Dennis Prager Show - How Jesse Watters 'Saved the World'
Aired: 2021-07-09
Duration: 08:01


=== Number Two Bestseller (02:25) ===

[00:00:03]  Jesse Waters of Fox News, of The Five and of Waters World, is with me.
[00:00:12]  His book was just published two days ago, How I Saved the World.
[00:00:16]  And it's a wonderful book, and it's needed some lightness as well.
[00:00:24]  I mean, it's a lot of thought in it, but it's the lightness with which he carries it out that is worthy.
[00:00:31]  I know you know this.
[00:00:33]  I mean, I assume you know this.
[00:00:35]  How do you explain it?
[00:00:37]  It'll be fun to get your answer.
[00:00:39]  It is the second best-selling book in the United States of America of all types on Amazon.
[00:00:46]  You know who's beating me?
[00:00:48]  I saw earlier today Reese Witherspoon's book club recommendation is beating me.
[00:00:55]  Now, Dennis, I have no beef with Reese.
[00:00:57]  She seems like a very fine woman.
[00:01:00]  But if you are not a fan of Hollywood, go out and buy my book, How I Saved the World, so we can defeat Reese.
[00:01:08]  And that is nothing personal, Reese, but this book is much more important than that book.
[00:01:14]  And I say that without any bias.
[00:01:18]  My book, believe it or not, Bible commentary, five volumes, third volume is coming out this year.
[00:01:27]  When the first volume came out, It was number two in the country.
[00:01:31]  Oh, nice.
[00:01:32]  Really nice for, I mean, considering the subject.
[00:01:35]  But I'm only mentioning this because number one, because that's the thing we're most interested in, right?
[00:01:41]  If you're number two, gee, what's number one?
[00:01:44]  And clearly, you had the same curiosity.
[00:01:48]  Mine was a, I think it was a fictional story about a gay frog.
[00:01:58]  Well, isn't that poetic?
[00:02:01]  Yes, right.
[00:02:03]  Bible Commentary 2, K-Frog 1. So right now, I think Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Mob is number one in the New York Times bestseller list.

=== Would Debate Any Of These Guys (05:47) ===

[00:02:13]  So if I, this Sunday, am able to knock off Bill, my guy, that would bring this thing full circle.
[00:02:21]  So if you want to see that happen, go to Amazon and make it happen for us.
[00:02:25]  I don't follow the New York Times bestseller list.
[00:02:28]  I think it's fraudulent.
[00:02:31]  So I don't like Amazon for a thousand reasons, but I do believe that their data are accurate on book sales.
[00:02:39]  Well, Dennis, if I am not number one on the Times list, then I would agree with you.
[00:02:43]  It is fraudulent.
[00:02:44]  But if I am number one, totally legit.
[00:02:49]  I love you for that.
[00:02:50]  That is such an honest answer.
[00:02:52]  So a final question.
[00:02:54]  You had mentioned about meaning, and that is the whole thing, and we're so in sync on that.
[00:03:00]  So what gives your life meaning?
[00:03:04]  Well, I happen to be at a job that I love, and I'm so grateful for that opportunity because I know that not everybody in the country has that.
[00:03:14]  A lot of people go and punch the clock.
[00:03:16]  It's nine to five, and they have a bad boss, and it's just a paycheck.
[00:03:21]  I don't know.
[00:03:22]  I got fired from about five jobs before I landed at Fox.
[00:03:26]  I got fired as a waiter.
[00:03:28]  I got fired as a bellman.
[00:03:30]  I got fired in the financial services industry.
[00:03:33]  Apparently, you have to have a basic grasp of arithmetic to handle millions of dollars of other people's money.
[00:03:40]  I landed at Fox.
[00:03:42]  I was actually before Fox at the Pataki re-election campaign, Republican here in New York, and we had a returning general candidate who was running against Eliot Spitzer, who was the original Love Gov.
[00:03:53]  Remember, he was Mr. Black Sox, and I was in charge of opposition research, and apparently I had forgotten and not noticed that he was sleeping with every single prostitute up and down the East Coast.
[00:04:09]  Many jobs I had had before Fox, I finally got there, and it stuck.
[00:04:14]  So I love talking about what I believe in.
[00:04:18]  I love talking about this country.
[00:04:20]  I'm a people person, so I also hit the streets and talk to the folks and hear what they have to say and then communicate that energy on air from the studio.
[00:04:30]  And I just care so much about this country that I don't want to see it hurt.
[00:04:35]  I want to see it continue to thrive.
[00:04:38]  And that's why I'm in the arena of ideas.
[00:04:41]  We've got to debate this and persuade people.
[00:04:43]  And I love persuading people with words, but also with humor.
[00:04:47]  And also with ridicule.
[00:04:50]  Because it's a very powerful and potent item.
[00:04:54]  And you remember Jon Stewart Dennis used to just totally ridicule Republicans for that run he had.
[00:05:00]  And it was so effective that Republicans were running scared.
[00:05:04]  But when you're a conservative with a sense of humor, Democrats don't like that.
[00:05:09]  They police humor because they understand the power of ridicule, and they're experts.
[00:05:13]  And if you shatter their credibility, that can really hurt their control.
[00:05:20]  And it also humanizes the conservatives and makes them likable.
[00:05:24]  Democrats don't want us to be likable.
[00:05:26]  They want to dehumanize us because it's easier to destroy someone who's subhuman, and that's why.
[00:05:32]  They try to cancel us because they don't think we deserve to be able to put food on our table to feed our family.
[00:05:38]  So this is the action that I'm involved in, and I love it, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
[00:05:45]  Nice.
[00:05:46]  I have one more.
[00:05:48]  I said I had one more.
[00:05:49]  I have one more after my one more.
[00:05:53]  I have a feeling I know your answer, so I'm not asking it for your answer, but for a follow-up.
[00:06:00]  Would you debate Chris Cuomo?
[00:06:04]  I would.
[00:06:05]  I wouldn't know what I'd get out of it, because I'm not going to change his mind, so it would just be kind of a prize fight.
[00:06:16]  But if the price is right...
[00:06:19]  Well, the reason I asked it is, I would debate any of these guys, but my belief is...
[00:06:29]  None of them would debate us.
[00:06:31]  Right.
[00:06:33]  That's the point that I was driving at.
[00:06:36]  That they are afraid to debate us, but it is not reciprocal.
[00:06:42]  The reason for that is because we're on with the facts.
[00:06:47]  And they're not.
[00:06:48]  The facts are not on their side.
[00:06:50]  So they're not used to having guests come on their show and defend their ideas with facts.
[00:06:56]  But that's what we do here at Fox.
[00:06:58]  That's what you do on the radio and on your podcast.
[00:07:01]  And that's why people come to people like us, because they want to know the reason behind why they feel the way they do.
[00:07:09]  And it makes them feel secure in their belief system that their beliefs are based on reality.
[00:07:17]  And it's very hard to argue with someone that has a reality that backs them up, because, you know...
[00:07:25]  You can say pretty much anything you want.
[00:07:27]  You can say Republicans are defunding the police.
[00:07:29]  You can say there's not a crime wave.
[00:07:31]  You can say all these things, but if no one's calling you out, then it's just a lie, and it's easy, and it's an easy lie, and they get away with easy, cheap lies on the other side, and that does a great disservice to the country.
[00:07:47]  All right, everybody, let's move the book to number one, How I Saved the World.
[00:07:52]  Jesse Waters.
[00:07:53]  It's great to talk to you, Jesse.
[00:07:55]  You're the best, Dennis.
[00:07:56]  Thank you, and I love your audience.
[00:07:58]  Thank you.
[00:08:00]  All right.