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I tell you, Scott Atlas's piece could have been stronger. I mean, he's very angry and he's terrific, but You know, I come back from 5 days in Florida, and how does Sean greet me? I'm not even saying Triple G. When I say Sean, it means I'm annoyed, okay? Just know that. Triple G is affectionate. He goes, "Happy holidays," in my earphones. It doesn't matter who wishes me happy holidays in this country or the Western world. I go back to them with Merry Christmas.

You know, I left the woman—

I was at a, I was at a a Holiday Inn in Florida for 5 days and I left some money for the woman who does the room.

And believe it or not, I left her $20. I'm only telling you it's not great, it's not bad, it is what it is.

Most people don't leave anything. I have very rarely left something. I've started recently. I feel bad for all workers.

But I really— tell me if you think it would—

I'm looking at you guys and I'm looking at all of you listening in a metaphorical sense.

Should I have written Merry Christmas from a Republican?

What do you think?

You do like it? No, not on the bill. God, why was he invited to the show today? So it's on the bill, please.

Did you learn that from Scott Strowmire? Sign bills.

Anyway, it would have been fun. How about this? Merry Christmas from a Jewish Republican. What do you think of that? Now you think that's better and you don't like it. You like just a Republican. Merry Christmas from a Trump supporter. If I add Jewish? Or if I write anything? Oh, you do. So you think it's not right to write anything.

It goes from gratitude to statement.

Yeah, okay. You could do both?

Yeah.

All right, anyway, it's just a thought that I had in in retrospect. All right, everybody, welcome. My column today— Tuesday is my column day— it's free.

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It's at DennisPrager.com, TownHall.com, and it is how a very sad thing occurred inside of me. For the first time since I first visited Los Angeles, In my 20s in the 1970s, I dreaded coming back or going to California. I can't— you have no idea how sad I am to tell you that. I left a free state for a police state. And I wrote, I had this feeling another time in life In my 20s, I would go to Eastern Europe because I studied communist countries. So one year I would go north-south, Poland to Bulgaria. Another year I'd go south-north, Bulgaria to Poland, go through Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland. But it got so upsetting to be in a totalitarian state, that what I would do is in the middle, perfectly in the middle, there was a free country, Austria. So after 2 or 3 countries, I would pop into Austria for the sake of freedom, just to be in a free society. And it was a palpable feeling. Ask anybody who came from a communist country. What it was like to go into a free country. You felt it. It was a physical feeling. Like what? It's not— I can't explain it to you. There's no way to explain. Ask a prisoner what it is like to be let out. That's a good analogy. Well, what is he going to say? I can breathe better? Yes, you could breathe better. You could say what you wanted. There was free information. People walking around happy compared to that. That's so— leaving Florida. In Florida, you can dine in, you can dine out. You dine in without a mask, you dine out without a mask. I went bowling with my two grandkids in Fort Lauderdale. The place was filled with people. Some wore masks, some didn't wear masks. You were supposed to wear a mask, but nobody gave a hoot. If anybody would ask me, of course I would put it on. I just want you to know my policy. If I'm asked by someone, I put it on. I never do otherwise unless it's outdoors, in which case It hasn't happened, but I have an answer prepared. Sir, why aren't you wearing a mask? Because we're told to outdoors here in California. And my answer would be, because I am rational. And I would be very curious to see what they would say about that. So I'm prepared, as it were. So what do you think? We went bowling. The place was packed with people and open and arcade games. You didn't want a ball, you played arcade games. I didn't see one person spraying the knobs on the various arcade games. Theoretically, right, to be a sanitizer after every use. I mean, you would have to have employed, you know, 12 people just, just to sanitize the arcade games. The schools are open, to the best of my knowledge. I went from a free state to an unfree state because the free state is governed by a Republican. Not all Republicans believe in freedom, but all the people who believe in freedom are Republican. 1-800-PRAGER-776-877-243-7776. The reach of the show and PragerU became evident in a very sweet thing when both pilots came out to get selfies with me on my—

I won't even say the airline, lest the airline check.

I'm serious. That is the state. I, I'm open, but I don't—

I can't be open on behalf of others. By the way, that, that's a perfect example of the difference in America today because of the left, that I won't tell you the name of the airline that I flew whose pilots came out to tell me how much they appreciated my work. That's really something. I—

that, that could— that should make you cry.

1-8-PRAAGER-776-877-243-7776. It's Christmas week.

What a Christmas.

You should make it a Christmas. No, and if you celebrate Christmas, you should make it a Christmas as much as humanly possible. Dr. Birx.

Did you hear the story with Dr. Birx? This— did you hear her excuse? I'm going to read to you her excuse. Now, I want you to know something, folks. I have a phrase, it's called eyes glazing over. No, no, it's not my phrase. People use that regularly.

I also have ears glazing over. That's perfect.

But my eyes glazed over. AP, Associated Press. Dr. Deborah Birx ignored her own Thanksgiving advice, traveling to her Delaware vacation home. Got a good life, these people who tell you not to work. She's got a Delaware vacation home. How many of the people out of a job have a vacation home? How many people are, are being bankrupted by people who have vacation homes? That's really what it amounts to. This is a perfect— and I didn't have to read anymore. Her Delaware vacation home. But if you work for a restaurant, go to hell. The people with vacation homes are telling people who barely have enough money for rent, have no income, Dr. Deborah Birx ignored her own Thanksgiving traveling advice, traveling to her—

no, no, not traveling advice, her own Thanksgiving advice—

traveling to her Delaware vacation home with 3 generations of her family from 2 different households. The coordinator of the White House coronavirus response That's who she is. Was accompanied by her husband, one of her daughters, son-in-law, and two grandchildren for the Black Friday trip.

She had warned Americans to be vigilant and to limit celebrations to your immediate household. We shall return in a moment.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules to make it easier and easier for people to vote, make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed.

And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal, underhanded but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican, got wiped out in Orange County, largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now obviously assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is wrought with potential for fraud, but the Democrats pulled that off and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw— snatching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote— to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on, uh, than your average Democrat, uh, and therefore the average non-voter or, or seldom voter is very likely to be a a Democrat, and Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though, and did Republicans try and go out and get those? Figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical Race Theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, they consider Critical Race Theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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A reminder, my friends, just have a couple of days till Christmas, and you should—

if you celebrate Christmas, and everyone should give to Angel Tree, but if you celebrate Christmas, may I use a mixed metaphor here?

There's a very famous Hebrew Jewish word mitzvah. You should regard it as a mitzvah, as it means literally commandment, that you give some charity at this time of the year. I'm a big believer that religion has a series of obligations. My whole life is rooted in that belief.

And charity at this time is one of them.

And I don't endorse any charity I don't believe in.

This is for kids to get a gift if their parent is in prison.

And a note hopefully from the parent and a Bible. It's not too late, so please, there's an angel tree. I want to check, make sure it's up there. The banner at the top of the page, it is still there. If people don't see it, it's because they have an ad blocker on. Oh, okay. Well, there is a banner for it at DennisPrager.com. Or you can call 888-206-2801. 888-206-2801. All right, give as much as you can. It is a beautiful charity. It's a mitzvah, as they say. It's a great word. You know how many things in life I have done that I didn't want to do because the words formed in my mind that it's a mitzvah?

Right?

You, you have that. You're very governed by that. I'm looking at the Living Martyr. It's part of the reason we call him the Living Martyr, because of the series of obligations that he feels he's under on any daily basis. California judge rules San Diego County restaurants can reopen. Just hand it to me. Governor Newsom's office immediately appealed judge's decision. Where on my page can people sign up to, uh, if they're Californians, to get this man out of office? Say, cited on the show.

Please do that. We need—

what is it, a million and a half signatures? Actual physical signatures. You print out a page and, and you send it in.

How do you send it in?

Oh, it has to be physically mailed. Okay, let's—

all right, drop-off points.

Okay, anyway, it's worth— it's truly worth it. You got to fight. This is a great way to fight. Yeah, California judge ruled that all San Diego County restaurants can reopen for on-site dining, falling in line with an earlier ruling that strip clubs could remain open. There you go. I was worried about that.

Not that open, 'cause catch a cold. So open in the sense of open for business, but the doors are closed.

Just, it's a health, it's a health issue. Um, like, uh, despite Governor Gavin Newsom's novel coronavirus-related health order that calls for such establishments to close up shop. Mm-hmm. All right, everybody, freedom allows for strip clubs. That's just the way it is.

Free is free. I'll never forget— I remember—

I wonder how many calls I remember. I, I don't think more than a dozen.

I don't know how you would.

I remember this one, a Denver mailman, postman, letter carrier, whatever term you like to use. He called me and said, you know, I am a Christian and I oppose pornography, but when I deliver mail and there's a pornographic journal, I deliver it. And I thought, that's right, this is a good man.

That's correct, because he believes in freedom. Do you know who believe in freedom the most in this country?

Religious Jews and religious Christians. Isn't that interesting?

Religious people in this country, if freedom is saved—

of course there are secular people who believe in freedom.

But as a constituency, the largest constituency that believes in freedom is religious. Not an insignificant thing.

Okay, Mike in Greentown, Pennsylvania. Hello.

Hey Dennis, how you doing?

I'm well, thank you.

I just, you know, actually you touched on two things that affected me in my past. I was, about 20 years ago, I made some foolish choices. I ended up incarcerated, and I can really, really, uh, associate with what you had said about the communist countries going into a free country as an inmate coming out back into society, the freedom.

Are you sure?

But what I really wanted to say was— yeah, I'm sorry.

No, no, I'm just saying— yeah, go on.

I just wanted to touch on the agency program that you keep, uh, uh, talking about, and I was, uh, a beneficiary of that, um, It was in the institution that I was in, and my children— I had young children. And I'll tell you what, the years when I was away, it was so amazing what that program did to help me stay connected with my children and to let them know that their father is still in their life. And just amazing, the Bibles. What's that?

I could cry.

I'm almost trying to think about it, to be honest with you. It just It's obviously I was there for my own choices, but being— even though I'm accepting responsibility, it doesn't make it any easier to be away. And when you have programs like that, it makes you remember that you're not always a scum of the earth, even though you might have been that person when you committed your crimes. And programs like that really just keep you motivated to stay on the right path.

I, I wish you from the bottom of my heart a Merry Christmas. I If that doesn't spur you to donate to Angel Tree, literally nothing would. I'd almost like to take a moment to let you go to my website and click on the banner now.

I would.

I'm going to take a moment. I, uh, you know, as I've said this a long time now, As I get older, goodness brings tears to my eyes more than meanness. When I was a kid, seeing or reading about cruelty, my eyes would well up. Now my eyes well up when I read about goodness. So there's the banner at the top of the website. Yes, that was a powerful thought that I didn't think of. He didn't think he was the scum of the earth. When the kid got this gift. The human condition, my friends, that's, that's the issue here. You know how I ended my article? There are Soviet states and there are free states. The question is, how long will there be a United States? Never in my life did I think I would pose that question seriously.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Ann Arbor County. Why is that important? Ann Arbor County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the Republicans—

Michigan.

Yes. And it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, it's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Ann Arbor. That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we would get results last Tuesday. As of Friday, we were still awaiting those results, and the Attorney General in the state of Michigan had intervened, gone to the court and said, please side with us that they may not disclose the results of those audits. Now, why is that important? Well, the lead attorney for the independent audit team says that they saw conclusive proof that it wasn't a clerical error, that there was a computer connected to the tabulation system, and that it was actually provable through through the forensic audit that a computer switched the votes. And it was only through the hand recount comparing signatures. They went to full signature recount that they were able to establish what had really been the will of the voters in that county.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked: What is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted. How a reality TV star who was really, really not a member of the Manhattan jet set, who was rejected by that jet set for the longest time until a certain member of that community took him under her wing. That individual who'd never run for political office before, who toyed with the idea of being a mayor or even running for president, decided to come down those escalators with his beautiful wife And most people, almost everyone except, you know, the odd caller to our show, wrote it off as a publicity stunt, as something to be laughed at. Until he defeated every single— what was it, 16 or 17 GOP candidates, most of whom were just process politicians from within the so-called swamp.

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Okay, everybody, Dennis Prager here wishing you a Merry Christmas.

It's a national holiday.

For those of you who don't celebrate it, it is still okay.

And I remind Jews who are troubled by it, generally on the left, like others on the left, Christians on the left don't say Merry Christmas, they say Happy Holidays. But I want to remind Jews that in Israel, where the Jews are the majority, everybody says Shabbat Shalom, even to non-Jews. I'm not aware of any non-Jews being offended by being wished a Shabbat Shalom. Offended. This is the left's byword. If you're not offended, you're not a leftist.

Do you realize that? Is there one leftist alive—

I don't mean liberal, my daily distinction between liberal and leftist—

is there one leftist who is not working on behalf of the offended or personally offended?

No.

You know, my belief is that as a rule, very few people in this country are offended.

Unless the—

I mean, ironically, the group most offended is white heterosexual males.

And throw in Christian, and they're really the group to hate. Happens to be that white heterosexual Christian males did a lot of good in this country. Is that an unfair statement?

They founded it. You know what I'm reading?

1619, the rebuttal of—

he's very good. Who is it?

Peter Wood. I took a break from contemporary issues for the last two books. One was the book on the book of eels, so I feel I have a certain expertise now, amateur expertise on eels. And the other book was of a woman who at 19 was a White House intern and President John Kennedy had an affair with her, among others, but had an affair with her for 18 months. The book is so honest that it was riveting.

You know what I said?

I was broadcasting during the, the Clinton Monica Lewinsky hysteria, and I think it was hysteria. I never liked Clinton. I don't like his wife. But you know what my position was? I never wanted to know about that affair. It was not consequential to the country. It was not consequential to me. And, uh, I don't know if you recall, or if you're old enough to know, how much time the media spent on the stained dress. Like this was important to American life. The media stink, you understand? They, they are an overwhelmingly negative force in our society through lying and through hysteria. In retrospect, do you think it was important?

What if the country didn't know Kennedy had multiple affairs while president.

Multiple.

What it says about the president is, is what issue? Whether the country needed to know it? What if— let us say the country knew it and it was as obsessed with his affairs as it was with Clinton and his affair.

Singular, at least as president. He was a multiple affair man prior, and he was mean-spirited, Clinton. Kennedy doesn't turn out to be mean-spirited, just sex did not enter the realm of self-control, to say the least. But let us say the press had just been preoccupied with his affairs, what would have happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis? Could he have dealt with it properly, or would the country have been talking about that?

As I say, like I say about tax returns of candidates, there are things I just don't need to know. Can any of you point to one benefit the country has had By having candidates reveal their tax returns, name me one advantage in choosing a president. Has it ever affected one vote? So why do we have to render people naked to run for president? RadioZone is a product that made is made by doctors.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the, the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis, to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work. He has liked some of my movies. He has not liked some and not liked me in some. But all that— when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning, I read— I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So you know what, that's not really a criticism, that's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has That's right, cream-colored ponies.

I had a dream about cream-colored ponies just last night.

That you should play this now? I'm Dennis Prager here. So Dr.

Birx, I was telling you the story, I didn't finish it. The coordinator of the White House coronavirus response telling everybody, you know, limit your celebrations be vigilant. So she went to her Delaware vacation home with, uh, 3 generations from 2 different households.

Dr. Burke, 64, insists that roughly the roughly 50-hour trip to Fenwick Island was to deal with the winterization of the property before a potential sale. Something she says she previously hadn't had time to do because of her busy schedule.

I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving, Burke said in her statement.

So wait, she needed all these family to winterize the place?

How stupid do these, these officials think we are? And the answer is very, very very, very stupid. I don't understand your question. How many scarves? Oh, you mean not scarves, masks. Oh, she's a scarf wearer. Oh, she— okay. Dr. Birx, to me this disqualifies her from any future government health position, said Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and security. It's a terrible message for someone in public health to be sending to the American people. I love it.

I must say, I think, I think it's a good message. Kathleen Flynn, whose brother is married to Birx's daughter, who lives— so get this, okay, so her brother is married to Dr.

Birx's daughter, all right, who lives in the Potomac House said she brought forward information about Burke's situation out of concern for her own parents and acknowledged family friction over the matter. Quote, she cavalierly violated her own guidance, Flynn said of Burke's I don't feel for her. I don't feel for her. That's so—

the, the— this, this relative outed her because she was worried about her parents dying. But why? The parents went? Oh, they would be infected. Oh, if they went, so they didn't have to go.

Oh my God, just— this is another world.

All righty, y'all, let's go to Peg in Champlain, Minnesota. Hello, Peg.

Champlain. Hi, Dennis. I've had the pleasure—

Champlain. No, no, I always want to be corrected. Thank you.

Champlain. Go ahead.

Champlain. Yeah, just north of Minneapolis. And I'd met you a couple of times at State Fair and a Kufi convention and, uh, roundtable with Michelle Bachmann. So it's a pleasure to speak with you again.

Wow.

You know, just the fact that you went to CUFI convention tells me what a person you are. Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

That's, by the way, CUFI is the biggest Christian group in America.

It's Christians United for Israel. Okay, go ahead.

Okay, I just wanted to share a story with you, um, about your feeling of going into Austria on your trips.

Yes.

Uh, last summer during the riots, we had had enough. Wisconsin was open, so we crossed the St. Croix into Hudson, Wisconsin, and we had that exact same feeling. It's like this heaviness lifted. Yes, we could breathe again.

Yes.

It, you know, it was really sad. If that was in the United States.

That's right. That's what my article's about.

That's why I said there are Soviet states and free states, and I don't know how long it'll be the United States. I have— I live in California. If there was a ballot proposition—

this is theoretical—

if there were a ballot proposition, should California secede from the Union, I would vote for the secession. America would be better if California became an independent country. It's very wealthy, then it could tax people and suppress free speech and suppress movement and crush the middle class all at once. That'd be great.

Well, I'll be happy to come and help you pack your bags.

I accept your offer.

Merry Christmas, dear Peg.

Merry Christmas, Dennis.

Thank you.

That's right, just think of the advantages of California. What do they— does it claim the 7th largest economy in the world or something like that, or for its own country? It's got 50 million people plus, right? 40 million plus. It's a serious place.

Gorgeous, got gorgeous scenery.

It's got a coastline for shipping. But it poisons America. And if New York wants to join, you know, the people who want freedom are less interested in wealth than the people who want suppression. So if we don't have the wealth of New York City and the wealth of San Francisco, we'll have to live with it. We're okay with it.

We prefer freedom. To wealth.

But you know what would happen if California seceded? I'll tell you what would happen.

It would destroy itself like all leftist places ultimately do. It may take generations like the Soviet Union, but it destroys its own society.

And what would happen is a vast number of people would leave California for free states in the United States. But humans being as pathetic as human nature often makes people, they'll vote in the new states to recreate what they fled, which is what a lot of Latin Americans who flee their countries and vote Democrat, that's what they do.

We have a video of this wonderful woman from, what, Venezuela? Or the one from Guatemala? Yeah, don't vote for what you fled.

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—huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged or might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections. It pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up. Hunter Biden.

New York Post breaks this story days before the election. This is a bombshell. And it isn't because Hunter Biden did anything illegal necessarily. It's because Joe Biden has for months denied knowing anything whatsoever about his son's business, let alone that he met with any of his son's colleagues, business colleagues, business associates. And it turns out Tony Bobulinski, the longtime business associate of Hunter who broke with Hunter, goes public and says he met with Joe Biden for some time and also worked with Joe Biden's brother. And when he said to Joe Biden's brother, look, isn't this kind of dicey for you to be involved in something like this? Joe Biden's brother said we have plausible deniability. So the story broke, and what did the mainstream media say? They said this is Russian disinformation. You have a— you have the CEO of Twitter suppressing the story, admitting he suppressed the story, and he admitted they shouldn't have done it, but the story was spiked.

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The rich are richer. Google and Facebook are more powerful than ever before. Normal people have had their voice suppressed. Anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 to 300,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus. The lockdowns have killed dreams, ambitions, and human beings through suicide and other means. How did all of this happen? Aristotle famously said that we are the speaking beings. If we do not have the ability to speak and communicate, we are no different than the animals of the wild. Aristotle was a scientist. He was Some would call him an empiricist. It's not a perfect categorization, but he cared about what was happening in the natural world, where Plato cared about what was happening in the clouds.

All right, y'all, I'm Dennis Prager and I welcome you back to the show.

San Diego, California. Andrew, hello.

Hello, Andrew. Hello, Dennis Prager. Hi. You're, uh, you're— you shared a sad moment, um, returning to California, and it made me think of a sad moment that I had. And again, the left is responsible for this, I think. Um, and it's almost hard to even articulate because it's a little bit embarrassing, but here, here it is. For, for my entire life, when I saw an interracial couple my visceral, instinctual response was, was to get a warm fuzzy feeling. Um, and, and as a point of background, I grew up in a foster family that was multicultural as it could possibly be. I had brothers and sisters of all different colors, races, backgrounds, etc. And I know why it made me feel that way, because it goes to the special connection that happens between you human beings, and when I saw an interracial couple, I recognized that it was likely they had overcome very different backgrounds and so on and so forth, or possible that they had, and yet they had found that something very special that overcame all of that. And then the other day, I had this epiphany as I was watching television. I had this instinctual sort of visceral feeling cultural bad feeling because for the umpteenth time I, I realized that I was watching a commercial that represented the world as if it was occupied 95% by couples where there's an African-American husband and an Asian wife, and that the other 5% were Bob and Dave. And, and, and then I began to analyze it because I was horrified by And I realized that it was just, I'm tired of being fed from a fire hose. This sort of— people don't like being manipulated, and it's inauthentic.

Well, that's a big part of the reason for the alienation from the NFL and the NBA on the part of vast numbers of Americans.

Because they— I haven't watched an NFL game in 3 years. I spent 33 years doing police work in the inner city, and I want to watch those guys on Sunday bash me? They never did. Those people never put themselves in harm's way for another person in their life, let alone a minority that they didn't know.

Well, they put themselves in harm's way when there's a runner going through the line and they have to block on the line, on the scrimmage line. That's what they put themselves in harm's way. The damage— remember, everything the left touches, it ruins. Country had pretty wonderful interracial relations until this summer.

Yes, indeed, we continue.

Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show. The rich are richer. Google and Facebook are more powerful than ever before. Normal people have had their voice suppressed. Anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 to 300,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus. The lockdowns have killed dreams, ambitions, and human beings through suicide and other means. How did all of this happen? Aristotle famously said that we are the speaking beings. If we do not have the ability to speak and communicate, we are no different than the animals of the wild. Aristotle was a scientist. He was— some would call him an empiricist. It's not a perfect categorization, but he cared about what was happening in the natural world, where Plato cared about what was happening in the clouds, the space of ideas. Aristotle cared a lot about what was actually provable and based in reason. That's why he is called just the philosopher in a lot of traditions. So when you're not able to speak, when you're not able to spread ideas, don't be surprised when your entire civilization starts to unravel. So when you're not able to say, "Hey, I think hydroxychloroquine might actually work," and all of a sudden your YouTube account gets shut down, your Twitter account gets shut down, your Facebook page gets shut down, you get fired like Dr. Simone Gold, These Soviet-style tactics that are used suppress speech. So what ended up happening? There was a massive PR push done by some great doctors, Dr. Erickson, Dr. Simone Gold, amongst many others, to try to just start a conversation on how hydroxychloroquine could be helpful.

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And a man who had been a Democrat really in every meaningful metric that term provides became a Republican president, the likes of which not even I expected. Nobody, nobody expected— no, but there is— you cannot find for me right now a piece of writing, an interview from 2016 in which anyone stated this will be a president more conservative than Ronald Reagan. Nobody said that, but it's true. Oh, how true. Pick any issue, whether it's national security, staring down China, giving a green light to the Pentagon to target and kill more than 200 Russian mercenaries on the soil of Syria trying to destabilize the Middle East, building the wall, 400 miles of it already. Or keeping our promise to bring our troops back from endless stupid wars. A man who was even more pro-life than the great Ronald Reagan. The first president ever to address the March for Life, to talk at the March for Life. Of the sanctity of the unborn child. A man who even in the most technical philosophical avenues of conservatism was without parallel.

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This morning, you know, Ben Domenech of The Federalist was on Fox Friends saying it's over. And then I talked to you and I talked to other people and I hear them say no, it's in fact not over. Is this just wishful thinking? On our parts? Are we grasping at straws in these several scenarios?

I think it's reasonable for us to prepare ourselves for the possibility of a Joe Biden administration, but I am not willing to concede that that needs to happen until we have chased down every last bit of transparent truth that can be found here. And so I think we, we need to kind of walk with the wisdom that it may not go the way we want it to go. But I think we need to fight for transparency, truth, and integrity in the process. And I don't, I don't think that most Americans have a problem with that conflict inside their hearts, that first and foremost, we get to the bottom of this. And let's say everything goes worst-case scenario. And just remember this about Ben, good old Ben, love The Federalist, great website. He's married to Meghan McCain. Who just by nature of who she is has a certain predisposition about Trump that probably permeates their marriage on some level. At the same time, it is vital that even if Joe Biden were to end up being sworn in on January 20th, that the work that Sidney Powell is doing, that the work that the Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence is doing, that a special counsel that may or may not be assigned to look into this, We have to chase this down to the nth degree until we know every last bit of it.

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I'm so tired of grievance, Matthew. You're just not mad at anybody except except one moment with your mom. Were you aware of that when you were writing this?

Uh, you know, I mean, I've got my grievances, but I, but I've learned to move on from— if I can't be constructive with them, I've learned to move on. I mean, even the deal with my mom, we had a grievance for 8 years, but I knew that was going to have— that we were going to mend our fences and come back together. I just didn't know when. And it took 8 years.

Did you not get a role that you really wished you'd gotten? I mean, that you still think about to this day?

No, Hugh, I've got to be honest. I'm pretty fortunate in everything that I passed on. I have no regret on anything I passed on. There was a movie that I did love that I was offered that I said no to, but I loved the movie, and that was L.A. Confidential. Hurtis Hanson directed. It's a great movie, and that came to me right after I got famous for The Time to Kill.

And so you want to check what year this was written? I'm very curious.

It's one of the glorious Christmas songs, one of my favorite 5. Hi everybody, I wish you a Merry Christmas. Really? That late? No, no, you don't think that's correct? Well, if you're wrong, Sean, I may have to invite you to the punishment room. On the other hand, what if the Living Martyr is wrong, saying you're wrong? All right, everybody, welcome to the show. I'm Dennis Prager. Hmm, I mentioned the first hour that returning after 5 days in Florida, returning to California, the last time I felt this way was when I would go into Eastern Europe when it was communist from Western Europe. So I traveled through the Soviet satellite states, as they were called— Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania. And that's, that's how I feel here. I, I could eat anywhere, went bowling with my grandkids.

At what age should you stop using bumpers? There's a subject—

I cover everything, but there's a subject I don't think I ever covered. At what age do you tell your kid no more bumpers? I started it early, but I— with my kids, but I don't remember what age exactly. I much rather them bowl a 12 without bumpers than a 50 with bumpers. Welcome to the show, my friends. I'm sorry, Sean was right. So do you go to the punishment room? I think— I, I'm sorry, I, I have to say that because you said he was wrong. All right.

It's very rare, but ooh, it hurts me. You know, he's a living martyr, so you would think he would somewhat revel in being punished. And still it bothers me because I love the guy.

All right, but look, that's the way it is. I've been in the room. And I'm not a living martyr.

I am a jovial hedonist. So let's hear Nancy Pelosi. When did she make this statement?

Yesterday? Day before? Okay, take it away.

Okay, hold on a moment. Wait, wait, before anything, what did that have to do with the bill? Is she talking about the bill that was just spent another trillion, nearly trillion dollars? What does that have to do with tracing? Boy, it's a good thing Nancy Pelosi didn't live in Sweden.

She'd have had a heart attack.

All right, now we get—

it gets worse. Yep, go on.

Wait a minute, isn't this the woman who went for a haircut to have her hair done when she supported the ban on Hair salons? And was she wearing a mask? There are Democrats who aren't phony, but it's not frequent. Go ahead. Okay, wait a minute. Herd immunity is not scientific? Why, why does she think any virus in the history of Earth went away? One reason: herd immunity. That is the only reason viruses stop. Vaccination is a form of herd immunity. That's why not everyone has to be vaccinated. Herd immunity is not scientific. Do you understand the pablum that comes out of these people's mouths? It's the essence of science. That's how viruses end. Not through quarantine. This is the first experiment with universal quarantine in history. That's not science. You quarantine healthy people is not science. You ruin vast numbers of people's lives, cause more suicide, more drug addiction, more alcohol, more abuse. That's not science. Telling people who demonstrate for Black Lives Matter, that's healthy. But if you demonstrate against the lockdown, that's unhealthy. That's not science. You phonies. They're frauds. Do you understand? The whole left, since Lenin to Pelosi, is a fraud. Honesty is not a left-wing value. It's a liberal value. It is not a left-wing value. Herd immunity is science. That's how viruses end, not by quarantine. Continue. Oh, that's quackery.

Hmm.

Yeah, wasn't denied sufficiently because it's true. Herd immunity is the answer. That's how viruses end.

Go on.

Okay, that's a lie. The woman's a liar. She doesn't just lie, she's a liar. Everybody's told a lie, but then not everybody is a liar. She's just a liar.

I don't know a left-wing politician who isn't, because truth is not a left-wing value.

Power is. So I want to understand, has anyone ever said to her— I want a name— who has said to her, faith matters so science doesn't? Is that what she claimed? Was that what it was? I know vast numbers of people of faith, Jewish and Christian. I don't know one who says science doesn't matter. Yeah, right, really? Who says that? She's lying. I accuse the woman of lying. If she can name me two people who have said that, I will contribute to the Pelosi fund. I will give $1,000 each. I will do whatever needed. I will issue a public mea culpa that I have sinned in maligning this woman. Yes, keep that. That's a Hall of Famer. This is what they do. And you know what? 99% of Democrats hearing this believe it.

Oh, you're faith-oriented, so you don't believe in science. That's so interesting.

Wow.

Dr. Zelenko is a Chabad member of the Chabad community. Zelensky? Yes, absolutely. He's a bearded, yarmulke-wearing Jew, Chabadnik as they call him.

And his life is devoted to stopping people from getting sicker if they're positive for COVID.

There are no evangelical or Catholic Or LDS doctors? What is she talking about? Who is she talking about?

I'm faith-oriented. I don't believe in science. People around here, yes.

I'd like to know who the people around there are. She's lying, my friends. I'm telling you, she's just lying. Name one left-wing organization— New York Times, Washington Post, that will challenge her. Gee, who said that?

Any more of her? I hope not.

Oh, oh, oh.

So why do we have to wear masks after the vaccine if it's so terrific?

All right, it's enough. Thank you very much. God, do they lie. I'm going to take some of your calls, and I got more to talk to you about. I'm looking at the list of callers, and I don't recall ever having calls from both Rochester, New York, and Vermilion, Ohio. This is a first.

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What do you make of a city like Minneapolis, Minnesota? That slashed the police budget by millions of dollars last night. It was a unanimous vote. These kooks originally voted to abolish the police department altogether. I'm going to give you some numbers because this is very real here in Georgia too. How pro-police do you think Raphael Warnock is? How pro-police do you think Jon Ossoff is. How pro-police do you think today's Democrats are? In Minneapolis, where we have a lot of listeners, here are some numbers that I want to share with you. There have been 532 gunshot victims so far this year. 532. More than double the same period a year ago. Carjackings are up 331% from the same period last year. They've had hundreds of carjackings in the streets of Minneapolis. Violent crimes have surged to 5,100 crimes. And what did Minneapolis City Council do? Unanimously voted to slash the Minneapolis Police Department's budget by $8 million. Supposedly, they'll take the money and funnel it to other city services, including mental health teams and violence prevention programs, as they try to, quote, transform police.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules, to make it easier and easier for people to vote, make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed.

And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal, underhanded, but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican, got wiped out in Orange County, largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now, obviously, assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is was wrought with potential for fraud. But the Democrats pulled that off, and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw— snatching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on, uh, than your average Democrat, uh, and therefore the average non-voter or, or seldom voter is very likely to be a, a Democrat. And Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though, and the Republicans try and go out and get those figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Tchaikovsky was a master.

I have no idea. I was just asked if it's true he didn't like it. A lot of composers didn't like some of their greatest works. There are so many editions of Bruckner's symphonies that they actually list which edition you're hearing. Because he kept rewriting them. I love Bruckner. My wife and I traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, just to hear Bruckner's Fifth with the Cleveland Orchestra the week before the lockdown. Oh, it seems like 5 years ago. I want to remind you about, uh, The people who have been with me from the beginning of the lockdown offering you handheld professionalism in getting loans for your house, for a new house, for a refi, for a cash-out refi, anything, and even a reverse mortgage. Andrew and Todd. I get letters praising them, which is not common for people to take the time to do that. AndrewandTodd.com. The rates are remarkably low and they are remarkably professional. AndrewandTodd.com at Sierra Pacific Mortgage. 888-888-1172. That's easy. 888-888-8888. 1172. AndrewandTodd.com at Sierra Pacific Mortgage. I like the name Sierra Pacific. It's a good choice. Nancy Pelosi just stands up and makes up, makes up things.

They make things up.

Will there be a— yeah, no, you have to precede it with Some, some of people here say that. All right, there you go.

Uh, I, I'll, I will do, I will grovel if she can give me the name of two people around there who have said that. Who has said that? Oh yeah, yeah, Chuck Schumer. She may be talking about leftists who are quoting theoretical religious people. I've been with religious people all of my life.

Not one of them is not science-oriented. They don't worship science like Nancy Pelosi does. That's true. They worship God.

Science is not their only value. By the way, it's not even true that science guides the left. We're told that science says that there are more than two sexes. We're told that science says men give birth. This is what the science says without faith. I'll take the science—

I'll take the faith people who don't worship science to guide me much sooner than the science people who have no Bible. They're wisdomless.

Science— the notion that science is morally directed— tell me what moral principle science has. Name one. It has none. Science is morally neutral. Science is the survival of the fittest. Why should we— science says don't keep the very sick alive. It's a waste of funds. That's what science says. Morality says keep them alive, but not science. Science tells you how to keep them alive. Science doesn't tell you to keep the very sick and frail alive. The people who followed science were the people who kept people in nursing homes in solitary confinement all this year. They're cruel. The science people are pretty mean. Yep, you can't visit your dying parent. No, you can't. Even with a mask on? I thought masks work. Did anybody ever explain that? Why you can't visit your, your sick parent in a nursing home if masks work? What if I want to visit my, my, my ailing and dying parent in a hazmat suit? Can't do that either. The science-only crowd is pretty pretty damn cruel. Because science does not teach compassion. Science does not teach decency. Science does not teach good or evil. It teaches nothing in the moral sphere. So cut the crap with "we believe in science." Science is one thing to take very seriously. Believe in? Ah, then you become a pretty rudderless human being, which she is, which Nancy Pelosi exemplifies with her lie. Alrighty, everybody, let's go to David in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Hello, David.

Hi Dennis, I got a mailing from Imprimis and it features a guy named Jay Bhattacharya and he's, uh, yeah, I've quoted him. Yeah, yeah. Well, one of the key features of this article, which is he's also got a background in, uh, heavy background in economics, but one of the main points of this article, and it's highlighted here, says, first, herd immunity is not a strategy, it's a biological fact. Even when we have a vaccine, we'll be relying on herd immunity as an endpoint for this epidemic. So I mean, her thing about this—

vaccine is herd immunity. That's what it is. That's why not everybody needs to get it. When enough people get a vaccine, you have herd immunity. For Nancy Pelosi to say that's an example of not following science, it's quackery. She's a fool. She's an ignoramus. I hate calling her names. This is so unlike me, but these people are dangerous liars. If you're on the left, you are given— you give yourself permission to lie. Obama did it all the time with People say, people say, people say. It was a big article in the Wall Street Journal about that during his era, how he just makes up straw men. People say, people say. Who are the people?

Yeah.

Joe, Los Angeles, California. Hello. Hey Dennis, thanks for taking my call.

Um, I'm, I'm from LA obviously, and been really in a lockdown for the past 9 months. I finally snapped about 2 weeks ago and booked a trip to Nashville, rented a car, went to Asheville, went to Charlotte, visited friends in all cities. It was wonderful. I was able to eat indoors. Um, it was really a liberating experience. The problem was, is when I got back to California, You realize that there was nowhere to go, nobody to see, nothing to do. That's it.

We have the same exact experience.

I just came back from Florida. Read my column today, folks.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Ann Arbor County. Why is that important? Ann Arbor County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican—

Michigan Yes.

And it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, it's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Anrum. That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we would get results last Tuesday. As of Friday, we were still awaiting those results, and the Attorney General in the state of Michigan had intervened, gone to the court and said, please side with us that they may not disclose the results of those audits. Now, why is that important? Well, the lead attorney for the independent audit team says that they saw conclusive proof that it wasn't a clerical error, that there was a computer connected to the tabulation system, and that it was actually provable through the forensic audit that a computer switched the votes. And it was only through the hand recount, comparing signatures— they went to full signature recount— that they were able to establish what had really been the will of the voters in that county.

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Okay, 1971. Nice. Is that true? No, no. Oh, do you really go to the punishment room? You can't fool around on the show. That's, that's, that's Major no-no. All right, back to the show, everybody.

Eric Eggers is my guest.

He's in Tallahassee, Florida. He's senior reporter for the Government Accountability Institute. He's done a couple of, uh, more than a couple of PragerU videos— How to Raise— Excuse me, How to Steal an Election, Mail-in Ballots— which proved to be prescient. Eric Eggers, I was in Florida for the last 5 days, not in your area, but I was in Florida. My column today is about how I felt coming back to California. Was in my 20s, I visited communist countries a great deal. It was my subject of expertise. And when I would go into Austria to sort of breathe free air, then I would go back into Eastern Europe. I now— that's how I feel. Like, you're Austria and California is the communist countries of Eastern Europe. Are you appreciative of where you live?

Every day, Dennis. Every single day. Uh, specifically because I have 3 small children, and thanks to Governor DeSantis, I'm able to send them to school. So my wife, who doesn't necessarily align with my political beliefs, is also a huge fan of the policies that we have in Florida and the freedoms that we enjoy. But I will tell you this, while I'm sorry that you only had 5 days in Florida, I guess because of my participation in some PragerU videos, I recently received in the mail a coaster with your picture on it. So there's at least a photograph of you in the free state of Florida that remains.

In my household.

That is so helpful to me that I'm just touched. The coaster has more freedom than I do.

Let's put it that way. That is the most 2020 thing.

Absolutely. But it's true.

The last thing I want to do is enter your marriage, but I I just— this is purely curiosity.

Yeah.

You hinted that you may not have similar political views, you and your wife, which is fine. But she's very grateful to Governor DeSantis, who's a Republican, of course.

And so if he were running for reelection next year, would she vote for him?

My wife, I believe, has, who's a professor, right? So she comes by her political beliefs honestly. So my wife has said that not only would she vote for Governor DeSantis, she might even wave a campaign sign. I mean, what's happening in America's schools right now, in the communities where they've been shut down, I think, you know, Governor DeSantis has called the greatest public health blunder maybe in human history. I actually have seen a paper published by a friend of mine who's an economist, Dennis Prager. And this is, you know, this is not what you had me on to talk about, but I think this is big-time news. There's a paper published by these economists that said, based on the fact that schools were closed in March and April, as many as 215,000 cases of child abuse went unreported just in those 2 months. So this idea, I mean, this is just like the larger picture of like, what have we done to human freedom in the name of public health? Well, there's a lot of data points on public health, and I think child abuse is one of them. I think suicides are one of them. I think abuse in terms of substances and alcohol are one of them. And by those metrics, we are not healthier today than we were 9 months ago. So I am very appreciative, as is my wife, of the fact that my children are able to have somewhat of a normal educational experience. Because what it comes down to me is, And I've told this to the member of school board who, you know, actually I helped support in her reelection bid under the contingency that she support opening schools up. For people that don't want to send their kids to school, like, that need has been met, right? There are virtual options available. You can homeschool, do whatever. But you've got over half of the country who need for any number of reasons. I mean, as a parent, like, I like the idea that I can make the choice for my child. It doesn't seem like all that radical of a concept to me.

So it would seem. So let's get to, uh, one of your areas of specialty. In a nutshell, and then we'll, we'll peel the onion, in a nutshell, what is your take on the honesty of the results of the 2020 election for president?

Right, it's a great question. Um, I think that we won't have the data we need to make— to be able to answer that question honestly for another year plus, right? Once they've done the analysis of the voter rolls, once they've done an analysis of, you know, all the systemic vulnerabilities that were in place. But I guess, like, regardless of— I mean, do I think that 200,000 illegal votes were cast in Michigan and that's what swayed the election? The difference between this— All right, hold on.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work. He has liked some of my movies. He has not liked some and not liked me in some. But all that— when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning I read— I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So, you know what, that's not really a criticism. That's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism, and Joe does, I think, a constructive criticism, and here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me, I always learn something from it.

And is it something that you do? Will you study reviews from serious people after a film comes out in order to improve your craft?

Because they're good at theirs. Yes. Yes, I have done this. Look, obviously it's more fun to read a good review, and obviously when you, when you do your work and I feel like I did it well and I read a good review, I think those are— those people are smarter. But I went away 8 years ago and I had my publicist gather every bad review that's ever been written on my performances, which is almost 50 at the time.

That's not in the book, huh?

It was a thick— no, it's not. I didn't put it in there. Maybe it could be in the next one. I went away and read every single one and kind of learned more from the bad reviews in a way than I did from the good ones.

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—huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged, it might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections. It pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up.

Hunter Biden, New York Post breaks this story day All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here.

In March, I wrote it was the greatest mistake in history, the worldwide lockdown. I was right. And mock I'm attacked, which means nothing to me. It really truly means nothing to me. I, I read this stuff as if it's somebody else. I just, I marvel at people's incapacity to be coherent and the meanness of the left. There might be kind leftists, but I've never met one. There are kind liberals, there are kind conservatives, mean liberals, mean conservatives, but leftists are mean because the left makes you mean. How could it not? Every white is a racist, the president is a fascist, and you're supposed to be nice? Eric Eggers has the latest PragerU video is how to steal an election mail-in ballots, and he was prescient. So I'm asking him, very thoughtful man, luckily located in Florida, in a free state. I am in a Soviet state. What does he think in fact happened honesty-wise in the last presidential election? So you were saying it will take a long time to until we have any proof of anything, and then continue.

Well, I think, you know, what you just touched on, Dennis, is actually not unrelated to the discussion, because I think it's impossible to have a discussion about how we got to a place where, to be able to do an analysis, to get information to answer the question like, was this a legal and true political outcome in the election, you have to be able to sort of address it in the context of, hey, you know, we got to a place where we were not allowed to question whether or not sending everyone ballots in the name of public health was actually potentially detrimental to American democracy. And we weren't really allowed to question, and still aren't in fact, whether or not some of the dramatic increases in sanctioned political outreach is actually good for democracy, or else you'll be called a racist. Right? Let me just kind of give you a couple quick examples. So, like, there's always this tension between improving election security by saying things like, hey, we want to make sure only people that are legal registered voters are on the voter rolls, or we want to make sure that the people that are casting the ballots are actually the people they say they are, therefore require voter ID or signature verification if it's an absentee ballot. But that's been systematically attacked and demantled by people like Stacey Abrams in Georgia, using the argument that because America has this history of, you know, racially motivated voter suppression, and we're talking a long time ago, that that is the shadow that still hangs over any decision that gets made. And so that's why you kind of can't make common-sense measures like, hey, maybe we don't want leftist political organizers to be hired and laundered through elections offices funded by Mark Zuckerberg, and then they're in charge of, in the name of get-out-the-vote operations, essentially, the things that campaigns used to pay political operatives to do. But that's now what election mechanisms look like in key counties. Right? You may have seen the statistic that 99.5% of the counties that got that money from those Zuckerberg Foundations all went to Joe Biden. So like, that's not considered voter fraud legally or technically. But I think those are among the reasons why over a third of the country refuses to accept the outcome of the election. And more than 70% of Republicans think, hey, I think something weird happened. So that's actually why I think I think we need to be able to take a step back and have an honest and dispassionate discussion about, okay, are the things that happened in this country during the election, like is it possible that Trump's singular villainy in terms of the mainstream media for the last 5 years led to dramatic increases in key areas, and that's why he lost, it was a true outcome? It's absolutely possible. But it's also possible that the dramatic increase in the form of voting that's been proven to be the most susceptible to fraud, coupled with the laundering of political operations in the name of get-out-the-vote through our elections offices, you know, combined for things that I think most Americans would consider wrong, whether they technically qualify as voter fraud.

What about the machines, the voting machines?

Yeah, so I mean, I've seen a lot of interesting things on that. There's a lot of statistical irregularities and anomalies that suggest that that the outcome wasn't correct. However, in Georgia, when they did the audit, right, and they compared the actual ballots that were cast with the results of the machines, they didn't find any major discrepancies. So, um, you know, I know there's some— there's other people saying that without the ability to do an audit of the code in the software, then you shouldn't really be able to state declaratively one way or another. But I guess I have yet to see compelling evidence evidence that the software did something weird, other than I have seen the presentation about the Edison data and the percentages in the Edison data change that's not the same as the raw vote total, suggesting there's a dramatic number of undervotes. But, you know, but I haven't seen experts weigh in on that in a way for me to be able to give you a definitive answer, Dennis.

[Speaker:DENNIS PRAGER] Putting Zuckerberg money and the—

and operations like that aside, I'm not asking at all for a definitive statement, but if you had to bet your house, would you bet that Joe Biden got more votes or Donald Trump got more votes?

If I had to bet my house, which is a nice house—

Right, well, also I assume that like Dr.

Berkshire, you also have a vacation house in Delaware.

I do not, but my brother has a house in Lake Tahoe, which I'm very open to making my vacation house. So yeah, if I had to bet my house, I'd probably say Trump got more votes in Arizona and Georgia. But maybe not Michigan, and Pennsylvania would be a toss-up.

And how did Georgia go the way it went if he got more votes?

So several things, right? And I will just tell you, if we have 2 minutes, I was actually speaking to a group of Republicans in Atlanta.

All right, hold on.

We don't have 2 minutes, but we will when we come back.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical Race Theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, they consider Critical Race Theory to be a religious text. They consider Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Antrim County. Why is that important? Antrim County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican—

Michigan.

Yes, and it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State—

Eric Eggers, who has brought to light a lot of unfortunate developments, and unfortunate is an understated word in the way we vote. A number of videos from PragerU on that, in fact. Eric Eggers is with the Government Accountability Institute. So you were explaining, how did Georgia, how did the Georgian, the vote in Georgia get corrupted?

So The story that I was about to share is that when I was speaking to this group of Republican activists in Atlanta a couple weeks ago, they actually had a member of the executive GOP who addressed these women as well. And like, they let him have it because these are activists, and there's very much a perception in Georgia that the consent decree that Governor Kemp and the Secretary of State entered into with Stacey Abrams' group significantly weakened the thresholds and safeguards that were meant to ensure that only legal votes were cast and counted. So when, when you sort of have this weakening of things like signature verification, and when you allow drop boxes, right, which remember, like Californians, Democrats in California were against, you know, the state that legalized ballot harvesting said drop boxes were insecure, right? And could lead to fraudulent electoral outcomes. And you've seen lots and lots of those throughout Fulton County in these heavily Democratic areas. And you combine that with some stories that you're seeing from these affidavits in the Senate hearings that they held in Georgia, where people are saying that they had this batch of ballots that were allegedly military ballots from Fulton County, and of like the 902 of them, 900 of them went for Joe Biden. Because, you know, here's the sad reality. This is why I say it will take a while for us to be able to get to the truth of it. Once a ballot is taken out of its envelope, once a ballot is cast, it's impossible, right? Because there's no way to track and connect the vote with the voter. So you've got to go back and do this analysis of who were the voters, where did these voters come from, what were their addresses. And these are the points that Trump's legal team is trying to make, is that there's lots and lots of cases of people that didn't follow the law to the letter of of it that were allowed to cast ballots. But then, you know, but you're not going to be able to— no one is credibly arguing that you would not count all the ballots because of the thousands of illegal votes technically that were cast. You know, the cure, so to speak, would be worse than disease in some people's eyes. So it's going to be quite challenging, but that's part of what informs my take on what happened in Georgia.

All right. We will know the truth?

Will we ever know the truth? Yeah, I do think so, because I think finally people have kind of woken up to the idea of— the goalposts have been moved, right? It's like we went from saying there's no widespread voter fraud to, well, there's no voter fraud that occurred on the scale large enough to swing this election, which, you know, now you're talking about six figures with the votes in Michigan and things like that. I mean, Georgia Secretary of State is admitted that thousands of illegal votes were cast in the primary. He admitted that there was voter fraud here. So I think people are motivated now.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked: what is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange event. Occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted. How a reality TV star who was really, really not a member of the Manhattan jet set, who was rejected by that jet set for the longest time until a certain member of that community took him under her wing. That individual who'd never run for political office before, who toyed with the idea of being a mayor or even running for president, decided to come down those escalators with his beautiful wife. And most people, almost everyone except you know, the odd-caller to our show, wrote it off as a publicity stunt, as something to be laughed at, until he defeated every single— what was it, 16 or 17 GOP candidates, most of whom were just process politicians from within the so-called swamp.

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Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show. Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th. Because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work, he has liked some of my movies, he has not liked some and not liked me in some. But all that— when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it, meaning I read I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So you know what, that's not really a criticism, that's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism— criticism, and Joe does, I think— a constructive criticism, and here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me. I always learn something from it.

And is it something that you do? Will you study reviews from serious people after a film comes out in order to improve your craft?

Because they're good at theirs.

Yes, yes, I have done this. Um, look, obviously it's more fun to read a good review, and obviously when you, when you do your work and then I feel like I did it well and I read a good review, I think those are— those people are smarter. But I went away, um, 8 years ago And I had my publicist gather every bad review that's ever been written on my performances, which is almost 50 at the time.

That's not in the book, huh?

It was a— no, it's not. I didn't put it in there. Maybe it could be in the next one. I went away and read every single one and kind of learned more from the bad reviews in a way than I did from the good ones.

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Huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged, it might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections, it pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up.

Hunter Biden, New York Post, Dennis Prager breaks this story days before the election. This is a bombshell, and it isn't because Hunter Biden And now the Ultimate Issues Hour begins with Christmas music.

No, I thought that's what we said, Ultimate Issues into Christmas.

Oh, the bumpers are Christmas.

All right, guys, whatever you say.

All right, y'all, it's the Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday.

What are you giving him a thumbs up for? What did he do right? What do you mean he did it exactly right? He played— he played the opening to the Ultimate Issues Hour. Why is that right? Well, wait, wait, you're gonna— because why? Oh, because he understood your very unclear direction.

He's hurt. I hurt the living martyr. I can't believe it. I didn't mean to hurt him, and he's a little hurt.

I mean, how does a martyr get hurt anyway? That's an ultimate issue. Hi everybody, third hour every Tuesday, some great issue of life.

This is the final Ultimate Issues hour of the year prior to Christmas, so I'm going to talk to you about the religious life and the secular life.

Probably the single most consistent theme of all of my broadcasting and all of my life I wrote my first book, co-wrote actually, my first book at the age of 25.

It's still in print, Simon Schuster, Nine Questions, the Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism. And my co-author and I divvied up the nine questions, more or less, and I addressed the question of God. And I remember when I wrote it, and I thought, wow, this This is really big. God is the most important question of life. And I didn't realize it till I wrote the book. Writing is the best way to expand your mind. Reading is great. Writing is the best.

Well, I'm thinking about Christmas, so I This past week I was in Florida.

I had a big speech, thousands of young people, thousands literally, in Palm Beach, Florida for TPUSA and Charlie Kirk's great group. They got some good speakers. After me was Tucker Carlson. So I was in good company. Sebastian Gorka was right before me. And I also did some fundraisers, some fundraising talks for PragerU.

In Florida, and one of the homes had a Christmas tree.

I have a picture of me in front of it, and it was at least twice as tall as I— I, I think more than twice as tall. So I, I would say it was about a 20-foot Christmas tree and beautifully decorated. These are very, very well-to-do, very wealthy people, as it happens. Spectacularly beautiful home. You know, they often say that the poor need religion because, like Marx said, it was the opiate of the masses. Poor people need— you know, they cling to religion. As Barack Obama said, religion and their guns. Or their— was it Bibles and their guns?

Uh, how do you explain all the wealthy people who are religious?

What do they need to cling to anyway? Wealthy people need religion as much as poor people, and wealthy people are as likely to be religious. So I was in their home and I thought, what a joy to be in this house, to see this beautiful tree, meet the kids, and of course the parents. And you walk into a committed Jewish home and you see the, you know, the Hanukkah menorah, you see the candles, or you see the electronic lights Electric lights.

And then what do you see in a secular home?

There was also, they had a spectacular collection of figurines of biblical figures.

I mean, it was worthy of a museum.

I took pictures of it. I'm going to show it to you.

The just open closets. In, as you walk into the living room, of just, you know, I looked at as many as I could.

Elijah, you know, I remember was one of them, and you know, and Moses, and obviously figures from the New Testament.

I love such a home. What do you have in a secular home? Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock. Why didn't I think of that? With background music of Stockhausen. It's beautiful. So what do you have to think about it? This is not a knock on secular people. This is actually sort of a sympathy. For them. You're going to tell me that a home without any of these religious symbols is as rich a home, as happy a home in general? I'm talking in general. There are exceptions to everything. It's like when I walk into a home and I see books. I'm happier. I like a home with books. I tell people Buy books, even if you don't read them, just to fill the hallway or one of the rooms in your house. I do my fireside chat from my study. It's all wall-lined with books. There are thousands of books just in that room. How many of them are read? 11. And it's none of your business. I have no idea how many of them I've read. You know why?

I didn't read all of them cover to cover. I read a lot of them in part to help me to write, to help me to figure out answers to issues.

But in any event, if I read none of them, it's a wonderful thing to have, to be surrounded by books. So I think of the secular life as monochromatic and the religious life as in full color. And if you are secular and you're listening, you might think, what is he talking about?

I have a wonderful and rich life. And you might. But it still doesn't compare to the wonderful and rich life that religion gives.

A home with no Christmas or Hanukkah is different. Of course it's different. Ask kids who grew up with a Christmas tree.

I mean, just from the secular standpoint, if you will, of Christmas, and who get up early to see what gifts there were under the tree.

It's like when I have an essay in my book of essays, which I very rarely mention, but it's a very powerful book.

It changes minds. It's called Think a Second Time by Dennis Prager. 44 essays on 44 subjects. And I, and I write about how 3 events that changed my life. And one of the events was in Finland. Ironically, on my 21st birthday, I started travel very early in life. It's how I got to 130 countries. And I went from Lapland, the very, very top of Finland, from Ivalo. I remember where the Finnish railway actually ends or begins, and in northern Finland, and I took it to Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It was about midnight when I arrived. I looked at the station clock, so it was midnight. And then I said to myself, what night is this? I said, oh, it's Friday night. And then I thought, hmm, I didn't have my traditional Sabbath. I was just traveling. And I thought, you know what, I don't want Friday night to be like Thursday night, Wednesday night Tuesday night and Monday night.

I don't want your December 25th to be like your August 25th.

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This morning, you know, Ben Domenech of The Federalist was on Fox Friends saying it's over. And then I talked to you and I talked to other people and I hear them say no, it's in fact not over. Is this just wishful thinking on our parts? Are we grasping at straws in these several scenarios?

I think it's reasonable for us to prepare ourselves for the possibility of a Joe Biden administration, but I am not willing to concede that that needs to happen until we have chased down every last bit of transparent truth that can be found here. And so I think we need to kind of walk with the wisdom that it may not go the way we want it to go, but I think we need to fight for transparency, truth, and integrity in the process. And I don't, I don't think that most Americans have a problem with that conflict inside their hearts, that first and foremost, we get to the bottom of this. And let's say everything goes worst-case scenario. And just remember this about Ben, good old Ben, love The Federalist, great website. He's married to Meghan McCain, who just by nature of who she is, has a certain predisposition about Trump. That probably permeates their marriage on some level. At the same time, it is vital that even if Joe Biden were to end up being sworn in on January 20th, that the work that Sidney Powell is doing, that the work that the Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence is doing, that a special counsel that may or may not be assigned to look into this, we have to chase this down to the nth degree until we know every last bit of it.

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I'm so tired of grievance, Matthew. You're just not mad at anybody except one moment with your mom. Were you aware of that when you were writing this?

Uh, you know, I mean, I've got my grievances, but I, but I've learned to move on from— if I can't be constructive with them, I've learned to move on. I mean, even the deal with my mom, we had a grievance for 8 years, but I knew that was going to have— that we were going to mend our fences and come back together. I just didn't know when, and it took 8 years.

Did you not get a role that you really wished you'd gotten? I mean, that you still think about to this No, Hugh, I've got to be honest.

I'm pretty fortunate in everything that I passed on. I have no regret on anything I passed on. There was a movie that I did love that I was offered that I said no to, but I loved the movie, and that was L.A. Confidential. Oh, Curtis Hanson directed. It's a great movie. And that came to me right after I got famous for A Time to Kill. And so I write about in the book that after that weekend of Time to Kill opened, all of a sudden I was being offered everything, whereas 2 days before Time to Kill opened, I wasn't getting offered much of anything. And so I had— in my— maybe in the affluence of scripts that were coming my way, I remember reading that one thinking it's really good, but I just don't have to do it. But then I saw the movie and I was like, oh, that was a really good one.

Well, I'd be, I'd be amazed if someone in your position doesn't have at least one that you wish you could get back.

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Hi everybody, it's a good time, by the way, on this Ultimate Issues hour before Christmas to remind you of the trip to Israel that I will be leaving along with my buddy You all know my buddy.

That's the buddy, Mike Gallagher.

Next October to Israel.

Maybe a big lesson has been learned here about those of you who are in the better safe than sorry camp. Oh, I'll visit Israel when it's safe. And for 25 years I've been telling people it's safe. If you're waiting for it to be absolutely safe, you'll never go.

You'll never go anywhere. You won't leave home.

It's a great experience. Hundreds, oh, thousands have already gone with me. So, and by the way, you book it, you can cancel through May without any penalty. So you can make your reservation and If you change your mind by February— by May, you can. The banner of the Stand with Israel trip is at my website, DennisPrager.com. Is that good? Was that clear? So I'm talking to you about the difference between a religious life and a secular life, a home with Christmas and without one. I'm not— or Hanukkah, substitute whatever you you like, but you get my point. The monochromatic life that is secular. My whole life I've said secularism is good for government and for nothing else. What are the benefits outside of government? What does it fill your life with? It empties your life of the most profound experiences, wisdom. Name me a secular institution that produces wisdom. That's a real riddle. That's a real tough one for you. What are you going to pick?

Yale?

If there's any wisdom that has come out of Yale in the last 50 years, it came from religious professors. All three of them. There is no wisdom at the university. There is no wisdom in your kid's high school. None. Zero. It's anti-wisdom.

And I was—

so I've been reflecting on the difference of walking into a home with a Christmas tree, decorated Christmas tree, and figurines of biblical characters as I I just saw in Florida at home, or my home with its religious symbols and the Chanukiah or menorah for Hanukkah, and the lulav and etrog, the palm frond and the citron for the holiday of Tabernacles or Sukkot, or the actual sukkah itself, the booth outside the house. It's a richer life. Kids that grow up without this, I feel, I feel that they have, they've lost. 1-800-PREGGER, 776. If you're secular and don't agree, secular, curious how to begin, you're religious and agree, give me a call, 877-243-7776. To have, to have December 25th the same as October 25th or February 25th is, is a tragedy. Sad. You don't think, all things being equal, it's a, it's a more fulfilled and filled and joyful life for a kid to grow up with a Christmas in the house than without one?

What do you have instead?

Fears about climate, uh, climate change? You have a, an annual winter solstice celebration. What is the substitute for religion? The answer is secular religion, of which we have an abundance. That's exactly my point. Every year I've been doing as well about the Santa Claus, I've, I've pointed out that I don't quite understand the argument that you would, if you are a home with Christmas, that you would deprive your child of the, of the fun of Santa. You know, it is very good to have fun in religion. Very important aspect of the religious life for children and for adults. It, it's— it is a very serious subject. Life is a very serious subject, but life needs fun. And if you want your child to grow into an adult to perpetuate your religiosity, having fun associated with your religiosity, uh, is a, a, a bonus. Don't know why a family would deprive their kid of, of, uh, Santa. It's fun. You're not—

you're I never knew, I've reviewed this for so many years on the air and in writing, I've never known anybody who grew up and said, oh, my parents lied to me.

They talked about Santa.

I mean, talking about looking for parents' flaws, that's about as good an example as I could think of.

Imagine they get to see us, some scene from some funny movie at a therapist's office. So what's bothering you, Mr. Jones? Well, Doctor, it's hard to— it's hard to even confront it, but my parents raised me with the belief that there was a Santa claws.

Uh, if, if that bothers you, there's something wrong with you, not wrong with Santa.

These are great things to have in, in life. So it's a richness. The whole thing is a richness. People call me every year, you know, the origins of December 25th go back to Roman religion. Like, so what?

So what?

You know, Jews pray on the holiday of Sukkot, Tabernacles, with a palm frond and citron, as I do. Every year. And observant Jews at synagogue will actually march around saying some Psalms holding the two.

And, you know, of course they were originally fertility symbols.

I mean, if you think about it, they are fertility symbols, but it was transformed by the Torah into something holy.

Of course religion is going to take old wine, excuse me, old bottles and pour new wine into them. That's what people are used to. So what? That's great. That's to its credit.

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What do you make of a city like Minneapolis, Minnesota? That slashed the police budget by millions of dollars last night. It was a unanimous vote. These kooks originally voted to abolish the police department altogether. I'm going to give you some numbers because this is very real here in Georgia too. How pro-police do you think Raphael Warnock is? How pro-police do you think Jon Ossoff is. How pro-police do you think today's Democrats are? In Minneapolis, where we have a lot of listeners, here are some numbers that I want to share with you. There have been 532 gunshot victims so far this year. 532. More than double the same period a year ago. Carjackings are up 331% from the same period last year. They've had hundreds of carjackings in the street of Minneapolis, streets of Minneapolis. Violent crimes have surged to 5,100 crimes. And what did Minneapolis City Council do? Unanimously voted to slash the Minneapolis police department's budget by $8 million. Supposedly, they'll take the money and funnel it to other city services, including mental health teams and violence prevention programs, as they try to, quote, transform police Keep up with what's trending.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules, to make it easier and easier for people to vote. Make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed.

And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal, underhanded but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican, got wiped out in Orange County largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now, obviously, assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is wrought with potential for fraud, but the Democrats pulled that off, and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw— snatching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on, uh, than your average Democrat, uh, and therefore the average non-voter a non-voter or seldom voter is very likely to be a Democrat, and Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though, and did Republicans try and go out and get those? Figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Okay, S&D. Yes, indeed.

Yeah, that's another argument, by the way, for the far richer life of a religious life. What secular music stirs like this every season? And I know my music real, real well. I conduct orchestras. Of course, there's— I'll tell you what, I mean, there is secular classical that does, so If you've been playing Beethoven and— well, I was going to say Bach, but Bach was so deeply religious, it's not a good choice. Handel was so deeply religious. Haydn was so deeply religious. All right, let's take your calls. And where's the one about the— oh yeah, the daughter one. Good.

Paul, Dearborn, Michigan. Dennis Prager, hello.

Hello, Mr. Prager. What a, what a great pleasure to be able to speak with you.

Really means a lot. Thank you.

Um, I, uh, I, uh, I've got 3 little girls that are in my life, and having not had children, um, a decision not to have kids, and then for whatever reason later that just didn't— it just didn't happen.

Um, so wait, so if you didn't have kids in your life, If you didn't have children, who were these 3 girls?

These are my girlfriend's daughters.

Oh, okay, gotcha. Go ahead.

And they mean, they mean everything to me.

So, right, um, so why don't you marry your girlfriend?

Um, well, we're both, um, we're both a little bit shy of it because of our previous marriages.

Just out of curiosity, why would you say What would you say to somebody who's in a car crash and refused to drive?

Uh, that's irrational.

Okay, fair enough. Okay, go ahead.

Yeah, I think I would say that if you're in a car crash, yeah, and you don't want to drive again, that's irrational.

So that's how I view if you were in a divorce and don't want to marry again.

Yeah, I, I've, I've, I've, uh, yeah.

Well, now that you know, you don't have to react. I'm just telling you.

Okay, so tell me about her.

So I, so having, you know, I'm 55 and, and, and, you know, I often hear, you know, you talk about, you know, purpose in life and, and I've given, given quite a bit of my time to people that I love and at the risk of, uh, you know, patting myself on the back, I just have. And I, and I see these, these girls growing up and having gone I went through 8 years of Catholic school myself, which was a sweet blessing for me. Um, I, I, they're not getting any religion, and, uh, mom is a bit cynical and, uh, you know, you know, left and progressive and none of the things that, that my beloved Democratic Party used to be that I've bailed on. And, uh, so anyway, to the girls, I, I just, how would you approach, I'm just curious to, how would you approach The idea of me taking these girls to church, these little girls, and introducing them to, uh, a God.

Well, totally. I totally support—

if the mother would agree. Is that what you just said? Yeah, I think so. Obviously she disagrees. It's her, it's her children. I understand.

Uh, look, that is why—

and I want everybody listening to please listen to this— to the consternation of some religious people I have said often, I have spent far more time speaking about the necessity of God than the existence of God.

And that is the argument that I would use.

Why, why, my dear girlfriend, hopefully spouse after Dennis Prager's fine argument, why would you deprive your daughters of the richest way to live a life, even if you don't believe in it. Unless you believe that a religious life is actually detrimental to a good life, to a rich life, a happy life, which is a pretty sick belief and baseless, why would you object to just doing it? Here, you know, I am critical of things within Jewish and Christian life, and this is one of the sort of blessings and curses of Christian life, which is its great emphasis, and it is wonderful, on faith and the profound impact faith has on people.

But what if somebody is just not there faith-wise? Make the argument on pragmatic grounds. That's what I just did for the opening of this, of this hour, about the richness of the home with the Christmas tree, the richness of the home with Christmas, the richness of the home with, with a church service, the richness of the home with, yes, even Santa, the richness of the home with the music. A secular home with none of that is as happy a home, as rich a home, to use the word again? I don't think so.

You don't have to believe to take religion seriously, but if you take religion seriously, you will probably end up believing.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way, fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical Race Theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the Masters of Menlo Park, they consider Critical Race Theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Antrim County. Why is that important? Antrim County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican—

Michigan.

Yes, and it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion Voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake.

And then Another great one, another classic.

Hi everybody, a Merry Christmas to you.

Coming up on Friday, Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday. The infinitely richer life of a religious life. The staggering mistake people make in not embracing a religious life is they say, well, I really don't believe in it.

So what?

There are things that you do that are good for you whether you believe in it or not. Do you believe that it is bad for you? Then don't do it. You don't have to believe to lead a religious life, but, uh, you certainly won't end up believing if you don't lead a religious life. A religious life is worth it. Whatever your belief status. I'm a behaviorist. Act loving, you'll feel loving. Act religious, you'll feel religious. Why would you not make a Christmas tree? I mean, if you don't have religious objections. But for the great majority of you, why wouldn't you do it? Or by make, I mean it was actually made by nature or God. I mean, have one in your home. It's, it's a richer life.

That's the argument here. And Lisa in Glendale, California, right down the Block. Hello. Hello.

Hi.

So when I, um, called, I was thinking more along the lines of the Santa Claus comment, but as I've been sitting here, I'm thinking about that relationship to my son. So my son is my youngest of four and the only one who is still mad at me. He's a teenager who's still mad at me for not telling him the truth about Santa when he was younger, and but he's also my one who has chosen to leave our religious family's preference, at least for now. And so it's an interesting, I've just been thinking about the correlation.

There's no correlation. He's using his leaving the family's religiosity, at least at this time, he's using that the Santa Claus thing as a cover. Any teenager who was angry at his parents for telling him about Santa Claus, who's truly angry about it, needs a therapist or a timeout. I would say to him, you know what, you're a child.

No normal adult is angry at their parents for telling them about about Santa Claus.

It shows, it shows me what great parents you have, that that's what you have tried, it's what you have figured out to be annoyed with them about. That's what I— if I could speak to your kid, I swear to God, that's what I would tell him. It's harder for you because you love him.

I don't love him. I think he's, I think he's an immature brat.

Well, I appreciate your opinion on that, and I will think about it.

Okay, but without telling him he's an immature brat, you can tell him we must be terrific parents if that's what you've decided to be angry about. Oh, are you angry about that? Did you give him the tooth fairy? Is he angry about that? Now I would be angry at parents who told me that in 12 years the world is going to be existentially destroyed because of climate change.

Now that's worthy of getting annoyed at parents for scaring you about your future. That's a separate issue.

Really, I mean, think about it, folks. You're gonna be angry at your parents because of Santa Claus? God, they must have been awesome parents.

All right, y'all, let's, let's go to Betsy in Denver. Hi there.

Hi, Mr. Prager, it's an honor to talk to you.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Thank you. And, um, I am calling for— I want to tell you a story that you'll love. And then I was just gonna— which I'm interested listening to the show as I'm waiting, but, um, I was going to talk about the hypocrisy of the secular that set up and celebrate Christmas but don't practice religion.

I don't think it's hypocritical.

I salute them for doing it. No, I think it's I think it's great. Yes, because it's a better home, it's a richer home. That was my argument. I, I, I, I, yeah, if an atheist has a Christmas tree, I give that more power to them.

Yeah, okay.

All right. No, I'm glad you raised that. There's no hypocrisy there. We use hypocrisy much too easily. We might— it might be inconsistency, but it's not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is somebody who would say, you know what, anybody who has a Christmas tree is a fool, and then they put up a Christmas tree. Okay, hypocrisy is closing down hair salons in California and then going to a hair salon. I can't even think of anybody who would do that. Or closing down restaurants and then going to a restaurant if you're a governor. I can't imagine anybody I don't know anybody doing that, but that's an example of hypocrisy.

It's actually worse than that, but that's an example. I would love secular people to lead religious lives, and they don't have to give up their secular beliefs.

I don't want you to be phonies. You're not a phony if you're secular and you do religious things. You just know how much better it is a life, and hope, maybe you even have some hope, maybe it'll affect you. That, that was my key point here.

Yes, indeed. I got a challenge, good, from Philadelphia coming up. I want to remind you, by the way, that if you're still thinking about a gift, the, uh, not only is my commentary on the Bible life-changing, and it is, otherwise I wouldn't have written it, The Rational Bible, which you can still get on time from ordering it, but it is gorgeously hardcover bound. It is gorgeously printed. The Rational Bible. There are two volumes out.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defund funding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.

Final segment of today's show. Patrick in Philadelphia, hello.

Hello, Mr. Prager. Hi. Um, so I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, uh, 12 years of Catholic education, and I was even an altar boy. But in freshman religion in high school, Father Casadas taught me about the difference between a faith of conviction and a faith of convention. And what I recognized was that I was living the trappings of believing that I didn't believe. And I think it is the height of hypocrisy to pretend to have a faith that you don't have. My mother had a very solid faith all of her life. I, I recognize that, but I didn't share it. I don't share it.

Right.

I, I have an answer The answer to that, I'll give you an analogy.

What if you can't stand classical music? Are you a hypocrite for having your child study Beethoven?

Study Beethoven?

Yeah, learn the piano and play Beethoven. And would you take your child to a classical concert if you couldn't care less about classical music?

Are you a hypocrite?

I, I see it. I don't— I wouldn't have a problem with that, in the same way that I think all children should be taught about all religions. It doesn't mean they have to practice those religions.

When, when a person grows through an age, their own decision—

no, no, no, you— okay, studying about religion is not the same as practicing it. It's like studying about playing piano is not the same as playing piano.

But I want to just know, are you a hypocrite if you teach your child to love classical music if you can't stand it?

Um, I don't think it's the job of a parent to decide what a child should love or not.

Okay, then, uh, uh, you didn't answer it either. I didn't ask— I didn't use the word love. Okay, so I'm not getting through. But it's a very important point that you raised. I think it's completely incoherent.

You either believe that it is better to lead a religious life or not.

I don't give a damn what you have in terms of faith.

It means nothing to me. I only care what you do. It is a richer life to have a Christmas tree in your home than no Christmas tree.

It is a richer life to go your Catholic to, to Mass, uh, Christmas than not to.

I don't care what you actually believe. If you wait till you have perfect belief, you will do nothing of all of this richness. Okay, see you tomorrow.