The only thing we ask is that, at the end -- at 4:00 on Friday -- you show what you've created to the rest of the company. Okay? But not in this kind of star chamber, American Idol kind of setting. But in this kind of -- no seriously, it's like kind of a -- it's sort of like, I don't know, are TGIFs fun here? They are.Okay, so it's sort of like the poor man's TGIF, where you show the results to the company at the end of those 24 hours. They have beer and cake and other kinds of
But the Bible frames the concept of idolatry very carefully. Idolatry is a set of lies about power. It's about ascribing super powers or super authority to finite beings, i.e., people like you and me, natural processes, ideologies, or, in the ancient world,
Enjoy. idolized in my life and just things I've come to the realization on my own-- if you worry about how you look, you're cheating yourself out
But that's been 20 years for me of working out things. "Pop Idol ," and I won it.
somebody that was a home Brewer that would come in with the great idea they had great beer that you know like American Idol you've got the best beer you've got the best voice you know you should go and sell it and a lot of times they really did have good beer uh then you had other ones that just had had Deep Pockets and they opened up a big
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. against idolatry? OK, so I totally think that religion and faith need to be coupled.
Teens still love like their movie stars, musicians, athletes, et cetera, but who can be a celebrity has changed quite some time. They idolize vloggers like Jake Paul who has nearly 15 million YouTube subscribers and whose videos are being viewed billions of times a month. I was lucky enough to be one of his first investors and his management company, when he was 17 years old.
Yes, they use phones in different ways that we probably would have never imagined. They idolize these esports stars that we've never heard of, and they can be pretty quirky. But they're already showing us that they're going to step up and tackle like major challenges in ways that other generations haven't.
Mark is totally into Sean. He idolizes Sean. Mark moves off to California. Eduardo stays behind. Sean ends up living with Mark in a house, and basically is starting to take it to the next level.
Nicki sang, what was it? It was rap. First, it was rap in Spanish. At that time, my idols were Bicos, like Rubén DJ, well, the singers who were in that era. Uh, you could still hear, yes, you could still hear Spanish reggae from Panama. At that time, it was Nando Pochop for that whole generation.
the ultimate rank in the kitchen because sous chefs and chefs are basically management idols Sasuke is really someone who has to be kind of a magician an alchemist in our kitchen and Scioscia to me is the most difficult position
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. Lee's idol is George Washington. He patterns himself on Washington. He differs from him in some ways, but he patterns himself on Washington. He considered Washington the
We watched little video clips on blacks in the arts, blacks in medicine and music and education and sports, et cetera. And his biggest music idol is Elvis Presley. I love Elvis Presley.
am. Yeah. So, you know, and and during the time of your transition, you um were friends with uh Billy Idol , right? Betty Idol . Betty, excuse me. Very close. There was a bean there. Betty. Yeah. Um and um you she knew you before your
got to meet this writer Betty. You're gonna love her. Yeah. But at the at I named her Betty Idol . Her name was um Salo Jackson. Solomon's Salo Jackson. I was like girl we need to change it to something more. We gonna go with B Idol .
And Luis Fernandez, who was an example for me, because he was playing in the same position. And he was an idol . He was somebody that I was looking up.
And we love the story of the hero, be it Indiana Jones. Or you watch "American Idol " and that's the great singer. But the bottom line is there's strength in numbers.
It might look something a little bit more like jazz as an analogy. His biggest idol was Albert Einstein.
was called "Realtor Idol ." It was "American Idol " for Realtors.
And then idol hands, right?
season of "Idol ," we got Seacrest to come on.
often on American Idol or whatever Interviewer: Does having a partner help keep you out of your comfort zone?
Everyone's an idol in web comics.
I do not idolize anyone, especially those in power.
And I was just idolizing-- yeah, I was just drawn to a lot of strong female leads and just
They were my idols .
And they're not used to the way that the Bible frames the concept of idolatry. Most of us think idolatry is just about bowing down to idols or statues or the like. But the Bible frames the concept of idolatry very carefully.
the Kim family. And I can go on and on and on. They all created idolatrous regimes using the exact same tropes as pharaoh did-- myth, parades, pageantry, temples of some sort or another, all backed up, of course, with very powerful armies and groups of secret informers.
And that's very, very dangerous. So the problem of idolatry is huge. And reason alone-- we've got a lot of books, you know, as I mentioned-- "Enlightenment Now," "The Moral Arc," et cetera.
True. One of the things, actually, you describe idolatry was-- you almost describe the inmates as being in a prison of idolatry, but a fun prison almost, with pageantry. I think you actually compare Roman Greece.
And that's pretty unusual. They start to literally idolicize the technology. And we, unfortunately, do that too.
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. So the link between idolatry and the golden rule, I think, is very tight.
And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. and the dangers of idolatry.
from the idolized Cinderella that we all know, yet she's far more dimensional and realized.
and the teen idols that would never, ever find a girl like me beautiful.
So I idolize comedians.
I always idolized , in fact.
Or were there other idols and mentors during that phase that-- Yes.
We see our idols doing it.
people that they idolize.
and the idolization of superstars?
And so my idols are Heinlein, and Clarke, and Asimov.
So our idols were flashing them before the record business.
All the chefs I idolized in the past, you name them, they're in there.
Who were the Beatles idolizing for American musicians?
I did idolize her and mythologized her.
project so by idolizing Those whom we honor we do a disservice both to them
People tend to think of idol dancing when you talk about an academy.
Going from national fame on "American Idol ", to international fame via "Drag Race", to even greater global fame through a cavalcade of viral videos that pushed him to over half a billion
I felt like on "American Idol ", I was judged on a different level.