These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer. During answer the call,

I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges,

or when they simply need advice. How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility? How do you

repair this kind of damage? My daughter, Michaela, guides the conversations as we hopefully help people

navigate their lives. Everyone has their own destiny. Everyone.

Everyone. Hey, everyone. With this week's interview with my son, Spencer Claven, no relation.

I always like to talk to Spencer about the culture,

and this summer for some reason, I've had a lot of more time on my hand because I'm between

drafts of a book, and I've seen a lot of movies, and Spencer has seen all the same movies,

and we've been talking endlessly about this, and I started thinking, these are interesting

conversations, so I thought I'd bring them to you. It is good to see you, a young man, and I should advertise the fact that we have a ongoing

and ongoing conversation going on on Substack at the new Jerusalem.substack.com.

It's great.

I, you know, I feel like ridiculous.

It is, isn't it? It's terrific. It's not. It's like very, very short. Yeah, it's every day, very short, you know, one minute read, maybe two minute reads where you write a letter, then I write a letter and we go back and forth on various things. It's Monday through Thursday and on Friday. We talk about some work of art.

One of us talks about some work of art. I was reading it this week and it was all about...

It rocked this week. It rocked. Yes. And you know, it's got it's got it's actually,

you know, pretty high up on their, on their faith list on substack. They have the faith bestsellers. We've been making that list every week

for the last four or five weeks. And we've gotten toward the top, it's 100, and we've gotten

up to 11 or something like that. So it is getting people, but people are not paying for it.

So eventually we either will have to take it down because it's too much work to do for free

or we'll have to hunt down the people who are subscribing and just rob their houses. Just rob their

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