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Happiness Hour
00:04:26
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| All right, everybody, this is the hour you send the internet to whatever's on your mind, especially when you listen to this first. | |
| You know, I can't get the happiness hour subject out of my mind. | |
| There were so many good calls, and I couldn't take them. | |
| It bothers me. | |
| About nature, our natures. | |
| I'm going to do that a lot. | |
| It's a biggie. | |
| One woman said the happiness hour is what turned her around in an angry nature. | |
| Well, everybody, welcome. | |
| I'm Dennis Prager. | |
| This is the hour. | |
| Whatever's on your mind, don't be offended. | |
| You know what? | |
| I've got to do more happiness hours on people getting offended too easily. | |
| If I drop your call on this hour, it's not anything to do with you. | |
| I don't even know who it is. | |
| Everybody's anonymous. | |
| So it can't be personal. | |
| It may be a topic I've already addressed. | |
| It might be a topic you could just go on the internet and Google. | |
| Or Bing, or Brave, or Go-Go Duck, and find the answer to. | |
| Or I may not know anything about it. | |
| Maybe somewhat of an esoteric topic. | |
| I mean, if you ask me to explain string theory... | |
| I won't be able. | |
| I admit it. | |
| I am reading a book on physics right now, believe it or not. | |
| I don't understand half of it. | |
| But it's still worth reading because it's so well written. | |
| I'm going to have the author on, in fact, next week because I'm enjoying the book so much. | |
| That's right. | |
| Ask me anything about the red shift, string theory, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, I should say. | |
| What else? | |
| Oh, man. | |
| There's another one. | |
| Another term there. | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Inflation. | |
| That's it. | |
| Inflation. | |
| How's that? | |
| Yes, the inflation of the universe. | |
| Not monetary inflation. | |
| Mmm. | |
| If you knew what goes on in my earphones, folks, you would send me a gift. | |
| You would start saying, Dennis the martyr. | |
| You would not restrict it to the living martyr. | |
| He asked me, what about balloons? | |
| What on God's earth does that have to do with inflation? | |
| Because you inflate balloons? | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| Please don't send me a letter on why I said, oh, my God. | |
| I have a whole... | |
| Explanation of the Third Commandment in the Rational Bible, my book on a Bible commentary. | |
| It's misunderstood. | |
| I'll explain why from the Hebrew. | |
| All right, everybody, whatever's on your mind, especially audio equipment, photography equipment, classical music, cigars, and there's always another one. | |
| At least forget one of the list. | |
| Anyway, those are good. | |
| Yep. | |
| All right, let's see what's on board here. | |
| Look at that. | |
| I have an answer to that question. | |
| I have an answer to that one too. | |
| Okay. | |
| All right, let's begin with Jamie in Freehold, New Jersey. | |
| The famous Jamie of Freehold. | |
| Hello. | |
| How are you today? | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | |
| Thank you for calling. | |
| So, I'm 46 years old. | |
| I just have to say that I discovered you about three or four years ago, and the happiness hour makes my week. | |
| I love that. | |
| And I look forward to you singing the original lyrics. | |
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Why Cigars Are More Than Just Cigars
00:03:50
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| I love you for that. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| The original lyrics line. | |
| You cracked me up. | |
| The original lyrics. | |
| Yes, every week. | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| When I miss it, I'm unhappy. | |
| Gotcha. | |
| So, I recently started smoking cigars, and I was just curious, very simply, what's your favorite cigar and why? | |
| So, I have a number of answers to that, and even though 98% of you don't smoke cigars, you should still be interested in the question, because... | |
| It's philosophic. | |
| It's not just cigars, and I'll explain why. | |
| So I have two answers, and one is, if I were to ask you what is your favorite food, would you have an answer? | |
| No, because I have multiple. | |
| Oh, that's my answer on cigars. | |
| So if you were in a jolly good mood in front of one of your fireside chats, What's one that you go to? | |
| It's not one. | |
| There is a generic type that I tend to love. | |
| Dark wrapper, which generally means stronger. | |
| Dark wrapper and from Nicaragua. | |
| I do not enjoy Cuban cigars. | |
| It has nothing to do with the regime. | |
| The Nicaraguan regime is also communist. | |
| So it has nothing to do with politics. | |
| I do not like the taste of Cuban cigars. | |
| I do not like mild cigars. | |
| That means light wrapper. | |
| So Connecticut's are not your style? | |
| Connecticut is not my style. | |
| That is correct. | |
| Ecuadorian wrapper, Cameroon wrapper, Nicaraguan wrapper, a whole bunch of guys. | |
| I also like Honduran, but they're a lot more Nicaraguan. | |
| Among the Nicaraguan, the My Father line. | |
| Is pretty consistently delicious. | |
| Which strikes a lot of people who don't smoke cigars as what? | |
| Delicious? | |
| Yes. | |
| We smoke for taste, not for nicotine. | |
| Cigarette smokers smoke for nicotine. | |
| So having given you all of that, what is your favorite? | |
| Well, right now, I'm airing to the Perdomo Lot 23. Although it's a Connecticut... | |
| I think it's a very strange description of the cigar, but creamy and smooth are the two... | |
| Creamy and smooth makes perfect sense. | |
| You're my kind of guy. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| Next time I'm in Freehold, we should have a cigar together. | |
| Now, I appreciate that call. | |
| That's fun. | |
| It's good. | |
| Fun is good. | |
| Fun is like... | |
| Condiments. | |
| It is like salt and pepper. | |
| It's like spices. | |
| It's not the meaning. | |
| The meaning in eating is from the protein and the fiber and the vitamins that you get. | |
| But without any spices, without salt, without pepper, without Garlic, I would say, even in many cases. | |
| Like steak. | |
| It's just not yummy. | |
| That's how life is. | |
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Vaccine Doubts and Travel Plans
00:02:14
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| So the purpose of life is not fun. | |
| But life without fun is not fun. | |
| Alright, that was good. | |
| Jennifer in Tustin, California. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| I love the fun on your show. | |
| More importantly, the clarity. | |
| Yes. | |
| Well, if you like fun and clarity, I'm your man. | |
| Excellent. | |
| I mean, I'm your other man. | |
| I mean, you may be married or have a boyfriend, so I fully... | |
| I am. | |
| I have a wonderful man. | |
| Good. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I'm your other man. | |
| Great. | |
| Right. | |
| I've heard you say, my question is, I've heard you say several times of late on the show that You would not take the COVID vaccine. | |
| And I feel the same way myself. | |
| I'm wondering what will you or I do if the COVID vaccine is mandatory in the same way that, you know, childhood vaccines are mandatory in many states. | |
| Have you thought about that? | |
| I have thought about it. | |
| It's a real dilemma. | |
| Okay. | |
| I mean, if they don't allow you to go on an airplane. | |
| Without proof of a vaccine, I would have to weigh not being able to travel and give speeches and do my cruises. | |
| I mean, I cannot live a life without travel. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
| See, I... I want everybody listening who doesn't know, I've taken every vaccine offered, and my kids have taken all of them. | |
| I never had any interest in vaccines. | |
| I just took them. | |
| But I don't trust the medical establishment any longer. | |
| They, like the New York Times, they have lost me. | |
| I have no trust in them whatsoever. | |
| I think there is such deep corruption in the CDC. And that this is the only, I think, RNA-based vaccine? | |