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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We lost more service members yesterday in Afghanistan in a day than we have in 10 years.
	We lost no service members for the last 18 months.
	Joe Biden is an incompetent.
	The entire administration is worse than incompetent.
	It is destructive in everything it does.
	We have creeps and crooks running the United States of America.
	But I will now say what half of you don't agree with, and which I have been consistent on.
	We should never have left Afghanistan.
	I don't care if Donald Trump wanted to leave Afghanistan.
	I thought he was a great president.
	There is no great person who doesn't make a mistake.
	What the hell is it good to the United States to leave Afghanistan?
	Would we have left Nazi Germany if the Nazi party were the dominant party in Germany?
	I mean, we didn't leave Germany anyway.
	That's the joke.
	And the Nazis were defeated.
	But imagine if they weren't defeated.
	It's beyond me. - Thank you.
	Well, it's not beyond me.
	Even conservatives can think emotionally.
	You put America first, totally with you.
	Putting America first meant staying in Afghanistan.
	Putting anything first meant staying in Afghanistan.
	Putting world peace, putting anti-terrorism, putting American prestige, putting American self-interest first meant staying in Afghanistan.
	Okay?
	I haven't heard one good argument.
	There are good arguments on a whole host of issues on both sides.
	I'm against the minimum wage.
	There are good arguments for the minimum wage.
	I don't accept any of them, but I recognize that they exist.
	There are no good arguments for leaving Afghanistan.
	It's a cesspool of evil, but we had it contained while we were there.
	Grow up, everybody.
	There's a lot of evil on Earth.
	And the greatest anti-evil force on Earth is the United States of America, whom I have said, its armed forces, if the Nobel Prize were given legitimately, it would have been given to the United States Armed Forces.
	Now you see what I mean?
	And by the way, guess who let ISIS-K, this new thing, Corazon?
	Of the area in Pakistan and Afghanistan they wish to create as a caliphate.
	Guess who let them out?
	Or everybody out of prison?
	The Taliban!
	Because we left.
	It's just...
	I sit and I marvel.
	It is so tempting to think emotionally.
	Well, we've been there 20 years.
	There's nobody on television I respect more than Tucker Carlson.
	And that's his position.
	I heard him again last night.
	Oh, all the corruption that we pay for in Afghanistan.
	That is correct.
	So what?
	I don't understand.
	What does that have to do with whether it's in America's and the world interest for us to leave?
	You know what I watched last night?
	The British Parliament.
	Do you know that members of the British Parliament were talking about negotiations with the NATO Secretary General of staying in after America left?
	And they decided that America was too powerful, that it wouldn't work.
	So much for it's Trump who alienated our NATO allies.
	Our NATO allies have...
	A degree of contempt for Biden that is exponentially greater than their contempt for Donald Trump.
	They didn't like Donald Trump.
	I don't care if you like Donald Trump.
	A child asks the question, do I like the president?
	That is a childish question.
	Is the president doing a good job is the only question you ask.
	Not do I like him.
	Like your friends.
	Like your family.
	I don't care if you like your president.
	God, the childishness that reigns throughout the world.
	It takes a lot to grow up.
	All of you is my dear friend, and he is a dear friend, Brett Stephens.
	Is he happy he voted for Joe Biden?
	God, I'd love to ask him.
	We had a debate in the New York Times, in the New York Times Facebook page.
	He was a real anti-hated Trump.
	Just hates Trump.
	Think America and the world is better for Joe Biden?
	It is inconceivable to me that he believes that.
	It's inconceivable.
	He is too rational on every other subject.
	The never-Trumpers.
	God.
	Putting Bret Stephens aside.
	I love this one.
	I had to leave.
	That was the plan worked out by Donald Trump.
	Yes, there is not a single thing Donald Trump did that he has followed.
	Not one.
	All of a sudden, Donald Trump.
	You've got to laugh.
	Otherwise you can cry.
	In this case, maybe crying is preferable.
	1-8 Prager 776. Completely unnecessary deaths of all these people.
	And completely predictable, both with regard to leaving and in the way in which this utter and total incompetent runs this country.
	Nancy Pelosi was talking about Women's Equality Day yesterday.
	It's going to happen to the women of Afghanistan.
	She cares about the women of Afghanistan on a scale of 1 to 10. 1. Everything the left talks about is people they use.
	Teachers unions use students.
	They don't give a damn about students.
	There is no anti-student force in America that competes with the teachers unions.
	They loathe students.
	They have contempt for them.
	They love themselves and their left-wing agenda.
	That's all they are about.
	Give millions of dollars to Democratic candidates.
	That's what they are about.
	So that we can get more money.
	While they utterly pervert the glorious word education.
	The feminist groups?
	I've said, I wrote this 20 years ago.
	Their agenda is anti-male, not pro-female.
	The origins and the continuity are about that.
	That's why you had all these feminists writing about the ennobling elements of the burqa.
	I read to you the other day.
	Afghanistan casualty statistics.
	Thanks.
	Let's see here.
	By the year?
	Do we have it by month and year?
	Here we go.
	2021. U.S. fatalities total.
	All right.
	Well, that concludes yesterday.
	It was zero.
	2020. It was 11. The entire year.
	11. The last time there was more than one was in January, February, March, April, May, June, July.
	July of 2020, there were two.
	21 in 2019, 14 in 2018, 14 in 2017, 9 in 2016. Okay, so 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Up until yesterday, in six years,
	we had no more than 21. We had no more than 22. Every one is a tragedy, but if you put it in perspective, the relative peace that we bought...
	The ease with which people just crap on the Afghani army.
	How many did they lose?
	70,000?
	50,000?
	In the last five years?
	That's a lot of people.
	Not exactly well paid.
	Fighting people whom they know if they capture them, they will slaughter them like sheep.
	It's painful to watch a sheep slaughtered that way.
	The American retreat from the world is a disaster for the world and for America.
	Every despicable regime is thrilled about America's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	And so are most conservatives.
	back in a moment This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Moeller.
	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level...
	It has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon, could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of...
	The military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology's getting better.
	They're getting more and more ships.
	But we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship that had run aground.
	They copied it.
	They trained, and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Rome in ruins.
	Can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Essentially that's inflation.
	Thank you.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Bidenflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices.
	To their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise significantly for the consumers.
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Guys, I want to tell you, and I don't say this lightly, but make sure you stash some cash at home.
	Make sure you stash a little more food at home than normal.
	We're not getting away from inflation.
	Not with this administration and the White House.
	It's just not going to happen.
	They are spending like...
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	A reminder, if you're thinking about anything with regard to refinancing your house, taking out money, putting in money, getting a new home, doing a reverse mortgage, the people that I recommend are Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage.
	I have been recommending them since the I'm Dennis Prager.
	Watching the left dismantle.
	home.
	At least Donald Trump kept a strong America.
	People respected the United States.
	But the preoccupation of the children at the New York Times, and the issue was very much related to immature thinking, deeply, deeply related.
	These are children.
	It's all these young workers, right, at Google.
	They're always protesting.
	The young medical students, the young reporters at the New York Times, they're the ones who demanded that the New York Times reporter be fired, one of their lead experts on COVID.
	Remember that?
	Guy was fired because, what, 20 years ago or something?
	In a talk, he used the N-word?
	Is that what it was?
	Whatever it was.
	Within a decade.
	A decade ago.
	And he didn't call anybody.
	He used the word because it's a usable word.
	In context.
	It's the only word that is never usable in context.
	Calling a human being the N-word is despicable.
	Anyway, these children govern the way things are reported.
	And you know what the most childlike desire in the world is?
	To believe that evil is not real or...
	The real evils aren't real, so you make up evils.
	That is the defining characteristic of the left.
	Like communism.
	They weren't anti-communist.
	Just like today.
	They're not anti-evil.
	They're anti-racism in America.
	All racism is evil, but nobody is as racist as the left.
	Who else believes in lowering standards for black people?
	Who else believes in all-black dormitories?
	So that's why they make up stuff, microaggressions, because there's so little racism in the United States.
	That's what they fight.
	Statues.
	Ah, they're big on fighting statues.
	I wrote a piece years ago.
	The left fights statues, the right fights evil.
	That's the way it is.
	Yep.
	Feels good to tear down a statue.
	Man, that's an adrenaline rush, I gotta tell you.
	But then what do you do after that?
	If you rely on adrenaline, what do you keep doing to supply the adrenaline rush?
	Okay.
	Nick in St. Paul says, here in America we are letting out criminals just like they did in Afghanistan.
	You're absolutely right.
	Couldn't agree with you more.
	That's why there's a recall going on for the various district attorneys that were funded by George Soros.
	A man who personifies evil.
	And yet they invite Soros to all these elite conferences in Switzerland and elsewhere.
	Isn't that amazing?
	One of the most destructive human beings on Earth is highly regarded among the world's elites.
	How much money has he given to district attorney races to make sure that people who will let criminals out are elected?
	I'm telling you...
	I never said this before.
	Many of you have been listening to me for years.
	Theologically and temperamentally, I've never believed in the devil.
	I know it surprises many Christians because we're both biblically based, but the devil doesn't play a role in the Old Testament.
	I know Satan does in Job.
	I'm well aware of that.
	But Satan means really aggressor.
	It doesn't mean a fallen angel.
	It's not with regard to Lucifer.
	And I've never had an objection to the belief at all.
	I just didn't share it.
	Now I do.
	It seems that there is a diabolic force on Earth, and it seems that it has taken root in my beloved country.
	There is no explanation.
	There is no rational explanation for people celebrating.
	Evil.
	That's it.
	Black Lives Matter movement is evil.
	People celebrate it.
	It is hundreds of millions of dollars.
	Explain that.
	Is there a rational explanation for that?
	It is a truly vile group of human beings who loathe this country, who loathe whites, and who do nothing good for blacks.
	The examples are legion.
	The diabolic, figuratively or literally, I don't know, but the diabolic seems to have taken root.
	Certainly the Islamic terrorists are diabolic.
	And we have given them a great gift by leaving Afghanistan.
	There are two elements, leaving Afghanistan and leaving the way Biden did it.
	Everything Biden touches, he ruins every single thing.
	He has done nothing good.
	It is an astonishing achievement to do nothing good and only bad in just a half year.
	If you voted for Joe Biden, you voted to hurt this country.
	You may be the sweetest person in your neighborhood.
	You may be the most generous, kind, loyal friend, a magnificent mother or father, a terrific spouse, but you voted to hurt this country.
	Okay?
	Humans are complex.
	Sweet people can do a lot of damage.
	Look at Minnesotans.
	They're a great example.
	That's why I devoted an hour to the CNN reporter.
	Oh, you know, there are a lot of amazing, a lot of nice people in Taliban.
	It's, what did she say?
	I couldn't, it's a bizarre, yeah, bizarre.
	It's not bizarre.
	There were a lot of nice Nazis, a lot of nice communists.
	It's not bizarre at all.
	When you judge people, it's very important to be nice.
	But that isn't the way to make a moral judgment of a human being.
	That's what screwed them up with regard to Donald Trump.
	He isn't nice, but he was spectacular as a president.
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	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate, after already $4 trillion of spending over two years, it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam, helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55 percent of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
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	This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Mohler.
	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no matter.
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	Has America ever looked weaker?
	Do you understand the effects on the world and on America of a weak America?
	Brett Stevens wrote about how the withdrawal is wrong.
	In the New York Times, Bret Stephens, for reasons I cannot figure out, is a big anti-Trumper, but he's right on almost every other issue.
	I have great respect for the man.
	Great men can make great mistakes.
	That was an example in his case.
	We debated it.
	He wrote a piece about me in the New York Times.
	I wrote a piece about him in my column.
	Okay.
	So I looked at the comments, as I always tell you, I look at comments.
	Every single comment I saw, I didn't read all 600, I think there were 600, in the New York Times, disagreed with Brett Stephens.
	You know what the gist of the argument was?
	We've got all these problems at home, why are we in Afghanistan?
	Do you understand what a completely isolationist view that is?
	When could that not have been said?
	We have all these problems at home.
	Why are we?
	And then fill in Korea, Germany, Japan.
	Well, Japan attacked us, I guess, and Hitler declared war on us.
	And that's it?
	America should not be involved in the world otherwise?
	The left calls it imperialism.
	Really?
	We were in Afghanistan for imperialist reasons?
	What exactly did we get there other than...
	Heroin from poppies.
	Isn't that right?
	Heroin comes from poppies.
	Imperialism.
	And we want Afghanistan?
	We were protecting America and the world from the sickest of the evil on earth, the Islamic terrorists.
	People who believe in a God...
	Who wants you to cut girls' throats for going to school?
	Now, do they believe in God, in your opinion?
	They believe in God the same way that people who believed in Molech did, in the Bible.
	The Canaanite God who demanded child sacrifice.
	Do you realize that there is no moral improvement between the ancient Near East and the late Bronze Age?
	And the Islamists?
	I'm not talking Muslims, I'm talking Islamists.
	People who wish to impose Sharia on others.
	Isn't that an astonishing thing?
	There is no moral improvement in 3,200 years.
	probably 4,000.
	So much for the idiotic notion perpetrated by Stephen Pinker who's a very sweet man.
	Thank you.
	And not a leftist.
	He's just a naive liberal.
	I've had him on the show a number of times.
	A professor of psychology at Harvard wrote a big book about how the world is just getting better and better and better and better.
	I wonder if he still believes that.
	It's better and better and better until the next massacre, until the next genocidal group takes over.
	If the United States loses its liberty, Professor Pinker, would you still say the world's getting better?
	The world gets better if people get better.
	If people teach their children what liberty is about.
	You have to educate for liberty.
	Isn't that one of our phrases?
	At PragerU, you have to educate for liberty.
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	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years.
	it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam.
	Helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55% of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	This is Albert Moeller for Townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Mohler.
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	True.
	And you know what is taught?
	I devoted the first two-thirds of my show to Afghanistan.
	So I'm going to move on to the domestic crises.
	When you don't fight a real evil, this is one of the insights of my life, very early in my life, when you don't fight real evils, you make up Make-believe evils and fight them.
	That's exactly what the left does.
	It doesn't fight real evil.
	It fights make-believe evils, like racism in America.
	And for those of you who do not understand the concept of the generalization, let me make it clear.
	There is racism in America.
	That is correct.
	Very little and nearly all of it is from the left.
	There's more anti-white racism among blacks than anti-black racism among whites by every piece of data that we have.
	The most obvious being the likelihood of your being attacked for being white versus being attacked for being black.
	But you're not allowed to say truth.
	But I am.
	I am allowed.
	And virtually every single person listening to this knows that this is true, including the vast majority of my black listeners.
	Hatred of the white is permitted.
	Hatred of the black, thank God, is not permitted.
	It shouldn't be permitted.
	What is happening in our schools and the people still sending them there?
	In August 2020, the faculty and staff of Sidwell Friends, the Washington, D.C.'s area's top private school, convened to hear a special talk hosted by the school's Director of Equity, Justice, and Community.
	The school has a Director of Equity, Justice, and Community?
	See, the purpose of schools is no longer to teach.
	It's to indoctrinate.
	It's to produce communists.
	To produce America haters, which is identical with communists.
	The speaker was Ibram X. Kendi, who was a fraud.
	An intelligent fraud, but a fraud.
	And here's one proof.
	Man would never debate Larry Elder.
	What amount of money could I raise for Ibram X. Kendi's favorite charity to have him debate Larry Elder?
	I said this before Larry was running for governor.
	With Ta-Nehisi Coates?
	Another darling of the left?
	A so-called black intellectual?
	Would he debate Larry Elder?
	Would any of them have debated any black conservative?
	Of course not.
	Any more than any of the New York Times columnists would debate me?
	Standing offer.
	Anywhere you want.
	Just a general debate.
	What's good for America?
	How about, is the left destroying America?
	That puts me on the spot.
	I have to prove the left is destroying America.
	Well, you have to say it's not.
	He was the speaker, Ibram X.
	Kendi.
	No stranger to the podium at posh private schools.
	We're either educating our children to be racist, or we are educating them to be anti-racist.
	I was educated to be anti-racist because I went to a Jewish religious school, a yeshiva.
	And I was taught that all people are created in God's image.
	And that is how I was taught, to be anti-racist.
	That is the way you teach anti-racism.
	Through the basic proposition that we are all created in God's image and Adam had no color and God has no color.
	Now we move on.
	There is zero justification.
	For anyone who takes the Bible seriously, let alone as the Word of God, to be a racist.
	It is not possible to take the God of the Bible seriously and be a racist.
	There were, and they didn't take the God of the Bible seriously.
	They didn't believe that Adam was created in God's image.
	Because Adam has no color.
	Was Adam black?
	Maybe.
	Was he brown?
	Maybe.
	Was he white?
	Maybe.
	Was he yellow?
	Maybe.
	According to the school's press release, Kendi charged teachers with the task of creating an anti-racist world, both in the school and in the world at large, because to not do so is to be complicit in maintaining racist policies.
	What racist policies?
	They never specify.
	What racist policies are being maintained?
	A few weeks later, Kennedy gave another talk for the students at Sidwell, who, like the teachers, had read his book in preparation.
	Kennedy emphasized that change can, must happen on a personal level, the press release says.
	Well, they certainly are changing them from decent kids to indecent kids.
	From humanity lovers to white haters.
	America haters.
	That's what Sidwell Friends is doing.
	And I blame the parents 100%.
	You send your child to any of these posh Washington, D.C. schools, you are ruining the country and your child.
	Okay?
	I completely blame you.
	Completely.
	Private schools around the nation have adopted Kendi's message, and Washington is no exception.
	The top five D.C. area private schools, Sidwell Friends, Georgetown Day, Holton Arms, the National Cathedral School, and St. Albans committed to this vision in the form of a strategic plan.
	Similar plans have generated backlash in New York, but so far the D.C. schools have embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion without notable dissent.
	D.C.'s top schools now require every corner of their institutions, from chemistry classes and athletic departments, to boards of trustees to demonstrate fealty to anti-racism, fighting something that barely exists, their empty lives filled with a doctrine based on nothing.
	We'll be back.
	Trending now on the Eric Mataisa show.
	Eric, I have campaign expenditure limitations.
	Gavin Newsom does not.
	He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money.
	And shortly after it was obvious I was going to get into the race, the union, SEIU union, gave him $5 million for the anti-recall side.
	And just a couple of days ago, the teachers union, the largest funder of his campaign, gave him an additional $1.8 million.
	It is estimated he's going to raise a minimum of $50 million, maybe as much as $75 million to defeat you.
	You were praising my courage.
	Let me just say something about that.
	I get that a lot, and I have to push back because I'm not storming the beaches of Normandy.
	Unlike my father, I was never a Marine.
	Unlike my older brother, I was never a member of the Navy.
	Like my little brother, I was never a member of the Army.
	I did not serve.
	And about all the things I've ever done in my life, that's probably the thing that I regret the most.
	That I didn't give back a few years to my country.
	So this is a small sacrifice.
	I'm losing a little bit of money, well, actually a lot of money compared to my net worth.
	And of course, nobody's lived a pure life and anything and everything I've ever done will be exposed and will be twisted.
	And I know that I'll be assuming that.
	But this is a small price to pay for a country that I love so much and for a state that I love so much.
	You know, that's why you are who you are.
	You have perspective.
	You're talking about your father.
	You've been on this program before talking about your father.
	And when you've lived that kind of a life and you see what real sacrifice looks like, it's natural for you to do things that other people say, well, that's brave or that's heroic.
	You just think, well, what are you talking about?
	This is basic stuff.
	I've been living in a country that allowed me to succeed and to say what I want.
	How can I not fight for that?
	And again, I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about what?
	1.7 trillion so that's 2.7 trillion so that's
	the end of the day.
	2.7 trillion so that's the end of the day.
	Every student and teacher must be vaccinated.
	Why any parent would want their child vaccinated when the chances of dying from COVID under 18 years of age are probably less than dying of the flu.
	Parents who do this, I think, are making a serious mistake.
	I pray that nothing bad ever happens.
	But there is no medical or moral justification for vaccinating healthy teenagers.
	But the school, woke as it is, apparently, has allowed for an exemption.
	If you have a religious exemption, here are the rules.
	You must wear an N95 mask at all times, inside and outdoors.
	Basically no breathing.
	While eating outdoors or indoors, although we are requiring students to eat outdoors, weather permitting, your student must stay six feet away from other students.
	An additional PCR COVID-19 test each Thursday, either before or after school, at your time and expense, To ensure they are not positive for COVID-19.
	Your student will not be eligible to participate in either indoor or high contact activities that require exertion, including sports, other than tennis and golf, dance, theater, and or music.
	Your student will not be able to stay overnight on any school or class trip, including the Shabbaton, which is a Sabbath retreat.
	And the parents are probably okay with this.
	Health.
	But it's not even healthy.
	It is a mad age in which we are living.
	I pity kids today.
	And I use the term pity for groups very rarely.
	I pity kids today.
	A wonderful country screwed up by adults.
	Completely screwed up.
	Fools teaching them.
	Foolish parents raising them.
	An environment filled with anger and hate in a basically loving and kind country.
	You're going to die in the future from global warming and your past stinks.
	There are no heroes, kids.
	There are no heroes.
	One of the things I will be addressing, the hero issue.
	I'm conducting High Holy Day services again this year.
	year, if you're in the LA area, send me an email at DennisPrager.com.
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	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate, after already $4 trillion of spending over two years, it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam.
	Helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55 percent of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Moeller.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level...
	It has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of...
	The military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology is getting better.
	They're getting more and more ships.
	But we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship that had run aground.
	They copied it.
	They trained and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Rome in ruins.
	can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Thank you.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Bidenflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices.
	To their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Aha!
	Aha!
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise significantly for the consumers.
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Guys, I want to tell you, and I don't say this lightly, but make sure you stash some cash at home.
	Make sure you stash a little more food at home than normal.
	We're not getting away from inflation.
	Not with this administration and the White House.
	It's just not going to happen.
	They are spending like crazy.
	They're spending our money.
	The CEO of Tyson.
	What is it?
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour!
	Yes, it is.
	Hey, everybody.
	Come rain or shine.
	We have the happiness hour every Friday.
	The second hour of the show.
	Original lyrics are devoted to happiness.
	Everybody, it's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour!
	My friends, the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
	It's a moral obligation to pursue happiness.
	That's right.
	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	It's easy to be unhappy.
	That was the great realization I had on the New York subway train at the age of 17. Riding from Manhattan back to my home in Brooklyn one night.
	And thinking about life as I always have been wont to do, that is my nature.
	And the great, great realization hit me.
	I remember it vividly.
	It's easy to be unhappy.
	That's a biggie.
	I was blessed with realizations at such a young age that guided me in life.
	I was blessed by learning them and I was blessed by a brain that came up with them.
	I don't even take credit for it.
	It just happened.
	I wasn't even reading.
	I was just thinking.
	And that hit me.
	It's easy to be unhappy.
	And generally speaking, the easy is the bad choice.
	Right?
	After the show, I will be going to a workout with my trainer.
	For the record, I hate every minute of it.
	Okay?
	It is not fun.
	I'll give you an example.
	It is not fun standing on one leg and on the toes of the other leg and lifting a 40-pound kettle.
	Okay, you want to know what's fun?
	Having an ice cream sundae while seated in a comfortable chair.
	Just for the record.
	And guess which I prefer?
	The easy.
	That's correct.
	Now, in my ears, a question from the technical producer.
	What if I had to lift a 40-pound sundae?
	Do you realize the number of minds that would come up with that question is, in a world of 7 billion people, I think the number is one.
	I don't even think there's another person who would have thought that question up.
	That is correct.
	So I thought I'd share it with you, since misery loves company.
	Okay, we return now to the program, to the regularly scheduled program.
	Anyway, that's not the topic, but it is a good thing.
	All of this is good to realize.
	So here's my topic today.
	Your input is called for on this occasion, in this arena.
	I say that the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
	Do you agree with part two?
	And I'm asking you this on both a micro and macro level.
	Has it been your experience that the unhappy people in your life have made family life and friendship life worse?
	In other words, am I wrong?
	Maybe the unhappy don't make the world worse, whether micro or macro.
	I believe the unhappy make it worse both in our personal lives and in our society's life.
	So that's my question.
	Your anecdote, if you will, will be a helpful...
	Contribution to this subject.
	1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	By the way, there are no 40 pound Sundays.
	I'm really thinking about that.
	The largest sundae I ever saw was at Serendipity in Manhattan.
	Did you ever go there?
	It is known for its desserts.
	And the sundae, it's...
	Very few people eat the whole thing.
	They usually share it.
	I mean, it is...
	It's enormous.
	But it's not 40 pounds.
	Just for the record.
	Anyway, by the time it were done, the sundae would have melted.
	I don't know even why I'm talking about this.
	It's actually sick, now that I think of it.
	A somewhat perverse mind puts an idea into my fairly normal mind, and I dwell on it.
	It's bizarre.
	So the question of the happiness hour today is, do you agree?
	An illustration from your life or from the society's life.
	The unhappy make the world worse.
	Has this been your experience in your intimate life?
	I don't mean intimate life in your sexual life.
	I mean, that might be, that's not what I'm thinking of.
	In other words, not even necessarily with your spouse.
	Just in general.
	I am convinced it's true, but if you have experienced it differently, I'm very interested.
	And if you have experienced it in a way that confirms my thesis, I'm interested in that too.
	Generally speaking, if you have four kids and one is quite unhappy, it affects the family.
	An unhappy spouse affects the marriage.
	Unhappy teachers, unhappy adults affect society.
	Happiness is a huge issue.
	That's why I have this hour every week.
	All right, let's see.
	Okay.
	Cartman in Atlanta, Georgia.
	Dennis Prager, hello.
	Hi.
	Is that your name?
	Cartman?
	No, it's Harmon.
	There's Harmony without the Y. Oh, boy.
	Our screener really got that one wrong.
	She's great.
	She is great, but so what?
	Great people make mistakes.
	I didn't say she wasn't great.
	I didn't just say she really got it wrong.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	So, I agree with you on the micro.
	The macro, I think, is more complicated because most great art...
	It's created by unhappy.
	And that has a different way of affecting society.
	And even in my own experience, you know, writing things, beauty comes out of pain.
	So, anyway.
	So, I have been challenged on this issue.
	And the art that I know by far the best is music.
	I conduct orchestras periodically.
	So I look at the composers, the great composers.
	Beethoven was unhappy.
	I mean, that is a fact, and he had reason to be unhappy.
	He never really had a love, and he ached to find a woman to love.
	And not to mention, going deaf as a composer is not helpful.
	So he was not a happy man, that is correct.
	The question, however, is not answered.
	Did he write great music because he was unhappy?
	If you look at his symphonies, are you familiar with what I'm saying, or is this not your area?
	No, I am.
	Okay.
	So he wrote nine symphonies, and it's very interesting.
	The even-numbered ones are happy, and the odd-numbered ones are much more serious in nature.
	Melancholy.
	Melancholy.
	That's a fair word.
	More serious is better, because the seventh only has one melancholy movement.
	But anyway, so even the eighth, at the worst time in his life, the eighth symphony, the penultimate symphony, is a happy symphony.
	So, would he have written worse music if he had a love in his life?
	I don't think so.
	I think he might have written greater music.
	I know I could speak for me.
	I'm not Beethoven, but I do, I think, important writing.
	I write best when I'm happy.
	When I'm unhappy, I don't even want to write.
	So, you raise a very, very intelligent question.
	I don't have a complete answer to it, but...
	Is great art the product of artists' unhappiness or despite their unhappiness?
	This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Mohler.
	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level...
	It has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon, could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of...
	The military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology is getting better.
	They're getting more and more ships.
	But we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship that had run aground.
	They copied it.
	They trained and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Roman ruins.
	can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Bidenflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices.
	To their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Aha!
	Aha!
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise.
	That certainly doesn't sound like unhappy, does it?
	It's Beethoven's Ninth.
	I think it's somewhat of a romantic myth about unhappiness produces great art.
	In any event, every human being on Earth has unhappiness.
	Happy people have unhappiness.
	I know people well.
	Really, really, really well.
	I don't mean just people in general.
	I mean individually.
	I am blessed with a great number of very close relationships.
	Whoa, that was a real phone noise.
	Sorry, guys.
	I do not know a human being without unhappiness.
	So the argument that artists are great because they're unhappy is sort of a tautology.
	Human being without unhappiness.
	But I can tell you, for me, for whatever it's worth, I'm most productive at my happiest.
	It's when I want to get up, which is, by the way, thank God in my life, I have a happy disposition, and I have worked tremendously on being happy.
	I have had a lot of unhappiness in my life.
	You know why?
	Because I've actually lived.
	There's no way to live without having had unhappiness in your life.
	Subject today on this Happiness Hour is, do the unhappy make the world or your personal life worse?
	That's my opening comment every week.
	The happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse.
	Is that your belief?
	And if not, that's fine.
	That's why I took the other call, the person challenging me, on the issue of the unhappy making the world better through great art.
	But I don't think that it works that way.
	Great art is produced by great artists.
	And maybe they tap into their unhappiness to produce great art, and maybe they don't.
	A lot of very uplifting art in this world.
	And maybe...
	It comes from unhappiness.
	Maybe it comes from happiness.
	Maybe it comes from the struggle to be happy.
	I don't know.
	We go to your calls here.
	And since I'm in the love of absurdity mode, Mike in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Hello.
	Hey, how are you doing today?
	Good.
	Thank you.
	I was really impressed with that idea.
	He had about a 40-pound Sunday.
	I like that.
	Did you hear that, Sean?
	Somebody liked your idea in South Carolina.
	No, no, no.
	There aren't two of you.
	Only you came up with it.
	He likes it.
	Yeah.
	So let me ask you something.
	Yeah, I like that idea.
	Well, why would you do with it?
	It's somewhat impractical.
	It melts before you get through the first...
	Well, I'd probably dive in and go swimming.
	Oh, oh.
	You're a good man.
	Hey, let me ask you something.
	Are you married?
	Certainly.
	I'm divorced.
	Wait, wait.
	You're remarried or you're currently divorced?
	No, I'm currently divorced.
	Right.
	So, didn't you say when I asked you, are you married?
	Yes?
	Yeah.
	I guess you could say I'm widowed because she passed away last Sunday, as a matter of fact.
	So, you know, that's an interesting issue unto itself.
	Since you divorced, you obviously were estranged in some way.
	How did her death...
	Well, no, actually, we stopped being married, but we never stopped being friends.
	I did have the opportunity to go back up and say goodbye to her before she went because they put her on a ventilator, which they weren't supposed to because she had DNR, but there was a mix-up in the paperwork.
	I'm sorry.
	Did you have children together?
	We have two daughters and four grandchildren.
	How did the daughters react to their mom's passing?
	They're taking it pretty well.
	In fact, they're both handling all the funeral arrangements.
	Well, bless you for your sense of the absurd and my prayers to all of you on her death.
	I never did that as a subject.
	I do everything on this program.
	I never actually...
	Discuss the subject of the passing of a person you were married to and divorced from.
	I have to believe it runs the gamut from indifference.
	It's hard to imagine that there are many who are just happy about it.
	but from indifference to sadness.
	I was divorced when my wife died a few years afterwards of a rare, rare, rare form of cancer.
	Remember I couldn't believe how sad I was.
	I very rarely cry, and I cried at her funeral.
	It was actually hard for me to get through the eulogy.
	I'm sure it runs the gamut.
	Okay.
	Anyway, we move on here.
	And Craig, also in South Carolina, in Elgin.
	Hello.
	How you doing, Dennis?
	First time caller.
	Thank you.
	Great to hear from you.
	To answer your question, with my experience, it's made things worse.
	The person I'm talking about, or I would use as an example, That's a very powerful point.
	It's an interesting question.
	I can't believe that I haven't dealt with that at length, or even briefly.
	Are unhappy people meaner?
	Or, here's an interesting way to put it, can you be mean and happy?
	Take Sean, for example.
	He's neither mean nor happy.
	That one was a good one.
	That was fast.
	That was worthy of the 40-pound Sunday.
	No, it's an interesting question, though.
	I have reflected on it in my life.
	Are there truly mean people, and there are many of them, or narcissistic, certainly, and can they be happy?
	I think there are happy narcissists.
	But I'm not sure.
	But I do believe that narcissism and unhappiness...
	It's hard to imagine a happy person who is mean.
	I mean, let's be honest.
	There's a generally really happy person and they just treat people crappily.
	It is hard to imagine.
	So it is part of my rule that the happy make the world better.
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	I have campaign expenditure limitations.
	Gavin Newsom does not.
	He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money.
	And shortly after it was obvious I was going to get into the race, the union, SEIU union, gave him $5 million for the anti-recall side.
	And just a couple of days ago, the teachers union, the largest funder of his campaign, gave him an additional $1.8 million.
	It is estimated he's going to raise a minimum of $50 million, maybe as much as $75 million to defeat me.
	You were praising my courage.
	Let me just say something about that.
	I get that a lot, and I have to push back because I'm not storming the beaches of Normandy.
	Unlike my father, I was never a Marine.
	Unlike my older brother, I was never a member of the Navy.
	Like my little brother, I was never a member of the Army.
	I did not serve.
	And about all the things I've ever done in my life, that's probably the thing that I regret the most.
	That I didn't give back a few years to my country.
	So this is a small sacrifice.
	I'm losing a little bit of money, actually a lot of money compared to my net worth.
	And of course, nobody's lived a pure life and anything and everything I've ever done will be exposed and will be twisted.
	And I know that I'll be assuming that.
	But this is a small price to pay for a country that I love so much and for a state that I love so much.
	You know, that's why you are who you are.
	You have perspective.
	You're talking about your father.
	You've been on this program before talking about your father.
	And when you've lived that kind of a life and you see what real sacrifice looks like, it's natural for you to do things that other people say, well, that's brave or that's heroic.
	You just think, well, what are you talking about?
	This is basic stuff.
	I've been living in a country that allowed me to succeed and to say what I want.
	How can I not fight for that?
	And again, I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
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	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about, what, $1.7 trillion?
	So that's more than a quarter of the entire discretionary budget.
	I had a senior Trump administration official tell me last night.
	The only way out will be to devalue the currency.
	You get to do that once and you're no longer the reserve currency.
	It is debasing the currency.
	This is, I think, to show that they can do something big and beat the Republicans.
	I mean, I don't want to be uncharitable.
	And yeah, there's a lot of bad policies.
	You've talked about the death tax and you're right.
	They're eliminating work for all these welfare programs.
	So we're going to be treated to millions and millions of able-bodied people.
	Getting all these benefits and not working because it doesn't make any sense for them to work.
	No, it's economically rational to stay home, especially when they extended the rent moratorium.
	They screwed small landlords everywhere in the United States, but they also increased the incentive not to go back to work.
	You don't have a rent bill to pay.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	We catch.
	We catch.
	By the way, talking about happiness, you know the role that religion plays in my life.
	Bye.
	Coming up very shortly are the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
	They're known as the High Holy Days for 15 years, except for last year, because of COVID. Not because of COVID, because of lockdowns.
	I could not conduct my usual service.
	But I am again this year.
	If you're in the L.A. area and you want a non-political inspiring service, send me an email at dennisprager.com and I'll send you information.
	For those of you outside of the L.A. area, for those of you anywhere, even in L.A., who cannot attend but want to watch it live streamed in 4K with five cameras, that will be done this year for the first time, a live streaming through SalemNow.com. that will be done this year for the first time, Go to SalemNow.com.
	And it...
	A lot of kids follow my work.
	Millions of them.
	And if you want to touch them with God and religion, whatever their religion or non-religion, this might be a way to do it.
	Say, you know, Dennis Prager runs this.
	It should be interesting.
	It's the learning experience, if nothing else.
	By the way, a total is 16 hours.
	It's a lot of time.
	And if you want to stop and go back, it's being recorded at the same time.
	SalemNow.com I started it 15 years ago because I wanted a non-political service.
	There aren't many.
	There are.
	I wanted to create a service that I wanted to attend.
	A good example of self-interest being in the interest of others.
	I created it For me, and hoped people would attend 300 to 400 come every year.
	Sort of like, if you can't join them, not beat them, just make your own.
	Anyway, just some reflections.
	The Happiness Hour topic is, do you agree with me that the unhappy make the world worse, whether in personal life, Or in societies.
	Alright, let's see here.
	Megan in...
	Is that Orland Park, Illinois?
	Is that correct?
	Dennis?
	Yes.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	It is truly an honor to talk to you.
	Thank you very much.
	Yes, I was calling about my daughter, who is highly functioning autistic.
	Very bright girl.
	Very talented girl.
	She's 12. She tends to circle to friends, meaning she can't really keep friends for any length of time.
	And she's miserable, and quite honestly, it's all our fault.
	She won't take accountability for her actions or her happiness or lack of happiness.
	We've had her in therapy, you know, a few times, in-home therapy, and then various therapists.
	And she does tend to rattle our chains.
	There's my husband, my 19-year-old son, and myself.
	But we do tend to work through it.
	I do tend to be happy.
	Wait, so is her unhappiness built into her autism?
	I have an autistic stepson, and we're very blessed because he's a pessimist.
	But he's happy.
	I think her inability to keep friends to a great extent.
	So she's back in school.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, she's higher functioning than my stepson.
	So that might be a factor.
	So is she aware of her condition?
	She is aware that she's highly functioning autistic.
	She just doesn't want to see.
	She what?
	Yeah, she doesn't want to see therapists to work through her issues.
	So, yeah, she wrote that.
	Actually, all this summer, she just pretty much stayed in the room and laid down and looked at her phone, looked at her tablet, and we did her best to try and get her out of the house and really feel like she needs therapy, but she just digs her heels in so much.
	She's 12?
	She's 12?
	She is 12, yeah.
	Look, I don't have advice, because there's too much that I'd have to know.
	I would love my wife to comment on it, because until 17 years ago, she raised him alone.
	We're together for 17 years, and he's in his late 30s.
	All right, back in a moment.
	All right.
	Jen Psaki, the pressure is getting to her, questioned by Peter Doocy, a famous clip already, cut number 11. Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen, by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded?
	Does he have a sense of that?
	First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded.
	They are not.
	We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
	We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans.
	Jake Tapper thinks they're stranded on CNN cut number four.
	Look, I understand.
	That people are working long hours in the White House, the National Security Council, State Department, Pentagon, and over in Kabul to get Americans out of that country.
	And I understand the White House wanting to reassure the nation that all Americans will ultimately be evacuated, but there are no doubt Americans...
	Who feel stranded in Afghanistan right now?
	Of course there are.
	It's absurd for the White House, and it tells you something about Joe Biden.
	Britt Hume was on with our friend Guy Benson on his radio show yesterday, said this is cut number one.
	But anybody who ever heard him speak for any length of time could tell this guy, this was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
	And, you know, he could talk forever and was famous for it.
	But you never had the sense that he was terribly smart.
	And on top of that, now he's manifestly senile.
	And between those two things, this is a man with very, very severe limitations, who is well too old, in my opinion, to be the President of the United States.
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	Whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States, should be fired.
	Because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent.
	On the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked forward operating base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I know.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based, and one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate from their territory.
	And, of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that out at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
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	All right, everybody. . everybody. .
	Happiness Hour every second hour on Friday since 1999. That's right.
	Only 134 years after the Civil War, I began the Happiness Hour.
	Look at it that way.
	That's an amazing thing.
	Periodically, I listen to music.
	From the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
	It is so remarkable how many songs were written about the need to be cheerful and grateful in life.
	I'm just curious.
	I don't know the answer because I don't know the music.
	Let me ask Sean.
	Sean, you're familiar with music today.
	Is there uplifting music today that is popular?
	I mean, I'm sure there exists.
	Give me an example.
	He had a quick yes, and...
	Right.
	It's not as frequent as in the past.
	It would be interesting.
	I would like...
	People should submit to me not some esoteric song, but a popular song with young people that is uplifting.
	I'm not saying it doesn't exist.
	I would like to know of their existence if they do.
	The topic today is, do you agree with me that the unhappy make the world worse, both in private life and in society's life?
	Okay, let's see here.
	Mark in Armada, Michigan.
	Hi, Mark.
	How are you today, Dennis?
	Well, thank you.
	All right.
	It's a great day.
	Well, I'm glad you feel that.
	What's on your mind?
	So anyway, yeah, to go to the topic, it's almost absurd to think that...
	It is not true that both the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
	And I know as a teacher, I'm a teacher, I'm a middle school teacher, and in my experience, probably in most, teachers can be the most negative people on earth.
	Like, everything is conspiring against them.
	And, like, I haven't even eaten lunch in the lunchroom in, like, a decade because it's just, like, it's just a how much can we complain about things 30 minutes.
	It's weird.
	It's one of those things where, and anybody knows this, you go into a situation and people are talking negatively and they're complaining, you get sucked into it.
	You can end up doing the same thing without even realizing it.
	This is a very important call on two grounds.
	One is the second point about how contagious ingratitude and complaining are.
	It's a great point.
	Great point.
	They're contagious.
	It's insidious.
	It's insidious contagious.
	The worst type of contagious.
	The other point I had not reflected on is, and it's an interesting question, are teachers, if you were to list five professions of similar socioeconomic status, are teachers in the top half of the happy or the bottom half of the happy?
	I think you would argue bottom half, right?
	I would.
	And I've actually thought about this, like, because it's what I know.
	Like, it's sort of like, okay, is it me just over-inflating it because I'm just around teachers?
	But I really don't think so.
	And it's, you know, it's like this, everybody's out to get them, and it's like everyone has so many problems, but it's like every profession has things that they don't like, that are irritating.
	Of course, exactly.
	You're not on an island.
	You know, this is a very interesting call.
	Thank you.
	You know, so many teachers are ruining children today, just as many therapists are.
	I mean, the conspiracy, because of leftism, I'm sorry to say, it's a poison.
	There are no happy leftists.
	There are happy liberals, there are happy conservatives, but there are no happy leftists.
	So it's a very interesting question about teachers.
	I'd never thought about that.
	I knew how indoctrinating so many teachers are, but I had not attached it to the question of happiness.
	That would be an interesting thing.
	I don't know if you can measure happiness.
	I know they try, but I don't know if it's at all scientific.
	You know, Denmark is the happiest country or something like that.
	What does that mean?
	But I don't associate happiness with teachers.
	Anyway, people who...
	Because, A, because there's so many who are on the left and there are no happy leftists.
	And secondly, because you can't be happy if you're not grateful.
	And there seems to be a constant tone of ingratitude in that profession.
	That was an important call.
	I thank you for it.
	Okie dokie.
	Let's see here.
	Scott Corbin, Kentucky.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dr. Craig.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you again.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, the unhappy in the world make people unhappy, and I had first-hand experience with it.
	Because for nine and a half years, I thought I was with the one I was meant to be with.
	And she was full of fear and doubt, hated Trump.
	I loved Trump.
	And took her nine and a half years before...
	God told Jesus, nail that boy right between the eyes with a 34-inch Louisville slumber.
	Yeah.
	Not the way I quite read the Bible.
	Anyway, I got your point.
	It's a very difficult thing to be married to someone that you don't share values with.
	I say this for both sides.
	That's why I've always said, if two leftists marry and then one becomes conservative, I actually feel bad for the leftist.
	I agree with the guy who went, or the woman who went rightward, but I feel for the leftist.
	sort of like the deal had been broken.
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	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia, perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden administration...
	We'll be able to fix the borders, perhaps even wants to fix the borders.
	I don't even believe they want to fix the borders, frankly.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it that the vast majority of us wanted to get out of there.
	No one wants our soldiers to go to war in perpetuity.
	But I don't believe in handing our soldiers a loss.
	I don't believe in doing that.
	I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
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	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	As the kids would say, OMG. Yeah, we have an extensive vetting process.
	Sure we do.
	I've been to the border, lady.
	No, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	But again, back to Kamala Harris.
	There she is trying to escape this mess by hiding out in Singapore.
	But there are reporters there, too.
	To that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
	Keep up.
	All right.
	A happy song from what year?
	Thank you.
	2012. Dennis Prager here.
	Happiness Hour.
	Oh, so many good calls.
	It's a big problem.
	Okay, let's see.
	Alex in Woodville, Wisconsin.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	What a wonderful...
	Man, you are.
	It's just amazing your insight.
	Thank you.
	I have to agree without question your premise on both sides.
	Unfortunately, I've been depressed for most of my life.
	I'm fairly heavily medicated, been through counselors.
	I still should probably go back.
	Psychiatrists, psychologists, you mean it.
	And I've had, I've gone, you know, That's what I was going to talk about when I told the screener, but then you talked about creative stuff.
	I did sculptures for a long, long time, and I always thought that, boy, if I take this medication, my art's going to suck.
	And I was given such a smorgasbord of different types of depression that I didn't think I'd be able to make good work, and that was a lie straight from the devil.
	That wasn't true.
	So I'm wondering, too, If what you said earlier is true, too, where you can be happy and make good art, you know?
	Oh, I'm happy you heard that.
	Yeah, wonderful.
	Well, you're a good soul.
	With all of my advocacy of happiness and even demanding that people pursue happiness, which he is, I just want to say.
	You need to know, all of you, how my heart goes out to those of you who just battled depression.
	I don't mean unhappiness, I mean depression.
	Everybody has unhappiness, as I said earlier.
	I know how lucky I am that I've never had depression.
	I just do.
	I realize I was just...
	For no reason that's discernible, it's just not been an issue in my life.
	But it's been an issue in a lot of people's lives.
	And I think that he did a good thing, Alex.
	He's doing a good thing.
	He's battling it.
	It's a terrible battle to have to fight.
	As for art, it's a romantic myth.
	That you have to be unhappy to produce great art.
	Happiness makes you want to get up and do your best.
	Unhappiness wants you to stay in bed.
	The happy make the world better, my friends, and the unhappy make it worse.
	That was the topic.
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	Jen Psaki, the pressure is getting to her, questioned by Peter Doocy, a famous clip already, cut number 11. Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen, by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded?
	Does he have a sense of that?
	First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded.
	They are not.
	We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
	We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans.
	Jake Tapper thinks they're stranded on CNN, cut number four.
	Look, I understand.
	That people are working long hours in the White House, the National Security Council, State Department, Pentagon, and over in Kabul to get Americans out of that country.
	And I understand the White House wanting to reassure the nation that all Americans will ultimately be evacuated, but there are no doubt Americans...
	Who feel stranded in Afghanistan right now?
	Of course there are.
	It's absurd for the White House, and it tells you something about Joe Biden.
	Britt Hume was on with our friend Guy Benson on his radio show yesterday, said this is cut number one.
	But anybody who ever heard him speak for any length of time could tell this guy, this was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
	And, you know, he could talk forever and was famous for it.
	But you never had the sense that he was terribly smart.
	And on top of that, now he's manifestly senile.
	And between those two things, this is a man with very, very severe limitations, who is well too old, in my opinion, to be the President of the United States.
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	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent.
	On the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked forward operating base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I know.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based, and one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate from their territory.
	And, of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that out at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9-11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people.
	Then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback.
	On the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans who've served in Afghanistan and in uniform and other parts of the world were very forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there is a recognition by the administration that we can't Get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants out, and yet a few hours later...
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before, Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive...
	PR win for the United States should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
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	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors because places like China, places like Russia...
	Perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden...
	That's right.
	My parents learned that when I was 13, and it was the beginning of my happy life.
	Let Dennis be Dennis.
	All right, everybody.
	This is the Aries, something, Jen, or whatever's on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death, and, of course, about audio equipment, photography equipment, fountain pens, classical music, and cigars.
	Mmm.
	Mmmmm.
	Okay, y'all.
	This is the hour.
	I love it.
	When I began radio, this is what it was like.
	You just call in on whatever you want.
	I didn't open up with a theme, or if I did, it was irrelevant.
	I gave my talk, and then you called in on anything.
	There are two ways of doing radio shows, and I think they're both completely acceptable.
	You talk about what's in the news, or some other theme, and people talk to you about that theme.
	Or they call in on whatever is on their mind.
	They're both good.
	I don't think either is better.
	But the nature of life demands that you address, obviously, dominant themes.
	Such as the colossal mistake in the way the withdrawal from Afghanistan was done.
	It could not have been done worse.
	The last time this number of American servicemen died in combat in Afghanistan was ten years ago.
	I also believe leaving Afghanistan was as colossal a mistake as the way in which it was done.
	And I know that half the conservatives listening don't agree with me.
	I have not heard a single decent rational argument for leaving Afghanistan.
	Why you would have America announce defeat when American strength is so critical to the world and to America is a puzzle to me.
	Why you would abandon a country that you know will be taken over by Nazis is a puzzle to me.
	The argument given, well, we've been there 20 years, is the purest form of non sequitur.
	If I had to offer an example of a non sequitur, I used to play a game with my kids, the non sequitur game.
	They loved it.
	So I would say something, and then they had to make up a non sequitur, something completely unrelated to what I just said.
	And it taught them a lot, and they had such fun playing the non sequitur game with me.
	So the non sequitur game is played very frequently.
	We're there 20 years, we have to leave.
	Point one, point two is a non sequitur.
	You're there 20 years, you have to leave.
	Why?
	I don't understand.
	It's a purely, it's 100% emotional comment.
	Anyway, this is the hour you call in on anything, but I have to say something about the spectacular blunder, blundering...
	Incompetent, crook-laden administration we have in this country.
	The amount of corruption is equaled only by the amount of incompetence.
	I never spoke this way in my life about any administration in nearly 40 years of broadcasting, just for the record.
	When America gets weak, cruelty increases on planet Earth.
	That doesn't seem to bother a lot of people.
	I don't know why.
	But you can't deny it's true.
	There is a direct relationship between American strength and the amount of cruelty on the planet in which we live.
	There's another way of putting it.
	It's an interesting thought question to have at your next family.
	Dinner.
	What do you fear more?
	Evil?
	Human evil?
	Or global warming?
	That's a good question.
	Now, that won't alienate you from any relative, because it's just an interesting discussion to have.
	The further left you go, the more the answer is global warming.
	Part of the reason they don't think clearly.
	If you're more afraid of global warming than human evil, there's a reason.
	It's because you don't live with fear of human evil.
	You are so coddled in an affluent, western, relatively safe country.
	It's like poor people don't want to defund the police.
	Rich white people do.
	Because the police play no role in their lives.
	Private guards do.
	Right?
	They have their gated communities.
	You know many homes I have visited in the United States in gated communities?
	You know how ubiquitous that is?
	And that's where you'll find the defund the police crowd.
	Nancy Pelosi's for defunding the police, but she has private guards.
	Why would that be?
	How about defund private guards?
	All right, y'all.
	Let's take a challenge here from Bob in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Bob.
	Hi, how are you today?
	I'm well, thank you.
	A couple years before the pandemic, you had a show on that was telling how parents were irresponsible for not getting their children vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, polio, all these different things.
	And then now...
	I just feel like you're angry because the media and the politics have, like, dismissed any of the therapeutics for coronavirus, like ivermectin.
	That's correct.
	I'm very angry.
	I think they've killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
	Well, I agree with you 100%.
	But for, like, many of us, that's our only option because the governors and everyone has, like...
	We've dismissed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin from our availability.
	So, like, we don't have a choice.
	But there is precedence in the government that they're mandating vaccines.
	Like, I come from a family where my son had a very adverse effect to the immunizations.
	Like, he sees fish sticks and everything every day.
	And now he's, like, deathly allergic to fish.
	He also had, which is an autoimmune deficiency problem.
	Wait, this happened, I'm sorry, this happened after what vaccination?
	His MMR and his polio.
	Oh, not COVID, yes, yes.
	So I'm curious, just tell me, so I thought and welcomed your challenging me.
	So far we sound like we agree on everything.
	Yeah, pretty close.
	I'm just getting fatigued by the fact that you're so anti-vaccine.
	What does it mean?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You mean this vaccine?
	Because, as you noted, I had a show on about being pro-vaccine years ago.
	I don't remember it, but I believe you.
	I'm not anti this vaccine for those with various comorbidities.
	The very old and anyone who will feel more secure in taking it.
	My anger is over mandates.
	My anger is over, as the caller pointed out, the lack of use of therapeutics.
	The immediate rush to a brand new form of vaccine.
	Which has no long-term tests because it could not have long-term tests.
	The FDA has compromised its standards by approving it.
	But the ability of people to treat or prevent this illness with cheap therapeutics and the medical profession's adamant opposition to it?
	Shows you only that the medical profession is as corrupt as the teaching profession and the legal profession and basically all the professions.
	It's as corrupt as Verizon, which has gone completely woke.
	Completely.
	I used to be a Verizon customer.
	I would not return to Verizon.
	But I don't sit here and tell you not to take the vaccine.
	I've never said that once.
	I said don't give it to children.
	I think that's child abuse.
	You have no right to give it to a child unless the child truly has a defective immune system.
	It is immoral to give children this vaccine.
	It is immoral to mask children.
	It is immoral not to have them go to school.
	It is immoral not to allow them to play with one another.
	What scared adults have done to children is a form of child abuse.
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	.
	Oh, shit.
	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia, perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden administration...
	We'll be able to fix the borders, perhaps even wants to fix the borders.
	I don't even believe they want to fix the borders, frankly.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it that the vast majority of us wanted to get out of there.
	No one wants our soldiers to go to war in perpetuity.
	But I don't believe in handing our soldiers a loss.
	I don't believe in doing that.
	I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
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	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	As the kids would say, OMG. Yeah, we have an extensive vetting process.
	Sure we do.
	I've been to the border, lady.
	No, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	But again, back to Kamala Harris.
	There she is trying to escape this mess by hiding out in Singapore.
	But there are reporters there, too.
	To that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
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	Are you trying to tell me something?
	Oh, please don't touch the camera.
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	All right, what is on your mind here?
	And where was our...
	There it is.
	Mark in Oklahoma City.
	Hello.
	I'm sorry?
	Oh, okay.
	You're not a Russian, obviously.
	But I'm fine.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I know.
	Oklahomans actually happened to eat at a Russian deli for a while.
	People like to test my Russian.
	It's very funny.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, I'll tell them to say that the vaccine debate is affecting my 30-year marriage.
	Two conservatives, two Christians, married in love, and my wife wants to go get...
	The vaccine, which I am opposed to that.
	But I said, okay, if you want to do it, go ahead.
	Just give me time to take out a million-dollar life insurance.
	So wait, all right, so I'm trying to understand why is this causing friction?
	She wants to take the vaccine.
	You're okay with her taking the vaccine.
	You just want to take out a life insurance policy.
	Which I think is really an emotional statement on your part.
	I'm with you on hesitancy about the vaccine, but if my wife wanted to be vaccinated, I'd say, let's make an appointment and have a good time.
	Your taking out the policy is your way of saying you think it might kill her, which is fine.
	So she should allow you your idiosyncrasy.
	In her view, and you should allow her her idiosyncrasy, in your view, and continue to love each other.
	I don't understand why it's causing a rift.
	Well, it's very emotional.
	You know, you look at a million dollars and say, oh, you think I'm more dead than alive?
	Well, wait a minute.
	Every responsible person has a life insurance policy.
	I don't understand why.
	That part, I understood everything until then.
	Well, in fairness, it would be an additional million dollars, and it was an emotional response for me.
	Yes, exactly.
	All right.
	So, look, in my opinion, you're gaining nothing except rubbing in how much you don't want her to take it.
	Okay?
	I'm not for it, but if my wife wanted it, it would not cause a rift in my marriage.
	And, you know, 30 years, two conservative Christians, good people, should just love each other up.
	You know, this is not like, you know, one person thinks that the country should be woke and the other partner thinks that woke is evil.
	That's a rift.
	This should not be.
	Okay?
	A big thing in life is know what to let bother you.
	It's really up there in the most important things in life.
	I actually have done, I think I did, did I do a happiness hour on my favorite two words, so what?
	You know how often it is worth saying so what?
	Most of the time.
	And you'll be a happier person if you...
	That is, look, you can't say so what to everything.
	I don't say so what to the pulling out of Afghanistan.
	Because I know the what the what is.
	Massive increase in terror on planet Earth.
	A weakening of the most important country on Earth.
	And I could, December 19th last year, I did so what?
	There you go.
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	So you have to know when to say so what and when not to.
	On this one, I would say so what.
	You want to take the vaccine?
	I'll drive you.
	That's what I would say.
	February 19th this year.
	Okay.
	Neither was critical.
	However...
	So what?
	That's my attitude.
	Half of what Sean says, I go, so what?
	Okie dokie, everybody.
	And let's go to Richard in Pennsylvania, one of my favorite states.
	Hello?
	Oh, I'm not hearing you.
	So, somebody fix his connection, and then I'll take you later.
	It's not fair to the listeners to have muffled voices here.
	Let's see here.
	Pittsburgh.
	We'll stay in Pennsylvania.
	Gerald in Pittsburgh.
	Hello.
	Yes, Dennis.
	I flew through Atlanta Airport yesterday from Charleston to go to Pittsburgh, and I watched all these people going down these escalators and pushing packed into the cars down there.
	And if I would have taken my mask off, they'd throw me out of the airport, get their hurting people like cattle, and force them into these cars to wear a mask.
	What, what, what, wait, I'm sorry, what...
	What car are people being forced into?
	The cars that go between the gates.
	Oh, yeah, the train at the airport.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Well, there's no choice.
	That's the only way to get from gate to gate in big airports.
	It's a scandal that there are big airports that don't have trains.
	No big airport without a train should call itself a modern airport.
	Atlanta, I got to gate in another...
	A whole other terminal in under five minutes.
	There are airports where there's a 20-minute walk.
	I don't care about the walking.
	I care about the time.
	Anyway, look, fear animates people probably more than anything else.
	And the media and the authorities have done a great job.
	and scaring Americans into the irrational.
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	Whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States should be fired, because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent on the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I know.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based.
	And one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate.
	From their territory.
	And of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9-11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people, then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken.
	Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback on the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans who've served in Afghanistan in a uniform and other parts of the world were very Forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there was a recognition by the administration that we can't get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants, out.
	And yet a few hours later...
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before, Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive...
	PR win for the United States should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
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	And I combine members of Prager Force, young people all over the world, and a very powerful one yesterday, a South African girl, young woman, in South Africa. a South African girl, young woman, in South Africa.
	And she was just so terrific.
	And every so often I have people that have donated to PragerU who have their own eloquent reasons for doing so.
	I want to say about the man I'm about to introduce.
	In this case, I actually know the person, Alain Lambert, or Alan Lambert, if you wish to anglicize it, but I know him as Alain.
	I also know Alan as Alain, which is very funny.
	We met many years ago when I spoke in Montreal.
	He's French-Canadian, and he's one of a handful of people that have really entered my life because of my affection and respect for him.
	And apparently I have entered his life and so has PragerU.
	And it's a pleasure to welcome Alain Lambert, who is a Canadian entrepreneur.
	And he also has given a PragerU video, The Truth About Canadian Healthcare.
	Alain, welcome to the show.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	When did we first meet?
	Do you remember at all the year?
	I first heard of you.
	About 20 years ago, I actually was listening to Hugh Hewitt.
	And then I heard about this guy who had a happiness hour on Friday, and I said, well, probably a good thing to do to listen to the happiness hour.
	And then we met for the first time, I believe, about eight years ago in New York City.
	Oh, yes, not Montreal.
	Right, right, right.
	New York.
	That's correct.
	Yeah.
	We did meet in Montreal two years ago as well.
	Were you with your wife in New York when we met?
	I was.
	Yeah, because I only remember her, actually.
	That's right.
	That would make total sense.
	No, I know.
	I knew you would agree.
	I knew.
	I was absolutely certain that you would think, of course.
	Anyway, where are you now?
	The last I heard...
	That's right.
	I'm still in Vancouver.
	So as you will recall, my wife and my two youngest kids, we spent three and a half years in Tucson, Arizona, moved back to Canada in 2019, and we now call Vancouver our home.
	Is Canada becoming as unfree as I think it is?
	You're totally right.
	You're totally right, sir.
	I think sometimes, you know, it's not as bad as Australia and New Zealand.
	If that's the...
	That is what we call faint praise.
	Not as bad as Australia and New Zealand.
	So you're not arrested for talking to somebody outdoors in Canada.
	No, no, no, no.
	We're allowed.
	Right.
	What about flying?
	Have you been vaccinated?
	That's an interesting question.
	It ties into, I think, the last call you had.
	And I'm not vaccinated.
	My wife is not.
	Well, she got the first shot.
	It's an interesting story because British Columbia has imposed a vaccine passport.
	So she loves going to the gym.
	She goes to the gym almost every day.
	And in order for her to be able to go to the gym, she has to be vaccinated.
	So I said to her, I know how important it is for you to go to the gym, so get vaccinated.
	Personally, there will be a point where I will not be able to travel.
	There are some restrictions coming for Canadians.
	If you're not vaccinated, you're not able to get on an airplane.
	And if I have to...
	Fly down to LA one day to do another PragerU video, I'd gladly take the vaccine in order to fly down to see my friends in California.
	Is there in Canada an ability to bring a lawsuit against that rule?
	A lot of my conservative friends, we've been talking about that, and we've been hoping that somebody would lead the charge, but we haven't seen any evidence of that just yet.
	The average Canadian is at peace with it, I assume.
	Well, it's even worse than that.
	Justin Trudeau, our prime minister, has made...
	The issue, electoral campaign issue.
	Wow, wow.
	Hold on there, Alain.
	I'm going to return to Alain Lambert in a moment.
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	And Jen Psaki, the pressure is getting to her, questioned by Peter Doocy, a famous clip already, cut number 11. Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen, by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded?
	Does he have a sense of that?
	First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded.
	They are not.
	We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
	We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans.
	Jake Tapper thinks they're stranded on CNN cut number four.
	Look, I understand.
	That people are working long hours in the White House, the National Security Council, State Department, Pentagon, and over in Kabul to get Americans out of that country.
	And I understand the White House wanting to reassure the nation that all Americans will ultimately be evacuated, but there are no doubt Americans...
	Who feel stranded in Afghanistan right now?
	Of course there are.
	It's absurd for the White House, and it tells you something about Joe Biden.
	Britt Hume was on with our friend Guy Benson on his radio show yesterday, said this, cut number one.
	But anybody who ever heard him speak for any length of time could tell this guy, this was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
	And, you know, he could talk forever and was famous for it.
	But you never had the sense that he was terribly smart.
	And on top of that, now he's manifestly senile.
	And between those two things, this is a man with very, very severe limitations, who is well too old, in my opinion, to be the President of the United States.
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	Thank you.
	Whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent.
	On the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked forward operating base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement, and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat.
	I'm speaking to a French-Canadian entrepreneur, and he is also a deep man.
	I'm very happy to have him in my life, Alain Lambert.
	His preview video, by the way, is The Truth About Canadian Health Care.
	You should all watch it.
	So, the problem is I could talk to you the entire hour, and I've got to go to calls.
	So, let me just get something clear.
	So, Prime Minister Trudeau is running on the...
	Lockdown mandate passport platform.
	Is that correct?
	That's right.
	At an election that will take place...
	Right.
	So here's the question.
	Is the opposition opposing this or not?
	Yes.
	The Liberal Party, Mr. Trudeau, is campaigning on even more restrictions.
	And then the conservatives, we're hoping we'll get into power, and some of these more extreme measures will either not come into place or will be relaxed.
	So who is the individual, the head of the conservative party?
	You know what, Dennis?
	I forget his name.
	You can ask me anything about U.S. politics.
	I know, that's hilarious.
	You probably know the capital of North Dakota, but you don't know who the conservative candidate for prime minister is.
	By the way, it is troubling to me that he's that non-memorable, although I would vote for him if I were Canadian.
	If he didn't exist, I would still vote for him.
	But is he opposed to...
	The rule that you must have a vaccine to fly in Canada?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Then you know what?
	Then the Canadian people deserve what they get.
	If people vote for tyranny, they deserve tyranny.
	And it will never stop, my dear listeners.
	It never stops.
	Just understand that.
	Income tax in America started...
	At 1%.
	It's now 50. Nothing stops.
	The moment you tell a government it can do X, it will do 2X, and then 3X, and then 4X. So, one final thing.
	You have been generous to PragerU in a nutshell.
	Tell people why.
	Two questions here.
	Why do I donate to PragerU and why is a French-Canadian donating to a US-based charity?
	And to me, the genesis of this is what you say, Dennis.
	You have to support the fighters.
	So I would tell your listeners, if you see somebody trying to burn down your house, you're certainly not going to just watch them do it and do nothing.
	So you have to do something.
	And in the case of leftism that's taken over academia, the media, Wikipedia, we need an antidote to these destructive leftist ideals.
	And to me, PragerU is the one place where all the...
	Tested the values of Judeo-Christian and American values reside, in which they're explaining.
	If you have a conversation with somebody who's not a conservative and there's a particular topic, you can reference Pray to You videos, content, and...
	As a French-Canadian, you know, why am I supporting PragerU?
	Because PragerU is not something that counteracts American leftism.
	It's the antidote to leftism.
	We have the same disease here in Canada.
	It's in the U.S. You say, well, defund the police.
	Our politicians say the same thing.
	They take a knee.
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	And so the best antidote globally is to donate to PragerU.
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	And as you know, I'm French-Canadian, my wife's Anglophone, our kids are bilingual.
	If you ask my kids how they learn one language or the other, they have no recollection.
	Because they were taught from day one, and I believe conservative values are like languages.
	They have to be taught to the kids so that they grow up with these values, and so if they're confident in life with anything, that they're going to fall back on these values.
	You are a joy.
	Eli Lambert did a video for us.
	This is the greatest perk I have in life, because of my public life, is the quality of people I meet.
	I'll use an example.
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	Thank you so much, Alain Lamberts.
	There's a French-Canadian who's taken with us.
	There is nothing we advocate that is only relevant to Americans.
	Values are universal, or they're useless.
	American values are universal.
	Liberty in God we trust, e pluribus unum.
	Our Trinity, as I call it.
	American values are as restricted to Americans as Beethoven is restricted to Germans.
	Koreans love Beethoven more than Americans do.
	It has nothing to do with...
	Nothing has anything to do with ethnicity.
	Ethnicity is the least important part of you.
	The least.
	Color is the least important part of you.
	Isn't that amazing?
	And your children are being taught that it's an important, the most important part of them.
	And you still send them to that school.
	You're making a big mistake.
	Anyway, help us out.
	Je vous remercie, Alain.
	Good man.
	Good cause.
	Back in a moment.
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	Whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	Taliban.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent on the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based, and one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate from their territory.
	And, of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that out at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
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	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9-11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people, then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback.
	On the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans who've served in Afghanistan in a uniform and other parts of the world were very forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is Okay,
	everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	Final segment.
	It goes too fast.
	It really does.
	You know what?
	I've got to take this question.
	David in New York asks, this is the air on anything, so you will love this.
	This is the greatest.
	This story prompted by the question, if I can give one story about what a live wire my late father was, this would be it.
	How did your dad keep Kosher on the ship during the war?
	My father was an Orthodox Jew.
	And he was an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II and stayed in until the Korean War.
	And so here's the story.
	He was told by rabbis.
	He asked about that.
	They said, in time of war, The laws of kosher are suspended.
	Your health comes first, which is the Jewish law.
	Bikuach Nefesh, as it's called.
	So my father, for the first time in his life, ate bacon.
	And as it happens, loved it.
	Just fell in love with what is arguably one of the more delicious foods in the world.
	Now, I don't happen to eat it either for a similar reason, but I have tasted it.
	Anyway, the war ends.
	This is my father telling the story.
	The war ends, Japan surrenders, and everybody in the Navy is ecstatic.
	And my father's reaction?
	No more bacon.
	I can't tell you how much I love my father for that story.
	It is You know why I love real, and that was real.
	So David in New York, you asked, you prompted, let me get to you.
	Did you like that story, David, or not?
	I thought it was wonderful, and I do appreciate your dad's honesty.
	Exactly.
	That's what I said, he was real.
	Do you know the reason I have a male-female hour every week?
	It's because of my father.
	My father talked about sex with the same ease that somebody else would talk about the weather.
	The weather is part of life.
	Sex is part of life.
	That's it.
	I got a lot from my dad.
	Not an emotional dad.
	Not a particularly warm dad.
	But you know what?
	That's not what kids most need.
	They need a good model.
	That's what they need.
	They need stability.
	They need guardrails.
	And I got all of that.
	Folks, if you'd like to attend my High Holy Day services or you just want information, send me an email.
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