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Hello, my friends. I hope you had a good weekend. Apparently 2 million people— what is it, 2 million people last month? Last week? Can't be in a week. Anyway, we have now reached travel numbers that are the same as pre-lockdown. I never say pre-COVID because the issue is lockdown, not COVID. So life for some people— I was in an elevator with a young woman To her great credit, I was unmasked and she was masked. She had no issue. I always ask. And I said, so when is the mandate over, today or tomorrow? She looked it up on her phone, said tomorrow. So I said, and will you be taking it off? With a big smile, not challenging. And The response was not fully clear. We'll be watching, or hearing— it is watchable, but we will hear Ami Horowitz's interviews with masked people in New York City, why they wear a mask. And it will buttress my belief that half this country is unimpressive in its thinking. It's a very sad realization for me. I had sort of romanticized the American people all of my life, and that has ceased. The answers that people gave amounted to a proof of what many of us believe, that masks are, as one woman fully acknowledged, a pacifier. She said it. It's my pacifier. Did you see— did you see his video? Now, I know you don't emote much. I'm speaking to the non-emoting gentleman I share my life with, but You must have had some emotion watching that, similar to mine. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to read to you a lie that even liberals listening will acknowledge is a lie, that a lie told by the Democratic Party. Do you know what I'm referring to? I doubt you do. Yeah, yes, that's right. That's why I didn't think you could know what I'm referring to. I picked this up in the middle of a New York Times piece by another one of the fools known as a contributing editor to the New York Times. You cannot not be a fool. If you're not a fool, you cannot be a contributing editor, or in 99% of the cases, an opinion writer. And he relays a lie that even liberals would acknowledge is a lie. Leftists would not. And here it is. Timothy Egan, contributing opinion writer. For the New York Times, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, the New York Democrat overseeing his party's congressional campaigns— you with me? That's a pretty important high-ranking Democrat— says it's a, quote, pernicious lie to label Democrats as the party of defund. That is as blatant a lie as a human can tell. There are equally false statements you can make, but there is no statement that is more false. The sun rises in the west is also false, but is not more false. Then it is a pernicious lie that the Democrats are the party of defund the police. Get it? It's a pernicious lie. This outdoes Orwell. What you heard and what you saw from Democrat after Democrat after Democrat for over a year, you didn't see and you didn't hear. Just put in, really put in, mayor, governor, any— it doesn't— no, no, you don't even need the name. Defund the police, and up will come Democrats all over the country. It's a pernicious lie. Truth is not a left-wing value. It is not a New York Times value, 'cause the New York Times is a left-wing rag sheet. This is classic. No, it's not the party of defund the police. That's a pernicious lie. I invite this representative to come on my show. Oh, the— who was the guy? John Oliver. I invited John Oliver to debate me because of his lies about the Middle East, and I did a fireside chat about him, and I eviscerated his commentary. So there's a Reddit, very small Reddit site, you might have seen it on Google Alerts, where people— because Prager wants to debate Oliver. Oliver— some of them write, Oliver should do it. He would just wipe the floor with Prager. And I thought, God, I hope he believes that. That would be awesome if John Oliver would believe that. But they never debate. It's a non-issue. They speak to one another. They dominate the media. And that ends the issue. But this was, this was the find of the weekend. Oh, you did, you know, looking up this issue, New York Post, June 11th of last year, June 11, 2020. Chuck Schumer blocks resolution opposing defund the police movement. How's that? But they're not the party of defund. That's all the way up to Schumer. That's not just your mayor of Seattle or Portland. The resolution introduced by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican, Arkansas, called for two simple things: justice for George Floyd and to oppose efforts to defund the police. And he blocked it because it had efforts to defund the police. The hopes of this country lie in liberals. Will liberals act with courage? Will they follow their own values and recognize that the left is the enemy of liberalism? It is painful to me, given all the liberals I know, And they still don't understand the left is their enemy. You know what they think whenever the issue is raised? And I don't raise it much with family, thank God, not my immediate family, my extended family. Oh, that's— oh, come on, you know, you're just picking extreme examples. There are extreme examples on both sides. You have, you know, you have QAnon. Wait, so I have QAnon, which by the way I still have never seen, never read, don't even know what it is. I have QAnon and they have Chuck Schumer. Oh, that's a balance. There you go. Suicide attempts by teen girls spiked during COVID-19 pandemic. Somebody on the internet brought up that I had said over well over a year ago that the lockdown was the greatest mistake in world history. I was right, and I, I, I'm more vindicated today given that we have therapeutics. The medical profession has killed innumerable human beings in its opposition to hydroxychloroquine and especially ivermectin. I believe that you are effectively vaccinated against this disease if you're on ivermectin. It is a form of vaccine, as it were. My wife and I have been on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for about a year. And two members of our household got COVID. We did not social distance, of course. We never wear masks, and we didn't get a sniffle. Why did the people in the household with ivermectin not get it, and those without it got it? Is it a coincidence? Could be. I don't think so. We'll be back. 1-800-PRAGER-776. Streaming on Salem Now. As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.

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Can you discuss that, please? It's to do with contract law, correct?

Right. So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a— in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one. And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud when I'm signing— when— yes, before—

it's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith. If you go in as a woman knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband, that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.

So people are saying never, as if it never occurred.

So now they're saying, well, applies to the election, right?

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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened. The Pelosi Commission. So for the last couple of months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow walking this. I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it. She wanted this to be a later authorized commission, so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans. So she intends— she did not want this to be an overnight thing. So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission. And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection. And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time. I'm not minimizing that. At the same time, who killed Ashli Babbitt? And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed? I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated. So for months now, Republicans have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi. When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is Not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment. And so the commission is supposed to be like a 9/11-style commission to look into the January 6th incident. But we all know how these things happen. This would be a Mueller-style counsel. That would be a roaming prosecutor.

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Hello everybody, Dennis Prager here. Did you look up the pernicious lie? Yeah. Oh, today's— today is Donald Trump's birthday. We wish you a happy birthday, one of the greatest presidents in American history. If by great president one means a president who did great things for his country, Since Lincoln, I can't think of someone who did more good things for this country. Neither can you. Coolidge? Okay. Well, Coolidge did a great thing in that he did nothing, which is a great thing, by the way. There is no sarcasm meant in the least. His belief was the government should stay out of your life. He was the last president to believe that. That was the founding message of the American founders. The government should stay out of your life as much as possible. The left wants the government in your life as much as possible. Boy, is the world divided in that way. It is such a major division. I need to write my article on the world is divided between That's a biggie. People who want to control other people's lives and people who do not. You know that in your personal life. Everybody knows someone controlling. Some people are married to someone controlling. Human nature is a very serious problem, and it's a serious problem not only because it contains such horrible natural inclinations as the desire to control others' lives, it's that it's, it's not true for everybody. Some people are in fact dealt a crappy nature or a crappier nature than others. Everybody has to battle their nature, but some have to battle it more than others. I suspect that the vast majority of you are not interested in molesting children. The fact that there are people who are interested in it gives you an idea of the difference in human natures that, that are doled out. Well, maybe that come— maybe that— I don't know, maybe the desire to molest a child comes from being molested yourself. But somebody started it, right? Somebody who was not molested started started the cycle. Suicide attempts by teen girls spiked during COVID-19 pandemic. Among the adolescent girls aged 12 to 17 years, the average weekly visits to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts from February 2021 to March 2021 was 50.6% higher than the same period the year before, according to CDC. Study likely underrepresents the real number of suspected suicide attempts because Americans were hesitant to go to hospitals during the pandemic in fear of contracting COVID-19, according to CNBC. In Japan, suicides were up nearly 40% in October 2020. Compared to the same period in 2019. Suicides by Japanese women spiked by 82% in October. So that's essentially almost double. That is suicides, not suicide attempts. Compared to a 21% increase in suicides by men, drug overdose deaths in the United States surged during the coronavirus pandemic, reaching the highest totals since the opioid epidemic began. But of course, people say that when I said it was a horrible mistake, the lockdown— they don't know. I don't know how many lives the lockdown saved.

Uh-huh.

You don't know how many lives the lockdown ruined. I'd love to— are we getting that Swedish doctor on? He was somebody. No, he hasn't responded. So yeah, odd. He's written so much publicly. By the way, for the record, at my beloved employers, I've been kicked off the internet again. The issue in Japan, I read extensively about the number of women there in depression because it's a record number of Japanese women who do not have husbands and do not have children. Basically, if you work under the following supposition, you will have a keener understanding of the human condition: everything the left says is wrong. I don't know how one could be so consistent. It's not true for liberals, it's not true for conservatives, but it is true for the left. Everything Not only does everything they damage— is that everything they touch do they damage? This notion that it is not important to marry and it is not important to have children— indeed, it might be an actual positive good— is the source of more misery in the Western and developed world. I include Japan in that. Than any other doctrine of the last half century. Can you think of a competing doctrine? That you will attain happiness without a partner in life and without making a family? It's doable, but for the great majority of human beings in history, that was a major, if not the major, vehicle. It's fraught with danger. Every good thing is fraught with danger. The suicide rates and the depression rates among Japanese women is a very instructive thing. Japan has essentially opted for secularism and for career. You know that the more secular the country, the irony, the more they value money. What, what else is there to value?

That—

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Kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally, and figuratively has been face down in the gutter. And there's— this is a guy whose, whose life You know, it was at one point kind of hanging in the balance. So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before, right?

It's, it's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. You know, I have faced different— so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm never going to give up. When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure. And that's where, you know, great things come out of things. When, you know, you look back on things in life, I look back on things that happened to me I look back and go, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now. So, you know, I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.

And by the way, I want people to know, to read about your story and your character. This book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the, uh, the signed books for our Prison Fellowship, uh, Angel Tree campaign to send kids to summer camp. These are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel.

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What makes the current ruling class in America different? My other very good friend who also does a great job at Breitbart.com has a new book out called Breaking the News. Alex Marlow, he filled in for us last week. I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News. Alex Marlow has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros, saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money to try and remake America in the image that they so desire. I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined. I got to give Alex credit. He said, nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.

Hi there. Sometimes there's silence because I'm waiting for some billboard or bumper. And that's the reason. And then there is none. Hi y'all, I'm Dennis Prager. Oh, is Ami waiting there?

Cool.

Ladies and gentlemen, the notorious Ami Horowitz, notorious for poor taste in cigars.

I like it.

I went silent waiting to know what you would say, and I thought you might say, what are you talking about? I thought you might be actually offended, and you're not easily offended.

But offended?

I love it.

I wear that as a badge of honor.

So now you're offending me. I mean, you made a video that ranks as among the most depressing— what, 20 minutes? How long is it?

No, it's like 4 and a half minutes.

That's a credit to you. I mean, that sounds funny that it's a credit, but it is a credit to you because there's so much packed in there. 4 and a half minutes, that's amazing.

Yeah, that's one way of looking at it. You could look at it as, oh God, it's talking for 20 minutes.

Yeah, no, no, you're right. No, it was meant as a compliment. I have one question every time I watch one of your videos.

Yeah.

And that is— and by now I have— I know you and I know you're honorable, and I always think, ah, come on, he edited out coherent responses. I can't believe these were typical responses of people on the street.

So like I say, every time you pose the question, what you see on camera is the majority majority opinion of what— who I spoke to. Yes, I think at the time there may have been maybe one, maybe two people, um, who gave a— coherence, not the right word, but a different type of answer.

No, no, coherence. It was—

remember, it was self-selecting because I was— so the video, to set up the video, is I was asking vaccinated people why they're wearing masks outside. And in fact, we happen to be in a park, like in an open space park. And I would say in, in the neighborhood where I live, in the neighborhood that we shot it in, At the time, I would say it was about 30 to 40% of people wear masks outside. So obviously it's self-selecting 'cause I'm only asking people wearing masks, right? So they're all gonna be in that same bucket. And yeah, you know, it's something about me and maybe I have to see a therapist about this. Well, I gotta see a therapist about a lot of things, but in this thing in particular, I have found that I got my, I became, I'm becoming angry with people who say, "Oh, we gotta play it extra, extra safe," or, you know, "I don't feel comfortable." I don't know why I would be angry at somebody else, but I am. It angers me, and it's made me look at even close friends of mine who have taken that position and say, "God, I mean, is that someone I wanna be friends with, who's just so scared of life and scared of the world?" And maybe it's just me, but that's kind of the emotion I felt around this issue.

I have the same. You're in the worst place though. I, I do believe that New Yorkers were, of all Americans, the most scared in terms of population numbers in the country. I don't know why. I don't know if it's true, and if it's true, I don't know why it's true, but that's my impression. Do you share that?

Yeah, it's, it's tough to quantify, but I would say we are definitely among the most scared, which is funny because, you know, New York has that, that, that image of bravado, right, and machismo. And it's, you know, we're New Yorkers. But that, that New York is— that, that's a dead New York that's, that's been dead and buried for a long time.

That's correct. Um, and, um, yeah, New Yorkers also think of themselves as the world's most or America's most worldly citizens, but they're the most provincial.

Oh yeah, they're definitely not the world's most worldly citizens. I mean, no, not people who live in New York. Obviously it's a diverse city, but certainly among the white woke, there's no, no, they're not worldly at all. Provincial is the right way to put it.

And you have to go to his video. How does one get to see it? It's up at— uh, they can go— okay, yeah, good enough. Okay, it's easy. That's the easiest. Or at amihorowitz.com. That's fine. I'm happy to plug your work. Your work is very important. So you're standing— he's standing there in Manhattan asking masked people outdoors why they're wearing masks. I mentioned one of them before you came on, a woman just acknowledging that it's a pacifier.

Yeah, acknowledging it about herself. Yes, they're basically— when you ask people about what— ask them why they're wearing masks, they fell into 3 different—

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So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.

Right.

It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. You know, I have faced different, so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm never going to give up. When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to I'm not going to buckle up to the, to the cancel culture and the pressure. And, and, and that's where, you know, you just— great things come out of things when, you know, you look back on things in life. I look back on things that happened to me. I look back at, wow, if that, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.

So, right.

You know, I look back and I use those things as, as they were character builders.

Yeah. Yeah.

And, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you want to—

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So Laurene Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name. She is now, according to Alex Marlow, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes. And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America. She wants it to be hers. And it's not just her. There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million.

Hey, all right everybody, Dennis Prager with Ami Horowitz on the line, makes these phenomenal videos all over the world. And, uh, he has gone to many, many strange places, I have to acknowledge, but none are stranger than where he lives, Manhattan. And he interviewed people wearing masks outdoors, why they do. Not one response, if I recall, spoke of it in medical terms. It, it was all some other issue of I feel better, I don't want to stick out, it's my public duty. Am I right?

Yeah, so there was 3 buckets, right? So bucket 1, and I'm not sure which of the 3 are most disturbing, frankly, but one was peer pressure. Hey, you know, my friends are doing it and I don't feel, I'll feel weird not wearing it around my friends and they'll look at me differently. And think I'm, you know, whatever. Um, that was bucket 1. Bucket 2 was, um, screw you. Like, I'm wearing it. Like, I remember I told each of these people that the science— that, remember, the great thing about this was follow the science, follow the science, right? That was their screaming and yelling at the top of their lungs throughout the entire pandemic. And of course they don't follow the science because the science, first of all, has been clear for a long time, but now it's even been made, uh, public by the CDC that you simply don't need to wear a mask outside. But they still are saying, you know what, it's a screw you to all the people who didn't want to wear masks during the pandemic, that I will wear this anyways even though I don't have to wear it. Um, one guy said that he— it was— it was— he didn't want to show— it's pretty— he has a privilege as a person to be able to not wear a mask, and therefore he won't wear a mask in solidarity with the people who don't have the privilege of not wearing a mask. That was— it was bizarre. It was weird and bizarre. And then the last bucket was people who just— I know what they say, but I just want to be extra careful. I just want to be extra— an abundance of caution. And that's just, again, they just— all of them infuriate me. That one probably infuriates me the most.

Abundance of caution. Are you aware that the insight that I have brought to my listeners that abundance of caution is AOC?

Yes, indeed. And by the way, um, if we had to follow the abundance of caution mantra during the creation of the vaccine, believe you me, we would not have had a vaccine for another 3 or 4 years, right? I mean, and, and, and, and the president showed that when he pulled the J&J vaccine for basically no reason, uh, uh, literally, literally one in a million chance of something happening.

They—

he pulled a vaccine in the time we were trying to to get vaccines out. So believe me, if he was in charge of Operation Warp Speed, it would be Operation Slow Speed, and it would take years out of an abundance of caution to have a vaccine come out.

I want to take a call from California.

Apropos, I never get to take calls on—

I know you don't. I know that's true.

You're hiding.

No, no, you're aware. I love it. You're aware. Uh, Rocky. Covina, California, with Ami Horowitz and Dennis Prager. Hi.

Hi. Hi. My wife has a niece and the niece has a friend. They're both in their 20s. The niece asked her friend why she was still wearing a mask even though she was vaccinated. And the friend said, I didn't want anybody to think I was a Republican.

Would you respond to that, Ami? Thank you. Thank you very much, Rocky. I completely believe the story.

That's so interesting because that's not a response I got, but one that I thought I would have gotten. Yeah, it's amazing that, that this has— and by the way, it hasn't fully split among, as far as I can see, yes, in generality there is a split there, but not a full split between Republicans and Democrats. Like I said, I've got a friend who are conservatives who, who are just scared. Really scared. But it goes— I think it also falls among when they said, hey, I'm wearing the mask, screw you. I'm doing this to show you, you know, in Hebrew, the word called tafka. I'm doing it just because. Um, and that kind of would probably fall in that bucket. But it's just— I mean, that is just frightening to me, frightening that somebody—

is there a law slash mandate to wear masks in Manhattan or in New York?

Uh, No, no, you don't have— no, there is no mandate. Everybody has their—

so, so all of these people are wearing them outdoors voluntarily?

Correct. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. I mean, I don't want to be overly dramatic.

If I retired from the human race, where would I go? I— these are the moments that I think, hmm, Iceland sounds appealing, but they're worse.

Oh, oh yeah.

Oh God, they're, they're, they're, they're the most, they're the most woke.

I mean, this— I don't want to be overly dramatic, but it seems like, like a dress rehearsal for authoritarianism. It seems like, hey, you know, this is a handbook.

That is exactly right. Well, another great job, Ami Horowitz. Hope to see you.

Thank you, sir.

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Can you discuss that, please? It's to do with contract law, correct?

Right. So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a— in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one. And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract And I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud when I'm signing. Yes.

Before, it's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith. If you go in as a woman knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband, that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.

So people are saying never as if it never occurred.

So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?

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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened. The Pelosi Commission. So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow walking this. I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it. She wanted this to be a later authorized commission, so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans. So she intentionally— she did not want this to be an overnight thing. So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission. And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection. And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time. I'm not minimizing that. At the same time, who killed Ashli Babbitt? And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed. I thought that was the big mantra of My friends, Dennis Prager here.

Let me give one more try to— is line 7 operating? I'll give it one more try here. Don't get a call from Argentina every day. Valentin, are you there?

Hey Dennis, how are you?

I'm sorry, I couldn't respond.

That's fine. What city are you in?

Uh, right now I'm in Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires.

Okay, I've been there a number of times. Good to hear from you. By the way, how did you find my radio show?

Uh, well, first I, I met you, like, I got to know you from the PragerU videos. Then I wanted to know who who was behind that. And I noticed it was you and started listening to your fireside chats on Spotify. And then I got curious and wanted to thank you and to talk to you. Well, because thanks to you, thanks to you, I started believing in God again. And on top of that, I also started listening to classical music.

Oh, wow. I would love to meet you. I will admit I feel good. I gave you two big gifts, God and Beethoven. That's, that's really great. So I answered your question when I didn't get to speak to you the first time. And if your question is, do you have advice on how to keep hope? And I said that if you fight, you have hope, and if you don't fight, you don't have hope.

Yeah, that's—

I feel like that's the deal, because I had a chance to, to go to other countries or so to, to make a living, but I don't want to leave my my home. I don't want to leave it to, to the people who are destroying it.

That's right.

And leave alone my beloved ones. But I feel like they are forcing me to, but I don't want to give up to that.

Have you joined Prager Force?

Uh, no, I didn't.

Yeah, you should, because you would meet wonderful young people like you all over the world. Send me an email. I'd like to be in touch with you. I'd just like to reemphasize something about my own life and thinking. I have never for a moment thought that the— that my ideas are only relevant to Americans. They're either relevant to people all over the world or they're irrelevant.

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My guest has written a piece which we have up on LarryElder.com called America the Outlier. Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere is the title of the piece is up on Larry Elder.com. Please welcome back to the program John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. CrimeResearch.org is the website. John, thank you so much for coming on. I appreciate it.

Well, great, great to talk to you, John.

I read your piece. One of the things that Eric Holder once said, the former AG, uh, is that, uh, photo ID— requiring photo ID is an example of, quote, pernicious racism. End of quote.

Right.

Well, I mean, there's all sorts of hyperbole that's being thrown around. Just a couple of weeks ago, The New York Times was claiming that the Republicans were becoming anti-democratic and authoritarian. And one of their two main proofs for that was that the types of voter laws requiring IDs that Republicans in state legislatures were trying to push through. You know, I guess my response is, if requiring photo IDs is proof of an authoritarian, anti-democratic tendency, then Sweden is anti-democratic, France is anti-democratic, you know, essentially all of Europe is anti-democratic.

You point out in your article that of the 47 nations surveyed, only one does not require government-issued photo ID to vote. And that's, uh, UK. And even there, uh, they're mandatory in Northern Ireland, uh, because of the fraud that they've experienced in the past.

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I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo, which I was remiss in not reading, and I was just flabbergasted. Look, I knew, and I said all last year, that it was possible this was an escape from a lab because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bioresearch. We know their safety protocols are lousy. We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research. All the stuff we sweat over, they don't care about any of that. So, you know, you knew it was a possibility. But when I went back and read— I'm sure you've read it, it's meticulously reported and the guy ought to get a Pulitzer Prize. But one of the things he says in there is that Dr. Shi, who is the Chinese virologist who did the research, actually set out in the grant application that she was gonna do gain-of-function research. Here's a quote from Wade's piece. He says, "Dr. Shi set out to create a novel coronavirus with the highest possible infectivity for human cells." And she got the grant from the EcoHealth Alliance, the leader of which, I didn't know this either, was the guy who organized the first letter in February of 2020 which from 27 virologists, which supposedly debunked the lab theory.

Yep. And so, Jim, the point is that I also had Dr. Fauci on the show. He denied it. I think the credibility is shattered because people don't know when to say, I don't know. There's no way Dr. Fauci knows what the grants say. He hasn't read that subgrant, but he should know. And he does apparently know now.

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Can you discuss that, please? It's to do with contract law, correct?

Right. So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a, in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one. And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud—

when I'm signing—

when, yes, before—

it's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith. If you go in as a woman knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.

So people are saying never as if it never occurred.

So now they're saying, well, applies to the election, right?

Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe today at rumble.com. Turning now to the Charlie Kirk Show.

So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened. The Pelosi Commission. So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow walking this. I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it. She wanted this to be a later authorized commission, so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans. So she intends— she did not want this to be an overnight thing. So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission. And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection. And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. You lay your hand on a police officer, You should go to prison for a very long time. I'm not minimizing that. At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt and why were there no charges against the person that—

Hello everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and I hope you had a good weekend. I, thank God, virtually always do. There's not a day that goes by that I'm not grateful for all the good in my life. New Jersey school district removes names of all holidays from the school calendar. But the left isn't destroying everything it touches. This, this is example number 804. All I think of is what has been done to kids in this country by the left. The robbing them of innocence, the robbing them of God, the robbing them of religion, the robbing them of Americanism, the robbing them of the celebration of this country, the robbing of them of innocence, the inculcation of fear and hatred into them.

It's—

they're sort of like a living experiment, young people. Do you know how important holidays are to a society? I've written a number of books on Judaism. One of the major reasons the Jews have survived 3,000 years is holidays. That's a key component of a culture. Holidays. If you visit Israel on the day before their Independence Day celebration, it is Memorial Day, as it were. And at noon, I don't know if it's at noon, but at some point in the day sirens go off. I have the chills telling it to you. It's really something to witness. Everybody stops everything, everything, including driving. Highways come to a standstill. People are going from 80 miles per hour to zero. Then they step out of their car and stand at attention. You know what that does for a society? You know how important that is? You know how important it is for kids to see that? When adults take X seriously, children take X seriously. Left-wing adults do not take America seriously. They hold it contempt. You know how this happened at this New Jersey school district? They abolished Columbus Day. By the way, the phoniness that is inherent to the left is very evident with regard to Columbus. Columbus, Ohio is not changing its name. And Columbia University is not changing its name. Columbia University is a big advocate of abolishing Columbus Day, but they keep the name Columbia. Because if they changed it, they would be able to raise far fewer funds. If they changed it to Equity University, you think people would feel it's prestigious? There's no prestige in a degree from Equity or whatever other name they would give it. But there is prestige from the name Columbia. I don't personally share that, even though I attended it. But that is the case. So it's completely phony. Get rid of Columbus Day but not the name Columbia. They changed Columbus Circle yet in Manhattan. You know how much Columbia or Columbus is a big deal in the United States and in in fact, all of the Western Hemisphere. So they wanted to rename it Indigenous Peoples' Day, and most people were against it, even in New Jersey, in the school district. So the school district, in its Solomonic wisdom, decided to have no holidays on the school calendar. So listen to how the local station in New York City reported this, Fox 5. After an outcry at a raucous public meeting over a previous decision to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Board of Education at a New Jersey school district decided to strip all holiday names off the school calendar. So holidays like Thanksgiving will not be on the calendar and will would simply be called "day off." Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were also stripped off the calendar by the move. If we don't have anything on the calendar, we don't have to have anyone be hurt feelings. We don't have to have anyone be hurt feelings. Did he actually say that? It's hard to believe they got the quote correct. Although it's hard to believe they didn't. Such as the intellectual level of people on our school boards in many instances. We don't have to have anyone with hurt feelings. I'll put it in English. That's it, said board member Doreen Roche. Yes, that's what matters. Will anyone have hurt feelings? But what if the majority have hurt feelings? Isn't it bizarre? They don't— this is a lie too. The left lies to themselves. It took me a lifetime to figure out they believe their lies, but they do. You really care about people with hurt feelings? Well, the majority of people will have hurt feelings not having Thanksgiving on the calendar, Ms. Doreen Roche, but that doesn't matter. The majority's hurt Hurt feelings don't matter. Tiny, tiny, tiny minority hurt feelings matter. A calendar, a school calendar without holidays. That is a new one. Well, it all began— remember, they denied, oh, there's no war against Christmas. They mock those of us who note that changing Christmas vacation to winter vacation. Wasn't that the beginning of this? I'm a religious Jew and I wanted Christmas vacation. Do you know why? Because I don't ask, what do I, Dennis, celebrate? I ask, what is good for my society? And the moment you ask what is good for your society, you have left the left. You have essentially become a conservative. The narcissism of the left is, gee, I don't celebrate Christmas. Why should my society get it? It's not inclusive. A long time ago, I had a guest on the show, a law professor in Indiana. Remember that one? She was opposed to having a Christmas tree at this Indiana law school, and I had her on the show She— I think she was shocked. I don't think she actually did much homework. I think she was shocked when I told her I'm a Jew, I don't have a Christmas tree, and I am totally for the Christmas tree. Because she actually said, well, it doesn't include Jews. I go, why not? I'm a Jew. I feel included. Why am I— why am I excluded? Excluded if there's a Christmas tree. I don't understand that. Anyway, it's a national holiday, and I'm a member of this nation. A school calendar with nothing, nothing, day off. By the way, it began— it even precedes the elimination of Christmas, the elimination of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays. It's when it started to this idiocy, which annually I declare an idiocy. President's Day. President's Day means nothing. You might as well say day off. Am I celebrating all presidents? I think the— it's absurd. We're celebrating all presidents? Everyone of my generation knew both dates of Lincoln's and Washington's births. February 12th and February 22nd. Everyone knew it. Nobody knows it today. You don't know it, right? Right? I'm looking at the Harvard heretic. Who has only one more year with that title. You're gonna have to come up with a new one after that. Just Heretic. 1-800-PRAGER-776. I'm Dennis Prager.

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What makes the current ruling class in America different? My other very good friend who also does a great job at Breitbart.com has a new book out called Breaking the News. Alex Marlow, he filled in for us last week. I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News. Alex Marlow has been teasing this for months. Saying that there is a new George Soros, saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire. I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined. I got to give Alex credit. He said, nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.

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So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.

Right.

It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. You know, I have faced different, so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm not going to, I'm never going to give up on things that I believe in. I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to, I'm not going to buckle up to the, to the cancel culture and the pressure. And, and, and that's where, you know, you just— great things come out of things when, you know, you look back and things in life, I look back on things that happened to me. I look back at, wow, if that, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.

So, right.

You know, I look back and I use those things as, as they were character builders.

Yeah.

And, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you want to—

I want people to know, to read about your story and your character. This book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, uh, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the, uh, the signed books for our Prison Fellowship, uh, Angel Tree campaign to send kids to summer camp. These are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel, learn the message of God's love. Mike, our listeners have donated over $175,000 to send these kids to summer camp in the last couple of weeks, and your book helped play a part in that.

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So Laurene Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces I think that's how she pronounces her name. She is now, according to Alex Marlow, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes. And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America. She wants it to be hers. And it's not just her. There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election. $400 million. Jeff Bezos, in his— with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children. Through Apple News. Thank you, Laurene Powell Jobs. So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built through businesses I want to remind you, Father's Day is coming up this Sunday.

And in light of that, there's a great film out. I had Lee Habib, who produced it. It's, it's a magnificent film about fatherhood, and it's titled The Streets Were My Father. Features the journey of three inner-city Chicago men from fatherlessness to gangs and from life in prison to prison ministry programs. That sent them on the road to a better life, lives as productive members of society. You should see this. It's an important and inspirational film, the streaming version and DVDs. Go to salemnow.com, buy a copy or copies for anyone you know who doesn't have a father, for that matter anyone who, who does, in my opinion. And who doesn't believe in the power of God to change lives? That is exactly right. Go to salemnow.com. Salemnow.com. The movie is The Streets Were My Father. I don't know if you heard the 21-year-old who called me from Argentina, from Buenos Aires. It was clear that he was not an American in Argentina, he was an Argentinian. And came to the show via my fireside chat and other things, PragerU, that he had learned. And he said that I had brought him to God and classical music, and that, that made my day. It's a laborious task to make the case for the indispensability of God. You know that I have almost never argued for the existence of God? In a lifetime of battling secularism, the mother of our lack of wisdom— there is no secular wisdom. Name me a secular institution that provides wisdom. I'll give you a couple of seconds to think about it. You can't. The most secular institution is the least wise, is the most stupid, the university. You don't think there's a connection? You don't think there was more wisdom at Dartmouth 100 years ago when it was more religious? So I have devoted my life to the arguments for the indispensability and necessity of God, not the existence. It's much more important to explain to people why God is necessary than spend the time arguing for God's existence, because even if you believe God exists, but if you don't know why God is necessary, it's irrelevant. Anyway, just thought I'd share that with you. All right, so again, my, my young friend in Argentina sent me an email. All right, Mark in Orlando, Florida. Hello.

God bless you, Dennis.

Um, thank you. He has—

I, I remember Remember when Barack started first campaigning, Michelle was campaigning for him, and she said, we need to change our history, we need to change our traditions, we need to move to a different place, and Barack knows this. And what's so frightening is you made a comment last night on another gentleman's program that you were shocked of how we— the public was like sheep. And not only with the pandemic, but there seems to be— well, there's some resistance, but we've got to hit this head-on because if that was an indication of what the population is going to do and just be sheep, they're going to run over and eliminate— I mean, what We're turning China. We're turning into China.

Well, more, yeah, we are more like the Soviet Union, but it's irrelevant. Your point is well taken. A person, a Chinese American whose parents went through the Cultural Revolution, wrote a piece recently about the utter similarities between the Cultural Revolution and what the left is doing in America. America today. The sessions, the self-degradation sessions, the putting people in dunce hats. I remember it. Struggle sessions? What did I say? Self-sentence? Yeah, but that's what they were. Yeah, they were called struggle sessions, but they were self-negation, self-groveling. They were groveling. I am crap. The Communist Party is everything. This is what we have in the United States today. That is why I repeat, do not send your kids to most schools. And now demanding that your young people get vaccinated before they go to college this year— I would wait a year. I would take— I would not have my kid go to college this year. I would take and have them take the year off. Be more valuable in any in any event. What's the rush to get a BA? The odds are they'll live till 100. So it matters if they get a BA at 21 or 23? Who cares? Especially if they could have spent that year actually learning. The— I thought the whole mantra of the left was Bodily autonomy, isn't that their whole thing? I don't want the government— what is it? I don't want the government in my uterus. Wasn't that the anti-abortion thing? But the government should be in your system with an unproven vaccine? It might be terrific, by the way. I don't know. Nobody knows. Will it affect the, the ovaries of young women and affect their abilities to conceive later? We don't know. But in any event, let's say it's terrific. Why should young people get it? A vast number of them had COVID anyway, and they're not going to die from it. Only in the rarest instances. I, I wish I'd— I may do it. I actually may play Tucker Carlson from, uh, from Friday night, his powerful, powerful statements about, about the vaccination and that the, the risk to a young person is greater from the vaccine than from COVID Either, either Tucker Carlson was telling a lie or he was telling the truth. If he, if he was even close to the truth, why would you want your child to get a vaccine? So that they could go to school this year and learn how crappy you and your values and America and God are? That's great. That's right. I want you— not only will I shell out $50,000 $100,000, by the way, which is pretty bargain basement now. What was USC? I was just speaking to a USC student. $66,000, $70,000. Back in a moment. Streaming on Salem Now. As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.

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Can you discuss that, please? It's to do with contract law, correct?

Right. So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a, uh, in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one. And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud—

when I'm signing—

when— yes, before—

it's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith. If you go in as a woman knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband, that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.

So people are saying never, as if it never occurred.

So now they're saying, well, applies to the election, right?

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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened. The Pelosi Commission. So for the last couple of months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow walking this. I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it. She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.

Republicans.

So she intends— she did not want this to be an overnight thing. So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission. And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection. And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time. I'm not minimizing that. At the same time, Who killed Ashli Babbitt? And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed? I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated. So for months now, Republicans have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi. When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment. And so the commission is supposed to be like a 9/11-style commission to look into the January 6th incident. But we all know how these things happen. This would be a Mueller-style counsel. That would be a roaming prosecutor.

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You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show. Michael, El Paso, Texas. Hello.

Hi, Mr. Prager. Um, I just want to ask you about the, the holidays. I've been at this kind of battle, new to Christianity. I've always believed in God. I was raised Catholic, and my mother-in-law has kind of been trying to guide us in, in the question. And she's mentioned time and time again that these holidays that we celebrate aren't good, that they stem from pagan roots and And what you said really, like, intrigued me because I want to know more about it. And I've only gone off of what I could find on, say, YouTube and the videos and articles that she sent me.

Wait, your mother—

wait, wait, wait.

So your mother says that our holidays have pagan roots? Is that—

yeah.

So my mother-in-law, she's kind of explaining— yeah, she's explaining how, um—

right, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm getting a feedback, unfortunately. Uh, is she coming from a religious position?

She's coming from, um, being a Christian mostly, and she's came to God in, you know, born again. And now, right, so she feels that Christmas has pagan origins.

It's not really Christ's birth. Yeah, right. And what does she think about Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving has not come—

it has not come up. All the holidays have not come up.

Only Christmas.

But, um, well, mostly it's like Christmas and, um, see, Valentine's Day and Halloween are the biggest ones. Uh, Valentine's Day not so much, but it's more Christmas and Halloween is what she's trying to focus on, as into, like, you know, kind of distance ourselves.

Okay, so I have an answer for that. I know my Bible pretty well. I know biblical Hebrew very well. And I'm— the fourth volume of my Bible commentary is coming out in a couple of months. Excuse me, third volume. Third volume. By the way, I would ask you to please pre-order it on Amazon or get it at Costco to encourage Costco to order Bible commentaries. It's Deuteronomy. I didn't do it in order of the five books. So I know my— I know a lot about religion. If you look at a lot of holidays, they have agricultural roots, not monotheistic roots. I'm talking about biblical Jewish holidays. So what? Who cares? If Christianity turned a pagan holiday into a celebration of Jesus, why would a Christian have a problem with that? Isn't that— that's like saying, oh, you know that church over there, and this church here in Rome, this church here in Athens, it was originally a pagan temple. Would you not pray in it? Would his mother-in-law not go into it? Hey, the building's origins are pagan, right? One of the beauties of of anything, including higher religion— and there is higher and lower religion— is that it has in fact poured new wine into old bottles. It's a very famous phrase, and it's a great thing to do. So I would just ask— he should ask his mother-in-law, would you pray in a church that had originally been a pagan temple. Then we'll find out if the mother-in-law thinks coherently or not. The ability of human beings to come up with cockamamie reasons not to do the right thing is infinite. The things that bother people that should not bother people is also infinite. Like Columbus Day. Columbus Day bothers the secular, and Christmas bothers the secular and some of the religious. Like, the country is not richer for having Christmas, right? It's a fascinating fact that half of the, of the most popular Christmas songs were written by Jews. Yep. The deterioration of Jewish life because of leftism is one of the sadder aspects of the contemporary world. ReliefFactor.com, 800 500-8384. When you go to the website at relieffactor.com, you read testimonials I know to be accurate and true. There are people who told me at speeches that they canceled surgery because it was so effective in eliminating their pain. Try it for 30 days— excuse me, for 3 weeks. In 3 weeks you will know if it works. That is from the maker of Relief Factor. So it's only $20 for 3 weeks. Doesn't work, you cancel your order. Simple as that. 800-583-84.

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So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before, right?

It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. I have faced different, so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm never going to give up. When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure. And, and that's where, you know, you just— great things come out of things when, you know, you look back on things in life. I look back on things that happened to me. I look back at, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now. So, right. You know, I look back and I use those things as, as they were character builders. Yeah. And, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you want to—

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So Laurene Powell Jobs or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name. She is now, according to Alex Marlow, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes. And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America. She wants it to be hers. And it's not just her. There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg put $400 $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election. $400 million.

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. I won't be taking Bernard your call in Queens, New York, but I will share your insight. Some people will wear a mask lying in their coffin. It's a great point. I agree with you, Bernard, because better safe than sorry. Why would I want to subject my corpse to the possibility of COVID So thank you, Bernard, appreciate you calling. Following story is an example, a really good example, of the lying world of the left. Headline, Daily Mail: June 13th. That means it's in today's paper. Joe Biden says he will turn Pulse nightclub into national memorial on 5th anniversary of massacre at LGBT spot that killed 49. 5 years ago, this Orlando nightclub called Pulse A guy went in and he massacred 49 people and injured many, many others. It was a gay nightclub, and of course all the reporting was another example of homophobia in America. The reporting, as usual, was a gigantic lie. It was not shot up by a homophobe. He didn't even know it was a gay club. It was shot up by a Muslim angry at Americans for killing ISIS. Did you know that? I knew that. I reported that. Because you will get more truth on this program exponentially than in the New York Times. Times, or almost any of your local papers. Revealing the memorialization of the site of the shooting where 49 died, President Biden said Saturday, quote, in the coming days, I will sign a bill designating Pulse Nightclub as a national memorial, enshrining in law what has been true since that terrible day 5 years ago. Pulse Nightclub is hallowed ground. It's too bad you don't see the living martyr's reaction, because he reacted. That alone is worthy of note. He said, 5 years ago today in Orlando, in the middle of Pride Month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting the LGBTQ+ community in American history. That is true in numbers, but it's not true in intent. The guy didn't know it was a gay nightclub. By the way, the piece intimates that. I'll get to that. The Pulse massacre was carried out by Omar Mateen, 29, who died in an ensuing shootout with police. During Mateen's trial, prosecutors said he had wanted to avenge US airstrikes on ISIS in Syria and said he had Googled downtown Orlando nightclub. They suggested that the attack on Pulse was not motivated by anti-LGBT hatred. It was motivated by anti-American hatred of a Muslim extremist. How many people know that? That's right. We are bathing in a sea of lies with the American media. And his making this hallowed ground for LGBT, it is like, uh, what was the, what was the poor man's name in Wyoming? The gay— there's so many names to remember, and it's not my forte, but I'll get the name for you. This was also— I'm sorry, Matthew Shepard. Matthew Shepard. There's a whole foundation, the Matthew Shepard Foundation. A gay writer wrote the definitive book on his, on his murder. He wasn't murdered by a homophobe. He was murdered by a fellow gay for all sorts of reasons. We live in a world of lies. Matthew Shepard had nothing to do with homophobia. The Pulse nightclub had nothing to do with homophobia. Pulse nightclub had to do with radical Islam. But if you say that, you're not a homophobe, you're an Islamophobe. There you go. By the way, I want you to ask your friendly leftist, why is there a name for Jew hatred and Muslim hatred and no name for Christian hatred? Are Christians not hated? They're probably the most killed religion in the world today. Just think about what what the Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria. Christians in the Middle East being decimated. Not to mention the anti-Christian hatred, which is not murderous, but exists in the United States. You can say anything you want about Christians. You can't say anything you want about Jews unless you're part of the left-wing Democrats. And you can't say— you certainly can't say anything about Muslims. Just my noting that it was a Muslim in the name of Islam who shot up the Pulse nightclub and it had nothing to do with their being gay is, to those of you who went to graduate school, Hate speech. But that's the case. That's the reason he had actually Googled Orlando nightclub. He didn't care where it was. He had no clue that it was gay, and it was not part of it. He was angry at America for fighting ISIS. So he's the president who bathes in the world of lies, incomparably more significant than the lies of his predecessor, has made hallowed ground as if it were a murder of gays for being gays. We return.

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My guest has written a piece which have up on Larry Elder.com called America the Outlier. Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere is the title of the piece. It's up on Larry Elder.com. Please welcome back to the program John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. CrimeResearch.org is the website. John, thank you so much for coming on. I appreciate it.

Oh, great, great to talk to you, John.

I read your piece. One of the things that Eric Holder once said, the former AG, is that photo ID, requiring photo ID, is an example of, quote, pernicious racism, end of quote.

Right.

Well, I mean, there's all sorts of hyperbole that's being thrown around. Just a couple weeks ago, the New York Times was claiming that the Republicans were becoming anti-democratic and authoritarian, and one of their two main proofs for that was is that the types of voter laws requiring IDs that Republicans in state legislatures were trying to push through. You know, I guess my response is, if requiring photo IDs is proof of an authoritarian, anti-democratic tendency, then Sweden is anti-democratic, France is anti-democratic, you know, essentially all of Europe. Is anti-democratic.

You point out in your article that of the 47 nations surveyed, uh, only one, uh, does not require government-issued photo ID to vote, and that's UK. And even there, uh, they're mandatory in Northern Ireland, uh, because of the fraud that they've experienced in the past.

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I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo, which I was remiss in not reading, and I was just flabbergasted. Look, I knew, and I said all last last year that it was possible this was an escape from a lab, because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bioresearch. We know their safety protocols are lousy. We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research, all the stuff we sweat over. They don't care about any of that. So, you know, you knew it was a possibility. But when I went back and read— I'm sure you've read it, it's meticulously reported, and like, the guy ought to get a Pulitzer Dennis Prager Prize. But one of the things he says in there is that Dr. Shi, who is the Chinese virologist who did the research, actually set out in the grant application that she was gonna do gain-of-function research. Here's a quote from Wade's piece. He says, Dr. Shi set out to create a novel coronavirus with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. And she got the grant from the EcoHealth Alliance The leader of which, I didn't know this either, was the guy who organized—

Dennis Prager here. What percentage of Americans knows that the Pulse nightclub was shot up, mass murder, by a Muslim angry at America and not a homophobe angry at gays? Answer is less than 1%, way, way less. Uh, August in White Lake, Michigan, the famous August of White Lake.

Hey Dennis, thank you so much. I love your show.

I've heard you on radio on television. Outstanding job.

Thank you.

Uh, you always challenge my brain, my heart, my soul, and I have to say, so what?

You've adopted it in a good way.

That's a fabulous story. I'm going to use it. That was fabulous.

You know, thank you. It is fabulous. I told the I told you this story last week. It's in my Bible commentary. It's in my happiness book. It changed my life in 4th grade. I remember 2 things from 4th grade, that I had a crush on a girl named Sharon, and what the rabbi said to me when I told him I wasn't in the mood for afternoon prayers. And this is the shortened version. He looked up, stroked his beard, and said, Dennis Prager is not in the mood for afternoon prayer. So what? That someone said to me about my desires? So what? Was life-changing. I was always rational as far back as my memories go, and I remember thinking something to the effect— it was a damn good response. So what is right? Are we gonna— and of course, I, too young then, but later reflecting on it I said, imagine if it said on highways, speed limit, whatever you feel like. Why doesn't that apply to all of life? Does the highway patrol or some police officer who stops you if you're going 90 in a 65-mile-per-hour zone, if you say, you know, I just didn't feel like going 65. Imagine the policeman: Oh, well, in that case, please go on, sir. No, the policeman says, as the rabbi did in 4th grade: So what?

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So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before, right?

It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. I have faced different, so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm never going to give up. When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure. And, and that's where, you know, you just— great things come out of things when, you know, you look back on things in life. I look back on things that happened to me. I look back at, wow, if that, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.

So, right.

You know, I look back and I use those things as, as they were character builders.

Yeah.

And, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you want to— I want people to know, to read about your story and your character. This book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, You were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the, uh, the signed books for our Prison Fellowship, uh, Angel Tree campaign to send kids to summer camp. These are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel, learn the message of God's love. Uh, Mike, our listeners have donated over $175,000 to send these kids to summer camp in the last couple of weeks, and, and your book helped play a part that.

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So Laurene Powell Jobs or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name. She is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes. And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America. She wants it to be hers. And it's not just her. There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg put $400 $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election. $400 million. Jeff Bezos, in his, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News. Thank you, Laurene Powell Jobs. So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built through businesses of largely unearned wealth. Now, some could say that Jeff Bezos earned his wealth. I think that's probably somewhat true. Do I think that he gamed the US Postal Service? Yes. Do I think that he misleads the type of company he is? He's just a server company that loses money intentionally to take over other small businesses. But I think there's something fundamentally different about making massive sums of money in this new technology era and the ways that people made money in the early 1900s, 1950s, and 1980s. You see, technology has led to fast, immediate wealth creation.

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Americans appreciate the concept of making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. Maybe you've played a part in that, Mike Lindell.

Well, I've been working very hard on it, and that's what this cancel culture was all about. When I wanted to speak out for different things, especially that integrity, I was canceled out. And that's just not on the box stores and stuff.

We were—

I've been canceled on every, just every social media platform, or, you know, the— from your Facebook, Twitters, YouTubes, Vimeo. And so that's why we came up with our frankspeech.com so that we can, you know, have a place to talk, have a place to speak out and keep up with what's trending.

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I mean, QAnon is dead. Q is completely discredited. But there are still people say there's a plan and he can come back to be president before 2024. I have almost utter certitude, 95%, that he's going to run in 2024. And given the last 4 months, I don't mean to laugh.

I think it'll be a shoo-in.

He'll walk back into the White House if we do our job when it comes to election integrity. But to those who are saying he can be president now, that he can come back and he can take over the last 3.5 years of Biden's term, there is no— there's no process. There's no entity. It's not the Supreme Court. It's not a, a magic electric— there is no functional scenario under which that happens, is there, Jenna?

Correct. And it is very unfortunate. And I have to preface this by saying I understand the utter frustration and the injustice of it all, and I am just as mad as everyone else. But what we have to understand is that we are a nation of rules and supreme law of the land is the US Constitution. And because the Constitution provides that the Electoral College is our mechanism of selecting the president, the Electoral College voted, that was certified legitimately. So when you have a sitting president and his name right now is Joe Biden, then the only way to remove a sitting president is through the impeachment and conviction process. And even if that happened to Joe Biden, which we know politically it won't, even if in hypothetical theory land, that happened, the line of succession then under the 25th Amendment would trigger. And so you— there's no scenario by which you take an outside person, put somebody else—

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Trending now on the Eric Friends, I'm Dennis Prager, professor of surgery and public health policy at Johns Hopkins University. Marty Makary gives the latest PragerU video. It is up this week, Overmedicated America, published in all the major papers. He is an independent voice in the world of Healthcare, and his new book, now out in paperback, is The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It. Dr. McCary, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.

Great to be with you, Dennis. Thanks for having me.

So would you consider yourself sort of an outlier in your profession?

Well, I would say we used to have open and honest debates in medicine. That used to be the culture, a healthy form of discussion. But now it's more totalitarian. Now we sort of all have to fall in line with whatever Dr. Fauci or others might say from on high. So I like to be, you know, I like to push the field and I like to maintain my independence.

I ask people like you all the time, a question, and it's— and then we're going to obviously get into the substance, but I'm so curious, how do most of your peers, in your case at Johns Hopkins, react to you?

Well, I would say they're mostly quiet. It's just crickets. If I didn't have the credentials that I had, I think they would throw out the old argument that they're on the side of science and what do I know that they've got more science on their side. But I studied epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health where I got a master's degree and I've been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for 20 years studying advanced research methodology. I've published maybe 300 scientific peer review articles and a member of the most prestigious medical society called the National Academy of Medicine. So I'll go toe to toe with anybody, Dennis, and I think that's healthy to have that open debate.

Right. So they can't really accuse you of being anti-science.

It's a hard case for them to make.

So did you hear our hero state that to differ with him is I'm talking about Dr. Fauci, is to be— it is the definition of anti-science.

That's an old argument. You know, scientists use that as sort of freefall argument a lot of times when they're losing a debate. And, you know, to be honest with you, Tony's had a tough week. He's had a bad week.

That's sort of like saying, you know, The Titanic had a bad week. So I, I, I, yeah, I read you.

People have a right to be angry. I mean, people have a right to be very frustrated right now when they find out that it was a Wuhan lab leak, as I said in April of last year on cable news, and that the United States government was funding that work. I mean, people have a right to be angry right now.

So let me talk to you about a lot of these issues. Issues, and then of course get into the Overmedicated America and your— the PragerU video as well as your book, which are on similar themes, but obviously the book is much greater length. But let me talk to you about some general things. And I always tell guests to my show, they are completely invited to differ with me, so please don't hesitate. I wrote a year a year ago, more than a year ago, that the lockdown, the universal lockdown, was the greatest mistake in history. I made it clear it wasn't the greatest evil. There are a million great evils, but in terms of, of mistake, I thought it was the greatest given the effects of it. And you supported the lockdown, and then you were more ambivalent. Now with 2020 hindsight, what do you think of the lockdown?

Yeah, so first of all, Dennis, I appreciate the question, and I'll be very, um, I'll tell you where I'm coming from. It is important for all of us in public health just to show a degree of humility in talking about a virus we had yet to really even fully understand. So that's important to say we're wrong when we're wrong. And I'll tell you where I was coming from. Before the pandemic, I was out there sounding the alarm. A couple of us were out there saying, look, this is going to be really bad. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die, maybe more. And so I called for closures and lockdowns in late February and early March. Then it was scary, right? We didn't know what we were dealing with. We could have lost, we thought, 1% of our nation's children to this virus. We didn't have good data. And so it was scary. Quickly, it was pretty clear that the lockdowns were counterproductive and that we should really have a semi-open society, that is an open society with certain best practices for hygiene. And so I wrote a very controversial piece in the middle of the initial outbreak. It was in May, right after the, the ugly days of New York. I wrote this piece in the New York Times calling for a reopened society with universal masking, and that we have to live our lives, that we cannot have people pent up. When we told people to stay at home, we should have told them to get outside. When we told people to wash their hands like crazy, we should have told them to wear a mask. And so we, we gave the wrong message, and that ended up hurting us.

Wow. Okay, so I feel, uh, Just for my listeners' sake, I feel, I feel vindicated in your response. Now let's go to masks. So I, I look at people today, a year and a half later, wearing masks outdoors, and I sort of despair for my, my country. Is my reaction exaggerated?

No, you're correct, and it's from frustrating. We've always said, and including the great Dr. Fauci has always said, that when we get below 10 cases per 100,000, we would get back to normal. Well, we're there. We're well below those numbers. We're at about 2 per 100,000. And, you know, I look at these people wearing masks outdoors, some ill-informed, some with good intentions, but some people want to— want this pandemic to go forever. They want this thing to keep going. We have 1/50th the cases of a daily flu season, of daily cases in a mild flu season in the middle of that flu season. Middle of mild flu season 6 years ago, we had about 440,000 cases a day of flu. We're at 12,000 of COVID And by the way, this is as low as it's going to get as long as we're testing people with a PCR test that can detect like 2 viral particles particles in your brain— or sorry, in your nose— even though you have no infection or symptoms. You're not contagious, you're not sick, right? Yeah. So, um, I, I— some people want this thing to go forever. I think we've got to re-establish the human connection in life. We've got to take the masks off. Uh, we're there, we're at that point.

Should baseball games divide sections between the vaccinated and unvaccinated?

No, they should mix people. That's how you reduce community transmission. Those who are immune are barricades against the virus jumping around. So you want them to insulate those who may potentially be not, not immune and still at risk. 80 to 85% of Americans are immune. One of the greatest failures of our medical leadership is ignoring natural immunity from prior infection. And it's about half of the unvaccinated have that. So 64, 65% of American adults have a vaccine, and then about half of the unvaccinated have natural immunity. So we're at about 85% population immunity right now. Unless you're the CDC or Dr. Fauci, you completely ignore natural immunity, ignore the data on it, and instead just say, I don't know, just get a vaccine anyway.

I'm speaking to a leading virologist— tell me if the terms are correct— epidemiologist and professor of public health. He's at Johns Hopkins University, and he is giving you all of these positions. So here's the $64,000 question, and I'll put it in personal terms. I don't believe anything the CDC says. This is brand new in my life. I never would have— I never would have thought this, let alone said this, a year and a half ago. They have lost all credibility. The fact that the head of the CDC does not believe in natural immunity is sort of like saying that at NASA they no longer believe in gravity.

Well, you're— it's shocking. And what's happening is As you have these talking points from on high that there's only two types of people in America, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. We should not be talking about the vaccinated and unvaccinated. We should be talking about the immune and the non-immune. And it is a huge disappointment that all of these kids and students who had the infection are being required to get a vaccine even though their natural immunity is durable and effective according to all the research. And I just summarized it in the Wall Street Journal last week in a piece titled The Power of Natural Immunity. And yet our public health officials ignore it. It's so frustrating.

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Can you discuss that, please? It's to do with contract law, correct?

Right. So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a— in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one. And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud—

when I'm signing—

when—

yes, before—

it's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith.

Faith.

If you go in as a woman knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband, that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.

So people are saying never, as if it never occurred.

So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?

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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened. The Pelosi Commission. So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow walking this. I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it. She wanted this to be a later authorized commission, so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans. So she intentionally— she did not want this to be an overnight thing. So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission. And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption not an insurrection. And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time. I'm not minimizing that. At the same time, who killed Ashli Babbitt? And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed? I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated. So for months now, Republicans have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi. When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment. And so the commission is supposed to be like a 9/11-style commission to look into the January 6th incident. But we all know how these things happen. This would be a Mueller-style counsel. That would be a roaming prosecutor.

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A What Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Fix It and How to Fix It. And he's the presenter of this week's PragerU video. We're honored that, that he is in fact Overmedicated America is the title, and it's of course at PragerU. Dr. McCary is professor of surgery and public health policy at Johns Hopkins University. If all of these basic things that are coming out of the CDC are not, are not scientific, then I'm sure you've asked yourself, and I don't know what you'll answer, I know I've asked myself, what would prompt people at the head of the CDC to deny science in such elementary ways as denying natural immunity? What's provoking this?

Well, I think it started with an old-school medical establishment idea. You know, these government agencies have a lot of these sort of old-school mentality there. And what they'll tell you is that, oh, I don't believe something until there's a formal big study on it. And then you show them a study once it comes out and they'll say, well, I need to see 2 studies. And it's this sort of stubbornness, old, old guard establishment in medicine that doesn't believe something until there's a formal study. Well, guess what? We're not going to have a formal randomized controlled trial on natural immunity because you cannot randomize a population. Population to natural immunity and compare that to a population randomized to vaccinated immunity. So while the old guard was saying that initially, I was saying, open your eyes, don't be blind. We're not seeing reinfections. Where are the reinfections? Who has died from a reinfection? Once you get infected, you've got immunity, as we see with other medical conditions, and it's there and it's real and it's durable. Finally, the studies came out. They came the last 3 weeks, and I, and I've gone through all of them, and the data now supports natural immunity.

So it is absurd for someone who had COVID to take a vaccine?

There's no added benefit. That was the Cleveland Clinic study result, and that's what the data clearly show.

And you believe that the only reason that they advocate nonsense is that they're of old school. Show me the proof. I have a much more nefarious belief. I think they're— they— I think they, uh, for reasons that are more, uh, unfortunately related to money than to medicine, they want the vaccine to prosper.

Well, certainly the vaccine companies are part of the narrative. If you watch, they're part of the discussion. They're They're basically giving medical information. They were out there talking about boosters on CNBC. I mean, when you have a pharma CEO telling the American public that you're going to need a booster when we are not going to need boosters, it's pretty clear to me that we're not headed in the direction of boosters. If things change and we have to be prepared for them to change, I will let you know. But there's no evidence of that. And so when you've got pharma controlling some of the narrative, that's So that's part of it. Also add to that a massive bureaucracy where they dig into their positions and a political talking point that comes from on high in the White House that says we've got to get everyone vaccinated. And if you listen to Dr. Fauci over the last 10 months, all he has been talking about is how vaccines are going to be the solution to COVID. Well, guess what? That's part of the solution. The other part is natural immunity from prior infection.

Why did you say young people have natural immunity?

Oh, I, I, people who have had the infection in the past.

Okay, I got it. What do you think of colleges demanding that students get the vaccine?

We've got to fight that. That is totally inappropriate. So what happens if you have natural immunity from prior infection? You're a young person, you're going to college, Your university is going to require you to receive a drug that at minimum we know makes you sick for a day or so after the second dose, at minimum. And you've got to do this to get immunity even though you already have immunity. And by the way, you can test for that with an antibody test. Colleges are using the same talking point that comes from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky, the government talking point that that there is no natural immunity out there and that we can't trust it. That is incorrect. That is not supported by the science whatsoever.

Would you have your child vaccinated to go to college if, if they had COVID in the past?

No. If they have not had COVID in the past, I would recommend one dose, not the two-dose regimen, because because we're seeing a lot of complications now from that second dose, Dennis, and it's within days of the second dose. There are heart inflammation complications called pericarditis and myocarditis. Don't rely on the CDC to warn you about them. They had about 300 cases last Wednesday that they knew of, and they called a so-called emergency meeting for next Friday. Now, I don't know in what world you wait 10 days to convene your experts for meeting, but that's the world of our federal agency.

Do you have any worries about long-term effects of the vaccination?

I don't, because generally with any vaccine in the history of medicine, when you see a complication, you see it in the first few weeks. And so we have not really seen that with adults. About 300 million people have received a dose, and the complications are all clustered in the first few weeks. There's really no vaccine in the history of medicine where a complication pops up down the road.

Right.

I think we're speaking—

the only response I would have, and I'm a layman on this, I fully appreciate that fact, is, isn't— is this the first mRNA vaccine?

It is the first mRNA vaccine. So some— look, we've got to respect those who choose not to get the vaccine, not, not demonize them for being hesitant. It is a new vaccine platform. And the reason I feel confident in it is because you're just receiving the building blocks of a spike protein. And your body quickly makes that spike protein and the mRNA itself dissipates. It doesn't go into your DNA. But having said that, why are we doing 2 doses in young people that we know they mount a quick and robust immune response Here's where I think we got our 2-dose regimen from, Dennis. When Dr. Fauci made this artificial goal that we need a vaccine that's at least 50% effective, if you remember him saying that last summer, why would you say that? Okay, any vaccine that was effective, we would have to consider the risk-benefit. But when he set that goal and the companies were worried about not meeting that goal, they decided to throw the kitchen sink at people with this vaccine. High-dose, multi-dose, short-interval, 2-dose vaccine, and guess what happened? People get sick after the second dose. It's only a day and it's self-limited and it's— you recover and it's mild. But that's a heavy dose. If you remember, in one of the trials, the Oxford trial, they gave— accidentally gave half a dose in that first dose. I don't know if you remember that last year. The trial was, um, they made a dosing error and the people in the trial accidentally got just half a dose instead of a full dose. Guess what happened to those folks? They had the exact same outcome.

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Kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally, and figuratively has been face down in the gutter. And there's a guy whose life, you know, was at one point kind of hanging in the balance. So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.

Right. It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. I have faced different, so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm never going to give up on things that I believe in. I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure. And, and that's where, you know, you just— great things come out of things when, you know, you look back on things in life. I look back on things that happened to me. I look back at, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.

So, right.

You know, I look back and I use those things as, as they were character builders. Yeah. And, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you want to—

I want people to know, to read about your story and your character. This book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. Uh, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the, uh, the signed books for our Prison Fellowship, uh, Angel Tree campaign to send kids to summer camp. These are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel.

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What makes the current ruling class in America different? My other very good friend who also does a great job at Breitbart.com has a new book out called Breaking the News. Alex Marlow, he filled in for us last week. I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News. Alex Marlow has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros, saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire. I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined. I got to give Alex credit. He said, nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.

Keep up with what Speaking to a distinguished doctor, professor of surgery and public health policy, Johns Hopkins University. Many peer-reviewed articles, and he's a dissenter within the world of medicine, which means he's a truth seeker. Marty Makary, his video is up this week at PragerU, and his book is now out in paperback, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It. We're going to talk about that in a moment. That's very important, obviously, but These are such major issues right now, and you've written about them in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. You're one of the few people to have actually been printed in both. It's usually mutually exclusive. You're either in one or the other. So I salute you for that. I just found out because we have A young woman here who was, uh, sitting in on my shows and was working with me this summer. She's at Harvard, and she was required in order to get back to Harvard, even though she had COVID, she was required to have a vaccine. I said, could you check if the faculty, uh, are required to have a vaccine? And she read on further and this is what's in, so to speak, small print: We expect that the faculty will make every, every effort to take a vaccine. In other words, the students are required but not the faculty. Were you aware of that?

Yeah, that's right. That's the trend everywhere. So all these universities are moving towards requiring students, but they're not requiring their own faculty or staff. To have the vaccine.

The, uh, the adjectives going through my mind I have to suppress, I have to filter, but one is immoral. Is that overstated?

No, that's correct. Well, I mean, where's the science to support what they're saying? And we cannot have discussion about it. You cannot have a discussion with these folks because they're buying hook, line, and sinker what they're hearing from the vaccine fanatics out there. And I'm pro-vaccine, but it makes zero sense. And if you look at the Cleveland Clinic study, zero sense to vaccinate someone already immune. It never made sense back when we had a limited vaccine supply. We were trying to argue to Fauci and others We're wasting our precious vaccine supply on people already immune. Let's save lives with it instead of just hit people who already have immunity.

And finally, before your book theme and PragerU theme, what, what is your position on hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and ivermectin?

Well, we do see oral medications work in combination in ways studies where we don't see a benefit individually. We see that with HIV. It's a multi-drug cocktail of multiple pills, and together they work. I don't have a conclusion about hydroxychloroquine. I would say the studies are mixed. But it's a legitimate discussion that we should have that we've not had. Ivermectin, it did appear in our little analysis on my research team that there was a signal in the data showing a benefit. But, um, uh, we didn't look at that closer. And a lot of doctors have a positive experience with it. Look, Fauci's a vaccine guy. He always has been. When HIV hit, he said, we gotta get an HIV vaccine. And he was on this singular mission. Guess what? We never got an HIV vaccine. We managed that infection with a multi-drug therapy. And that's where I think we should have spent more money.

That's right. Well, it is, uh, I feel vindicated talking to an expert such as yourself. All right, so we spend a fortune of money in the United States on healthcare and we don't get great results. Is that your primary issue?

Yeah, look, I think the politicians have brainwashed the United States public into thinking that we're going to fix healthcare with a piece of legislation. And when you talk about healthcare, people immediately think I'm pro or anti something like the Affordable Care Act. That's a false choice, okay? That is nothing to do with fixing healthcare. That's just how we finance our broken healthcare system. We need to talk about not just how we finance our broken healthcare system, but how we fix it. And the way we fix it is from the ground up The government has nothing to do with it. We can't rely on them. We can't wait on them. We're doing it now. Doctors, nurses, informed consumers, we have a revolution to talk about. How can we treat more diabetes with cooking classes rather than throwing insulin at people? Can we treat more back pain with ice and physical therapy instead of just surgery and opioids? Can we talk about food as medicine and talk about school lunch programs and instead of just bariatric surgery, doing gastric bypass procedures on young people. This is the revolution. It is a revolution to address the underlying problems that bring people to care. You can't do it in our broken fee-for-service treadmill system. Patients hate it, doctors are burned out. We've gotta reinvent care, and that's what we're doing.

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So I know these— this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past. It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before, right?

It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this. You know, I have faced different— so many things in my life. It's in my book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. And I think that's also what gives my employees and And all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence. I'm not going to, I'm never going to give up. I'm, when things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm. I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure. And that's where, you know, you just, great things come out of things when, you know, you look back and things in life, I look back and things that happened to me, I look back and go, wow, if that if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now. So, right, um, you know, I, I look back and I use those things as, as, uh, they were character builders, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

And, uh, you know, and by the way, and by the way, you, you want to— I want people to know, to read about your, your story and your character. This book, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, uh, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the, uh, the signed books for our prison fellowship Angel Tree campaign to send kids to summer camp. These are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel, learn the message of God's love. Mike, our listeners have donated over $175,000 to send these kids to summer camp in the last couple of weeks, and your book helped play a part in that.

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That's right. We can't be reactionary. You know, it's like when you go through the TSA in the airport and somebody leaves their belt on, they go out and yell at everybody else in line. That's— it's illogical. It's not systematic. That's what we do in medicine. We just react to things. We let things get really bad and then we reimburse doctors and hospitals for doing things, prescribing and doing operations and tests and procedures. How about addressing the underlying problems? How about not just funding research on new chemotherapy drugs? How about we fund research on environmental exposures that cause cancer? How about we study the cause of Alzheimer's disease instead of put billions of dollars into a drug that probably doesn't work that was approved by the FDA this week? This is the new approach and a lot of doctors and nurses are on board with this, and there's a revolution saying let's get out of the walls of the hospital and start coming to the community where people live and educate them and hold their hand. The hard part about chronic disease is not telling people what to do, it's helping them do it, and that's where we're starting to see a lot of success, but it takes time, and we got to get off this treadmill that we're on as physicians to partner with folks and promote good health.

I am personally on board, not just philosophically. Be curious to get your reaction, actually. I do intermittent fasting. I fast every day a minimum of 15 hours, sometimes I go to 20, and I do it for health reasons because I am convinced that that does in fact help. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Yeah, you know, it turns out when we were taught growing up that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, that's just something that was recently made up. That was a 1958 General Mills cereal campaign. Okay, caveman woke up to a big breakfast.

That's so good. You're right, no Cheerios in the cave.

Yeah, there's no avocado toast pre-made in the cave. So I'm amused a little bit, Dennis, when I hear all these sort of researchers in medicine rediscover these facts that, hey, intermittent fasting is healthier and it's good for your body, that meditation is good. And meditation is one of the most common words that appeared in the Bible and in the Old Testament. What do they talk about? Meditation. Now people are sort of rediscovering it. It as a way to deal with high blood pressure. So we're getting back to the basics, I think, ultimately. Whole foods, meditation, intermittent fasting. We're just sort of rediscovering our roots.

Well, and I read, for example, people who have a community, people who have close friendships, you know, their heart is disease is reduced dramatically in their cases. You know, I must say, personally, I'm going to live forever based on all these criteria. But I do believe that. I think I have, to the extent that I can know myself, I know how good they are. And yet people are lonelier than ever.

Loneliness is epidemic, and it was before COVID and the public health community magnified it during COVID put people in profound loneliness. Report just came out of the CDC last Friday that suicide attempts among teenage girls was up 50% in February. First of all, it would have been nice to have that data when they got it in February, not 4 months later when it's not as actionable. But loneliness is epidemic, and it's because everyone's got their personal this— personal trainer, got their earphones on. The thing that's most likely to get you to work out is not a Peloton. It's the presence of a workout partner. People want communities. The businesses that are thriving are community businesses. WeWork, shared office spaces, shared rides, shared everything. We were meant to be in communities. And you see it affects your health.

So I would take it from that. I would extrapolate that you don't think the trend to working from home is necessarily positive.

Well, it's funny because everyone has a different home situation. Some people have a community at home, right? They have neighborhoods that are very interactive. They have community activities where they're thriving. And other people, home is a lonely place. So you're seeing different opinions on the work-from-home prospects based on people's people's perspective and what they have in their own situation.

You, sir, are a blessing. Marty Makary. His book is up at DennisPrager.com, and his video is at PragerU This Week.

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My guest has written a piece we have up on LarryElder.com called America the Outlier. Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere is the title of the piece. It's up on LarryElder.com. Please welcome back to the program John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. CrimeResearch.org is the website. John, thank you so much for coming on. I appreciate it.

Great to talk to you.

John, I read your piece. One of the things that Eric Holder once said, the former AG, is that photo ID, requiring photo ID, is an example of, quote, pernicious racism, end of quote.

Right.

Well, I mean, there's all sorts of hyperbole that's being thrown around Just a couple of weeks ago, The New York Times was claiming that the Republicans were becoming anti-democratic and authoritarian. And one of their two main proofs for that was that the types of voter laws requiring IDs that Republicans in state legislatures were trying to push through. You know, I guess my response is, you If requiring photo IDs is proof of an authoritarian, anti-democratic tendency, then Sweden is anti-democratic, France is anti-democratic, you know, essentially all of Europe is anti-democratic.

You point out in your article that of the 47 nations surveyed, only one does not require government-issued photo ID to vote, and that's the UK, and even there, They're mandatory in Northern Ireland because of the fraud that they've experienced in the past.

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I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo, which I was remiss in not reading, and I was just flabbergasted. Look, I knew, and I said all last year, that it was possible this was an escape from a lab because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bioresearch. We know their safety protocols are lousy. We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research, all the stuff we sweat over. They don't care about any of that. So, you know, you knew it was a possibility. But when I went back and read, I'm sure you've read it, it's meticulously reported and like the guy ought to get a Pulitzer Prize. But one of the things he says in there is that Dr. Shi, who is the Chinese virologist who did the research, actually set out in the grant application that she was gonna do gain-of-function research. Here's a quote from Wade's piece. He says, Dr. Xi set out to create a novel—

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. I just found out that Harvard faculty are required. In fact, this was the later policy. Originally they were not. I'll bet there was some degree of pushback from parents and/or students. And now I report this to you because everything I say has to be accurate or I have failed you. So now the faculty there It would be very important for all of you to inquire at your universities whether the faculty has to be inoculated as well, vaccinated as well. It is a scandal, in my opinion, a moral scandal, that young people are required to have this, and it is particularly scandalous and anti-science to have people who have natural immunity, in other words, who already had COVID, for them to receive not just one but two doses of the vaccine. All right, everybody, you've got a challenge here from Dan in Minneapolis. Hello, Dan.

Hello, Dennis Prager.

Thank you for waiting. Waiting as long as you did.

Don't have a lot of time. I went to cook some eggs.

Okay, some eggs. They're hard-boiled by now.

Oh yeah, cold eggs. But it's always good to talk with you. I appreciate talking with you, and I hope you haven't had as much of a heat wave as we had in Minneapolis last week. It was awful.

We will.

Anyway, what?

We will.

Oh, stay, stay cool. Anyway, um, my comment is that truth is important. You agree with me on that?

Of course.

Go ahead. Sometimes you have a tendency to overgeneralize. You said the conservatives want smaller government and the left wing, they want bigger government. That's true. But you also said that the left saying they want bigger government so they can dominate people, you know. And that's only partially true. Um, for example, living in Minneapolis, the city of Minneapolis required me to have a certain kind of pavement on my driveway. It was just so invasive and so domineering, and I brought it to the city council and they got off my back. But when you come to something like Roosevelt's New Deal He wasn't trying to dominate people. He was trying to save our country.

That's right. You're right. I agree with you. That's correct. I— both are correct. Anyway, all of these left-wing policies start off with lovely intentions, which is why I don't think intentions ever matter. In policy matters. All right, everybody, I'll see you tomorrow.