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Aug. 21, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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Why Did You Join Prager U? How has it changed Your Life?
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And Will Witt from PragerU, your PragerU personalities.
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That's my new ad, okay?
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Let's put that on a t-shirt.
Yeah, I would love that.
Now, our president, Biden, just finished addressing the press in regard to his botched pullout from Afghanistan.
Let's take a listen to this clip.
Be a very different story.
Be a very different story.
Come on, guys.
Come on.
Come on, Taliban.
But what an unexpected response from the press.
This is not anything that I've seen in regard to Biden since he was elected.
No, I think that this has really been a defining moment of people saying, all right, look.
We're gonna be on the left and we're gonna defend all these leftists as much as we can because we're the mainstream media and we're all bought out.
But eventually, things get to a point where it gets so bad and you're like, alright, we gotta find someone else to take this mantle and actually get this done because this is a...
And sometimes on the conservative side, you can get really, really emboldened to say that there's no hope for what we're going to do because the truth is not going to come out.
But this is an instance where the truth could not be hidden.
The complete mischievery and falsehood of everything that was happening in Afghanistan and how poorly we handled the situation is truth and everybody seems to have found it.
Oh, yeah.
And I mean, talking about trusting the Taliban, why are you trusting the Taliban?
I don't get it.
But one thing that I do have to agree with Biden on is wishing that the people of Afghanistan, the fighting-age men, did more when the Taliban were taking over.
You know, we trained them for 20 years.
We gave $80 billion for this to happen.
I wish that the fighting-age men in Afghanistan would have done more to stand up for their country.
It's sad to see that they were not able to do it.
I have a little bit of a descending opinion when it comes to that, but we won't get too deep into it because I feel like it'll take up the majority of this segment.
Wow, what a response from the press.
What a response.
It's just crazy to hear.
What we wanted to talk about in this hour, aside from the Afghanistan stuff, was the importance of families.
Right.
That's something that...
Amla and I grew up in strange households that were definitely different than most people.
I grew up without my father in the picture.
He was not there when I was growing up, and so my mother was really the woman to raise me and teach me masculine values, which somehow she did it.
And Amla had a different situation as well.
Yeah, I was raised by a single mother of three, so we both shared the strong influence from our mothers, but my influence was mainly political, although my mother is very strong-willed and I seem to have adopted that.
Yeah, but it's good.
My mother, she would get mad at me for absolutely everything.
I got grounded all of the time, even for small things.
She would come home, and I didn't...
I love sandwiches, okay?
Just giving you guys some backstory.
I love sandwiches, and I love toast.
So I would toast the bread for the sandwiches, and I would leave crumbs on the table sometimes.
I'd try to clean them up, but maybe there's a couple crumbs.
And she would come home, and she would scream, My name.
And then I'd come down, there's two crumbs on the table, and then she'd ground me.
For leaving any sort of mess at all out.
And this happened all of the time.
And then for other things as well.
My mom was pretty hard on me growing up.
But now looking back, I realize that was a really good thing.
Because it made me...
Like, understand what authority meant.
Respecting your elders.
Knowing that if you're going to do something, you do it right the first time and not have to be asked to do it again.
No sense of entitlement in myself.
I don't feel like I deserve these things.
And a lot of the young people nowadays do not have those same types of values.
Like, when I went to college and I thought I was a leftist, and then I heard about conservative ideas, and more not even just the politics of conservatism, but the morals and principles of conservatism, I was like, this is common sense.
These are things that my mom taught me about the world.
That I am just now realizing actually go with conservatism.
They don't go with leftism.
Right.
Mine was the opposite.
I was like, oh, this is stuff I've never heard before in my life.
My mom taught me the exact opposite.
But it's not only that kids or people our age don't want to teach these values to their children.
They don't even want to have children.
And that's a sad reality and it's a stark reality that we're facing right now in America that a large portion of young people are not in the business of making families.
They don't want children.
And they're being convinced by the political left that that is the better option.
That's the more fulfilling option is to not have children in this country.
Yeah, but in...
In getting married and having children, your life will get exponentially better.
I'm sure there are a few of you listening right now who will say, I'm a 45-year-old aunt and I love drinking wine.
My life's way better off without any sort of children.
Live, laugh, whine.
And I'm like, okay, you want to live your life like that?
That's fine.
You can do that.
No one is forcing you to get married and have children.
But overall, statistically, your life will be better and the American population will be better off when people go into pairs and get married and have children.
You are happier.
You smoke and drink less.
Men actually make more money.
You volunteer in the community more when you're married.
I mean, these are all very good things.
And it's a backbone that you are having in America when you have a family, something you can fall back on.
It is a great thing to do.
But the left perverts it and says you don't need to have this.
And one thing, just call.
If you want to talk to us about this or anything else, call 1-8-Prager-776, 1-8-Prager-776, especially if you disagree with us on this.
Right.
I'm totally fine with women specifically saying, you know, I want to focus on myself.
I want to focus on my career.
I don't want to have children.
Sure.
That is your own prerogative.
You can do that.
But to sell the narrative that that is somehow better or more fulfilling or is going to bring you more happiness than going on and creating a strong family bond, you know, the strongest unit that you can create in a nation, is a lie.
And you shouldn't lie specifically to young girls who will then go and squander their youth.
With corporations and just fulfilling their own self-interest and their own greed and their own whims, instead of building strong families, it's fine for you to do that.
Don't sell it to me as if that is what it means to be a full woman.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
No, Amla, I would love to hear...
How I can be a full woman if you would be able to teach me.
Well, the left will teach you that.
That's not going to be something that I'll be able to teach you.
I started growing a mustache just for, you know, this moment.
Yeah.
Figure it out.
Guys, if you want to know more about families and how to actually change people's minds on it, in my book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies, which is available for pre-order right now on Amazon, you can look up the book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies, or just Will Witt on Amazon.
You can find the book, and it has a whole chapter dedicated to family and family values about how important it is that you can influence people.
And even more information at PragerU.com, where you can get information on all of the right morality and the right things of how we make a productive society.
I mean, you guys know Dennis Prager's got his Male and Female Hour, his Happiness Hour, where he talks about this kind of stuff.
He is the master at all of this and knows the importance of these things going on.
And Will and I talk about these issues on a day-to-day basis on our show, Will and Amala Live.
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