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March 23, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	This time Boulder, Colorado, and the evil, if the word means anything, the man was evil, Ahmad Alwi Alisa.
	I have no idea what his motive was.
	I have no idea if it's connected to his probably being a Muslim.
	I don't know any non-Muslims who were named after Muhammad.
	Ahmad is a variation on the name Muhammad.
	There are two variations, Muhammad, Mahmud, and Ahmad.
	I assume that they will explore his background and his tweets if he made any, and Facebook messages, etc.
	There is a gulf between most human beings and the truly evil.
	you Most human beings allow evil, I'm not talking about this type of evil, but are not evil.
	How does one do that is one of the great mysteries.
	Dostoevsky explored it in Crime and Punishment.
	It will forever be explored.
	People go shopping and never come back home.
	I have said on a number of occasions that God or nature, or both, have given us the inability to fully empathize.
	If we could fully empathize, meaning feel the pain of the suffering of others, not know it, And feel horrible about it, but feel it?
	We would, of course, go mad.
	How could we possibly feel the pain of all these people?
	Let alone the millions of the 20th century.
	The hundred million.
	That's not available to the human.
	It's a built-in protective shield.
	But you can feel for them.
	And if I may say, we're allowed to feel anger.
	I'll go further.
	I hate this man.
	And I know that many of you feel that you hate the sin and love the sinner.
	And some of the finest people I know have that doctrine.
	I don't.
	Depends on the sin.
	I don't hate people who engage in sexual sin, for example.
	We would all much rather somebody visit a massage parlor than murder.
	Is that not fair to say?
	So not all sin is equivalent.
	As I have often said, and I have written...
	Lectured and studied theology all of my life.
	One hopes there's a hell that goes against the prevailing humanistic doctrine of we all have the same fate.
	Really?
	If we all have the same fate, there is no just God in the universe.
	So I'm emoting.
	totally appropriate to do so.
	I hate these people.
	Thank you.
	Mental illness doesn't...
	I don't know if that suffices.
	How many mentally ill people don't murder?
	Probably the same percentage as non-mentally ill people.
	Not everybody engaged in murder is mentally ill.
	Well, we'll find out more.
	Right now we only know the name.
	The policeman who came in to defend the people.
	Want to give me his name because it is Officer Eric Talley.
	Thank you.
	To Officer Talley's family, you were given the blessing Of a brave and courageous and wonderful human being.
	As a father and husband, not everybody gets that.
	To be taken away one day like that.
	Again, I can imagine, but I can't fully enter that space that you're in.
	What we know about Eric Talley.
	This is from where?
	Forbes.
	He was an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, the first officer on the scene responding to the mass shooting.
	Still want to defund the police, folks?
	So let me ask you a question.
	Who's the more typical police officer?
	Eric Talley?
	Or a police officer who has some racial animus and acts out on it unfairly and unjustly.
	By the way, that they exist is undeniable.
	But I have to say that virtually every situation I am aware of...
	Does not seem to vindicate the charge that we're talking about racist, trigger-happy, want-to-see-a-black-person-die human being.
	Eric Talley is far more representative of the police in the USA than such a person who seems to be more of a caricature.
	Remember the case of Michael Brown?
	People are still saying at rallies, Hands up, don't shoot.
	Hands up, don't shoot.
	I just saw it about a week or two ago.
	Like it was ever said.
	It was never said.
	The police chief in Boulder.
	Ten fatalities at the scene.
	Including one of our Boulder PD officers by the name of Eric Talley, who's been on the Boulder Police Department since 2010. He's served in numerous roles supporting the Boulder Police Department and the community of Boulder.
	And I have to tell you the heroic action of this officer when he responded to this scene.
	Phone calls of shots fired in the area and a phone call about a possible person with a patrol rifle.
	Officer Talley responded to the scene, was the first on the scene, and he was fatally shot.
	I also want to commend the heroic actions of the officers responding not only from Boulder PD, but from across the county and other parts of this region.
	You realize there's a person with a powerful semi-automatic murdering human beings.
	Everybody in that store in my heart goes out to, not only, obviously, the families and friends and the individuals murdered, but it goes out to anybody who witnessed it.
	That is trauma.
	That's one of the times where a survivor is appropriate.
	People use survivor for COVID. Did you know that?
	If you had COVID, you're a survivor?
	Amazing.
	My son, my stepson, they're survivors.
	I never thought of that.
	But if you went through this in Boulder, you are a survivor.
	That's trauma.
	And what happens?
	So he is murdering humans.
	Everybody is fleeing, except the police, who run in, not out.
	And there are people who put up graffiti, F the police.
	There are morons in Minnesota, in the city council of Minneapolis and elsewhere, who want to defund them.
	We'll be back.
	1-8 Prager 776. This has only happened twice before,
	both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop.
	Now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	They don't think that America has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
	Cut 91. Well, I think we thought too well of the United States.
	We thought that the U.S. side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.
	So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear.
	So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.
	You understand what they're saying here?
	They're saying that, oh, the United States doesn't have a position of strength.
	You mean after you destroyed our manufacturing base, debased our currency, spied on our cyber grid?
	They're lecturing us about strength.
	In one sense, they're right.
	But the fact that they have the cockiness to say that goes to show exactly where the international order is headed.
	And I'm going to tell you one thing that we should all be talking about when it comes to Joe Biden in China that we just seem to be forgetting and missing.
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	I am a teacher in an elementary school and a lot of our professional development is on racism because our school is very diverse in that population.
	And one of the professional development we had was on diverse books and the lack of diverse books.
	So basically the statistics they gave us was that This is from 2018. That 50% of all children's books that are published are based on characters who are white.
	So 50% white.
	27% are animals or other, you know, things besides people.
	10% is based on blacks.
	7% on Asian Pacific or Asian people.
	5% on Latinos.
	And then 1% on American Indians.
	And how this is an example of systemic racism, and it's very hard to find diverse books.
	My first thought, Mary, is who sat around and added them all up like that?
	I mean, that's just amazing to me.
	That's stunning to me.
	A good book is a good book.
	A good character is a good character.
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	I'm Dennis Prager.
	There's so many issues that are raised by these events.
	It's two in one week.
	They seem to happen in spurts.
	I don't know if they're ever connected.
	And, of course, there'll be more calls for gun control, which only means, I mean, literally only means, that innocent people will find literally only means, that innocent people will find it harder to obtain weapons and ammunition.
	Bad people find a way to get them, right?
	So why don't we therefore teach people how to shoot back?
	Why would one not want that ability?
	Why would we want the state to enter, which we do, that's called police.
	Why would we want that to be the only possible response when that means that some innocent human beings, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends, have already been murdered?
	I've always asked this question.
	It's on my list.
	God, I wish that thing went viral.
	32 questions.
	I should just put it up, right?
	32 questions people should ask to clarify how they think.
	One of my 32 questions is, do you think a shooter debating which school to murder children in, which school do you think he would be more likely to enter?
	One that had a sign?
	Gun-free zone?
	Or one that had a sign, armed teachers and other personnel?
	The question in my mind is rhetorical.
	The sign saying to these individuals that there are people with guns...
	We'll have the person move on to the naive school.
	And you have to be spectacularly naive to believe that gun-free zone prevents bad people with guns from entering.
	The level of naivete is immeasurable.
	There are no perfect answers.
	I don't believe that...
	Teaching vast numbers of people how to deal with arms and allowing them to have them is the answer.
	I don't believe that confiscating as many guns as possible is the answer.
	Evil exists.
	There are 300, what are we up to?
	330 million Americans?
	What are we up to right now?
	330 million people.
	There are probably, what, 100 million guns out there?
	There are more guns than citizens?
	Hmm, okay.
	Ironically, the number of mass shootings is not gigantic.
	In relationship to those two numbers.
	How many does it take?
	How many mass shootings are there in the last ten years?
	In any given year?
	What would you estimate?
	Ten?
	I don't even know if there's ten a year.
	Do we really have one every month?
	So, six?
	Five?
	That means five individuals out of 330 million.
	That's all it takes.
	Evil, I've always said this, it's always good to remember.
	It is infinitely easier for an individual to do mass evil than for an individual to do massive good.
	Good is generally done on a one-to-one basis.
	evil can be done on a mass basis.
	I'd like to know in any event, Europe has 300 million people or so.
	Of course, they have much stricter gun laws.
	I'd like to know how often, in all of Europe, I don't think nearly as much, but we don't tend to report it.
	People are not interested if there's a mass shooting in Slovenia.
	And there may not be.
	Certainly have terrible, terrible violence in Africa.
	Much of it is religious-induced among radical Muslims.
	They just kidnap young people, sometimes kill them, sometimes never return them, sometimes return them for ransom.
	The issue of evil is a dividing line between the naive and the non-naive.
	My Weltanschauung, my worldview is that I am moved and surprised more by great good than by great evil.
	How do you explain Officer Talley?
	Why is that explicable, right?
	The man runs in.
	To a situation in which he may die.
	He could have, I guess, waited for other officers to be with him.
	Nobody would have known the difference.
	Goodness is as much a puzzle as evil.
	Courage is a puzzle.
	These are elementary things that are not discussed, let alone learned.
	It's a local school.
	They're teaching them about global warming.
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	Listen, I fight hard for what I believe in every day, but I also try to understand where somebody who disagrees with my ideology or my politics, where they're coming from.
	And so in a way, maybe you do the same thing, and it kind of keeps us sort of out of the hot seat where we're not just trying to lob hand grenades to the other side, but we're trying to have a reasonable dialogue.
	Yeah, I don't want any vitriol in my life.
	I work very hard to avoid it.
	One of the things, of course, I talk about my dog a lot, Jasper.
	I've actually utilized my love for dogs to form relationships with people that I might disagree with politically.
	And that's been very gratifying, actually.
	I have a rule, no politics at the dog park.
	And also, I've found the other thing is that if you ask questions, Right.
	I ask a lot of questions.
	I'm curious.
	I love learning.
	I know you do, too.
	This is why you do this job.
	You love meeting people and learning the issues.
	And I've also started listening to more podcasts.
	I'm thrilled that you're going to be doing a podcast.
	I will subscribe.
	I will give you five stars.
	Thank you.
	In the book, I list several podcasts for young people to keep learning so that they can grow.
	I mean, there's a lot of ambition and talent.
	Educated people in America, they want to succeed.
	But they've got to work a little harder to get it.
	You've got to work in a competitive world.
	And you have to find a way to be different from your competitors.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bercat.
	This isn't as some have portrayed it as some kind of spontaneous, random organic response to Joe Biden being president.
	This is being institutionally organized for the profit of the cartels, correct?
	Absolutely.
	And the cartels understand what our politics and our policies are better than we do as Americans.
	And they knew where Joe Biden was leaning in his administration.
	And they were more than willing and more than ready to help accommodate those people to come across this country.
	Look, they don't just let people come across.
	On the other side, the cartel is regulated.
	They make these people pay.
	They give them children to, hey, here, take this kid across with you.
	They're less likely to stop you.
	So this is something that I want everybody to understand.
	I heard this from my friend, former Commissioner for Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan.
	They are using children from the northern counties in Mexico as props.
	So that groups of adults coming across can say, we are a family unit, so the feds have to treat them differently.
	Are you confirming that, Sheriff Lamb?
	Yes, 100%.
	And out in Collin County, Texas, one of my other fellow sheriffs out there, they do interdiction on the highways out there.
	He says no less than three to five times.
	They have actually pulled cars over where the people in the front had no idea who the children in the back were, and the children in the back had no idea who the people in the front were.
	They know what our policies are.
	They're using that against us.
	They're using children, which is despicable.
	And honestly, where are these parents of these people?
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	I just...
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	Ah...
	Amazing how that helps, that little switch.
	Do you realize it's an eerie thing that sometimes overcomes me or overwhelms me is better.
	When I speak and the switch is up, I'm talking to one person.
	When the switches move to 45 degrees, I'm speaking to millions of people.
	Very eerie thing to think about.
	Well, I have reflected on the murders now in Boulder and the policemen.
	One more word about this.
	One of the few great thinkers of our time, George Gilder.
	Said to me, or I read it, I don't remember if he said it to me, because we've talked on a number of occasions, or he wrote it.
	His father was killed flying over Germany in World War II. And he was a little boy, and he said, I really didn't grow up with a father.
	But I did grow up with a father.
	And that's correct.
	The memory of the father, the way in which he died, the honoring of him by the mother.
	He had a father in his psyche, in his soul.
	Not in his life, but in those two things.
	And either he compared or I compared that to a father abandoning children.
	Both didn't have the father, right?
	But there's no comparison between a father killed even by an illness and a father abandoning children.
	One's children.
	The actual existential fact of a situation is not the only determinant.
	There are so many factors involved.
	To the children of Officer Talley, you were given a gift of this remarkable man.
	By the way, there may have been remarkable men and women among the murdered.
	I just don't know.
	I don't know them.
	But to the children of the officer, you were given a gift, but not long enough.
	The only way I think people could look at such things.
	The premature death of a loved one.
	You were given a gift, but not long enough.
	I...
	I was given a gift of a friendship with a man named Frank Pastore.
	Frank Pastore is one of the most popular Christian broadcasters in the United States.
	He made two videos for PragerU.
	You can see his energy.
	He was a former Major League pitcher, pitched for the Cincinnati Reds.
	I think he's the only Major League baseball player to become a Major League theologian.
	I think that's pretty right.
	No other name comes to mind.
	Look, he was that good that we had him do two PragerU videos on God's existence.
	Which is my specialty, and I thought he was magnificent.
	I learned from it.
	I spoke at his memorial service, and I remember one of the things that I said, that he, people, every speaker prior to me, or most speakers if not all, spoke about his being in a better place.
	These were committed Christians, and I completely understand that.
	So I said, you know, he may well be in a better place, but we're not.
	I remember looking at his family, and there was a, I think, I wrote the foreword to his wife's book.
	And I think that hit a chord that needed to be said.
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	And anyway, I got inserts, started vitamin B. The inserts were a massive help.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berkett.
	What is the reality for you and your deputies when it comes to the last 58 days in America?
	Have things changed for you when it comes to illegal migration in your county, Sheriff?
	Oh, absolutely.
	And it's been a disastrous change.
	It is not a change that we welcomed or are enjoying, that's for sure.
	You know, immediately overnight, we started having, I mean, the last two months, we've had 40-plus pursuits where they end in a bailout, which means that they run from us, they stop, everybody bails out of the vehicle into the desert.
	Typically, they'll leave somebody behind.
	Like, we had one where 12 people bailed out of the car and they left a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl behind because they know that we're going to have to deal with this unaccompanied minor while all of them go free into this country.
	Last week alone, last Wednesday alone, we had 49 apprehensions in one day.
	It's not uncommon for us to go out and have 20 apprehensions.
	And mind you, I'm 60 miles off the border.
	That's how far they're infiltrating into our country.
	Camouflage clothes.
	They don't want to be caught.
	And here's what I, and I know I'm kind of running on, and I'll give you a second.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Our listeners, our viewers need to know.
	So you tell us what's changed.
	You know, and what I keep telling people, this isn't about immigration anymore.
	This is about...
	Human trafficking and drug trafficking into this country.
	And if you care about human beings, it shouldn't matter what party you are.
	If you care about protecting those people, then you should absolutely care about border security because the cartel is using these people to gain money.
	They're raping the women.
	They're using the children as palms, which is clear as day right now.
	and they extort them in.
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	Trending now on The Eric Matias Show.
	I mean, we know that Media Research Center did polling and found out among people who voted for Joe Biden, Something like 30% didn't know the Hunter Biden story.
	And those that heard about the Hunter Biden story said up to 17% of them would not have voted for Joe Biden if they had known.
	This we know for sure.
	This doesn't even, this isn't any kind of conspiracy theory.
	We know that journalists interfered with this election in a way that journalists have never interfered with an election in the United States before.
	By suppressing very pertinent information.
	And for your listeners and your viewers, you know, what is that pertinent information?
	And you know, it's almost like a joke, actually, Eric.
	And I think this film actually funny enough will be funny and awfully sad and tragic and has a Hello my friends
	Talking about good and evil, PragerU does a lot of good.
	Please help us continue to do that.
	We have a country and a civilization to save.
	I do not over-dramatize ever, but it's true.
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	Have you folks heard about this Michigan restaurant owner imprisoned?
	Keeping her restaurant open?
	What happened?
	Oh, I thought you were shaking your head that it didn't happen.
	Yeah, no, no, I know.
	I thought maybe you learned, maybe she wasn't.
	You're shaking your head out of despair.
	A Western Michigan restaurant owner was arrested before dawn Friday.
	And halt to jail.
	A dramatic turn in a months-long dispute over her persistent refusal to comply with orders and restrictions tied to the coronavirus.
	Marlena Pavlos Hackney, 55, will remain in jail until she pays $7,500 and authorities confirm that Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria in Holland, Michigan is closed, the judge said.
	Are you ready?
	This is what the judge said.
	She has put the community at risk.
	She has put the community at risk.
	Okay, so judge, people like you have put millions of people's livelihoods at risk.
	Right?
	I'll have more about that in a moment.
	Each day, not each hour, but each day in my fundraising month, I have a member of PragerForce.
	People in their late teens and 20s.
	Members of PragerU's organization.
	15,000 now all over the world.
	Spoke to a young woman in Czech Republic just the other day.
	Couldn't get over her.
	Carolyn Klein.
	I don't know where you are, actually.
	I just know you teach music.
	You're 26. Where are you?
	I am Gilbert, Arizona.
	I'm 25. You're 25. Yes.
	That's important.
	We don't want you to get older prematurely.
	Yeah.
	You're a classical music teacher as well?
	Is that what you do?
	So, I actually, I used to be a music performance major, but I already started getting gigs before I even got my degree.
	So, I currently teach private lessons for string bass, and I play in a group called Valley Youth Theater, and I play in the pit with the pit orchestra.
	And then, so I'm currently going to school as a history major to be a history teacher.
	Wow, you're a Renaissance woman.
	Yeah, I would say so.
	I love that you would say so.
	That's a great response.
	I love when I compliment somebody, because I never do it gratuitously, and they don't just say thank you, they say you're right.
	No, I really do like that.
	You don't want a career in music.
	I currently have a career.
	Like I said, I perform at Valley Youth Theatre, East Valley Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, and I sometimes do some other gigs with some colleges like Grand Canyon University I've performed with.
	I've done something with Arizona State University, which is what I currently go to school at.
	I just get some calls and people pay me to play for a night.
	One of my dear friends is a bass player with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
	Oh, really?
	I actually know one of the principals for San Francisco Symphony.
	And that is?
	Scott Pingel?
	That's the man.
	Oh my gosh, you know who Scott Pingel is?
	That's so funny!
	My wife and I just had lunch with him a couple of weeks ago.
	I remember I went to this program or this camp.
	It's called International Society of Basis.
	And I saw him and I chased after him up three flights of stairs.
	And I asked him, like, can you give me a private lesson for the day?
	And he said, absolutely.
	I love that guy.
	He's amazing.
	That we would have this man in common is really a beautiful thing and wholly unexpected.
	So, you know, when we had lunch together, He had just performed in San Diego.
	He lives, obviously, in San Francisco area.
	And he had just performed in San Diego at an outdoor concert.
	And he made sure to take the bass, a very expensive bass.
	This is from, I think, 18th century.
	And so he couldn't leave it in his car.
	So we had lunch with him and his bass.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	That sounds accurate.
	Not many women play that instrument.
	It's generally more men in that section.
	Yeah, I would say so.
	So, why pick history?
	I think it's the most important subject.
	Why did you pick it?
	So, when I was younger, my parents really thought it would be important to bring me and my sisters.
	I have four sisters.
	I'm the middle child.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	You have four sisters?
	There were five girls?
	Yeah.
	Are there any boys?
	Any boys?
	No, no boys.
	No boys.
	I would like to know how many families have had five girls or five boys.
	That is very rare.
	Yeah.
	It's pretty rare.
	But anyways, so history, my parents thought it would be really important to bring us to museums.
	So we went to the Egyptian Museum.
	We used to live in Northern California.
	They took us to that history museum up there, the Egyptian one.
	We've been to the Natural History Museum in New York, the Holocaust Memorial.
	I've even been to the Hiroshima Museum Memorial in Japan, so they thought that was very important at a young age to make sure that we go experience that.
	And out of all the sisters, I am the one that was just completely obsessed with reading, learning like the books, Magic Treehouse books.
	I was obsessed with those.
	They had so much history.
	And so for a time, I...
	All right, hold on there because there's a lot to talk about, and I want to hear about your affiliation.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Music I just got an email about someone who says they have to take mandated racial diversity seminar training or whatever it is.
	And all I have to say is that there is a piece of art, and I don't use that word lightly, that is so perfect, so funny, so politically incorrect, that hits this perfectly.
	It's from the legendary show The Office.
	Now, The Office started as an unbelievably politically incorrect show, and then it got into this kind of like quasi-woke thing later on.
	But the episode Diversity Day with Steve Corral, it's so politically incorrect, especially in today's time.
	I'm just going to tell you something right now.
	If I dared repeat some of the lines here...
	It wouldn't even be an advertiser boycott.
	It would be an advertiser invasion.
	One of my favorite lines is Steve Corral looks into the...
	Actually, this might be the pilot episode.
	You see, I'm not an expert in a lot of things, but I am an expert in the central canon of the first season of The Office, because it all went downhill from there.
	I watched it later.
	The first season of The Office is so well-written, as if they don't care.
	They just said, we are going to swing for the fences.
	Bottom of the ninth, we want this show to catch on.
	That they just took huge risks.
	Steve Corral famously said, as Abraham Lincoln said, if you are a racist, I will attack you from the north.
	I highly encourage you to check it out because we need to laugh about this stuff a little bit.
	Because people are emailing me, Charlie, what do I do about this diversity seminar?
	If you think you have it bad, check out Michael Scott, who had to take...
	The Diversity Class Seminar.
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	Listen, I fight hard for what I believe in every day, but I also try to understand where somebody who disagrees with my ideology or my politics, where they're coming from.
	And so in a way, maybe you do the same thing, and it kind of keeps us sort of out of the hot seat where we're not just trying to lob hand grenades to the other side, but we're trying to have a reasonable dialogue.
	Yeah, I don't want any vitriol in my life.
	I work very hard to avoid it.
	One of the things, of course, I talk about my dog a lot, Jasper.
	I have actually utilized my love for dogs to form relationships with people that I might disagree with politically.
	And that's been very gratifying, actually.
	I have a rule, no politics at the dog park. no politics at the dog park.
	everybody.
	Bye.
	See you next week.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Once a day, each day of March, fundraising month for PragerU, I get to interview usually a PragerU member, PragerForce member.
	Carolyn Klein is in Arizona, and she's studying history at ASU. What prompted you to join PragerForce?
	So I was dating this guy, and he was fairly Republican.
	And I was Republican as well, but I was not super interested in politics.
	But he started spewing all the stuff.
	He was really into Turning Point USA. So I looked up Turning Point USA, and then there was these, you know, three hours later, I stumbled upon the five-minute videos for Prairie Youth.
	First video I ever watched, which is also my favorite one, is the videos about Electoral College.
	And I was just hooked right off of that.
	And eventually I found a link for PragerForce, and I was like, oh, what's that?
	So I ended up joining, and I just love it.
	I think it's amazing.
	Well, that's great.
	What a beautiful story.
	So I always ask PragerForce members their favorite one, and I think I'm keeping up the record that no one has mentioned one that somebody already mentioned, which I love.
	It means that there are so many favorites out there.
	But I have to admit, by the way, I think, I'm interrupting my own self, I hate that, but I want people to know that the most widely viewed PragerU video ever made is on the Electoral College!
	50 million views!
	I would say it's very educational, so it's helpful.
	Well, have you ever been to a PragerForce event?
	No, I wish.
	The only thing I've been too close enough was when Sabrina invited the Arizona Prager Force members to that dinner a couple months ago.
	Oh, did you go and you went?
	Yeah, I did go.
	That's actually how she set me up with this interview.
	I was telling her how obsessed I was with you and then Michael Knowles and Candace Owens.
	She was like, oh, that's so interesting.
	I was so excited when she said I could do this.
	Is there such a thing as an unhappy Prager Force member?
	I don't think so.
	You are so impressive.
	Thank you.
	I would love to hear you play the bass.
	Thank you so much, Carolyn Klein.
	There isn't a hint, right, of the anger and bitterness and the jadedness and the cynicism that pervades so many young people.
	We're doing good work.
	Please help us.
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	And I continue with the Dennis Prager Show.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The situation on the ground is certainly challenging, in part because we inherited a dismantled system that wasn't prepared for processing asylum requests, that had left in place the Remain in Mexico program.
	What do you make of Jen Psaki's, it's all Trump's fault, explanation?
	Well, I hear a lot of blah, blah, blah.
	This is Biden's border crisis.
	It truly is.
	President Biden is willing to say it or not, or Jen Psaki says it or not, it is a crisis.
	And with 23 years in the military and, of course, my service now on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, I see this not only as a humanitarian crisis, but it's also a growing threat to our national security.
	They have got to open their eyes.
	They've got to acknowledge this is not just a challenge.
	It is not just a big problem.
	It is a certified crisis.
	Now, do you think they will do what is necessary or is open borders the de facto policy of Team Biden?
	I think it will end up being the de facto policy.
	And again, there's a lot of blah, blah, blah right now.
	But the extreme push from the left.
	Is to simply open our borders.
	And I heard her, you know, in her clip saying, oh, you know, we want these children to be safe.
	We want them treated humanely.
	The humanitarian thing to do is not to have their parents hand them over to drug cartels and human traffickers and parade them through very dangerous situations.
	It's to protect them in their homes.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on youtube today trending now on the eric metaxas show folks i'm talking to ann mcelhenny and phelan mcalier you uh have a film that you are on the verge of making it's called my son hunter and it's about hunter biden
	When you think about it, this should be the opening skit on every Saturday Night Live.
	I was just going to say, precisely, yes.
	I mean, and, you know, I don't like making fun of alcoholics being Irish, you know, but the politics is so funny.
	I mean, this guy, as Anne said, you know, thrown out of the Navy, alcoholic, drug addict.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Who hasn't?
	He, you know...
	He goes to rehab, meets a homeless woman on the way into rehab called Bicycles, because she's always got a bicycle, goes off and lives with her for three months.
	This is by his own admission.
	But the joke, the real joke here is, who did Burisma?
	They did an international executive search, and who did they decide was the best person for their work?
	On the planet Earth, after a deep dive, you know, and really checking out all the people available and doing all background checks, this is the one guy you want on your energy board.
	He's a crack addict.
	He's filmed himself in pornographic acts and put it on the web.
	Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy who was constantly getting Jimmy Carter in trouble.
	I remember this as a kid and thinking how embarrassing it would be to have somebody close to you in the family who's saying things and doing things.
	This is that times a billion.
	He's compromised.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been talking to the Soviets.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been doing back deals with the Soviets.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP.
	This has only happened twice before, both during World War II.
	This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop.
	Now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	They don't think that America has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
	Cut 91. Well, I... We thought too well of the United States.
	We thought that the US side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.
	So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear.
	So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.
	You understand what they're saying here?
	They're saying that, oh, the United States doesn't have a position of strength.
	You mean after you destroyed our manufacturing base, debased our currency, spied on our cyber grid, they're lecturing us about strength.
	In one sense, they're right.
	But the fact that they have the cockiness to say that goes to show exactly where the international order is headed.
	And I'm going to tell you one thing that we should all be talking about when it comes to Joe Biden in China that we just seem to be forgetting and missing.
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	I am a teacher in an elementary school and a lot of our professional development is on racism.
	I am Dennis Prager and I welcome you to my radio show.
	Which, by the way, is three hours a day.
	If you do not get a chance to hear all three hours, please know I give my best every hour.
	And I want you to feel that it is worthwhile to hear all three of them.
	You can hear all three of them, and commercial-free, by going to pragertopia.com.
	Prager, T-O-P-I-A dot com.
	I spoke about Officer Talley.
	Last hour, the officer who was murdered, running in to save lives.
	How do you feel about the people who write graffiti, F the police?
	Or call them pigs?
	They're scum.
	The people who write that are scum, just for the record.
	You may know some, and they may be people you actually love.
	People love scum all the time.
	You know how many murderers have girlfriends?
	But societally speaking, you're the dregs of society when you write such graffiti.
	So I spoke about Officer Talley.
	Six children, if I'm not mistaken.
	Seven children?
	I was mistaken.
	So now I'll tell you about the murderer.
	Murderer is a 21-year-old, and his name is Ahmad Aliwi Alisa.
	And he is a Syrian who came to the United States as a kid.
	I don't know if that is in any way related to what he did, but that is his background.
	21 years old.
	He has a prior record of third-degree assault and criminal mischief.
	According to the New York Times, it is not clear if he was convicted of a crime.
	What does third-degree assault mean?
	Do you have any idea?
	I assaulted you, but not hard?
	It's a misdemeanor.
	What isn't a misdemeanor?
	It's murder.
	Oh, I know what else.
	Not thinking that we are doomed by global warming.
	That's a crime.
	So he was known to the FBI because he was linked, it says, to another individual under investigation by the Bureau.
	Now that's interesting.
	That hints at deeper stuff.
	Now another interesting thing is that he had, it was taken down right away, but he had hashtag need a girlfriend.
	One post in 2019 said simply, hashtag need a girlfriend.
	He'd studied computer engineering at Metropolitan State University in Denver.
	The page was taken down within an hour.
	I love this.
	The Times, many years ago, decided to call violent criminals, Mr. Did you know that?
	Many years ago.
	Decades ago.
	I find it repugnant within an hour of Mr. Elise's name being released by the authorities.
	Because it's part of the...
	We're all in it together and we're all equal.
	We're not going to single out murderers to not have the appellation, Mr. Anyway, I wonder who took it down.
	So, I will not repeat everything I said last hour.
	There is evil on earth.
	There has always been evil on earth.
	Our task is to try to make people good.
	We have lost that task.
	The preoccupation is with making society good.
	But you cannot make a good society if you do not make good individuals.
	It's one of the areas in which the left has no wisdom.
	Preoccupation should be making good people, not social justice.
	Causes with individuals of poor character.
	are a big danger to the society.
	If we restrict more guns, people like him will get a gun and there will be nobody to resist him.
	I wish that good people, innocent people, were more frequently armed.
	It's because it is, you can't on the one hand say, as liberal and left places do, look at this country with such an incredible number of mass shootings, and then on the other hand say, but we are so wrong to assume people should be armed.
	If you contend that we have this extremely high number of mass shootings, Then people should be armed.
	Now, I could see somebody saying, look, this is terrible, but it's dwarfed, obviously, by the danger of driving in a car.
	I mean, you know, I'll look at the list here.
	Who did you give me this list from, Time Magazine?
	What happened to my list?
	Do you have it, of the mass shootings?
	Okay.
	Okay, here it is.
	37 years of mass shootings in the U.S. in one chart.
	This was from, let's see, updated August 7th of last year.
	So until that time in 2019, so Dayton, Ohio, 57 killed, 78. Do you remember that?
	I feel terrible that I don't remember that.
	That's a lot of people.
	Wait, wait.
	Oh, no, no.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Of course not.
	It's 2019. Through August.
	I'm sorry.
	Big boo-boo.
	They were 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 killed in that date.
	Anyway, 2019, 57 killed, 78 wounded.
	2018, 80 killed.
	2017, 117 killed.
	That was the big one there.
	There was one in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
	And then, oh, Las Vegas, that's why.
	That's the terrible one.
	To this day, nobody knows why that guy did that.
	One of the biggest mysteries.
	He seemed like a normal human being.
	God, what an incredible tragedy.
	Anyway, so even in a year which contained one of the greatest mass shootings ever, so we're talking about 117 people.
	It's an interesting thing, isn't it, that we focus, I focus on it too.
	I mean, absolutely.
	But when you think of how many die in a car crash, was it 30,000 something?
	And in drug overdoses, like opioids, people addicted to painkillers or whatever they're addicted to.
	It's a small number in a society of 330 million.
	The evil is what makes it so unique.
	Nevertheless, it's worth keeping in perspective that the chances of this happening to you are very, very, very, very small.
	Nevertheless...
	I'm a big one for fighting evil.
	I wish somebody had been armed there, knew how to use a gun, got a permit.
	Let people who want to do these things wonder, gee, is anybody in there going to fire back at me?
	All right.
	They'll find out stuff about them.
	And I will report that to you.
	I have much more as well.
	Coming up on my show, The Dennis Prager Show.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	Folks, I'm talking to Anne McElhinney and Phelan McAleer.
	You have a film that you are on the verge of making.
	It's called My Son Hunter, and it's about Hunter Biden.
	When you think about it, this should be the opening skit on every Saturday Night Live.
	I was just going to say, precisely, yes.
	I mean, and I don't like making fun of alcoholics being Irish, you know.
	But the politics is so funny.
	I mean, this guy, as Anne said, you know, thrown out of the Navy, alcoholic, drug addict.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Who hasn't?
	He, you know, he goes to rehab, meets a homeless woman on the way into rehab called Bicycles because she's always got a bicycle, goes off and lives with her for three months.
	This is by his own admission.
	But the joke, the real joke here is, who did Burisma?
	They did an international executive search and who did they decide was the best person for their course?
	On the planet Earth, after a deep dive, you know, and really checking out all the people available and doing all background checks, this is the one guy you want on your energy board.
	He's a crack addict.
	He's filmed himself in pornographic acts and put it on the web.
	Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy who was constantly getting Jimmy Carter in trouble.
	I remember this as a kid.
	And thinking how embarrassing it would be to have somebody close to you in the family who's saying things and doing things.
	This is that times a billion.
	He's compromised.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been talking to the Soviets.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been doing back deals with the Soviets.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
	The Pepperdine School of Public Policy, America's unique graduate program for leaders.
	Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	They don't think that America has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
	Cut 91. Well, I think we thought too well of the United States.
	We thought that the US side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.
	So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear.
	So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position the United States does not have the qualification to say that it You understand what they're saying here?
	They're saying that, oh, the United States doesn't have a position of strength.
	You mean after you do that?
	I really like this one. - Thank you.
	Who's doing this, you know?
	Let's give them some credit here.
	Solomon Burke?
	What is the genre of this music?
	Anybody want to give a hazard a guess here?
	Is it R&B? Alright, y'all.
	Rhythm and Blues, for those of you who don't know, some of you think it's Robertson and Belgrade, the name of a law firm, but it is not.
	By the way, I want to remind you, I am taking you, along with my colleague and friend Mike Gallagher, to Israel in October.
	You will really want to go.
	You need to get away.
	You need to be with kindred spirits.
	And you need to visit Israel.
	There's a banner.
	Stand with Israel banner at the DennisPrager.com website.
	Okay, y'all.
	1-8 Prager 776. This was the first officer in Boulder killed in the line of duty in 27 years.
	Amazing.
	An amazing statistic.
	Seven kids.
	And the wife.
	My God, the wife.
	You know, my first reaction during that moment of silence that I just had was, I wish I could hug her.
	And then I thought, nah, it wouldn't help.
	I don't think it would help.
	What does help?
	Who knows what does help?
	Well, there are things that help ultimately, but...
	Father of her kids, her partner, her lover.
	Murder is a uniquely evil act.
	I am so passionately for capital punishment that...
	I've never lost an intellectual and moral and rational passion that half this country, at least, and certainly it's well-educated, think that it would be evil to take this monster's life, or the guy in Atlanta, or any of these people.
	There are a lot of people, the well-educated in particular, who believe that this guy who did this deserves to live.
	He takes, how many people's lives did he take?
	Huh?
	Ten?
	He takes ten people's lives.
	Shatters the life of so many.
	But, we're not going to take your life.
	The living martyr said during a break he should have his day in court.
	Literally, his day.
	As far as I'm concerned, I wish he had a trial next week and were executed two weeks from now.
	There's no doubt about the guilt.
	Of course I believe there should be a trial.
	Of course.
	I'm a big believer in the biblical...
	Phrase, those of you who love God must hate evil.
	It's a directive.
	English does not have a command form in its verbs.
	Hebrew does.
	So you are commanded to hate evil.
	Doesn't get purer than this.
	Not to mention, the guy comes from Syria.
	Isn't it elementary that he would, like, overflow with gratitude to America?
	We save you, your family, from that horrible civil war.
	We give you everything, treat you beautifully, and then you murder us?
	There's a special scum area in hell.
	There are different areas in hell.
	This is a special one.
	Come to America and then murder people.
	Okie dokie.
	Vince in Buffalo, New York.
	How do you do?
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you today?
	Okay, thank you.
	You were talking a little bit earlier, you were asking why the people who are your fans who listen to you are not angry, not mean and vindictive.
	And I think it has to do with the fact that you so often talk about opportunity and gratitude, and those are things that are not, you don't find a lot of that in the United States in media or most places.
	And there's a certain element of understanding that if we are so lucky, we are so incredibly fortunate, it's very, very difficult to be angry.
	And I do get angry sometimes in writing different things, but it's because I write about people who take for granted that which we have and don't understand that the left is...
	Essentially trying to kill the goose that has laid the golden egg that has fed us for so long.
	That's right.
	And you just mentioned, you said, for people who love God, they must...
	Hate evil.
	I remember how you phrased it.
	Hate evil.
	Hate evil.
	And so to the degree that people like me and the people who are fans of yours do hate, it's not hate a person, but it's hating the fact that somebody's trying to destroy that which we are...
	We're so fortunate to have.
	That's right, my friend.
	Look, every time you join the left, you're awarded a PhD in ingratitude.
	It is the defining element of leftists.
	Every single one, every single one, there is no exception, is an ingrate.
	Not liberals.
	Don't talk about liberals.
	Liberals are just naive and allow the left to do its evil.
	Which is bad enough.
	But they're not like that.
	A lot of liberals are grateful to be American.
	Conservatives overflow with gratitude for being American.
	That's correct.
	And it is reflected in many of the calls.
	That is right.
	Gratitude is the biggie.
	Our Syrian emigre did not have gratitude, did he?
	And she's not a murderer, but our Minnesota Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar.
	Well, she's the Palestinian.
	Who's the Somali?
	Ilhan Omar.
	Oh, it is Ilhan Omar?
	Oh, yeah, Rashida Tlaib is the Palestinian.
	Well, both of them are in great.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Verka.
	This isn't as some have portrayed it as some kind of spontaneous, random, organic response to Joe Biden being president.
	This is being institutionally organized for the profit of the cartels, correct?
	Absolutely.
	And the cartels understand what our politics and our policies are better than we do as Americans.
	And they knew where Joe Biden was leaning and his administration.
	And they were more than willing and more than ready to help accommodate those people to come across this country.
	Look, they don't just let people come across.
	On the other side, the cartel is regulated.
	They make these people pay.
	They give them children to, hey, here, take this kid across with you.
	They're less likely to stop you.
	So this is something that I want everybody to understand.
	I heard this from my friend, former Commissioner for Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan.
	They are using children from the northern counties in Mexico as props.
	So that groups of adults coming across can say, we are a family unit, so the feds have to treat them differently.
	Are you confirming that, Sheriff Lamb?
	Yes, 100%.
	And out in Collin County, Texas, one of my other fellow sheriffs out there, they do interdiction on the highways out there.
	He says no less than three to five times.
	They have actually pulled cars over where the people in the front had no idea who the children in the back were, and the children in the back had no idea who the people in the front were.
	They know what our policies are.
	They're using that against us.
	They're using children, which is despicable.
	And honestly, where are these parents of these people?
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	See you next time.
	I just get tired of people blaming racism for any time there's statistical differences along race and ethnicity.
	And you brought up the case in point about the NBA and NFL. We as black people, we're overly represented in these areas, and yet we'd never hear boo that that's racist.
	But everywhere else, we scream racism.
	And I just wish that we would just go a little bit deeper in the analysis whenever we see these things.
	What is it in the culture?
	What is it in the way that we're bringing up our children in society that's promoting people to...
	To go into certain areas and occupations, that I feel would be much more useful and helpful rather than just saying, oh, racial inequity or racism.
	I'm saying this as a black woman.
	I attended Ivy League schools and I always felt in the back of my mind, are you judging me because you think I'm here and I didn't deserve it?
	Whenever we do that and we eliminate merit-based systems, it always makes...
	Those of us who are trying to work hard feel like people are judging us as if we didn't work hard to get here.
	Thank you, Larry.
	Bonnie, thank you very much.
	I really do appreciate it.
	I went to an Ivy League school, too.
	My girlfriend was a dancer.
	She tried out to be a cheerleader, and she didn't make it.
	And I went to a game, I think one game, and all the cheerleaders were black, even though virtually all the players were white.
	Merit-based, these white girls, she told me, just couldn't do the steps they were doing.
	But nobody complained.
	Nobody said we ought to have a race-based determination for cheerleaders.
	as we have more white ones.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the huge.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Now, let's see.
	This is March.
	The lockdown began a little over a year ago.
	I wrote last March that it was the greatest mistake in world history.
	I made sure to clarify for those who went to college and needed clarification that mistake is not the same as evil.
	Really erudite voices about the lockdown, quite aside from my own, and no more about it.
	One of them is Phil Kirpin, president of American Commitment, a free market think tank.
	And let's talk right now.
	Phil Kirpin, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Thanks for having me.
	So, was I premature in my...
	No, I think you were exactly right.
	And the tragedy of this whole thing is we knew that it would be massively disruptive, that it would cause panic when what we needed was calm, and that the costs would greatly exceed the benefits, which would be near zero.
	We knew that because every pre- Pandemic planning guidance that existed told us that.
	And we have this entire field of public health.
	This is like, you know, their big event that they prepare their whole career for.
	And we had, you know, stacks and stacks of papers and planning documents, everything that said, keep society well functioning, keep things calm, do not shut things down.
	And then when their big moment came, they choked and they recommended the exact opposite of what all of the evidence and all of the data in their entire field of study had recommended up to that point.
	The mistake is almost universal, correct?
	There are a handful of exceptions.
	Sweden, most famously, in Europe, Belarus, Brazil to a certain extent, some U.S. states, but not many.
	There was a panic that swept the world, and it's interesting, Dennis, because one of the best predictors of when countries entered lockdowns was what nearby countries did, much more so than any of the virus metrics.
	Lockdowns had a sort of panic contagion of their own, sort of on a political policy.
	So what do you think, given that the handful of conservative-slash-right-wing leaders, Modi in India, Netanyahu in Israel, given that they went full lockdown as well, what do you think animated virtually every country's leader into ruining their country?
	Well, I think there was an asymmetric incentive for politicians because if you take what's perceived as the most draconian possible action, these severe lockdowns, then whatever happens, you cannot be blamed from the standpoint that you put maximum effort.
	You did everything you could.
	I don't want deaths on my watch.
	Right, exactly.
	If you don't, if you don't act, if you say, you know, we're going to let this play out, I don't think it's going to be helpful to take draconian action, well then every single death that happens gets blamed on you.
	That's right.
	Even if there are fewer of them than there would have otherwise been.
	That's right.
	And so you have this incentive problem, and by the way, we saw this very vividly in the United States, because...
	What happened to the governors who deviated from what became the lockdown orthodoxy?
	People like Norman DeSantis got blamed for every single death on the way up the curve, and then they disappeared.
	Their downside of the curve was exactly the same as in places like New York and New Jersey, but where those governors got praised every day for supposedly conquering the curve in their great heroic measures.
	In the non-lockdown states, the downside of the curve just didn't get covered at all.
	It got ignored like it didn't even happen.
	I would like to play for you, Sean.
	Can you dig up the Governor Cuomo line, which caused me to...
	Very little causes me to have an increase in heart rate.
	But when Governor Cuomo said this after the lockdown...
	It's just one life.
	I'll be happy.
	There you go.
	But the truth is, he articulated what virtually every world leader felt.
	Yeah, well, I mean, the real tragedy of New York and the five or six other states with the worst death tolls is because they believed in computer models rather than looking at what was right in front of their faces.
	They became so obsessed with clearing hospital beds for this massive influx of patients from the general population that the computer model said was coming that they sent highly infectious patients into nursing homes.
	Well, let me talk to you about models.
	Oh, I can't wait to talk to you about models.
	Phil Kirpin, President of American Commitment.
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	when it comes to the last 58 days in America?
	Have things changed for you when it comes to illegal migration in your county, Sheriff?
	Oh, absolutely.
	And it's been a disastrous change.
	It is not a change that we welcomed or are enjoying, that's for sure.
	You know, immediately overnight, we started having, I mean, the last two months, we've had 40-plus pursuits where they end in a bailout, which means that they run from us, they stop, everybody bails out of the vehicle into the desert.
	Typically, they'll leave somebody behind.
	Like, we had one where 12 people bailed out of the car, and they left a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl behind because they know that we're going to have to deal with this unaccompanied minor.
	Well, all of them go free into this country.
	Last Wednesday alone, we had 49 apprehensions in one day.
	It's not uncommon for us to go out and have 20 apprehensions.
	And mind you, I'm 60 miles off the border.
	That's how far they're infiltrating into our country.
	Camouflage closed.
	They don't want to be caught.
	And I know I'm kind of running on, and I'll give you a second.
	No, no, no, no.
	Our listeners, our viewers need to know.
	So you tell us what's changed.
	You know, and what I keep telling people, this isn't about immigration anymore.
	This is about human trafficking and drug trafficking into this country.
	And if you care about human beings, it shouldn't matter what party you are.
	If you care about protecting those people, then you should absolutely care about border security because...
	The cartel is using these people to gain money.
	They're raping the women, they're using the children as palms, which is clear as day right now, and they extort the men.
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	I mean, we know the Media Research Center did polling and found out among people who voted for Joe Biden, something like 30% didn't know the Hunter Biden story.
	And those that heard about the Hunter Biden story said up to 17% of them would not have voted for Joe Biden if they had known.
	This we know for sure.
	This isn't any kind of conspiracy theory.
	We know...
	That journalists interfered with this election in a way that journalists have never interfered with an election in the United States before by suppressing very pertinent information.
	And for your listeners and your viewers, you know, what is that pertinent information?
	And you know, it's almost like a joke actually Hello my friends Hello, my friends.
	A real expert on lockdowns, Phil Kirpin.
	At Phil Kirpin.
	Is that correct for Twitter?
	It's just the last name, Kirpin.
	K-E-R-P-E-N. At Kirpin.
	Okay, that's very important.
	And president of American Commitment, a free market think tank.
	The devastating impact of the lockdowns.
	Your theory as to why leaders left and right did it is exactly what I have surmised.
	They don't want to be held responsible.
	That's the important point.
	And who would hold them responsible for these deaths?
	The media.
	So, in effect, it's the media.
	That has destroyed the economies and the well-being of societies.
	Is that fair to say?
	Yes, I think the coverage has been disgraceful.
	I think the media has bullied politicians, essentially, into making a lot of very bad decisions.
	That said, you know, ultimately, the political leader still makes the decisions, and so the media can create the incentive structure for them to make bad decisions, but let's not...
	Let them off the hook.
	Okay, I'm with you.
	And let's not let off the hook.
	The modelers in the science community.
	Yeah, the models have been horrendously wrong.
	And as I mentioned there before the break, with tragic results, with Governor Cuomo and several other governors basically sacrificing seniors in large numbers because they thought they needed the hospital beds for this big influx of non-seniors that never came.
	And we have steeply higher, in my judgment, nursing home COVID deaths in the states that did that, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, than we otherwise would.
	And that's why the overall COVID deaths in those places are some of the highest in the world.
	Have you studied Sweden?
	I have looked at Sweden, and they did have a nursing home problem very early on there.
	It was a little bit different than the one in those states here.
	It was more related to staffing issues, and they have a lot of low-paid staff that basically walked off the job early in the epidemic.
	But other than early problems in the nursing homes, they have very little COVID death compared to other countries in Europe, and I think the low-stringency approach has generally been vindicated.
	And, of course, they've got...
	Much less economic damage and much less sort of social, emotional, and societal damage.
	That's right.
	And kids stayed in school the whole time.
	What's your take on mask wearing?
	I think there is very little evidence that there's any benefit from it.
	And, you know, if it were, you know, it's interesting because you look at sort of the CDC studies that they've put out.
	And they claim a very small benefit, and yet it gets sort of distorted through this media lens and into sort of peer pressure to be this sort of massive, high-impact thing that can stop the virus cold.
	And if that were true, we would not have had anywhere near the results that we've had in places with very, very high mask compliance, and the virus just continues to spread anyway.
	So I think that...
	There may be a very, very slight benefit, but it's not, you know, you look at sort of the literature review from the World Health Organization, for instance, which has done a much better job than our own CDC, which says a lot, because the World Health Organization is not particularly competent in itself, but they've generally done a much better job than our CDC, and they basically conclude that they have a low confidence in a small effect from masks.
	I tend to think that it's essentially no effect because it's a highly infectious virus that's spread.
	Do you wear one outdoors?
	Outdoors.
	There's very little transmission outdoors because you can't have high concentrations of the virus.
	The aerosols get dissipated very quickly.
	So do you wear one outdoors?
	I follow the local rule and custom, such that I won't get ticketed and so forth, but I don't really wear it outdoors because if you read the mayor's mask order here where I live, it says, wear it outdoors if you are likely to be within six feet of someone for more than a fleeting time.
	So I just make sure my time interacting with people stays fleeting, and I do not wear it outdoors.
	Well, you're a better citizen than I. I refuse to wear a mask outdoors, and I am looking forward to being arrested.
	I announced that a year ago.
	The outdoors is very strange, as is the masking of children.
	Oh, that's beyond belief.
	That is beyond belief.
	I'll tell you, I have to put up as one of the ten, aside from horrible pictures of murder, one of the ten most depressing photos I've ever seen was of the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States.
	Is it correct both had COVID? Or I know the president.
	They're both vaccinated.
	I'm sorry, yes.
	Both vaccinated and both wearing masks.
	It's bizarre.
	You know, they say we're doing it to model for people, but what are you modeling for them?
	Stupidity.
	They're modeling fear and irrationality.
	Yeah.
	It's very strange.
	You know, I'm hoping...
	That when we get to the end of his 100-day mask challenge, he'll declare victory and move on, rather than try to extend it.
	Well, hope.
	I never speak out against hope.
	As I heard once in a great line, there's always hope.
	There's no chance.
	But that's a separate story.
	So how do people read your stuff?
	Well, I do a free daily newsletter with Steve Moore and John Fund at Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
	Oh, wow.
	That's a high-powered team, the three of you.
	Where do you do it at?
	Wait, where do you do it at?
	It's pretty good.
	It's CommitteeToUnleashProsperity.com.
	And you can sign up for that.
	It's free.
	We send it every day, sort of in the lunch hour, basically.
	And it's not just...
	COVID, we also cover kind of, you know, tax and spending and energy and other sorts of things, but it kind of started out.
	We started it about a year ago now.
	It started out being all COVID, and it still has a pretty good amount of that mixed in.
	Well, that's why I had you on.
	Yep.
	Well, thank you so much.
	I hope you get a lot of my listeners to read your stuff.
	That would be terrific, and thanks for having me.
	You're welcome.
	Did you see that photo, my dear, dear listener?
	Two people vaccinated against COVID wearing a mask.
	To be models.
	But why are they not modeling pure, non-scientific irrationality?
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	Folks, I'm talking to Anne McElhinney and Phelan McAleer.
	You have a film that you are on the verge of making.
	It's called My Son Hunter, and it's about Hunter Biden.
	When you think about it, this should be the opening skit on every Saturday Night Live.
	I was just going to say, precisely, yes.
	I mean, and I don't like making fun of alcoholics being Irish, you know, but the politics is so funny.
	I mean, this guy, as Anne said, you know, thrown out of the Navy, alcoholic, drug addict, gets a stripper pregnant, who hasn't?
	He goes to rehab, meets a homeless woman on the way into rehab called Bicycles, because she's always got a bicycle, goes off and lives with her for three months.
	This is by his own admission.
	But the joke, the real joke here is, who did Burisma?
	They did an international executive search, and who did they decide was the best person for their work?
	On the planet Earth, after a deep dive, you know, and really checking out all the people available and doing all background checks, this is the one guy you want on your energy board.
	He's a crack addict.
	He's filmed himself in pornographic acts and put it on the web.
	Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy who was constantly getting Jimmy Carter in trouble.
	I remember this as a kid and thinking how embarrassing it would be to have somebody close to you in the family who's saying things and doing things.
	This is that times a billion.
	He's compromised.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been talking to the Soviets.
	Imagine if Billy Carter had been doing back deals with the Soviets.
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	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP.
	This has only happened twice before, both during World War II.
	This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	When I feel low.
	When I feel low.
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	Regarding masks, there's a video we should put up about, I think it's a doctor vaping through masks.
	And you see all the vapor come out.
	We are living, if there's ever been a non-science based time, it is thanks to what left has done to medicine.
	Oh, wear masks.
	Don't congregate.
	But if you demonstrate for social justice, that's a health issue.
	Remember that?
	Thousands and thousands of people in the sciences wrote that.
	The corruption of Scientific American and almost every major medical publication is continuing.
	This is quite a time that we are all living through.
	The president wears a mask even though he got a vaccination.
	May I ask what the hell the vaccination is good for if you still have to wear a mask?
	Well, Dr. Fauci told him to do it.
	That's all that matters.
	Well, thousands of people in Switzerland.
	Bless them.
	You never know who's going to come through.
	Sweden.
	Who would have predicted Sweden?
	Who?
	The liberty lovers of Sweden.
	And the liberty deniers of America.
	Thousands of people.
	This is from Swiss Info from yesterday, two days ago.
	And not many people in the U.S. read Swiss Info regularly.
	It might be news to you.
	Thousands of people have protested in the northwestern Swiss town of Liestel.
	Thousands.
	Against restrictions introduced to curb the epidemic, nearly 8,000 took part in the silent protest, according to journalists' estimates.
	Some held up signs reading, enough is enough.
	That's right.
	Vaccines kill and let love be your guide, not fear.
	There you go.
	Give them some of their own language back.
	The protest included speeches by coronavirus and vaccine skeptics.
	The most skeptical people about the vaccine are the people who promote it.
	Oh, it's not that effective.
	Wear a mask afterwards.
	Right?
	Oh, it's not that effective.
	Everybody has to get it.
	But why isn't it enough if you get it?
	That'd be the first vaccine in history that doesn't work if others aren't vaccinated.
	Tell me where I'm missing something here.
	Ultimate Issues Up Hour coming up with a special guest.
	Thank you.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	They don't think that America has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
	Cut 91. Well, I think we thought too well of the United States.
	We thought that the US side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.
	So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear.
	I will speak a few words.
	You can't speak to China from a position of strength.
	So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.
	You understand what they're saying here?
	They're saying that, oh, the United States doesn't have a position of strength.
	You mean after you destroyed our manufacturing base, debased our currency, spied on our cyber grid, They're lecturing us about strength.
	In one sense, they're right.
	But the fact that they have the cockiness to say that goes to show exactly where the international order is headed.
	And I'm going to tell you one thing that we should all be talking about when it comes to Joe Biden in China that we just seem to be forgetting and missing.
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	I am a teacher in an elementary school and a lot of our professional development is on racism because our school is very diverse in that population.
	And one of the professional development we had was on diverse books and the lack of diverse books.
	So basically the statistics they gave us was that, this is from 2018, that 50% of all children's books that are published are based on characters who are white.
	So 50% white, 27% are animals or other, you know, things besides people.
	10% is based on blacks, 7% on Asian Pacific or Asian people, 5% on Latinos, and then 1% on American Indians.
	And how this is an example of systemic racism, and it's very hard to find diverse books.
	My first thought, Mary, is who sat around and added them all up like that?
	I mean, that's just amazing to me.
	That's stunning to me.
	The good book is a good book.
	A good character is a good character.
	Huckleberry Finn had all sorts of references and N-words in it, but it was about a bondage between a black man and a young white boy.
	And it was a wonderful story.
	How that's become racist is beyond me.
	The other point I want to make is presumably all of this is to make sure the kids have good self-esteem.
	As I've said on my program, going back over decades, black kids have higher self-esteem than white kids.
	Black girls have higher self-esteem than white girls.
	Black boys have way higher self-esteem than Asian boys.
	boys and Asian girls.
	So if this is all about making sure that black boys and black girls have self-esteem, mission accomplished.
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	You know how many times he said it now?
	I think it's four.
	I think he has accidentally called his vice president president four times.
	What do you think the mainstream news media would be doing if Donald Trump accidentally called Mike Pence President Pence four times?
	They would be a 24-hour vigil for when they were going to put a straight jacket on Trump and take him out of the White House into the local mental institution.
	But when...
	Joe Biden does it.
	Well, it's Joe Biden.
	Wait, let me guess.
	Is it his stutter again?
	He's got this stutter that everybody says his defenders say is the reason he can barely speak in complete paragraphs?
	He's worried about his stutter?
	Here it was, cut one, Joe Biden talking about a vaccination center in Arizona.
	Listen to how he describes the vice president of the United States.
	Now, when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that tour, injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope.
	Yes, dose of hope.
	We're going to need it because when you watch the news, it sounds like we're all still dropping dead from COVID everywhere.
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	Transcription by CastingWords There are a number of reasons that we need to tighten things up at the border.
	Human trafficking and guns, but also this issue of opioids and heroin and crystal meth and other drugs, and then of course the issue of the overwhelming number of people that have rushed to the border because the Biden administration made so many changes in policy.
	Now, Jen Psaki addressed this from the White House podium yesterday.
	Cut number three.
	Well, the situation on the ground is certainly challenging.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I was mentioning to my wife yesterday that this hour has taken off in a greater way than I ever anticipated.
	It was a gamble to have an hour each week.
	It wasn't a gamble to have a male-female hour.
	It was not a gamble to have a happiness hour.
	It's not a gamble to have calling with whatever's on your mind hour.
	But this was a gamble.
	And it has paid off.
	People increasingly, over a decade, have come to love it.
	This talk about the great issues of life.
	Secular, religious, philosophical.
	So today is even a different aspect of an ultimate issue.
	I'm Dennis Prager and I welcome you.
	I have guests, I wonder, of the 52, well, let's say I do 48. Of the 48 Ultimate Issues Hours, what would you say we have guests?
	One-fifth of the time?
	One-sixth?
	Yeah, one out of six, maybe.
	Pretty rare.
	And I have a guest today, and the subject you would not think would be an Ultimate Issue.
	But first of all, this guy's a thinker, so that helps.
	And I've known him for many years.
	That's not why he's on.
	I don't have people on because I know them many years.
	Just for the record, 99% of those I have on, I never knew.
	But I have known him, full disclosure.
	We should talk about it at some point.
	He directed my first video, For Goodness Sake, which you can still see for free on the internet if you put in For Goodness Sake and Google it, as they say.
	You must show it to your kids because it is a great, great video.
	With some of the biggest stars of Hollywood, directed by David Zucker, who was my guest, and I am the quote-unquote star of it, who could not memorize one line.
	What do we do?
	Do we have cue cards?
	Wait, that's my cue card.
	Is his mic on?
	You can put it on now.
	Because I can't stop talking.
	Yeah, we mentioned that earlier.
	David Zucker is, I guess, still best known for the legendary, truly legendary comedy that he and his brother Jerry Zucker wrote.
	And a third party, correct?
	Jim Abrams.
	Yeah, and Jim Abrams.
	airplane land for another two hours Fog has closed down everything this side of the mountains.
	We've got to get through to Chicago.
	I don't know how many times I've seen that film.
	And then you did, of course, the Naked Gun series.
	Right.
	A whole series of film.
	And Basketball.
	Basketball.
	See, you didn't know I remembered all this.
	Yeah, that's my son's favorite movie.
	Is that right?
	Yes.
	And despite every movie I've done, and some of them are...
	Classics?
	When he went to college, when his friends found out your dad did basketball?
	That was the big deal.
	That was the big deal.
	That's so interesting.
	Now, why would he be on an Ultimate Issues Hour?
	I said, well, he's a thinker.
	That's one reason.
	But I want to talk to you about comedy for a good chunk of this and its role in life and what has happened to comedy in the United States.
	It's a very important thing.
	I think, tell me, and you know from listening to my show, it's totally okay not to agree with me.
	And certainly this is not my field.
	I've never directed a movie.
	But it would seem to me, let alone written one, it's easier to make an audience cry than laugh.
	Well, yeah, I would agree with that.
	And it's because...
	You know, crying isn't often out loud.
	You can tear up and be equally emotionally affected as you are when you laugh, but the laughter is out loud.
	And one of our standards, I mean, that we've done for all these years is that, you know, it has to get a laugh.
	One of our rules is merely clever doesn't work.
	Oh, very interesting.
	Well, all right, but you agree with me.
	It is tougher.
	It's tougher, yes.
	There are far fewer comedies than dramas.
	Especially now.
	I mean, we recently, before the whole lockdown struck, we did a screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood of Airplane, and it was packed.
	It was like...
	1,200 people there.
	And they laughed all the way through.
	And Jerry and Jim and I did a Q&A at the end of it.
	And one of the questions, and it always gets asked, could you do airplane today?
	And I thought for a second, I said, sure, just without the jokes.
	That's a great line.
	That is a great response.
	And that encapsulates what it's like in...
	comedy would be done today.
	In part, it's poking fun and all of the fun that you did is good natured.
	It's not malicious.
	But you know, what was it, where two blacks are speaking and then there were subtitles?
	Right.
	Now that was, I mean, Paramount even had some trepidations about re-releasing the movie in this 40th anniversary year of Airplane because, you know, the black dudes.
	And, you know, why should that be...
	Or the people lining up to slap the woman who's screaming.
	That's right.
	Everything seems...
	It's so sensitive.
	And the thing is, audiences aren't that sensitive about it, but studio boardrooms are.
	So, you know, back in 1980, we pitched the airplane script to, you know, a dozen studios.
	Everyone turned it down.
	There was only one guy.
	Who saw it and thought, well, yeah, this is funny.
	Let's take a chance on it.
	And that was Michael Eisner, who was the president of Paramount at the time.
	And I don't think there was a consideration about any of that stuff then.
	Is it racist?
	Is it misogynist?
	Yeah, the consideration was, I mean...
	We were doing something kind of unprecedented.
	We were going to do a comedy without comedians, and we wanted first-time directors and three directors, so that had never been done.
	So it was pretty gutsy for Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was there at the time.
	How much did they end up making on your film?
	Well, the budget was about $3 million, and it made $80 million domestically and another $80 million internationally.
	and you know we had probably the worst deal in the world because it was first time everything right for us the studio couldn't hide the money fast enough so That's a line in your e-book, which we're going to come to, that they couldn't hide it because it came in so fast.
	Were you surprised at the reception?
	I mean, it's now considered classic.
	I get asked that question.
	Was I surprised at the reception for Airplane?
	The truth is, for ten years, we had been trying to get that movie made.
	And we had been saying to everybody, this is going to be a big hit.
	This is going to be great.
	And then, you know, the hard part was getting some studio to back it.
	When they finally did, movie comes out, it's a big hit.
	We weren't surprised.
	We said, yeah, we told them.
	Right, it should be.
	It should be.
	No, no, it makes sense.
	That's right.
	But what is surprising is 40 years later, how it's grown and the reception it gets now is amazing.
	But you couldn't make it now.
	Probably not.
	And because of getting it through a studio boardroom, everybody's too sensitive.
	So what has comedy become in Hollywood?
	Well, there's no good movie comedy.
	I can't name a good movie comedy.
	I mean, I can name one that I went to 10 years ago.
	There was a movie called Bad Grandpa, and there was a movie called Bridesmaids, and those were funny, and I think they took chances and they were out there.
	But now, if you really want to laugh hard, you have to look at television.
	I know of one, and I'm not talking about sitcoms.
	There's a show called Impractical Jokers, which is, that has me laughing.
	Have you ever heard of them?
	No.
	There's this group of four guys who do pranks.
	And that's allowable?
	It's allowable, and they get it.
	They prank people.
	I don't know of, I've gotten to know them personally, but I don't know that they're under any restrictions.
	It seems like they're not.
	All right, Comedy in the Human Condition with David Zucker of Airplane, Naked Gun, Basketball, and a new e-book.
	Why can't they get away with it on TV and not in movies?
	You know what?
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	Show. .
	I just get tired of people blaming racism for any time there's statistical differences along race and ethnicity.
	And you brought up the case and point about the NBA and NFL. We as black people were overly represented in these areas and yet we'd never hear boo that that's racist.
	But everywhere else, we scream racism.
	And I just wish that we would just go a little bit deeper in the analysis whenever we see these things.
	What is it in the culture?
	What is it in the way that we're bringing up our children in society that's promoting people to...
	To go into certain areas and occupations, that I feel would be much more useful and helpful rather than just saying, oh, racial inequity or racism.
	I'm saying this as a black woman.
	I attended Ivy League schools and I always felt in the back of my mind, are you judging me because you think I'm here and I didn't deserve it?
	Whenever we do that and we eliminate merit-based systems, it always makes...
	Those of us who are trying to work hard feel like people are judging us as if we didn't work hard to get here.
	Thank you, Larry.
	Bonnie, thank you very much.
	I really do appreciate it.
	I went to an Ivy League school, too.
	My girlfriend was a dancer.
	She tried out to be a cheerleader, and she didn't make it.
	And I went to a game, I think one game, and all the cheerleaders were black, even though virtually all the players were white.
	Merit-based, these white girls, she told me, just couldn't do the steps they were doing.
	But nobody complained.
	Nobody said we ought to have a race-based determination for cheerleaders.
	as we have more white ones.
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	The situation on the ground is certainly challenging, in part because we inherited a dismantled system that wasn't prepared for processing asylum requests that had left in place the Remain in Mexico program where- - What do you make of Jen Psaki, it's all Trump's fault explanation?
	Well, I hear a lot of blah, blah, blah.
	This is Biden's border crisis.
	It truly is.
	President Biden is willing to say it or not, or Jen Psaki says it or not, it is a crisis.
	And with 23 years in the military and, of course, my service now on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, I see this not only as a humanitarian crisis, but it's also a growing threat to our national security.
	They have got to open their eyes.
	They've got to acknowledge this is not just a challenge.
	It is not just a big problem.
	It is a certified crisis.
	Now, do you think they will do what is necessary, or is Open Borders the de facto policy of Team Biden?
	I think it will end up being the de facto policy.
	And again, there's a lot of blah, blah, blah right now.
	But the extreme push from the left is to simply open our borders.
	And I heard her, you know, in her clip saying, oh, you know, we want these children to be safe.
	We want them treated humanely.
	The humanitarian thing to do is not to have their parents hand them over to drug cartels and human traffickers and parade them through very dangerous...
	It's to protect them in their home.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And talking about comedy on this Ultimate Issues Hour, I want to tell you of a new film that is out called Church People.
	Executive director and MyPillow founder, Mike Lindell.
	It's a hilarious, new, faith-based comedy.
	That is not common.
	Church People.
	Starring, tell me if I got every name right, Sean, Thor Ramsey, Stephen Baldwin, Donald Faison.
	I got it right.
	And Joey Fatone.
	Yep.
	And special guest appearance for Mike himself.
	Church People is a hilarious and heartwarming reminder that the gospel is enough.
	It all starts when America's youth pastor, Guy Sides, realizes he's stuck in the megachurch marketing machine and wants to find his passion again.
	Church People.
	You can stream Church People starting March 22nd.
	That's this week.
	So it's now on.
	At SalemNow.com.
	Watch Church People at SalemNow.com.
	The importance of laughter is huge.
	Who wrote the book Laughter is the Best Medicine?
	It's an old classic.
	Did you ever hear that?
	Oh, Norman Cousins?
	Might have been.
	He was a major literary critic.
	And David Zucker is one of the greats at that as a director and as a writer.
	Of course, he, his brother, and Jim Abrams wrote Airplane, which propelled them to great stardom, which they deserved.
	A couple of brothers from Wisconsin.
	Did you always want to write movies?
	Was that it from the beginning?
	It's a good question.
	When you grow up in Milwaukee, which is in the middle of the Midwest, you don't really dream of becoming a Hollywood director.
	When I was in high school, I thought, oh, I wanted to create funny TV commercials.
	But, you know, we started a little theater called Kentucky Fried Theater.
	In Milwaukee.
	Yeah, Milwaukee on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
	We did that for a year, and then it got such a great reaction that we decided to move the show out to L.A. and try to get on the Johnny Carson Show, and that's what we did.
	So it kind of happens a month and a year at a time.
	You were on the Johnny Carson Show?
	We were on the Johnny Carson Show.
	How was that?
	Well, we weren't very good.
	So, you know, we thought we were a performing group.
	And our stuff came off better in our live theater than it did on a TV screen.
	And so the audience at the show loved it.
	But, you know, over TV it didn't come off all that great.
	So he never re-invited you?
	Well, we did.
	We got back one more time.
	How did you find Johnny Carson?
	Well, we didn't meet him because we were bumped the first show, so we didn't get to be on when he was on, so Joey Bishop was on.
	Oh, it was a guest host.
	It was a guest host.
	Oh, interesting.
	And then the next time, it was Burt Convey.
	These are names that are lost to history now.
	In keeping with the theme of Ultimate Issues, I believe that comedy is a service to humanity.
	And it's hard to, as I said earlier, it's much easier to make people cry.
	Just show somebody dying prematurely and you cry.
	Right.
	But to make people laugh.
	But that's natural to you, correct?
	It is because, you know, we grew up in a family that...
	Really appreciated humor.
	I mean, Jerry and I were very lucky, and I suppose Jim was too with his dad, but our dad would say hilarious things, but with a straight face.
	He didn't know a joke.
	He didn't know how to tell a joke.
	My Uncle Bob could tell jokes, but my dad didn't know any jokes, but he was very funny.
	By the way, is there anyone who doesn't have an Uncle Bob?
	I think it comes with the title Uncle.
	There's an Uncle Bob.
	Right.
	It's just inevitable.
	And there's a joke in Kentucky Fight Movie that I got directly from Uncle Bob.
	Did you have an Aunt Sarah?
	I suppose, yeah.
	No, my grandmother was Sarah, so she was aunt to a lot of my cousins.
	Thank you for bailing me out.
	I'm trying to make you look better.
	Yes, that's a big deal.
	We were talking about, is it difficult today, and you don't even know if an airplane could be made today.
	When you speak to people in Hollywood, are they afraid?
	You know, I don't speak too much to people in Hollywood, because my friends are all my friends from Wisconsin, and we get together Sundays to watch the Packer games.
	I have a couple of scripts, and I have a manager, and I have an agent.
	And, you know, we're trying to get these things done.
	One is a spoof of the James Bond-born identity, Mission Impossible.
	And I think it's outside this whole controversial PC. Stuff.
	Because it's a spoof.
	And I think spoof is outside of that.
	So there were a lot.
	I still don't think an airplane could be made today.
	No, airplane, you're probably right.
	It couldn't.
	There's too much.
	It was racial stuff.
	And sex stuff.
	Not sex the act, but about the sexes.
	Yeah, and actually airplane probably would be rated R today.
	And it was PG at the time because PG-13 hadn't even been created yet.
	Well, today it would come with a warning.
	Oh, yeah, a warning.
	That there's white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia.
	I don't even know why.
	I'm just throwing out labels.
	All these topics that didn't exist in 1980. Exactly.
	So, it's tougher.
	However, I have two scripts that are just totally, you know, blitz right through that whole thing, and we won't be affected by it.
	It's spoof.
	The other is a film noir.
	Oh, I love film noir.
	That's my favorite genre.
	That may be then the only area that's still kosher.
	Spoof.
	A spoof, I think, is immune.
	That's good to hear if that is the case.
	So, I know you, as I mentioned earlier.
	That's not why you're on, but I do know you.
	It's interesting to the extent that you want to talk about it, your own philosophical, political evolution.
	Right.
	Tell us about that.
	Well, I grew up in a blue state surrounded by other blue states.
	No red ever penetrated to where I grew up.
	Pretty much remained, you know, very much a Democrat, voted for Democrats until 9-11.
	And I think that converted a lot of people because what happened was I saw the reaction of both parties, and I think it was Clinton who said, and I voted for Clinton twice, he said, what have we done to deserve this?
	And the other side, the Republicans were going, this is just pure evil, we have to fight it.
	So that started making sense to me.
	The other thing was, I mean, I have to say, you know, I've known you since 1984 and listened and...
	You know, read stuff, and I think you worked on me, not consciously, but that did work on me for all those years.
	Good to hear.
	Yeah, for 20 years.
	And then I finally flipped.
	Training now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	I just got an email about someone who says they have to take mandated racial diversity seminar training or whatever it is.
	And all I have to say is that there is a piece of art, and I don't use that word lightly, that is so perfect, so funny, so politically incorrect that hits this perfectly.
	It's from the legendary show The Office.
	Now The Office started as an unbelievably politically incorrect show, and then it got into this kind of like quasi-woke thing later on.
	But the episode Diversity Day with Steve Corral, it's so politically incorrect, especially in today's time.
	I'm just going to tell you something right now.
	If I dared repeat some of the lines here, it wouldn't even be an advertiser boycott.
	It would be an advertiser invasion.
	One of my favorite lines is Steve Corral looks into the...
	Actually, this might be the pilot episode.
	You see...
	I'm not an expert in a lot of things, but I am an expert in the central canon of the first season of The Office, because it all went downhill from there.
	I watched it later.
	The first season of The Office is so well-written, as if they don't care.
	They just said, we are going to swing for the fences, bottom of the ninth, we want this show to catch on, that they just took huge risks.
	Steve Corral famously said, as Abraham Lincoln said, If you are a racist, I will attack you from the north.
	I highly encourage you to check it out because we need to laugh about this stuff a little bit because people are emailing me, Charlie, what do I do about this diversity seminar?
	If you think you have it bad, check out Michael Scott who had to take the diversity class seminar.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Listen, I fight hard for what I believe in every day, but I also try to understand where somebody who disagrees with my ideology or my politics, where they're coming from.
	And so in a way, maybe you do the same thing and it kind of...
	It keeps us sort of out of the hot seat where we're not just trying to lob hand grenades to the other side, but we're trying to have a reasonable dialogue.
	Yeah, I don't want any vitriol in my life.
	I work very hard to avoid it.
	One of the things, of course, I talk about my dog a lot, Jasper.
	I've actually utilized my love for dogs to form relationships with people that I might disagree with politically.
	That's been very gratifying, actually.
	I have a rule, no politics at the dog park.
	And also, I've found the other thing is that if you ask questions, right, I ask a lot of questions.
	I'm curious.
	I love learning.
	I know you do, too.
	This is why you do this job.
	You love meeting people and learning the issues.
	And I've also started listening to more podcasts.
	I'm thrilled that you're going to be doing a podcast.
	I will subscribe.
	I will give you five stars.
	Thank you.
	In the book, I list several podcasts for young people to keep learning so that they can grow.
	I mean, there's a lot of ambition and talent and educated people in America.
	They want to succeed, but they've got to work a little harder to get it.
	You've got to work for a competitive world.
	And you have to find a way to be different from your competitors.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	This isn't as some have portrayed it as some kind of spontaneous, random organic response to Joe Biden being president This is being in...
	Hi, everybody.
	A very different Ultimate Issues Hour and a nice change.
	In that we're talking about comedy with one of the great comedy writers and directors of our generation, David Zucker of Airplane, the Naked Gun series, Basketball, and, in my opinion, the magnum opus of your life, for goodness sake.
	Ah, yes.
	Folks, I just need to tell you, it's very touching to have the three of us in this room.
	Because it's because of you that I met, and Rich Markey.
	You and Rich Markey are the reasons that I met Alan Estrin.
	And Rich was also the reason I met you.
	Rich had seen something you did on JTN, and he said, you've got to see this guy.
	And then we had a mutual friend.
	We had a dinner at somebody's house.
	Well, it all ended up with this...
	I'm very proud of it.
	When I look at it, I still laugh.
	And that is, it's a video, about a half hour, 20 to 30 minutes.
	A lot of stuff was cut out, like O.J. Simpson.
	Yeah, only I would have done a goodness video starring O.J. Simpson.
	That's funny.
	That's right.
	We all worked with O.J. Simpson.
	That's a tidbit of...
	Prager trivia, people would not be aware of.
	Anyway, you can see it on the internet.
	David directed it.
	David, I need to tell you, it's called For Goodness Sake, folks.
	You'll love it as an adult, but I want your kids to see it.
	It's a hilarious video.
	Basically, my idea is on goodness.
	So, there was a scene.
	If people were to ask me, what was the most difficult moment of your life?
	I could think of three or four things.
	One of them, like one was smuggling out anti-Soviet documents from the Soviet Union at midnight and being taken out of the train at the Romanian border.
	But up there with that was a scene in For Goodness Sake, which I was told, Dennis, it's too complex.
	We can only film it once.
	Get it right the first time.
	Okay, I like to get things on the first take anyway.
	However, behind me, Mrs. McGillicuddy, or whatever her name was, Mrs. O'Malley, falls out of a window.
	It's, of course, a dummy, into a garbage bin.
	I know what's happening behind me, and David Zucker is behind the camera, cracking up.
	Just cracking up.
	And I'm supposed to deliver my lines completely straight-faced with Mrs. O'Malley falling into a garbage bin behind me.
	The whole thing just cracked me up.
	It remains the funniest scene in that whole movie.
	See, there we are.
	Straight-faced.
	Thank you.
	Straight-faced Prager.
	That was so difficult.
	I don't remember who else was behind the camera, but I remember you just laughing yourself silly with this woman falling into a garbage can behind me, and I kept a completely straight face.
	Did you realize what achievement I had accomplished?
	No, I don't care about the actors.
	Yeah, and Leslie Nielsen tells the same story, that he'd try to concentrate, and he'd hear David giggling at the monitor.
	I know, it's not fair.
	It's not fair.
	No, absolutely not.
	Did you have fun directing that?
	I did.
	It was tremendous fun.
	I've had fun directing all the movies.
	Right, well, you enjoy life.
	I do.
	I do.
	And imagine I can work and the test of whether I got it right or not is if I laugh.
	I mean, I have to laugh on the set as we're shooting it.
	That's important to you.
	That's your nature.
	But it's a gift to others because you make us happier.
	Laughter is very, very important.
	Now, having said that, And he's totally free to take the microphone.
	Having said that, and this is serious, I ribbed the living martyr a lot on the show, but now I'm not.
	So, I will even call him by his given name, Alan.
	You don't laugh a lot, is that fair to say?
	I can make Alan laugh, though, but go ahead.
	You can make him smile, which the rest of us consider a giggle.
	But it is an interesting thing.
	Do you miss it, Alan?
	No.
	He finds the question essentially meaningless.
	Ah, that's a good point.
	The man knows his work.
	We'll be back on the laughter issue.
	How could I miss what I've never experienced?
	How could he miss what he never experienced?
	That's a great line.
	I make up for it.
	Yes.
	That's the way it works.
	Hey, listen, relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384.
	It's very simple.
	You'll know in three weeks if it works.
	That's a pretty honest maker of a product.
	If it doesn't work in three weeks, don't bother buying anymore.
	Simple as that.
	So try it for three weeks, $19.95 plus shipping, and that's it.
	That's all you need to know.
	Relieffactor.com, 800-583-84.
	For the record, I took my little packet of it already today.
	We return on The Dennis Prager Show.
	The Dennis Prager Show.
	The situation on the ground is certainly challenging, in part because we inherited a dismantled system that wasn't prepared for processing asylum requests, that had left in place the Remain in Mexico program.
	What do you make of Jen Psaki's, it's all Trump's fault, explanation?
	Well, I hear a lot of blah, blah, blah.
	This is Biden's border crisis.
	It truly is.
	President Biden is willing to say it or not, or Jen Psaki says it or not, it is a crisis.
	And with 23 years in the military and, of course, my service now on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, I see this not only as a humanitarian crisis, but it's also a growing threat to our national security.
	They have got to open their eyes.
	They've got to acknowledge this is not just a challenge.
	It is not just a big problem.
	It is a certified crisis.
	Now, do you think they will do what is necessary or is Open Borders the de facto policy of Team Biden?
	I think it will end up being the de facto policy.
	And again, there's a lot of blah, blah, blah right now.
	But the extreme push from the left.
	Is to simply open our borders.
	And I heard her, you know, in her clip saying, oh, you know, we want these children to be safe.
	We want them treated humanely.
	The humanitarian thing to do is not to have their parents hand them over to drug cartels and human traffickers and parade them through very dangerous situations.
	It's to protect them in their homes.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Folks, I'm talking to Anne McElhinney and Phelan McAleer.
	You have a film that you are on the verge of making.
	It's called My Son, Hunter, and it's about Hunter Biden.
	When you think about it, this should be the opening skit on every Saturday Night Live.
	I was just going to say, precisely, yes.
	I mean, and, you know, I don't like making fun of alcoholics being Irish, you know, but the politics is so funny.
	I mean, this guy, as Anne said, you know, troll out of the Navy, alcoholic, drug addict.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Gets a stripper pregnant.
	Who hasn't?
	He, you know...
	He goes to rehab, meets a homeless woman on the way into rehab called bicycles, because she's always got a bicycle, goes off and lives with her for three months.
	This is by his own admission.
	But the joke, the real joke here is, who did Burisma?
	They did an international executive search, and who did they decide was the best person for their work?
	On the planet Earth, after a deep...
	I think that the nature thing is...
	Yeah, I got it.
	Yeah.
	We are so given to teaching.
	That a lot of times, what you don't expect happens at PragerU.
	How many people would expect a Guatemalan woman?
	Not Guatemalan American.
	Guatemalan, she lives in Guatemala.
	She does a show in Guatemala on TV. And she is doing what?
	Something on immigration?
	No.
	Something on Hispanics?
	No.
	On Ayn Rand.
	She's a free thinker.
	So it really is not what you would expect.
	Plus, she's beautiful.
	And it's part of her success.
	But she's brilliant.
	I mean, she's simply brilliant.
	She's a free thinker, and she loves freedom.
	It's really worth watching.
	And it is fundraising month for PragerU.
	In fact...
	One of the reasons we had David Zucker on is because he pledged $25,000 to PragerU.
	And I'm very happy to do that, Dennis, for you.
	I assume it goes right into your pocket.
	It does go into my pocket.
	That's why I did it.
	Unfortunately, the living martyr has access to my pocket, so it is that possibility.
	Anyway, it is fundraising month, and I thank you.
	You are the audience that made PragerU possible.
	Our first fundraising was with my listeners.
	We're doing good stuff.
	Anyway, your kids watch it, right?
	They do, yeah.
	I send them the videos.
	They're in college, and I send it to them.
	Well, I'm very touched and happy to hear that.
	So David Zucker is my guest.
	It's a very different Ultimate Issues Hour, and one deeply necessary, the importance of laughter and comedy, which is part of his nature.
	And, of course, the Airplane, the Naked Gun series, Basketball.
	And now you've come out with an e-book, which I had the delight to look at.
	And I say look at because it's more looking than reading.
	That's right.
	I figured you'd get through it because it has pictures and captions.
	Yes, it's like the daily news.
	See, he laughed.
	No, he smiled.
	I was right.
	No, no, you were wrong, and I'm right.
	He smiled.
	You consider a smile from him to be...
	Uncontrollable laughter.
	I agree with that.
	Dennis, I'm a glass half full guy.
	Three quarters full.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	I love your attitude.
	I really do.
	And I love you.
	I mean, you're a special human being.
	Thank you.
	And give a big hug to your brother.
	I will.
	Because I deeply appreciate him, his work, his role in my life.
	And I wanted to say that publicly.
	By the way, I had him on.
	For a movie I think is totally hilarious, Rat Race.
	Oh, yeah.
	Rat Race was a funny movie.
	It's very funny.
	Okay, so you put out an e-book, and the title is Before the Invention of Smiling.
	Because all these ancestor pictures, they're just so...
	I guess they're like Alan, you know?
	I never thought I was thinking exactly.
	That happened to be one of the captions.
	It was a picture in the book of my grandfather, probably at his bar mitzvah in still a Russia, and his father, and they're just so stone-faced.
	Well, let me just say, on behalf of your grandfather, that bar mitzvahs in Russia under the Tsar...
	We're not happy events.
	Just for the record.
	There's no picture, but there is a picture of the yeshiva that he went to.
	No, I can't believe you have, I don't have anywhere near that number of family pictures.
	Well, actually I used a picture from the internet, God bless the internet, of the yeshiva.
	Oh, the yeshiva there.
	There's literally a hundred kids in it, and I say the caption says, Leo Zucker is fifth row, you know, 13th from the right.
	Right, I know, I love, the pictures were amazing.
	So you had a happy childhood?
	I did, but it isn't so much about my childhood.
	No, it isn't.
	I used to listen to these stories that my grandmother would tell, and I'm interested, you know, I'm very devoted to family, and I love history.
	So my grandmother was one of eight brothers and sisters who came from Hungary, and none of them talked about it.
	My grandmother was the only one, and I was the only one of her ten grandkids who listened.
	I went back for a visit to Milwaukee from L.A., and I got the whole story on tape.
	And then 20 years later, I had a transcript made.
	And by that time, my kids were able to hear the story.
	And so I did a children's book.
	I wasn't satisfied with that, so I let it go for 10 years until two years ago.
	And then I read the transcript, and it's fascinating in my grandmother's voice.
	And so that's what I used.
	And I hired my storyboard artist, Gary Thomas, and then another artist, Cynthia Angulo, to do the drawings where pictures weren't available.
	Normally, that would not succeed, but you made it succeed partially because of the humor, partially the photos and the drawings.
	I mean, everything contributed, obviously.
	You think...
	Well, let me ask you, obviously, how do people access this?
	Oh, well, you can get it on Amazon.
	You can read Amazon e-books via the Kindle Library app on any device, Apple iPad, or on Android and Windows tablets.
	Oh, it's up at DennisPrager.com, the connection?
	Yeah.
	If you own a Kindle device...
	Yeah, well, you don't even own it.
	You just download it.
	It's free.
	Yeah, but a Kindle device will only show it in black and white, but it's worth it to get it in color.
	Oh, how do you get it in color?
	If you view it on any other device, it'll be in color.
	Oh, really?
	That's very interesting.
	I didn't know...
	Okay.
	Anyway, the connection is up at DennisPrager.com.
	But there's a great...
	The picture that I discovered just in the last couple of years, it had been a color slide, and it was taken when I was four years old, and I'm standing on a chair in between my grandfather and my father, and my father and I are wearing bow ties.
	I probably had one of those clip-on bow ties.
	This is like in 1950. Two or something.
	And my grandfather is standing beside me and he had converted his necktie.
	That is the largest bow tie I have ever seen outside of a circus.
	Into a ridiculous looking bow tie.
	And you have a hilarious comment there.
	That's why it's fun.
	Because it's a straight face.
	We'll be back.
	Final segment with David Zucker.
	Ultimate Issues Hour.
	I can't believe the guy wore such a...
	This is Jerry Boyer of Town Hall Finance for townhall.com.
	The Congressional Budget Office just released its new debt figures.
	The national debt this year will top 102% of GDP. This has only happened twice before, both during World War II. This number does not count the proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, nor does it count the money which was borrowed from Social Security, since that's considered intergovernmental debt.
	Debt levels this high break the intergenerational covenant that we have with our children and grandchildren.
	FDR borrowed to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
	Money well spent.
	Reagan borrowed to defeat the Soviet Union.
	That was also money well spent.
	These great projects made the world better for future generations.
	But our political class is not buying victories against international threats.
	They are buying political victories for incumbents.
	This is nothing more than fiscal abuse, and our kids will pay the price.
	It needs to stop now.
	I'm Jerry Boyer.
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	They don't think that America has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
	Cut 91.
	Well, I think we thought too well of the United States.
	We thought that the U.S. side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.
	So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear.
	So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position the United States does not have the qualification to say that it You understand what they're saying here?
	They're saying that, oh, the United States doesn't have a position of strength.
	You mean after you destroyed our manufacturing base, debased our currency, spied on our cyber grid, They're lecturing us about strength.
	In one sense, they're right.
	But the fact that they have the cockiness to say that goes to show exactly where the international order is headed.
	And I'm going to tell you one thing that we should all be talking about when it comes to Joe Biden and China that we just seem to be forgetting and missing.
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	subscribe on YouTube today trending now on the Larry Elder show I'm going to go.
	I am a teacher in an elementary school and a lot of our professional development is on racism because our school is very diverse in that population.
	And one of the...
	All right, y'all.
	I have enjoyed this beyond words.
	Airplane, I just learned, makes sense to me.
	He's always listed as one of the top five comedy films ever done.
	And one of the three writers is with me, David Zucker, his brother Jerry Zucker, and their friend Jim Abrams from childhood in Milwaukee, correct?
	Right.
	We went to the same high school.
	Our fathers were partners in the real estate business.
	Whose father was not in the real estate business.
	Or the clothing business.
	Or the clothing business.
	That's so true.
	Well, this has been an Ultimate Issues Hour about many things, but the primary aim was to speak about the importance of laughter in life.
	You know, we were talking about the living martyr who rarely laughs.
	And here was Adam Carolla's description of...
	My producer.
	That was a spontaneous...
	That's really good.
	I love that you laugh at a fellow comedian.
	No, it's like these obscure references.
	That's it.
	They work.
	That's right.
	Dennis Miller pulls out these obscure references and it cracks me up also.
	Yes, of course.
	He once referenced Raleigh Coupon Furniture.
	I mean, who remembers that?
	I don't.
	By the way, so are you still working?
	Yeah, I'm still working on...
	I'm pitching two television series.
	One is starting a national basketball league.
	And so we're working on that.
	And the other is a spoof on a reality show, which I'm pitching.
	So we'll see what happens.
	And of course, there's the film noir movie that I want to do as a television series.
	So serious film noir.
	Well, no, it's funny.
	A comedic film noir.
	It's a comedic film noir.
	That's a hard thing to imagine, but you could pull it off.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I'm sure I could.
	So, your kids, they know how much you enjoy life?
	Oh, they definitely do, yeah.
	We just visited them at their college, and it was just so great meeting all their friends.
	And I just enjoy, you know, joking around and, you know, telling...
	To have a happy parent is a blessing.
	That's one of the reasons I do a happiness hour.
	Well, this was great.
	I want to remind you all, we met making a video called For Goodness Sake.
	It's free.
	You can see it on the internet.
	You will see a much younger me, but it's obviously me.
	And it is a great series of vignettes about goodness.
	David Zucker, you are a joy in everybody's life.
	Well, the feeling is mutual, Dennis.
	Thank you for having me.
	My joy.
	Thank you.

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