Dennis Prager Show - What Do you Smuggle in to the House Without Your Spouse Knowing?
Aired: 2020-03-04
Duration: 08:40


=== Smuggling and Self-Control (08:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Part of the reason is I have only one agenda.
[00:00:03]  I have two agendas, actually.
[00:00:05]  That we understand each other better and that we get along better.
[00:00:10]  I'm not a man fan and I'm not a woman fan.
[00:00:13]  I really am not.
[00:00:14]  I think it's pretty evident to you.
[00:00:17]  I'm a good person fan.
[00:00:19]  There are good and bad women and good and bad men.
[00:00:24]  And I suspect it's an interesting question.
[00:00:28]  Are the ratios the same?
[00:00:30]  Is the percentage of wonderful men and wonderful women, is it the same percentage?
[00:00:39]  Only God knows.
[00:00:41]  I don't know.
[00:00:42]  Only God knows.
[00:00:43]  But it's still an interesting question.
[00:00:46]  So today, in light of all the heaviness of the news, we'll do a lighter topic on the Male-Female Hour.
[00:00:54]  And here it is.
[00:00:57]  What do men smuggle into the house?
[00:01:02]  And what do women smuggle into the house?
[00:01:07]  And I will offer you a definition of smuggle.
[00:01:13]  Buying a relatively expensive thing and not telling your spouse.
[00:01:19]  You may not consider it smuggling.
[00:01:21]  I do.
[00:01:25]  Okay, I mean, if you spent a few hundred bucks on anything, and unless you're a billionaire, it's irrelevant, then spending $500,000 doesn't matter.
[00:01:38]  But for most people, spending hundreds of dollars on an item, golf clubs is an example.
[00:01:46]  That is a possibility, mostly on the male side.
[00:01:49]  Shoes would be an example.
[00:01:50]  Do you tell your husband every time you buy shoes?
[00:01:55]  Do you tell your wife every time you buy golf clubs?
[00:01:59]  Or a new, some new gadget?
[00:02:04]  Men love gadgets.
[00:02:06]  I do.
[00:02:08]  Absolutely.
[00:02:09]  So I asked someone I know very well.
[00:02:12]  I won't tell you who it is.
[00:02:15]  You might want to guess, but I won't tell you who it is.
[00:02:19]  And I will even tell you when I ask this person, I won't even say male or female, but when I ask this person during the break, when I ask this person, do you smuggle anything into the house?
[00:02:33]  Of course not.
[00:02:35]  Really?
[00:02:37]  Do you tell your wife every time you get a new iWatch?
[00:02:42]  Alan, his producer, the guy who runs the whole thing, who's somewhere between my mom and an Easter Island head in terms of gregariousness and encouragement.
[00:02:55]  So, wait a minute.
[00:02:56]  Triple G, is that your guess?
[00:02:59]  Look, it's what do we call a knowledgeable guess?
[00:03:03]  Is that the term people use for it?
[00:03:05]  An informed guess.
[00:03:07]  Yeah.
[00:03:09]  So you may not think you do this, but you probably do.
[00:03:14]  So what might that be?
[00:03:16]  Or what do you think your spouse does?
[00:03:20]  That is, buying a relatively or truly expensive item, but not telling you.
[00:03:26]  So I was thinking about me.
[00:03:28]  What have I done in that regard?
[00:03:32]  So I'm thinking...
[00:03:34]  I can think of really only one arena.
[00:03:40]  Where, in the past, this is not an issue at this time, but in a previous incarnation of marriage, I don't think I mentioned a, you know, honey, as a new preamplifier.
[00:04:00]  How many women would even know?
[00:04:04]  Well, they do know.
[00:04:06]  The point is that you think they do care because of the money spent.
[00:04:10]  They don't care about the preamplifier.
[00:04:12]  They care about the money.
[00:04:14]  That's the only reason people don't tell their spouse that they bought something is because the spouse might go, whoa, you spent that much?
[00:04:22]  Yes.
[00:04:22]  On five pair of shoes?
[00:04:24]  On a preamplifier?
[00:04:26]  On golf clubs?
[00:04:28]  On an iWatch?
[00:04:29]  You just got an iWatch last year.
[00:04:32]  Oh, there's a new model.
[00:04:34]  Oh, of course.
[00:04:38]  Half the time, the new models, you know what new models often constitute?
[00:04:42]  A new name.
[00:04:44]  That is the most new thing often in gadgets.
[00:04:49]  Sometimes there's really an improvement.
[00:04:51]  I fully acknowledge it.
[00:04:52]  I don't know.
[00:04:53]  Look, you've heard the saying, the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
[00:05:01]  Have you ever heard that?
[00:05:02]  It's a very good...
[00:05:04]  I knew that the living martyr heard it, but Triple G hasn't.
[00:05:09]  The gentle Gentile giant.
[00:05:11]  It's a great saying, because it's true.
[00:05:14]  So that's the subject for today, my dear listeners.
[00:05:19]  1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776.
[00:05:27]  So Triple G wants to know, do people smuggle food?
[00:05:32]  What do you mean you're sure?
[00:05:34]  How does that mean smuggle food?
[00:05:36]  I don't understand the concept.
[00:05:39]  They'll eat things they shouldn't eat.
[00:05:41]  They'll eat things they shouldn't eat.
[00:05:43]  Oh, they'll buy food that the spouse doesn't want them to be eating.
[00:05:49]  Oh, I never thought of that.
[00:05:53]  That is very interesting.
[00:05:56]  I have to say, I don't recall doing that.
[00:06:00]  But no, no, no, no, no.
[00:06:01]  But I think that that's a very eminently reasonable assumption.
[00:06:09]  And my wife is one of the most self-disciplined human beings I know and is beautiful and is trim.
[00:06:21]  And one of the things she does, she knows herself very well.
[00:06:26]  So if there's candy in the house, It says to her, look, if you really want candy, you could have it, but it pretty much stays there until the next atomic attack.
[00:06:42]  But I didn't know that until I opened a drawer once and saw all this candy.
[00:06:49]  It cracked me up because I know how little she eats, period, let alone candy.
[00:06:54]  By the way, it's a very good thing to know yourself.
[00:06:58]  And if you have to play tricks on yourself, play tricks on yourself.
[00:07:04]  There's no question about that.
[00:07:08]  Do what is effective.
[00:07:15]  I mean, it's not fully analogous, but it is somewhat analogous.
[00:07:20]  There are two types of people just on the food issue.
[00:07:23]  There are two types.
[00:07:25]  People who can eat nothing, no sweet, let's say no dessert, or they will have the entire dessert.
[00:07:37]  And there are people who can easily have a little and leave the rest over.
[00:07:42]  I'm in the second category.
[00:07:43]  I can't have nothing.
[00:07:45]  I tried it.
[00:07:46]  I mean, I was able, but it bothers me.
[00:07:49]  I want to have something, but I'm happy to have some of it.
[00:07:54]  I don't need a whole donut.
[00:07:55]  A whole donut would strike me as overkill, like I really violated dietary rules.
[00:08:03]  But you have to know yourself.
[00:08:06]  That's for the happiness hour.
[00:08:11]  But this is a fun topic, and it is interesting.
[00:08:14]  So remember, my definition of smuggle into the house is you're buying something that's not cheap.

=== Something Relatively Expensive (00:23) ===

[00:08:21]  I mean, I don't expect you to tell your spouse, you know, you got something for $10.
[00:08:30]  It's a non-issue.
[00:08:33]  But something relatively expensive or not cheap, and you didn't tell them.
[00:08:38]  That's what I call smuggling.