Stories Shape Society | Ep.14

We revisit two classic Disney films to test what modern children’s media is teaching and why story beats advice in shaping conscience. From Quasimodo’s mercy to Arthur’s formation, we trace how character is forged through trials, symbols, and stakes.

• opening take on Hunchback’s real monster theme
• Esmeralda’s courage, sanctuary, and selflessness
• jealousy resisted, chains broken, strength of the heart
• Sword in the Stone’s lessons through experience
• Madam Mim, predators, rules, and ethical warfare
• why story outperforms advice in shaping virtue
• folklore evidence and cultural memory in myth
• four senses of scripture and layered meaning
• reading Hemingway wrong, reading life better
• call to choose stories that build character

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Chapters

• 0:00 Discovering Hunchback Anew
• 3:30 Who Is The Real Monster
• 7:20 Esmeralda’s Courage And Sanctuary
• 12:00 Jealousy, Mercy, And True Strength
• 16:30 Sword In The Stone’s Hidden Lessons
• 24:00 Predators, Madam Mim, And Rules
• 30:30 Stories That Shape Culture
• 36:40 From Fairy Tales To Folklore Evidence

Transcript

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Welcome to episode 14, baby, Ministry of a Man podcast. I'm your host, Isaac Anthony Turner, and guess what? I watched a movie this week, an old Disney film that I couldn't remember called The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Now, I didn't know this before watching it, but it's actually based on a novel written by Victor Hugo. He's the guy that wrote uh La Miserab. So it's a really good story. But it got me thinking, because I'm like, I just put this on randomly. I'm like, oh yeah, you know, an old Disney movie. I remember the toys from the movie as I was a kid. And I saw a couple of memes recently about Quasimodo. And so I was like, let me check this movie out. I can't remember it at all. And so it probably I didn't think it was going to be good because, you know, I do have some favorite Disney movies. I remember Mulan, I remember Hercules. They're my favorites. And um I was like, why don't I remember this movie? Like, was it was it just not good? So I put it on, it only goes for like an hour and 20 minutes or something, or maybe an hour and a half. And I was blown away. Like when I tell you, I was tearing up watching this movie. I couldn't believe it. And um not only that, so not only is it like heavy hitting with moral value and like scenes that really pull at the heartstrings, there was just an insane amount of profound lessons and teachings and things that you just don't see in movies today, and you definitely don't see even in like adult movies for one, but you're definitely not seeing that sort of stuff in children's movies. And so one of the things I want to look at, because it really got me thinking a lot, about what children are getting exposed to these days and the biggest influences that are happening in their lives and how that shapes a culture. So, first of all, I'm gonna do a mini breakdown of some of the scenes in this because after I say this, I guarantee you're you're either gonna really want to watch the movie or possibly read the book. I'm going to go and actually get the book now because obviously a Disney adapted movie, they probably have left out a lot of parts. But I'm gonna go through some of the parts in the movie because right from the outset, from the very beginning, the first song that it sings, it's it's kind of got these uh these Romney people, these gypsies. So it's set in France. Obviously, Notre Dame is a French cathedral, and it has these two gypsies running away from these guards or the city guards, and they obviously they're trying to take away their child, and he ends up the the main bad guy who's the main antagonist for the film ends up killing the mum in the first scene. Another weird thing, actually, that is kind of a weird thing in Disney movies that there's a lot of parents die at the beginning of the movie, so I don't really know what's with that, but I saw something actually. This uh is actually crazy. Like Mufasa dies at the start, Bambi's mom dies at the start, Quasimodo's mom dies at the start. I don't know if any of you have ever seen the movie My Girl, but oh my gosh, you can't. I don't know why you would do that in a kid's film. It does some like heart-wrenching stuff, things you don't really forget as a kid. Anyway, I'm digressing. But the the first song, it kind of shows what's happening here, and when he grabs the baby from the mum that's just died, he looks at the baby and goes, It's a monster. Because obviously Quasimodo is this is the hunchback. And in the within the first song, it's referencing who's the real monster, because obviously it's showing this villainous character, and there's this child that isn't what let's say isn't the stereotyp, doesn't meet the stereotypical beauty standards of today. Uh uh, but to have that as the theme of who is the real monster set out from the very beginning of the movie, that was really cool for one, because that's what it sets you up for. You're like, ooh, interesting. There's the visual aspect of a quote unquote monster, but then there is the behavior of a real monster. And so the main arc of the theme, uh, I suppose the main theme of the movie, aside from that, that it really delves into is the oppression of the downtrodden. So the gypsy people are the wanderers, they're the Romani people that have come from France. Oh, sorry, they have come from wandering. I think they have heritage maybe in India, but they have landed in France and they don't live in the main city, they live around the outsides of the city, and they're not liked, and they're arrested, and they get their money stolen from them from the guards, from the city guards. So they're the poor, I suppose. And so the movie is obviously exploring that as well, and it paints it in a particular way where it shows you that the you can clearly see that they're being mistreated. That it it paints these like a very clear picture of the strong oppressing the weak, and that that's a bad thing. Because you're watching it, you're like, this is not good to watch. Any child would pick that up as well, because they put these characters with the dark music and they might make them look mean or something, and then they have the the Romney people as being really nice and friendly, and and which they they are. The main character, I suppose, maybe the main love interest of the movie. Typically, there's princesses in Disney films, but this isn't a princess, so to speak, is Esmerelda, and she is basically beauty personified. She is not only gets the attention of a lot of the men in the town when she dances at the festivals, she also is the only one that steps up and stops the bullying or abuse that Quasimodo receives when they then he goes out into public for the first time. He's getting picked on, he's getting tomatoes thrown at him, they're all making fun of him for his looks, and she's the one that steps up and says, No, don't do this, this is wrong. And she treats him kindly and with compassion and with empathy and doesn't look at him and judge him for his external appearance. Then they have, because it's set in Notre Dame in the cathedral, there's a lot of biblical themes as well. So, one thing that's really cool is that they have this law that it's it's an old law they used to have where fugitives could declare sanctuary if you were inside a religious place like a church or a cathedral, which I think is a really powerful message as well to show that that is a place to go where you've got when you've got nowhere else to go. It's like you can seek refuge there in a holy place, in a sacred place. Uh there's another really kind of beautiful scene. Actually, this probably shows you a bit more of the character of Esmerelda. Is that when she goes into the church, she starts singing a song again, and all of the other people in the cathedral, they're singing and out to the Lord and they're praying to God and they're asking for all these things. They're asking, bless my life, give me this, give me that. They're all just asking for things, except for Esmerelda, who says, I ask for nothing other than protection and safety for my people. So she asks nothing for herself. So she's also this selfless kind of character. It it does seem that she is this altruistic, good in every facet of the sense. So that's just a start. That's just like a couple of the bits in the first little portion of the movie. As it progresses, it obviously has a storyline in which they're they're trying to kill Esmeralda because she embarrasses the, I suppose, I don't know, what his name is Frollo, he's the antagonist of the movie. She embarrasses him, and then he wants to basically execute her because of it. So most of the movie is about that. But one very interesting thing is it shows that Quasimodo starts to build an affection for Esmerelda, and she doesn't reciprocate it, she actually ends up having more romantic affections for another character who's another good guy. He's he's the captain of the guards, but he ends up being removed from the the guards because he's he's not a bad guy, he's a good guy. And so Quasimodo gets very jealous at first, but it also shows him not succumbing to the jealousy. So he still goes ahead and saves the man that Esmeralda falls for in the end. And so he you can see that he has these hurt feelings, but not only does he go and save the man, he saves Esmeralda as well. And doesn't allow, even though they can give him nothing, he is still good for the sake of being good, not because there's anything he can get from it. So there's so many of these things. There's, you know, one of the things that got me the most was at the very start of the movie, there's these three stone gargoyles that are kind of his friends. And it's unclear whether they're actually in his imagination or if they're real. But in the beginning, they're kind of throwing all these names around, and one gets hurled over at Quasimodo, and they say, be careful with him. He isn't made of stone like us. As if to say, like, he's human, you know, he's not, he has a heart, he has feelings, uh, whereas maybe a stone gargoyle might not. Now, towards the end of the movie, he has this moment where he's deciding what to do. Is he going to try and help? Is he going to just be sad and mope around? Or what is he going to do? And the stone characters start talking to him again, but this time they say, I thought you were made of something more than stone. And so it's kind of this interesting, a different look at what a human being really is, or what is the make of a man? I don't know, it just got me thinking a lot. And then shortly after, here they all get captured. There's another powerful scene where he's chained up as Esmerald is about to die, and they go, just break the chains, but he goes, I can't, I can't. And then they go, You can break those chains, you know, but that's not what's holding you back. Because he was downtrodden, he was defeated, he had an immense amount of strength. And it was a this powerful scene of what really is holding you back. Is it the chains? No, it's not the chains. Because you can you can break those chains. And it was the it was the heart that needed to overcome the maybe the rejection, maybe to know whether it's worth it. And then of course, mirroring maybe some version of hell, Frollo, the antagonist at the end, falls into these, this huge fiery pit of yeah, fire. So all of these things, like I'm just that's just like a the quickest review. That's like five to ten minutes. I don't know how long I just spoke for them, but like that's just of one movie that was came out in the 90s. Kids' movie. I watched another film that I'll do a small review of as well, called The Sword and the Stone. Now, this is a popular one based off of King Arthur, King Arthur Pendragon, and Merlin the Magician. It's old English folklore. And uh that had just as many, if not more, lessons and teachings in it for children to watch. And this was obviously uh about the boy named Arthur on his journey to become the king that we know that he eventually becomes to be. So his name's Arthur, but in the beginning of the movie, he's actually called Wart. They the the people that he lives with or works for in the castle that he's in, they just call him Wart. And he's this clumsy, feeble, weak character. Uh, but he isn't he's not afraid. One of the key things that they kind of outline in the movie is that he's not scared of anything. Now Merlin comes along and he predicts uh Arthur's coming. He also says that he's gonna tutor the boy because you can't mature without an education, he says. Which is as if to say you don't know anything of importance or significance. So when Merlin says that he's gonna tutor him, Arthur insists on doing his responsibilities and returns home instead. So rather than going off with Merlin on this adventure, he shows integrity and says, Well, I actually have I actually have responsibilities to do at where I'm from. So he goes back and returns to this castle. Now, there's uh uh the death of a king in the movie, and a tournament is announced, which the winner of the tournament becomes the new king. Now, Arthur, he's set to be the squire for a knight of the castle that he lives at. Now, Merlin sees how much dedication and effort he puts into the role of being the squire. And he will in everything he does, in his responsibilities, in his duties. He's incredibly humble to the point where he says he hopes to be worthy enough to be fit for the role of squire. So showing great humility in his character. Now, as the movie progresses, Merlin slowly teaches Arthur through experiences. So he takes him out, and all of the lessons are shown through the experiences that he runs him through. So let's say there's um there's a scene where a bullfrog nips at Arthur, and which Arthur gets really upset and insults the bullfrog. And this is a really funny and profound response that Merlin says. He says, There's no sense in going around insulting bullfrogs. There are plenty of other problems to worry about. And like it's as if to say that insulting bullfrogs is just a complete waste of time. There are more important things to focus on. This is um referenced even in the Bible where it says don't get caught up in trivial. Well, there's multiple verses. One of them is don't get caught up in civilian pursuits. And it also says don't get um involved with pointless controversies or it's it's mirroring some biblical ideas in this movie. And as it turns out, in pretty much every scene from then on, they're being stalked by some larger, more dangerous threat. So throughout the story, Merlin continues to refer to the boy as Wart, by the way, because that's how the boy introduces himself in the beginning. So he's he's claiming that identity, and and Merlin doesn't correct him on it because that's uh that's who he's referring to as himself. And he doesn't get called Arthur until he pulls the sword out of the stone, effectively establishing who he really is. Um now, some of the uh of Merlin's lessons are primarily the principles of how the world works. Practical and useful lessons. These are the kinds of things. He's not just teaching him random bits of information, he's teaching him about the threats of the world, about how things move and what to watch out for. He says, love is the greatest force on earth, which coming from a children's movie, is incredible to hear that kind of language. In every environment they enter, there's a different predator, but with the same motive, which is to kill them. They get to a point where they enter, uh, one one character enters called Madame Mim, in which they're introduced to black magic. This is the the dark side of humanity, I suppose, because this is the only other human threat. All the other threats prior to this were creatures or animals, there were things out in the world. This is the first human. And she can change into anything, she can change into any shape, any form, and she starts as being this beautiful woman, which is very interesting because we know the devil wears Prata, and uh they can come to you looking beautiful, looking good, but have nothing but dark motives or evil motives. And so, as she can change into any shape, the inside is that she just wants to destroy. Her goal is to destroy. So the first display of magic, she turns a rose into ash, which is very telling. She's turning something beautiful or taking something beautiful and then just destroying it altogether. There also happens to be a fight that takes place between Merlin, and this is a very interesting thing because this happens in in the world quite a lot. In where someone might have an ethical belief, or someone might be of good nature coming up against someone of bad nature. Because this is what happens the the person that is that is good and altruistic. They will play by the rules. Someone that is of bad nature, they don't care about breaking the rules, but they will expect the good person to abide by the rules. And so this is why it's an important lesson, first of all, to not engage in warfare on the same battleground as your enemy. You want to make sure you're engaging in any kind of warfare on your own terms, not entering onto their playing field, because they will set the rules and then you'll abide by them, and then they'll break those exact rules to their advantage. But nonetheless, Merlin wins, and as Madam Mim is recovering in bed, she can be heard screaming as they're leaving. I hate, I hate, I hate, which is interesting in and of itself, just filled with venom and hatred and destruction. So I recap on those two stories. They're just two examples of movies I've watched recently. And that's what children were watching. So you can imagine children that are watching these movies, they're incorporating these lessons. Even if they're not consciously aware of it, that's what's going in. They're seeing it, they're hearing it, they're feeling it, and it's going into their subconscious. It's going straight into their soul, into their mind, into their subconscious. Today, kids' movies are based around nothing like that. Instead, they'd rather show kids being disobedient to their parents. So a common theme these days is that children in the children's movies, they'll want to do something, and the parents will say, No, you can't do it. That's too dangerous, you're not allowed. And then the kid will go, Well, I'm gonna do it anyway, and they'll either sneak out or they'll just blatantly disobey their parents and just run away. And it'll turn out that the kid was right all along, and that the parents end up apologizing to the kid, and that the kid knows best. And so it's like enforcing this idea of the parents not knowing what's best for their own children. And if you're a child and you're watching this kind of thing, you're gonna pick that up too, and you're gonna be a worse kid for the parents. You're not gonna listen, you're not gonna trust them, it's gonna create division in the household. And if it's not that, then it's gay stuff. It's like, okay, why? Like, what's the point? Why not teach children about good character? Like, the option is, or what it used to be, was teach children about having good character. Now it's saying gender ideology. Like, what kind of nine-year-old needs to know about anything like that at all? Like, how is that gonna be relevant to their life? When I was nine, no one told me about anything, and I uh uh to do with like a sexual nature, because first of all, I didn't care. Second of all, like you already know intrinsically anyway. Like, no one needs to tell you anything. I liked girls in my grade for no other reason than I saw them and I thought they looked good, or or they were just nice to me or something. Like, whatever the reason is when you're a kid and you like someone, whatever it is. It's just plain and simple, it's just irrelevant to have for a developing adolescent, especially when they could use some strong moral drivers to be embedded. Like what we're looking at is a culture, we're looking at a society, we're looking at a not just like what you teach your children in your own family, we're looking at the masses. When you execute this type of thing over hundreds of thousands of people all across the world, what is the world then going to look like? As is what what you feed in the intellectual diet of a child, they're going to produce that. So if you neglect all of the virtues of a good person, you know, Pinocchio, don't lie, hunchback of Notre Dame, don't be mean to people that look different to you. Uh, show mercy, show grace. Let's love one another, in turn, not in a romantic sense, but in the sense of care and sacrifice, and I'm gonna put others before me. Or in order to achieve, like, you know, grow up into the person I'm supposed to be, to be able to finally pull the sown, the sword out of the stone. I had to go through all these hardships and challenges, and then I became the person that I was meant to be all along. And I grew up into this mature person. I'm no longer the clumsy, weak, kind of feeble child that I once was. But now that I've experienced these hardships, I am strong and I can wield the sword that no one else can, even though I'm small in stature. It was my moral character that got developed, and that's why, because all of the big, strong, physically strong men couldn't pull the stone out, but the young boy could because he was now developed in his spirit. That's the kind of stories that I want my children to watch, and that's the kind of stories that are gonna shape a culture and a nation if you let it. Otherwise, you're gonna have people arguing about like gay stuff. Who cares? Who cares, dude? Like, what are we doing? Like, there's this, there's, you know what, you want to know what annoys me? There's this, uh, they did this study. It's called the bystander effect. And what basically what happens is if someone gets hurt and there's a lot of people around, no one steps up to help the person because everyone's thinking, well, someone else will do it. And they don't actually step up to the plate themselves and go, wow, no one's helping. I'm going to help. Because they don't have that attitude, they don't have that spirit. That shouldn't exist. The bystander effect shouldn't exist. It should be eradicated. It should be eradicated because we should have morals as a society that maybe encourage that sort of behavior. But no. Instead, we have characters that are painting every single dad as some idiot moron that no one in the family respects. All of the mainstream dad characters in TV shows is just like an idiot dad. They've just got stupid characters and silly nonsense. Like, I can't even begin to explain like how kids might the reason, okay, the reason Brain Rod exists is probably because of Spongebob SquarePants and Adventure Time. Mind you, I absolutely love Adventure Time. But I'm an adult and I only ever watched it as an adult. I didn't watch it as a child with a developing brain. But that's probably why Brain Rod is a thing. Like you look at some of these silly shows, it's absolute chaotic nonsense. So it's no wonder that like Brain Rod is a thing now. Furthermore, to go a little bit deeper, if you haven't noticed of those stories that I mentioned just in this podcast, I mentioned the The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And I mentioned that it's based off a novel. It's based off a book that's this critically acclaimed author, for one, who wrote Le Miserab and many other books. But it's an established novel and a story that has meaning embedded into it. It's not just a story for the sake of being a story, there's moral implications in the story. We also have the English folklore of Arthur, King Arthur, which is based on, you know, Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, all of these things. The stories and the random fairy tales that we used to tell children were based off of real stories that had moral implications. They had cultural significance already as the story's been told. A lot of these stories are thousands of years old. Jack and the Bean stalk goes back 5,000 years. Rumpel Stiltskin goes back 4,000 years. The Frog Prince goes back something like 3,000 years. And I'm pretty sure I'm accurate with all those years, by the way. I'm not making that up. But these stories were culturally relevant stories. So, okay, let's take the Pied Piper, for example. I don't know if you guys know about the Pied Piper. Maybe I'll do a little refresher on that because it's it is kind of a funny story. Basically, there's a town that uh called Hamlin in Germany, and they get a massive rat in infestation. Rats fill the town. Now a Pied Piper comes to town and says, I can get rid of these rats for you if you pay me a thousand gold pieces or a thousand gold coins. And the townspeople agree. And so he uses his little flute or whatever, and he lures the rats out of the town. He drowns them in a river. As he goes to collect, the townspeople refused to pay him and they scoffed at him and because of his gullibility. And they wouldn't pay him. Now he threatened them and said, Look, if I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna get water mode. And they just ignored him. They ignored his threats and they they didn't pay him. So when all the adults were gathered in a church for the feast of St. John and St. Paul on June 26th, that's a real date of that. It's uh the Saints' Day of John and Paul. The children were left outside to play. And when the Pied Piper returned, he played a different tune, which led the children away. And the children disappeared into the mountains. As the story goes, they were swallowed up by the by the mountain. Now, what's interesting about that is that that isn't just some sort of random fairy tale that someone conjured up. There was a document found called the Lunenberg Manuscript, found in uh 1450, the year 1450. It was authored by a monk. And it mentions in it the disappearance of 130 children on June 26th in the year of 1284 from following a Pied Piper or from following a Piper. In addition to that, in Hamlin's own town records from 1384, it says, it has been 100 years since our children left. That's in their own official town records. In addition to that, there is a plaque that reads. Now, this is dating back to uh to 1284 as well. It says, on the 26th of June, the day of St. John and St. Paul, 130 children born in Hamlin were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicolored clothes. After passing the Calvary near the Koppenberg, they disappeared forever. The point is, there was a great cultural relevance to the now mythologized story. Our stories now are basically pointless. They're just made-up, senseless, brain-rotting nonsense. It's mostly garbage. And that's what we're showing children. And we wonder why there's a push for this progressive, degenerate, trash ideology. It's like, look at what we've fed the youth for the last, I don't know, however long. Stories that have no significant backing in it, stories that aren't rooted and grounded in any real truth. Whereas they used to be. Even like the motif of the wolf is as old, is like thousands of years old. Whether it be the little Red Riding Hood wolf, whether it be the three pigs and the wolf, or whether it be in the Bible where it talks about the wolf in sheep's clothing, there is a motif of wolves being the evil character in so many folklore or fairy tales or stories from history. By the way, I've I think I have mentioned this before, but this is why the Bible is written in story format. So one of the things you can say to someone, or maybe you you could even test someone with this yourself. You could say, if I if I were to ask you, is it wrong to steal from the poor? You might say yes. If I say, is it wrong to bully someone? You might say yes. Whatever. If you know that and you're taught that. The difference between me just asking you that versus me telling you a story about how someone stole from a poor person and showing you images of the result of what the poor people felt, or someone being bullied and the after-effect of maybe the expression on the face of the person that's been bullied, the significance in the story, even if you're not seeing the images of it, if you're just describing it, the visceral difference in that is in insane, it's black and white, rather than just giving advice and data and saying this is wrong, as opposed to a story that takes you there, where you're actually feeling the feelings through empathy, because you're imagining this scenario yourself. So you're kind of going to that place in your mind. It that's what really changes people. This is why the great classic novels have lasted so long and they're still talked about and emphasized so much. Books like Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov or whatever it might be. I mean, they're two Dostoevsky novels, but something maybe like uh Le Miserab or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The reason that these novels stick around is because that's the real impacting nature. When you read a nonfiction book, you're reading information and someone might be giving advice, they might be giving facts and go, this is advice that you should do. This is something that you should do. Rather than saying maybe a message at the start of a book and then them living it out and showing you the gravity of what it looks like when you take on that advice and you live it out yourself. That's completely different, and that's what changes people. So the so the stories that we have shape society. So, all that to say, the Bible is brilliant and everything else sucks, and whatever, dude. But I can tell you this, I ain't showing any of my kids any of the rot trot garbage that's coming out in the media today. Um, they're watching all the oldies, the classics. Or I'm just gonna make up some stories and just tell them myself. I'm gonna tell them about the Pied Piper. Watch out for a dude in multicoloured clothes that plays a piper. A pipe, I should say. Um yeah, so you know what, dude? But that is, but I am I am bewildered a little bit by how incredible the Bible is with some of the stories. Like, I've been reading a lot about things like Cain and Abel and what it means. Because like you read the story, if you don't read it properly, if you don't read any of these classic novels properly or some of these ancient texts and manuscripts, if you don't read them properly, you miss everything. First book I ever read as an adult was a book called The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. And when I tell you I hated that book, I I could not think of a worse book for years. I was so mad, and I didn't touch an Ernest Hemingway book for literally, it would have been six or seven years because I thought he was just a trash author, not realizing that I read the book completely wrong, and uh I completely ignored all of whatever themes it was that he was trying to explore in the book. I should read it again, actually, and maybe I'll maybe I'd like it now. But but the same can be done with the Bible. Like they say that there's four different ways to interpret biblical scripture. There's like the literal sense, or maybe the narrative of what the story is, but then there's like the metaphorical sense, and then there's like a symbolic sense, and then there's like, I don't know, maybe a spiritual sense. I can't even remember what the four are. Actually, let me look. Let me look. Uh okay. So the four ways are there's the literal sense, which focuses on the actual historic legitimacy of what actually took place and happened. So it's a literal reading. There's the allegorical sense, this is the symbolic sense, the hidden and meaning in the metaphorical sense. There's the the moral teachings of it, so the principles of life. And then there's the anagogical, anagogical, I don't even know. Then there's the uh a fourth way that I can't pronounce, which is basically the future, maybe mystical sense of the interpretation, which is more of a spiritual significance or a heavenly idealistic sense. So uh maybe prophetic in some sense of the text. So, but the point being is that all of them are true. All four of these senses are true, and you can miss a lot of it if you're only reading it one particular way. So the way that I read the Ernest Hemingway book is I was lit, I was reading it as a narrative, whereas I should have been reading it as more of the maybe moral ideas or the allegorical ideas in the in the move in the book, looking at maybe the metaphors and hidden ideas that they Exploring or that he was exploring. Bro, Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway. So I ended up reading one of his books, right? I read The Old Man the Sea. And maybe I'll do a little mini review of that at some point. But dude, like that book was gnarly. Like that's a book that has like a cool, it's like the story isn't that cool, but it's it's such a sick book. And it's only like a hundred pages. I suppose it's like a novella. Um, no, but that's what not even what I was gonna say. Ernest Hemingway himself was an absolute nutcase and had the most interesting life. Ernest Hemingway survived not one, but two plane crashes in a day. So this is what this is what happened. So Ernest Hemingway and his wife Mary were in Africa, and they're in like Congo. And they get on a plane, and they basically the plane crashes. They had to have it was a crash landing. And there were some injuries, like there was some broken ribs, like Mary had broken ribs, and I think Ernest had he had like a back and a shoulder injury, and uh they ended up getting rescued, and the guy that rescues them assures them, I can get you out of here. Like, come on this other plane, I can get you out of here. And the runway was so bad that the plane burst into flames and exploded. It burst into flames, and Mary and the other and the pilot got out, but Ernest had to smash his head against the door to try and break through and um got had this massive scar across his head, which he kept for the rest, like you can see it in photos after for the rest of his life, had this massive gash in his head. So, yeah, so that guy was crazy. Um anyway, I'll wrap it up. Thanks for listening. Uh, Christ is King, Jesus loves you, and he's coming back soon. Let's go, baby, let's go.