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	I just heard this morning that a woman living in that benighted condominium building in Miami Beach had her leg amputated by a surgeon.
	It was obviously crushed and unsalvageable in this horrific thing that happened there this week.
	I think about these things, as you well know, and here is about as good an example as exists confirming one of the central views I have of life that it's all about attitude and philosophy of life.
	This woman has every right to feel and think What lousy luck.
	How many apartment buildings in America in the last half century have collapsed?
	Can you remember any?
	Zero.
	This is the first time.
	Or maybe it's the second time.
	I don't know.
	But I don't remember, so let's say it's the first time.
	How many apartment buildings are in the United States?
	And she's in the one that...
	That collapses on itself and loses a leg.
	That would be a completely legitimate way to look at her situation.
	Here is another.
	As of now, there are nearly 100 people unaccounted for.
	So, it is possible they were on vacation in California.
	Although, why anybody would go from Florida to California is a puzzle.
	To go from freedom to non-freedom is not the usual way in which people move, but it does have nice scenery.
	Anyway, it's very unlikely, it seems to me, that most of the people unaccounted for are alive.
	Unaccounted for because they're in the rubble.
	Maybe a couple are still living.
	So she would have a completely legitimate view of her situation, this woman whose leg was amputated, absolutely the opposite of the first completely legitimate view.
	She could say, God!
	What luck!
	A building I'm sleeping in collapses, and all that happens to me is I lose a leg.
	Correct?
	Both utterly and completely accurate, rational reactions to what occurred to her.
	Which is right.
	The answer is, it completely depends on your attitude, and I would have to add your nature.
	That woman's situation is in so many ways your situation.
	My situation and the situation of the vast majority of humanity.
	You have every right to see yourself as wounded.
	And you have every right to see yourself as incredibly lucky.
	Which it is, is what determines your level of happiness, your quality of life.
	The horror, a word I choose wisely, or choose consciously, certainly, Is that so many people have been told to see themselves as in the second category.
	No, the second category.
	Wounded.
	Hurt.
	Victim.
	She has every right to see herself as a victim.
	She's not a victim.
	A woman is sleeping in her bed, does nothing wrong, and loses a leg.
	It's a big deal to lose a leg.
	Have the rest of your life with a prosthetic device.
	A lot of hospital time, a lot of therapy time.
	And by the way, not just, I assume, not just physical therapy, but psychological therapy.
	Have your house fall down on you?
	That is legitimately a trauma.
	Prior to the lockdowns, I would speak regularly at college campuses.
	I would speak regularly at college campuses.
	I would tell people, tell students, line up the microphones, and those of you who differ with me, please line up first.
	So those of you who don't differ with me, please allow those who do to get in line first.
	I recall so well women, young women, say 20 years old, living in spectacularly luxurious circumstances at a college dorm or apartment near the college for which they paid nothing, either the state The college or their parents, most likely the latter, paid for them.
	The most coddled generation in the history of Earth.
	And come up to the microphone and tell me with a straight face that as a woman they're persecuted in America.
	To say that they did not get a sympathetic hearing from me is to state that bulls have testicles.
	Another important, unassailable facts of life, which reminds me, by the way, an aside, do we deny that there are two sexes in the rest of the animal kingdom?
	Only humans have more than two sexes?
	That's science?
	Just asking.
	So, Viktor Frankl wrote the book that probably after the Bible most influenced me, Man's Search for Meaning.
	He summarized it.
	We have no control over what happens to us.
	Our only freedom is the freedom to choose how to react to what happens to us.
	I don't think there's anyone, I have not known anyone, let's put it this way.
	I've not known anyone well who could not portray themselves as wounded, as damaged goods.
	I've not known such a person.
	We're all walking wounded.
	The question is what you do with it and how you react to it.
	It is not possible to live life and not be wounded.
	Now, it sounds like the happiness hour, doesn't it?
	That's quite alright.
	My thinking bleeds into other hours.
	And I couldn't help but offer some of these thoughts with regard to hearing about the woman who lost a leg.
	And I really do wonder, Which she will look at.
	What lousy luck.
	Building collapses on me.
	First time in modern American history, probably.
	An apartment building.
	Or, wow, can't believe how lucky I am.
	90 people, let's say it is 90, died.
	And I walked out.
	Well, walked out is not accurate.
	I got out.
	I was carried out.
	That's our life in a nutshell.
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	A senator, is that correct, has offered a bill?
	To allow people to travel without masks.
	Is that correct?
	Congressman and a senator.
	Congressman and a senator.
	We'll be back.
	I'm Dennis Prager, 1-8 Prager 7-7-6.
	for the whole of the cold war was there ever a moment from the berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the berlin wall on november 9 1989
	Was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh!
	Oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here in the nation's capital, when more than 80%, 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline?
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine Called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now through force, through the use of military might to the Russian Federation, not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it by force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
	Oh, yes, they're just contractors.
	They're private citizens.
	They're, oh, I don't know, on holiday.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them, them shall seem most likely laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them,
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day.
	Around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
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	That's pure talk.
	Maybe we'll do that as a happiness hour theme.
	Use that woman as an example of how you live your life.
	All right, I got so much more to say about it, I probably will do it during the happiness hour.
	New study links ivermectin to large reductions in COVID-19 deaths, Epoch Times.
	The use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin could lead to large reductions in COVID-19 deaths and may have a significant impact on the pandemic globally, according to a recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies.
	For the study published...
	June 17th in the American Journal of Therapeutics.
	You got that issue, right?
	I know you and your wife sort of like have fights who gets to read it first.
	Have you resolved it?
	No, it's still an issue.
	A group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which is antiviral.
	And anti-inflammatory properties in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just more than 3,400 participants.
	The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.
	Now, I'd like you to know who did the study.
	I looked it up, all right?
	Who say follow the science?
	Here you go.
	Andrew Bryant, Division of Gastroenterology, Newcastle University.
	Teresa Laurie, Division of Gastroenterology, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy, Bath, United Kingdom.
	Therese Dousewell, PhD, Emergency Department, Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey, United Kingdom.
	Edmund Fordham, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology, Ulster Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
	Okay?
	Is that good enough for you?
	Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was found to be 2.3% among those treated with the drug, compared to 7.8% for those who were not treated with ivermectin.
	Quote, moderate certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin.
	Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease.
	The authors wrote, if your doctor will not prescribe ivermectin to you, you should leave that doctor.
	You can continue to play golf with him or her.
	And have any warm feelings that you desire, don't go to that doctor anymore.
	The doctor is either ignorant of what is going on, which is probable.
	They don't follow this stuff.
	Non-medical talk show hosts like me do, which is a scandal.
	How little doctors know about this disease and how to treat it.
	It's a scandal.
	It speaks poorly of the medical profession.
	But much speaks poorly of the medical profession in our time.
	Or they are politically indoctrinated in such a way that it affects their ability to be an excellent doctor.
	They cited another recent review.
	The recent, and I looked that one up.
	Did a lot of work for you, my friends.
	I looked that one up.
	Here are the authors of this other study that just came out.
	Pierre Corey, MD. Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, Madison, Wisconsin.
	Gianfranco Umberto Meduri.
	Memphis, Virginia Medical Center, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Pulmonary Critical Care and Research Services.
	Jose Iglesias, D.O. University of Texas Health Science Center, Critical Care Service, Houston, Texas.
	And let's see.
	Did I get them all?
	There was MD. Did I say Maduri was MD? Yes.
	Jose Iglesias.
	And Paul Merrick.
	Eastern Virginia Medical School, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Norfolk, Virginia.
	Oh, Joseph Verone.
	That's it.
	That's the other one.
	That was Houston.
	Jose Iglesias' Department of Medicine, Hackensack School of Medicine, Seton Hall, New Jersey.
	They concluded that ivermectin reduced deaths by as much as 75%.
	Let me say, and I put my reputation on the line by saying this, I fully acknowledge it.
	I believe that the medical profession is responsible for at least 100,000 dead Americans for being antipathetic for opposing therapeutics like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and zinc.
	Yep.
	That goes from Dr. Fauci down to your doctor who won't prescribe this.
	But we'll tell you to get a vaccine.
	Vivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have decades of safety behind them.
	The vaccine does not.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore the country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody!
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	Scripturally, God gives His people authority that if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think...
	That's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, like, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	As though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America.
	And clearly, that's not what we're seeing.
	So how do you explain that?
	Well, you know, CNN recently come to our church and said, are you a Christian nationalist?
	They love to throw that terminology around.
	I said, if you mean by that, that I love the nation and I follow Jesus Christ, then absolutely.
	But to them, those are two terms that are irreconcilable.
	They can't understand how can you love God and love the nation.
	My question is, how can you not love God and still not love the nation?
	Because he's a God of nations.
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
	The God of Israel.
	And I mean, the gospel, redemption is for all nations.
	And so I think if you're going to be a believer, you ought to...
	You ought to stand up because we do have a church issue.
	Judgment doesn't begin at the White House.
	Judgment begins at God's house.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not humbling ourselves and repenting, I believe we're watching this horrible tidal wave of a tyrannical government take over this nation.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not in order, because we're not in order,
	Hi, everybody. - Great.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	I will finish this piece.
	Two major studies about the efficacy of ivermectin.
	If you have a relative or friend who died of COVID and was not given either hydroxychloroquine and zinc or ivermectin, your friend or relative may have died.
	Because of utter and total medical negligence.
	Utter and total.
	It is one of the scandals of my lifetime.
	This Food and Drug Administration, in a note on why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19, did you know that they had that?
	They actually wrote that?
	Warns that it has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.
	When did that come out?
	Using any treatment for COVID... By the way, just for the record, the last head of the FDA, or I don't know if it's Scott Gottlieb if he was the last head, one of the last heads.
	Is on the board of directors of Pfizer.
	The whole thing's crooked.
	Spent my life defending pharmaceutical companies.
	I now realize how corrupt they are.
	And they have corrupted the FDA, the C, what is the C, what?
	C-I, what is it?
	Center for Disease Control.
	CDC. A lot of initials in my brain.
	You know, I really wonder how many, now that I think of it, how many acronyms, or if that's the proper term, are in my brain.
	Just in the media, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN. Yeah.
	Using any treatment for COVID-19 that's not approved or authorized by the FDA. Unless part of a clinical trial could cause serious harm.
	Well, wouldn't that apply to the vaccine?
	The vaccine is not authorized or approved by the FDA. However, the vaccine brings in hundreds of billions of dollars.
	Ivermectin brings in, as it is said in Yiddish, bupkis.
	Bukis is a great term.
	And it means...
	Zilch.
	Zilch is a great term, too.
	I like zilch.
	The WHO said in March that the current evidence on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients is inconclusive.
	Oh.
	Well, that beats the FDA report.
	That until more data become available, the agency recommends the drug only be used with clinical trials.
	Well, they just had trials.
	Well, not trials.
	They had efficacy studies.
	The authors of the efficacy study argued, however, that the drug has an established safety profile through decades of use and could play a critical role in suppressing or even ending the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
	The apparent safety and low cost suggests that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally, they wrote in the study abstract.
	Now, it's interesting, if you reprint this, will they take it off the internet?
	So Google and Twitter and Facebook are also complicit in the deaths of untold thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans.
	Instead, what do we have here?
	More evidence that the lockdown was useless.
	It's actually harmful.
	Where is that?
	Yes.
	Yes, here it is.
	Foundation for Economic Education, June 21st.
	We just got even more proof that stay-at-home orders lethally backfired.
	In a new paper, economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation Examine the effectiveness of shelter-in-place mandates, aka stay-at-home orders, using data from 43 countries and all 50 U.S. states.
	The experts analyzed not just deaths from COVID-19, but excess deaths, a measure that compares overall deaths from all causes to a historical baseline.
	The authors explain that lockdown orders may have had lethal, unintended consequences in their own right.
	Such as increased drug overdoses worsened mental health problems, increased child abuse, deadly delays in non-COVID medical care, and more.
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	Training now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Music That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day.
	Around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	Ha ha ha.
	Hey, y'all.
	Reading to you.
	Thank you.
	And I will then take your calls.
	So the latest is that the stay-at-home orders actually may have increased death.
	The authors explain, this is studies from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation, that there may have been a lot.
	We failed to find that shelter-in-place policies saved lives, the authors report.
	What do you think of that?
	Indeed, they conclude that in the weeks following the implementation of these policies, excess mortality actually increases, even though it had typically been declining before the orders took effect.
	Across all countries, the study finds that a one-week increase in the length of stay-at-home policies corresponds with 2.7 more excess deaths per 100,000 people.
	We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP, stay-in-place, shelter-in-place policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries slash U.S. states.
	That were slower to implement stay-in-place policies.
	And their finding is no outlier.
	A number of other credible studies have similarly concluded that lockdowns were ineffective at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
	Plus, other research now shows that most COVID-19 spread occurred at home, not out in the world, making stay-at-home orders all the more absurd in hindsight.
	I already told you about it.
	Who was the one that said it was the greatest health care mistake in history?
	Bhattacharya.
	Bhattacharya at Stanford.
	Yeah.
	Dennis Prager said it was the greatest mistake in history last March.
	I've been proven right, I believe, on every one of my assessments because I have no agenda.
	It's an amazing thing to be agenda-free.
	I only wanted to save lives and know what's true.
	Period.
	Oh, yes, I had an agenda.
	I take that back.
	All things being equal, I go on the side of liberty.
	Tell people what's dangerous and let them live their lives.
	You don't want to leave your house?
	Don't leave your house.
	I have a relative who's afraid of the virus.
	I love her very much.
	She's a wonderful human being.
	She stayed at home for a year, alone.
	She's essentially in solitary confinement.
	It was self-induced.
	I spoke to her periodically.
	She's, as I said, a wonderful human being.
	Okay.
	I didn't tell her to leave.
	Be too uncomfortable for her.
	She thought she might very well die.
	And I understand those who have that belief, Or who have an objective belief based on comorbidities, stay at home.
	Why did we block children from school?
	It's a criminal.
	There's a criminal offense against children.
	The anti-children teachers' unions.
	Anti-children.
	You know it's true, but who says it?
	What newspaper is going to describe teachers' unions as Hostile to children.
	Okay, Jeffrey in Minneapolis, hello.
	Mr. Prager, can you hear me?
	I can.
	It's not great, but I hear you.
	Okay, first of all, it's an honor to speak with you.
	Second of all, I can't possibly, in the short time we have, thank you enough for all that you've done for the country, for religious values, for conservative values.
	I'm a reformed liberal, and you're part of that.
	I just can't thank you enough.
	You know, it's funny.
	It's not funny what you said.
	I'm touched by it.
	It's funny that I took your call because it has you differing with me.
	And then I go to you and I get praised.
	So I just want my listeners to know I went to you because I thought you were going to differ with me.
	Which you still might.
	Go right ahead.
	Yes, sir.
	I do have kind of a challenge or even a question.
	So you've had Dr. Zelenko on your program a number of times, I believe.
	At least one episode.
	And if I'm not mistaken, Dr. Zelenko has been a consultant to different governments on his drug cocktail for COVID-19, which includes ivermectin, which I believe you've touched on in today's program.
	I believe one of those governments is Brazil, but Brazil's COVID numbers have been raging.
	And I was just wondering if you had any thoughts as to...
	I will ask him, there's a very simple thank you so much for both the challenge and the compliments.
	I will ask him one simple question.
	Did Brazil follow your advice?
	So, if there was widespread use of ivermectin and or hydroxychloroquine in zinc, that would be a very legitimate challenge to what I've been saying.
	That is correct.
	For the record, Brazil is 10th in the world.
	And deaths per million.
	And Peru, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, among others, have worse statistics.
	It's hard to know why any given country does or doesn't.
	It may reflect its healthcare system.
	That's also a factor.
	The question is, did any country use...
	Ivermectin in a widespread manner.
	For the record, I think you should know that I have been, my wife has been as well, on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and zinc for at least a year.
	We have been confined, well not confined, but we have been in a house, that means my house, with two members of those living with us, both of whom had COVID, We practiced no social distancing, no masking, and did not get a sniffle.
	They were not on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
	Interesting?
	Well, it's just an anecdote.
	So, you can either extrapolate some truth from it or not.
	We return.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Paint Free Studio.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade, and Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars, because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
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	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore this country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	Scripturally, God gives His people authority that if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have...
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think that's not biblical, folks.
	We've got it.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus.
	But, you know, the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible.
	And in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively.
	We don't want to fight for America as though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the...
	Howdy Doody everybody.
	I have two corrections, incidentally.
	And I must tell you, it very little gnaws at me.
	It gnaws at me when I make a mistake on the air.
	I made a ridiculous one yesterday.
	In my desire to praise, and I stay in hotels a lot, but I had a very wonderful, wonderful experience at the Holiday Inn in Barstow when I said it was Bakersfield.
	I had Bakersfield on my mind.
	Yes, just a bit outside.
	By how many miles?
	So, if anybody knows anybody at the Holiday Inn in Barstow, I want to thank them for really competent and kind treatment.
	And I just announced that I've been on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for a year.
	Actually, my corrector-in-chief...
	It says that Ivermectin was added in October, but I don't have the original date of hydroxychloroquine, which preceded Ivermectin by months.
	So that was accurate, the hydroxychloroquine a year, the Ivermectin since October.
	Or November.
	All right.
	So that's how often Dan in St. Petersburg wants to know how often do I take hydroxychloroquine?
	What is the dosage?
	Twice a week?
	I think twice a week.
	Let's see here.
	Don in Chicago.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Nice to talk to you again.
	My wife and I both got coronavirus.
	She got it first.
	A couple days later, we just realized we both had it.
	We went and got tested.
	And called our family physician.
	We've had him for 20 years.
	He's 70 years old.
	He's kind of an old-school kind of a guy.
	But I really enjoy the guy.
	He tells it like it is.
	So he did a Zoom call with us, and he shows up on the Zoom call, and he's wearing a mask.
	And I immediately say, what the hell are you wearing a mask for?
	And he kind of looked at me and said, I'm trying to protect you.
	It was kind of a joke.
	So I said, well, we got coronavirus.
	What do you prescribe?
	He prescribed us the typical steroids, antibiotics, told us to take vitamin D and zinc.
	And we did.
	And my symptoms cleared up pretty much in a week or so.
	My wife, not so much.
	She had it more in the respiratory.
	Nothing alarming to us that we had to go to the hospital or anything like that.
	We were just working through it.
	We're both in good shape.
	We have no medical conditions at all.
	So hers wouldn't clear up.
	And after 10 days, she got ticked off and she called the doctor and she did another Zoom call.
	And she said, I want to be on hydroxychloroquine.
	And he said, no, that stuff doesn't work.
	He goes, it's a bunch of BS. I'm sorry because you've obviously had him for you.
	He was right on the steroid in many cases, the vitamin D, the zinc.
	It's more than a lot of doctors know.
	Happiness Hour coming up.
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	How did that account to a constructive meeting as President Putin?
	I don't understand that.
	I don't think the meeting went very well, do you?
	I mean, that's a member of the lapdog media.
	That's Caitlin Collins.
	And how is the man responding to her who bears the title of President of the United States?
	What?
	The hell do you do over there?
	First response, if you couldn't hear it.
	I know it's, you know, it's a live TV coverage.
	It was recorded from a distant mic.
	And then he said, what?
	You shouldn't be in this business.
	Biden, you shouldn't be in the White House.
	The United States Congress has finally found something they can agree on.
	The United States Congress, of course, can't agree on whether or not the Constitution is a document worthy of honoring.
	They can't agree on whether or not they should curb inflation.
	They can't address the crisis on the southern border.
	They can't try to bring back manufacturing jobs to our country.
	But the one thing that Congress has decided to agree on, and every single senator voted in favor of this, was to create a new federal holiday.
	14 members of the House of Representatives deserve credit for voting against this.
	And that is to create a new federal holiday called Juneteenth.
	Now, you might not have heard this before.
	Juneteenth.
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	He's a leader of the free world.
	He's a commander-in-chief.
	I mean, that was painful.
	Incidentally, speaking of painful, A reporter yesterday in Houston, local Fox reporter named Ivory Hecker.
	You got to hear this.
	Everybody loves it when people go off script and TV reporters do something off script.
	Here's cut three.
	Listen to this reporter who was going to do a report on the heat wave.
	The heat wave.
	Ivory Hecker, listen to this.
	And they throw to her to ask her about the hot weather.
	Listen to what she says.
	Outages across the region.
	Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker is live in Montgomery County to take a look at that aspect.
	Thanks, guys.
	That's right.
	Before we get to that story, I want to let you, the viewers, know that Fox Corp has been muzzling me to keep certain information from you, the viewers.
	And from what I'm gathering, I am not the only reporter being subjected to this.
	I am going to be releasing some recordings about what goes on behind the scenes at Fox because it applies to you, the viewers.
	I found a nonprofit journalism group called Project Veritas.
	It's going to put that out tomorrow, so tune into them.
	But as for this heat wave across Texas, you can see what it's doing.
	Let's get to that heat wave.
	I mean, you know that they were in the control room going, what do we do?
	What do we do?
	Dump, dump, dump!
	The cameraman's probably going, oh my gosh, do I pan away?
	Whatever she's got, I don't know what she's talking about, but remember her name, Ivory Hecker, because I think there might be some nervous executives at Fox who are wondering what tapes she's got or what she's going to drop.
	Wow, that was quite a moment.
	Live TV! What brought you to this place?
	What is your story?
	Because there are so few pastors in America.
	I'm meeting more and more that are like you, and I praise God.
	But what led you to be the man of God you are today?
	You know, I traveled for almost 11 years as an evangelist, 48 states, 15 countries.
	And so I just began to see the demise.
	I began to see the crumbling of our nation.
	And so then, 15 years ago, in 2006, I came off the road full-time, started the church.
	It was way before...
	Any type of social media presence, you know, the thing just blew up.
	And so I just began to see that pastors just aren't standing.
	They just kind of have this willy-nilly idea, just kind of approach the pulpit, dearly beloved, welcome to be here.
	And people were bored.
	What I'm finding is men that hate church love our church.
	And wives are super excited because we have hundreds and hundreds of men that are coming to our church like, we want a man to be our pastor.
	We want this guy to stand up and say what needs to be said.
	And so I think the lack of having a backbone drove me to want to have a Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that's why churches have been feminized.
	Look, this goes way back into the 19th century.
	Mark Twain made fun of it, that, you know, all the old women love church, the church biddies.
	But when you see a church full of men who love God, it has a whole different character.
	And that makes the spirit of this age very uncomfortable.
	It's at war with the spirit of the age, and it's at war with what you see in American newsrooms and in American media.
	They are very uncomfortable by strong, godly men.
	And that's what is missing in the church.
	men that will stand up and be men of God.
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	Hey.
	Yes, yes, yes indeed.
	It's the creed and we have a deed.
	It's a creed.
	We have a deed.
	Indeed.
	We have a creed.
	Indeed we do.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
	Original lyrics, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's the creed indeed.
	My task is to constantly surprise the technical director.
	Okay.
	I did it today.
	That is correct.
	I agree.
	There are two people here who have no idea what I will be saying in the next sentence.
	The technical director and I. Actually, three.
	What's your title again?
	No, no, not Living Martyr.
	Your official title.
	Executive producer?
	Executive producer?
	Not just producer?
	The technical director and executive producer are with me today.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is the Happiness Hour.
	I actually did something, I think, unprecedented.
	I started the show.
	This is Hour 2, and it is always Hour 2 on Friday.
	I started the show, that is, started Hour 1, with actually the theme of the Happiness Hour.
	There are two issues here that are really serious.
	One is, I used the example of something I learned just today.
	A woman in the building that collapsed in Miami, Miami Beach, I believe.
	Yeah, Miami Beach, Collins Avenue is Miami Beach.
	A woman upon whom the building collapsed had to have her leg amputated.
	And I asked, what attitude should this woman take?
	God, what lousy luck.
	One building in 50 years falls on people and I'm in it.
	Collapses on people.
	I lose my leg.
	Or, oh my God, am I lucky.
	I wasn't killed.
	I just lost a leg.
	Which attitude is correct?
	The answer is both attitudes are correct.
	The question is, what does she emphasize for the rest of her life?
	Lucky to be alive, or unfortunate, undeserving victim of the loss of a leg.
	In one of the freakest accidents in modern American history, in the United States of America, apartment buildings do not collapse on their residence.
	So, I said, It's all attitude.
	You can't control what happens to you.
	You can't control how you react to it.
	I got that from Viktor Frankl in search for meaning.
	1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776 Who has not faced something analogous?
	Well, I am really lucky it wasn't worse.
	Or wow.
	What lousy luck.
	Who has not faced that in some arena in life?
	The answer is no one.
	Which brings me to topic number two.
	I don't know if I've ever actually addressed this on the Happiness Hour, and if I didn't, I have sinned against thee.
	We're all damaged.
	The human condition is a damaged condition.
	So the issue is how you deal with it.
	And what we have in the last half century is people walk around feeling that they're victims.
	For example, of their parents.
	I had dinner with my older son yesterday.
	He was in LA for 36 hours.
	And I am happy to say he chose to spend about four of those hours, the only four he had, with me.
	And I don't take that for granted.
	By the way, it's a good example of not taking things for granted.
	I know how many parents have strained relations with children.
	That I do not.
	I daily thank God.
	I mean it sincerely.
	Because every parent I know with strained relations with a child doesn't mean it's true for every parent and child, but every parent I know with a strained relation with a child didn't earn it.
	Every parent makes mistakes.
	You know why every parent makes mistakes?
	The last I checked, every parent was a human being.
	People are flawed.
	Do you know why it's so difficult to raise children?
	I mean, I'm really hitting some big themes today.
	Because every child is infinitely complex.
	And they're all different from each other.
	We all know, but we're not fully conscious of it, that kids are born with natures.
	Once you raise one child, you get another child, let's say, of a second child, the chances of there being like the first child are almost zero.
	Even if it's the same parents who conceive the child.
	So, in my earphones from the technical director came the question, did my father think it was difficult to raise children?
	That is a very interesting question.
	Oh, we're coming close to my dad's birthday.
	We'll have to have that hour on.
	He's passed away, but he sounds alive.
	It's very eerie for me to hear my interviews with him.
	So if you would have asked my father, he would have said it was effortless to raise my older brother, and that he was confused as to how to raise me.
	He would have acknowledged that.
	He actually said to me on many occasions, because he literally spoke to God every night.
	As he went to bed, his head would hit the pillow, he would speak to God.
	He had a very intimate relationship with God.
	I do not.
	I deeply believe in God, but I do not have an intimate relationship.
	But he did.
	And he said that for years he prayed to God, please tell me what to do with Dennis.
	It's not like, you must understand folks, it's not like I was engaged in arson.
	But for a Jewish parent, if you didn't do homework, you might as well have engaged in arson.
	Correct?
	Correct?
	They didn't know it.
	My mother thought I was going to end up in prison.
	As she said it regularly, you're going to end up in jail.
	You'll be a JD. Juvenile delinquent.
	Not a term used anymore.
	JD is doctor of jurisprudence now.
	It was not when I grew up.
	She did not say, you know, you continue like this, you're going to be a doctor of jurisprudence.
	So anyway, that answers your question.
	But it's very hard to know what's right all the time in raising a child.
	That's why you've got to give your parents some slack.
	Unless they literally abused you.
	You've got to give them some slack.
	So, I have two themes going here.
	That everybody has the right...
	To see themselves as a victim, and you choose whether to do so.
	And I use the woman in Florida as the perfect, she's a perfect example.
	I have no leg.
	I went to bed.
	The last thing I could imagine is, this apartment building is going to collapse on me.
	Which, by the way, is a trauma in itself.
	That's a real trauma.
	If she has PTSD, that's legit.
	A building fall on you?
	I remember the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles.
	I've lived through many earthquakes living in Southern California since 1976. So, I'm inured to it.
	I've given speeches where the building shook and I just continued speaking.
	But the Northridge earthquake, what year was that?
	So, take a look so I can announce.
	I don't know what it is.
	But the Northridge earthquake.
	That was scary.
	My home 94. So shook that it woke me up at 4.30 in the morning and I was scared.
	I never get scared.
	Back in a moment.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	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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	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment?
	From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here in the nation's capital, when more than 80%, 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline?
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now through force, through the use of military might to the Russian Federation, not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it by force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
	Oh, yes, they're just contractors.
	They're private citizens.
	They're, oh, I don't know, on holiday.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
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	By the way, I do want to remind you that we're headed to Israel in October, and I will be with you.
	Needless to say, it's at the banner at my website, dennisprager.com.
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	Right.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The topic of the Happiness Hour, Second Hour Fridays is the Happiness Hour, is the choice we have whether to see ourselves as victims or not.
	It's the choice.
	And the woman who lost her leg this week when the Miami apartment building Collapsed on her and others is the quintessential example.
	Am I lucky to be alive or am I unlucky to lose a leg?
	Being in the only collapsed apartment building in, I don't know, half a century?
	I don't know when the last apartment building collapsed on its inhabitants took place.
	And I extrapolate this question to life in general, since we're all damaged in some way.
	Life does that.
	And by the way, if young people understood that, be a lot happier.
	Damage is part of life.
	That's the way it is.
	How many people drive a car?
	For more than five years with no damage on it.
	It's a good analogy.
	Most people, in the course of having a car for a long period of time, assume damage, right?
	We assume it.
	Living model, let me ask you, did you ever have a car for a long period of time?
	I know you lease.
	Did you ever have one for like 10 years?
	I don't think 10, but 7. 7?
	Was there any damage?
	There's always damage.
	Yeah, there's always damage.
	Okay.
	1-8 Prager, 776-877-243-776.
	Dick in Maricopa, California.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Mr. Prager.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I've only been able to recently resume listening to you since I used to live in the LA area.
	And you were not available here, but thank you for this opportunity again.
	So wait a minute.
	I am now available in your area?
	Well, yes.
	You have replaced the gentleman who's...
	Talent was on loan from God.
	Oh, yes, okay.
	That was a great loss.
	I wrote about that in the Wall Street Journal.
	I don't know if you've seen the cartoon about that, where someone has actually drawn him standing at the pearly gates, offering back his talent to God.
	Oh, that's adorable.
	That's very cute.
	Yes, he won't need it there.
	All right, go ahead.
	Anyway, the indomitable American spirit, the indomitable human spirit, is pretty adaptable.
	And I think that anyone, as we age especially, are thankful to be alive.
	And I presume that that woman probably has the same spirit, even though the initial shock, I don't know that she would feel victim at the initial shock.
	You know, coming out of the surgery, she would feel wasted.
	But later on in life, she will feel, depending upon her family situation, I think, and her other relationships and the like, that she's thankful to be still as part of the crowd.
	Well, I would, but she has every right.
	To think that she had bad luck in losing her leg, which she did.
	See, my point, and thank you for the call, great to hear from you.
	By the way, for those of you, people say this to me a lot, oh, I now discovered you again, or whatever.
	You could hear me anywhere on earth.
	In so many ways, you can go to any, almost any station that I'm on has the show live.
	You can go to DennisPrager.com.
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	And now I've begun long-form interviews which are only available to PragerTopia subscribers.
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	It's at PragerTopia.com.
	Alright, 1-8 Prager 776. She is lucky to be alive and unlucky to lose her leg.
	You're allowed to acknowledge both, right?
	You had cancer, you got cancer, and the chemo and radiation worked.
	You're very lucky to be alive, and you're very unlucky that you got cancer.
	Chemo and radiation are pretty awful.
	See?
	It's all true.
	That's why I believe that having expectations is stupid.
	You expect what?
	Expect that bad won't happen to you?
	All right, let's see here.
	Rick in Albany, Georgia.
	Hello.
	Hello?
	Yes, hi.
	Hey, by the way, love your show.
	Agree with you on most things.
	Thank you.
	I had a motorcycle wreck years ago and damaged my leg severely.
	I had to learn to walk again.
	I wasn't able to run, so I had to be reassigned.
	I used to be a federal agent for a number of years.
	I had to revamp everything and ended up going to law school and became a lawyer.
	But one of the key factors was, somebody asked me some time ago, how did you keep going?
	Well, I couldn't wait to see what would happen tomorrow.
	That's fine.
	So, what's the state of your legs now?
	Walk with a limp, use a cane during trials, stuff like that.
	No big deal.
	It's been a number of years, so I've gotten used to it.
	I was able to raise my kids.
	They're grown, have a good family life, so everything's good.
	Yeah, that's right.
	What's your choice?
	I always look at it that way.
	I don't want to choose to be unhappy.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country.
	To the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	To answer the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he has in the past essentially acknowledged that he was...
	There are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	It's not much of a—I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was— I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
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	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	They actually...
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
	I told you for decades a congressman named John Conyers, he died several years ago, black congressman from the Detroit area, would propose reparations.
	Every time Congress opened, he introduced a resolution for reparations and got virtually no support.
	People thought it was a joke.
	He did it every two years for the entirety of his career, and he served for decades.
	Barack Obama gets elected, 2008. And as I've mentioned, I'm old school.
	I used to get the LA Times and the New York Times thrown into my house every morning.
	I now get them online.
	I read them so you don't have to.
	And the next morning, I go out in my driveway, pick up the newspapers, and there are these front page color pictures of these parents, black parents, hugging their kids.
	And they're all crying.
	Music playing.
	Music playing.
	This is early Sinatra.
	Then late Sinatra.
	It is not the normal Sinatra.
	I know it's his song.
	Yeah, I don't hear his voice in this.
	There was more wisdom in popular songs in the 40s and 50s than at Harvard today in the philosophy department.
	I mean that literally.
	I do not state things for dramatic effect.
	I believe it.
	As William Buckley said, I'd rather be governed by the first, what is it, 100 names in the Boston phone book than 100 members of the Harvard faculty.
	Two thousand.
	Alright, 2,000.
	There you go.
	It wasn't fast enough, Sean, but I do appreciate you getting it.
	That's life.
	That's good.
	That's life.
	That's good.
	That is very good.
	That was very impressive.
	1-8 Prager 776. The choice we have whether to see ourselves as victims.
	Everybody is a victim.
	Tell your victim friend Or child.
	Everybody is.
	I meet children who have these big complaints against parents, and unless they've been abused, I mean seriously abused.
	What do you think your parent had as his or her upbringing?
	Think they had this idyllic upbringing?
	Alright.
	Wow.
	Alright.
	This all began with the woman in Florida who lost her leg in the collapsed apartment building.
	She has every right to see herself as a victim.
	Sleeping in her bed at 1.30am and then, out of nowhere, loses her leg.
	If somebody would have said to her, you know, there's a chance, you go to bed tonight.
	He'll end up with no leg.
	The person would have been regarded as a lunatic.
	Larry in Tempe, Arizona.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	It is great to speak with you.
	I have listened for years and don't often have the chance to call, but this topic was perfect for me.
	I was 18 years old and lost my sight because of diabetes.
	I did feel, whether, I don't know if I spotted the word or the term victim, but I was devastated.
	I had plans for education and future career, and I, being an architect, wasn't in the mid-80s at least, if not still now, wasn't really something you could do if you couldn't see the house plans you were drawing.
	And so my plans for life were devastated and taken away.
	And so, yes, I was very devastated.
	But with time and with great support from family and friends, I began to see opportunities and began to accept it.
	And the big key part of what you're saying is seeing both of those options, that, yes, there's times when things go wrong, but there can always be, over long-term, Wow.
	Wow.
	because I can see what God has done in and through my life.
	I've been married for 15 years, worked full-time for over 20 years.
	None of those things that, none of those, neither of those things would have thought 30 years ago would have ever happened.
	You know what?
	I want to continue with you.
	It's absolutely riveting.
	This is the Happiness Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
	The Dennis Prager Show live from the Relief Factor pain-free studio.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore this country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	Scripturally, God gives His people authority.
	Yeah.
	That if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think...
	That's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	As though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America, and clearly that's not what we're saying.
	So how do you explain that?
	Well, you know, CNN recently come to our church and said, are you a Christian nationalist?
	They love to throw that terminology around us.
	And if you mean by that, that I love the nation and I follow Jesus Christ, then absolutely.
	But to them, those are two terms that are irreconcilable.
	They can't understand how can you love God and love the nation.
	My question is, how can you not love God and still not love the nation?
	Because he's a God of nations.
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
	The God of Israel.
	And I mean, the gospel, redemption is for all nations.
	And so I think if you're going to be a believer, you ought to...
	You ought to stand up because we do have a church issue.
	Judgment doesn't begin at the White House.
	Judgment begins at God's house.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not humbling ourselves and repenting, I believe we're watching this horrible tidal wave of a tyrannical government take over this nation.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	Dramatic music
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your- music
	What year is this song from?
	I wonder if it's in keeping with my theory.
	In the 60s.
	60s?
	Yeah.
	I assume early 60s.
	This country went downhill in the second part of the 60s.
	Can't change film.
	What is a young person hearing that?
	65. 65. I hit it on the nose.
	Look at that.
	Just made it.
	Thank you.
	But it does confirm my theory that there is more wisdom in the songs prior to 65 than at any philosophy department.
	In any elite school in our country.
	Now back, this is the happiness hour.
	Your choice whether to see yourself as a victim using the woman who lost her leg in Miami with the collapsed building as my example.
	So Larry is a dramatic call.
	Larry, back to you in Arizona.
	You lost your sight at 18 because of diabetes, obviously.
	Type 1 diabetes.
	Yes.
	Which is devastating to an 18-year-old.
	Actually, it's devastating at any age.
	And you wanted to be an architect.
	Those plans were shelved.
	And now you have a wife, children, profession, and, I mean, it's almost hard to believe you wouldn't trade it in for sight.
	I wouldn't because I've seen how God uses me through this to give people hope and encouragement.
	There's people who have gone through things, obviously, much worse than losing sight.
	And even though that's bad enough, but to be able to hear someone say, yeah, it's hard.
	It's very hard.
	What you're going through is difficult and you have the right to be hurt.
	But you can get through it.
	Be patient.
	And the thing is, it doesn't take, it doesn't happen overnight.
	You know, I didn't go from losing my sight and two weeks later saying, you know, I'm going to get up on my feet and I'm going to make the best.
	I didn't do it that way.
	It doesn't, we humans don't usually adjust quite that quickly.
	It took some time and some strategic words from people around me, some wisdom from people around me, some wisdom from the Bible.
	be able to start realizing that it doesn't necessarily take vision, physical vision to have other vision Is your vision such a are you permanently in the dark?
	Yes.
	Right.
	So I'm always curious in a couple of arenas.
	One is it difficult to fall asleep?
	No I have never had that issue I'm very grateful for that.
	I think part of that...
	For me, it's been even before I started working, I maintained a schedule that was getting up at a fairly consistent time in the morning, going to bed at a fairly consistent time at night, and just maintaining that type of schedule.
	So I think that helped me.
	I know there are some blind people that do deal with.
	Right.
	How did you meet your wife?
	I met her at church.
	It was an interesting story.
	I will tell it quickly.
	We attended a fairly good-sized church, and we had a team that tried to deal with people with disabilities, finding ways to help them be more at home in the church.
	And I was on that committee, and I got to do announcements one morning in the services.
	And because I make light of my blindness, I make self-deprecating jokes at my expense, they said, have fun.
	You don't have to be overly serious.
	And so the lady that walked me up onto the platform to make the announcements left me standing sideways to the congregation and then hurried back and straightened me out.
	And I just laughed and said, that's Larry's world.
	Welcome to my world.
	and I just made some little jokes along the way and did the announcement parts, but my wife was in one of those services, and she turned to one of her sisters and said, I think I need to meet him.
	And so she went through one of the people she knew at church, and just over the course of several weeks, we talked via email and then the phone, Well, let me tell you something.
	You're an inspiration.
	You know that.
	I mean, God used you that way, as you put it.
	Well, the topic today is, do you want to see yourself as a victim?
	Every single human being could.
	I don't know anybody unscathed by life.
	I don't know.
	Or, as the great Helen Telushkin said to me when I was in high school, in her kitchen, The mother of my dear friend since high school, still is, Joseph Telushkin, editor of my Bible commentary.
	She looked at us and said, boys, we were talking about kids in class that we thought were happy or unhappy.
	I said, boys, let me tell you something.
	The only happy people I know are people I don't know well.
	It's a long time ago she made that comment.
	And I have never forgotten it, obviously.
	It was a great one.
	Now, it's not literally accurate.
	There are happy people.
	Her point was, there's nobody unscathed.
	The only people that are walking through life, bouncing through it, unscathed, are people she doesn't know.
	In other words, they don't exist.
	That's what you need to understand.
	I know that this is a weird thing to say, but I will anyway.
	That question you ask in high school, would you rather be blind than deaf?
	I think about that periodically.
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	How did that account to a constructive meeting as president?
	I don't understand that.
	I don't think the meeting went very well, do you?
	I mean, that's a member of the lapdog media.
	That's Caitlin Collins.
	And how is the man responding to her who bears the title of President of the United States?
	What?
	The hell do you do over there?
	First response, if you couldn't hear it.
	I know it's, you know, it's live TV coverage.
	It was recorded from a distant mic.
	And then he said, what?
	You shouldn't be in this business.
	Biden, you shouldn't be in the White House.
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	.
	Thank you.
	you United States Congress has finally found something they can agree on.
	United States Congress, of course, can't agree on whether or not the Constitution is a document worthy of honoring.
	They can't agree on whether or not they should curb inflation.
	They can't address the crisis on the southern border.
	They can't try to bring back manufacturing jobs to our country.
	But the one thing that Congress has decided to agree on, and every single senator voted in favor of this, was to create a new federal holiday.
	14 members of the House of Representatives deserve credit for voting against this, and that is to create a new federal holiday called Juneteenth.
	Now, you might not have heard this before.
	Juneteenth.
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	It's a leader of the free world.
	It's a commander-in-chief.
	I mean, that was painful.
	Incidentally, speaking of painful, A reporter yesterday in Houston, local Fox reporter named Ivory Hecker.
	You got to hear this.
	Everybody loves it when people go off script and TV reporters do something off script.
	Here's cut three.
	Listen to this reporter who was going to do a report on the heat wave.
	The heat wave.
	Ivory Hecker.
	Listen to this.
	And they throw to her to ask her about the hot weather.
	Listen to what she says.
	Outages across the region.
	Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker is live in Montgomery County to take a look at that aspect.
	Thanks, guys.
	That's right.
	Before we get to that story, I want to let you, the viewers, know that Fox Corp has been muzzling the meat.
	We'll see you next time.
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	Indeed!
	Mona in Cleveland, Ohio.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Yeah, I'm so glad you took my call, because it's not a dramatic story.
	But I can remember being a small child and coming in from the yard because I was mad the other kids didn't play by the rules.
	And I had this sense of justice.
	And my father said to me, you're in here and now I'll start playing.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	It wasn't clear to me.
	He said what?
	You're in the house while they're outside playing.
	Go play how they're playing.
	Life is not fair.
	That's right.
	Well, I was ambivalent about that and still am when parents would say life isn't fair.
	I was aware enough about life to know that life was not fair.
	I knew about the suffering of people.
	I would say by age 10, I knew about...
	World War II and the Holocaust and so on.
	But when parents say it sometimes, see the issue on the life is not fair is that's correct, but you shouldn't exacerbate it.
	That's what I thought when an adult would say life is not fair.
	I didn't use the word exacerbate at the time.
	But I would think, alright, life isn't fair, but that doesn't excuse you.
	From being unfair.
	That was my reaction.
	Anyway, based on the woman who lost her leg with the collapsed building in Miami, I have addressed the issue of how do you look at life?
	Everyone can see themselves as a victim.
	It is your choice, my friends.
	Choice is a big factor in life.
	And now call in...
	on any subject under the sun.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	Oh.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	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 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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	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment from the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh!
	Oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here in the nation's capital, when more than 80%, 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline?
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine...
	called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now through force, through the use of military might to the Russian Federation, not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it by force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
	Oh, yes, they're just contractors.
	They're private citizens.
	They're, oh, I don't know, on holiday.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need...
	To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	They actually...
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he is in the past essentially acknowledged that he was there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	But it's not much of a...
	I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was.
	Related.
	I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
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	Letting me be me.
	I'm that Dennis.
	No, I'm not that Dennis, actually.
	I'm the Dennis of the show.
	Alright, this is it.
	The hour you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind, especially about classical music, fountain pens, audio equipment, photography, equipment, and cigars.
	But first, what was the Mark Twain comment somebody sent me?
	It was a very sweet gift, a nice plaque.
	I was on a cigar podcast.
	A lot of fun.
	They actually want to arrange that I design a cigar.
	What do you think of that, huh?
	I like it.
	I'm excited by that.
	I think Mark Twain was said, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
	That is classic.
	That's a classic Twainism.
	This is the hour you call in on anything.
	Please do not be offended if I let you go before I talk to you.
	I obviously can't take every subject.
	Some are too esoteric.
	Sometimes people call in and all they need to do is go on a search engine and look it up.
	You know, it's like a piece of information.
	Anyway, whatever it is, don't be offended.
	Or it might be a subject I just discussed last week or whatever.
	Okay, just letting you know.
	Because I take you very seriously.
	You're individuals to me.
	The individual is precious.
	So I am an individualist.
	One of the many reasons I loathe the left is it does not see the individual human.
	It sees the group.
	And it divides the group by unimportant distinctions like color.
	I never smoke to excess.
	That is, I smoke in moderation only one cigar at a time.
	Yeah, I got that.
	Pretty right.
	Question is, why is the technical director wearing a mask?
	This is a puzzle to me.
	When the building has already announced that it was not necessary.
	Do you realize that people like me believe that we have been living in a play?
	It's truly been the Truman Show in some ways.
	It's been all make-believe.
	The masks, the lockdown.
	The left construct a reality.
	Men give birth.
	You must understand.
	It's fair.
	Yeah, New Zealand is sending a biological man into the Women's Olympics in weightlifting.
	And we're told that it's fair.
	What leftism does is it renders you incapacitated morally and intellectually.
	It does.
	It's an astonishing achievement.
	The moment you become a leftist, you leave liberalism and conservatism, you cannot think clearly.
	Thinking clearly removes you from the left.
	Whatever you think about transgender is irrelevant to the question, is it fair to women's sports?
	New Zealand, one of the wokest countries on earth.
	The English-speaking countries are the worst.
	I don't know why.
	It is an embarrassment.
	And Canada might be the worst of all of them.
	The suppression of speech in Canada that is taking place under the left there is frightening.
	Just frightening.
	I mean, they've never had a First Amendment, so they don't have a tradition of free speech in Canada.
	It's just they had it.
	Why not?
	But it was never a value like in this country, and even this country is suppressing it.
	In an unprecedented way.
	Alright, let's go to your question here.
	Or comment, or whatever it might be.
	And let's see.
	Hmm.
	We begin with Eric in Littleton, Colorado.
	Hello, Eric.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	On the subject of what's being taught to our kids in school, do you think parents have the right to know and even hear what the teachers are telling them?
	I can't imagine why you pay fortunes of money in taxes or in private school in addition to taxes, and you don't have the right to know the product you're getting?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I have a very important thought on that that I've offered a number of times.
	The opposition of your kids' teachers, whether it's high school or college, to recording what they say in class, which shows that they know it cannot stand up to intellectual scrutiny.
	The left knows they have your 20-year-old to brainwash, but they can't brainwash a 45-year-old, Age or 50 of a parent of a 20-year-old.
	So they will do anything possible, including forbidding the recording of what is indoctrinated, aka taught, in a classroom.
	I taught at college.
	Kids asked me, can we record your classes?
	And I remember my response.
	Why the hell not?
	Yeah, why the hell not?
	Why would I not want outsiders to hear what I say in class?
	I actually thought it was a great idea.
	It was cassettes in those days.
	They would have little cassette recorders.
	I hope you give this cassette or copy this cassette and send it to 100 people.
	I was proud of what I did in class.
	Leftists are afraid that it will become known what they do in class.
	Any teacher who forbids the recording of a class is a phony.
	Get it?
	By definition, a fraud.
	And you should all know that.
	You should all demand that your children record what they are quote-unquote taught in class from first grade To 12th grade and then in college.
	All right, everybody.
	And Rob in Northfield, Illinois.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Pleasure.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I was wondering about, with all the normalization of the trance, Uh, movement.
	If men are maybe approaching women less who have a little more androgynous features, uh, because it's something I've noticed, even if they could be, like, pretty good looking, but sometimes I'm looking and thinking, like, is this a man?
	And I'm happily married and everything, you know, but, uh, I just wonder if that a thing, or...
	Wait, you're wondering if heterosexual men are picking up transgender women, right?
	Yeah.
	No, no, no, no.
	I'm wondering if a man is looking at a woman and thinking, wow, she looks pretty good, but I think that might be a man.
	I'm not going to talk to her.
	Because now there seems to be a lot more kind of trans.
	People walking around.
	Oh, you mean, so are men suspicious these days?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Correct.
	Yeah, right.
	I don't know the answer to that.
	It's an interesting question.
	Alright, I hear you.
	I don't know the answer.
	It would be very interesting.
	I have been kicked off, as usual, from my program here to take calls.
	The technical challenges are...
	Ubiquitous here.
	Anyway, I don't know if that is happening.
	I'm not on the dating scene.
	However, there's no question.
	I mean, was it Miss?
	In the Miss Universe pageant, somebody representing some country, I believe.
	Is the first transgender and she was beautiful.
	I mean, there's no way to deny that.
	All right, we shall return.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into this studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	To answer the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual polish.
	The answer is, I believe he has in the past essentially acknowledged that there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	But it's not much of a...
	I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was...
	I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
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	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	They actually...
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	I told you for decades a congressman named John Conyers, he died several years ago.
	black congressman from the Detroit area, Would propose reparations.
	Every time Congress opened, he introduced a resolution for reparations and got virtually no support.
	People thought it was a joke.
	He did it every two years for the entirety of his career, and he served for decades.
	Barack Obama gets elected in 2008. And as I've mentioned, I'm old school.
	I used to get the LA Times and the New York Times thrown into my house every morning.
	I now get them online.
	I read them so you don't have to.
	And the next morning, I go out in my driveway, pick up the newspapers, and there are these front page color pictures.
	We'll see you next time.
	Okay, everybody, what is on your mind is the hour here, Friday, third hour.
	Dennis Prager here, Ken in Canoga Park, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Yes.
	Are you there?
	I am.
	Hi.
	I just wanted to ask that article you started about the lockdowns, and I couldn't find it anywhere.
	Okay, I will tell you.
	And by the way, that's another example of why you should subscribe to PragerTopia.
	You will get every article that Alan, the living martyr, sends me every night.
	So you will have these for you.
	It will be the best compendium of articles possible.
	He is remarkable in his ability to get important pieces.
	This is from the Foundation for Economic Education, FEE. We just got even more proof that stay-at-home orders lethally backfired.
	June 21st, 2021. All right.
	Again, it's with a subscription, too.
	You're welcome.
	My pleasure.
	All right, everybody.
	Greg in Sarasota, Florida.
	Hello.
	Hello, Mr. Prager.
	I was just listening to a conversation about recording classrooms, and it occurred to me that just in case of incidental recordings and things, you would probably have to get the consent of every student in the class before you could record a class.
	And the reason?
	Well, because you can't, if another student were to speak and you were to record them and you didn't have their consent, that I don't know that that would be allowable or legal.
	And it also might stifle student discussion if students don't want to be recorded.
	God, I'll tell you, we have really created a fairy community here.
	I'm sure you're right.
	This is not against you.
	It sickens me what you just said.
	The cowards that we have produced in America, the antithesis of the land of the free and the home of the brave, the land of the unfree and the home of the coward, the wimps.
	Oh, somebody might recognize my voice on a recording.
	What would they have said that they are afraid of having heard?
	And anyway, they would have to even be recognized.
	They're not that important.
	Nobody gives a damn what you say in class.
	They only give a damn what is said by the professor.
	You're right.
	You may be right.
	Okay, then it's another sign of a...
	Of an avalanche downhill of the fortitude of this society.
	To think of the kids their age who fought on Normandy Beach, but they...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	My voice might be heard on a recording in a classroom.
	That's what's happened.
	From Normandy to that.
	There you go, my friends.
	That's a reason to worry about this country.
	I'll tell you this, I know for a fact, when I was a student, I wouldn't have given a hoot if somebody had recorded me in classroom.
	What are you afraid of what you're being said, you wimp?
	Then don't speak up, you twit.
	Jeez.
	You got me going there, Greg.
	I gotta say, it wasn't your fault.
	I actually think you're probably right.
	Go to a happier topic.
	Steve in Santa Clarita, California.
	Hello.
	Oh, hi, Dennis.
	I enjoyed your fireside chat the other day.
	The problem with being easily offended.
	And you brought up again the mascot issue and how you would be honored to have Jews recognized as a mascot at a school.
	Right.
	Just wondering whether you would do that for Prager University.
	And then I Googled it and I saw it looked like maybe Otto has...
	Yeah, Otto has sort of...
	That's right.
	Do you know, this is mind-blowing, even to me, we now have Otto Tales.
	It's for...
	We have been begged to make stuff...
	Educational material for young kids, not just for high school age, college, and older.
	And we've begun that with Otto Tales, with Otto, in cartoon form, Otto, my famous English bulldog, who's with me at the Fireside Chats each week, and a young Dennis.
	Together, although a young dentist with white hair, nevertheless.
	It's cute.
	And that is, upon publication, a couple of weeks ago, I think it was, became the number two best-selling book in America, period.
	Of all books, fiction, non-fiction, self-help, cookbooks.
	The number two in all of America.
	Otto Tales.
	That was really something.
	Yeah, he has become sort of the mascot.
	That is true.
	By the way, the Jews line emanated from this show.
	Many years ago, somebody called up when I said there was nothing wrong with the Cleveland Indians name or the Washington Redskins name.
	I said, well, what would you think if there were a team named the Jews?
	To which I responded immediately, Jews have been looking for fans for 3,000 years.
	It would be a great moment.
	That sort of knocked the wind out of that gentleman's sails that I do recall.
	Jacques in Benicia, California.
	Is that how you pronounce it?
	Benicia?
	Benicia.
	Actually, long-timers here say Benicia, so that's how you tell between an old-timer in the town and a new-time.
	Excellent.
	Northeast Bay Area.
	Gotcha.
	Go ahead.
	Alright, my question, Dennis, is...
	Is there a 20th century classical composer or musical piece that you like?
	Yes, I think Shostakovich, for example, is one of the greatest composers who ever lived.
	I'm more inclined toward Rachmaninoff and...
	Yeah, Rachmaninoff.
	You know, I have tried for literally all of my adult life to fall in love with Rachmaninoff.
	And I have not been able.
	I've been trying to do the same thing with Anton Bruckner.
	I've heard you say how much you like it.
	And I've tried to like Anton Bruckner.
	Well, you know what?
	I want to tell you something.
	No, no, no.
	I salute you.
	I really do.
	See, my view is you've got to try everything.
	You have to try.
	You have to make an effort.
	When I was in...
	I've always had this attitude.
	When I was in high school, I subscribed to the New York City Ballet.
	I had no interest in ballet, but I figured I gotta try.
	Why do I not want to appreciate some great art?
	It didn't work.
	I watched the orchestra the entire time and the conductor conducting rather than the dancers.
	But that's what you have to do for a full life.
	You gotta try.
	Is that Rachmaninoff?
	back in a moment streaming on Salem now this is why we're fighting for the soul of America you should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down 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 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.
	Stream on your phone tablet or TV look for Salem now in the App Store or go to Salem now.com Trending now an America first with Sebastian For the whole of the Cold War was there ever a moment From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989
	Was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh!
	Oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here in the nation's capital, when more than 80%, 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline?
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine...
	Called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now, through force, through the use of military might, to the Russian Federation.
	Not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it by force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them, them shall seem most likely laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them,
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shown That mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to the right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated...
	This is Bruckner, having been mentioned by the last caller.
	or It's the Fourth Symphony, third movement.
	My wife and I traveled to Cleveland in January of 2020, right before the lockdowns, to hear the Cleveland Orchestra do a Bruckner Symphony, the Fifth.
	That's how much we love Bruckner.
	And it was one of the great trips, I must say.
	Yes.
	Very exciting.
	You know, I am so in love with classical music that I was actually thinking of dedicating my Bible commentary, at least one of the volumes, It will be five.
	The third is coming out, by the way.
	Please, please pre-order it at Amazon because I'd like it to have a very high rating the first day when it's available because obviously every author wants it, but I didn't write a Bible commentary to be a popular author.
	I wrote it because I want to touch people's lives.
	And the higher ranking, the more...
	The cloud it has.
	So anyway, it's called the Rational Bible.
	I actually thought of dedicating volumes to different composers, thanking them for the joy they have given me throughout my life.
	It seems a little odd, but I have written enough books that I've pretty much covered my family.
	But my wife's role in the...
	Writing of the Bible commentary was so substantial.
	Aside from the joy I have being married to her, I just felt it was by far the most appropriate.
	But it does give you an idea of what the role that this music has played in my life.
	It doesn't play that role in everybody's life.
	And you come to realize, like the last caller, I know this won't matter to many of you on the specifics, but it doesn't matter.
	That he likes Rahman, you know, if I'm not crazy about him, I'm crazy about Bruckner, he's not.
	There is nothing you can change about that.
	Humans have natures.
	I have dear friends who couldn't care less about classical music, and they are deep and wonderful people.
	You have to realize in the final analysis what matters.
	And while I would love to share and have a friend with whom I do share classical music deeply, it's really only one friend with whom I do, of all my wonderful friends.
	And so what?
	What matters are people's values and their character, their goodness, their kindness, their courage, not their tastes.
	Okay, so here we go on.
	Michael Tifton, Georgia.
	The famous Michael of Tifton.
	What did I get wrong?
	You got it right this time, yeah.
	Oh, I got it right.
	You know, I'm the only guy in the world people laugh at when they get it right.
	No, I love you, Dennis.
	And I have a 13-year-old and 11-year-old here sitting listening with me because they love you.
	And you have no idea how much we listen to you and like you.
	You're right.
	I'm very touched.
	What are your kids' names?
	No, Stephen and Evaden.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Stephen and?
	Evaden.
	And no wonder I asked.
	It's a very...
	It's a very unique...
	It's a pretty name.
	It's not a common name.
	It's not a common name?
	Is that what you said?
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, you are a master of the understatement.
	I guess...
	See, they're not related to me.
	I have custody of three young children.
	You won't remember the conversation we had about two years ago.
	But they're not related to me in any way.
	Just a sequence of events led to this, me having custody.
	Actually, it was for nine years now that I'm taking care of them.
	I'm 64 years old.
	Well, I wanted to tell you, you said call in about anything under the sun.
	These kids will say proudly, this is a great family.
	We have a great family, Dad.
	They say, other people don't even go outside.
	We go on walks.
	I build a, I call a South Florida patio.
	I'm from South Florida in Georgia.
	And it's 200 square feet or more.
	A patio of stones with a big brick barbecue grill.
	Solar lights.
	A brick.
	A brick.
	Sidewalk leading up to the front of the house.
	And it's not a nice house.
	It's an old home.
	Well, you called up about homeschooling to tell me how great it was.
	And I wish you had.
	It doesn't matter.
	I love you.
	You're a great guy.
	And I am a big advocate of homeschooling.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them, them shall seem most likely laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them,
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need...
	To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down?
	While being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	Howdy doody everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	The hour you set the agenda, more or less.
	And I'm going to go to more of your calls as a result of that fact.
	Rob in New York City, hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Calling from East Berlin again.
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah, I'll tell you.
	Hey, listen, my point was going to ask you really quick about why you think more conservative talk show hosts don't go into politics.
	But I wonder if I could just make one point about a call you had earlier about the cameras in the classrooms.
	Why is it that we can have cops walk around with body cameras, but we can't have teachers in classrooms have a camera in the classroom?
	Because by and large, cops are proud of their work and teachers are not.
	Exactly.
	And there's your answer.
	And that's what I was looking for.
	Thank you for backing me up on that.
	Yes.
	So, why don't more conservative talk show hosts go into politics?
	That's your question from East Berlin.
	And I can't speak for them.
	I can speak for me.
	I have flirted with running for office all of my life.
	You can't do everything in life, so you have to make choices.
	Ultimately, I went with the following two criteria.
	One, certainly in normal times, we are not in normal times, I acknowledge, but in normal times, if your interest is in influencing people's thinking, you have much more I
	speak for hours every day.
	Plus PragerU, plus writing columns, none of which would be possible.
	If I had to go to congressional meetings on a daily basis and meet with constituents on a daily basis, I can't do everything.
	I am much more interested, as I have said often, in having influence than having power.
	It's one of the reasons I am not on the left.
	I have no interest in having power over other people.
	I want to be left alone.
	And I want to leave others alone.
	That's why I am a conservative.
	Well, one of the many reasons, I should say.
	So I opted for influence over power.
	And I may have made the wrong decision, but that is the decision that I made.
	All right.
	1-8 Prager 776. Beachwood, Ohio.
	And Sam.
	Hello, Sam.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	If you'd picked this call up two calls before, it would have really been amazing timing, because I've always wanted to ask you how you could go to Severance Hall and sit in the first row.
	I was in Severance Hall and sat in the first row.
	That's exactly what I did.
	No, I know.
	That's funny.
	I've heard you say that.
	Yeah.
	Had I not been wintering...
	I would run into it at that concert, I'm sure.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, how interesting.
	Where were you wintering, in Florida?
	Yes, in the villages, and I was walking across a parking lot, and I heard you were going to be there that night, and I just said, oh my gosh, that's too bad.
	Do you have a subscription?
	I just pretend, I like to sit all over the hall, and they have very...
	They have very good programs where you can get very good tickets.
	Yeah, no, I was amazed that I got the front row.
	That's great.
	That, everybody, the Cleveland Symphony, their concert hall.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Yeah, so really, 15 years ago, on your suggestion, I started having a public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
	On July 4th, starting, you know, at barbecues wherever I was.
	And this year will be our 16th year of doing that.
	I usually get about 30 participants, largely my family, but, you know, all kinds of people.
	And you can imagine I was born in 48 a few months before you were.
	We have very similar backgrounds.
	I was born in Miami.
	So you can imagine what kind of...
	Viewpoint, I guess, to the family members that I do this with.
	I'm crazy Uncle Sam.
	But it's been very successful because we have avoided politics, you know, religiously.
	I'm finding that this year, you know, I just wonder how I can avoid getting into the politics, given that, you know, the words of the Declaration just are so contrary to the equity.
	Well, it's not contrary to the equity idea.
	It is more than anything else.
	It's a celebration of America.
	And the left...
	No, no, I'm saying...
	Excuse me if I could...
	I don't think you understand what I'm saying.
	The words of the Declaration, which is equality of opportunity, you know, which is what the...
	You're right.
	No, no, I did understand you.
	No, I understand.
	I don't think...
	It's quite all right.
	It's not an issue.
	The major...
	Again, knowing the Declaration and knowing the left, your reading of the Declaration on July 4th is a celebration of the founding of the United States.
	Moreover, it is a statement that it was founded in 1776, not in 1619. So the violation of left-wing orthodoxy...
	is not primarily one of the equity issue, in my opinion.
	I respect yours.
	I'm just saying, in my opinion, it is the sheer audacity you have of celebrating America, celebrating its founding, celebrating its founders, and celebrating the year.
	That's enough to trigger hostility.
	That's my take on what...
	But let me know what has happened.
	So, let's see.
	Rick San Antonio, Texas.
	Hello.
	Whoa, hold on, Rick.
	I only have ten seconds.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
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	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore this country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	Scripturally, God gives His people authority.
	Yeah.
	That if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think...
	That's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	uh as though that's a dirty thing in other words they they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of america and clearly that's not what we're saying so how do you explain that well Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and take as many calls as possible this final segment of the final hour of my broadcast week.
	San Antonio, Rick, hello.
	So, Dennis, thank you so much for taking my call.
	You have meant so much to me throughout the years.
	Thank you.
	Your show, your articles, your Bible commentaries.
	We need more.
	We need more Christians with the zeal you have as a Jew, and I really do mean that.
	But my question to you.
	A question to you.
	I've always wanted to ask you this.
	After you reached a certain status as a big-name talk show host, I'm sure you could have gone to your bosses at any point and said, I don't want to be on the same time slot as a Rush Limbaugh so that maybe I could have more listeners, more popularity.
	I've always wanted to ask you that.
	Apparently, you chose to stay at that same time frame.
	In fact, I chose it when he was already on.
	At the very beginning, our careers almost coincided to the year, ironically.
	I always knew he had more stations, more listeners than I. I never lost a minute's sleep over that fact.
	For one reason, I thought the people listening to him were getting great stuff, and I care about the country more than I do about me.
	And number two, I had selfish reasons for wanting to stay on.
	In the Pacific morning time zone, because I wanted a life.
	If I were on at noon, which would be 3 p.m.
	Eastern, the day is taken up by your show.
	You wake up, you go into the show, you leave, it's 3 o'clock, you have to do ads, you're out at 4. The day is over.
	I have a whole day to write my books.
	To give speeches, to travel to the East Coast if I have to for a show the next day.
	The time is a fantastic time for me.
	Nine to noon each day.
	So I chose having a life, including a professional life, over having potentially more listeners.
	And I always felt in any event that people could make their choice.
	He had his strengths, and they were phenomenal strengths, and I have mine, which I think are also exceptional.
	They're not in the same arenas.
	And even now, now that he has passed away, people could still choose, and here I am.
	They're free to look across the dial.
	Many don't, and many do.
	I try to live what I preach.
	And I have a fantastic chapter in my happiness book on comparing oneself to others.
	I don't do that.
	And it has been a major source of happiness.
	All right, to Sean, Carol Ann, Sam, Bob, and Dan.
	I truly wish I could have taken your calls.
	Headed to Israel in October.
	Information on my website, the Stand for Israel Tour.

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