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Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager, and I welcome you to today's show. The entire front page of USA Today today is devoted to George Floyd. This is all anti-American hysteria. That's what the left is about— anti-American hysteria. The George Floyd death was not a racist act, so why is it such a big deal in America? Tell me. Keith Ellison was talking about that, did he? Because he had originally said that it had nothing to do with race. Oh, that's what you're talking about. Yeah, let's play that. This is Keith Ellison, who's a man of the left, Democrat, formerly of Congress and now the Attorney General of Minnesota. Was this a hate crime?

I wouldn't call it that because hate crimes are crimes where there's an explicit motive and, uh, of bias. We don't have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd's race as he did what he did.

You could have charged him with a hate crime under Minnesota law. Yeah, you chose not to.

Could have, but we only charge those crimes that we had evidence that we could put in front of a jury to prove. If we'd have had a witness that told us that Derek Chauvin made a racial reference, we might have charged him with a hate crime. But I would have needed a witness to say that on the stand. We didn't have it, so we didn't do it.

The whole world sees this as a white officer killing a black man because he is black, and you're telling me that there's no evidence to support that?

In our society, there is a social norm that killing certain kinds of people is more tolerable than other kinds of people. In order for us to stop and pay serious attention to this case and be outraged by it, it's not necessary that Derek Chauvin has specific racial intent to harm George Floyd. The fact is, we know that through housing patterns, through employment, through wealth, through a whole range of other things, so often people of color, Black people, end up with harsh treatment from law enforcement.

Okay, so we already covered it. So there's no evidence at all to suggest that it had anything to do with his being black. So why is it such an issue of riots for months and everything else that has happened? The entire front page of this rag sheet called USA Today— it's a communist rag sheet, that's what it's become— If communist means that you do everything to subvert the norms of your society and replace it with a radical government, then that's why I use the term. Victims' families demand justice. A year that's ripped my heart out. George Floyd's murder, one year later, American reckoning, anger, pain, and hope. It's all propaganda. It's all hate America propaganda. That's what it is. On moral grounds, on ethical grounds, not to mention race grounds, it did not deserve the attention that it received. And when I think of all of the people killed not by police and get no attention— this is all corruption. This is moral Despicable yellow journalism. God, the entire front page. The left has talked itself into this frenzy. Poor kids growing up today to be raised in the world of of fear and lies. That's what they're raised in. Now, according to my producer, the State Department— this is from Human Events exclusive, and one trusts that it is accurate— leaked memo Leaked State Department memo indicates official support for BLM agenda. So what does that mean? A source within the Biden State Department wishing to remain anonymous has shared with Human Events a document that indicates that all U.S., quote, diplomatic and consular posts are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter On Tuesday, May 25th— that's today— the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, the memo reads in part, the department supports the use of the term Black Lives Matter in messaging content, speeches, and other diplomatic engagements with foreign audiences to advance racial equity. Notice the quality has been destroyed, the notion of equality. Which has nothing to do, nothing to do with equity, just like climate change has almost nothing to do with global warming. The, the left-wing use of terminology is documented in George Orwell. To advance racial equity and access to justice on May 25th and beyond, we encourage posts to focus on the need to eliminate systemic racism and its continued impact. The memo, which is in part a woke statement on social justice, part an apology for U.S. actions, and part an endorsement of all BLM materials, expressly encourages the display of the BLM flag or banner at U.S. facilities except on the actual flagpole that holds the American flag. It reads in part: Despite the documented actions of BLM protesters during the riots of 2020, and despite the New York Times reporting on their organization's declining popularity with American voters, our federal government has nonetheless decided to endorse and promote an organization with admitted Marxist roots as having ties to our official foreign officers. Okay, so I have to say that I'm dubious. The State Department is corrupted. All national institutions have been corrupted by the left. So that wouldn't surprise me. But to write admitted Marxist roots.

No, no, that's, that's not in the, um, in that memo.

That's— oh, that's— it does. It is in the memo. Read it. It reads in part— take a look. It's not true. It does read it. That's from the memo. That's hard to believe. They have the— as, as bad as the State Department is, it is hard to believe that they would acknowledge the Marxist roots of BLM and advocate supporting it today, the year anniversary of George Floyd's death. And I just find it hard to believe. So I want, I want to register that, that they would write admitted Marxist roots and then still support it. If this report is accurate, the, the state of our federal government, the takeover by anti-American haters, is virtually complete. I will keep you up to date on that. But here is something that I have no doubt about. Okay, here, I'll show you. We're having an issue, but it's important that he sees it. Yes, exactly. Yes. No, no, despite the documented actions, it doesn't matter. It says it reads in part, and then it has it as its own little paragraph. I don't think that's meant to be it. Alright, well then they wrote it incorrectly.

Yeah, they did.

Okay, fair enough. Then I'm happy to say to my audience that that was Human Events and not the memo. The words, the despite its Marxist roots. The entire memo is, if you scroll down— But this news is equally disturbing to me. Amazon closes in on deal for MGM. So will Amazon do to MGM what it has done to the Washington Post? The amount of power in a few people's hands is unprecedented in American history. Sorry to give you bad news. We're fighting. You fight. We can prevail. But I'm like the oncologist who has to tell you about the cancers.

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Restaurants in Florida have been relatively unscathed for the most part. In New York, it's been a vast wasteland. It's been a disaster. Bubbles in the sidewalk, streets being closed, people out in the winter freezing their butts off trying to eat. What has motivated the political leaders, the mayors, the governor? What, what, what, what do you think is driving this insanity?

I thought it was fear, right? We all behave differently when we're in a fear situation we're not familiar with. And I thought New York was just shocked, right? I thought the leadership was just shocked, right? And cold weather, not being as much outdoors, etc. I got to tell you, I really don't know how to answer that question. I really don't. I cannot understand Keep up with what's trending.

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Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. Hugh Hewitt inside the Beltway. We have a ceasefire in Israel between it and the terrorist organization Hamas, which kicked in at 2 AM Israeli time last night. It will mark the end of 11 days of fighting. It was very tense right up to the moment of the ceasefire entering into effect, but it has held for the first few hours. More than 230 Palestinians, about 170 of whom are terrorists, so 50 civilians, 12 Israeli innocents as well, dead in the fighting. Each a tragedy by the scale of previous Israeli-Hamas wars. It is a smaller death toll, but Hamas has been ravaged. Hamas took it on the chin. The new Israeli technology, the new Israeli intelligence, the new Israeli missiles have just blasted Hamas into the ground. In the middle of this, a story arrives from Ynet that Iran sent an armed drone into Israel from Iraq or Syria, which is a cause of great concern looking down the road. Secretary of State Blinken is going to visit Israel in the coming days. Egypt gets the lion's share of the credit for getting the parties to agree on the ceasefire time. President Sisi is going to go and continue the mediation. The key story here is what the Israeli Defense Forces said last night. Military intelligence-directed officials said on Thursday that IDF had almost depleted its target bank. Within the Gaza Strip as the current round of fighting with the Palestinian terrorist groups may be nearing its closures. This came out just shortly before the ceasefire.

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Israel's enemies hate, number one, women. They're misogynists. Number two, they hate homosexuals. They're utter homophobic. In fact, they like to kill homosexuals. And lastly, they hate atheists. They like to kill atheists. But the left is on their side. How does that work, Joel Pollack?

Well, Israel also loves certain things that the left Israel loves family. Israel loves territory. Israel loves the right to self-defense, the right to bear arms. They don't have the equivalent of the Second Amendment, but you certainly see a lot of people who are armed in Israel, and the country has a very low murder rate. There's very little crime in Israel.

I've been—

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They'd have to redo the scale.

They'd have to redo the scale, that's right. It's less than non-injurious. Okay, the Penn State Faculty Senate passed legislation to use inclusive language and non-gendered terms, according to an article released on Penn State's website. The specific recommendations include moving away from using academic grouping titles that stem from a primarily male-centric academic history. This includes replacing freshman, sophomore, junior, senior with first year, second year, third year, and fourth year. Students beyond fourth year are suggested to be referred to as advanced standing. How about lazy? How about didn't quite make it in four years? Wait, could I ask a question? If any— if either of you has— I'm serious— if either of you has a rational response, I will give you a gift. I've never said that. Sean, are you ready? Alan, are you ready? And when I call them by their names, actual given names, by the way, are you at peace with your given names? At birth. Can you tell me what is male-centric about sophomore, junior, or senior? I wish you could see this, ladies and gentlemen. They're both staring at me as if I had said something in Sanskrit. I could say something in Aramaic. Sean said he'd have a better shot at that. Alan would have a better shot at that, but you wouldn't. That's Aramaic. So sophomore, junior, and senior are male-centric terms. Freshman, I mean, I'm amazed freshman has survived as long as it has. Chairman is dead. Anything with "man," "man." These are the battles they fight. Do you understand all of the left's battles are make-believe. They're children in make-believe, like cops and robbers, stuff we used to play as kids. It's all make-believe. It's all theater. All of leftism is theater. Like the front page of USA Today is theater. The one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, but which had nothing to do with race. So why is it a big deal? The statistics show how rare it is for an unarmed black man to be killed by the police. It's all gigantic fraud. It's all to give people who have meaningless lives meaning. That's what leftism is. Give the meaningless meaning. Students beyond— oh yeah, we did that. Other recommendations include replacing underclassmen and upperclassmen with lower division and upper division. You know what is interesting? All of this will be done. Nothing changes. Do you understand? It is because this was not bad to begin with. Well, what's wrong with a girl saying, I'm a freshman? What's wrong with it? Did it undermine her worth? Any young woman who feels her worth undermined by saying, "I'm a freshman," is in trouble. But her trouble doesn't emanate from the word freshman. It emanates from other factors in her life. A staggering narcissistic insecurity is what's involved. It's unbelievable. The Appendix C to the faculty at Penn State reads, terms such as freshman are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as upperclassmen can be interpreted as both sexist and classist. Classist. 'Cause you're an upperclassman. These are the people that you're paying to teach your children. Do you understand? Do you understand the nothings who teach at college? The zeros? There are exceptions, for the record, but as a rule, the exceptions don't fight back. Are there any voices at Penn State? There might be. Any voices at Penn State in the faculty saying I do not associate with this moronic document. It makes our university look stupid. Or as Steven Pinker, professor of psychology, liberal atheist, Harvard, said, the left is making the university into a laughingstock.

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Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. Hugh Hewitt, Inside the Beltway. We have a ceasefire in Israel between it and the terrorist organization Hamas, which kicked in at 2 a.m. Israeli time last night. It will, um, mark the end of 11 days of fighting. It was very tense right up to the moment of the ceasefire entering into effect, but it has held for the first few hours. Um, more than 230 Palestinians, about 170 of whom are terrorists, so 50 civilians, 12 Israeli innocents as well, dead in the fighting. Uh, each a tragedy by the scale of previous Israeli-Hamas wars. It is a smaller death toll, but Hamas has been ravaged.

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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 attempted— 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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But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?

Well, it's a hatred with a long history. Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is is permanent, right?

Yeah.

And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws. And we're not perfect, we're as human as anybody else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent. And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.

I heard Howdy doody, everybody. I'm Dennis Prager. As you well know, I am very open about my life with you. I am, as one caller put it, and I thought it was an excellent term, transparent. I think transparency, by the way, is a very good thing for all people. My wife has a good term for non-transparency, and that is having a black box. It's a very tough thing if you're married to somebody and after any number of years you become aware of the fact that there's just a part of this person that you don't know. Right? It's a very upsetting thing. I took a risk in the beginning of my broadcast career. How open about my life do I be? Should I be on the air? And I don't mean intimate details, which don't tell you anything in any event, just my thoughts, what makes me tick. And it's worked out. So here, here's an interesting thing that I'd like to share with you. Almost everywhere I go in the US, uh, I'm recognized, and some people will come over in a restaurant or on an airport, most particularly. It's also, by the way, interesting that if I'm eating alone, many more people come over than if I'm with my wife. It's an interesting pattern that I've noticed. They don't want to disturb, uh, with my wife. But anyway, in either case, people do come over, and increasingly I find interesting what they say. For much of my life, oh, you know, a lot of times, "I love you," or, you know, "Thanks for what you do." Always something nice. I never had a bad interaction. Well, I did once. Yes, a guy started cursing me in my gym. I think I told that story. In the locker room, screaming at the top of his lungs, curses at me. Anyway, the guy was thrown out of the gym. So that ended that problem. I took a video of him doing it. It was a very effective response, by the way. Anyway, so the most common comment I now get is something to the effect of you 'You keep me going.' It's not always those words, but it is the response. It's a very dark time, the darkest time in American history since the Civil War. The left attack on this country through the universities, the media, the NFL, late-night TV, you name the institution. So I want you to know that I do feel that responsibility. I take, I take those comments very seriously. And I, if, if that is one of the ways that I can be a force for good in your life, I want, I want that to be. So I just thought I would give a public reaction to private comments. That are made to me. I have also— I've changed my attitude. I don't know if that's fair to say, but I have more forcefully decided that it's best if you come out of the closet. Everybody I know who has come out of the closet— you know, we should do an hour on that. That is an important hour. If you came out of the closet as a non-leftist, what happened to you in your life? That would be a very helpful thing to hear. Everyone that I have spoken to, strangers, that has told me about that, has said it was extremely difficult in the beginning, that in fact they did lose friends, but that there was an exhilaration as they reached the finish line, as it were. It's like the marathon, which I've never run, but I am told that there is, you know, the runner's high that you get. It's very hard to run that distance. But at a certain point you get a runner's high. It is very hard. You get an out-of-the-closet high. Something to think about. But we definitely must do an hour of what happened when you came out of the closet as a conservative or just as a non-leftist. Nerve Renew is a product that I actually asked to advertise on my show. I, I don't often do that, but I came to be such a believer in the product, I thought my own experience would help sell the product. My own experience is that I had the tingling and the numbness in my feet. Many people have it in their hands, but that's usually the two places that's located. I have neuromas, as they say, there. For years I wore inserts in my shoes, which were very helpful. Read about Nerve Renew on the internet, decided to try it, and within a year, to my shock, I threw away my inserts. NerveRenew.com, 2-week free trial. NerveRenew.com.

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Restaurants in Florida have been relatively unscathed for the most part. In New York, it's been a vast wasteland. It's been a disaster. Bubbles in the sidewalk, streets being closed, people out in the winter freezing their butts off trying to eat. What has motivated what motivated the political leaders, the mayors, the governor? What, what, what, what do you think is driving this insanity?

I thought it was fear, right? We all behave differently when we're in a fear situation we're not familiar with. And I thought New York was just shocked, right? I thought the leadership was just shocked, right? And cold weather, not being as much outdoors, etc. I got to tell you, I really don't know how to answer that question. I really don't. I cannot understand.

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Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. Hugh Hewitt inside the Beltway. We have a ceasefire in Israel between it and the terrorist organization Hamas, which kicked in at 2:00 AM Israeli time last night. It will mark the end of 11 days of fighting. It was very tense right up to the moment of the ceasefire entering into effect, but it has held for the first few hours. More than 230 Palestinians, about 170 of whom are terrorists, so 50 civilians, 12 Israeli innocents as well, dead in the fighting. Each a tragedy by the scale of previous Israeli-Hamas wars. It is a smaller death toll, but Hamas has been ravaged. Hamas took it on the chin. The new Israeli technology, the new Israeli intelligence, the new Israeli missiles have just blasted Hamas into the ground. In the middle of this, a story arrives from Ynet that Iran sent an armed drone into Israel from Iraq or Syria, which is a cause of great concern looking down the road. Secretary of State Blinken is going to visit Israel in the coming days. Egypt gets the lion's share of the credit for getting the parties to agree on the ceasefire time. President Sisi is going to go and continue the mediation. The key story here is what the Israeli Defense Forces said last night. Military intelligence-directed officials said on Thursday that IDF had almost depleted its target bank. Within the Gaza Strip as the current round of fighting with the Palestinian terrorist groups may be nearing its closures. This came out just shortly before—

If you ask most people to explain what Watergate was all about, they might say it was about a political break-in that brought down a president. And that's true. The break-in is the least significant. I didn't know that. You will learn, you will learn in 5 minutes so much that— and much of which you probably don't know. I did. I, I, I now feel I understand Watergate for the first time in my life. I knew it, of course. I lived it, though quite young, but I lived it. And now you will understand it in 5 minutes. Hugh Hewitt does a really fine job. ThePragerU.com video this week. The, the number of murders in Minnesota and Minneapolis area, St. Paul, Minneapolis, is astonishing. And yet people will vote Democrat again. It shows it has nothing to do with reason or morality. Nothing. The brainwash that the right is the enemy, the brainwash of half a century has just been so effective. The Democrats are ruining my city and let me vote Democrat. I don't believe there's any number of murders that would cause most Democrats to vote for a Republican. There you go. We supposedly live in the age of reason, and I would say that reason governed voting more in, in 1921 than in 2021. I think people voted on a more rational basis 100 years ago. Was that Calvin Coolidge? Who would have been 100 years ago? Coolidge took over in 1922. I love Calvin Coolidge. Dorothy Parker, the most famous— she was a very biting wit. When he died, do you know what her reaction was? You're getting close, but her reaction was, "How do you know?" But only because the the elite of that time had contempt for this simple man who believed that not passing bills was a great achievement. He's probably the last president who had such an attitude 100 years ago, nearly 100 years ago. He took over on August 2nd, 1923. August 2nd, 1923. My birthday. Very sweet. August 2nd, 1923. We're getting close. Yes, indeed. I asked my producer during the break, has the mayor of Minneapolis, uh, has he apologized for advocating death which everybody who advocated defunding police is advocating. They advocate, they're advocates for murder, you understand. There is blood on every defund the police person's hands, just that there's blood on the, on the, on the hands of the vast numbers of doctors who have opposed hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and ivermectin. Massive blood, in my opinion. The amount of death the woke have caused is quite astonishing. But the entire front page of USA Today is about George Floyd. What is the ratio of blacks killed by black criminals to blacks killed by police? But it doesn't matter, 'cause blacks killed by black criminals does not advance the agenda that America is a cesspool, which the left wishes to do, to advance to your kids at a very early age. I spent an hour yesterday on the school agenda— where was it, Oregon, right? Portland. Yeah, what they're, what they're teaching your kids. And people still send their kids to Portland schools. People do not do what is in the country's interest, let alone, or in their own interest, let alone the country's interest, until it's way too late. Okay, let's go to Minneapolis, in fact, and Kevin Hello, Kevin.

Hi Dennis. Hi. So I'm a retired cop. I've lived in the Twin Cities my entire life and there have been crime flows, you know, up and down the drug, the drug use up and down. But this is, this is totally out of control, unprecedented right now. We have an autonomous zone now set up at 38th and Chicago at the George Floyd Memorial site and you can't get in there. And, uh, we've never had anything like this before. And all of our, all of the leaders are Democrats, right?

Right. Democrats are ruining a wonderful city and they will be reelected.

And I also have been wondering, what do we have to do to get people to vote Republican, to vote red? And here's what I think is going on. We have a ton of the suburban voters of the Twin Cities that they don't, they don't go downtown, they don't go to Minneapolis or St. Paul anymore.

Right.

They're scared.

Yeah.

So they don't know how bad it is down there.

Wasn't there a 21-year-old student who was just murdered by a stray bullet in downtown Minneapolis?

Dennis, there have been so many that we had— there was a child murdered by a stray bullet at a birthday party. It's so out of— there's so many that I can't keep track.

Let me ask you, you mentioned something I didn't quite follow. Tell me what this— what was set up at the George Floyd site.

Oh, you know how Portland and Seattle had those autonomous zones? We've never— that's never happened here, and it's going on right now.

And oh really, they said— I'll stay on. I want— I didn't know this. Did you know there's an autonomous zone? It's not— we'll be back in a moment. Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain Free.

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Morning, Glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. Hugh Hewitt, Inside the Beltway. We have a ceasefire in Israel between it and the terrorist organization Hamas, which kicked in at 2 a.m. Israeli time last night. It will mark the end of 11 days of fighting. It was very tense right up to the moment of the ceasefire entering into effect, but it has held for the first few hours. More than 230 Palestinians, about 170 of whom are terrorists. So 50 civilians, 12 Israeli innocents as well, dead in the fighting. It's a tragedy by the scale of previous Israeli-Hamas wars. It is a smaller death toll, but Hamas has been ravaged. Hamas took it on the chin. The new Israeli technology, the new Israeli intelligence, the new Israeli missiles have just blasted Hamas into the ground. In the middle of this, a story arrives from Ynet that Iran sent an armed drone into Israel from Iraq or Syria, which is a cause of great concern looking down the road. Secretary of State Blinken is going to visit Israel in the coming days. Egypt gets the lion's share of the credit for getting the parties to agree on the ceasefire time. President Sisi is going to go and continue the mediation. The key story here is what the Israeli Defense Forces said last night. Military intelligence directed officials said on Thursday that IDF had almost depleted its target bank within the Gaza Strip as the current round of fighting with the Palestinian terrorist groups may be nearing its closures. This came out just shortly before the ceasefire.

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Israel's enemies hate, number one, women. They're misogynists. Number two, they hate homosexuals. They're utter homophobic. In fact, they like to kill homosexuals. And lastly, they hate atheists. They like to kill atheists, but the left is on their side. How does that work, Joe Pollack?

Well, Israel also loves certain things that the left doesn't like. Israel loves family. Israel loves territory. Israel loves the right to self-defense, the right to bear arms. They don't have the equivalent of the Second Amendment, but you certainly see a lot of people who are armed in Israel, and the country has a very low murder rate. There's very little crime.

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Yeah, I'm sorry if I'm rambling. I'm just very emotional because I'm watching the cities that I grew up in, which are a beautiful area— I'm watching them fall apart.

No, they're not falling apart. They're, they're being felled apart.

They're being felled apart. Yes. Our media up here is worthless. They don't report anything at all. You know, that's why this autonomous zone— they don't— they, they won't— they tried to go in there and they've been kicked out. They've been threatened and told to leave.

So are there stores there in the, uh, in George Floyd Square?

It's a, it's a great little community down there with businesses and a nice residential area.

Can you have access to them?

I haven't even— I was going to get on my bicycle and ride down there to check it out, but I'm scared to even go down there.

So no.

Um, no, they held up the chief— the chief of police and the mayor held a press conference and said they were going to go in there and clean the place up. They did that press conference was about 2 or 3 months ago, and, and now nothing's been done. It's still on lockdown. Even normal citizens, I don't know if you can get in there. I know some people— there was something put there that said if you're a white person, you can't come in, and if you're a black, you know, you can. If you're BLM, you can come in. But it's It's, uh, this is, this is a mess, Dennis. I'm, I'm scared.

Thank you for calling. Police officers don't normally say they're scared. They're the least scared group in the country. And people will vote Democrat again. Well, I always knew the power of the irrational. And you know my argument that the human needs that. Love is not rational. Reactions to music are not rational. Many, many religious convictions are not fully rational. Or beliefs. So religion has an interesting role to play. It lets you express the non-rational in constructive ways. So that's why the religious have had more rational reactions to events taking place than the secular. Now, there are of course exceptions on both sides. But it is worth noting, I'm one of them. I believe that Moses got the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and that America is not systemically racist.

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Curtis Leewald is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. They come across as goofy, normal people. But they are brilliant. Curtis Liwa knows more about how New York works and what to do and what not to do. He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years. So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign. New York is a bellwether. If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically, under Curtis Sliwa. Nobody else comes close to Curtis. I just want to say that.

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Morning, glory America. Bonjour, hi Canada. Hugh Hewitt inside the Beltway. We have a ceasefire in Israel between it and the terrorist organization Hamas. Which kicked in at 2 a.m. Israeli time last night. It will mark the end of 11 days of fighting. It was very tense right up to the moment of the ceasefire entering into effect, but it has held for the first few hours. More than 230 Palestinians, about 170 of whom are terrorists. So 50 civilians, 12 Israeli innocents as well, dead in the fighting. Each a tragedy. By the scale of previous Israeli-Hamas wars, it is a smaller death toll, but Hamas has been ravaged.

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So I want to get through to 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 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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But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?

Well, it's a hatred with a long history. Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is permanent, right?

Yeah.

And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws. And we're not perfect, we're as human as anybody else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent. And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.

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People say, what can I do? What can I do? Well, what you can do, one thing you can do is share the information we present on this program. So if you get an email, you can simply forward the email to people you think that would appreciate it, or tell them to sign up for the newsletter and they can get it themselves. But these, these videos, some of them are really important. We just did one actually with— my gosh, we had a whole bunch. We had an amazing interview with Oz Guinness. We had an amazing interview with him about his new book. It is fundamental. It's so good, we're gonna have to rerun it a few times because it was just an amazing conversation about the biblical roots of American liberty, the biblical, the undeniably biblical roots of the kind of government that we have had here since the beginning, since before the beginning, frankly, but that's another story, since before 1776. We also did an interview, I want people to get to know Tim Eaton. He is the founder, CEO of Nutramedics, okay? I want you to know who this guy is because, as I say over and over again, we have tremendous economic power in America and we've not leveraged it. And what I mean by that is that Americans who share our values spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year. So the question is, how do we spend it? Where do we spend it? Are you giving that money to companies like Coca-Cola or Nike, uh, or now Adidas or Skechers that do not share your values, that are willing to look the other way when we're dealing with horrific human rights abuses.

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Hello, my friends. Did you know that having a baby— I'm Dennis Prager, by the way. I assume most of you know that, but radio etiquette demands that that be said because you're not watching. Did you know that Vogue magazine A true repository of idiocy for decades. They're the folks that did a glamorous piece on the dictator Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, and his wife. What a terrific couple they are. And then he gassed his own people. They actually took it down. Why Vogue doesn't just concentrate on fashion is a puzzle. But you see, you don't need any credentials of wisdom or knowledge in order— A Rose in the Desert, that's what the name was. Wow. Rose in the Desert, Bashar al-Assad. Today, in our time, there is so no emphasis on wisdom that anybody who has a platform thinks that they have something important to say. Vogue magazine says, having a baby, are you ready? The term is a new one to me: environmental vandalism. So I want you to know, in Vogue's view, I am twice over an environmental vandal. A British Vogue article asks, is having a baby in 2021 pure environmental vandalism? The author of the article— this is from Patriots for Freedom— the author of the article suggested that people should consider the, quote, current climate emergency, unquote, which is another made-up thing of the left. The, the, the— it's not made up that the Earth is getting warmer. It's made up that it is a an emergency, an existential threat. Then they say people like me are climate deniers. We're not. We don't deny that the climate is getting warmer. We deny that there is an existential threat. We think you're lying to the world for other reasons, because if in fact you cared about this and really believed it, you'd be the biggest advocates of nuclear power. That's the giveaway that your interest is in reshaping the economy and controlling it. It's all about left-wing control about as much of your life as possible. Did you read how much the anticipated the U.S. government will own and public lands in the United States? Take, take a look at the statistics. I don't want to say them on the air until I have the source. The, uh, yes, the author said people should consider the current climate emergency before having a baby, even though she herself has given birth and said she would happily bring another human into the world. For the scientifically engaged person, there are few questions more troubling when looking at the current climate emergency than that of having a baby. You hear that? Yes, and will own by 2050. Well, that's, that's the question. And now it now owns 28% of the land. Country was founded on the belief that limited government is the ideal. The only country ever founded on the basis of a limited government idea. The left has has contempt for that and has obviously destroyed it. Whether your body throbs to reproduce, you passively believe that it is on the cards for you one day, or you actively seek to remain childfree, the declining health of the planet cannot help but factor in your thinking. By the way, what did you just send me? The population of the world is declining, right? Frisell— it's Nell Frisell who wrote the piece— claimed that before she got pregnant, she, quote, worried feverishly about the strain on the Earth's resources with another Western child, that another Western child would add. A Western child, I see, because they use more energy. We don't want We really need to rethink whether we want more Western children. Including the food he ate and the electricity the baby would use. Despite her fears, Frizzell got pregnant and brought another person into the world. And yet the millions of others— and yet, like millions of others, I did it anyway, Frizzell said. I had a baby. I'd have another if my partner agreed. Why am I not surprised that the word husband is not there? By the way, partner— isn't that interesting? We don't know whether the partner is male or female because gender doesn't matter. That was the argument for same-sex marriage, and I predicted correctly At the moment you say gender doesn't matter, you have shattered something very significant. The male-female difference. Children do not strain the world's resources, the Cato Institute-linked organization Human Progress wrote on Twitter. In fact, the opposite is true. Each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance. Well, one of them is right and one of them is wrong. If you get your values from Vogue magazine, you shouldn't have a child. That's my view, right? That would, that would be helpful to the world. Rhodes Scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world. The Rhodes Scholarship is changing its criteria because Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist and financier who founded the scholarship, was an imperialist. He wanted Rhodes Scholars to be, quote, the best men for the world's fight. The Rhodes Trust rewarded those who survived a withering competition with 3 years at Oxford University, all expenses paid. Women were made eligible in 1977. The U.S. Rhodes Scholars in 2021, however, were praised not for worldliness but for their demographics. 21 of the 32 winners are, quote, students of color. And one is non-binary. That's the best, a non-binary, a person who says I'm neither male nor female. That actually now is an advantage in applying for a Rhodes Scholarship. 21 of the 32 are students of color. Now here's why they They are hurting one of the many reasons the left is so damaging to blacks and people of color. Do you assume that the 21 people of color are the best possible candidates for a Rhodes Scholarship? I don't. Not because they're people of color, but because they were chosen potentially because they were people of color. The only arena left, literally, that I can think of, tell me if I'm wrong, is sports. It's the only place where excellence has no color criterion. No, military, you should wash your mouth out. The military's been taken over by the left. We have these wimps in high positions, all woke. And woke and wimp are synonymous. 21 of the 32 winners are students of color. See, what will happen— what the left is doing is it's making all of these things meaningless. If United is reserving— United Airlines announced it's reserving 50% of its aviation student places to women and people of color. So for the first time, people will wonder if they have a woman pilot or a person of color pilot, are they the best possible pilots? By definition, that wasn't the criterion used to choose them, correct? So they undermine as the left always does, the damage to the people they're supposedly helping. 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This is Albert Mohler for TownHall.com. The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi. The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term. If the law is upheld, lives would be saved, lots of them. This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v. Wade. I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement that comes down to this: pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v. Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent. Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive. The second issue is even more important. The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child. That's the biggest issue here. We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts. We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.

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Let me say this. Curtis Leewald is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. They come across as goofy, normal people. But they are brilliant. Curtis Liwa knows more about how New York works and what to do and what not to do. He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years. So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign. New York is a bellwether. If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically, under Curtis Sliwa. Nobody else comes close to Curtis. I just want to say that. There are other candidates that anybody would be better than de Blasio. De Blasio is the nightmare you never thought could happen. He is not only a maniacal ideologue and a socialist and a nut, but he is also incompetent. So the issue is that anybody would be better, but Curtis Sliwa I really mean this. I believe that he would be in the pantheon of the truly great mayors, a man who gives his life to the job. It's the opposite of the Peter Principle where people just keep rising and rising to their level of incompetence. This is a guy, I think he was born to be the mayor of New York City. This is exactly what the calling is on his life. He's a He's just an extraordinary figure. So folks, Curtis Sliwa for mayor.

So the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world. When you heard until now someone was a Rhodes Scholar, you assumed that they, they had proficiency in many arenas in life, they were particularly intelligent, etc., etc. Not any longer. Now The Rhodes Scholarship has been poisoned by the left. Another arena of the truism of my life and of your life: everything the left touches, it destroys. And that's true for the Rhodes Scholarships. 21 of the 32 winners are students of color. One is non-binary. More important, diversity— it's from the Wall Street Journal— is often their preferred academic specialty. Along with sexual harassment, racism, and the status of prisoners. The winners are described as passionate or motivated by fierce urgency. God, their terminology. Did you ever use the term fierce urgency? Did you ever use the term urgency? What is fierce urgency? Okay, it means that you do not think rationally. That's what I— how I read it. The notion that Rhodes Scholars are defenders of universal values and destined to have careers that benefit their countries has been replaced by training them for conflicts with their fellow citizens. Elizabeth Kiss, warden of Rhodes House, wrote that the Rhodes Trust today rejects Rhodes' goal of educating young men for a civilizing mission As wrong and obsolete. Another woman helping make the world worse. I point this out now regularly for the idiots who think that a world run by women would be better. Much of the world is being run by women right now, and it is getting much worse. Just for the record, that's a fact, unless you think that these are wonderful developments. That the idea that we educate young people for a civilizing mission is wrong and obsolete. Well, if you agree with that, then you're thrilled that this woman is in charge. Oxford itself, she writes, is a place where, quote, racism in all its forms—structural, overt, and implicit—remains rife. Did you know that Oxford is a racist How do they say it? I know. She's the warden of Rhodes House. Getting a Rhodes Scholarship means nothing now. It means nothing. Okay. And still people will vote Democrat. There is no damage the left could do that that changes people's— many people's minds, changes some. The Rhodes Trust has embarked on a program to expunge the scholarship's racist and sexist past. One feature is a mandatory workshop led by members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which is campaigning to remove Rhodes's statue. From Oxford's Oriel College. The guy who made the scholarship, they're going to remove his statue. They should drop the name, call it the Non-Binary People's Award, the Everyone Menstruates Award. The tragedy of this situation is that many of those who call for special conditions for Black students, thereby implicitly treat them as incapable of competing on equal basis, do not know Black people as people. The proliferation of Black Lives Matter signs in wealthy white neighborhoods instead of where the killing is taking place shows that what is actually at stake is self- serving demonstrations of virtue by whites in which blacks play only a peripheral role. The author of this piece in the WSJ is David Satter, author of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, and a member of the academic— we need, we need them on— the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. You know that? Well, let's have him or somebody else from the organization on. Yes, indeed. All right. St. Paul, Minnesota, and Dan. Hello, Dan.

Yeah, hi, Dennis. I love your show. So I just wanted to say, now that the Attorney General Ellison has said that the murder had nothing to do with racism, I think all the rioters, the protesters, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the governor and the media owe us one big apology for ruining our cities. The people weren't protesting bad police, they were protesting racist police. And that wasn't the case. It was a big lie. It's a big lie.

So I have a question for you, Dan. Ready? Okay. How old are you? I'm 58. Okay, so here's the question. In your 58 years, can you name one leftist who has apologized?

I I cannot.

Okay, thank you. 25 years ago, I wrote a piece when I was putting out a newsletter. Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry. A quarter of a century ago, I wrote that. Sean was in his diapers when I wrote that. Do I have that right, Sean? You wore diapers all the way through college, so there you go. There's a big window. Well said, well said, Triple G, the gentle Gentile giant. I love it. You know what, we need a little levity here. Play us a Triple G jingle, will you? It's, it's very— we don't have them enough. It's amazing that we have a jingle of that. It is the realm of the mind-boggling. Folks, you gotta keep those jingles coming in. We got a jingle for McConnell. There are no jingles for the living martyr, are there? That— hey, come on guys out there, we have creative people out there. We have a jingle for if nothing's horrific, life is terrific. Boy, is that true now, huh? That— God, I've always known that. Every day nothing awful happens. I'm serious. It's in my happiness book. People need to know how good they have it when they don't have it bad. That's, that's the way it— that's the way it works. 1-800-PRAGER-776. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion has long recommended this precious metal. Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7694. 800-221-7694. AmericanFederal.com. AmericanFederal.com. Not one mistake.

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Uh, let me say this. Curtis Sliwa is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. Um, they, they come across as goofy, normal people, but they are brilliant. Curtis Sliwa knows more. Yeah. About how New York works and what to do and what not to do He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years. So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign. New York is a bellwether. If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically under Curtis Sliwa— nobody else comes close to Curtis. I just want to say that. There are other candidates that anybody would be better than, than de Blasio. De Blasio is the nightmare you never thought could happen. He is not only a maniacal ideologue and a socialist and a nut, but he is also incompetent. So the issue is that anybody would be better, but Curtis Sliwa, I really mean this, I believe that he would be in the pantheon of the truly great mayors, a man who gives his life to the job. It's the opposite of the Peter Principle where people just keep rising and rising to their level of incompetence. This is a guy, I think he was born to be the mayor of New York City. This is exactly what the calling is on his life. He's just an extraordinary figure. So folks, Curtis Sliwa for mayor. If you can vote, vote. Tell your friends. He's somebody that I've had the privilege of getting to know. Keep up with what's trending.

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But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?

Well, it's a hatred with a long history. Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is— Permanent, right? Yeah. And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws. And we're not perfect, we're as human as anybody else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent.

And There are some terrific groups in this country. I love Fighters. I I used to say to you all the time, I didn't— I don't want on my tombstone, or whatever you want to call it, I— he played it safe. Just, I felt that since high school. Isn't it funny that since high school I thought, what do I want on my tombstone? It's a good thing to think about. So, I am in love with the people fighting for this country. One of my favorite, I would say up there in the top 3 or 4, is Job Creators Network. And they have a new project and you could just join them. Elaine Parker, who I've talked to a number of times, she's the chief communications officer. Where are you, in Florida? I'm in Orlando, Dennis Prager. Yeah, that counts as Florida. By the way, do you know how woke Disney World has become? I do, I do.

I see it all the time.

Like, like, are the people of Orlando aware? And if they are, do they have any reactions to it?

You know, I think that people are so happy that Governor DeSantis has been aggressive in opening this state, and we have been back at Walt Disney World for quite a while, although under temperature checks and masks, and some of that's going away. When you compare that to the governor in California, Disneyland is not doing so well.

So I guess our bar is a little lower, Dennis. Yeah, no, I understand that exactly.

You know, every exhibit is either sexist or misogynist or homophobic or male-dominated, or it's, it's, it's, it's like it's a suppression of the joy of Disney characters that is taking place. I read this thing to my audience. Anyway, you guys are doing great, truly great work. So what is the latest thing? I have asked people to go to joinjcn.com, joinjobcreatorsnetwork.com. Them, what is it you want them to do? Or what is it you're doing that you want them to support?

Well, Dennis, we've launched a campaign called the Bring Small Businesses Back campaign, and that's because of the Biden administration through the policies that it's either already enacted or threatening to enact are a declaration of war on small business from rising that taking the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act away to— and rolling back pieces of that that directly impact small businesses, to regulations like minimum wage and mandates. All of these things are squarely directed at our small businesses, and so what we're doing is harnessing that voice of small businesses, and we're getting out there and we're talking to small businesses across the country. We're even launching a bus tour in the fall. We'll be all over the country. And so we want small business owners to sign up and join us in the fight. Look for opportunities if we're coming to a city near them and come out and join us and let their voices be heard because I will tell you, I've been doing this now for 8 years with the Job Creators Network and when small business owners get together and their voices come together, those politicians in Washington, they listen.

How badly has the lockdown hurt small business?

I mean, if you were a big box store, a Target, an Amazon, a Walmart, and you did great record earnings during the pandemic. That's right. If you, if you were a small business owner, you were being told by your government that you could not open your business that you owned, that you employed people with. And then you were told once you could open, oh, but you have to follow these rules or those rules, or you have to have this seating or that seating, and you can only have this many people in the stores. And like I said, I'm in Florida, so we've been on the cutting edge of moving forward quickly. And getting the state open in a safe way. But other states have really suffered, um, and, and small businesses have really taken the brunt of it. And thank God for programs like the Paycheck Protection Program that helped. Um, but now we've got government hindrance in the form of unemployment checks, right? Exactly. That, that are creating obstacles to getting people back to work, right?

Uh, there are restaurants— a restaurant— well, stores that were 24/7 that can't find help late at night, and they're no longer 24/7. What was the, what was the excuse for keeping Walmart open and Joey's Box Store not? Go to joinjcn.com. Okay, this is a great example of fighting for good stuff. What's our time frame there, Sean? Ah, this is the easiest of all. Relief Factor. Do you know, I'm going to tell you something that Relief Factor has never even suggested, I say. So I'm not kidding, and I hope I'm not overstepping my— what is it, overstepping what? Bounds. Bounds, yes, my bounds. It's probably the only time in my life I use the term bounds. I am so aware of the, the deleterious effects of inflammation. I just saw a video on preventing dementia and how inflammation is a big factor. This is an anti-inflammatory that is completely safe. So even if you don't have aches, I take it. Give it a try if you do have aches. 3 weeks for $20. ReliefFactor.com.

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But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?

Well, it's a hatred with a long history. Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is permanent, right? Yeah. And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws, and we're not perfect. We're as human as anybody else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent, and that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.

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What can I do? Well, what you can do, one thing you can do is share the information we present on this program. So if you get an email, you can simply forward the email to people you think that would appreciate it, uh, or tell them to sign up for the newsletter and they can get it themselves. But These, uh, these videos, some of them are really important. We just did one actually with, uh, my gosh, we had a whole bunch. We had an amazing interview with Oz Guinness. Uh, we had, uh, an amazing, uh, interview with him about his new book. It is fundamental. It's so good, we're gonna have to rerun it a few times because it was just an amazing conversation about the biblical roots of American liberty. The biblical, the undeniably biblical roots of the kind of government that we have had here since the beginning, since before the beginning, frankly, but that's another story. Um, since before 1776. Um, we also did an interview. I want people to get to know, uh, Tim Eaton. He is the, uh, founder CEO of Nutramedics. Okay. Um, I want you to know who this guy is because as I say over and over again, We have tremendous economic power in America and we've not leveraged it. And what I mean by that is that Americans who share our values spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year. So the question is, how do we spend it? Where do we spend it? Are you giving that money to companies like Coca-Cola or Nike or now Adidas or Skechers that do not share your values, that are willing to look the other way when we're dealing with horrific human rights abuses. Keep up with—

Hi everybody. Job Creators Network is saving small businesses and the small business is the backbone of America, not just economically, but I believe morally, spiritually, I mean in every way. The people who save up and invest and make a small business. So I have Elaine Parker, Chief Communications Officer. By the way, Elaine, if you want to see her, has made a video for PragerU, What's Killing the American Dream. It's got 4 million views. What do you think of that, by the way? 4 million views, eh? Not bad, Elaine.

Not bad. It was a good video, though. I really enjoyed making it. I think it had a great message, and I think a lot of people could relate to That is entirely accurate.

So I asked you, what was the rationale for keeping Walmart open and closing the small business next door? It's a great question.

It makes you think that the, that the pandemic and the virus was not at Walmart, but it was in the small dry cleaner next door. Only they were deemed essential. I mean, who were the lucky people who got to be deemed essential, we kept making the argument that teachers should have been deemed essential employees and should have been back at work so that kids could be in school.

That's right.

You know, there's— it was interesting how they decided what was essential and what wasn't. I mean, if you could go to the grocery store and get your groceries and Walmart and go shopping, then you could go to your local dry cleaner and your local pizza restaurant and you could be safe with certain precautions. But you Yeah, these small businesses, they took it on the chin more than anybody else. And we need to get people back to work and take out— take the incentives away from staying home so that we can get these businesses going. Dennis, I had an AC repairman at my house last week, and I had the owner out actually, and I said, you know, how's it going? And he said, oh, we're busier than you can imagine. He's like, but I can't find anybody. He said, I made an offer to a guy, AC tech, like, you know, mid-level experience, and he said that the guy was real honest. He's like, I'm making that much on unemployment, so I'm going to let it run out and then I'll come to work. I mean, they're that brazen about it.

Right. This is a vindication of Ronald Reagan's famous statement, which actually changed my life. People tell me sometimes I change their lives. Well, my life was changed when Ronald Reagan Ron Paul again simply said, government is not the solution, it's the problem. That is when I became a Republican and left the Democratic Party. And what you're describing is as perfect an example of that as possible. So finally, again, we want, you want, I want people to join JCN, Job Creators Network, and it's a very simple website. To go to joinjcn.com, correct?

That is correct. Come join us. Help us fight this fight and save small business and the American dream. I look forward to talking to you again.

Thank you for the great work you're doing. Thank you, Dennis Prager. I love that there are people out there like that. I try to inspire you. And they inspire me. I'm now hounded. I'm laughing because, well, you'll understand why in a moment. I'm hounded by what I said last hour, that we need to do an hour of having people call in who've come out of the closet. You know, gays used to be in the closet. Of course, that's not the case any longer, as indeed it should be. They should not be in the closet. But now, as much as any group has ever been in the closet, conservatives are afraid to lose friends, sometimes jobs, reputation. But isn't it worth thinking about, do you really want friends from whom you have to hide your deepest convictions? I'm not saying this to make a fight, to cause a rift. I'm just asking a question. I don't understand the term friend. As being synonymous with hiding what I believe. 40 years ago, when did I start lecturing on happiness? Yeah, I'd say so. I started lecturing in my 20s, a very early age. And I would say the definition of a best friend is someone to whom you can say anything. But I don't even understand the definition of a friend as one from whom you have to hide your deepest convictions about life. You love America. You know it's the greatest lie since Jews used Christian blood to make baked matzos in the Middle Ages, that America is systemically racist. You know how big a lie that is. You know that it's a world of lies out there, and you can't say that to a friend. I'm not telling you to break up with your friend. I'm just saying that if you come out and say it, and you will lose that friend, I don't know how big a loss it is. Anyway, I personally don't understand friends from whom I have to hide my convictions. Let alone spouses. Alrighty, everybody, let's go to Jack in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hello, Jack.

Hey, Dennis, I want to know if you oppose giving the indigent legal representation, if you oppose women being allowed to buy contraceptives if you oppose that every congressional district should have the same number of people, because this was all the Warren Court, and conservatism was marked by opposition to the Warren Court. And if you don't oppose any of those things, then I think you should apologize.

Okay, start, start again, because they're new to me. Go ahead. And the Warren Court— what legal representation? Wait, wait, wait, just, just for my knowledge, what year of the Warren Court?

Uh, '55 to '70.

So you're raising issues that are 60 years old for which conservatives should apologize? How about things that happened in the last year, like causing people to die in Minneapolis because they defund police? I'll keep you on, but if you have to go back 60 years, uh, that's, uh, that's good for me.

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Restaurants in Florida have been relatively unscathed for the most part. In New York, it's been a vast wasteland. It's been a disaster. Bubbles in the sidewalk, streets being closed, people out in the winter freezing their butts off trying to eat. What has motivated the political leaders, the mayors, the governor? What do you think is driving this insanity?

You know, Mike, at first I thought it was fear, right? We all behave differently when we're in a fear situation we're not familiar with. And I thought New York was just shocked, right? I thought the leadership was just shocked, right? And cold weather, not being as much outdoors, etc. I got to tell you, I really don't know how to answer that question. I really don't. I cannot understand. We served 40 45,000 customers this summer in New York. Not a single case of COVID got traced back to us. Not a single customer, not a single employee. When I went back to college, I had to get tested, had COVID. That's 45,000 consumer touchpoints. Why weren't there— why wasn't there a conversation about that? Why? Why? Why just shut us down? Right. Why force me to come to Florida? Right. I really have a hard time meditating on that, Mike. Yeah, and I think, I think, I think history will, um, will judge this moment and figure and be able to answer that question a lot easier than you and I.

Well, either that or the writers of the history books are going to scratch their heads and say, what were they doing? What were they thinking? I, I mean, I remember sitting in an enclosed wooden structure out on a street in Manhattan 6 months or so ago, and it was completely enclosed, had heaters going I'm thinking, wait a minute.

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Curtis Leewald is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. They come across as goofy, normal people, but they are brilliant. Curtis Sliwa knows more about how New York works and what to do and what not to do. He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years. So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign. New York is a bellwether. If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically under Curtis Sliwa. Nobody else comes close to Curtis. I just want to say that.

Okay, everybody, let me go back to Jack in Cincinnati. So do you have anything— I'm not challenging you, I'm just curious— do you have anything in the last 5 years for which conservatives should apologize comparable to what liberals should apologize for? Yeah, go ahead.

I thought you were talking about your time at Columbia and that was the '60s and '70s and that was your formative years. That's when you became a conservative. So that's what I thought you were talking about.

But if you want the last 5 years, I don't know why you thought that. I didn't mention Columbia today, but okay, go ahead.

Okay. Tahrir Square, Sisi in Egypt murdered hundreds of people in cold blood because they were Islamists. Trump supported him wholeheartedly. Think we should apologize for that?

It's a very tough call, because if Sisi is overthrown, you will get the Muslim Brotherhood and far more bloodshed. So, uh—

Do we give millions of dollars to this guy to kill people? That's correct.

So I told you, I think it's a very morally complex issue, just as Saudi Arabia is. I don't like their regime, but there are worse in life, which is one of the reasons I have contempt for the left. They always think that there is a wonderful alternative when, like, defund the police because there are problems with police. There are problems. Defund CeCe is sort of like defund the police. It's an honest answer, Dennis Prager.

I give you credit. I disagree with you, but it's a good answer.

You know what? That's very admirable of you. I'm serious. I'm happy I took your call. So we need more of— you know, I don't even care. I mean, I care because I don't want to be wrong, but not ego-wise. I don't care if somebody talks me into a better position than I have. I don't want to repeat a stupid idea. It's a self-interest to be corrected. But that's just a side thought. But I give him credit for his reaction. Defund Sisi is very similar to defund the police. There are problems with police, there are problems with Sisi. What is the guy— look, it was the largest demonstration, I think, not just in Egyptian history, I think in world history, the demonstration against the Muslim Brotherhood that was running Egypt. This is the human condition is pathetic. That's why America can't be destroyed by the left because if you compare us to other countries, we're terrific. If you compare us to some utopia where there are no racists and no sexists and no homophobes, then we stink. That's the point. It's, it's really a point of, more than anything else, maturation. The adult, unlike the child, understands that the alternatives are often worse. I'm Dennis Prager. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion, has long recommended this precious metal. Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7694. 800-221-7694. 4, AmericanFederal.com, AmericanFederal.com. Not one mistake.

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Let me say this. Curtis Leewald is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. They come across as goofy, normal people, but they are brilliant. Curtis Sliwa knows more about how New York works and what to do and what not to do. He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years. So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign. New York is a bellwether. If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically under Curtis Sliwa. Nobody else comes close to Curtis. I just want to say that. There are other candidates that anybody would be better than de Blasio. De Blasio is the nightmare you never thought could happen. He is not only a maniacal ideologue and a socialist and a nut, but he is also incompetent. So the issue is that anybody would be better, but Curtis Sliwa, I really mean this, I believe that he would be in the pantheon of the truly great mayors, a man who gives his life to the job. It's the opposite of the Peter Principle where people just keep rising and rising to their level of incompetence. This is a guy, I think he was born to be the mayor of New York City. This is exactly what the calling is on his life. He's just an extraordinary figure. So folks, Curtis Sliwa for mayor. If you can vote, vote. Tell your friends. He's somebody that I've had the privilege of getting to know.

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But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?

Well, it's a hatred with a long history. Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is permanent, right? Yeah. And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws, and we're not perfect, we're as human as anybody else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent, and that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.

I heard this, I heard this on a— I heard exactly I got exactly that same answer on another show from a caller this morning. It's funny you use that justification, but, but, Joel, Asians, Chinese, Japanese, they set themselves apart. They have their own cultural standards, their own traditions and laws. They don't face the kind of eons' worth of hatred the Jewish people do. Is it— is there some other explanation? Because it seems so utterly irrational. We are—

just, just one— the other explanation is envy, because, yes, Jews have been successful throughout the years. And again, there are poor Jews, there are Jews who have failed in various ways, there are Jews who are criminals who end up in jail, like Bernie Madoff or Harvey Weinstein or whatever. I mean, you know, Jews again are not a perfect people, but just read the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament.

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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's trending.

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Restaurants in Florida have been relatively unscathed for the most part. In New York, it's been a vast wasteland. It's been a disaster. Bubbles in the sidewalk, streets being closed, people out in the winter freezing their butts off trying to eat. What has motivated the political leaders, the mayors, the governor? What, what, what, what do you think is driving this insanity?

You know, Mike, at first I thought it was fear, right? We all behave differently.

This, my dear friends, is the Ultimate Issues Hour. The third hour every Tuesday is devoted to some great issue of life. There is almost no Ultimate Issues because there's no wisdom talk. At our schools or universities. They were supposed to be repositories of wisdom. Knowledge was to be given as a vehicle to wisdom. Knowledge without wisdom is useless, in fact, often dangerous. Wisdom is the big deal. I wouldn't call it the wisdom hour though, because It sounds too pompous, right? The Wisdom Hour. But that's what it is. Ultimate Issues is a great term. It's the name of my original newsletter, and the suggestion was made by Dr. Stephen Maurer many years ago that I call this hour the Ultimate Issues Hour. And I think I bought him an iced tea. As a way of thanking him for that. Today's subject is one that I have tangentially discussed many times, but now I'd like to devote an hour to it. I have made the case for the importance of a good religious life, not a stupid religious life, not a bad religious life, a good religious life. That a good secular life does not match a good religious life, not in the sense that the good secular person is not as good as the good religious person, it's just they don't have as rich a life. And it's very hard to pass on your values without religion, unless you have lousy values. Somehow or other, it's easy to pass on lousy values. I have a theory as to why, but that would be another show. So the value of religion, and just on a selfish, if you will, basis, is you live longer, you live happier, a lot of good things. Things are associated with a religious life. And as I have pointed out, I would bet my house on the proposition that virtually no convicted murderers in prison attended church regularly when they committed their murder or murders. If people don't understand the benefits of a religious life to society, it is because they do not want to understand it. It is statistically and commonsensically incontrovertible. So here is my topic. In light of that, you should lead a religious life. I have two basic topics here. You should lead a religious life even if you don't believe in God, even if you don't believe in religion, even if you're not religious. You should lead a religious life. I will explain that. You should raise your children with God and religion even if you are not religious. It does not render you a hypocrite, which I will explain as well. And the other is give it a 6-month try, a serious 6 months of religious life, and see what happens afterwards. What prompted this subject was a caller last week during the Whatever Is On Your Mind hour, Friday 3rd hour, and said, I just want you to know I did try your 6-month idea and I ended up religious. Now, what is religious, by the way? Religious means active in a religion. It doesn't claim that you are a basic believer. It just means you are active in a religion. In the United States— I don't say this about all religions, talking about the dominant religions in the United States— any of what we call Judeo-Christian Christian religions. They don't agree with each other theologically, but they are all rooted in the Hebrew Bible. Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, LDS, Latter-day Saints, or Mormonism— these are all offshoots which believe in the, the Hebrew Bible. Obviously, Protestantism and Catholicism also believe in the New Testament, and Mormons also believe in the Book of Mormon in addition to the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. So that's why they all have in common is the Hebrew Bible. You should lead, lead that life because it's a better life. People think, and, and partially this is religion's fault, The message that people get, even if it's not enunciated as such, is this is the place for real believers. You're not a real believer, hey, you're not going to get much out of this. I don't agree with that. Whether you're a believer or not, you should find a church or synagogue that talks to you, that is meaningful to you, a religion that is meaningful to you, scriptures that are meaningful to you. That's why I'm writing my Rational Bible, and as, as many— it's the best-selling, I believe, Bible commentary in America for the last few years. But I still don't understand why, and this is going to sound awful, but I don't care. It's what I feel. I don't understand why, if you love, for example, the Ultimate Issues Hour and these subjects, that you would not get the Rational Bible, my Bible commentary, the first 5 books. It is the Ultimate Issues Hour on steroids. Steroids. Anyway, that would be part of what leading a religious life is. The big part in my life is studying the Bible, but you need a good explanation because otherwise it, it's, it's not self-evident. Some things are self-evident, but many of them need explanation. Many of the verses need explanations. So if something is good, whether you are fully on board or not, it's, it's good to have it. It's good to have it in your life. If you go weekly to, to a service, you have no idea how transformative that is in your life. Tell me something, do you have a secular community in your life? I, I— can you think of a secular community in, in today's terms? The only secular community might be a political party, but they don't have weekly meetings. There basically is no secular community anymore. There used to be— there would be book clubs and bowling leagues, I guess, and, and, well, then that's great, and I mean that's great, but to have a community of, of like-minded spirits that you might find at a synagogue or church, there's no substitute for that. There's no rival to that. In the secular world. You don't believe in God fully, or you have your doubts, or you don't believe in their religion fully. I mean, I don't know anybody, literally I don't know anybody there— I'm sure they exist, but I don't know them— who has absolute 100% acceptance of every part of their religion, who doesn't have any problem with any doctrine doctrine or practice of their religion. I don't know anyone, Jew or Christian. I just don't know. It's fine. So what? So because you, you don't accept X or Y doctrine, therefore what? People make excuses for not leading a religious life. It's a better life. It's better to raise your kids with that. What are you going to say? Yeah, Johnny, that's right. There's no God. That's correct. You die, it's over. Ta-da! Adios, baby. You live, you make up your own meaning. Because ultimately, only matter is real. Except matter has no meaning. 1-800-PRAGER-776.

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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 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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Poet Laureate of the Hugh Hewitt Show, Tarzana Joe. Good morning, Joe.

Good morning, Hugh. And I want to remind you that poetry is the hard nucleus around which all other literature forms into—

but that's not what this—

people need to know their Joe Biden to get that one, but I do.

That's not what this poem is about though. However, as I'm sitting on my Zoom call wearing jammies and still showerless, it occurs to me in life that I have never felt so powerless. There are ideas I can't read about and places I can't go, people that my Facebook doesn't think I ought to know. And as crises in the country and in California mounted, I have deepening suspicions of the way the votes were counted. If I want to reach my senator and say what must be said, I can put it in an email, which you know is never read. Then I suddenly decided, as my spirit grew so weary, I'd adopt self-application of the broken window theory. Instead of chasing what I can't, it's much the better plan to focus my attention and to fix the things I can. I'll repair that broken tile. And attach that wobbly knob. Clean my writing desk so people think I'm not a slob. Brighten up my outlook without a pharmaceutical. Straightening your sock drawer is really therapeutic. Happily embracing the way the day is taking me. Practicing piano without my mother making me. I've never felt so energized. I've never felt so smart. I haven't moved the mountain, But I think that it's a start. That's Broken Window Theory by Tarzana Joe.

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager, The Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday. My advocacy that you lead a religious life even if you're not religious. It sounds odd to people because we don't live in the age of wisdom. I mean, I think you should try to love great art and great music even if you have no interest in art or music. Right? I mean, there are many things. It's, we live in the age of feelings. I don't feel religious, so, you know, won't do it. That's my, that's my subject for the, for this hour. I have always assumed that maybe, maybe, I don't know, is it more common in Jewish life that people with doubts still go to synagogue, but, or will still, you know, have a Sabbath I don't know. I don't think so. But whatever the reason, people think if they're not fully on board with a religion, they shouldn't lead a religious life. It's foolish. It's a better way to live. It's a good way to find good people. It's a good way to have a community. And then it affects you. You know, act happy, then you'll feel happy. Act religious, then you'll feel religious. For me, it applies equally. Okay, everybody. And let's go to some of your calls. Scott in Northridge, California, thank you for calling.

Hey Dennis, thank you for taking my call. Hey, um, well, you probably knew him personally, but one of the greatest people in my lifetime is Charles Krauthammer. I almost think you answered my question. He lived a religious life, yet he was an agnostic.

Oh yeah, so you're offering him as an example. I don't know how religious— I don't I don't know how religious a life he led. I don't know. I did know him, as you pointed out. We should play, though, in light of your raising him, Sean, if you could find Charles Krauthammer. Charles Krauthammer, I mean, it pains me to even think that I have to introduce him to any of you. One of the greatest social thinkers, political, moral thinkers even. Of our lifetime died sadly a couple of years ago. I think I conducted one of the last interviews with him at a Prager University gathering in California. And I knew him as secular, had him on the show, and I never talked politics with him. I talked about life with him. So here's an example. Yep, there you go. I did not expect that response, but it is off the charts. And science argues for a creator, but that— but that's— this hour is not to convince you that religion is true, or that God exists even. It is to convince you to lead a religious life even if you have doubts about God or doubts about the religion, to find good people to have a weekly community with. I have an essay in my book of essays called Think a Second Time. There are 44 essays in that book on 44 subjects. It's quite varied. Can you believe in God after the Holocaust? Can a good man go to a strip show? I mean, it's, it's all, it's about all of life. And I have an essay in there on what happened to me at the age of 21 in Finland. I've been to 130 countries. I started my world travels at a very early age. So I went from the Arctic in Finland down to Helsinki, and I arrived at the Helsinki railway station at around midnight, and a very, very deep thing happened to me. I realized it was Friday night, the traditional night of the Sabbath in Judaism. And I, all of a sudden, having been raised with it but now not observing it, it occurred to me that it's Friday night and there's nothing special in my life going on. This special day is absent. And I thought, I don't want Friday and Saturday to be just like Thursday and Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday and Sunday and, and so on. I didn't want that. I wanted a break each week. It, it gave the other 6 days more meaning. To have this meaningful break in the routine, to do other things than work or, or whatever else one does on a daily basis. And that's when I decided I was going to observe the Sabbath. There's a huge article in the Wall Street Journal on the Sabbath just a couple of weeks ago. Huge article. Maybe there will be a— what was the word for the reaffirmation of religion in American life in the 19th century? The Great Awakening. Maybe there will be another awakening in this country if the Wall Street Journal has a featured article on the significance of the Sabbath and the loss, the loss it entails in people's lives, it is, it is worth doing. Again, the subject, whatever you believe or don't, it is worth leading a religious life. Louis in Jerusalem, Israel. Hello, Louis.

Hi, hi. I was going to say Rabbi Prager, sorry. Um, yeah, I think, I think what it's the letter of the law could be a very good framework to make good decisions that will make it likely that you can get to a good understanding maybe of your particular religion of God. But you ultimately, you have to go from the letter of the law, and it has to be the spirit there. And I can, you know, that's, that's my basic thing. And I live in Jerusalem, and I can't avoid the Sabbath.

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The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi. The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term. If the law is upheld, lives would be saved, lots of them. This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v. Wade. I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement that comes down to this: pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v. Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent. Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive. The second issue is even more important. The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child. That's the biggest issue here. We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts. We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.

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Let me say this. Curtis Sliwa is a hero. The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure. And we see more and more of them. Mike Lindell is like this. Trump is like this. They come across as goofy, normal people. But they are brilliant.

Curtis Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't expect that, guys. I didn't either. I'm Dennis Prager. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday. You should lead a religious life even if you're not religious. That is my topic. Very few people say this, unfortunately, but it's very, very important. Brooklyn, New York, and Adam.

Hello, Adam. Hi, good afternoon. I think I have a story that you'll appreciate. My grandfather was born 1922 in the South Bronx, Jewish parents, belonged to the Communist Party of America, so totally irreligious except for the fact that they would never have any pork products. So my grandfather gets drafted into the war. He comes home, and obviously, you know, when he was overseas, he had everything under the sun, or pork. But he comes home and he says to his mom, he says, Mom, you know, I don't understand. You told me there's totally no religion in your house. You're a Marxist. Why, why don't we have sausage? I want sausage. And she says to him, it has nothing to do anything. You know, her way of saying it actually has everything to do with being Jewish, with everything to do with having the identity, being part of a bigger, a bigger communal basis. Right.

Let me just say, it's a, it's a, it's a sweet story. However, I must say that communists who don't eat pork are not my models. I frankly, I couldn't care less if they did or didn't. Communism is evil. And if you— if they may have been the sweetest people in the world, the number of sweet people who advocate evil doctrines is in the tens of millions. So it's a sad fact of life. I'd rather they ate pork and were anti-communist.

Mr. Prager, I think the point is that to hold on to something that is within a religion, even if you are not religious, does give someone more of a sense of purpose and identity.

No, exactly, that's my whole point. Yeah. No, no, that's my whole point. Look, I'm a Jew and I don't eat pork. I wish— and I'm anti-communist. That's even better. But morality is always above, including in Judaism. Derech Eretz comes before Torah. Decent conduct comes before Torah. All right, I appreciate your call. Good call. Detroit, Michigan. Greg. Hello, Greg. Hi, Dennis.

I had a couple stats for you that are accurate in terms of the actual attendance in church. Um, they're in— I have— I'm in the business, and there are 317,221 exact churches in the United States. Uh, I, I have every one of them listed down to the church secretary, and 63,400,000+ attend church at least twice a month in this country. The varying stats that are standard out there are, um, there's a research called Barna. They've got it at 77 million evangelicals. Catholics are well known, uh, to be about around 72 million in this country. You'd know more about the Jewish breakdown, but the total, uh, comprehensive is that. I don't know how many people believe in it, but I wanted to pass what is along to you right now in the United States.

I appreciate that. The issue is the trend.

Yeah, right. And they always say it's trending down. Yes. Uh, but I kind of agree with, uh, actually what you said. Um, you know, raise a child in the ways you go, and when he's old, you return to it. That's a proverb. And that's what I've done in my Catholic faith. And you obviously— that hit you. So it was a really, really meaningful— the stats are at GodClick if anybody wants to look at them.

The debts—

the, the The what? The stats for this are right on a site called GodClick.

Okay, that's what I didn't hear, that word. Okay, thank you very much. People really, we're in the age of non-reason, not just non-religion. It's a rational argument to lead a religious life even if you're not religious. It's not— I'm not making a religious argument, ironically. I'm making a rational— just a ra— I mean, not that rational and religious are in conflict, but I did want you to understand that. Rochester, Minnesota. Rose. Hello, Rose. Hi, Dennis.

Um, now I'm— now I'm nervous. That's understandable. Okay, um, I just wanted to talk about what I, I heard this, this saying, um, when my kids were young, and I decided to follow that thing. And that was, if you give your kids nothing, you give them nothing. If you give them everything, you give them nothing. That's good.

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Hi, Dennis, how are you?

I'm well.

Yes, me too. Thank you. Everything— I appreciate you, and everything you say, uh, touches me to my core, and I love listening to you every day.

Thank you very much.

You're very welcome. Thank you. I I wanted to ask you what your opinion of Alcoholics Anonymous as a religious way of life. Are you familiar?

I'm very familiar with it, and although I, I never personally was a member, but I know people well who have been. I love AA. I think there's more wisdom at AA than at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton combined. I do. I absolutely do. I think the Big Book has more wisdom than White Fragility even. So, uh, the whole purpose— yeah, go on.

No, you go. I was going to say the whole purpose— we have a line in the book Alcoholics Anonymous that says the point is that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. And for many people who come into AA who state that they're atheists are actually agnostics, but we generally start them out with God as good orderly direction.

Right. And, and, uh, it's very fluid. It's called a higher power now in AA. Correct.

Right. You're right. So, but although God is probably in the book 50 or 60 times.

Yes, but now they use higher power.

Yeah, I get it.

Yeah, yeah, I, I, I'm ambivalent about that. I, I, I wish they used God, uh, but they want to— they want more people in. And look, there's— there is a subliminal anti-God message that God believers are stupid, and that's, uh, that's taken on. But AA is, uh, is really wonderful. I learned that both from personal observation and from you, the callers, that the latter came first. Okay, let's see here. Edgar in Los Angeles, California. Hello.

Hello, Dennis. Well, thank you so much for your, uh, attacks on the people who are concerned about matter and trying to get meaning from matter, right? I just wanted to relate that I, uh, apropos of your searching for something ceremonial. I realized after going to Toastmasters meetings for, uh, 6 months or so that they were satisfying my need to have a regular weekly ceremonial event. Community. Yeah, community. And just the regularity of the way they proceed at a certain ceremony.

And how long can you continue with Toastmasters doing this weekly? Oh, is it— it's unlimited.

I was in two different groups for about over 8 years.

Oh, that's great. Okay, so let me say this. I'm thrilled for you. Uh, that would be— that, that's a good example. I hadn't thought of it— of a secular community. To the extent that I know about it, I think that's great. I wish there were 100 such communities. I wish Rotary and Lions Clubs and the like would proliferate. I want people to have regular community even if it's not religious, but it's very rare today compared to the past. And I will say that as powerful as any of the secular communities are, and they are, imagine adding God and religion to that community. And I, I do wonder, at a time of crisis, does a secular community respond quite the same as a religious community does in the life of a member who has lost a loved one, for example? We'll return. Live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio. Streaming on Salem Now. This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas to express your ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. You have the right to remain silent. Judge Thomas, do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I do. I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. We know exactly what's going on here. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed. So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court? I'd rather die than withdraw from the process. Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.

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Yes, hello, Dennis. Yes, hi. Can you hear me okay? I do. Oh, great, thank you. Big fan of your show. If I ever meet you, sir, I'm going to give you a great big bear hug. Okay, I'd love it. Uh, so, um, to go straight to the key point, um, with religions, I think, uh, one of the big things is whether you are, you are a believer of the religion or not, as you're saying, just the, the practice of it, uh, when you go through the practices of the religion, one of the One of the major ones that I'm aware of, at least at my church, and I would imagine the others you mentioned, is prayer. And with prayer, we are less turned inwards on ourselves, turn more outward. And in doing that, we see who God is, what he has done, and we become more appreciative. And we're less, to quote a radio host, I hear we are less ingrates and we just tend to be more appreciative and more happy people. That's true.

I'm letting you go only because I want to get others, but that is exactly right. I think that religious people in America are more grateful. That is correct. And gratitude is the mother of goodness and happiness. So that's a big deal. All right, let's see. John in Monroeville, Pennsylvania says, if one believes in the irrational, one becomes more susceptible to other irrational ideas, and that there's no evidence of the Exodus. That's the— actually, in my commentary on the Exodus, I give, uh, I cite Dennis Prager, one of the leading biblical experts who is not, he's a Jew but he's not an Orthodox Jew. And he gives a lot of arguments for the Exodus that just make sense. And I, anyway, there's no archaeological evidence. But there's a lot of logical evidence, and nobody believes in the irrational more than the secular. That's my whole point in all of my broadcasts of 35 years. The nonsense that we're asked to believe today is a product of the secular world, my friends. Doesn't mean every secular person believes it, but it is a product of the secular world.