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Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Dennis Prager Show. You might say, what is the Wednesday edition? In what way does it differ from the Tuesday or Thursday edition? Well, it has the male-female hour. There you see, it was not said in vain. Yes, how many people who have not studied the Bible say in vain? Interesting, no? Well, probably not, now that I think of it. Welcome to the show. I want to read to you something from a New York Times article that I, I suspect— and this is not any sort of praise of self, it's just an interesting note— I don't think anybody Dennis Prager. Well, it's hard to say. There's so many people doing fine podcasts and broadcasts. But I wonder if anyone, let me put it that way, will pick this up in the middle of an article on what is happening in the Middle East. On Tuesday, that's yesterday, as a convoy of 24 trucks carrying much-needed international aid from Israel tried to enter Gaza. They came under mortar fire from Palestinian militants, according to Israeli and UN officials. Only 5 of the trucks got through the crossing before the rest were turned back. The trucks contain medical equipment, animal feed, and fuel tanks for the use of international organizations in Gaza. It's just, it's a little sidebar of the evil that Hamas is. Aid to international organizations in Gaza, helping the people of Gaza, was turned back. Was, was actually under mortar fire. I love this, from Palestinian militants. It's the new term in the New York Times world for terrorists. I don't know when they ever use it except with white supremacists, right? Hamas is militants, but the, uh, the supporters of President Trump at, uh, on January 6th. Not— they were terrorists, and I condemned what they did within 5 minutes of hearing about it that day. You can— I hope they still have a recording of my promo of my show, which I made right after the show. It happened at my time as my show ended. They're not terrorists. One other thing: Israel is allowing this in. Did you note that? Israel is allowing in medical equipment, fuel for fuel tanks, and animal feed. Just thought I'd share that with you. We'll hear about more of that later. There's a piece that is— if this had been in a satire magazine a short time ago, even a year ago, a year and a half certainly, it would have been regarded as a joke. Obviously, from the Wall Street Journal today: California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class. If California education officials have their way, generations of students may not know how to calculate an apartment's square footage. By the way, do you know how to calculate an apartment square footage? I hope you do. I mean, I— yes, well, I normally do it because of my listening room. I tell the people, you know, it's, you know, 20 feet by 15 feet. Oh, I see, a whole apartment. That's a good point. That's fair. Well, I think that they could put a room in to make it even. I would be very interested to ask 8th graders, I got a room, it's 20 by 15, how, what is the square footage of the room? Or the area of a farm field. But the mathematics of political agitation and organizing will be second nature to them. Get it? The mathematics of political agitation. Yeah. Encouraging those gifted in math to shine will be a distant memory. This will be the result if proposed mathematics curriculum framework, which would guide K-12 instruction in California's public schools, is approved by California's Instructional Quality Commission. Love these Orwellian terms. The California Instructional Quality Commission is designed to destroy the quality of education in California. Get it? It's worse than going to a witch doctor. If you have cancer and go to a witch doctor, it doesn't get worse. So a witch doctor has no effect. So it's better. In meetings this week and in August, ratified by the State Board of Education— the Board of Education of California, being owned by the left, is anti-education— the framework recommends 8 times 8th time, that teachers use a troubling document, quote, "A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction." I want you to savor that for a moment, folks. The, the new brave— or brave new world in which we are entered. A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction. Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction. Not one of you listening can imagine what could be racist about mathematics instruction. This manual claims that teachers addressing students' mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. You have to savor every sentence, folks. This is, this is precious. Addressing students' mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. It sets forth indicators of, quote, white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom, including a focus on, quote, ready, getting the right answer. Getting the right answer is a form of white supremacy. I can't think of a more racist statement. It is not black. Get it? Getting the right answer is not for blacks. It's a form of white supremacy. I swear on all that I regard as holy that overwhelmingly the racism in this country is from the left. The contempt for blacks on the left is so obvious that the fact that the black intellectual class goes along with it only proves how sick the education in college is. There is no greater self-loathing than a black who adopts leftist rhetoric. That, that is Uncle Tom. Uncle Tom is being a black leftist. That is the true Uncle Tom of our time. Getting the right answer is white. The Ku Klux Klan and Aryan, pro-Aryan Nazis would agree with that. Teaching math in a linear fashion, requiring students to show their work and grading them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false. Folks, I must say, I have a wild mind. Some might even say an original mind, but I never could have come up with this. Never. The idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate perpetuates objectivity. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false. You still gonna send your kids to public school in California? And many private schools will adopt this as well. 1-800-PRAGER-776. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. 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Turning now to the Charlie Kirk Show.

Hi, Charlie. My name is Jacob and I am subscribed. My question is, are we as Republicans radical in our ideals, or rather does the left see us as radicals? If they do, What can we do to convince leftists that what we want is best for legal Americans in most cases, including them? Well, radical actually means to the root, to the original. If you actually go back to the original phrase of what radical means. But what are you really saying is radical? Are we out of the mainstream? No, they are. What we are talking about is very acceptable public policy. How about this? You put your citizens first. Families are important. You put the citizen over the foreigner. Your trade deals should preserve and protect hardware development and middle-class work. Free markets are a great guide to be able to produce wealth and preserve what we have considered to be a rather enjoyable lifestyle. Private property is important. At the same time, we're not going to bow down and accept a corporate oligarchy. These are very moderate ideas. If you want radical, I'll go show you some radical ideas. Those are not radical ideas. Our ideas built Western civilization. Of course, they're not outside of the mainstream. And what they're doing, again, we have used this phrase so many times and it's important because it just seems to be— there's about 15 things that we talk about here on this program that is just kind of buckets. So I just have to kind of sometimes draw from this bucket and draw from that bucket. This is the gaslighting bucket. We talk about that a lot on this program.

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Elon Musk, who otherwise I have a little soft spot for, saying no, no more, no more Bitcoin, can't buy my car with Bitcoin, no more Teslas because you got to use electricity to mine Bitcoin and you need coal. Dude, what do you think charges Tesla vehicles? Windmills?

Can you explain what's going on?

Wow, I know.

And, uh, if You know, when I bring these matters to your attention, there was always a voice in me thinking Have people been vaccinated against the left? That's, that's a worry that I have. Can they do anything that would alarm a liberal? Liberals have different values from leftists, but they vote left. A combination of brainwashing In other words, the right is the danger. That's the brainwash. And cowardice. They don't want to lose all their friends and their children. Prompts them to enable the left. The left could not win a single election, not even in New York City, without liberals. So I wonder even in some cases with conservatives. What story can I— what true story may imply a novel— what report can I bring to people in which, for example, you might say, I cannot send my child to a school in California. A public school and most private schools. At what point do we have utter contempt for a person with a PhD in education unless we know otherwise? I'd rather them have a PhD in gender studies, which is saying something, I might add. The chances that you actually love education if you have a doctorate in education are tiny. You love social justice and change. Change. Ah, for people on the left, the secular bored, usually the affluent, secular, and bored. Terrible combination. Change brings excitement. It is an adrenaline rush. That's why the left loves the word change. They say that we conservatives are afraid of change. We're afraid of change that might rupture something good, like math has correct answers. That's good. Why would we want change in math education? I, I— the concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false. This is the, the bill, the proposed mathematics curriculum framework. Which will probably be approved by California's Instructional Quality Commission. The framework itself rejects preparing students to take Algebra 1 in 8th grade, a goal reformers have sought since the 1990s. Students in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan master introductory, introductory algebra in 8th grade or even earlier. Many highly selective colleges expect students to take calculus in high school. Ooh, would have ruled me out. When I see letters as opposed to digits in anything mathematical, my brain closes down. My brain says letters belong in words. Not in math. I'm wrong, but I want you— I'm just telling you what my brain says. To get to calculus by senior year, students have to proceed on a pathway of advanced courses. The framework condemns this as, quote, a rush to calculus. This is the— understand, this is the California Instructional Quality Commission. They condemn a rush to calculus and indicates that California schools won't provide such a pathway. California high school graduates may be put at a disadvantage in applying to top colleges. Well, I can only say it serves their parents right for sending their children to California school. My heart breaks for these parents, but you have been warned in every way possible. California and most other big state schools are hurting children, really hurting. It was— they hurt the children this year by not having school. Teachers unions, and therefore, I'm sorry to say, most teachers Not almost. Don't give a damn about students. This year was proof. I'm scared I'll die if I teach a classroom of children. God, what wimps in that profession. Scary indeed. I volunteered to teach for free, to go into a classroom maskless. The framework explicitly rejects, quote, ideas of natural gifts and talents. Really? There's no such thing as natural gifts or talent? Do you hear what I'm reading to you? This is, this is what these elite commissions come up with? Rejects the idea of natural gifts and talents? Really? Wouldn't— I want you to know how much I desire— it's on my bucket list, and my bucket list is not large. I've done a lot of things I've wanted to do, met a lot of people I've wanted to meet, but I have to say, having a member of this commission on my show is on my bucket list. So it writes an obituary for gifted and talented programs which would hobble the rise of so many talented children in California. Under this pedagogy, quote, students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order. This is math curriculum. So do you want your child to develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order? Send them to a California school. Don't think that kindergarten is too early for such indoctrination. Quote: Teachers can take a justice-oriented perspective at any grade level, K through 12, a justice-oriented perspective. Guess what that means? Students could be taught fractions in the distracting process of learning the math of organizing a protest march. There you go. You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, coming to you from California.

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Let me just get right, cut right to the chase for you. I played these clips. Chris Cuomo, Shepard Smith, the CDC director started getting pushback from the left this week as she was making her normal rounds. Rochelle Walensky was starting to get really pressed on this by lefty journalists. And you know, she went, she was shaking, and she said, wait a minute. I mean, that's scenario A. Scenario B is Biden's looking around saying, what are we gonna do to get people vaccinated? We got it, we don't have enough people vaccinated. And his team is saying, well, Mr. Nine Masks, as you're stumbling around outside the East Lawn of the White House or the South Lawn or whatever it is, How about we tell people if they get vaccinated, they don't have to wear a mask? That'll be an incentive. It's one of two things. Let me break it to you. It ain't the science. It's not the science. No more masks inside if you're fully vaccinated, they're telling us. All right, number one, how do you know who's vaccinated and who's not? How are we gonna go— how do you figure that out? Cuz that's what's gonna be the next pivot, right? Is that you think they're gonna let us use the honor system? Maybe they will, because Biden has also said he's not in favor of mandatory vaccine passports federally. So how is that gonna work? And number 2, riddle me this, Batman, how are the blue state governors reacting to the CDC guidance?

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Bobby Kennedy was not on the same page as his brother Jack. He just decided to, in a sense, go rogue. I don't get the impression that JFK was behind what he was doing. JFK had promised effectively, and Joseph had promised to be hands-off on the mob, and that's how they got him elected through Chicago.

Well, JFK didn't have anything to say about it because by that time J. Edgar Hoover had told President Kennedy that his mistress Judith Exner was also the mistress of Sam Giancana, right? That was all kept very quiet, obviously, um, and the press wouldn't have reported it anyway even if they knew it. Um, but JFK basically just stepped back. He didn't have much to do. He wasn't going to tell Bobby to knock it off. He never did that as far as we can tell, but he just basically stayed out of it. But Bobby Kennedy was able to expose the Mafia particularly Jimmy Hoffa and the union connection. And after that, the federal government was much more aggressive because J. Edgar Hoover was also compromised by organized crime. They had stuff on him. Yeah, Martin Lugard and I were not able to find out exactly what it was, but everybody knew that Hoover liked the ponies. He was a gambler, and everybody knew he was gay.

Yeah, he was across the street. They had photos of folks. I'm talking to Bill O'Reilly. The new book, 10th in the series.

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Hi everybody. Whenever there's a crisis in the Middle East, and even other times, I have called on two people who edit and publish The Media Line, the Middle East news agency. It's the most honest reporting from the Middle East of which I am aware. It's a high compliment. Felice and Michael Friedson, they are presumably in Jerusalem. Is that correct? Are you in Jerusalem now?

We are actually stuck in New York.

Oh, how interesting.

We've been bumped from 3 different flights so far. The flights have been canceled and it's very, very difficult and frustrating for us.

Why? Because of the war, not because of COVID Okay. All right. So let me ask you, because you don't have to be in Israel to answer these questions. This is what you follow. The latest news is that President Joe Biden is putting pressure on Israel to stop fighting. Is that accurate?

Yes, it is.

All right. Can you elaborate on that?

Well, you know, President Biden has spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu 4 times this week. He's feeling pressure, as you well know, internationally and locally. Bibi Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, has told him today that he will continue despite the efforts to complete what they can in Gaza. They have gone in numerous times to try to diminish the military edge that Hamas holds over Israel. And I feel, reading and looking and speaking to my journalists and speaking to sources, that this is what their goal is this time. How far Israel will be able to go and finish what they're trying to do is hard to ascertain. They've managed to, you know, take out a major tunnel as of Tuesday. I don't think people realize the length of that tunnel, the 7.5 miles and 122 bombs that actually landed on that tunnel. I think what's sad to say in the midst of all this, of course, is that people both, of course, on the Israeli side where 12 were killed and 219 Palestinians were killed, many of them Israel, of course, is claiming are terrorists, are the disaster of all of these actions.

Yes. So the question that enters most people who Don't Hate Israel, the first question is, if Israel stops fighting, there will still be rockets sent over to kill Israelis. Is there an example in history of, and I mean this quite sincerely, is there an example of a country allowing itself to be bombed?

Actually, the example, if we could find one, would be Israel, because this isn't the first rodeo for Israel. There have been these kind of actions with— in Gaza, around Gaza, and, excuse me, with Hamas before. And typically, this is where the concept of asymmetrical warfare plays in. For Israel, an organized modern army to be able to say we defeated the enemy, it would require removing any ability to continue to fire rockets and to harm the Israeli citizens. For the other side of the equation, when it's all over— putting over in quotes— all they have to do is have one guy crawl out on top of a pile of rubble with a flag in his hand, fire a small missile, and they've defeated the big Israelis. So there is a lot at stake, a lot that Israel can or can't do. What we've seen in previous excursions of this nature is that Israel is pretty much given a week to 2 weeks by the international community, the United States, to do what they can do, and then they lose their stomach for it. And even though there's more work to be done to prevent this from becoming an every-6-year affair, it's not good enough that way. And the rest of the international community starts losing their stomach for it. They start pressuring Israel to stop the fighting. And typically the fighting stops too soon. Too soon, meaning that the total terrorist infrastructure is not destroyed.

And Dennis, added to this, you have rioting going on, which Hamas is stoking. And this is probably the bigger concern when all is said and done.

Rioting going on within Israel, in between, within Israel, between—

right, that's right, between— you have between Israeli Arabs and Jews. And this is catastrophic because it's something that Israel will have to deal with. It's something that will not leave tomorrow. It's something that Israel, I personally feel, needed to address sooner. And now if you see more separatism and isolationism and even extremism that some of the scholars are suggesting, this is the real problem.

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Turning now to the Charlie Kirk Show.

Hi, Charlie. My name is Jacob and I am subscribed. My question is, are we as Republicans radical in our ideals, or rather does the left see us as radicals? If they do, what can we do to convince leftists that what we want is best for legal Americans, in most cases including them? Well, radical actually means to the root. To the original. If you actually go back to the original phrase of what radical means. But what are you really saying is radical? Are we out of the mainstream? No, they are. What we are talking about is very acceptable public policy. How about this? You put your citizens first. Families are important. You put the citizen over the foreigner. Your trade deals should preserve and protect hardware development and middle-class work. Free markets are a great guide to be able to produce wealth and preserve what we have considered to be a rather enjoyable lifestyle. Private property is important. At the same time, we're not going to bow down and accept the corporate oligarchy. These are very Moderate ideas. If you want radical, I'll go show you some radical ideas. Those are not radical ideas. Our ideas built Western civilization. Of course, they're not outside of the mainstream. And what they're doing, again, we have used this phrase so many times and it's important.

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I was going to say, what we're also seeing is a masterclass in proxy terror given by the Ayatollah. Iran is all over these things. These tens of thousands of missiles that are in possession of Hamas came from Iran. Everything is done with Iran's safe so, with their dollar— dollars that came from the United States. They have a score to settle, because for 4 years they weren't able to budge under the pressure of the airstrikes by Israel. There were hundreds of them. Their munitions were taken out. Their oil business was devastated. They have to set the pace right now to say and hope that it's an administration that's going to run the other way: this is what we're capable of doing if you don't give us billions of dollars on pallets flown in in the middle of the night. There's going to be a lot more of this, and he's got to find the takers. At the same time, Hezbollah up north with more than 150,000 missiles in their possession, much more sophisticated missiles than the ones we're seeing these weeks. They're ready to pounce and they're studying it. They're doing their intelligence on it. They're actually enjoying that Israel is showing how they react what, and giving them the opportunity to see just how many missiles it takes. Sounds like a joke, but it's not. How many missiles does it take to overwhelm the Iron Dome or one of the other systems?

Why did they not join now, Hezbollah?

I have to ask the Ayatollah that. There's still little deterrence factor left from the United States. There's still a question of how far they can get and where they can go. And they have an immediate agenda on the table. They're, you know, in Vienna now. They're negotiating. They don't need to go and shoot the whole deck if they can just take part of it and do the missile stuff that they're doing now and let it go for a couple of weeks and let it fall into the cycle that runs about every 6 years.

All right. Let's go back to the Arab— 20% of Israel is Arab. They're all Israeli citizens, same rights, same voting. They have their own parties, which is tragic, but it's a fact. If we had a parliamentary system in the United States, there would be Black parties, Hispanic parties, White parties. The parliamentary system has a lot of disadvantages, but that's a separate question. So what is going on here? What agitates Israeli Arabs?

Israeli Arabs don't feel that they have equal rights to Israelis. They feel that they've been neglected. They don't feel that they're taken in in the workforce the same way, given the same rights. They don't— they feel that they're second-class citizens. Some of it is reality, some of it's not. And but even if they think it's not, it's the reality. It's something that the Israeli politicians have neglected that you've only seen in recent years, everyone scurrying to embrace the Arab vote and help the Arab societies, including Prime Minister Netanyahu. Well, Hamas obviously saw it for the taking. And what you've seen is, you know, Jew kill Arab, Arab kill Jew within Israel. You've also seen a fear factor that's really developed en masse in Israel. You're sensing it. Speaking to people that are concerned about the future of the state. It's going to take a lot of money, and there's no budget now because we're headed maybe into a fifth election, possibly. We don't know where, you know, that will end. But primarily, people have to look at what is the cost of this, not the war, because that really— it's not even a war, it's a conflict that didn't really develop into a full-fledged war. But the reality is that is going to be The primary problem that everyone is going to have to figure out how to solve.

Well, generally groups have a list of demands. What would be the top 3 of Israeli Arabs?

Equality in terms of education, I think, is number 1, feeling that they will be able to, to go the next level in terms of workplace hiring them. You know, I've seen even on a local level taxi drivers for part of a taxi group having to hire Israeli Arabs because they fought back and said, well, you're only Israelis that are being hired. And actually it was brought to the attention in the media, and subsequently they ended up hiring Israeli Arabs. That's one example. I think it's an important example.

Wait, I think I understand that they were not being hired taxi drivers?

They were not being hired in a particular company, and he was made up.

Why were they just—

you'd have to ask the owner of that.

What do you suspect?

That maybe people felt comfortable with Israeli drivers, and that's probably why. But every, every one of these individual businesses have their own reasons. In areas of defense, Israel will not hire Israeli Arabs for certain positions.

Hold on with me, this is really important. It seems intractable, and I hope it is not. Go to themedieline.org. I'm Dennis Prager. We continue.

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This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. There is another war in Israel. Hamas, the internationally recognized terrorist group, unleashed thousands of missiles aimed indiscriminately at civilian targets in Israel. If it were not for the sophistication and effectiveness of Israel's Iron Dome air defense system, scores of Israelis would be dead. Israeli Defense Forces responded appropriately, bombing Gaza with precise munitions aimed at Hamas terrorists, killing scores of senior terrorist leaders, and exploding the tunnels underneath Gaza. As the IDF begins ground operations, there's no question that Israeli leaders and the Israeli people will be wondering whether or not their key ally, the United States, will be with them as they defend themselves. We ought to be. President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Sullivan should make clear to our ally and to the hard left in their own party, America stands with Israel. Israel should do what is necessary to secure the country and diminish or defeat the threat from Hamas. I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. You have the right to remain silent.

Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I do.

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. We know exactly what's going on here. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process. Hi everybody, I want to tell a caller, Mary in Chicago, to call during the third hour. It's a very important question. She and I presume her husband will be meeting with a school principal. She wants me to give them a list of questions. That's great. I will. In the meantime, back to the Friedsons, Michael and Felice, editors and publishers of The Media Line, a Middle East news agency. So here's the 64,000 shekel question: do you believe that things would be different if the President of the United States were Donald Trump?

Oh my, Dennis. You were asking a tough question that many are saying that because President Trump, like him or dislike him, had strength. He showed an ironclad fist to the Ayatollah Khamenei. That is the reason that Iran might not have pushed buttons in terms of what just went down with Hamas. So is it possible? Yes. On the other hand, Hamas has also international inclinations here. They are looking at the world not seeing their cause. They also are looking at the Palestinian Authority, and they also feel strongly that they wanted to really dislodge Fatah's, you know, state of where they sit at the moment, which of course has also decreased. You look at Abbas, and he has lost a lot of popularity amongst his own people. Hamas right now, after this whole entire 9 days into, you know, its 10th day of this conflict, has gained a lot of momentum. Really has won in the eyes of most of the Palestinians.

So it might well have happened even if Donald Trump were president, you're saying?

It might have.

There's part of it that might have happened. I don't think it would have been on this scale. Hamas is still in the specter of a possible election. And for that election, they're telling the people that Fatah talks and Hamas wins and gets something. Even if there's destruction, they still come out on top in the end. That's a very powerful message. So that part probably would have come out, but it's unlikely that they would have had the green light to fire the thousands of missiles that have been fired.

We have less than a minute left. Does the average— I know you don't know the answer. I just want your guess. Does the average Israeli Arab wish Israel to be destroyed as a Jewish state?

No, that's a very tough question to answer. I don't feel that the average Israeli Arab really would like to see that happen. They benefit too much from the state of Israel.

Now, but Dennis, your question is, is it a Jewish state? I think that many Arabs who don't wish the destruction of the state of Israel do wish the change of the state of Israel from Jewish state to a secular state.

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And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying. I kind of prefer that phrase quite honestly better than competition. So I think that there's some— again, we're getting into semantics here, but I guess what I'm trying to say is if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, That's actually not what's good for society. Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand. I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God. In fact, can you find that piece? Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion. It's very good. It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists. But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person. Do not make me live for you. And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a terrific book. And again, I don't look for her for religious purpose. I'm a Bible-believing evangelical Christian. But I think that she had a phenomenal way of capturing the threat of today. Totalitarianism and the need for individuals to stand with courage. The preference on reason and logic, not as the only human value in my worldview. And it's a very, it's a very significant piece of literature and I encourage everyone to check it out. So in a lot of different ways, we need more John Galt's and Hank Reardon's. And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that. Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living just to beat others.

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We've got millions of jobs empty because people are picking up $600 extra to stay at home on top of their unemployment. So is that not a countervailing piece of evidence to the fact that Americans believe in capitalism if they're sitting at home just waiting for that government handout?

Because they are capitalists, right? They're not stupid. I mean, it's pretty hard to compete when Uncle Joe's offering $600 not to get off your couch. It's pretty hard to say, okay, now I'm gonna go wash dishes. $300 from federal, often $300 from state. So you get to a number that in many cases is like $600, which is better than washing dishes. But you see a lot of people in this environment, I believe, are still doing things in the gig economy, right? For cash under the table. This troubles me because I don't wanna be like Europe. And that's exactly what happens in Europe. You have a very high unemployment rate, typically, but a lot of people are doing things under the table. I mean, can we talk Greece for a second, right? Where part of their problem was nobody was paying their taxes. We don't want a system like that. I think Americans overall, I've gotta believe, don't want that. I do think they take advantage of the situation as it is. They're not dumb, people are logical, and Uncle Joe's paying well.

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I'm joined now by Florida Senator Rick Scott. Good morning, Senator.

How are you?

Good morning, boy. You can, you can tell we have a new president. Look at all the problems we have around the world.

Well, I am astonished. I am astonished by the fact that Andrew Yang, who would be mayor of New York, had to walk back his comments in support of Israel. What are your comments on the attack on Israel, Senator Scott, and the Democratic reaction to it?

Well, first off, it's disgusting. I've had a lot of— I've been in Israel quite a bit, and I was right next to the Gaza Strip and I was in the bomb shelters. They were showing me— fortunately, there were no, no missiles when I was down there, but they showed me how the Iron Dome worked. They've shown me what their, their security is for all their citizens. And it's disgusting what's going on. We need to stand up for Israel. We need to stop trying to make friends with Iran. They're not our friends. We need to tell Iran, you want to talk to us? You're going to stop being state-sponsored terrorism. Stop talking to the Palestinians. They're not out there to help create peace. All they do is cause havoc. So stand up for Israel. I mean, quit being— Biden's just this weak president that he wants to be everybody's friend, which means he's nobody's friend.

Now, you are the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this cycle, which means you're responsible for getting the majority back. Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, Nevada— those are the four Democratic major vulnerabilities. But I am curious whether or not the Biden administration initial failure in jobs number very low, inflation very high. Is that encouraging people to come to you and explore races?

It's doing two things. One, it's— there's more people want to run. 2, there's more people want to help make sure, uh, we win.

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Sam Giancana, the Godfather of Chicago, was friends with Joseph Kennedy, you bet, patriarch of the Kennedy family. Well, Giancana made damn sure that Illinois went for JFK in 1960.

Yeah.

And that was enough, along with West Virginia, to get JFK to defeat Richard Nixon. And that's a fact. And so when JFK took the presidency, the mob was so happy, it thought, wow, now we got, you know, juice in the White House. Well, little did they know that JFK appointed his brother Bobby Kennedy Attorney General, and Bobby Kennedy went after the mob with a ferocity because nobody at the federal level had ever done that before.

Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch, he was as dirty as they come, and it's Isn't it?

Unless you've got the answer, unless you can say Ah, my friends, today both Dr.

Fassbendt, Fussbendt, or Fassbender and The Bloke on the Essex Road will be making their first appearance on the Male-Female Hour. All right, everybody, it's the Male-Female Hour, the most honest talk I'm aware of in the American media with regard to men and women. Okay, uh, it's a relief because it's just the repeating notes at that point. That's what this is. The reason it's— there, very quickly, the reason that it is most honest talk, if indeed it is, I mean, there may be something as honest, but the reason it is as honest as it is, is my only goal is to explain the two sexes. Yes, I believe there are only two sexes. To even state that is sort of a farce. Nevertheless, there are two sexes, and I do not deny that there are people who identify as the other. I deny that there are more than two sexes, that it's a spectrum. In any event, that is the, the, uh, the reason is I am not a fan of either sex. I'm a fan of good people, and that's whether they're male or female. Good people is a very complex question, which is subject of another time. I should do an Ultimate Issues hour on that. What is a good person? Hey, Sean, you want to remind me of that? That's a very good, very good question to be analyzed. Today's subject is, uh, one that I have, uh, mulled over much in my life, and I don't think I ever had it as a subject on a Male-Female Hour, but I might have. In any event, I'd like to visit or revisit. Were you stunned by the divorce of some friends or relatives? 1-800-PREGGER, 776-877-243-7776. I actually did have, but I don't know how long ago it was. I had, were you ever stunned by your own divorce? We can throw that in the hopper as well. I try to think about this in a— obviously in my own life, I don't recall, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall ever thinking when I heard couple was divorcing, whoa, that is a shock. When, when I have heard of couples divorcing, I was not shocked. I was saddened in most cases, but not shocked. I wasn't shocked at my own divorce. Or any that I know of, period. But people are their own and that of others. So in retrospect, what clues did you miss? Whether it was your own divorce or the divorce of others. What, what didn't you pick up on? And, you know, what is it that people are capable of hiding? Can— I'm talking about good friends or relatives that you're— you've been intimate with. How could they hide from you the the strains of their divorce. Now, people can put on good acts. I guess I can include in this question, were you shocked by your parents' divorce? That must be particularly difficult. I would imagine that that is harder on a child than seeing it coming. Because if you think things are hunky-dory and then there's a divorce, you probably question your grasp of reality. Uh, may I say, or may I note that, what you just did? Because you're speaking of yourself. So this happened to Sean, and he said to me through the headphones, or earphones to be precise, "You question everything then, including your religion." Speaking of himself, obviously, but I don't think only of himself. That's why another question that I have raised even recently very recently on the show, on the male-female hour, is waiting for the notion, which is very honorable, of waiting for the kids to go to college. But what do you do until then? Do you act like things are good? Do they know you're sleeping in separate rooms, for example? So then, is it better to divorce earlier than to act like it's good and divorce later? These are questions, these are not suggestions, but people need to ask these questions. I think the thing that I have learned, for example, that college-age kids are often very deeply affected by their parents' divorce at that time. And I'm not advocating that you not divorce. I— my belief is you have to do the divorce right if you can. I don't think it's fair to ask people people to live in misery the rest of their lives for the sake of the kids. I don't think it's fair. But I don't know if the wisest thing is to act like things are great and then, ba-doom, the guillotine just drops. Look, there's no perfect answer. Life is messy. But were you shocked by your parents, by your friends, by your own divorce? An interesting thing to ask a child who was shocked by their parents' divorce in retrospect, years later: do you, do you see why they divorced. So Sean is nodding his head. How long did it take you— how long did you— how long did you take— did it take for you to understand why they divorced? Once he saw them both happily remarried. How— what an interesting answer. Well, this is why I believe it is very important at a very— as early an age as possible to develop shock absorbers and to understand that life is messy and that pain is, is pretty universal. We, we have certain unrealistic expectations in America of life, and it is part of the reason for the contemporary problems— the, the belief that life should be perfect, and when it isn't, a lashing out. Okay, I will take your calls. Shocked by someone's divorce is the subject. Male-Female Hour. I'm Dennis Prager.

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But first, I want to address something that this gentleman said.

Hi Larry, I'm calling about the subject, uh, lawful orders a police officer gives you. I know that you don't have to get out of your car and you don't have to roll down your window because I've done it.

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And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying. I kind of prefer that phrase, quite honestly, better than competition. So I think that there's some— again, we're getting into semantics here, but I guess what I'm trying to say is if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, that's actually not what's good for society. Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand. I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God. In fact, can you find that piece? Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion. It's very good. It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists. But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person.

Do not make me My friends, I'm Dennis Prager. I had already said my friends prior to the microphone being turned on, so you heard ends. Ends was the end of friends. This is the Male-Female Hour, every Wednesday, the second hour of the Dennis Prager Show. Were you shocked by a divorce? Your own, friends, relatives, your parents? That's the question on the table. And in retrospect, why were you shocked? All right, let's see. We go to Omaha, Nebraska. And Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa.

Hello, Dennis.

Hi.

Yes, I was shocked, very shocked by my parents' divorce my sophomore year of college. It came to me out of nowhere.

Now you are the living example of what I was talking about.

They waited until you to hear you say that because as a college student it did feel like it was worse than if it had happened when I was younger.

I think people need to know that as it's truly noble sounding. We'll wait till the kids grow up, right?

But no, do it when you need to. Or the— because now me and my siblings, it upended our entire childhood. You look back and you question question everything about their relationship and so much about how you were parented. Everything was put into question, right?

You feel you were living in a play?

Yes.

People— I'm only, I'm only raising this issue with people because their, their desire to be good and noble is what animates them to wait, but it may be a mistake.

Yes, I think it is in a lot of cases to wait till the children are older.

So next question in that regard: now do you know why they divorced?

Uh, it's still uncertain. My mother maintains it was because they were married when my sister— well, that they were married because my mother got pregnant. And so the entire marriage, she says, was the problem. Um, but we think it was more so a relationship that she was emotionally invested in, and she eventually ended up marrying this man after leaving my dad. But I guess the jury's still out. We may never know the real reason.

Wait, she was emotionally invested in what?

In another man while she was still married.

But did she end up marrying him?

Yes, she did.

And she— how long did she know him during your parents' marriage?

Um, years.

Years.

And she denies that's a factor?

She does.

So was your father against the divorce?

Very much so, yes. Tried everything he could do to keep it together.

By the way, the two explanations are not mutually contradictory. She might have gotten married because what they call a shotgun marriage and had a love for another man. They, they're not mutually exclusive.

Yes, that's true. I just don't know which one would have been the top of the list, I guess, is the uncertainty.

Are you close to both?

No, both. I was never very close to my dad. He worked, uh, outside of the home during the week, so he wasn't around as much. Um, but I was very close with my mother, and now we are— we don't have a deep relationship, just the surface level one, I would say.

Because of the divorce?

Yes.

You have siblings? Well, you do. The sister who— yeah, at least one.

Yeah, older sister, younger brother.

Uh-huh. Are— is either of them close to your parents?

Um, I would say it's the same situation. Not very.

Did your father remarry?

Still very much involved in our lives, but nowhere near what it was.

Did your father remarry?

He's not.

Are you married?

I am.

Are you happily married?

Yes.

Well, that should be very helpful in your life.

Yes, and I have parents-in-law, my husband's parents now are married 50 years this summer. So I feel like I have a great example now in my life, even though my own weren't that for me.

I thank you very much for calling.

Thank you.

Welcome. Well, that's sort of a poster girl for the not waiting. It's so understandable why people think that way. I, I used to think that way, though it's not what I actually lived through, but I used to think that way too. It is actually this program that changed my mind, speaking to— and not just this program, in personal life, seeing the effects on college kids. It's a— it's about as clear an example of something that sounds logical, sounds noble, and may be wrong, may be mistaken. Okay, let's go on here. Where was our— uh, we had a British Columbia call which disappeared. All right, let's go another example of that. Westchester, New York. Kirk. Hello, Kirk.

Hi, Dennis. Thank you for taking the call.

Right.

So my parents divorced when I was 14, which, by the way, I sort of, looking at the whole picture, consider the worst time because you're old enough to know what's going on but also young enough to still have to grow go through the motions of bouncing back and forth between people's homes and everything. But anyway, I was shocked because I, I didn't see it coming, and neither of my parents gave me any sort of indication that anything was wrong with the marriage. It sort of just happened. And now looking back, I can sort of see your reason. But at the time, it certainly was a shock. Yes.

Did you hear my call, the previous call to you?

Yes.

Okay. So I don't believe that there's a right and wrong on this, uh, so I'm curious, having heard of the effects on her when she was at college and her parents divorced. Do you still maintain that it— I guess you maintain that you wish your parents waited to college?

I, I mean, I guess I wish they waited, but I don't think it would have made too much of a difference.

Uh, okay. I only want to say that I I said that because you said 14 is the worst age. Maybe every age is the worst age. I say that having divorced. There is no holier-than-thou message here. We return.

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there's— there is such a thing as collective wisdom, and you have that. It's not capable one person amassing. So it's a— I write it in my introduction, my gratitude to the listeners, especially the callers. Subject today is: were you shocked by a divorce, that of your friends, relatives, parents yourself. Okay, y'all, let's go to Grapevine, Texas, and Shannon. Hello, Shannon.

Hi, Dr. Prager. Thank you.

Thank you for the doctorate.

I was surprised by my own divorce.

Mm-hmm.

At what age?

I was 29. I was, I was 20 when we got married. I was quite young. I, I was not— I look back on it, I was not too young to be in love or be a good wife, but I was likely too young to see maybe some unhealthy signs, some signals. I don't know, perhaps when we were dating. But, um, little by little, my belly just got more full and more full as, as he was just— he was just better to our two dogs, frankly, than he treated me. And, you know, it wasn't abusive as far as physical abuse, nothing like that. He did not cheat. There was, there was nothing like those kinds of issues, but You know, silent treatment and just arguments for no reason. It just— all the years I just stuffed it and did the best I could to get along with him, to keep the peace, you know, to walk around on eggshells.

That was the word I was about to say.

Lots of eggshells.

So who initiated the divorce?

I did. I did. So you can imagine then, if I'm surprised by my own divorce, he was literally taken to his knees. He, he literally fell to his knees. And all of a sudden then, he wanted to treat me like an angel, like a bride, after I have my hand on the door to leave.

So, well, and what happened? I'm in suspense.

Well, we got a divorce.

Oh, so do you think he really would have changed?

He did temporarily. Would that have sustained? I do not know. He actually sort of used a religion on me as to, you know, one of the reasons I married you is because you, you took those vows seriously. Flee.

Right, right.

Yes. Are you happily remarried now?

Oh good.

I was gonna—

I'm very happy that there's a happy ending for you. I want to add something here which not all of you will agree with, and, and I'm at peace with that. I am a big believer in the possibility of divorce. And I, as you know, quite a religious man. And my reason is that no one should be unfirable. A divorce is firing somebody from a job called being a spouse. When you know you can't be fired There is one reason removed from preventing you acting awfully, right? There's no price that I will pay. He or she will stay with me no matter how obnoxious I am. I don't agree with that. Ladies and gentlemen, I do agree with Relief Factor, one of the greatest products I have ever endorsed. Many of you have back pain, leg pain, joint pain. This product has relieved millions— I don't know, I take that back, maybe hundreds of thousands, I don't know about millions— of their pain. It doesn't relieve everybody, no, no such thing exists, but the majority of people who order it continue to order it. The majority of people who test it out for 3 weeks, which is what I suggest you do— you'll know in 3 weeks if it works— so they have a $20 offer for 3 weeks. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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Hi, Larry, I'm calling about the subject, uh, lawful orders a police officer gives you. I know that you don't have to get out of your car and you don't have to roll down your window because I've done it.

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I'm Dennis Prager. This is the Male-Female Hour on my show, every Wednesday, the second hour. By the way, you can get years and years of Male-Female Hour from thepragerstore.com. Thought you ought to know about that. A lot of people have told me it's been their Free marital therapy. Today's not so much a marital therapy subject, it's actually a marriage end subject. Were you shocked by a divorce? Relative, friend, your own, parents. Some important stuff has come out. One is that waiting, counterintuitive stuff. One is that waiting may not be a good idea. There is no good age to divorce except 2. When a kid is 2, they don't know what's going on. That's, uh, better at 2 than at 22, better at 2 than at 12, and so on. Beyond the very early ages, it It's tough at any age. The other is the last point I made, which I think I will devote an hour probably on the Ultimate Issues Hour. The morality of divorce. The religiosity of divorce. It's actually one of the few Jewish-Christian divides on a non-theological issue. And that is the Christian opposition, except in case of infidelity, to divorce, which has fallen by the wayside by and large among Christians, although in the Catholic Church it's a very big issue. And the Jewish view that if If things are bad, you get divorced. You don't have to get divorced, but you can get divorced. Now, it played out in Jewish life that socially it was so looked down upon that people didn't do it. But that was not a religious thing, it was a more of a social thing. Divorce should be a last resort, but last resort doesn't mean you don't use it. It's like war should be a last resort, but if you never use it, then there's going to be a lot of chaos. So the thing that came out, the second thing that I offered to you was where there's no possibility of divorce except for infidelity, you are saying to your spouse and to yourself. It doesn't matter how I treat my spouse, I can never be fired. Now, if you had any other job in life that you could not be fired for except unless you slept with the boss or something like that, how How hard would you work? If you know you can't be fired, it is human nature. It is that you won't work hard. It is a very good thing to think every day you go to work, if I screw up, I'll get fired. You will do a better job. Okay, so why wouldn't that hold for marriage. Okay, wow, got so many interesting calls, it's painful. All right, let's go actually. Flower Mound, Texas, Kim. Hello, Kim.

Hi, Dennis.

Hi.

So nice to talk to you.

Thank you.

Um, well, I'm shocked by— I was shocked by my parents' divorce, but I'm also shocked by mine, which actually Actually was final on Monday, so this is a very new thing for me. Um, I didn't get married till I was 34 because of all the divorce in my family, I think. So when I finally did get married, I said, this is it. I'm a Christian.

I'm—

this is a commitment. I'm doing this. And so I was married for 22 years, um, and decided to be— I needed to be happier and healthier, and, and this is what needed to happen.

So it was you initiated and wanted the divorce?

Yes, I did.

Did he?

He did not. Um, he's— I think he was complacent. I— we would, we would just go on forever as far as he's concerned. I believe he did not fight after I said I wanted a divorce. So we, we just went through with it.

You're a Christian?

Yes, sir.

And do you feel you violated God's will?

I, I have felt that way over the years and thinking about this, but I really appreciate your analogy about firing someone because that makes total sense to me. Um, it was just a very hard one-sided marriage for a long time.

You have children?

I have 17-year-old twin boys.

How have they handled it?

They've handled it very well. Um, I've kept them, you know, updated, not on all the details, but just the timeline of things and Um, you know, they don't know all the stories.

So you're a living example of not waiting until they went to college.

Exactly.

Right.

Yeah.

Another argument for not waiting. All right.

I needed to be a better— I needed to be a better mom.

Oh, interesting. Well, how often do they see their dad?

Not very.

Is that their will?

No.

Is that your will?

I really, I really don't know the answer to that. He works a lot. Um, he's just, you know, chosen not to, to be involved as much.

So that's his choice?

That's his choice.

Oh, okay. I wish you well. And I thank you for calling.

Okay, thanks so much, Dennis.

Right. You know, apropos of everything and of nothing, I've long believed, and I am absolutely certain of it, in the hands of a good writer, every human being's biography would be interesting, would be riveting.

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Hi Charlie, my question's about big corporations similar to our government. Should we have some sort of check and balance for big corporations to keep them from becoming tyrannical, as well as what would those checks and balances be while still maintaining a free market capitalistic economy? Thanks for your insight, Amanda. Well, what we're dealing with right now in our country is rather unprecedented because the vast majority of the pressure that we are seeing from these companies are technology based. And their model is not about building railroads. It's not about producing anything you could touch. Instead, it's about figuring out better ways to sell you. You see, the technology companies in our country, it's a completely different profit model than almost anything we've ever seen.

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Hi, everybody. Dennis Prager here. Male-female hour every Wednesday, second hour. I have a feeling if I did this subject 3 hours a day for a week, not only would I not exhaust callers, but I don't think I would exhaust your interest. Have you been shocked by a divorce? A relative, friend, parent, your own. It's fascinating, the responses. Uh, Christy, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Hello.

Hey.

Hey.

I, um, okay, so my parents had had a a difficult marriage growing up, and they just, I would say, didn't communicate very well. And I think my brothers and I had always thought that they would divorce when we were younger, and— but they didn't. And we all grew up and became adults, and my parents had— they didn't live together as we got older. My mom lived with me for a while And, um, but I had figured that they would just kind of— and they remained really good friends, and, um, they lived in different states, but they still remained a very good relationship. But, um, they ended up getting divorced when I was 30. So my parents were married for 32 years, and my dad had basically just found somebody that had made him happy, which was wonderful. But, um, and everybody was, you know, okay with it, and we just thought it would be a very equitable, um, divorce. But it wasn't. It was, um, it was very destructive.

And, um, which party made it destructive?

My dad.

Um, wait, my dad, for whatever, he got happy with somebody and still made it destructive?

Yes, and that was the confusing part. That's what made it very, um, difficult. And that's why I called in, because you would have thought it would have been fine. And my mom was okay with everything. She just said, you know what, um, I only want what I came in with a marriage with, and just, you know, let's just part ways. And she understood, you know, and she was happy for him, but, um, it was bitter. And, um, my mom ended up, um, from the stress, um, having a heart attack and, um, going into cardiac arrest and almost dying from it. But, um, and, and my dad was difficult.

Do you have a relationship with your father?

I, um, I do now, but I did not speak with him for over 10 years.

Right. Well, let me just say this because of the time factor. I have said nearly all of my life, more important than the divorce is how parents handle the divorce in terms of the children. Greg, Brian, John, Bruce, David, and Nancy Jo, it really does break my heart that I can't take your calls. We continue on The Dennis Prager Show.

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But first, I want to address something that this gentleman said.

Hi, Larry, I'm calling about the subject, uh, lawful orders a police officer gives you. I know that you don't have to get out of your car and you don't have to roll down your window because I've done it.

There is a website called defenseadvocates.com, headline Know Your Rights. Can the police make you get out of your car? Quote, most encounters with police occur after a traffic stop, and while most traffic stops are routine, the cops are trained to view traffic stops as a potentially dangerous or deadly situation. That view sometimes can result in terrible outcomes, which is why it is imperative that everyone knows their rights. So far, so good. A situation that arises more often than not is a police officer asking someone to get out of his or her car following a routine traffic stop. While common sense says that being asked by the police to get out of your car after being stopped for something as trivial as an expired registration sticker or not using a turn signal is unreasonable and an invasion of someone's rights, the United States Supreme Court has held otherwise. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court held that the police can make you get out of your car after a valid traffic stop. This ruling applied to the driver and all the passengers in the car. Because of this ruling in Pennsylvania versus Mims, a person must exit their car if ordered to do so by the police. End of quote.

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And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying. I kind of prefer that phrase, quite honestly, better than competition. So I think that there's some— again, we're getting into semantics here, but I guess what I'm trying to say is if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, That's actually not what's good for society. Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand. I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God. In fact, can you find that piece? Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion. It's very good. Totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists. But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, "I will not make you live for another person. Do not make me live for you." And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a terrific book. And again, I don't look for her for religious purpose. I'm a Bible-believing evangelical Christian. But I think that she had a phenomenal way of capturing the threat of totalitarianism and the need for individuals to stand with courage. The preference on reason and logic, not as the only human value in my worldview. And it's a very, it's a very significant piece of literature and I encourage everyone to check it out. So in a lot of different ways, we need more John Galt's and Hank Reardon's. And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that. Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living just to beat others.

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We've got millions of jobs empty because people are picking up $600 extra to stay at home on top of their unemployment. So is that not a countervailing piece of evidence to the fact that Americans believe in capitalism if they're sitting at home just waiting for that government handout?

Because they are capitalists, right? They're not stupid. I mean, it's It's pretty hard to compete when Uncle Joe's offering $600 not to get off your couch. It's pretty hard to say, okay, now I'm gonna go wash dishes. $300 from federal, often $300 from state. So you get to a number that in many cases is like $600, which is better than washing dishes. But you see a lot of people in this environment, I believe, are still doing things in the gig economy, right? For cash under the table. This troubles me because I don't wanna be like Europe. And that's exactly what happens in Europe. You have a very high unemployment rate typically, but a lot of people are doing things under the table. I mean, can we talk Greece for a second, right? Where part of their problem was nobody was paying their taxes. We don't want a system like that. I think Americans overall, I've gotta believe, don't want that. I do think they take advantage of the situation as it is. You know, they're not dumb. People are logical and Uncle Joe's paying well.

I'm going to take my life in my hands here and live on radio in front of millions. I'm going to correct Trish Regan. In Greece, where they were taking money under the table, where they are taking money under the table. I lived there for 20. Oh my gosh. How long did I live? 28 years. Europeans, they love that cash.

You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, hour number 3. Riveting male-female hour. Riveting. Now, the things that I have learned doing the show is shall we say dwarfs a PhD. I contend to you that if you would listen to a year of this program, you will have learned more about life than in any PhD program in the Western world. It's not a brag. It's a statement both about how little you learn in a PhD program and about how much you learn from a serious talk show. That's all. Just a random thought. Welcome back, or welcome to the program. The first hour I read to you about how California is about to present to its legislature a proposal that math no longer be taught with the assumption that there is always a right answer. That is not something I could have made up. I did, however, through much of my life, say that I would note that something was so absurd, it would be like saying, oh, 2 and 2 is 5. And here we are, 2 and 2 is 5. If, uh, it helps with racial equity, if too many non-white students don't get 2 and 2 correctly, then you change the answer. You don't raise their level of mathematical knowledge. You lower the bar of what constitutes mathematical knowledge. Tell me that is not the quintessence of racism. I will change math's answers for you because of your color. Welcome to America 2021. That raised the issue of why would you send your child to a regular school school, private or public, in California and in many other states— Oregon has already passed this, or the Oregon Education Department has already stated that the right answer is a non-existent entity in math. Uh, I will read to you one more time here just about that white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom. This is from the proposed mathematics curriculum framework for California. White supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom. By the way, does anybody listening believe that that's even a possibility? How can there be a white supremacist culture in the math classroom? The only way is if you assume that the right answer is white-based, in which case you are the racist, assuming whites are smarter than everybody else. Everybody knows there's one right answer in math. That is one of the beauties of math. So if the only group capable of ascertaining one right answer is white, you're the racist for believing that. White supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom, including a focus on getting the right answer, requiring students to show their work, and grading them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. Listen to this now. This is from the manual presented to the state legislature. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false. How's that, guys? That's right, unequivocally false. The concept that men do not give birth is unequivocally false. This only proves that if enough people say the opposite of what is true, vast numbers of people will believe it. And the first to believe the biggest nonsense, the biggest lies, are the well-educated. Nobody believes nonsense more than a PhD. In second place are those with master's. In third place, those with BAs. Those with a BS believe more BS. That led to this woman Mary to call in with a question I want to answer. She's in Chicago. I announced on the air that she should call the third hour, and Mary did indeed. Now, Mary, what did you do during the second hour? Did you plant trees? Did you listen to the male-female hour? What did you do?

I— well, I sent messages to some of my 7 siblings telling them tune in, I might be on. I listened on and off, and while I did some dishes and printed out an email from my principal in case I needed to reference it while I was talking to you.

You have 6 or 7 siblings? Which one?

7.

So I inferred from that that your siblings don't normally listen to my show.

Some do. My sister said to tell you they love you.

Um, I'm just ribbing myself. I don't expect all your siblings to listen to my show. I'm very touched that any of them do. That's very sweet.

Yeah, I knew there was a good chance they might just happen to be listening. So they're in Minnesota, I'm in Illinois.

All right, so I'll have you do one truly silly thing. I want you to say their names and hello to them.

Okay. Barb, Tom, Bob, Kath, and Mike, Beth, and my mom Bonnie.

So none of you have a name with two syllables?

Uh, no, not that we go by. I guess our last last name has 2 syllables, so that covers it. I think you need to balance. 1-syllable first name goes okay with 2-syllable last name, but if you have a 1-syllable—

I think 2-syllable first names go better with 2-syllable last names. Dennis Prager works out really well, better than Den Prager.

Well, we disagree on one thing then.

Okay, I, uh, I just want new listeners to understand that the absurd keeps me sane. I have to— you see, nothing I just said even approaches in absurdity what I read to you about the California curriculum for math, correct? So let's, let's be honest. All right, go ahead. What's your question?

So we made a big switch this year with our two younger children moving from our Catholic elementary school that we are in spitting distance of to a neighboring Catholic school that we thought would be a little less crazy and a little more centered, a little more middle of the road. My husband's a police officer, and what pushed us finally out the door was their response to the riots last summer, our current— our home parish here. So we gave a new parish a try and met with the principal, talked to her for an hour last summer. Her father was a retired policeman. She seemed very level-headed, very— everything she said I agreed with, and we were pretty confident that she was going to lead the school and not let the craziness in. And then and we had a disappointment over, they had a fundraiser for Get Behind the Vest campaign where they raise money for, to buy bulletproof vests for policemen. And the flyer had gone out with a thin blue line flag on it. And then a couple hours later, we got a big apology email saying, important, please read, that a parent had brought it to our attention that white supremacists use the thin blue line flag, that it's— she apologized, said white supremacists use a thin blue line flag.

Yes, I have 3 white supremacists in the studio with me. Is that true? They're not familiar with it, the white supremacists in my studio. Go ahead.

So that was really disappointing.

No kidding.

And that—

I go on—

and damaging, in my opinion, to the police community. And just to put that in people's heads, it went out to all the parents of the entire school population. And then— but I didn't say anything. I kept quiet. And I did buy myself a Thin Blue Line mask to wear to school, which I decided not to, um, do that. I did wear a t-shirt and my children did also, which I will say my first grader that morning getting ready for school, which I told him nothing about it. And I said, oh, you can wear your shirt that dad brought home. And he said, mom, are you sure? And I said, yeah, why wouldn't it? Today.

All right. This is all fascinating. And I mean it. I want to know your question because I want to answer it. We'll be back in a moment. The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor pain-free studio.

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We've got millions of jobs empty because people are picking up $600 extra to stay at home on top of their unemployment. So is that not a countervailing piece of evidence to the fact that Americans believe in capitalism if they're sitting at home just waiting for that government handout?

Because they are capitalists, right? They're not stupid. I mean, it's pretty hard to compete when Uncle Joe's offering $600 not to get off your couch. It's pretty hard to say, okay, now I'm gonna go wash dishes. $300 from federal, often $300 from state. So you get to a number that in many cases is like $600, which is better than washing dishes. But you see a lot of people in this environment, I believe, are still doing things in the gig economy, right, for cash under the table. This troubles me because I don't want to be like Europe, and that's exactly what happens in Europe. You have a very high unemployment rate unemployment rate typically, but a lot of people are doing things under the table. I mean, can we talk Greece for a second, right? Where part of their problem was nobody was paying their taxes. We don't want a system like that. I think Americans overall, I've gotta believe, don't want that. I do think they take advantage of the situation as it is. They're not dumb, people are logical. And Uncle Joe's paying well.

I'm going to take my life in my hands here and live on radio in front of millions. I'm going to correct Trish Regan. In Greece, where they were taking money under the table, where they are taking money under the table. I lived there for 20— oh my gosh, how long did I live? 28 years. Europeans, they love that cash economy. Pay me under the table. Who needs a receipt?

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I'm joined now by Florida Senator Rick Scott. Good morning, Senator.

How are you?

Good morning, boy. You can, you can tell we have a new president. Look at all the problems we have around the world.

Well, I am astonished. I am astonished by the fact that Andrew Yang, who would be mayor of New York, had to walk back his comments in support of Israel. What are your comments on the attack on Israel, Senator Scott, and the Democratic reaction to it?

Well, first off, it's disgusting.

I've had a lot of— I've been in Israel quite a bit, and I was right next to the Gaza Strip, and I was in the bomb shelters. They were showing me. Fortunately, there were no missiles when I was down there, but they showed me how the Iron Dome worked. They've shown me what their security is for all their citizens. And it's disgusting what's going on. We need to stand up for Israel. We need to stop trying to make friends with Iran. They're not our friends. We need to tell Iran, you want to talk to us? You're going to stop being a state sponsor of terrorism. Stop talking to the Palestinians. They're not out there to help create peace. Peace. All they do is cause havoc. So stand up for Israel. I mean, quit being— Biden's just this weak president that he wants to be everybody's friend, which means he's nobody's friend.

Now, you are the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in this cycle, which means you're responsible for getting the majority back. Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, Nevada— those are the four Democratic major vulnerabilities. But I am curious whether or not the Biden administration initial failure in jobs number very low, inflation very high— is that encouraging people to come to you and and explore races?

It's doing two things. One, it's— there's more people want to run. Two, there's more people want to help make sure, uh, we win.

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Yes.

And you would like to know what you think I think you ought to ask.

Yeah.

Well, one, I think the biggest giveaway is, do you teach or will you teach the the 1619 Project in American history? I mean, there has to be a yes or no on that. If they equivocate, that means yes. Unless they say, no, of course not, we don't teach lies. If they would say, of course not, we don't teach lies, I would keep my kid in the school. That would show backbone and commitment to truth. Because the 1619 Project is a lie. America was founded in 1619 when the first slaves were brought over is a New York Times lie. So that's the first thing I would ask. I would ask if they have preferred pronouns. It would be hard for me to imagine a Catholic school would play around with the nonexistence of male and female as separate categories, but there's no telling.

We haven't gotten there yet.

Yes, right.

But the week following that thin blue line episode, we got an email from the Culture and Climate Committee with the sign "We Believe" at the top, real large, larger than the thin blue line flag was. We believe Black Lives Matter, no human is illegal, love is love, women's rights are human rights.

You know, this was officially sent out by the school.

Well, it was from their culture and climate committee, right?

But it's from the school.

Yeah, it's— but yes. So I said, how can that be okay and the thin blue line flag is not okay? I said, I'm baffled by that.

That's right. You should ask that. Did you already ask that?

I did.

And the answer was?

I got a pretty weak response from the principal. And so then I went to the pastor and he said going forward it won't be used. And I said I wish it would be removed in the same manner the Thin Blue Line flag was removed with the emails left behind.

By the way, I don't understand how they justify the removal of the thin blue line flag? I don't understand. One person said it was a flag of white supremacists and the principal crumbled?

Yes.

I would have said—

could you—

do you believe that, Madam Principal? You believe thin blue line means white supremacists? Do black and other people of color participate in police forces?

Right? I'd say they're some of the least racist people because they serve together as brothers and sisters.

Yes, I happen to think you're right. But I tell you what I would do. Newsweek just yesterday republished my piece, 32 Questions to Find Out if a friend or relative is liberal or left. And I'm very delighted that Newsweek did it because Newsweek is not considered conservative. So bring in the 32 questions and they would pick a few to ask. That would be a terrific thing. Do you believe that there is only one race, the human race, is a racist statement. Do you— does this Catholic school, which supposedly is based on the belief that we are all created in God's image, believe that there— that the notion that race does not matter is racist? Isn't it the essence of Judeo-Christian values that colorblind is the only way to be, the only moral, godly way to act. Color is not important is about as central to Judaism and Christianity as any doctrine can be. My friends, I have a story here that makes my doing this show worthwhile. Because there is a level of absurdity that each day I, I revisit. And, uh, here it is. This is from Birdwatching magazine, May 12th. If you missed that issue, then you clearly do not know what I am about to tell you. This deserves a drum roll, Mr. McConnell. That is how dramatic what I'm going to read to you is. But the drummer is, uh, he's wearing a mask, so he may not be able to play. The president of the American Ornithological Society tells Birdwatching that the organization's leadership supports the recent push to change the names of birds that are named for people, and he is forming an ad hoc committee now to address the issue over the coming months. Tell him he's fired. We are in favor of taking any actions that would make ornithology and birding more diverse and inclusive. That's it. I knew there was an issue that I had not put my finger on— the lack of diversity in ornithology. If there is one arena in this country that is clearly racist, it is bird naming. That I missed this until now is a lacuna in my own moral perspective on life. I am humbled by this article. Okay, folks, there you go. It's too bad because they were just— they were going to name a new warbler, the Prager Warbler. Yeah, not after me, after my Uncle Murray, may he rest in peace. But nevertheless, all right, we return in a moment. I'm Dennis Prager.

To get JFK to defeat Richard Nixon. And that's a fact. And so when JFK took the presidency, the mob was so happy, it thought, wow, now we got, you know, juice in the White House. Well, little did they know that JFK appointed his brother Bobby Kennedy Attorney General, and Bobby Kennedy went after the mob with a ferocity because nobody at the federal level had ever done that before.

Joseph Kennedy the patriarch, he was as dirty as they come. And it's an extraordinary thing. It is right out of The Godfather. We're going to go legitimate. I want my son to be a US senator. The idea that somebody who was awash in criminal contact becomes the ambassador to the Court of St. James, his son becomes the president of the United States. It's astonishing and sickening. Story at the heart of, of America in the 20th century.

Um, Joseph Kennedy wasn't a criminal. Uh, he had friends who were. He dealt in that world, um, and he provided a tremendous amount of money, uh, to his family through dubious enterprises. But he didn't. He wasn't part of the mob, but he had influence there.

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Let me just get right, cut right to the chase for you. I played these clips. Chris Cuomo, Shepard Smith, the CDC director started getting pushback from the left. This week, as she was making her normal rounds, Rochelle Walensky was starting to get really pressed on this by lefty journalists. And you know, she went, she was shaking. And she said, wait a minute. I mean, that's scenario A. Scenario B is Biden's looking around saying, what are we gonna do to get people vaccinated? We got it, we don't have enough people vaccinated. And his team is saying, well, Mr. Nine Masks, as you're stumbling around outside the East Lawn of the White House or the South Lawn or whatever it is, how about we tell people if they get vaccinated, they don't have to wear a mask. That'll be an incentive. It's one of two things. Let me break it to you. It ain't the science. It's not the science. No more masks inside if you're fully vaccinated, they're telling us. All right, number one, how do you know who's vaccinated and who's not? How are we gonna go— how do you figure that out? Because that's what's gonna be the next pivot, right? Is that the— you think they're gonna let us use the honor system? Maybe they will, because Biden has also said he's not in favor of mandatory vaccine passports federally. So how is that gonna work? And number 2, riddle me this, Batman, how are the blue state governors reacting to the CDC guidance?

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I like it. I definitely like it. Put it up there. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Dennis Prager. I had more fun reading to you from the latest issue of Birdwatching than I've had in the recent past, and I have a lot of fun. Yes, indeed. You gotta watch out for those bird names. They eek. With white supremacy. They reek, not eek. All right, do birds tweet? You know what I have to deal with in my earphones? Folks, you have no idea. One of my favorite people, he doesn't know it, but he is, Jason Whitlock, sportswriter, social thinker, worked at ESPN, Fox Sports, presents the latest PragerU video, America's Promise. It is one of my favorite videos. I shouldn't say it because I should say they're all my favorite, but they're all great, but some are really great. So Jason Whitlock, congratulations on a magnificent video.

Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

Good. Where are you speaking to me from?

Nashville, Tennessee.

Everybody's moving to Nashville.

Yeah, particularly if you live out in California. California, you're getting away from the crazies and the taxes.

Yeah, they're related, I must say.

Go hand in hand.

Yes, indeed. So Jason Whitlock, summarize in a nutshell your terrific thesis in this video.

Uh, I think that a couple things have happened in America, and one of the most important is I think we've moved to a point where people don't even understand the concept of America and what this country actually has to offer. We've turned the whole thing into, well, America offers you coverage for all of your needs it makes you feel warm and fuzzy all the time. And if your needs and feelings aren't always being met by America, there's something wrong with America. And so I literally, when you guys contacted me about doing a video, I just want to— I was like, I want to kind of just go back and reset the table and actually explain to people what America does have to offer, and it's freedom. Freedom. And that's America's promise. And that's why people beat down the doors, because people outside of our country, they're not confused. They want to get over to America and experience our freedom. They're not trying to get over here to thinking that no one's ever going to say anything impolite to them, there's never going to be any instances of unfairness. All of your needs are going to get met. People beat down the doors to get into America because there traditionally has been more freedom here than any place else on earth. And confident people who feel like, well, man, I can take advantage of that freedom and provide for myself, they all want to get over here in America. And, you know, we've turned the conversation here, the ungrateful, you know, we've become so fat, lazy, and ungrateful that we've kind of turned the concept of America into, what can America do for me above and beyond give me freedom? And, and when I saw NBA players last season wearing jerseys with Love Us on the back, I was like, this is the most narcissistic, inappropriate inappropriate. I couldn't imagine thinking that random people are supposed to love me. Uh, you know, I hope and pray every day that my mom loves me, let alone some random person.

So, just smiling, that— yeah, your thesis that, uh, hello, America doesn't owe you love, it's so powerful. That's why I love May I say, ironically, I love your video about America doesn't owe you love, it owes you the protection of your liberty. It is a fantastic way of putting it. I wish every young kid would see that video.

The other thing that I think— what I like about the video, Dennis, and the commentary is I also wanted to specifically speak to African Americans and encourage them, confirm to them like, hey man, our history here in America is one to be proud of. And yes, there was exploitation and abuse a part of our journey in America, but We are essential to America living up to its best ideals. We— I don't think America would have reached this level of greatness without us and without us pushing America forward. Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers, flawed human beings, a product of their time, but I do believe they were visionary Christians.

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And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying. I kind of prefer that phrase, quite honestly, better than competition. So I think that there's some— again, we're getting into semantics here, but I guess what I'm trying to say is if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, that's actually not what's good for society. Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand. I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand. I mean, Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God. In fact, can you find that piece? Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion. It's very good. It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists. But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person. Do not make me live for you. And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a terrific book. And again, I don't look for her for religious purpose. I'm a Bible-believing evangelical Christian. But I think that she had a phenomenal way of capturing the threat of totalitarianism and the need for individuals to stand with courage. The preference on reason and logic. Not as the only human value in my worldview. And it's a very, it's a very significant piece of literature, and I encourage everyone to check it out. So in a lot of different ways, we need more John Galt and Hank Reardons, and that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that. But Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living You gotta see the latest PragerU video with Jason Whitlock, formerly of ESPN, and a sportswriter, social thinker.

But it is such a terrific message. See, I'll tell you why I don't just throw compliments around. Pete, my listeners know they take me seriously. What you did what you did was you presented what America stands for in a unique way. I love that. I love original thinking. That's what yours is. It owes you liberty, not love. I think that's awesome. We have been love-bombed. I actually list love as one of the false gods in my listing in my Bible commentary of false gods people worship. 'Cause love can be as vile as any— I mean, people loved Hitler, people loved Stalin. The notion that love alone answers anything is nonsense. Anyway, it's terrific, and you're explaining it here. So you were speaking about Black history in America and your view of the founders. Go ahead.

Well, look, the founders were flawed. And but they did infuse the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with Christian values, and they did that intentionally. And even though Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, he knew that it was morally wrong. And so, and people hear that, well, I would have done this. Look, gluttony is morally wrong. I struggle with it. And want to correct it. And I, I'm not comparing—

you're a better man than me. I struggle with all 7 of the deadly sins. You only struggle with one. You are one— you are one great man.

I was just giving you an example, one of the easy for me to call out.

But so yeah, these men were flawed and— but they were believers. Because other than Jesus, I think we're all flawed and struggle with all all the sins, and he put something in the Declaration of Independence that he knew would lead to the liberation of slaves. And African Americans pursuing freedom forced America to live up to its best ideals, and that's why we became the greatest country on the planet. And, and an unprecedented power. And so we have a rich history that we all should take pride in. But as African Americans in this society where The New York Times is trying to rewrite African American history and turn it into this hugely negative statement about America and trying to define everything about the African American journey as suffering, is just not true. We're essential to the success of America on so many different levels, and we should take pride in that, and we should take pride in all the things we overcame to be baked into the American system and finally granted all of our rights and freedoms in 1964. It's a tremendous story, and it's a story that says a lot about religious faith and what it can overcome and where it can carry a people in a country. And so to be able to make the point that, look, man, here's what America has to offer, and then double down on and say, and this is why we as African Americans should take pride in this country and be grateful that we're born into the freest country, born into a country that originally originally was based in Judeo-Christian values. That's why we love it here. And we can do all this fake complaining we want. None of us want to leave here. And everybody's beating the doors down to get here.

Including, of course, millions of Africans.

Yes, yes. Beating the doors down to get here.

Right, exactly. Why would they come to a— I always ask in speeches, say, let me ask you, how many Jews were moving to Germany in the 1930s, right? Yeah, that was, that was a systemically anti-Semitic country. This is not a systemically anti-Black country. Blacks moving here from Africa in the millions are not stupid. They know they're moving to a great place for them. I got a question for you. When did you come to these realizations? Did you always have them Was it an evolution?

I think I always had them. I just didn't always have them as clearly as I have them now. You know, age is a beautiful thing. You know, there's some problems that go with age, but wisdom is not a problem. And just clarity, I, you know, I was raised in the church and my grandmother had an enormous influence on me. And then my father had an enormous influence on me, and my father was like a modern-day Booker T. Washington— cast down your bucket and make your bit of heaven right here in America, take advantage of this freedom. And so just as I've gotten older and lived long enough you do enough studying and research or whatever, things just come into full clarity and view. And it's, you know, luckily I've been blessed and worked hard enough I have the ability to express.

Have you been attacked by fellow blacks as being a traitor?

I think in the media space, but not in real life. In terms of, you know, social media, what people tweet. I think a lot of that is fake and phony. And I think a lot of people in the mainstream media, black, white, whatever— look, Dennis, we've outlawed the truth. And so there are just people that are committed to dishonesty, and anybody who speaks anywhere near the truth is going to get attacked, whether black, white, green, yellow, whatever. So I do get that blowback.

That is exactly right. Well, you are a joy to watch and to read, and I look forward to our meeting. I thank you for the video.

Same to you, Dennis. Pleasure working with PragerU.

Thank you for that. It's really terrific. I mean, the video, I just— I sort of cheered as I watched it before we released it. This is really something. I have no desire in this case to even say I wish every black kid— I wish every white kid saw this. The message is identical to every— well, to every adult, frankly. America owes you liberty, not love. That's right, he wants his mother's love. That was a great line. Back in a moment. The Dennis Prager Show. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion, has long recommended this precious metal Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7695. 800-221-7694, americanfederal.com, americanfederal.com. Not one mistake.

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Whenever I think it went fast, it's a good sign. Imagine a talk show host thinking, oh boy, those 3 hours, it felt like a day. That person should seek other line of work. It is clear to all of you I enjoy my job. And do you You know, that is a great lesson in any job you do. Isn't it fun having a waiter or waitress who clearly can't stand doing the job? It's a worse meal, there's no question, versus somebody who is happy to be a waiter. If I were a waiter, I want to tell you, and I was, my wife doesn't think it was a real waiter because it was It was at a camp, not a restaurant. She's right. You side with my wife. If she said 2 and 2 is 11, you would say she's right. Yes. Oh God, he waited tables. I am really, shall we say, can I say screwed on Salem Radio? Am I allowed to say that? Anyway, I served as a camp waiter. It doesn't matter. I just want to announce that when I did, I wanted to be the best waiter in camp. That is a very important attitude, and to love what you do and to communicate that fact. Jason Whitlock made a point, this point I am crazy about it. America doesn't owe you love, it owes you Liberty. It is such a great video. It is up at PragerU this week. And I was thinking, talking to the white supremacists in my studio during the break, that my thought vis-à-vis the government is I not only don't want love from my government, I don't even want them to know me. I want to be ignored by my government. This is a big— this is one of the colossal, unbridgeable differences between left and right. Our basic desire is, please just leave me alone. I have a full life without the state. That's what a conservative feels. I have family, I have friends, I have work, I have hobbies, I have God, I have I have faith. I have— you fill in the 'I have,' whatever you want to fill it in with. And what was it that President Biden said in his address to the congressmen who dared showed up and risking their lives in the congressional chamber? What did he say? Something to the effect, this is the one thing we all all share government. Some line like that. And that's the way they think. The state. This is a very, very big change in American history. But there are plenty of us fighting, and I just ask you to join us. I'm Dennis Prager. I will see you tomorrow.

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