The Dennis Prager Show LIVE
In this two‑hour live broadcast Dennis Prager hosts his "Happiness Hour" and "Whatever Is On Your Mind" segments, fielding calls from listeners while interspersing commentary, news clips, and promotional spots. The show opens with a discussion of a New York Times column reporting that roughly 27 % of Americans are estranged from a family member, which Prager uses to argue that family alienation is a major social problem. He then moves through a rapid‑fire series of political topics: a critique of Nancy Pelosi’s alleged “coup” in reshaping the House January‑6 committee, a rundown of the Virginia gubernatorial race between Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe, and commentary on the Biden administration’s policies. The conversation repeatedly returns to COVID‑19, where callers describe using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis, and Prager questions mask mandates and vaccine mandates, echoing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s stance. He also attacks the higher‑education system as a “scam” that burdens students with debt, and denounces identity‑politics arguments about race, gender, and “uterus‑based” definitions of womanhood. A segment from Hugh Hewitt warns about surveillance capitalism and data‑harvesting by tech firms. Throughout, Prager promotes PragerU, solicits donations, and interviews Amala Ekpunobi about youth outreach. Economic concerns such as inflation, rising home prices, chip shortages, and a controversy over Kohl’s teacher discounts are also mentioned. The broadcast blends opinionated monologue, caller interaction, short news clips, and frequent promotional plugs, delivering a conservative‑leaning narrative aimed at an audience that shares Prager’s cultural and political viewpoints.
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Hello, my friends. A good Friday to you. I'm Dennis Prager, watching my society go mad. They're going to vaccinate— apparently they're going to vaccinate everyone in the military. I think it's a crime. Literally a crime. It's truly immoral. People sign up to serve the country, not to be experimented on with a vaccine at their age. I'm not against the vaccine. I'm against the vaccine at their age. I mean, yeah, soldiers been— how many soldiers have been dying of COVID Does that matter? No, it doesn't matter. Is that interesting? Did you know that apparently the tests for COVID also detected flu, but they didn't distinguish between the two, which is one of the reasons so few people are listed as having died of the flu this year? So you realize we've been lied to by the CDC, NIH, and, and like, and the Democratic Party and the New York Times. And probably your major city paper for a year and a half, I mean, been for years, but especially now. To say that there are two Americas is to understate the case. There are two Americas in some ways more than there were two Americas in the Civil War. I mean, I felt this for a long time. One America is actually science-based. That's the conservative side. The other is hysteria-based and control-based. That's the left-wing side. In one of them, you actually have to say men give birth or you're considered anti-science. It gives you an idea of what anti-science has come to mean. Yes, there's male and female among all mammals except the The human, the one animal in the entire animal kingdom, biologically speaking. I don't think we're animals in terms of being created in God's image, but that's— that is a truly different issue. Biologically, we are. We're the only one that isn't male and female, right? Do we ask elephants what their sex is? Nope. Now you say, well, that's so silly, can't ask an elephant. That's right. Why is it silly to ask a human? An animal is an animal, no? Well, this is, this is where we're at. I saw I saw videos yesterday which were truly stunning. Lloyd Austin, our Secretary of Defense, getting off a plane or a helicopter and greeting military people who were there to salute him. He was wearing not only a giant mask over his face but a visor as well. He was, he was least from the camera angle, invisible. And he would not shake the hands of the military. He would give them a fist bump. So there's a wimp at the head of the defense of the United States. A true wimp. Outdoors, masked. I'll bet he's vaccinated, right?
Wow.
One day, when, when the— this era is written of, should there be objective historians, and the left not having taken over the entire field, they will really have a big, big puzzle. How did the land of the free and the home of the brave become the land of the unfree and the home of the wimps? How did that happen? Did it happen overnight? It's a very interesting and important question. The assault on the military by military leaders acting as leftists rather than military leaders is another catastrophe. And I'm sorry to bring you that news, so let me, let me reinforce something. Are you ready for a reinforcement? You have no right not to fight. That is immoral. People died for this country. You can live for it, okay? Your life is not yet quite endangered as it was for all those who fought for us. One way to fight— remember my division of good people: those who do nothing, those who fight, and those who help the fighters. PragerU is a fighter, the biggest one among young people in America and around the world, on Earth, in terms of reach. The only thing stopping us from reaching more is money. Simple as that. So this is fundraising month. Monday is my birthday, so we've made it around my birthday. Then on Wednesday I go to Hungary, so I won't be here for a week. So we started a week early. So I'm asking you to help us because we do a lot of good. Prageru.com, 833-PRAGER-U. It's up at DennisPrager.com, the link as well. I didn't report to you this piece, but it's a sign of our times. Tokyo Olympics chief resigning after sexist remarks a couple of months ago. I don't know if you saw this piece. Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, it's a big job, right, will reportedly resign amid uproar over his recent sexist remarks. This is from Reuters. That, by the way, is a perfect— I'm sorry, you do remember? So it's interesting that Reuters writes sexist. You understand it is no longer— there's no longer a division between news and opinion. Reuter says it's sex— they don't put sexist in quotes, they don't say allegedly sexist, they don't say declared by so-and-so a sexist. Reuters says they're sexist. According to the Japanese press, the 83-year-old former prime minister— did you know he's a former prime minister?— complained at a board of trustees meeting that, quote, meetings with women take longer because women are competitive. If one member raises their hand to speak, others might think they need to talk too. That's it. That's what he said. Former Prime Minister of Japan, the head of its Olympic Committee, is fired, forced to resign over that. Meetings with women take longer because women are competitive. If one member raises their hand to speak, others might think they need to talk too. You can say anything you want about men, anything, anything, and it doesn't matter. Has anyone been fired, anyone, for anti-male comments? Anyone in the Western world in your lifetime. The International Olympic Committee called Mori's comments absolutely inappropriate, and he later apologized but initially refused to step down. Mori's remarks have drawn international criticism and prompted hundreds of Olympic volunteers to resign in protest. These are people who have no cause in life. I'm sure they're overwhelmingly young people showing how moral they are. The man said that women are competitive, and so meetings with them take longer. And that's it. That is the end of the man's career. People quit over it. Wow. I mean, there wouldn't have been more opprobrium had the man said America should have dropped an atom bomb on a third Japanese city. Saburo Kawabuchi, former president of the Japan Football Association, is said to be the chief candidate to replace Mori. There you go. The left destroys everything it touches. 1-800-PRAGER-776. I have a remarkable story coming up on The Dennis Prager Show.
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This rabid Trump-hating Republican replacing Jim Jordan or Jim Banks, take your pick. I saw Jim Banks yesterday, the Indiana congressman, on, on one of the Sunday morning news shows. I think he was on, he was on Fox News Sunday. Martha MacCallum was guest hosting. Dennis Prager makes such a great point. He didn't say anything that was disqualifying. They're just going to ask why the Speaker's office didn't have the Capitol more secure. Did they have reports? What did they know and when did they know it? If they had reports before January 6th that there could be violence, why did they do it? Why did they do enough about it? Those are legitimate questions. Pelosi doesn't want those questions. You think she's going to get those questions from Adam Kinzinger? Here was Stephanopoulos with a cagey, grinning, maniacal Nancy Pelosi yesterday on ABC This Week.
Will you be appointing more Republicans to the committee like Congressman Adam Kinzinger?
That would be my plan.
So when will that be announced? Perhaps after I speak to Adam Kinzinger, but I'm not about to announce it right this minute.
But you could say that that is the direction that I would be going on. He has— he and other Republicans have expressed an interest to serve on the, um, on the select committee.
Tolerate their antics? Hey, Madam Speaker, you're responsible for security at the U.S. Capitol. Why wasn't there better security on January 6th? How did those Hundreds of people get to breach the Capitol the way they did. Oh, I'm not tolerating those antics.
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This goes to a question that Brian emailed us at freedom@charliekirk.com. He said, Do you think that masks are coming back again? Of course, the mask mandates are going to be pushed forward in every major inner city across the country. So here's a question. If so many people are vaccinated, why are rates going up amongst even the vaccinated? They say, oh, it's an unvaccinated pandemic. Why are so many vaccinated people being testing positive?
Positive?
Why is that golfer having his life dream be torn away from— what's his name again? He's a total stud. Jon Rahm, who now has tested positive twice for the Chinese coronavirus despite being vaccinated. What's going on here? Why is it that we have so many people in charge that want to go back to the inhumane practice of mandatory masking. Let's play cut 8. Joe Scarborough says that Biden needs to require public teachers to get vaccinated to get back to school.
Joe Biden needs to make the tough choice right now, and he needs to start in his own political backyard, and he needs to tell the teachers union that he's going to require every public health care person to get it, but also starting every public school teacher needs to be vaccinated regardless of preexisting conditions, regardless of exemptions.
Now, of course, Joe Scarborough didn't mean to say public health scare. Of course he wouldn't say anything like that.
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As I continue to travel around and campaign all around this Commonwealth, the crowds are huge. The support is absolutely comprehensive. It's independents, it's Democrats.
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Wow.
How bored are you on a scale of 1 to 10? 10? How stupid are you on a scale of 1 to 10? 10? How morally obtuse are you, 1 to 10? 10. Tokyo Games organizers said he would stay on because he had shown remorse about his past actions. Some critics had said that he should hold a news conference. I'm 52, and let me tell you, when I was 12, I was a bad kid. A mean kid. Others also questioned why he hadn't apologized earlier. Wow, that's right. This is the American export. We used to export liberty. Now we Export tyranny. Quite something what the left has done to us and to the world. I'd like to repeat something, uh, that is worth repeating because I want you to memorize it and I want me to memorize it. Jen Psaki, the press secretary of the White House, said a couple of weeks ago, defending the teaching of critical race theory as history. As a spouse of an educator and as somebody who continues to believe that children should learn not just the good but also the challenging in our history, talking about Mr. Biden, somebody who continues to believe that children should learn not just the good but also the challenging in our history. Here's a question you should all ask: What good about America has your child learned in school? I'd like you to ask your child of any age, 7 or 17 or 27, what good about America did you learn in elementary school or high school or college? I think she, she lied, Ms. Psaki. The president does not believe that they should learn good. Well, I take it back, he may well, but they're not. That's the point, isn't it? Ask their kids. Send me an email, let me know what they answered. Tell me anything good about America you've studied.
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Some lawyer hit a little girl. The community is left in shock as former cancer patient Sharon Blackwell was struck by an oncoming vehicle. I need to take this in evidence, sir. I need to tell my wife. You've been accused of texting while driving. We don't make an example out of this guy, the public will crucify us. Before you take your daughter off life support, give God room to be God. You're not guaranteed another day, but you have today.
Get back or I'll shoot you.
No one's left inside but the pastor and his two daughters. If you run, I'll shoot your family. Nobody cares whether I live or die.
It's bad.
I'm not gonna stand around and be a part of it anymore. Give me the gun.
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The race is going extremely well. I'm in a dead heat with Terry McAuliffe, who's been doing this for 43 years, and Virginia voters are ready for a change.
I think you're actually ahead, Glenn Youngkin. I'll tell you why. Dan Balz had a story in the Washington Post this week that polling is broken in America. Systemically understating Republican support. So if you're tied in the polls, and you are, I actually think you're 5 points ahead of Terry. And I think Terry's worn out, tired, and boring. And I don't think he can beat you anyway. But it's good to run like you're behind, right?
Yeah, it is.
You know, what's interesting is as soon as the polling came out last week, he called his friend Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's going to show up in Virginia campaigning. He's not coming far. He's just coming barely across the river. And I will tell you what this demonstrates is that Terry's got a failed record. I mean, when he was governor, the murder rate went up 43%. We're at a 20-year high in murder rate in Virginia. He's actually completely ostracized in the entire law enforcement community, and they know he won't stand for them. And Virginia's economy continues to trail all of our peer states, and everybody blames Terry and Ralph Northam for it. They shut down our economy. Terry absolutely didn't bring the number of jobs to Virginia that our peer states did. And Virginians are tired of it. They're ready for a new kind of leader who's going to build business, grow jobs, fix our schools, and make our communities safe.
I agree that you've got a great platform. I want to bring up this, this visit from Joe Biden. You've also got the hometown paper against you. The Washington Post sent out Sean Sullivan to cover this, and I've got the story in my hand. They do not mention you until paragraph 26, I counted.
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Liz Harrington, welcome to America First.
Hey Sebastian, thanks so much for having me.
I gotta ask you, because I haven't seen the boss in a couple of weeks, how excited How excited is he to be back on the campaign trail?
Oh, oh, he's loving it. He can't wait to get back out there. And you could feel it. You could see it on Saturday. The people want it. I don't know if you saw those crowds, but waiting for since Friday, thousands of people. Doesn't exactly look like someone who lost the state of Arizona, by the way. But this speech is— that clip you played, that was also one of my favorites when You know, the only good thing about the Biden campaign were those That is correct.
Much is correct. My dear friends, David Brooks in the New York Times wrote a piece, What's Ripping American Families Apart. I may do this in the Happiness Hour. It's a subject that I have spoken about since the beginning of my career. Or at least since the beginning of the Happiness Hour. And he, he says he doesn't know the answer. He's humble enough to say, I have no idea. He cites some studies which at some point I will cite, but I, I want to read to you, and I'm going to continue this on Monday. I want to read to you what people have written. These are all New York Times subscribers. Remember, that was my column last week, the deranged responses of New York Times readers. What was the subject again? The, uh, the deranged, uh, that they were taught to be deranged on climate change. That's right, they were— they, they didn't want to have grandchildren. Because of climate change. They were proud of their children deciding not to have children. I never used the word deranged to describe the left, and I never used Trump Derangement Syndrome. However, now I emphatically, 100% assert Overwhelmingly people who are leftist, not liberal. Liberals are just weak and naive, which is terrible, but it's a separate problem. They're deranged. So the question is, what's ripping American families apart? So let me read to you some of the responses.
All right.
Ants Love Honey, Medford, Massachusetts. This is today, today's New York Times. What happened to adulthood over the past 40, 50 years such that we thought it would be okay? This is explaining what happened, why their families are ripped apart, what adults have done to damage the family. Ready? We thought it would be okay to gift our children. With an unmanageable climate crisis, a white lower class with diminishing economic prospects, a general historical amnesia with respect to the legacy of slavery, and the culture of debt that destroys any healthy relation to the future. This is the reason why there is such a family crisis.
Get it?
Because of the legacy of slavery, the unmanageable climate crisis. She's not done. Or he— I assume it's a she, most of them are. Need I mention that adult democracy— it's that American democracy itself is under enormous pressure, and that there are a fair number of adults, quote unquote, totally cool with January 6th. As an educator who works with 20-year-olds— oh my God, you hear this— I've seen their wounds from up close. Some of their parents are full-blown American fascists. That's it. The reason for the family crisis is so many kids come from homes where the parents are full-blown American fascists. Soon as I see the word educator, I assume I'm dealing with a fool. Not all educators are. I'm just telling you what I assume. I don't blame children's estrangement a bit. There you go. How's this from SB in New York? I often play a game with myself and ask, if my child became a murderer, a terrorist, or a Republican, would I still love my child? Without hesitation, the answer is yes. However, if I ask myself if my mother or father became a murderer, a terrorist, or a Republican, would I still love my parents? Here the answer is less sure. These are New York Times subscribers taking the time to write comments on the question, what's ripping the American family apart? These people are sick, sick. A chunk of America is sick. This is unprecedented. Left has ruined family life to the extent that these are reasons for estrangement from parents. ReliefFactor.com, that's good news. It is good news. I deeply believe in this product. Take it every day. Took it today. If you have joint or muscle pain, you'll know in 3 weeks if it works. That's their claim. Pretty good, eh? So you have a 3-week price, $19.95 plus shipping. Doesn't work? Cancel the order. You lost $19.95 in shipping. Big deal. But what if it does work? ReliefFactor.com, 800-583-8484.
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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world. There's one Jewish state. The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years, back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan. 300,000 Palestinians are unemployed. In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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There will be no masks in Florida. Ron DeSantis yesterday spoke to us. Cut number 1, the governor of Florida on the questions of masks and school kids. We look forward to this upcoming year to be a normal school year, be in person and live like normal and learn like normal kids. There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory masks on kids. We're not doing that in Florida.
Okay.
At the end of the day, we're not doing it anywhere that I have anything to say with it because it's silly and it's stupid and it doesn't work. Kids touch their faces. Kids take those masks off. Have you ever seen kids with masks? It's just not a very smart thing. I also want to run down the fact that A booster shot is likely to be necessary. It's going to be signaled by the CDC's advisory group. US median home price hit a new record in June of $363,300 as sales increased 14% year over year on strong demand. President Biden is going to be the kiss of death for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. NFL teams They're going to be obliged to forfeit if a game can't be played because unvaccinated players cause a COVID-19 outbreak for the team. That's smart. The Intel CEO says the chip shortage could stretch into 2023. So much for your new cars costing less, Mr. President. How much will your Oreos cost? Companies test price increases. Inflation is everywhere. I no longer eat Oreos, though I love them. I'm sorry to hear that kids everywhere are going to have to pay more for their Oreos.
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I haven't broadcast anything that much more important than what I'm reading to you now, although I will admit, and I am I'm willing to accept mockery for saying this. I try to make every hour the most important hour I've ever broadcast. I need to earn your attention. As you know, my favorite verb in English is earn. Most languages, by the way, do not have the word earn. They have it, or are translated as it but they don't literally mean that. These are comments by New York Times readers on a column written by David Brooks, which takes no position but raises the question: what is ripping American families apart? Something I've been bringing to your attention for decades— children not speaking to parents. So the last one I read to you was somebody writing in. Let's see here. Yes, I have to read it to you again. I often play a game with myself and ask— a reader in New York— if my child became a murderer, a terrorist, or a Republican. Would I still love my child? The answer is yes. However, if I ask myself if my mother or father became a murderer, terrorist, or Republican, would I still love my parent? Here the answer is less sure. No question these people all went to college. Here's another one. The most common form of this is from Boone, just identified in the Wild West. Most common form of estrangement is between adult children and one or both parents, not in the case of my wife, who was estranged from 4 of her 5 siblings. Do you know why, ladies and gentlemen? I'll ask the living martyr. What reason do you think This person gives— oh, this I assume a man— strange from 4 of her 5 siblings, and it's totally due to—
Donald Trump.
Very good. The only way you failed was she didn't say Donald Trump. It's totally due to Trump, whom they continue to support, which is simply in inexcusable. There you go. Stop speaking to your siblings because they supported Trump. Any of you stop speaking to your sibling for supporting Biden? Far, far more destructive to this country in 6 months than anything. I mean, I don't believe that Trump was destructive to the country. Point to policies that were destructive, not to tweets. Policies. Okay, next. The world is becoming— this is from Tuber Curry in U.S. The world is becoming increasingly uninhabitable for humans and many other species. Increased droughts, increased wildfires, stronger hurricanes and flooding. By the way, they're not stronger hurricanes, so nonsense. Smoke in the air all over this continent. When the source of our existence, water, air, and food, are all compromised, we are stressed existentially. Oh God, they love the word existential. How could this not affect relationships we have with each other? Please, Mr. Brooks, educate yourself about this climate crisis. That's it. Another one. The reason that children are not speaking to parents and/or vice versa is the climate crisis.
Wow.
This is the— these are, these are the, uh, average New York Times readers. They're morons.
Get it?
They're educated morons. Okay, next. I spent a lot of time on this. It was mind-blowing. This one is from— let's see, who is this one from? GBR in New England. I'm not estranged from my parents, But recently, in the past several years, my view of them as people dramatically changed. Can you guess what did it? I think the living martyr can. His initials— this is what this guy's writing, or a woman— his initials are DJT. Sometimes one can have loving parents who treated you well, advocated for you, gave you opportunities, encouragement, and support, but who are just not good people when viewed with an adult, wider-angled perspective. I truly miss looking up to them as all-around wonderful, wise folks. Ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes. Yeah, his parents turned out to be a-holes. Yeah, they treated him well, advocated for him, gave him opportunities and encouragement and support. They're loving, but they're just not good people because they supported Donald Trump. That's all it takes. Still want to send your kid to college, or a regular high school for that matter? No matter how much you have loved your child and been a wonderful human being, You're a piece of crap if you supported Donald Trump in your child's eyes. Get it? I will read to you more of the responses from New York Times readers as to why the American family is falling apart. So a lot of it is, is really been induced by college. Hey kids, you think your parents are loving and good people? They're fascists. We return.
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This goes to a question that Brian emailed us at freedom@charliekirk.com. He said, Do you think that masks are coming back again? Of course. The mask mandates are going to be pushed forward in every major inner city across the country. So here's a question. If so many people are vaccinated, why are rates going up amongst even the vaccinated? They say, oh, it's an unvaccinated pandemic. Why are so many vaccinated people being testing positive?
Positive?
Why is that golfer having his life dream be torn away from— what's his name again? He's a total stud. Jon Rahm, who now has tested positive twice for the Chinese coronavirus despite being vaccinated. What's going on here? Why is it that we have so many people in charge that want to go back to the inhumane practice of mandatory masking. Let's play cut 8. Joe Scarborough says that Biden needs to require public teachers to get vaccinated to get back to school.
Joe Biden needs to make the tough choice right now, and he needs to start in his own political backyard, and he needs to tell the teachers union that he's going to require every public health scare—
healthcare person to get it, but also starting every public school teacher needs to be vaccinated regardless of preexisting conditions, regardless of exemptions. Now, of course, Joe Scarbo didn't mean to say public health scare. Of course he wouldn't say anything like that.
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As I continue to travel around and campaign all around this Commonwealth, the crowds are huge. The support is absolutely comprehensive. It's independents, it's Democrats. You know, I was at an event about 10 days ago in Russell County in Southwest Virginia, and a bunch of Democrats came up to me and said, Glenn, we can't even recognize our party. They're so far left. We're voting for you. So we're seeing this everywhere, and that's why we're so confident we're gonna win this fall.
By the way, I think President Biden is kind of radioactive because of the inflation. I wanna talk to you about that. Terry McAuliffe, in this article I hold, says he's got senior citizens on his side. Senior citizens are the most vulnerable to inflation of any group.
The greatest insights you can have into what the left has done to people's minds is reading the comments of New York Times subscribers. My whole column last week was about that. People happy that their children are not having children. Yep, foregoing grandparenthood, celebrating the fact that their child has decided not to have children because of climate change. And that Hmm, now I do.
Yes, I just wanted to say hello to you from beautiful Split, Croatia. I'm sure you recognize my name is Hungarian, so I wanted to say that.
Yes, one of the greatest pianists was Geza Andor.
Yes, there's a lot of Gezas, but I moved to Split in April. I sold my house, I sold my business, mostly because of what was happening in the elections and losing friends, and I just couldn't take it anymore. And my wife said, let's sell everything and move, and we did.
Where did you live?
I want to tell you, Dennis, where did you live? Uh, I lived, I lived in Orange County in Fountain Valley, and, um, and we moved, we moved to, uh, Split Croatia, and life here is like it was in the United States in the, in the '50s and '60s and '70s. There's young families having children, walking the boulevard. People here are wonderful. I have, I have a lot of friends, and those that are politically aware of what's going on in the United States, shake their heads, and they, I don't think America can come out of this. And there's a lot of pessimism from what I see here and what's happening in the United States. And they just cannot believe that Americans are tearing each other apart and that everybody is a racist and everybody is a fascist.
And people, look, you should write a piece on this. Seriously, you should write a piece, tentatively title it 'I Left America for What America Was.' Don't call it Croatia, obviously you'll say it is, but it's a very powerful call. 'I'm here to fight because I owe it to the guys at Normandy Beach.' But I understand your decision, and I can't believe I'm even saying it. Happiness hour coming up. Please donate to PragerU because we are fighting.
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The Scottsdale Unified School District, which, by the way, they still do not hold in-person school board meetings. They're still not holding meetings where they allow taxpayers to show up for public comment. I wonder why. Well, the Scottsdale Unified School District sent this out to parents across the school district. Parent legal guardian consents to participation in social and emotional behavior learning. The electronic signature attached to this annual verification packet authorizes SUSD to complete an emotional health and wellness screening of my child. And to collect personal information including but not limited to income or other family information, medical history or medical information, mental health history or mental health information, and quality of home and interpersonal relationships, student biometric information, or illegal, antisocial, or self-incriminating behavior or individuals with a close relationship of gun or ammunition ownership. The Scottsdale Unified School District continues by saying to these parents, I fully understand that upon my request, SUSD shall provide any available information regarding the screening to me in a timely manner, including the dates, methods used, information collected, and the reason for administration. But why are they trying to find out whether or not children have gun owners as parents?
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Here's Tom Hanks. They enlisted Tom Hanks. They probably paid him a boatload of money. Then again, maybe they didn't need to because he's worth all the money he needs. Maybe he's got all the money he needs. How about this? One of the most famous actors in America, Tom Hanks, making this major announcement.
Together we stand with all who understand what it means to be born and built from the land, because this is the city we love and the game we believe in. And together, we are all Cleveland Guardians.
Now, you know, they sat around and said, all right, we gotta make this change.
What do we—
how are we going to tell the— our fans that we're not— I know, said the owners of the Cleveland Indians. I don't know who owns the team, could care less. I don't even follow professional sports that closely. Maybe you do. It's boring. It's boring to hear people yammer about professional sports. The only people that are interested are people that are really into sports, and that's fine, but most people aren't. It's just a fact. Most people don't live and die by, you know, the statistics and the standings in the AL West. I mean, and I'm not putting you down if you do, but most of us don't. All right, so I don't know who owns the team, but don't you just envision What are we going to do? Let's get to— we'll pay Tom Hanks $10 million. We'll put together a slick video with dramatic music, and we'll show all these great shots of Cleveland, and we'll try to convince people that we're uniting by changing the name of the Cleveland Indians since 1915.
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The race is going extremely well. I'm in a dead heat with Terry McAuliffe, who's been doing this for 43 years. And Virginia voters are ready for a change.
I think you're actually ahead, Glenn Youngkin, and I'll tell you why. Dan Balz had a story in the Washington Post this week that polling is broken in America, systemically understating Republican support. So if you're tied in the polls, and you are, I actually think you're 5 points ahead of Terry, and I think Terry's worn out, tired, and boring, and I don't think he can beat you anyway. But it's good to run like you're behind, right?
Yeah, it is. You know, what's interesting is as soon as the polling came out last week, he called his friend Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's going to show up in Virginia campaigning. He's not coming far. He's just coming barely across the river. And I will tell you what this demonstrates is that Terry's got a failed record. I mean, when he was governor, the murder rate went up 43%. We're at a 20-year high in murder rate in Virginia. He's actually completely ostracized in the entire law enforcement community, and they know he won't stand for them. And Virginia's economy continues to trail all of our peer states. And everybody blames Terry and Ralph Northam for it. They shut down our economy. Terry absolutely didn't bring the number of jobs to Virginia that our peer states did. And Virginians are tired of it. They're ready for a new kind of leader who's going to build business, grow jobs, fix our schools, and make our communities safe.
I agree that you've got a great platform. I want to bring up this, this visit from Joe Biden. You've also got the hometown paper against you. The Washington Post sent out Sean Sullivan to cover this, and I've got the story in my hand. They do not mention you until paragraph 26. I counted.
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Liz Harrington, welcome to America First. Happy, happy hour. Yes, it is, my friends. Every Friday since 1999, not missed one unless I have not been here. That's right, it is the happy hour. The happy— you know, it's the only time in my life I sing. I don't enjoy singing particularly. Join me, everybody. It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour, my friends. The happy make the world better. The unhappy make the world worse. It is a moral obligation to act happy and not inflict your bad moods on people. Bad moods should be regarded as bad breath or bad body odor. You wash them away. You should wash your moods away. I know some people can't. Most people can. One directs one's advice to most people, not to all people. I'm Dennis Prager. This is the Happiness Hour, and Today in the New York Times is a piece by David Brooks, What's Ripping American Families Apart. I have addressed the issue of estrangement within families on many occasions, and I am doing so again. He cites some interesting studies. And begins with this: at least 27% of Americans are estranged from a family member, and research suggests about 40% of Americans have experienced estrangement at some point. Years ago, I began asking at lectures, raise your hand if you know any family. That way people are not self-conscious. It's not about their immediate family or even their family. It could be another family. So there's no reason for them not to raise their hands out of embarrassment. So I say, raise your hands if you know a family where there is an adult child not speaking to a parent. And indeed, I would say more than 27% have hands go up. But even 27%. Do you know what a quarter of America is like? It's 80 million people. Are 80 million Americans in a family where somebody doesn't speak to someone? I think so. The most common form of estrangement, he writes, is between adult children and one or both parents, a cut usually initiated by the child. All of this comports with what I have been saying for all these years. One woman told the Salon, I have someone out to get me, and it's my mother. My part of being a good mom has been getting my son away from mine. So I have a— I have another theory. Not only is it the child that far more than the parent stops any contact with the other, but I believe it is more daughters than sons. This anecdote just simply prompted that comment because it was a daughter. And where it is sons, I think that the wife of that son may have played a role in encouraging him not to have contact with the parents. The psychologist Joshua Coleman— we— I had him on the show many years years ago, put it in an essay in The Atlantic. My recent research and my clinical work over the past 4 decades has shown me that you can be a conscientious parent and your kid may still want nothing to do with you when they're older. Oh, that, my friends, is worthy of of crying over. I am a parent, and my heart breaks for parents whose child or children have severed contact. I think that a parent has to engage in, in evil to such a degree that only in those instances, is it defensible to have no contact with a parent? I'll tell you my theories as to why it's happening after I read more from this article in the New York Times— this column, actually. But that was important. This, uh, very, uh, highly regarded psychologist Joshua Coleman. My clinical work over the past 4 decades has shown me that you can be a conscientious parent and your kid may still want nothing to do with you when they're older. Yep. No one even thought to measure family estrangement until relatively recently. Coleman, the author of Rules of Estrangement— cute— Rules of Estrangement, argues that a more individualistic culture has meant that the function of family has changed. Once family was seen as a bond of mutual duty and obligation, and now it is often seen as a launch pad for personal fulfillment. There's more permission to cut off people who seem toxic in your life. Becca Bland, founder of the British support and advocacy group Stand Alone. Does that tell you a lot about it? Stand Alone. Another female. Now I can put my needs first rather than trying to fix things beyond my control. But yes, I'm angry I didn't get mother I wanted. Wow, she didn't get the mother she wanted. This is, uh, this is so self-indicting. Females have been an issue in the, uh, last generation, as I point out on regular occasion. That's, that's really something, isn't it? Now I can put my needs, my needs first. Yeah, you can. And by the way, you should put your needs first. But if your needs crush another human being, there's something sick about your needs. Maybe they're not your needs, they're your wants. This is one of the great lines I have ever read to you: I'm angry I didn't get the mother I wanted. Question: who got the mother they wanted? Not many. Who got the father they wanted? The brother they wanted? The sister they wanted? Who got the spouse they wanted? We have this imaginary parent in our minds compared to whom no mortal father or mother can really measure, or measure up, I should say. I really love that. That's one of of the great lines. Maybe this should be a bumper sticker: Hunk, if you got the mother you wanted, there wouldn't be much hunking. Am I the father my kids wanted? It's an interesting question. I think they'd laugh if I asked that. Not sure they have, um, maybe I'm wrong. How much time have they spent thinking, who is the father I wanted? Parents, especially among the upper educated set— another point that I often make, college makes you not only stupid but quite often narcissistic. It's a bad combo, although it now starts in high school. Are investing more time and effort in their kids. A 20— oh, this is so— that's my point is independent of the one I just read to you. A 2012 survey from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture found that almost 3/4 of parents of school-age kids say they eventually want to become their children's best friend. Another terrible development. Remember my father? We didn't play his birthday show. Every July 18th, I would, I would have my father on the show. I'd ask him how things have changed. This was one of his biggest— parents want to be their kids' friends. The kids run the house. That's how he'd put it. The kids can have a lot of friends, but they only get you as parents. It's your duty to be their parent. Well, I will take calls. The crisis in the family on the Happiness Hour.
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The Scottsdale Unified School District, which by the way, they still do not hold in-person school board meetings. They're still not holding meetings where they allow taxpayers to show up for public comment. I wonder why. Well, the Scottsdale Unified School District sent this out to parents across the school district: Parent/Legal Guardian Consent to Participation in Social and Emotional Behavior Learning. The electronic signature attached to this annual verification packet authorizes SUSD to complete an emotional health and wellness screening of my child and to collect personal information including but not limited to income or other family information, medical history or medical information, mental health history or mental health information, and quality of home and interpersonal relationships, student biometric information, or illegal, antisocial, or self-incriminating behavior, or individuals with a close relationship of gun or ammunition ownership. The Scottsdale Unified School District continues by saying to these parents, I fully understand that upon my request, SUSD shall provide any available information regarding the screening to me and timely manner, including the dates, methods used, information collected, and the reason for administration. But why are they trying to find out whether or not children have gun owners as parents?
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Here's Tom Hanks. They enlisted Tom Hanks. They probably paid him a boatload of money. Then again, maybe they didn't need to because he's worth all the money he needs. Maybe he's got all the money he needs. How about this? One of the most famous actors in America, Tom Hanks, making this major announcement.
Together we stand with all who understand what it means to be born and built from the land. Because this is the city we love and the game we believe in, and together we are all Cleveland Guardians.
Now you know they sat around and said, all right, we gotta make this change. What are we— how are we going to tell the— our fans that we're not? I know, said the owners of the Cleveland Indians. I don't even know who owns the team, could care less. I don't even follow professional sports that closely. Maybe you do. It's boring. It's boring to hear people yammer about professional sports. The only people that are interested are people that are really into sports, and that's fine, but most people aren't. It's just a fact. Most people don't live and die by, you know, the statistics and the standings in the AL West. I mean, and I'm not putting you down if you do, but most of us don't. All right. So I don't know who owns the team, but don't you just envision, what are we gonna do? Let's get to— we'll pay Tom Hanks $10 million, we'll put together a, a, a slick video with dramatic music, and we'll show all these great shots of Cleveland, and we'll try to convince people And the whole world smiles with you.
They don't make songs like that anymore, you know what I mean, folks? Dennis Prager here, the Happiness Hour, every Friday, second hour of the show. Mind you that you can hear all the Happiness Hours. It's really a form of therapy. I really do believe that. It's helped a great number of people, as the Male-Female Hour has. And you can have all of them and all, I think all 20 years at prageropia.com where you get every show without commercials. It's a big deal and they now have long forum interviews as well that only Prager Utopia subscribers get to hear. PragerUtopia.com, that's Prager instead of a U as in utopia. Article, column in the New York Times today, David Brooks, What's Ripping American Families Apart. And I'll read a little more and then take your calls. Some kids seem to think they need to cut off their parents just to have their own life. Quote from one Ivy League grad: My mom is really needy, and I just don't need that in my life. One Ivy League grad told Joshua Coleman, in other cases, children may be blaming their parents for the fact that they are not succeeding as they had hoped. It's Mom and Dad who screwed me up. Everything here comports to my experience on this issue, talking to you folks about this over many years. My mom is really needy and I just don't need that in my life. I'll have a response to all of this in a moment. Terrible trends are everywhere. Major depression rates among youths aged 12 to 17 rose by almost 63% between 2013 and 2016. American suicide rates increased by 33% between between 1999 and 2019. The percentage of Americans who say they have no close friends has quadrupled since 1990. 54% of Americans report sometimes or always feeling that no one knows them well, according to a 2018 Ipsos survey. I feel very blessed none of this applies to me. I knew how important friends were from high school— no, from elementary school. I, since 6th grade, I've always had a man in my life, or more than one, whom I loved. I say with zero self-consciousness, as a man talking about men, love them. And they love me. And I hear all these— I've gone through this a number of times, why people don't— why men in particular don't have close friends. And I, I'm a pretty man-man. I'm a pretty masculine guy. Toxic masculinity. How's that? As many would say. And I don't understand the idea that you don't want to have men that you love and love you in your life. I don't, I don't get it. Why is that unmanly? Why is it manly to be lonely? It is manly to, to be to be independent and strong and all those things, but why do any of them preclude bonds of love with other men? All right, anyway, my theory is, in a nutshell, because I don't want to spend the time— I want to spend the time taking your calls. I truly believe that one big factor is, as much of our crisis, most of it, is the death of religion. First, generally speaking, religious families tend to be more cohesive. The old line, I would actually, I remember seeing it on buses in New York City where I grew up, a family that prays together stays together. It would be actually one of the ads on the bus. Isn't that amazing? A different world. Family that prays together stays together today would be superseded by a family that protests together stays together. Family that condemns American systemic racism together stays together. A family that is woke together stays together. That's probably not true. These would be the substitutes for a family that prays together stays together. But there is a bigger reason why I think secularism is deeply, deeply involved in these— this crisis. Religious people who take religion seriously— not every religious person does— believe that you have to honor your father and mother. So that the response to the, the things that I just read to you now— my mom is really needy and I just don't need that in my life— is screw you. That's my response. That's right, your mom is needy.
So fine.
It's a pain. It's a nuisance. But sorry, you still honor your father and mother. There's no asterisk, only if they're really easy. For those of you who think religion is unnecessary, that's my proof text: how people treat parents. And how you are commanded not to love them. Basically, the Bible is not interested in whether or not you love your parents, brilliant text that it is. It is only interested that you honor them. So if they're needy and a nuisance, so be it. I'm not asking you to visit every day, or, right? The other one that Brooks quotes in his column today in the New York Times, Becca Bland, founder of the advocacy group Stand Alone, told the BBC, now I can put my needs first rather than trying to fix things beyond my control. Nobody's asking you to fix things, but, uh, and you can even put your own needs first. That's right. But you can't stop talking to your mother, especially given her reason. One of my favorite lines of the year: I'm angry I didn't get the mother I wanted. That's a real reason for anger. Hey, Will, did you get the mother you wanted?
Yeah, great one.
All right, you did good, Will. Did you get the father you wanted?
Yeah.
So why are you so disturbed? That was a joke, folks. Will is not disturbed.
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Okay, I admire the man that's on the line so much, so much that the show is named after him. Mr. Larry Elder, how you doing, sir?
I'm doing great. Thank you so much, Carl, for having me on. I appreciate it.
So tell us what the first goal of the campaign is, Mr.
Elder.
Well, Carl, first of all, thank you so much for having me on again, and please call me Larry. And when Dennis first approached me to run, Carl, I said, you know, two things can happen. I could lose, I could win. Both are bad. And the reason I, the reason I turned is because, you know, the state, the state is dominated by lefties. Two-thirds, uh, supermajorities in the Senate, two-thirds supermajority in the assembly. And then of course you have this left-wing governor, and this has been the way the state has been run for decades. That's why crime is going up. That's why we got a problem with homelessness. That's why the quality of schools has gone down. And that's why people can't buy a house, and so many young people are leaving and going to places like Tennessee and Florida and Texas. So I thought it was hopeless. But then more and more people began to approach me, people I respect like Lionel Chetwin, the longtime filmmaker, people like Pastor Jack Hibbs. And more and more people said, wait, Larry, you know, If not you, who? And if not now, when? I hope that doesn't sound arrogant, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I'd be shirking my moral and spiritual responsibilities if I didn't at least try. I never liked politics. I'd never run for anything. Check that. I ran for 5th grade president against William Boyd. I took, I took Carl 3 out of 4 rolls. They're still cleaning up the blood. It was a slaughter. And so, um, that was the last time I ventured into politics. I don't even remember what my agenda was. All I know is that I beat him. All right, well, I never even thought about doing politics, but my goodness, look at what's going on in our state.
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Love your bumper music. Happy Friday to you and your staff.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to start my call by saying, hi, my name is Bob. I'm in the 27%.
Oh God, they put you with Dennis. You really are— your name is Bob?
No.
Oh, you're cracking me up.
Anonymous.
Oh, that's very good. Okay, you got me. I like that.
Uh, there's— we grew up I was raised, or we raised our children in a Catholic Christian family, very faithful. We prayed together, and the Fourth Commandment was always front and center in our family. And our children knew we're not here to be liked, we're here to be respected. But one of your callers, a mother several years ago, is the one that gave us solace through this entire episode of our oldest daughter moving out out and basically cutting off all ties. And that was a saying: we didn't break her, we can't fix her.
Right. I quote that woman all the time, and she, she helped vast numbers of people, including us. What is your— and if I met your daughter, what reason would she give?
She did not like living under our roof, under our rules. Uh, so to David Brooks' column title, I think the root cause in this situation was selfishness. I want what I want. Mom and dad are not enabling me, therefore I'm going to strike out and move in with a boyfriend who is living with his parents. So here we have a couple, you know, 23-year-olds shacking up under a parent's roof, and they enable this to happen. And it angers me and my wife. What kind of parents would allow this to happen to another family?
Well, even putting that aside, let's say it doesn't matter whether one agrees with you or not. That is not a reason for a daughter to stop talking to parents. She, she religiously thinks it's a non-issue. You religiously think it's an issue. Why does she stop talking to you? She is, you know, if I would say to her her, putting premarital sex completely aside, don't you realize how important religion is? That if you actually took it seriously, you would still be talking to your parents?
They were raised in a Catholic school, and ironically, she didn't go to a public but a private Catholic university.
So what do you think turned her into a narcissist?
Uh, the premarital thing.
Well, the number of people that have premarital sex who aren't narcissistic is, is pretty large. I, I don't think that did it. I, uh, did she go to college?
Yes, private Catholic university. And after 3 years, uh, she just decided the lifestyle that we thought was appropriate was not for her.
That's— I, I— that I understand. I mean, I, I wish we had more time, but I— the fact that she— let's say she completely rejected Catholicism, completely believes you're believing in voodoo— that in no way either explains or exonerates her. You still talk to your parents.
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Hunter Biden's getting $500,000. It's a bribe.
It's disgraceful.
And the fake news media is talking about it like it's okay.
Yeah, I'm just wondering, what if, uh, what if Eric, what if Don Jr. were getting a cool half a mil for some scribbles? I need to go to Central Park. I need one of those portraits. Let's ask somebody who's on Team Trump officially. She is President Trump's spokesperson, also the Save America PAC, and we're so excited to have her on the show. Liz Harrington, welcome to America First.
Hey Sebastian, thanks so much for having me.
I gotta ask you, because I haven't seen the boss in a couple of weeks, how excited is he to be back on the campaign trail?
Oh, oh, he's loving it. He can't wait to get back out there, and you could feel it. You could see it on Saturday. The people want it. I don't know if you saw those crowds, but waiting for since Friday, thousands of people. Doesn't exactly look like someone who lost the state of Arizona, by the way. But this speech, that clip you played, that was also one of my favorites when, you know, the only good thing about the Biden campaign were those perfectly drawn circles for the 6 fake news media to sit in, and they definitely were not drawn by Hunter Biden. I think President Trump literally hit everything. He hit all the major issues. He talked about the rigged and stolen election. He talked about what's happening to our country, and the people are responding. Our movement is growing. And yes, I can tell you, he's so happy to be back out there, and he's not going anywhere.
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We go from the sublime to the ridiculous, don't we? We see headlines, Cleveland Indians change the team name to the Guardians. I don't know why that cracks me up so much, but it does. I, I don't want the Cleveland Indians to ever win another baseball game for the rest of their existence. That's so stupid. There won't be any more— there won't be any more Cleveland Indians. Indians is offensive, so they change the name. So now we got the Washington baseball team. Now we got the Cleveland Guardians with this stupid logo. That's what— that's what's important to people at a time when the country is headed in the wrong direction.
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All right, everybody, happy— whoa, the, uh, what was that? The frog in the ear drum? All right, that was a total shock. What's Ripping American Families Apart, column by David Brooks in the New York Times. I've read to you a number of the quotes from it, and he, by the way, acknowledges he has no idea why it's happening. I confess I don't understand what's causing this, but it's a big this. God, would I love to speak to the daughter of the Catholic man who just called in, who won't speak to them. Let's say she thinks they're overbearing, they're judgmental, they're too religious, they're this, they're that. Let's say that's all. Let's say that she thinks all that. It doesn't comport in my mind that therefore you stop talking to a parent. By the way, aside from it's morally wrong, it is also the wimp's way out. It's wimpy. Well, we don't agree, I'll drop contact. Really amazing to me. But the irony is the girl thinks the parents Parents are too religious. Apparently it's over the premarital sex issue. Okay. But the irony of it all is religious people would be bound by honor your father and mother. Okay. Uh, let's go to Jane in Harrison, Arkansas. Hello, Jane.
Hi, Dennis.
Hi.
I was absolutely thrilled to hear your subject today because I have wanted to get in. And let me— if I don't have much time, um, I may want to call back because This is just a subject coming from the mental health field, working with families, that is a passion of mine. I have the answer, I believe. So when my first college class as an adult— so I got a master's degree in counseling, which I can tell you about that whole school thing as well. But after I worked for a year, I told my boss to call me when I could get into the home. And I never once worked with a nuclear family, okay? So she called me up and said, the state has funds for you to go into the homes. And that made all the difference in the world. But one of so during that time, I got, I got called back into the job. But during the year, I wrote a parenting book. And during that, while writing that parenting book, I ran across the most crucial information that I think is very, very important for families. And it's a shocker. I've not found anyone that has known this information, but it all makes sense. We are meant to bond. And there is a book I ran across while I was writing my parenting book called Hooked and talks about casual sex. People today have so many— so much casual sex, and there's actually a limit to where you can start losing that ability to bond, and it's between 3 and 5 sexual partners. So the way I I look at it, Heavenly Father allowed for death and different things like that, but the natural creation is meant to bond, right?
All right, so your explanation for why so many adult children don't speak to parents is too much sex, too many sexual partners?
No, I believe the re— I, I thought this topic was on casual sex.
No, it was not.
Oh, okay, you did misunderstand. I'm sorry. By the way, this is a very good example of why I almost always come back from a break and repeat the topic. Now, now you see why it's important. This has nothing to do with casual sex. The previous caller mentioned it as for— as the source of alienation of his daughter. The topic is alienation. Of adult children from their parents. Okay, anyway, I'm not blaming anybody. I'm just explaining to you why I do often repeat what the topic is about. All right, Frank in Paramus, New Jersey. Hello.
Hey, how you doing? It's an honor to talk to you. I'm a huge fan.
Thank you.
Um, I kind of, uh, with my mom, she's very Narcissist. Like, everything is not a matter of her way. It's just if she speaks it, it's the truth. She speaks when she shouldn't speak, as in like she's very like quick to find people's faults. And when I got married, when it became, uh, when I had it, when I became a father, I separated myself literally from my own sanity. And I'm a Christian man and I'm a conservative, I felt it was best to kind of distance myself. I won't shut her out, but I need to distance for my own sanity.
Right, so distance is not the same as break off contact.
Have you— okay, have you—
do you maintain contact?
If she calls, I'll answer, you know, I mean, but I won't go out of my way. I won't call her, but if she calls me, I'll call her.
And how often does she call you?
It's a rarity.
And why?
Uh, because right now, divorcing her dad or her father, right, like her husband right now, my dad, uh, there's a lot of drama in her life. So I think that's part of the reason she feels, uh—
Do you have children?
Kids are taking sides. I have, uh, a 9-year-old son.
Yes.
Has he ever met her?
Yes.
How often?
Like, I— it's a rarity. Um, it's like if she's there in the same area, then, hey, how you doing? But I won't go over because I live an hour away.
That's not right. Look, I don't know enough to judge anything. I'm not, not here to judge any individual. I make macro judgments. Instruments here. You are a Christian. There is a commandment to honor your parents, and I'm asking you to wrestle with it.
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The biggest story nationally is that Nancy Pelosi is attempting a coup in the House of Representatives. The speaker has never been nonpartisan as they are in the British Parliament, but they have always respected party rule of their own caucuses and committee assignments, etc. Nancy Pelosi, having lost the effort to get an independent commission established for January 6th, that didn't get through the Senate because it was a not fair piece of law and therefore it's languishing. She decided to put together her own committee. Again, that's her prerogative as the speaker of the majority party. She usurped one of the positions on— it's not a fair split. Normally it would be 13 members, 7 Democrats, 6 Republicans. The leader of the Republicans would name the 6. Speaker Pelosi took 8 of the seats and named Republican Liz Cheney. People kind of thought about that for a while. They didn't like the precedent of the Speaker putting a member on, but they overlooked it. And Kevin McCarthy named 5 other members, including Ranking Minority Member Jim Banks, a friend of mine from Indiana who is a relative newcomer, but he is the largest elected member of our caucus in the House of Representatives. Jim Banks leads the Republican Study Committee, has broad and deep support in the House caucus, and then 4 other people to go along with Liz Cheney. And Nancy Pelosi vetoed Jim Banks and Jim Jordan, and the Republicans are out. Never before even considered. The most radical thing by a person who is alleged to be investigating radical behavior. Nancy Pelosi never misses a chance to miss a chance to be hyper-partisan and destroyed by partisanship. There will be no panel. There'll be a Nancy Pelosi circus.
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Fiancé?
No, I can't be your fiancé. You're going to go. You're going to be my fiancé and you're going to be the most amazing, fascinating, most exciting best old man ever. We're only gonna be there for a few hours, eat dinner, and I promise we'll have the best breakup of all time. My baby, my princess! Oh yeah, I'll pee a little bit.
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Things just happened.
My girlfriend and my best friend.
You got 30 days to grow up, son.
Nathan Hannigan!
It is good to have you home.
Nona, Nona, it's Nathan.
Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you? That's right, ladies and gentlemen. As I often said, my parents had two sons, a doctor and a promo code. How many parents can say that? I love that song, You Can't Change Film. Do either of you know what that means? Change film? Like the old actual film?
Yeah.
Yeah? You have an idea? You have a rough idea? I have two young people in the studio here who have— you never used a film camera, correct? You're 31? Yeah, 33.
I'm sorry.
33. Oh, well, you're getting up there. Okay. It's 33. Hi everybody, Dennis Prager, Happiness Hour. The theme is "What's Ripping American Families Apart?" It is a column in today's New York Times by David Brooks. And the estimate here, and I think it's true, 27% of Americans are estranged from a member of their own family. About 40% of Americans have experienced estrangement at some point. It's unbelievable to think about it because when you put it in numbers, a quarter of the American people is over 80 million people. Over 80 million people are in families where somebody isn't talking to somebody. I mean immediate families. I'm not talking about your, you know, your cousin Jerry as in Ben Jerry's. That was just a dig. All right, let's see here. Oh God, there's so many good calls here. This is so true. Let's take it. Huntington Beach, California. Denver— is that your name, Denver?
Yes, sir.
Were you— is that your given name?
That is my given name.
Okay. Hi.
Hi, big fan, first of all, and fellow cigar enthusiast.
What do you smoke?
But, uh, um, I like Don Pepin Garcias and AJ Fernandez.
You're my man. You are my man. All right, go ahead.
I guess I think that kids, adult children, if they have problems in their lives, they blame their parents for the cause of that.
If this were the old Groucho Marx show, the bird would have come down and given you $100.
I'd appreciate that.
Yep, uh, that— I believe that that is absolutely accurate. Life is supposed to be good. This is— Denver, I can't thank you enough. This is a, a major reason for the problems of our society. Things were so good in America that Americans became naive. And expected that life be essentially problem-free. Whom do you blame if it isn't parents? Whites?
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The Scottsdale Unified School District, which, by the way, they still do not hold in-person school board meetings. They're still not holding meetings where they allow taxpayers to show up for public comment. I wonder why. Well, the Scottsdale Unified School District sent this out to parents across the school district. Parent legal guardian consents to participation in social and emotional behavior learning. The electronic signature attached to this annual verification packet authorizes SUSD to complete an emotional health and wellness screening of my child and to collect personal information including but not limited to to income or other family information, medical history or medical information, mental health history or mental health information, and quality of home and interpersonal relationships, student biometric information, or illegal, antisocial, or self-incriminating behavior, or individuals with a close relationship of gun or ammunition ownership. The Scottsdale Unified School District continues by saying to these parents, I fully understand that upon my request, SUSD shall provide any available information regarding the screening to me in a timely manner, including the dates, methods used, information collected, and the reason for administration. But why are they trying to find out whether or not children have gun owners as parents.
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Here's Tom Hanks. They enlisted Tom Hanks. They probably paid him a boatload of money. Then again, maybe they didn't need to because he's worth all the money he— maybe he's got all the money he needs. How about this? One of the most famous actors in America, Tom Hanks, making this major announcement.
Together we stand with all who understand what it means to be born and built from the land, because this is the city we love and the game we believe in, and together we are all Cleveland Guardians.
Now, you know, they sat around and said, all right, we gotta make this change. What are we— how are we going to tell the— our fans that we're not— I know, said the owners of the Cleveland Indians. I don't know who owns the team, could care less. I don't even follow professional sports that closely. Maybe you do. It's boring. It's boring to hear people yammer about professional sports. You'll have people that are interested or people that are really into sports, and that's fine, but Most people aren't. It's just a fact. Most people don't live and die by, you know, the statistics and the standings in the AL West. I mean, and I'm not putting you down if you do, but most of us don't. All right, so I don't know who owns the team, but don't you just envision, what are we gonna do? Let's get to— we'll pay Tom Hanks $10 million. We'll put together a, a, a slick video with dramatic music and we'll show all these great shots of Cleveland and we'll try to convince people that we're uniting by changing the name of the Cleveland Indians since 1915.
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Some lawyer hit a little girl. The community is left in shock as former cancer patient Sharon Blackwell was struck by an oncoming vehicle. Take this into evidence, sir. I need to call my wife. You've been accused of texting while driving. We don't make an example out of this guy, the public will crucify us.
Before you take your daughter off life support, give God room to be God.
You're not guaranteed another day, but you have today. Get back or I'll shoot you.
No one's left inside but the pastor and his two daughters.
If you run, I'll shoot your family.
Nobody cares whether I live or die.
It's bad.
I'm not gonna stand around and be a part of it anymore. Give me the gun.
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The race is going extremely well. I'm in a dead heat with Terry McAuliffe, who's been doing this for 43 years, and Virginia voters are ready for a change.
I think you're actually ahead, Glenn Youngkin. I'll tell you why. Dan Balz had a story in the Washington Post this week that polling is broken in America, systemically understating Republican support. So if you're tied in the polls and you are, I actually think you're 5 points ahead of Terry. And I think Terry's worn out, tired, and boring. And I don't think he can beat you anyway. But it's good to run like you're behind, right?
Yeah, it is. You know, what's interesting is as soon as the polling came out last week, he called his friend Joe Biden and Joe Biden's going to show up in Virginia campaigning. He's not coming far. He's just coming barely across the river. And I will tell you what this demonstrates is that Terry's got a failed record. I mean, when he was governor, the murder rate went up 43%. We're at a 20-year high in murder rate in Virginia. He's actually completely ostracized in the entire law enforcement community, and they know he won't stand for them. And Virginia's economy continues to trail all of our peer states, and everybody blames Terry and Ralph Northam for it. They shut down our economy. Terry absolutely didn't bring the number of jobs to Virginia that our peer states did. And Virginians are tired of it. They're ready for a new kind of leader who's going to build business, grow jobs, fix our schools, and make our communities safe.
I agree that you've got a great platform. I want to bring up this, this visit from Joe Biden. You've also got the hometown paper against you. The Washington Post sent out Sean Sullivan to cover this, and I've got the story in my hand. They do not mention you until paragraph 26, I counted.
A very bizarre thing happened to me. I was so wrapped up in the subject I forgot it was the last segment of the Happiness Hour on the alienation issue. And here I am with the music for the Whatever Is On Your Mind Hour. So I gotta clear lines, which is very painful. I'll keep some. So— oh no, no, play the music! This is key. No, no, no, people need to hear this. Yes, everybody, Dennis Prager here. Hmm, you know, there's no question I could do a marathon. I could, if people brought in food and drink, I could do a week without once even announcing the, uh, the phone number just on the subject of family alienation. That is how rampant it is and how many of you have it in your lives. Wow, this is really something. All right, if I didn't get to talk to you, I really would have wanted it. Now you folks, that you, you folks already knew. That is so interesting. All right, I'm gonna have to say goodbye to a few of you. Always painful. All right, the, uh, the issue was, of course, so many people alienated from parents. The best line, and then I'm going to take your calls on anything, especially cigars, stereo equipment, photography equipment, and fountain pens, and classical music. All the subjects that I love, and which puts me in a small minority property of humanity. I'm angry I didn't get the mother I wanted. This is a quote from a woman in Britain who runs a support group for people who are alienated from parents. Will may be the only person I have ever met who got the mother he wanted. Will is standing in here, by the way, for, uh, Triple G. That you can't blame your mother on. He wants— he wishes he was a little taller. Okay, well, I certainly can't hold that against my parents. I'm 6'4". If I were any taller— I actually believe that I am at the limit of human comfort. When I meet guys taller than me, I actually feel bad for them. You have no idea. I mean, I'm not complaining. I think it's a blessing, and I've been very lucky to have my height. But when I'm with a guy 2 inches taller than me, even 6'6", first of all, I think he looks like a giant. Not tall, giant. And they hit their heads everywhere. It's— anyway, so Will got everything from his mother he wanted but height. Very nice. I mean, isn't that an amazing comment? I'm angry I didn't get the mother father I wanted. So I ended last hour with a point that I'll just make and then I'm going to go to your calls. A core reason for the problems of our society, and I think for all leftism, is the expectation that life should be essentially pain-free. And if you have pain, somebody is at fault. Either your parents, so I will stop talking to them, or your country.
Right?
That's, that is what it has come down to. And there is, the entire educational system is geared to having you believe that your problems are caused by the society. The only group that cannot blame any personal problems on society are white, heterosexual, cisgender Christian males. The most loathsome group, right? They only founded the best country in the history of the world, but other than that, they're real Absolutely disgusting. All right, anyway, let's go to, uh, some of your calls. James in Frankfort, Illinois. Hello, Dennis Prager.
Hello, Dennis, how are you, sir?
I'm well, thank you.
I got two quick comments for you and then a question. Um, my two comments are happy birthday, of course, on Monday, and I wanted to congratulate you on your 200 Fire Side Chat episode coming up in a couple of weeks. You really follow 197 of them?
You did?
Pardon?
You watched all? I got a big smile on my face. So what are the names? I'll give you— wait, no, no, I'm gonna give you a Fire Side Chat quiz.
Oh boy.
Whose arm do you see on occasion?
Oh boy, you're putting me on the spot. Um, Megan's.
That's right, he— you really do watch. He—
that's—
oh, that's my right. I watch every week.
Well, I want you to go to Illinois this weekend and bring him a cigar. All right, what else? Go ahead. Thank you for that.
Um, you're welcome. Thank you, sir. Uh, I have— I have a— I had a wonderful gift from my wife for my 50th birthday. A beautiful fountain pen, and thanks to you and one of your fireside chats where you kind of pulled a bunch of them out of your pockets. I just had a question as far as what's your favorite ink and paper, and if you have any writing tips for me.
I did it! I got a call on fountain pens. I have been waiting for this, ladies and gentlemen, for 21 years, and it has finally happened on the eve of my trip to Hungary. I will go to Hungary a happier man. Folks, I could actually spend the hour on it. I won't. It would cause the Living Martyr to consider cutting himself, and so I would not do that. The answer is there is no such thing as favorite. When people ask me my favorite cigar, my favorite pen, my favorite ink, my favorite whatever, my favorite favorite composer. There is no such thing, uh, because— and I have a good analogy— if I'd ask, if I were to ask any of you, what is your favorite food, you wouldn't have an answer. Let's say you did. Let's say hot dogs, which would be up there for me. I love hot dogs. Okay, but could I live on hot dogs? I'd go out of my mind, right? A week of hot dogs, I'd go out of my mind. You know, you don't think a week, even two weeks 6 months. Wow, we do have a visitor who's prepared to take the Prager test. 6 months of hot dog eating. You're buying? I'm buying. I would, that's right, I would. I would get Salem Radio to sponsor the contest. So I don't have a favorite. The whole The fun, or much of the fun, in fountain pens is getting all the different inks. But one of the greatest does come from Japan. It's expensive, it's $35 a bottle. So I can't recommend it to all of you. But generally you get what you pay for. Generally. It is not always true. Okay everybody, and let's see. Uh, I don't even know that one. Let's see, uh, I had, I had a good one. Oh yes, good. Tom in Placentia, California. Hello.
Hi Dennis.
Hi.
Um, I believe that a couple of months ago you said that God made the universe out of nothing. I believe that Paramedics says Nothing comes from nothing, only something comes from something, and God made the universe out of himself. Hence there are miracles that are performed. And I also believe what you said about God cannot commit suicide.
I never said God commit— I don't recall seeing, because I don't know why it ever arises a subject. Anyway, thank you for that. Uh, yes, uh, God made the world out of nothing. Creatio ex nihilo. It's a Jewish and Christian belief. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So God, God started it all. And by the way, I believe science emphatically argues for that. I, I never used to say this. I used to say science is science. Science and religion is religion, and which is fine with me even if one continues to say it. But as it happens, science has done a few things that bothers some folks, uh, on the secular left. One is it argues for a beginning of the universe. Things don't begin on their own, right? It's just— you don't need to be a scientist to understand that things don't invent themselves. So clearly there had to be an inventor. Science also argues— and, and I have no agenda here other than to point out that science can make some conservative arguments— science argues that the fetus at a certain point really is a human being, maybe even at conception. You have no scientific argument for saying that the human fetus has no worth unless the mother says it does. Back in a moment.
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The biggest story nationally is that Nancy Pelosi is attempting a coup in the House of Representatives. The speaker has never been nonpartisan as they are in the British Parliament, but they have always respected party rule of their own caucuses and committee assignments, etc. Nancy Pelosi, having lost the effort to get an independent commission established for January 6th, that didn't get through the Senate because it was a not fair piece of law. And therefore it's languishing. She decided to put together her own committee. Again, that's her prerogative as the speaker of the majority party. She usurped one of the positions on, it's not a fair split. Normally it would be 13 members, 7 Democrats, 6 Republicans. The leader of the Republicans would name the 6.
6.
Speaker Pelosi took 8 of the seats and named Republican Liz Cheney. People kind of thought about that for a while. They didn't like the precedent of the speaker putting a member on, but they overlooked it. And Kevin McCarthy named 5 other members, including ranking minority member Jim Banks, a friend of mine from Indiana who is a relative newcomer, but he is the largest elected member of a caucus in the House of Representatives. Jim Banks leads the Republican Study Committee, has broad and deep support in the House caucus, and then 4 other people to go along with Liz Cheney. And Nancy Pelosi vetoed Jim Banks and Jim Jordan, and the Republicans are out. Never before even considered. The most radical thing by a person who is alleged to be investigating radical behavior. Nancy Pelosi never misses a chance to miss a chance to be hyper-partisan and destroyed by partisanship. There will be no panel. There'll be a Nancy Pelosi circus.
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Fiancé?
No, I can't be your fiancé. You're going to go. You're going to be my fiancé and you're going to be the most amazing, fascinating, most best man ever. We're only gonna be there for a few hours, eat dinner, and I promise we'll have the best breakup of all time. My baby, my princess! Oh yeah!
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Things just happened.
My girlfriend and my best friend.
You got 30 days to grow up, son. Nathan Hanning, it is good to have you home.
No, no, no, no, it's Nathan.
Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
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Get back or I'll shoot you.
The ones left inside were the pastor and his two daughters.
If you run, I'll shoot your family.
Nobody cares whether I live or die.
I'm not going to stand around and be a part of it anymore. Give me the gun. No!
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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world. There's one Jewish state. The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented. They say that there's no greater Like to inform you, my friends, that there is a big rally featuring Larry Elder tomorrow, Saturday, July 31st, at Will Rogers State Beach, 9 to 11 AM, and for also for the recall of Newsom, Bonin, and Gascon. Big rally. So You gotta do it because Larry has a real chance, I really do believe that, of being the next governor. It would be so enormously significant, people would talk about Larry for president within 2 minutes of the victory. But that's beside the point. I don't know if he's interested in being president. And if he is, I will be there with him. He's a wonderful and brilliant human being, Larry Elder. Will Rogers State Beach, 9 to 11 tomorrow. Dennis Prager here. This is the What's on Your Mind hour. Bill in Mesa, Arizona wants to know when we're going to go back to talking about honey again. The living martyr has a long, lifelong interest in honey. We should resume that. We actually did honey tasting on the air. I can't think of a more remarkably stupid thing to do than have honey tasting on the radio. But we did it. We nevertheless did it, and it forced me to really taste the honey seriously to try to guess what type of flower pollinated it. I don't mean, you know, the flower, but what the fruity taste of it was. All right, Bill, thank you for mentioning that. I, I appreciate it. And let's go to Richard in Duarte, California. Hello.
Yes, good morning, Mr. Prager.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for taking my call. I am a retired schoolteacher, LA Unified School District. I'm a pastor now, have been for another 24 years. We started a school 12 years ago, and every day after recess we show a PragerU video, and I encourage private schools, Christian schools, to maybe follow that process. Practice. I think it helps. We call it Time of Civics, and the kids love it. Uh, every now and then I show something with Ben Shapiro. They think he's cuter than you are, but the, the videos do help.
I'm sorry, they think he's what?
They think he's cuter than you.
You're kidding me.
I don't know why. That's the girls, by the way, not the guys.
Oh, that's really helpful. You, you really dug the hole a little deeper. The girls think he's cuter than I am. All right, the guy does have a 40-year advantage. I mean, just for the record. All right, so, uh, the trick is you got to get videos of me at his age versus videos of him at his age. There are no videos of me at his age anyway. Dennis, and God bless you for playing the videos. It is more important to me that I be perceived as effective than cute. I would have no problem with both, but obviously the key is to save this country. Thank you for playing those videos, which reminds me, this is fundraising month for PragerU. Please do help out, folks. PragerU.com is— or there's a banner at dennisprager.com or 833-PRAGER-U. We are giving, we're doing the good fight here. All right, let's see. Jane in Harrison, Arkansas. Wait, wait, oh wait, I had Jane last hour. I'm sorry, Jane. I can't take a person twice. Her theory is that people have too many sexual partners, it damages their ability to bond. It's a very interesting theory. All I could say is I wish that everybody or nearly everybody who didn't have many sexual partners bonded well. And I'm not sure, I don't know if there's a relationship. I think also, I think it's, there's a different effect on both sexes. I think men who have a lot of partners and women who have a lot of partners, it does not affect both of them in the same way, because men and women, oddly enough, really are different. And men can have sex truly meaninglessly, where it's simply a physical act, much more easily. Some women can, I have no doubt about it. But I think that in, in general, it does not— I'm not making a moral judgment. I have no— I've never liked the double standard. If he can have partners, she can have partners. I've always believed that, even when I was not married. But I never believed that her having a lot of partners had as little impact upon him— on her, excuse me— as his having a lot of partners might have had on him. So anyway, that's That's my take on that. I thank you for that call. And Ken in Hampton, New Hampshire. Hello, Ken. Dennis Prager.
Well, thank you very much, Dennis, for taking the call. Great to speak to you, and I really am thrilled that you picked it up because I want to share my story with the audience worldwide. It's really remarkable because my recent blood analysis showed no COVID-19 antibodies, and that's after I got the J&J jab last April. So for pennies a day, my prophylaxis since 19— since 2020 is just monthly ivermectin and weekly hydroxychloroquine with daily vitamin D and zinc supplements, and that J&J's injection of the Wuhan virus into me, as well as any Alpha, Beta, Delta, whatever Greek letter variant is going to be in the future, uh, that it's now in the air, from infecting me. So now I have the best of both worlds. I have a J&J jab passport for event access and prophylactics from any new Wuhan viruses.
Who were prescribed the, the prophylaxis, the, the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine?
What?
I'll tell you, um, if the audience is ready for a jingle. I, um, I'm, I, Bo Winkle and, and, and my cousin, distant cousin Mr. Ed, well, I went right to the source and asked the horse to give you the answer that you will endorse.
Uh, so what did you do?
Ivormectin. So I use the, like some of your other listeners, I, I, America's Frontline Doctors, the veterinary online veterinary store.
Oh really?
Oh yeah.
Oh, because ivermectin is used for horses. Okay. You should use a doctor to get it. And any one of you, I strongly recommend that you not go the veterinary route. You should go through doctor. If your doctor will not prescribe to you ivermectin— and that is sad if he or she would not— but if they would not, then go to the America's Frontline Doctors website and they will help you out. I have been on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for well over a year. I was living with 2 people with COVID in my Home, no social distancing, no masks. I didn't get a sniffle. Back in a moment. I'm Dennis Prager.
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218 out with him, headed for the house. He's got a hostage.
You believe in God, Jeff? Why does a kid die, drug dealer get off scot-free?
The only answer to that is there isn't a God. You have a choice.
You can either let the darkness overtake you, or you can be a bearer of the light.
So just think of it as calling for backup.
Officer down, officer down.
You're the one God's called to be a shepherd. Keeper, do you know who I am? You are the author?
I am.
I don't know you.
Keeper, it's your son.
Hurry it up, time is short.
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This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com. We are living in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism. That's the title of a book by Shoshana Zuboff, whose thinking has shaped my own as we look on the growing power of big tech. The biggest flaw in most tech companies' business models is a general willingness to loot an individual's personal information, and thus his or her privacy, without payment for this data and without informed consent. Did you know that a small percentage of apps provide your consent to remotely turn on your phone's microphone and record you after you sign their terms and conditions? I imagine your response is like mine: "What? I'd never agree to that!" I am certain a hard line on personal privacy would have a greater appeal to the public than many other issues currently separating the parties. Watch that vast uncharted space in which party moves to restore data that has been taken and to repair walls of privacy that were breached long ago. Whoever gets there first will be a long-term winner. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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It's a bribe. It's disgraceful. And the fake news media is talking about it like it's okay.
Yeah, I'm just wondering, what if, uh, what if Eric, what if Don Jr. were getting a cool half a mil for some scribbles? I need to go to Central Park. I need one of those portraits. Let's ask somebody who's on Team Trump officially. She is President Trump's spokesperson, also the Save America PAC, and we're so excited to have her on the show. Liz Harrington, welcome to America First.
Hey, Sebastian, thanks so much for having me.
I got to ask you, because I haven't seen the boss in a couple of weeks, how excited is he to be back on the campaign trail?
Oh, oh, he's loving it. He can't wait to get back out there, and you could feel it. You could see it on Saturday. The people want it. I don't know if you saw those crowds, but waiting for since Friday, thousands of people. Doesn't exactly look like someone who lost the state of Arizona, by the way. But this speech, that clip you played, that was also one of my favorites when, you know, the only good thing about the Biden campaign were those perfectly drawn circles for the fake news media to sit in. And they definitely were not drawn by Hunter Biden. I mean, President Trump literally hit everything. Uh, he hit all the major issues. He talked about the rigged and stolen election. He talked about what's happening to our country. Uh, and the people are responding. Our movement is growing. And yes, I can tell you, he's so happy to be back out there, and he's not going anywhere.
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Hey everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is the hour you raise whatever is on your mind. And let's see here. Okay, Connor in Glendale, California. Hello.
Hey, Mr. Prager. Um, I called a couple weeks ago. Uh, you told me to call back when you were talking mainly about, uh, depression in young kids, you know, like teenage to early 20s, maybe early 30s at the most. Um, I want to link this mainly to college because there's an aspect of this ideological war that no one's really talking about, and that's the financial aspect. I knew college was a scam when I was late 17 because they pulled us out of class when I was in high school. They took all the 17-year-olds and brought us into a room. They didn't tell anyone about this beforehand, which they usually do. So they bring us into this room and the principal starts giving a speech about all the ways to milk this system to get as much money as you can. For college. And grants are one thing, which, I mean, that's an issue in itself. But then she starts talking about taking out student loans, and I knew right then that this was a part— this whole system is the biggest scam scheme, Ponzi scheme, pyramid scam you've ever— it's all a scam. And it's, it's basically designed to make as much money not only for the colleges but for these teachers. They're incentivized to get kids to take on massive amounts of debt for college degrees that they have no idea what they want to do. They're 17 years old.
So did you end up going to college?
I did, but there's no way I was going to university.
I just did general education credits, which is what— which is a great idea. I always tell people, go to the cheapest college you could afford, or you could afford. That's right. Oh, the scam is deeper than that. The, the whole notion of paying for college that the left wants to do only increases the prices that the colleges pay, because then the taxpayer, a handful of people paying the most taxes, will end up paying for your college education. So then they can hire more administrators educators raise the salaries of everybody who works there and teach you less. It is a scam for many, many reasons. All right, thank you. Let's see here. Let's go to Brent in Los Angeles. Hello.
Good Shabbos, Dennis Prager.
Thank you.
Yes, what I wanted to say is, when it comes to Planned Parenthood and infanticide, Marxist and Maoist science has proven that people have no value unless the states say they do.
That's correct. The idea that every human being has intrinsic value is a religious idea. It is not a secular idea. A secularist can believe it, but the idea was initiated by the Bible, and that's where we get the term Judeo-Christian. Judeo-Christian means Old Testament, New Testament. That's almost a synonym for it. And unfortunately, through much of Christian history, the Old Testament was was, uh, deemphasized or only emphasized as the foreshadowing of the coming of Christ, but not as intrinsically worthwhile beyond that. Not, not to all Christians, but to many. And then gradually it culminated in the United States, which was Old Testament-based. It's probably the— just, it's not a coincidence that the verse on the Liberty Bell is from Leviticus, the third book of the Bible. So the worth of the human— oh, you see it today. You're not worthwhile. Your race is worthwhile, but you are not. You are nothing but your skin color. If you don't see the rejection of the highest beliefs of Western civilization taking place before your eyes, then there's really— I don't know if there's anything I can say to make it obvious to you. It undoes everything taught by the biblical worldview to say that race is important, let alone the most important thing about you. It is the antithesis of the beliefs about the human being that have made Western civilization possible. It is the most primitive belief possible. That you are defined by your ethnicity or race. It is, it is the most primitive belief with regard to the human being. ReliefFactor.com, 1-800-583-84, 800-583-84. Relief Factor is for any of you who wishes to have a safe and anti-inflammatory, which means usually any muscle or joint pain. The reason you see ads for it on television and hear it so often here is because so many people buy it. That's a given. I do. ReliefFactor.com. Try for 3 weeks for $20. 800-500- 888-833-84, relieffactor.com.
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This goes to a question that Brian emailed us at freedom@charliekirk.com. He said, do you think that masks are coming back again? Of course, the mask mandates are going to be pushed forward in every major inner city across the country. So here's a question. If so many people are vaccinated, why are rates going up amongst even the vaccinated? They say, oh, it's an unvaccinated pandemic. Well, why are so many vaccinated people being testing positive? Why is that golfer having his life dream be torn away from— what's his name again? He's a total stud. Jon Rahm, who now has tested positive twice for the Chinese coronavirus despite being vaccinated. What's going on here? Why is it that We have so many people in charge that want to go back to the inhumane practice of mandatory masking. Let's play cut 8. Joe Scarborough says that Biden needs to require public teachers to get vaccinated to get back to school.
Joe Biden needs to make the tough choice right now, and he needs to start in his own political backyard. And he needs to tell the teachers union that he's going to require every public health scare—
healthcare person to get it, but also starting every public school teacher needs to be vaccinated regardless of preexisting conditions, regardless of exemptions. Now, of course, Joe Scarborough didn't mean to say public health scare. Of course he wouldn't say anything like that.
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As I continue to travel around and campaign all around this Commonwealth, the crowds are huge. The support is absolutely comprehensive. It's independents, it's Democrats. You know, I was at an event about 10 days ago in Russell County in Southwest Virginia, and a bunch of Democrats Democrats came up to me and said, Glenn, we can't even recognize our party. They're so far left. We're voting for you. So we're seeing this everywhere. And that's why we're so confident we're going to win this fall.
By the way, I think President Biden is kind of radioactive because of the inflation. I want to talk to you about that. Terry McAuliffe, in this article I hold, says he's got senior citizens on his side. Senior citizens are the most vulnerable to inflation of any group in the United States, Glenn, because many of them are on fixed incomes. What do you hear about inflation in Virginia? Because I see it in the grocery store. I'm wondering if you see it all over the state.
It's, it's everywhere.
Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. It's a fundraising month for PragerU. My birthday's on Monday, so we've always made it starting August 2nd or August 1st. August 2nd is the birthday. August 1st is the first day of the month. However, I will be gone for a week in Hungary, and so we started early. And we usually have a young person affiliated with PragerU. In this case, we have a very special young person. I adore this young woman, Amala Ekpunobi, better known as Amala, for good reason. For practical reason, let's put it that way. Amala has her own podcast at PragerU. How do they find you, Amala?
They found me on the internet, of all places. I guess that seems to be the place where you can find anybody these days.
That's where we found you. How do they find you now? Out with your podcast?
They can find me on YouTube and Facebook at PragerU. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok by my name, Amala Ekpunobi.
And how— right, I think the Amala works generally, but Ekpunobi is spelled exactly as it is pronounced, folks. E-K-P-U-N-O-B-I. Amala, you're really doing great work. You're, you're a gift to us. Oh, thank you, Dennis.
I, I hope I, I hope I am. I'm trying my best.
You certainly are. How often are you on?
Every single weekday from 2:30 to 3:30.
So that's where we're going at it.
So, uh, that's when you're on live? Yes, that's 2:30, 3:30 Pacific Time.
Yep.
Right. And then of course it's stays up there, correct? But somebody could subscribe to it or just watch previous shows.
Yeah, people can go and watch the show anytime that they like.
Amala has original and powerful and courageous thoughts on what's going on in America today and on life. It seems to be a real beautiful marriage between PragerU and you.
Oh, I hope so. It's been, it's been a great fit. I mean, back where I was in Florida, I felt like a, like a lone wolf, and then I come to PragerU in Los Angeles of all places, and it's like a second family. So it's been great.
It is. That's exactly correct. That's how people feel. So what's your take, uh, on, uh, PragerU's effect on young people? Do you think— I mean, and don't— you don't have to sugarcoat it. Well, how do you think we're doing?
I think it's definitely an uphill battle. I know we have a lot of sway with people who already lean in our direction, but I think we are coming through to young people. I've recognized that a lot through the duration of working here, and especially with the show that we're doing now, trying to sort of break that caricature of the evil, mean, bigoted conservative and show young people people who hold conservative values but who are just like everybody else. And I think that it's becoming more effective. I see a lot of young people on a day-to-day basis who are commenting and saying, well, you know what, I share those values. I just didn't know that I shared those values. So humanizing conservatives is a big part of that battle.
Do you get flak from blacks, you know, calling you the usual Uncle Tom names?
Oh, I get it all the time. And I say, out of all the demographics that give me hate, native-born Black Americans give me the worst of it. They bear the brunt of the hate that I get on the internet. I get a lot of hate, particularly for being of Nigerian descendants. And they say that because I'm Nigerian and because I truly didn't experience slavery in the United States of America, I have no right to talk about Black issues.
A completely illogical argument, of course.
That's mind-blowing. So isn't the obvious question, did you experience slavery?
It is.
That is the obvious question. And, and even so, I think it begs the question of, are we, are we unable to comment on anything that has not directly affected us or our ancestry?
You know what, you're so bright. You know what? No, no, you know I mean it. That That is exactly right. Do you know that a woman wrote on some blog with a major Israeli newspaper attacking me for some reason and noting that I had no right to speak about abortion? And this was— this is her words— because he does not have a uterus.
Amazing. Wow. That is mind-blowing.
Hey, that's right. So it is, but of course that now is so, uh, that's so '90s, even though it was just like 3 years ago. I mean, you can't say that because since when does uterus define you as a female?
Oh, I know, especially nowadays when apparently anybody can be anything, whether you're biologically male, biologically female. A uterus doesn't make you a woman anymore. Anybody could have an argument.
So she couldn't make that argument anymore. Maybe, maybe I do have a uterus. What does she know?
Exactly.
It's all about identity, Dennis. It's all about identity.
Exactly. But you know, your whole point though, that you have to experience it, it's so bizarre. It's, it's like saying you, you can't comment comment, you know, on communism if you didn't live in a communist country, or you can't comment on the Nazis if you didn't go through the Holocaust. It's so bizarre.
It is.
And it's just a massive effort to pigeonhole people so that they can continue to live in their echo chamber where the mainstream media and social media and big tech uphold this propagandized agenda and nobody can say anything about it because you're because you're a white man, or because you're not descendant of slaves, or because you're not truly a biological female. Who knows? It's always going to be something.
Well, I just want everybody to know that I think so highly of Amala, and so does the Living Martyr, which is even more— he's more difficult to impress, and I'm not easy. But she and Will Witt, two of the stars of PragerU, are going to be sitting in for me next Thursday day I arrive in Hungary. And I will definitely listen to it when I— I don't know if I'll be able to hear it in Hungary. Well, I can on the internet, but I don't know if I'll be there in time. In any event, I want everybody to know that, to meet with you. Stay on. I just want to ask you one more question. And this is Amala, who has her own podcast. She's a phenomenon. She truly is, and that's, that's whom we're trying to cultivate. Please help us get these words out at PragerU.com.
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There will be no masks in Florida. Ron DeSantis yesterday spoke to us. Cut number 1, the governor of Florida on the questions of masks and school kids. We look forward to this upcoming year to be a normal school year, be in person and live like normal and learn like normal kids. There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory masks on kids. We're not doing that in Florida.
Okay.
At the end of the day, we're not doing that in Florida. We're not doing it anywhere that I have anything to say with it because it's silly and it's stupid and it doesn't work. Kids touch their faces. Kids take those masks off. Have you ever seen kids with masks? It's just not a very smart thing. I also want to run down the fact that a booster shot is likely to be necessary. It's going to be signaled by the CDC's advisory group. US median home price hit a new record in June of $363,300 as sales increased 14% year over year on strong demand. President Biden is going to be the kiss of death for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. NFL teams, they're going to be obliged to forfeit if a game can't be played because unvaccinated players cause a COVID-19 outbreak for the team. That's smart. The Intel CEO says the chip shortage could stretch into 2023. So much for your new cars costing less, Mr. President. How much will your Oreos cost? Companies test price increases. Inflation is everywhere. I no longer eat Oreos, though I love them. I'm sorry to hear that kids everywhere are going to have to pay more for their Oreos.
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Surprise! Sharon and I— Sharon and you what? Things just happened. My girlfriend and my best friend.
You got 30 days to grow up, son.
Nathan Hannigan! It is good to have you home.
No, no, no, that's Nathan.
Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
Really though, thanks for thinking of me for this position.
I thought about you first.
Come on, growing up I had a huge crush on you.
There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God because he helps us change.
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Okay everybody, I just want to thank Amala Ekpunobi, who has her broadcast at prageru.com, and she's, she's just terrific. Amala, good luck when you sit in for me.
Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully Will and I can hold down the fort while you're away.
You will, you will. I look forward to seeing you Thank you for everything.
Oh yeah, thank you for having me on. I want to give a big thanks to the donors who have made it possible for me to have this job. It has truly been a dream here at PragerU, so thank you all so much for the support.
Yeah, telling you, these, uh, we're cultivating this, this wonderful group of young people who can run circles around anybody on the left, even at their ages. All right, I want to just answer some of your calls here. Don't hang up, because if you hang up, I don't know what you wanted to say. And it's the last segment, amazingly. Means the show went fast. So Matt in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, it has— why is coal asking teachers for their ID for discounts. So you're— you're obviously— the question implies that they're asking for IDs, which is supposedly an act of racism. They're right, that's what the left says, which is of course an insult to every black. But I did look it up, and sure enough, Kohl's is in fact giving discounts to teachers. And what they said— I got to get this to you. Oh God, I'm dying to read this to you. The, the, the lies with which we live regularly. They— Kohl's announced that we want to thank teachers because of their steadfastness in the course of this past year, their self-sacrifice, how much they did for, for kids is to thank educators. Oh my God, the ads come up just as you're reading something and that, and then you've lost the ability to read it. Kohl's is offering teachers and schools to have special discounts. The discount is to thank educators and school staff, quote, who persevered during an incredibly challenging year, Greg Revelle, Kohl's chief marketing officer, said in a statement. Since educators and school staff give so much of their time and talent to developing and shaping our children and so on, my folks, the utter and abject failure of most teachers who ended up cowards and had disdain for their own students who were more scared of COVID than anyone in this country, who wouldn't show up and teach in live classes, and they are being honored? Did the guy at Kohl's who said this believe a word he said? Only God can answer such questions. Have a wonderful weekend. The Dennis Prager Show.
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