Dennis Prager Show - NO Spectators at the Olympics?
Aired: 2021-07-09
Duration: 06:55


=== Why Not Afraid? (03:50) ===

[00:00:00]  so afraid.
[00:00:01]  The Japanese people, they don't even, they didn't even want the Olympics to take place.
[00:00:04]  Here's an interesting question.
[00:00:09]  Here's an interesting question.
[00:00:11]  Why have I not been afraid one day since the beginning, and most people have been scared out of their minds?
[00:00:18]  Isn't that an interesting question?
[00:00:20]  Now, you could say I'm a lunatic.
[00:00:21]  If that's your answer, fine.
[00:00:23]  But it is a worthy question.
[00:00:26]  Now, why wasn't the living martyr?
[00:00:29]  Now you might say, well, that's why he has the name Living Martyr.
[00:00:32]  He was actually hoping for COVID. To tell the truth, I was hoping for COVID. I wanted to get the antibodies early on.
[00:00:40]  But I've been taking ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and vitamin D and zinc.
[00:00:47]  And I was living with two people who had COVID. I did not wear a mask in their presence.
[00:00:55]  And I did not socially distance in their presence.
[00:00:59]  Nor did my wife.
[00:01:01]  So, that's a real interesting question.
[00:01:05]  Even if you are far left, well, there's no difference between far left and left.
[00:01:12]  There's a difference between left and liberal.
[00:01:13]  Even if you are a left, you've got to admit, it's an interesting question.
[00:01:18]  Why are you far more likely to be scared than a conservative?
[00:01:23]  Right?
[00:01:24]  That is a legit question.
[00:01:29]  My answer is, you're just scared.
[00:01:32]  You're scared of everything.
[00:01:33]  That's why you have safe spaces on college campuses.
[00:01:37]  You're constantly scared.
[00:01:40]  You're scared that you will die of the world overheating.
[00:01:45]  Right?
[00:01:46]  What are you not scared of?
[00:01:49]  The only thing I'm scared of is you taking over the country.
[00:01:53]  I have no other fears.
[00:01:57]  But you fear everything, and that is animating in a leftist.
[00:02:04]  There was no protest all this year?
[00:02:07]  There's still none?
[00:02:08]  Kids of two have to wear a mask on a plane?
[00:02:12]  Are you joking?
[00:02:14]  And you think that that is rational?
[00:02:19]  How many two-year-olds have died of COVID versus other reasons for dying?
[00:02:23]  How many two-year-olds have killed anybody?
[00:02:26]  with COVID. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-year-olds.
[00:02:37]  Yes.
[00:02:38]  So the Tokyo Olympics will take place with no one in the stadium.
[00:02:45]  It loses something, would you say?
[00:02:50]  It's sort of meant to be done in front of...
[00:02:58]  The opening night ceremony.
[00:03:01]  There will be nobody cheering.
[00:03:04]  And now the team from Holland.
[00:03:08]  Silence.
[00:03:16]  Isn't it fascinating?
[00:03:17]  Why is there no such thing as, hey, you want to kill yourself, you go out there without a mask, but I'm not going to force you to wear one.
[00:03:24]  Oh, because you'll kill me.
[00:03:26]  Yeah, but I thought you were vaccinated.
[00:03:28]  Yeah, but it doesn't always work.
[00:03:32]  There you go.

=== A Tough Father's Legacy (03:19) ===

[00:03:35]  It's a deterioration in the American character that has taken place over the last 50 years.
[00:03:40]  75 years, actually.
[00:03:42]  Beginning with the baby boomers.
[00:03:45]  Who were spoiled by the greatest generation.
[00:03:48]  Greatest generation didn't know how to raise children.
[00:03:52]  The parents of the greatest generation knew how to raise children.
[00:03:56]  And their parents and their parents and their parents and their parents.
[00:04:00]  And by the way, one of the signs of poor upbringing is wanting to be loved by your child at all times.
[00:04:12]  As if parents are in a popularity contest.
[00:04:17]  Hey, bud!
[00:04:19]  I know a lot of you call your kid bud or buddy, and a lot of times you're a wonderful parent, but it's not my theme.
[00:04:31]  Your child is not your buddy.
[00:04:34]  It's your child.
[00:04:37]  Between, I don't call my son son, except sometimes it's a joke, or I pick up the phone, how you doing son?
[00:04:45]  I call them by their names.
[00:04:47]  But I prefer son.
[00:04:49]  To Buddy.
[00:04:52]  What do you think, son?
[00:04:55]  So, yesterday, I was on Carl Jackson's show in Orlando, Florida.
[00:05:04]  I am very proud to have brought to radio, to national radio, Carl Jackson.
[00:05:11]  He was already on radio.
[00:05:15]  And he will be sitting in, apparently, for Larry Elder.
[00:05:19]  He announced it.
[00:05:20]  And he thanked me for making that possible.
[00:05:25]  And I now have three people that I have brought to radio.
[00:05:33]  Larry Elder, Carl Jackson, and Julie.
[00:05:40]  Julie Hartman.
[00:05:45]  It's a wonderful thing to do that.
[00:05:49]  Carl Jackson mentioned to me how he was raised.
[00:05:52]  It's something worth playing for you.
[00:05:56]  I don't have a recording of my show.
[00:05:59]  It was only heard in Orlando.
[00:06:02]  You'll hear him nationally, should Larry Elder announce for governor.
[00:06:10]  And he mentioned how he really resented his father.
[00:06:14]  Growing up.
[00:06:16]  Because he was such a tough, tough father.
[00:06:20]  And before he said anything else, I remember what I was thinking.
[00:06:25]  But holy cow!
[00:06:28]  Did that man produce a wonderful human being in Carl Jackson.
[00:06:34]  And then he added, and as I've gotten older, I've become more and more thankful for my father's strictness.
[00:06:45]  Yes.
[00:06:46]  My generation was spoiled rotten by not all of us.
[00:06:51]  I certainly wasn't.
[00:06:52]  I had a very tough father and a tough mother, for that matter.