March 24, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| All right. | |
| 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. | |
| 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, I thought, 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 you said one. | |
| They're so serious. | |
| And that happened to be one of the captions. | |
| It was a picture in the book of my grandfather, probably at his bar mitzvah in Stila, 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. | |
| I know. | |
| 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. | |
| There's literally a hundred kids in it. | |
| And I say the caption says, Leo Zucker is fifth row. | |
| So, you know, 13th from the right, you know. | |
| Right. | |
| No, 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, and 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? | |
| Okay, that's perfect. | |
| 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... | |
| Picture that I discovered in 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, right? | |
| 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. |
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