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	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, the last one that I will be conducting for a week as I go to Hungary.
	And sure enough, I turn on Fox News, watch Tucker Carlson, and where is he broadcasting from?
	Hungary.
	We're both speaking at the same conference, apparently.
	How interesting.
	I wonder if I'll see him.
	And it's my theory, which I came up with when I spoke to PragerU supporters in Romania.
	Big turnouts.
	It was very touching.
	And somebody asked, you know, what's the story with Western Europe and do I think that they...
	They will return to an embracing Western civilization and something to that effect.
	And I came up with an answer that is a very important one in my understanding of the world.
	Eastern Europe will save the West if it's saved.
	It's a big if.
	And maybe because they lived under communism so long, they have a greater appreciation of liberty than people who've lived in liberty so long do.
	The ability of people to have contempt for the good that they have, to not be grateful, is really one of the uglier parts of human nature, and it is certainly true in this country.
	you That's what the left is, ungrateful.
	As I've said to you often, if you go to college, you get a BA, In ingratitude, a master's in ingratitude, and a doctorate of ingratitude.
	You know, I read a piece last night.
	You had strongly advocated it to me, a living martyr.
	The great Heather MacDonald wrote a piece about what's happening to orchestras and music, in general classical music.
	The people in charge of classical music in this country, heads of orchestras and opera houses, are destroying classical music in this country.
	There was one statistic, which I forgot to print out, but I could see if you could find it.
	It's very easy to find it in her article.
	The percentage of high schools that had orchestras In 1960, I think it was.
	Obviously, don't look up the word orchestra, because every paragraph has the word.
	But high school, I think that would do it.
	It went from over 60% to something like 17%.
	67 to 17. Oh, I was good.
	67 to 17. What did I say?
	I think I said something, almost exactly that.
	67, I don't usually remember these things well, but I'm better at numbers than I am at names.
	67% of high schools, what year was that?
	That's what I want to know.
	62 to 89. Okay, so that's between 1962 and 1989. I'm sure it's fewer today.
	67 to 17%.
	It really is...
	It's tears-inducing.
	You know what beautiful things created by humanity are given to young people today?
	None.
	Do you understand that?
	Here is the way life is supposed to work.
	Every generation is supposed to teach its next generation the best that has been done.
	Anywhere in the world.
	That's it.
	That is their task.
	Here is the best literature.
	Here is the best music.
	Here is the best art.
	Here is the best sculpture.
	Here is the greatest wisdom.
	That was what was believed.
	That's why people studied the ancients.
	Not because they were ancient, but because they have withstood the greatest test of all time.
	The word timeless was attached to them, timeless wisdom.
	Even if your child goes to a $40,000 a year high school, has your child studied the greatest artworks, the greatest music works, the greatest literature?
	Has your child studied that?
	Do you understand what the reduction of the production of these things to race is about?
	Aside from being the purest form of racism, it is the end of beauty.
	It is the end of excellence.
	The end of depth.
	It's only a destructive idea.
	All these orchestras and Opera companies saying they're racist because there are so few blacks in an orchestra, for example.
	Well, how do orchestras get members?
	From the conservatories, music conservatories.
	You know how long you have to study an instrument to be proficient enough to be in an orchestra?
	The overwhelming majority, you know, I conduct orchestras, so I've interviewed musicians often.
	When did you start?
	When I was six.
	When did you start?
	When I was five.
	It's theoretically possible to start violin at 15 and be good enough to be in an orchestra.
	It almost never happens.
	Are black kids studying violin at five?
	And is the reason they're not because of racism?
	Who's preventing black kids from studying violin?
	The answer is, it's not being given to them by most of their parents.
	That's it.
	This is not complex.
	Asian kids are getting it.
	A generation and two ago, orchestras were disproportionately composed of Jews.
	Now they're disproportionately composed of Asians.
	Why?
	Jews were not persecuted?
	But it was a very important thing.
	It's not, by the way, it shows the decline in Jewish life.
	How many kids in Jewish families are given an instrument to play at five or six or seven?
	you.
	So Asian kids, yes.
	You know who's going to save classical music?
	Just like Western civilization may be saved by Eastern Europe, Christianity may be saved by Africa, and classical music may be saved by Asia.
	The Chinese, the Koreans, And the Japanese, they produce so many spectacular musicians and so many listeners, which is the most important.
	The idea that the New York Philharmonic is racist?
	Well, it is racist.
	It's become racist.
	That's the irony, because now it thinks in terms of race.
	That the reason there are so few blacks at the New York Philharmonic is not because of racism.
	Anthony Tomasini of the New York Times has actually advocated, he's the chief music critic, that they stop blind auditions.
	Blind auditions were started in order not to be racist.
	To give you an idea how truly sick, I can't think of a more accurate word, the left is.
	They want to undo blind auditions.
	Blind auditions mean you play behind a curtain.
	They don't know your race.
	They don't know your sex.
	They don't know if they know you.
	Whether you're a friend.
	All they know is the sound of your instrument.
	And the left is against that.
	Yep.
	A lot of peace she wrote.
	She loves music like I do.
	Or if you will, I love music like she does.
	She even came out to the concert that I conducted.
	She came out to L.A. to watch me conduct the Haydn Symphony.
	I hope that's released one day.
	It was videoed.
	But I think there were union rules or something.
	I would pay.
	I think people would get a big charge out of it and it might get people interested in classical music.
	What beauty is given to children today?
	Think about it.
	What beauty?
	What excellence?
	That's our task.
	It is not our task to come up with new unless it's better.
	If there's something new that's great, I'm all for it.
	I think there was great music written in the 20th century.
	Fine.
	But it's got to be great.
	And greatness is not determined by race.
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	Steven, let's pretend like you were president for a day.
	What do we do to get this economy back in shape?
	So the first thing we do is we actually do exactly the...
	Think of everything Biden has done and do exactly the opposite.
	And I'm not kidding, Paul.
	I mean, we do exactly the opposite of what Biden is doing.
	You know, we don't need...
	$4 trillion of spending right now.
	We need to be, after a crisis is over and COVID is basically over now thanks to Trump and the vaccine.
	Usually after World War II or after the Cold War, we actually cut spending.
	We need to be aggressively cutting government spending.
	By the way, government spending, you know this, Carl.
	Where did this crazy idea come from that government spending stimulates?
	All that government spending stimulates is government.
	Let me put it very simply, because this is really important.
	I know you know this as a businessman.
	The only way that the government can give you $1,000 is to take $1,000 away from me, right?
	It's a zero-sum game.
	And all we're doing is taking money away from producers and giving it to people who don't produce.
	That's that formula for disaster.
	You know what?
	It's so funny that you mention that.
	I talk about that often on my show.
	And one of the things, it's frustrating to hear Biden talk about it, but it's even more, it's scary to me that people believe it.
	There's such a lack of understanding when it comes to economics.
	It completely baffles me.
	It completely scares me that he could say the things that he says about inflation and just completely get away with it.
	Now think about somebody like Joe Biden.
	What has Joe Biden done in his life?
	Well, he's never had a job.
	I mean, he's been in government his whole life.
	And the whole point of it was to do comedy from a Christian conservative perspective that wasn't cheesy.
	That didn't make us the joke.
	Isn't it funny that we always have to start there?
	It's really brilliant, but it's not cheesy.
	Like we're making films, but it's not cheesy.
	It's a TV program, but it's not cheesy.
	And it is an amazing thing.
	I said it before, but you guys, it's not just not cheesy.
	It's brilliant.
	And actually, in the world in which we live today, it's almost the only stuff that's happening at that level.
	I mean, there's nothing on the left that can compare to it.
	Well, I can tell you why.
	The reason there's nothing good on the left right now, and I've followed The Onion for years.
	They've been around for 20-plus years.
	They used to be very funny.
	They're less funny now, and they're less funny now for a very good reason.
	You know, the left has made all these rules about what you can and can't say.
	And they also have this idea that you can't offend anybody.
	So in enforcing these rules, they even do this on comedians.
	They try to make comedians follow rules.
	You can't say this.
	You can't say that.
	You can't joke about this.
	You can't offend this people.
	You can't punch down.
	Never punch down.
	And so they make all these rules.
	And comedians, by their nature...
	Flout rules.
	They make fun of people who make rules.
	That's what comedians are supposed to do, right?
	That's really their role in all of this.
	And so to handcuff comedians in that way, leftists are actually creating, by trying to kill comedy and strangle it, they're creating an opportunity for people on the other side of the aisle to say the things that you're not supposed to say, make the jokes you're not supposed to make.
	It's fascinating to me to see people who might previously have identified as on the left or something.
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	I'm actually transfixed before I go on.
	I'm transfixed by that question.
	What beautiful is given to children?
	Civilizations have produced such beautiful things.
	Now I think, and I'm not alone, because Asians tend to think this too, that the greatest music ever written is Western classical music.
	But there is beautiful art around the world.
	There's beautiful Muslim art.
	There's beautiful Japanese art.
	I mean, is that given to them?
	Or modern drivel?
	Like the one I'm just mesmerized by in Holland a couple of years ago.
	The New York Times had a feature review of the turd exhibit at a museum in Holland.
	That's right.
	You walk into this room and there are giant sculpted turds.
	The reviewer took it seriously.
	It might have even been meant seriously.
	There must be something in human nature that rejects greatness.
	I mean it.
	That resents it even.
	I don't know what it is.
	Do you understand why people would reject great art, great literature, great ideas?
	Is it too challenging?
	I don't have a complete answer to that.
	I'm in love with what is great.
	I don't care who it came from, let alone the race of whom it came from.
	Yes, that is the world in which we live at this time.
	Michael Flynn wrote a very powerful piece in Western Journal.
	I have said about the 2020 election that I'm agnostic.
	I've said it from the beginning.
	I don't know that Joe Biden...
	Got into the presidency through cheating.
	I don't know it.
	But I don't know that it was honest.
	Because there are too many things that happened.
	I'm not talking about boxes stuffed or that sort of thing.
	Although that may well be an issue.
	But that's not what I'm referring to.
	The results in the election all argued for a Republican win.
	Let me give you a few of them.
	And it all may be coincidental.
	It's true.
	That's why I'm agnostic.
	But it's hard to believe these are all just coincidences.
	Number one.
	In 2020, former President Donald Trump carried 18 of 19 bellwether counties.
	The term bellwether in the political arena refers to a county or state that aligns itself with the ultimate winner of an election.
	That's clear, right?
	He won 18 of 19 of them.
	The only one he lost was Clalem County, Washington State.
	Okay, that's not insignificant.
	You win 18 of 19 counties that always go to the winner, and you lose.
	Number two, bellwether states.
	In 2020, Trump carried four vital bellwether states.
	Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, and Florida.
	States represent a strong base consisting of urban, suburban, rural, union, and ethnic minority voters.
	These states have been won by the same candidate 13 times since 1896. That's amazing, isn't it?
	Wow!
	And every single time, that candidate won for the president.
	For president.
	This is the first time that somebody won those states and lost.
	That's pretty big.
	Any one of these is big.
	Three, share of primary voters.
	Share of primary votes during the primary elections is a way to judge outcomes of presidential elections.
	Since presidential primaries began in 1912, only four incumbents have lost re-election.
	All garnering 72.8% of the primary vote or less.
	Herbert Hoover lost in 1932 after earning 36% of the Republican primaries.
	Gerald Ford lost in 1976, earning 53.3%.
	Jimmy Carter, a Democratic incumbent, lost in 1980 after earning 51.1%, and George H. W. Bush lost in 1992. The most dominant Republican landslide in re-elections in this time were won by Dwight Eisenhower,
	85.9% primary share, Richard Nixon, 86.9%, and Ronald Reagan, 98.8%.
	Trump won 94% in 2020. These are all anomalies, my friends.
	An honest person says, okay, they're anomalies.
	Then you take it where you like.
	But they're worthy of note.
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	County Massachusetts outbreak.
	In all bold, no difference in mean CT values in unvaccinated and vaccinated.
	In fact, the vaccinated cases were 0.4% higher.
	That's the CDC's own data.
	That vaccinated Americans in Massachusetts, and I'm just reading from the document, in Barnstable County, that the median among vaccinated was N equals 80. I'm not sure what that value represents.
	But 21.9, unvaccinated, N equals 65, 21.5.
	I'm guessing that's how many people they were testing.
	I need to go look at what the values represent.
	It says here that risk of infection, reinfection with the Delta variant may be higher, compelled to the Alpha variant, but only if prior infection is 180 days earlier.
	It says this, that the Delta variant may cause more severe disease than the Alpha or the ancestral strains.
	So they're already going to now mandate indoor mask mandates.
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	Parents have begun demanding answers from school boards and campaigned to unseat their members.
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	So I'm reading to you this recitation, enumeration of anomalies in enumeration of anomalies in the last election.
	And I have never read explanations for them other than, well, yeah, just got all these anomalies.
	Doesn't mean anything, which is possible.
	But nevertheless, they're worthy of note.
	I gave you three that are so big.
	That any one of them would make one think, really?
	He did lose the election despite that fact?
	Number four.
	Incumbents who gain votes win.
	Incumbent vote gain is another key indicator of presidential race outcomes.
	Since 1892, and as the expansion of the United States slowed, only six presidents have lost re-election.
	All six had fewer total votes in their re-election campaigns than in their initial campaigns.
	All incumbents who gained votes won re-election.
	In 2020, Trump gained a record 11 million votes.
	For perspective, former President Barack Obama lost 4 million votes nationally in 2012 and still won re-election.
	Anomaly?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	All right.
	You all know my love of history.
	I think it's the most important thing you can study in terms of a discipline.
	If you don't know your past, you don't know your present.
	It's so obvious that it takes a college degree not to know that.
	We used to have a history hour on the show.
	I lament its sort of demise, but every so often a work of history comes out either because of its intrinsic interest or because of a long-standing, deep admiration for the author.
	In this case, it is the latter.
	Whenever he writes a book, it is worth reading.
	Arthur Herman.
	And his latest is The Viking Heart.
	How Scandinavians Conquered the World.
	Welcome back to my show, Arthur.
	Dennis, it's always a pleasure to be here with you.
	Thanks for having me back.
	Thank you.
	By the way, where are you talking from?
	Where do you live?
	We're in Washington, D.C. I'm here at the Hudson Institute today, and so that's where I'm conducting, overseeing the book launch, because the Viking Ark comes out today, as a matter of fact.
	Were you at the D.C. mayor's birthday party?
	You know, somehow I missed that invitation.
	It must have gotten stuck in my spam filter.
	We've got ourselves your typical blue city mayor, and the city is looking more and more like Venice Beach in terms of the homelessness problem.
	We had 21 shootings over the weekend in D.C. It just goes straight downhill.
	The only firewall we've got, Dennis, is the fact that this is the nation's capital, and so things can't get too far out of hand before Congress will have to step in and straighten things out.
	That's always kept D.C. from going the direction of Baltimore.
	The direction of Baltimore.
	Baltimore is sort of the guiding...
	The compass of a city that's deteriorating.
	It's very sad.
	And, you know, I did my graduate work at Johns Hopkins University.
	When I got back from my Ph.D. work in France, I lived in D.C. downtown at the Mountain Vernon Square.
	If you know, it's one of the most beautiful areas in Baltimore.
	And it's a sad story because it's a beautiful city.
	And from time to time, you know, the tide of gentrification, the tide of city improvement, of quality of life moves up, moves up.
	And then it sort of stops.
	And then it rolls back the other direction.
	And I've watched that happen with Baltimore now for, you know, what, 30 years?
	And it's a sad and tragic fate for a city that deserves a lot better than it's gotten from its leadership.
	But people keep re-electing them.
	Well, somebody does.
	And I think it's, you know, as you know, with these urban political machines, there's the combination of, you know, the self-interested who benefit from a corrupt urban government and those who depend on it for their support.
	Yeah, hold on there, Arthur Herman.
	We're going to get to him and his book when we return.
	I'm fascinated by it.
	I already ordered it.
	And it just came out today, right?
	We have it on its day.
	The Viking Heart.
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	Trynervenew.com This insane reversal.
	We've been told by Biden, by Fauci, if you're vaccinated, you don't need a mask.
	Now you do, perhaps for the rest of eternity, that this decision is based apparently on an unpublished, unpeer-reviewed publication from India about a vaccine that you can't even get here in America.
	Yeah, and it's actually even better than that because they didn't even understand the study.
	Because in the CDC slide deck...
	They refer to it as a study in healthcare professionals, when in fact it was a study in simulated persons in a laboratory.
	It was not a study in actual human beings.
	It was a simulation?
	Yes, it was a simulation.
	It was a lab simulation in India using vaccines that are not used in the United States and that failed peer review.
	So it had already been rejected for publication at the time that they relied on it in this slide deck.
	And now they are sort of, you know, scrambling for other justifications for the policy, having already rolled it out.
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	Nice to see you at our restaurants.
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	Nice to see all those cars on the freeway again.
	For over a year, America has been fighting to get back to normal.
	This Salem radio station has been fighting right alongside you.
	Now we're back.
	You're back.
	It feels so good to be back.
	And I know so many people who are resistant to the vaccine.
	It's just a fact of life.
	And there are people in all walks of life, white people, black people, Hispanic people, members of the military, the healthcare profession.
	You know how many nurses, and dare I say doctors, physicians assistants, unwilling to get the vaccine?
	It's more than a little.
	So what do we do with them?
	What do we do with those people?
	In fact, that's been one of the most unreported stories of the whole crisis of this pandemic.
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	Back with author Arthur Herman, one of the great writers, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, his new book out today, The Viking Heart, How Scandinavians Conquered the World.
	I suspect that I am typical author of most people in that we basically know nothing.
	About the Scandinavians, you know, other than the names of the countries.
	I've been to all of these many times, but the Vikings are, in our minds, basically very powerful guys, I assume women, who made a lot of raids on villages, and that's basically what people know.
	Why don't we know more?
	Well, I think part of it is there's the usual view we get about the Vikings, the Vikings of old, the Vikings who really emerged after the death of the Emperor Charlemagne in 814. I mean, They conducted raids on vulnerable monasteries in the British Isles before that.
	But that's when they really start to get rolling and realize that the frontiers of Northern Europe are totally permeable and vulnerable to attack and raids.
	Up through usually 1066, as usually the date, the Battle of Hastings.
	And I have a long description of the battle in my book.
	It's usually marking the end of the classical Viking era.
	but part of it is the way we're seeing me Who did they fight at the Battle of Hastings?
	The Battle of Hastings, first of all, the Battle of Hastings involves Two descendants of the Vikings.
	We forget about this.
	One is William the Conqueror, whose family arose from the Viking conquerors of Normandy.
	And also King Harold.
	King Harold, whose family was half Danish.
	He probably spoke Old Norse as well as he spoke Old English.
	And he had defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge up in North by New York.
	He had defeated the last great sort of Viking king, his name was also Harold, at the battle that is, should be nearly as celebrated as important as the Battle of Hastings.
	- Alright, but who did the Vikings fight at Hastings? - The English, English under Harold.
	- Alright, so the English defeated, defeated, - That's right, that's what I want to say. - And then what happens is, what happens is Harold marches south to meet the threat from William the Conqueror And he loses that fight.
	Your subtitle is...
	The subtitle of your book, The Viking Heart, is How Scandinavians Conquered the World.
	Did they conquer the world to the extent that they did in just a 200-year period?
	It's incredible what they managed to accomplish in that period of time in terms of not just the raids that they conduct.
	And it's a mistake to think of primarily as...
	As pillagers and as robbers.
	I mean, of course they had that quality to them.
	It was part of the life of Dark Age Europe, was to steal what was what others couldn't defend.
	But they're also major traders.
	As I explain in the book, they established the trading sea routes.
	They really come to be the sea routes of modern globalization from that point forward.
	As well as settling, you know, you've got to get away from Scandinavia, Dennis.
	The land is poor, the resources are meager, the population was growing far beyond the ability of the land to support the numbers of young sons and daughters who set out in their longships to go find, not just plunder, but also to find land at which to settle their families.
	And so, British Isles become major Viking settlements.
	And as our DNA research now shows, they are still, that Viking genetic legacy still lives on in those areas as well as England and other points as well.
	It's an amazing story for people who come from one of the most inhospitable and underpopulated parts of Europe to be able to accomplish all that they did in a 200-year span.
	What was their religion?
	Well, at the time of the classic Viking raids, they're pagans.
	They adhere to a Norse pantheon of gods, Odin and Thor, and all of the other names that we associate with movies now, you know, superhero movies, but also of the Viking sagas.
	And Wagner's opera, which really romanticized those myths.
	The big change, as I explain in the book, though, the big watershed change is when, beginning in the 11th century, the Vikings or the Scandinavian population shifts over to Christianity.
	It brings an enormous change in the way in which they live and in the set of values that they adhere to and stick to.
	And what we see is a shift as they join the mainstream European civilization.
	As the more, shall we say, bloodthirsty aspects of Viking life and of Scandinavian culture drop away, and they become much more a people who stand in solidarity with European civilization and Christendom as opposed to its opponents.
	But that is part of the amazing thing about the Scandinavian culture, which I really explain in the book, and which really carries over, Dennis, when the first wave of immigrants come in the 19th century to America.
	And that is that living in an inhospitable climate where the only survival is group survival builds a strong sense of solidarity and trust within the community that, of course, the Vikings needed if you're going to cross the Atlantic with 30 or 40 other people.
	You've got to make sure there are people you can trust, you can depend upon.
	And also then becomes the foundation for Scandinavian culture that lasts all the way down to today.
	With it, a premium also on hard work, the importance of hard work because you can't survive.
	That's what we associate with.
	If everyone isn't pulling their weight.
	Arthur Herman, forgive me, I've got to tell everybody the name.
	The Viking Heart, How Scandinavians Conquered the World.
	I'm going to read it.
	It is up at DennisPrager.com.
	See you next book.
	Gartha Herman.
	I mean, if you're going to censor yourself if you're going to censor yourself in deference to that power that's above you, that's telling you what you can and can't say, you know, then you are the joke.
	You're not making jokes.
	You are the joke.
	Comedians, you know, in our situation, you know, what we look at is what we're doing.
	We're often accused, we lately have been accused, of punching down.
	We're punching back.
	We're not punching down.
	This is a situation where conservatives are literally on the ropes in the culture battle.
	And they're defending themselves against this top-down attack, this top-down tyranny from progressive ideology that's coming from celebrities, it's coming from corporations, it's coming from politicians.
	We're not punching down.
	We're punching back at that stuff.
	So how big...
	It's grown dramatically, but give us some numbers so we have a sense of where you've come from in the last four years.
	Well, so in the last four years, I mean, we just reached, we've crossed the one million follower threshold on most of our social media.
	You know what?
	I believe I was the one million follower.
	Were you?
	And don't I get something?
	You get something.
	You get like a million, what is the currency in Venezuela?
	Zloty?
	No, that's another country.
	Yeah.
	It's worth almost nothing.
	I think you get 30 cents.
	But you know what?
	That's better than nothing.
	It's almost nothing, but it's not nothing.
	A million followers on Twitter, a million followers on Instagram, a million followers on Facebook.
	Oh, on all these platforms.
	Yeah, on each of them.
	But here's the thing.
	That million is worth more than the normal million.
	What I mean is, anybody who appreciates the humor of the Babylon Bee has to be sophisticated.
	Because it is brilliant humor.
	It's not broad.
	It's not stupid humor.
	It's brilliant humor.
	You have to be aware of who you're making fun of and whatever.
	The funniest thing I could go for the low-hanging dumb jokes.
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	This insane reversal.
	We've been told by Biden, by Fauci, if you're vaccinated, you don't need a mask.
	Now you do, perhaps for the rest of eternity.
	That this decision is based apparently on an unpublished, unpeer-reviewed publication from India about a vaccine that you can't even get here in America.
	Yeah, and it's actually even better than that because they didn't even understand the study because in the CDC slide deck they refer to it as a study in healthcare professionals when in fact it was a study in simulated persons in a laboratory.
	It was not a study in actual human beings.
	It was a simulation.
	Yeah.
	It was a simulation.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Let me take some calls here.
	Jeanette in San Diego, California.
	Hello.
	Hello, Jeanette.
	Yes, you were talking before, wondering why the beauty isn't being shared to kids these days.
	And I think you actually, historically, have answered your own question by talking about how it was in the 60s, Old is never as good as the new.
	Younger people are smarter than the older people, no better than older people.
	So it's the same with all the art and the music and everything else.
	It can't be better because they didn't do it.
	Very intelligent call.
	Very intelligent.
	I asked in the beginning of the hour, I asked about the war on beauty, that it's just not being transmitted to the next generation.
	The most beautiful art, the most beautiful music, the most beautiful literature.
	It just isn't.
	The excuse is race.
	But it started before the race issue.
	She's right.
	Why would we give the old?
	Don't trust anyone over 30. Old is stupid.
	Old is irrelevant.
	Old is old.
	Hmm.
	She's right.
	The celebration of youth leads to idiocy.
	I knew it when I was young.
	I had zero inclination, and I loved being young, and sure did use The benefits of youth in my life.
	But I wasn't seduced by the idiocy that if it's old, it's inferior to the new.
	I don't believe if it's old, it's superior to the new.
	However, if it's old and endured, there may be reasons for it.
	The music, I mean, just look at music in the last 50 years.
	Most music that was popular 50 years ago is unknown today.
	But some is.
	The Beatles are still listened to.
	Sinatra is still listened to, just to give popular examples.
	And now, with the race-based understanding of the arts, What do your kids get for $40,000 at an elite private school?
	We'll be back.
	That wasn't cheesy.
	That didn't make us the joke.
	Isn't it funny that we always have to start there?
	Yeah.
	It's really brilliant, but it's not cheesy.
	Like, we're making films, but it's not cheesy.
	It's a TV program, but it's not cheesy.
	Well, there's so much that we do that's cheesy.
	And it is an amazing thing.
	I said it before, but you guys, it's not just not cheesy.
	It's brilliant.
	And actually, in the world in which we live today...
	It's almost the only stuff that's happening at that level.
	I mean, there's nothing on the left that can compare to it.
	The reason there's nothing good on the left right now, and I've followed The Onion for years.
	Well, I can tell you why.
	They've been around for 20-plus years.
	They used to be very funny.
	They're less funny now, and they're less funny now for a very good reason.
	You know, the left has made all these rules about what you can and can't say.
	And they also have this idea that you can't offend anybody.
	So in enforcing these rules, they even do this on comedians.
	They try to make comedians follow rules.
	You can't say this, you can't say that, you can't joke about this, you can't offend this people group, you can't punch down, never punch down.
	And so they make all these rules, and comedians, by their nature, flout rules.
	They make fun of people who make rules.
	That's what comedians are supposed to do, right?
	That's really their role in all of this.
	And so to handcuff comedians in that way, leftists are actually created by trying to kill comedy and strangle it.
	They're creating an opportunity for people on the other side of the aisle to say the things that you're not supposed to say, make the jokes you're not supposed to make.
	It's fascinating to me to see people who might previously have identified as on the left or something pushing back against the cancel culture and the absurdity of this.
	Because they're usually the ones who are doing that with the right.
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	. .
	And he says, if you want to convince people to get a vaccine, writes Matt Taibbi.
	Pretty much the worst way to go about it is a massive blame campaign delivered by sneering blue noses who have a richly deserved credibility problem with large chunks of the population and now insists they're owed financially besides.
	Matt Taibbi says, I'm vaccinated.
	I think people should be vaccinated.
	But the latest moral mania we're witnessing...
	And make no mistake about it, he writes, the pandemic of the unvaccinated PR campaign is the latest in a ceaseless series of such manias dating back to late 2016. Lays bare everything that's abhorrent and nonsensical in modern American politics.
	I think that's such a smart reaction.
	In fact...
	Those panelists on The Five yesterday were very wisely pointing out, Greg Gutfeld said to Geraldo, if you're trying to be persuasive, buddy, it ain't working.
	It ain't working.
	800-655-MIKE. Let's just see how persuasive Geraldo Rivera was.
	Here's Chris on line one.
	Hey, Chris, did Geraldo help you make up your mind about the vaccine?
	Totally, totally.
	Now I'm really pissed off because my sister is a state worker and she doesn't want to get the vaccine, but she has to do it.
	So I was going to basically get it to help her move on, okay?
	But after hearing him, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it.
	It's time for the fearless.
	There's no time for the meek.
	This is America's moment, what's taking place in our schools, the crime in our cities, all of these things that we can see unraveling this most exceptional nation.
	It's time for the real believers and the real conservatives to step forward and be absolutely fearless in doing so.
	But I think a lot of Americans have woken up, and so we don't even know what is going on on the grassroots level because you can't keep track of everything.
	But I think people are rising up, and they're looking for folks like you and the handful of others in Congress, and they're saying we can no longer do business.
	As usual.
	But, I mean, ten years ago, you were not thinking like this.
	No, no.
	You nailed it.
	You absolutely nailed it.
	And by the way, I can give you two data points from the last 48 hours.
	I was in southwest Missouri at the Ashcroft Family Farm.
	It was a picnic outdoor.
	Horde rained right about an hour before the picnic.
	Nobody left.
	They left.
	They gave me a chance.
	They gave former Attorney General Ashcroft a chance to talk about the Bible and America and what we were all going to go do.
	These people were on fire to take back.
	And I had people come up and say, I never thought I'd run for city council, and I'm going to do it.
	And I had a couple of law enforcement who said, you know, I didn't have any interest in actually being the sheriff, but our sheriff won't enforce the rules.
	I'm going to go do that.
	No, this is different.
	I was in Iowa at an event that was very similar to that.
	People just people are engaged in their civic life in their churches and their community in ways that I have not seen.
	I've been at this now nine, 10 years from the time I first lost my mind and ran for Congress when Obama, when Obama was the president and we had to throw Nancy out the last time.
	Who to believe would have to throw her out of speakership again.
	But here we are.
	And this is a moment where people are being tested.
	They're being challenged.
	And my observation is people are rising to that challenge.
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	Universal masking is going to be mandatory for source control and prevention.
	But most amazingly in the new CDC leaked documents that we have here on our program is that they model the vaccine only being 75 to 85 percent effective.
	That's their own internal modeling.
	Is that a vaccine or is that a therapeutic?
	Have you ever heard of a vaccine only being 75% or 85% effective?
	That's their own modeling.
	That's their own assumptions.
	And it says here, given higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the dental variant.
	Basically, they're saying, look, you want to talk about people who are sowing vaccine hesitancy?
	You want to talk about people that are sowing discord and losing trust in the vaccine?
	It's the Center for Disease Control.
	Joe Biden and the federal government is now running interference.
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	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, reminding you that I will be gone for a week in Hungary giving some lectures.
	Look forward to telling you what that was like.
	What is happening in Eastern Europe is very, very important.
	I was in Romania two years ago, three years ago.
	By the way, the guys who arranged the Romanian talk are coming from Romania to Hungary.
	Wonderful bunch of people.
	They have started doing PragerU videos of their own, and also putting Romanian subtitles on PragerU videos.
	It's a very important task.
	To see the greatest civilization ever made, Western civilization, being destroyed from within, is very difficult.
	Very difficult.
	It is so easy to destroy and so very difficult to build.
	The left only builds governmental power.
	That's all it builds.
	State power.
	Which means power for themselves.
	Mind-boggling.
	I have a column out today.
	It's Tuesday.
	It's the second week in a row.
	What I did was, among other things, analyze comments by New York Times subscribers.
	If you want an interesting experiment, look at columns and the comments by New York Times subscribers, and look at columns and the comments by Wall Street Journal subscribers.
	See, you can find idiotic comments on any website.
	There are commenters right and left who are fools and make stupid comments, make obscene comments.
	That exists right and left.
	So you have to do apples and apples.
	You have to do the most prestigious left-wing and the most prestigious right-wing.
	So that would be New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
	And in order to comment, you have to be a subscriber in both cases.
	See the level of just coherence and intelligence among Wall Street Journal commenters versus New York Times commenters, and you will see a difference in the ability to actually deal with life.
	I mentioned to you last week, and it became the subject of this column, that David Brooks had a column which was titled What's ripping American families apart?
	And he said he doesn't know, and he cited a lot of data, which I found the data I found interesting.
	To his credit, he was very humble about it.
	He doesn't know.
	I think I do know, and I will offer you those thoughts later.
	But if you read the comments, you understand that There's a pathology on the left.
	There is just a pathology.
	Dolly Patterson, Silicon Valley.
	I blame Trump.
	Remember, what is the question?
	The question is, why are so many families ripping apart?
	What's ripping American families apart?
	I blame Trump.
	I'm 63 and don't ever remember such hatred, cruelty, isolation.
	Politically, between the two parties until Trump.
	Right.
	Until Trump.
	I wrote that there was a civil war in America ten years before Trump.
	Right.
	The calling of people, Six Herb.
	Remember that, folks?
	Six Herb?
	sexist intolerant xenophobic homophobic islamophobic racist bigoted that's right I see.
	It's all Trump.
	There is no group with as little self-awareness as people on the left.
	It's all Trump.
	Here's another one.
	Susan T. Brooklyn, New York.
	I got along fine with my mother until Fox News turned her into a science-denying, fact-ignoring Trump supporter.
	Fox and Trump.
	Are the main reasons for restrangement at this time.
	She doesn't talk to her mother because her mother was a Trump supporter and watched Fox News.
	Fox and Trump.
	What is a science denier, incidentally?
	Tell me what is a science...
	You know what a science denier...
	It's worth dealing with for a moment.
	When the left says science denier, what do they mean?
	They mean anyone who does not agree that climate change, aka global warming, presents an existential challenge to human life.
	Get it?
	That's science denying.
	Not a different read of the science.
	We believe you're hysterical and lying.
	And you have another agenda, and the agenda is to change society economically and in virtually every other way.
	And climate change is your vehicle.
	Get people out of cars, get people out of big homes.
	There is a pathological hatred of people enjoying their lives in that way.
	For the leftist, a family in an SUV is driving to their home.
	With a picket fence, two dogs, two car garage, is the ugliest sight.
	It is nightmarish.
	You are destroying the planet.
	But anyway, that science denying only means that we deny the hysteria of what is being said with regard to climate change.
	So that was number one.
	What else did...
	Oh, fact denying.
	What fact denying?
	We denied that for two years you lied about the Trump campaign and Russian collusion.
	What fact denying?
	They never give examples.
	Anyway, can you imagine that?
	Somebody writing into the Wall Street Journal, I no longer talk to my mother because she's a CNN watcher?
	CNN Biden supporter?
	But that's what they write here.
	Here's another one.
	Mike Ford Smith.
	I think Trump bears a lot of responsibility here.
	I'm not joking.
	Life is hard enough as it is.
	When you add four years of his nastiness on top of everything else, it is no wonder people feel worse.
	No wonder people are more divided and find solace with people who are politically like-minded.
	I can't imagine having a parent who thinks the election was rigged.
	Or the coronavirus is fake.
	Does anybody...
	Do you know anyone who said the coronavirus is fake?
	I'm serious.
	Why did they make that up?
	They do this all the time.
	They make up things that people on the right say.
	There probably is somebody who said it.
	There's people who say that the earth is flat.
	To say that...
	As I did from the beginning, that the lockdown of the world was the greatest mistake in history is not the same as saying that COVID is fake.
	Who denied, by the way, who denied the obvious that it was made in a Chinese lab and shut down anybody who said it was a Chinese lab until they said, oh, it wasn't done in a Chinese lab with Fauci money?
	I can guarantee if my parents were that way, I'd have nothing to do with them.
	Wow.
	Trump and Fox News create an entire generation of crazy people who nobody can relate to.
	Well, that's what we think about them.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Except our evidence exists and theirs doesn't.
	What's crazy about us?
	Hmm.
	There's another one.
	Having nothing to do with Trump.
	On why families are suffering so much alienation within them.
	Dart Armstrong, New York City.
	A silent pulling apart factor here is income and wealth inequality.
	Do you understand that?
	Wealth inequality means you don't talk to your mother or father?
	What does it even mean?
	This shows you how deep Marxist roots are, that there's an economic explanation for everything.
	Freud had a sexual explanation for everything, and Marx had an economic explanation for everything.
	By the way, there's a new explanation for everything.
	You know what I'm referring to?
	This is the third, this explains everything, evolution.
	What's the evolutionary explanation for?
	And then fill in the word.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	Nancy Pelosi says masks are back.
	You're going to be arrested if you don't wear them in Congress.
	When is this going to end, Phil?
	You know, it's...
	I don't know what it's going to end.
	We've got the masks are mandatory again in Washington, D.C. as of 5 a.m.
	tomorrow morning.
	Which is very interesting because it's been 13 days since the District of Columbia last reported a death with COVID. We've had 11 homicides in the last 13 days, but zero deaths with COVID. Maybe they should ban homicides, Phil.
	Yeah, right, well, or at least maybe have a little bit more vigorous enforcement of the existing laws against them.
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	Turning now on the Charlie Kirk show.
	Well, according to the CDC's own documents right here.
	Barnes stable or is it Barnes table?
	Whatever.
	County, Massachusetts.
	Outbreak.
	In all bold.
	No difference.
	In mean CT values in unvaccinated and vaccinated cases.
	In fact, the vaccinated cases were 0.4% higher.
	That's the CDC's own data.
	That vaccinated Americans in Massachusetts, I'm just reading from the document, in Barnstable County, that the median among vaccinated, Was N equals 80?
	I'm not sure what that value represents.
	But 21.9, unvaccinated, N equals 65, 21.5.
	I'm guessing that's how many people they were testing.
	I need to go look at what the values represent.
	It says here that risk of infection, reinfection with the Delta variant may be higher, compelled to the Alpha variant.
	But only if prior infection is 180 days earlier.
	It says this, that the Delta variant may cause more severe disease than the Alpha or the ancestral strain.
	The Delta variant may cause more severe disease than the Alpha or the other.
	And that's who I want to remind you about.
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	All right, y'all.
	Well...
	New York Magazine reports.
	The UK's Delta surge is collapsing.
	Well, ours.
	This is from a hysteric who wrote it.
	The whole thing's been hysteria.
	It's...
	One day it will come out.
	I read to you the report from Jerusalem Post about a blind...
	What is it called?
	Blind what trial?
	When scientists do blind...
	Double blind.
	I think that's one.
	Double blind.
	Jerusalem Post reported yesterday, I reported it to you, showing that ivermectin works.
	I've been on ivermectin for almost the entire time.
	I've been surrounded by strangers, hugging strangers the entire time.
	In my house were two people who had COVID. I practiced no social distancing.
	I didn't get anything from them.
	I wish I had, actually.
	I wanted natural immunity.
	The corruption of the science is a daily subject, almost daily subject.
	Yesterday I read to you, the American Medical Association has come out and said that birth certificates should not list sex.
	Because there's no such thing as male or female.
	This is the American Medical Association.
	The left ruins everything it touches.
	Medicine is the latest.
	There's nothing left.
	The sciences are the last.
	There's literally nothing left to destroy.
	One has to live a countercultural life to have a good life at this time.
	It applies to every arena of life.
	I spoke to you last hour about what is happening to music.
	Yeah, orchestras are racist because there are so few black violinists, violists, cellists, oboists, trombonists.
	Is there one person listening who thinks?
	That the New York Philharmonic or the Chicago Symphony would not hire a fully competent black musician?
	Oh, she's black.
	We're not going to put her in the viola section.
	We don't want blacks in the viola section.
	Do you actually think that that is even possible?
	You don't think everybody would go crazy if the word got out that there was a great female black violist?
	How many orchestras would vie to hire her?
	Or him.
	Depending on their preferred pronoun.
	You know that there is a transgender woman competing in weightlifting at the Olympics?
	In other words, a biological man will be lifting weights against biological women.
	You know what drives me crazy?
	Well, a lot does.
	But in this regard is when this person is called courageous.
	Why is it courageous to be a biological man and compete against women?
	I'm just curious.
	What courage does that take?
	Every word has been raped, and I use that word advisedly.
	We had this, you know, what is her name, Biles, correct?
	The fantastic Simone Biles, this great gymnast.
	And she bowed out.
	The whole pressure was on her because she's considered the greatest gymnast in the world at this time.
	So she bowed out because she said it was the strain and mental or psychological issues.
	And I had no comment on it.
	I have nothing to say about it.
	I have something to say about the commenters.
	Every single one and every single newspaper felt it important to write a column on it.
	Maybe it was.
	And every single one said it was heroic.
	So, it's not heroic.
	It was very likely the right decision, but it wasn't heroic.
	So, we use courage when it isn't an issue of courage.
	We use hero when it's not an issue of heroism.
	Language doesn't mean anything anymore.
	Everything the left touches, it ruins, and that includes language.
	It's racist to think that the ideal is to be colorblind, right?
	That's racist.
	The University of California has announced that.
	It's truly an assault on language.
	Up is down and down is up.
	Read my column today about the comments in the New York Times.
	I don't know why the American family is having such troubles and so much alienation.
	He brought a study from 2015, that is, David Brooks at the New York Times cited a study from 2015 that 27% of families had estrangement.
	It dropped more than a quarter of families.
	Somebody is estranged from somebody, meaning they don't talk to one another.
	That was 2015. That was before Donald Trump was elected, when a lot of people decided not to talk to parents who voted for Donald Trump.
	A first in American history.
	So today, I would assume it's about 33%, one out of three families.
	I wonder how much alienation there is among, I'd love to do, like everything else I'd like to do, and they never do it, which is very dishonest intellectually.
	How many actively religious kids don't talk to their parents versus secular kids?
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	And the whole point of it was to do comedy from a Christian conservative perspective that That didn't make us the joke.
	Isn't it funny that we always have to start there?
	It's really brilliant, but it's not cheesy.
	Like we're making films, but it's not cheesy.
	It's a TV program, but it's not cheesy.
	And it is an amazing thing.
	I said it before, but you guys, it's not just not cheesy.
	It's brilliant.
	And actually, in the world in which we live today, it's almost the only stuff that's happening at that level.
	I mean, there's nothing on the left that can compare to it.
	The reason there's nothing good on the left right now, and I've followed The Onion for years.
	Well, I can tell you why.
	They've been around for 20-plus years.
	They used to be very funny.
	They're less funny now, and they're less funny now for a very good reason.
	You know, the left has made all these rules about what you can and can't say.
	And they also have this idea that you can't offend anybody.
	So in enforcing these rules, they even do this on comedians.
	They try to make comedians follow rules.
	You can't say this, you can't say that, you can't joke about this, you can't offend this people group, you can't punch down, never punch down.
	And so they make all these rules, and comedians, by their nature...
	Flout rules.
	They make fun of people who make rules.
	That's what comedians are supposed to do, right?
	That's really their role in all of this.
	And so to handcuff comedians in that way, leftists are actually creating, by trying to kill comedy and strangle it, they're creating an opportunity for people on the other side of the aisle to say the things that you're not supposed to say, make the jokes you're not supposed to make.
	It's fascinating to me to see people who might previously have identified as on the left as something.
	pushing back against the cancel culture and the absurdity of this because they usually the ones who were who were doing that with with the right keep up with what's trending subscribe today at rumble.com trending now on the mike gelliger show and it's a he says
	if you want to convince people to get a vaccine writes matt taibbi pretty much the worst way to go about it is a massive blame campaign delivered by sneering blue noses who have a richly deserved credibility problem with large chunks of the population and now insist they're owed financially besides Thank you.
	Matt Taibbi says, I'm vaccinated.
	I think people should be vaccinated.
	But the latest...
	Moral mania we're witnessing.
	And make no mistake about it, he writes, the pandemic of the unvaccinated PR campaign is the latest in a ceaseless series of such manias dating back to late 2016. Lays bare everything that's abhorrent and nonsensical in modern American politics.
	I think that's such a smart...
	In fact, those panelists on The Five yesterday were very wisely pointing out, Greg Gutfeld said to Geraldo, if you're trying to be persuasive, buddy, it ain't working.
	It ain't working.
	800-655-MIKE. Let's just see how persuasive Geraldo Rivera was.
	Here's Chris on line one.
	Hey, Chris, did Geraldo...
	Help you make up your mind about the vaccine?
	Totally.
	Totally.
	Now, I'm really pissed off because my sister is a state worker, and she doesn't want to get the vaccine, but she has to do it.
	So I was going to basically get it to help her move on, okay?
	But after hearing him, I'm not going to do it.
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	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	This is Fundraising Month for PragerU.
	It was chosen arbitrarily because my birthday is August 2nd, which was yesterday.
	So we just decided to make August Fundraising Month.
	And each day I speak to usually a PragerForce member.
	Now I have someone a drop older than PragerForce.
	He's 26. And he's a PragerU young professional.
	He is a Spanish teacher in Louisiana.
	Jonathan, is it Kopel?
	Yes, sir.
	It is Kopel.
	It's a pleasure to meet you, Jonathan.
	So tell me...
	Yeah, man.
	Happy birthday.
	Oh, thank you so much.
	It was a very lovely day.
	I got a lot of wishes.
	I spend much of the day responding to wishes.
	Aw.
	So, it's quite all right.
	That should be my greatest problem in life.
	So tell me, what does it mean?
	I feel funny asking this, given that I'm Prager of PragerU, but nevertheless, it's so big, I don't know everything it does.
	Is there a young professional group?
	So, when you sign up with PragerForce, you instantly get in an email list and connected with however many thousands of people that are connected.
	Sometimes they deal with them.
	Like one of the conferences I attended in West Palm Beach, there was a pizza party event.
	And so what Prager did was they invited all the Prager force and, I guess, Prager young professionals, anybody really that was involved with the organization, to that event.
	Recently I saw there was an outing in California at the beach.
	We don't really get to go to the beach much in Louisiana, but apparently you guys do, and it looks really nice.
	So there is some sort of social aspect to it.
	In different areas, and I think it's really cool.
	I think it's great.
	I want you folks to meet each other.
	I assume you're not married?
	I'm a single, eligible bachelor.
	I have an MBA, and yes, I'm not married.
	You know I love this subject, because I want to get everybody married.
	Do you go on social media, like Hinge or Match.com?
	No, I don't do that.
	Why?
	Well, people on social media are already fake.
	It's not the person you think they are most of the time.
	That's just my thoughts.
	Jonathan, I have a suggestion.
	Just say you're affiliated with PragerU and you'll only get genuine people.
	You will get people who genuinely hate you and people who genuinely want to meet you.
	Oh, that's good stuff.
	Yes, it is good stuff.
	It absolutely works.
	The best is, I tell people who get selfies with me when we're single, put this on your page.
	It's like a cross to Dracula.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	So how did you get to PragerU?
	Actually, it was at the pizza event I'm referencing in West Palm Beach.
	There was a Turning Point USA conference.
	PragerU was having a pizza party, and basically if you signed up, you could go and you could learn more about PragerU.
	I didn't know much about your organization until that night.
	I had seen you in a few videos, and that was really it.
	I just knew PragerU made some cool videos, and then the color orange.
	You know, everything's like orange.
	So I got to meet you.
	you, I shook your hand, and you might not remember that, but you did.
	And we took a picture with Will Witt, and I got to hear about what is progress human.
	And I signed up with Prager for us, Rina, and the team, and the rest is history.
	I just showed up, because you guys, you know, made it like an open invitation and said there would be free pizza.
	That's the first time I got that as an answer.
	Usually, oh, my parents paid me to watch a PragerU video, or oh no, a friend told me, or whatever.
	But it was pizza.
	Free pizza that got you.
	You know, I'm a very frugal guy, so I saw an opportunity.
	I said, PragerU looks great.
	I don't mind.
	I have friends that are going.
	I think it would be a wonderful free dinner and, you know, learn about PragerU.
	But I'm not going to say that, you know, the pizza had a lot to do with it.
	I was interested in Prager, but that pizza, man.
	I know.
	That's wonderful.
	So, have you been watching videos since?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, I've actually watched and seen a whole bunch.
	And you know what I like about what you guys make?
	Your content is very specific.
	It's not just vague talking points.
	You go in-depth onto topics.
	Like recently there was a video about Che Guevara in relation to Cuba and the Cuban Revolution and what, you know, Che Guevara, who he was, what he did, and it really went into it.
	A lot of people just say Che Guevara bad.
	You know, communism bad.
	You guys really go in-depth.
	Yes, it's a fantastic video.
	Yeah.
	Well, you are a pleasure, my friend.
	I look forward to meeting you again, pizza or no pizza.
	And I ask you all to help PragerU.
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	Not one mistake.
	It's close to 50%.
	About 50%.
	So if New York does this, this is from the New York Times.
	New York City will become the first U.S. city to require proof of at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
	For a variety of activities for workers and customers, indoor dining, gyms, and performances to put pressure on people to get vaccinated, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday morning.
	If you want to participate in our society fully, you've got to get vaccinated.
	It's time.
	It's going to be a requirement.
	Is that legal?
	I just don't understand exactly.
	The only way to patronize these establishments is if you're vaccinated at least one dose.
	About 66% of the adults in the city are fully vaccinated.
	So, let's see.
	So, that means, well, that's fully vaccinated.
	So, you figure 75% have...
	Right, 56% of the American population, but in New York, so 60% are fully, 66%.
	So I assume, let's say 70% have at least one dose.
	So that means 30% of New Yorkers will not be allowed into a restaurant.
	Will they be allowed into a subway car?
	Certainly, you're a lot closer to people in a subway car than in a restaurant.
	Americans accept this very...
	Remember, in the name of safety, every other civil right is now trampled on.
	That is all you have to say is safety.
	There is zero reason to believe it matters.
	My friends, is it not...
	I don't understand why people...
	Just don't ask the question, if the vaccine works, what the hell do I care if the guy next to me is vaccinated?
	Huh?
	Well, it doesn't always work.
	Okay, it doesn't always work.
	So if you don't have a comorbidity, and if you have a comorbidity, it's a problem in any event.
	Because a lot of vaccinated people are getting it.
	So what does that say?
	It's all hokum.
	Just hokum.
	But the acceptance of people, that alone would chase me out of New York City.
	I would not live in a city where I could not go to a restaurant.
	And by the way, this will apply, obviously, to children.
	I mean, by children, I mean over 12 or over 16. I don't know what the age is now.
	Is it 12?
	So a 13-year-old who's not vaccinated?
	About whom we have no idea whether or not this vaccine will have any ramifications in his or her life later?
	When children die more of flu than of COVID? Die more of car accidents than of COVID? And we're going to tell them you can't step into a restaurant?
	I would get the hell out of New York City.
	The question is, will this sickness spread?
	This would be enough, I have to say, for me to leave California.
	If that, I'm asked all the time why I stay here, and of course the answer is people.
	And I will admit, on selfish grounds, the climate doesn't hurt.
	But people is the primary reason.
	I have a whole life here, a whole world here.
	And it's a rich world, and it's a happy world.
	It's a religious world.
	It's a secular world.
	But if this happened, that would mean that I could no longer live here.
	Even the amazing thing is to think about it.
	Children will have to be vaccinated in New York to enter a restaurant.
	People who had COVID have the antibodies from COVID but didn't take the vaccine, they will not be allowed into a restaurant.
	And this is all science-based?
	To give kids an experimental vaccine is science-based?
	To demand that people who had COVID get a vaccine is science-based?
	It's a rape of the term science, but it's already been raped.
	It doesn't mean anything any longer.
	It means nothing when I hear I follow science.
	It's like saying I believe in God.
	What God do you believe in?
	What science do you believe in?
	Do you believe in malleable science?
	Anybody who says they believe in science, ask them, do you believe there are two sexes?
	Okay?
	Then you'll know if they believe in science or not.
	Just as a very quick question.
	Or is it an infinitely malleable spectrum?
	Is there a spectrum among other primates?
	Among other mammals?
	Only among humans there's a spectrum.
	There's a non-binary spectrum in sex identification, isn't there?
	Isn't that strange?
	I thought we were animals.
	New York City, Bill de Blasio.
	Oh my God.
	Key to New York Pass.
	The strategy of requiring proof of vaccination for workers and customers at indoor dining, gyms, entertainment, and the performances including Broadway.
	Indoor movies and concerts will also require people to show proof of vaccination to enter.
	By the way, for how long will they keep this on?
	Isn't that an interesting question?
	What if it goes away in six months?
	It went away in one month in Britain.
	So what if it goes away?
	What's going to happen?
	Here's my prediction.
	The past won't go away.
	Once they get control of your life on the left, they never give it back.
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	And I know so many people who are resistant to the vaccine.
	It's just a fact of life.
	And there are people in all walks of life.
	White people, Black people, Hispanic people, members of the military, the healthcare profession.
	You know how many nurses and, dare I say, doctors?
	Physicians assistants?
	Unwilling to get the vaccine?
	It's more than a little.
	So what do we do with them?
	What do we do with those people?
	In fact, that's been one of the most unreported stories of the whole crisis of this pandemic.
	healthcare workers who are unvaccinated.
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	.
	you Thank you.
	Steven, let's pretend like you were president for a day.
	What do we do to get this economy back in shape?
	So the first thing we do is we actually think of everything Biden has done and do exactly the opposite.
	And I'm not kidding, Carl.
	I mean, we do exactly the opposite of what Biden is doing.
	You know, we don't need $4 trillion of spending right now.
	We need to be, after a crisis is over, and COVID is basically over now, thanks to Trump and the vaccine, usually after, like, World War II or after the Cold War, we actually cut spending.
	We need to be aggressively cutting government spending.
	By the way, government spending, you know this, Carl.
	Where did this crazy idea come from that government spending stimulates?
	All the government spending stimulates is government.
	It doesn't.
	The only way, let me put it very simply, because this is really important.
	I know you know this is a businessman.
	The only way that the government can give you $1,000 is to take $1,000 away from me, right?
	It's not, it's a zero-sum game.
	And all we're doing is taking money away from producers and giving it to people who don't produce.
	That's that formula for disaster.
	You know what?
	It's so funny that you mention that.
	I talk about that often on my show.
	And one of the things it's frustrating to hear Biden talk about it, but it's even more.
	It's scary to me that people believe it, that there's such a lack of understanding when it comes to economics.
	It completely baffles me.
	It completely scares me that he could say the things that he says about inflation and just completely get away with it.
	I think about somebody like Joe Biden.
	What has Joe Biden done in his life?
	Well, he's never had a job.
	He's been in government his whole life.
	He's been in government his whole life.
	He's been in government his whole life.
	An interesting question, wasn't it?
	At what point will they not require vaccine passports?
	I predict that there may not be such a time.
	The left, I've never known them to relinquish control that they have had.
	Everything starts out with noble intentions, at least so people think.
	Income tax started at 1%.
	They had to pass an amendment to the Constitution to allow an income tax.
	1%.
	The person you're listening to now pays half his income to the government, either of California or the United States.
	If you would have told somebody, what year was it, 1903?
	What year was it, the income tax?
	Anyways, around then.
	You told somebody, you know, you start this, I'm telling you, it's going to go to 50% or more.
	They'd have thought you're out of your mind.
	Civil rights legislation, what it has spread to, you must allow a biological male to compete to join a female team.
	You think anybody passing that in the 1960s would have ever imagined that this is what it becomes?
	Remember, just, what was the word?
	Not turn the tide.
	Slow the spread.
	What was the word for the...
	There was a term used in the beginning with regard to the virus.
	And...
	No, I don't think it would slow the curve.
	Flatten the curve.
	Flatten the curve.
	So that was done.
	Nothing changed.
	Two weeks.
	Two weeks.
	See, it's now a year and a half later.
	It's more than a year and a half.
	Yeah, it's exactly a year and a half.
	Right February it started.
	Or March.
	It started March.
	A year and a half soon.
	When you relinquish rights, it never stops.
	When you start having government programs, they never stop growing.
	Never.
	Those are big lessons.
	So, it's a good reason to help trigger you now.
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	. . .
	And Betty wanted to fit better.
	So one of the ways you could do it, if you would like to, is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here, where you could get leakage in, is much better contained.
	Are you a double masker, Dr. Fauci?
	Look like you are.
	Now, Alicia, I think, probably has a good reason to reject her doctor's explanation that that's the guy that we should all listen to.
	Matt Taibbi, in this report or his column that I saw at New York Post, said he writes, Politifact, which now basically exists to deflect criticism from the Biden administration, rated false the claim that Biden and Harris actually had reservations about the safety of the vaccines.
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
	Matt Taibbi says Politifact's excuse.
	Is that the then candidates, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, were raising questions not about the vaccines themselves, but about then-President Donald Trump's rollout of the vaccines.
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
	Uh-huh.
	PolitiFact said it's false that Kamala Harris had reservations about the vaccines.
	Matt Taibbi says, wait a minute.
	PolitiFact says it's false.
	What the hell does that mean?
	That it's okay to have reservations, not just about the White House, but about the CDC, FDA, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and every other institution involved with the vaccine effort if you don't like or trust the president?
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
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	I mean, if you're going to censor yourself in deference to that power that's above you, that's telling you what you can and can't say, you know, then you are the joke.
	You're not making jokes.
	You are the joke.
	Comedians, you know, in our situation, you know, what we look at is what we're doing.
	We're often accused, we're lately have been accused of punching down.
	We're punching back.
	We're not punching down.
	This is a situation where conservatives are literally on the ropes in the culture battle.
	Yeah.
	And they're defending themselves against this top-down attack, this top-down tyranny from progressive ideology that's coming from celebrities, it's coming from corporations, it's coming from politicians.
	We're not punching down.
	We're punching back at that stuff.
	So how big...
	It's grown dramatically.
	Give us some numbers so we have a sense of...
	Where you've come from in the last four years.
	Well, so in the last four years, I mean, we just reached, we crossed the one million follower threshold on most of our social media.
	You know what?
	I believe I was the one million follower.
	Were you?
	And don't I get something?
	You get something.
	You get like a million, what is the currency in Venezuela?
	Zloty?
	No, that's another country.
	Yeah, it's worth almost nothing.
	I think you get 30 cents.
	But you know what?
	That's better than nothing.
	It's almost nothing, but it's not nothing.
	A million followers on Twitter, a million followers on Instagram, a million followers on Facebook.
	Oh, on all these platforms.
	Yeah, on each of them.
	But here's the thing.
	That million is worth more than the normal million.
	What I mean is, anybody who appreciates the humor of the Babylon Bee has to be sophisticated.
	Because it is brilliant humor.
	It's not broad.
	It's not stupid humor.
	It's brilliant humor.
	You have to be aware of...
	Who you're making fun of and whatever.
	The funniest thing is sometimes we go for the low-hanging dumb jokes.
	This insane reversal.
	We've been told by Biden, by Fauci, if you're vaccinated, you don't need a mask.
	Now you do, perhaps for the rest of eternity.
	That this decision is based, apparently, on an unpublished, unpeer-reviewed publication from India about a vaccine that you can't even get here in America.
	Yeah, and it's actually even better than that because they didn't even understand the study.
	Because in the CDC slide deck, they refer to it as a study in healthcare professionals when in fact it was a study in simulated persons in a laboratory.
	It was not a study in actual human beings.
	It was a simulation?
	Yes, it was a simulation.
	It was a lab simulation in India using vaccines that are not used in the United States.
	And that failed peer review.
	So it had already been rejected for publication at the time that they relied on it in this slide deck.
	And now they are sort of, you know, scrambling for other justifications for the policy, having already rolled it out.
	And just an hour or two ago, they rushed out a new study out of Provincetown, Massachusetts, that I suppose is now the new justification for it, the India study.
	Having been discredited.
	Do you have, because you've got to follow this guy at Kerpen, K-E-R-P-E-N on Twitter.
	You are one of the most ardent, conscientious, and just trenchant followers of the truth on this issue.
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	Here at Salem Media Group, we're delighted to welcome you back to your old habits and haunts.
	Nice to see you at our restaurants.
	We've been waiting a long time for you to return.
	Nice to see you at the salon, the post office, the flower shop.
	Nice to see you back in the office.
	Nice to see all those cars on the freeway again.
	For over a year, America has been fighting to get back to normal.
	This Salem radio station has been fighting right alongside you.
	Now we're back.
	You're back.
	It feels so good to be back.
	And I know so many people who are resistant to the vaccine.
	It's just a fact of life.
	And there are people in all walks of life, white people, black people, Hispanic people, members of the military, the healthcare profession.
	You know how many nurses, and dare I say doctors, physicians assistants, unwilling to get the vaccine?
	It's more than a little.
	So what do we do with them?
	What do we do with those people?
	In fact, that's been one of the most unreported stories of the whole crisis of this pandemic.
	healthcare workers who are unvaccinated.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The Ultimate Issues Hour is the third hour of my show.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Each Tuesday, today's is a micro-issue.
	Usually the Ultimate Issues are macro-issues.
	It's a micro-issue.
	And it is based on the column that I cited to you, but I am going to answer it, which I haven't.
	I cited it only to bring to you what?
	New York Times subscribers wrote in their comments on the article, What's Ripping American Families Apart?
	So what I'm going to do is I am going to offer you my answers rather than the beyond belief answers of New York Times subscribers commenting.
	Watts ripping families apart.
	Interestingly, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, who wrote this column, said, I personally have no explanation.
	Which is very honest and admirable that he would acknowledge that.
	I do have explanations.
	They may be wrong, but I have explanations.
	So, in a nutshell, in no order of importance, here goes.
	Narcissism.
	Many Americans were raised to believe they have innumerable rights, but few obligations.
	There is a profoundly narcissistic streak in the country, and it is an example in the cases that I have known.
	I'm sure not every case at all.
	Everything is...
	A generalization, and generalizations always allow for exceptions.
	But if you cannot speak in generalized form, then you cannot understand life.
	If you see no patterns, you're blind.
	So, narcissism, I am the center of the world.
	I owe my parents nothing.
	That's a factor.
	It is not always I'm giving you a number of factors.
	Not every one of the factors.
	is equal in every adult child that decides never to speak to a parent.
	But narcissism explains many.
	I am angry at my parent.
	I will not speak to them.
	So I don't owe them anything.
	That is, the notion that you owe drives people, especially on the left, crazy.
	I'll give you an example.
	Wherein I wrote at least ten years ago a two-part column, you can find it on the internet, when a woman is not in the mood.
	It was about sex.
	And my argument was unbelievably simple and, in my opinion, non-controversial.
	To the left, I will tell you in a moment how they reacted.
	It's very, very revealing.
	I said that if you love your husband, he's a good man, he treats you well, and he loves you, don't allow mood to be the only thing that determines whether you are intimate with him on any given day.
	Right?
	And I said that each spouse has obligations to the other.
	And that, yes, Sex is an obligation in marriage.
	That's correct.
	And they went crazy.
	Sex is not an obligation.
	You should only do it when you feel it.
	That was an unbelievably common reaction of these secular people on the left.
	I say secular because Judaism and Christianity both posit that there are sexual obligations in marriage.
	But for the secular left, I owe you nothing.
	If I don't feel like it, I don't do it.
	I don't owe my spouse.
	I don't owe my parents.
	Narcissism is so prevailing, is so prevalent, that it's actually almost a doctrine.
	So that's reason number one.
	I don't owe my parents a damn thing.
	Or remember the one woman who wrote?
	I wish...
	What is it?
	I wish I had a different mother or something.
	Not even that strong.
	I'll get the words for you.
	But some odd thing that she didn't...
	Oh, yes.
	I didn't have the mother I wish I had.
	That's right.
	right.
	That's what she wrote.
	It means nothing.
	You didn't have the mother you wish you had?
	It's such a meaningless statement.
	Unless you say it as a statement of, look at my own nature, how silly it is.
	Which is fine.
	We all have silly natures.
	I didn't have the mother I wish I had.
	What exactly do you have that you wish you had, in general?
	Radical secularism.
	That's my second explanation.
	The belief that one is commanded to honor your father and mother has died, along with other core Judeo-Christian values.
	That's why I am particularly amazed if a child in a religious home stops talking to a parent.
	No, we're not talking about sexual or physical abuse.
	So, let's put that aside.
	Otherwise, it's a secular phenomenon, what is happening now.
	Family estrangement in a secular society is probably much greater.
	I'm not talking about Europe.
	Europe's more traditional.
	Ironically, Europe is a more traditional society.
	America's values were so rooted in religion that the collapse of religion has a greater impact in America than it does in Europe.
	The collapse of religion in Europe gave us communism, fascism, and Nazism, and then sort of petered out.
	And now we're going through the turmoil of the collapse of religion.
	And we're getting chaos.
	We may get communism, but we're getting chaos right now.
	Anyway, secularism is a big factor.
	In my rational Bible, my commentary on the Bible, Genesis and Exodus are out, three more volumes coming.
	In it, I... I explain how honor your father and mother played such a big role in my life in my earlier years when I had my own issues with my parents, as most people do at some point, especially when they're younger.
	But it never manifested itself in the way I acted toward them, literally and totally, because I believed God commanded me to honor my father and mother.
	It has a very big impact if you believe in it.
	And it has a very big impact if you don't.
	Reason number three that I give.
	It's, by the way, all of these are in my column today.
	Tuesday is my column day.
	Up at DennisPrager.com, TownHall.com.
	Naivete about life.
	Many Americans, especially among the religion-free and the well-educated, think life is supposed to be pain-free.
	And when it isn't, it is someone else's fault.
	Usually parents or white people.
	That's right.
	If you expect life to be pain-free, and it turns out not to be, then whom do you blame?
	You know, the mature blame life.
	This is the way it is.
	Life is tough.
	But the naive and the immature blame their parents and now blame whites.
	It's a catastrophe for non-whites.
	Catastrophe.
	To blame their problems on whites.
	It's a catastrophe.
	It's like blaming your lung cancer on cauliflower when you've smoked two packs a day.
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	Well, according to the CDC's own documents, right here, Barnes Stable, or is it Barnes Stable?
	Whatever.
	County Massachusetts outbreak.
	In all bold, no difference in mean CT values in unvaccinated and vaccinated cases.
	In fact, the vaccinated cases...
	We're 0.4% higher.
	That's the CDC's own data.
	That vaccinated Americans in Massachusetts, and this is, I'm just reading from the document, in Barnstable County, that the median among vaccinated was N equals 80. I'm not sure what that value represents, but 21.9, unvaccinated N equals 65, 21.5.
	I'm guessing that's how many people they were testing.
	Need to go look at what the values represent.
	It says here that risk of infection, reinfection with the Delta variant may be higher, compelled to the Alpha variant, but only if prior infection is 180 days earlier.
	It says this, that the Delta variant may cause more severe disease than the Alpha or the ancestral strains.
	So they're already going to now mandate indoor mask mandates.
	And in fact, certain sources that cover the White House very well, including Jack Pasebic, who has been wrong about almost nothing with his sources, say that lockdowns are coming to blue states in the next couple of weeks.
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	Democrats have doubled down on radical indoctrination in schools with their embrace of critical race theory.
	School boards and teachers unions have rushed to implement CRT into their curricula, in some cases while avoiding parental notification.
	Even as these education leaders refused to reopen schools to children, they now plan to use their near monopoly on education to push this highly controversial ideology.
	It's already begun to backfire.
	Parents have begun demanding answers from school boards and campaigned to unseat their members.
	Political reports that even Democratic voters are repelled by these plans.
	And that's...
	Before I go on, I do want to remind you about Job Creators I do want to remind you about Job Creators Network,
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	Jobcreatorsnetwork.com This is the Ultimate Issues Hour and my column and my topic are the same today.
	What is tearing the American family apart?
	Why is there so many families?
	For example, a child does not speak to parents.
	So I gave my reasons, then I'm going to ask you to call in with yours or react to mine.
	Narcissism, radical secularism.
	The third one is naivete about life.
	People think that life is supposed to be pain-free.
	And if it isn't, they blame parents, or if they're not white, If they're not white male, they blame white males.
	How many women blame men for their...
	I mean, in some cases it's true.
	Some men have ruined their lives.
	In some cases, women have ruined the men's lives.
	But in general, in life, there's a lot of pain because we haven't handled it right or because life delivers pain.
	Not because...
	Of parents and not because of whites.
	But a lot of people blame their pain on their parents and stop talking to them.
	I know of such a case.
	Parents were perfectly good parents.
	Flawed individuals like every human on earth.
	Perfectly good, caring, loving parents.
	Child has pain, blames parents.
	Number four in my list, incompetent psychotherapists.
	If most psychotherapists were ineffectual, their patients would only be wasting their money.
	But many are not merely ineffectual, they do harm.
	Every time I speak to a parent whose child refuses to communicate with them, I ask the parent if their child discussed this issue with his or her therapist.
	Nearly always the answer is yes.
	And nearly always the therapist encouraged the patient.
	And his or her decision to sever relations with a parent.
	Every case I know, the psychotherapist supported the decision of the child not to speak to parent.
	Yeah, you got to get that toxic parent out of your life.
	I would think that a good therapist...
	Would understand the pain that the adult child is undergoing and work to encourage the child to speak to a parent.
	It's the easy way out.
	Yeah, don't talk to them.
	For that, you don't have to pay $150 an hour.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Anyway...
	A lot of psychotherapy is, sure, sure, oh, I hear your pain, I hear your pain, oh, absolutely, oh, no, absolutely.
	One of my theories about psychotherapy, and I think good psychotherapy is truly helpful, one of my theories is that if you don't experience pain in the therapist's office, nothing good is happening.
	Another theory I have is if you continue after a certain period of time to blame your parents for all your problems, your psychotherapist is not helping you.
	So there was a comment that I'd like to read to you.
	I agree with the statement on psychotherapy involvement.
	I have encountered this many times with patients who were advised by previous therapists to cut off relationships.
	I have a PhD in psychotherapy, have 35 years' experience, been licensed in five states.
	In my experience, at least one-third of psychotherapists have no business working with human beings.
	Approximately one-third do not have adequate training, so they lack true performance competency.
	The real work is done by the remaining one-third.
	Many experienced therapists I share this with have told me that my first one-third estimate It's too low.
	That's what I've gotten from psychotherapists that I admire.
	That's basically a third or competent.
	Alright.
	Oh yes, I have one more reason that I did not include in my article and then should have.
	Poisoning of a child's relations with the other parent.
	By one parent after divorce.
	It's usually mother's poisoning child.
	Not always.
	Your father is despicable.
	He is the source of my pain and your pain.
	Men have called my radio show in tears over what has happened in their relationship with a child.
	After divorce, just this poisoning by the other parent of the child.
	Alright, 1-8 Prager 776. What are your explanations if you know of a case?
	Or why do you?
	I gave you my five explanations.
	The explanations given by the readers, the subscribers to the New York Times, are mind-blowing.
	How many blamed Trump?
	Yeah, how can I talk to a parent?
	My parent voted for Trump.
	How many blamed Fox News?
	My parent watches Fox News.
	You think I could talk to them?
	That's really where this other stuff plays a role.
	1-8 Prager-776-877-243-776 How would you explain it in cases that you know?
	I have to believe about a third of you know some case of an adult child who doesn't speak to a parent.
	What would you offer as an explanation?
	This is a true crisis of pain in our society.
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	And then you want it to fit better.
	So one of the ways you could do it if you would like to is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here where you could get leakage in is much better contained.
	Are you a double masker, Dr. Fauci?
	Look like you are.
	Now, Alicia, I think, probably has a good reason to reject her doctor's explanation that that's the guy that we should all listen to.
	Matt Taibbi in this report or his column that I saw at New York Post said, he writes, PolitiFact, which now basically exists to deflect criticism from the Biden administration, rated false the claim that Biden and Harris actually had reservations about the safety of the vaccines.
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
	Hmm.
	Matt Taibbi says PolitiFact's excuse.
	Is that the then-candidates, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, were raising questions not about the vaccines themselves, but about then-President Donald Trump's rollout of the vaccines.
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
	Uh-huh.
	PolitiFact said it's false that Kamala Harris had reservations about the vaccines.
	Matt Taibbi says, wait a minute.
	PolitiFact says it's false.
	What the hell does that mean?
	That it's okay to have reservations, not just about the White House, but about the CDC, FDA, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and every other institution involved with the vaccine effort, if you don't like or trust the president?
	But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it. I'm not taking it.
	You're not making jokes.
	You are the joke.
	Comedians, you know, in our situation, you know, what we look at is what we're doing.
	We're often accused, we lately have been accused, of punching down.
	We're punching back.
	We're not punching down.
	This is a situation where conservatives are literally on the ropes in the culture battle.
	And they're defending themselves against this top-down attack, this top-down tyranny from progressive ideology that's coming from celebrities, it's coming from corporations, it's coming from politicians.
	We're not punching down.
	We're punching back at that stuff.
	So how big...
	It's grown dramatically, but give us some numbers so we have a sense of where you've come from in the last four years.
	Well, so in the last four years, I mean, we've just reached, we've crossed the one million follower threshold on most of our social media.
	You know what?
	I believe I was the one million follower.
	Were you?
	And don't I get something?
	You get something.
	You get like a million, what is the currency in Venezuela?
	Zloty?
	No, that's another country.
	Yeah, it's worth almost nothing.
	I think you get 30 cents.
	But you know what?
	That's better than nothing.
	It's almost nothing.
	But it's not nothing.
	A million followers on Twitter, a million followers on Instagram, a million followers on Facebook.
	Oh, on all these platforms.
	Yeah, on each of them.
	But here's the thing.
	That million is worth more than the normal million.
	What I mean is, anybody who appreciates the humor of the Babylon Bee has to be sophisticated.
	Because it is brilliant humor.
	It's not broad.
	It's not stupid humor.
	It's brilliant humor.
	You have to be aware of...
	Who you're making fun of and whatever.
	The funniest thing is we go for the low-hanging dumb jokes.
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	Not sure how this sweet music got in, but it is.
	Yes.
	Dennis Prager here, Ultimate Issues Hour, and I'm answering the question posed by David Brooks' column in the New York Times, trying to explain why the rift in so many families of adult child not speaking to parents.
	I offered five reasons.
	Four of them are in my column today.
	All right, let's see what you folks have to say.
	And go to Steve in Colorado Springs.
	Hello.
	My wife and I will be praying for your safe trip and hope it's an absolutely joyous time with no quarantine or any crap like that.
	Thank you, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	Oh, not as much as we appreciate you.
	Oh, sweet.
	Thank you.
	Anyway, what I wanted to tell you, I'm sure it's probably in your mind and one of the other things you mentioned, that the whole concept of what virtually every school in this country is trying to do is to drive a wedge between parents and kids.
	I mean, communism did that way back when they first started in Russia.
	And that's what they're doing here.
	And that just makes it so much easier to say your parents are a pile of crap.
	You're right.
	He's right.
	That's how I know the left is a cult.
	Because one of the first things they do is sever parental authority.
	What happened at that school recently when they told one of the students?
	They told all their students, don't tell your parents.
	What was it that they didn't want them to tell their parents?
	It doesn't matter.
	The very fact that they would say that at school, don't tell your parents, is indicative.
	Parental authority is less and less.
	And by the way, parents are not asserting authority more and more.
	They want to be their kids' friends, not an authority.
	But he is right.
	That's a factor, too.
	I agree.
	Alec in Kings Park, New York.
	Hello.
	Yes, sir.
	Thank you so much for having me on.
	I'm very happy to be able to talk to you, sir.
	Thank you.
	I've been watching your YouTube videos and just realized recently that you actually were on the radio, too, and my dad had gotten me into talk radio for a few years now.
	What I wanted to say was that, you know, a lot of people, it seems like, a lot of the younger generation, certainly I'm 18, so around my generation, and a little bit older than me, people about five years older than me, tend to think that their parents are too closed-minded to even listen,
	that they won't even bring up differences with their parents, that their parents are just adamant that they won't change their ways and that they're so clinging to the old world, which isn't true.
	You know, my own parents are fairly conservative, as am I.
	I joined with my father on that.
	You've got to turn your radio off because we're getting feedback from it.
	Let me first react to what was just said, and then you can continue.
	Let us say you have a parent that is truly stuck in the past, whatever that means.
	We'll not open-mindedly hear what you have to say.
	Why does that give you the right to sever relations with them?
	My question is not do you have wonderful parents.
	My question is why is about a third of Americans afflicted with this horror?
	Remember, a child that doesn't speak to parents, the parents do not have a chance to see the grandchildren either.
	This is a spectacular infliction of pain on a parent.
	Maybe a tiny handful deserve it.
	Most do not.
	Your parent is closed-minded, so find a nice, open-minded friend.
	And that answers that.
	That solves it.
	So, okay, let me go back to you, because I wanted to react to what you said.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, no, sir, I just wanted to clarify.
	I am in agreement with you.
	Oh, I know you are.
	No, no, no, you.
	Oh, I know that.
	You were right.
	But I am simply adding that that doesn't give you the right not to talk to your parent.
	Oh, correct, yes.
	Okay, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I just wanted to say, you know, you made a point, the other person that was just on before me made a point about the schooling system that was now similar to communism in the past.
	And I can actually speak to that as well, because my parents both grew up in Poland when it was controlled by the Soviets.
	Oh, is that interesting.
	All right, you know what?
	Got to talk to you another time.
	Thank you.
	You're a pleasure.
	He went from my fireside chat to my radio show.
	Good.
	I'm glad about that.
	There's no reason young people should not be listening to talk radio.
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	Unwilling to get the vaccine?
	It's more than a little.
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	What do we do with those people?
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	you you Steven, let's pretend like you were president for a day.
	What do we do to get this economy back in shape?
	So the first thing we do is we actually do exactly...
	Think of everything Biden has done and do exactly the opposite.
	And I'm not kidding, Paul.
	I mean, we do exactly the opposite of what Biden is doing.
	You know, we don't need...
	$4 trillion of spending right now.
	We need to be, after a crisis is over and COVID is basically over now, thanks to Trump and the vaccine, usually after World War II or after the Cold War, we actually cut spending.
	We need to be aggressively cutting government spending.
	By the way, government spending, you know this, Carl.
	Where did this crazy idea come from that government spending stimulates?
	All that government spending stimulates is government.
	Let me put it very simply, because this is really important.
	I know you know this as a businessman.
	The only way that the government can give you $1,000 is to take $1,000 away from me, right?
	It's a zero-sum game.
	And all we're doing is taking money away from producers and giving it to people who don't produce.
	That's that formula for disaster.
	You know what?
	It's so funny that you mention that.
	I talk about that often on my show.
	And one of the things, it's frustrating to hear Biden talk about it, but it's even more, it's scary to me.
	That people believe it.
	That there's such a lack of understanding when it comes to economics.
	It completely baffles me.
	It completely scares me that he could say the things that he says about inflation and just completely get away with it.
	Now think about somebody like Joe Biden.
	What has Joe Biden done as well? music
	Okay everybody, you can see my reasons in my column today on the question New York Times columnist David Brooks raised last week.
	Why are so many American families in jeopardy in terms of estrangement?
	So, I gave my reasons on the show.
	Now, this is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	Let us go to your calls.
	Denver, Colorado, and Arlene.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Love you, love your show.
	Great.
	I can't say I'm completely estranged.
	That would be an over-exaggeration.
	However, a huge shift in the relationship with our daughter.
	The first thing is what you were saying about the narcissistic issue with the left.
	What I have first found out was this level of narcissism, which is, I am the most important thing, nothing else really matters.
	Me, myself, and I. My parents are kind of irrelevant.
	My, everything, nothing else is more important than me.
	My family, my career, my home, my, you know, everything else is peripheral.
	This has been said to me clearly.
	This is not how my daughter was raised in a very traditionally Jewish, God-loving home.
	And so that's number one that I have, you know, that was a huge blow.
	To myself and my husband, especially in the face of when we very recently lost her brother, my child.
	So that was a huge blow.
	And now, it's again, you know, an ongoing theme that we are trying to deal with.
	We have a grandson.
	It's not as huge.
	We have contact.
	But the shift in politics is huge.
	It's probably still she considered herself a Zionist, but certainly very less compared to us.
	So there's a huge, huge, huge shift.
	Where did she go to college?
	University of Arizona, went to Israel for a master's.
	master's degree, was raised in modern Orthodox.
	I don't discuss politics, I don't know all of the things.
	Is she still modern Orthodox?
	No.
	Right.
	What I can tell you, Bill, what is the biggest thing to me, more than anything, is this notion of the psychology, the psychologist.
	She is a psychologist herself.
	Uh-oh.
	And somebody got a hold of her, shall I say.
	And she was in therapy for quite a while.
	And during the course of therapy, she was told that we were not the best parents.
	Right, right.
	Oh, yeah.
	We were undoubtedly...
	Okay, you know, listen.
	First of all, my heart goes out to you with regard to your son.
	Just know that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It's really important that I say that to you.
	So, let me get the words again exactly from Arlene.
	What was it again that they said about the parents?
	Well, the therapist...
	It's not that important.
	What was it that it was not that important that you...
	Well, the focus was that she individuate and that she be very independent of us and that the focus of her world and her life should be she, her child, and her husband and that we are not that important to her.
	Right.
	Okay, fine.
	By the way, I couldn't agree more that the focus in life should be your spouse and your family.
	I totally agree.
	But of course, I also affirm with equal certitude that you owe your parents respect.
	I don't give a damn how you feel about your parents.
	Okay?
	Feelings are so wildly exaggerated.
	In their importance and in how much they should shape our lives.
	It is part of the tragedy of our age.
	I've said this all of my broadcast career.
	Kids are not told what is right and wrong.
	They're asked, how do you feel about it?
	How do you feel about it?
	I don't care how they feel about it.
	I don't care how you feel about your parents.
	I care how you act toward them.
	But the therapist, that's an individuate.
	I love these terms, right?
	Individuate.
	I'm sure that all these individuated individuals are really individual, are truly courageous marchers against the herd and the tide, right?
	That's the joke.
	All these individuated folks from therapy sessions.
	So now let me tell you something that triggered this thing.
	So I had about six months of therapy in my life.
	It was very, very valuable.
	And I was in my 30s.
	I wanted to get to the core of certain things in my life.
	The therapist was the opposite of what you're hearing here.
	He was the real deal.
	Psychiatrist from Europe.
	And in his thick German accent, I thought I was talking to Freud.
	I mean, he looked like Freud.
	He sounded like Freud.
	And I'll never forget one time when I said something about my parents.
	After all, what else do you talk about in therapy?
	And he said, you know, Dennis, I wonder if we had a video camera If it would have recorded your parents exactly as you are describing them in this situation.
	And it was a blow.
	How did I know if my memory was all that accurate and knew the context and I didn't exaggerate things as a kid or whatever?
	Anyway, It was so powerful, maybe to those of you listening, it's not as powerful, which is fine.
	But it hit me, and it hit me that the ease with which people could blame parents makes a therapist job incredibly simple.
	Too simple.
	We are products of our parents.
	To the extent that we want to be products of our parents.
	And in some ways we want to, and in other ways we do not.
	You don't individuate by cutting off relations.
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	You're not making jokes.
	You are the joke.
	Comedians, you know, in our situation, you know, what we look at is what we're doing.
	We're often accused, we lately have been accused of punching down.
	We're punching back.
	We're not punching down.
	This is a situation where conservatives are literally on the ropes in the culture battle.
	And they're defending themselves against this top-down attack, this top-down tyranny from progressive ideology that's coming from celebrities, it's coming from corporations, it's coming from politicians.
	We're not punching down.
	We're punching back at that stuff.
	So how big...
	It's grown dramatically, but give us some numbers so we have a sense of where you've come from in the last four years.
	Well, so in the last four years, we've crossed the one million follower threshold on most of our social media.
	You know what?
	I believe I was the one million follower.
	Were you?
	Don't I get something?
	You get something.
	You get like a million...
	What is the currency in Venezuela?
	Zloty?
	No, that's another country.
	Yeah.
	It's worth almost nothing.
	I think you get 30 cents.
	But you know what?
	That's better than nothing.
	It's almost nothing, but it's not nothing.
	A million followers on Twitter, a million followers on Instagram, a million followers on Facebook.
	Oh, on all these platforms.
	Yeah, on each of them.
	But here's the thing.
	That million is worth more than the normal million.
	What I mean is anybody who appreciates the humor of the Babylon Bee has to be sophisticated because it is brilliant humor.
	It's not broad.
	It's not stupid humor.
	It's brilliant humor.
	You have to be aware of who you're making fun of and whatever.
	The funniest thing I have to go for the low hanging dumb jokes.
	This insane reversal.
	We've been told by Biden, by Fauci, if you're vaccinated, you don't need a mask.
	Now you do, perhaps for the rest of eternity, that this decision is based apparently on an unpublished, unpeer-reviewed publication from India about a vaccine that you can't even get here in America.
	Yeah, and it's actually even better than that because they didn't even understand the study.
	Because in the CDC slide deck, they refer to it as a study in healthcare professionals when in fact it was a study in simulated persons in a laboratory.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	One of you hung up.
	You were going to talk about divorce as a factor here.
	I did.
	That's why I didn't take the call, though.
	I would have loved to have.
	Had the time to do so, so forgive me.
	There's a very insightful call here.
	Novi, Michigan.
	Parents wanting to be friends with kids leads to easier separation as we leave friends behind, not parents.
	Isn't that interesting insight?
	A number of people noted that in comments on the David Brooks piece.
	About parents wanting to be their kids' friends, not their parents.
	But I didn't put two and two together until this call from Patrick.
	Thank you.
	Linda in Arizona.
	Her daughter-in-law has influenced her child not to associate with them.
	I'd like to know what the ratio is female to male of children not speaking to parents.
	I have a suspicion it's more daughters than sons.
	Or more daughters-in-law.
	In this case, the daughter-in-law.
	Not a strong guy that he agreed.
	But it's very hard to say no to your spouse, especially your wife.
	Yep, indeed.
	Lola, Mona, Dan, Marjorie, Linda, Kurt.
	Well, it's a big subject.
	Please read my column on it.
	at DennisPrager.com.
	It's a Tuesday column.
	So here's the story, my friends.
	I head tomorrow to Hungary.
	Some lectures there.
	The deepest belief of everything I say is that it's as relevant in Hungary, or for that matter, Korea, as it is in America.
	Ideas about life, values, are either universal or they don't work.
	Or they're not worth it.
	So, I will see you in a week.
	I have some terrific people lined up, sitting in for me.
	Yesterday was my birthday.
	I inaugurated PragerU fundraising month.
	I would appreciate it if you help us fight for this country by donating at PragerU.com or calling 833-PRAGERU. And I will give you a big report on Hungary when I return.

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