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Foreign. Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. Kanye west lost his mind a long, long time ago. And with it he lost his family, his endorsements deals with Adidas and Vogue and Balenciaga. The list goes on and on. And you know, he, he is a special and particular brand of mentally ill, the kind that somehow manifests as virulent anti Semitism. And back in 2023, he apologized for the comments that he had made repeatedly over and over again for years and years about hating Jews and loving Hitler. It's, it's a difficult take to defend. So most people in his. Herbert, we're like, yeah, no, we're, we're, we're good with you. The line between genius and insanity, I think is more forgivable the younger you are. And then the longer you go on wearing people down, the less patience they have for you. Until you get to the point where you alienate everyone out of your life, whether it's friends, collaborators, agents, lawyers, managers. People just don't want to be around you because your illness is exhausting. And I've talked about this a lot on this podcast, that it's one thing to talk about your mental illness, it's another thing to be forward looking and to do something about it in quiet, at peace, and then let the, the results of your work speak for themselves. That's the part that is not terribly attractive wherever we are in society. And people want to ruminate and stew in their mental illness as though that is a static source for accolades and victimhood and they just kind of want to stay there. They want to stay put. Now, Kanye west took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing to the Jewish community for the comments that he had made repeatedly about being an anti Semite, hating Jews and loving Hitler. And he is seeking forgiveness. He says that he's working on his mental health. But the thing that I found to be very curious is it's one thing to explain your illness. Some people are owed an explanation. Absolutely. Especially people in your life, people you are related, people you were once married to, people you directly hurt who really do require your forgiveness. Those are the people to whom you owe an explanation. Um, if you want people who happen to be Jewish to ever buy your music or your shoes or clothes ever again, a really good place to start is not by saying that stuff in the first place. But then, you know, he, he said, so this is where the explanation comes in. He said that he was in a car accident in 2002, and, you know, he he had talked about it many times. He has made music and art about that and said that he damaged part of his brain which made him develop bipolar one. And, you know, which according to the New York Times, has to be treated obviously with therapy and medication and lithium and antipsychotics. But the bipolar one usually doesn't stem from brain trauma, the kind that you would be diagnosed with after a severe car accident, but that it tends to come from genetics, like so many mental illnesses, stress and being in a high stress environment. And as I talked about yesterday, a little bit about this and about Taylor Swift on Will Kane country, when I was filling in for Will and Michael Malice and I had an extended conversation about that. Fame in and of itself is a massive source of stress. That doesn't mean that you have to feel sorry for people who are famous, but it is indeed something that is very difficult to explain to people who haven't been in that situation because so many people want to be famous. And they think that being famous, like being rich, will cure all of your problems where, you know, you can be rich and do okay, you can become famous and go completely insane just under the weight of fame and people expecting things from you and treating you differently and everyone knowing who you are. That can be more stress than a lot of human beings can manage. Kanye west is one of those few people who became ultra famous. So that might explain it. So genetics, stress and substance abuse, Those are the three common factors that generally lead to bipolar 1, which is a very serious mental disorder. And, you know, all you have to do is read his erratic tweets and you know, see, it's not hard to document his downfall over the years and the horrific things that he has said about his ex wife and his own children and you know, Jay Z and Beyonce's kids and, you know, and that's not even getting into the Hitler stuff and selling swastika T shirts and you know, all the other nonsense that he has been doing that is this absolutely bat insane attention seeking that is very much the result of his mental illness. Now he says that he's getting treatment, he's taking medication, he's living clean, and that's all great. And he wants that to be his foundation of forgiveness. When I was talking to Michael Malice yesterday, he said that, yes, that he thinks that someone like Kanye west is capable of receiving forgiveness from other people. I am not as forgiving because. And 2023, when he was doing all this stuff and he apologized and you know, he sought forgiveness then. And then he said in the early part of last year, he had a four month period where he essentially dissociated because he went into such a manic state that he had convinced himself. And you know, this seems to be pretty common for people who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder. They convince themselves that they're fine, they feel great, this is normal. Very interestingly, Bruce Willis, his wife Emma Heming came out and said that Bruce Willis does not know that he has a form of dementia. And she said that is a blessing. And she said that is part of the brain disorder is the brain does not know that it is compromised or sick. And that seems to be an interesting hallmark of bipolar. So it's still not an excuse. Don't go anywhere. More Kennedy Saves the World right after this. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series the Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now@foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. You know, when you do have money, when you do have access to treatment, when you can build yourself a cocoon of people to take care of you and you choose not to, regardless of whether or you are addicted to porn or if you are a drug addict or if, if you have just been so mentally and emotionally depleted by fame. It is no excuse. Like it doesn't turn people into anti Semites, it turns people into bags, it turns people into hermits and hoarders. But it's not a natural progression for someone to become an anti Semite. And I said the same thing when Mel Gibson was arrested. The, the famous sugar exchange, I believe, with an LA county female, LA County Sheriff's deputy. And, and you know, he was blasting some very interesting anti Semitic tropes then he has since gotten sober and Mel Gibson has had a long road back to partial forgiveness. Obviously what Kanye west has said, what he's done, it's much worse. And you know, if Mel Gibson had said a tenth of that stuff, he would have been run out of the industry and never welcomed back. And I think this is where the Anti Defamation League came in and said, these are nice words, but it's going to take action over a long period of time in order for Kanye west to really be forgiven. And if he has another episode in two years and says and does the same crazy ass, should he be forgiven? Then I argue, no, I argue there's, there's more wrong with you than having bipolar disorder. You, you could be a bad person. You could be a bad, hateful person on top of someone who also has had his share of unfortunate things happened to him in his life. And I am one of those people that I believe he was once surrounded by. I am just exhausted by him. There was a time where I thought that he was so great and the genius was worth the insanity that has inverted to the point where it's almost impossible to see the genius through the insanity, the unpleasantness and the horrific nature of his personality. So is he going to do this again? Probably more than likely. You know, this is the kind of person that if he convinced himself that he was normal once, he's going to do it again. And then he's going to revert to the same attention seeking, hurtful, anti Semitic nonsense because that's what gets him the most attention. Unless, you know, he becomes a pedophile, like an active pedophile. That's, that's the only thing that I think could possibly be worse than where he is now. And could he get there? Yes, absolutely. This is clearly a long term undertaking for him. A long term struggle and an even longer road back to whatever forgiveness looks like. And it'll start with his inner circle and then, you know, word will slowly spread if he is in fact capable of healing from the inside out. But I think there's a part of him deepest inside that is so deeply fractured that I don't know, and I don't say this about a lot of human beings, I don't know that then that can ever become whole. And that's the kind of thing that as you age, that metastasizes and only gets worse and worse and worse and the work becomes harder. And for someone who already has compromised defenses, that might be an impossibility. There you go. I've saved your world from Kanye. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. I'm Kennedy. Listen. Ad free. With a Fox News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast network.