Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Prager and Fighting the WOKE Aired: 2021-08-20 Duration: 09:53 === Life's Challenges in France (09:53) === [00:00:00] Hi, everybody. [00:00:00] Dennis Prager. [00:00:03] Yeah, indeed. [00:00:04] The Pain-Free Studio travels with me. [00:00:07] It's an amazing thing. [00:00:09] Actually, it is true. [00:00:11] Relief Factor does travel with me. [00:00:13] Hi, everybody. [00:00:14] Hello from Chicago. [00:00:17] There's a new meaning to the word humid, but it's not a new meaning. [00:00:20] It's if you've left the West Coast. [00:00:23] West Coast of the United States is one of the only places in the world that does not have excessive humidity. [00:00:29] Great deal of humidity. [00:00:32] If California had normal weather, given what the left has done to California, the quality of life being so profoundly affected negatively, there would be a massive exodus. [00:00:46] Weather keeps more people in California than anything else. [00:00:53] A lot of luck. [00:00:54] A lot of luck the left has in that regard. [00:00:57] Okay. [00:00:58] I welcome you to the show. [00:01:00] I want to remind you, I'm here for Cigar Night, which I believe is sold out, but any of you anywhere in the world can watch it live-streamed with my colleagues here at the station, and Dan Proft and Sean Thompson. [00:01:16] So it's a terrific evening. [00:01:18] Just go to SalemNow.com. [00:01:21] You can watch the event on your mobile device, computer, smart TV, anything else. [00:01:26] And it's at SalemNow.com, $14.99, all fees included. [00:01:33] And now I welcome you to the program. [00:01:37] Now, if this call is for real, I want to take it. [00:01:40] I say if it's for real because it's pretty dramatic if it's true. [00:01:46] And I don't usually begin an hour with a call, but I will. [00:01:50] Huma in Spartanburg, South Carolina. [00:01:54] Hello. [00:01:56] Hello, Dennis. [00:01:57] Can you hear me? [00:01:58] Very clearly. [00:02:00] Okay, Dennis. [00:02:01] I can express I'm so honored and grateful to speak to you. [00:02:05] You are my light in the darkness and you have changed my life completely. [00:02:09] I wanted to tell you my story a little bit because I was born and raised as a Muslim. [00:02:15] I was living in Pakistan. [00:02:16] I was born there. [00:02:18] And I moved to France when I was 11 years old with my family. [00:02:22] And over there, I nearly turned as an atheist and socialist. [00:02:26] And, you know, France being France, I almost turned as a French. [00:02:30] So what made me love America and being conservative and get to know you is when my husband, when I got married, my husband opened his own company in France and we found out how it was difficult because the government was taking out all our money. [00:02:50] I started to be interested in conservative media, and I found out about you and you. [00:02:57] And you have also made me come closer to God because I've been reading all your books, and my life has just changed. [00:03:05] I wanted to thank you for doing all that you do, and I wanted to share my story with you. [00:03:11] And now I've been in the United States for a year and a half. [00:03:14] Now I've moved here. [00:03:16] I've made my dream come true. [00:03:21] Well, that's the reason that I do everything I do, is to touch people like you. [00:03:28] I want to tell you something I say to anybody who says I've changed their life, that you are 50% responsible. [00:03:35] There are people who hear everything I say or read everything I write, and there is no effect. [00:03:42] So please take half the credit. [00:03:47] Thank you. [00:03:49] You know, it's not even a compliment. [00:03:50] It's just a fact. [00:03:53] There's something in you that wants to follow truth and reason and goodness, and that's all you need to do. [00:04:01] Yes, I've always tried to follow, tried to be free, as free as I could, because living in a Muslim country in Pakistan is not easy to be free. [00:04:10] It's not a value over there, and in France it's not a value. [00:04:14] I always strive to be free. [00:04:18] That's something that made me want to come to the U.S. as well, but it's sad to see what's happening right now, but I still think that it's the best hope we have. [00:04:29] Well, that's why I wrote the last best hope. [00:04:32] Well, you made my day, and I'm always torn on advocating that people read, for example, my books, The Rational Bible. [00:04:47] Because every author wants you to read their book, so why would this be any different? [00:04:53] Right? [00:04:53] Makes perfect sense. [00:04:55] People are cynical a little bit. [00:04:58] But it will change your life. [00:05:01] That's right. [00:05:02] And a life without God can be, certainly, it can be a moral life. [00:05:09] There are moral atheists and agnostics and secularists. [00:05:13] But ultimately... [00:05:15] The roots of morality in the West are biblical, and when the roots are removed, the trees will wither. [00:05:23] So it's called the Rational Bible. [00:05:26] I hope we meet one day, Huma. [00:05:31] Look at that. [00:05:32] She should write her autobiography from Pakistan to France to South Carolina. [00:05:40] France is sort of the opposite of Pakistan. [00:05:43] France doesn't believe in freedom much, although some do. [00:05:48] There were more demonstrations in France against the lockdown than in the United States. [00:05:53] They did, after all, publish the Charlie Hebdo. [00:05:57] Charlie Hebdo did publish the Mohammed cartoons. [00:06:00] No American media did. [00:06:04] But in general, they have not valued freedom since the French Revolution. [00:06:09] That's why they gave America the Statue of Liberty. [00:06:12] They didn't keep it for themselves. [00:06:17] I would like you to hear a truly moral idiot, Stephen Colbert. [00:06:31] When the term moral idiot was devised, I don't know if he was born yet, but if the term had not been devised, His birth would have or his adulthood would have seen the need for the term. [00:06:48] So listen to him a couple of nights ago. [00:06:51] So. [00:07:21] There you go. [00:07:42] Thank you. [00:07:43] Why fight terrorists abroad when we have terrorists at home in our capital? [00:07:49] Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? [00:07:53] We've got our own on Capitol Hill. [00:07:55] It is an interesting question to me, to which I have no answers. [00:08:02] Does he believe what he said? [00:08:04] My general thinking is that they have convinced them that men give birth. [00:08:11] That there was an insurrection on January 6th. [00:08:14] I mean, the term has been used so often. [00:08:17] It was jolting in the beginning because it was such a lie. [00:08:20] It was such an overstated thing about basically a two-bit riot. [00:08:25] People posing in Nancy Pelosi's chair. [00:08:27] I mean, we're not talking about the attempt to overthrow the American government, which was done in the state of Washington, the state of Oregon. [00:08:39] I mean, real deal. [00:08:40] The actual usurpation of government authority by left-wing terrorists. [00:08:45] That is a fact. [00:08:49] Anyway, this is what late night comedy, which was once there to unite Americans and give them some joy at the end of a difficult day. [00:09:01] That's what has happened to it. [00:09:04] Stephen Colbert is a perfect example. [00:09:07] Nothing is not politicized. [00:09:09] Nothing. [00:09:11] Literally nothing, right? [00:09:14] And I want you to hear, to uplift you, when we come back, I will put her on. [00:09:20] A nurse testifying, where did she testify? [00:09:24] The San Diego Board of Supervisors? [00:09:30] If you're a healthcare worker in San Diego and you don't get vaccinated, you get fired. [00:09:35] So a nurse, an articulate nurse. [00:09:41] spoke out against that. [00:09:45] People are not free to do what they want with their own bodies. [00:09:47] This was a line used to defend abortion. [00:09:50] It was never meant seriously. [00:09:52] No left-wing lines are meant seriously.