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Loving More Than Being Right
00:04:27
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| Penny in Greenwood, South Carolina. | |
| Hi, Penny. | |
| Dennis Prager, it's a pleasure to talk to you. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What I told you, the lovely woman that answers the phone, is my father-in-law, I'm a widow now, and my father-in-law told me, Penny, you've got to love your husband more than you love being right. | |
| More than you love getting your way. | |
| In this instance, more than you love having pizza. | |
| And it was the simplest yet. | |
| It saved me from a lot because I'm very vocal. | |
| Sometimes I don't think before I speak. | |
| It put it into perspective and it made my marriage better. | |
| So that's what I do. | |
| That's a beautiful approach. | |
| Love your spouse more than you love being right. | |
| Correct. | |
| You know what that reminds me? | |
| One of the great lessons of my life I got from driver's ed in high school. | |
| Don't be dead right. | |
| It changed my life. | |
| You may have the green light and you're right, but if the guy's speeding through a red light, it's best not to move the car. | |
| Wow, that should have caught on, because that could save a lot of people. | |
| That's right. | |
| Don't be dead right. | |
| That's what you're saying. | |
| By the way, may I ask, because you're only in your 50s, at least that's what I have here, at what age did your husband die? | |
| He died at 59. He's been gone for three years now. | |
| How did he die? | |
| He died of congestive heart failure. | |
| It was, well, I guess it was his time. | |
| I don't think it was. | |
| He just got into poor health. | |
| He had a heart attack or two, and I think he gave up, to be honest with you. | |
| He was much a man. | |
| My heart goes out to you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I miss him every day, but I'll always remember him big and strong the way he was. | |
| He got his way a lot, but it didn't bother me a bit. | |
| What gives you joy? | |
| Oh, what doesn't give me joy? | |
| Okay, that answered it. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| You answered it. | |
| You are precious. | |
| Penny is precious. | |
| That was one of the great answers of my radio career. | |
| That's why I stopped the call. | |
| What doesn't give me joy? | |
| That's powerful. | |
| How many people could say that? | |
| I can, actually. | |
| I'm very blessed. | |
| Penny. | |
| I want you to know something if you're still there. | |
| I'm still here. | |
| You are a precious woman. | |
| Thank you, Dennis Prager. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I choked her up. | |
| It was a worthy choking up. | |
| That's really, that was moving. | |
| She had a real blast. | |
| The bad stuff. | |
| Lose her husband in her 50s. | |
| She loved the guy. | |
| It's terrible, that loss. | |
| But what doesn't give her joy? | |
| I've got to remember that on the Happiness Hour. | |
| My way of putting it was until now, until Penny. | |
| I will now date my views as BP and AP. Before Penny and after Penny. | |
| That I've always said, the more things that bring you joy, the happier you will be. | |
| Why do you think I say, you think it's a joke when I say on the, not the happiness hour, the third hour on Fridays, call in on anything, especially classical music, audio equipment, photography equipment, cigars. | |
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Eight Children Dinner Dilemma
00:02:24
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| And fountain pens. | |
| That's my way of saying how many things bring me joy. | |
| It's a big part of my happiness. | |
| That's why I love my job. | |
| Yes, indeed. | |
| All right. | |
| So the question began with, you want Chinese or Italian or whatever food? | |
| Your spouse wants the other. | |
| How do you resolve it? | |
| Arlington, Texas. | |
| Christy. | |
| Hello, Christy. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello. | |
| I told your screener, I said, we have eight children. | |
| If we can go on a date, just the two of us, I don't care what we're eating. | |
| I love it. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| This is awesome. | |
| I'm like moderating geniuses today. | |
| This is great. | |
| That is so funny. | |
| That's great. | |
| Yeah, they're 27 to 5. Let's get the hell out of here. | |
| So he says, you want to go out to dinner? | |
| I'm like, yes, I don't care. | |
| How often do you take the eight kids to dinner? | |
| Never. | |
| Oh, God, am I happy I am. | |
| Seriously, never. | |
| I mean, what does it cost? | |
| $300. | |
| Yes. | |
| That's why I asked. | |
| They come every Sunday night to my house and we feed all of them. | |
| So total, there are now 14 of us with spouses and grandchildren. | |
| Yeah, wait. | |
| You don't have any kids living at home? | |
| You're a young woman. | |
| No, I have six still at home. | |
| Oh, that's what I thought. | |
| So you don't take the six to the restaurant either? | |
| No. | |
| No, you know what happens? | |
| If somebody... | |
| Somebody's at camp or somebody's working or whatever. | |
| We have two or three at home. | |
| We're like, let's go out to dinner. | |
| There's just five of us. | |
| All right. | |
| So are you Catholic, Mormon, or Evangelical? | |
| Southern Baptist. | |
| There we go. | |
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Reciprocal Enjoyment Rule
00:00:20
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| Is there a secular family in America with eight children? | |
| I enjoy you, folks. | |
| Part of the reason you enjoy me. | |
| It's always reciprocal. | |
| You enjoy X, X enjoys you. | |
| That's pretty much a rule of life. | |