July 27, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
08:07
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| That's my subject. | |
| Why aren't you transparent? | |
| I, right before this, discussed the topic with the living martyr. | |
| Now, you might think because he's the living martyr and he presents an Easter Island, what are they called again? | |
| Easter Island what? | |
| Statue? | |
| That you would think, oh, if he's an Easter Island statue, He must not be transparent, but he is as transparent as I am. | |
| I see right through him, he sees right through me. | |
| My mom and an Easter Island head in terms of gregariousness and encouragement. | |
| That was really priceless. | |
| Only Adam Carolla on Earth could come up with that. | |
| That is my belief. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776 So why aren't you transparent? | |
| That's my question to those of you who are not. | |
| What are you afraid of? | |
| You robbed a bank 8 years ago? | |
| I understand that. | |
| But I'm very serious. | |
| I don't relate to the lack of transparency that people aim for. | |
| My view, I guess, is, look, this is who I am. | |
| If you reject me, then fine. | |
| So I'll move on to somebody who will accept me. | |
| Why would you want to be accepted by people whom you hide from? | |
| Then you're not being accepted, correct? | |
| If you're closed, the people who like you, you are almost afraid of. | |
| Right? | |
| If I really showed them who I was, then they wouldn't be in my life. | |
| 1-8 Prager-776-877-243-7776. | |
| This is a very important subject. | |
| I don't know how you have close friendships if you're not transparent. | |
| I don't know how you have a good marital relationship if you're not transparent. | |
| A beautiful trait worthy of of developing. | |
| it's something that I have realized my whole life and it's it's a powerful thing when I pray your seven seven six I hope our lines are working here because I don't see anything coming up so I will just continue | |
| On the happiness hour, it never happens, so I don't know if we have a breakdown of our system. | |
| this is the these are the two most important arrows for the phone lines to work it's it is what it is right Thank you. | |
| Why would you want to live like that? | |
| Is it something that you felt as a child? | |
| When do people develop? | |
| Are children transparent? | |
| So you have to really develop. | |
| You say yes. | |
| You have to develop being closed. | |
| It's sort of a conscious decision. | |
| I mean, there may be children where... | |
| That's not true, but I don't know how that would be. | |
| This is truly a significant subject. | |
| There is no gain in non-transparency because it's sort of like you know you're faking it. | |
| Really, when you think about it, what is it, This is one of the great values to me, personally, of doing the radio show. | |
| Getting to hear from so many people is almost unique. | |
| I mean, very few people have this opportunity. | |
| I mean, ironically, every one of you has the opportunity just listening to the show. | |
| It's the same opportunity I do. | |
| You really do learn a lot about human beings. | |
| Ideally, I would like to know what is it you hide and why? | |
| Who do you think will reject you? | |
| I have to believe that that's what it is. | |
| You know, I'll give you a tiny example. | |
| When I started radio, I decided if I were interviewing a guest and they said something, And I didn't understand it. | |
| I just didn't, you know, it was a new subject or something I just didn't understand, or they used a word I didn't understand. | |
| Would I go, uh-huh, to give the impression to the listeners that I knew exactly what the person was saying? | |
| Or do I say, I'm sorry, could you explain that to me? | |
| I mean, that was a conscious decision to be transparent. | |
| I was not going to hold back from listeners that I was ignorant about something. | |
| And by the way, that way I learned. | |
| I've told you this, and it's made of an impact on you. | |
| It's an amazing thing, the aphorisms in Hebrew that I learned in my religious education from elementary school through high school. | |
| They were... | |
| Must have been a hundred aphorisms, every one of which changed my life. | |
| There's a very famous one, thousands of years old, a Jewish saying in Hebrew, I'll just tell it to you in English, the easily embarrassed does not learn. | |
| And I thought, wow, that is brilliant. | |
| Do you know that is one of the ways I learned the languages that I learned? | |
| Because I was never afraid to make mistakes in the countries that spoke those languages. | |
| If people laughed at me, I could handle it. | |
| But they never laughed at me. | |
| They laughed with me. | |
| Do you ever laugh at anybody from a foreign country who speaks English with a mistake? | |
| Of course not. | |
| You're just dazzled that they could speak English at all. | |
| I'm dazzled by that. | |
| I made a mistake in Hebrew once, which I speak pretty... | |
| Close to fluently. | |
| In Hebrew, the word for taxi service and the word for bathroom is the same, or very close. | |
| They're the same, basically. | |
| So I walked around the Tel Aviv bus terminal asking, hey, where are the toilets to Jerusalem? |
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