Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

June 19, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

02:52:13

The Dennis Prager Show LIVE

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	For this country.
	Because nothing is guaranteed.
	The mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
	Did you see this piece by any chance?
	Mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
	This is from local CBS TV station, WBNS. Don't you get WBNS tweets constantly?
	Mayor Ginther announces Christopher Columbus statue outside City Hall will be removed.
	Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced the statue of Christopher Columbus outside of City...
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	How could the man be the mayor of Columbus?
	Disgrace.
	I think there is an increase in anxiety in Columbus, Ohio.
	You have it, and you're in Los Angeles.
	How could people, how could Mayor Gunther even, he should resign?
	Until you change your name, I can't be the mayor of a genocidal maniac.
	Columbia University I kept this such hypocrites Columbus I think it should be now called the C-word.
	I know that that's been somewhat usurped by another, so it's problematic.
	Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced the statue of Christopher Columbus outside of City Hall will be removed as soon as possible.
	Ginther said the statue on the Broad Street side will be placed in storage.
	And now, a recorded announcement from Mayor Ginther.
	For many years in our community, whenever I hear community, I get a...
	See, the people who speak about community have no community.
	See, I have a community.
	People who go to synagogue and church have a community.
	Who else has a community?
	I find all other, like, the gay community.
	What does that mean?
	The gay on the board of PragerU, is he a member of the gay community?
	Not that I know of.
	All the gay conservatives who call in, are they members of the gay community?
	The black community?
	Is there a white community?
	Is there a Hispanic community?
	They talk about this.
	I love when college presidents go, the Dartmouth family.
	That's another one, right?
	The Dartmouth family.
	I went to Columbia.
	I never felt part.
	But they didn't use the term then.
	The Columbia family is kicking you out.
	For many people in our community, the statue represents patriarchy, oppression, and divisiveness.
	So what you say to those people is, he does not represent those things.
	He represents European settlement, which had with it some very terrible aspects, which resulted in a force for good in the world.
	We do not honor...
	Now, this is the key.
	Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen?
	This truly is the key.
	The statues of Columbus do not honor his killing of native peoples.
	It honors the Western founding of society in the West.
	If he had never killed a single Native American or Native Caribbean, we would still honor him.
	It's very important if you have a statue of Al Capone, you're honoring someone for being a criminal.
	The question to always be asked is, what are we honoring them for?
	That's why the analogies to, well, how would you react if there was a statue to Hitler?
	The only thing he would be honored for is genocide.
	That's what he made his name.
	He lived to murder Jews.
	He murdered massive numbers of others, but that was his primary concern.
	So there's no analogy.
	When I see a statue of Wagner in Germany, the great opera composer, I don't think he's being honored because he was anti-Semitic.
	He's being honored because he wrote great music.
	Do you understand?
	That's what you ask.
	Why is the person being honored with the statue?
	If there's no good reason, okay, a case can be made for removing the statue.
	He represents patriarchy?
	What human being, what male, prior to the 1970s, does not represent patriarchy?
	Well, by the way, they would say that's right and they should all be taken down.
	I don't know who is left, actually.
	Oppression and divisiveness.
	That does not represent our great city.
	Mayor Ginther, thanks to you, is a less great city.
	You're a pandering, shallow person for this decision.
	Do you think that the life of any resident of Columbus will be in any way improved because the statue of Columbus Is removed from City Hall?
	The question is self-answered.
	This does not represent our great city and we will no longer live in the shadow of our ugly past.
	This is really something.
	Anyway, you all deserve it because you elect Democrats.
	This is what happens in my city.
	I fully acknowledge it.
	By almost by definition you are electing a fool who is destructive of our society Our ugly past So, really, there's nothing about Columbus?
	So, question.
	Should Europeans never have come to North America?
	I'd like to ask Mayor Gin through that question.
	Is that an ugly past, the fact that Europeans came to North America?
	Would it be a better world if they had never come to North America?
	Look, I asked this to Howard Zinn, right?
	Would the world have been better if America had never been created?
	What did he say?
	He's agnostic on the issue or something?
	Now is the right time to replace this statue with artwork that demonstrates our enduring fight to end racism and celebrate the themes of diversity and inclusion.
	Oh my God.
	Do they have these lines memorized?
	Spoiler plate.
	Statement from the Columbus City Council.
	Columbus, those of you in Columbus have a large listenership there.
	What's the mood of, do people understand what's happening?
	There is no past any longer?
	You know what's done to kids?
	Boy, when I was a kid, Columbus Day was an actual holiday.
	By the way, when, well, but it was, I mean actual in that.
	The community celebrated it.
	Nobody celebrated his killing of indigenous peoples.
	Get it?
	Columbus City Council is focused on eradicating systemic racism.
	Wow.
	I have to say, I always had a good feeling about Columbus.
	I've been there many, many times.
	This lowers my view of the city.
	It's focused on eradicating systemic racism.
	Why don't they just say SR? Right?
	It's like the disease has initials.
	Police misconduct and social injustice through every means possible.
	While that is our daily focus, we also hear the raised voices in the streets regarding this monument to Christopher Columbus.
	Removal and replacement of the statue will not feed families or end racism.
	We will be back in a moment.
	1-8 Prager 776. The destruction of a society's past.
	The latest thing the left is destroying.
	The Dennis Prager Show.
	Live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety.
	And meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	ADF, fighting for those whose religious freedom is being violated.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	Mayor Jenny Durkan appeared with Chris Cuomo on CNN and characterized this takeover of a neighborhood in Seattle where you just heard
	the police chief characterize people pelting police officers with projectiles, screaming at them, attacking, and ultimately taking it over.
	But the mayor says these patriots are sort of just having a giant, fun-filled block party.
	So I don't have to tell you about the situation on the ground in your city, but in terms of how it looks to the rest of the country and the president teeing it up as basically ineptitude, the inability to control your own streets, is that fair criticism?
	So I know it will shock you that the president is perhaps not giving an accurate or truthful picture.
	We've got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere.
	It's not an armed takeover.
	It's not a military junta.
	We will make sure that we can restore this, but we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time.
	It's known for that.
	So I think the president, number one, there is no threat right now to the public.
	And we're looking, we're taking that very seriously.
	We're meeting with businesses and residents.
	But what the president threatened is illegal and unconstitutional.
	And the fact that he can think he can just tweet that and not have ramifications is just wrong.
	I don't even know where to begin.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Joined by an old friend.
	Ralph Reed is the chairman and CEO of Century Strategies.
	He's been working as an advisor to presidents for as long as I've been behind this microphone.
	He's an old friend, but he has a new book, For God and Country, The Christian Case for Trump.
	Welcome back.
	Good to talk to you, friend.
	Thanks so much, Hugh.
	A big fan, regular listener of the show.
	Great to be with you.
	I gotta say, Appendix 1. When I'm done with God and country, I'm just gonna tear out Appendix 1 because it's my show every day between now and November.
	Would you explain to people what you did for everybody?
	What we did, Hugh, was we put together a roughly 30-page appendix of all of the incredible accomplishments and achievements of President Trump in just the first three years of his first term.
	And, you know, it's not just on the issues that are dear to many Christians of life and religious freedom and originalists and constitutionalists on the courts and in Israel, but it's really all the issues.
	PragerU's Will Witt poses a fascinating question.
	What if the left and right got everything each wanted?
	What would the country look like under those two different visions?
	Find out at PragerU.com where we teach what isn't taught.
	A reminder about Pure Talk.
	I was very skeptical when I heard that you could get, for $20 a month, full service, unlimited text, unlimited talk.
	Two gigabytes of data for $20 a month.
	I was.
	So I got a phone and I subscribed to the service, Pure Talk.
	It's terrific.
	My view on money is spend it on what you really want to spend your money on and spend as little as possible on the necessities that you just have to spend on.
	So I really believe you should give this a try.
	You can keep your phone and keep your number, too.
	So there's nothing except $20 a month, and you get 50% off your first month if you dial pound 250, say the keyword Dennis Prager.
	Just to respond on the issue of the 10 commandments.
	Pound 250, say Dennis Prager.
	It's a very easy name.
	Pure Talk USA. Simply Smarter Wireless.
	Talking to you about this.
	A Columbus statue in a city named after Christopher Columbus.
	I don't know how they're not going to change their name.
	They're at all consistent.
	It's a much bigger celebration of Columbus if your city is named after him than if there's a statue there.
	People don't notice statues as a general rule.
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Sam, hello.
	Hi, how are you?
	Okay.
	Question.
	So just to clarify, you're saying that when assessing Christopher Columbus, we shouldn't assess him as a totality, but as a result of the things that he did when he first came to this country and, you know, helped in the genocide of Native people, right?
	We shouldn't look at that.
	We should look at, because he did that, we are where we are as a country.
	Is that correct?
	No, I think you're making it much more complex than I'm saying.
	I'm saying when we put up a statue of somebody, the question to be asked is what are we honoring the person for?
	If he were honored for genocide, I would remove the statue.
	If he were honored for European opening up of America, then the statue should stay.
	Peter Stuyvesant I give this example as a Jew, was an anti-Semite.
	Everybody knows that.
	I don't want his statue removed from Manhattan where he was the first governor or mayor or whatever they called him in the 17th century.
	Could, could...
	Forgive me for one second, Sam.
	I know I'm giving you a long answer.
	If we were to assess...
	The moral lives of every single person whose statue is up, there would be no statues.
	And that, by the way, is what the left wants.
	Washington, who didn't commit genocide, Washington is to be removed.
	Jefferson is to be removed.
	Okay.
	Could you also, under that rationale, be okay with Volkswagen having statues of Hitler?
	And changing maybe their emblem to the swastika, because maybe they're not celebrating the genocide of the Jewish people, but maybe they're celebrating that under the control of Hitler is how Volkswagen was founded.
	Would you be okay with that?
	No, of course not.
	Because he doesn't represent...
	Okay, I use common sense.
	Nobody in the world, neither Sam nor Dennis, believes that a statue of Hitler is anything other than the celebration of anti-Semitism, of Jew hatred.
	That's what he represented.
	Columbus did not represent Native American hatred.
	He represented European discovery of America.
	He ended up killing natives.
	In the process of expanding European settlements to this land, he ended up killing natives.
	In the process of Hitler expanding German...
	No, okay.
	But the expansion... ...ended up killing...
	Right.
	Okay.
	I'm just saying that you're inconsistent with your wrath now.
	You're inconsistent with your rationale.
	Do you see a moral difference between Hitler and Columbus?
	If you ask a native person, probably no.
	No, no, no.
	I'm asking you, Sam.
	I don't have to be native to understand where the native people come from.
	Oh, do you?
	No, I don't see a difference.
	Okay, okay.
	Then I have to leave it at that.
	This is where we have clarity over agreement.
	Okay.
	So now, ladies and gentlemen, you know where the moral compass has been broken.
	He's a good man, Sam.
	Clearly a good guy.
	Undoubtedly went to college.
	When a good guy...
	In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2020, does not see the difference between Hitler and Columbus?
	There is little hope for the Western world.
	I never exaggerate.
	ever.
	Well...
	Okay.
	That was an important call.
	Aaron in Columbus, Ohio.
	Hello, Aaron.
	Hitler, Ohio.
	Hello, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Well, I'm reeling a bit from the last call, but I'm fine.
	Well, if you asked me that question, I would say there would be definitely a moral difference between Hitler and Columbus.
	So, I think that's obvious to most people.
	Right.
	Well, and you live in Columbus.
	I did, or I do.
	I'm born and raised in Columbus.
	I am on the police department at Columbus, and I wanted to get back to the community that I grew up in, which is why I became an officer here.
	What's the community that you grew up in?
	In my opinion, it's diverse.
	I grew up on the west side of Columbus, which is a very diverse community.
	Which I've always enjoyed.
	I know that the mayor is wanting to take down this statue, and I think you asked the question earlier, are we going to change the name of the city as well?
	I mean, I don't know where that ends.
	Well, if this Mayor Ginther has any moral courage, he will advocate it.
	Believe me, Columbus is celebrated a lot more by Columbus, Ohio than by the statue.
	Absolutely.
	I agree.
	Well, thank you, and God bless you for your work.
	Sometimes, I hear something, and I think, wow.
	you So Columbus Day might as well be Eichmann Day or Himmler Day.
	How about Auschwitz Day?
	difference between Columbus and Auschwitz?
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	Hey folks, welcome back.
	I'm talking to Charlie Kirk.
	Charlie, one of the most disturbing things I've seen recently is some of these activists who are clearly bullies.
	I mean, there's a violence, you can feel it, that they're very angry and they're approaching strangers on the street and demanding that these strangers take a knee.
	Or that the cops take a knee.
	And I just think, I've never seen anything so ugly that cops are being yelled at to take a knee.
	I mean, they should say, I'll take a knee if you take a knee for Jesus Christ.
	You go first.
	Yeah, that's a phenomenal point, and I'm going to use it.
	Which is, these are people that won't kneel for God, but they'll kneel because of some sort of pre-described class guilt.
	And so this is...
	This is a really important point, Eric, which is this whole idea of white privilege is a racist and sinister lie that is taught to our kids from a very, very young age.
	And I find the whole idea morally reprehensible.
	That your identity, your skin color, that's not even your identity, by the way.
	That's just your appearance.
	Let's just make that very clear.
	That identity actually can mean a lot more.
	It could be your thoughts, your feelings, your worldview.
	And actually what has made the West so different, which was an idea that Jesus talked about, and people don't recognize this, is that equality under the law was nowhere to be seen.
	I mean, the Roman Republic paled in comparison to the Christian ethic.
	When Christ said, no, no, no, you're all equal under the eyes of God.
	We just forget and we just throw that all out in our society.
	That's why Trump holding up that Bible was so significant.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	If anybody doubted how strong America is, look at all we've been through in the past few months and understand why we're still standing.
	We're still standing because we believe in the bonds that bring us together.
	We believe in freedom and liberty.
	And we believe that after all we've been through, nothing can defeat us.
	So let's cheer as America gets ready to rebuild and remake our lives bigger, stronger, better than ever before.
	Keep it here to find out how we are the answer.
	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	My guest is Jason Riley.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty?
	Black people.
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend, or at least their parents choosing the schools that they want their children to attend.
	When black aspiring entrepreneurs want to start a business in the neighborhood, there are plenty of barriers there.
	So I think they're largely government barriers.
	I mean, you mentioned the title of one of my books, Please Stop Helping Us.
	I don't think there's a government solution out there that's going to save black America.
	I think it's mostly about black American or about government getting out of the way, you know, minimum wage loss that price blacks out of work and so forth.
	You know all these arguments, but that's not how the other side measures barriers.
	They look at disparate outcomes, racially disparate outcomes, and wherever they see them, they assume something nefarious.
	You know, I read an article in the LA Times recently talking about police.
	You know, 900 killings in L.A. by police since 2000, and then they tell you 80% were black.
	They tell you the percentage of the black population in L.A., and they go, draw your own conclusions.
	We know, you you know, it's a big difference.
	Thank you.
	We are giving the young people of America no past.
	This is the first time, certainly in American history.
	To a certain extent, the first time in world history, the truism that I engage in, Everything the left touches, it destroys.
	Add the past.
	I would like to know who a statue can be made to, who did big things.
	They're tearing down Churchill statues because he made racist comments.
	So, with people who did monumental things, you don't ask, what is the result?
	Of what they did.
	would it have been better if columbus never came to america There were tribes.
	I read a very critical biography of Columbus, so I'm aware of some of the awful things that he did in the Caribbean, specifically.
	It's not like he came to this sort of paradisiacal world of poetry-writing, peace-loving peoples.
	Native Americans differed just like everybody else.
	Some were nice, some were disgusting.
	There were tribes at the time that ritually ate people.
	I mean, they conquered people and they ate them.
	They sided with Columbus in fighting them.
	The natives in that area were thrilled that somebody came because they were so scared of these monsters.
	It's a mixed bag.
	And what about the Incas?
	The amount of human sacrifice.
	Actually helped arrest the population increase.
	I don't romanticize these people and I don't demonize these people.
	But the notion that the West was all bad and the Europeans were all bad.
	Even the Europeans were a mixed bag.
	The English were much better.
	than the Spanish.
	We were heirs We were English, in fact.
	Okay.
	Mark in Sarasota, Florida.
	Hello.
	Yes, sir.
	Can you hear me wrong?
	I do.
	All right.
	Awesome.
	Great show.
	Just wanted to say I'm an American Indian.
	Seneca.
	Which is Western New York.
	And I thought Sam was a fool and he doesn't speak for me at all.
	Someone would have conquered the Americas and at that time in history would have been the French.
	We'd look like Canada now.
	Would have been Spain.
	We'd look like Mexico or Central America now.
	There's some other example that could have been.
	We were lucky that the people founded this country that founded it.
	Because every one of us you a everybody we won the lottery when we were born here Are you If I'll finish the sentence are Are you typical of the thinking of people with your heritage?
	In the part of country, western New York where I was from, yes.
	What percentage of your heritage is Seneca?
	50. Fascinating.
	Well, I'll try to arrange for a cigar between you and Sam.
	Great.
	okay thank you you I'm going to read full I've only read excerpts.
	I'm going to read my next book.
	I don't think it's an audible, but I'll have to read it with my eyeballs.
	It's Out of America by Keith Richburg.
	Let's try to have him on the show.
	I had him on many years ago.
	The call from this half-Seneca reminds me of that book, Out of America.
	Keith Ritzberg is black, journalist for the Washington Post for decades, stationed in Africa and wrote a book about how grateful he is as a black man.
	That he was born in America, not Africa.
	And he realizes the horror that made it possible.
	But he also realized how lucky he is.
	Because he saw what he would have been in.
	And I love Africa.
	I've been to 20 African countries.
	But he's just lucky.
	That's why many Africans want to move to America.
	Two million have in the last 50 years.
	And now, Rid U Zone.
	Rid U Zone.
	Tells your brain, naturally, that you're full.
	I want you to imagine that you would just want to eat less without any drugs or anything like that.
	This is FDA accepted.
	It also burns fat.
	Up to 65% off.
	promo code Dennis reviewzone.com trending now on the Mike DeLogare Show I want to share with you Rainer Jackson's comments because this came from the White House where the president is sort of in his way on a listening
	You know, I know that the rap against Donald Trump is that he doesn't listen to anybody.
	And that, of course, is a lot of hogwash.
	He does listen.
	He ultimately makes decisions based on his gut, on his instincts, on what got him to the White House in the first place.
	But quite frankly, anybody who's been around him recognizes he does spend a lot of time listening to advisors, listening to people who are willing to bend his ear.
	So here's Rainer Jackson.
	Well, what I'd like to say to you, Mr. President, it's kind of off the beaten path.
	I'd like to say to all the media assembled here that I wish they would quit lying about what you've done specifically for the black community.
	So you got radical liberal journalists like Joy Reid from MSNBC, Don Lemon from CNN, Roland Martin.
	Who are putting more poison into the black community than any drug dealer who are killing more black folks than any white person with a seat over their face?
	How are they doing it?
	Spreading these lies about the economy you have, Mr. President, before the virus with a continuation.
	Of Obama.
	That's just factually not true.
	I have a degree in the county.
	I keep up with the economy.
	They're lying.
	So to all these folks on MSNBC, CNN, Roman Martin, what are you afraid to have real black Republicans who know what the hell they're talking about?
	If you want to know the truth, if you want us to dissect the Obama economy, let's do it.
	And I think, Mr. President, your record will win the debate.
	Thank you.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Attention business owners.
	As America gets back to work, will customers know you're there?
	With little warning, the coronavirus attacked our nation and our well-being in ways we never anticipated.
	The tragic loss of life, unprecedented economic upheaval, and a shattered sense of security has left many individuals and businesses in shambles.
	While the aftershocks could be felt for months to come, they may not have to.
	There is hope for an extraordinary turnaround of your bottom line.
	But will you be prepared for America's grand reopening?
	All signs point to the biggest business opportunity of our lifetime, coming as early as this summer.
	A recent survey of local advertisers shows a 10-point jump in the number of local advertisers who plan to maintain or increase their spending.
	One in four businesses expect to spend more in advertising by the end of June, and more than half expect to restart or surge their spending by this summer.
	As the numbers forecast increased spending from advertisers across the country, will your message be seen as well?
	This show is now available on live video streaming on Town Hall TV, as well as our website.
	If you want to watch this show, not just listen, go to townhall.com and click on the Town Hall TV button.
	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	You know how many Europeans Europeans killed?
	I'd just like to note that in the 15th century, People slaughtered people routinely.
	That's the way it is.
	We're not even yet at the Protestant Reformation.
	That's another 30 years after Columbus gets to America.
	And so we don't even have the Catholic Protestant slaughtering.
	Just regular slaughtering.
	Do you know any place on Earth where there wasn't slaughtering?
	Tribes didn't slaughter other tribes?
	So, as I said, there's nobody from the past that could be honored in any way.
	No statues could be put up.
	A Columbus statue, Mayor Ginther of Columbus, Ohio, and if you don't change the name of your city, you're a phony.
	We honor the fact that Europeans, with all their flaws, came here and made America possible.
	That is what Columbus Day is about.
	It never was about slaughtering Native Americans.
	If Native Americans had come to Europe and had the power The armed power of Europeans, I suspect, there would have been something similar.
	That's the way people were in those days.
	This is another ode to college makes you stupid.
	I mean that before the Lord in whom I believe.
	I swear I believe that.
	Okay, my friends.
	Jay in Sandpoint, Idaho.
	Hello, Jay.
	Hi, Mr. Prager.
	It's an honor to speak with you.
	Thank you.
	Well, sir, I'm a police officer, and I was wondering if I could speak about some of the things that are going on right now and how Americans are simply judging off a motion when we have an objective standard to judge police use of force.
	Go right ahead.
	In Graham v.
	Conner, the U.S. Supreme Court decision, they decided there were three factors that go into every police use of force to determine whether or not it was a reasonable use of force.
	The first one is the severity of the crime at issue.
	This makes sense, right?
	Obviously, the government has a greater interest in seizing murderers than people who violate stop signs, right?
	Right.
	Certainly.
	So, with the killing of Richard Brooks, He was already committing a serious felony by driving drunk.
	And then he committed several other felonies in robbing the police officers of their weapons and assaulting them.
	So definitely that first point of severity of the crime issue is as high as it probably could be in that instance.
	So the next two parts deal with active threat to the officers or the public.
	And under Georgia law, obviously, Rashad Brooks possessed a deadly weapon.
	A lot of times the media will refer to them as non-lethal, but in police training we're taught they are less lethal.
	They're not non-lethal.
	They can certainly kill a person, especially if they're shot in the face or within a certain distance.
	So Rayshard was certainly a threat to the public, an active threat by running away.
	And then the last prong is the attempt to resist arrest.
	Obviously that point is met when he is fighting them and throwing them around like ragdolls.
	What I'm frustrated most by is, especially as a police officer myself, Americans have no ability to think rationally anymore.
	They went to college.
	And you were just speaking about college.
	I think that's where they learned that.
	Yes, that is correct.
	I mean, the charge of murder is only going to cause trouble.
	This DA is a dishonest human being.
	And a lot of DAs are.
	It's a tragedy.
	I want to ask you a question.
	What is the morale?
	I assume you have a lot of community support in suburban Idaho.
	Yes, sir.
	So the morale of your police department, I assume, is normal?
	Yeah, I would say so.
	I mean, we definitely still have people who hate us, but we are very fortunate to work in a community that supports its law enforcement by at large.
	Right.
	Well, I want you to know that I represent very, very many Americans who support you.
	I will now say something that is so obvious that it reminds me of something I used to say on the radio, and I haven't said it in years.
	I mean really long ago, I would on occasion just say into the microphone, I get paid very well to say the obvious.
	There are bad policemen.
	There are bad doctors.
	There are bad lawyers.
	There are bad truck drivers.
	there are bad teachers are the majority of the question to be asked of leftists on the rare occasion they will engage you without defaming you do you believe that the majority of police officers are bad men or women Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That's the issue.
	The issue is not, do bad cops exist?
	It's, are they the norm?
	Do you know how many despicable people there are in the sciences?
	You probably don't, but gradually you will.
	1,200?
	You know that two epidemiologists supported the 1,200 in the Atlantic?
	Just yesterday or the day before, a Harvard one and somewhere else.
	Yes, there is a difference, health-wise, between demonstrating for the end of the lockdown and demonstrating against racism.
	We say that as scientists.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The five-minute campaign strategy as of today.
	Would it be spend all your time, resources, energy, and policy on PA in Wisconsin?
	Well, it's not going to be that simple because the Democrats are going to be attempting to go after Arizona.
	They've signaled that.
	If they win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, he's Biden's president of the United States.
	They're going to go after Florida because it's perennially close.
	They're going to have to make a decision about North Carolina.
	Are they going to go there?
	They're thinking they want to try and do Georgia, but they may not have the resources.
	So the problem is you can't just simply say, okay, I'm going to put all my chips on Wisconsin and Pennsylvania because they're going to have to be playing defense in these other states.
	The advantage that Trump has is that he's got more resources and he's got a bigger...
	He's going to be able to play in all those states.
	He can play in three Great Lakes states.
	He can play in Iowa.
	He can play in North Carolina.
	He can play in Florida.
	He can play in Arizona.
	But I'm not yet certain that the Biden campaign is going to have the resources to compete in all of those states.
	I mean, Florida is a $50 million to $70 million proposition.
	North Carolina is a $35 to $50 million proposition.
	So those, you know, you start, and we haven't talked about Ohio.
	Isn't that interesting how little we talk about Ohio this election?
	My home state has gained its confidence under Michael DeMine.
	My home state is solid red.
	You had to worry about it in your election, but we've got that locked up now.
	Yeah, I think that's right.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show. . .
	The mayor of New York announced back in May that the city would hire a thousand contact tracers.
	They make about $60,000 a year.
	And they go around and make sure that they keep track of the spread of the disease.
	If somebody has contracted the virus, where do they go?
	Where have they been?
	Well, apparently the mayor's office has instructed these contract tracers not to ask Whether anyone who has tested positive for the disease recently attended a demonstration.
	That's right.
	They are literally saying that instead they'll ask COVID positive individuals general questions to help them recall contacts, but no person, according to the mayor's spokesman, Avery Cohen, no person will be asked proactively if they attended A protest.
	Boy, I bet you they'll be asking a bunch of Trump supporters if they go to Tulsa where they've been, huh?
	Insanity.
	Insanity.
	All of it has been insane.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube.
	Did you know that you can see visual highlights of my show every day on my YouTube channel?
	So sign up today, go to youtube.com, type in Dennis Prager Channel, and click subscribe.
	Don't forget to click the bell icon so you'll be notified every time we put up a new clip.
	The, the, um, okay.
	The Atlantic has an article.
	Public health experts are not hypocrites.
	Health is about more than simply remaining free of coronavirus infection.
	The left is poisoned science as much as it is poisoned gender studies, women's studies, black studies, Jewish studies.
	Sociology, English, you name it.
	It is the idol worship of our day.
	Julia Marcus, epidemiologist, professor at Harvard Medical School.
	Greg Gonsalves, epidemiologist, professor at the Yale School of Public Health.
	It's healthy.
	They're telling you as scientists, get it?
	It's healthy to demonstrate against racism, but it's unhealthy to demonstrate against the lockdown.
	That is as pure politics and politicization of science as you can get.
	This will be increasingly so.
	Just so you will know.
	There are two Americas, and it's not black America and white America.
	It's left America and non-left America.
	If I could have a dream come true, if I could get an Aladdin's lamp wish, it would be that for one month, the only thing Americans could Watch, read, hear is conservative.
	And for one month, the only thing Americans could watch, see, and hear is left.
	Alright?
	The left part would be old news to everybody else.
	We know everything they say.
	They know nothing about what we say.
	That's why they defriend you if you send them an article.
	By Dennis Prager or some other conservative.
	They don't respond.
	They befriend.
	Amazing.
	I wish I could have taken all your calls.
	Jim, George, Roger, Charles, Joe, Eric, Sharon, and Marcia.
	Marcia's 89. God bless you.
	Keep calling.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	ADF fighting for those whose religious freedom is being violated.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	Mayor Jenny Durkan appeared with Chris Cuomo on CNN and characterized this Takeover of a neighborhood in Seattle where you just heard the police chief characterize people pelting police officers with projectiles, screaming at them, attacking, and ultimately taking it over.
	But the mayor says these patriots are sort of just having a giant, fun-filled block party.
	So I don't have to tell you about the situation on the ground in your city, but in terms of how it looks to the rest of the country and the president teeing it up as basically ineptitude, the inability to control your own streets, is that fair criticism?
	So I know it will shock you that the president is perhaps not giving an accurate or truthful picture.
	We've got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere.
	It's not an armed takeover.
	It's not a military junta.
	We will make sure that we can restore this, but we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time.
	It's known for that.
	So I think the president, number one.
	There is no threat right now to the public.
	And we're looking, we're taking that very seriously.
	We're meeting with businesses and residents.
	But what the president threatened is illegal and unconstitutional.
	And the fact that he can think he can just tweet that and not have ramifications is just wrong.
	I don't even know where to begin.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Thank you.
	Joined by an old friend, Ralph Reed is the chairman and CEO of Century Strategies.
	He's been working as an advisor to presidents for as long as I've been behind this microphone.
	He's an old friend, but he has a new book, For God and Country, The Christian Case for Trump.
	Welcome back.
	Good to talk to you, friend.
	Thanks so much, Hugh.
	A big fan, regular listener of the show.
	Great to be with you.
	I've got to say Appendix 1. When I'm done with God and Country, I'm just going to tear out Appendix 1 because it's my show every day between now and November.
	Would you explain to people what you did for everybody?
	What we did, Hugh, was we put together a roughly 30-page appendix of all of the incredible accomplishments and achievements of President Trump in just the first three years of his first term.
	And, you know, it's not just on the issues that are dear to many Christians of life and religious freedom and originalists and constitutionalists on the courts and Israel, but it's really all the issues, including jobs and the economy and the budget and so forth.
	And it's updated regularly, by the way, on the Faith and Freedom website.
	So the reason why it was important for me to put that in there, Hugh, is because in 2016, when Trump promised us he would do these things, Christians were told that we were gullible for believing him.
	And we've now been vindicated for, on faith, let's be honest, we weren't sure he'd deliver.
	He'd never held an elective office.
	He didn't have a record as an elected official.
	But we didn't have much of a choice because behind door number two was Hillary.
	Our law enforcement as well as every skin color.
	We've been through this before in America.
	We always came out stronger.
	We will this time too.
	Our hosts make sure of that.
	We are the answer.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	We'll see you next time.
	Thank you.
	you you I heard somebody the other day say, Drew Brees made a gutsy statement in favor of the flag, the American flag.
	Really?
	And I said to myself, well, that's Drew Brees.
	He's always been a class act.
	And he doesn't agree with this kneeling and said so.
	Now, why that is some sort of great act of courage says a whole lot about where we are in our society.
	And then something else happened.
	You know what that something else is?
	He apologized.
	I should have known, Morty.
	I didn't realize.
	I have a much greater understanding now.
	What is going on?
	This is the opposite of the racism that the people seem to think exists in this country.
	Zero tolerance.
	I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.
	Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.
	That's how I feel.
	I'm supposed to apologize for that?
	Did he make demands that his teammates not kneel?
	No!
	Did he call out any of his teammates for kneeling by name?
	name now.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
	you Despite, despite riots, and despite Corona!
	Paris, it is, it is.
	Those are the original lyrics.
	Amazing.
	Prophetic indeed, yes.
	Join me, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
	Yes, it is, despite.
	Yes, it is, despite.
	Yes, my friends, it's not easy.
	It's a challenge to be happy at this time.
	I would be unreal if I denied that.
	I have the challenge.
	I love this country.
	I'm watching it be ruined.
	It's not over.
	That's why I battle.
	I don't predict that it will be ruined, but it is being ruined.
	And I lament that deeply.
	I believe it's the last best hope on Earth.
	And it's bad for Earth, if America...
	Ceases to be America.
	So I am totally attuned to the challenges to happiness at this time.
	But I'm going to have a happiness hour during bad times precisely because that's when it's most needed.
	But today we're going to take time off from the current condition, or as they say, Among engineers in this profession, and Sean will be shocked that I know this term, CC, current conditions.
	That's the way they talk to each other in ways they think the hosts will not understand.
	Some of us do.
	So we're escaping the CC, and I want to talk to you about fathers, because Sunday, It's Father's Day.
	I happen to be a big believer in Mother's Day and in Father's Day.
	I am.
	It's a big deal.
	And if you are in a position where you will not even send a text, let alone a call or visit.
	Visiting is harder at this time, I'm well aware.
	Especially if they are in another city or another state, as is the case so often.
	But if you are in the position that you have decided not to communicate with your father, you need to ask why and whether you will have a good answer to God who says, honor your father and mother.
	My suspicion is 90% of you will not have a good answer.
	10% of you will.
	So I believe your father, unless the embodiment of evil, and has expressed that evil to you, deserves at least an email.
	Or an e-card.
	And it would be nice to make a call.
	But today I want to talk about fathers and happiness.
	So I want you to look back on your life and call in.
	It's a nice time to honor your dad.
	And it's uplifting for people to hear.
	How did your father Play a role in your happiness.
	So I will begin.
	The number is 1-8 Prager 776. How did my father play a role in my happiness?
	I've thought about this a lot.
	I could spend a lot of time on this, but I will try to be somewhat brief.
	My father did not demonstrate love to me as a kid.
	That was just the way he was built.
	Didn't hug me.
	Didn't say he loved me.
	He was very strict.
	But there were a couple of things that made a huge impact positively on my happiness.
	Number one, when I was 14, he changed His way of raising me completely.
	180, not 179. 180 degrees.
	In a nutshell, I told him that I could no longer live there.
	I mean, and I was serious.
	I'm very strong-willed from a very early age.
	I would leave if they continued.
	To hound me about school.
	In effect, I said to them, and so did the school psychologist, and so did my older brother whom they adored, leave him alone.
	That was the message they got.
	Leave Dennis alone.
	He's a good kid.
	He will raise himself.
	To my father's credit and my mother's credit, one day they said, that's what we'll do.
	Let Dennis be Dennis.
	That's perfect.
	That was the epiphany that my parents got.
	To their great credit, it's not easy.
	Parents who want their child to excel not to even ask, do you have homework?
	Not to even ask, can I see your report card?
	They gave me permission to sign their names on my report card, and I did.
	They didn't know if I was flunking or I would be valedictorian.
	Never, and they never wavered.
	One day, my first two years in college, I was in a commuter college, Brooklyn College in New York, so I took the bus to school.
	And one day, I said to my mother, I'm off this week.
	She looked at me totally seriously and said, oh really?
	I thought you were off last week.
	That's how few classes I went to.
	And anyway, I have been happy since the age of 14. I was unhappy until the age of 14. It's a very interesting, everybody has an interesting development of their life.
	But my father played a role in my happiness in a different way.
	He gave the home stability.
	I didn't know that then.
	I know that now.
	There were no tempests.
	There were no storms.
	He was a rock.
	That's a big deal.
	I'll take that.
	Over I love you any day.
	And he did another thing.
	He provided a good model of what a man should be.
	A man works hard.
	A man takes care of his wife.
	A man takes care of his children.
	A man...
	Is responsible?
	A man has a strong ethical commitment?
	Those were infinitely more important than, I love you, Dennis.
	Your turn?
	Great.
	I would like my producer, Alan Estrin, to talk about his father.
	By the way, he knew my father well, and I knew his father well.
	Donald Estrin Donald Estrin Most of his life he might have.
	I have no doubt that if a guy's fine, somehow he's dead.
	Was he a big I love you father?
	He was.
	My father was more emotional.
	We'll continue.
	Fathers and happiness on the happiness hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	Attention business.
	Attention, business owners.
	As America gets back to work, will customers know you're there?
	With little warning, the coronavirus attacked our nation and our well-being in ways we never anticipated.
	The tragic loss of life, unprecedented economic upheaval, and a shattered sense of security has left many individuals and businesses in shambles.
	While the aftershocks could be felt for months to come, they may not have to.
	There is hope for an extraordinary turnaround of your bottom line.
	But will you be prepared for America's grand reopening?
	All signs point to the biggest business opportunity of our lifetime, coming as early as this summer.
	A recent survey of local advertisers shows a 10-point jump in the number of local advertisers who plan to maintain or increase their spending.
	One in four businesses expect to spend more in advertising by the end of June, and more than half expect to restart or surge their spending by this summer.
	As the numbers forecast increased spending from advertisers across the country, will your message be seen and heard?
	Will your business benefit from the pent-up consumer demand?
	Salem Surround is prepared to help you deliver the right advertising message to reach all potential customers wherever they are.
	Your business can be ready for a post-COVID-19 economy, but the time to act is now.
	Be at the front of the line as our economy begins to fire on all cylinders once again.
	For a free assessment of your marketing message and strategy, visit salemsurround.com or contact your local media strategist today.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	If you actually care about black lives, you have an obligation to distance yourself from Black Lives Matter, the organization, the hashtag movement, whatever it is.
	I want to get that out up front.
	But Horace, how have you been processing this?
	So, our group, Project 21, was actually formed in the wake of the Rodney King riots.
	And several of us, I'm a founding member of the organization, but several of us were watching CNN and hearing this idea that it is the normal and legitimate way that black Americans express their frustrations with civic life.
	That they run into the nearest Best Buy and grab as many DVD players as they can.
	And we knew, I knew this, My associates that I grew up with, and it turns out people from all walks of life knew that this is so far from reality.
	And we decided to form an organization that would say, we're black Americans and we want people to understand that this universal vision or perspective that's being put forward on the mainstream media about who black Americans are...
	It doesn't represent or reflect the reality.
	And we are going to start having people that will appear on the news, appear in print, appear on the radio waves, saying, hey, wait a second.
	There's a different perspective.
	When Martin Luther King said that people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, we were astonished to hear that what people were saying is okay to say.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on The Larry Alder Show.
	The official sponsor of the Happiness Hour is MyPillow.
	Mike Lindell wants to give back to my listeners.
	You can get great discounts.
	Go to MyPillow.com.
	Click on the radio listener special.
	Enter the promo code Prager or call 800-761-3602.
	Promo code Prager.
	The happiness...
	the happiness hour um hello hello hello Hello?
	Hello there?
	Okay, now I... What happened there?
	Do you know?
	Don't know.
	Wow.
	Those mice attached to those rubber bands, they don't always function as they should.
	What are we going to do?
	I'm some flyer of the mouse.
	The subject is Fathers and Happiness.
	It's the Happiness Hour, second hour every Friday.
	My producer, aka The Living Martyr, is reflecting on his father and happiness.
	I was reflecting on my father.
	There are many different ways I suspect fathers can contribute to your happiness, but I, at least for both of us, they're very different people, your father and my father, but there was a common denominator.
	In the stability and security of the home.
	Now, I'll ask you one more question if you put on his mic there.
	I spoke about the very significant part of my father being a model.
	Did you have that?
	Absolutely.
	My father was a model of responsibility.
	He was needed.
	He was there.
	And for his own mother, for the family, for his wife, if a job needed to be done, he did it.
	And it made an enormous impression on me.
	I know you have some great World War II stories about your dad.
	I want to tell one story about my dad.
	So after Pearl Harbor, Shortly after that, his friends come over to the house, his house, and say, Don, we're signing up.
	We're joining.
	You've got to come with us, Don.
	And my mother, my grandmother said, Donnie, don't do it.
	Don't stay home.
	I don't want you to go.
	Of course, he went with his friends.
	There were five friends.
	Of the five friends, four of them never went.
	They didn't go because they all...
	Had legitimate medical deferments.
	What a riot.
	And he went.
	And he went.
	They came to take him.
	They went to take him.
	That's a great story.
	Did your grandmother ever find out?
	It would have been the one who said, Donnie, don't go.
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	All the friends don't end up going.
	Yeah.
	That's a great story.
	The father as model thing.
	Is so big and I have a proof for it.
	And that is the sons of humiliated fathers.
	It is devastating and my heart goes out to them.
	One of Bernie Madoff's sons killed himself and another one died prematurely and who knows.
	If his system just didn't react.
	What is his name?
	The crackpot guy who sent the...
	What's his name?
	Charles Manson.
	Charles Manson's son killed himself.
	It is...
	As a father, it was always on my mind.
	I'm not saying it always worked, but it was always on my mind.
	you've got to be a good model to your boys it's so that we don't have that now Tell them you love them.
	Build up their self-esteem.
	It's all wrong.
	Everything is wrong.
	People taught by experts.
	Okay, let me take your calls.
	Father's Day is Sunday.
	All righty.
	Mark in Downey, California.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Dennis.
	It's a privilege to be talking with you.
	Thank you.
	I love your question.
	And what you just said with regards to fathers who are told to tell your kids that you love them, I honestly don't remember my dad telling me that much either.
	However, he was my example.
	He is my example.
	I'm blessed to still have him at 85 years of age.
	And he was a man of faith.
	He was a man who lived the example.
	And really, his actions spoke louder than words.
	And so, in watching him live his life, That's exactly how I am raising my family.
	I have two girls and a wonderful wife.
	Does he know you feel this way?
	I don't think I've told him recently, to be honest with you.
	But I know at his age, he needs to hear it.
	That's right.
	I appreciate you asking that, because I do need to tell him.
	Good.
	That's what I was going to tell you.
	Give him a recording of what you just told America about him.
	That should touch him.
	Let's see.
	It's a big deal to have that in a father.
	For more information, visit www.fema.org.
	If having to tell your kids how much you love them, is that important to their happiness?
	And I'm not saying you shouldn't.
	I wish my father had.
	But it's less important than what I was talking about.
	And a proof is, There would have been no happy people until the 20th century.
	Right?
	If fathers telling their children, I love you, was a sine qua non, an indispensable element of happiness, there would have been no happy people in all of history.
	That's not what fathers did.
	Okay.
	Let's go to more of your calls here.
	And, well, there's a 93-year-old man in Ohio who had a terrible father.
	Let me take that call.
	Look at that, 93. I'm still thinking about his father and his upbringing.
	It never fades.
	Anyway, 93 is the new 83. It is?
	What am I going to say?
	We have a very, very lively mind, lively soul, member of our synagogue community.
	It's 102. We'll be back.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	.
	The mayor...
	The mayor of New York announced back in May that the city would hire 1,000 contact tracers.
	They make about $60,000 a year.
	And they go around and make sure that they keep track of the spread of the disease.
	If somebody has contracted the virus, where do they go?
	Where have they been?
	Well, apparently the mayor's office has instructed these contract tracers not to ask whether anyone who has tested positive for the disease recently attended a demonstration.
	That's right.
	They are literally saying that instead, they'll ask COVID-positive individuals general questions to help them recall contacts, but no person, according to the mayor's spokesman, Avery Cohen, no person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest.
	Boy, I bet you they'll be asking a bunch of Trump supporters if they go to Tulsa where they've been, huh?
	Insanity.
	Insanity.
	All of it has been insane.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The five-minute campaign strategy as of today.
	Would it be spend all your time, resources, energy, and policy on PA and Wisconsin?
	Well, it's not going to be that simple because the Democrats are going to be attempting to go after Arizona.
	They've signaled that.
	If they win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, he's Biden's president of the United States.
	They're going to go after Florida because it's perennially close.
	They're going to have to make a decision about North Carolina.
	Are they going to go there?
	They're thinking they want to try and do Georgia, but they may not have the resources.
	So the problem is you can't just simply say, okay, I'm going to put all my chips on Wisconsin and Pennsylvania because they're going to have to be playing defense in these other states.
	The advantage that Trump has is that he's got more resources and he's got a bigger...
	He's going to be able to play in all those states.
	He can play in three Great Lakes states.
	He can play in Iowa.
	He can play in North Carolina.
	He can play in Florida.
	He can play in Arizona.
	But I'm not yet certain that the Biden campaign is going to have the resources to compete in all of those states.
	I mean, Florida is a $50 million to $70 million proposition.
	North Carolina is a $35 to $50 million proposition.
	So those, you know, you start, and we haven't talked about Ohio.
	Isn't that interesting how little we talk about Ohio this election?
	My home state has gained its confidence under Michael DeMine.
	My home state is solid red.
	You had to worry about it in your election, but we've got that locked up now.
	Yeah, I think that's right.
	Our next guest is Jason Reilly.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty, black people?
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend, or at least their parents choosing the schools that they want their children to attend.
	When black aspiring entrepreneurs want to start a business in the neighborhood, there are plenty of barriers there.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studios.
	Please stop helping us.
	This is the happiness hour, as it is always, the second hour on Fridays.
	Father's Day is Sunday.
	How did your father contribute to your happiness?
	My producer and I have spoken to that effect quite openly with you.
	They assume something nefarious is going on.
	I read an article in the LA Times recently talking about police.
	900 killings in LA by police since 2000. And then they tell you 80% were black.
	They tell you the percentage of the black population in L.A., and they go, draw your own conclusions.
	We know, you know, it's not that simple.
	Just telling us what the percentage of the population is, and then the percentage of blacks involved in...
	Okay, so our 93-year-old Matthew in Medina, Ohio.
	Hello, Matthew.
	You must factor that in.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today So Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student.
	And the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary and it's a Well that's true biologically, but...
	Crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this program who don't have a clue what was going on around this time.
	So frame it for us.
	In this novel, Hippies, which is based on real-life events, obviously, you just told us two of your friends were killed.
	Students were killed.
	I mean, I still can't get my head around this.
	No, go ahead.
	Frame it for people who don't know anything about Kent State or whatever.
	Right.
	Well, back then, in 1969, 1970, it was all about the Vietnam War.
	And the attitude of the country was changing.
	Like our bus baby boomers, when we were going off, like I was graduating from high school in 67, you were expected to go to Vietnam and defend the country, like our parents did, the World War II generation.
	And we were all for it.
	But then people started realizing this war was not a good war.
	There was no sense to it.
	That kids were getting killed at the same rate as World War II, and nothing was happening.
	I mean, Vietnam was no threat to the United States like the Germans with their A-bombs.
	Vietnam didn't even have a Navy or an Air Force or anything.
	And my friends were coming back.
	They went to Vietnam, and they came back and were telling horror stories.
	And so the whole mood of the country was changing.
	So the students started protesting.
	Is it of importance to us in interpreting the events of the last two past weeks that we are seeing all of this happen?
	So he was born in the air, baby, and 60 home runs.
	You know what's interesting about that is that Democrats won't even take credit for the fact that a lot of their policies have caused this to happen.
	You think about somebody like Joe Biden who goes into a George Floyd funeral with a video message talking about racial reconciliation and healing.
	Meanwhile, he's the part of a big part of the reason why we have so much division in this country today.
	You think about the 94-part bill.
	We want to talk about liberal cities.
	You can't forget about my hometown of Chicago when you've got a mayor there who provided a number of 375 National Guardsmen in the city of Chicago and put them all in the downtown area.
	Meanwhile, the poor black areas on the south side and the west side are left to fend for themselves.
	You're talking about minority-owned businesses ruined, which they don't have money to come back to.
	Some of these folks don't even have insurance.
	And that's across all American spectrums, whether you be white, black, or indifferent.
	You just live through COVID.
	And now you've got these liberals who policies have created a huge mess of a financial tax purpose, a tax basis.
	And now you're disenfranchising people more about your policies, even through protests and looting.
	This is unimaginable.
	Who would have thought that this is going to be in 2020?
	But if anybody is really listening and watching what's going on, this should be the best reason not to vote for liberals in any capacity.
	His last few years were not pleasant.
	He had dementia.
	He died of coronavirus.
	He had dementia.
	But he always remembered me and my wife and I because we were religious.
	And that's what I'm taking away from this time.
	I go, yeah, I don't like doing the things I have to do for my kids, but I have to honor them.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The President of the City Council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	outro music ADF, fighting for those whose religious freedom is being violated.
	Trending now on the Mike Dellinger Show.
	Mayor Jenny Durkan appeared with Chris Cuomo on CNN and characterized this takeover of a neighborhood in Seattle.
	Where you just heard the police chief characterize people pelting police officers with projectiles, screaming at them, attacking, and ultimately taking it over.
	But the mayor says these patriots are sort of just having a giant, fun-filled block party.
	So I don't have to tell you about the situation on the ground in your city, but in terms of how it looks to the rest of the country and the president teeing it up as basically ineptitude, the inability to control your own streets, is that fair criticism?
	So I know it will shock you that the president is perhaps not giving an accurate or truthful picture.
	We've got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere.
	It's not an armed takeover.
	It's not a military junta.
	We will make sure that we can restore this, but we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time.
	It's known for that.
	So I think the president, number one.
	There is no threat right now to the public.
	And we're looking, we're taking that very seriously.
	We're meeting with businesses and residents.
	But what the president threatened is illegal and unconstitutional.
	And the fact that he can think he can just tweet that and not have ramifications is just wrong.
	I don't even know where to begin.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	.
	you Joined by an old friend, Ralph Reed is the chairman and CEO of Century Strategies.
	He's been working as an advisor to presidents for as long as I've been behind this microphone.
	He's an old friend, but he has a new book, For God and Country, The Christian Case for Trump.
	Welcome back.
	Good to talk to you, friend.
	Thanks so much, Hugh.
	A big fan, regular listener of the show.
	Great to be with you.
	I gotta say, Appendix 1. When I'm done with God and Country, I'm just gonna tear out Appendix 1 because it's my show every day between now and November.
	Would you explain to people what you did for everybody?
	What we did, Hugh, was we put together a roughly 30-page appendix of all of the incredible accomplishments and achievements of President Trump in just the first three years.
	The official sponsor of the Happiness Hour is MyPillow.
	Mike Lindell wants to give back to my listeners.
	You can get great discounts.
	Go to MyPillow.com, click on the radio listener special, enter the promo code Prager, or call 800-761-3602, promo code Prager.
	All right, my friends, the Happiness Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
	How did your father contribute to your happiness?
	Father's Day is Sunday.
	I always wanted to be a father.
	That was...
	Thank you.
	I always wanted to get married too.
	I'm talking even from high school.
	But the thing that I thought of most when caught I grow up was being a father.
	That was the vision.
	The number of young men today who think that way is much smaller.
	It's a crisis.
	It's a true crisis.
	Same with marriage.
	Okay, let's see what you have to say.
	Denver, Colorado, Barbie, hello.
	Hi, thanks for chatting with me today.
	Thank you.
	I just wanted to say that my dad, my dad was a radio guy.
	So he was a fun guy.
	And I have six siblings.
	My dad passed away 48 years ago when I was just 11. But the thing that I just am so grateful for is he had so many good male friends and couples.
	But they...
	They all just stepped in after he died and were there for us, for my mom.
	And so I think that was his contribution.
	I mean, he didn't know he wasn't going to be around, but there were so many good men in his life and therefore our lives.
	That we, you know, we all grew up happy and well-adjusted and we're all best friends.
	Well, you know, I think George Gilder's father was shot down over Germany when he was a kid.
	And there was a picture of his dad over the fireplace.
	And he said, my father, meaning his father, Played a great role in my growing up and happiness, even though he had died.
	So, the stability, back to that, I'm using the word you didn't, but it seems to fit.
	The stability your dad gave you, even post-mortem, contributed to your happiness.
	Oh, definitely.
	Yeah.
	There is a very big difference Between a father who dies when you're a kid and a father who leaves when you're a kid.
	We're talking divorces.
	Divorced fathers don't leave unless they're kicked out.
	I mean, some do.
	I understand that.
	But putting the divorce issue aside, leaving is totally different than dying.
	All righty, everybody.
	And we've got another one whose father died when you were 11. Is that right, Claude, in Agoura Hills, California?
	That's right, Dennis, and thank you for the opportunity to honor him today.
	I just want to say, do you understand the incredible coincidence that the last caller, her father died when she was 11?
	Your father died when you were 11?
	I know.
	As soon as she said that, I thought, oh gosh, I hope he picks me next.
	He was 47 when he died.
	His name was Max, by the way.
	I was 11, but in that short time, Dennis, I got more love and guidance from him than so many people I found out who had decades, long lives with their fathers, and I'm so grateful for that.
	He guided me so much to this day.
	I'm 70 now.
	I actually selected a husband who reminded me a lot of my father because he adores kids and grandkids.
	My father was just such a role model and worked so hard.
	He was a fuller brush salesman going door to door.
	Do you know how hard that is?
	No kidding.
	A fuller brush salesman.
	My God, that brings back memories.
	Yes, and to this day...
	What did he die of?
	He had a heart attack.
	He had a heart attack at 47. Did your mother remarry?
	Never.
	No.
	He was the love of her life, and she never remarried.
	You know, thank you.
	God bless you.
	That's what I mean.
	This is a big difference.
	A father dying and a father leaving.
	Father leaving is a big problem.
	It's the opposite of stability.
	And I'm thinking of her mother as the reason for the silence.
	You lose the love of your life at an early age, it's a blow.
	But people today, so many, not all, don't understand.
	Well, there's so much they don't understand.
	They don't understand the built-in tragedy.
	Of life.
	There is this assumption on the part of so many people that life could be close to perfect.
	And it can't.
	Well, it can be if you lower your expectations.
	I'm just thinking of her mother. .
	Thank you.
	That's a blow.
	All right.
	All righty.
	Let's see here.
	Robert, San Jose, California.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	When I think about my father, they just don't make him ever.
	I wish they made more men like him.
	I can't tell you how, when I was growing up, You know, I see a guy, and they actually see all the males of them from my uncles.
	They all lost their hair, and they had these schnauzes, you know, for noses.
	And they had families, and they would have been put on the scrap heap of, you know, by today's standards, you know, there definitely wouldn't be sexism.
	Well, my mother loved my father to death, you know.
	Hold on there.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	you ADF, fighting for those whose religious freedom is being violated.
	Trending now on the Mike Dellinger Show.
	Mayor Jenny Durkan appeared with Chris Cuomo on CNN and characterized this takeover of a neighborhood in Seattle.
	Where you just heard the police chief characterize people pelting police officers with projectiles, screaming at them, attacking, and ultimately taking it over.
	But the mayor says these patriots are sort of just having a giant, fun-filled block party.
	So I don't have to tell you about the situation on the ground in your city, but in terms of how it looks to the rest of the country and the president teeing it up as basically ineptitude, the inability to control your own streets, is that fair criticism?
	So I know it will shock you that the president is perhaps not giving an accurate or truthful picture.
	We've got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere.
	It's not an armed takeover.
	It's not a military junta.
	We will make sure that we can restore this, but we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time.
	It's known for that.
	So I think the president, number one.
	There is no threat right now to the public.
	And we're looking, we're taking that very seriously.
	We're meeting with businesses and residents.
	But what the president threatened is illegal and unconstitutional.
	And the fact that he can think he can just tweet that and not have ramifications is just wrong.
	I don't even know where to begin.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Joined by an old friend, Ralph Reed is the chairman and CEO of Century Strategies.
	The official sponsor of the Happiness Hour is MyPillow.
	Mike Lindell wants to give back to my listeners.
	You can get great discounts.
	Go to MyPillow.com, click on the radio listener special, enter the promo code Prager, or call 800-761-3602, promo code Prager.
	All right, everybody.
	I want to take as many calls as I can.
	So I'm going to move on here.
	Thank you.
	In San Jose.
	Talking about fathers and happiness.
	Sarasota, Florida.
	Robert.
	Hello, Robert.
	A pleasure to speak with you.
	Thank you.
	There's so many things that I could talk about with my father, so I won't, but there's one.
	I get a kick out of Alan's comment as to his dad, his 5'7 dad.
	My father was 5'2 1⁄2", and I'll never forget, in high school with my friend Elliot, he overhears us talking in the family room, and Elliot said, gee, if I could only be 5'8", and my dad said, you know, Elliot, I know exactly, excuse me, he said, if I could only be 6 feet, and my dad said, Elliot, I know exactly how you feel.
	If I could only be 5'5".
	That's right.
	And the point, like so many lessons, what he taught me throughout life is that, in essence, accept who you are, but know that you can do whatever you want.
	And don't let your condition or situation define who you are and what you become.
	I wish more people felt that way today.
	People who believe that society is responsible.
	Entirely for their condition.
	One of the most foolish beliefs a human could have.
	And utterly destructive.
	That was a good one.
	I thank you very much.
	And Richard, Jacksonville, Florida.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	I'm one of those weird creatures, a liberal, who loves listening to you.
	A liberal should enjoy listening to me.
	A leftist would not.
	So it makes sense to me.
	I'm liberal left.
	I'm really quite liberal left.
	But I still enjoy what you have to say.
	And I love to disagree with people and discuss things.
	My father was a wonderful man.
	Never ever in my memory said, I love you.
	But I loved him.
	I admired him.
	He worked so hard, seven days a week, to just make a living for the family.
	I only got to really know him when I went to work for him.
	Around age 12, I started working for him every minute I was in school.
	I got to know him better by just watching him.
	That's a very nice...
	I've got to let you go because we've got to tell.
	That's a beautiful story.
	Well, Charlene, Kathleen, Sean, Matt, Carolyn, Michaela, I wish I could take your calls.
	Folks, unless it's really, really impossible, wish your father a happy Father's Day.
	And now call in on any subject under the sun.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	If anybody doubted how strong America is, look at all we've been through in the past few months and understand why we're still standing.
	We're still standing because we believe in the bonds that bring us together.
	We believe in freedom and liberty.
	And we believe that after all we've been through, nothing can defeat us.
	So let's cheer as America gets ready to rebuild and remake our lives bigger, stronger, better than ever before.
	Keep it here to find out how we are the answer.
	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show. .
	My guest is Jason Riley.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty, black people?
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend, or at least their parents.
	Choosing the schools that they want their children to attend.
	When black aspiring entrepreneurs want to start a business in a neighborhood, there are plenty of barriers there.
	So I think they're largely government barriers.
	I mean, you mentioned the title of one of my books, Please Stop Helping Us.
	I don't think there's a government solution out there that's going to save black America.
	I think it's mostly about...
	Black America, or about government getting out of the way, you know, minimum wage loss, the price blacks out of work and so forth.
	You know all these arguments, but that's not how the other side measures barriers.
	They look at disparate outcomes, racially disparate outcomes, and wherever they see them, they assume something nefarious is going on.
	You know, I read an article in the LA Times recently talking about police, you know, 900 killings.
	In L.A. by police since 2000, and then they tell you 80% were black, they tell you the percentage of the black population in L.A., and they go, draw your own conclusions.
	We know, you know, it's not that simple, just telling us what the percentage of the population is, and then the percentage of blacks involved.
	With police, what we want to know, what are the crime rights based on neighborhoods and zip codes and race and ethnicity and so forth, you must factor that in.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	Thank you.
	For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you.
	You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student, and the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary, and it's a good book, and it's interesting, and you and I have met.
	But I mean, the parallels to what is happening right now in this country are just...
	Crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this program who don't have a clue what was going on around that time.
	So frame it for us.
	In this novel, Hippies, which is based on real-life events, obviously, you just told us two of your friends were killed.
	Students were killed.
	I mean, I still can't get my head around this.
	All right.
	No, frame it for people who don't know anything about Kent State or whatever.
	Right.
	Well, back then, in 1969, 1970, it was all about the Vietnam War.
	And the attitude of the country was changing.
	Like our bus baby boomers, when we were graduating from high school in 1967, you were expected to go to Vietnam and defend the country, like our parents did, the World War II generation.
	And we were all for it.
	But then people started realizing this war was not a good war.
	There was no sense to it.
	That kids were getting killed at the same rate as World War II, and nothing was happening.
	I mean, Vietnam was no threat to the United States like the Germans with their A-bombs and their...
	Vietnam didn't even have a Navy or an Air Force or anything, you know?
	And my friends were coming back.
	They went to Vietnam, and they came back and were telling horror stories.
	And so the whole mood of the country was changing.
	So the students started protesting.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Kroker.
	Is it of importance to us in interpreting the events of the last two plus weeks that we are seeing all of this happen predominantly in hardcore Democrat-run cities, Gianna?
	You know what's interesting about that is that Democrats won't even take credit for the fact that a lot of their policies have caused this to happen.
	You think about somebody like Joe Biden who goes into a George Floyd funeral with a video message talking about Racial reconciliation and healing.
	Meanwhile, he's a big part of the reason why we have so much division in this country today.
	You think about the 94 crime bill.
	We're going to talk about liberal cities.
	You can't forget about my hometown of Chicago where you got a mayor there who provided or rather asked for 375 National Guardsmen in the city of Chicago and put them all in the downtown area.
	Meanwhile, the poor black areas on the south side and west sides, Are left to fend for themselves.
	You're talking about minority-owned businesses ruined, which they don't have money to come back.
	Some of these folks don't even have insurance.
	And that's across all American spectrums, whether you be white, black, or indifferent.
	We just lived through COVID. And now you got these liberals who policies have created a huge mess from a financial tax purpose, a tax basis.
	And now you're disenfranchising poor people more by way of your policies, even through protests and looting.
	This is unimaginable.
	Who would have thought that this is where we would be in 2020?
	But if anybody is really listening and watching what's going on, this should be the best reason not to vote for liberals in any capacity.
	That's any office, whether it be President, Senate, House, State Senate, State House, Mayor, any office.
	You shouldn't be voting for Democrats, and that's what I've taken away from this time.
	I want to share with you Rainer Jackson's comments, because this came from the White House.
	Where the president is sort of in his way on a listening tour.
	You know, I know that the rap against Donald Trump is that he doesn't listen to anybody.
	And that, of course, is a lot of hogwash.
	He does listen.
	He ultimately...
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	My debut at the U.S. Senate.
	Enjoy the music while I punch Sean.
	Okie dokie everybody.
	This is the Aries.
	Whatever's on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death.
	And needless to say, fountain pens, audio equipment, classical music, photography, and cigars.
	By the way, I have a new interest.
	Yes, I do.
	Watchers.
	Which...
	He just, his head, he buried his head.
	What would you have been happy had I said?
	I know what you would have been.
	Football.
	If I'd have said football, wow, Dennis is now interested in professional sports.
	Stage coaches?
	Could be.
	It's not yet.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	The watches thing has really shocked me.
	I've always appreciated...
	I don't like diamond encrusted.
	I don't like watches that are, well, that have, that are worn to tell people you're wealthy.
	I don't mind people spending a lot of money on a watch.
	That's their business.
	I don't mind it at all.
	I think it's a beautiful thing, a great watch.
	But I don't like anything done for the sake of announcing I've made it.
	I just, it's not my style.
	But a beautiful, a very expensive watch that others would appreciate who know watches, that's great.
	I think I know what triggered it.
	It's an interesting thing.
	You never know, but it's not true.
	I almost always try to know what triggers anything in me, happy, unhappy, whatever.
	So on election night, I went to the Daily Wire, and they had me as their...
	Non-Daily Wire guest.
	I think they do great work.
	Ben Shapiro's organization.
	So Ben was there and his terrific crowd, all of whom I adore.
	And Ben right after said, let me see your watch.
	And I have a nice watch.
	I bought it in Germany a couple of years ago on a cruise.
	And he knew all about it.
	It was fascinating.
	Tudor is the brand.
	Tudor is the poor man's Rolex.
	It doesn't look like a Rolex, but it's a branch of Rolex.
	Anyway, it's a beautiful watch.
	It's a blue dial, silver hands.
	Very beautiful.
	Understated.
	I like understated.
	Anyway, he got me...
	He started talking about it, showed me his watch, and somehow I thought, wow, it is interesting.
	And I've been looking at watches.
	No, the longest I wore one watch, I've never owned more than one and used them.
	If I've worn more than one, it's because one broke.
	And the longest is 13 years.
	I actually did buy a Rolex in my late 20s for $1,300, which was a fortune.
	But I wanted a wonderful...
	Watch.
	And then I don't think about watches.
	I sold it for like three times the amount I paid for it after wearing it for 13 years.
	All right, everybody.
	What's on your mind is on your mind.
	And if I let you go before you speak, please don't be offended.
	People are offended too easily in America these days.
	It's a very sad thing.
	All right, we'll take a theology question here.
	St. Paul, Minnesota.
	Dan.
	Hello, Dan.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Let me ask you a question that has nothing to do with what you want to talk about.
	Is the chaos in Minneapolis, has it spilled over to St. Paul?
	It did the one night that things were really rowdy.
	There was some stuff on one of the main business streets in St. Paul.
	But it wasn't as bad as Minneapolis.
	And what about the police of St. Paul?
	I assume it's a different police department.
	Oh, exactly.
	I've lived in St. Paul over 30 years.
	I've had my house here over 30 years.
	And growing up, I used to go to Minneapolis a lot, me and my friends, to go out and whatnot.
	And I've had many altercations with both police forces, and the Minneapolis ones were always very contentious, very kind of scary, and the St. Paul ones were just great, just awesome.
	The guys are calm, they're nice, there's no pitch, there's no feeling of us against them or anything.
	They feel like they're there to help you versus, you know, be an adversary or something.
	Is the mayor of St. Paul as left weak as the mayor of Minneapolis?
	He is, but he inherited a great police force, whereas in Minneapolis, they've had problems ever since I've been alive that I've been aware of.
	Right.
	All right, what's your question?
	Go ahead.
	Well, my thing was that you say that you're not sure if people have, you know, you're not convinced that people have got to protect certain individuals or something like that.
	And I know he does, because, and how it works for me is, Like, I was held up at gunpoint a few weeks ago.
	I deliver pizzas part-time for some beer money, and I know I was going to a sketchy address, and it was a sketchy call, and they were like, you know, be careful and all this stuff, and so I was being really careful.
	But before I encountered the situation, I prayed that God would protect me.
	And with that knowledge, now I know, now I have confidence, you know, because I know that anything that happens, Now God is involved, so I don't have to be afraid whenever the outcome is.
	Right, so my only question, I never try, ever, to dissuade people from believing God protects them.
	I've never tried to do that, and I don't know that God doesn't.
	I just want to know, how do you deal with all the people who believe that and got held up and shot?
	Well, the thing is, is that at that instance when I was being held up and everything, a guy popped out of nowhere, pulled a gun on me.
	Right, no, no, no.
	That's about you.
	I want you to, I'm just curious, how do you deal philosophically, theologically, with all the people that God didn't protect?
	Oh, well, like you say, when I pray ahead of time, I get him involved.
	So I know that...
	Maybe he's off taking care of other people at the time.
	I don't know exactly how it works, but at least I got his attention.
	And when I get God's attention, now he's involved.
	And if something bad happens, like say it does go negative, and I get shot or something like that, I'm like, well, God must have been okay with me getting shot because I prayed for it.
	Or if someone dies or say someone's really sick and I pray for them, a lot of times they get better, but, you know, sometimes they don't or whatever.
	And you just have to know that when you pray, now God's involved and I have peace, then knowing that.
	Whatever the outcome is, that God will fail it.
	Alright, fine.
	I agree with that.
	There is peace knowing that God knows.
	My only issue, because I tell you everything, essentially, is that a lot of people lose faith because they weren't protected and thought they would be.
	And I don't blame God there.
	I blame the belief that they walked around with.
	If you believe in something and the opposite happens, you'll stop believing in it.
	It puts God in an untenable position.
	God will protect me.
	You then get cancer and your faith is shattered.
	It's shattered because you had faith in something that isn't necessarily so.
	Okay, so that's my issue.
	And let's go to your next call.
	Patrick in the Bronx.
	Hello, Patrick.
	Hi.
	We black people have to stop hating all cops.
	I am an elderly black man.
	Living in the Bronx.
	And I'm afraid to go out at night.
	Not because of the police, but my own people.
	When I park my car on the street at night, sometimes far from my house, on the way from the car to the house, I would rather see police officers than see these young people with their pants falling off of them.
	Because more black people are killed by other black people.
	Why is there not one black mayor, police chief, governor, senator, or congressman say what you just said?
	Let me know when you come back.
	We'll be back.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you.
	You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student.
	And the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary and it's a good book and it's interesting and, you know, you and I have met.
	The parallels to what is happening right now in this country are just crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this program who don't have a clue what was going on around that time.
	So frame it for us.
	In this novel, Hippies, which is based on real-life events, obviously, you just told us two of your friends were killed.
	Students were killed.
	I mean, I still can't get my head around this.
	All right.
	Go ahead.
	No, that's an agreement for people who don't know anything about Kent State or whatever.
	Right.
	Well, back then, in 1969, 1970, it was all about the Vietnam War.
	And the attitude of the country was changing.
	Like our bus baby boomers, when we were going off, we're graduating, like when I was graduating from high school in 67, you were expected to go to Vietnam and defend the country, like our parents did, the World War II generation.
	And we were all for it.
	But then people started realizing this war was not a good war.
	There was no sense to it.
	That kids were getting killed at the same rate as World War II, and nothing was happening.
	I mean, Vietnam was no threat to the United States like the Germans with their A-bombs and their army.
	Vietnam didn't even have a navy or an air force or anything, you know.
	And my friends were coming back.
	They went to Vietnam, and they came back and were telling horror stories.
	And so the whole mood of the country was changing.
	So the students started protesting.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	Is it of importance to us in interpreting the events of the last two plus weeks that we are seeing all of this happen predominantly in hardcore Democrat run cities, Gianna?
	You know what's interesting about that is that Democrats won't even take credit for the fact that a lot of their policies have caused this to happen.
	You think about somebody like Joe Biden who goes into a George Floyd funeral with a video message talking about Racial reconciliation and healing.
	Meanwhile, he's a big part of the reason why we have so much division in this country today.
	You think about the 94 crime bill.
	If we're going to talk about liberal cities, you can't forget about my hometown of Chicago where you got a mayor there who provided or rather asked for 375 National Guardsmen in the city of Chicago and put them all in the downtown area.
	Meanwhile, the poor black areas on the south side and west sides, Are left to fend for themselves.
	You're talking about minority-owned businesses ruined, which they don't have money to come back.
	Some of these folks don't even have insurance.
	And that's across all American spectrums, whether you be white, black, or indifferent.
	We just lived through COVID. And now you got these liberals who policies have created a huge mess from a financial tax purpose, a tax basis.
	And now you're disenfranchising poor people more by way of your policies, even through protests and looting.
	This is unimaginable.
	Who would have thought that this is where we would be in 2020?
	But if anybody is really listening and watching what's going on, this should be the best reason not to vote for liberals in any capacity.
	That's any office, whether it be President, Senate, House, State Senate, State House, Mayor, any office.
	You shouldn't be voting for Democrats.
	And that's what I've taken away from this time.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	The third hour on Friday is devoted to whatever's on your mind.
	And I continue.
	Oh, he hung up too bad.
	I asked, this was an elderly black gentleman in the Bronx.
	Said he's much more scared of young black kids than he is of the police.
	So I asked him, why is not one Democrat in office?
	Mayor, Governor, Congressman, Senator, say that.
	All right.
	Because we live in a world of lies.
	That's why.
	And...
	And...
	John in Philadelphia.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	How are you?
	I'm well, thank you.
	You know, I know you're a wordsmith, Dennis, but I've learned a lot from you.
	It's your, your, okay, all that.
	And I have an issue that I wanted to address with you.
	And I even Googled it yesterday to make sure I was on, you know, correct.
	When you're talking to your audience, the radio announcer, you're talking to your audience.
	And yet when you have a guest on, And you speak with them.
	As you wrap up, you most of the time say, it's nice talking to you as opposed to with you.
	And you're in a conversation mode, so you're actually having a conversation with them.
	And I wanted to kind of get into your head.
	Well, that's it.
	You got it.
	When I'm having a conversation, you are right that I think about words so carefully.
	That I actually consciously choose whether to say with or to after the word speak.
	That's correct.
	Awesome.
	When I am in conversation, I say with.
	And when I am not in conversation, I say to.
	Awesome, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	I love you, man.
	You're good.
	Well, see that?
	You never know what earns love.
	No, talking or speaking would be the same.
	That's correct.
	I say with when I have someone on, whether it's a guest or a caller, because I believe that raises their level.
	I'm talking to sounds like I am above that person.
	I'm talking with, I am not above that person.
	I think about those things a lot.
	I am a big fan of protecting people's dignity.
	All right, y'all.
	And Nick in Redondo Beach, California.
	Hi.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Can you hear me okay?
	Perfectly.
	Okay, I'd like to know, you said growing up, your parents barely, they didn't pay much attention to you.
	They didn't say, I love you very often.
	They never went to any of your ball games.
	And you've implied that that might be a good thing.
	I'm wondering why.
	The ball games was a good thing in that generation.
	I never said that they're not saying I love you was a good thing.
	I said that there being models and providing a secure and stable home and giving me values ultimately was more important than their saying I love you.
	But I never said it was a good thing, and I told my kids I loved them a lot.
	Okay, I misunderstood you, but what about the basketball games?
	I didn't want them to come because I felt that I was more of a man if mommy and daddy weren't there.
	Okay, it could be I misunderstood what you said.
	I think you've implied that parents today pay too much attention to their kids.
	Yeah, I do, I do.
	I don't imply it.
	I state it.
	There's no doubt in my mind that...
	Too much attention is way worse than too little.
	Well, I mean, I think you have to find a balance.
	You do, but I believe that too.
	I think, and to a certain extent, going to some games, going to every single game, look, if the kid wants it, if you want it, I think a lot of parents do it because they think their kid will love them less.
	I think most parents or many parents in the last generation are frightened of losing their children's affection.
	And that is the crappiest way to raise a child.
	Well, then I only have to give you this thought, Ben.
	You've spoken about what a terrible thing it is when people stop talking to their parents and cut them out of their lives.
	Yes.
	I do think that's a pretty bad thing.
	Right.
	But if you want to maintain a relationship with anybody long-term, you have to prioritize a relationship with them.
	So the upshot of what you're saying is if you didn't prioritize your relationship with your child, it's okay if they stop talking to you when they're an adult.
	I hope they don't do that.
	I think that's a pretty extreme response.
	Okay, so where do we differ?
	I just think with anybody in your life, you have to seek to be loved by that person if you want that person to maintain a relationship with you long term.
	I don't agree.
	That is only true with peers.
	No one in an authority position should seek to be loved by the person over whom they have authority.
	That holds true for teachers.
	That holds true for leaders.
	Any leader who wants to be loved, that's their primary yearning, to be loved by their fellow countrymen, will probably not be a great leader.
	Maybe not primary, but secondary?
	Okay, primary matters.
	If you have other things more important, I don't care if it's secondary.
	That's fine.
	Okay, good call.
	Really good call.
	I thank you for it.
	All righty.
	Well, got some very varied calls.
	That's why I'm thinking here.
	Mike in El Segundo, California.
	Hi.
	Hi, Dennis.
	I'd like to discuss with you that I believe that the problem of the corruption, politicization, and weaponization of research in the field of science, medicine, public health, and epidemiology is much, much worse than you realize.
	I'm glad you do realize it's a big problem.
	I've been following this going back to 1986. Since 1986, So about 34 years, where I realized back then that the so-called prestigious scientific and medical journals, including England Journal of Medicine and also JAMA,
	the Journal of the American Medical Association, were basically regularly publishing fake science to promote gun control and other political agendas, just in the same way the newspapers and news media put out fake news.
	And what's happened is...
	Since each science research study report references many, sometimes dozens, of prior study reports, we have mountains, strata, just mountains of fake science.
	I agree with you.
	I agree with you.
	Look, the most recent ones in Lancet, that's Britain's most prestigious journal on hydroxychloroquine, was retracted.
	It was completely politically oriented.
	oriented we'll be back if anybody doubted how strong america is look at all we've been through in the past few months and understand why we're still standing We're still standing because we believe in the bonds that bring us together.
	We believe in freedom and liberty.
	And we believe that after all we've been through, nothing can defeat us.
	So let's cheer as America gets ready to rebuild and remake our lives bigger, stronger, better than ever before.
	Keep it here to find out how we are the answer.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	My guest is Jason Riley.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty, black people?
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend or at least their parents choosing the schools that they want their children to attend.
	When black aspiring entrepreneurs want to start a business in the neighborhood, Plenty of barriers there.
	I think they're largely government barriers.
	I mean, you mentioned the title of one of my books, Please Stop Helping Up.
	I don't think there's a government solution out there that's going to save black America.
	I think it's mostly about black American or about government getting out of the way, you know, minimum wage loss, the price black federal work and so forth.
	You know all these arguments, but that's not how the other side measures barriers.
	They look at disparate outcomes.
	Racially disparate outcomes, and wherever they see them, they assume something nefarious is going on.
	You know, I read an article in the LA Times recently talking about police.
	You know, 900 killings in LA by police since 2000, and then they tell you 80% were black.
	They tell you the percentage of the black population in L.A., and they go, draw your own conclusions.
	We know, you know, it's not that simple.
	Just telling us what the percentage of the population is, and then the percentage of blacks involved.
	And with police, what we want to know, what are the crime rights based on neighborhoods and zip codes and race and ethnicity and so forth?
	You must factor that in.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you.
	You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student.
	And the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary and it's a good book and it's interesting and, you know, you and I have met.
	But, I mean, the parallels to what is happening right now in this country are just crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this program who don't have a clue what was going on around that time.
	So frame it for us.
	In this novel, Hippies, which is based on...
	Real-life events, obviously, you just told us two of your friends were killed.
	Students were killed.
	I mean, I still can't get my head around this.
	All right, it was good.
	No, it's a frame for people who don't know anything about Kent State or whatever.
	Right, well, back then, in 1969, 1970, it was all about the Vietnam War, and the attitude of the country was changing.
	Like our bus baby boomers, when we were graduating from high school in 1967, you were expected to go to Vietnam and defend a country, like our parents did, the World War II generation.
	And we were all for it.
	But then people started realizing this war was not a good war.
	There was no sense to it.
	that kids were getting killed at the same rate as
	I like this one What is this?
	The Budos Band?
	That's what I thought, but I just didn't say it.
	Yes, exactly correct.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	This is the What's On Your Mind Hour, the third hour of Friday each week.
	And it really varies, the calls.
	I love it.
	And let's go.
	All right, Don, if you could be brief.
	Culver City, California, take it away.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Yeah, a couple weeks ago you asked, how did bluegrass music get its name?
	I'd like to give you that answer.
	Obviously, Kentucky, which is where the music originated from, with Bill Monroe, a mandolin player, developed the style of music in the 40s.
	With Bill Monroe on mandolin, Lester Flatt on guitar, and Earl Scruggs on banjo playing the unique pre-finger style banjo player, and Chubby Wise on fiddle.
	And bluegrass is a particular genus of grass that grows in...
	Right, it's the Bluegrass State, Kentucky.
	It's the Bluegrass State.
	Alright, hey!
	Sean, you don't live that far from Don.
	Give him a gift.
	Bring him a cigar.
	I've been playing the music for like 50 years.
	I love it.
	I happen to love it.
	This is...
	Yes.
	Anyway, anybody who's called Chubby Williams...
	In those days, people were less conscious.
	Chubby.
	By the way, the people today...
	Does a 20-year-old know what Chubby means?
	You don't talk to 20-year-olds?
	I do.
	I'm going to ask one.
	You know what chubby means?
	It's funny what they used to have and they don't use...
	Chubby is dead?
	Husky.
	My mother took me to the husky part of the boys' clothing store.
	Big boned?
	I never heard that.
	Big boned.
	I don't even want to go there, actually.
	The FCC is going to fine us just for my saying that on the radio.
	Dove in Lakewood, New Jersey.
	From Bluegrass to Dove.
	Hi.
	Hi, how are you?
	Did you know how Bluegrass music began?
	I had no idea.
	I knew it.
	I knew it.
	Because of the nature of your question, I had a suspicion.
	That bluegrass did not play a prominent role in your life.
	Okay, go ahead.
	I was just wondering if you believe in traditional Jewish oral law, because I understand that the way I understood it is that you're a conservative rabbi.
	Do you understand that what?
	I'm sorry, it was a little blurry.
	That you are a conservative rabbi.
	Okay, oh, interesting.
	I am a conservative with a small c.
	I was never ordained by any denomination.
	I'm not denominational.
	I believe the Torah is from God, just as any Orthodox Jew does or should.
	I do not believe the oral law is divine.
	I believe, though, that it should be obeyed in most instances.
	But the example I always give is the Torah says that you should have seven days Passover.
	And the rabbis added a day in the diaspora, and I cannot understand why that doesn't violate the Torah law that you may not add or subtract from Torah law.
	That's a Torah law in Deuteronomy.
	I understand you have a very valid, rational question, but I think that most of the questions were addressed over the years.
	These things and all the questions that are logical have been asked throughout the ages by all the commentaries on all the oral traditions.
	So it's a very thorough, it's been examined very thoroughly by great minds.
	I have actually followed that particular discussion quite...
	Avidly, and I don't find any rational answer to it.
	This is not said, by the way, as condemnation.
	There is room, in fact, there's more than room, there is need in life to have things that are not rational.
	And religion plays a positive role in giving people fulfillment.
	The problem today is without religion, the irrational.
	Has entered daily life.
	There is much more irrationality at Harvard and Yale and the University of Montana than there is in a traditional Christian or Jews life.
	That's the irony.
	When I want irrationality, I don't go to the religious.
	I go to the secular.
	Okay, relief factor.
	Yes, indeed.
	I'm going to give it an applause.
	I have upped my dosage, by the way, since I took that fall a few weeks ago.
	The thing is magnificent.
	I want you to try it for your sake.
	They have a three-week quick start.
	The people who make this product have a very interesting proposition.
	They tell you if it doesn't work in three weeks, it probably won't work.
	But you've got to take it as directed for the three weeks.
	It's only $19.95.
	Go to relieffactor.com 800-500-8384.
	America has been doing some soul searching lately.
	Perhaps you noticed.
	We're examining what's right with America and what can be made better.
	No other country does this kind of introspection better than us.
	Some of what we've found we don't like and will change.
	Every life has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
	That includes our law enforcement as well as every skin color.
	We've been through this before in America.
	We always came out stronger.
	We will this time too.
	Our hosts will make sure of that.
	We are the answer.
	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show.
	Heard somebody the other day say, Drew Brees made a gutsy statement in favor of the flag, the American flag.
	Really?
	And I said to myself, well, that's Drew Brees.
	He's always been a class act.
	And he doesn't agree with this kneeling and said so.
	Now, why that is some sort of great act of courage says a whole lot about where we are in our society.
	And then something else happened.
	You know what that something else is?
	He apologized.
	I should have known Morty.
	I didn't realize.
	I have a much greater understanding now.
	What is going on?
	This is the opposite of the racism that the people seem to think exists in this country.
	Zero tolerance.
	I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.
	Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.
	That's how I feel.
	I'm supposed to apologize for that?
	Did he make demands that his teammates not kneel?
	No.
	Did he call out any of his teammates for kneeling by name?
	No.
	I disagree with it and therefore I've got to apologize.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bercat.
	Exclusive from General Flynn.
	This is at westernjournal.com.
	Freedom is oxygen.
	Like the air we breathe that keeps our lungs full and our hearts beating, the celestial feeling of freedom brings a sense of peace to our souls.
	Freedom must never be taken for granted.
	Securing our freedom demands a high price.
	And that price requires hard work and sacrifice.
	Both will bind us all by the value they produce.
	Ah, music.
	One of the arguments for God's existence.
	Hey, by the way, I want to remind you there's a very, very important website, flattenthefear.com.
	You want the truth about COVID-19.
	You want scientific data so that you don't walk around afraid.
	The spectacular folks.
	At the Job Creators Network have made this.
	It's free.
	Nobody's asking you for money.
	But you should visit it.
	And I think you should pass it on when you do.
	Let others know about it.
	Flattenthefear.com They make the argument about how people should be back at work.
	Scientifically based.
	Flatten Thefear.com.
	That's my man, Dennis.
	Yes, Sean is very proud of me right now.
	You're not wearing a mask, Sean, and there's a...
	Oh, that's a good point.
	You don't know?
	I'm kidding.
	Oh, God.
	He's now afraid that his employers will hear him.
	We have the same employers.
	They're not going to fire you.
	Oh my God.
	It's not state law.
	You're not with anybody.
	I don't consider Christian human.
	So, this is not an issue.
	Let me go to your calls, my dear friends.
	And we'll go to Hayden, Idaho, and Emma.
	Hello, Emma.
	How are you?
	I'm doing great.
	How are you, Dennis?
	How's your family?
	Everyone's wonderful.
	Everything's wonderful.
	I have a very good life.
	A very good life.
	I'm happy for you.
	You deserve it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	About three Mondays ago, Antifa was rioting in Spokane, Washington.
	And there's a group of Patriot kids.
	They're like between the ages of 18 and young 30. And they're called the Proud Boy Patriots.
	And they went in line the streets with Corden Lane with their AK-47s and their hunting rifles and their handguns.
	And I have a friend who was at it.
	My daughter was at it.
	There was close to 2,000 of them.
	And what they believed was Antifa came in in three large white vans, and they were screaming obscenities at them, but they turned around and they left.
	And the police were really thrilled that they were there because it was a real peaceful, Do you have a video of that or photos of that?
	Send them to me.
	I heard about it.
	I'm not sure I saw it.
	I might have.
	Where people lined up in front of stores and nothing happened.
	You live in a good place, Emma.
	I don't in California.
	And there is a rule about life.
	When the good are stronger than the bad, you have a good society.
	When the bad are stronger than the good, you have a bad society.
	That is as basic and obvious an equation As one can offer for what makes a good or bad society.
	In the last weeks in the United States, the bad were stronger than the good.
	And vast numbers of people who should have been good were cowards.
	That's it.
	That's the story in a nutshell.
	Thugs.
	Not talking about peaceful protesters.
	Thugs.
	We're allowed to be thugs.
	And those who called them thugs were attacked by people who think they're good and woke and progressive and compassionate and fair.
	Amazing, huh?
	The ability to self-delude is one of the definitions of the word leftist.
	We continue.
	Greg Dallas.
	Hello, Greg.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Love your show.
	Good.
	Me too.
	I got a question for you.
	I don't know how you classify it.
	Theological, but I'm sure being a Jew, you believe in the scripture being God-inspired.
	I don't know what the Hebrew word is.
	That's fine.
	Yes, go ahead.
	Yeah.
	And I'm kind of going back to the debate you had with Sam Harris, I think.
	It's probably been a long time ago.
	In print or on my radio show?
	YouTube.
	I think it was on your radio.
	But anyway, the point is, I think he kind of believes that a set of ethics can be derived or ethical standards from rational thought, if I remember his position correctly.
	Well, if you're an atheist, it has to be your position.
	Yeah.
	Agreed.
	Otherwise you concede that you can't have any objective morality.
	That's my biggest problem with Sam Harris and the others, is that they don't acknowledge what atheist philosophers always acknowledged.
	If there is no God basis of morality, morality is subjective.
	And these guys are trying to tell you, oh no, no, you don't need a God, but morality really does objectively exist.
	Like you can look at a microscope and see a good molecule and an evil molecule.
	That's what objectively exist means.
	Because there's no...
	Okay, go on.
	No, I agree.
	I'm coming from a Christian point of view.
	I do agree with you.
	I guess I'm trying to think about it in my own mind.
	I just try to question my own beliefs.
	You should.
	It's a great thing to do.
	I've spent my life doing that.
	And that's why I'm religious.
	Well, and I guess, just thinking out loud here, obviously we believe in God's revelation or prophecy.
	I know atheists in the world have a problem with that, but I'm just thinking, where do we go to get our standard, if you will, the Bible, obviously?
	Where do we who believe in a God-inspired text?
	I mean, that's where I would go, and that's why I'm writing my rational Bible to explain it.
	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show.
	Heard somebody the other day say, Drew Brees made a gutsy statement in favor of the flag, the American flag.
	Really?
	And I said to myself, well, that's Drew Brees.
	He's always been a class act.
	And he doesn't agree with this kneeling and said so.
	Now, why that is some sort of great act of courage says a whole lot about where we are in our society.
	And then something else happened.
	You know what that something else is?
	He apologized.
	I should have known Morty.
	I didn't realize.
	I have a much better understanding now.
	What is going on?
	This is the opposite of the racism that the people seem to think exists in this country.
	Zero tolerance.
	I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.
	Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.
	That's how I feel.
	I'm supposed to apologize for that?
	Did he make demands that his teammates not kneel?
	No!
	Did he call out any of his teammates for kneeling by name?
	No!
	I disagree with it, and therefore I've got to apologize.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Quirka.
	I'm sorry.
	Exclusive from General Flynn.
	This is at westernjournal.com.
	Freedom is oxygen like the air we breathe that keeps our lungs full and our hearts beating.
	The celestial feeling of freedom brings a sense of peace to our souls.
	Freedom must never be taken for granted.
	Securing our freedom demands a high price.
	And that price requires hard work and sacrifice.
	Both will bind us all by the value they produce, but only if we are willing to seek new opportunities and new ideas.
	Those who have sacrificed the most, those who have given the last true measure of devotion that derives from the love of faith, family, and the cause of freedom, For all of us to be free and for the betterment of our republic and the free world cannot be allowed to have died in vain.
	This is the ultimate sacrifice.
	What?
	You know, that's very difficult.
	Now he tells me, folks, turn your mic on.
	Why didn't you tell me that ten seconds earlier?
	Engineers are a different breed, ladies and gentlemen.
	They are.
	They're born engineers.
	My theory is if you are not born an engineer, you never really become one.
	That's the way it is.
	Welcome to the show.
	I can't believe it's the last segment of the last hour of the week for the show.
	So let me try to...
	Okay, you know, you already did that.
	Okay, that's Senator Cruz, who, by the way, I... You know, I thought they would turn it on.
	I was being very sweet to Senator Cruz because I have such admiration for him.
	Anyway, I don't mind being insulted.
	I don't.
	It's funny.
	I only mind being misquoted.
	Metaxas, who will pay for his sins many times over in the hereafter, has me on his big YouTube event a few weeks ago, and his first opening is, hey, Dennis, looks like you gained some weight.
	That's how he opened it up.
	I thought it was hilarious.
	And then at the end, I just mentioned the height difference between us.
	And he goes, good comeback.
	On the happiness hour, I have dealt with the issue of, don't be offended so easily.
	You'll have a much happier life.
	All right, let's see here.
	Mary in San Antonio's people shouldn't have so much confidence in Trump.
	Dear Mary, he is our only alternative.
	To the end of America as we know it.
	That's the most one needs to know.
	Or it's the least one needs to know.
	Look at it either way.
	Christian in Sarasota, Florida.
	The left are the ones who have systemic racism.
	I have made that point, Christian.
	I wish I could have taken your call, but I've made that point for the last decades.
	Roger in Texas wants to share a funny watch story.
	Send it to me in an email.
	Raymond in Belton, South Carolina, did any rioters get arrested?
	I think 11. It's a big problem.
	Drew, 14 years old in Winchester, Virginia.
	I hope you're watching PragerU videos, Drew.
	How can we protect our country and values from the left?
	I'll tell you one thing you need to do.
	Every one of you, write letters.
	Somebody just sent me a copy of a letter that a Jew in Minneapolis sent to the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, which wrote a big support letter for Black Lives Matter.
	Black Lives Matter, but the organization of that name is not a good organization.
	Folks, come with me on a cruise in September.

▲