Dennis Prager Show - Shelter in Place with your Spouse
Aired: 2020-03-25
Duration: 08:10


=== Suggestions For This Difficult Time (07:52) ===

[00:00:00]  So one spouse is just constantly watching the hysteria on many of the news channels, and the other one just wants peace and quiet.
[00:00:21]  So that could be a source of friction, obviously.
[00:00:29]  I have a piece up you should, I think you would all benefit from.
[00:00:34]  Suggestions for this difficult time.
[00:00:36]  It is titled, it's up at DennisPrager.com.
[00:00:39]  It came out yesterday, Tuesday column.
[00:00:42]  One of my suggestions is that you just not watch the news.
[00:00:48]  I'm for reading.
[00:00:49]  I've always been that way.
[00:00:51]  There's panic in what is written, but it is not quite like it is on TV news.
[00:00:58]  And anyway, you could choose what you read.
[00:01:00]  You can't choose what you watch.
[00:01:02]  They tell you what to watch, obviously, by definition.
[00:01:07]  And I think people should watch I Love Lucy reruns and bring some joy.
[00:01:17]  You know what you should watch?
[00:01:18]  I'll tell you what.
[00:01:20]  I was commenting on this months ago.
[00:01:25]  It just came up for some reason on my YouTube channel, and it was Groucho Marx show, the You Bet Your Life.
[00:01:36]  Groucho Marx was a legend.
[00:01:38]  The Marx Brothers were legends.
[00:01:41]  And it is, for those of you who don't know him, first of all, you owe it to yourself to know the American past.
[00:01:52]  The ignorance of the past is Unique in American history.
[00:01:56]  People don't know.
[00:01:58]  And now you can actually watch it and be entertained by it.
[00:02:04]  The Groucho Marx show will reveal a lot about the America of the 1950s.
[00:02:11]  I assume that was when his show was on.
[00:02:13]  You bet your life, the 1950s.
[00:02:17]  So you can go back, you know, quite a number of years now.
[00:02:21]  That's, you know, 70 or 65 years ago.
[00:02:25]  And see what Americans would laugh at and how they were able to laugh.
[00:02:34]  But anyway, those are things to do now.
[00:02:37]  As well as your hobbies and other things.
[00:02:40]  But I'll talk about that, those general things on the Happiness Hour.
[00:02:45]  But right now, I am curious to know, how are you getting along?
[00:02:49]  It is now, we're in the second week of going nowhere.
[00:02:54]  I mean, it's an astonishing thing, going nowhere.
[00:02:58]  And for many of you, no income.
[00:03:03]  Is that a source of tension in your marriage?
[00:03:08]  Finances is, I think, the number one issue of tension in marriages.
[00:03:15]  At the same time, I want to read to you one of the comments in the New York Times.
[00:03:19]  You know, people comment, I read comments all the time.
[00:03:23]  That's your chance to meet the public.
[00:03:27]  It is a unique opportunity to see what the public thinks.
[00:03:31]  When I read comments in the New York Times, I get a little depressed.
[00:03:35]  Because if that's what the left-wing New York Times reading public thinks, the irrationality is so deep.
[00:03:44]  That it is disconcerting.
[00:03:47]  These are well-educated people.
[00:03:49]  Profoundly irrational.
[00:03:51]  But that's a separate issue.
[00:03:53]  This was written about one of the comments to the article about how the coronavirus isolation is affecting couples.
[00:04:05]  But this is just for you to read, just for you to hear.
[00:04:12]  Christine M. in Boston.
[00:04:15]  I'm typically not a jealous person, but I am so jealous of everyone who is lucky enough to have a spouse or family to spend this quarantine with.
[00:04:28]  I am a social person and sick with stress of what living alone means for me for the foreseeable future.
[00:04:41]  That's another interesting topic.
[00:04:44]  It's not a male-female topic, but I think we should deal with that on the Happiness Hour.
[00:04:51]  Or any hour.
[00:04:52]  I don't even think it's necessary for that hour.
[00:04:56]  If you're quarantined alone.
[00:04:59]  I'll tell you this.
[00:05:00]  If you are quarantined alone, you should have friends come over.
[00:05:07]  I don't know what law I'm violating by advocating this, but your mental health is more important to me than the exceedingly remote likelihood of your dying from the coronavirus.
[00:05:21]  Remember, you're contracting it for the vast majority of people doesn't mean a thing.
[00:05:27]  So let's live on Earth here.
[00:05:33]  You should have, you should visit, I'm not saying you should have ten people, but you should have somebody or two people.
[00:05:40]  You can keep your six feet distance.
[00:05:42]  You don't have to hug at the door.
[00:05:45]  You shouldn't hug at the door.
[00:05:46]  I'll acknowledge that.
[00:05:49]  And you keep your six feet, and you have people over, and you go over to people.
[00:05:56]  Are there states where you're not allowed in your car except for essential business?
[00:06:02]  Has that been passed yet?
[00:06:05]  I wouldn't be surprised.
[00:06:07]  I wonder if New York City is...
[00:06:09]  They're talking about closing the streets?
[00:06:14]  You mean to car traffic?
[00:06:18]  Well, then you can't visit anybody.
[00:06:20]  Well, unless they're in walking or bicycling distance.
[00:06:22]  You're allowed to bicycle?
[00:06:25]  Yes.
[00:06:27]  Wow.
[00:06:29]  So anyway, how are you and your significant other doing in this situation?
[00:06:36]  I am blessed because my wife is as calm as I. And it doesn't feel particularly different except, for example, I look at the calendar and personally it's a very, it's a sad moment.
[00:06:57]  I was supposed to fly after today's show to Washington, D.C., give a big speech in Washington, then a big speech in Ottawa, and then a big speech in Budapest, Hungary.
[00:07:09]  Needless to say, none of them are taking place.
[00:07:12]  So I'll be sitting home instead of those speeches and speeches of the foreseeable future.
[00:07:22]  The future historians will have to, and I don't mean 100 years from now, I mean pretty soon, you If this doesn't turn out to be what was projected anywhere in the world, including Italy, what will people, how will people react?

=== Hmm Maybe Projections (00:32) ===

[00:07:51]  Will they say, Hugh?
[00:07:53]  We really stopped millions from dying by destroying the economy of the world.
[00:08:00]  Or, hmm, maybe the projections were really exaggerated.
[00:08:08]  I don't know how people will react.