Dennis Prager Show - The Importance of Friends
Aired: 2020-07-13
Duration: 04:16


=== The Impact on Us (02:17) ===

[00:00:00]  So I, aside from those recommendations, I want to talk to you about the specifics of the threat to America, to this civilization, to the extent that a serious percentage of this society has contempt for its flag and new development as well.
[00:00:26]  There have always been some.
[00:00:30]  So I have two recommendations for you that help.
[00:00:35]  I mean, I have been affected.
[00:00:39]  I'm not the same happy-go-lucky guy that I was six months ago.
[00:00:44]  I'm not depressed.
[00:00:46]  I function fine.
[00:00:48]  I enjoy my life.
[00:00:49]  But there's no doubt in my mind that it has affected me.
[00:00:55]  How could it not affect me?
[00:00:57]  America's the last best hope on Earth, as Lincoln put it, and Lincoln statues are being torn down.
[00:01:06]  So, of course I'm affected.
[00:01:08]  So, aside from those recommendations that I made on a micro level, here are some other, well, they're both micro and macro, what I recommend to you.
[00:01:20]  First, what is of huge help to me, And I think would be to any of you, is to find kindred spirits.
[00:01:32]  As you know, I announced this from March.
[00:01:37]  There's virtually no Friday night that I do not have a Sabbath meal with friends.
[00:01:43]  My house, their house.
[00:01:46]  I have never allowed the fear of COVID to stop me.
[00:01:52]  From being with people I love.
[00:01:58]  The risk of dying from COVID if you are healthy is so minuscule that the price to be paid, I am not with people I want to be with, is absurd.

=== Preparing for Rainy Days (02:13) ===

[00:02:15]  Just absurd.
[00:02:17]  That's my view.
[00:02:22]  For whom getting COVID is a serious threat to your life.
[00:02:30]  That's a separate issue.
[00:02:31]  We've always felt that way.
[00:02:33]  But the vast majority of you listening, that does not apply to.
[00:02:41]  So you should be getting together with people who bring you comfort.
[00:02:47]  People with whom you can speak openly.
[00:02:51]  about what you think about anything as you know I have said on this program all of the 20 years I've been broadcasting happiness hour people should date for friends as seriously as they dated for a spouse friends are critical and it's a good example of Preparing
[00:03:22]  for rainy days.
[00:03:23]  Life should consist of tremendous amount of preparing for rainy days.
[00:03:30]  Now you realize how important friends are.
[00:03:33]  Maybe you didn't realize it when things were so good and, you know, you were just concerned about your profession or even just your family.
[00:03:43]  Completely understandable to be preoccupied with career and family.
[00:03:48]  But it's not enough.
[00:03:49]  You should have been preoccupied with making friends.
[00:03:53]  You should have been preoccupied with having a religious life.
[00:03:59]  A great number of synagogues and churches are failing at this time.
[00:04:07]  They are failing to fight for this country and liberty, including religious liberty.
[00:04:15]  They are failing.