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Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager. Welcome to the Anti-Panic Show. That's the— if I had to name the show, that's the tentative name that I would give it at this time. It's been my life. Better, the anti-hysteria show. We live, we live in the age of the drama queen. That's what we do. I've called this age a lot of things in the course of my career: the age of stupidity, the age of anti-wisdom, the age of feelings. The Age of the Irrational, and that's another one. The Age of the Drama Queen. There are students at the University of Arizona State or University of Arizona. I think it's Arizona State, but one of the two. The Students for Socialism. I mean, it's now There's now pride for some students in advocating what the communists advocated. And along with the Students for Justice in Palestine, isn't it interesting how the haters, the true haters, the haters of the left, are united on all these issues? Now why would Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that wants Israel eradicated, Why would that group care about Kyle Rittenhouse being on the campus? Because of intersectionality. You see, they— you have to be right, or I should say left, on everything. When I saw them listed there, these are drama queens. My heart breaks for Kyle Rittenhouse, actually. Truly breaks for him. Good kid. He went to protect property that police weren't being— weren't protecting during the riots in which the left was allowed to destroy whatever they wanted to destroy with extremely few arrests and far fewer prosecutions. That's what— that's what 2020 was about: leftists destroying cities. But we talk about January 6th, right? That's all we talk about is January 6th. A half a year at least of massive anarchy and violence, and the press gives you crickets. But January 6th, where the only person to have been killed was one of the protesters who was unarmed a female, and we don't even know the, the officer who did it, or on what grounds he did it.

We do know.

We know the officer now. Oh, I take that back then. Gotta get my facts completely correct. That is what people talk about, January 6th. Didn't, uh, Tony Fauci even make reference to that? Well, what, what is, what is that? It's so obvious he's a leftist that he doesn't hide it because there's no price to be paid. All right, I promised in my promo for the show that I would discuss this subject on the way in. I was already asked about it. Now, I want you to know that the most important thing about what I'm about to report to you, which is a weird, weird story, uh, is my take on it. I, I don't report the weird for the sake of reporting the weird, but I think that this— and I may be wrong I think this is not insignificant, let me put it that way. Newsweek: A woman on a recent Delta Airlines flight allegedly began to breastfeed her pet cat mid-flight and refused to stop after getting caught. The incident allegedly happened during a recent trip on board Delta Flight 1360 a route that travels between Syracuse, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia. A TikTok account from flight attendant Ainsley Elizabeth appeared to refer to the incident, with a video posted on November 2 claiming that, quote, security met the flight because a woman was breastfeeding her cat. This woman had one of those like hairless cats swaddled up in a blanket so it looked like a baby, Ainsley Elizabeth said in a follow-up video posted on November 13th. Her shirt was up and she was trying to get the cat to latch, and she wouldn't put the cat back in the carrier, and the cat was screaming for its life. What does she do at home if she's doing that in public? she asked. And then security met the flight just to tell her that she couldn't do that again because it was weird and gross. Well, that question is in fact my question. What's wrong with that? I'd like a secular response to the question, what is wrong with that? Okay, in my opinion, you have no answer, absolutely no secular response to what's wrong with that. For those of you new to my show, and for those of you longtime listeners, a reminder— new— a, an important statement about my show. If one were to summarize everything that I stand for in broadcasting, it is to bring to your attention the consequences of secularism, what the post-Judeo-Christian era produces. Now, of course, this is only one incident, and you don't take anecdotes to reveal necessarily— sometimes they might— a tendency in our society. I'm not raising it to reveal that it's a tendency. I don't think it is. I'm not asking that. I'm not even commenting on that. I'm asking a question: give me a secular reason why it is wrong to do what she did? I can't think of one. What's the religious reason? The religious reason is the distinction between human and animal is being violated. That this is a— it is not exactly by definition, but it is a form of bestiality or bestiality. Me, depending on how you pronounce it. Now, by the way, why is bestiality wrong? There's no secular answer to that either. It's just a phony answer. The dog didn't give its permission, or the, the cow, or whatever, whatever animal you want to talk about, the bull. I won't get more graphic. Really, why is it wrong? I raised this issue. The phone number here is 1-800-PRAGER-776. I raised this issue when San Francisco voted on whether or not they should drop their prohibition in the city against public nudity. In other words, can people in San Francisco walk around naked? Will it be legal? By one vote, they maintained that it would be illegal, but the reason they gave was the god of our time: health. Health uber alles. Some— somebody out there should make a, uh, should make a, a song using the words health uber alles. The naked person might sit on a bench and it would be unsanitary for him or her to do so. That was the argument. That's the secular argument. But there's no secular argument against nursing a cat in public or private. What you have when you have the post-Judeo-Christian era is chaos. Men give birth would be the ultimate statement. 52 genders if you sign up for Facebook. Is it now 52? I want to check on that. It was 52 years ago. It's now 20. Oh, we'll look up in the meantime. Chaos. We saw it on America's streets, and you see it in America's behavior.

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Last night, the New York Times ran a headline, social spending infrastructure advances in-house. And I thought to myself, when did socialism go from big government to social spending infrastructure? Social spending infrastructure doesn't mean anything. It's never been a term of art. It doesn't have any meaning. It's a cover term for a vast hose of money on everything. This isn't going to get through the Senate, is it?

Oh no, I don't think this is going to get through the Senate. And the infrastructure bill got through, but that's going to be about it on these big spending programs. And Pelosi and her crew want $4 trillion in spending. And of course, I get it, Pelosi wants to pass this thing so that she can be an ambassador and head to Rome. What they're trying to do is cast one vote, and in that one vote, they want to take control of your kids control of education, control of your healthcare, federalizing elections, changing immigration policy, then more provisions of the Green New Deal and a socialist economy.

Are you telling me that Speaker Pelosi— we're gonna, we're gonna visit her on the Pope? Is that what you're telling me?

We're hearing that that is the goal. I don't talk to her. But what we're hearing is that she is looking forward to becoming an ambassador.

Now, look, Francis and I don't agree on much, but he is— that we cannot do that to the Pope.

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So why— Pardon me? That was before the— Don't get brazen with me. You knew very well, you know very well that an attorney can't go into these types of areas when the judge has already ruled without asking outside the presence of the jury to do so. So don't give me that.

That's number one.

I have to tell you, I haven't sat in front of a lot of judges in real time. I did it once for a speeding ticket in my life. I have watched many trials on TV, real ones.

I don't think I've ever seen a judge as pissed as that.

He actually looked— if you weren't watching on the video, he looked infuriated. He was jumping up in his seat and he said, don't get brazen with me, to the deputy district attorney.

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Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me.

But he's not.

We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives.

This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.

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I just got notice from folks who run the Dennis Prager Store that the one day a year Cyber Monday sale has gone to Cyber Tuesday. So when I told you yesterday it's only one day a year, I was telling you the truth, but they extended it to one more day. The probably best-selling thing I've ever made, aside from my books obviously. In terms of audio, my teaching of the first 5 books of the Bible, the Torah, available on CD, available on MP3 with a player, and it is available on a memory stick. What's it called? A memory stick? There's a word— flash drive. Yeah, it's not memory stick. Sean, why didn't you tell me memory stick? Yeah, and that is at thepragerstore.com or at my website, dennisprager.com. You can click on it. If it doesn't affect your life, even change it, uh, I would be surprised. And it has nothing to Well, not nothing. It's, it's completely different from my commentary in print. It made the commentary in print possible because I had to teach all 5 books. It's big, big stuff. The big stuff is what matters in life. In any event, Mike Gallagher was on that flight. This is what I just got notice from our screener. Oh, gotta have him on. Did he know what was happening? Mike's an animal lover, so he might have some serious thoughts about that. So that's the greatest error of the modern age is the arrogant naive, foolish belief that you can get rid of God and the Bible and still make a terrific place for people. That's the stupidest belief of our time. Everything emanates from that, almost everything, because there are a lot of religious fools too. That I, I fully acknowledge that. And there are some secular wonderful people. But it doesn't endure. As I wrote in my 20s, my first book, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, still in print, I read somewhere about the idea of cut flower ethics. Secular ethics are cut flowers. What does that mean? If you take a flower out of its soil, out of the soil that nurtures it, a person who doesn't know anything about plant growth would say, look, it doesn't need its soil, it looks beautiful, it smells beautiful. But in a few days it withers and dies. That's what happens to secular ethics. The values that we got from the Judeo-Christian world. Those values wrenched from their soil look like they could survive. Well, take a look at half this country. The left is the antithesis of the biblical worldview. The antithesis. Read my column today, by the way. I list 16 things. 16. That the left has ruined. Okay, see, you need a handy-dandy guide to the nihilism of the left. Look at my column today at my website or Town Hall, and within a week at Daily Wire, American Greatness, and many other places— Jewish World Review. By the way, at Jewish World Review, it's the only place I know of on the internet— I've used it for this reason They have every single— just look up my name— they have every single column I have written from the first one 20 years ago. So what's the secular answer? She said the flight attendant said it was— what was the words that she used? Uh, let's see. Where they're weird and gross. Yeah, weird and gross. Well, it's weird and gross, but you have to explain. We understand why it's weird. Anything that, that's almost unique is weird. Got that. Weird doesn't mean bad. However, something that almost never happens doesn't, doesn't mean it is bad. Or gross. So why is it gross? That's the question. What's the secular reason? There is none. That's my— that's my point here, right? So, Greg in Louisville, Kentucky, hello.

How you doing today?

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, um, I would say, uh, my secular reason, yeah, would be that it's just against social norms. And also in the story it said that, uh, I guess the cat was, uh, upset and crying or whatever. So I guess that would be on the, uh, on the verge of animal abuse, right?

So if the cat were happy, you— that would end that second argument. As for social norms, it's a terrible argument. Uh, it was a social norm in the South not to allow blacks to sit at lunch counters.

I'm not saying that's my opinion, right?

So it's— no, no, I'm not, I'm not even— whether it is or not, it's not, it's not an answer. Social norms cannot be the basis of morality.

Well, I think that, uh, you know, I think that also that social norms really is based on the— uh, is based on morality.

In a moral society it is, but if a society has lost its way and has no guidelines, social norms become worse and worse. I think social norms are very important. What was I reading? So I was reading an article recently of somebody saying that as, you know, as informal as people were dressed Prior to COVID, when traveling, it's even more so. It almost looks like they're gonna show up in pajamas. They're not. I'm not claiming they are, but it was somebody— I've lamented the decline in what people wear publicly. There is no longer talking about social norms, and I'm a big believer in proper social norms. Very big believer. What people wear is a statement, though they don't think of it that way, about everything—themselves and especially the public. Why did people—if you look at pictures from the 1950s, look at the way people were dressed at baseball games. Baseball games. Now, why did they do that? Because the thought was you go out in public and you want to present yourself in a way that says, I take you seriously. That is certainly a social norm that has gone, by the way. You know that when kids are told at school that they have a dress code, their grades increase and their, their attitudes are better and their behavior is better. Back in a moment.

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One more time, President Biden.

Conversations around those kitchen tables that are both profound as they are ordinary. How do I cross a bridge in the snowstorm? What happened? No, I didn't think about it. You know, you're in a situation. What happens if the bridge collapses and there's a fire on the other side? It's going to take 10 miles longer to get to the fire. People can die. I mean, this is real. This is real stuff.

Now, I originally suggested hashtag snowstorm fire bridge collapse. Here I was. I worked all day on the president's remarks. I found this bit of gold. Alerting the country to the impending massive cycle of snowstorms, fires, and bridge collapses and trucks that can't get anywhere. And I thought to myself, if I let the country know first, I'll get the credit for that. If you're driving today, would you let me know where the snowstorm, fire, bridge collapse is? 1-800-520-1234.

If you're going across a bridge, we want to hear from you to see if that bridge has indeed caught fire in a snowstorm.

If you're on any bridge anywhere. Or collapsed. Collapsed, or collapsed, and you see a house anywhere burning, stop and help. We have many stories of heroes who have done the same thing. There was one in New York yesterday. A guy was running past a house that nobody knew was on fire, and he saved all the pets. He's a hero. So you be a hero today when it— we'll call it a Biden event. Whenever we have a Biden event, you need to stop. I don't know how you get across the river. How are we going to get across the river, Generalissimo? If the bridge is down? I have no idea.

When was the last bridge collapse?

I asked you last night. The research collapses. Bridge collapses aren't funny, but I think that was the last one.

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for townhall.com. Sometimes there are policies so destructive that at first you don't believe they're true. Joe Biden is currently defending one, his plan to award $450,000 to migrants separated from their families after entering the U.S. illegally. Children of deceased U.S. soldiers are separated from their parents permanently. They don't receive this kind of money, and migrants who enter the U.S. legally certainly don't get this kind of payout. The really big jackpot, it seems, is being reserved for the lawbreakers. There are some obvious truths here. First, behavior that's subsidized gets repeated. Joe Biden is effectively inviting many more illegal immigrants to breach America's open borders. Second, he's betting over time the payoffs will benefit his party in political terms. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Americans watch in shock and dismay as our president, the country's chief law enforcement officer, brazenly rewards lawbreaking, a clear violation of his oath to defend our nation's laws. It's a sorry sight indeed.

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All right, I'm going to move on. Let me summarize a couple of calls here. Uh, all right, so I asked for a secular argument against what this woman did on the— on a Delta flight, which was breastfeed her cat. Terry in Chicago says dangerous to take an animal out of a carrier. If it gets loose, there's panic. Yeah, I am. I must say, if people panic because of a cat, we're in worse condition than I, than I thought. Judith in Atlanta: Delta flight attendant says regulations are specific regarding animals. That's not a secular argument, it's a legal argument. Don has the best in Chicago: the cat was not wearing a mask. It's a very good point. I hadn't thought of that, Don. Takes a fertile mind to come up with that one. Good, I like you. I like you, Bob, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Maybe the woman just wanted to expose herself. She lactating with no baby? Interesting. Well, there's no doubt she wanted to expose herself. Because she didn't hide her breasts. Anyway, that of course raises the question with the human baby and exposed breasts. They would talk about social norms. The social norm was that you covered yourself if you were breastfeeding in public. In a secular age, there's no reason to cover yourself. It's actually sexist. It's anti-female to even presume otherwise. Uh, let's see. It's okay, Walla Walla Washington John, because we teach our children anything goes. Well, I would— we don't actually. You can't say you're colorblind. You can't say America is a wonderful country. You can't say it's a blessing for people of every color to live in this country. Uh, we don't live in an anything goes. Anything goes in the direction of anarchy, chaos, but not anything goes. And let's see, Lee, a male in Port St. Lucie, Florida. You can get the disease from cats. You can get a disease from a human baby, I guess. All right. There is no secular argument. That was my point. Back to a biblical point. The serpent's argument to Adam and Eve was, A, you should eat from the tree of knowledge. You'll be like gods. A lot of people want to be God. It's an amazing thing. For those of us who don't, It's very hard to understand. But it's hard for us to, most of us to understand a lot of things. I understand, as I often point out, I understand bank robbers. But I don't understand child molesters. Okay? I don't understand the desire to be God. Tony Fauci has it. Face the nation. Talking about Ted Cruz and Senator Cruz and Paul. They're really criticizing science because I represent science. That's cool. That's a big thing. You represent science. Therefore, what is the therefore? Therefore, nothing I say can be challenged. Because anything I say represents science. It is like— got our New Zealand Prime Minister, one of my favorite lines of the year 2021. All right, Sean, you got the Prime Minister of New Zealand who said that if you don't hear it from the government, it isn't true. If that stuff doesn't scare you, I don't know what does. They're really criticizing science because I represent science. Didn't he also say it in the third person? I thought he did. Wall Street Journal editorial. Here's a line from it. What is today's date? 30th. Yes, so yesterday, the Wall Street Journal: lockdowns don't stop the virus. There was this talk show host who said in April of 2020, lockdowns are the greatest mistake in history.

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This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. The only way we separate good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them.

There's no free speech for fascists.

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It makes it difficult for you to learn from other people. You have the right to remain silent.

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A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

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Well, y'all, Dennis Prager here. So let's see, it's not true if it doesn't come from the government. New Zealand Prime Minister: I represent science. All of that means you cannot differ with us. Get it? That's all that— why, why are those statements made? You differ with the New Zealand government, that means you're telling lies. That's the statement here. You differ with the Democratic Party, it's misinformation, so declares Twitter. By the way, apparently the, the new Twitter head— Jack Dorsey is leaving— the new Twitter head is even less committed to free speech. I read that. I don't know if it's true. I wouldn't be surprised. The— when you believe you have all truth, which the left believes, whether it's science or anything else, then clearly there is no room for misinformation. They declare whatever they differ with misinformation. Politifact lied about me in saying that I told a lie about the— I don't even know, how can I tell a lie? It was an opinion. I said that the couple of weeks ago where I wrote and spoke on the air about the greatest pariahs since slavery in the United States. And by the way, not just the United States, of the unvaccinated. I don't know why that's even controversial. Doesn't deny the sufferings. And I even specifically spoke of the sufferings of gays during AIDS. There were no laws passed. That's right. What is it? You're right, just today. Let's see here. There are two stories for you just today. So Greece, okay, let's see. This is from Bloomberg. Greece imposes a $114 monthly fine on unvaccinated people over 60. That's a lot of money. It's a lot of money, of course it is. And did we have an analogy here in the United States? Every single member of a group had to pay a fine each month? It's unbelievable that Politico would declare what I wrote to be untrue. They lie to themselves, so therefore if you differ with them You're lying. Politico is as corrupt as the other places. You know, by the way, they're all related. Who is Politico owned by? Did you ever— did you notice that? I finally looked that up and it's affiliated— is it with the Tampa Tribune? What is it? What is its affiliation? Yeah, take a look, because the Poynter Group— what is the Poynter Group?

You mean PolitiFact, not Politico.

Oh, you're right, PolitiFact. I thank you for correcting that. Yeah, PolitiFact, not Politico. PolitiFact claims to be a fact-checking organization, and they— there is believers in misinformation if you differ with the left as anybody else. What else did you have? Austria. Let's see, what's Austria now? Austria considers €7,200 fine for the unvaccinated Austrian residents. This is from Euractiv, Euractiv TV. No, Euractiv, Euractiv. Austrian residents who refuse to get their COVID-19 jab from February, when they will be mandatory, will face fines of up to €7,200. That's about $8,000. Even in Austria, that's a serious sum of money for people. Everybody refuses to comply will be summoned to the district administration authorities. If they ignore the summons twice, they will be fined €3,600. If their violation of the COVID vaccination law puts other persons at serious risk— what does that mean? Well, Who's not putting— unless you're in solitary confinement, you're putting people at risk. Fine up to $7,200.

Well, I don't think anybody was ever fined for having AIDS.

Well, even mentioning that is, uh, it's intellectually honest, but you can't say it. There were behaviors that caused in America that bodily fluids— overwhelmingly AIDS was a disease, which doesn't make it less tragic, just a fact— of people who were gay males and intravenous drug users. The press lied because it always lies. Dennis Prager, saying it was also a non-discriminatory disease that had affected heterosexuals as much as male homosexuals. By the way, as I pointed out even then, it did not affect more than any other group. It did not affect female homosexuals, lesbians, gay women. But truth is the victim of leftism. Truth is crapped on. By the whole left. To say what I just said is denied. It is called homophobic, even though gay women were the least likely to get it. Truth is not a left-wing value. Attacking people who differ with the left is the left-wing value. I don't know how this country has produced so many scummy people. I can't tell you how sad it is to me. I had such a, I guess, naive vision of most of my fellow citizens. And this has been a sad realization. Doesn't mean that I fight for America any less. But what leftism has done to the character of so many Americans is a sad development.

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What are some of the things that folks can do? I get that question all the time. And now I have Ben Carson as my guest. Dr. Carson, what can some folks do out there? And what are some of the things that you're working on?

Most important things are not to be silent, not to stand in the corner with your head down and hope that somebody doesn't call you a nasty name or try to cancel you. Because you can't be the land of the free if you're not also the home of the brave. So we had a wonderful example last week in Virginia as people actually stood up, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they all stood up and said, you know, we're in charge. You're not in charge, government. You work for us. We don't work for you. This is what people people have to begin to do. If they don't do it, the government will take complete control of all of our lives.

Well, it's interesting because it seems to me that things have gotten so extremely bad that many people who would ordinarily keep sleeping are waking up. So that is the good news, that there are people that just never dreamt that we could have gas prices soaring, grocery prices soaring, literally millions of people coming across unnecessarily our borders. Well, for sure, supply chain problems, weakness around the world, losing many, many billions of dollars of military equipment to our enemies. Just levels of horror that I think almost nobody could have believed would happen this quickly.

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We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives.

This is how I began the life of crime. I I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.

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Article in the Great City Journal, one of my two favorite journals. The other is the Claremont Review of Books. There are a lot of great ones, by the way, just for the record, but they really knock it out of the park. So, uh, the latest, uh, November 29th, yesterday: Philadelphia breaks a homicide record thanks to the leadership of its progressive mayor and district attorney. On November 26th, the 501st murder of the year, the most ever. And you know what? People are going to vote Democrat anyway. The Democrats supervise the destruction of their cities and people vote for them. It's an amazing phenomenon. Philadelphia, I have been noting now for about a year, has truly deteriorated. People think of San Francisco correctly and LA correctly. And Chicago correctly. New York. But I think Philadelphia's institutions have been ruined by the left, a greater proportion of Philadelphia institutions— museums, concert halls, University of Pennsylvania, which is located in Philadelphia. And they have a George Soros, a man who seems to embody evil. It's an amazing thing to be able to say that about somebody. And he funds people who empty jails so that more innocent people can get hurt, murdered for that matter. Wasn't there— it was a student. The latest, the latest murder in Philadelphia, I think, was a, uh, was a college student. Poor kid, poor family. I think about the families every time a kid is killed or dies from something else. Everything has changed. Yep. It goes back to the arrogance of thinking we can do without the source of Western civilization's morality, the Bible. That's why I wrote a commentary. It needs to be understood.

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One more time, President Biden.

Conversations around those kitchen tables that are both profound as they are ordinary. How do I cross a bridge in a snowstorm? What happened? No, I didn't think about it. You know, you're in a situation, what happens if the bridge collapses and there's a fire on the other side? It's going to take 10 miles longer to get to the fire. People could die. I mean, this is real. This is real stuff.

Now, I originally suggested hashtag snowstorm fire bridge collapse. Here I was, I worked all day on the president's remarks, I found this bit of gold alerting the country to the impending massive cycle of snowstorms, fires, and bridge collapses, and trucks that can't get anywhere. And I thought to myself, if I let the country know first, I'll get the credit for this. If you're driving today, Would you let me know where the snowstorm fire bridge collapse is? 1-800-520-1234.

If you're going across the bridge, we want to hear from you to see if that bridge has indeed caught fire in the snowstorm.

If you're on any bridge anywhere— Or collapsed. Or collapsed, and you see a house anywhere burning, stop and help. We have many stories of heroes who have done the same thing. There was one in New York yesterday. A guy was running past a house that nobody knew was on fire, and he saved all the pets. He's a hero. So you be a hero today when it will call it a Biden event. Whenever we have a Biden event, you need to stop. I don't know how you get across the river. How are you going to cross the river, Generalissimo, if the bridge is down? I have no idea.

When was the last bridge collapse?

I asked you last night. I think 2005. Bridge collapses aren't funny, but I think that was the last one.

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What is he charged with?

First-degree murder. That's right. Two counts.

How is that possible? It's an altercation. I mean, first-degree murder is where you're Like, I'm going to murder this person and go to their home with, you know, not, not some sort of bar fight gone wrong.

Yeah. So that's— so you're right, actually, that would be what you're talking about would potentially be either voluntary manslaughter. Yeah, that's what I never understood about this. Or second-degree murder because it was more indiscriminate. What they're saying is what the prosecution's argument is, is that Kyle Rittenhouse brought his gun because he intended to murder these BLM protesters and that he had vengeful intent. Now, what's interesting to me is that the prosecution just a few minutes ago before I came on the show, just rested in this case after about a week and a half of testimony. They did not present a single shred of evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up with intent to hurt anyone.

Well, but this is what I can't understand, is that the judge, the pretrial arguments, because this is just— you have months to submit, you know, motions to dismiss. You're trying to tell me no one looked at this? They say, wait a second, you're charging a guy who got in an altercation— was, by the way, the guy that Kyle Rittenhouse killed in self-defense was like a child rapist or something, right? He was like a child pedophile or something.

Is that right? Multiple, multiple count child rapist.

And honestly, I'm not saying he deserves to die because of it, but right.

Let's just— details of that case, if anyone wants to see it, it's It's absolutely horrific.

Not Gandhi. Okay, let's just—

what's interesting, though, what is actually relevant, what's actually relevant to this is that he had just been released from a hospital where he was being held on a psychiatric hold.

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Right now, based upon how the judge is responding to the way that this evil bunch of hyenas are trying to make— the fact of the matter of this, Rittenhouse killed 2 people. Both of them were criminals. One of them had just been released from jail for doing what? Raping young boys. If it were up to me, that would be a death penalty automatic in America. Rape a child, death, end of story. That's the reason nations create capital punishment. He got out, which is just so understanding and empathetic of us. He threatened people all day and then He used force and threatened Kyle Rittenhouse, who was there to help people when he wasn't a community pool lifeguard. And that man shot to death the child rapist. Rot in hell. The second man, oh yes, with a rap sheet for what? Assaulting women. He got killed as well after he swung at Kyle Rittenhouse with a skateboard to his head. Not a lot of tears will be shed for that man, I'm sure, in any community of decent Americans. And then the third guy who approached him with a Glock pointed to Kyle's head, who then had his bicep blown off by that brave young man. Come on, guys. Acquit, or better yet, mistrial.

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What are some of the things that folks can do? I get that question all the time, and now I have Ben Carson as my guest. Dr. Carson, what can some folks do out there, and what are some of the things that you're working on?

Most important things are not to be silent, not to stand in the corner with your head down and hope that somebody doesn't call you a nasty name or try to cancel you.

That we could have gas prices soaring, grocery prices soaring, literally millions of people people coming across unnecessarily our borders. Well, for sure, supply chain problems, weakness around the world, losing many, many billions of dollars of military equipment to our enemies. Just levels of horror that I think almost nobody could have believed would happen this quickly.

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A school administrator in Indiana was locked out of his email and banned from school grounds last week after leaking information that students were being instructed in critical race theory ideology. Washington Examiner. Hi, I'm Dennis Prager. As of one hour ago, Indianapolis Public Schools has suspended my access to email and Google Drive, Anthony Kinnett, an administrator with Indianapolis Public Schools, posted to Twitter Wednesday. By the way, I'll be in Indianapolis soon, right? Next— later this month? In December? Yeah, right. Giving a talk there. I am currently banned from going to any IPS, Indianapolis Public School, building or hosting any professional developments. The administrator said the punitive actions are in response to Kinnitz leaking of a video earlier this year that showed an equity administrator, whoo, teaching middle school students that systematic racism affects all levels of society and the environment. According to a report, the environment— oh my, there's so much racism dealing with just the environment, Dr. Patricia Payne told students. I thought this was somebody mocking it. She's saying it's a— what is the percentage of these, uh, woke visitors, the equity speakers, what percentage is female? 80? It doesn't seem like that. Sometimes, yeah. Dr. Patricia Payne told students during a January 15th racial justice speaker series lecture— what did they teach them anything at school? Music and art is dead, but they bring in speakers on equity. Equity is, by the way, has nothing to do with equality, just, just for the record. The material released by Kinnitt was reportedly public, but that did not stop IPS, the Indianapolis Public Schools, from taking action against him. In HR meetings, I was informed that it was irrelevant that the information I released was public and stored on public servers. He tweeted, I've been required to work from home the last 2 weeks as staff reportedly have clinical anxiety over working with me. That's what I mean by the drama queens. Look, we have raised— the parents of this last generation have raised wimps. That's a general rule. The helicopter parent. Yes, that's, that's you. It's sort of a paralysis, an emotional paralysis. That parents gave their children, not being able to deal with life. And now, ladies and gentlemen, aside from the woman nursing the cat on the plane on the Delta flight, the story of the day— I could have made up that story if under pressure, a woman nursing an animal The following story I could not make up, and it comes from the home of absurdity, Germany. German euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers. That was the proper sound effect, I must say. That's right, my dear friends, you can kill yourself in Germany, but not if you're unvaccinated. I want you to know that my engineer was just about to take a sip from a cup when he heard that, and that prevented his drinking anything from the cup because he's laughing too hard. Yep. So the absurdity, the level of absurdity is immeasurable. This is a story for the ages. So euthanasia is legal in Germany. You can go to somebody who will kill you, but not if you're not vaccinated. We won't kill you if you're not vaccinated. I guess the, the rest of the sentence is we simply hope you'll die by getting COVID. You unvaccinated a-hole. Now, if you don't believe me, let me give you the source. The Spectator, printed, issued in England, November 26th, 3:19 AM. Irony has been declared many times in this pandemic, but now from COVID-riddled Germany, By the way, how is Germany COVID-riddled? Isn't it one of the most vaccinated countries in the world? Comes the final proof: you can't kill yourself now unless you've been vaccinated. As European countries battle to limit the spread of the virus, Verein Sterbehilfe, the German— why do I make it sound like I'm a Nazi official? It's not fair to the Germans, I admit it, but I'm laughing at myself. Just for the record here, I'll say it sweetly. Verein Sterbehilfe. Okay, that was much nicer, right? I didn't sound like I was an assistant to Goebbels. The German Euthanasia Association has issued a new directive declaring it will now only help those who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease. By the way, do you know that they have— what they call it? Listen to the statement: euthanasia and the preparatory examination of the voluntary responsibility of our members willing to die require human closeness. Human closeness, however, is a prerequisite and breeding ground for coronavirus transmission. So the guy killing you might end up dead. There you go. But I think if you're gonna die, if you choose to be killed, you could wear a mask. Might be one of the only times that you wouldn't mind wearing a mask. Welcome, welcome to the modern age, the age of the absurd. I have a terrific guest who's just walked in the room. He went to the wrong parking lot. Are you embarrassed? Give him a microphone. Give him a microphone. Yes, I'm absolutely humiliated. He's humiliated.

I reached out to Alan Dennis to drop by just to say hello because I'm in town and I know you were sick and I wanted to see you. And Alan said come in and do a whole hour. This has been my favorite show. I'm a talk radio junkie for my whole life. This is my all-time favorite show. So that is always the thrill of the month or the quarter, if you will. And then I drive to the wrong place. Just unbelievable. As if I'd never been here before. I was here just two weeks ago to see Larry.

I want you to know, I'm speaking to Alex Marlow, editor of Breitbart, one of the greatest websites in the free world. And the interesting thing is free world is now not the West. It's located in the West, but it's not all the West by any means. We'll get to that in a moment. But I want you to know, Alex, it did enable me to tell the story of the euthanasia ban on the unvaccinated in Germany. That is so sweet. You did a service.

That— absolutely. And a mitzvah, I believe, for the audience.

You You did say that. That is correct.

Happy Hanukkah, by the way.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Today's the second day. Lit my candle last night. Lit my two candles, to be precise. Alex Marlow, really, folks, Breitbart, thank God, has an enormous audience. What are the— what is your hit numbers?

Probably we reach maybe about 20 million people a month currently. and that's astonishing. And it goes up around election time. I think a lot of people are kind of burned out earlier in the year, and it comes back, and I think people are getting very excited again. But that only is— that does not include our radio audience, because we're on SiriusXM Patriot every day, 6:00 AM Eastern time, for those of you who wake up early. We're also on podcasts now, the Breitbart News Daily Podcast, which everyone should check out. And we're huge on social, to the extent the tech giants will let us be huge. They censor us, and every one of them— Google is the worst, which will probably won't surprise you. And a lot of those people might not even make it to the website. So the footprint is really huge, and I'm sure those of you in the audience who go to Breitbart, we are really grateful.

What does it mean Google is the worst?

So Google cut off all of our traffic to stories about Joe Biden and most stories about Donald Trump, and pretty much anything in the news tab on Google, you'll never get a Breitbart story. And they do this, they did this on a day, specific day, May 5th, 2020. They basically turned off Breitbart's ability to reach people via that search engine. Even if we have an original story, an interview with Donald Trump per se, maybe for example that we had a scoop, something that we'd reported, you're still not going to find it in Google. You could literally search for Breitbart headlines verbatim in Google and you won't get a Breitbart result.

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Last night, the New York Times ran a headline, Social Spending Infrastructure Advances in House. And I thought to myself, when did socialism go from big government to social spending infrastructure? Social spending infrastructure doesn't mean anything. It's never been a term of art. It doesn't have any meaning. It's a cover term for a vast hose of money on everything. This isn't going to get through the Senate, is it?

Oh no, I don't think this is going to get through the Senate. And the infrastructure bill got through, but that's going to be about it on these big spending programs. And Pelosi and her crew want $4 trillion in spending. And of course, I get it. Pelosi wants to pass this thing so that she can be an ambassador and head to Rome. What they're trying to do is cast one vote And in that one vote, they want to take control of your kids, control of education, control of your healthcare, federalizing elections, changing immigration policy, then more provisions of the Green New Deal and a socialist economy. Are you telling me that Speaker Pelosi—

we're gonna, we're gonna visit her on the Pope?

Is that what you're telling me?

We're hearing that that is the goal. I don't talk to her, but what we're hearing is that she is looking forward to becoming an ambassador.

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And Dennis, could I chip something in? Uh, could you? Okay. Hey, can I chip something in? Is it— so I've been subscribing to Pragertopia for about 15 years and dutifully sending the $5 or $7 a month, never missed a payment. Uh, is everyone who's never missed a payment or never missed a month for 15 years invited into the studio, or is that just a special thing for me?

Everyone. You're the only one Who never missed the payment. This is Alex Marlow. Alex Marlow edits a truly important, important— I can't imagine, well certainly there's no week that goes by, I would say there's no 2-day period that goes by that I am not at Breitbart. So you just moved from Washington, D.C. Alex. Yeah, to California. I, I heard that they're paying people to bring U-Hauls back to California.

It's so unbelievable. You're so ahead of me. This is the joke I've been making. I'm the one guy in the U-Haul heading the other direction.

Yes, they must all be waving to you.

Yeah, they are.

You probably made an error.

Yeah, no, and then they call the, uh, the guys in the white coats to go see, check in and let's see what's going on.

Exactly. No, you, you should be investigated I was stunned. I actually, when you told me off air, I didn't quite understand what you said.

Yeah, no, I get that quite a bit.

You moved here? Yes. Wow. What does your wife have, a residency in oncology?

So yeah, so she's an oncology fellow, and she matched in the UCLA system. I won't say where specifically in case anyone wants to do her harm. It's the, uh, but she's doing, she's doing great with her training, and that means I'm just getting up really early to do the work day.

Let me ask you some questions that haunt me. Sure. What, even asking it is, A, painful, and B, certainly opens me up to more attacks, but I, I have inoculated against left-wing attacks, as I'm sure you are. Though that's a vaccine I have taken. Absolutely. So I am just curious, I don't— I have no vested interest in your answer. If the left-right divide, and as I say so often, we have nothing in common, literally nothing. If the left-right divide continues, what would you think about America breaking up?

I can't picture it. And one of the things, one of the reasons why I can't picture it is because that takes— that seems like I think that's gonna take a lot of effort. And I was thinking about the masks and how we've all been in the masks for a year and a half, and they don't work. And I'm not saying a perfectly fitted N95 mask wouldn't work for some people, but they're not working, and we're still wearing them. And Florida hasn't had masks for a year, and they have the lowest cases in the country right now. Still in California, they're bringing the masks back. New York's bringing the masks back. And so many of us, me included sometimes, though I try to be a conscientious objector, will put the mask on sometimes when I'm going to a place, even though it's totally ridiculous. So how could so many people on the right who wear the masks, which are not working, because the government is telling us to, all of a sudden get up the energy to secede from the country and break the country apart? I just don't see us putting in the energy. I just think it's, there is too much that is appealing to, in a world that has Netflix and has DoorDash delivery, to just sit there and kind of wait it out and to see what happens. Happens. And it's unfortunate, but I think that's kind of where we are.

Yeah, the problem is, of course, it would be a non-contiguous thing because essentially it means— it really essentially does mean one thing: the big cities have their own country, right? Because in any state, including California, yeah, outside of the big cities, people are rational, people are, are more decent, people think more clearly, people love this country and what it stands for more, people have Judeo-Christian values. The cities— and this is not new— cities are the breeding places for awful ideas.

Yeah, that seems to be the case. And I think maybe there's the most Republicans in California, perhaps, of any state, just due to the numbers. Yes, that's right. And it is certainly the case that it would be a huge amount of uncoupling economically that it just seems unfeasible.

So that's the issue, is feasibility for you.

Yeah, and I think that one thing though that is interesting that's happening is I do think there's some energy on the right to start to create our own ecosystems. It's something we should have done 15 years ago where we're able to create businesses and companies not just for where conservative thought is welcome, but where conservative business is welcome. And I've spoken to a few business people about this recently, and I think this could be a good alternative to push back on some of these woke, you know, banks and clothing companies and food people who sell, make your food and your overcoats, to start having our own ecosystem too. And I think when that happens, that might make people think a little bit about—

So in other words, start our own banks?

Yeah, I think so. I think that's where we are.

I agree. The banks are awful. Every big business business is awful. Yeah. But it can't— again, the feasibility issue arises. You can't— it's hard to start your own Amazon.

No, it's very tough. But part of the reason is because of the government. The government makes it so that Amazon can operate the way they do, and they cut deals with the government over and over again. They have contracts with the government. And this is the real new crony capitalism that we're dealing with. It's not just simply— but we've always had, you know, lobbying, which is basically legalized corruption. Competition, uh, in a way. But now we have it so that the big businesses are cutting deals with the government. The, the exact same aim. So Republicans need to dismantle that system right away. And then once that's done, I do think the opportunity for competition will return.

Do you think that Virginia sent a signal, or is this, is it an outlier?

Um, I think it sent a signal, sure. I, I don't think that was what we witnessed in California with the recall. There are some places where the the left is just too strong, but I was in Virginia during much of that time, and Glenn Youngkin ran a terrific campaign. He was able to unify both the sort of America First Trump side of the movement and the establishment, and he did it on some really crucial issues, in particular education, which was so a brilliant thing to have as the cornerstone of his— That's right. —of his campaign.

I— when we return, I'm speaking with Alex Marlow. By the way, he has a great book out, and it's titled The Exposing the Establishment Media. The Establishment Media's— ah, yes, The Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. Book is up at DennisPrager.com. Visit Breitbart. It's an incredibly important site.

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—And also the bill would create more than 150 new government programs at a time when the government can't even manage the programs it has on the books. It's absolutely insane. I am imploring my colleagues in, in swing districts, so-called Blue Dog Democrats, moderate Democrats, if for no other reason than, than I'm appealing to their own political survival instincts, walk away from this bill. Out before it's too late. This is an incredible act of hubris on the part of the Democrats right now, and it is bad for America.

So BBB is, uh, is $2 billion for tree equity, doubling the size of the IRS. And what's the third takeaway? Because you got to define a bill by its most absurd provisions. And so we've got doubling the IRS size, tree equity.

What's number 3? I think the Civilian Climate Corps is a great encapsulation.

I think you're right. And there are really 300,000 people in that?

That's what's been estimated. This is AOC's signature provision. She wants a bunch of unemployed baristas to become government-paid civilian activists running around the country doing God knows what at the taxpayer's expense.

I mean, is it outlined? Do they tell us what the Civilian Conservation Corps is going to do?

Not in any detailed or meaningful sense. And because we haven't had a meaningful committee process, no one's even able to ask basic questions in a public setting and demand answers from, let's say, the executive branch agencies that would be in charge of overseeing these brand new programs. So the whole—

That was my next question. Who gets to oversee the tree equity money?

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for townhall.com. Sometimes there are policies so destructive that at first you don't believe they're true. Joe Biden is currently defending one, his plan to award $450,000 to migrants separated from their families after entering the US illegally. Children of deceased U.S. soldiers are separated from their parents permanently. They don't receive this kind of money. And migrants who enter the U.S. legally certainly don't get this kind of payout. The really big jackpot, it seems, is being reserved for the lawbreakers. There are some obvious truths here. First, behavior that's subsidized gets repeated. Joe Biden is effectively inviting many more illegal immigrants to breach America's open borders. Second, he's betting over time the payoffs will benefit his party in political terms. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Americans watch in shock and dismay as our president, the country's chief law enforcement officer, brazenly rewards lawbreaking, a clear violation of his oath to defend our nation's laws. It's a sorry sight indeed.

Man, I miss my father, and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.

We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives.

This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.

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I got very lucky with mentors, and I was Andrew Breitbart's first employee. I was a UC Berkeley student, and I think Andrew was impressed that I had interned for Larry Elder, who of course you're credited with Larry, and Larry started me on my career because I interned for him after high school. And I got some notoriety at Berkeley, where I went, UC Berkeley, because I was an outspoken conservative, and I learned a lot there being that way, and Andrew and I had a very similar background. He was from West LA, as was I. We liked baseball and music, but we were also committed conservatives who saw a big gap in the media ecosystem for a sort of the conservative New York Times or the conservative Associated Press. And when Andrew shared with me that he was planning on doing that, I said, this is the guy to do it, 'cause he was at the Drudge Report at the time and a truly brilliant pioneer. And I went along for the ride and moved up the ladder ever since.

Wow. Well, you did it fast, but I did too. And then I— so I identify with you.

I'll tell you, my dad was a Religion on the Line listener. Has to have been 40 years.

Well, I was your age.

Yeah, had to have been 40 years, I think.

That's right. Yeah. I was younger than you then. If it was 40 years, I was younger than you. That was a life-changing thing for me to deal with people of all faiths every single week. It was, it was a gift from God that I was given that show for 10 years. August 2nd, well, that's my birthday, so I'll bite it off as my birthday, but August '82 to August '92, it was, it was a gift. So we're talking about this issue of Virginia and and the brilliance of his campaign. You were, you were there right on top of it because you were, you just moved to California from Washington, D.C. So is there, let's put, let me put it this way. Does the parent issue anger over what is being done to their kids at school have legs?

I think it does. And I'll tell you, being a person with a lot of commenters on our website and having a talk show where I speak to a lot of callers The most animating issue right now is education, and this is the first time I've seen it be something other than immigration for about 5 years. This is it in terms of the issues that is most galvanizing to people. And one thing that I think is appealing is that people— it's an outlet for people who are feeling fed up with the direction of the country, and they see that they can make a difference on the local level and in their kids' lives, and they feel the urgency that if they don't make a difference, then they're going to waste their kids' youth, or worse, that their kids are actually going to go backwards when they go to school. And so I do think there is a pull in people to really get involved, and the coronavirus made it much easier for them because they were at home and they're watching their kids learn online. And they were— they weren't really learning the classics, Dennis. They weren't learning reading, writing, arithmetic. They were learning, uh, wokeism.

That was a gift that I, I begged parents to tune in. I beg every kid at college and high school to record their classes. I taught at college, and I remember, you know, kids used cassette recorders then. Mr. Prager, can we record your class? And I remember my inner and expressed reactions. My inner reaction was Why are they even asking? Of course they can. So I didn't say, why are you even asking? Because I didn't want to act like I'm insulting them for the question. But it never dawned on me that a teacher would object to being recorded. What are you saying that you want to hide from the public? Right? I mean, it's an unbelievable Giveaway that they're teaching crap. If you are proud of what you teach, teachers, let kids record it. Got that out of my system. Alex Marlowe's my guest. What'd you say, Sean? ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384. Alex is too young to have muscle or joint pain. But, but should you— should you end up with it? Uh, this, this thing's a miracle. Everybody I know over 35 is taking it, folks. Uh, if you have such pain, they have an incredible statement: if it doesn't work in 3 weeks, it probably won't work for you. How many, how many makers of products would say that? So there's a 3-week Quick Start, $19.95. Breitbart— oh, that's so funny— Breitbart.com. There you go, that's a great plug. ReliefFactor.com.

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This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have left. No precedent for in the United States. The only way we separate the good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them.

There's no free speech for a fascist.

Your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and social media will be saved to shame you.

Creating an atmosphere of fear and repression, and it's gonna bust.

You cannot think differently. It makes it difficult for you to learn from other people. You have the right to remain silent.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you? Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. You might get— That journey is extremely dangerous. The 7-year-old girl died died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever. We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.

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Dennis Prager, the editor of one of the most important conservative sites, and therefore of one of the most important sites in the country, Breitbart.com. .com is Alex Marlow. By the way, he has a great book out which we discussed when it came out, Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media. I did that twice. Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. By the way, what did you mean by establishment media?

So I think the liberal media is I don't think that expression makes sense. They're not liberal. Most of them are committed leftists. And the original premise of the book, and I took a lot of detours along the way, but the original premise was to kind of document how when Donald Trump came down that escalator, announced his candidacy, the quote unquote liberal media went into full weaponization mode where they were on a search and destroy mission for anyone associated with Trump and his value system that he advanced. And I thought that was a big change. I thought a big change took place and someone needed to write about it. About it and why it happened. And I found out it was because Trump was a big threat to their business models because all of them do these giant— all this business internationally. They're these huge conglomerates. Like ABC News isn't ABC News, it's Disney. And NBC is NBC Comcast Universal. And that was kind of the approach I took to the book. But they're not liberal, Dennis. And you know this better than anyone. You've been talking— you were the first to talk about this concept. The liberal is the most disenfranchised person now in the American media marketplace 'cause there's a huge ecosystem for conservative thought and the left of center is all hard left radicals and that's where we are. And so it's establishment media. It's the media that's been established for a long time, not liberal media.

I was talking to, and I very rarely use this term, brilliant, a brilliant young Dutch woman whom I met in Hungary when, you know, Tucker Carlson spoke at this conference and I spoke at the conference as well. And I met all these magnificent young people from around Europe. One of them is a Dutch woman who perfectly understands the crisis of the West and is very much alone. She is aching to come to America. Because with all the left-wing takeover of everything from late-night comedy to Superman to universities and high schools, arts and music, medicine— with all of that, this is the place for freedom still. She knows it. I know it. When you said the large conservative ecosystem That's what triggered my thinking. It doesn't exist outside of the United States. I want to make this clear to all of those listening. There is no conservatism outside of America. This is still the best hope, just exactly as Lincoln put it. And it's, it's a phenomenon. There is this girl in Holland. There's a guy I know in Austria. There's a guy I know in Germany. All right. Of course, individuals exist. There is no conservative movement as such. Boris Johnson is as conservative as I am transgender. Right. I mean, I mean, think about it. I agree. And look at Canada. I mean, it's lost. It's completely lost. So I just want to say, you and us, talk radio, PragerU, Breitbart, Daily Wire, I mean, I could spend the rest of this hour talking about the fantastic conservative institutions.

And we've tried to expand internationally, and we have a Rome bureau, and we have a really robust London bureau, and we have a Jerusalem bureau. It's very hard to expand in a lot of parts of the world. We'd love to have an Asia bureau. We were talking about having a bureau in Belgium to cover France and Germany, and it's very hard to do because we don't— because they don't have free speech over there. They don't have a constitution with a First Amendment in it, and things that we say that go against the establishment, which is what Breitbart is known for, then we're gonna get sued. We're gonna get sued out of existence, and this is why it can't exist, and it is important to remember that. So long as we have a Constitution, we've got a chance.

That's right. This is something Americans don't know. Free speech is not guaranteed outside the United States.

It's not common at all.

It's not common and it's not guaranteed. I give the example, by the way, and I say it as a very committed Jew. I consider anyone who denies the Holocaust to be the incarnation of diabolic evil. Okay, I've made that clear. However, only in America can you do that. If you deny the Holocaust in Europe, you go to prison. So that's a perfect example of, of, of the free speech, uh, only existing in this country. However, the left is really threatening it, and you and I feel it. So you were mentioning Google. What's Breitbart's problem with Google?

Well, Google will not display Breitbart stories even if they are accurate and original. They will show only establishment media stories when you're doing routine searches for Google content. And this is— so if you're using that search engine, just know you're not getting something that's a magical— Is that true for conservative sources in general?

I think so.

I think Breitbart is the biggest, so we get hit the hardest. But it is—

So give me an example. If I Googled what?

Joe Biden. If you Google Joe Biden, you'll never get a Breitbart story, even if we have the most popular Joe Biden story with original reporting and expert analysis and every detail is buttoned up.

Did you know that? I looked at my producer and he doesn't— he didn't know that. I didn't know it either.

Yes. And this happened in the run-up to the election. It was done to protect Joe Biden. And this is a perfect example. And you can't get original Breitbart content unless you type in the word Breitbart. That's the only way to get it. And it is, if you don't type in the word Breitbart, you will only get the New York Times and Vox worldview about what Biden is up to. And we think of Google as this magical algorithm that just comes up with whatever is the best and is an authority. It's not, it's controlled by people. And those people are left-wing and increasingly radical.

That's right, that's why we gotta fight, everybody. America remains more than ever the last best hope on Earth.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world. There's one Jewish state. The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented. They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea. As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan. 300,000 Palestinians are unemployed. In spite of all the years of conflict, There's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the side sidewalk right now talking to you. Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. That journey is extremely dangerous. The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great A man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son. His dreams cut short forever. We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.

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Hi everybody. Final segment with Alex Marlow, editor Twitter of Breitbart. Breitbart.com, such a powerful site. By the way, apropos, not of Breitbart, but of things I was talking about right before Alex came on, 2 hours ago, Associated Press, teen shot 18 times while waiting for bus in Philadelphia. Most homicides in recorded history per year for Philadelphia. George Soros is a murderer, okay? If the word has any meaning to it, he's a murderer. He has people he supports, he funds, and nobody funds DA races, so if you fund it, you win. He funds people who don't believe, who believe the jails should be emptied. What do you think of a mind that believes that jails should be emptied? How do you, Alex Marlowe, at night when you go to bed, explain this? I don't.

I can't explain why you would want that unless you just want chaos, unless you think that an organized America, a strong America, is a problem to the world, which he always has felt that way. That's why it's destabilizing. It destabilizes the country, and knowing that our cities are getting increasingly more crime-ridden, and they keep electing the same people, obviously someone has— this is a calculated effort that this is taking place, because— and our media is a part of it, and the institutional left is a part of it, and you know, it's— that's why I do recommend now people get out of the cities, and I've never said that. I've always said people should fight back, and now I say just go.

No, I couldn't agree more. Uh, what's your take on the Twitter change? Jack Dorsey leaving?

Yeah, it's a great question, and I think unfortunately when Silicon Valley has a regime change, they tend to make things worse. Um, so I think that Twitter is censorious of conservatives. Uh, they helped deliver the election for Joe Biden by censoring accurate stories about Hunter Biden, calling it Russian disinformation. Neither Russian nor disinformation. And, um, what we know about the new CEO is that he's mostly a tech guy, but his His few political proclamations have been radical, been truly radical to the left. And he says something that is very frightening, that he does not think that Twitter needs to operate under the First Amendment. He doesn't think the First Amendment applies 'cause it's a private company. And that is what I'm concerned about, Dennis, is the spirit of the First Amendment has to be carried out by these companies or else we're gonna lose it. They control the vast majority of speech between Twitter, Facebook, and Google. [Speaker:DENNIS PRAGER] What's his name? I forget the first name.

So, you know, this is my $64,000 question: how did this wonderful freedom-loving country produce so many people who crap on freedom?

Well, he's a pretty recent immigrant, I think.

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One more time, President Biden.

Conversations around those kitchen tables that are both profound as they are ordinary. How do I cross a bridge in a snowstorm? What happened? No, I didn't think about it. You know, you're in a situation, what happens if the bridge collapses and there's a fire on the other side? It's going to take 10 miles longer to get to the fire. People can die. I mean, this is real.

This is real stuff. Now, I originally suggested hashtag snowstorm fire bridge collapse. Here I was, I worked all day on the president's remarks, I found this bit of gold alerting the country to the impending massive cycle of snowstorms, fires and bridge collapses. And trucks that can't get anywhere. And I thought to myself, if I let the country know first, I'll get the credit for this. If you're driving today, would you let me know where the snowstorm fire bridge collapse is? 1-800-520-1234.

If you're going across a bridge, we want to hear from you to see if that bridge has indeed caught fire in the snowstorm.

If you're on any bridge anywhere— Or collapsed. Or collapsed, and you see a house anywhere burning, stop and help. We have many stories of heroes who have done the same thing. There was one in New York yesterday. A guy was running past a house that nobody knew was on fire and he saved all the pets. He's a hero. So you be a hero today when it will call it a Biden event. Whenever we have a Biden event, you need to stop. I don't know how you get across the river. How are we going to get across the river, Generalissimo, if the bridge is down?

I have no idea. When was the last bridge collapse?

I asked you last night. Collapses. Bridge collapses aren't funny, but I think that was the last one.

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What is he charged with? First-degree murder? That's right, two counts. How is that possible? It's an altercation. I mean, First-degree murder is where you're like, I'm going to murder this person and go to their home with, you know, not, not some sort of bar fight gone wrong. Yeah.

So that's— so you're right, actually, that would be what you're talking about would potentially be either voluntary manslaughter. Yeah, that's what I never understood about this. Or second-degree murder because it was more indiscriminate. What they're saying is what the prosecution's argument is, is that Kyle Rittenhouse brought his gun because he intended to murder these BLM protesters and that he had vengeful intent. Now, what's interesting to me is that the prosecution just a few minutes ago before I came on the show, just rested in this case after about a week and a half of testimony. They did not present a single shred of evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up with intent to hurt anyone.

Well, but this is what I can't understand, is that the judge, the pretrial arguments, because this is just— you have months to submit motions to dismiss. You're trying to tell me no one looked at this? They say, wait a second, you're charging a guy who got in an altercation— was, by the way, the guy that Kyle Rittenhouse killed in self-defense was like a child rapist or something, right? He was like a child pedophile or something. Is that right?

Multiple, multiple count child rapist. And honestly, I'm not saying he deserves to die because of it, but right.

Let's just—

details of that case case if anyone wants to see it. It's, it's absolutely horrific.

It's not Gandhi. Okay, let's just—

what's interesting though, what is actually relevant, what's actually relevant to this is that he had just been released from a hospital where he was being held on a psychiatric hold.

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Right now, based upon how the judge is responding to the way that this evil bunch of hyenas are trying to make— the fact of the matter of this: Rittenhouse killed 2 people. Both of them were criminals. One of them had just been released from jail for doing what? Raping young boys. If it were up to me, that would be a death penalty automatic in America. Rape a child, death, end of story. That's the reason nations create capital punishment. He got out, which is just so understanding and empathetic of us. He threatened people all day. And then he used force and threatened Kyle Rittenhouse, who was there to help people when he wasn't a community pool lifeguard. And that man shot to death the child rapist. Rot in hell. The second man, oh yes, with a rap sheet for what? Assaulting women. He got killed as well after he swung at Kyle Rittenhouse with a skateboard to his head. Not a lot of tears will be shed for that man, I'm sure, in any community of decent Americans. And then the third guy who approached him with a Glock pointed to Kyle's head, who then had his bicep blown off by that brave young man. Come on, guys.

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You called your son. You personally promised him you would be here. Lucas, I don't know how to help you.

'Cause you gotta know it, pal. Prayer is a powerful thing, Ethan. It really does work if you believe.

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It's Tuesday and it's the third hour of the Dennis Prager Show, and so therefore it's the Ultimate Issues Hour. Many years now I've been doing this Ultimate Issues Hour. I— it was the only one I thought was a risky decision. I didn't think the male-female hour was risky, or the happiness hour was risky. This one I thought, it doesn't sound as sexy as the male-female hour or happiness. Ultimate issues? Uh, okay, I'll take a break. That's what I thought a lot of people might say. Some probably did. Big mistake. The crisis in America and the West is precisely the ignorance of ultimate issues. It's not thinking through the big questions. That's the root cause of all of this. By the way, is root cause redundant? What's the difference between root and root cause or cause and root cause? I think it is redundant. A little more evocative than cause. It's evocative but it's redundant. Okay. What do we owe the next generation is my my subject for today's Ultimate Issues Hour. And I have an answer which I can give in, in a sentence or two. Every generation owes it to the next generation to transmit the best of everything that has thus far been developed. And that's it. That's the answer. The best ideas, the best literature, the best art, the best music. That's what they— that's what they owe the next generation. They don't owe them diversity. They owe them excellence. You know my theory, I've enunciated it since I've been broadcasting, how the power of boredom— and it was not original to me, I got it from others. You mentioned it as in Bluebeard's Castle. What was his name, the author? George Steiner. George Steiner in Bluebeard's Castle, one of the most important books I've read. But I got it also from Robert Nozick, I believe. I believe, a Columbia philosopher. I think, you know where he has a dictionary of ideas or a dictionary of philosophy, and under B is boredom. People are bored in an affluent secular society. Boredom is a crisis, and that's what we've had. Most affluence and the most secularism in human history. People don't understand that that breeds consequences. One of them is boredom. So it's, it's not exciting to transmit what was already done, especially in academics. Academics hate it. You mean I'm gonna teach Shakespeare again? You— what, are you kidding? Steinbeck? Shakespeare? Mozart? Beethoven? Oh, come on, I've gone through this 25 years already. I want new. And that's what the academic world loves— excitement— because they're bored out of their minds as college professors. That's my theory. They're really— they're bored. They want to do something exciting, like find a new lesbian of color to supplant Shakespeare, which is what they did at the University of Pennsylvania. They put up a lesbian of color, so she's female, she's not heterosexual, and she's not white. She's ideal. She's a poet. I don't remember her name, and she is now the mural at the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. English has taken down the Shakespeare mural, and that's an Ivy League college. So the— there's something unexciting to people to just give the tried and true. What's her name? Yeah, Audre Lorde. That's right. Did you, have you read her poetry, Mr. Producer? It's a lacuna in your education. Alex Marlowe is still in the room. Alex Marlowe, have you read Audre Lorde? No? Oh my God. The people I keep company with. Lordeless. Audreless. Because there is a boredom that seems to prevail when you teach the same things every generation. Now, of course, if somebody writes something great in the year 2021, of course it should be studied. I, I, I yearn for more greatness. If we can develop another Mozart or another Beethoven— and by the way, while they're not Mozart or Beethoven, I don't deny that they're 20th century giants in music. I know music very well. It's the one art I do know really well. I conduct periodically. Shostakovich was 20th century. He was awesome. Prokofiev was 20th century. He was awesome. So, uh, And, and there are others who were— well, Sibelius was awesome. So we, we have, uh, I don't have any built-in prejudice against new. I have a built-in prejudice against inferior. We, we have the duty to give the next generation, and theoretically they should get the the best ever because there's the most time to find great writers and artists and thinkers and theologians and you name it. Teach the Bible again? Oh man, how boring is that? We have deprived now, I would say, at least 2 generations. We have deprived them of greatness. What a disservice to young people not to give them the Bible and Shakespeare and Mozart and Beethoven and Steinbeck. I mean, the list is endless. Tucker Carlson and I were both both in Hungary a couple of months ago speaking, and I, I heard his speech. I attended it. And you know what he spoke on? To his credit, by the way, really one subject: architecture. That interesting guy goes to Hungary and speaks about architecture. I thought it was a gutsy speech and it was a good one. The garbage architecture that that you generally see. There are exceptions, like sculptures. You know those sculptures now in front of buildings that are meaningless? Meaningless. They're twisted steel. That's all they are. Because it's new, it's different. They're bored. And by the way, this is critical— another reason for this is they're talentless. Pointless. When you have no talent comparable to the greats, you will make up stuff. So you will, you will throw paint on a canvas and call yourself Jackson Pollock, and your stuff will sell for millions of dollars to people who find meaning in thrown paint. People who find meaning in large turds. Yeah, I'm not joking. You could look it up. Look up turds, Dutch Museum, New York Times. A huge front-page art section review of sculptures of fecal matter. Yep. Now, how does that compare to Leonardo da Vinci? And think about it, right? Or Michelangelo. Or for that matter, the Impressionists, correct? Monet, Manet, Seurat, any of them. Ah, please, that's, that's not nearly as, as thought-provoking as gigantic turds. That's, that's the art world in a nutshell. Gigantic turds. That the New York Times covered it seriously tells you all you need to know about the arts section in the New York Times, and for that matter, every other newspaper. Art critics and music critics are a major reason for the devolution of the arts. The subject of this Ultimate Issues Hour is: We Have an Obligation obligation to pass on the best of everything to our children, and neither we nor our schools do that. 1-800-PRAGER-776.

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What are some of the things that folks can do? I get that question all the time, and now I have Ben Carson as my guest. Dr. Carson, what can some folks do out there and what are some of the things that you're working on?

Most important things are not to be silent, not to stand in the corner with your head down and hope that somebody doesn't call you a nasty name or try to cancel you because you can't be the land of the free if you're not also the home of the brave. So we had a wonderful example last week in Virginia. Virginia, as people actually stood up, Democrats, Republicans, independents, they all stood up and said, you know, we're in charge. You're not in charge, government. You work for us. We don't work for you. This is what people have to begin to do. If they don't do it, the government will take complete control of all of our lives.

Well, it's interesting because it seems to me that Things have gotten so extremely bad that many people who would ordinarily keep sleeping are waking up. So that is the good news, that there are people that just never dreamt that we could have gas prices soaring, grocery prices soaring, literally millions of people coming across unnecessarily our borders. Well, for sure. Supply chain problems, weakness around the world, losing many, many billions of dollars of military equipment to our enemies. Just levels of horror that I think almost nobody could have believed would happen this quickly.

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for Townhall.com. Sometimes there are policies so destructive that at first you don't believe they're true. Joe Biden is currently defending one, his plan to award $450,000 to migrants separated from their families after entering the U.S. illegally. Children of deceased U.S. soldiers are separated from their parents permanently. They don't receive this kind of money, and migrants who enter the U.S. legally certainly don't get this kind of payout. The really big jackpot, it seems, is being reserved for the lawbreakers. There are some obvious truths here. First, behavior that's subsidized gets repeated. Joe Biden is effectively inviting many more illegal immigrants to breach America's open borders. Second, he's betting over time the payoffs will benefit his party in political terms. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Americans watch in shock and dismay as our president, the country's chief law enforcement officer, brazenly rewards lawbreaking, a clear violation of his oath to defend our nation's laws. It's a sorry sight indeed.

Man, I miss my father, and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.

We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives.

This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.

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1-800-PRAGER-776, Ultimate Issues Hour. Apropos, perfectly apropos. Of giving your children the best of what has been produced. You know, they certainly don't get the best history. They get, they get basically hate America history, hate the West history. Hillsdale has made the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum downloadable for free. It's at k12.hillsdale.edu. K12, not k-12, not k212, k12.hillsdale.edu. It's designed to give educators and students the truth about American history. That doesn't mean whitewash, it just means the truth. As they put it, our children deserve to be taught the truth through a sound curriculum that was created by by teachers, not bureaucrats. America's future depends on it. Download Hillsdale's 1776 curriculum for free at k12.hillsdale.edu. My subject today is so big, as every Ultimate Issue subject is. It is your obligation as a parent, and it is every school's obligation to do one thing with regard to the education of the next generation. Give them the best that humans have produced. That's it. It is irrelevant who produced it. Wagner was an anti-Semite, I mean a real honest-to-goodness one, but he wrote great music, and that's it. There's a book on Dostoevsky and the Jews Jews that claims that he was an anti-Semite. I would give my kids Dostoevsky, and I'm a Jew, because he wrote magnificent novels. He struggled with the issue of good and evil. His own views, they may be lamentable, they may be awful, but they're irrelevant to Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment. By the way, for the record, apropos of nothing, but I just have a lot of fun in life. So I know Russian. Crime and Punishment in Russian is Преступленье и Nakazание. And I love the word Преступленье. I think Russian is gorgeous. I am in love with Russian words. I mean, you got to admit, huh? Prestuplenie. Right? I mean, you have on the left crime, prestuplenie. Punishment, nakazanie. You know, I love language and I wrote many years ago, I Am Pi, I think, P-E-I. I read this in high school. I loved it. The story of language. And the guy knew a gazillion languages, and he said he thought the most beautiful word in the world was the Russian word for bird, petitza. Isn't that interesting? For all the languages he knew. On the other hand, there are ugly Russian words, like the word for bread is truly Awful. Chlib. Pass the chlib. By the time you pass the chlib, you don't want to eat it. Right? Does that sound great? I'll have some chlib. Okay, I'll pass. It's an interesting question. Does English have any ugly words? But I think you would need a foreigner to answer that. That question. Because to a Russian, Koleb is not ugly. Yes, that's the reason that I feel free as a bird. We have to pass on. Why is it not obvious? It's such a beautiful thing to do. I want to teach you, my kid. I want to teach you the best stuff written. I want you to see the best art. I want you to hear the best music. What's wrong with that? Why does it have to be new? If it's new and great, fantastic. I'm not anti-new. I'm just pro-great. It's really unbelievable, let alone, oh, you know what? You have to, you have to read people of all races. No, you have to read great stuff. Take music again, the area I know best. Overwhelmingly, the greatest composers were German/Austrian. Austrian. I mean, it's unbelievable. They almost have a monopoly on the greatest music. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn. It's, it's, I don't know who isn't. Tchaikovsky isn't. He's Russian, obviously. And Handel is German and English. So, so why do I care? I don't care if they all lived on the same block. I just care if it's great. You know, the New York Times listed the 10 greatest classical pieces. They have a true fool as their music critic. I won't say his name, not to embarrass him. He should be embarrassed, but I'm not interested in embarrassing him. I'm interested in making a point about the crushing of excellence. So he makes a list of the 10 best composers. And oh, Haydn, I forgot Haydn, who's my— Haydn and Bach. Oh, and Bach. They're all, they're all, I mean, if you're not German, Austrian, you're probably not in the ranks of the greatest composers. You are a great one, there are great, no question. Sibelius was great, Shostakovich, as I said earlier, Tchaikovsky certainly. And you know what he did? He dropped a lot of these because he said, I didn't want only to choose German, Austrian composers. So then it's not a list of the best 10. He said, oh, so he needed a Hungarian. He put in Bartók. If you were to put in a Hungarian, you should have put in Liszt. But in any event, I can't think of a more wonderful thing than transmitting to my kids the best that humans have done. By the way, that may well include Islamic art, which is awesome. Japanese art, which is awesome. It doesn't have to only be Western. By the way, in Japan they think Western music is the best music, okay, just for the record. What was I reading? There are more orchestras, more symphonic orchestras per capita in either Korea or Japan than in the United States. And they're not playing Koreans and they're not playing Japanese. They're playing Beethoven. I remember in my 20s I was in Tokyo. So I wanted to hear the Tokyo Symphony. It was a great orchestra. So I went to the box office and it was Beethoven's Ninth. I lucked out. I'm in Tokyo and they're doing Beethoven's Ninth. So the guy knew a little English. I go, do you have any tickets? He said, how many? I go, one. So he said, I have one. You are very lucky. I will never forget that as long as I live. L is not apparently a letter in— it's like a person in the West having to say Not, not easy, or at least in America. All right, everybody, let's see here. Steve. Oh, okay. Well, we can't take a call now because I got to take a break. 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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world. There's one Jewish state. The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented. They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea. As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan. 300,000 Palestinians are unemployed. In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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The public would be outraged they knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you? Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. Human trafficking. That journey is extremely dangerous. The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever. We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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We understand that a plane has crashed into the people who knocked these buildings down. We'll hear all of us soon.

Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history. The United States killed Osama bin Laden. There are reports surfacing that Al Qaeda has placed a $50,000 bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs. Nobody's going to survive that. There's nobody in that. This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident. Most of them are US Navy SEALs.

We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.

The military threw them away.

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The Democratic Party somehow has convinced Black people that they're the good guys. Never mind the skanky history of the Democratic Party.

That was a party of slavery.

There is a whole big cottage industry for racist If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.

The mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd, a bunch of white thugs, frankly, burning down the city's traditional Black and Asian businesses. They're racist, racist, racist. Everything's racist.

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Ultimate Issues, our third hour on Tuesdays. It is our task to transmit the greatest things art, music, thought, literature, theology, the greatest. That's our task. Schools don't do it. They have no interest in greatness. They have interest in diversity and crapping on America. That's the vehicle at this moment. That is the vehicle to the salvation of this country, saving it from the left, is parents understanding what the left is doing to their children. Children. That is the— that is an area of hope. But the thought that we do not give the best, we choose people on the basis of race, that's racist. And it's no gift to children. This notion you're supposed to look like. What is that? What does that mean? Who cares? You're supposed to look like— I'm supposed to look like the author of my book? Who knows what an author looks like? Who knows what a composer looks like? All right, everybody, let's see what you have. I was going to take a Yes, here we go. Steve, Beverly Thrills, California. Hello, Dennis.

I'm about your age. I don't know, I'm 79. I think you're probably about the same age. No, actually, what happened?

Oh, 6 years younger than you.

What happened to you that you're so buried in the past and you're so cynical of the modern world? Uh, what about rock and roll? What about Motown? Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Beatles. And why only German and Austrian artists? What about Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson? What's— what happened to you?

What went wrong? I thought— I thought this way when I was 20. I thought—

what happened when you were 20? What is— what kind of trauma happened to you that you— oh, so you show age? Other people your age, you're— you're dwelling on— on artists of the past. What are you talking about? Mozart?

Be serious, Dennis, what's wrong with you? Okay, all right, thank you for your thoughts. I think they're stupid, but I thank you for them. It's really wrong of me to think that Mozart is greater music than Michael Jackson. I don't knock Michael Jackson. When I'm not listening to classical, I'm listening to a whole bunch of stuff. I love country western. I love '50s rock and roll. I love '40s big band. I love ABBA. But I don't— I love modern movie scores, that's correct. I think it's the best music being written in the last 25 years has been movie scores. But there's greatness. I think Sinatra is great, and if they taught Sinatra to kids, that would be terrific. I would have no problem with that. But the idea that everybody's equal because they're popular— popularity doesn't mean greatness. Who was I reading that— oh God, what was the woman, just like 72 million followers Either TikTok or Twitter. Oh God. Oh, Kylie Jenner. Is that right? Are you familiar with that? I think she has 72 million followers. I have nothing against the woman. Maybe more than that. I have nothing against her. But nobody would argue that this is greatness that has to be passed on because it's popular. The thought that you have to have been traumatized to love Beethoven, that's an original one. That's why I love calls that differ with me. Oh, you're kidding. $195 million? Went up $120 million in a day? My God, how do you like that? Alright, alright, listen, don't call in on other subjects. Domingo in Dallas, Dennis, I would love to talk to you, but it's not relevant. So thank you. I'm going to let you go. So I'm opening up a line here. Caleb in Arlington, Washington. Hello.

Hey, can you hear me all right? I do. All right. Hey, I just had a comment because I'm 19 and I went to Everett Community College here just a little bit south of me for a couple years when I was 16 and 17. And I took an English 101 class with the, I guess, the wild assumption that you would learn English in it. But I found out through the whole entire quarter that I did not learn— I'm not even exaggerating— like one single thing about how to compose a sentence or anything like that. We were doing activities like scrapbooking with magazines and— Oh, good.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world. There's one Jewish state. The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented. They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea. As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan. 300,000 Palestinians are unemployed. In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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Streaming on Salem Now. The public would be outraged They knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you? Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. Human trafficking. That journey is extremely dangerous. Extremely dangerous. The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever. We're so worried about other countries' problems, we don't even focus on our own.

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Hey, a reminder, my friends, probably the last one. Maybe I'll squeeze in one more. The Prager Store has urged me to tell you they have one more day today. They've gone Cyber Monday to Cyber Tuesday. It's not an audible of my commentary so far in Genesis and, and and Exodus. Deuteronomy is coming out next year, and then I have two more to go. I did teaching of the five books, the Torah, to people of every faith and no faith for years, for decades, hundreds of hours. They have truly touched people's lives for a lot of time. Takes a long time to get through it, obviously, it's hundreds of hours. It's half price today. That happens once a year. I guess given that it was yesterday, it's twice a year at the Prager Store. And whether or not you have my written commentary, The Rational Bible, this is totally different. Okey-doke. It's also up at DennisPrager.com, Prager Store, or that. Subject of the, of the Ultimate Issues Hour is it is our task to give the next generation the best that humanity has produced. Isn't that simple? Nobody, nobody's, very few people are doing that anymore. So we have a 19-year-old in the state of Washington. So you took a college course. Is that correct? In English, was that what you were describing?

Yeah, I was getting my, uh, business administration, uh, degree, and English 101 was a prerequisite. And, and, um, yeah, and so as I was telling you, it was just— I didn't learn anything at all about reading or writing or anything like that. Like I said, we did children's projects essentially, like coloring in books. One of the things was— and one of these was for the whole entire quarter was making sculptures out of pieces of garbage. And at the end of the quarter, they weren't even graded about how great they were or anything. They were graded by how well we all tried, which in the end she just said, "Oh, you guys all tried really good, so I'm going to give you 100%." And it was kind of comical every day going in like, "Oh, man. What kind of craft are we doing today, you know?

What is making sculptures out of garbage have to do with English? That's a good question.

I ended up writing a paper in another class and I brought it to, um, to that teacher to have her check it over, um, and she was like, oh, this isn't right and this isn't right. And I was like, oh yeah, I thought we would have talked about that in your class. And she's like, yeah, well, this is a different kind of English 101. I was like, like— she's like, this is creative English. I was like, okay.

Oh, I love the word creative. Yes, that's right. Well, it's hard to believe actually, but I believe you. But it is hard to believe. I mean, I know it's bad. I didn't know it was that bad. Apropos of my last caller, the last caller who differed with me— I've been traumatized into liking Mozart. Or Beethoven or Bach or the others. So why aren't we talking about Michael Jackson or Motown, some of his examples? So it'd be very interesting. The Japanese and the Koreans are huge fans of Bach, Beethoven, etc. Is Motown a big thing in Korea or Japan? And one of the characteristics of great art is its universality. Does it touch people everywhere? Because we're all human. So Shakespeare is read in Korean. Because— and Japanese and every other language on earth, probably. So is the Bible. They have a universal magnificence. Other things are parochial. That's not a condemnation, it's not an insult. Just means that they don't have a universal appeal. The writer in the New York Times said, "We can't just think that Western music is the greatest. What about Indonesian gamelan music, for example?" Which I have played for you on a number of occasions here, Indonesian gamelan music. And for an Indonesian, it speaks probably quite powerfully. Beautifully, but it does not have a universal appeal. It's not a knock on it. Vast majority of music is not universally appealing. Western classical is. That says something. Okay, here we go. By the way, this may shock you, I like it. But I think an Indonesian will like it infinitely more than I do. Okay, Minneapolis and James. Hello.

Hello, sir.

Hi, sir.

I would have to agree with you on some of the music. They talk about all that. It's great. That other guy, I don't think he knows where his hat is. But I recall when Tucker was over overseas with you at the same conference. I agree with the architect. We kind of tear down things and put up junk, and we spend a lot of money doing that, especially around Washington, D.C.

It's painful. It's actually painful to see the buildings of Washington, D.C., the beautiful buildings, the, the various offices you know, like the Secretary— like the Interior Department or any of the others, and not to mention the White House, the Capitol, or the capitals in most of our states. Even City Hall here in Los Angeles, it's so inspiring. We'll be back.

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What are some of the things that folks can do? I get that question all the time, and now I have Ben Carson as my guest. Dr. Carson, what, what can some folks do out there, and what are some of the things that you're working on?

The most important things are not to be silent, not to stand in the corner with your head down and hope that somebody doesn't call you a nasty name or try to cancel you, because you can't be the land of the free if you're not also the home of the brave. So we had a wonderful example last week in Virginia as people actually stood up— Democrats, Republicans, independents— they all stood up and said, You know, we're in charge. You're not in charge, government. You work for us. We don't work for you. This is what people have to begin to do. If they don't do it, the government will take complete control of all of our lives.

Well, it's interesting because it seems to me that things have gotten so extremely bad that many people who would ordinarily keep sleeping are waking up. Up. So that is the good news, that there are people that just never dreamt that we could have gas prices soaring, grocery prices soaring, literally millions of people coming across unnecessarily our borders. Well, for sure, supply chain problems, weakness around the world, losing many, many billions of dollars of military equipment to our enemies. Just levels of horror that I think almost nobody could have believed would happen this quickly.

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Lucas, I I don't know how to help you. Your daddy loves you, you gotta know it, pal. Prayer is a powerful thing, Ethan. It really does work if you believe.

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Said I was going to go to Marion and she just hung up. It's always sad. I wish I'd remembered what she wanted to say because I wanted to comment on it. Oh yes, I do remember. Thank God. She said, "This great literature, great art, great music, etc., it may be boring to the teacher, but it's brand new to the student." That's exactly right. Our obligation is not to excite ourselves as teachers, it's to excite children, or our students of any age, with regard to great stuff. That's been the subject of the Ultimate Issues Hour. It is the task of every generation to pass on the greatest stuff from from the past. That doesn't mean dismissing the new, not at all. But the new has to measure up in order to be worthy of included in the instruction of a young person. What a better gift is there than to give children, to give the next generation the best that mankind has has produced. That may well, as I pointed out earlier, include Japanese art and Islamic art. Some really magnificent stuff there, no question. Music is more restricted to the Western world. Whatever great literature you could find, the fact that the Bible is not passed on, the most translated book in the history history of humanity is a moral disaster, as we are seeing now. I started the show with the woman on Delta who was nursing, sitting in her seat, shirt lifted, and nursing a cat. Chaos is the inevitable product of what we're living through. And I asked the question— I began the show with a question: give me one secular argument against nursing a cat. The flight attendant called it gross. Well, what makes it gross? What? By what standard? Okay, everybody, pass on the greatest stuff to your children. And one more time, at the Prager store, it's just today. I'm not going to do this tomorrow. I, I don't think so anyway. Hundreds of hours of my teaching of the Torah, the first 5 books of the Bible, half price at the Prager Store or at my website. See you tomorrow.