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looked the meanest. United has looked the most self-destructive. And Southwest has looked the stupidest. You no longer talk to the flight attendant. You don't say a word about what you would like to drink. You point it out on a chart, lest your voice transmit death. And you don't get a menu because then you return it and you might have poisoned it with death germs. From the beginning, we at this show, who have given you more accurate reporting on science than the CDC has, Because it was all available until they shut these things down, which they do, and I will report on that momentarily as well. And because if you looked for truth, you found truth with regard to COVID. The truth was not coming from the left, and it was not coming from the CDC or the Journal of the American Medical Association or Nature or Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine. New York Times. Well, has the era of overzealous cleaning finally come to an end? Overzealous? You're kidding. The New York Times acknowledging that the crackpots who run the CDC were overzealous? They're crackpots. Fauci's an idiot. An idiot is a fool. Is he smart in the sense that he understands complex scientific equations? Probably. Is he shrewd? Definitely. Is he a fool? Definitely. That's it. I presume a rich fool. How do you get rich at the CDC? Do you know? It's like, how do you get rich being a senator like Biden? You know, has the era of overzealous cleaning finally come to an end? When I think of what restaurants have had to go through, basically sterilizing every chair, every table, every utensil— at the restaurant that is open in my, my little town outside of Los Angeles, You are not given ketchup. You're given some ketchup in a little paper container. You're not allowed to hold the salt or pepper shaker, lest you kill the next person who comes. People believe this. Has this ever happened before? Has touching a pepper shaker killed anybody in recorded history? How's that? Died of contact with a pepper shaker. Poor thing. I just want you to know, for the record, I have told Triple G that I would, with no regrets, touch his pepper shaker. Just thought I'd note that for the record. Within the coronavirus— when the coronavirus began to spread in the United States last spring, many experts warned of the danger posed by surfaces. Experts. Experts. Thank you. Correct. Experts. Whenever I see the word, I assume something stupid is about to be said. Researchers— ah, another one. The researchers, experts, studies, they've all been bastardized by the left. Researchers reported that the virus could survive for days on plastic or stainless steel. So let me ask you a question. Are these researchers who ruined things like cruises and other things and restaurants and airlines, and are they being brought to task? Hey researchers, it turns out your research is a fraud. Why don't they pay a price? Isn't that a fair question? Who were these researchers? New York Times? You know what? It's underlined. It's a URL. I'm gonna take a look during the break. Maybe we can publicize the scientific idiots who put out the nonsense that you could die from contact with inanimate objects. 1-8-Prager-776.

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You cease to amaze me sometimes, the stupidity that comes out of your mouth.

The expression is never cease to amaze me, as you're calling me stupid.

Just, I'm just saying.

About the George Floyd trial.

Quite actually, it's the Derek Chauvin trial. George Floyd is dead. As you call me stupid, just pointing out a few things.

Yeah, they had white officers, uh, answering calls to white people. Two of them had knives, and in both instances, the officers took them down without any incident. Why don't you have your research staff research that sometimes before you go around flapping your gums about, uh, flapping my gums.

Is that racist?

It seems like, uh, you just on one side of the fence all the time, the one that butters your bread, I guess. So you have a nice evening.

On one side of the fence all the time, the one that butters your bread. You have a nice evening. I will say one more time, sir, the police kill every year more unarmed whites than they kill unarmed blacks. Heather McDonald says that a black man is 18.5 times more likely to kill a cop to kill a white cop than the other way around. Is that relevant to you? The number one cause preventable death for young white men is accidents, car accidents, drownings, things like that. Number one cause preventable death for young black men, homicide, almost always at the hands of another young black man. The percentage of blacks who are unarmed killed by cops represents roughly 1/3 of 1%. Of all the blacks who are killed in this country every year. Is that at all relevant?

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These are difficult decisions. Do you want to listen to the medical profession? Do you want to listen to professional counsel? Do you want to listen to parents, or do you want to leave all these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of background? Yes, they're elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.

Did you hear what he said at the end? It's fascinating. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals? What, like Dr. Fauci? That kind of medical professional, as opposed to You know, the decisions of a legislature where people come from various backgrounds. Oh, what are those backgrounds that are problematic, Governor Hutchinson? Are they too white? Or are they too heterosexual? Are they cisgender normative heterosexual? Is that why in this one issue they shouldn't be allowed to represent the people of Arkansas who elected them?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

We can protect children from sex, from incest, from drugs, from alcohol, from pederasty. No, but when it comes to lopping off their sexual organs and filling them with chemicals to create a hormonal imbalance that they're not supposed to have naturally. Well, let's forget the protections that we provide them on all of those other issues. You are a fake conservative.

And if you listen to his answers, he's not a very See the new video at PragerU.com where we teach what is Hi everyone, I'm Dennis Prager and I welcome you to my program. And I'd like to remind you about PureTalk. You can actually get for $30 a month unlimited talk, unlimited text, 6 gigabytes of data for $30 a month. Half that is off if when you buy, dial #250 on your smartphone, #250, and say Dennis Prager. You can get a new phone if you want for $7 a month like the iPhone SE. You can get no new phone and use your old phone. You can use your old number. It's basically, if not exactly the same as the services of Verizon and T-Mobile. And who's the third giant? These— no, no, no, not the AT&T. Oh, let me see here. Even now I'm curious. T-Mobile. Oh yeah, you're right, it is AT&T. Why don't I think of AT&T when I think of mobile They're the oldest by far. Wow. Anyway, it's terrific. I signed up. It's terrific. Save yourself like $800 a year. Pound 250, say Dennis Prager. Thank you. Thank you very much. So the New York Times now has a piece. I'm surprised the New York Times has the piece. Oh, I didn't. Oh, I did a boo-boo. Would you look up where it says researchers reported and what the URL is? What comes up as Americans responded in kind? Why? Because Americans, if they were told that they needed to stand up and sit down 8 times, Every time they sat down, they would do it because they've been taught at college to listen to the experts. Common sense has no place in life, nor does dissent. Science has been taken over by phonies like it was in the Soviet Union. New England Journal of Medicine said what? Oh, said that the contact was, uh, They did an editorial. Uh, well, this one's a letter. Oh, a letter. That's what they're— it's a letter from a whole bunch of MDs and stuff. PhDs, QDDs, NZRs, and PVLs. All PhDs. Well, you know my theory. If you have a PhD, the chances of your being a fool are increased. Americans responded in kind, wiping down groceries, quarantining mail, and clearing drugstore shelves of Clorox wipes. For the record, we never did any of this, ever, not once. Just want to say I've been right and the CDC has been wrong whenever we have differed, just for the record. This is not a boast, it is a condemnation. Just want you to know that there is zero boasting here. I wish it were not the case. Facebook closed two of its offices. Facebook, their combination of sheep and shepherds, for a deep cleaning. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority began disinfecting subway cars every night. But the era of hygiene theater— of hygiene theater, it's a good term— may have come to an unofficial end this week when the CDC updated its surface cleaning guidelines and noted that the risk of contracting the virus from touching a contaminated surface was less than 1 in 10,000. Exactly. I can't believe why we're not continuing to do it. 1 in 10,000? Ah, please. An abundance of caution. Better safe than sorry. Any other clichés that we can come up with? You realize I made up— I didn't make up the jingle, some terrific listener did, but I made up those words to be at the end of the national anthem a long time ago. This is a boast. I saw it all coming all of my life. All right, the other one was not a boast. The other one was a lament. That I have told you more science than the CDC on COVID. The admission is long overdue, scientists say. Oh, well, why didn't they say it earlier? It's cowards. Do you know that the higher your degree, the more it is accompanied by an associate degree in cowardice? Can you think of a more cowardly place than the university? I can't. The admission is long overdue, scientists say. Finally, said Lindsay Marr, an expert on airborne viruses at Virginia Tech, quote, we've known this for a long time. I'm curious, look up Lindsay Marr, and I don't know if it's he or she. L-I-N-S-E-Y. It's a new spelling of Lindsay. Why do parents do that? That's another question that at the end of days will be explained. We've known this for a long time, and yet people are still focusing so much on surface cleaning, she added. Okay, it is a she, her preferred pronoun. I don't know if the New York Times established that her preferred pronoun was she. There's really no evidence that anyone has ever gotten COVID-19 by touching a contaminated surface. I want my producer to hear one word in that. Well, anyone, and not 1 in 10,000, 1 in 300 million. Oh, that's a good point. It's still a risk at 1, but apparently it's 0 in 300 million. Maybe so. Maybe somebody in Ecuador did. You're right, you're right. It's, you know, better safe than sorry. Let's wipe that down.

Wow.

Today's New York Times, my friends. It's not even an opinion piece. It's a news piece, which is for all intents and purposes the same thing at the New York Times. Nevertheless, thought I'd share that with you. There's really no evidence that anyone has ever gotten COVID-19 by touching a contaminated surface. Would you give me the URL that they— where the researchers at NEDJM— you did? It's on IM. This is worthy, my dear friends. This is worthy of bringing to your attention. Will these people lose any credibility This is at, yes, New England Journal of Medicine, aerosol and surface stability. Sorry, I will. Okay.

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But for you youngins out there, at one time there were poll taxes in the South. You had to pay money in order to vote. Well, black people were poor, therefore they couldn't come up with the money, couldn't vote. Literacy tests. Blacks were not taught to read and write. Well, you can't, uh, pass literacy tests, you can't vote. Grandfather clauses— if your grandfather could vote, you could vote. Well, Black people's grandfathers couldn't vote, so therefore they couldn't vote. That's what used to happen. But having to produce ID, having to verify who you are, that's worse than literacy tests, worse than poll taxes. Worse than the grandfather clause. How insulting is that? And nobody says anything. One of these Biden administrators, Biden himself, will say this. Nobody says anything. Uh, excuse me, Mr. President, uh, my parents grew up in the South and and they told me stories about how black people were required to come up with a poll tax in order to vote, how black people were required to pass literacy tests, uh, and how black people were subjected to what's called the grandfather clause, where they could only vote if their grandparents could vote. And you're, you're comparing the Georgia law, which all it does is say that you have to verify who you are, and the majority of black people support photo voter ID. You're comparing it to that? Isn't that kind of insulting? Insulting to people who went through that?

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These are difficult decisions. Do you want to listen to the medical profession? Do you want to listen to professional counselors? Do you want to listen to parents? Or do Do you want to leave all these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of background? Yes, they're elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.

Did you hear what he said at the end? It's fascinating. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals? What, like Dr. Fauci? That kind of medical professional? As opposed to You know, the decisions of a legislature where people come from various backgrounds. Oh, what are those backgrounds that are problematic, Governor Hutchinson? Are they too white? Or are they too heterosexual? Are they cisgender normative heterosexual? Is that why in this one issue they shouldn't be allowed to represent the people of Arkansas who elected them? No, no, no, no, no, no. We can protect children from sex, from incest, from drugs, from alcohol, from pederasty. No, but when it comes to lopping off their sexual organs and filling them with chemicals to create a hormonal imbalance that they're supposed to have naturally. Well, let's forget the protections that we provide them on all of those other issues. You are a fake conservative. And if you listen to his answers, he's not a very smart person either.

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All right, so I have the original letter cited, or linked, not cited, linked to the New York Times piece that this joke, which we have, which we regarded as a joke And by the way, it will have no effect. I just want you to understand, no effect. And I will explain what that means in a moment, because you can't be too careful. So who signed this letter about contracting COVID from an inanimate surface? It's a whole bunch of scientists, all PhDs here. Princeton, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, University of California, Los Angeles. So I'll pick on her. Amandine Gamble, UCLA, PhD. Amandine, somebody listening must know dear Amandine. Will you now state, I apologize and I helped mislead the country into idiocy? You know, folks, I gave the airline example, right? You can't touch the menu. Or, by the way, why are they wearing gloves? Why are these poor flight attendants— you know, between the mask and gloves, I'd rather wear a mask, and I consider masks voodoo. But I'm just curious, will they stop wearing gloves on airlines? Will your hotel finally clean your room? I spent 4 days in Miami last week, going back to Tampa, by the way. Tampa and St. Pete, see you guys. I think it's sold out, but just in case it isn't, contact my stations there. Terrific stations, I might add. And I'll be in New York on Fox News on the Wednesday night. So the hotels don't clean your rooms, you know that, lest you die. Die a painful, long death. From what exactly? The woman touching your towels? But didn't she touch your towels? It's usually a she. Didn't she touch your towels when you checked in? Don't you get a clean room? So if you get a clean room when you check in, why don't you get a clean room while you're there? Because it's phony. My suspicion is the hotels just want to save money. They're not going to change their policy now. I don't know if they'll ever change their policy because they get away with it. I always ask at the front desk. I would like new towels, I would like my bed made. Okay, is that asking too much? I'll even leave her a tip, which I often do. No, no, no, I'll wear clean pants, of course. And they read what I just said in the New England Journal of Medicine. Hey, how about this crowd from the CDC who signed this letter? A year ago about the dangers of inanimate surfaces spreading COVID. Azibi Tamin, PhD. Jennifer Harcourt, PhD. Natalie Thornberg, PhD. Susan Gerber, MD. Will they say we were wrong? They're never wrong.

Get it?

They don't think they're wrong. They don't think they're wrong now. The expense and the nuisance on this idiocy, which we called idiocy on this show. We knew that of the non-transmission, remember that ship where people got sick on, and even there was clear it was not done by inanimate transmission. Yes, the admission is long overdue. The scientist— listen to this one, Emanuel Goldman, a microbiologist at Rutgers: "The scientific basis for all this concern about surfaces is very slim." Slim to none. Oh. To his credit, he is quoted as writing last summer that the risk of surface transmission had been overblown.

This—

so by the way, there's a good chance we read it. How do I know? How did I know that this was a gigantic fraud, a scientific joke, bad joke on people, that you can get— you can die from surface touching? Because I read it. I read more on COVID than 99% of America's doctors. That is a crime. What is it, my dear friend? ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384. Now, that actually was developed by doctors. Doctors do a lot of good. I just have no interest in most of their insights, any more than I have interest in the insights of any other profession. It's not a knock on doctors. It's a knock on taking their advice very seriously for a country. This is a great product developed by doctors against knee pain, joint pain, back pain. 3 weeks, $19.95. You'll know in 3 weeks if it works. ReliefFactor.com.

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These are difficult decisions. Do you want to listen to the medical profession? Do you want to listen to professional counselors? Do you want to listen to parents? Or do you want to leave all these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of background? Yes, they're elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.

Did you hear what he said at the end? It's fascinating. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals? What, like Dr. Fauci? That kind of medical professional? As opposed to, you know, the decisions of a legislature where people come from various backgrounds. Oh, what are those backgrounds that are problematic, Governor Hutchinson? Are they too white? Or are they too heterosexual? Are they cisgender normative heterosexual? Is that why in this one issue they shouldn't be allowed to represent the people of Arkansas who elected them?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

We can protect children from sex, from incest, from drugs, from alcohol, from pederasty?

No.

But when it comes to lopping off their sexual organs and filling them with chemicals to create a hormonal imbalance that they're not supposed to have naturally, well, let's forget the protections that we provide them on all of those other issues. You are a fake conservative. And if you listen to his answers, he's not a very smart person either.

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On this program, and I encourage you all to check out our podcast, we talk, of course, about how Major League Baseball requires an identification when you go to will-call tickets. Good luck going to Wrigley Field and saying, "Hey, I'm here. Give me my tickets." They're gonna say, "Sir, we're gonna need some identification." Well, according to the Major League Baseball catechism, according to Major League Baseball's new social teaching, according to Major League Baseball's school of ethics, that's racist. Yet Major League Baseball will require identification for all their employees and identification for anyone that goes to pick up tickets or even to go into one of their luxury My cousin is a dentist.

What he had to go through on sterilizing his office, thousands and thousands of dollars wasted because of the, the crackpot notions of— what do they call it? I love the word here— hygiene theater. Scientific basis for all this concern about surfaces is slim to none. Will it change any of your minds about listening to the CDC?

No.

Will it change hotel policy, airline policy, restaurant policy? No, because it's all theater. Masks are theater. It's all theater. A building that I enter frequently. The, the woman at the front desk asked me to put on the mask just when I walk inside the building, and I have. And most of the time her mask is under her nose, which I salute her for, by the way. She knows it's theater. I know it's theater. And there are those who are frightened beyond words at the maskless. But we, unlike the history of the United States, we now are guided by the frightened. The frightened make policy. That's what's— that's the difference. It's the opposite of the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. All right, Joseph in Baltimore, Maryland. Hello.

Hey Dennis.

Hi.

Um, you admitted on Tuesday that Israel's done the exact opposite of everything you recommended, right? They've had 6,000 deaths. They have 36 times fewer people. 36 times 6,000 is 220,000. They have almost a third the number of deaths we have, from which I would draw the conclusion that everything you recommended is wrong.

Well, uh, how do you answer this? I looked it up seeing your call. I looked up the list of countries. 150 countries have fewer deaths per million than Israel. So why do you pick Israel versus the US and not Israel versus the 150 countries 150 that did better than Israel and didn't do what Israel did? Well, I—

your recommendations were for—

wait, wait, wait, please answer my question. I, I thought I answered yours. You compare Israel only to the US. I compare Israel to all other countries. I think that that's more scientific.

You just admitted yourself that countries that are homogenous like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea aren't comparable. You don't compare the United States to South Korea. Israel's right.

But I didn't— I said 150 countries. They're not all— okay, go ahead. I'm gonna interrupt.

They gave away all their hydroxychloroquine.

They shut down 3 times, and they have 1/3 the number of deaths we do, right?

And they would have had a lot fewer deaths had they allowed ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. And they shattered their economy. Okay, we, we differ.

That's a good point, because the Journal of the American Medical Association said on March 4th, 2021 that ivermectin is worthless.

Now, you quoted the Journal of the American Medical Association this week about pain control. So basically, something's a fraud if you disagree with it, but if it disagree— but if you agree with it, then you quote it.

Well, if I don't quote the Journal of the American Medical Association to substantiate a point I make, then people like you call up and say you have no scientific basis. So if I quote them— oh, Dennis, she You're not honest because you don't always trust them. But if I don't quote them, Dennis, you have no ear.

One, they said ivermectin was worthless.

Yes, and it is too. It will be to their everlasting death-creating discredit that they did so. That is what I believe.

They're a fraud. They're a fraud.

In this regard, they have been fraudulent.

If they agree with you, then they're—

No, no, not— No, no, there are areas I have no— Okay, on this, on ivermectin, That's right, I believe it's fraudulent. That is exactly correct, my friend. That is right. Just as I did on, uh, on inanimate objects spreading the disease. I've turned out right, and I live by it. I'm on ivermectin, okay? An unbelievably safe thing. That, that these people prefer to put people on ventilators than give them ivermectin early has, has created in me a contempt for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine and the medical profession that I never had before. Better to go on a ventilator than take ivermectin early. These people are killing Americans. There are epidemiologists I have had on this show from Yale and elsewhere who believe that hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead because of the medical profession. I agree with that. That's worse than fraud. That's homicide.

Get it?

It's, it's a disgrace, the deaths in this country that could have been prevented with ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and zinc. But the hatred of Donald Trump was much more important than the love of life for every left-wing doctor. Just like there are crickets on inanimate surfaces now. Are any of these PhDs who signed this letter last March to the New England Journal of Medicine saying we were wrong? Millions upon millions of dollars and staggering numbers of hours of wasted time are the result of our stupid letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. Will they say that? Of course not! There is no price paid for a doctor telling the country the wrong thing.

None.

There was no price paid for all the doctors who believed in eugenics in the 1930s. Right? Brandeis University is still named Brandeis University. He was for eugenics on the Supreme Court. And by the way, he was a great man. I don't judge him harshly for believing in evil in his time any more than I did Washington for having slaves. But let's call a spade a spade. The medical profession does great medicine and gives horrible advice. As a rule. That's it. That's the way it works. Plumbers fix my plumbing. They don't tell me where to buy a house. We'll be back.

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This is pretty significant. More Americans support Georgia's new voter integrity law than oppose it. This is a Morning Consult poll just released. Despite Biden and Coke and Delta and Major League Baseball, despite all of that, this new poll shows 42% of Americans are more likely to support the law, 36% are likely to oppose it. Now, You may not consider that very significant, but it is. And the reason it's significant is to know that more Americans, despite all the garbage and the lies that they have been throwing at the American people over a common-sense election law that makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat, that's a good sign. Here's Newt Gingrich on Fox News Cut 6 yesterday. Talking about the lies that Biden is spewing with this despicable smear calling it Jim Crow 2.0.

Because he lies. It's not complicated. I got so incensed. I've done two podcasts at Gingrich 360 laying out this whole story. Stacey Abrams, who's making a lot of money out of this stuff, she got the Jim Crow 2.0 website 2 weeks before the bill was passed.

So they were setting this whole game up.

I don't know how she got the president to talk about Jim Crow 2.0, but he did.

So you see an exact linkage of what they're doing. Biden not only lied about the Georgia law, the Washington Post, very seldom taking on a liberal Democrat, gave him 4 Pinocchios which is the most you can get, basically saying everything he said about the Georgia law was a lie.

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I am outraged by Major League Baseball pulling the the All-Star Game. I'm a hardcore Indians fan. I'm not spending a dime on Major League Baseball this year. Not a freaking dime. What did you make of the decision of Rob Manfred, who might be a friend of yours, to pull the game based on an erroneous understanding of the Georgia law?

I think that, you know, this is a symptom of what's going on across our country right now, Hugh, which is that, you know, people are being forced for business reasons to conform to facts that are manufactured. And, you know, so to me, the real blame— and I'm not trying to say that, you know, whether Coke or Delta or major All right everybody, we have a doctor calling in from Orlando, Florida.

John, hello.

Hey Dennis, um, I know you just got a few minutes. I want to let you know I'm involved with a small group of doctors around the country, you know, Dr. Mish, Dr. McCullough, et cetera, Dr. Zelenko, good friend of yours. And it's, it is really like a voice crying out in the wilderness more than ever. What's extremely frustrating as a physician, we've spoken before, I'm taking care of patients in the inpatient setting as well as outpatient. Just yesterday I had a patient come in with COVID pneumonia and I wrote for ivermectin as an inpatient and the pharmacy was all set to give it to me and then 4 hours later I get a phone call from the hospital pharmacist saying, well, according to hospital policy, we cannot give you ivermectin because it's not FDA approved. I know you've heard this story, by the way.

It is FDA approved. It's just not FDA approved for COVID. It's been FDA approved for half a century.

It's been FDA approved more so than remdesivir, as you know.

Yes, of course. Exactly.

This is a— so lucky. But I will tell you, the runner, the end around that I did is I got the wife to go to the pharmacy, pick it up and bring it to the patient's bedside because their pills are 3mg tablets, as you know, because you take them and he's getting them in the hospital because any hospital patients cannot be refused outpatient medications if the doctor says patient may take their own.

So what happened to the patient after taking ivermectin?

Patient's going home today. He's going home today. He's been in there for 2 days. I said yesterday, it was actually 2 days ago. I've been working long hours.

You know what, please send me— I'd like to know who you are. I'd like to know about your group. Of course I know about Dr. Zelenko. So what, uh, what are these, uh, jokers who call me in angry, really angry at me for advocating ivermectin? And saving lives while the medical profession has killed hundreds of thousands. So what do they say to a doctor like this? No, they say he's a quack. I've had doctors call in and call these, uh, Zelenko a quack. Yeah, that's right. That's right. You save lives, you're a quack. You let them die, you're a doctor. That's, that's the sick world in which we live. Anyway, it's all based on the retraction of the original idiocy that you can get COVID from an inanimate object. All right, Florence, South Carolina. Harry and Meghan's money is from Princess Diana. Thank you for that answer. Carol in Mission Viejo, California. Husband lived to 98, never washed his hands. If it didn't bother you, it doesn't bother me. Uh, let's see. Uh, Jeff in Hannibal, Missouri will not change how he lives his life. I haven't changed it one iota from the beginning, as you know. Poor Dave in Irvine, call me the third hour. COVID has cost him his marriage. Mary Kay about dentists in Georgia, you are so right. Happiness hour coming up.

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But it seems to me the networks have wholly given in to being blue. The newspapers are wholly blue. Entertainment is blue. Hollywood is blue. It just seems to me that woke culture has as one, that they completely swept away the idea of fairness.

Now listen, we're never gonna get as conservatives a fair shake from the mainstream media. We're just not. And Democrats are gonna get kid glove treatment from the media. That's always been the case. But I think it's folks like you and I who have to get on those places and push back. I don't think it's good enough just to go on conservative media outlets and speak to the converted. We've got to get out there and speak to the people who need to be converted.

Let me ask you now about taxes, Governor, because I had a couple of journalists on last night. I asked them if they knew what changing the stepped-up basis rule meant, and none of them understood. I think if they change stepped-up basis in the United States, they will be screwing millions of Americans who have no idea that it's coming. Do you think that has a prayer of occurring?

These folks in the Congress right now seem intent on using the time they have, which I believe they'll only be in control in the way they are now until the midterms in 2022, but they're gonna use these 2 years to try to get their entire agenda put through. They're making Barack Obama look timid.

Yep.

I mean, with what they're trying to do. And you know, I think you've been great on the stepped-up basis argument because It is the greatest creator of middle-class affluence that the world has ever seen, and they're going to try to take that away.

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If you fly United, this is about you. Our flight deck— now, who's at the flight deck? Is it the people who serve the pretzels? No, it's the people who fly the plane, especially after 9/11. The door is locked before the plane even taxis off the jetway. Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. No, it shouldn't. I don't want a screaming toddler on the flight deck. I don't want somebody who's 400 pounds and sweating next to me and hogging the armrests on the flight deck. I'd like people who know how to fly the plane. But United says, that's why we plan for 50% of our pilots in the next decade to be women or people of color. Hang on, you, you discriminatory bigots! Why not one-legged people? Why not double amputees? Shouldn't they be allowed to fly our planes? What about blind people? Should we not have blind people fly our planes, United? You bigots. It's out of control. You have one job to do and one job alone: to get us safely to our destinations professionally. Period. End of story. Now, if you want to do it economically, then you'll have an advantage. If you cut corners on safety requirements, on training, you will pay the penalty.

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You know, I'm watching the Derek Chauvin trial, and Yamiche ALCINDOR, one of the left-wing so-called reporters, she said that the Chauvin trial is not just about whether Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. No, it's about voting rights. It's about whether Blacks in America will be treated fairly. I'm paraphrasing. I'm playing the exact quote later on in the show.

So to Miss Alcindor, who I know listens to my show every day, in the event that this trial has a result that you don't like, is it possible, just possible, that maybe, just maybe, a juror or more than one juror saw this trial differently? Is it just possible that one juror may feel that the death of George Floyd was because of his drugs and the fentanyl in his system, as opposed to the knee being a substantial cause? Is it possible that one juror may see it like that way, or more than one? And if so, are you going to consider this to be a miscarriage of justice? Or is it possible, just possible, that the juror or more than one juror may see it differently? Again, we ought to be looking for justice, not vengeance.

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This is pretty significant. More Americans support Georgia's new voter integrity law than oppose it. This is a Morning Consult poll just released. Despite Biden and Coke and Delta and Major League Baseball. Despite all of that, this new poll shows 42% of Americans are more likely to support the law, 36% are likely to oppose it. Now, you may not consider that very significant, but it is. And the reason it's significant is to know that more Americans, despite All the garbage and the lies that they have been throwing at the American people over a common-sense election law that makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat, that's a good sign. Here's Newt Gingrich on Fox News Cut 6 yesterday talking about the lies that Biden Be happy, happier.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. It is.

It is.

It is. The happy— ladies and gentlemen, the happy make the world better. The unhappy make The world much worse. That's why it's a moral obligation to act happy even if you don't feel like it. The original lyrics, my friends. Little, you know, what are you gonna do? Happiness Hour is brought to you by Dennis Prager every single week. No exception. Not COVID, not 9/11. What else can I think of? Those were the two biggest challenges. Say it again. I do the plagues. I usually do the plagues. Mm. Oh yes, whether they're vermin or lice or the smiting of the firstborn Hey, by the way, isn't that a great word? Have you ever seen the word smite outside of the Bible? I think we should reinvigorate the word like in sports. Yeah, the Dodgers smote the Pirates. Not smited. Smote. Very important subject, happiness. Happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse. I have a big subject for you today, so big it could be life-changing. I know I've said that on about 282 occasions, and they've all been true. My subject today is Shock absorbers. There's an interesting moment in my life when Dr. Stephen Maurer, the professor of psychiatry at UCLA, who's periodically on the show and has done a number of PragerU videos, at some point, and I think it was on the air, said to me, you, Dennis, have very good shock absorbers. And he's known me for 30 years. He knows me well and is a psychiatrist. And he is right. So I'd like to offer you some thoughts on shock absorbers. One, I assume to a certain extent they're built in and some people have Like anything else, they may be partially built in and partially absent by your nature, just like a musical ability is built in. But even if you don't have great musical ability, you can develop the— you can play an instrument. Virtually every human can learn to play an instrument, and nicely, but obviously some will become great. That's, that's their nature. Okay, so whether your nature has shock absorbers or not, I have some advice. Life gives you shocks. Life produces shocks. So one way of looking at how one deals with life and the happiness level possible to attain is how do you deal with the shocks of life. I know nobody who has been exempt from shocks. Do you? It seems like there might be people who are, when you think of, you know, maybe the super rich, but you don't know, we don't know their lives. And then you find out, oh, they lost a child to a drug overdose, or they, they have no relationship with a child, or any, any, any number of possible things. Shock. So you need shock absorbers. So here is my biggest piece of advice. Most people develop shock absorbers after the shock. The trick is to develop shock absorbers before the shock, right? Your car has shock absorbers. It doesn't wait till it goes over a bump, one of those often moronic speed bumps. When they build those speed bumps, by the way, do they think about fire trucks and, you know, how it slows them down or makes their ride that much more difficult. But anyway, so think of the speed bump. If your car has no shock absorbers, unless you're going, you know, 2 miles per hour— some people do, usually the ones with the most expensive cars— the— you will feel the shock tremendously. So you have to put in the car shock absorbers before they get to the speed bumps. What are some shock absorbers in advance? Believe it or not, I believe that they are largely philosophical. Well, let me put it to you this way. That is how I have built my shock absorbers. And given what Dr. Marmor said to me, which I know to be true, that I have good shock absorbers. I'd like to tell you what has helped me develop mine. They're in— to a certain extent, they're in my book on happiness, Happiness Is a Serious Problem, which I wrote now, let's see, about 22 years ago. Happiness is a permanent subject. The book is not in any way dated. Anyway, I write all my books not to be dated. So here's an example of a way to create shock absorbers in advance. And again, it's philosophical. I knew from a very early age that life will not be easy. That I and everyone else will get real speed bumps in, in our lives. One of the worst things about shocks is that they shock you. That's— there are like two definitions in the shock absorbers, the shock word. So people are surprised. For example, I'll give you a religious example, and I have to say this is sad to me because I'm religious, and this is true for Jews and Christians, the two groups I know best. And that is, there are people who, religious people, who expect that given their fervent and honest and sincere and deep religiosity, that will protect them from shocks. Then they get one and they're less prepared than secular people. I don't think secular people tend to walk around thinking that they will not get shocked, that they are protected somehow. So they have to develop ways of protecting themselves, whereas the religious very often think they won't even get the shock. I'm religious, I, I, I won't get cancer. I'm religious. I won't lose a child. And you just fill in the rest of the sentence after the words I'm religious. Those are people who not only do not develop shock absorbers, they open themselves up to terrible pain from the bumps of life. I have never— and anyone who's listened to me knows my deep commitment to God and to religion— but I have never thought for a moment that God will protect me more than the next guy from a drunk driver or cancer. He might. But I have no reason to believe that he would. And those who believe that, how do you account for the next guy having tragedy in his or her life? They weren't religious enough? God ignored them? Developing shock absorbers is the topic. 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But for you youngins out there, at one time there were poll taxes in the South. You had to pay money in order to vote. Well, Black people were poor, therefore they couldn't come up with the money, couldn't vote. Literacy tests— Blacks were not taught to read and write. Well, you can't, uh, pass literacy test, you can't vote. Grandfather clauses— if your grandfather could vote, you could vote. Well, Black people's grandfathers couldn't vote, so therefore they couldn't vote. That's what used to happen. But having to produce ID, having to verify who you are, that's worse than literacy tests, worse than poll taxes, worse than the grandfather clause. How insulting is that? And nobody says anything. One of these Biden administrators, Biden himself, will say this. Nobody says anything. Uh, excuse me, Mr. President, um, my parents grew up in the South, and, and they told me stories about how Black people were required to come up with a poll tax in order to vote, how Black people were required to pass literacy tests, uh, and how Black people were subjected to what's called a grandfather clause where they could only vote if their grandparents could vote. And you're comparing the Georgia law, which all it does is say that you have to verify who you are, and the majority of Black people support photo voter ID, you're comparing it to that? Isn't that kind of insulting? Insulting to people who went through that?

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These are difficult decisions. Do you want to listen to the medical profession? Do you want to listen to professional counselors? Do you want to listen to parents? Or do you want to leave all these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of background? Yes, they're elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.

Did you hear what he said at the end? It's fascinating. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals? What, like Dr. Fauci? That kind of medical professional, as opposed to, you know, the decisions of a legislature where people come from various backgrounds. Oh, what are those backgrounds that are problematic, Governor Hutchinson? Are they too white, or are they too heterosexual? Are they cisgender normative heterosexual? Is that why in this one issue they shouldn't be allowed to represent the people of Arkansas who elected them. No, no, no, no, no, no. We can protect children from sex, from incest, from drugs, from alcohol, from pederasty. No, but when it comes to lopping off their sexual organs and filling them with chemicals to create a hormonal imbalance that they're not supposed to have naturally, Well, let's forget the protections that we provide them on all of those other issues. You are a fake conservative. And if you listen to his answers, he's not a very smart person either.

Them as many times as you want. Made in the USA and the official sponsor of the Happiness Hour. Go to mypillow.com and use the promo code Prager for deep discounts. mypillow.com or call 800-643-4645. 761-6302, promo code Prager. Wow, that is happy music. Is that from the '40s? I've been listening to '40s music. You know why? Very interesting insight. There's a channel on SiriusXM which is '40s music. There's '50s, '60s, '70s, I assume '80s and '90s. Anyway, there's one channel, if that's the term, for '40s music, and I've been listening because I wanted to hear the music that my parents listened to. And it's so happy and wholesome. Wholesome is a word that drives progressives crazy. They loathe the wholesome. It's not healthy. But that's what it is. And you get an idea what a different era the '60s, '70s ushered in when you listen to that music and the lyrics. And later. Anyway, that's the bumper music made me think about that. Just want to remind you, my friends, about the subject, and the subject is shock absorbers. In life, you need shock absorbers, and my way Interestingly, is more intellectual than emotional. By understanding very early in life that their life has tragedy, you already begin your journey into having shock absorbers, because then what happens doesn't shock you, or not— doesn't shock you as much. It's the shock of the shocks that really hurts people. I just spoke earlier of a disadvantage among religious people with regard to shock absorbers. Those religious people who somehow think that with the right belief or the right practices, God will protect them from shocks. So they really get clobbered when the shocks happen. But religious people otherwise do have better shock absorbers. One is that every religious person who knows their Bible, or to be grammatically correct, knows his or her Bible, knows of the inevitability of pain in life. And read the wisdom literature like the Book of Proverbs or Ecclesiastes. Secular people do not have that. But the biggest, the biggest of all, the biggest shock absorber in my opinion of all, aside from the possibility of religion because you believe in a good God and ultimately If this good God rules the universe, somehow or other this, this tragedy will turn out, if not in this world, then in the next, uh, to not have been as horrific as I thought. Religious people have a community. That's a huge, huge deal in shock absorption. Huge to have friends. And of course, if you have a good marriage, family and friends can be a huge shock absorber. And they're, they're usually more developed in the religious world. But the key is to know that these things happen. You are not in any way protected from it happening. That helps you deal with what happens to you. I actually have a chapter in my book on happiness titled A Tragic View of Life. That, that is one of the things that helps me be happy, is having a tragic view of life. And I looked at it the other day and I said, you know, Not only will we die, but everybody we love will die, hopefully in the proper chronological order. But that is the way of life. And that— this tragic notion helps me deal with the shocks, right? I assume that women, when they give birth the pain is somewhat mitigated by the fact that they know that giving birth will be painful. If it shocked them, I can't believe this, I thought it felt great pushing a baby out, and that would really be painful. But knowing that it is painful doesn't lessen the physical pain, but it does lessen the overall pain. Of course it does, because they don't expect it to be painless. That is why I tell people not to have expectations. That too helps your shock absorbers. Time to take your calls. Alrighty, everybody. Uh, let's see here. Steve in Prescott, Arizona, the famous Steve of Prescott. Hello.

Hello, Dennis. How are you, sir?

Good.

Well, thanks.

Good.

Yeah, you know, um, spending almost 30 years in the fire service and seeing all the terrible stuff and being a paramedic and being involved in medicine, working in hospitals worked on the fire truck, and I loved your analogy about, you know, going over speed bumps in a fire truck because I, I can't even tell you how annoying that is.

Anyway, uh, no, I want to wait. Let me just— let me thank you for noting that. Every time I go over a speed bump where there shouldn't be one, I think of you.

Yeah.

Okay, okay, go ahead. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, yeah, um, you just, you have to have shock absorbers and it takes a while to, um, develop them, you know. My father was a fireman for 40 years and then I became a fireman, which is interesting because I was adopted, but I watched my father and came up in that, you know, way of thinking, which was to serve other people. And then you didn't understand You know, when you were that young, that serving other people meant serving them in their worst times.

Oh, hold on. I really want to talk to you more. Uh, your, your life is proof of one of my most powerful statements. I'm much more interested in passing on my values than my genes.

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So Atlanta is 52% Black. The All-Star Game would have represented a $100 million economic stimulus to Black-owned businesses, and thousands of Black Americans would have been employed working in the All-Star Game or working in the activities around there. Instead, to try and protest racial injustice, Major League Baseball pulls the All-Star Game to go to one of the whitest metropolitan areas in the country, Denver, which is 10% Black. So let me get this straight. To fight systemic racism, you pull an economic stimulus out of Black-run businesses and communities into young, white, upper-middle-class communities in the mountains. That's your idea of fighting systemic racism and injustice? No, there's something else happening here. Of course, that wasn't their intention, and it's important to point that out because it actually does the opposite of what they say they're going to do, but there's something deeper happening here. On this program, and I encourage you all to check out our podcast, we talk of course about how Major League Baseball requires an identification when you go to will-call tickets. Good luck going to Wrigley Field and saying, hey, I'm here, give me my tickets. They're gonna say, sir, we're gonna need some identification. Well, according to the Major League Baseball catechism, according to Major League Baseball's new social teaching, According to Major League Baseball's school of ethics, that's racist. Yet Major League Baseball will require identification for all their employees and identification for anyone that goes to pick up tickets.

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—but it seems to me the networks have wholly given in to being blue. The newspapers are wholly blue. Entertainment is blue. Hollywood is blue. It just seems to me that woke culture has won, that they've completely swept away the idea of fairness.

Now listen, we're never going to get as conservatives a fair shake from the mainstream media. We're just not. And Democrats are going to get get kid glove treatment from the media. That's always been the case. But I think it's folks like you and I who have to get on those places and push back. I don't think it's good enough just to go on conservative media outlets and speak to the converted. We've gotta get out there and speak to the people who need to be converted.

Let me ask you now about taxes, Governor, because I had a couple of journalists on last night. I asked them if they knew what changing the stepped-up basis rule meant, and none of them understood. I think if they change stepped-up basis in the United States, be screwing millions of Americans who have no idea that it's coming. Do you think that has a prayer of occurring?

These folks in the Congress right now seem intent on using the time they have, which I believe will only be in control in the way they are now until the midterms in 2022. But they're going to use these 2 years to try to get their entire agenda put through. They're making Barack Obama look timid. Yep. I mean, with what they're trying to do. And, you know, I think you've been great on this stepped-up basis argument because it is the greatest creator of middle-class affluence that the world has ever seen. And they're going to try to take that away.

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They won't go flat. Wash and dry them as many times as you want. Made in the USA and the official sponsor of the Happiness Hour. Go to mypillow.com. Pillow.com and use the promo code Prager for deep discounts. Mypillow.com or call 800-761-6302, promo code Prager. Wow, everybody, what a thrill! Now you're all wondering, what exactly is the thrill to which Dennis is referring? Here's the bad news. I'm wondering the same thing. And so I will move on. This is the Happiness Hour. I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the second hour of the Friday show, and it has been since 1999. The topic is shock absorbers. You have to develop them before for the shocks. Otherwise, you are really exposed. Now, talking to a firefighter in Arizona, and this is— you are my friend, Firefighter Ibn Fighter Fire. You know what Ibn is? I've heard it, but I don't remember. Okay, it's Arabic for son of.

I was just gonna say son of. I was, I was kind of trying to get that one figured out in my head.

But yeah, by the way, do you have a son?

I do not. I am, I am, I have no children.

Well then, you have ended the firefighting tradition of your family.

Well, yeah, with, not only that, but with the adoption too. So I mean, yeah, I mean, and in my mind it doesn't make any difference if I'm adopted or biological, right?

No, I couldn't agree with you more. I have one of each and it's, uh, it's a non-issue. It's literally a non-issue, right? Okay, so go on. So we're talking about the, uh, the development of, uh, shock absorbers.

Yeah, well, just, you know, I remember, um, we'll just skip to the chase here and get to my first day on the, um, on the job in my career, you know, almost 30 years ago, um, you know, gunshot wound to the head and going out there and not knowing what I'm doing, knowing what I was trained to do but not knowing what I was getting involved in and seeing it and thinking, oh my gosh, really? Okay, um, here we go. And not knowing how to absorb that shock shock. But as you go through it, you develop ways, in my mind, you develop ways to absorb the shock, whether it be, you know, psychiatrist or your buddies or, you know, stress debriefing or all these different little tricks of the trade, so to speak, to help you get through what you're going through. I think it's interesting because like you were saying earlier, everybody's shock, and if I can add awe, is always different. Because just because I see, you know, terrible human physical, you know, tragedy doesn't mean that, you know, just because somebody's water pipe broke doesn't mean that that's not a trauma for them.

All right, I gotta let you go. You're a wonderful man, and I thank you for the call. The people who deal like he does with an almost daily basis with observing shocks, if not experiencing them directly. These people, I, I, I— it's an interesting question. Does it help when shocks come into their life that they have been able to develop a sort of, to use the term of the day, a vaccine against being crushed by what they have seen. All righty, everybody. Lydia in Denton, Texas. Hello.

Hey, Dennis, how are you? I am a first-time caller, long-time listener.

Thank you so much.

Um, so you said something interesting earlier. You were talking about religious people and how they might not— they might think that God can protect them from cancer if they're— oh, we all think he can.

They think he will.

Yes. So anyways, I'm a super religious person. I'm a Christian, always have been, and I didn't think that God could— it's not that I felt like he would protect me from getting cancer. It's that I felt like I was doing everything to protect myself from getting cancer. I was a vegan yoga instructor, CrossFitter, just super, super healthy, and I was diagnosed with breast cancer at a very young age, at 32.

And hold on, hold on, don't— please don't go over away.

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View, but it seems to me the networks have wholly given in to being blue. The newspapers are wholly blue. Entertainment is blue. Hollywood is blue. Every— it just seems to me that woke culture has, has won, that they've completely swept away the idea of fairness.

Now listen, we're never gonna get as conservatives a fair shake from the mainstream media. We're just not. And Democrats are gonna get get kid glove treatment from the media. That's always been the case. But I think it's folks like you and I who have to get on those places and push back. I don't think it's good enough just to go on conservative media outlets and speak to the converted. We've gotta get out there and speak to the people who need to be converted.

Let me ask you now about taxes, Governor, because I had a couple of journalists on last night. I asked them if they knew what changing the stepped-up basis rule meant, and none of them understood. I think if they change stepped-up basis in the United States, be screwing millions of Americans who have no idea that it's coming. Do you think that has a prayer of occurring?

These folks in the Congress right now seem intent on using the time they have, which I believe will only be in control in the way they are now until the midterms in 2022. But they're going to use these 2 years to try to get their entire agenda put through. They're making Barack Obama look timid. Yep. I mean, with what they're trying to do. And, you know, I think you've been great on the stepped-up basis argument because it is the greatest creator of middle-class affluence that the world has ever seen. And they're going to try to take that away.

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If you fly United, this is about you. Our flight deck— now, who's on the flight deck? Is it the people who serve the pretzels? No, it's the people who fly the plane, especially after 9/11. The door is locked. Before the plane even taxis off the jetway. Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. No, it shouldn't. I don't want a screaming toddler on the flight deck. I don't want somebody who's 400 pounds and sweating next to me and hogging the armrests on the flight deck. I'd like people who know how to fly the plane. But United says, that's why we plan for 50% of our pilots in the next decade to be women or people of color. Hang on, you, you discriminatory bigots! Why not one-legged people? Why not double amputees? Shouldn't they be allowed to fly our planes? What about blind people? Should we not have blind people fly our planes, United? You bigots. It's out of control. You have one job to do and one job alone: to get us safely to our destinations professionally. Period. End of story. Now, if you want to do it economically, then you'll have an advantage. If you cut corners on safety requirements, on training, you will pay the penalty. Keep up.

Asking me. Timmy, that cricket, Timmy Jack, you make my heart go clickety-clack. Tweet, let's tweet, let's tweet. Tweet, let's tweet, let's tweet. How you going to keep that fun you got? You're listening to the Happiness Hour on the Dennis Prager Show. Shock absorbers— gotta prepare them before you get the shocks. They'll still be shocks, but you could at least absorb them better. And that comes from attitude or philosophy. I have a rational approach to everything, as you may know. And that has contributed entirely to my faith in God and my religious beliefs. It is the basis of why I'm not on the left, which is not reason-based but emotion-based. And it's my route to happiness. It's a gift from God to use reason. We live in the age of anti-reason, anti-science in the name of science, anti-reason in the name of reason, and anti-happiness in the name of happiness. Shock absorbers, that's the subject. And back to Lydia, who got— shoot, you're 34 now, is that correct?

Yes, sir.

You were diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago?

Yes, sir, I was. And, uh, I had to go through 12 rounds of chemo, 35 radiation treatments, 3 surgeries, um, the whole shebang. Um, but my shock absorber was my health and taking care of myself. And so I, I I just heavily relied on that for me to just always be well. And then all of a sudden, I wasn't well. And just by happenstance, I read— a couple months before my diagnosis, I read the book Man's Search for Meaning, and it taught me how to find meaning in suffering. And so right off the bat, I, even though I was kind of mad, I guess, that this was happening, um, I just chose right then and there to be positive and to, to keep going. And, you know, God is famous for using insignificant people to achieve great things. And so even though I felt insignificant. I thought, God can still use me to bring a blessing to others. So that's just kind of, um, what got me going through— to just help me get through the whole thing. And I, I say all the time that, um, like, in the midst of a tragedy, your children will still want snacks. So, um, even though, you know, you're laying on the couch and you're throwing up and you're tired, you still have to do things. You still have responsibilities. You still have to keep going. Are you married? I am married, yes. And just like you were saying, religious people have a good community, and I have a wonderful community. People in my town that I have never even met were bringing me meals for my family. And gift cards to, you know, Target to get groceries. Or just— I mean, just, I was just immensely blessed through my story and just, just for what I went through. Just so many people blessed me. And now when I look back on it, I get this sense of happiness and the sense of joy because it was such a— it turned out to be such a good thing because I can see how God was working and how God was moving in my life. And I just, I just really wanted to say that, and I hope that somebody out there is listening to this and can just have hope. Well, just keep on trucking, you know.

Well, you are a model. Powerful call. Thank you very much. Do secular people have communities? I've often wondered about that. I don't know. They did in the past. Ironically, in the more religious past, there were more secular communities. You know, your book club, your knitting circle, your dance partners. I don't know what, but they were very big. Certainly your Rotary Club, your Kiwanis Club, your Lions Club. But right now, overwhelmingly, people who say I have a community, it is a religious community. Well, anyway, thank you, Lydia. I hope you're well, clearly. And Miguel in San Diego, California. Hello. Oh, hi, Dennis.

I've, uh, I've been listening to you for a while. Forgive me if I hesitate now and then, but I, I was listening to your show and I was just calling earlier to help my grandson with a therapist, and because he's been going through some stuff, and I don't know where to begin, but you mentioned shock absorbers, and I think most of my life growing up in the Bronx was full of, I guess, shock absorbers. And, um, and, and I guess this is what helped me get through what I, um, what I went through in August of, uh, what was it, uh, 2018, when my daughter and my granddaughter were driving on the highway in 805 North, and a young boy, an 18-year-old boy in an exotic car was going 805 South, and, uh, it killed both of them. And so it's, it's sort of hard to get through, but I think what made me strong was what I went through in the Bronx with my sister getting killed by her husband.

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But for you youngins out there, at one time there were poll taxes in the South. You had to pay money in order to vote. Well, black people were poor, therefore they couldn't come up with the money, couldn't vote. Literacy tests— blacks were not taught to read and write. Well, you can't, uh, pass literacy tests, you can't vote. Grandfather clauses— if your grandfather could vote, you could vote. Well, Black people's grandfathers couldn't vote, so therefore they couldn't vote. That's what used to happen. But having to produce ID, having to verify who you are, that's worse than literacy tests, worse than poll taxes, worse than the grandfather clause. How insulting is that? And nobody says anything. One of these Biden administrators, Biden himself, will say this. Nobody says anything. Uh, excuse me, Mr. President, uh, my parents grew up in the South and they told me stories about how Black people were required to come up with a poll tax in order to vote, how Black people were required to pass literacy tests, uh, and how Black people were subjected to what's called a grandfather clause where they could only vote if their grandparents could vote. And you're comparing the Georgia law, which all it does is say that you have to verify who you are, and the majority of Black people support photo voter ID, you're comparing it to that? Isn't that kind of insulting? Insulting to people who went through that?

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These are difficult decisions. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals profession? Do you want to listen to professional counselors? Do you want to listen to parents? Or do you want to leave all these decisions to the legislators that come from all different kinds of background? Yes, they're elected to represent you, but they do not necessarily make the right judgments for parents and for doctors in the most sensitive issues.

Did you hear what he said at the end? It's fascinating. Do you want to listen to the medical professionals? What, like Dr. Fauci? That kind of medical professional, as opposed to, you know, the decisions of a legislature where people come from various backgrounds. Oh, what are those backgrounds that are problematic, Governor Hutchinson? Are they too white, or are they too heterosexual?

Parakeet cage, you can't take a share in a parakeet cage, but you could be happy if you want to. That's right, they don't have wisdom songs. Are there any wisdom songs in the last 25 years? All right, everybody, I want to react to the last call. The subject— I could do this subject 10 times a year and it wouldn't be overkill. You need shock absorbers to deal with life's shocks. So he spoke, this poor man, daughter and granddaughter killed by a driver, probably drunk driver. I know the 805, I know what you're describing. By the way, just to note that. So he said that growing up in the Bronx with a lot of shocks, like, like his sister being killed by her husband, I mean, he sort of had shock absorbers. You want to understand America in the last 50 years, starting with the baby boomer generation? They were raised with very few shocks, and they were told that they could expect a life without them. When I see these students telling me— or not me— saying, saying we don't feel safe when, for example, a conservative comes to speak at a campus These are people who were raised to expect zero pain, even intellectual tension, in their lives. If you raise a child without exposure to germs, they will get sick very early and very often. If you raise a child to believe that there isn't built-in pain to life, you will raise a child who will be chronically hurt by every little tiny bump. And that's what has happened— a spoiled generation of people looking for safe spaces. Safe spaces is the symbol of a generation raised to believe that life is should have no tension, let alone shocks. That is the core of our problem. Essentially spoiled brats, and the spoiled brats then teach spoiled brats. It's good to know that life is inherently tragic, then you can be happy, because when it isn't, you are grateful. Now call in on any subject under the sun.

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Wait a minute, did Senator Cotton say that the state of Delaware has fewer drop boxes than Georgia? What did Tom Cotton just say? That Georgia— that Delaware rather doesn't have any early voting At all? What? Yep, I mean, nothing like a few facts to get in the way of a narrative of lies. And it is a narrative of lies. Biden was asked, well, since baseball moved the All-Star Game out of Georgia, should they move the Masters golf tournament out of Georgia as well.

It is reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are.

There's another side to it, too.

The other side to it too is when they in fact move out of Georgia, the people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most. I think it's a very tough decision for a corporation to make or group to make, but I respect them when they make that judgment and I support whatever judgment they make.

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Because I believe in voting ID. When did that become voting suppression, Governor Christie?

Yeah, I don't know, especially because in Joe Biden's own state of Delaware, as you know, they've required voter ID for as long as Joe Biden's been seeking office in that state. And, you know, requiring a voter ID just makes sense. I mean, if you get on an airplane today, you have to show ID. If I go to get into an office building in New York City today, I have to show ID. Yet I, you know, don't have to show ID to execute electing people to power in this country. Just makes no sense. And by the way, as you know, what they did in the Georgia laws was to expand what people could use as ID. So even though 97% of the people who voted in Georgia have a driver's license, they also said that we'll give you a state ID card for free if you don't have a driver's license or You can use a utility bill or you can use the last 4 digits of your Social Security number. I mean, this is not onerous and certainly is not racist in any way.

So do you believe President Biden has knowledge that what he is saying is false when he says it? Yes. And, and so do you think he is doing so with the intent of increasing, uh, Democratic Party attachment in the African American community? Yes. They see that's what—

Yeah, go ahead. I think he's dividing the country, Hugh, on purpose for his own political advantage right now. And it's sad to say it, when you use the words Jim Crow to describe something like this, you're setting the raging fire. You're the arsonist.

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Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the controversy regarding Major League Baseball and the Georgia law, and Obama has praised Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia.

Once again, somebody who could have done something to calm the country has thrown gasoline on it. He knows the Georgia law does not say that you can't give water to somebody standing in line. He knows that this law actually expanded the numbers of hours allotted for voting, not fewer. What Obama could have said A statesman would have said, "I've read the Georgia law, and while certainly we ought to be concerned about the history of voter suppression in America, there's nothing in this law that does anything but expand voter opportunities." Just as Senator Obama, when interviewed on 60 Minutes by Steve Kroft, he was running And he was gaining on Hillary, but he wasn't the front-runner yet. And Steve Kroft said, "Senator, if you don't get the nomination, will it be because of racism?" To which Senator Obama said, "No. It will be because I've not outlined a vision that the American people can embrace." Man gets elected. The Cambridge police acted stupidly. There's a place called Ferguson. Invites Al Sharpton into the White House over 80 times. Embraces the Black Lives Matter movement. Once again, making things worse.

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So Atlanta is 52% Black. The All-Star Game would have represented a $100 million economic stimulus to Black-owned businesses, and thousands of Black Americans would have been employed working in the All-Star Game or working in the activities around there. Instead, to try and protest racial injustice, Major League Baseball pulls the All-Star Game to go to one of the whitest metropolitan areas in the country, Denver, which is 10% Black. So let me get this straight. To fight systemic racism, you pull an economic stimulus out of Black-run businesses and communities into young white upper middle class communities in the mountains. That's your idea of fighting systemic racism and injustice? No, there's something else.

This theme means call in on whatever is on your mind. With particular emphasis on cigars, fountain pens, classical music, audio equipment, and photography. But first, my friends, let's get into the music. And here we go. Mm, there is no rational explanation, and you know my love of reason, for the effect that music has on most people. Not everybody, but most people. Now, Sean, let me ask you a question. Okay, would you prefer— totally serious question— would you prefer to listen to music or the sound of aardvarks mating? Not on a permanent basis, for an hour. Music. Okay. So that proves my point. You just had a scientific experiment. The experts at the Dennis Prager Show are unanimous on the preference for music. It cracks me up whenever they try to explain— everything is explained now by evolution. I began in the beginning of my intellectual life It was— everything was explained by Marxism. So there was— or an economic explanation. So you could look it up, you know, Marxist explanation of love, Marxist explanation of art, Marxist interpretation of literature. And now it's evolution. Well, evolution explains, but evolution doesn't explain music. That's my point. All right, my friends, what is on your mind? If I let you go, do not feel insulted. People get insulted too readily. It is not against you. It doesn't even mean your topic is not good. It means that we've already discussed it a lot, or I just don't want to talk about it because I don't want to take up the time on that one today. It could be a million things. Could be because I don't know anything about it. If you call up about the Sri Lankan gross domestic product, I may— well, actually, I think I would take that call. Why would anybody call with regard— and not with regards, oof, drives me crazy— with regard to the Sri Lankan gross domestic product? All right, let's look at what we have on the board here. Okay. Mitchell in Northridge, California. How do you do? Hello, Dennis. Yes, sir.

Just finished your Genesis commentary. I read the Exodus book as well. Thank you. And I thought they were very good. Have you, by the way, have you looked into getting these as part of the library? I forget, public school at at the religious schools, Christian and Jewish?

I don't look into that. Publishers do. Basically, parents would have to push for it out of school. It's not doable from outside. But enough parents have read either or both. The third one is coming out in September. Deuteronomy. And, uh, I, I, I would love parents— that is my dream that it, it goes into religious schools. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah, okay. You were—

you gave very short shrift to the incident with Noah and Ham when Noah got drunk and Ham, as it says in the Valgarized, I think, version of the, uh, the English text. He looked upon his father's nakedness and told his brothers, and his brothers covered him up and all that.

And then when Noah sobered up, he cursed Canaan. Now, Ham's son—

Ham's son. Now, Canaan was Ham's fourth son. Canaan had three older brothers. We know this 1 Chronicles. Why do you think Noah cursed Canaan, who's not even mentioned as participating in whatever looking upon Noah's nakedness meant? Why do you think he cursed Canaan, and what does that curse mean?

Wait, why did he curse Canaan and not— and not Ham? Or why did he curse Canaan and not the other siblings? Well, the other siblings were respectful.

They— there was no reason.

No, no, no, no, the other siblings of Canaan.

Oh, yes, exactly.

Yeah. So what— that's what you're asking? Okay, that's— so do you have a theory? I'm curious. Do you have a theory?

I do have it. I do have a theory. Do you want to know what it is?

Yeah, briefly. Yes.

All right, you got 20— Leviticus 20:11 says in the English, you shall not have sex with your father's wife. Because you have uncovered your father's nakedness, which is an idiom for that act. I, I suspect that what Ham did was something much more egregious than simply looking upon his father's genitals. I mean, right?

Exactly. Uh, well, I, I do suggest that.

Okay, yeah, but do you— I haven't read it immediately Yeah, that's right.

Yes, that's correct. Exposed his nakedness is probably an act, not just a visual, right?

Okay, so my theory is Ham had sex with his mother and that the issue of that union was Canaan.

That's good, that's good, my friend. Uh, it's a very I mean, it's a guess, but it's a very possible one. I think that in part the curse of Canaan, which I do raise as an issue and even a moral issue— why wasn't Ham cursed, not Canaan? Or why wasn't Ham alone cursed?— is because Canaan ultimately did And the nation of Canaan did suffer at the hands of the Israelites at the direction of God. Now, they were a terrible nation, and that, for the interest of all of you, even those of you who are anti-religious, the Bible over and over and over repeats that it is not because of the greatness of the Israelites, but because of the evil of the Canaanites, that they were permitted to defeat them and enter Canaan. Moreover, should the Israelites become evil, they too will be expelled from the land. People often are unaware of that. Okay, everybody. Uh, let's go to something obscure, but I love it. Steven in Greenville, South Carolina. Hello.

Good afternoon, Mr. Prager. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you for calling. Hey, I've got a question because I'm a former smoker, cigarette smoker, 2 years gone, but I just love tobacco. Uh, Cigarettes are real bad for you. So I tried cigars, I've tried a couple from different people, and I like them, but there are some that have— from, from people that smoke like 5 or 6 a day— that the cigar offends me almost. It's just, it's so strong. And my question is, somebody that's getting into the game, what, what's the difference? Where's the starting point so is to enjoy a cigar that doesn't offend, because there are good ones out there that I've had, but I don't know, I'm kind of lost on a starting point. You know, like trying to acquire a taste for wine, you don't start with Cab. You know what I mean? [Speaker:DENNIS PRAGER] Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so very briefly, I know because you had asked about light and dark wrapper. Lighter wrapper almost always is milder and darker is stronger. It is completely dependent upon the person who smokes. I love tobacco. I love the taste of tobacco. It is yummy, yummy, yummy. That's why I smoke a pipe as much as I smoke a cigar. I love tobacco. I hate cigarettes. Cigarettes are not smoked for tobacco. They're overwhelmingly smoked for the nicotine. That is why lumping cigars, pipes, and cigarettes together shows the ignorance of the person who has lumped them together. Tobacco is not the problem. Cigarettes and chewing tobacco are the problems. But we are not in the age of truth-loving. We are in the age of emoting. When the Mayo Clinic puts on its website that cigars are as dangerous as cigarettes, you know how little commitment to truth there is in much of the medical community, which we have seen during COVID And which just shows that the tragic realization that corruption, moral and intellectual, in the elite institutions of America is rampant. That was one of the realizations Donald Trump gave to us.

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I am out here, and you know, so to me, the real blame— and I'm not trying to say that, you know, whether Coke Delta or Major League Baseball shouldn't have taken the time to read the bill and make their own decision. But, you know, this comes down to the President of the United States being out there and saying things that are just absolutely outright false. And to call this law Jim Crow is just outrageous when you look at exactly what the law says. And that's what I think we need to focus on most particularly is What did Georgia do and what does it mean for voting? And that's the most important thing. And what's being done out there and mischaracterized by everybody from Joe Biden to Stacey Abrams to every other Democrat who has a soapbox is just wrong.

Well, you know, if it was Jim Crow, it would be unconstitutional and rightly so. If they had passed a law that in any way was based upon an intent to harm people of any minority or on gender or on religion, would be unconstitutional. It's a voting regulation, and I think it's necessary because I believe in voting ID.

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But for you youngins out there, at one time there were poll taxes in the South. You had to pay money in order to vote. Well, Black people were poor, therefore they couldn't come up with the money, couldn't vote. Literacy tests— Blacks were not taught to read and write. Well, you can't, uh, pass literacy test, you can't vote. Grandfather clauses— if your grandfather could vote, you could vote. Well, Black people's grandfathers couldn't vote, so therefore they couldn't vote. That's what used to happen. But having to produce ID, having to verify who you are, that's worse than literacy tests, worse than poll taxes, worse than the grandfather clause. How insulting is that? And nobody says anything. One of these Biden administrators, Biden himself, will say this. Nobody says anything. Uh, excuse me, Mr. President, um, my, my parents grew up in the South, and, and they told me stories about how Black people were required to come up with a poll tax in order to vote, how Black people were required to pass literacy tests, uh, and how Black people were subjected to what's called a grandfather clause where they could only vote if their grandparents could vote. And you're comparing the Georgia law, which all it does is say that you have to verify who you are, and the majority of Black people support photo voter ID, you're comparing it to that? Isn't that kind of insulting? Insulting to people who went through that?

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Hey Dennis, how are you? Well, hey, thanks for taking the call. I've been listening to you for 20 years. You've made me a much smarter man, so thank you. Yeah, so I'm actually, uh, in the middle of— actually, my wife is filing divorce papers because of COVID It's not all because of a little bit, a very big part of it, uh, mainly because, um, she got the vaccine. I don't want to get the vaccine. My stepson, who was autistic and had problems, he got it. He didn't die. She took care of him. He didn't get it. And I'm called a right-wing knuckle-dragger because I go to church outside without a mask. And I told her I can't live in fear because I put my trust in God. And she's a wonderful woman, but I've lost her to COVID. Wow, man, it's sad because I tell, I tell, I tell her, I said, well, wait a minute here. If you have the vaccine and I get the vaccine and I supposedly still have to wear a mask, but I can still get and get it and give it to you, then what's the purpose of me getting the vaccine? Vaccine.

What does she say? Exactly.

She had cancer twice and she has one kidney, but I'm still saying, yeah, but if you get the— she doesn't have an answer.

There is no answer. And it's sad because the notion that people will have to wear masks after getting a vaccine is, is, is absurd at absurdity. It is, it is the classic example of absurdity. How long have you been married?

We've been married for 6 years and we're both in our second marriages, but we've been together for 9 years.

Is she religious? There's some— I'm sure there are.

I'm a born-again Christian. And she's not? And she's not. She said she was until she met me. But she would argue about things in the Bible. I'm like, well, then you, then you're not a Christian. You can't, if you don't believe what the Bible says, then you're not a Christian. And, uh, we would fight about that. And it's, uh, very sad because we really love each other a lot, but there's a few other things. It's not just that, but that's a big one. Yeah. She basically told me I can't go see my daughter unless I wear a mask and social distance outside. And I said, I'm not going to do that.

Yeah, well, I have sympathy for both of you, but on the COVID issue, I'm 100% on your side. I've been together with people constantly from the very beginning of the lockdown, which I called the world's greatest mistake. I was vindicated. And things have been mishandled. It's panic porn. My God, read my column this week on masks outdoors. For those of you who genuflect before doctors, read the quote, long quote that I have from the New England Journal of Medicine, which they wrote before the fanaticism over masks, that they're useless outdoors. New England Journal of Medicine in March of last year. Then Fauci changed his mind, and then the, uh, the panic set in. A man called my show here. Yes, you may have heard it from, I think, Tampa, where I'll be next week. And he said, I'm going to wear a mask the rest of my life. I feel bad for people who live in fear. And I assume the man is not taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc, he's not taking ivermectin, but he's wearing a mask. By the way, the social price paid by society that wears masks is very high. That bothers me a lot. I do not have the question how many might die as the only guideline for a policy. The fake governor of New York— want to play that? He did. He claimed that was his guideline, just saving one person. This was— this is not a guideline for social policy. Right. Does he apply that policy to anything else? You know how many lives he would save by lowering the speed limit? Why don't we? It's always the example I give. That's it. That's the social— that's now the determinant of policies in a society. Will it save one life? Save a lot of lives if nobody drove. There you go. Just put everybody on a bus. Okay, let's— I'm sorry about his marriage. Obviously. All right, let me dispense of some of the audio questions. Redondo Beach, California, Warren wants to know recommendation for turntable for old records. They're probably all good these days, but I only use digital, so I have no great answer on that. Russ in Ocala, Florida, have you listened to Klipsch Forte 4-speaker? I've listened to many speakers. There are many great speakers. However, let me tell you, all who care about music and would like to hear it magnificently in your homes, the electronics are more important than the speakers. Nobody tells you that. Everybody thinks it's speakers, speakers, speakers. But remember, garbage in, garbage out. So your preamp, your amp, your, your CD player, your DAC, are more important than your speakers. What would you say, Sean? All right, so I'm going to let the audio ones go, and then I'm going to take— look at that, Jerry in San Diego, California wants to know when I'm going to run for governor of California. I could tell you in advance, 3 weeks after the arrival of the Messiah.

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So Atlanta is 52% Black. The All-Star Game would have represented a $100 million economic stimulus to Black-owned businesses, and thousands of Black Americans would have been employed working in the All-Star Game or working in the activities around there. Instead, to try and protest racial injustice, Major League Baseball pulls the All-Star Game to go to one of the whitest metropolitan areas in the country, Denver, which is 10% Black. So let me get this straight. To fight systemic racism, you pull an economic stimulus out of Black-run businesses and communities into young, white, upper-middle-class communities in the mountains. That's your idea of fighting systemic racism and injustice? No, there's something else happening here. Of course, that wasn't their intention, and it's important to point that out because it actually does the opposite of what they say they're going to do, but there's something deeper happening here. On this program, and I encourage you all to check out our podcast, we talk, of course, about how Major League Baseball requires an identification when you go to will-call tickets. Good luck going to Wrigley Field and saying, hey, I'm here, give me my tickets. They're gonna say, sir, we're gonna need some identification. Well, according to the Major League Baseball catechism, according to Major League Baseball's new social teaching, according to Major League Baseball's school of ethics, that's racist. Yet Major League Baseball will require identification for all their employees and identification for anyone that goes to pick up tickets.

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But it seems to me the networks have wholly given in to being blue. The newspapers are wholly blue. Entertainment is blue. Hollywood is blue. It just seems to me that woke culture has won, that they've completely swept away the idea of fairness.

Now listen, we're never going to get as conservatives a fair shake from the mainstream media. We're just not. And Democrats are going to get kid glove treatment from the media. That's always been the case. But I think it's folks like you and I who have to get on those places and push back. I don't think it's good enough just to go on conservative media outlets and, and speak to the converted. We've gotta get out there and speak to the people who need to be converted.

Let me ask you now about taxes, Governor, because I had a couple of journalists on last night. I asked them if they knew what, uh, changing the stepped-up basis rule meant, and none of them understood. I think if they change stepped-up basis in the United States, they will be screwing millions of Americans who have no idea that it's coming. Do you think that has a prayer of occurring?

These folks in the Congress right now seem intent on using the time they have, which I believe will only be in control in the way they are now until the midterms in 2022. But they're going to use these 2 years to try to get their entire agenda put through. They're making Barack Obama look timid. Yeah. I mean, with what they're trying to do. And, you know, I think you've been great on the stepped-up basis argument because it is the greatest creator of middle-class affluence that the world has ever seen, and they're going to try to take that away.

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Hi, Dennis. Hi. Okay, I'm not going to say how are you. Oh, that's— uh, that's my husband.

Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, no, I was going to comment on your saying that you're not going to ask me how I am. I thought it was funny. Okay, go ahead.

Well, there you are. So my husband, when we were newlyweds— well, I was pregnant with my second child— gave me a venereal disease because he had two one-night stands. And I really thought my marriage was over. And I heard you talk about your, your cassette tape. It was a cassette tape back then of men's sexuality. And I bought it and I didn't like it, but I listened to it and listened to it and listened to it. And it really did save my marriage. And we are madly in love with each other I'm going to be married, um, it's going to be 36 years this month, and I'm so happy. You know all the ups and downs I've had in my life, but I'm a grandmother now, and I have a beautiful home, and I have a fantastic marriage, and I've got 5 fantastic kids. And that wouldn't have happened if we had divorced. Wow, what a call.

God bless you. I know you've been in touch with me for many years. I just want to comment on those— there are 4 lectures explaining male sexuality. I gave them about 25 years ago. They're available at the Prager store. They're very, very real. I love real. As far as sexual nature is concerned, men might as well be orangutans in a woman's ability to understand males without being given an explanation. If that was not clear, let me make it clear. It is impossible for us to understand an orangutan. It is impossible for a woman to understand a man's sexual nature without being told about it. And then she has a choice whether to hear the news and accept it or not. That doesn't mean you accept irresponsible behavior. You just accept the news. I think men are more capable of understanding female sexual nature, although that also needs to be explained, but not as much. And that's why I did that, why I made those, uh, Then tapes, I guess now it's just downloaded. Sarasota, Florida, and Robert, hello.

Yes, hello Dennis, thank you for taking my call. Yes sir. Um, on the heels of your last hour, I, I wanted to bring to your audience's attention a short, um, brilliant video by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Which, uh, he himself tragically— such a good man— uh, died this past December, one month after, uh, he was interviewed for this particular video. And the question being, you know, why, why do bad things happen to good people? And I would encourage your audience to Google it, take a look at it. But the essence of it, of what the rabbi said, was that, uh, God has actually arranged it so there is no answer to that question, that he actually does not want us to understand why bad things happen to good people, because if we did, we may accept evil and not fight it or fight injustice. So, uh, I encourage, uh, you listen.

Thank you. I think that's very helpful. Uh, yes, I did not know about that particular one. He was a great man. And just for your edification, Robert, there's a wonderful video on the internet of the two of us in dialogue in Canada from when we were both speakers at the Passover retreat for Chabad of Vancouver. You'll get it. It's a wonderful dialogue. You'll get a kick out of that too. All right, let's see here. Okay, good. Oh, there are some people who call almost every day. I don't know how they get in. There must be some magic to it, but I, I— please understand, pro or con, I just can't take the same person continually. So I'll just have to explain that to John of Libertyville, because I would have loved it otherwise. My comment was offensive regarding airlines seeking women and minorities. All right, Relief Factor is at relieffactor.com. I admit to being puzzled as to why any of you who have back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, leg pain, pain, knee pain, ankle pain, joint pain would not at least try it for 3 weeks? Because they say you'll know in 3 weeks if it works, and they have a special price for 3 weeks, $19.95 plus shipping. It's pretty cheap. If it doesn't work, you cancel your order. If it does work, you will be a very much happier human being. Physical pain can drive you nuts if there's enough of it. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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When did that become voting suppression, Governor Christie?

Yeah, I don't know, especially because in Joe Biden's own state of Delaware, as you know, they've required voter ID for as long as Joe Biden's been seeking office in that state. You know, requiring a voter ID just makes sense. I mean, if you get on an airplane today, you have to show ID. If I go to get into an office building in New York City today, I have to show ID. Yet I, you know, don't have to show ID to execute electing people to power in this country. Just makes no sense. And by the way, as you know, what they did with Georgia laws was to expand what people could use as ID. So even though 97% of the people who voted in Georgia have a driver's license, they also said that we'll give you a state ID card for free if you don't have a driver's license, or you can use a utility bill, or you can use the last 4 digits of your Social Security number. I mean, this is not onerous and certainly is not racist in any way.

So do you believe President Biden has knowledge that what he is saying is false when he says it? Yes. And so do you think he is doing so with the intent of increasing Democratic Party attachment in the African American community?

Yes. They see that's what— Yeah, go ahead. I think he's dividing the country, Hugh, on purpose for his own political advantage right now. And it's sad to say it, when you use the words Jim Crow to describe something like this, You're setting the raging fire. You're the arsonist.

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Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the controversy regarding Major League Baseball and the Georgia law.

And Obama has praised Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia. Once again, somebody who could have done something to calm the country has thrown gasoline on it. He knows the Georgia law does not say that you can't give water to somebody standing in line. He knows that this law actually expanded the numbers of hours allotted for voting, not fewer. What Obama could have said, a statesman would have said, I've read the Georgia law, and while certainly we ought to be concerned about the history of voter suppression in America, there's nothing in this law that does anything but expand voter opportunities.

Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here in the studio with a Time to Snare. Uh-huh, that, my friends, was a neftigent moment on the Dennis Prager Show, and we continue here Wow, all good. This is great stuff here. It's amazing. Okay, so I got it. I got news. Carol in Corona, California. Hello. Hello.

Yes, you know, we heard from Silver Seas that they are requiring all their guests and crew to be vaccinated and wear masks at all times, even on excursions.

And we were just wondering if you're going to cave in. Well, they—

I got news just last night. I was told that they canceled the cruise. Oh no. Yes, it's bad news. I'm trying to figure out if we could do something domestic instead, and because it's unprecedented. Unprecedented. I've never— I haven't missed a year of cruising in 25 years. You were booked on it? And no, I, I, I must say though that the, the— forgetting even the vaccine policy, if the, if the, if the cruise line demands that you wear a mask at all times, it, um, the paranoia, it takes away from the joy of the of the vacation. If people are scared, they shouldn't cruise, right? We agree. You know, let the scared stay home, okay, folks? You have, you know, you just stay scared, stay home, and let the rest of us live life. That was my view since last year, since a year ago. So I'm really sorry to tell you that. I, I, I'm not shocked, but it was still, it was still upsetting. Who knows what England will demand? Who knows what Iceland will demand? It's not just the cruise lines. Health Uber alles. I made up that phrase 20 years ago. Health Uber alles. It comes from Deutschland über alles, Germany above all. It was a Nazi claim. And now you have health Uber alles. But everything in the name of health, safety— safety is our greatest concern, so we will suppress your life and we will believe the lie. I talked about the first hour. It has now turned out to be pure nonsense, 100% drivel, that you need to use all this Lysol on inanimate objects. You're not going to get COVID from inanimate objects. it's somewhat like a roulette wheel. You can't really depend upon it. Masks. They didn't work. New England Journal of Medicine.

Read my column this week? New England Journal of Medicine a year ago.

They're useless outdoors. Useless. But you should wear better. Better to be safe. safety, we have, we have stopped It's somewhat like a roulette wheel. You can't really depend upon it. Masks, they didn't work. New England Journal of Medicine, read my column this week. New England Journal of Medicine a year ago, they're useless outdoors. Useless. But you should wear them. Better to be safe. So in the name of safety, we have stopped I'd have gone on a cruise last March with joy and maskless. Purpose of life is not to live long. The purpose of life is to live well. Clear? And I have. 130 countries, not all of them safe. I don't take ridiculous risks. I wear a seatbelt. All right, that is what it is. Let's go to Mitch in Charleston, South Carolina.

Hello, Mitch.

Hey, how you doing, Dennis Prager? I'm well. Thank you. You had— I thought I finally had something interesting to talk about. That's funny. Uh, say a couple calls ago, uh, you were talking about how women can't understand men, uh, male sexuality, right? Right. So my wife and I sort of, I will say, battled over this for many years, and I, I always sort of defaulted to, you know, it had something to do with the animal kingdom. and out in the animal kingdom, what males usually do out in the— it was the only defense I really had. Not— I'm not talking about going out and doing stuff. I'm talking about, uh, looking, the visual. It was sometimes too obvious when you appreciate a woman who walks by. Maybe I wasn't as good at it as other people. And, uh, not long ago, maybe 2, 3 years ago, she was— she was getting some hormone treatments, and testosterone was part of the treatments. And then when we were at the pool one day and she made a couple of comments, and she was, uh, the word we were using was, uh, amorous, I suppose. And it was visual. She was noticing— she was noticing some of the other men around the pool, and she kind of looked at me and she was like, well, she goes, I, I don't know how you guys live like this. This affected— testosterone was having on her because she, she could, she couldn't get it off of her mind.

Fascinating. Well, you know, I, I thank you for the call. It's, um, it's something that I've often imagined— men and women switching brains for a day. That would be one of the aspects that women would say, whoa, my guy controls himself. That's pretty impressive. The rest of the female reaction to having a male brain would be, "Whoa, there's not much going on." Other than that, male got a female brain and he would probably commit suicide within an hour. The amount going on would drive him out of his mind. That's my theory. They have a lot of pictures about male-female differences on the internet. One of my favorite, I'm sure it's gone viral, is the male box and a female box. And the female box has like 15 diodes, switches, lights. And the mailbox has an on and off switch. All right, we return. I'm Dennis Prager.

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If you fly United, this is about you. Our flight deck— now, who's on the flight deck? Is it the people who serve the pretzels? No, it's the people who fly the plane. Especially after 9/11, the door is locked before the plane even taxis off the jetway. Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. No, it shouldn't. I don't want a screaming toddler on the flight deck. I don't want somebody who's 400 pounds and sweating next to me and hogging the armrests on the flight deck. I'd like people who know how to fly the plane. But United says, that's why we plan for 50% of our pilots in the next decade to be women or people of color. Hang on, you, you discriminatory bigots! Why not one-legged people? Why not double amputees? Shouldn't they be allowed to fly our planes? What about blind people? Should we not have blind people fly our planes, United? You bigots. It's out of control. You have one job to do and one job alone: to get us safely to our destinations professionally. Period. End of story. Now, if you want to do it economically, then you'll have an advantage. If you cut corners on safety requirements, on training, you will pay the penalty.

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You know, I'm watching the Derek Chauvin trial, and Yamiche Alcindor, one of the left-wing so-called reporters, she said that the Chauvin trial is not just about whether Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. No, it's about voting rights. It's about whether Blacks in America will be treated fairly. I'm paraphrasing. I'm playing the exact quote later on in the show.

So to Miss Alcindor, who I know listens to my show every day, in the event that this trial has a result that you don't like, is it possible, just possible, that maybe, just maybe—

well, the final segment of the final hour of the week, and it always moves me. Let me summarize your calls, my dear friends. Oh God, too bad. Lee, do I have time? Let me try it. Be very concise, Lee, because you differ with me and that's very important. I never heard of Oviedo, Florida, but I believe it exists.

Go ahead. It does exist. It's just about 30 minutes north of Orlando, but I'll be quick here. I've I believe you've said, uh, numerous times that the endgame of leftism is chaos. Do I have that right? Yes. Okay, I believe that's incorrect, and here's why. I think it would be better worded as leftists are willing to commit chaos in order to achieve their endgame. In their endgame, I think all leftist positions are rooted in egalitarianism. So whether it's black against white, rich against poor, men against women, men running against women and racists. I think it's all rooted in egalitarianism.

Right, okay, that's very intelligent actually. They're as committed to egalitarianism as I am to ginseng tea, which I know nothing about. It's just something remote was what I needed at that moment, and that's what came to mind. They, uh, I, I thought you were going to say they're not committed to chaos, they're committed to power. And that's, that's what it really is, is control over others. So the chaos might be a vehicle to control, but I think chaos is part of the end. Those who say that men give birth, that isn't even a power issue, that is chaos. That there was no one right answer in math, which is now taught the way math is taught in Oregon. That is chaos. These people are empty and they want the rest of the world to be like them. Okay, let's see here. Arlene in Asheville, North Carolina disagrees with me. She says female sexuality is mysterious to men. Okay, but men can learn. Fair enough. I— but it would be a great call to take. Paul wants to know why Bach is not popular, more popular. I agree with you. I could make him popular if I could, if I played enough of it on the air. But what are you gonna do? Kathy in Phoenix: Vaccinated friends still self-quarantining. Quarantine before a trip. That's a first in vaccination history, isn't it? That people, people still self-quarantine. We live in the age of irrationality, and it is conducted primarily by the well-educated. When I say college makes most people stupid, I mean it literally. I'm sorry. I'm not happy about it. I love the educated life. Sorry, couldn't take all your calls.

I love being with you.

Don't forget, I'm going to Israel. The cruise is canceled, but Israel is on for October. The banner is at my website.