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April 2, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	It's not the royal we.
	I don't use the royal we.
	I say I when it's I. But we, you and I, talk about everything on this show, because life is not only politics, it's not only economics, it's not only what is happening in the news.
	We live a life independent of the news, or we certainly should anyway.
	But everybody does whether they want to or not.
	I'd like to raise an issue with you.
	Something I have talked about in different ways in the course of my entire career as a talk show host, which is now three and a half decades.
	It's a long time.
	And that is divorce.
	I'll tell you a story and then I'm going to ask you a question.
	I'd like your feedback.
	But I want to tell you a story first.
	I know I've recounted it, but, oh, it's got to be a long time ago.
	The first radio show I ever did was on ABC in Los Angeles.
	And the show was called Religion on the Line.
	I was the moderator.
	Of one of the most popular shows in Southern California.
	When I inherited it, it was extremely...
	I mean, you have no idea how popular.
	If you have a 3% share in any city, you are a bestseller.
	This had a 40% share.
	Virtually half the people listening to radio on a Sunday evening, and many tuned in just for that, were listening to that show.
	I increased it, but I already inherited a very popular show.
	And the show consisted of a moderator and different ones each week, but each week a rabbi, priest, and minister.
	So, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, clergy.
	And I did it for exactly 10 years.
	Exactly.
	August 82 to August 92. Made some very close friends as a result of that.
	I got steeped in an education.
	I'd already been steeped in education in Judaism.
	It was like getting two PhDs in Christianity, but better than a PhD, because I spoke to people who lived it.
	I didn't just read its history or theology.
	I spoke to people who believed it.
	That's critical if you want to study religion.
	Talk to people who believe in it.
	And it started a tremendous...
	Bond between myself and the Christian community in the United States.
	Tremendous.
	So I would raise a topic each week.
	The clergy would respond, and then people would call in.
	That was the nature of the show.
	It was fantastic.
	And there were no ads.
	It was the two hours a week public service.
	I don't know if it's still demanded of stations, but those were the two hours that station gave to no commercials.
	So it was really like three hours.
	One day I raised the issue, okay, clergy, I'm going to raise the issue of divorce and your take and the take of your religion.
	And all three said, independently of one another, when it was their turn to respond to my question, people divorce much too easily.
	I have heard that all of my life.
	People divorce way too easily.
	It's funny.
	I've never heard it from anybody who was divorced.
	Not that I think of it.
	The only people who ever say people divorce too easily that I know of are people who actually never divorced.
	It just occurred to me now, which...
	Anyway.
	You'll hear the story.
	So they, the rabbi, the priest, the minister, they all said people divorce way too easily.
	Okay.
	So then, and there is, I'll bet you there's a recording of this somewhere.
	Because this is a very dramatic thing.
	So I, what I did in each case is, I posed the question and then they had the Protestant minister or pastor speak first.
	Then the Catholic priest, then the Jewish rabbi.
	That's the way I did it.
	Then I would go on round two, and I'd go in reverse.
	Rabbi, priest, minister.
	So they all said that, and then I would do a round two.
	I would just listen to them in, so to speak, round one.
	Round two, I would raise a question based on what they had said in round one.
	So round two, I said, okay, gentlemen, they were all gentlemen.
	And I said, oh, no, no, I didn't say it collectively.
	I started, of course, the rabbi.
	It was round two.
	So I said, Rabbi, I'm just curious, do you know anyone in your life close to you that has divorced?
	He said, yes, my parents.
	The rabbi's own parents had divorced.
	And I said, well, do you believe that they divorced too easily?
	And he said, uh-uh.
	Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
	I can only tell you my mother had to get out of that marriage.
	Thank you, Rabbi.
	Father went to the Catholic priest.
	And one of the most wonderful people, by the way.
	I remember who he was, actually, on that show.
	That was Father Gregory Koiro.
	A terrific human being.
	He passed away a few years ago.
	And I asked him, so, Father, are you close to anybody who divorced?
	He said, oh yes, well, like the rabbi, my parents divorced, and I think it saved my mother's life.
	Thank you, thank you, Father.
	And Pastor, are you close to anybody who's divorced?
	He said, yes, my brother's going through a divorce right now.
	And do you feel that he's divorcing too easily?
	Oh no, I know how much they tried to keep the marriage together, how much they struggled.
	This was not an easy thing.
	So I said, I said, gentlemen, each of you said people divorced too easily.
	But the people you know best who divorced, you don't think they divorced too easily at all.
	It stayed in my mind.
	I mean, I've done a lot of radio shows, so for something to stay in my mind, it has to make a really big impression.
	So here's my theory.
	It's very simple.
	A lot of people say people divorce too easily, but the people they know who divorced, they don't really believe that divorce too easily.
	For most people who divorce, it's absolutely necessary and awful.
	Yes, you know, in Hollywood, there's a buffoonery in Hollywood of, you know, six months, this, six months, that.
	Okay, but forget that.
	I mean, for people, including some people, obviously, in Hollywood, but putting Hollywood aside, I don't think that that is the case.
	I think that people who stay married and have a difficult marriage but still endure, I think that what they're thinking is, oh, those people couldn't manage to stay together whereas we have.
	And I'm not blaming them.
	I'm just saying, I think that that is what is operative when married people say, oh, people divorce too easily.
	So, I have a question for you, both in light of that and separate from that.
	And that was just an overview statement that I wanted to make on the issue.
	So, I have a question for you.
	Actually, I put it as three questions, correct?
	So, what was the first one?
	Okay, so this applies to people who've divorced?
	I'm asking people who've divorced?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So, do you regret you divorced?
	There are three questions.
	Do you regret you divorced?
	Actually, I have a question for those of you who are together.
	Do you regret you didn't divorce?
	I want this to be a fair thing.
	Do you regret you divorced?
	Do you regret that you didn't divorce?
	1-8 Prager 776. Do you regret if you did divorce that you didn't divorce sooner?
	That's another question.
	People wait if they have children.
	Is that wise?
	What do you think?
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	As it relates to our kids, our kids are unfortunately being harmed as a result of some of these policies.
	We've never asked the question, what is the result of the policy of keeping kids out of school?
	What harm could possibly come to kids?
	Well, we're seeing the highest teen suicide rate that we've ever seen in our country's history.
	We're seeing lost years of education.
	We're seeing spousal abuse and domestic abuse and child abuse and substance abuse.
	So we are harming our children almost beyond recognition.
	And now as we open up schools, we're putting in place rules that make no sense at all.
	Masking a child is a form of child abuse.
	Kids are not at risk of COVID-19.
	There's little evidence that they spread the disease to at-risk teachers.
	And this social distancing among kids is not necessary.
	And for God's sakes, why are we making kids wear masks while they're participating in athletics?
	That makes no sense at all.
	My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Barkey.
	He's a board-certified primary care physician.
	His website is personalcarephysicians.com.
	Dr. Barkey, suppose...
	Donald Trump, early on, had gotten concerned about the coronavirus vaccine, picks up the phone, calls Dr. Jeffrey Barkey and says, I want you to be in charge of this whole thing.
	How would you have handled this thing?
	Well, thanks, Dave, for the confidence.
	You know, I think he did a pretty good job, you know, rather than just allowing the government bureaucrats.
	to roll into action and five years later we had a vaccine.
	He put the private sector into play and that's why Operation Warp Speed has been so successful.
	So I think we've done a good job at rolling it out so far.
	Unfortunately, individual states are making mistakes how they roll out the vaccine.
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	I'm focused in on the stepped-up basis rule.
	I'm reading from Forbes.
	Eliminating stepped-up basis could be a middle-class tax hike.
	You know, the president promised no one...
	Making under $400,000 a year would be taxed by his proposals.
	This impacts many, many millions of people who make less than $400,000 a year.
	It impacts every retiree who stayed in their house and saved for retirement and said if they don't have to...
	Use it when they die.
	It'll go to their grandkids.
	No, it won't.
	It's going to go to the federal government.
	The death tax Democrats are marching towards your saving.
	Do the Republicans have a plan to beat this?
	Are there five Democrats who don't want to get wiped out in 2022?
	Well, here's the other thing quickly here that affects everybody.
	Rampant inflation.
	I mean, that's going to affect every working class and middle class family.
	Second point I make is...
	You know, the Biden administration has found money for everything.
	Everything under the sun.
	Wipe out San Francisco, $650 million of debt.
	You know, you fund a variety of pet projects for Schumer and Palympi.
	They found money for everything except for the things that truly matters, which is the national security and defense of this country.
	Because I guarantee you, Hugh, in a couple of months we're going to get the DOD budget.
	And it is going to be a cut.
	The top line is going to go down.
	We're going to get a lot of fancy mumbo-jumbo about technology and third offset and this and that.
	But they are going to try and convince us that we do not have the resources necessary to invest in our defense at a time when China is saber-rattling over Taiwan, even though they have spent all the money on everything else.
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	Hello, my friends.
	I'm posing a question to you today about the divorce.
	And it's a multiple question.
	If you've divorced or if you're together.
	I'm asking a question.
	One, do you regret you divorced?
	Two, do you regret you didn't divorce?
	Three, do you regret waiting as long as you did to divorce?
	All right, that's very serious questions.
	I'm pretty open about agendas.
	If I have a 5th thesis I want to promulgate, I clear about it, and then I acknowledge it, and then we move forward.
	My only agenda here is that people maximize their opportunities for happiness, hurt themselves and others as little as possible, and that's it.
	I don't have a pro or anti-divorce agenda.
	I've been divorced.
	I wish that I had had one marriage.
	But I also know that they sometimes don't work, and sometimes it's no one's fault, and sometimes it's both fault, and sometimes it's one far more than the other.
	Another line, I'm not a fan of lines that people say that sound right.
	It takes two to tango.
	Like every divorce, it's the result of both equally.
	I have to say that in the cases that I know, that was not the case.
	In some cases it is.
	It's both.
	In very many cases, one is a bigger culprit than the other.
	I don't know why.
	Doesn't that make sense when you think about it?
	Think everybody is equally responsible for the unhappiness of a marriage?
	That's an absurdity.
	Okay, so I'm just curious.
	Okay.
	Dale in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Hello, Dale.
	Hello, Dennis.
	How are you today?
	Well, thank you.
	Yes, I was married for 28 years and got a divorce, but I waited until I had twin girls, and I waited until they got out of high school before I... Before I told my wife I was leaving.
	She was undiagnosed bipolar.
	And we just could not live with her any longer.
	And do you wish that you had waited longer?
	You wish you had divorced sooner?
	I wish I would have left sooner, but I didn't know what to do.
	And I didn't want to leave, but it just got to the point where I had to.
	How are your girls?
	Oh, they were devastated by it at the time and didn't understand it.
	But when I explained it to them later, they understood because they lived in the same house I lived in.
	You're right.
	How are they now?
	Oh, they're good.
	They're good.
	And their mother never changed in her bipolar attitudes and pretty much drove them away from her, too.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you for calling.
	So there you go.
	So there's one vote for someone who wishes he had divorced sooner.
	By the way, that is a good example of, oh, well, you know, it takes two to tango.
	It takes two to divorce.
	It takes two to ruin a marriage.
	It's baloney.
	Sometimes it takes one.
	It's so...
	Foolish, that I'm surprised.
	I hear bright people say that.
	That's an example of the unthought-through sentiment.
	And by the way, in cases where there is bipolarity, for example, it's a tragedy.
	I mean, it's just truly a tragedy, because it's hard to blame the bipolar person.
	The bipolar person is...
	Is the party responsible largely for the demise of the marriage, but they're probably not responsible for their bipolarity.
	Just, you know, chalk it up to tragedy.
	Too bad somebody just hung up who said she regrets she divorced.
	I don't know.
	I see regrets, but I didn't see what the rest was.
	1-8 Prager 776 is actually one line as a result of her.
	And let's go to Kathy in Nashville, Texas.
	Hi, Kathy.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you so much for your wisdom and especially for addressing this topic.
	I totally agree with your last statement.
	I think there's a lot of...
	I was born and raised without Catholic.
	Never, ever thought I would be divorced.
	I was married for 24 years.
	I think almost prideful in my views of people who were divorced.
	Kind of similar to what you were just saying.
	My husband cheated on me.
	It was very much of a shock.
	Tried to keep the marriage together for about a year, over a year.
	But it just fell apart in the end.
	And I guess my reason for calling is to really let people know that it's aggressive.
	Oh, sorry, you're breaking up there.
	Your reason for calling is what?
	It's not quite difficult the second time around.
	You both bring baggage.
	You've got children.
	Children are hurt.
	I do feel bad for people who go through it, but I, again, just stressing that it's not necessarily an easy fix and that I really encourage people to fight for their marriages, even when it seems lost.
	Right.
	So your message, if I got it right, a little difficulty with the transmission, is...
	You don't want people to easily judge those who divorced, which you feel you had perhaps done earlier, and at the same time, they should work hard to keep a marriage together.
	Is that correct?
	Correct.
	Okay.
	Thank you so much.
	I think that both are true.
	That's correct.
	My only point is that I'm sure such people exist.
	I don't know anyone who's divorced who didn't try to keep it together.
	I'm sure that there are people who didn't, but I don't know any.
	I know, like anybody else, I know a limited number of people.
	I don't think the people that I know are in that regard all that different from others.
	It's a very strange person who divorces easily.
	Let me put it to you that way.
	Very few people get married thinking, well, if it doesn't work out, I'll just get divorced.
	Most people get married thinking this is the love of my life.
	By the way, that's another interesting question.
	How many people marry not thinking this is the love of my life?
	We should do that.
	How we doing on time, Mr. Triple?
	We'll be back in a moment.
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	I'm sorry.
	This is a teacher-student dialogue of a Zoom class in Virginia.
	Listen carefully.
	Play tape.
	What this seems to be a picture of?
	It's just two people chilling.
	Right, just two people.
	There's nothing more to this picture?
	No, not really.
	Just two people chilling.
	I don't believe that you look at this as just two people.
	It truly is just two people though, is it not?
	Yeah, but I think you're being intentionally coy about what this is a picture of.
	What are you being coy about?
	It's two people standing back to back in a picture.
	Yeah, and that's all you see is two people.
	I'm confused on what you would like me to speak on.
	I don't think you are.
	Well, I'm confused.
	Are you trying to...
	Do you want me to say that there are two different races in this picture?
	Is that what you want me to say?
	Well, at the end of the day, wouldn't that just be feeding into the problem of looking at race instead of just acknowledging them as two normal people?
	No, it's not.
	Because you can't look at people and not acknowledge that there are racial differences, right?
	But let's say if we're looking for equality within all this, then why would we need to point out things such as that?
	Because those things, those differences are real things.
	Those differences are real things, says the eugenicist teaching your children.
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	I mentioned that in 2006 on Halloween night, literally 20 minutes from the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper in the state, three white girls are going to one of these haunted house parties on Halloween night without any provocation.
	Black mob of between 30 and 40 teens and adults brutally kicked and beat them, slammed them to the ground, ripped the earrings from their earlobes, beat them with a skateboard.
	One victim had 12 fractures in her face, required multiple surgeries, damage to her teeth and to her eyesight.
	The women also suffered internal injuries and concussions.
	Had it not been for a Good Samaritan, a black man who was driving by and bravely got out of his car and waded into the crowd to help the girls.
	They might very well have been killed.
	Now, I mention the story because wouldn't you think this would be a big deal if these were, say, three black girls who were beaten by a mob of 30 to 40 people?
	Of course it would be.
	But these were three white girls beaten by a mob of 30 to 40 blacks.
	The LA Times, again, whose headquarters is literally 20 minutes away from this took place, did not write one word.
	Not one article, not one column, not one paragraph, not one word, the whole, for a whole week.
	The Long Beach Press-Telegram, the local newspaper, of course, wrote about it.
	L.A. Times didn't write a word.
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	Indeed.
	Yo soy de acá.
	I agree.
	Yo soy de acá.
	Estoy acuerdo.
	Is that correct, Zatay?
	Say I agree in Spanish?
	Does anybody know?
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	Acuerdo, no?
	No?
	I don't know.
	I may have totally made it up.
	A lot of times I speak Spanish, which I certainly, I mean, I get along, basically.
	But what I do is I just Spanishize a French word and then pray.
	All right, y'all.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Periodically, I raise.
	Just human questions on the show and not talk about the news.
	This is one of them.
	I'm right?
	That is how you say it?
	Estoy acuerdo.
	Oh, nice.
	Very nice.
	Okay.
	It's about divorce.
	There are a number of questions.
	Do you regret you divorced?
	Do you regret you didn't divorce?
	And third, if you did divorce, do you wish you had waited longer?
	Do you wish you had...
	This is The Way of Life and Lisa in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Hi, Lisa.
	Hi, Dennis.
	It's so nice to talk to you.
	I've actually met you a couple of times.
	The second time was I went on the first Stand for Israel tour.
	Oh, wonderful.
	Oh, it was wonderful.
	I made some lifelock friends and it was an amazing experience.
	Well, good.
	Thank you for saying that because it just enables me to tell people that I'm going again.
	It was wonderful.
	There's a banner up about the trip on my website.
	Thank you.
	I wish I could go again.
	And on that trip, I did not get a chance to shake your hand or hug you because I had a terrible cold.
	I did not think that was a good idea, but don't tell Mike Gallagher I did shake his hand.
	You know, Mike did leave Israel with a terrible cold.
	He even said to me, I'm sure I got it shaking somebody's hand.
	Now we know.
	Four years later, we know the answer to the riddle.
	It was Lisa of Charlotte.
	It was Lisa of Charlotte, yes.
	Well, the first time I met you, interestingly enough, was in Minneapolis, and it was before Obama was elected, and there was an event.
	You, Michael Medved, came and my then-husband and I attended the event and we got to have dinner with you and have our picture taken with you.
	That was the last picture that was ever taken of my husband and I together.
	He then left me about five weeks later.
	And if you look at the picture, my friends say, didn't you not see the body language?
	All of you guys are hugging and I'm standing in the front.
	Kind of clutching my purse and nobody was hugging me.
	Anyway, I was blindsided.
	He left and I... That, you know what, you have given me, forgive me, but you have given me another topic for another hour.
	Were you blind, were you, this is what I would ask, were you blindsided by a divorce?
	That's a very interesting, unfortunately, it's an interesting question.
	In retrospect, are you blindsided still?
	No, and what I told your screener was in the end, I'm glad it happened.
	You'll love this, he was a trial attorney, and he was a narcissist, and when you're with him, when you're with a narcissist, you don't realize how dysfunctional it is.
	Now that I am out, I have a very different lifestyle.
	I mean, I had an affluent lifestyle with a trial attorney.
	My lifestyle is very much budgeted now.
	But it's interesting.
	I was just talking to my son and daughter-in-law this weekend.
	I wouldn't trade it for anything.
	I am so much more aware.
	I'm happier.
	I have less, and I have learned to be very content with less because I don't have a man that has contempt for me.
	And when that contempt came out, I knew I was never going to get beyond that.
	Are you dating?
	No, I really wish you would set up a matchmaking because if I could find a man that said, I love Dennis Prager, I'd say, I love you.
	I haven't had a date since the divorce.
	I want to react to that when we come back.
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	And then the interview, a long interview on Tucker Carlson's show last night.
	An interview which friends of mine in the conservative media have said was not good for Matt Gaetz.
	I had a slightly different reaction.
	I thought he composed himself and comported himself well.
	But Tucker Carlson didn't react well to the interview.
	This is what he had to say after Matt Gaetz left his show.
	Cut for Tucker Carlson.
	If you just saw a Matt Gaetz interview, that was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever That story just appeared in the news a couple of hours ago.
	And on the certainty that there's always more than you read in the newspaper, we immediately called Matt Gaetz and asked him to come on and tell us more, which, as you saw, he did.
	I don't think that clarified much.
	But it certainly showed this is a deeply interesting story and we'll be following it.
	Don't quite understand it.
	But we'll bring you more when we find out.
	Well, it did clarify where Matt Gaetz stands.
	He says he denies it.
	He denies all of it.
	And also that a former Department of Justice lawyer was blackmailing or attempting to blackmail Matt and his family to the tune of $25 million.
	And that his father had agreed with the local FBI to wear a wire in a meeting with that individual who Matt Gaetz named on live television as former DOJ lawyer David McGee.
	And the New York Times story leak from the DOJ sabotaged that meeting where evidence could have been collected with that wire.
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	You agree with this.
	I believe that it stems from the history of this country.
	It stems from slavery when whites were absolutely in charge and they absolutely controlled the lives of people and their families.
	Can I just stop right here for a second?
	She's talking about why it is that the police feel that they have this kind of authority and they can brutalize black people.
	Why doesn't she spend a little bit of time talking about what the welfare state has done to the family since she's so concerned about what slavery did to the family?
	Even during slavery, a kid was more likely to be raised under a roof with his biological mother and biological father than today.
	But for some reason, Maxine Waters wants to talk about what slavery did to the family, but she doesn't want to talk about what the welfare state has done to the family.
	I digress.
	I mean, they've always been in charge, and I think that this...
	They have always been in charge.
	Should I mention Barack Obama being president in eight years?
	Can't do that!
	Now, not only, of course, is what Maxine Waters said flat-out bigoted.
	It's dangerous.
	She's getting people killed.
	It's called the Ferguson effect.
	Because the police have been unfairly accused of being racist, they pull back.
	Bad guys know it.
	And innocent civilians, when they have an interaction with the police, if they're young black, why would you comply?
	Why would you follow what Larry Elder is saying, comply, you won't die, if in fact you sincerely believe, as Maxine Waters says, that the police believe it is their job, quote, to keep you in your place, close quote.
	She's making things worse.
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	Divorce is one of the items, and of course marriage, that I discuss in the Rational Bible.
	I'm proud to say and thrilled to say that it's the best-selling Bible commentary in America for about a year and a half.
	But I wish everybody would read it, because that's the repository of wisdom.
	This hour is a tough one, but a very important one, and it's not about the news.
	It is about you, if you're married, if you're divorced.
	I guess if you were never married, this is not about you.
	But it's actually related in one sense, because there are people who won't marry because they're afraid so many people divorce.
	I've actually heard this a lot.
	You know, my parents, they had a terrible divorce.
	I decided I wouldn't marry.
	I've always regarded that, forgive me, as unbelievably foolish.
	If somebody said, you know, my parents were in a terrible car crash, I will never drive.
	That would be the same thing, in my opinion.
	So anyway, let's see, Lisa and Charlotte was on, and she, uh, sounds wonderful.
	Even though she shook Mike Gallagher's hand when she had a cold.
	No, I really wish you would set up a matchmaking, because if I could find a man that said, I love Dennis Prager, I'd say, I love you.
	There you go.
	Well, you certainly have something big in common.
	I mean, I'm not being cute here, but it is possible that there would be other reasons not to love the person.
	But anyway, That's a very difficult subject for me.
	I have a very deep instinct to get everybody married.
	I do.
	I want everybody to marry.
	So when they're not, I try to find somebody.
	So I would love to set up.
	I thought about that.
	It's extremely complex to set up some singles event.
	What age do you have affirmative action in the sense that you limit the number of one sex, usually women, in order to have it closer to 50-50?
	What do you do at such an event?
	I've thought about this.
	And the age issue is a very serious one.
	You know, most people single who are 30 and under are interested in people, say, 40 and under, but not 60 and under.
	So, I don't know if it's solvable, but I wish I could.
	Lisa, even if you have a cold, I'd like to give you a hug.
	All right, let's go.
	So, the question on the table is...
	Do you regret you divorced?
	Do you regret you didn't divorce?
	That's the two biggest ones that I'm asking.
	Maura in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
	Hi, Maura.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	How are you?
	I'm well, thank you.
	I was married for 27 and a half years.
	And I always stayed married because a lot of people say it, but for the kids.
	And I think that was a huge mistake.
	Because I think in the long run, my kids were exposed to a lot of fighting and bickering.
	And I think in the long run, it hurt them.
	I think they would have been better off if I probably would have divorced sooner.
	Than them waiting until they were out of the house.
	Well, thank you.
	I agree with you as it happens.
	I will do that subject on its own another time.
	Is it a good idea, generally speaking, to wait until they're out of the house to divorce?
	Very many parents to their great credit because it's a terrible sacrifice.
	They're very unhappy.
	Wait.
	And it sounds like it's a good idea.
	I don't know if it is.
	I'm agnostic on the subject.
	If the issue is to prevent the child from being hurt, being put in pain, I don't know if the pain is less.
	When they're in college and you divorce.
	So, uh, it may, it may, I don't know if, uh, and then there's what Maura just said.
	They see a dysfunctional marriage.
	Is that worth it for waiting?
	I don't know if these are answerable questions, but they need to be discussed.
	Okay.
	Uh, let's see.
	Pete in Houston.
	Hi, Pete.
	Hey, Dennis.
	I just want to thank you for sharing your wisdom.
	I just got done reading Happiness is a Serious Problem.
	Good.
	I was married kind of young.
	In my 20s, I was a single father and met my first wife.
	After about three years and a child between us, we realized we were terribly incompatible.
	We tried, of course, to save the marriage.
	That didn't work.
	While I regret Terribly, the fallout, which I'm still dealing with, and the separation of my oldest son from his brother, it certainly provided me the wisdom and the courage to remarry.
	I'm not married.
	We're common when I'm married, my current wife.
	And I've got a three-year-old with her, and things couldn't be better.
	And really, it was as a result of going through all that trauma.
	You're certainly living the biblical proverb, those who sow in tears reap in joy.
	But just want everyone to know that the vast majority of people who divorce, divorce in tears.
	Back in a moment.
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	He's going to Pittsburgh and he's pitching, well, the New York says, Biden wants to pay for infrastructure plan.
	He's pitching a so-called infrastructure plan with 15 years of corporate taxes.
	CNN writes, with an eye on history, Biden moves on big, bold, and progressive infrastructure package.
	Good to know that the media will be examining it closely.
	Wall Street Journal, behind Biden's big plans, belief that government can drive growth.
	Now, the real headline is, and remember this, Biden proposes biggest tax hike in history.
	The death tax Democrats are coming for your money.
	And they will tell you that only 20 million people will be impacted when, in fact, 20 million people and all their heirs and assigns, as we say in trust and estates law.
	We'll be impacted.
	If you are over the age of 60, you ought to have smoke coming out of your ears.
	If you're over the age of 50 and you bought a house and you're paying it off dutifully, if you actually bought a house anywhere in America, you're just screwed.
	They're going to do away with stepped-up basis.
	They're going to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
	They're going to raise the highest marginal rate to 39.6.
	They are going to Raise the corporate tax rate to the highest in the world, 28%.
	21% right now, competitive with other countries, barely.
	The European average is 19.99%.
	China is 25%.
	They're communists.
	Joe Biden is proposing 28%.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Thank you.
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	Yes, this is a subject like so many that I could talk to you about for hours.
	days the subject is divorced Do you regret that you divorced?
	And do you regret you didn't divorce?
	That's really the...
	It's the only fair way to pose the question.
	If you just do one, Then you have an agenda.
	And your agenda is in truth, finding out what is true.
	Your agenda is either because you're anti-divorce or because you want to make a case for divorce.
	But to truly find out how people look at it, this is the fair way to put it.
	Do you regret you did, and do you regret that you didn't?
	Oh, there are so many good ones here.
	All right, Cleveland, Ohio.
	Brian, hi.
	Hey, Dennis, how are you doing?
	Real well.
	Well, okay, real quick in a nutshell.
	My first wife and I got married pretty early.
	We were like 18 and 19, respectively.
	She was a year older.
	And we were married.
	We're right around six years.
	Had a daughter, and I was in the Navy at the time, and to come home to find her infidelity.
	And it was something that I was willing to work with, but she pretty much, you know, that's it.
	We're going to throw the marriage into garbage.
	And, you know, pretty much went on our ways with that.
	So I definitely regret that portion.
	I really think that, you know, we kind of divorced too soon, so I regret that.
	But on the flip side of the coin, I don't regret it whatsoever because had I not gotten divorced from my first wife, I wouldn't meet the woman that I'm married to now who is my entire world.
	Wow.
	All right.
	One of the first lines I remember saying on radio is, life is messy.
	Kevin, John, Serac, Matt, Brian.
	I just spoke to Brian.
	Rob, John, and Emily.
	I'll do this again.
	Got to think things through in life.
	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	I think the founders were right.
	Their values worth keeping.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show. . .
	You followed these reports of Biden meeting with the historians.
	He met, you know, with seven historians in early March in the East Room of the White House.
	And the big topic is he wants to be FDR. And they literally, seriously sit around and talk about Franklin Delano Roosevelt is being the closest historical analog for what Biden wants to do right now.
	Quote, this is a report from Axios, quote, Beschloss, that is Michael Beschloss, the historian, Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which saved the country from depression and chaos.
	Now, they have a much different idea of where the country is.
	Right now.
	And they have this idea, and they're all telling themselves that it needs some sort of absolutely massive economic intervention after the massive economic interventions that we've already had.
	And they have this huge proposal.
	It's just in the sense that COVID relief was not really COVID relief.
	The infrastructure thing is not really just infrastructure.
	It's a vast...
	A program covering all sorts of stuff.
	Carbon emissions, reducing carbon emissions, more environmental measures, narrowing economic inequality, universal pre-K, free community college, extending the child tax credit.
	They're just going to throw all of this.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	We'll see you next time.
	As it relates to our kids, our kids are unfortunately being harmed as a result of some of these policies.
	We've never asked the question, what is the result of the policy of keeping kids out of school?
	What harm could possibly come to kids?
	Well, we're seeing the highest teen suicide rate that we've ever seen in our country's history.
	We're seeing lost years of education.
	We're seeing spousal abuse and domestic abuse and child abuse and substance abuse.
	So we are harming our children almost beyond recognition.
	And now as we open up schools, we're putting in place rules that make no sense at all.
	Masking a child is a form of child abuse.
	Kids are not at risk of COVID-19.
	There's little evidence that they spread the disease to at-risk teachers.
	And this social distancing among kids is not necessary.
	And for God's sakes, why are we making kids wear masks while they're participating in athletics?
	That makes no sense at all.
	My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Barkey.
	He's a board-certified primary care physician.
	His website is personalcarephysicians.com.
	Dr. Barkey, suppose...
	Donald Trump, early on, had gotten concerned about the coronavirus vaccine, picks up the phone, calls Dr. Jeffrey Barkey and says, I want you to be in charge of this whole thing.
	How would you have handled this thing?
	Well, thanks, Dave, for the confidence.
	You know, I think he did a pretty good job.
	You know, rather than just allowing the government bureaucrats...
	to roll into action and five years later we had a vaccine.
	He put the private sector into play and that's why Operation Warp Speed has been so successful.
	So I think we've done a good job at rolling it out so far.
	Unfortunately, individual states are making mistakes how they roll out the vaccine.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	I'm focused in on the stepped up basis rule.
	I'm reading from Forbes.
	Eliminating stepped-up basis could be a middle-class tax hike.
	You know, the president promised no one...
	Making under $400,000 a year would be taxed by his proposals.
	This impacts many, many millions of people who make less than $400,000 a year.
	It impacts every retiree who stayed in their house and saved for retirement and said if they don't have to use it when they die, it'll go to their grandkids.
	No, it won't.
	It's going to go to the federal government.
	The death tax Democrats are marching towards your saving.
	Do the Republicans have a plan to beat this?
	Are there five Democrats?
	Who don't want to get wiped out in 2022?
	Well, here's the other thing, quickly, that affects everybody.
	Rampant inflation.
	I mean, it's going to affect every working class and middle class family.
	Second point I'd make is, you know, the Biden administration has found money for everything.
	Everything under the sun.
	Wipe out San Francisco $650 million of debt.
	You know, fund for a variety of pet projects for Schumer and Palimzi.
	It's not money for everything except for the things that truly matters, which is the national security and defense of this country.
	Because I guarantee you, Hugh, in a couple of months we're going to get the DOD budget, and it is going to be a cut.
	The top line is going to go down.
	We're going to get a lot of fancy mumbo-jumbo about technology and third offset and this and that.
	but they are going to try and convince us that we do not have the resources necessary to invest in our defense at a time when China is saber-rattling over Taiwan, even though they have spent all the money on everything else.
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	It's the happy, happy earth.
	It would have been happier, but we had an obstacle here.
	The initials are GGG. All right, everybody, but we'll look beyond it because it's the happy hour.
	Join me now, please, if you will.
	There we go.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour!
	Yes, it is!
	Let's go, everybody!
	Folks, the happy make the world better and the unhappy make the world worse.
	And if you were raised by an unhappy parent, you know exactly what I mean.
	Also, it's not the happy who tend to commit evil.
	Oh, that happy rapist.
	Yes, the guy just walked around ebullient.
	The guy who shot up those kids, the happiest kid in the class.
	It doesn't work that way, does it?
	Happy Al-Qaeda.
	The happiest.
	No, it doesn't work that way, my friends.
	Happy do make the world better.
	The founders of this country, God bless them, they were unique, and we may be undoing what they have created, and I mean that from the bottom of my faculty of reason to the bottom of my heart.
	They wrote Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
	No other country in the world has had that in its founding documents.
	And it's a big deal.
	So that's why we have a happiness hour now for 15 years on the Dennis Prager Show, 16 perhaps.
	Well, if we started in 99, and so we're talking 15 years, because 99 from 14 is 15. But if you started in 99 and count 99, that's irrelevant.
	You know what?
	It's completely irrelevant.
	I have a topic today which I have never addressed, and I am very unhappy about addressing.
	Now, why would I address a topic that makes me unhappy on the Happiness Hour?
	Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
	I understand that.
	I do understand.
	That is what you are confused with regard to.
	Why would I do such a thing?
	I am doing it because I do not think that I am alone in this issue.
	Now here it is.
	Here's the issue.
	Life is divided essentially between the macro and the micro, right?
	The micro is your personal life.
	The macro is society's life.
	There are macro problems.
	There are micro problems.
	If there is a broken traffic light, Near where you live, that's a macro problem, right?
	It's not a micro problem.
	It has micro consequences.
	Otherwise, every macro problem has to have micro consequences.
	Otherwise, it's not a problem, right?
	I mean, there are macro problems on Jupiter, but we don't care.
	They don't affect us.
	All right.
	It affects Triple G. He's disturbed by things happening on Jupiter, which is why Triple G is Triple G. Unique and a unique man.
	A unique man.
	He does.
	On occasion, he walks in and I will say, what's troubling you, Sean?
	And I'll say, you didn't read what's happening on Jupiter?
	What is the number one problem on Jupiter?
	Ring jealousy.
	That's very good.
	Jupiter is jealous of Saturn.
	Folks, this is what I put up with.
	This is what goes on in my earphones as a drumbeat.
	Jupiter is jealous of Saturn, and I'm supposed to do a show.
	See, his micro problem, or his macro problem, is my micro problem.
	We return to Earth.
	Thank you.
	On Earth, there are these two divisions, right?
	Right.
	Or one division, two divides.
	Now, here is the subject for today's Happiness Hour.
	I have, for 15 years, addressed micro-problems.
	Right?
	Unhappy family life, too many expectations, jealousy, addiction, you name it.
	They're all micro-problems.
	But what if your micro-life is largely in order?
	Nobody has a perfect micro-life.
	It has not...
	It can't exist.
	But it's largely in order and essentially happy.
	Those you love are doing okay.
	You are doing okay.
	The people in your life are healthy.
	I mean, a lot has to go right.
	But it's possible.
	It happens.
	What about macro affecting your happiness?
	That's my subject on today's Happiness Hour.
	Can macro issues affect your happiness?
	And of course, the answer is yes.
	But we tend not to think that way because if I say, what's bothering you?
	You're feeling unhappy.
	What's bothering you?
	Undoubtedly, something about relationships or job or money is going to be raised.
	Perfectly, understandably.
	But what if the Primary issue is macro.
	If your micro life is in order, and in order doesn't mean perfect, I have to repeat that, but is in order, can the macro affect your happiness, both to increase or decrease?
	And the answer I am sorry to say is yes.
	Yes, of course it can.
	Now, let me give the extreme example where you lived in a communist country.
	Now, that was my field of study, and I visited communist countries quite extensively.
	And I came to understand in my 20s when I went to communist countries, I came to understand how the macro can overwhelm your happiness.
	How do you, even if you have a great spouse, Great kids, great parents, and you're relatively okay financially because very few people were doing well under communism, but you're not starving and you have clothes and so on.
	Even then, there was a suppressive element to living in a communist country that made happiness essentially impossible.
	If you can't speak your mind, at least for people like me, that's terrible.
	You can't say what you think to anybody.
	You are afraid that somebody will snitch on you.
	And by the way, I think that's happening in the United States to a certain extent.
	That is why I'm so passionate about what happened at Firefox.
	You say what you think and you lose your job, even though you were the most important person to that company.
	I realized in communist countries that things could be going just fine in people's personal lives, but their happiness was impacted by the macro, by society.
	You turn on the television and you hear just propaganda.
	You pick up a newspaper, you just read propaganda.
	You are not allowed to leave the country.
	You're not free.
	You're healthy.
	The people around you are healthy.
	You love the people around you.
	You have close friends.
	So all the things that I speak about as essential for happiness are there, but you are not happy because the environment is so oppressive.
	So the macro clearly can have an impact.
	And during the third hour on Fridays, when you call in on anything, a number of you have called in on that issue about, you know, well, I'm so worried about America that it affects my happiness.
	People say that, and I identify with that.
	This is actually a lot harder to solve.
	Than the micro stuff.
	So that's my topic today.
	If you relate to it, you are more than welcome to call 1-8 Prager-776-877-243-776.
	I was in the mood for that.
	877-243-776.
	That's exactly right.
	Those are the two numbers.
	And so I admit, I hate to do this, but it has affected me.
	So when we come back, I'll tell you what I do about it.
	Because I truly believe being important is happy.
	Excuse me, being happy is important.
	Being important.
	That is really hilarious.
	That is one of the great errors of my broadcast career.
	I missed it by so much that the ball was thrown into the right field stands.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	I'm Dennis Brinkman.
	As it relates to our kids, Our kids are unfortunately being harmed as a result of some of these policies.
	We've never asked the question, what is the result of the policy of keeping kids out of school?
	What harm could possibly come to kids?
	Well, we're seeing the highest teen suicide rate that we've ever seen in our country's history.
	We're seeing lost years of education.
	We're seeing spousal abuse and domestic abuse and child abuse and substance abuse.
	So we are harming our children.
	Almost beyond recognition.
	And now as we open up schools, we're putting in place rules that make no sense at all.
	Masking a child is a form of child abuse.
	Kids are not at risk of COVID-19.
	There's little evidence that they spread the disease to at-risk teachers.
	And this social distancing among kids is not necessary.
	And for God's sakes, why are we making kids wear masks while they're participating in athletics?
	That makes no sense at all.
	My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Barkey.
	He's a board-certified primary care physician.
	His website is personalcarephysicians.com.
	Dr. Barkey, suppose Donald Trump, early on, had gotten concerned about the coronavirus vaccine, picks up the phone, calls Dr. Jeffrey Barkey and says, I want you to be in charge of this whole thing.
	How would you have handled this thing?
	Well, thanks, Dave, for the confidence.
	You know, I think he did a pretty good job.
	You know, rather than just allowing the government bureaucrats.
	to roll into action and five years later we had a vaccine.
	He put the private sector into play and that's why Operation Warp Speed has been so successful.
	So I think we've done a good job at rolling it out so far.
	Unfortunately, individual states are making mistakes how they roll out the vaccine.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	I'm focused in on the stepped-up basis rule.
	I'm reading from Forbes.
	Eliminating stepped-up basis could be a middle-class tax hike.
	You know, the president promised no one...
	Making under $400,000 a year would be taxed by his proposals.
	This impacts many, many millions of people who make less than $400,000 a year.
	It impacts every retiree who stayed in their house and saved for retirement and said if they don't have to...
	Use it when they die.
	It'll go to their grandkids.
	No, it won't.
	It's going to go to the federal government.
	The death tax Democrats are marching towards your savings.
	Do the Republicans have a plan to beat this?
	Are there five Democrats who don't want to get wiped out in 2022?
	Well, here's the other thing, quickly, that affects everybody.
	Rampant inflation.
	I mean, that's going to affect every working class and middle class family.
	The second point I'd make is...
	You know, the Biden administration has found money for everything.
	Everything under the sun.
	Wipe out San Francisco, $650 million of that, you know, fund for a variety of pet projects for Schumer and Palympi.
	They found money for everything except for the things that truly matters, which is the national security and defense of this country.
	Because I guarantee you, Hugh, in a couple of months we're going to get the DoD budget.
	And it is going to be a cut.
	The top line is going to go down.
	We're going to get a lot of fancy mumbo-jumbo about technology and third offset and this and that.
	But they are going to try and convince us that we do not have the resources necessary to invest in our defense at a time when China is saber rattling over Taiwan, even though they have spent all the money on everything else.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
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	Every Friday, second hour of the program.
	And after all these years, I'm finally addressing an issue I have not wanted to address.
	I acknowledge it because it affects me.
	And I am sorry to report that.
	I might add, it does not affect most young people.
	What I'm talking about is the macro affecting your happiness, not just the micro.
	Young people can live...
	Oblivious to what's going on in the world and in their society.
	I did.
	I largely did.
	I understand that.
	I was interested, but I was preoccupied.
	And I was preoccupied with macro subjects from a very early age, you know, good and evil and so on.
	But I was, you know, my life was my life.
	That's what mattered.
	But as you get older, it does start to impact.
	What is happening in your society and even the world at large can affect your happiness.
	So what do you do about that?
	And it does mine.
	I am truly, deeply worried about the direction of the greatest experiment in history, the United States of America.
	I keep the happiness hour apolitical.
	And that was why I have always hesitated addressing this subject on the Happiness Hour.
	So I will try to make it not just political, but obviously there are political overtones that you will inevitably infer or I will explicitly state.
	But I am worried, and that affects me.
	It's true.
	I remember when Ronald Reagan was elected, I was obviously quite young, and I remember thinking, because I observe myself from outside of myself.
	I've always had that ability.
	And I remember thinking, why am I happier?
	Nothing's changed in my life.
	Why am I happier?
	And it actually bothered me.
	It bothered me as much as being unhappier when an election went the way I didn't want it to go.
	Dennis, how are you letting that stuff, how could your happiness be affected by that?
	I mean, you could be happy for a day or two.
	You're a man.
	One, okay, fine.
	You go back to life.
	But I was actually happier.
	Now, my point is, the whole point of my thesis on happiness is that you still have to act happy.
	So anybody meeting me would not know who was president, right?
	Oh, I met then.
	It's clear he was affected by the loss of X or the victory of X. You would not know that, and you shouldn't.
	I mean, you could know it because I verbalize it, but I don't act on it.
	I do, that's one thing, it's one piece of advice.
	I am a behaviorist in my own life, not just in my advocacy to others.
	Do X, do X, do X, then you'll feel X. So I still would act happy, and I still believe that that is very important, and it's a moral obligation, and all the things that I have always said about happiness.
	But I, doesn't mean my feelings were not affected, and they are.
	And so how do I deal with it?
	I'm personalizing this a great deal, more than usual, because my method may be a good one.
	It may be good for me.
	It may be not so good for others.
	I don't know.
	It's probably good for others, but in any event.
	I have a number of shock absorbers, to use Dr. Stephen Marmer's terrific term.
	That he used when he was on the show recently.
	The psychiatrist at UCLA whom I have on a few times a year on the Happiness Hour.
	You have to develop shock absorbers.
	You need that micro and macro, by the way.
	You don't have shock absorbers.
	You will burst.
	So you develop, you try, you have to develop shock absorbers.
	And there are many available to you.
	What you do is, first, and this is no order of importance, just what comes to my mind.
	First, I fight.
	If I'm not capable of responding, then I would probably get, honest to goodness, sad.
	As long as I have the health and the freedom to respond, I will respond.
	And that gives me some comfort.
	It has to give you some comfort.
	You are not thereby just a victim.
	If you're just a victim, then you will inevitably be unhappy.
	Micro or macro.
	If you see yourself as a victim, and that's your primary identity, you're going to be unhappy.
	So I fight.
	And in that fight, not only am I giving my sense a self of...
	A belief that something can be done and that I am meeting my moral needs, but I also meet terrific people.
	A byproduct of fighting is the meeting of kindred spirits.
	Kindred spirits increase your happiness.
	It's very hard to fight alone.
	It's very hard to be alone.
	Some people can do it and...
	More power to them, that's fine.
	But most of us cannot.
	So there is a real great byproduct in not hiding.
	See, watching TV all night doesn't make you happy.
	It makes you less happy, actually.
	Every study ever done.
	For many, many reasons.
	One of which is the solitude of it.
	You are not with people.
	You will have a better time on a Wednesday night with people.
	That you like, let alone love, than you will watching TV. I don't think that that's debatable.
	You can't do it every night.
	That's obvious.
	You can't get together with people every night.
	It just doesn't work that way.
	I understand that.
	Number two, that's where micro-happiness can be a shock absorber.
	Where if you have love and happiness and good things in your life, then you have a place.
	To come back to every day, ideally your home, as the ultimate shock absorber against what is happening outside of your home.
	Number three, religion.
	Religion serves for me as a shock absorber because it gives me a very, very large sense of eternality.
	That with all the problems of my generation, of the world, of the tiny sliver of time that I am alive in, my religion transcends, your religion transcends, religion transcends, all of these temporal things.
	And it gives you a taste of the transcendent, of the metaphysical, and the eternal that is very good for you.
	Not to mention meeting kindred spirits again.
	So religion, fighting, and love.
	They're pretty good shock absorbers.
	I will take your calls.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Borka.
	Should we all, should American patriots leave Twitter right now because of what they're doing to conservatives?
	Should we stay there because it's the battlefield?
	Or should we wait until President Trump's platform goes live?
	We're only a couple of hours in.
	It's an amazing division.
	Some people say leave now.
	Some people say wait.
	What is your response to what they're doing to all conservatives, Mike, not just you?
	Well, my response is I've been working on for four years, we've got now, and I'm launching the platform Frank in less than 10 days.
	And when we launched this, it's called Frank.
	You go to frankspeech.com, and it's a platform.
	It's like YouTube and Twitter combined.
	You don't have to wait.
	Nobody has to wait.
	We're proving all the people with podcasts over there.
	Millions of, tens of millions of people I built it.
	By the way, you can't take it down.
	It's the most secure platform.
	I bought all my own service, all my own network, everything.
	So this was a surprise.
	I'm announcing it right here on your show.
	Wow.
	And you can, I'm going to have people that are on my platform.
	We'll be able to, if you break, if you get kicked off of YouTube, that means you're at least telling free speech, because that's when I got sick of Twitter and YouTube, those two especially.
	I mean, of course, Facebook, they...
	When I launch anything, they put over the top of it, contains nudity or porn.
	I mean, all this censorship is just crazy.
	But there's the answer.
	You go to prank in a couple weeks and everybody's going to be there and it will get the word out together.
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	Remember that stupid video where AOC was grandstanding for the cameras in a white suit?
	Remember that chain-link fence in an empty field, weeping and crying?
	Oh, these poor kids!
	Trump's a monster!
	These children are in cages!
	Now, when children are in cages under the Biden administration, she's pushing back saying, don't even say, Serge, you're being a white supremacist!
	When are we going to stand up and say we are tired of this crap?
	When are we going to call the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the world out for what they are?
	They are pandering, hypocritical, narcissistic fools.
	You got thousands and thousands of children piled on top of each other because Joe Biden said there aren't going to be any borders.
	Come on in.
	We want a couple million people.
	Want me to play the clip of Biden leaning forward in that creepy way he occasionally does and says, you know what we need?
	We need two million people to come to the United States when he was on the campaign trail.
	Remember that?
	So now look what we got.
	We got thousands of scared, frightened, in many cases, COVID-positive children.
	One report was that one of the border locations had a population including up to 10% of the kids with COVID. We're not going to rip children from their parents' arms.
	You know, that press secretary pulled that crap again the other day.
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	Make just one someone happy Make just one heart-to-heart you.
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	I'm Dennis Prager, this is the Happiness Hour, and I am speaking about...
	The macro affecting your happiness.
	By the way, both positive and negative.
	I gave an example of both.
	And, you know, it's a political example, but you can't talk about the macro without politics.
	I'm just trying to keep it at a minimum.
	But I acknowledge that it is not just one's life.
	You have to be able to tune out totally.
	And sometimes it's good to tune out.
	I acknowledge that too.
	But you can't tune out.
	It's not right to tune out completely.
	So fighting for what you believe, meeting kindred spirits, friends, kindred spirits, and religion.
	Those are my shock absorbers vis-a-vis society.
	So I guess love, fighting, and religion.
	Let's go to your call.
	Sarasota, Florida.
	Kevin.
	Hello, Kevin.
	Dennis Prager.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	I can't believe I've gotten through to you.
	I've been listening to you for a long time, like a lot of your callers tell you.
	Wonderful.
	What happened to me is it was when Bill O'Reilly was interviewing us.
	President Obama, and he asked his questions, and then he got these answers from him.
	And I just, you know, completely, I just said, why doesn't this man, you know, get to press this candidate for the truth?
	But then, and that was it.
	I had to stop watching Fox News.
	I had to stop reading the paper.
	For about six months, I just completely had to get away from it.
	And my family is the one that keeps me grounded because they'll say, Dad, you're yelling at the TV again, you know.
	So it's, uh, but, uh...
	Well, so you're not completely tuned out.
	You listen to this show.
	Yeah, no.
	If it wasn't for you, Bill Bennett, and Phil Grandy, I would not have any, uh...
	Well, all right.
	Well, you have to, though.
	You see...
	If it's not going to be radio or TV, it's got to be then newspapers or magazines and websites, but you have an obligation to be aware of what's happening.
	Yes.
	I understand the temptation not to.
	Thank you for the call.
	Do you know, we found out that for six months following the last election, a lot of people...
	Who were lifelong listeners to talk radio, tuned out.
	Surveys were done.
	They've come back, and there's more than ever, actually.
	But the pain was so great, they couldn't listen.
	And I understand that.
	I got on and I acknowledged my pain.
	And by the way, what I'm saying applies to left and right.
	It's equal.
	The pain that, you know, it's like a team, basically.
	Unfortunately, I wish it weren't that case, but the division in the country is so enormous and unbridgeable that it is like that.
	You know, if you root for a team, in whatever sport it is, you root for a team, and let's say it's the playoffs and your team loses, you get affected.
	That's a perfect example of macro affecting happiness.
	Now, if that lasts, there's something wrong with you.
	All right, let's be honest.
	And if you get your happiness from your team, there's something wrong there too.
	But I totally understand getting affected emotionally by the loss or the victory of your team.
	In fact, I couldn't believe it.
	That's another example.
	I looked at myself and said, Dennis, are you nuts?
	When my hockey team, the Los Angeles Kings, won the Stanley Cup, that's the championship of hockey, I can't believe how happy it made me.
	And I thought, what's wrong with you?
	What are you, an empty, superficial nothing?
	And to which some answered, yes, he is an empty superficial nothing.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	Happy this hour, Dead as a Breaker show.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	And then the interview.
	A long interview on Tucker Carlson's show last night.
	An interview which friends of mine in the conservative media have said was not good for Matt Gaetz.
	I had a slightly different reaction.
	I thought he composed himself and comported himself well.
	But Tucker Carlson didn't react well.
	To the interview, this is what he had to say after Matt Gaetz left his show.
	Cut for Tucker Carlson.
	If you just saw a Matt Gaetz interview, that was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever conducted.
	That story just appeared in the news a couple of hours ago.
	And on the certainty that there's always more than you read in the newspaper, we immediately called Matt Gaetz and asked him to come on and tell us more.
	Which, as you saw, he did.
	I don't think that clarified much.
	But it certainly showed this is a deeply interesting story and we'll be following it.
	Don't quite understand it.
	But we'll bring you more when we find out.
	Well, it did clarify where Matt Gaetz stands.
	He says he denies it.
	He denies all of it.
	And also that a former Department of Justice lawyer was blackmailing or attempting to blackmate Matt and his family to the tune of $25 million.
	And that his father had agreed with the local FBI to wear a wire in a meeting with that individual who Matt Gaetz named on live television as former DOJ lawyer David McGee.
	And the New York Times story leak from the DOJ sabotaged that meeting where evidence could have been collected with that wire.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on youtube today trending now on the larry alder show you agree with this i believe that it stems from the history of this country It stems from slavery when whites were absolutely in charge and they absolutely controlled the lives of people and their families.
	Can I just stop right here for a second?
	She's talking about why it is that the police feel that they have this kind of authority and they can brutalize black people.
	Why doesn't she spend a little bit of time talking about what the welfare state has done to the family since she's so concerned about what slavery did to the family?
	Even during slavery, a kid was more likely to be raised under a roof with his biological mother and biological father than today.
	But for some reason, Maxine Waters wants to talk about what slavery did to the family, but she doesn't want to talk about what the welfare state has done to the family.
	I digress.
	I mean, they've always been in charge, and I think that this...
	They have always been in charge.
	Should I mention Barack Obama being president in eight years?
	Can't do that!
	Now, not only, of course, is what Maxine Waters said flat-out bigoted.
	It's dangerous.
	She's getting people killed.
	It's called the Ferguson effect.
	Because the police have been unfairly accused of being racist, they pull back.
	Bad guys know it.
	And innocent civilians, when they have an interaction with the police, if they're young black, why would you comply?
	Why would you follow what Larry Elder is saying, comply, you won't die, if in fact you sincerely believe, as Maxine Waters says, that the police believe it is their job, quote, to keep you in your place, close quote.
	She's making things worse.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	The macro as a source of happiness and unhappiness.
	Is my subject on the Happiness Hour, and we have to acknowledge...
	It took me a long time.
	I didn't want to acknowledge it.
	I wanted to believe I control my happiness because I control my micro.
	I mean, even if bad things happen, but at least I know how to react.
	But what about the macro you are much less capable of affecting?
	I mean, we still have to try to, obviously.
	That's why I said fighting, love.
	That's the micro loves of my life and likes.
	And religion.
	Those are, and I mean, you can add a whole host.
	Hobbies.
	I mean, there are a lot of things that you, what I now love, I love that term, and I want to thank Dr. Stephen Marmer.
	Shock absorbers.
	We all need shock absorbers or we are crushed by life.
	Micro and macro.
	Alright, let's go to some more of your calls here.
	And Jessica in Santa Clarita, California.
	Hi, Jessica.
	Hi, Mr. Prager.
	How are you?
	I'm well, thank you.
	Good.
	It is such an honor to talk to you.
	I just have to say thank you so much for all you do for us.
	You are an inspiration and a grounding force, definitely in my life, and my mother and her boyfriend, actually, are the ones that turned me on to you initially.
	Well, I'm grateful to all of you.
	By the way, you are 31, is that correct?
	That is correct.
	Can you tell me your birthday?
	I'm a Cancer.
	I'm July.
	July of what year?
	19, 1982. Okay, one second.
	July 19th, you said?
	Correct.
	You were born two weeks before I started broadcasting.
	Oh my gosh, you're king.
	Yeah, isn't that fascinating?
	Exactly, that's amazing.
	It is amazing.
	Wow.
	Well, I just had to say, you know, your topic is really speaking to me today.
	And initially I heard, well, my mother had been really, you know, turning me on towards you for the male-female hour.
	And I started to kind of listen a little bit, but then the day after President Obama was reelected into office, I woke up very, very depressed and just feeling very helpless and hopeless.
	Turning into your broadcast that day completely changed my outlook on everything.
	And it made me realize that there's only so much you can do.
	But what you said spoke to me as far as you've got to keep on keeping on.
	And this is not the time to quit.
	This is the time to fight more than ever.
	And I admired that because I really felt like giving up.
	Well, you made my day, Jessica.
	Thank you.
	Well, you make ours all the time.
	Well, thank you.
	Really, she did.
	She touched me.
	Isn't that something?
	She was two weeks old when I started.
	Life is funny.
	It's just funny that way.
	Ah, and I was her age.
	So, was I practically, basically her age.
	A little drop older.
	Life is fascinating.
	Okay.
	Enough of those ruminations.
	Thank you, Jessica.
	Lance, Mesa, Arizona.
	Hi, Lance.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	What an honor to speak to you.
	Thank you, sir.
	I've been listening to you for about 10 years, I think.
	What date?
	No, we're not going to cover the date because my memory is so bad.
	It was just a joke.
	It was really a joke.
	Okay, go ahead.
	I just wanted to let you know that this subject really touches my heart deeply because for all of my life, I've had dysfunctional relationships to deal with, and I've had a lot to be depressed about, a lot to be disappointed about, but I have 10 children, 29 grandchildren, and I was remarried.
	After a divorce about 10 years ago, and my new life is absolutely, in a macro perspective, absolutely perfect, and I have absolutely nothing to complain about.
	And part of that is because I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and as Mormons...
	We have so much in common with Jews.
	We have so much to look forward to.
	So even though I have financial stresses to deal with and things that would, you know, tip some people over, I don't really let that bother me.
	I don't let that affect me because I know that there's so much to look forward to with my family, and I have the most incredible, wonderful wife, and she makes...
	My life is so incredibly wonderful.
	Well, you are blessed with a lot of shock absorbers.
	I do have shock absorbers.
	Exactly.
	God bless you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Well, that's right.
	While he didn't address macro specifically, but he enumerated the micro.
	And that's what you need.
	It's attention.
	You see, you can't get your...
	It's not good to make the macro all of your life.
	It's an imbalanced life.
	But it's not good to make the micro all of your life either.
	That's an imbalanced life.
	It's very hard to live a moderate life.
	I addressed that issue last hour just in passing.
	Okay.
	Let's go to John in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
	Hello, John.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Greetings from a kindred spirit.
	We went to a twins game with our 10-year-old sons quite a while ago.
	It was really a great time.
	And I really appreciate spending a little time with you.
	Yes, thank you.
	It's good to hear from you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Have you ever read the book?
	It's about the pursuit of unhappiness by Paul Watzelik.
	No.
	In 1993, he wrote it, so before you were doing this, and basically he was asked, he's a professor at Stanford, and he was asked, what makes people happy?
	And he says, well, I can't really tell you what makes people happy, but I can tell you what makes people unhappy.
	That's a good one.
	That is actually good.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	He's going to Pittsburgh and he's pitching, well, the New York says, Biden wants to pay for infrastructure plan.
	He's pitching a so-called infrastructure plan with 15 years of corporate taxes.
	CNN writes, with an eye on history, Biden moves on big, bold, and progressive infrastructure package.
	Good to know that the media will be examining it closely.
	Wall Street Journal, behind Biden's big plans, belief that government can drive growth.
	Now, the real headline is, and remember this, Biden proposes biggest tax hike in history.
	The death tax Democrats are coming for your money.
	And they will tell you that only 20 million people will be impacted when, in fact, 20 million people and all their heirs and assigns, as we say in Trust and Estates Law.
	We'll be impacted.
	If you are over the age of 60, you ought to have smoke coming out of your ears.
	If you're over the age of 50 and you bought a house and you're paying it off dutifully, if you actually bought a house anywhere in America, you're just screwed.
	They're going to do away with stepped-up basis.
	They're going to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
	They're going to raise the highest marginal rate to 39.6.
	They are going to Raise the corporate tax rate to the highest in the world, 28%.
	21% right now, competitive with other countries, barely.
	The European average is 19.99%.
	China is 25%.
	They're communists.
	Joe Biden is proposing 28%.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Thank you.
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	Yes, indeed, that is correct.
	The subject today on the Happiness Hour has been the ability of...
	macro issues to affect your happiness in both increase it and decrease it and we've never discussed that and if you need shock absorbers in your micro life you certainly need them just as much in the macro and by the way there are times when the macro will just overwhelm obviously where if an evil regime takes over a country you it's That is a form of
	unhappiness that is truly horrible because you can't do anything about it.
	To a certain extent, you can determine your micro life.
	But when the macro becomes dark, it's a dark time.
	Ah, yes indeed.
	Let's go to...
	Matthew in Emerson, New Jersey.
	Matthew Dennis Prager.
	Well, happy Easter to you, Dennis, and to your listeners.
	Thank you.
	And you're welcome.
	Speaking of sharing the happiness, I would like to share with your listeners and yourself for everyone to please on YouTube, go to, type in Mr. Ed Plays Baseball.
	It's the first one on the top.
	It's only a minute.
	It is the funniest.
	Most hysterical video they will ever see, and my prayer is that they'll share it with everyone on their Facebook.
	Did you make the video?
	Absolutely not, man.
	No, I came across it.
	I just came across it.
	It's like I asked him if he was faithful to his wife.
	No, no, you're a good man.
	It's very important to laugh, and I must say, I get a lot of very funny emails.
	I do.
	Where people send me to these...
	Alright, thank you for that.
	Look, that's what humor is for.
	That's what movies are for.
	They're called...
	These are shock absorbers.
	You can't live for shock absorbers.
	It won't work.
	You can't escape that way.
	But you do need them.
	So, folks, I want to repeat what I do.
	With regard to the macro things that make me sad, and I am affected.
	I admit it.
	My feelings, my behavior isn't...
	My general demeanor is not.
	Absolutely.
	My love of life is not.
	But I am affected by my worries about my society.
	The United States of America.
	I am.
	So I fight.
	I love.
	And the more people you love, the better.
	And I have my religion.
	And then the hobbies and then all the other things.
	And they help.
	Okay, now call in on any subject under the sun.
	Thank you.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. . .
	You followed these reports of Biden meeting with the historians.
	He met, you know, with seven historians in early March in the East Room of the White House.
	And the big topic is he wants to be FDR. And they literally, seriously sit around and talk about Franklin Delano Roosevelt as being the closest historical analog for what Biden wants to do right now.
	Quote, this is a report from Axios, quote, Beschloss, that is Michael Beschloss, the historian, Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which saved the country from depression and chaos.
	Now, they have a much different idea of where the country is.
	Right now.
	And they have this idea, and they're all telling themselves that it needs some sort of absolutely massive economic intervention after the massive economic interventions that we've already had.
	And they have this huge proposal.
	It's just in the sense that COVID relief was not really COVID relief.
	The infrastructure thing is not really just infrastructure.
	It's a vast...
	A program covering all sorts of stuff.
	Carbon emissions, reducing carbon emissions, more environmental measures, narrowing economic inequality, universal pre-K, free community college, extending the child tax credit.
	They're just going to throw all of this.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	We'll be right back.
	But as it relates to our kids, our kids are unfortunately being harmed as a result of some of these policies.
	We've never asked the question, what is the result of the policy of keeping kids out of school?
	What harm could possibly come to kids?
	Well, we're seeing the highest teen suicide rate that we've ever seen in our country's history.
	We're seeing lost years of education.
	We're seeing spousal abuse and domestic abuse and child abuse and substance abuse.
	So we are harming our children almost beyond recognition.
	And now as we open up schools, we're putting in place rules that make no sense at all.
	Masking a child is a form of child abuse.
	Kids are not at risk of COVID-19.
	There's little evidence that they spread the disease to at-risk teachers.
	And this social distancing among kids is not necessary.
	And for God's sakes, why are we making kids wear masks while they're participating in athletics?
	That makes no sense at all.
	My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Barkey.
	He's a board-certified primary care physician.
	His website is personalcarephysicians.com.
	Dr. Barkey, suppose...
	Donald Trump, early on, had gotten concerned about the coronavirus vaccine, picks up the phone, calls Dr. Jeffrey Barkey and says, I want you to be in charge of this whole thing.
	How would you have handled this thing?
	Well, thanks, Dave, for the confidence.
	You know, I think he did a pretty good job.
	You know, rather than just allowing the government bureaucrats...
	to roll into action and five years later we had a vaccine.
	He put the private sector into play and that's why Operation Warp Speed has been so successful.
	So I think we've done a good job at rolling it out so far.
	Unfortunately, individual states are making mistakes how they roll out the vaccine.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Thank you.
	I'm focused in on the stepped up basis rule.
	I'm reading from Forbes.
	Eliminating stepped-up basis could be a middle-class tax hike.
	You know, the president promised no one...
	Making under $400,000 a year would be taxed by his proposals.
	This impacts many, many millions of people who make less than $400,000 a year.
	It impacts every retiree who stayed in their house and saved for retirement and said, if they don't have to...
	Use it when they die.
	It'll go to their grandkids.
	No, it won't.
	It's going to go to the federal government.
	The death tax Democrats are marching towards your saving.
	Do the Republicans have a plan to beat this?
	Are there five Democrats who don't want to get wiped out in 2022?
	Well, here's the other thing, quickly, that affects everybody.
	Rampant inflation.
	I mean, what's going to affect every working class and middle class family?
	The second point I'd make is...
	You know, the Biden administration has found money for everything.
	Everything under the sun.
	Wipe out San Francisco, $650 million of debt.
	You know, you fund for a variety of pet projects for Schumer and Palympi.
	They found money for everything except for the thing that truly matters, which is the national security and defense of this country.
	Because I guarantee you, Hugh, in a couple of months we're going to get the DOD budget.
	And it is going to be a cut.
	The top line is going to go down.
	We're going to get a lot of fancy mumbo-jumbo about technology and third offset and this and that.
	But they are going to try and convince us that we do not have the resources necessary to invest in our defense at a time when China is saber-rattling over Taiwan, even though they have spent all the money on everything else.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Let Dennis be Dennis.
	Hey everybody, this is the hour you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind, about you, about me, about coronavirus, et cetera, et cetera.
	Let Dennis be Dennis.
	I always say about life, about death.
	This time it's true.
	Anyway, take in the music and then I'll take your calls.
	The number is 1-8-Prager-776-1050.
	I forgot to say at the end of the happiness hour, and now call in on any subject under the sun, but you're calling it anyway.
	Nevertheless, give it a try, and if I let you go, don't be hurt in any way.
	People get hurt too easily in America today.
	It's not good.
	It's certainly not meant personally.
	Topic I've covered a lot.
	Maybe I don't want to talk about it.
	Maybe I know nothing about it.
	I fully acknowledge that.
	Sometimes people call in, it's very interesting, asking a question, which if they Googled, they would just get the answer.
	So I never quite understand that.
	I'm not knocking it, and I'm almost flattered that people think I'm sort of a living Google, but I'm not.
	Google knows more than I do.
	Thank God, I might add.
	Alright, 1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776.
	So, I have to play for you, Dr. Fauci, two days ago.
	This is why I am very worried about our response to the virus.
	This reveals a fine man, fine scientist's thinking.
	Would you please play Dr. Fauci, introduced, as it were, by Tucker Carlson.
	If we get to the part of the curve that Dr. Burke showed...
	Yesterday when it goes down to essentially no new cases, no deaths at a period of time.
	Okay, we didn't have the Tucker, which is fine.
	I thought we were using the Tucker.
	Let's play it again.
	I want you to understand what he's saying.
	He was asked when we can reopen society.
	At yesterday's coronavirus briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked when the restrictions on normal life will end in this country.
	Here's how he replied.
	If we get to the part of the curve that Dr. Burke showed yesterday when it goes down to essentially no new cases, no deaths at a period of time.
	So it'll be fixed when we have no new cases and no deaths.
	Yeah.
	That's very scary.
	Okay.
	This is how scientists think.
	They think about science.
	They don't think about society.
	Are there exceptions?
	There are.
	The exceptions are called outliers.
	They're even called conservatives, which is particularly reprehensible in the scientific community.
	The moment you ask what is the price, you have left the consensus.
	I don't mind that.
	Experts are supposed to just think of their expertise.
	If you go to a tire place, you want them to know tires really well.
	But you're the one who decides how much you want to spend on a tire, right?
	They can tell you this is what you get for this amount of money, this is what you get for this amount of money, this is the warranty on this, etc., etc.
	That's critical.
	You want them to know how to balance tires, how to align wheels.
	That's great.
	But you ultimately decide what you will do about it.
	Will you repair your tire?
	Will you buy a tire?
	What brand will your tire?
	That you decide.
	Take their advice.
	But they don't tell you.
	But we have handed over, including the president, against his instincts, obviously, he has handed over the decision-making to scientists.
	I believe in science, but I do not believe in scientists.
	They run the gamut.
	Of moron to genius.
	Or wise, not genius.
	Moron to wise, like every other group.
	There is not a single iota of a reason for me to believe scientists are any wiser than Uber drivers.
	Okay?
	But we don't value wisdom in our secular world.
	We value knowledge.
	See?
	All the things I've warned about are coming home to roost.
	That answer is nightmarish.
	We are not going to open society in dr. Fauci's Fauci's view Until we have basically reached zero deaths and zero cases It's critical you know about that Critical.
	All right, everybody, and let's go to your calls.
	Oh, yes, a reminder, as a truly 100% altruism, I'm not bragging, I'm just telling you why.
	It's a service.
	I will be conducting Passover Seder on Wednesday night.
	Many people will...
	Virtual, as opposed to what?
	As opposed to you're actually doing a Seder, I mean, so that everybody can see it.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I thought it was by definition it's virtual.
	Okay, it doesn't matter.
	Anyway, so you will have an opportunity to have that if you don't have anybody or you're not Jewish and you want to have an idea of what a Seder is like.
	It's not going to be a full-blown thing because it's just myself and my dear friend.
	Is that correct?
	That's confirmed?
	Okay.
	So it's me and we'll see if there's anybody else.
	But normally it's a lot of people around a table so you're not going to see exactly what a theater is like but I will be conducting the ritual book that is used, the Haggadah, and explaining it.
	So if you want to join...
	There's no charge, and send me an email.
	Likewise, we're continuing to Zoom our Sabbath morning services.
	Send me an email as well to DennisPrager.com.
	It's our ways of just trying to help people out.
	Okay, let's go to your calls here.
	Ann Marie, 18 years old, Long Island, New York.
	Hello, Ann Marie.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	You're on the air, Ann Marie.
	I just thought that you were very inspiring and it showed a very different perspective on how to look at things.
	That's right.
	It's sad that it's very different, but I'm glad that you've started to watch them.
	And who encouraged you to do so?
	My dad.
	We've been watching them a lot this quarantine.
	Do you have a favorite?
	I liked the conservatives with the environment.
	I thought that was a unique video that's not talked about a lot, so I thought that was interesting.
	Michael Knowles, yeah, that just came out.
	I'm glad you feel that.
	Anne-Marie, are you at college or at high school or what?
	I'm in high school.
	And are you a senior?
	What will you be in September?
	Yes, I'm a senior.
	So you'll be a senior in September.
	Well, I'm a senior right now.
	Oh, so you're graduating?
	Yes.
	And what are you planning to do if things open up by September?
	I'm hoping to go to my college and start learning my profession.
	And what is that?
	I'm thinking business economics.
	And what college?
	Sacred Heart University.
	And where is that?
	Connecticut.
	Nice.
	Well, God bless you.
	I think it's appropriate.
	If you're going to Sacred Heart, saying God bless you is fitting.
	Yes, you should all be.
	You'll love it.
	Watch our videos.
	They're as entertaining as they are informative.
	PragerU.com.
	That's great.
	I'm glad, Anne-Marie.
	Thank you very much.
	Alright, we'll take more of your calls.
	So, Anne in Romeson, New Jersey.
	Just send me an email at DennisPrager.com.
	We'll give you information about the Sabbath service.
	That's what she's calling in.
	So, I'm going to let her go.
	So, I'm clearing up at least two lines.
	Because Anne-Marie is also off.
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	As it relates to our kids, our kids are unfortunately being harmed as a result of some of these policies.
	We've never asked the question, what is the result of the policy of keeping kids out of school?
	What harm could possibly come to kids?
	Well, we're seeing the highest teen suicide rate that we've ever seen in our country's history.
	We're seeing lost years of education.
	We're seeing spousal abuse and domestic abuse and child abuse and substance abuse.
	So we are harming our children.
	Almost beyond recognition.
	And now as we open up schools, we're putting in place rules that make no sense at all.
	Masking a child is a form of child abuse.
	Kids are not at risk of COVID-19.
	There's little evidence that they spread the disease to at-risk teachers.
	And this social distancing among kids is not necessary.
	And for God's sakes, why are we making kids wear masks while they're participating in athletics?
	That makes no sense at all.
	My guest is Dr. Jeffrey Barkey.
	He's a board-certified primary care physician.
	His website is personalcarephysicians.com.
	Dr. Barkey, suppose Donald Trump early on had gotten concerned about the coronavirus vaccine, picks up the phone, calls Dr. Jeffrey Barkey and says, I want you to be in charge of this whole thing.
	How would you have handled this thing?
	Well, thanks, Dave, for the confidence.
	You know, I think he did a pretty good job.
	You know, rather than just allowing the government bureaucrats.
	to roll into action and five years later we had a vaccine.
	He put the private sector into play and that's why Operation Warp Speed has been so successful.
	So I think we've done a good job at rolling it out so far.
	Unfortunately, individual states are making mistakes how they roll out the vaccine.
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	I'm focused in on the stepped up basis rule.
	I'm reading from Forbes.
	Eliminating stepped-up basis could be a middle-class tax hike.
	You know, the president promised no one...
	Making under $400,000 a year would be taxed by his proposals.
	This impacts many, many millions of people who make less than $400,000 a year.
	It impacts every retiree who stayed in their house and saved for retirement and said, if they don't have to...
	Use it when they die.
	It'll go to their grandkids.
	No, it won't.
	It's going to go to the federal government.
	The death tax Democrats are marching towards your savings.
	Do the Republicans have a plan to beat this?
	Are there five Democrats who don't want to get wiped out in 2022?
	Well, here's the other thing, quickly here, that affects everybody.
	Rampant inflation.
	I mean, what's going to affect every working class and middle class family?
	Second point I'd make is...
	You know, the Biden administration has found money for everything.
	Everything under the sun.
	Wipe out San Francisco $650 million of debt.
	You know, you fund a variety of pet projects for Schumer and Palempo.
	They found money for everything except for the thing that truly matters, which is the national security and defense of this country.
	Because I guarantee you, Hugh, in a couple of months we're going to get the DOD budget.
	And it is going to be a cut.
	The top line is going to go down.
	We're going to get a lot of fancy mumbo-jumbo about technology and third offset and this and that.
	But they are going to try and convince us that we do not have the resources necessary to invest in our defense at a time when China is saber rattling over Taiwan, even though they have spent all the money on everything else.
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	Okay, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here taking your calls on whatever is on your mind.
	Let's go to Winter Springs, Florida.
	And Doug.
	Hi, Doug.
	Hey, Dennis.
	How you doing?
	Really well.
	My country isn't tight.
	I agree.
	You know, my question is that people are living in fear right now.
	And I just got done on this beautiful day here in Maryland.
	Winter Springs playing golf with her 16-year-old daughter.
	And she's so afraid that she was going to give me the virus.
	Because I'm a little bit older.
	And I sat there for about 15 minutes and talked to her.
	And I can't comprehend this overwhelming fear that people have.
	I know, I can't either.
	Well, exactly.
	The reason for the overwhelming fear is the media.
	The media stink, okay?
	I knew this in high school, and it's been one of the pillars of my Weltanschauung, my world outlook.
	The media stink.
	They either care to advance an agenda, 90% of the case is a left-wing agenda and they're propaganda, or...
	They just care about headlines.
	If it bleeds, it leads.
	If it bleeds, it leads was already a cliche when I was in high school.
	So television news is generally useless.
	Some shows on TV news are not useless.
	I enjoy Tucker Carlson, for example.
	I don't think the virus is...
	I take it seriously, but I'll take it as seriously as Tucker, but it doesn't matter.
	I don't have to agree with somebody to respect them.
	But generally speaking, the more people watch television news, whatever channel, the more scared they will be.
	I am scared, by the way.
	I am scared of the destruction of the Western world's economy.
	I am scared of a depression, the violence that will ensue, the depression that will ensue, the suicide that will ensue, the opioid addiction that will ensue.
	I am more worried about what we're doing than I am about the virus.
	I agree 100%.
	And tell your daughter the chances of her dying from this illness.
	Ask her if she's worried about lung cancer.
	I'll bet she's not.
	No, no.
	This is not my daughter.
	It's my friend's daughter, and she's...
	I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
	My daughter knows.
	Okay, I've got to let you go because you're breaking up.
	Anyway, if she is that scared, it is because of the media and society's reaction.
	Look, for all I know, maybe not only will there be immunity to the virus, maybe there'll be immunity to the media as a result of this.
	Maybe there will be immunity to the hysterics about global warming, led by people like Thomas Friedman at the New York Times.
	These people sit in fear of the destruction of the world.
	They live in fear.
	The further left you go, the more people live in fear.
	That's why they have safe spaces at colleges.
	They fear conservative speakers.
	They live in dread.
	They're weak, so weak inside.
	It's a soulless universe, the world of the left.
	That's why they're so scared of everything.
	That's why they're so much less happy.
	They're a living ode to the importance of religion.
	You think more clearly?
	And you're happier and you have less fear.
	Let's get immunity to hysteria.
	That would be great.
	Immunity to the media.
	That would be great.
	Immunity to the left.
	That would be great.
	Those are the immunities that I really am thinking about.
	I would love immunity to the coronavirus as well.
	She's 16 years old and she's filled with fear.
	How sad.
	How sad.
	Another fear to add, right, after this, the next one is, you think this is bad.
	Hey, this only kills X number of Americans, X numbers of Brits, X numbers of Russians, or whatever, any group you want to say.
	But global warming, that's going to destroy, it's existential.
	This is not existential.
	Just like the president's an existential threat to democracy.
	That's another hysteric.
	That was the guy, Frank Rich at New York Magazine.
	But I think Krugman has also used the term existential.
	Oh, my God.
	Alright, 1-8 Prager 776. And...
	Yes, that's interesting.
	Michael in Fountain Valley, California.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Okay, my concern is that we're not getting reporting about the coronavirus impact in Mexico.
	When the president went out vocally and said that he wasn't concerned, his name ends with Lopez Obrador, and he allowed the Ministry of Health in the country to take actions to control the spread of the virus.
	And he's been staying out of the spotlight.
	But he was against declaring a medical emergency.
	He was in favor of prayer and not to overreact to the virus.
	So my concern is you have Sweden, where the press continues commenting about Sweden, and there are 10 million people.
	But in Mexico, there's 220 million people.
	Why don't we hear about anything coming out of Mexico?
	I don't know.
	I'm going to look into that.
	It is a very, very good question.
	And let's see.
	What do they see here?
	I'm looking up as you speak.
	Mexico, Central America, urge action to stop...
	If you look for Mexico information, you can find an article by Nathaniel Parrish Flannery.
	Good.
	All right.
	Leadership Academy.
	All right.
	I will do that.
	I am very curious, of course, how countries are reacting.
	Singapore and Sweden are the outliers in...
	I mean, Mexico is obviously part of the Western world.
	Mexico reported a number of cases is irrelevant.
	Any deaths?
	How many deaths?
	50 out of 250 million?
	Right.
	And America has stayed at the same for three days.
	Is that correct?
	Around the same number of deaths?
	Number of cases, my friends.
	You must understand, the more people that are found to have it, the less the fatality rate.
	Do you understand that?
	It would actually be a good thing if 200 million Americans tested positive.
	Then you'd realize how few people die from it.
	And of course, how many people then have immunity.
	So the number of cases is hardly a reason for panic.
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	This is a teacher-student dialogue of a Zoom class in Virginia.
	Listen carefully.
	Play team.
	I mean, what this seems to be a picture of.
	It's just two people chilling.
	Right, just two people.
	There's nothing more to this picture?
	No, not really.
	Just two people chilling.
	I don't believe that you believe that.
	I don't believe that you look at this as just two people.
	It truly is just two people, though, is it not?
	Yeah, but I think you're being intentionally coy about what this is a picture of.
	What are you being coy about?
	It's two people standing back to back in a picture.
	Yeah, and that's all you see is two people.
	I'm confused on what you would like me to speak on.
	I don't think you are.
	Well, I'm confused.
	Are you trying to get me to say that there are two different races in this picture?
	Well, at the end of the day, wouldn't that just be feeding into the problem of looking at race instead of just acknowledging them as two normal people?
	No, it's not.
	Because you can't look at people and not acknowledge that there are racial differences, right?
	But if we're going for, let's say if we're looking for equality within all this, then why would we need to point out things such as that?
	Because those things, those differences are real things.
	Those differences are real things, says the eugenicist teaching your children.
	Margaret Sanger trained this public school teacher, this white school teacher very well. - Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show. - I've also been talking about media manipulation I mentioned that in 2006 on Halloween night, literally 20 minutes from the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, Biggest newspaper in the state.
	Three white girls are going to one of these haunted house parties on Halloween night.
	Without any provocation, a black mob of between 30 and 40 teens and adults brutally kicked and beat them.
	Slammed them to the ground, ripped the earrings from their earlobes, beat them with a skateboard.
	One victim had 12 fractures in her face, required multiple surgeries, damage to her teeth and to her eyesight.
	The women also suffered internal injuries and concussions.
	Had it not been for a good Samaritan, a black man who was driving by and bravely got out of his car and waded into the crowd to help the girls, they might very well have been killed.
	Now, I mention this story because wouldn't you think this would be a big deal if these were, say, three black girls who were beaten by a mob of 30 to 40 people?
	Of course it would be.
	But these were three white girls beaten by a mob of 30 to 40 blacks.
	The LA Times, again, whose headquarters is literally 20 minutes away from this took place, did not write one word, not one article, not one column, not one paragraph, not one word, the whole, for a whole week.
	The Long Beach Press-Telegram, the local newspaper, of course, wrote about it.
	LA Times didn't write a word.
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	Yeah, that's my cousin Marie Françoise H.Y. that's my cousin Marie Françoise H.Y.
	The Etoyer part of the Prager family.
	I don't really, what is her name?
	Do you know?
	Alright, we don't have it right now in front of us.
	I-N-D-I-L-A? Very nice.
	Alright y'all, Dennis Prager here.
	What's on my mind?
	Okay, somebody's disappointed with me, which is not...
	Rare.
	Gina in Long Beach.
	Hi.
	California.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Before I mention the rest, I have to say I've listened to you since Religion on the Line.
	Wow.
	Part of the music that I miss hearing...
	Were you in high school then?
	Yes, I was.
	Yeah.
	The part of the music I've actually missed hearing is you singing.
	You're missing me singing?
	That's very nice.
	You used to sing a lot.
	When do I sing?
	I only sing the happiness hour melody.
	You used to sing more often, but of course right now I probably...
	I should sing more often.
	No, on the contrary.
	This is exactly when it would be needed.
	Alright, what's on your mind?
	Well, yeah, I'm a bit disappointed in you.
	The subject today has kind of been drilled into us a bit, but...
	I think we need to be more positive.
	Look, we've never been through this as a country at this time, what we're facing, and no greater administration could be at the helm.
	And no greater president.
	He's such a good man, and what he's been through is just insane.
	And he still just pushes forward and stays positive and does what he needs to do for our country.
	So I agree with every word you just said.
	There's going to be mistakes made.
	Wait, do you feel that I have not supported the president?
	No, it's just what you mentioned today in regards to what the scientist or the doctor had said.
	I think the president, totally understandably, believes that their advice should be predominant.
	His instinct is not.
	But I believe that going against Dr. Fauci is so difficult now.
	That's why I'm playing this incredibly scary, nightmarish, foolish comment of Dr. Fauci so often.
	That we can only stop this.
	Go on.
	Yeah, I feel with President Trump.
	He does weigh things out.
	Sometimes he speaks off the top of his head.
	But I see in his actions, he does weigh things out.
	And no matter what they may say, for some reason this man has been so blessed to make the right decisions, even when others have been against them.
	I agree with you.
	I think we're unbelievably lucky to have him as president.
	And have been for three and a half years.
	I completely agree with you.
	I'm glad you called.
	Absolutely.
	His instinct about Easter may still end up being right.
	Obviously, New York City needs a stricter protocol than Lincoln, Nebraska.
	I mean, why isn't that obvious?
	My friend in Omaha goes to his gym.
	I can't go to my gym.
	Now, they limit the number of people who could work out at any one time.
	Okay, I get that.
	But why is my gym closed?
	Because more than two people can't be together anywhere?
	Even where there is much less of a danger?
	The same protocol should apply to Bismarck, North Dakota, as to Manhattan?
	Is that what I'm supposed to believe?
	Is that what epidemiologists are telling me?
	It's hard to believe they're saying it, although it's not hard to believe.
	I don't know what they're saying, so I don't want to accuse them of such nonsense.
	But somebody is saying it.
	Every state has to lock down.
	Is every state in New York City?
	Half the deaths in this country are in one tiny area Headline anyway, I'll tell you US jobless claims at 6.6 billion
	Trending now on America first with Sebastian Burke
	And then the interview a long interview on Tucker Carlson's show last night An interview which friends of mine in the conservative media have said was not good for Matt Gaetz.
	I had a slightly different reaction.
	I thought he composed himself and comported himself well.
	But Tucker Carlson didn't react well to the interview.
	This is what he had to say after Matt Gaetz left his show.
	Cut for Tucker Carlson.
	If you just saw a Matt Gaetz interview, that was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever conducted.
	That story just appeared in the news a couple of hours ago.
	And on the certainty that there's always more than you read in the newspaper, we immediately called Matt Gaetz and asked him to come on and tell us more, which, as you saw, he did.
	I don't think that clarified much, but it certainly showed this is a deeply interesting story, and we'll be following it.
	Don't quite understand it.
	But we'll bring you more when we find out.
	Well, it did clarify where Matt Gaetz stands.
	He says he denies it.
	He denies all of it.
	And also that a former Department of Justice lawyer...
	Was blackmailing or attempting to blackmate Matt and his family to the tune of $25 million and that his father had agreed with the local FBI to wear a wire in a meeting with that individual who Matt Gaetz named on live television as former DOJ lawyer David McGee and the New York Times story leak from the DOJ. Sabotaged that meeting where evidence could have been collected
	with that wire.
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	You agree with this?
	I believe that it stems from the history of this country.
	It stems from slavery when whites were absolutely in charge.
	And they absolutely controlled the lives of people and their families.
	Can I just stop right here for a second?
	She's talking about why it is that the police feel that they have this kind of authority and they can brutalize black people.
	Why doesn't she spend a little bit of time talking about what the welfare state has done to the family since she's so concerned about what slavery did to the family?
	Even during slavery, a kid was more likely to be raised under a roof with his biological mother and biological father than today.
	But for some reason, Maxine Waters wants to talk about what slavery did to the family, but she doesn't want to talk about what the welfare state has done to the family.
	I digress.
	I mean, they've always been in charge, and I think that this...
	They have always been in charge.
	Should I mention Barack Obama being president in eight years?
	Can't do that!
	Now, not only, of course, is what Maxine Waters said flat-out bigoted.
	It's dangerous.
	She's getting people killed.
	It's called the Ferguson effect.
	Because the police have been unfairly accused of being racist, they pull back.
	Bad guys know it.
	And innocent civilians, when they have an interaction with the police, if they're young black, why would you comply?
	Why would you follow what Larry Elder is saying, comply, you won't die, if in fact you sincerely believe, as Maxine Waters says, that the police believe it is their job, quote, to keep you in your place, close quote.
	She's making things worse.
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	And let's see what's on your minds here.
	Terry in North Hollywood, California.
	Hi.
	Yes, hi.
	I'd like to know, I like to see on Fox News you and your colleagues get together and have a conservative poker match and the winner has the winnings go to whatever charity they want and then the same thing with all the airmen.
	Would all be what?
	The airmen.
	All your airmen.
	My producer's not familiar with that.
	Maybe we're just out of it.
	What do you mean airmen?
	You know, the living martyr and all them.
	Yeah.
	Them all get together and have a conservative poker tournament.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I don't play poker, so I'm not against it.
	I just would be awful.
	Unfortunately, listen, I just want to say, Terry and all of you, please talk to me about what you said you would talk about to the screener, because I take it based on topic, and that was not his topic.
	His topic was, who would I choose for Time Person of the Year?
	So you should have done that, Terry.
	You need to talk about, it's an honor system.
	You have to talk about what you told the screener.
	It's an early time to tell who I would choose, but I have always suggested the U.S. military.
	The U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeper on earth, but I've always nominated them for the Nobel Peace Prize, more than Man of the Year.
	You know who I think should have been chosen?
	Jordan Peterson.
	Jordan Peterson should have been chosen a time person of the year.
	But of course, it's not conceivable because time is no longer liberal.
	It's now left.
	And so that's not conceivable.
	But in terms of touching human beings and a man of unbelievable goodness and character, he should have been chosen.
	All righty, everybody.
	And...
	Okay.
	Let's go to Lenny in Nutley, New Jersey.
	It's Lenny of Nutley.
	Hi.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I think really important, I was supporting you on your perspective on how many people really are infected, that the cases don't matter, and relative to the death.
	Dr. Birx has been talking about the fact that they still have to get all this antibody information.
	To see how many people have really had that probably since last November and December.
	And when that functions in, I think, along the lines of what you said, that the mortality rate is going to be extremely low.
	Now, I'm in Nutley, right between Newark and New York, which is supposedly the epicenter.
	We have about 40,000 people in our town.
	It's a small, well-won, Republican, conservative town.
	And all of a sudden, we have a very low infection rate.
	There's been six deaths.
	And that's extremely low.
	And Andrew Cuomo in New York seems to be obsessed with basketball because I think his head has got as much air in it as a basketball because all he's talking about is basketball.
	How comfortable would you be coming to New York, getting on an over-packed bus with all these people touching and breathing each other like a cattle car, take the exchange down into the subway and do the same thing?
	Mass transit is obviously the real problem in New York City compared to L.A. where the figures are much lower.
	Oh, that's an interesting point.
	That is interesting because L.A. has a lot more people coming from China.
	So you would have thought that that might be a big factor, especially like New Rochelle was a man who apparently the crisis there started with a man coming from an American who had been in China.
	It hasn't been serious in numbers here in California, and everything is coming.
	All right, but as of this moment, okay, New York is way, way, way, way, way.
	New York City.
	So mass transport, that's right, we don't have mass transport for all intents and purposes.
	I have not been on the subway in Los Angeles in the...
	How long am I living here?
	Oh my god, since 1976. Wow, 44 years.
	So we're derided by the progressives.
	Oh, you're a car culture.
	Turns out that it saves a lot of lives, doesn't it?
	Turns out that having a house in the suburbs saves a lot of lives versus an apartment in a city, doesn't it?
	Not only that, they're not even allowing you to use reusable bags now in the supermarket.
	Right?
	It's almost like God's joke on the left.
	We'll be back.
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	Show. in Pittsburgh today.
	He's going to Pittsburgh and he's pitching, well, the New York says, Biden wants to pay for infrastructure plan.
	He's pitching a so-called infrastructure plan with 15 years of corporate taxes.
	CNN writes, with an eye on history, Biden moves on big, bold, and progressive infrastructure package.
	Good to know that the media will be examining it closely.
	Wall Street Journal, behind Biden's big plans, belief that government can drive growth.
	Now, the real headline is, and remember this, Biden proposes biggest tax hike in history.
	The death tax Democrats are coming for your money.
	And they will tell you that only 20 million people will be impacted when, in fact, 20 million people and all their heirs and assigns, as we say in trust and estate law.
	We'll be impacted.
	If you are over the age of 60, you ought to have smoke coming out of your ears.
	If you're over the age of 50 and you bought a house and you're paying it off dutifully, if you actually bought a house anywhere in America, you're just screwed.
	They're going to do away with stepped-up basis.
	They're going to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
	They're going to raise the highest marginal rate to 39.6.
	They are going to Raise the corporate tax rate to the highest in the world, 28%.
	21% right now, competitive with other countries, barely.
	The European average is 19.99%.
	China is 25%.
	They're communists.
	Joe Biden is proposing 28%.
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	When did we use this?
	This is take five, and this is one of the, this is, I think, the greatest jazz piece ever written.
	This is classical.
	In other words, it's eternal.
	It will be listened to for as long as people listen to music.
	I'm more associated with this than with the Gladiator thing?
	Really?
	I don't know.
	Maybe in your mind, which is fine.
	But it's okay with me.
	Dave Brubeck.
	Alright, you should hear this on my stereo system.
	It would give you goose bumps.
	You should hear anything on my stereo system.
	All right, my friends, Dennis Prager here.
	And let's see, a reminder, I will be conducting a Passover Seder.
	For those of you locked in or just curious, just send me an email at dennisprager.com and we'll give you information on how to view it.
	That is next Wednesday night.
	And I know a lot of churches are doing this, obviously, for Sundays and for Easter, and it's a very important thing.
	And my Saturday service is also available through an email, dennisprager.com, I'll tell you how.
	Everything, I feel, and it's not me, the issue's not Dennis.
	The issue is infinitely larger than me.
	But everything that I have been talking about feels so vindicated.
	There's an irony here, isn't there?
	The most valuable people in society are not the people who went to Yale right now, are they?
	They're the people who are delivering your goods, taking care of the grocery, the truckers, the guys on railroads.
	Isn't that interesting?
	It's hard to overstate.
	How useless our universities have become.
	I say it's hard to overstate it.
	And I pick on Yale because it particularly stinks.
	But people have worshipped at the god of, oh, my daughter is at Dartmouth.
	Oh, so that makes you a successful parent.
	What do parents pay to get their kids into colleges?
	I mean, think about it.
	It's just the tip of the iceberg, how important it is to people.
	Is it worth a damn thing right now?
	What are you doing with your Dartmouth degree right now?
	All you women who bought the feminist nonsense that you don't need a man, what are you doing now with your degree?
	Or any man who believed that about a woman?
	Except the propaganda has been directed against or toward women.
	All right, my friends.
	It's important for me to be with you and for you to be with me.
	God bless you.

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