Feb. 22, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
05:20
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| I am with you through this whole thing, folks. | |
| That last call reminded me, the call prior to the one I'm speaking to now, that we should put up my article on Rush Limbaugh. | |
| Got about a thousand responses at the Wall Street Journal. | |
| That was a fascinating read for me. | |
| You know, it's interesting. | |
| Let me just mention this. | |
| Almost identical years in radio, although he was syndicated nationally ten years before I was. | |
| I was in L.A. for those ten years. | |
| In 1998, I became nationally syndicated. | |
| And we're on. | |
| We were on. | |
| May he rest in peace. | |
| Same hours. | |
| Now, of course, he had more stations than I, more listeners. | |
| It had no impact on me. | |
| I was happy that he was influencing people with conservative ideas. | |
| Likewise, he felt no sense of competitiveness with me. | |
| Same hours. | |
| I have a lot of listeners, too. | |
| And, in fact, a few weeks before he died, he read my column on his show. | |
| We should get that and play it, actually. | |
| And whenever we met, it was 100% warmth. | |
| Plus, I got an extremely expensive cigar out of the meeting. | |
| I have an upper limit to what I would spend on a cigar. | |
| So I just thought you'd find that of interest. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I actually chose my hours from the very beginning and when I would broadcast, knowing that I was up against Rush, which is like up against Mount Everest, and I was fine with it. | |
| There's a happiness lesson in that that I'd like to share with you. | |
| If you compare yourself You compare your life to others. | |
| It's a chapter in my book on happiness. | |
| You will never be happy. | |
| I go to work every day thanking God that I... Okay. | |
| That I have the opportunity... | |
| I'm not choking up. | |
| It sounds like I'm choking up emotionally. | |
| I am emotional about it, but I'm not choking up. | |
| Anyway, I thank God that I have this opportunity. | |
| That I am paid to tell a lot of people what I believe is an unbelievable gift. | |
| I never sat down and thought, well, Rush Limbaugh has more stations. | |
| It's not the way I think. | |
| It's an incredibly self-destructive thing, because I'll give you an example. | |
| Whenever the Forbes 400 comes out, you know the list of the 400 richest people? | |
| And I always think about, you know, number 106. Now, if you're the 106th richest person in America or the world, is it Forbes 400, the world, or America? | |
| There are two different lists. | |
| So it doesn't matter. | |
| America or the world. | |
| If you're on that list, you're very, very wealthy. | |
| But if your happiness comes from being wealthier than others, you will never be happy. | |
| There's a big difference. | |
| Between allowing wealth to contribute to your happiness and being happy because you are wealthier than others. | |
| There is no comparison. | |
| So I never walked around thinking, oh my god, Rush has more stations. | |
| That's the way it is. | |
| So, what, I don't have a lot of clout? | |
| Is the only way that you have clout is to be the number one in rankings? | |
| Is life a contest? | |
| Then nobody will ever be happy. | |
| Baseball player bats.306. | |
| That's awesome. | |
| But the batting champ batted.310. | |
| There you go. | |
| Guy's in second place. | |
| It's a very important lesson. |
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