Dennis Prager Show - Why Dennis and Rush Never Had a Rivalry
Aired: 2021-02-22
Duration: 05:20


=== Happiness Lesson Shared (05:02) ===

[00:00:00]  I am with you through this whole thing, folks.
[00:00:05]  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.
[00:00:17]  Got about a thousand responses at the Wall Street Journal.
[00:00:20]  That was a fascinating read for me.
[00:00:25]  You know, it's interesting.
[00:00:26]  Let me just mention this.
[00:00:31]  Almost identical years in radio, although he was syndicated nationally ten years before I was.
[00:00:38]  I was in L.A. for those ten years.
[00:00:41]  In 1998, I became nationally syndicated.
[00:00:45]  And we're on.
[00:00:48]  We were on.
[00:00:50]  May he rest in peace.
[00:00:52]  Same hours.
[00:00:54]  Now, of course, he had more stations than I, more listeners.
[00:01:00]  It had no impact on me.
[00:01:03]  I was happy that he was influencing people with conservative ideas.
[00:01:10]  Likewise, he felt no sense of competitiveness with me.
[00:01:16]  Same hours.
[00:01:17]  I have a lot of listeners, too.
[00:01:20]  And, in fact, a few weeks before he died, he read my column on his show.
[00:01:27]  We should get that and play it, actually.
[00:01:32]  And whenever we met, it was 100% warmth.
[00:01:39]  Plus, I got an extremely expensive cigar out of the meeting.
[00:01:46]  I have an upper limit to what I would spend on a cigar.
[00:01:50]  So I just thought you'd find that of interest.
[00:01:58]  Yeah.
[00:01:59]  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.
[00:02:16]  There's a happiness lesson in that that I'd like to share with you.
[00:02:22]  If you compare yourself You compare your life to others.
[00:02:29]  It's a chapter in my book on happiness.
[00:02:31]  You will never be happy.
[00:02:34]  I go to work every day thanking God that I... Okay.
[00:02:47]  That I have the opportunity...
[00:02:57]  I'm not choking up.
[00:02:59]  It sounds like I'm choking up emotionally.
[00:03:02]  I am emotional about it, but I'm not choking up.
[00:03:05]  Anyway, I thank God that I have this opportunity.
[00:03:10]  That I am paid to tell a lot of people what I believe is an unbelievable gift.
[00:03:21]  I never sat down and thought, well, Rush Limbaugh has more stations.
[00:03:28]  It's not the way I think.
[00:03:31]  It's an incredibly self-destructive thing, because I'll give you an example.
[00:03:36]  Whenever the Forbes 400 comes out, you know the list of the 400 richest people?
[00:03:43]  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?
[00:03:58]  There are two different lists.
[00:03:59]  So it doesn't matter.
[00:04:00]  America or the world.
[00:04:02]  If you're on that list, you're very, very wealthy.
[00:04:06]  But if your happiness comes from being wealthier than others, you will never be happy.
[00:04:16]  There's a big difference.
[00:04:19]  Between allowing wealth to contribute to your happiness and being happy because you are wealthier than others.
[00:04:31]  There is no comparison.
[00:04:35]  So I never walked around thinking, oh my god, Rush has more stations.
[00:04:42]  That's the way it is.
[00:04:44]  So, what, I don't have a lot of clout?

=== Batting .310 Excellence (00:32) ===

[00:04:49]  Is the only way that you have clout is to be the number one in rankings?
[00:04:57]  Is life a contest?
[00:05:01]  Then nobody will ever be happy.
[00:05:04]  Baseball player bats.306.
[00:05:07]  That's awesome.
[00:05:08]  But the batting champ batted.310.
[00:05:11]  There you go.
[00:05:13]  Guy's in second place.
[00:05:18]  It's a very important lesson.