I mentioned that it's Friday because Fridays have two exceptional hours.
Exceptional, not in the sense of better quality.
I intend every show to be that way, every hour.
But they are exceptions in that they are happiness hour and whatever's on your mind hour.
But the first hour, we feature some thoughts and observations on the passing parade known as life. - Yes.
How many Americans think that the COVID-19 Wuhan flu came from an animal?
Is that an interesting question?
You think a lot.
What do you think, Mr. Triple G? Right.
So, but nevertheless, do you think it came from an animal or a lab?
Do humans count as animals?
A fine response.
And...
Okay.
So, my theory may not be accurate.
Two people present at this time think that a lot of Americans still believe that.
What would it take for...
Nearly all Americans to understand that it did come from a lab.
You do wonder.
You know why I wonder?
Because this past year and a half has sobered me with regard to a lot of my fellow Americans.
Perhaps the saddest thing that I can say.
Maybe I had a romantic view of most Americans.
Brave and free.
The land of the brave and the home of the free.
Do you know, the living martyr was up in Northern California.
It's really technically central, but it's called L.A. area and San Diego area, known as Southern California, for those of you who don't live in California.
And the San Francisco Bay Area is known as Northern California, even though it's really in the middle of the state in terms of North-South.
But anyway, he was going to Northern California.
Ate at a Denny's and was served with a plastic knife and fork.
This happened on June 3rd of the year 2021. Why is Denny's using plastic utensils?
By the way, there's an irony in this.
The woke are really torn between two forms of hysteria.
Plastics ruining our oceans and plastics necessary because they're disposable and we don't want people to touch the same object that another person touched.
by the way, which has been completely removed as an issue by the scientific community.
There is no basis for inanimate objects transmitting COVID.
If this country can be said to have done one thing in the last year and a half, it is not follow the science.
It is another enormous lie of the left that they follow the science.
They follow the scientists they agree with.
Period.
End of issue.
With whom they differ are shut down, like non-scientists with whom they differ are shut down.
As John Oliver responded to my public invitation to debate the Middle East after his hate-filled, idiotic rant that I decimated on my fireside chat?
Of course not.
It's another thing I point out all the time.
They don't debate leftists.
For good reason, I might add.
Any competent conservative would win the debate.
Leftism is not rooted in facts.
It's not rooted in reason.
Plastic utensils.
it reflects so poorly on Denny's.
Thank you.
I don't say it doesn't work.
Would you want your child to get this?
Apparently a lot of parents do.
What a time we live in.
You know, this is an amazing story here.
The former CDC director...
Robert Redfield received death threats from scientists for supporting the Wuhan lab leak theory.
From scientists.
Another lesson.
You know what, I gotta write a column.
Lessons of the last year and a half.
They're dark lessons.
The number of low-life scientists is pretty high.
I mean, people...
Who are bereft of character?
Liars, ideologues, threateners.
There are honorable scientists, but I don't know, I just don't know if the percentage of honorable scientists is similar to the percentage of honorable anything else.
Are there more honorable doctors and scientists?
Percentage-wise, than honorable...
Well, I was going to say contractors, but my experience with contractors is so poor.
There may be more dishonorable contractors than doctors.
So, alright, you see, there you go.
That's a consolation.
You know that the Hebrew word for consolation is half a consolation.
They don't use the term consolation as much as half a consolation.
It's not meant to be cute, it's just the term.
Because maybe there is no full consolation in life.
Maybe there are only half consolations.
Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield says he received death threats from fellow scientists after saying he suspected that the Chinese Communist Party virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
Redfield told Vanity Fair in an interview published on June 3rd That he received a significant amount of backlash after he told CNN earlier this year that he's a proponent of the theory the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
Saying he was, quote, threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis.
Redfield told the magazine that he, quote, expected it from politicians.
I didn't expect it from science.
Well, you didn't get it from science.
You got it from scientists.
In my commentary on the Bible, the Rational Bible, I list about 15 false gods.
And science is one of them.
You are now living through the validity of that understanding.
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My guest has written a piece we have up on LarryElder.com called America the Outlier.
Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere is the title of the piece.
It's up on LarryElder.com.
Please welcome back to the program John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
CrimeResearch.org is the website.
John, thank you so much for coming on.
I appreciate it.
Great to talk to you.
John, I read your piece.
One of the things that Eric Holder once said, the former AG, is that photo ID, requiring photo ID, is an example of, quote, pernicious racism, end of quote.
Right.
Well, I mean, there's all sorts of hyperbole that's being thrown around just a couple weeks ago.
The New York Times was claiming that the Republicans were becoming anti-democratic and authoritarian.
And one of their two main proofs for that was that the types of voter laws requiring IDs that Republicans and state legislatures were trying to push through.
You know, I guess my response is if requiring photo IDs is proof of an authoritarian, anti-democratic tendency.
Then Sweden is anti-democratic.
France is anti-democratic.
You know, essentially all of Europe is anti-democratic.
You point out in your article that of the 47 nations surveyed, only one does not require government-issued photo ID to vote, and that's UK. And even there, they're mandatory in Northern Ireland because of the fraud that they've experienced in the past.
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you you I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo, which I was remiss in not reading.
And I was just flabbergasted.
Look, I knew, and I said all last year, that it was possible this was an escape from a lab, because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bio-research.
We know their safety protocols are lousy.
We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research, all the stuff we sweat over.
They don't care about any of that.
So, you know, you knew it was a possibility.
But when I went back and read, I'm sure you've read, it's meticulously...
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Well, it turns out two callers are correcting me about Denny's.
For those of you new to my show, you will be interested to know I love being corrected because I don't want to say what's wrong.
It's as simple as that.
So let's hear the correction from the mouths of those who know.
Raquel in Pasadena, California.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
I believe that the reason that Dennis is serving plastic is because why would a dishwasher not stay home and receive the enhanced unemployment benefit?
So this is your theory or you know this?
No, it's just my theory.
Ah, because you're not the only one.
So we don't know that for a fact.
It makes perfect sense to me, except it's the only restaurant that I have frequented, even in the unfree state of California, the Sovietized state, that does serve plasticware.
But there's another one.
Bonnie in Sun Valley, California.
What do you say about this?
Well, I did ask at one of the restaurants that I would serve plastic utensils, and they said it was because they couldn't get a dishwasher.
Okay.
That's good.
So, I asked, and that was the reason.
And I have had it served me more than once at restaurants.
Plastic utensils, paper plates, and...
Right, so that was my question.
Do they use paper plates at Denny's?
Well, I haven't been to Denny's, but there are a couple of other restaurants that I've been to.
Well, you said you asked, so I assume you were.
I did ask, yes, and they did use paper plates where I had asked.
Oh, they did?
Okay, that makes sense then.
All right.
And you know, if that is true, my friends, you know why they can't find dishwashers?
Because the policy of the Democrats in power is to pay people not to work.
There is an agenda here, because the more people are reliant on the government, the greater the movement toward power.
What was it that was said yesterday?
Was it by a caller?
No, it was by a guest.
The transfer of power from the individual to the state.
This is the best...
One sentence explanation of the leftist goal that I have ever heard.
The transfer of power from the individual to the state.
That's why they hate the car.
The car gives you power.
The thermostat gives you power.
They would like to get you out of cars, and they would like to control your thermostat.
Everything falls into place, almost everything, when you realize that that is an end.
That's why they constantly rail on the left against individualism.
Unless you are not an individual, you are an enemy of leftism.
They don't want you to be an individual.
You are, for example, you are not an individual, you are a black.
You are a white.
You are a South Pacific Islander.
But you are not Jamie.
That you're not.
This is one of the arenas where I know that this is the, and anyone who's honest knows that this is an end and a goal of the left, but and anyone who's honest knows that this is an end and a goal of the left, but it is one of the arenas where I know that this is the It's not that I don't understand people who do evil.
It is that I don't understand all people who do evil.
I don't understand the child molester.
I don't have to battle anything in me that wishes to molest a child.
I have to battle bad things.
That's not one of them.
I don't understand, I just don't understand the desire to reduce human beings to cogs, to race or to the servant of the state.
What is it we all have in common?
Government.
That's what they say.
And vast numbers of young people find that appealing.
That's what's scary.
Yes, I am just a white.
I am just a black.
I would like to have daycare for my children paid for.
The school breakfasts and lunches paid for.
My health care paid for.
My student loans paid for.
In fact, no student loans.
I want my college education paid for.
What exactly do I do?
What am I responsible for if the state does this all?
And you don't see how Mephistophelian this is from Mephistopheles the devil.
It's a bargain.
It's a diabolical bargain.
We will take care of you.
You give us you.
We take your soul.
We give you Benefits.
And that is considered by vast numbers of Americans just wonderful.
To me, that's dystopia.
Not wonderful.
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I don't need lots of audits.
I don't need forensic evidence by the bucket load.
All I need to know is that in the four key battleground states, President Trump was winning before they stopped counting the votes.
Then the GOP poll watchers were escorted out of the building.
And magically, a few hours later, when the voting started up again, those leads were somehow lost.
And on top of that, we have governors across the nation who have arrogated to themselves the constitutional duties of the state legislatures and changed election law unconstitutionally.
As such, as such, the last election...
Was fatally flawed, whatever the audits give us in minutiae.
You're the lawyer, you're the constitutional law professor.
Have I missed any big pieces out?
Not at all.
And the two words that I repeatedly said to the state legislatures were irredeemably compromised.
And what that means is that they didn't need any more information than what they already had in the short weeks in the aftermath of November 3rd to recognize that the elections were irredeemably compromised and as such their obligation, their duty, their responsibility under the U.S. Constitution, their plenary authority, meaning exclusive, absolute soul.
Not permission from the governor, the state secretary.
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Kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally, and figuratively has been face down in the gutter.
And there's a guy whose life, you know, was at one point kind of hanging in the balance.
So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up on things that I believe in.
I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just...
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You know, you look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
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welcome back Dennis Prager here
I just got word from the living martyr that they told him at Denny's it was because of COVID that they were using plastic utensils.
Not that they couldn't...
I'm laughing because Triple G said he can't believe the living martyr goes to Denny's.
This is not meant, I promise you, in any way to denigrate Denny's.
But why do you think he's called the living martyr?
Boy, did you get that wrong.
That's exactly where one would expect the living martyr to go.
No, I'm sorry.
Anyway, I would eat at Denny's.
I just want to say, okay, I want to make that clear.
But they told him that it was COVID. Wouldn't you like to know?
Do you know the only people I cannot get on the radio, aside from leftists, they never come on, almost never come on.
They don't go on any conservative medium because they're afraid to.
We're not afraid to go on their media.
I hereby announce I will go on any show on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC, ABC. CBC, BBC, da-da-da-da-da-da-da!
That invites me.
But they don't invite us, and we invite them, and they don't show up.
I ask you all to go to the fireside chat that I did a couple of weeks ago, analyzing the John Oliver hate rant, the moronic hate rant against Israel.
So I answered what he said while playing his video.
And constantly invited him on.
He can come on a fireside chat.
He can come on my show.
We can meet at his house and debate.
But of course he wouldn't debate.
That's why it's so easy to be a leftist.
You can say what you want and there is no pushback.
None.
Nobody there to challenge you.
They're never challenged.
Not in elementary school, high school, college.
TV, anywhere.
So that's the story on that.
Alrighty, let's see here.
Yeah, I believe that.
A lot of people are not finding people to work.
That is correct.
So what do you think about the virus having been made in a lab?
And how do you explain this government's hands-off policy with regard to China?
Oh, they're still absolutely angry at Russia and Putin by name.
But China?
If you think clearly, do you not believe China is a greater threat to the United States?
In any dimension, then, is Russia?
Something you should know about China that many people do not know, the Chinese regard themselves as special.
Now, by the way, so do Americans.
A lot of groups do.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not saying it as a critique, but I want you to know that it's true.
The word for China in Chinese is middle or center kingdom.
China should be the center of the world is the view of many Chinese, including the Chinese Communist Party.
And with America having a president who craps on his own country versus a Chinese dictator who constantly speaks of the greatness of his country, Guess who's more likely to win that battle?
Leaders who crap on their country, who have contempt for it?
A party in power which can only speak about its country's rot, its moral rot, its decay, its worthlessness?
Or a country that speaks about its greatness?
Now, I believe there is a middle road.
There is nothing wrong in acknowledging the Tulsa massacre that took place exactly a hundred years ago.
That is part of American history.
It's a rotten part.
But every country had such rot.
The uniqueness of America is not what it did bad.
The uniqueness of America is what it did good.
Nobody else did as much good as this country.
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The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
The case is Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization.
The infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
Lots of them.
This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
Wade.
I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
That comes down to this.
Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive.
The second issue is even more important.
The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
That's the biggest issue here.
We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
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Because in the last week, we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline, leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I am glad to see that he and so many other scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that This virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York, right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.
I mean, surely your common sense should dictate we should at least look into that possibility.
And that's what we should have been doing from the very beginning.
And that's what all these skeptics from the very beginning should have been acknowledging was at least a reasonable concern.
Well, I read one of his quotes from last year condemning, quote, QAnon and the Russians and the Murdoch media empire.
And so I think to myself, when you're throwing those three things together, that is kind of a poker tell.
Now, I don't want to indict or convict him of being a lab denier until I've done more research, but it does seem to me that people ought to pay a price if they were simply dismissive of this theory, and not only dismissive, downright obstructionist in its investigation last year.
Yeah, well, I'll hear if that's the case, and it should certainly reflect on someone who made such a – Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ben Shapiro is clearly one of them.
Hey, Ben, it's an interesting question.
Let me ask you, if you met somebody who clearly did not know you on an airplane, let's say, and they said, so what do you do?
What would you say?
I'd tell them I'm a lawyer in the conversation.
That's a good one.
That was fast.
You would tell them you're a lawyer, and that would end the conversation.
You'd never know who you're talking to, so you sort of have to ease into it, right?
I mean, things are so polarized right now.
I'm not sure, honestly, whether it's better if somebody knows who I am or worse.
It sort of depends where you are in the country, you know?
Oh, we're all well aware of that.
Yes, I understand that.
A lawyer would end the conversation.
That was good.
I enjoyed that.
Ben Shapiro is, of course, the head of the Daily Wire, which I want.
I've told Ben this.
I just want all of you to know I, Dennis Prager, pay my own money to be a member of the Daily Wire.
I did not want a free subscription.
I think you should support the things that are good.
And he is giving...
What PragerU has every year, a commencement address.
After all, we call ourselves a university.
We fully acknowledge we're not an accredited university, but we teach a lot.
So we have an annual commencement address.
This year, Ben Shapiro gives it.
So, Ben, what is the topic?
The topic is how to fight back against the institutional authoritarian left that you are undoubtedly going to experience after you leave college.
I think a lot of people exit college and they have this sort of conservative idea that And what should they do about it?
What's your advice?
The re-normalization of American institutions is a threat that it is.
And what that means is that a small group of very stubborn people can make a very large difference at a company.
Saying no is a really, really important thing.
And having a bunch of friends who will say no with you is an even more important thing.
So just as the left likes to think institutionally by taking a kind of small and transient core of people and then insisting that everybody bow to them, everybody mimic their win.
You can do that in reverse.
If your company is cramming down critical race theory on you, you're fully within your rights, and number one, go get a lawyer and sue them for violation of the Civil Rights Act.
And number two, you can find enough people inside your company, probably, if it's large enough, or depending where you are, to side with you.
And if you guys sign a letter to the bosses saying, listen, we are just not going to do your critical race theory training.
We're not going to do this in this form of diversity training.
Either fire all of us or fire none of us.
We tend to back down.
Corporations are really risk averse.
They do not like litigation.
They do not like controversy.
And the goal of conservatives at this point should not be to make corporations overtly conservative.
Again, maybe that's in the future.
But to actually just reestablish the possibility of openness in a lot of these corporations and a lot of the workplaces that no longer exist.
Talking about the corporations...
What do you think drives them to make these woke statements, these hate America statements, hate white statements?
Is it cowardice?
Is it young employees who are pushing them?
What do you think it is?
So it's all of the above, and it depends which group you're talking about.
If you're talking about the people at the head of the corporation, it's risk conversion.
Corporations are not known for being particularly risk-seeking, because, again, they're profit-seeking and profit-maximizing, and they don't want to take risks.
That they don't have to take in their pursuit of profit in a particular sphere.
What the left has done is they've created a really perverse incentive structure, where if you say something that violates the tenets of the woke, they will activate on social media, they will activate all of their friends and family to attack you on social media, and the typical risk-averse move is to immediately take that sort of pressure.
Okay, so we issue a statement, what's the big deal?
Okay, so we send a letter to our employees, what's the big deal?
It gets everybody off our back and we can go about our daily business.
Well, the problem is...
Soon you have the wolf basically running the place, right?
This has happened everywhere from the New York Times to Coca-Cola, apparently.
They have a small coterie of people who've been able to use the risk aversion of corporate bosses against them, and that means that these corporate bosses are scared.
The other thing that's happened is because of the complete rewriting of American law in the wake of the 1960s Civil Rights Act, some of which was very good, but some of which went too far in terms of violations of individual rights.
There's a lot of legal risk aversion that takes place as well, and there's this idea that if we We train you in diversity training.
If we hire Robin Diangelo or Ibram Kenny to give a lecture for 20 grand a pop, then we've insulated ourselves from possible liability.
Because if somebody sees you for discrimination, you say, well, hey, we have diversity training.
I don't know what you want from us.
And we have individual employees who do this stuff, but we certainly didn't create a climate of racial intolerance.
And so there's a legal risk aversion.
There's a market risk aversion.
There are studies that show, by the way, that if corporations are liberal, Then the crowd tends to react to them not at all.
People aren't typically bothered by it.
They don't care.
If corporations are apolitical, people don't tend to react particularly strongly to it.
If a corporation is identified in any way as conservative, it immediately loses 30 points in popularity, all from the left, deciding the corporation is evil because it's in any way conservative.
So why do they pay a price?
If half the country is conservative, why do they only pay a price being conservative and never leftist?
The right wing doesn't think institutionally, number one.
We tend to think individually.
So our idea is, okay, well, if I don't like the product, I'm going to buy the product.
But for the left, that's not the way it works.
And for them, if I don't like the company, not only will I not buy their product, I will tell all my friends not to buy their product.
I will wallop them in public.
I will try and destroy the people who are at the head of the institution.
I will shame them publicly.
It's important to take over the institution.
That's one thing.
The other thing is that the right tends to separate off, I think, in a very healthy way.
The product that they are buying from the ideology of the people who are making it.
I've always done that.
That's a good idea, right?
Because if you want to have open markets, you really shouldn't have to check the ideology of your plumber before you hire a plumber.
You shouldn't really have to check the ideology of the person who runs Coke before you buy a can of Coke.
But the left doesn't think that way.
The left has decided that it is a kind of moral virtue to...
So I want to remind everybody, Ben Shapiro gives this year's commencement address at PragerU.
In 10 seconds, what do you think of living in Florida after a life in California?
It's an actual free state.
I mean, honestly, if you've lived an entire life in California and you arrive in Florida, it feels like a different country.
I think there's a different level of liberty put aside the tax rate.
I mean, the fact is that this state was open last June, and it shows.
I mean, there's a more relaxed feel.
There's a feeling of more tolerance for people around you.
It's really diverse.
Well, bless you.
Bless you.
Ben Shapiro.
Thank you, my friend.
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So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm not going to, I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just, great things come out of things.
You know, you look back at things in life.
I look back at things that happened to me.
I look back at, wow.
If that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
This book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books.
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So Laureen Powell Jobs or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name.
She is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros.
Pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear.
She does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs.
That are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
$400 million.
Jeff Bezos, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
Thank you, Laureen.
Free state he lives in, Ben. Ben.
Anyway, watch the video.
Watch all the commencement addresses.
They're quite powerful.
Your son or daughter will get so much more from the PragerU commencement address than the drivel that they will get otherwise.
If somebody wants to do some homework for me, here's an assignment.
Send me...
I don't care what 100 universities you pick.
Send me the names of the graduation speakers at 100 colleges.
Did one college in this country that is not already conservative, which is 1% of the colleges, have a non-left-wing speaker?
I mean, some do.
They will have somebody just speak about business or something.
But it is part of the indoctrination that they get at their college.
Anyway, watch this, the Ben Shapiro one.
So, a couple of comments here on your calls.
Ginny in Glenview, Illinois, how can they prevent a stolen election?
How's this for a start?
Paper ballots.
You know how much hacking is going on now?
This is well known to all of you.
There should be paper ballots.
There shouldn't be six weeks leeway.
Election Day has been crushed by the left and the right has gone along with it.
As they so often do, but not always.
Sometimes they fight back.
Election Day should be a sacred day.
This is election day.
If you can't vote in person, you ask for an absentee ballot and you vote.
Why is that complex?
Why is there a six-week leeway?
Okay.
You allow monitors from each party to observe everything that is going on.
You have it all videoed.
There are a lot of things that can be done.
Then in Atlanta, don't follow the science, follow the wisdom.
That is exactly correct.
You follow the science for a scientific question, and you follow wisdom for a social question.
Science tells me how bacteria work, how viruses work.
Correct.
But science doesn't tell me what to do about it for a society, as we have learned in the last year and a half.
I repeat something I'm actually proud of.
Over one year ago, I said that the lockdown was the greatest world mistake ever made.
I was right.
And the price paid is a dress rehearsal for police states.
In the name of safety, your freedoms were taken away, and that's a big lesson.
Thank you.
Americans appreciate the concept of making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
Maybe you've played a part in that, Mike Lindell.
Well, I've been working very hard on it.
And that's what this cancel culture was all about.
When I wanted to speak out for different things, especially that integrity, I was canceled out.
And that's just not on the box stores and stuff.
I've been canceled on every social media platform, from your Facebook, Twitters, YouTube, Vimeo.
So that's why we came up with our FrankSpeech.com so that we can have a place to talk, have a place to speak out.
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Transcription by CastingWords I mean, QAnon is dead.
Q is completely discredited.
But there are still people saying there's a plan and he can come back to be president before 2024. I have almost utter certitude, 95%, that he's going to run in 2024 and given the last four months.
I don't mean to laugh.
I think it'll be a shoo-in.
He'll walk back into the White House if we do our job when it comes to election integrity.
But to those who are saying he can be president now, that he can come back and he can take over the last three and a half years of Biden's term, there is no...
There's no process.
There's no entity.
It's not the Supreme Court.
It's not a magic electoral...
There is no functional scenario under which that happens, is there, Jenna?
Correct.
And it is very unfortunate, and I have to preface this by saying I understand the utter...
Frustration and the injustice of it all.
And I am just as mad as everyone else.
But what we have to understand is that we are a nation of rules and our supreme law of the land is the U.S. Constitution.
And because the Constitution provides that the Electoral College is our mechanism of selecting the president, the Electoral College voted, that was certified legitimately.
So when you have a sitting president, and his name right now is Joe Biden, then the only way to remove a sitting president is through the impeachment and conviction process.
And even if that happened to Joe Biden, which we know politically it won't, even if, in hypothetical theory land, that happened, the line of succession then under the 25th Amendment would trigger.
And so there's no scenario by which you take an outside person- - And just put somebody else in. - And put someone else in. - Keep up with what's trending.
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And I wanna say this over and over 'cause I want my audience to know you're not crazy.
We all know we're living through the weirdest period in modern history.
America in some ways resembles Communist China, Nazi Germany.
You got to be careful what you say.
This is madness and we need to understand its madness and we need to bravely speak the truth knowing God requires that of us.
No, absolutely.
And I would just say, keep watching the signs.
What you're going to see in the days to come, you're continuing to see.
But you've got people that really don't value, cherish, respect, appreciate the Constitution.
They have no real respect or meaningful appreciation for the American way of life.
They don't believe that this country has anything excellent to add to the global...
And they are content in not only trying to redistribute resources that are in this country, but trying to do all that they can to create chaos to really step themselves into a different form of government.
And as we were talking about, you know, not just Venezuela, but Cuba and China and other places, a lot of times this is how it's happened.
I think the encouraging thing, Eric, if I can, is that the people, and I said this after the election and my bride, you know, we were all very discouraged at how the election turned out.
And I said at the time, you're going to have to have people rise up in every state of the union.
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New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
It's because Donald Trump said it.
And Mike Pompeo said it.
And they offered no evidence to back it up.
So we just assume that because Donald Trump has so low credibility, you can't blame us.
He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
And another pun in another view said the same thing.
He said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
Now, think about what these people are telling you.
What they're telling you is, they don't do their job as reporters.
If there is a suspicion, a rumor, a report that this came from a lab, rather than track it down, if it came from Donald Trump, we're not going to even look at it.
Now, what are you saying?
You're saying that you don't trust anything that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth.
Let me tell you something, Maggie Haberman, and I know you listen to the show, all the smart lefties do, we don't trust anything coming out of your mouth.
How many times have you accused Donald Trump of not taking the coronavirus as seriously as he should have when he should have?
Why do you suppose he felt that way?
Apply the same logic you're applying to your skepticism about his story about the coronavirus coming from a lab.
Apply it to how Trump feels about you.
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the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
Yes, it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, since 1999, that is the 20th century, we are well into the 21st, I've been broadcasting a happiness hour.
And you know why?
Because the happy make the world much better.
The original lyrics, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey everybody, it is the Happiness Hour, second hour Wednesday, and it's touched a lot of lives, which is the purpose of it.
Long ago, I came up with the theory that happiness is a moral obligation even more than it is an emotional state.
And it's not something people have, for the most part, thought about.
Part of my book on happiness addresses that fact.
Happiness is a moral category.
The founding document of the United States speaks about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A lot of people probably think, wow, what is that?
I mean, life, liberty, I get that.
Pursuit of happiness, why is that up there?
Happy people are the bedrock of a civilization.
Unhappy people make the world worse.
Micro and macro.
They ruin your family life, and they ruin the society's life.
There are some unhappy people who do not exhibit their unhappiness, and my hat is off to them.
I salute them.
There are some unhappy people who cannot help it because of a physiological barrier.
I understand that.
But the great majority of people, Can work on their happiness and have a moral obligation to do so.
That's the bedrock belief of my show and my own personal attitude toward happiness.
I remember when the revelation came to me.
I was seated.
I was a high school student.
I used to go every day.
Well, not every day.
Four days a week.
From Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Or as people in New York would call it, the city.
As if Brooklyn was not a city.
It was very funny, but I never thought of it then.
So I would say to my parents, I'm going into the city.
They knew exactly what I meant, Manhattan.
And one day coming back, about 11 p.m., coming back, the subway car was pretty empty, and I had my arms over the seat back, and I was in a bad mood.
And then I remember the words that came to my brain.
Unhappiness, no, it's easy to be unhappy.
And I thought, and then my father's words, which he said to me probably every week of my childhood, never take the easy way out.
And I put two and two together, and I resolved to be happy.
I was about a junior in high school.
It's very easy to be unhappy and don't take the easy way out.
I combined the two.
It was a good moment.
It takes no effort to be unhappy.
That's the default position for many people.
Right?
Life is work.
When you know that, You're halfway there.
Whatever it is you want, you've got to work out, including happiness.
That's why I have a happiness hour.
Today's subject is a biggie.
Most of them are biggies.
I never said I had a smallie for a topic.
That is, why are so many young people unhappy?
Now, I've addressed this in passing, but now I'm going to devote an hour to it.
There are micro and macro answers to the question of why are there so many unhappy young people?
I mean, college age in particular.
Everybody knows a moody teenager.
Moody teenagers are a dime a dozen.
But why, even getting into college, why are there so many unhappy?
I'm going to offer you some responses, and then I want to hear you both react to mine and give me yours.
But here's something that I have been thinking about, I don't know why, but I've been thinking about in the recent past that I do believe has been a contributor.
And it's not the number one, even though it's the first one I'm mentioning it.
It's only because it's in the micro, and I want to start with the micro reason.
I think a lot of parents made a big mistake in not wanting to be their children's parents, but their pals.
And I don't think that that contributes to a child's happiness.
A child wants a parent because parents, as opposed to pals, give security.
And they give you something to aim for.
A parent as a model is a very powerful force in a child's life.
Where else are they going to get these models?
I mean, they do.
They can get them on TV. They can get them anywhere, theoretically.
But the most logical area to find a model is in a parent.
But this notion of, I want to be my child's friend when they're eight.
If you want to be your child's friend when the child is 40, that's a separate issue.
But when the child is eight, they can have a lot of pals, but they only get one crack at parents, or two cracks at parents.
And I think that that does in fact add to a child's happiness over the long term, having parents who have played a parental role in their lives.
The power of parents in people's lives is really staggering when you think about it.
You know, Bernie Madoff just died a couple of weeks ago.
One of his adult children committed suicide.
And it is not uncommon among disgraced parents that a child will become profoundly depressed and even commit suicide.
You don't want your parents to be shameful.
It's bad if your child does bad things, but it doesn't have the same devastating effect as a parent doing bad things.
The foundations of your life are not rocked by a bad child as they are by a bad parent.
The power of parents is really, it's almost unfair.
Because you're very lucky.
Nobody gets perfect parents, by the way.
I find a lot of complaining about parents to be immature.
We'll see how you do as a parent.
By the way, it's one of the reasons I'm convinced parents love when their kids have kids.
Because they're far more accepting of the parents.
One of the most common sentiments that a...
A new parent has is, my parents did all this for me?
After you get up, you know, 3 a.m.
for three months for a crying child and change a diaper at 4 a.m.
Yeah, wow, my parents must have done that for me.
I remember when I was a parent thinking one day, wow, I really should be grateful for my parents that I have all my limbs.
Just for that, that somehow they protected me from, they were able to protect me from permanent injury.
So, the role of the parent is a huge one.
Here's another factor, I believe, in the unhappiness of many children.
They have nothing to live for.
Nothing.
Nothing fills their lives with meaning.
The poisonous, destructive, nihilistic left has ensured that their lives have been emptied of all that is good and meaningful.
Religion, love of country, marriage, family.
Happiness Hour, Dennis Prager Show.
show we continue trending now on the Eric
Metaxas show because we're living through the strangest times and I want to say this over and over because I want my audience to know you're not crazy We all know we're living through the weirdest period in modern history.
America in some ways resembles communist China, Nazi Germany.
You got to be careful what you say.
This is madness and we need to understand it's madness and we need to bravely speak the truth knowing God requires that of us.
No, absolutely.
And I would just say, keep watching the signs.
What you're going to see in the days to come, you're continuing to see.
But you've got people that really don't value, cherish, respect, appreciate the Constitution.
They have no real respect or meaningful appreciation for the American way of life.
They don't believe that this country has anything excellent to add to the global And they are content in not only trying to redistribute resources that are in this country, but trying to do all that they can to create chaos, to really step themselves into a different form of government.
And as we were talking about, you know, not just Venezuela, but Cuba and China and other places, a lot of times this is how it's happened.
I think the encouraging thing, Eric, if I can, is that the people, and I said this after the election and my bride, you know, we were all very discouraged at how the election turned out.
And I said at the time, you're going to have to have people rise up in every state of the union.
Keep up with what's trending.
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Trending now on the Larry Elder show. . .
New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
It's because Donald Trump said it.
And Mike Pompeo said it.
And they offered no evidence to back it up, so we just assumed that because Donald Trump had so low credibility, you can't blame us.
He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
And another put in another view said the same thing.
He said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
Now, think about what these people are telling you.
What they're telling you is, they don't do their job as reporters.
If there is a suspicion, a rumor, a report that this came from a lab, rather than track it down, if it came from Donald Trump, we're not going to even look at it.
Now, what are you saying?
You're saying that you don't trust anything that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth.
Let me tell you something, Maggie Haberman, and I know you listen to the show, all the smart lefties do, we don't trust anything coming out of your mouth.
How many times have you accused Donald Trump of not taking the coronavirus as seriously as he should have when he should have?
Why do you suppose he felt that way?
Apply the same logic you're applying to your skepticism about his story about the coronavirus coming from a lab.
Apply it to how Trump feels about you!
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All right, everybody. everybody.
I want you to play this song from the beginning, Sean.
This is from 1929, the year of the Great Depression, I might add.
I want you to hear the lyrics, give you an idea how much healthier in many ways America was 100 years ago compared to today.
Hold that.
Is that mind-boggling?
Mind-boggling?
How would a song today do with young people that had those lyrics?
What is it?
it if if you're blue think of all the the people who are worse off than you right All right, continue.
If a load of trouble should arrive, say how good it is to be alive.
Thank you.
Wow.
And young women line up at my lectures at colleges and tell me how oppressed they are.
Because they don't have a load of trouble, so they invent it.
I'm talking today on the Happiness Hour about how many young people are unhappy.
Listen to some data.
And by the way, I did a PragerU video on this.
You might want to watch it.
Reuters reported in 2019 that, quote, suicidal thinking, severe depression, and rates of self-injury among U.S. college students more than doubled.
Over less than a decade.
Get that?
Suicidal thinking, severe depression, and rates of self-injury.
The healthiest, most pampered generation in the history of the world has more suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and severe depression than recorded in American history, including World War II, including the Great Depression.
Now, why might that be?
So, the authorities at their colleges, aka fools, morons, tell them that it's their oppression.
That's it.
You're oppressed.
So, unless you're a white, Christian, heterosexual male, you're oppressed.
All women are oppressed, all blacks are oppressed, etc.
They have to make it up.
By the way, That's another reason there are so many unhappy young people.
Because you are told throughout your life now, go to a normal school.
Normal meaning not a Christian or a Jewish, truly religious school.
Many Christian and Jewish schools are not truly religious.
They're left-wing with either the cross or the Torah.
So if you go to a regular school, you are either oppressed or an oppressor.
Both are going to make people unhappy.
No people walking around as victim are happy.
There isn't one.
It is impossible to be happy thinking you're a victim.
Just the way it is.
Impossible.
Get it?
It doesn't exist, a happy victim.
And the other group is victimizers.
Now, I don't know how that affects the happiness of white kids, white male kids.
I assume it has some.
You're an a-hole because you're a white male.
That's the message.
Including from the President of the United States.
The biggest fool ever to occupy that office.
Well, Andrew Johnson might give him a run for his money.
Should be the happiest generation in American history and world history.
And it's not.
It's far from it.
Maybe it's inevitable if people have it too good.
They have to manufacture problems.
I don't know.
I never thought that way.
I love being happy.
Part of the reason is I am grateful every day.
Gratitude is to the left what the cross is to Dracula.
That's the truth, Ruth.
But they're told it's capitalism, income inequality, patriarchy, global warming.
That's why you're unhappy.
And another interesting reason was offered to me by the woman I've been having on each week during the summer.
I call her the Harvard heretic.
And she noted that a lot of young people think they're wiser than their parents.
Did I get you correctly?
That started in my generation.
I remember kids, when I was in college, I remember kids at my parents' table.
I'd invite them over for dinner or whatever.
And just saying to their parents or my parents, you just don't get it.
And they intimidated.
This is a very common phenomenon of the baby boomers, the post-World War II generation.
That they regarded themselves as morally and intellectually superior to their parents because they went to college and the parents did not.
And that's what they were told at college.
You are brighter and deeper.
And finer than your parents because you came to college.
The great secret is that they were stupider than their parents, more foolish than their parents, less wise than their parents.
Their parents had the quaint belief that men and women are not the same.
But if you went to college, you realized that they were.
If you went to college, you realized that America is a capitalist, colonialist country.
If you didn't go to college, you actually thought it was a beacon of hope to mankind.
And the list is endless.
More self-injury, severe depression, and suicidal thoughts than ever before.
For the healthiest generation, one of the most affluent in the history of the world.
Okay.
We'll take the calls when we come back.
The number is 1-8-Prager-776.
You can see my video at PragerU on why are so many young people unhappy.
And it's worth showing to your kids, see if they react, how they react to these ideas.
We shall return the happiness hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
The case is Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, the infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
Lots of them.
This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
Wade.
I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
That comes down to this.
Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
Wade step by step.
Law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive.
The second issue is even more important.
The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
That's the biggest issue here.
We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
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In the last week, we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline, leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I am glad to see the team.
So many other scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that this virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York, right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.
I mean, surely your common sense should dictate we should at least look into that possibility.
And that's what we should have been doing from the very beginning.
And that's what all these skeptics from the very beginning should have been acknowledging was at least a reasonable concern.
Well, I read one of his quotes from last year condemning, quote, QAnon and the Russians and the Murdoch media empire.
And so I think to myself, when you're throwing those three things together, that is kind of a poker tell.
Now, I don't want to indict or convict him of being a lab denier until I've done more research.
But it does seem to me that people ought to pay a price if they were...
Simply dismissive of this theory, and not only dismissive, downright obstructionist in its investigation last year.
Yeah, well, Hugh, if that's the case, and it should certainly reflect on someone who made such a silly comment.
And it's also a reminder, too, that all of these supposedly neutral, scientific, nonpartisan so-called experts often harbor deep partisan antipathies towards their opponents.
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Happiness Hour, every Friday, the second hour.
Why are so many young people unhappy?
The suicide thoughts, severe depression, and self-cutting, for example, rates are the highest ever.
And why is that?
Well, everything that brings happiness has been deprived.
They've been deprived of everything that brings happiness, including the biggie, meaning.
The secular world doesn't give you meaning.
You think you have meaning in the secular world.
You know what the most meaningful thing is to most kids in high school?
Getting into a good college.
Do you understand how vapid that is?
On the vapidity scale of 1 to 10, 10 being really, really, really, really, really vapid, and 1 being profound, it's at a 9. I am so lucky when I look back at my childhood and I didn't give a hoot what college I went to.
I did give a hoot what graduate school I went to.
But in high school, I devoted high school to basically laughing.
I had a ball for four years.
Did not do one homework.
I did teach myself how to conduct orchestras.
I am an abnormal human being.
I fully acknowledge that.
So I don't say that others should do this or need to do this.
I just did what I wanted to do, and happily what I wanted to do was deep.
I knew that that stuff would give you more happiness than marijuana.
You know, I never took marijuana.
I don't know if that's the word.
I never used it.
And I know exactly why, and my reason is the reason I would still use.
I believed that I had been given a good mind, and I knew I did not want to tamper with it.
It was 100% selfish, my non-use of marijuana.
Why would I tamper with my brain?
I still think it's a terrific reason not to.
I don't know why that's not, why that isn't dispositive for most people.
Why isn't that, like, convincing?
You really want to mess around with your brain?
I would see kids high and I think, why would I exactly want to be in that state?
I'll reveal another personal thing and then take your calls.
I remember in high school and college, early college, You know, kids would tell me, oh, I'm telling you, Dennis, oh, sex, when you're high, that is the best.
And I swear to God, this is what I thought.
Wait a minute.
You're 20 years old?
At the greatest vibrance you will ever have?
And you need something to make sex better?
Oh, man.
That's depressing.
That's the way I looked at it.
It's not intrinsically a big enough high.
Okay.
Let's move on, my friends.
And let's see here.
Okay.
Jason in Chandler, Arizona.
Hello.
Hello.
Mr. Prager, how are you?
I'm well, thank you.
Awesome.
I am a huge fan, and I appreciate all the work that you do, and I look to see how I can support as well.
But I worked with kids and preteens for about two and a half years, about three years ago or so.
And what stood out to me for a lack of happiness was, and it's three commonalities.
I think you may have mentioned that you can't speak without generalization.
So, generally speaking, a breakdown in family structure, and that I mean nuclear family, sense of entitlement, and no correction.
Parents think that they're giving happiness to their kids by not correcting them, but they're actually doing the opposite.
And what I have seen is that if parents don't check Their kids and society will, and it will lead to more unhappiness and eventually pain.
That's great.
Yep.
Correcting children.
I wonder how much parents do that these days.
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What makes the current ruling class in America different?
My other very good friend who also does a great job at Breitbart.com has a new book out called Breaking the News, Alex Marlowe.
He filled in for us last week.
I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News.
Alex Marlowe has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros.
Saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire.
I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined.
I've got to give Alex credit.
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So I know these, this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just...
Great things come out of things.
You look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back and go, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, is...
She is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros.
Pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear.
She does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology.
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Why are so many young people unhappy is the subject of the...
Happy Happiness Hour this week.
Alright, let's go to...
Let's see.
Is it Ave?
Ave?
What's your name?
It's Ave.
It's Ave.
You've called before, right?
We've spoken before.
Yes, because I remember I had a problem with your name once before.
A-V-E. It's really Avraham, but it's short.
It's short to Ave.
Alright, if it's Avraham...
Then why aren't you Avi?
Because it came from work, and that's the way they pronounced it, so I just sort of went with it.
It's my own unique take on it.
It is unique.
I never met an Ave.
All right, take it away.
Well, there you did.
Yep.
So, I'm an Orthodox Jew.
I grew up going to private school my whole life, up until elementary school, high school, and then I went to rabbinical seminary.
So finally, at age 21, I go to college for the first time to study nursing.
And that was the real first cultural shock I get.
And one of the biggest shocks was the way everything's taught from a negative perspective.
Nothing's positive in the world.
Nothing is on, hey, we can make the world better.
Hey, we can...
You just by being a nurse is making the world better.
Everything was negative.
And that was, I think, the biggest one of those other shocks.
But I think that was one of the big, big shocks to me was...
How negative everything is.
So, yeah, why would I be happy if everything told to me is negative and there's no way for me to fix it?
You have an example of the negativity?
So one of the big ones I remember just was when we were doing woman's health studies.
We had some professor, I think she was a midwife, and she was like, oh, it's so terrible.
Every woman, this is almost 10 years ago, so even before the Me Too movement, she was like, all women are sexually assaulted at least once in their lifetime.
I'm like, hmm.
Okay, that sounds a little, you know, far-fetched.
And then they started giving examples of it.
And that's where it really started getting ridiculous.
You know, just even on the subway, if somebody would say something to you, oh, that's a sexual assault.
You know, now you're a depressed person because you're a victim.
And to me, I was like, why are you letting some random person on the subway who said something stupid to you even affect your life?
I just ignore anybody on the subway.
Dave, you should do the Happiness Hour once week, one time, if I'm not here.
You got it.
Anytime.
I'd be honored.
I love you.
I really, I love the guy.
Another healthy religious person.
Not every religious person is healthy.
But I think there are more healthy religious people than healthy anti-religious people, certainly.
And you're raised to be anti-religious.
Oh, God, is he right, though?
You're taught to be a victim.
And victims can't be happy, so that's a big reason there are so many unhappy people.
Why do you think, by the way, is another?
I know this is controversial and shouldn't be, but it apparently is.
Why has this gone from unbelievably rare, it's still quite rare, but nevertheless it has spiked, I don't know, five times, ten times previous numbers, Of teenage girls who believe they're males?
Why has that happened?
Do you think that that is a natural development, or do you think that that's been induced by the culture?
Of course it's been induced by the culture.
Vast numbers of young girls are unhappy, and a handful of them think, oh, I'd be happy if I were male.
Everything that could help is pooh-poohed, not pooh-poohed, is denigrated, like religion.
Thank you.
Every poll shows religious people are happier, and not a single university, not a single major American institution, not the American Medical Association, no one advocates religion.
When it's the single biggest divide between the happy and unhappy in the country.
Alrighty, everybody.
And Roger in Southfield, Michigan.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
Yes, sir.
My experience, the one thing I think young ladies, especially those who think of themselves as feminists, they're unhappy.
Even angry is because they've been lied to.
The whole ideology is a lie.
They can have it all?
No, they can't.
Yeah, that was what Kamala Harris said, actually.
Kamala Harris said that in her comments.
I reviewed it on the show this week.
Don't let anybody tell you something to the effect.
Don't let anybody tell you, not unless she was interviewed, that you have to make choices or you can't have it all.
I'm sorry?
Don't apologize for being ambitious.
That was one element.
But she actually said, don't be misled into thinking that you have to make a choice or that you can't have it all.
I have the mind to expect that you will be seen in the full dimension of who you are.
Yeah, okay.
We kept that because it meant nothing.
It's very important.
We have a Hall of Fame of quotes.
That's a charmer.
You know, that was a secret to my success in life.
What are the words again?
That I would be seen in the full dimension of who I am?
Had somebody said that to me in high school, I would have said what Woody Allen said in one of his movies.
Excuse me, I have an appointment back on Earth.
That's what I would have thought.
I'm due back on planet Earth, Dwayne.
Dwayne.
I love that.
Yep.
Yeah, everyone has that right.
I can't believe it wasn't enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
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Music So Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear.
She does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
$400 million.
Jeff Bezos, with his play money, Owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
Thank you, Laureen Powell Jobs.
So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built through businesses of largely unearned wealth.
Now, some could say that Jeff Bezos earned his wealth.
I think that's probably somewhat true.
Do I think that he gamed the U.S. Postal Service?
Yes.
Do I think that he misleads the type of company he is?
He's just a server company that loses money intentionally to take over other small businesses.
But I think there's something fundamentally different about making massive sums of money in this new technology era and the ways that people made money in the early 1900s, 1950s, and 1980s.
You see, technology has led to fast, immediate wealth creation.
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Maybe you've played a part in that, Mike Lindell.
Well, I've been working very hard on it.
And that's what this cancel culture was all about.
When I wanted to speak out for different things, especially that integrity, I was canceled out.
And that's just not on the box stores and stuff.
I've been canceled on every social media platform, from your Facebook, Twitters, YouTube, Vimeo.
So that's why we came up with our FrankSpeech.com so that we can...
you know, have a place to talk, have a place to speak out.
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Another reason young people are unhappy is they haven't been given shock absorbers.
This is probably worthy of an hour of the happiness hour, shock absorbers.
There has been an attempt by parents of the last two, three generations to give their children's Children, painless childhoods.
And there is the belief that a painless life is possible.
And when you think that way, you're doomed.
To know that life is tough, you build antibodies.
There are no emotional antibodies built, to use a term.
To use a term, excuse me, that has been, of course, used constantly now.
You need emotionally what you need physically.
You need antibodies.
And how do you develop antibodies?
By getting a virus.
So you actually, I've asked this question, I've never devoted an hour to it, but I've asked this on the air a number of times.
How much of a blessing is it to have a happy childhood?
It's a mixed blessing.
Now, it's not a blessing to have a miserable childhood, but a mixed bag childhood is probably the best because you're more ready for life and have more shock absorbers.
The last caller, was it, I think, about mentioning any uncomfortable comment made to you as a woman?
You're shattered?
Oh, that was Ave.
Yes, our man Ave.
That's right.
That is how you ensure unhappy women.
Anything, anything that disturbs you.
Safe spaces at colleges?
That ensures unhappy college kids.
You don't feel safe because a conservative speaker came to the college?
You don't feel safe?
Linda, Patrick, David, Michelle, Dave, JJ, and Mike.
The toughest part of my show is not taking your calls, so we run out of time.
Yes, indeed.
And by the way, another thing to teach your kid?
Self-control.
All right.
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year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees...
And all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up on things that I believe in.
I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
Great things come out of things.
You look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back and go, wow.
If that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
This book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books.
For the sign books for our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Campaign to send kids to summer camp, these are the children of prisoners in America who for $200 are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also...
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
$400 million.
Jeff Bezos, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
Thank you, Laureen Powell Jobs.
So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built through businesses of largely unearned wealth.
Now, some could say that Jeff Bezos earned his wealth.
I think that's probably somewhat true.
Do I think that he gamed the U.S. Postal Service?
Yes.
Do I think that he misleads the type of company he is?
He's just a server company.
That loses money intentionally to take over other small businesses.
But I think there's something fundamentally different about making massive sums of money in this new technology era and the ways that people made money in the early 1900s, 1950s, and 1980s.
You see, technology has led to fast, immediate wealth creation.
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. you Americans appreciate the concept of making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
Maybe you've played a part in that, Mike Lindell.
Well, I've been working very hard on it.
And that's what this cancel culture was all about.
When I wanted to speak out for different things, especially that integrity.
I was cancelled out.
And that's just not on the box stores and stuff.
I've been cancelled on every social media platform.
From your Facebook, Twitters, YouTube, Vimeo.
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I mean, QAnon is dead.
Q is completely discredited.
But there are still people saying, there's a plan and he can come back to be president before 2024. I have almost utter certitude, 95%, that he's going to run in 2024. And given the last four months, I don't mean to laugh.
I think it'll be a shoo-in.
He'll walk back into the White House if we do our job when it comes to election integrity.
Here it is, everybody.
This is the hour in which you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind, about you, about me, about life, about death.
And needless to say, about fountain pens, classical music, audio equipment, photography, equipment, and cigars.
1-8 Prager 776. Take in the music, my friends.
Wow, you know, it's amazing, this repeated note, and yet it's so musical.
cool.
Obviously, it's musical because of the theme going on in the background.
Hearing one note for a sustained period of time is not enjoyable.
However, you should know that the New York Times last year or the year before reviewed a concert.
A pianist came out.
And for one hour, played on the piano the note D. Ah, Triple G asks a great question.
Did he do it well?
Was he?
And I'll tell you the truth.
If I could get a recording of that, I would play it on the air.
I wouldn't do it for an hour.
But, I mean, there must have been some creativity involved.
And remember, it isn't just one D. It could be the D of any of the octaves on the piano.
Nevertheless, I personally would not buy a ticket to that event.
I'd rather, as they say, watch a plant grow.
All right.
1-8 Prager 776. Oh, my God.
I can't believe this call.
I've got to take it.
Randy in Gilbert, Arizona.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
I knew you'd remember the story I'm going to talk about.
I've followed you for 39 years.
You've had a tremendous impact on my life in profound ways.
About seven, eight years ago, it was roughly around then, you and Alan got into a bit of a tiff about, if I remember correctly, Alan's mother making meatloaf with a hard-boiled egg in the middle.
That is correct.
And you guys debated about it.
And I found it to be the funniest thing I've ever heard in 39 years listening to you, other than your dialogues with Adam Carolla.
I was wondering if you can either comment on it, or if there's a way that your staff can dig that up and play it again.
It was so funny.
Sean, you should try to dig it up.
It's got to be somewhere.
So, I recall this pretty well.
I don't know how it arose, At some point, given that everything is talked about on this show, it's not shocking, but I don't remember the etiology, to use the current term for the word origin,
of that particular subject of my raising, somebody raised the issue on the, I guess on the phone call, and I thought, what?
Hard-boiled egg in the middle of your meatloaf?
That does not really sound good.
And then Alan, the living martyr, said, that's how I ate it in my mother's home.
I thought he was kidding, but then I realized it's the living martyr who has not kidded around since birth.
So, I still found it hard to believe.
That anybody would voluntarily eat a hard-boiled egg in the middle of a meatloaf.
And I said, we should call your mother.
She has since passed away.
She lived a long, healthy life, happily.
And we called her in Oregon.
And she verified the fact that she did prepare meatloaf with a hard-boiled egg in it.
And whenever...
I am going to break my intermittent fasting.
I do that almost daily, at least 15 hours.
And when I get hungry, I think of that and I lose my appetite.
It is a service to my fasting.
A picture of a hard-boiled egg in the middle of a meatloaf.
Alright, that was cool.
Alright.
Roy in Valley Village, California.
Hello.
Hi there.
Hi.
The reason the guy played one note for an hour, he was the world's greatest jazz pianist.
All the others are looking for the note.
He found it.
I'm missing something.
I'm sure it is a witty comment.
I'm not being cute.
Is that a jazz term looking for the note?
Think about all the jazz pianists you've heard.
They're all over the keyboard.
I see.
And he found it.
All right.
Thank you for the theory.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Benjamin in Gainesville, Florida.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Prager.
Thank you for having me on your show.
So my comment's a quick one.
You know, the left always accuses the political right of being transphobic with regards to women's sports.
But that's a big lie, and the proof is that nobody on the political right ever complains about trans men in men's sports.
So it has nothing to do with the fact that they're transgendered.
The issue is entirely that they're biologically male, because nobody complains about biological females competing in male sports.
That is what we call a good point.
By the way, I'm not sure it ever happens, by the way, just out of interest.
I can't imagine a female transgendering to male and then competing with males.
Tell me a little about yourself.
Are you at college?
Yeah, I'm a student at the University of Florida.
I study mathematics.
Do they still believe at the mathematics department of your university that there is one right answer in math?
Thankfully, they do.
Yes, thankfully they do.
I have always been taught that there's one right answer.
Are you aware of the fact that increasingly they're not teaching that?
Yeah, and it bothers me a great deal, actually.
It's very, because I can see it really catching on.
I really can.
Is your math department woke?
Thankfully, I don't think I've had any professors really talk politics or anything.
They all seem to really much just care about studying mathematics.
I'm very fortunate.
I've studied under some good professors.
I'm very blessed.
Do you hope to teach math?
What is your hope?
Right now, my current trajectory is to try to get into graduate school and study a particular field of study, which is kind of nerdy, so I won't get into it for talk radio.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
On the contrary.
What is the name of it?
Graph theory.
Graph theories?
You don't know that I do an hour every month on graph theories.
Well, that's terrific.
I know, but it's not true.
That's terrific.
Yeah, and I was being, I'm just, I'm goofing off.
I know.
Yeah.
So tell me, you hope to enter that field and then be hired by a corporation, teach in college?
What do you want to do?
I don't speak to math majors much.
Oh, probably the corporate world, yeah.
I'm also taking computer science classes.
At what age did you know that you had a facility and attraction to math?
Oh, that's a great question.
I really fell in love with math after taking some online courses through a website called Art of Problem Solving.
They teach really good online math classes, and probably around the time I was, I'd say, 15, I knew I really loved math.
When you look at your fellow students, do you think, wow, I'm more gifted, less gifted?
Do you compare your math gifts to your peers?
You know, to be honest with you, I really try to not judge people on how smart they are.
No, no, no.
I agree with you.
It's a stupid way of judging people.
I don't mean it that way.
This is an arena where I gotta believe raw brain matter matters.
Um, I guess, I mean...
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You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
You are not to be heard.
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This is the wrong black guy.
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Kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally, and figuratively has been face down in the gutter.
And this is a guy whose life, you know, was at one point kind of hanging in the balance.
So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the...
Through the cancel culture and the pressure.
Great things come out of things.
You look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back and go, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
This book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books.
for the sign books for our prison fellowship angel tree campaign to send kids to summer camp.
These are the children of prisoners in America who, for $200, are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also hear the gospel.
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What makes the current ruling class in America different?
My other very good friend, who also does a great job at Breitbart.com, has a new book out called Breaking the News.
Alex Marlowe, he filled in for us last week.
I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News.
Alex Marlowe has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros, saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just...
Massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire.
I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined.
I've got to give Alex credit.
He said, nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.
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Music So I know this year has been tough.
There's a very powerful movie out, The Streets Were My Father.
Sure.
When's Father's Day, by the way?
It's in two weeks?
Is that right?
A week from this coming Sunday, is it?
Anyway, it's an ode to fatherhood and to the tragedy of fatherlessness and how guys who became pretty awful people Then joined gangs, and the streets were their father.
That's the name of it.
And then they actually got religion, and it cured them.
And this is held in utter contempt at our universities.
They found God.
They came to Christ.
What fools!
No, it's the fools who deny that people who find religion cure, as it were, the terrible parts of themselves.
The fools are the people who believe that poverty is the cause of violence.
And that's the Marxist view.
It's a very powerful film.
The streets were my father.
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All right, Kirk in New Rochelle, New York.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
It's great to talk to you again.
Thank you.
So, my question is exactly what it appears on the board.
I had intended to apply to law school this summer, and after doing a bit of research, I'm having some second thoughts, and I was curious to know your perspective on law school and what it does to people in their minds.
I don't know if law school is more corrupting than any other school, but...
The data that I have seen and they comport with common sense to me is that there's a vast number of lawyers or are a vast number of lawyers who are depressed.
It's not the profession of the happiest people as a general rule.
Some people thrive in it and that's wonderful.
Law school can enhance your facility of critical thinking if it's done well and it's not politicized, which is something you have to be careful about.
However, at the same time, I've also seen data that there's no profession that people leave more often than law.
So you have to be very clear that that's what you want to be or do.
People, I think a lot of people go to law school because they don't know what they want to do, and this gives them three more years to think about it, and they figure, well, you know, whatever I do, a law degree might help, but I don't know why that's true.
It might.
It might be.
But you have to be very clear about that, and it's not easy, law school.
And you have to have some love of law books to be able to thrive.
I'm not going to talk you out of it.
I just want you to be very clear as to why you're doing it.
Yes, that helps.
Thank you very much.
And that's why I was having the second thoughts was you see all the data about wellness and lawyers who are depressed and addicted, not to mention...
Some of the measures that you have to take on behalf of your clients that go directly against people's conscience.
Right.
That's a very interesting and difficult issue.
I'm glad you called.
I'm glad I helped in some way.
This I've always wondered.
If you're a criminal defense lawyer, and that's obviously a very small percentage of lawyers, but if you're a criminal defense lawyer, The vast majority of the people charged with violent crimes are guilty.
And even non-violent crimes.
The great majority, Alan Dershowitz has pointed this out often.
What does it do to you to spend your life defending criminals?
Defending them.
Doing everything you can with all of your ability to see them exonerated.
Especially in the cases of violent crimes.
Does it not have any impact on you?
Now, I know the answer that they give.
No, I'm not serving my client or crime.
I'm serving the larger good of everybody having the right to a defense.
That is the lawyer's response.
I have asked this of lawyers.
And it's not an ineffective response.
It does make sense.
Yet, I still can't believe it doesn't have an impact.
I'll tell you why.
We are affected by the people we spend time with.
You spend time with good people, you end up better.
You spend time with rapists, murderers, torturers, child abusers, you don't get better.
Let's be honest.
To deny that, and not only that, you even get to like a lot of them, which is also normal.
Criminal defense lawyers will often end up liking this pathological human being, this psychopath.
Then there's the lawyers in family law.
The rougher you are in divorce cases, the better your reputation.
And all you've succeeded in doing in many cases is just enabling the irresponsible spouse.
People often say women are favored in divorce cases.
I have come to believe that the irresponsible party is favored in divorce cases.
That is the way in which family law, I think, is really set up.
The a-hole is a beneficiary of the system.
The spouse that wants peace, wants to share the kids, feels that bad-mouthing the other spouse is not good for the children, they lose.
In many cases.
Alrighty, everybody.
Okay.
Got a lot of good calls coming up.
And it's not only in family law and criminal defense law.
There are so many arenas of law that involve you suspending Your notions of right and wrong under the rubric of everybody deserves a defense.
We'll be back in a moment.
We'll be back in a moment.
We'll be back in a moment.
Wade.
I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
That comes down to this.
Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive.
The second issue is even more important.
The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
That's the biggest issue here.
We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Because in the last week we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline, leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32. the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I am glad to see that he and so many other scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that...
This virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York, right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.
I mean, surely your common sense should dictate we should at least look into that possibility.
And that's what we should have been doing from the very beginning.
And that's what all these skeptics from the very beginning should have been acknowledging was at least a reasonable concern.
Well, I read one of his quotes from last year condemning, quote, QAnon and the Russians and the Murdoch media empire.
And so I think to myself, when you're throwing those three things together, that is kind of a poker tell.
Now, I don't want to indict or convict them of being a lab denier until I've done more research, but it does seem to me that people ought to pay a price if they were simply dismissive of this theory, and not only dismissive, downright obstructionist in its investigation last year.
Yeah, I will accuse that's the case, and it should certainly reflect on someone who made such a...
Silly comment.
And it's also a reminder, too, that all of these supposedly neutral, scientific, nonpartisan so-called experts often harbor deep partisan antipathies towards their opponents.
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You raise what is on your mind.
Jeffrey, San Diego, California.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
How are you?
Well, thank you.
Good.
Okay, my point, to be quick, we have many very important issues facing America today, and I love your show, by the way, but I believe that you and other conservative commentators can lose political capital.
If you tend to get diverted into arguing over relatively unimportant issues, and that tends to undermine your position on important issues.
One of my things is the mask.
I don't think that's an important issue for conservative pundits to concentrate on because it's relatively trivial and gets people all upset.
And truly important issues like indoctrination of our children in schools, critical race theory, destruction of our borders, those tend to get short-shifted.
Okay, I'm very, very happy you called, and I thank you.
And I know it comes with only good intentions.
So I have a lot of reactions.
This is a really good, juicy issue.
One might say.
First of all, for my own show, I spend more time about indoctrination of children than I do on masks.
The ratio is probably 5 to 1. But I do spend time on masks, and I consider it an exceedingly significant issue.
The reason is not masks.
The reason is my deep, deep concern.
That vast numbers of Americans are doing something so utterly irrational in such massive numbers.
The ability to get Americans to do something stupid through media fear inducement, there is no bigger issue, even the indoctrination of children.
This is the indoctrination of adults.
And that's scary.
Watching the great majority of my fellow citizens wear masks outdoors, an utterly useless act.
Watching them walking alone with masks scares the living daylights out of me.
I might have spent too little time on the subject in retrospect.
That is how important I consider it.
If you can get people to do something stupid on a mass basis through fear, what can't you get them to do through fear?
That's what I think.
I am scared of a lot of my fellow Americans for the first time in my life.
I am an American adoring machine my whole life.
Masks have unmasked.
The ability of Americans to be scared into idiocy.
And if that doesn't frighten you, what does?
The indoctrination of children is awful.
The indoctrination of adults is staggering.
I thought people could think they can't.
Say safety and they'll do anything.
Anything.
They won't visit their parents in hospitals.
Safety!
They will let their parents die alone.
Safety!
Okay?
I didn't speak about it enough, in my opinion.
Watching people wear masks outdoors scares me.
Rat...
That scares me five times, ten times, a hundred times more than COVID.
I hope I answered that.
that got me worked up.
All of my life I have known that irrationality and fear can get people to do anything.
I did a fireside chat last week.
It's up at PragerU.
I did it with a pastor, Rob McCoy.
Christian pastor who opened his church because he fears God more than Newsome.
Something that cannot be said about most Christians or Jews.
Who fear Newsom, including most rabbis, including Orthodox rabbis, where I expect a lot more from.
Oh, they said close the shul.
Close the shul.
It's the Jewish term for synagogue.
Yeah, we don't need to get together.
Newsom said not to.
I'll tell you what I told them later.
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You are not to be heard.
This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
You have the right to remain silent.
Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
I do.
I was under a constant attack.
You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
We know exactly what's going on here.
This is the wrong black guy.
He has to be destroyed.
So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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I kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally, and figuratively has been face down in the gutter.
And this is a guy whose life...
You know, it was at one point kind of hanging in the balance.
So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced different so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and And all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just, great things come out of things.
You know, you look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back at, wow.
If that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
This book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO, you were gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books.
for the sign books for our prison fellowship angel tree campaign to send kids to summer camp.
These are the children of prisoners in America who, for $200, are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside.
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*music* Dennis Prager here.
*music* I told the pastor that I had on my fireside chat.
I do a fireside chat.
You can see it at PragerU or on YouTube every week.
It's a very popular half hour.
I just offer some thoughts, take calls, and on rare occasions have a guest.
I had a guest two weeks ago.
Pastor who kept his church open and got fined for it.
By the way, there's just been a ruling that against the governor of California on making it harder to keep churches open than various stores.
Not shockingly, religious institutions Fell into line just like other places did.
It's depressing to me because I expect that the God-fearing will actually be God-fearing and not government-fearing.
But the number of religious people who take their religion truly seriously is not large.
It's not meant as an attack.
I'm obviously a big advocate of religion.
I think that the religious community is the last hope for this country.
But a lot of religious people love the benefits of religion.
They love, in some cases, the belief that they're saved.
In other cases, having a community.
In other cases, having the higher power in their life.
A lot of wonderful benefits to a religious life.
But a lot of religious people, and speaking of Jews and Christians specifically, don't actually take the religion seriously in terms of behavior when tested.
And they were tested this last year and a half, and most Jews and Christians failed.
They were as scared as everybody else for no good reason.
They were sheep like everybody else for no good reason.
The sheep part is really what bothers me.
If cowardice is going to reign in religious life as much as secular life, why should I bother with religion?
And that's why it was cowardice.
Some people really believed if they got together and prayed, they would die.
You're right.
They shouldn't go.
People who believe that should not go to church or synagogue or Walmart.
You believe you're with other people, you'll drop dead.
Don't go.
Have everything delivered.
I'm not being cute.
If that's what you believed, don't go.
I didn't believe it.
I'd have gone.
I'd have gone.
If my synagogue had...
Been allowed, but we don't have our own building.
If we had our own building, we'd have been open the whole time and defied just like a few churches did.
We meet at a rented building that wasn't open.
There's nothing we can do about it.
We've been meeting from the minute that this building would allow us to.
If I want the people to go noosome uber alas, I don't need to be religious.
But it's not even, it's the government, whoa, the government, whoa, since when is, the government says, is going to direct my life?
You've got to be kidding.
The government says.
So when does it stop?
Anyway, I trust religious people, the handful of religious institutions and people who defied the government.
I trust them more in crisis.
And I told the pastor, I said, if there were another Holocaust-like regime, like the Nazis, I would knock, as a Jew, I would knock on the door of a Christian who defied the government during...
The lockdown.
Much sooner than I would at any other Christian's door.
He was very moved.
And agreed.
When you get used to listening to the government to act irrationally, it's a very crappy thing to get used to doing.
Bad habit, my friends.
It's a bad habit.
Keely in Yelm, Washington.
That's a new city for me.
Yelm, hello.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you.
So I just wanted to answer your question about that you asked young women whether they'd rather have a good marriage or a good career.
And I have had a wonderful marriage.
I've been married for seven years, and I have not had a good career, but I'm very happy.
I would choose a good marriage.
Are you religious?
I am.
I'm a Christian.
Yeah, that's what I assume.
If you get married at 20 these days, overwhelmingly I assume that you are either a religious Christian or a religious Jew.
And where did you meet your husband at high school?
No, actually I met him in college.
Yeah, I met his aunt at church and she...
He didn't know me.
He just came up to me and told me I needed to meet her nephew.
For me, it was love at first sight when I did meet him.
I've got to do a male-female hour on love at first sight.
I'm very curious how often that happens.
That's a great topic.
It wasn't the same for him, apparently, though.
It was or wasn't?
It wasn't.
He liked me, but I knew I wanted to marry him.
It's usually one.
It's very rarely both, correct?
It's usually one.
But I gotta tell you, this aunt cracks me up.
She just walked over to a young woman she had never spoken to?
That meaning you?
Yes.
Yes, it was.
I was shocked.
Hey, young lady, would you like to meet my nephew?
I kind of thought she was crazy, but she was fine.
It worked.
It worked out.
And you said yes?
I did.
Great story.
This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
The case is Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, the infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi.
It's challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
Lots of them.
This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
Wade.
I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
That comes down to this.
Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive.
The second issue is even more important.
The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
That's the biggest issue here.
We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. - Because in the last week we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline, leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I am glad to see that he and so many other scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that...
This virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York, right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.
I mean, surely your common sense should dictate we should at least look into that possibility.
And that's what we should have been doing from the very beginning.
And that's what all these skeptics in the very beginning should have been acknowledging was at least a reasonable concern.
Well, I read one of his quotes from last year.
Condemning, quote, QAnon and the Russians and the Murdoch media empire.
And so I think to myself, when you're throwing those three things together, that is kind of a poker tell.
Now, I don't want to indict or convict him of being a lab denier until I've done more research.
But it does seem to me that people ought to pay a price if they were simply dismissive of this theory.
And not only dismissive, downright obstructionist in its investigation last year.
Yeah, well, Hugh, if that's the case, and it should certainly reflect on someone who made such a silly comment.
And it's also a reminder, too, that all of these supposedly neutral, scientific, nonpartisan so-called experts often harbor deep partisan antipathies towards their opponents.
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And in Dallas, Andy, hello.
Hi, Mr. Prager.
It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you.
I wanted to ask, I had purchased in a bookstore recently your two books on the Rational Bible, the chapters Genesis and Exodus.
But I noticed from the bookstore that they labeled that your Deuteronomy book, We'll be coming out soon.
That's right.
In a month and a half, I believe.
Correct.
I was just curious, did you already sell out on Leviticus and Numbers, or do you have yet to write those two books?
That's correct.
You are correct in the second guess.
That is right.
I did not go in order.
I went Exodus, Genesis, Deuteronomy, which is a good reminder to all of you to please pre-order the third volume of my Rational Bible.
Believe it or not, I just learned yesterday, Costco ordered 25,000 copies.
The reason they do is not because they're in love with Deuteronomy.
The number of Costco officials who know what Deuteronomy is is probably small.
No knock on Costco.
I'm grateful to them.
People just don't know their Bible.
But this is actually the hardest of...
It might end up being the hardest of the five books.
It has 200 laws in it, and I try to explain every one.
So pre-order it if you can at the Deuteronomy, the Rational Bible of Dennis Prager.
And let's see, Dale in Detroit.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Prager.
Yes, sir.
Were the P as in sake?
P as in pneumonia?
P as in pneumatic drill?
But as in Saki?
Like Jen Saki?
Oh, yes.
Wait, they never say the P in her name?
No.
Oh, okay, yes.
You're right.
P as in Saki.
Take it away.
Go ahead.
I had a question a couple weeks ago, and you said to call back, so I'm calling back.
I believe it was in your Ultimate Issues Hour.
You made an analogy that...
I forget what the topic was and all that, but you said you can enjoy something more if you understand it.
And you gave the example of music.
If you could read music, you could understand it more.
And I would disagree with you a little bit on that.
And in a lot of cases, you appreciate something less if you understand it, including music.
Well, you know what?
I feel terrible.
Call back again.
This will be the most delayed phone conversation in my radio history.
Alright, to all of you, I wish you a wonderful weekend.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Be well.
Be well.
In the last week, we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline, leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I'm glad to see that he and so many other...
Scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that this virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York, right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.