Dennis Prager Show - If You're Not OFFENDED, You're Not on the LEFT⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-04-23
Duration: 09:13


=== A Question For You (08:37) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:01]  I debated.
[00:00:03]  In fact, I raised the issue with two of my two colleagues, and they were equally ambivalent.
[00:00:12]  Do I continue just on the coronavirus and postpone the male-female hour show?
[00:00:17]  Cancel it, not postpone it.
[00:00:19]  And I thought, no, I'm going to combine them.
[00:00:22]  So the second hour Wednesday is the male-female hour, and I have a question for you.
[00:00:30]  Every so often I just ask a question and then react to your responses rather than offer you an idea and you react to that.
[00:00:38]  That's what usually occurs.
[00:00:40]  But I'm just as happy to just hear what you have to say because I don't know the answer.
[00:00:47]  So you've now been cooped up with your significant other.
[00:00:52]  Spouse, significant other, partner.
[00:00:56]  Do you know, by the way, do you know that in California, do you know the governor does not refer to his wife as the first lady?
[00:01:04]  Did you know that?
[00:01:05]  The first partner.
[00:01:08]  What bugs him about the word lady?
[00:01:13]  I'm serious.
[00:01:14]  It's not a rhetorical question.
[00:01:17]  See, you have to understand, if you are not offended, you're not on the left.
[00:01:22]  Something must offend you that is not offensive.
[00:01:25]  That is a characteristic of being on the left, which the governor of California is, by definition.
[00:01:31]  I mean, nobody else can get elected.
[00:01:34]  The first partner.
[00:01:37]  Okay, anyway, I'll look into that.
[00:01:41]  So, you have been, what, about five weeks?
[00:01:46]  How long?
[00:01:47]  Five weeks?
[00:01:48]  It's a long time.
[00:01:50]  Where your significant other has not left the house unless they're in essential work.
[00:01:55]  And by the way, that is one of the great things.
[00:01:59]  We realize that much of the essential work is done by plumbers, electricians, and the like.
[00:02:06]  Right?
[00:02:07]  Delivery people, grocery store workers.
[00:02:11]  If your significant other is a professor of gender studies, they're home.
[00:02:21]  Anyway, back to the question.
[00:02:24]  So you've been together now five weeks.
[00:02:26]  I mean, really, really together.
[00:02:32]  So now, here's the question.
[00:02:34]  Not how is it going.
[00:02:36]  That's not my question.
[00:02:37]  We've done that.
[00:02:38]  We'll unfortunately probably do it again.
[00:02:41]  The question is, does this make you want to spend after this is over?
[00:02:49]  Want to spend more time at home together or less time?
[00:02:59]  Be honest.
[00:03:01]  I have no vested interest.
[00:03:03]  I mean, obviously, I would hope you'd all say, oh, it's such a wonderful thing, and I hope he's home, or she's home, or I'm home much more now.
[00:03:17]  As a result of seeing how nice it could be.
[00:03:23]  So that's my question for you, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:03:36]  What lesson will you derive from this time together?
[00:03:42]  More time at home?
[00:03:44]  With each other?
[00:03:47]  Less time at home with each other.
[00:03:51]  I don't even know.
[00:03:53]  When I think about it, I don't even know.
[00:03:55]  I couldn't guess what people would say.
[00:03:59]  I could just as easily imagine, you know, look, it's too much time, obviously.
[00:04:05]  Nobody should be home for five weeks.
[00:04:07]  That's house arrest.
[00:04:09]  However, you know, having more time together.
[00:04:14]  And, you know, not just seeing each other in the evening after a hard day's work for either or both of us.
[00:04:20]  Well, actually, it's almost always both.
[00:04:24]  Even if you don't get to have a paid job, you probably have a very tough job, and that is running a home.
[00:04:31]  And between the two, that might be tougher.
[00:04:35]  So, that has not changed, obviously.
[00:04:40]  But at least your significant other is now with you.
[00:04:46]  By the way, it does not reflect poorly on your relationship if you would say, no, no, I don't want to spend that much time together.
[00:04:57]  It's not normal.
[00:05:01]  and don't be embarrassed if that's what you think.
[00:05:04]  Leaving every day or five days a week and then coming back might be a very wonderful way of appreciating each other.
[00:05:19]  Nice to see you after a day away.
[00:05:22]  Or nice to see you back after you've been away.
[00:05:26]  So it does not reflect poorly on your marriage or relationship, if that is your answer.
[00:05:35]  But it has to have had some intellectual...
[00:05:41]  Slash emotional impact all this time together.
[00:05:46]  And making you think, whoa, this is really nice.
[00:05:52]  I'd like more time together.
[00:05:54]  Or even meals.
[00:05:58]  You know what?
[00:05:59]  If you have kids around, not every family has a meal every day together.
[00:06:05]  But I'm sure you're having a meal every day together now.
[00:06:11]  Is that tempting?
[00:06:16]  Gee, I would like to do that more.
[00:06:21]  It's not just a significant other question.
[00:06:26]  All righty, everybody.
[00:06:28]  1-8 Prager 776. And very curious to get your answers.
[00:06:35]  Dennis.
[00:06:37]  Another Dennis.
[00:06:39]  Silver Lake, California.
[00:06:41]  Hi there.
[00:06:42]  Not only another dentist, but my wife's name is Susan.
[00:06:45]  Ooh, that's eerie.
[00:06:47]  Do you call her Susan or Sue?
[00:06:50]  And I love my fountains, and I like cigars, but gave up my cup pipes a long time ago.
[00:06:57]  Oh, I thought I was talking to myself until you said that.
[00:07:00]  Like everybody else here in L.A., it just so happens my wife is a bit of an introvert.
[00:07:06]  And I am quite the opposite, an extrovert like you, like to be around people.
[00:07:10]  And it's been actually a little bit harder for me, but our relationship has, because we're both retired and we're around most of the time anyway, but it's actually somewhat improved.
[00:07:22]  I think I've learned to tolerate her a little bit more, if you know what I mean, and appreciate what she needs, you know, just really.
[00:07:35]  Which is nothing.
[00:07:36]  Avoid human contact at all costs.
[00:07:38]  So I'm out doing all the shopping runs and the Costco demolition derby and all that kind of stuff.
[00:07:46]  But we've been doing really well.
[00:07:49]  So have you resolved you would like to spend more time together now?
[00:07:53]  Well, we already do, really.
[00:07:56]  But I'm not going to give up my golf.
[00:07:59]  And I think I need to be away.
[00:08:02]  I think she would agree, you need to go out and do things every now and then so I can even have more peace and quiet because she's just that kind of a person.
[00:08:12]  All right, so it's reinforced.
[00:08:17]  You know what that might be?
[00:08:19]  I'm not making this as a cast-in-stone statement, but one possibility is that this time, Has rendered the good stuff better and the bad stuff worse?

=== Valerie's Honeymoon Phase (00:34) ===

[00:08:38]  That's just a possibility.
[00:08:40]  Okay.
[00:08:42]  Let's go to Valerie in Denver.
[00:08:45]  Hello, Valerie.
[00:08:47]  Hello, Denver.
[00:08:49]  Yes.
[00:08:50]  Good to speak with you.
[00:08:50]  Thank you.
[00:08:53]  I was just calling.
[00:08:54]  I was telling your screener that this has reinforced.
[00:08:57]  My husband and I, we've been married for a little over a year.
[00:09:01]  And we're still in the honeymoon phase, so working from home together has been fine, but not on a permanent basis.
[00:09:09]  Okay, tell me why when we get back.
[00:09:11]  Yeah, I haven't heard from newlyweds.