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	Not only, not only can you tell that Dennis is not here, but it's a telegraph in advance that it's me, your Texas talk show buddy, Mark Davis, morning host here at 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas-Fort Worth, where I do the best possible show prep imaginable.
	For the Dennis Prager Show, it's called Doing My Own Program that ended just one hour ago.
	7 to 10 Central Time, that is my playground.
	And man, have we had a bunch to talk about.
	And a lot of it that is, of course, originating here in my beloved Lone Star State is of great national interest.
	So there are a few things I'm going to do today.
	So whenever I'm blessed to come here and hang out for Dennis, I always lay down a little thumbnail sketch of what we're going to do.
	It is July 20th of 2021, a date of huge significance to me because I am, at least here in DFW and maybe nationally, the go-to space dork in American radio.
	And it's because I'm old enough to be that and old enough to remember 52 years ago today when Neil Armstrong laid down those historic footprints along with Buzz Aldrin.
	I am the Sea of Tranquility.
	52 years ago today, the footprints on the moon tonight at 1056 Eastern Time, 956 Central.
	Do your own math elsewise.
	And I got a couple of things to say about that, and especially, wow, today, and this was the day that Jeff Bezos decided, let's go ahead and do it today because they wanted it to have some historic significance, and it certainly does.
	Jeff Bezos and his little brother and some Dutch teenager and the wonderfully named Wally Funk.
	A woman, an 82-year-old woman, who was a member of what was called the Mercury 13. You may remember the Mercury 7. Those were the actual astronauts, six of whom went up.
	Deke Slayton did not, but he got to run the astronaut office later on, so I guess that's a little bit of makeup.
	But they had 13 women whom they put through various stages of training, and a whole lot of them did really, really well.
	And Wally was one of them, and she's a local woman.
	She lives just a few miles west of where I am here.
	In the DFW area.
	And the whole flight was 11, 12 minutes.
	And there you go.
	Very reminiscent in a spacecraft called the New Shepard, S-H-E-P-A-R-D, like Alan Shepard, in a mission very reminiscent of his.
	And the Alan Shepard mission, when he became the first American in space May 5th, 61, that's just a little over 60 years ago, And that was about 15 minutes in suborbital.
	They went up a little higher, about 115 miles.
	Today they went about 65. Richard Branson beat them to it on that space plane.
	I don't want to take anything away from Branson or the space plane, but it's a plane.
	It was taken aloft by another plane and then dropped out of the belly, and then it fires up the rockets and goes up to the lip of space.
	50 miles is where they say space kind of begins.
	You get some zero-G. There's no longer any air up there that can provide lift to wings, so you might as well say you're in space, because you are.
	Neither of these flights went as high as Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom, our two suborbital flights before John Glenn actually orbited, and that was a big enchilada in February of 62. But all this history, all this stuff that's been mashed into my brain and into my childhood, it all came to fruition on what was, for me, a hot, humid summer night.
	In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., where I was growing up, and my dad was in the Air Force, he had, in fact, just retired after 20 years, most of it working in the Pentagon, some of it elsewhere, and maybe a proud Air Force brat.
	But I got some thoughts about the path that led there, and today, I was talking to my talk show buddy, Mike Gallagher, who precedes this show on many of these fine SRN affiliate stations.
	And he asked me a question.
	We do a wonderful local back and forth at 7.35 my time before he goes on the air and while I'm in the first hour of my show.
	And he asked me a question that many of you may have.
	And that question was essentially, so what?
	Ever the contrarian.
	Because he knows I'm dorked out on this and I love, you know, the Elon Musk and the SpaceX and Richard Branson and the Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos and the Blue Horizon.
	I'm just all, you know, fired up about all of it.
	And so, ever the Luddite, Mike asked me this morning, what's the big deal?
	And I took that question quite at face value, because I was having to explain that to people when I'm 12. I mean, we beat the Russians.
	52 years ago today, we beat the Russians.
	And that's about all of what it was about for a whole lot of people.
	Not for me, because I was 11. I mean, I love beating the Russians as much as anybody.
	I was a military dependent.
	I dug beating the Russians.
	I still enjoy beating the Russians.
	I like to beat the Russians in cyber hacking, if I can get greedy a little bit and step into the modern day headlines.
	But who remembers Apollo 12, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, Fort Worth's own Alan Bean, walking on the ocean of storms in November 1969?
	I do!
	We all remember Apollo 13 because it blew up.
	It was all we could do to bring those guys back alive.
	Who remembers Apollo 14?
	Remember Al Shepard, who we mentioned moments ago?
	He got to walk on the moon in January of 1971. And then Apollo 15, whose 50th anniversary, the lunar rover.
	Remember the moon buggy?
	Well, we deployed that thing out of the side of the lunar module 50 years ago this month.
	And then Apollo 16 and 17 in the year 1972, and then we were done.
	Who thought it would take 50 years for us to go back?
	More than 50. Well, we're going back to the moon.
	We're going to have a moon base, they say.
	We're going to put a woman on the moon, because I guess you've got to do that.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	Sounds very dismissive.
	Women in space, Sally Ride, Wally Funk, all about it.
	Just all about those.
	I believe everybody ought to go.
	And that's what's so cool about today.
	It's funny.
	I was going to say, you know, I'm a little old for this.
	I'm 63. If Wally Funk can go up there at 82, I've got two more decades to go.
	And it sounds like a real boilerplate talk show question, but I'll throw it in amid the various things that I'm about to mention.
	And that is, if this becomes pretty available and pretty affordable in the short term, decade or less, is this something you would do?
	And I think by then I probably would.
	I got a thing about right now, just a little stickling point for me.
	I can't die.
	Okay?
	I've done a bunch of things.
	Radio is cool.
	Wonderful gig.
	I've been in hot air balloons.
	I've spat across the sky in a stunt plane.
	I mean, just all kinds of stuff.
	That, guess what?
	I ain't doing anymore.
	Not because I've lost a sense of thrill or, you know, become a chicken or anything.
	I need to reduce as close to zero as I can my likelihood of dying.
	I just do.
	You know, and my kids are 30 and 18, so it's not like I got toddlers at home.
	But I have a wife I really love a lot, and I don't need to have her widowed.
	And that's why this morning, as this flight went up, and what I said a few minutes ago about not giving short shrift to Richard Branson and the space plane, because it dropped out of the belly of a plane, or from the belly of a plane, and then flew like a plane, and then landed like a plane on a runway.
	This was a real-deal old-school launch.
	This was that big old Blue Horizon thing, launching from about seven hours west of me, just outside the tiny, tiny town of Van Horn, Texas.
	Into the blue Texas prairie sky.
	And 11, 12 minutes later, and it's down.
	Landing with a thud via parachute on the Texas turf.
	And they all climbed out and everybody was happy.
	And I was happy.
	So, you happy?
	You stoked about this?
	Or scratching your head wondering what in the world is the deal?
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	No matter what we do today.
	Oh, by the way, speaking of real issues, you know, COVID variants and the American Academy of Pediatrics saying you better put a mask on your kid age two and up.
	Right.
	Right.
	The runaway Democrats, as I mentioned, which are getting a lot of national attention from here in my great state of Texas.
	A number of other things going on in national news.
	Had a chat with Dan Crenshaw.
	This morning, Congressman Dan Crenshaw.
	And we talked about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	And I think I want to mention some of this with you today because we're fast approaching the, can you believe this, the 20th anniversary of 9-11.
	And as I write for Newsweek, I write for a lot of people, Town Hall, Dallas Morning News, even the Star-Telegram sometimes, in Fort Worth and Newsweek.
	And my newest Newsweek column is going to be about the Afghan withdrawal.
	And kind of depressing it is because the Taliban are going to be overrunning Afghanistan by Christmas.
	So what does that mean about the 20 years we spent there?
	Got some thoughts about that.
	And about a number of things.
	1-8 Prager 776. Mark Davis in for Dennis.
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	Look forward to talking to you.
	And we'll see you in just a couple minutes on the other side.
	On the Dennis Prager Show for this Tuesday, I'm Mark Davis.
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	Joe Biden was sold as a moderate.
	People that had worked with Joe Biden back in the day said, oh, I've known Joe for years.
	He's okay.
	He's fine.
	Listen, when he got the hair plugs, he flipped.
	A long time ago, he was bald as an egg.
	And he got hair plugs.
	And I believe those hair plugs were from a Chinese lab in the Wuhan province.
	And things started to go screwy.
	And he flipped.
	So he said, I don't know that that's true.
	I think he hid maybe who he was for a long time.
	A lot of liberals did in the 70s and 80s.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	First of all, he's nobody.
	He has no values.
	Let's not kid ourselves.
	He's not a Marxist.
	He is a husk of a person.
	And he will just do—that's the whole point of your article at townhall.com.
	People are running him and steering him, and he doesn't have the whisper of what we would call courage or conviction.
	Right.
	Well, and because he can't get the stuff kicked out fast enough.
	I mean, they've attacked so many different areas of culture and life.
	All at once.
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	The band Tesla, not the car.
	Hey, look, space dorks unite.
	This is awesome.
	I love it.
	It is the day for it.
	And look, we've got plenty to get to.
	We've got plenty of time.
	52 years ago, human footprints on the moon.
	A couple hours ago, Jeff Bezos and this wonderful door-busting private trip into space.
	And I mentioned that Wally Funk, who flew today, 82-year-old woman, we had the oldest person ever to touch the lip of space, and the youngest, because this Danish teenager who went, who inherited it from somebody else.
	You ready for this?
	Somebody else who had a schedule conflict.
	A schedule conflict?
	What?
	A teeth cleaning that really was urgent?
	What kind of schedule conflict bounces you out of the cockpit, out of the crew cabin, for a trip into actual space?
	Anyway, she was a member of the Mercury 13, a group of 13 women.
	It was kind of a private sector thing.
	This doctor assembled them and tested them.
	They could have gone, but they never were really going to, because women in space just wasn't going to happen in America in, you know, 61, 62, 63. Even though the pesky Soviets...
	One of their first people they ever sent up was a woman, Valentina Tereshkova.
	Took us to the middle 80s to put a woman in space, Sally Ride.
	But I mentioned of the Mercury 7, right?
	That six of them flew.
	Because Deke Slayton did not.
	Had a heart condition.
	But that's not the end of the story.
	With more, here's Ron.
	Ron, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How you doing?
	Hey, Dennis.
	I mean, Mark, I love your work.
	I just wanted to, in all due respect to your interest in space and the integrity of Dennis and accuracy, Big Clayton did get up in space, finally, in the Apollo-Soyuz.
	America-Russia program several years later.
	It was, in fact, 1975. It was, in fact, 1975. I was about to graduate from high school, and he and veteran Tom Stafford, who went to the moon but didn't land on the Apollo 10 mission, and Vance Brand, Stafford, Slayton and Brand, went up in 1975 and linked up with the Soyuz spacecraft.
	And it was just a magnificent moment.
	It was magnificent for its inherent value and great because Deke actually got to fly.
	Now, Ron, I've got to share something with you.
	Are you aware of the series?
	I think it's Apple Plus.
	I'm not sure.
	It's a little thing called For All Mankind.
	Are you aware of it?
	No, I'm not.
	Here's what it is.
	It's a work of fiction, but it's an alternative history in which...
	The Russians make it to the moon first.
	Ouch!
	Okay?
	But from there, the effect that that has on the American program, on how we respond to that, what happens with the space race then, and it basically involves moon bases and militarization, and it is filled with actual...
	The actual astronauts, actual people, and Deke Slayton is one of them, portrayed as the head of the astronaut office, which he was.
	And the Apollo-Soyuz test project is an enormous thing, because the Russians, you know, the Cold War goes very, very differently.
	I cannot say enough for all the space dorks and all the historical people with that interest today.
	For all mankind, I think there were two seasons of it, and I think there's going to be another one.
	It is absolutely great, and I couldn't recommend it more highly.
	So thank you.
	Thank you deeply for the postscript there on Deke Slate.
	Now, speaking of other unfinished business, there's a little something I do at the beginning of my own show.
	Usually I've gotten to it by now, by the time I do Dennis or Larry or anybody else.
	And that is that no matter what we cover today, no matter what we do, let us be mindful.
	And again, this is not obligatory, but I do it, and those who are of a mind to do so along with me, you may do so.
	Lord, guide us and protect us.
	As we face the challenges of this new day, we thank you every day for this blessed nation and your hand in creating it.
	Fill our hearts with the energy to protect the freedoms which come from you, which our nation was founded to protect.
	Lord, be with us as we chart a course out of this COVID nightmare.
	Help us to be smart and safe as we reclaim our lives.
	Guide us to fight for our liberties within the law and by following your law.
	Let us navigate these troubling times with a positive spirit, treating others as we would want to be treated.
	Lord, these are times of trial and challenge.
	Lift us as we follow your word and work for a better America, where our Constitution is honored, our elections are reliable, our borders work, we fight for the unborn, where our differences are hashed out with honesty and goodwill, and our freedoms of speech and worship are protected.
	As we face each day's problems, give us the clarity to look around and cherish our many, many blessings in our nation, our communities, and in our families.
	If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything.
	And we ask these things in your holy name.
	Amen.
	All righty, I've got 14 things in my head.
	Let's hop back on to the world of calls, because there are all kinds of things going on.
	Heidi, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you doing?
	Oh, Glenn, I'm sorry.
	Mark, are you there?
	How are you, sir?
	Nice to have you.
	Excellent.
	What I want to tell a call screener, and this is what we need to get better at, is using the left's logic against them.
	And I'll give you a perfect example.
	With the social media, people will complain about how government...
	And what we've done in the past, slavery, Jim Crow, and, you know, we have...
	And I say, well, so you're willing to give that same government the power to censor people?
	What if they come after you?
	They don't think of this.
	And then another one, I think, is the issue with the coronavirus and the vaccine.
	So what I do is when I have these dialogues with people, I assert within the first couple minutes that I'm buying into what they're saying.
	Oh, America's systemically racist.
	We're bigoted.
	We're haters.
	We're all of this.
	Then I asked them, did you get the vaccine?
	Oh, yeah, I get it.
	They kind of acted like a badge of honor that they got it.
	And I say, so let me understand your logic real quick.
	America is racist, bigoted, we're full of haters, but yet we're supposed to line up and get a vaccine from that same government?
	Are you crazy?
	You're on to something.
	You are on to something because people have conditional...
	And situational trust and mistrust, it's kind of human nature, but you've identified a way to navigate that way and find examples of hypocrisy.
	And listen, and maybe we all carry this around to some extent, there are things we want to be able to trust the government with.
	As a conservative, I am a strong but limited government person.
	Government is far too large, spends far too much, And has its nose in way too much of my life and yours.
	Are there things that we need to spend more money on in government?
	That's an incredibly short list to me.
	Honestly, listen, I just took a Texas road trip with a family last week.
	And you know what?
	I'm only here every once in a while.
	Maybe we need to talk some homelessness.
	Because when we open up the institutions and let these people just out, that's not working well.
	Maybe some clean, well-run institutions or something we need to spend money on.
	But generally speaking, we're spending too much on everything!
	Let's spend some more time with you in just a moment.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
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	Joe Biden was sold as a moderate.
	People that had worked with Joe Biden back in the day said, oh, I've known Joe for years.
	He's okay.
	He's fine.
	Listen, when he got the hair plugs, he flipped.
	A long time ago, he was bald as an egg.
	And he got hair plugs.
	And I believe those hair plugs were from a Chinese lab in the Wuhan province.
	And things started to go screwy.
	And he flipped.
	So he said, I don't know that that's true.
	I think he hid maybe who he was for a long time.
	A lot of liberals did in the 70s and 80s.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	First of all, he's nobody.
	He has no values.
	Let's not kid ourselves.
	He's not a Marxist.
	He is a husk of a person.
	And he will just do—that's the whole point of your article at townhall.com.
	People are running him and steering him, and he doesn't have the whisper of what we would call courage or conviction.
	Right.
	Well, and because he can't get the stuff kicked out fast enough.
	I mean, they've attacked so many different areas of culture and life.
	All at once.
	And I think this is part of the blowback that is causing parental communities to rise up.
	You know, one of the things I'm most excited about, to be candid out of all this, is to see the growth of middle-class black parents.
	Debating CRT to their own school boards.
	There's something very powerful about a father and a mother married black couple living in a suburb and being part of a community and saying to a school board, what you're in essence trying to do is teach my child to be a racist.
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	Mark Davis filling in for Dennis today.
	He's back tomorrow.
	And while we're here together today, all manner of things going on in the news, of course.
	But we kind of find ourselves slinging some stuff back and forth in the world of space dorkery.
	Because A, it's me.
	It's what I do a lot of.
	And I enjoy it generationally, and I enjoy it because it takes me back to when I was a kid at a time of an American can-do spirit that I'd like to think we have not lost, and just a number of other things.
	And of course today, the whole Jeff Bezos and his crew going up and down in a suborbital flight that was pretty awesome.
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	All righty, back to the phones, a town that's just fun to say, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
	Hey, Sam, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Mark, how are you?
	Good.
	Amen, by the way.
	Thanks.
	And I just wanted to propose that when we go to the moon, that we don't have a race to screw it up like we screwed up the Earth.
	I want to propose no taxes on the moon.
	You know, okay, look, if people are chuckling, boy, do you have a point.
	Boy, do you have a point.
	Because what happens once we get our first moon colony?
	Or our first Mars colony?
	Or our second?
	Or our third?
	Or our fifth?
	Or our tenth?
	And what happens when other countries, because space is a very international thing now, and there will be other countries doing moon colonies and other countries doing Mars colonies, and maybe while our children are still alive.
	And the first thing we've got to do is figure out what will society...
	Look like up there.
	You're not on Earth.
	You're not in America.
	You're not in any country.
	But you still are a citizen of, representative of, doing the work of some country or another.
	And so we've got to figure out things like treaties and cooperation and taxation.
	Yes, taxation.
	Because you know if there's a Democrat to be found anywhere, they're going to find a way to fund big government through lunar exploits.
	So you are a trailblazer, my friend.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	My pleasure.
	In fact, not to keep prodding you toward various TV shows, but there was a thing, I think Ron Howard had something to do with it.
	I love Ron Howard for directing Apollo 13. It's politically dorky, but what can I tell you?
	National Geographic had something to do with it, and I think it was on their channel.
	It was called Mars.
	Couldn't have been simpler.
	And just go looking for it.
	It's very cool.
	And it's weird in a way because it's a work of fiction.
	In roughly the year 2033, some people go to Mars, which is cool.
	And then they set up a base on Mars, which is cool.
	But it's juxtaposed with like a documentary where you see a scene featuring how they're manufacturing food in some hydroponic setting.
	On the Martian surface.
	And you'll get five minutes of some scientist being interviewed on how you're going to manufacture food on the Martian surface.
	It kind of provides an underpinning for everything that's going on in the fictitious story.
	And I'll tell you one thing that really stuck with me.
	I think there were two seasons of that as well.
	Mars on Nat Geo.
	They are there.
	The first folks are there for pure science, honest science, the thrill of being there, the thrill of exploration.
	Okay, right?
	That's kind of...
	My jam.
	But then you know who shows up eventually?
	A big business.
	They're there for mining and drilling and exploiting whatever the Martian service might have so that some company can make a profit.
	And guess what?
	I'm on board for that too.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	So are those cross-purposes?
	Are they mutually exclusive?
	How does that even work?
	So, I don't know.
	It is a wonderful, wonderful Plot development that I think takes us where we are at some point going to go.
	Because you go from just traipsing around on the moon to stuff where you've got to have a lot of human interaction on the moon and on Mars and all these colonies because we're going to set up a society up there.
	We're going to figure out how to run it, how to fund it.
	As the last gentleman said, whether we're going to tax people who occupy it.
	Gracious me.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis, so do join us.
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	Mark Davis filling in and we'll be right back with more of your calls and more of my randomized thoughts in just a moment.
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	Donald Rumsfeld is famous for many things.
	Before Donald Trump, there was Newt Gingrich in the 2012 campaign, demonstrating hostility to the media and confrontation with the media.
	But before there was Newt Gingrich, there was Donald Rumsfeld.
	Demonstrating command of the media.
	Most famous for his combination of command and concise knowledge is this cut, which is his most famous response to a question.
	There are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations.
	There are known knowns.
	There are things we know we know.
	We also know there are known unknowns.
	That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.
	But there are also unknown unknowns.
	The ones we don't know, we don't know.
	Excuse me, but is this an unknown unknown?
	Uh, I'm not.
	Several unknowns, and I'm just wondering, this is an unknown unknown.
	I'm not going to say which it is.
	Mr. Secretary, I'm right here.
	I'm right here.
	Knew exactly what he's doing.
	It makes perfect sense.
	And that's why his memoir is known as known unknowns.
	But for the full tutorial on how to deal with the media, here is a press situation with Donald Rumsfeld on April the 11th, 2003. Listen to how he deals with a hostile press.
	I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it.
	I read...
	Eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest, and it just was henny-penny.
	The sky is falling.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	it.
	And here is a country that's being liberated.
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	When did you wake up and say, hang on, this is not good.
	Well, like I said earlier, I've been in for over 15 years.
	The first 14 years of my career, I was in the Air Force, was in the flying community, and then came into the Space Force.
	Every unit that I've ever been in, all of my professional interactions with people during the preponderance of my career have been highly professional, not politicized.
	We focus.
	The Dennis Prager Show on this Tuesday, July 20th, 2021.
	July 20th is a big deal in space.
	Obviously today, the Jeff Bezos thing, those lunar footprints from Neil Armstrong.
	In 1969. In 1976, it was July 20th, we put our first Mars laner down, the Vikings.
	So it's been a big, big, big deal.
	Here's a little bit of a listen.
	This is kind of fun.
	Again, this is about seven hours west of me here in DFW in the tiny town.
	I think the arrival of all the Blue Horizon people doubled the population of Van Horn, Texas.
	And I think this is all kind of a Blue Horizon corporate thing, as is the Elon Musk stuff any time a SpaceX mission goes up.
	But they gathered everybody, sat them on the big director's chairs, and asked them about, hey, how did your morning go?
	So, without further ado, how was it?
	Jeff, what was it like?
	Was everything you imagined?
	I'm going to answer that question, but just real quick.
	Please.
	I want to thank a few people.
	Yeah, let's move forward through that a little bit.
	Operated the vehicle, our trainers, everybody.
	It's just huge.
	I also want to thank the town of Van Horn.
	This is a small and amazing little town.
	And, you know, we're making a dent in it.
	And we appreciate you for allowing us to be part of your town.
	And then, I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer.
	Because you guys paid for all this.
	Wow, I was an investor.
	I wasn't quite aware.
	I have a stake in this.
	Seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart, very much.
	it's very appreciated and it you know now on how it felt Oh my god!
	My expectations were high, and they were dramatically exceeded.
	We were talking about this a little bit in the car ride on the way back, and I don't know, the Zero-G piece may have been one of the biggest surprises because it felt so normal.
	Okay.
	He said this because when they landed, there was some fairly rough audio.
	They said, I can't believe how easy the Zero-G, what kind of disorienting I would expect.
	Well, okay, maybe I'd shut up and let him talk.
	It felt almost like we were, as humans, involved to be in that environment, which I know is impossible, but it felt so serene and peaceful and the floating.
	It's actually much nicer than being in full one gravity.
	Okay, a word on that.
	For three minutes, it's great.
	But was it Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly, they're twins.
	Mark Kelly is the obnoxious senator from Arizona.
	I guess it was Scott Kelly, his astronaut brother, who spent a year, a year in the space station.
	I'm sorry.
	As you can tell, I'm as geeked out on space as the next person.
	But after, I don't know, a couple weeks?
	Man, I just don't know how that goes.
	No outside air.
	No normal food.
	Don't even talk about how you go to the bathroom.
	I'd be about done.
	And also, and they're exercising to beat the band up there because your bone density, you know, your bones, it's not good.
	I mean, the thing about gravity is it places a sort of a relative constant stress on your body.
	When you remove that completely, organs and bones and things, they all kind of start to do...
	Strange and peculiar things.
	The absence of gravity is just not long-term good.
	Anyway, that having been said, if I don't go to actual space, maybe you can put me in, and pardon the name of this aircraft, the Vomit Comet.
	It's a KC-135.
	It's a massive refueling...
	We never see that video of astronauts in training, where they're in the padded...
	Cargo area of a plane.
	And then gravity goes away and they're all floating around like they're in space.
	How does that happen?
	The plane flies a parabolic course.
	It goes way up and then hits the apex of its curve and then goes way down, kind of like you would feel in a lesser degree on a roller coaster where you feel your innards kind of rise up inside you as the negative g-forces kick in.
	And it gives you X number of minutes of...
	Of Zero-G. And speaking of Apollo 13 and Ron Howard and that movie that's burned into my brain, just as the mission is, rather than have people just sort of walk around, ooh, look at me, I'm in space in Zero-G, just holding your arms like, ooh, look at me.
	No, they filmed, they took a lot of the set up into these aircraft and were thus able to recreate those sets so that as you see, you know, Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, I love me some Opie, man.
	Ron Howard may be politically out of whack, but that's a heck of a directorial achievement.
	Anyway, more Jeff Bezos.
	It's a very pleasurable experience, just from the sheer, just the way it feels, the tactile-ness of it.
	The most profound piece of it, If he says one word about the climate, I'm out.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't mean to be harsh.
	Of course we want a clean planet.
	Of course we want to be good stewards of the environment that God has given us.
	But I've about had it with climate extremism.
	Let's give them a minute.
	When we're sitting in this room and we're driving our cars and we're moving around the planet in our normal ways, the atmosphere is so gigantic.
	We're these tiny little things and the planet, the atmosphere is so big.
	But when you get up above it, what you see is it's actually incredibly thin.
	It's this tiny little fragile thing.
	And as we move about the planet, we're damaging it.
	And, you know, so that is, you know, that's very profound.
	It's one thing to recognize that intellect.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	It's a reminder that it is fragile.
	And that our life here is not promised to us in eternity.
	And we should take care of the planet.
	Yes, we should.
	In fact, I tell you what, there's another astute observation somebody made.
	I'll share that with you next.
	Next, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Trailing now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	I want to talk about what's happening in New York with Letitia James.
	And what I consider to be a political persecution, unlike anything, I think, in American political history.
	How are you guys dealing with this?
	And do you guys see this as, you obviously said this last night, but as a continuation of almost this five-year political witch hunt?
	A hundred percent.
	I mean, it's pretty clear when the, you know, the attorney general of a state, without any information, literally campaigns on saying, hey, we're going to investigate, we're going to lock them up, we're going to do this, that, and the other.
	You know, it's pretty amazing that they can get away with it.
	And then they do it.
	And then they do it for five years.
	And the reality is this.
	There's no recourse.
	There's no one keeping them in check, Charlie.
	They can just do this.
	You have no...
	Where to appeal it to?
	You're going to appeal it to a leftist judge in New York who feels the same way?
	They're utilizing their taxpayer-funded offices in a political vendetta to try to damage my father.
	And the reality is this.
	Even after five years, you know, in search of a crime, right?
	They've been looking for five years.
	They're getting closer, Charlie.
	We've been hearing this now literally for half a decade.
	And yet there's still nothing there.
	And yet...
	No one's stopping them.
	So as crime rates go through the roof in New York, as murder rates go through the roof, as businesses are going out of business because of New York's disastrous recovery response, they're spending taxpayer dollars on a political witch hunt against Donald Trump rather than, I don't know, murderers.
	This is what's going on in America, you know?
	They're outraged when this stuff happens in, I guess what, Belarus recently, right?
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	If you're longing for a place that feels like pre-pandemic America, I'll tell you right now, Las Vegas is one of them.
	Tell me what your town is like and how you would respond to being in a theater with 1,800 other people.
	Elbow to elbow.
	Here's Mike.
	What's the upstate of South Carolina life like, Mike?
	Mike, it is wide open for business, baby.
	We are rocking and rolling and we cannot get enough people to work, so come on down here and grab yourself a job.
	That makes me happy.
	Coming back to work makes me happy.
	Thank you, Mike.
	Keep up with what...
	We'll be right back.
	But as Jeff Bezos in those remarks a moment ago was talking about what it's like to go high enough where you can see the curvature of the Earth and see the thin veneer that is the atmosphere, and it reminds you of how fragile the Earth is, and that's true.
	That's true and proper.
	And it should remind us to take good care.
	Which, by the way, we have an instinct to do.
	We like a clean planet.
	We don't need to be goaded into alternative energies that don't work by government.
	We don't need to be operating on some bizarre fantasy land that human productivity is causing the Earth's temperature to climb.
	Are you high?
	Let's just take good care of the planet for its own sake.
	How about that?
	Anyway, so as Jeff Bezos was talking about, that change of perspective, once you're Up at the lip of space looking down.
	It reminded me of something that Jim Lovell said.
	And one of my great blessings in this gig, and with all this space stuff in my head, is I had a chance to emcee a lot of things.
	Met Armstrong and Aldrin, who walked on the moon 52 years ago today.
	Speaking of Apollo 13, did an event at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas a few years ago with Jim Lovell and Fred Hayes.
	Jack Swigert passed away some time ago.
	And Jim Lovell reiterated this familiar quote of his from his prior mission, Apollo 8. Which, by the way, was the first mission to the moon.
	Apollo 11 was the moon landing.
	But we went to the moon twice before that.
	Apollos 8 and 10. If the definition of going to it is leaving Earth...
	Heading out there, 247,000 miles, and then spinning around it and coming back.
	To me, that's going to the moon.
	You didn't land, but you went.
	And the first people to do that, Christmastime 1968, you remember Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, reading from the book of Genesis on Christmas Eve on live television, Madeline Murray O'Hare's head exploded.
	It was delicious.
	Anyway, though, the quote that Jim Lovell, Jim and Marilyn.
	Marilyn just turned 91. I think Jim's 92. They're doing well.
	God love them.
	This generation of heroes is soon to leave us.
	Let us always cherish them.
	But he said, when you're a quarter of a million miles away, I held up my thumb, and the earth could fit behind my thumb.
	And it occurred to me that behind my thumb lay every human being, Five billion people at the time, but everybody who had ever lived every strand of DNA of human life ever since the creation behind my thumb.
	Space is awesome.
	All right, we got other things to talk about.
	So let's do things in the news and more.
	Grab a line.
	1-8 Prager 776. What's on your mind?
	And we'll stick to it and hop right to those topics next.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	stick around streaming on Salem now There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	Transcription by CastingWords Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. - Yesterday, General Milley told a congressional hearing that there is no chance, not no chance, very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, to assault Taiwan in the near term.
	Quote, "There's no reason to do it militarily, So I think the probability is probably low in the immediate near-term future.
	Your reaction, Senator Cotton?
	Well, I think that's right.
	up to the end of the Beijing Olympics in February.
	You know, Russia didn't invade Crimea and eight months before the Sochi Olympics in 2014, they invaded it four days after those Olympics ended.
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	Nathan Hennig!
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	Nona, Nona, it's Nathan!
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Really, though, thanks for taking me to this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
	There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God because He helps us change.
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	Anyway, you were talking about Bill Cosby, and I kind of disagreed with you about, you were saying, about all the women.
	I might say maybe half, what is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no.
	It's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Okay.
	So you believe all of them are telling the truth?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, and there in Hollywood, he's a high-profile man, and they wanted to be alone with him.
	They might not have wanted his advances, but...
	Lynn, please.
	There's no doubt that because he was famous and rich, he attracted women.
	The question is, did he drug them and have sex with them?
	And that's known as rape.
	Let me answer that.
	That's what I'm saying.
	If they drank anything that he had, they willingly drink it.
	Okay, now, Lynn, hold on a second.
	The reason Bill Cosby got released is because the prior prosecutor apparently entered into some sort of deal with him and said, you're not going to be criminally prosecuted if you testify honestly in the civil trial.
	And in the civil trial, years ago, he testified and admitted that he gave that particular woman a drug in order to have sex with her.
	He admitted it under oath.
	Okay, one woman.
	How many does it take?
	Well, I'm just saying, I'm a woman, I know women.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen, but some of them are scorned because they thought they were going to get something out of it.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berkett.
	What is your message to those who think this isn't a big deal or who feel cowed and intimidated?
	What do you say to them?
	Anytime you say something like what I'm about to say, I'm sure it can be abused and misused, so I'll be very careful in how I say it.
	I've never read Hitler's Mein Kampf, but I've picked it up recently in the past week because I'm interested in learning everything I can about history.
	After spending just a day with...
	his Mein Kampf, the spirit and essence of his race hatred that shows up in that book, a set of two books, is very similar to what I'm seeing show up in How to Be an Anti-Racist.
	I want to talk about what's happening in New York with Letitia
	James and what I consider to be a political persecution unlike anything, I think, in American political history.
	How are you guys dealing with this?
	And do you guys see this as, you obviously said this last night, but as a continuation of almost this five-year political witch hunt?
	A hundred percent.
	I mean, it's pretty clear when the, you know, the attorney general of a state, without any information, literally campaigns on saying, hey, we're going to investigate, we're going to lock them up, we're going to do this, that, and the other.
	You know, it's pretty amazing that they can get away with it.
	And then they do it.
	And then they do it for five years.
	And the reality is this, there's no recourse.
	There's no one keeping them in check, Charlie.
	They can just do this.
	You have no where to appeal it to.
	You're going to appeal it to a leftist judge in New York who feels the same way?
	They're utilizing their taxpayer-funded offices.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Glad to be here with you from the studios of 660 AM, The Answer in DFW, where I am your happy morning host, Mark Davis.
	Hi.
	And made even happier on these days where I get to come hang out on the Dennis Prager Show.
	So, we have certainly made much of today in space history, whether it is 52 years ago and the first human footprints on the moon, Or a few hours ago in the successful Jeff Bezos and his crew Blue Horizon mission.
	Real quick, as we get ready to go back to calls on this and things in the news that are political in nature and cultural in nature and all the things that I mentioned that I want to get to, I do have some Wally Funk audio.
	This is the 82-year-old woman freshly returned on this mission.
	And they asked her, what was it like?
	I can't tell you.
	I had such a good instructor, he took us through everything that we were going to do.
	So when I went up this morning, the noise wasn't quite as bad, and we went right on up, and I saw darkness.
	I thought I was going to see the world, but we weren't quite high enough.
	And I felt great.
	I felt like I was just laying down.
	I was just laying down.
	I was going into space.
	And I want to thank you, sweetheart, because you made it possible for me.
	So great.
	Yeah, just laying down, just laying down, pulling five G's.
	That's like an elephant sitting on your chest, and she did it.
	That is a tough, tough woman right there.
	And if you're not familiar with the history, Wally Funk was one of 13 women who went through...
	A general equivalent of the really bizarre training that we put the Mercury astronauts through.
	And the so-called Mercury 13 were women who underwent the same thing with an eye toward, with a possibility toward perhaps going into space themselves.
	It was never in the cards.
	It was, you know, they say never say never.
	I'm going to say never.
	It was never going to happen, at least within the Mercury time frame of 61, 62, 63. And it took us 20 years to put a woman.
	In space.
	And now women go with great regularity.
	And the notion that this woman at 82 had the chance to go today is just magnificent.
	It's great for her.
	It's great for history.
	It's great for posterity.
	It's great for womanhood.
	It's great for older people.
	Are you kidding me?
	Listen, when I see Mick Jagger, and however old Mick is now, probably halfway between me and Wally Funk, right?
	Well, probably closer to Wally than me.
	And I think, you know, that must mean I've got 20 years of rockin' and rollin' left in me.
	When I see Wally Funk, I say, man, that gives me probably 20 years where maybe I can pull those G's and get up there myself.
	Who knows?
	Who knows?
	I'll wait for that invitation.
	My invitation to you is to join us at 1-8-Prager-776.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	Let me share with you a couple of things, a couple of stories that are making news.
	In fact, let me do the two.
	That are out of my state of Texas that are making national news, and then we'll just broaden ourselves out to whatever might be going on in your state, your neighborhood, the country at large, or around the world.
	So we have these legislators, and they're coming up with a bunch of big honking cases of COVID. A bunch of Texas legislators bolted the state rather than show up at the state capitol in Austin and vote, and they would have lost because we are a Republican state, We're a conservative state.
	They're going to lose because they are not in the majority.
	Elections have consequences.
	If I'm sitting here in California or Massachusetts or a liberal state and I'm a Republican legislator or I'm talking to Republican legislators, my message is hang in, fight hard, but until you gain the majority, you're going to lose a lot of votes.
	And you don't cut and run.
	You don't bail.
	You don't chicken out.
	You stay and face the music.
	And then after you lose on a particular vote, you say, hey, this was the point that I made.
	And I'm proud to make it.
	And I hope that more people can be elected who agree with me on this.
	You make your argument to the people and see if maybe you can prevail.
	Look at the state of Wisconsin.
	The state of Wisconsin was a hardcore blue state.
	Now it's the state of Scott Walker.
	It's the state of Ron Johnson.
	Can you flip a state?
	Sure you can.
	Larry Elder's going to try to flip California.
	Our Salem colleague is running for governor of California.
	You've got to get rid of Gavin Newsom first.
	And if that turnstile is knocked down, then our friend Larry is one of, gosh, I don't know, how many score of candidates do you have?
	But that's how Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in the Gray Davis recall.
	Know what the difference is between Larry?
	And Arnold Schwarzenegger?
	There are many.
	Larry's a real conservative.
	And Arnold Schwarzenegger never was.
	Now, I'll take Arnold over any Democrat governor, but just as, you know, right now, much has been made of the Caitlyn Jenner candidacy.
	And people have said, well, you know, Caitlyn Jenner is just some circus act, and, you know, the gender thing is disqualifying.
	I'll be really honest with you.
	I don't care if the ideas are right and the policies are right.
	I don't care.
	In a perfect world, I'd probably just as soon have leaders who are aware of what gender they are.
	The entrance of Larry, however, makes this instantly easier for, I believe, just about any conservative in California or elsewhere.
	Everybody asks me, do you think Larry can win?
	Do you think Larry can win?
	I have absolutely no idea.
	But I know that those of us who know and love him can do our best for him and pray for him and lift him up.
	And contribute to, is it electelder.com is on the website?
	So, and it's kind of funny, purely selfishly.
	You know, I like Kevin Larry as a colleague.
	I like Larry on the radio.
	And I don't live in California.
	So, you know, is it any skin off my nose?
	But I will tell you this.
	If this is what my friend wants to do, I want to lift him up in prayer and with every good wish that he succeeds.
	So, can you flip a state?
	Can a state change?
	Sure it can.
	Anyway, my point being, Texas, for now, It remains a red state, a conservative state.
	And these weasels, these cowards, rather than stay and face the music and see laws pass that will bolster election security, election reliability, they lie, and then they lie some more.
	So we're trying to make it harder to vote.
	Please.
	Trying to make it harder to cheat.
	And all of these examples of Harris County, where Houston is, and various things that we're trying to do, there's going to be more early voting.
	There are going to be more windows available for mail verification.
	If you end up making mistakes in the submission of your ballot or give you a chance to correct that mistake, we're not going to have any more of the ridiculousness of drive-through voting if you are able-bodied.
	We're not going to have that nonsense.
	Pile five people in a van.
	Anybody going to change your vote on the way over?
	Anybody got a strong army on the way through the McDonald's drive-through, on the way to the ballot, on the way to the polling place?
	No.
	And I'll offer here, whenever I'm filling in for Dennis or filling in anywhere on the local show that I do, I do it all the time.
	I would love to hear today on the Dennis Prager Show from any human being who in any election has tried to vote and you just couldn't.
	Because the nasty, evil, white supremacist system would not let you.
	Or for any reason.
	You tried to vote, but you could not.
	And I'm not talking about long lines.
	We probably do need to do something about that.
	Early voting was supposed to help.
	I guess it has.
	I'm not talking about procedural things where you can get all the voters in more easily.
	I'm talking about how you, especially people of color, because that's the whole thing, is we're trying to tamp down the voters of color.
	All the white supremacists are in full throat.
	Got to make sure we can't have those black and brown people voting.
	And it's all just a load of crap.
	And so these Democrats are out there just sloshing around in the love fest of D.C. And apparently a COVID petri dish that they've created for themselves.
	Anybody think it was weird that Kamala Harris was at Walter Reed on a Sunday morning when the whole place was shut down?
	Oh yeah, just a normal appointment.
	I don't know.
	Wouldn't say.
	And I don't want her to get sick.
	I don't want these six Texas Democrats to get sick.
	I think a top eight of Nancy Pelosi has a case of it now, probably from hanging out with these ne'er-do-wells.
	So anyway, they'll come home at some point, and they will have to take place, the vote will take place, they'll have to take part in it, and they're going to lose.
	And Texas will have bolstered election security, and that just...
	Scares living daylights out of them.
	Because they know that cheating is their stock in trade.
	They know that illegal votes, and votes by dead people, and etc., etc., etc., that these are votes that they have frequently needed in order to win.
	Now, let me set this up, hit the break.
	Come back, take some calls, and tell you what the rest is.
	One of the trending things on Twitter right now is Ku Klux Klan.
	Oh, what might that be?
	What might that be?
	Well, I'll take you to a Huffington Post article.
	The headline is, Texas Senate bill drops the teaching requirement that the Ku Klux Klan is morally wrong.
	This may come as a shock to you.
	That is a lie.
	So I'll tell you right here from the Lone Star State what the truth is.
	I will take your calls on this and a bunch of other things too.
	Mark Davison for Dennis on a Tuesday.
	stick around the charlie kirk show
	i want to talk about what's happening in new york with latisha james and what i consider to be a political persecution unlike anything i think in american political history How are you guys dealing with this?
	And do you guys see this as, you obviously said this last night, but as a continuation?
	Of almost this five-year political witch hunt?
	A hundred percent.
	I mean, it's pretty clear when the, you know, the Attorney General of a state, without any information, literally campaigns on saying, hey, we're going to investigate, we're going to lock them up, we're going to do this, that, and the other.
	You know, it's pretty amazing that they can get away with it.
	And then they do it.
	And then they do it for five years.
	And the reality is this.
	There's no recourse.
	There's no one keeping them in check, Charlie.
	They can just do this.
	You have no...
	Where to appeal it to?
	You're going to appeal it to a leftist judge in New York who feels the same way?
	They're utilizing their taxpayer-funded offices in a political vendetta to try to damage my father.
	And the reality is this.
	Even after five years, you know, in search of a crime, right?
	They've been looking for five years.
	They're getting closer, Charlie.
	We've been hearing this now literally for half a decade.
	And yet there's still nothing there.
	And yet...
	No one's stopping them.
	So as crime rates go through the roof in New York, as murder rates go through the roof, as businesses are going out of business because of New York's disastrous recovery spots, they're spending taxpayer dollars on a political witch hunt against Donald Trump rather than, I don't know, murderers.
	This is what's going on in America, you know?
	They're outraged when this stuff happens in, I guess what, Belarus recently, right?
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	If you're longing for a place that feels like pre-pandemic America, I'll tell you right now, Las Vegas is one of them.
	Tell me what your town is like and how you would respond to being in a theater with 1,800 other people.
	Elbow to elbow.
	Here's Mike.
	What's the upstate of South Carolina life like, Mike?
	Mike, it is wide open for business, baby.
	We are rocking and rolling and we cannot get enough people to work.
	So come on down here and grab yourself a job.
	Love it!
	That makes me happy.
	Coming back to work makes me happy.
	Thank you, Mike.
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	Joe Biden was sold as a moderate.
	People that had worked with Joe Biden back in the day said, oh, I've known Joe for years.
	He's okay.
	He's fine.
	Listen, when he got the hair plugs, he flipped.
	A long time ago, he was bald as an egg, and he got hair plugs.
	And I believe those hair plugs were from a Chinese lab in the Wuhan province, and things started to go screwy, and he flipped.
	So he said.
	I don't know that that's true.
	I think he hid maybe who he was for a long time.
	A lot of liberals did in the 70s and 80s.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	First of all, he's nobody.
	He has no values.
	Let's not kid ourselves.
	He's not a Marxist.
	He is a husk of a person.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Tuesday, 20th of July, 2021.
	Mark Davis filling in for Dennis.
	All right, last item just to protect you, to insulate you from some enormous social media lies amid the hashtags of the day.
	So, again, you will see Ku Klux Klan trending on Twitter, for example, right now.
	The reason is you will see stories saying, That my state of Texas is saying that we can't have in our schools anybody teaching that the Klan is wrong.
	If a teacher wants to say, hey, you know that Ku Klux Klan thing?
	Those were bad people and that is wrong.
	No, you cannot say that.
	This is what the stories want you to believe.
	The stories are, as we say, full of it.
	Huffington Post...
	Headline from a story by Mary Poppenfuss, which is just fun to say.
	Texas Senate Bill drops the teaching requirement that Ku Klux Klan is morally wrong.
	All you really need, all you've got to have here, is some basic grasp of the English language.
	In the story itself, as you scroll down, it contains the passage in question.
	You ready?
	Senate Bill 3 passed last Friday 18-4 in our Texas Senate.
	It includes eliminating a requirement.
	There's a requirement that is eliminated.
	Let me describe to you what that requirement is.
	The requirement that students be taught, quote, The history of white supremacy, including, but not limited to, the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong.
	Wait a minute.
	Does that it is morally wrong refer only back to the Klan, or does it refer to what started this passage?
	The history of white supremacy.
	The obvious answer is the history of white supremacy.
	This does not in any way deal with only the Klan.
	So the question then becomes, what could possibly be wrong with teaching that there is moral deficiency in white supremacy?
	My dog knows white supremacy is wrong.
	There is no one of consequence who argues otherwise.
	So the first thing is, it's needless.
	But it's worse than needless, because when weaponized, And deployed by today's race-baiting activists, it becomes just another opportunity to poison modern race relations and score cheap political points.
	So, to summarize, should every decent human being know that white supremacy, the eugenics movement, the Klan blood, that all of that is wrong?
	Of course.
	No one of consequence says otherwise.
	So, this is needless.
	But what this language sought to do, they sought to shoehorn this in.
	You've got to be able to teach that the history of white supremacy, including, but not limited to, slavery, eugenics, Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong.
	Not limited to.
	I'll get it.
	Slavery, wrong.
	Duh, no kidding.
	Eugenics movement, obviously.
	Klan, obviously.
	Yeah.
	Are you willing to trust today's race-baiting activists?
	Are you willing to trust today's, and God bless teachers, public school teachers, college instructors, hard-working people, God love you.
	Man, is there a strain of troublemakers occupying your lane.
	Do you trust these people to define what white supremacy is?
	Do you trust these people to be the moral arbiters?
	Of what white supremacy is and how they define it?
	Because, silly me, using the logic given us in the English language, my definition of white supremacy is people who believe that whiteness is just automatically better than other colors.
	That is self-evidently amoral.
	However, white supremacy in the hands of today's activists is pretty well...
	Let's see.
	Anything conservative, anyone pushing back against today's left, trying to make elections more secure, is white supremacy.
	These people are crazy.
	And this is the device that they had used to try to get elbow space into the classrooms of Texas, and we ain't gonna let them do it.
	So when you see all the Ku Klux Klan hashtags today...
	That is How They Built the Lie 101. Alrighty, we are in Los Angeles.
	Brent, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you, sir?
	I'm fine, and it's a pleasure speaking with you again, Mark.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	But I'm a bit terrified to think about four civilians flying up 60 miles while California teeters on the verge of falling to all and all communism.
	As our Secretary of State is unilaterally demolishing The democracy of California.
	And I think Larry Elder is being victimized by a political leftist lynch mob.
	And this is reminding me of Clarence Thomas.
	It's deja vu all over again.
	Can I ask you a question?
	Because I saw the story, I don't remember, in the last couple of days, that the, I believe, the Secretary of State's office had the list, the supposedly complete list of candidates, and Larry just wasn't on it.
	Has that been rectified?
	Not that I'm aware of.
	I think they're taking it to court, and of course, in two months, what can you do in court?
	And so it seems, you know, and it's purely a technicality, a legal, you know, it's an absurdity.
	It's just such California Jim Crow.
	I can't.
	Everything Jim Crow.
	In the same story that I saw, I believe there's a quote from the Secretary of State's office, and even from Larry's campaign, that they expect this to be rectified within days.
	It had better be.
	But listen, I believe he dotted all the I's, crossed all the T's.
	You know, you mentioned technicalities.
	I will tell you one thing about technicalities.
	They're also known as the law.
	If you're pulled over, you know, doing 60 in a 55, it's a technicality.
	But so, I totally trust Larry's campaign to do things by the book.
	I also trust the ruling class of California to try to do anything to derail him.
	So, eyes peeled for mischief.
	We're in Livermore, California.
	Ray, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Happy Tuesday.
	Indeed, and it's great to have you in, Sagebrush.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Whatever I meant for Larry, the sage, I'm the sagebrush, hence my Texas roots.
	Thank you, man.
	I wanted to argue with Bezos about the fragility of the planet and how we need to save the planet.
	Our planet lives in a pretty rough neighborhood.
	You know, our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, whatever you want to call it.
	I mean, look at the moon, look at the surrounding planets.
	They take a beating.
	And yet here we are with literally millions.
	And millions of different variant life forms surviving on this planet, because it's a tough planet, and it gives us life.
	And the idea that we need to save it, I've been saying this for many years, this planet is trying to kill us, folks.
	It really is.
	And if you don't believe me...
	Step out in extreme cold or extreme hot or maybe when there's a tornado going by or a hurricane, typhoon.
	The wonderful George Carlin.
	As a kid, I loved the comedy of George Carlin.
	Later in life, I didn't go to him for moral guidance on anything.
	He had a wonderful rant about the planet.
	He said, the planet's going to be fine.
	We're screwed, but the planet is going to be fine.
	Look at what it has faced.
	It will be fine.
	All right, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	More of you coming up next.
	Stick around, please.
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	Yesterday, General Milley told a congressional hearing that there is no chance, not no chance, very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
	To assault Taiwan in the near term.
	Quote, there's no reason to do it militarily, and they know that.
	So I think the probability is probably low in the immediate near term future.
	Your reaction, Senator Cotton?
	Well, I think that's right.
	Up through the end of the Beijing Olympics in February, you know, Russia didn't invade Crimea eight months before the Sochi Olympics in 2014. They invaded it four days after those Olympics ended.
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	Surprise.
	Sharon and I.
	Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You got 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hannigan.
	It is good to have you home.
	Dona, Dona, it's Nathan.
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Really, though, thanks for taking me to this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
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	Anyway, you were talking about Bill Cosby, and I kind of disagreed with you about, you were saying, about all the women.
	I might say maybe half, what is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no.
	It's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Oh, okay.
	So you believe all of them are telling the truth?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, there in Hollywood, he's a high-profile man, and they wanted to be alone with him.
	They might not have wanted his advances, but it's kind of...
	Lynn, please, there's no doubt that because he was famous and rich, he attracted women.
	The question is, did he drug them and have sex with them?
	And that's known as rape.
	That's what I'm saying.
	If they drank anything that he had, they willingly drink it.
	Okay, now, Lynn, hold on a second.
	The reason Bill Cosby got released is because the prior prosecutor apparently entered into some sort of deal with him and said, you're not going to be criminally prosecuted if you testify honestly in the civil trial.
	And in the civil trial, years ago, he testified and admitted that he gave that particular woman a drug in order to have sex with her.
	He admitted it under oath.
	Okay, one woman.
	How many does it take?
	Well, I'm just saying, I'm a woman, I know women.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen, but some of them are scorned because they thought they were going to get something out of it.
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	Always the fun playground over there as we spend some more time on the phone with you.
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	We are next in Salem, South Carolina.
	Ed, hey!
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	How are you?
	Hey, Mark.
	Listened to you for a long time.
	Thank you.
	I moved down here to South Carolina from the Socialist Republic of Vermont.
	I moved down here about a year ago.
	And when I was up there, unbeknownst to me, my wife answered the question from the state's attorney or whoever the secretary of state to get a provisional ballot sent to us.
	I threw the damn thing away.
	I didn't want it.
	I went to go home and said, you can't vote.
	You've got a ballot out.
	And I go, yeah, do the damn thing away.
	And so I had to spend four hours at court waiting for the judge to allow me to vote.
	When I went to vote, I always wear my Russian hat.
	It says Russia on the front of it.
	Because up in Vermont, Bob that tells you who's going to win or has already won, we just vote.
	Bernie Sanders wins within five minutes before or after.
	Polls close.
	You know, it's so close, you never can tell.
	But I love South Carolina.
	I have to present a photo ID. And I was born in a conservative state.
	I'm going to die in a conservative state.
	And the last thing I always say is liberals and progressives are like COVID-19.
	They spread fast and destroy economies.
	Oh, wow.
	Wow.
	Harsh but skillful satire.
	Thank you, man.
	Appreciate it very, very much.
	We are, let's see, let's head up here into California.
	Dick, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Oh, good morning, sir, and thank you.
	Yes, my question, I think your screener might have shown that my question is why does this planet Earth exist in the first place?
	Wow, what a great question.
	Why does the planet exist?
	Okay, for anything of that vast scope, I'll try to fill this in 60 seconds, then I'll give it to you and offer it to you for counterpoint.
	I believe that everything exists because of the mind of God and because of His intent.
	And the creation, as described in Genesis, was filled with the intent to create this planet, create the universe, create us, create the creatures, create everything.
	And so it is part of a divine plan that gives to us the opportunity to live a life in His image and by following His word.
	How about you?
	Nature's God.
	The Creator.
	Nature's God.
	Is man not part of nature?
	Of course.
	And in that regard, all that man does as being part of nature is something that God has allowed within that creativity.
	Yes.
	God allows everything.
	We have free will, so God allows everything, the free will to do that which is right and that which is wrong.
	I believe it is wrong to intentionally despoil the planet.
	And I believe that's why we are good people and we like a clean environment.
	And if left to our own devices, we will favor clean water and clean air and do things along those lines, as we have done for a long time.
	Are we not toggling back and forth between what we have done to pollute the planet as well as what we have done to correct?
	I don't know about toggling.
	Toggling implies back and forth, back and forth.
	For a long time, I mean, you know, we laid waste all kinds of woodlands to build all kinds of stuff as the country was being built.
	And then as you get through the Industrial Revolution in the early part of the 20th century, we're belching all kinds of stuff out in the air because we thought, hey, what's the harm?
	Then we became kind of aware of the harm.
	That there was something good about trying to do things a little cleaner, burn things a little more cleanly.
	Invent some alternative energies that if they work, great.
	If they don't, scrap them.
	And that's where we find ourselves now.
	And let everybody who wants an electric car have one.
	Let everybody that wants solar panels, let them have those.
	Well, I think fossil fuels will be around forever, and I'm glad they will.
	And from clean coal to nuclear and other things, let's do all manner of things so that we can have the needs that we have for human productivity and take the best care of the planet that we can.
	How's that sound?
	Well, when I said toggle, I mean, we have a tendency to, as man, as part of God's allowances of our failures as well as our successes, we have the ability to do the corruption and then to correct the corruption.
	I worked for a pollution control company at one time.
	Yeah, I got about ten seconds to go.
	That was the result.
	I think we probably tied a bow around this, and I think I pretty well said what I was going to say, and I'm marginally confused, so it's probably a good idea to hit a commercial break.
	Mark Davis, back in a moment for Dennis Prager.
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	We've had six months of the new administration.
	It is the farthest thing from moderation that the government has ever seen, and it is the fastest track to extremism that we've ever had elected.
	How did I know that in advance?
	Why in my debate with David French did I know this and you knew this?
	There was no question in my mind.
	So the fact that this has now happened, you know, part of me wants to say, haha, but it's just too sad to say haha.
	This is something that I warned against and you warned against and others warned against because we knew that the consequences are devastating.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	Yesterday, General Milley told a congressional hearing that there is no chance, not no chance, very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Quote, there's no reason to do it militarily, and they know that.
	So I think the probability is probably low in the immediate near term future.
	Your reaction, Senator Cotton?
	Well, I think that's right.
	Up to the end of the Beijing Olympics in February, you know, Russia didn't invade Crimea eight months before the Sochi Olympics in 2014. They invaded it four days after those Olympics ended.
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	Surprise.
	Sharon and I.
	Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You got 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hennig.
	It is good to have you home.
	Tona, Tona, it's Nathan.
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Really, though, thanks for taking me from this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
	There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God.
	Because He helps us change.
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	The gauntlet has been thrown down.
	um William is in for Sean, has said, you better recognize this coming in.
	You better recognize this coming in.
	Who am I if I don't recognize the great Delbert McClinton?
	Every time I roll the dice.
	Now, I'd say, if you're going to throw down some Delbert...
	I mean, the easiest thing would have been, giving it up for your love every day.
	There's the Delbert song that everybody knows.
	But what fun would that be?
	Where's the challenge in that?
	So, all righty.
	All right, let us head to your call's telephone number again on the Dennis Prager Show, 1-8-Prager-776.
	Mark Davis filling in for Dennis.
	Dennis is back tomorrow.
	We are here together today making the most of it.
	Let's see what else is going on in your heads.
	We're in Valencia, California.
	Sean, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome and how are you?
	Hey, Mark.
	Hi.
	Good.
	How are you?
	Fantastic.
	Thank you.
	Good.
	Thanks for having me on.
	I just wanted to make a comment.
	It seems like the Democrats constantly are throwing things at us left and right, and the Republicans and conservatives are reacting all the time to what the Democrats are doing.
	And I would love to see us start taking a stance and really start throwing it at them.
	And one of the things I think we should all be doing right now is boycotting Facebook.
	We know for a fact that they're in talks with the U.S. government and they're censoring us, and all the conservative radio stations should be saying, boycott Facebook.
	Okay, here's why everybody's entitled to whatever they want to do on this.
	I will never sign on to that, and here's why.
	First of all, the problem, and you would define it well, Facebook, Twitter, they are absolutely policing conservative speech, marginalizing it, kicking it out to the curb whenever they can.
	This is terrible.
	These are private companies who largely can do what they want to do, however, but also your point, which is well taken, is we can do what we want to do and boycott them and take our ball and go home.
	How in the world do we help ourselves by cutting and running?
	From the battle.
	So let me offer you the following idea.
	Ted Cruz has some wonderful thoughts about this, that even though Facebook and Twitter are indeed private entities, and it's not censorship in the way that government might censor us, when they collude, wonderful word again, collusion, when they are in cahoots with government,
	to marginalize conservative speech that then becomes a sinister partnership that may be somehow actionable in court and I'd like to pursue that while at the same time while at the same time this is really important and part of this is self-serving there's such a thing as the Mark Davis show Facebook page I ain't giving that thing up It promotes this show, or not this show, it promotes my show and my views.
	And I think that the most important thing I can do as a conservative in media is promote my views and get my views out to as many people as possible.
	And then when you get to Twitter, if all the conservatives leave Twitter, we're screwed!
	Thank God for conservative Twitter!
	So, that's my thought.
	Balls in your core.
	I agree with you.
	I mean, that's a valid point.
	It's just frustrating, as you know.
	I'm always looking for angles.
	Well, I hope that was of value, and I deeply appreciate it.
	Alrighty, 1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Los Angeles.
	Doug, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	How are you?
	Very good.
	Thank you for including me in the show today.
	My pleasure.
	I just wanted to comment, as an independent who signed a recall petition for Governor Newsom, how absolutely disappointing the Republican Party dropping the ball on the recall has been.
	How so?
	For your listeners not in California, there's two votes.
	One is a binary yes-no should Newsom be recalled.
	And then the second is, who's your candidate going to be?
	There has been virtually zero campaign by the Republican Party.
	To recall Newsom.
	There's random ads by individual candidates, but there has been zero effort to convince, particularly the middle, in California, the Republican Party is the third largest party, the second largest is independents, to convince the middle that Newsom has to go.
	There's no linking him to George Gascon.
	There's no accusing him accurately of underspending on fire prevention.
	There's no...
	Highlighting of his hypocrisy on his dinner at the French Laundry is zero.
	When the Democrats wanted to get rid of two senators in Georgia, they poured out of money, out-of-state money, into negative advertising against the Republican incumbents.
	Why aren't the Republicans doing the same?
	Spectacularly put point.
	I always like to play a little exercise called, Did I Understand You Correctly?
	So let me offer you a paragraph and see if it makes sense.
	Is your main thrust that it's lovely for all these Republicans to talk about why I would be great, I would be great, I would be great.
	But before we even get to that...
	The first vote, the first turnstile has to be successful, and that's the thumbs down on Newsom.
	And it seems that every Republican to you ought to be spending some amount of time, of course, tooting their own horn, but also coherently and cogently talking about why Newsom's gotta go.
	How'd I do?
	You did pretty close, but the difference is there are negative ads about Newsom informing the public.
	As to why he needs to go that are not tied to any particular candidate.
	Then who would pay for them?
	Where would they come from?
	Well, I think there's this thing called super PACs.
	And the Democrats have plenty of them.
	The Republicans have plenty of them.
	And the Republicans have decided to sit this one out.
	Okay, let me ask you something.
	That is an absolutely fascinating point.
	And I think that is a worthy analysis.
	On your part.
	It is California.
	So I'm out here in Texas and I try not to be in my bubble.
	I know a lot of people in California and talk to y'all a lot.
	Before we even get to whether it's Larry Elder, Caitlyn Jenner, whoever else, it would be great to have a Republican governor of California.
	But the first thing we've got to do is Newsom's got to fall.
	And with COVID, not at the moment, it seems to be rearing its head, but with lockdowns and stuff fading in the rearview mirror, Do you think he's just going to prevail anyway, and the whole second part of the equation just becomes moot?
	Well, no, I don't think it's because of COVID. I think it's because the Republican Party and the super PACs have not gotten behind this.
	And, you know, I think that you have to look at the fact that the Republicans are a minority party in California, but that the independents are larger than the Republicans.
	And Meghan Trainor should not be the Republican Party's chief strategist.
	It's not all about the base.
	He saved it for last, everybody.
	He saved it for last.
	Very astute.
	Very funny.
	All about that base.
	Don't want to cause any trouble.
	See what I did there?
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Great call.
	I'll be right back Streaming on Salem now Surprise!
	Sharon and I. Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You got 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hennig!
	It is good to have you home!
	Nona, Nona, it's Nathan!
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Thanks for taking me to this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
	There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God because He helps us change.
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	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com. - Trending now on the Larry Elder Show. - Anyway, you were talking about Bill Cosby and I kind of disagreed with you about, you were talking about Bill Cosby and I kind of disagreed with you about, you were saying I might say maybe half.
	What is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no.
	It's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Oh, okay.
	So you believe all of them are coming to you?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, and there in Hollywood, he's a high-profile man, and they wanted to be alone with him.
	They might not have wanted his advances, but...
	Lynn, please.
	There's no doubt that because he was famous and rich, he attracted women.
	The question is, did he drug them and have sex with them?
	And that's known as rape.
	Let me answer that.
	That's what I'm saying.
	If they drank anything that he had, they willingly drink it.
	Okay, now, Lynn, hold on a second.
	The reason Bill Cosby got released is because the prior prosecutor apparently entered into some sort of deal with him and said, you're not going to be criminally prosecuted if you testify honestly in the civil trial.
	And in the civil trial, years ago, he testified and admitted that he gave that particular woman a drug in order to have sex with her.
	He admitted it under oath.
	Okay, one woman.
	How many does it take?
	Well, I'm just saying, I'm a woman.
	I know women.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen.
	Well, here I am to prod you towards something else on your TV box as a result of this right here with the Beatles.
	Have you caught the hype about McCartney 321?
	It is on Hulu, and I think it's only on Hulu.
	And it's McCartney, who's, what is he, almost 80?
	Ringo's 82. Anyway, he's up there, but still looks great.
	And he's talking with longtime famous record producer Rick Rubin.
	And it's McCartney and Rick Rubin sitting around talking about music and talking about the Beatles, talking about history.
	And you might think, oh, surely I've heard McCartney and everybody talk about this ad nauseum, ad infinitum, what value is this?
	It is fantastic.
	And McCartney tells early on the story about how that story right there, Getting Better, or that song right there, Getting Better, is emblematic of his worldview versus John's.
	You know, the optimism, seeing everything, the best in everyone, that's Paul versus the more caustic John.
	And in that song, you've got getting better, getting better all the time, and then there's a line from John, can't get much worse.
	And so, McCartney321, Beatle fan, non-Beatle fan, whatever, it's an amazing chunk of music history.
	And it's on Hulu, so there you go.
	Alrighty, listen, while I'm on a roll, did something else in the world of streaming.
	Last night at the movie house.
	You ready for the movie house?
	Who goes there anymore?
	I actually did go to a movie for the first time.
	As I mentioned, my family and I popped into the car, did a little Texas road trip.
	And they're northwest of Houston in the wonderful town of Cypress, Texas.
	We went to one of those big old easy chair recliner, they'll bring you food kind of things that we tend to like up here at home as well.
	And on Saturday night of last weekend, saw Black Widow.
	Enjoyed it.
	I'm kind of a sucker for the whole Marvel thing.
	I'm not as wired into all the superhero movies as everybody is.
	Some of them strike me as just noise and I don't know or care what the plot is.
	But the Marvel stuff and the Iron Man stuff and the Avengers stuff has been pretty good.
	And Black Widow is quite good.
	So anyway, the last night, since it's now streaming, don't have to go to the theaters for this, Quiet Place 2. Hello, hello, hello.
	Just remarkable.
	If you watch the first one, and in fact, I urge you to go back and find the first one first, because you've got to be made to care in the way that John Krasinski and his wonderful wife Emily Blunt, playing the husband and wife, fighting aliens with hearing like your Doberman on steroids.
	They hear you, they find you, they kill you.
	So they've eaten the planet and most of the people on it.
	How do you survive that?
	And now The Quiet Place 2 is out.
	And it is every bit as good, which virtually never happens in the world of sequels.
	So, there you go.
	Look at there.
	Open the door.
	Let them in.
	Little McCartney and Wings to take us out.
	Thanks for opening the door to us.
	We'll close it on this hour and come back and wrap things up next hour with more of your thoughts.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Stick around.
	If you're longing for a place that feels like pre-pandemic America, I'll tell you right now, Las Vegas is one of them.
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	What's your community?
	Tell me what your town is like and how you would respond to being in a theater with 1,800 other people.
	Elbow to elbow.
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	What's the upstate of South Carolina life like, Mike?
	Mike, it is wide open for business, baby.
	We are rocking and rolling, and we cannot get enough people to work, so come on down here and grab yourself a job.
	I love it!
	That makes me happy.
	Coming back to work makes me happy.
	Thank you, Mike.
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	you know.
	Joe Biden was sold as a moderate.
	People that had worked with Joe Biden back in the day said, oh, I've known Joe for years.
	He's okay.
	He's fine.
	Listen, when he got the hair plugs, he flipped.
	A long time ago, he was bald as an egg.
	And he got hair plugs.
	And I believe those hair plugs were from a Chinese lab in the Wuhan province.
	And things started to go screwy.
	And he flipped.
	So he said, I don't know that that's true.
	I think he hid maybe who he was for a long time.
	A lot of liberals did in the 70s and 80s.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	First of all, he's nobody.
	He has no values.
	Let's not kid ourselves.
	He's not a Marxist.
	He is a husk of a person.
	And he will just do—that's the whole point of your article at townhall.com.
	People are running him and steering him, and he doesn't have the whisper of what we would call courage or conviction.
	Right.
	Well, and because he can't get the stuff kicked out fast enough.
	I mean, they've attacked so many different areas of culture and life.
	All at once.
	And I think this is part of the blowback that is causing parental communities to rise up.
	You know, one of the things I'm most excited about, to be candid out of all this, is to see the growth of middle-class black parents.
	Debating CRT to their own school boards.
	There's something very powerful about a father and a mother, married black couple, living in a suburb and being part of a community and saying to a school board, what you're in essence trying to do is teach my child to be a racist.
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	I had studied a Marxist history, uh, beginning with Marx and Engels communist manifesto from 1848.
	And when I first studied that and saw in section one of the manifesto, What you can recognize as what's called the oppressor versus oppressed narrative of human history.
	A whole bunch of stuff that was taking place in our country began to become exceptionally clear to me.
	And I began to piece together a lot of the what I'll call militant impulse that was manifesting in society as time went on.
	And there's a victimhood ideology.
	There's constantly an effort.
	By some individuals who have an agenda to pit groups of people against one another as victims or oppressed groups and oppressor groups and we've seen very clearly over the past calendar year who the oppressor group is labeled to be and who the oppressed groups are labeled to be and right now under the auspices of diversity and inclusion training as well as Critical race theory and other narratives of American history that have been parading about throughout the country and showing up in our education system.
	All of those narratives seek to divide the American people by pitting people against one another into racial groups.
	It's the white versus the black.
	It used to be class, division by class.
	Now it's division by race, by skin color.
	We've only begun to scratch the surface.
	We're going to go deep dive on what's happening inside the U.S. military and why this man took the courageous step of writing the book Irresistible Revolution.
	Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.
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	Some lawyer hit a little girl.
	Former cancer patient Sharon Blackwell was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
	Take this into evidence, sir.
	You've been accused of texting while driving.
	Before you take your daughter off life support, give God room to be God.
	You're not guaranteed another day, but you have today.
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	One third of California small businesses will never reopen.
	One-third.
	Many of the things that Gavin Newsom did had nothing whatever to do with science.
	You've heard me interview small business owners who said he imposed lockdowns and mandates and then loosened them and then reimposed them and then loosened them so nobody knew what the hell to do.
	The science suggested that schools could have remained open.
	We already have a situation where 75% of black kids in California cannot read at state levels of proficiency.
	Nearly half of all kids in California So, who's with me?
	I don't know.
	Maybe I'll deploy that locally.
	In the meantime, it's great to be here nationally on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Mark Davis with you, filling in as I often am blessed to do.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you for hanging out with me.
	Dennis is back tomorrow.
	I'm the happy morning host at 660 AM The Answer in big, thriving, steamy Dallas-Fort Worth.
	Hope all is well with you as we get ready to dive back to some of your calls.
	Man, have I got some audio for you.
	Are you ready for a ding, ding, ding cage match of the day?
	Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci.
	Oh, my.
	Oh, boy.
	It has to do with gain-of-function research.
	Get ready to head back into that word salad of COVID. And look, maybe it's a good place.
	We haven't had a chance to get into much of this today, and it is very front of mind.
	More front of mind for some than it is for others.
	I mean, I'm paying attention.
	Of course, look what I do for a living.
	I have to pay attention.
	But I'm vaccinated.
	I'm glad I am.
	I'm not going to badger you if you're not.
	It's freedom of choice for you.
	Obviously, there's a big and interesting issue about does that freedom of choice extend to businesses, colleges, universities, places that seek to require vaccination.
	I think it largely does.
	And then the ball comes back into our court as to whether we want to attend those colleges or walk into those businesses.
	That seems like liberty busting out all over.
	Okay, that's to me, and you may differ with that, and that's why we have phone lines, 1-8 Prager-776.
	But the point about Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci, let me go ahead and do this now, and then I'll just add that to the topical layers.
	We've got a bunch of people on the phone about a number of things.
	Before our last gentleman deployed his Meghan Trainor joke, which was very funny, it's not always about that base, ha ha ha, in the Gavin Newsom recall.
	Quick word about that.
	I don't know if you all are going to be able to get rid of Gavin Newsom.
	If you can, our friend and colleague whom we love, Larry Elder, is just awesome that he is there willing to serve in this capacity.
	But the way that California recall goes is before it gets to any of these folks, Larry, Caitlyn Jenner, Mr. Falconer, various other people who are running, Democrats and Republicans, before it even gets to them, it's a simple up or down.
	Do you get rid of Gavin Newsom or not?
	And if the answer to that is not, then he stays and it doesn't even go to these other people.
	They have all, you know, toiled, not for nothing, because, you know, it doesn't even get to them.
	If we keep Gavin Newsom, if you guys keep Gavin Newsom, then that's it.
	It's over.
	If the decision is made to kick him to the curb, then, as happened with Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful ascendancy on the heels of Gray Davis, Then whoever the top vote-getter, that could be somebody with 20-some percent.
	So it's wide open.
	It's quite the rodeo.
	But here's the thing.
	The gentleman who was a self-identified independent said that he thinks Republicans need to be doing a better job arguing against Gavin Newsom while in the process of arguing for themselves, because it's not a Republican state.
	And I think his point is pretty well taken.
	But here's the thing that I would add.
	For California, which is not a Republican state, I'm going to tell you something that ain't gonna work.
	And that's constant assertions that Gavin Newsom is too liberal.
	Well, no kidding.
	My dog knows Gavin Newsom is a staunch liberal.
	It's California.
	That's why he won.
	What you've got to do...
	If you're looking to dislodge Gavin Newsom, is make points about how California is dysfunctional under him, about how he is unworthy, how for COVID response and forest management or whatever else you want to try to tag him with, he's just not serving the state well, objectively speaking.
	And if you can do that, then maybe you've got a chance of dislodging him in the first vote, and then all these people in the scrum thereafter, one of them will be his But if Republicans are going to go after Newsom, you know, going after his liberalism almost does him a favor.
	It's like a lot of Democrats who say, well, things seem to be going to hell, but yeah, he is a liberal.
	I'll vote for him.
	So, you know, careful what you wish for.
	So just some thoughts from an admitted outsider on the California recall.
	All right.
	So, you know the history between Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci.
	They've about had it with each other, as we learn in today's hearings.
	Fauci's there to describe the way in which the vaccines are effective against the Delta variant.
	Okay, this may be a rare occasion where Anthony Fauci says something that seems to make sense and seems to be objectively supportable.
	But Rand Paul ain't having it in the following way.
	He wants to revisit Some of what Kamala Harris might call the root causes, how we got here in the first place, the Wuhan lab, Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan lab, gain-of-function research.
	Now, for those unfamiliar with that, gain-of-function research is when you take a virus and it's like, let's see how bad we can make this.
	Now, is there a scientific basis for this?
	Yeah, in a manner of speaking.
	You play around with all kinds of things in a lab, hopefully with good stewardship, good safety guidelines, good oversight of what's going on, in order to see what the parameters are for what viruses do.
	Okay, gain-of-function research is a thing and has been a thing for a long time.
	Now, if it's being done kind of willy-nilly, haphazardly, badly managed, recklessly overseen by, you know, the Chinese, and we know how trustworthy they are, Then maybe you've got problems, especially if there is somewhat of a cover-up as to the oversight over the gain-of-function research and the funding for it.
	So this is where Rand Paul is coming from as he lights into Dr. Fauci, who does not seem to be in a compliant mood himself.
	Knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan?
	Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement.
	This paper that you were referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function.
	Let me finish.
	You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you're saying that's not gain of function?
	That is correct.
	And Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly.
	And I want to say that officially.
	You do not know what you are talking about.
	Let's read from the NIH definition of gain and function.
	This is your definition that you guys wrote.
	It says that scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function.
	They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increased their transmissibility to humans.
	How you can say that is not gain-of-function?
	It is not.
	It's a dance and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying around the world from a pandemic.
	If the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a sub-award from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV-2, that's where you are getting.
	Let me finish.
	We don't know.
	We don't know if it did come from the lab, but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab, and there will be responsibility for those who funded the lab, including yourself.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Well, there we are.
	There we are.
	Hmm.
	We're not done.
	Senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports that were published in the literature, it is molecularly impossible.
	No one's saying those viruses caused it.
	Okay, so that was today.
	Another day in paradise there on Capitol Hill.
	Alright, let us add that layer to whatever else you folks want to hop on about.
	And the telephone number is 1-8 Prager-776.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	And we are in Cleveland.
	Mark, hey, Mark Davis, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Thank you for letting me chime in as I feel like my separated and isolated and careful voice can get some traction.
	Nice to have.
	I appreciate it.
	We all feel isolated.
	So one of the things is I want to commend you in going to a movie when we have.
	You don't have to agree or disagree, but we have an illegitimate regime in the White House, and that's coming out more and more and more.
	What does going to a movie have to do with that?
	Well, it's like, what's the score of the Super Bowl when we have people that are destroying our country?
	You know, like, I don't have TV. I have five kids.
	We don't have kids, which is good.
	If the suggestion is...
	That we need to constantly immerse ourselves only in the morass of the worst things that are happening.
	That's an exhausting way to live, and I'm out.
	I like to sort of lighten things up every once in a while, often because things are crappy.
	back in a moment alrighty then trending now on the Larry Oller show
	Anyway, you were talking about Bill Cosby, and I kind of disagreed with you about, you were saying, about all the women.
	I might say maybe half, what is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no, it's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Okay.
	So you believe all of them are telling the truth?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, and there in Hollywood, he's a high-profile man, and they wanted to be alone with him.
	They might not have wanted his advances, but...
	Lynn, please.
	There's no doubt that because he was famous and rich, he attracted women.
	The question is, did he drug them and have sex with them?
	And that's known as rape.
	That's what I'm saying.
	If they drank anything that he had, they willingly drink it.
	Okay, now Lynn, hold on a second.
	The reason Bill Cosby got released is because the prior prosecutor apparently entered into some sort of deal with him and said, you're not going to be criminally prosecuted if you testify honestly in the civil trial.
	And in the civil trial, years ago, he testified and admitted that he gave that particular woman a drug in order to have sex with her.
	He admitted it under oath.
	Okay, one woman.
	How many does it take?
	Well, I'm just saying, I'm a woman, I know women.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen, but some of them are scorned because they thought they were going to get something out of it.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	What is your message to those who think this isn't a big deal or who feel cowed and intimidated?
	What do you say to them?
	Anytime you say something like what I'm about to say, I'm sure it can be abused and misused, so I'll be very careful in how I say it.
	I've never read Hitler's Mein Kampf, but I've picked it up recently in the past week because I'm interested in learning everything I can about history.
	After spending just a day...
	with his Mein Kampf, the spirit and essence of his race hatred that shows up in that book, a set of two books, is very similar to what I'm seeing show up in How to Be an Anti-Racist.
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	I want to talk about what's happening in New York with Letitia James and what I consider to be a political persecution, unlike anything, I think, in American political history.
	How are you guys dealing with this?
	And do you guys see this as, you obviously said this last night, but as a continuation of almost this five-year political witch hunt?
	A hundred percent.
	I mean, it's pretty clear when the, you know, the attorney general of a state without any information literally campaigns on saying, hey, we're going to investigate, we're going to lock them up, we're going to do this, that, and the other.
	You know, it's pretty amazing that they can get away with it.
	And then they do it.
	And then they do it for five years.
	And the reality is this.
	There's no recourse.
	There's no one keeping them in check, Charlie.
	They can just do this.
	You have no...
	Where to appeal it to?
	You're going to appeal it to a leftist judge in New York who feels the same way?
	They're utilizing their taxpayer-funded offices in a political vendetta to try to damage my father.
	And the reality is this.
	Even after five years, you know, insert...
	In Elvis' record, a disc jockey by the name of Deer Phillips did a radio show called Red Hot and Blue, which later became the...
	A barbecue franchise, I believe.
	Anyway, there in the summer of 1954, Dewey lays down, let's all run a mama, and everybody goes nuts, the phones go crazy, and the world has changed forever.
	Here's my Memphis story.
	I've been everywhere, man.
	Right now, though, I'm here, and I'm honored to be here, in here for Dennis, and here being Irving, Texas, hard by the eastern border of the DFW Airport, where I am the...
	Happy morning, show host here in DFW at 6.60 a.m.
	The Answer.
	But what makes me even happier is when the phone rings and I get to come in and do this program when Dennis is away.
	Dennis is back tomorrow and we are here together today covering things as they break and covering stuff, you know, breaking news and things in people's heads and just various thematic things, large and small.
	Here's one we can add a layer to.
	How many people at the White House have COVID anyway?
	I know from here in my state of Texas, We now have six of our wayward, runaway Texas legislators who have popped up with a positive COVID test, and they're all vaccinated!
	Hello?
	And I don't want anybody to get sick, and I don't want them to get sick, I want them to come back, face the music, have some accountability, and take part in the losing end, which it will be, of a vote on our Texas version of election security.
	But here's the weird thing.
	We have a...
	A senior staffer for Nancy Pelosi, who's apparently popped up with a positive COVID test, and it seems to have been maybe from canoodling with these runaway Texans.
	And now, in the press briefing today, hang on, let me share.
	Headline is...
	Jen Psaki confirms more breakthrough COVID cases in the White House that were not disclosed.
	During Tuesday's White House briefing, she confirmed reports that a vaccinated White House official and a vaccinated staffer for Nancy Pelosi tested positive for COVID after attending the same event.
	And what might that have been?
	The enormous love fest for the misguided Texas Democrats.
	When asked if there had been other breakthrough positive COVID cases among staffers, Psaki said there have been.
	But did not disclose further details.
	She did, though, maintain The administration's commitment to disclose positive COVID-19 tests among, get ready for this term, commissioned officers.
	What?
	Sit tight.
	I'll describe that term to you here in a moment.
	According to an agreement we made during the transition, we committed we would release information proactively.
	When pressed further about whether there were previously undisclosed positive COVID cases in the White House, she said, that's correct.
	There are hundreds of thousands in the federal government, she added.
	Psaki added that the White House staffer who tested positive for COVID this week was not a commissioned officer and further confirmed that the other breakthrough cases among White House staff were also not commissioned officers.
	If it wind up with one that's a commissioned officer, they will apparently reveal that name.
	Okay, the musical question.
	What the heck is a commissioned officer inside a White House?
	Answer is various assistants to the president.
	The AP. The line of leadership.
	Assistant to the president.
	A lot of the titles that you know have assistant to the president attached to them.
	Assistant to the president and chief of staff.
	Assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff.
	Assistant to the president and counselor to the president.
	Assistant to the president and press secretary.
	Jen Psaki is a commission officer.
	Assistant to the president and counsel to the president.
	Legislative affairs director.
	Economic policy director, stuff like that.
	Those are your commissioned office.
	In other words, like the ten biggest names.
	So if they don't pop up with a positive COVID, we ain't going to know.
	And they apparently don't have any obligation.
	Imagine if the Trump White House sprang forward with a COVID outbreak in the West Wing.
	How long would stonewalling be tolerated there?
	All righty.
	1-8 Prager 776. We are in Sacramento.
	Andrew, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	How are you?
	How are you doing?
	We have a big issue here with the SIU Local 1. 1199 is opposing mandatory vaccination for employees.
	So the SIU is in California with the recall.
	We're pressuring the local 1,000 here to oppose state workers having mandatory shots.
	So right now we have a new president with get rid of the U.S. Walker.
	We're urging everybody to contact the local 1,000, ask them what they feel about mandatory shots.
	How does the lay of the land strike you?
	It's government employees, right?
	And we've talked a lot about the private sector and what private employers can require.
	As an absolute, as a moral absolute government, I don't believe should ever require anybody to get a vaccine just in the citizenry, nor should they require a vaccine for interaction with government, distance, wear 14 masks, whatever you want to do.
	So those would be my main barriers.
	But as far as government and its own employees, whether military or otherwise, what's been the debate that you've heard and what's the preponderance of opinion that you're familiar with?
	Well, our office used to be very pro-union.
	Forty percent have not gotten vaccination.
	And a lot of people have questions about the danger of this vaccination.
	What is your office?
	What's the nature of what is your office?
	What is your workplace and what do you guys do?
	Well, I'll say we're part of the state of California.
	Could you be more vague for me?
	But I mean, is it healthcare related, may I ask?
	Yes, in a way.
	Yes.
	Okay, we're making progress.
	No one knows who you are.
	You can tell me.
	What's the general nature of the business being done there?
	The reason I'm asking is it may or may not make sense for there to be a vaccine requirement for you guys.
	And the basis for one's objection to that kind of depends on the nature of the work being done, doesn't it?
	Well, we just do basically office work.
	We don't meet the public very rarely.
	We do it on the Internet.
	Okay, good answer.
	Because I do believe that depending on what you're doing for a living, that if government is going to have vaccine requirements, that they should make sense.
	I mean, for employee, for government employees, that they should make some level of sense.
	You know, EMTs and stuff like that.
	But as far as office workers...
	In fact, the SIU is a Western Union, usually is not on our side.
	On this issue, we can put the SIU local in California on the defenses.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Do you believe that the majority of the workers in your office are anti-vaccine requirement?
	Well, I'd say maybe about 40%.
	But if we can force them to make an issue against the mandatory next, we would put the loose and big trouble.
	An embarrassing situation on the defensive, which helped the Republican Party.
	So it's interesting to the Republican Party to contact the S.A.U. Local 1000 in Sacramento.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, I appreciate the update.
	Deep in the weeds, SEIU update.
	Listen, little battles, every battle is big.
	Everything is important, and the gentleman apparently believes that that may have Ripples and ramifications that go well beyond his specific workplace, and he may be right.
	Alrighty, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Stick around.
	Much more to come.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Yesterday, General Milley told a congressional hearing that...
	There is no chance, not no chance, very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, to assault Taiwan in the near term.
	Quote, there's no reason to do it militarily, and they know that.
	So I think the probability is probably low in the immediate near-term future.
	Your reaction, Senator Cotton?
	Well, I think that's right up to the end of the Beijing Olympics in February.
	You know, Russia didn't invade Crimea eight months before the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
	They invaded it four days after those Olympics ended.
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	Surprise.
	Sharon and I.
	Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You have 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hannigan!
	It is good to have you home!
	Nona, Nona, it's Nathan!
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Really, though, thanks for taking me to this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
	There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God because He helps us change.
	stream on your phone tablet or TV look for Salem now in the App Store or go to Salem now calm trending now on the Larry Alder show you were talking about bill Cosby and I kind of disagreed with you about you were saying about all the women I might say maybe, what is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no.
	It's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Oh, okay.
	So you believe all of them are telling the truth?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, and there in Hollywood, he has, he's a high profile man.
	And they wanted to be alone.
	Sounds like a plan.
	If you do that, first thing you'll notice is that is decidedly not Dennis Prager, and you'd be correct about that.
	It's my big happy head bobbing up and down inside this studio here at 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas-Fort Worth, where I am the everyday morning host, and where some days I finish up my own show and go grab a bagel or something and come back and do this one.
	And this is just such a day, and it has been the usual honor.
	And pleasure.
	Phone number is 1-8 Prager-776.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	I've had an interesting week.
	I was on vacation last week, as I mentioned.
	And I came back about a bunch of really cool interviews on the local show, including our own Governor Greg Abbott.
	And as I wrapped up with the Governor, who's been a friend of mine for a long time, it's kind of funny because two other friends of mine are running against him from the right.
	Don Huffines and Allen West.
	It's going to be wild.
	I asked him, are you just sick of being compared?
	To Ron DeSantis.
	Have you just had it with Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis?
	Because Abbott, I mean, Abbott used to be like the go-to Republican governor, right?
	And then this DeSantis guy comes along and he's like, you know, the new kid in town and the new flavor of the month.
	And I'm a big DeSantis lover myself.
	And if Trump himself does not run, and listen, maybe if he does, I don't know.
	I'm so 2022 obsessed.
	I don't even want to do about 24 yet, but I would be thrilled to have DeSantis as, let's say, the heir to the Trump revolution.
	But all the calls I take here locally, especially some of the people who may not be as thrilled with Abbott, who has 77% approval in Texas, by the way.
	The likelihood of him losing, I believe, is fairly slim.
	A lot of these folks say that DeSantis is just the cat's pajamas.
	So I asked Governor Abbott, I said, are you just tired of being referred to as like DeSantis light?
	And his answer said, we're friends, we're compadres, we hang out all the time.
	They were hanging out of the Texas border just the other day.
	But then, revealing a bit of an interesting competitiveness, he said, you know what?
	Florida ain't got no constitutional carry.
	Florida ain't got no heartbeat bill.
	Two of the most conservative things to come out of the Texas legislative session this year.
	So, anyway, speaking of Governor Abbott, he was just on Fox in the last hour with Sandra Smith talking about the notion of more, quote-unquote, guidance coming from health authorities, this time the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying, hey, kids two and older need to be wearing a mask.
	The governor is, shall we say, They keep moving the goalposts throughout the entire pandemic, and all that really does is sow confusion among the American public.
	No one knows what to believe, and as a result, people have a lack of trust and confidence in the information coming out of Washington, D.C. The one thing that we do know is this, and that is that those who receive COVID vaccine shots are far less likely and highly protected against, far less likely to get COVID and highly protected against COVID.
	And so the state of Texas is working with local communities to make sure that people have access to COVID shots and are aware of the success rate of COVID shots.
	With regard to schools in particular, listen, I've made it very clear, this is an issue of parental choice and will not be an issue of mandates, especially for those who've already received a COVID shot.
	There's absolutely no proven reason for them to be required to wear a mask for one, but for another.
	Again, there will be no mandates in Texas schools about wearing masks.
	But as always, the people who are most responsible for the health of their children are the parents, and the parents have the right to make sure that they will get to make the choice about whether or not their child will be wearing a mask in school.
	There you go, Governor Abbott.
	Alrighty, 1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Westminster, California.
	George, hey, thanks for hanging on.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing fine, Mark.
	Nice to have you.
	Mark, I'm 80 years old.
	I was a Tom Corbett space cadet growing up.
	Whoa, I love it.
	Yes, sir.
	I retired from the Air Force.
	I helped build Space Station with McDonnell Douglas when the company was McDonnell Douglas.
	Yes, sir.
	And, boy, am I cheering what happened today.
	Absolutely.
	Boy, when I think of you, let's see, if you've got about 18 years on me, it means you were roughly 30 when we put footprints on the moon.
	And what you have seen, what we've all seen, those of us of a certain age and beyond, to get to this stage of private space ventures, it's doggone exciting.
	It's like we're rediscovering the moon, rediscovering the importance of Mars, and I couldn't be more thrilled.
	And what an honor with your legacy and resume to talk to you, sir.
	Thank you, George.
	Alrighty, the references to the successful Jeff Bezos Blue Horizon flight.
	Which happened this morning right here in my own state of Texas.
	Everything happens in my state.
	Look at there.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	stick around.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Yesterday, General Milley told a congressional hearing that there is no chance, not no chance, very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party very unlikely and very little motivation for the People's Republic of China on this, the 100th anniversary Quote, there's no reason to do it militarily, and they know that.
	So I think the probability is probably low in the immediate near term future.
	Your reaction, Senator Cotton?
	Well, I think that's right.
	up through the end of the Beijing Olympics in February.
	You know, Russia didn't invade Crimea and eight months before the Sochi Olympics in 2014, they invaded it four days after those Olympics ended.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	Surprise.
	Sharon and I.
	Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You got 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hannigan!
	It is good to have you home!
	Nona!
	Nona, it's Nathan!
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
	Really, though, thanks for taking me from this position.
	I thought about you first.
	Come on, growing up, I had a huge crush on you.
	There are things that we all need to change about ourselves, but we can't blame God because He helps us change.
	stream on your phone tablet or TV look for Salem now in the App Store or go to Salem now calm trending now on the Larry older show you were talking about bill Covey and I kind of disagreed with you about you were saying about all the women I I might say maybe, what is it, 18 women?
	Oh, no.
	It's close to 50 women that have made allegations.
	50?
	50, 5-0.
	Oh, okay.
	So you believe all of them are telling the truth?
	Well, you think all 50 are lying, including Beverly Johnson, one of the first black major models in America?
	She said he also gave her drugs and tried to rape her.
	I'm a woman.
	And what I'm saying is, there in Hollywood, he's a high-profile man, and they wanted to be alone with him.
	They might not have wanted his advances, but...
	Lynn, please.
	There's no doubt that because he was famous and rich, he attracted women.
	The question is, did he drug them and have sex with them?
	And that's known as rape.
	Let me answer that.
	That's what I'm saying.
	If they drank anything that he had, they willingly drink it.
	Okay, now Lynn, hold on a second.
	The reason Bill Cosby got released is because the prior prosecutor apparently entered into some sort of deal with him and said, you're not going to be criminally prosecuted if you testify honestly in the civil trial.
	And in the civil trial, years ago, he testified and admitted that he gave that particular woman a drug in order to have sex with her.
	He admitted it under oath.
	Okay, one woman.
	How many does it take?
	Well, I'm just saying, I know I'm a woman.
	I know women.
	I'm not saying some of it didn't happen, but some of them are scorned because they thought they were going to get something out of it.
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	My.
	I'm going to bat 500 on the challenges.
	It's the theme from something.
	And William threw down legendary actor William Conrad.
	Oh, the Buck Rogers 25th century thing?
	Alright, there you go.
	Alright.
	Alright.
	Fool the guest host.
	I am always up for it.
	I am always...
	I met the Delbert McClinton challenge earlier, so alright.
	Telephone number is 1-8-Prager-776.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	We've got like a segment, a long segment, short segment left.
	So anything you want to get in now would be the time.
	And I'll be back at some point, I'm sure.
	In the meantime, follow me on Twitter, at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis.
	If you have any interest in me in book form, a couple of ways to do that.
	I talk about my state a lot.
	I hope I haven't beaten you to death with that.
	Lone Star America, How Texas Can Save the Country.
	That was like 2014, every word still true.
	And upside down.
	I should write like another, we should put this out in paperback or something.
	Upside down.
	How the left turned right into wrong, truth into lies, and good into bad.
	Wrote that as Trump was ascending in 2016. And it's just basically a handy issue guide for how to engage constructively and with good humor and goodwill with our friends on the left.
	When they say certain things that simply are not true.
	So that's upside down.
	How the left turned right into wrong, truth into lies, and good into bad.
	That's a lot of subtitle.
	So just do Mark Davis upside down on Amazon and there you be.
	So appreciate that and I hope you enjoy it.
	I have enjoyed hanging out with you.
	So let's see what else you have left for me.
	I got a couple of sort of culminating thoughts on today in history.
	As you are in Wherever you are tonight.
	Wherever you are tonight.
	A little before 8 Pacific Time.
	A little before 9 Mountain Time.
	A little before 10 Central Time.
	A little before 11 Eastern Time.
	Step out in the yard.
	And if there's a clear sky, take a look at the moon.
	Because it is at that moment that Neil Armstrong's boot went into the gray, granular soil.
	of the Sea of Tranquility.
	One of the great moments in the history of the human race.
	And I just feel incredibly fortunate to have a first-hand memory of it.
	You've got to be up there in a certain degree of years.
	I was 11, so if you're much younger than me, nah, you don't remember it.
	You might think you do.
	But if you're older than I am, well, you might have been walking around as very nearly a functional adult at the time.
	So it's just, it's a remarkable thing.
	And I have remained, I have cleaved to this generation of heroes and to this moment, this memory of this strain of American achievement.
	Because I love this country and what it can do, the things it has done, has never failed to amaze me in ways large and small.
	And that was one of the biggest.
	No doubt about it.
	Alrighty, to your calls.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	We are in Detroit.
	It's my buddy Dale.
	How you doing, sir?
	Welcome.
	Hey, Mark.
	Howdy.
	How'd you make you get this gig on a day like today?
	I know.
	I almost meant to tell Alan Estrin, you realize you've given me the Prager show on the moon landing anniversary.
	You realize Biden could resign and I might not get to it.
	Kidding.
	Kidding.
	Anyways, I want to make a quick point.
	You were talking about earlier about not being able to teach the morals of the KKK. Yes.
	But that's not the real, I mean, you went through the whole, that the real statement was.
	But they also, the point I want to make is they also mentioned eugenics.
	So does that mean you can't teach the morals of the KKK? Yes!
	What a great point!
	Dale refers to a totally false story that you'll see from Texas today, that the Texas Senate says you shouldn't be able to teach about the Klan and how bad the Klan was, when in fact what the Senate did is it got rid of a requirement to put the teaching of white supremacy into the hands of an activist clique that will refer to all kinds of conservative things and all kinds of thoroughly Objective things is white supremacy on their whim.
	And one of the things they mention is no clan, slavery, and, of course, eugenics.
	And if you go into eugenics, one of its main adherents, of course, would be Margaret Sanger, who gave us what?
	Planned Parenthood.
	So, hmm, they should be careful what they wish for, because you never can tell where that conversation may go.
	All righty, 1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Plymouth, Minnesota.
	Jeff, hi, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Well, I'm good, Mark.
	Thanks.
	You know, when you were playing Governor Abbott's remarks, I was just wishing he would say, and besides that, masks are ineffective.
	I'm just tearing my hair out with all these mask Nazis when there's so much science that says they're not effective.
	What are we even giving them any...
	Credence whatsoever.
	I think that mask effectiveness, like so many things, has been pretty wildly overstated.
	In something that is an airborne virus where droplets can be a factor, is there some benefit to my droplets not getting on you and yours on me?
	Yeah, I think self-evidently there are.
	Well, there's the six-feet distancing.
	Thank you.
	Exactly right.
	And so many other things about hygiene and hand-washing and all these other good things.
	Did we have to wrap ourselves in masks for a year and a half and never see each other's faces in full?
	I don't think that we did to the degree that we did at all.
	And the CDC, now their numbers, which...
	Like them or not, they had the number of deaths from COVID of people under the age of 18 was like 330. Yep.
	And of those, they don't know if COVID was the cause.
	Some of them had underlying things.
	As with so many people of many ages, there may have been underlying other ancillary causes.
	So true, Jeff, and thanks.
	And, you know, and against this backdrop, against this backdrop, This is why trust is just burned from so much of big medicine, big media, so many people.
	And you know what?
	You know what would have solved so much of it?
	Humility.
	The notion of sort of reining things in when you might not be totally sure of what you're talking about.
	That goes a long way.
	It goes a long way in my line of work.
	It goes a long way for you and all of us as a human being.
	But so many people just jumped out front with things that were politically motivated, culturally motivated, and they wound up with an egg on their face.
	And now they wonder why we scoff when they come up with their latest pronouncement.
	All right, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	A final word or two, maybe three, when we return.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	I had studied Marxist history, beginning with Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto from 1848.
	And when I first studied that and saw in section one of the manifesto what you can recognize as what's called the oppressor versus oppressed narrative of human history, a whole bunch of stuff that was taking place.
	In our country began to become exceptionally clear to me.
	And I began to piece together a lot of the what I'll call militant impulse that was manifesting in society as time went on.
	And there's a victimhood ideology.
	There's constantly an effort by some individuals who have an agenda to Pit groups of people against one another as victims or oppressed groups and oppressor groups.
	And we've seen very clearly over the past calendar year who the oppressor group is labeled to be and who the oppressed groups are labeled to be.
	And right now, under the auspices of diversity and inclusion training, as well as critical race theory and other narratives of American history that have been parading about throughout the country and showing up in our education system.
	All of those narratives seek to divide the American people by pitting people against one another into racial groups.
	It's the white versus the black.
	It used to be class, division by class.
	Now it's division by race, by skin color.
	We've only begun to scratch the surface.
	We're going to go deep dive on what's happening inside the U.S. military and why this man took the courageous step of writing the book Irresistible Revolution.
	Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.
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	Streaming on Salem now.
	Some lawyer hit a little girl.
	The community is left in shock as former cancer patient Sharon Blackwell was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
	Take this into evidence, sir.
	I need to call my wife.
	You've been accused of texting while driving.
	We don't make an example out of this guy.
	The public will crucify us.
	Before you take your daughter off life support, give God room to be God.
	You're not guaranteed another day, but you have today.
	Get back, I'll shoot you.
	The only ones left inside for the pastor and his two daughters.
	and if you run I'll shoot you.
	music
	A fitting coda there, Michael Stipe and the boys of REM and Man on the Moon.
	Yeah, I do believe I put him in.
	Oh, and by the way, every July 20th, I get these occasional calls.
	Thank you for not placing them.
	Yeah, Mark, I think it was a hoax.
	Great.
	Let me introduce you a concept called the secret that's too big to keep.
	The secret that's too big to keep.
	You know how many squillions of dollars are available to the one guy who comes forward from that?
	And from that covert operation says, guess what?
	It was all on a soundstage in Alabama.
	So anyway, yes, we did.
	Yes, we did.
	Boy, did we.
	And in our final moments here, and by the way, I'm glad we covered a bunch of stuff today.
	I rattled your cage of the first hour with all kinds of, not just Apollo 11 stuff from 52 years ago today, but the Jeff Bezos mission and a whole lot of other things in between.
	But I mentioned and recommended to you, That tonight, again, what did I say?
	A little before 8 Pacific time.
	It was 7.56, 8.56, 9.56, 10.56.
	Those are the American time zones there.
	With apologies to deep western Alaska and Hawaii.
	Do your own math, for God's sake.
	I can't do everything for you.
	And it was 10.56 Eastern time.
	So 9.56 here in Texas.
	And the television was horrible.
	You see some of the later missions, Apollo 16, 17, they're in color, they're bounding around, it's great.
	It was ghostly and weird, and it was upside down at first.
	I thought, good lord, we're not going to be able to watch this, it's upside down.
	And then they flipped it around, and then Neil Armstrong comes down, talks about how the foot pad of the lunar module goes into the surface one or two inches, and then says, I'm going to step off the limb now.
	And you hear them, just that delicious hiss of...
	Signals traveling 238,000 miles.
	That's one small step for a man, he says.
	But I think he kind of got caught up.
	Meaning, for me to make.
	A small step for me to make.
	For a man to make.
	One giant leap for mankind.
	My goodness, it sure was.
	Now, it's funny.
	The substantially shorter Pete Conrad commanded the Apollo 12 mission in November of 1969. And jumped off that last rung of the ladder and said, it might have been a short one for Neil, but it was a long one for me.
	So today, as I always do, I remember not just Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but I remember Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.
	And I remember Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell.
	And I remember Dave Scott and Jim Irwin.
	And I remember John Young and Charlie Duke.
	And Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt.
	And of course, Lovell, Hayes, and Swigert didn't get to go to the moon.
	We went to the moon, blew up, we brought them back.
	That may have been a triumph almost as impressive as the successful missions.
	So let's remember this amazing generation of American achievement.
	Thanks for hanging out with me today.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	And much appreciate you.
	Follow me on Twitter, at Mark Davis.
	Dennis back tomorrow, and I'm back whenever they call, right here on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Have a wonderful and blessed rest of your day.

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