diploma show us your tiny diploma. I did get a little tiny frame,

but I haven't put it up yet. And we need to put it in a dollhouse so that you need a little room,

a diorama that's scaled to the diploma. Yes, us. Only us. We're your friends. You don't need any

other friends. Caitlin, silly. Okay, it's time for the theme song. What's the news that you like the most? Who's your favorite podcast host? If it's breakfast, get your toast. It's Skyjit. Phil and the Holy Post Skyjit. Phil and the Holy Post. I'm sometimes

a fan. Okay, we got to talk about some animals and we have to talk about the state of the world. Because the

end of the world is getting bad. I think everyone knows the world is getting bad. We got fires. We got floods. We got droughts. We got

pandemics. We got wars. We got rumors of wars. We got earthquakes. We got like everything. Is there anything we don't have? That's a better question. Is there anything we don't have right now going wrong in the world?

There's got to be something. There was a lot of space. Well, many people would say that's part of what's wrong with the world. Is

not only is pumpkin spice latte back pumpkin spice Cheerios are back. Yeah, we don't need it. We go back to having autumn and not having pumpkin spice

as as our fourth season of the year. Anyway, so much is going wrong with the world. We have yet another sign of the apocalypse.

Australian ducks are learning how to swear. I don't know if you heard about this. I may have. There's there's a kind of duck in Australia called the musk duck.

And the musk duck. The musk duck. Can do some vocal mimicry. And there's one particular musk duck named Ripper that is now started saying you bloody

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