Dennis Prager Show - You're More Likely to Win Slots, than Die of Covid-19⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-07
Duration: 04:56


=== Felt Like Sneaking In (04:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Speakeasy hair studio.
[00:00:03]  Is that great?
[00:00:06]  You know, like the places that were open during Prohibition.
[00:00:10]  Now it's a hair studio.
[00:00:12]  I went for a haircut in an underground hair salon.
[00:00:18]  Felt like I was sneaking into an anti-Soviet place.
[00:00:28]  California.
[00:00:30]  The West Coast has so few deaths.
[00:00:34]  And the human misery caused by the lockdown, which has no end in sight.
[00:00:41]  July 6th in Oregon.
[00:00:44]  But listen to what she wrote, because this is almost all you need to know.
[00:00:51]  Let's see.
[00:00:53]  Since March 19th, I've had only a handful of customers.
[00:00:59]  Overwhelmingly, these brave customers are conservative.
[00:01:03]  Thanks for everything you do.
[00:01:08]  Huh.
[00:01:09]  Now why would that be?
[00:01:11]  Do liberals and leftists' hair not grow as fast as conservatives' hair?
[00:01:17]  Je le doute.
[00:01:18]  I doubt it.
[00:01:23]  This is the I want to be safe crowd.
[00:01:27]  That is not my crowd.
[00:01:33]  My crowd wants to live fully.
[00:01:39]  That's right.
[00:01:40]  About 500 of you came with me to Israel.
[00:01:43]  But they're always the folks, including some conservatives, who only will go when it's safe.
[00:01:49]  So they never went.
[00:01:51]  But it's always been safe.
[00:01:55]  I've never asked.
[00:01:56]  You know when I went to Israel?
[00:01:57]  In fact, you could see it on the internet.
[00:01:59]  I made a documentary, believe it or not.
[00:02:02]  During the Intifada, when Jerusalem was as empty as your city is today, Alan Estrin and I went, we made a documentary, Israel in a Time of Terror.
[00:02:20]  Then it was really dangerous.
[00:02:22]  Buses were being blown up, restaurants were being blown up.
[00:02:25]  I'm not a hero.
[00:02:27]  I just, I simply rationally assess.
[00:02:30]  The likelihood of being blown up is extremely small.
[00:02:36]  The proof that I rationally decide what to do is I don't gamble because I know rationally the chances of my coming out ahead are small.
[00:02:47]  Now, I don't mind if people gamble because it's fun.
[00:02:50]  I have no problem with that at all.
[00:02:53]  I don't happen to find it fun, so I don't do it.
[00:02:56]  But if I did, I would do it.
[00:02:58]  So I'd lose a couple of hundred dollars, and it would be equivalent to a night out of entertainment.
[00:03:06]  Totally get it.
[00:03:09]  But gambling, to any great degree, the reason I don't is because the odds are overwhelmingly against me.
[00:03:20]  The odds are overwhelmingly.
[00:03:22]  You are more likely to win at a slot machine than die of COVID-19 if you are not sick and you are under 80. Okay?
[00:03:36]  You hear me?
[00:03:38]  You are more likely to win at the slot machine.
[00:03:41]  So if you think that you're at risk of dying from this virus, you should definitely go to Vegas.
[00:03:50]  They're opening up.
[00:03:51]  and go to a slot machine because you obviously believe that you will somehow, little tiny odds will go in your favor or against you, as the case may be.
[00:04:04]  All of this reinforces my conservatism and my religiosity.
[00:04:17]  Religious Christians and Jews.
[00:04:20]  Are the most organized opponents of the lockdown.
[00:04:27]  For which they get great contempt from the secular left.
[00:04:31]  Completely understandable.
[00:04:32]  That is correct.
[00:04:33]  It's mutual contempt.
[00:04:35]  History will record who made a greater contribution to our country and to the West.
[00:04:45]  1-8 Prager 776. Is the number here fascinating?
[00:04:52]  Who goes for a haircut at this woman's place?
[00:04:55]  Why do you think that is?