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Southside Rabbi

Episode 603: "Status And Celebrity"

Southside Rabbi

KB and Ameen Hudson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Southside family!! This week we are discussing status and celebrity, and how people, especially today, can be affected, have their perceptions tainted and shifted, all because of a person's status. We also look at the children of Israel in Scripture and how they perceived their king should be. Buckle up, it's about to get real!!

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, we are back for another episode of South Side

0:18.6

Rabbi. You're, you're, and a cross from me. Wow, wow, wow, wow.

0:29.0

Let me just give a, uh, before I start talking about this brother across from me, let us

0:32.5

just pause and give a moment of pregnant, like a pregnant pause, a moment of silence to

0:38.6

just respect, uh, this man's genius and brilliance.

0:42.4

I'm not being quiet, bro. That's enough. I refuse. Okay. This person across from me. Listen,

0:52.1

man, there isn't a biographer named Walter Isaacson that came out with a great, great biography

1:03.9

on Steve Jobs. It's probably the, the definitive biography that you should read on a genius

1:10.4

like Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson is a journalist who has mastered writing biographies about

1:16.8

geniuses. What? So the first one he did is of Steve Jobs. Amazing. If you don't have it,

1:23.1

I beseech thee, my dear brother, sister, to go out and get it. If you really are interested

1:28.1

in like Apple, Steve Jobs, want to know about the genius behind Apple, he goes deep, deep,

1:32.4

yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and so it's really good. Walter Isaacson just released a new book

1:37.6

about another genius and his name is Elon Musk. That book has gotten a lot of criticism because

1:43.7

some people feel like he went to soft on Elon Musk. Some other people feel like he was too harsh

1:48.8

on Elon Musk. But what he did is he went undercover with Elon Musk for two years and he was invited

1:55.7

to all the meetings, all of the, he had unfiltered access to Elon and his crew. And he said that I am

2:02.0

here to, uh, to just be a camera essentially. So he does it really like to give his own opinion.

2:08.0

He just reports what he sees, right? Um, documents what he sees. And so that, that I was actually

2:14.4

just listening to interview from Cara Swisher, who shout out to Cara Swisher. She's an amazing

2:18.1

interviewee or interviewer, uh, interview on Walter Isaacson about that book because she wanted

2:24.0

to press him on all of the ways that he wasn't, um, truthful about Elon Musk. She felt, but she

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