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	I really hope you had a good weekend because it would have included Christmas for the vast majority of you.
	So I really hope it was good.
	I definitely want to do an hour this week, this shortened week.
	Oh, I'm Dennis Prager, by the way.
	P is in pneumonia.
	R is in rheumatism.
	A is in astigmatism.
	G is in gout.
	E is in emphysema.
	R as in rheumatism.
	And I want to do this hour on...
	How it was.
	Did you have family and friend fights?
	I'm laughing, but it's not a laughing matter.
	I'm only laughing because I want to lighten the burden of the subject, the heaviness of the subject.
	That people refuse to show up because you were unvaccinated, as if the vaccines have done the damn thing with regard to the latest variant.
	God, we live in a make-believe world.
	Outside of evil, evil is always more depressing, but outside of evil, the single most depressing sight is that of anyone wearing a mask outdoors.
	I think it's useless indoors, but I'll restrict my sentiment to outdoors.
	I'm going to look at the living world.
	Can you think of something more depressing?
	Not evil.
	I mean, you know, a child kidnapping is worse, obviously.
	But this is not evil, though it leads to truly destructive results.
	People not seeing people has a terrible impact on a society.
	But can you think of anything more depressing than vast numbers of people wearing masks outdoors?
	Well, it's a subset.
	But kids...
	At recess.
	Kids at recess, right.
	Okay, it's a subset.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, great to be with you.
	I get a lot of mail on my best-of shows, like when I was off, as many of you were, from work, on Friday and Monday, surrounding Christmas weekend.
	And we put up best shows of the past.
	I could put up for a month.
	We have so many shows that are not time-bound.
	I do so many shows that are not time-bound.
	I could present to you a month.
	That's 15 shows a week.
	That's 60 shows.
	There's no question.
	I could do it for a month and you would love the program.
	There are so many shows with ideas that have nothing to do with a news matter that might date it.
	So it's my way of saying it's worth listening to the best of, and obviously many people do.
	So here's the story of the day.
	Where is the story of the day?
	What did I do with my sheets?
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	The story of the day.
	Even my producer does not know what I'm going to choose.
	The story of the day is this.
	Not that this happened.
	But how it was covered.
	The deputy Asia editor of the New York Times, Carlos Tejada.
	I know you know all about this.
	I just didn't know if you would think I would make that the top story of the day.
	Carlos Tejada was the deputy Asia editor of the New York Times.
	He was stationed in Seoul, Korea.
	And he died on Friday at a hospital in Seoul.
	He was 49 and completely healthy, to the best of our knowledge.
	This is the New York Times coverage.
	Ready?
	His wife, Nora Tejada, said the cause was a heart attack.
	Alright?
	Cause was a heart attack.
	This is from BizPack Review.
	What is the orientation of BizPack Review?
	Centrist?
	Is there such a thing as a centrist site?
	Okay.
	New York Times editor 49 dies of heart attack one day after posting that he got his booster shot.
	Carlos Tejada, deputy Asia editor for the New York Times, Reportedly died from a heart attack one day after receiving the Moderna booster shot, according to his social media account to how to previously receive two Johnson& Johnson COVID vaccine shots.
	In breaking the story, lockdown and vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson, himself an X-Times reporter who was permanently banned from Twitter, And is now suing the platform as a result, asserted the following on his Substack page.
	On December 16th in Seoul, South Korea, Tehala received a Moderna mRNA-slash-LNP booster.
	No clinical trials have ever been conducted to examine the safety or efficacy of mixing various types of these vaccines.
	And Carlos did not give informed consent, as the consent form was in Korean, a language he could not read.
	The write-up from the so-called newspaper of record, a.k.a.
	the New York Times, contains no mention of a vaccine issue, which perhaps is hardly a surprise in that the corporate media establishment has monolithically adopted a pro-vaccine editorial policy.
	Including frowning upon even those who raise good-faith questions or merely seek additional information about safety or efficacy.
	So I'm curious.
	A man is 49 years old and healthy and gets a heart attack the day after taking the booster.
	Do you think it's a coincidence?
	Could be.
	Do you think it's related?
	Could be.
	If you had to bet your house, I have to put real life, well, house is too much.
	If you had to bet a month's income, okay, what would you bet?
	That's a good way to test people.
	They're telling the truth about what they believe.
	That the New York Times omitted it and that many, many other outlets reported it is the story of the day.
	I assure you that if he died of COVID and were not vaccinated, the New York Times would report that he was unvaccinated.
	Although I'm not sure you could work for the New York Times, And be unvaccinated, so it might be impossible.
	But if it happened, you think they would report unvaccinated, even though they have zero proof that that's what led to his dying?
	Zero?
	Of course they would.
	So everybody who gets sick and is unvaccinated, it's because they're unvaccinated.
	Everybody who drops dead at 49 after taking a vaccine, it has nothing to do with the vaccine.
	Get it?
	That's in a nutshell the way the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, NBC, and CNN report it.
	And that's what people believe, because that's all they hear.
	Those of us who are attuned to the dangers of the vaccine...
	And for the vast majority of people, it seems thus far to be fine.
	But those who are aware of the list of bad things, shall we say, that happened to people as a result of the vaccine, did you see Senator Johnson?
	He's one of the heroes of our day, you know that?
	Ron Johnson.
	What's his state again?
	Michigan?
	Wisconsin?
	He's a hero.
	He's actually in the Senate to do good.
	What a rare thing for any politician in any state or national position.
	I promise you'll cry if you watch the people who are hurt by the vaccine, like this young girl.
	What is she, like 15?
	The girl who is...
	Who is just paralyzed.
	The parents enrolled her in a test of one of the vaccines.
	Boy, is that a good example of people thinking they're doing good.
	But how can you enroll your child?
	Why would anybody enroll their child in a test?
	I mean, I do believe that parents should be the...
	The deciding factor in children.
	But this is an exception.
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	he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
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	This is Carol Platt-Lebao for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Fulgin even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgin.
	The question is why?
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	Do you think the media are acting responsibly by not telling you that Carlos Tejada, the New York Times Asia reporter, died a day after getting his Moderna booster?
	Thank you.
	Of course they are.
	It's all left-wing propaganda.
	The New York Times and Washington Post, when the government is a Democrat, they serve the party just as Pravda served the Communist Party.
	It might as well say, printed by the Democratic Party of the United States.
	To a large extent, they might want to say, printed by George Soros.
	That's how left-wing they are.
	I'm reading Alex Berenson's book.
	The case against masks is pure science.
	The lying of the media.
	I have the book in hardcover.
	I have the book in audible.
	And I'm getting the book on, what do you call the Kindle?
	Because I want to mark it up.
	It's beyond belief.
	And I was right from the beginning.
	The lockdown was the greatest international mistake in history.
	The number of lives ruined by this around the world for no good reason.
	Oh, by the way, you want to see how much lying goes on on the left because truth is not a left-wing value.
	This really, I think I'm going to call the editor of Newsweek.
	Why did you print this manure?
	And I may actually use the colloquial for manure.
	Did you see this piece by Peter Herman, a liar who teaches English at San Diego State University?
	And I will tell you the lie.
	I will tell you the lie.
	I mean, that's a pretty big thing to charge a man as being a liar.
	By the way, he's welcome to come on the show.
	They never do because nobody on the left debates the eloquent conservatives.
	So listen to this.
	This is mind-boggling.
	The sad fact is that COVID outcomes tracks the political map.
	Republican states that voted for Donald Trump, like Arkansas, Florida, and Iowa, have far higher COVID death rates than blue states which voted for Biden.
	Okay, so live.
	I waited for the last moment to do this.
	Because I want it to be as accurate as possible, literally, to this moment.
	I'm going on the internet to Worldometer.
	That's what I have used from the beginning.
	There are a number of places.
	Coronavirus deaths.
	Coronavirus USA. Okay.
	Here we go.
	So, remember what this guy says in Newsweek?
	I don't know why they published it.
	I don't care about publishing left-wing opinions.
	I care that Newsweek, which I had started to think was improving, I even subscribed, that Newsweek...
	Alright, United States.
	Here we go.
	Alright, so I'm clicking on deaths per million.
	So what did he say?
	Let's get this again.
	Republican states that voted for Donald Trump, like Arkansas, Florida, and Iowa, have far higher COVID death rates than blue states which voted for Biden.
	Alright, let's begin with Florida, because that's the biggest by far, right?
	So, Florida in deaths per million, and remember, Florida has the oldest population in the country, except for Maine.
	I don't know why Maine has an old population, but I want to be very precise.
	So, of any large state, by far, Florida has the oldest population.
	It should have led in deaths.
	Deaths per million, Florida is 13th, as of today.
	Okay?
	Now, let's see, are there any blue states?
	Why I call Peter Herman a liar.
	There shouldn't be any blue states, correct?
	Far higher death rates in places like Florida than in states that voted for Biden.
	That's what he writes, lying, because truth is not a left-wing value.
	He doesn't even think he's lying.
	He thinks he's doing good by getting people to hate people who voted for Trump.
	That is his purpose.
	And if you have to lie to do it, so what?
	So let's see.
	Oh, shockeroo!
	New Jersey, did that vote for Biden?
	Number four in deaths per million.
	New York, that vote for Biden?
	That's number six.
	Wow!
	So, how does he write this?
	What are the other states?
	Let's see here.
	The other states are, let's see, Arkansas is number eight, behind New York and New Jersey as well.
	And Iowa, let's see, I can't, okay, I gotta go scroll down so much to find Iowa.
	Iowa, guess what?
	Iowa's 25th.
	Exactly in the middle.
	So, above Iowa, let's see, more people have died from COVID per million in Connecticut.
	I'm just choosing the states I know that went for Biden.
	New Mexico?
	Pennsylvania?
	Rhode Island?
	Did Michigan?
	How did Michigan go?
	Michigan was Biden.
	Okay, Michigan.
	And New York, as I pointed out, of course, and New Jersey.
	So the man lied, and New Year's Week published it.
	That's who teaches your children at San Diego State University if they enroll in the English departments.
	English departments are wastelands.
	So it's really like majoring in gender studies.
	So Newsweek should have a correction.
	I'll call the editor.
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	he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager.
	So here's how it works for us talk show hosts.
	We look at the board as it's called, see the calls, where they're from, etc., their topic.
	I look at the board and I see a name that I recall.
	Hugh Hewitt.
	Some of you may know Hugh.
	Hugh is a fellow Salem host.
	He has done a couple of terrific PragerU videos.
	But I have no idea why he's calling in.
	Maybe it's just to wish me a Happy New Year because he's a good soul.
	Let's find out.
	I truly have no idea.
	All right, Hugh, take it away.
	Hello, Dennis.
	I knew it.
	I knew you would say hello, Dennis.
	I am calling in my capacity as your life coach.
	And not many people know that I've functioned in this capacity for years as your life coach.
	And when you get a little off, of course, I call up and I nudge you back on.
	Right.
	And I'm here to remind you of the lunch rule.
	Now, you know Frank Luntz, and you respect Frank Luntz, right?
	Yes, although I think he's said some things that I differ with.
	But he knows how to market.
	He knows how to sell.
	Frank knows how to sell.
	The Luntz rule is, if you don't say the title of a book seven times in a segment, the audience will not listen to it.
	You are right.
	The rational Passover Haggadah is the greatest secret Dennis Prager has ever kept.
	Dennis Prager is a sieve of information.
	You cannot tell him anything unless it is broadcast to the world.
	But he writes this amazing new book that Christians should get before Lent begins, which is like a week after Christmas is over.
	And they should order the Rational Passover Haggadah so they get it as soon as it's available.
	And he has never mentioned the Rational Passover Haggadah in all the times I've been listening.
	So my friend Joel and I are talking about this.
	I will put on my life coat hat.
	I got him out of the Zabar's incident.
	I got him out of the hula hoop incident.
	I will get him on the lunch rule on the rational Passover Haggadah.
	So I have a New Year's resolution for you.
	I, Dennis Prager, will not do a single segment in January or February in which I do not at least mention once the rational Passover Haggadah, since it will change the life of Jews and Christians alike in that they will finally understand what it is they've been talking about all these years.
	So as your life coach, as your friend, will you commit to really getting back onto this plan?
	I am taking you very seriously.
	I'm deeply, deeply thankful for this call.
	I have a built-in problem.
	I've always had it.
	I don't know how, and I'm inclined not to promote myself.
	It has hurt in some ways.
	But it's like asking me to win a track beat.
	I just can't run fast.
	This is why I exist.
	I'm going to dog you in it.
	Did I not invent Ask a Jew?
	Correct.
	And was Ask a Jew the most successful promotion you and I have done together for 10 years?
	Correct.
	Yeah, and so when I tell you that the rational Passover Haggadah will be greatly beloved by your Christian audience, and of course your Jewish audience, because the Christians don't really get the Passover Haggadah at all.
	They think it's an iron butterfly song from 1968. They don't understand it, and they will love it.
	It's the perfect Lenten devotion.
	It's so perfect for 2022. Have you even said the words?
	Irrational Passover.
	Yes, I have.
	I have.
	About five times.
	Five times?
	What is the lunch rule seven times in a segment?
	Seven?
	I mean, do you not want to sell this book?
	Do you not want to change lives?
	I do.
	Bring understanding and wisdom?
	That's why I work so hard on it.
	I'm humbled.
	How long did it take you to write this thing?
	A long time.
	Everything takes a long time.
	I know you said, and I have had so many people over the course of our 30 years of friendship say, I landed at Dennis Prager in a, you know, a diner, and he was writing, and I said, that's what Dennis does.
	He doesn't want you to talk to him at that point, but they talk to you anyway.
	No, I'm happy when they talk to me.
	It's fine.
	The Rational Bible, or you were writing any of your 5,000 books, but this one...
	This one is going to hit home because the rational Passover Haggadah is going to explain something that everyone thinks they know something about because they've seen a movie or they've heard about Passover.
	I mean, I have no idea what's in this book.
	I can't wait to read it.
	Yeah, you will love it.
	You know, I've never been to a thing.
	I'll tell you what, I will have you on after you read it and your reactions will be precious to me.
	Listen, I've got to take a break.
	Something you know well about.
	God bless you in this season.
	A happy new year.
	And my book, The Rational Passover Haggadah, is coming out.
	All right.
	I remember my resolution, my friend.
	God bless you into 2022. Be well.
	Thank you.
	That's a very sweet thing for him to do.
	It will change your life.
	It's up at DennisPrager.com.
	You can pre-order it at Amazon, The Rational Passover Haggadah.
	I promise you it's life-changing.
	I had no idea what he was going to talk about.
	What am I at, gentlemen?
	Oh, cool.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	everybody.
	Wouldn't it be great if a thousand of you very respectfully wrote to this professor that I called a liar?
	Which is a big deal to single out an individual who's not a public figure and say that about him.
	Peter Herman, professor of English literature at San Diego State University.
	Republican states that voted for Donald Trump, like Arkansas, Florida, and Iowa, have far higher COVID death rates than blue states which voted for Biden.
	It's a lie.
	I read it to you, and then I realized I didn't even read all the blue states that have more deaths per million than, let's say, Florida.
	So here they go.
	Massachusetts, Georgia, New York, Louisiana, New Jersey.
	Arizona.
	Alright?
	Is that enough blue states, Biden states, to render what this professor said a lie?
	Oh, by the way, he said, this is key, far higher.
	Far higher.
	It's...
	So the question, you know, I write, I have a thousand columns on the internet.
	One thousand.
	By the way, you'll love my column this week.
	Every Tuesday my column comes out at DennisPrager.com, TownHall.com, and then migrates to the Daily Wire, American Greatness, and many other wonderful sites.
	But you can see it at my website or at TownHall.
	I took an idea from like 20 of my columns of this past year.
	This is the last column of the year.
	It's a very provocative column.
	So take a look at that.
	When I write, there's always a voice in me saying, are you trying to win a point by fudging the truth?
	Is that really accurate?
	And then I have editors whose primary concern is, did Dennis tell the truth?
	In a thousand columns, I told no lie like Peter Herman in Newsweek, this professor at San Diego State.
	Drop him a line.
	If you don't want to do work, it's the one, two, three, fourth paragraph from the end.
	It's an out-and-out lie.
	Imagine what he tells his students.
	Then you wonder why students get left-wing brainwashed, because they have teachers like Peter Herman at San Diego State.
	But it is Newsweek's job to check even an opinion piece where something is written that is so obviously false, you have an obligation not to do it.
	I mean, when I've submitted columns, they've said, what's your backup?
	And they should.
	They're completely right.
	They do it now.
	Creator sends out my columns.
	And they often ask me, what's the proof of this point you're making?
	And I send it to them.
	and we go on.
	Such it is.
	So it is.
	Crystal Lake, Illinois.
	Michael, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Thank you for having me on.
	Yes, sir.
	So you had asked earlier in the show about people that were having arguments with their family at Christmas time.
	Right.
	And I happened to walk into a situation that I did not expect.
	So on Christmas Eve, I traditionally celebrate my Christmas with my family, and we go and visit the in-laws.
	And upon arrival, I had an open mind not to have an argument with my family on Christmas Day.
	However, we were greeted with a box for a COVID test for my wife to take immediately upon walking in the door.
	So there was no greeting or, hi, glad to see you.
	And, oh, your son's home from Kuwait for serving in the military.
	I'm glad he's with you as well.
	It was literally, here's a test, take it, we need to make sure you don't have COVID, or else, you know, you're not going to be able to spend Christmas with us, which I thought was ridiculous.
	So wait, this caught you by surprise?
	Absolutely.
	An ambush is probably the perfect word for it.
	Out of curiosity, what is your vaccination status, you and your wife?
	So I am vaccinated because I work for a company that holds government contracts, so it's a requirement.
	And I did the Johnson& Johnson for the, you know, one and done at the time for what it was.
	And my wife is not vaccinated because she has actually a severe autoimmune disorder and her internist says, let's not get you vaccinated because we don't know what it might do to you.
	God bless.
	You're lucky to have such a doctor.
	This is a minority of doctors, in my opinion.
	Doctors are a herd.
	Absolutely, it's opposite of the nurses in this doctor's office, which totally were hounding my wife.
	And then the doctor actually came out.
	All right, so who did they want tested your in-laws?
	Their daughter?
	Their daughter, correct, my wife.
	Not you, not you.
	Wait, what about you?
	Not me.
	All right, so they accept that the vaccine works.
	They do, and there is some irony in this, because my father-in-law is an educated man in medical science and used to work for the CDC. There's not much irony.
	I'm sorry to differ with you.
	It's sort of expected.
	So, I'm curious, was it cold out?
	It's Chicago, after all.
	Was it cold out?
	On this particular day, it was in the 40s, so it wasn't really cold.
	Among you people, that's summary.
	Okay, so what did you do?
	Did you wait on the porch to get the results?
	So my father-in-law put on a mask, as did one of my brother-in-laws, and they wanted my wife to take this test.
	And my wife was like, okay, after about 90 minutes of wanting to know why this test was necessary, she's like...
	I'll take the test, but somebody's going to have to tell me how to do it.
	I've never done one before.
	What do you mean 90 minutes?
	You delayed taking the test 90 minutes?
	Oh, there was back and forth going on for 90 minutes as to why this even needed to be done.
	No, I wouldn't have done it.
	I would have taken the damn test and gone.
	It's by in-laws.
	What the hell is it?
	The test is nothing.
	You put a Q-tip up your nose.
	Yeah, so my wife is...
	Tested two weeks prior, so I think she was thinking it was a little redundant.
	All right.
	Well, listen, thank you for the report.
	At least they had dinner together, at least.
	I want to know the ones whose dinners were ruined.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear, what was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call, he's not giving up, I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	This is Carol Platt-Lebao for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgent.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Fulgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgen.
	The question is why?
	The question is why?
	example of why kids should be seeing this.
	Personal responsibility from a hip guy.
	A cool guy.
	How old is Zuby, would you say?
	20s or 30s.
	Yeah, 20s or 30s.
	Black guy.
	I mean, perfect guy to relate personal responsibility to your teenage kid.
	It's a very important thing.
	I'm really troubled by what this professor did.
	I'm sorry I can't get it out of my mind.
	I just want you to understand that's a great example of the lies that you're bathing in in the mainstream media.
	As is the New York Times report that they don't report that their associate head of their Asia Bureau died of a heart attack at 49. Who dies of a heart attack at 49 the day after a vaccine?
	Zuby is 35, thank you.
	And it's not reported.
	It's reported all over the Internet.
	That this man at the New York Times, Tejada, had a vaccine the day before.
	That he had the Moderna after having the Johnson& Johnson.
	When a healthy person has a heart attack, you could say it's just lousy luck at 49, or if it's after a vaccine.
	It's worthy of mention.
	Of course the New York Times didn't mention it.
	But as I said, had he been unvaccinated and died of COVID, you think the New York Times would not mention his vaccination status?
	This is the world in which we live.
	You know I would have no arguments with the New York Times if it would just say, "We exist to promote the Democratic Party and the left." Or as it's captioned, "Not all the news that's fit to print, rather promoting progressivism each day." You know I would never attack the New York Times.
	I mean, unless they told an out-and-out lie, but that would be fine.
	We at PragerU, we tell you, we believe in American values.
	We believe in the American Trinity, e pluribus unum, liberty, and in God we trust.
	We promote Judeo-Christian values.
	We're very honest about what our role is.
	I wish your colleges that you send your kids to did the same thing.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	We understand that a plane has crashed.
	Ah!
	The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
	Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history.
	The United States killed.
	Osama bin Laden.
	There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 US dollar bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs.
	Nobody's gonna survive that.
	There's nobody in that.
	This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
	Most of them are US Navy SEALs.
	We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
	The military threw them away.
	More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
	Get somebody out, they'll leave a fallen angel.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years, back to the land, is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	Right.
	So this has changed in the culture.
	We now have entire stadiums screaming blank Joe Biden.
	I actually think that in some measure this is a sign of health in the country.
	I don't think you're wrong.
	In fact, my last column I talk about, in essence, what the American people are feeling in terms of how they're being treated by the current administration.
	Now, excuse me, by the way, I'm not saying I approve of it.
	Right.
	It makes me uncomfortable.
	But at the same time, it seems like a strange sign of health that we feel free enough to say that.
	Well, and I don't even know that we necessarily feel free.
	What I would say is that the American people feel like kind of a battered spouse at this point.
	Okay, you wrote an article.
	And that the administration is so abusive to how they're treating people that this reaction that you're seeing, and it started out in two college football stadiums.
	It's now been in dozens to hundreds.
	It's the new wave.
	NFL teams had it going on this week.
	Talladega or NASCAR or whatever they ran had people chanting it.
	There is something so inherently abusive about how people are being treated.
	By the government.
	They are, and particularly in a society that wouldn't consider itself particularly crystal-centric.
	And it is, I am actually thankful, to your point, to see a degree of, we're not going to let this abuse continue, even if it's nothing more than using our freedom of speech to say something that's very vulgar and attach it to him.
	We're not taking it anymore.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	You are not to be heard.
	You are not to be heard.
	everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	My favorite week of the year, the last week of the year.
	You know, in radio, it's traditional for hosts to take off the whole week because there are no ratings.
	So, it's traditional.
	But, I don't know, I didn't have the heart to.
	I wanted to say hi to you this final week of the year.
	Take a look at my column, my Tuesday column.
	It's out, dennisprager.com, townhall.com, and then later on, many other websites.
	I took a few lines from about 30 of my columns over the course of this year.
	So it's a great summary of the year and my insights.
	You'll really enjoy the column.
	What did I title it?
	The Crappy Year in Review?
	I'm serious.
	I choked myself up watching Sean crack up.
	That'll catch your attention.
	What is the title?
	What does it say?
	The Crappy Year We Just Live.
	It's the crappy year we just lived through with crappy in parentheses.
	That's an original title for a column.
	I love honesty, right?
	Let's be honest.
	Who is the...
	Was it Ron Klain who said what a great year it was?
	They really gaslight you.
	Yes, it's been great.
	The inflation rate is awesome.
	The takeover of schools by people who loathe children and ruin them.
	Ah, it's been great!
	Actually, there were great parts.
	There's fight in the American people.
	This is what I'm about to tell you I have said.
	It is worth saying every day for you to bring it into your mind and your heart.
	The United States is the freest country in the Western world now.
	Think about that.
	I had a Dutch woman, remember, the young Dutch woman on, and I had a young Austrian man, two of the young people I met in Hungary when I spoke there.
	There's a left-wing organization that was about to write an expose on Dennis Prager helping Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who's on the right and they hate.
	So I wrote a response to them.
	They probably thought I wouldn't respond or I wouldn't get a response in in time.
	They told me the day before the hit piece was supposed to come out.
	It never came out, did it?
	Not yet.
	Not yet.
	I actually watched my entire talk in Hungary.
	By the way, if you know any Hungarians...
	You should definitely send them this video because it's got Hungarian subtitles.
	I have lived to see they have my speech up and they have Tucker Carlson's speech up with Hungarian subtitles.
	I didn't even mention Viktor Orban.
	They so aim to smear.
	But I wrote to them, if you write what you said you would, I'm going to sue you.
	I'm going to sue the organization for libel.
	You can watch the whole speech.
	I said nothing that you accused me of saying.
	That I supported Viktor Orban on LGBTQ issues.
	I never mentioned Orban, and I never mentioned LGBTQ issues.
	But other than that, they got it right.
	You fight back, it helps.
	You've got to fight back.
	I didn't talk to you about the police officer in Minnesota.
	The, uh...
	Kim Potter, yeah.
	Thank you.
	My heart breaks for her.
	My heart breaks for the victim.
	My heart breaks for her.
	She pulled out a gun instead of a taser.
	When a police car is on a chase of a criminal and hits a pedestrian, does the policeman go to prison?
	So why does she go to prison?
	She accidentally pulled out a gun instead of the taser.
	Alan Dershowitz in The Hill writes a very powerful piece He's a gutsy guy.
	Why, he's still a Democrat.
	Shows you the power of habit.
	The jury's conviction of Minnesota police officer Kim Potter for the death of Dante Wright, coupled with the judge's denial of bail.
	The denial of bail while on appeal?
	The murderers and rapists and burglars?
	And muggers that they let out without bail?
	and this woman is not even given the opportunity to have bail?
	Obviously the judge is a leftist and is cruel as a result. .
	It's a double injustice with dangerous implications for policing in America.
	Officer Potter, a decorated policewoman with more than two decades of service, simply did not commit a crime.
	The prosecution conceded that she did not intend to shoot right, and that she made a mistake by pulling out and firing a gun instead of a taser.
	Under American law, honest mistakes are not crimes, even if they result in tragic deaths.
	For example, an elderly driver accidentally putting a foot on the gas instead of the brake and killing a child is not necessarily a crime.
	It becomes a crime only if the action was reckless, involving a conscious decision to engage in conduct which the defendant knows poses a high risk of serious injury or death.
	In this case, there was no evidence that Potter consciously made the decision to deploy and fire a gun as distinguished from a taser.
	Nor was there sufficient evidence to demonstrate that Potter's conscious decision to stun Wright was criminal.
	Wright had an outstanding warrant for an armed crime, and his conscious decision to resist arrest and get back in his car constituted a direct threat to the life of Potter's fellow officer and others.
	She was right to stun him, but she made a mistake by firing the wrong weapon.
	Even worse than the jury's verdict was the judge's decision to deny Potter bail pending appeal.
	There is a substantial likelihood that Potter's conviction will be reversed by an appellate court.
	Potter is not a flight risk nor a danger to the community.
	The judge's decision to throw her into prison seems lawless.
	Why don't they mention these judges' names?
	I don't understand that.
	and calculated to appease the public lust for holding police accountable even in cases where the fact and the law do not justify imprisonment.
	The conviction and imprisonment of Officer Potter represents a dangerous trend in American law.
	Prior to the racial, quote, reckoning, unquote, that followed the unjustified killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, A once respected officer like Potter would never have been charged with criminal conduct for her tragic mistake.
	But the public demanded that she be charged.
	Indeed, some called for her to be accused of murder.
	You know, it's an interesting question.
	What does it mean, the public?
	If we put Minnesota voters, even Minneapolis voters, most of whom are crackpots, Destructive fools in the way they vote.
	If we put it to a vote, here's the data, this is about right, his record, why he was stopped, how he resisted.
	She had no choice but to taser him, pulled out the gun instead.
	Do you believe that she should go to prison?
	It would be very interesting to take a vote just with Minneapolis voters.
	Every American, regardless of race or political persuasion, should be concerned when a decent police officer is indecently charged and convicted for making the kind of honest mistake that any person could make when confronted with the pressures of a life-or-death immediate decision.
	Police officers will be disincentivized by this decision to take actions which may be necessary to protect innocent life.
	That's correct.
	Especially in places like Minneapolis.
	Ah, you want to run away with your car, and even though you just committed an armed crime, have a nice day.
	I don't want to risk going to jail and having my name sullied by the left-wing press.
	Back in a moment.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1600. And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on YouTube and a rumble.com Hello, everybody.
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	Hmm.
	And...
	Alright, thank you.
	President Biden keeps declaring...
	President Biden keeps declaring that COVID shouldn't be a political issue, quote-unquote.
	Raised an important question.
	Why doesn't he simply lift the most burdensome political football of all?
	His own administration's unconstitutional and illegal vaccine...
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	BlockTheMandate.com I guess I'm going to take some calls.
	I was going to say, this is such an important issue, the conviction of this woman officer.
	My heart breaks for her.
	And it's angering.
	Let's hear from some folks in Minnesota.
	Let's see.
	Dave, Greenfield, Minnesota.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Can you hear me okay?
	I sure do.
	Okay.
	I wanted to call in because I was listening to your show, and I am one of those that is also outraged in Minnesota regarding this verdict.
	It was absolutely a travesty.
	But what kind of shocked me was the next morning, The editorial board on the Star Tribune, I call it the Communist Red Star.
	They decided that the editorial was to respect the verdict by the jury, which was completely opposite of what they did with the Rittenhouse situation.
	Oh, that's fascinating.
	But what shocked me more than eight...
	Yeah?
	Yeah, what shocked me even more was the support that came out of the public against this verdict.
	It was more than 10 to 1, at least, of people that were saying this is absolutely true.
	Wait, how do you know that?
	How did you see reactions?
	Because I read all the comments.
	All the comments in the Red Star?
	Yep.
	Oh, I'm going to look there.
	Thank you for telling me about that.
	It shows you how there is no...
	I used to say the moral compass of the left is broken.
	There is no moral compass.
	Or the compass doesn't move.
	It's always north when it's south.
	Oh, I guess it does move.
	Yes, it's always broken, and it's always the opposite.
	Rittenhouse verdict was wrong, and the Potter verdict was right.
	Okay?
	So if you're thinking of voting Democrat, please know that that's what the Democratic Party stands for.
	Kidd saves his life by shooting people who want to kill him.
	He should have been convicted.
	But an officer who mistakenly pulls out a gun when she legitimately needed a taser, she should go to prison.
	Do you know how long she is?
	Sentenced to be in prison?
	She hasn't been sentenced yet.
	Yeah, of course.
	Well, we have a judge who uses the bench the way judges in dictatorships did.
	You use the bench to convict people you don't like.
	That's it.
	That's what he stands for.
	Minnetonka, Minnesota.
	Chuck, hello.
	Hello, I wanted to talk about Kim Potter.
	You've been started at the beginning.
	What happened was the attorney, who was to take over the case, refused to charge her, and the mob was outside his door and harassed him continually.
	So he turned, who did he turn the case over to?
	Keith Ellison.
	Maybe you don't remember, Keith Ellison is the Attorney General of Minnesota, and he was a congressman, and he and Omar were opposed to having the police.
	When they took that vote, they stood against the police.
	Now, another thing, the attorney quit because of this.
	The police chief said his officer did absolutely nothing wrong and testified that on the stand.
	Alright, so why do you think the jury convicted her?
	The jury was made up of 250 to 300 colored people standing outside.
	That's what convicted her.
	Right, so they were afraid.
	They were afraid.
	Yes, and not only that, but the tasers should have never been the primary thing.
	They showed it over and over.
	And another thing, every time you saw this kid who was 18 or 19 when this happened, had a three-year-old child on his lap, every time you saw him, the three-year-old was on his lap.
	He was of a mixed marriage.
	His mother is white.
	His father is black.
	So this gives you some idea that, oh, they considered him to be a victim.
	No, he was not.
	She's not a victim.
	Believe me, she's a victim of the whole.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Thank you for calling.
	Thank you.
	There's a lot of mob stuff going on in the United States.
	Ann Coulter was right.
	What did she call them?
	The Mob?
	Wasn't one of her books titled that?
	It has the word mob in it.
	My wife, who's read virtually all of her books, will tell me that in a moment.
	That was Mob Rule This Verdict Against Tim Potter.
	Demonic, how the liberal mob...
	Right, demonic.
	Some say it's the most important of her book.
	You do?
	You think it's the most important?
	How the liberal mob is endangering America?
	Yeah.
	That's what it is.
	It's a mob.
	Only one juror had to resist.
	If a juror resisted this immoral verdict, would that juror's name be known?
	Yes.
	It would.
	All right.
	Probably the Minneapolis Star Tribune would.
	The Minneapolis Red Star would print it?
	Mm-hmm.
	You're probably right.
	Isn't it supposed to be sealed?
	Yeah.
	So who would leak it?
	Who knows?
	There are a hundred people who leak it.
	Oh, yeah, right.
	There are plenty of people.
	Or maybe another juror.
	Yeah.
	It's a very bad thing when juries...
	Render verdicts because of fear of the mob.
	Okay, I've got a lot to talk to you about, including, I'm curious, if you can get through, try to empty some lines, clear some lines, actually, how your Christmas went.
	We'll be back in a moment.
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	We understand that a plane has crashed.
	The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
	Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history.
	United States.
	Killed Osama bin Laden.
	There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 US dollar bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs.
	Nobody's gonna survive that.
	There's nobody in that.
	This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
	Most of them are US Navy SEALs.
	We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy Seals.
	The military threw them away.
	More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	Don't have no respect!
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
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	All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	There's a front page piece in the Los Angeles Times.
	Armenian groups in Los Angeles fight vaccine hesitancy.
	So apparently, by the way, I am there.
	I am in the middle of the Armenian community.
	I broadcast from Glendale, California, right outside of L.A. Glendale has more Armenians than any city outside of Armenia.
	If you don't speak Armenian in LA, you're a minority.
	In Glendale, I should say.
	Anyway, so listen to this.
	They have lagged behind the Los Angeles County average, that is the Armenian population here, troubling community leaders and physicians who fear that enduring distrust of government Stemming from genocide, upheaval, and a precarious history in other countries, has made it harder to sway some Armenian Americans to get the shots.
	For immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Armenia was part of the Soviet Union, Armiyansky-Sovetsky Republic, quote, there wasn't any trust or credibility toward government, unquote, said Assemblyman Adrien Nazarian, Democrat, North Hollywood.
	All of that has fostered, quote, a lot of concern toward just blanketly accepting what government is telling them.
	Isn't that refreshing?
	That's so refreshing.
	I salute the Armenian community for, quote, not blanketly Accepting, ooh sorry folks, what government is telling them.
	Exactly.
	The difference between the lies from the American government today and the lies from the Soviet government in that day are minimal.
	There is a difference, but not much.
	The American media serves as your Soviet newspapers served when you were in Armenia under Soviet rule.
	So, your hesitancy is completely warranted, is my message to the Armenian community.
	It is the opposite of what, can you get that, Sean, please, the New Zealand Prime Minister said a couple of months ago to her people, that if it isn't from the government, it isn't true.
	That is exactly what the Soviet government said to Armenians when they were under Soviet rule.
	Are we working on that?
	Do we have that just about coming up?
	It's priceless.
	It's in our Hall of Fame recordings.
	If it doesn't come from the government, it isn't true.
	It's actually said by the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
	So you Armenians...
	Who have built in...
	You've been vaccinated against government lies.
	That's an important vaccine.
	It's very sad for me as an American to say this about my own government, but the left has ruined it, as it has every single other institution in America.
	I read an article.
	Let's hear the Prime Minister.
	And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us...
	It is not the truth.
	Is that priceless, folks?
	Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
	Hmm.
	yeah that's right truth is everything The truth shall set you free.
	My favorite verse in the New Testament.
	My favorite verse in the Old Testament is those of you who love God must hate evil.
	Between truth and hating evil, you'll build a good world.
	I must say...
	Anyway, the Officer Potter case...
	It's frightening because the mob caused the verdict.
	A policeman makes a mistake?
	Now, I don't believe nothing should happen.
	I think when a person gets killed, there has to be some repercussion.
	but not prison.
	800-583-84 is the phone number for relief factor.
	Relief Factor has an interesting announcement for a product.
	I've never heard this from another product.
	If it doesn't work in three weeks, it probably won't work.
	That's what they say.
	Pretty good, eh?
	They don't lead you on, do they?
	And they give you a three-week price of $20, $19.95 plus shipping.
	If you have any muscle or joint pain, This is a safe anti-inflammatory.
	Nobody else, to the best of my knowledge, has made anything like it.
	It's sort of a miracle in pill form.
	Go to relieffactor.com and read how it has affected people's lives.
	Order the three-week quick start for $19.95, 800-583-84, relieffactor.com.
	This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
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	If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope.
	That he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Got number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford Keep up with what's trending.
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	- Thank you, sir.
	It's Michael in Philadelphia.
	I'll invite you to call me.
	I do happily talk to you about masks.
	There are other subjects I want to cover now, but he's an orthodontist, and I'd be more than happy to talk to him.
	So, Michael, call me when we have open lines.
	He thinks I'm misleading you about masks.
	What I would ask him and any one of you is to read Alex Berenson's book.
	What is the name of the Alex Berenson?
	Pandemic?
	Pandemia.
	Pandemia.
	He has chapters on all the studies showing that masks don't work.
	The idea that we should put masks on two-year-olds on airplanes is barbaric.
	Everyone who has agreed with this policy will look like a fool in history.
	Scared fools.
	One of the major changes in my outlook on life.
	The last two years have affected my thinking more than any two-year period, any ten-year period, any twenty-year period of my life.
	I used to think love and hate were the most powerful human emotions.
	I now believe it is fear.
	You get people afraid, you can tell them anything.
	Anything.
	The vaccinated hate the non-vaccinated.
	You know why?
	Because the afraid hate the unafraid.
	There's a rule of life.
	The afraid hate the unafraid.
	I came up with that last week.
	It's a very clarifying understanding of human behavior.
	I'm afraid and you're not.
	You need to be Eliminated from society, which is what they're doing in Europe.
	The unvaccinated are eliminated from society.
	Let me read to you from the CBC, which is a left-wing thing, just like CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
	So let me read to you what they have to say.
	Give me one moment, because there's a massive amount of stuff that comes in.
	Where's my CBC? Oh yeah, here we go.
	This is from the CBC, December 27th.
	What is today's date?
	So this is yesterday.
	Okay, so...
	Vaccine protection.
	Listen to this.
	Vaccine protection has fallen to 14.9% from nearly 90% a month ago.
	Those are the people who have two shots.
	That's two shots.
	Yeah, two shots.
	For people who have received two doses, according to the data.
	This is the CBC reporting this.
	It's like CNN. Vaccine protection against infection is melting like snow under the sun.
	Dr. Peter Juni, the group's scientific director, said in an interview on CBC News Network, Omicron is evading the immune system.
	In reality, there is no way if it comes to infection to distinguish any more between a person who is not vaccinated and a person who has received two doses.
	What do you think of that?
	And this truly bad human being, Anthony Fauci, is advocating that...
	Let me read to you again.
	This is from the CBC, quoting Dr. Peter Juni.
	In reality, there is no way, if it comes to infection, to distinguish any more between a person who is not vaccinated and a person who has received two doses.
	How about this?
	Are people who had COVID, like me, are we getting Omicron as much as others?
	If we're not, then what I have claimed from the beginning, I wanted to have natural immunity, turns out to be valid, isn't it?
	Washington Post wrote a whole article, a whole article, not a reference, an article, mocking me.
	I guess I should be flattered.
	Here's the good news.
	sleep.
	So they can't even distinguish anymore.
	So now, of course, it's a booster.
	Ah, the booster!
	Israel's up to a fourth shot, a second booster.
	So let me ask you a question.
	You think all of these vaccinations will have no effect on your immune system?
	None whatsoever?
	Maybe they won't.
	I personally prefer to have COVID with therapeutics.
	American medical establishment, including probably your own doctor, have conspired to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.
	Because they did not give them therapies.
	They gave them nothing until they got so sick they went to the hospital and then gave them, in most cases, not just useless ventilators, ventilators that killed them.
	Between that and the woke medical colleges, medical schools, there is a very real danger that American medicine is in the toilet.
	Real, real danger.
	I've never said this.
	I've never thought this.
	Doctors saved my life.
	I'm very grateful to them.
	But like everything else, whatever the left touches, it destroys.
	And that includes American medicine.
	It is a pale shadow of what it once was.
	We'll be back.
	We'll be back.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	Thank you.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	Music Joy to be with you everybody!
	Hope you had a good Christmas.
	I can't wait to do that.
	I guess we'll get more into that tomorrow and Thursday.
	How did it go for you?
	Did you have fights in your family?
	Did they accept the unvaccinated?
	Especially the unvaccinated who had COVID? It's painful.
	Mountain Home, Arkansas.
	Sam, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	My 17-year-old son is interested in going into the Air Force.
	It's all he's ever wanted to do.
	And when I finally got in touch with an Air Force recruiter in Little Rock, he told me that my son would not be allowed to go to basic training without getting one of the three COVID vaccine shots.
	And he also informed me, as his father, I would not be allowed to attend his graduation ceremony outdoors without having the vaccine.
	Outdoors?
	You had to be vaccinated?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	What graduation?
	Boot camp.
	Oh, you mean if he were accepted?
	Yes, if he were accepted...
	I see.
	You couldn't attend the graduation if you're not vaccinated, even though it's outdoors.
	So this is the corruption of our military by the scared.
	The worst group in the world you want to have scared is your military.
	Is that fair to say?
	The worst.
	So we will only accept the most frightened candidates for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.
	If you're scared of COVID at 17 years of age, we want you.
	If you're irrational, we want you.
	If you're a wimp, you are the best person we could have because wimps are running our armed forces.
	This is the message.
	This is whom we want.
	As we want police officers who never make a mistake.
	Never make a mistake.
	That's the lesson from Officer Potter in Minneapolis.
	All right, I'm sorry I didn't get your call.
	I mean, to take all of you.
	William, Joe, Joseph, Rob, Marty, and Mark.
	Well, double vaxxed, got COVID, no big deal.
	Vaxxed son had it twice.
	Well, I'm going to take Hugh Hewitt's advice and remind you that my hopefully life-shaping works on the Bible are coming out.
	But first, the rational Passover Haggadah.
	Take a look at it on Amazon.
	This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope.
	That he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get down, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group, and the president ended up agreeing with that, to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1600. And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	If you're Anthony Blinken, if you're Tony Blinken and you're like a frustrated pop musician who wound up somehow a secretary of state and you've never achieved anything in your life, The one thing that you can do, the one way you can exert power, how?
	Killing people.
	You're the Secretary of State.
	You can force a war.
	This is how they think.
	So it's like a big coping mechanism?
	Look, one of the basic desires, as you noted, is to exert power over your environment.
	Hey world, I was here.
	You know, my life meant something.
	So in order to signal that, you know, you wave your arms, you exert power over something.
	Like, I can drink this Pellegrino.
	Like, I am a man.
	I am not an animal.
	I am a man.
	So the higher up you go, the greater the desire is, and that's whether they're in the first place to exert power.
	People go into journalism to exert power.
	The more overriding your desire is, and I would say most of the time it's because you're compensating for this deep emptiness within.
	You have a barren personal life.
	You're not actually deriving fulfillment at home.
	Your kids don't love you.
	Your wife has contempt for you.
	So you go to work and you're like, well, damn, you know, like, what can I add?
	Invade Iran.
	I'm not joking.
	I'm not joking.
	I'm not taking it as a joke.
	I've lived my whole life around these people.
	You look around, you're like, oh, wow, that person has a really sad person.
	Oh, so does that one.
	Oh, there's Mitch McConnell.
	That's the saddest of all.
	Or whatever.
	You know, all these people.
	And then it approaches like 90% of our political leaders have these sad, barren personal lives.
	You're like, what are the odds of that?
	Maybe they're compensating for what they don't have by exerting power over other people.
	Oh, now I'm very much a sub genius.
	So it took me decades to figure this out.
	But once I did, it explained pretty much everything.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Third hour, Tuesday every week, is about some great issue of life.
	It's an extremely important hour to me.
	I look at it this way.
	It's the Wisdom Hour.
	I mean, I hope there's wisdom every hour, or I wouldn't broadcast.
	But it really is devoted to that.
	What is wisdom?
	I think a good analogy to a map.
	A map has knowledge, but no wisdom.
	A map tells you exactly where you are, but it doesn't tell you where you should go.
	Where you should go is wisdom.
	Where you are is knowledge.
	Alright, Ultimate Issues Hour topic today has never been addressed on the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	Humor.
	One of the most important things in life.
	I believe, to the extent that I feel funny saying this, but I think I'm funny.
	I make Sean laugh.
	Alright, that's my criterion.
	Anyway, I can only tell you that it has saved my life.
	I deal with such intense issues.
	How often do I say better to laugh than to cry?
	I think comedians do an incredible service to a society, to be honest.
	I think also that it is far easier, for example, to make a movie that makes people cry than a movie that makes people laugh.
	And I'll bet the ratio of crying movies to laughing movies is very high.
	I could make a movie That will make you cry.
	Just show a mother losing her little kid to cancer.
	But funny?
	That's rare.
	I have a great admiration for comedians.
	I have one in my studio now.
	Tom Dreesen is a sort of legend.
	He was the warm-up act for, we'll find out how many years, for Frank Sinatra.
	And to his great credit, and for good reason, he is still performing around America.
	But he's also a thinker.
	By the way, I suspect that more comedians are thinkers than any other branch of show business.
	Is that fair to say, Tom Dreesen?
	Yes, I would say that.
	I just want to add one thing you said about wisdom.
	I read this quote, and I use it sometimes in my motivation talks.
	Wisdom is avoiding all the thoughts that weaken you.
	Right, that's good.
	I love that.
	It's avoiding all the thoughts that we can...
	So what do you think of my comment that comedians are deeper thinkers than most people in show business?
	Yes, I would agree to that.
	I rarely have met, and the present company excluded, but I rarely have met a comedian who was not intelligent, and many who had superior intelligence.
	Wow.
	Well, that's been my, you know, I made a...
	A film with Adam Carolla, whom I adore as I adore you.
	You're both serious thinkers.
	You've written books.
	Yes.
	I mean, serious books.
	Tell my audience.
	I wrote two books.
	One is, I mean, co-wrote the first book.
	It's Tim and Tom, an American comedy in black and white.
	Tim Reed and I were America's first black and white comedy team in history shows.
	Which one was black and which white?
	The audience had to figure that out for themselves.
	We left it up to them.
	Right.
	I always say I played the white guy.
	I did a good job.
	Oh, you did?
	Yeah, I did a good job.
	But Tim Reed later became Venus Flytrap on WKRP Cincinnati and, of course, many other shows, Sister, Sister.
	But we stayed together six years, and we wrote a book about that.
	What it was like, there were no comedy clubs in those days.
	So we toured the nation doing all-black clubs, what they affectionately called the Chitlin Circuit.
	Black-owned, black-operated nightclubs.
	And we played all white clubs as well.
	We were on the Playboy circuit as well.
	But America wasn't ready for what we were doing.
	And eventually the team split up, but we've remained the best of friends.
	And we wrote a book on it, which may now become a miniseries.
	There's talk of that.
	That'd be great.
	And what's the other book?
	And my second book is Still Standing, which just came out not too long ago during COVID. And it's My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage and Sinatra.
	And so it's a retrospective of my life and all of the hardships I went through in my life.
	What year?
	You went through hardships?
	How rare.
	I can't believe it.
	Life means hardships.
	No question about it.
	You're from where, Kansas City?
	A suburb on the south side of Chicago, Harvey, Illinois.
	Did you grow up poor, middle class, rich?
	If I described to you how poor we were, you would say later to Alan, you'd say, you know, he probably exaggerated a little bit, but we were raggedy poor.
	I had eight brothers and sisters.
	We lived in a shack.
	You did?
	There were nine of you?
	No, four boys and four girls, and we lived in a shack.
	So eight of you.
	Yeah, eight of us.
	Okay, go on.
	We lived in a shack.
	If a window broke, you stuck a rag in it.
	If you had holes in your shoes, you put cardboard in it.
	We had no bathtub.
	You know what this sounds like?
	The Monty Python skit.
	They're all competing with each other.
	Who had the crappier...
	Who had the crappier childhood.
	But, you know, I say that, and when I give...
	Excuse me.
	When I give motivation talks, I say this all the time, we had no bathtub, no shower, no hot water.
	So where did you go for that?
	We did.
	We boiled water, and you'd put it like in a pan, and you'd wash there.
	I shined shoes in taverns.
	I set pins in bowling alleys.
	I caddied in the summertime.
	I sold newspapers on the corner, all to help feed my brothers and sisters.
	And none of this do I regret.
	I think it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
	I truly believe it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
	You have an interesting life.
	So tell me about the bowling pins.
	Yeah.
	One of the biggest laughs I ever got from Johnny Carson.
	I did 61 appearances on The Tonight Show.
	Is that a record?
	No.
	Excuse me, I think David Brenner made more than me.
	I think Rodney Dangerfield may have made more than me, but pretty close.
	You were on Johnny Carson 61 times?
	61 times.
	In answer to your question, I love to make Johnny laugh when I could hear his laughter behind me, but one of the jokes I told on the Tonight Show that the audience didn't quite get, but Johnny cracked up.
	I said, how poor my family were.
	My whole family was wiped out when automatic pin setters came in.
	That's very funny.
	That is funny.
	But young people today go, I don't get it.
	They didn't know.
	Of course they wouldn't get it.
	Yes, exactly, exactly.
	When did you know you were funny?
	You know, even when I was a little boy, I loved to hear...
	When I was shining shoes in all the bars in my neighborhood, there were 36 taverns in Harvey, Illinois.
	Eight in my neighborhood.
	My mother was a bartender in one of them.
	My uncle owned the tavern that she was a bartender and her brother-in-law.
	And I would go there last.
	I would shine shoes in the bars.
	And I'd go there last and wait for the shifts to change in a factory, and then I'd go back out again.
	But I'd go there last because my mother was a bartender there, but my uncle told jokes behind the bar.
	And it fascinated me that this guy, with his sound, with his vocabulary and with his inflection and his timing, could cause this sound to come out of everybody's body and fill the air like electricity and unify.
	Everybody would be as one.
	And that just fascinated me.
	And I wrote a poem years ago that I won't do for you, but it's called The Sound of Laughter.
	And the opening line is, As far back as I can remember or shortly thereafter, I love to hear the sound of laughter.
	So I would sometimes...
	Tell his jokes.
	Many that should not be told on a Catholic school playground.
	Because he told them in the tavern, you know.
	Well, now I know why there were eight kids.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly, yeah.
	So, you loved making people laugh from a very early age?
	Yes.
	But I never thought I'd ever be a comedian.
	It was the furthest thought from my mind.
	I got in the show business purely by accident.
	But the first time that I went on stage with Tim Reed, something I had written got a laugh.
	And it was almost like one of those B-movies, like an epiphany, like the dark clouds open up and the sun burst through.
	My whole being went, oh, yeah.
	Oh, this is what I want to do.
	What was your first gig?
	The first gig that Tim Reed and I did?
	No, no.
	It was with Tim Reed?
	Oh, it wasn't alone.
	No.
	You began with him?
	Yes.
	We were in the JCs.
	I wrote a drug education program teaching grade school children the ills of drug abuse with humor, a concept I had.
	They weren't teaching drug education in those days at a college level or a high school level, let alone at an elementary school level.
	But I thought we need to get to them in eighth grade before they get into high school.
	And before they were introduced to drugs, we found out later that many were introduced to drugs even before 8th grade.
	But the program became very, very successful.
	And one day, an 8th grade girl walking out of the classroom, Tim and I used to poke fun off of one another.
	And the students were black and white, and they just attached to us right away.
	We got over with them right away.
	Poke fun at one another and made each other laugh.
	And the students would laugh with us.
	And one day a little 8th grade girl leaving the classroom said, you guys are funny.
	You ought to become a comedy team.
	And the thought of a black-white comedy team.
	What year was this?
	1969. America was in turmoil.
	Martin Luther King had been assassinated.
	Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated.
	The Vietnam War.
	People were protesting the Vietnam War.
	I had just gotten out of the service.
	Tim just got out of college.
	All right.
	We're going to continue.
	We're talking to Tom Dreesen, a legendary comic.
	Opened up for Johnny Carson 61 times on Johnny Carson about humor.
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	Hello, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	I love him, though.
	I know.
	I do, too.
	I'm reacting to some occasion my producer communicates with me.
	If I'm speaking to you, he can't talk to me.
	Well, sometimes he does.
	Sometimes he writes it on a little, what do you call it, a chalkboard?
	Whiteboard.
	What is it?
	Whiteboard.
	A whiteboard?
	I prefer blackboards.
	In the age in which we live, I think whiteboards should be removed.
	Tom Dreesen is a legendary comic.
	I'll give you two examples.
	He opened up, how often for Frank Sinatra?
	Fourteen years in 45, 50 cities a year, until the very last song he ever sang.
	Wow.
	And for your trivia people, the last song he ever sang on stage is, The Best is Yet to Come.
	Oh, I got chills on that one.
	I thought you were going to say my way, but that's even better.
	And he was on Johnny Carson.
	For those of you who are young, Johnny Carson was the legendary night comedian, The Night Show.
	Tonight Show.
	Tonight Show.
	I know.
	I wasn't giving the name, but it doesn't matter.
	It was The Night Show, but it's called The Tonight Show.
	And he was on 61 times.
	There are people Johnny never invited back, so that's a big deal.
	You had to keep coming up with new material.
	And Johnny didn't want two guys going to bar jokes.
	He wanted original monologues.
	So he'd keep coming up with a new six-minute hunk every time he went on that show.
	By the way, in 1975...
	That's the Johnny Carson theme music, yeah.
	Wherever you went in America.
	In 1975, people say, what do you do for a living?
	You say, I'm a stand-up comedian.
	The next question out of their mouth was, oh yeah, have you ever been on Johnny Carson?
	That's right.
	What an interesting point.
	It's a very big deal.
	So you've seen a lot, I've got to say.
	So now let's analyze, because I know you have.
	So first I'm curious, can a person...
	I have an answer in my brain, but I'm not going to say it.
	I'll say it only after you say it.
	Can a person develop a sense of humor?
	Yes.
	Because it depends on your definition of what a sense of humor is.
	I say, I think it's the greatest gift that God can bestow upon a human being is a sense of humor.
	By my humble definition, a sense of humor is not when you have the ability to laugh at other shortcomings and misfortunes, when you have the ability to laugh at your own.
	If you can laugh at yourself, psychiatrists would probably tell you the number one problem with their patients is they take themselves too serious.
	We take ourselves too serious, and we're not all that big a deal, Dennis.
	So learn to laugh at yourself.
	And parents can teach children how to do that.
	And teachers can teach students how to do that.
	They should have a class on it.
	You know, whenever you do, children look at you like you're a god, you're a parent.
	They can't picture the universe without you.
	You're the god of their universe.
	And when you come home and tell them, what did I tell you the dumb thing I did today?
	You know, like one day I opened up the car door and I hit myself right in the mouth with it by accident and my mouth was bleeding.
	I went inside and I shared it with my kids.
	They thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
	That I thought, how dumb I am.
	I opened the door and hit myself right in the mouth.
	Always, you know...
	So, I can't...
	It's a very complex subject, actually.
	First of all, for the record, I thought the answer would be no.
	My theory on this, which is not nearly as developed as yours, but my theory on this is that there are at least two elements.
	One is, can I make people laugh?
	And the other is, do I appreciate jokes or humor?
	Yes.
	Both are a sense of humor.
	Yes.
	But when I asked you, can you develop one, is can you develop the ability to make others laugh?
	Well, I've taught classes to aspiring comedians, stand-up comedians.
	I can teach you a lot of things about stand-up comedy.
	I can teach you joke structure, as I just explained, and I'll do it here.
	There's two things when you're writing a joke.
	Comedy is one.
	Number one, it's nine-tenths surprise.
	The audience laughs because they didn't think you'd say that or do that.
	The other rule is there are no victimless jokes.
	I can teach you joke structure.
	I can help you with stage presence.
	Hi, Larry.
	I cannot teach you timing.
	You either have it or you don't.
	Hi, Larry.
	And it's really hard to describe timing to other comedians understand it.
	But if you were to take a pond of water and throw a rock high in the air, and when the rock goes as far as it can in the air and then starts to come down, and then it hits the pond and it ripples across the pond.
	If that's laughter, you never move on your next line when that laugh is on its way up.
	Some nights when I'm on stage, I wait until it comes a little bit down and I move on my next line.
	Some nights I let it go halfway.
	Some nights I let it hit the pond.
	And some nights I let it hit the pond and ripple all the way across.
	I can't tell you before I go on stage what I'm going to do.
	Because you're reading the audience.
	I'm reading the audience.
	If I did 30 minutes tonight at the Laugh Factory in front of 120 people, and then...
	Open for Frank Sinatra in front of 20,000 people with that same exact 30 minutes, it takes on a totally different dynamic because it's larger laughter.
	So you instinctively know when to go on to the next line.
	That I can't teach you.
	How much of your stand-up routine is spontaneous and how much is it your routine that you've memorized?
	It's all memorization.
	Now, when you memorize your act and you have a good act down pat, you can then ad-lib within the confines of that.
	Do you?
	Yes.
	Because you have a beginning, a middle, and an ending.
	I know where I'm going.
	Anybody who says they go after Robin Williams could do that.
	There was no one like him who could go out there and do 45 minutes and not know where he's going half the time.
	He was genius.
	Beyond genius at what he did.
	But most of the time, you always prepare.
	You know, you give talks.
	Prepare.
	Beginning, middle, and ending.
	You know where you want to start.
	You know how you want to leave them in the middle.
	But you also, because you're so well prepared, you can ad lib within the confines of that.
	You can be spontaneous and not be afraid to fail.
	Are you nervous?
	Before you go on?
	When I first started out, I was like anybody else.
	But I began, I read hundreds of books on the powers of the mind.
	You know, my favorite being The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy.
	But whatever the mind can see and believe it will achieve.
	Most people, when they're starting out public speaking, whenever they envision themselves that Friday going to go out in front of an audience, they always envision what would go wrong.
	What if this doesn't work?
	What if that doesn't work?
	I have to believe that the ultimate pain, Is a comedian without a laughing audience?
	Well, I mean, we've all been there.
	You have?
	Oh, sure.
	I mean, when you start out, one time I was on show.
	So, it's a good thing you don't carry a gun or a knife.
	You shoot yourself or stab yourself.
	Well, I wouldn't think of that.
	But it is, it's devastating.
	It's devastating.
	You know, stand-up comedy is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
	Exactly.
	It's painful to imagine.
	And it happens to all of us.
	One time on the Phil Downey Show, a woman, I was on with five comedians.
	She said, did you guys ever bomb?
	I said, ma'am, we trained in bombing.
	You know who was great?
	At bombing Johnny Carson.
	With one joke, you know, and when it didn't work, he would then go into his dance routine, and of course...
	You're right, he had that look.
	This is really not working.
	And guess what that was?
	He was the victim of that joke.
	Oh, great point.
	It showed that he had a sense of...
	When I first started out, an old vaudevillian once told me, he said, Tom, he was an old guy in his 90s, and I just met the guy, and he said, Tom, when you start out as stand-up, the first two jokes are on you.
	And I say that to public speakers.
	Walk out and tell them some stupid or silly thing you did on the way to this talk or that day.
	And immediately, they like you.
	People love someone.
	On Hollywood Squares one time, 3,500 women polled.
	This was a question that was asked.
	Of 3,500 women polled, what's the number one characteristic they look for in a man?
	And it was a sense of humor.
	Oh, that's true.
	A guy who didn't take himself too serious.
	Right, right.
	Or just made her laugh.
	Tom Dreesen is my guest.
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	If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
	Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
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	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get down, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
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	is a great subject, and it's perfect for this time of year.
	People are more relaxed, hopefully, and a great man to talk about it with.
	The subject on the Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday is the Ultimate Issues Hour, is humor.
	A spectacularly important part of life.
	To make people laugh is to do a service for them.
	That's why I'm so angry.
	You don't have to comment on this, but you're certainly welcome to.
	I'm so angry at the politicization of late night TV. It used to be make Americans laugh.
	Now it's make Americans angry.
	I agree.
	Look, we described earlier comedy as nine-tenth surprise.
	The audience laughs because they didn't think you were going to say that or do that.
	So the setup line hides the punchline.
	When you know who the victim in the joke is, and the other rule is there are no victimless jokes.
	I can watch late night and I see where it's going.
	It's going, the victim for...
	During the Trump administration was always Donald Trump.
	The comics, I'm being facetious with, they say, you know, I was mulling the lawn today.
	By the way, Trump sucks.
	We knew where they were going every night.
	You know, Johnny Carson stayed on the air all those years and you never knew which party he belonged to.
	I still don't know.
	And you were on 61 times.
	Do you know?
	He never discussed politics.
	So you don't even know.
	I later heard...
	Alright, that's separate.
	But you didn't know that 61 visits.
	And I met him socially several times.
	And he was on 60 Minutes one time.
	You can download it on the internet.
	We're asking him, why don't you do more...
	Mike Wallace said, why don't you do more political humor?
	He said, why should I? The audience, you know, my audience, they work all day long.
	They come home, they watch evening news.
	It's bad news, bad news.
	Then they go and maybe do a second job and come home.
	It's bad news, man.
	And they get in bed and they turn me on and they're going to go to sleep laughing.
	They don't need to hear more bad news.
	We need to put that on our show.
	I can't believe he articulated what I always attribute to him.
	That is real.
	He was just so conscious.
	He felt it a moral duty to bring joy to the American people.
	Most days are hard.
	Such is life.
	And not now.
	There is no moral duty in that direction.
	And the politically correct police, whoever they are, no one knows who they are, they're out to destroy comedy.
	Because the comedians are the last bastion of freedom of speech.
	Lenny Bruce went to jail for it.
	Thousands of men and women died, so we have the First Amendment right.
	You can't yell fire in a crowded theater.
	You cannot stop us from anything we want to say.
	That's why we live in this country.
	For anybody to tell you what you can say, watch out.
	Because their next step is to tell you what you must think.
	If comedians are shut down, they're the last frontier.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Because everybody understands you could make fun of any group.
	You can make fun of Jews.
	You can make fun of blacks.
	You can make fun of Puerto Ricans.
	You can make fun of Mexicans.
	You can make fun of Asians.
	You can make fun of whites.
	That's the last place that remains standing.
	If that's knocked down, it's over.
	I know the difference between ethnic humor and racist humor.
	Yeah, one's malicious and one is funny.
	Exactly.
	There's no funny Holocaust joke.
	There's no funny lynching joke.
	Okay?
	Those can't be funny.
	But to otherwise, to, you know, Jackie Mason, who just died, and I heard him in person once, and I laughed so much that I actually had to leave before intermission because my stomach hurt.
	I'm not joking.
	I agree.
	And the guy made fun of Jews.
	And he was a Jewish guy.
	In fact, he studied for the rabbinate.
	But it was hilarious.
	And, you know, Is anybody afraid to go into a Jewish neighborhood?
	Tell me.
	What, are you going to be beaten up by an accountant?
	I'll never forget that joke.
	Here's what, when Jackie Mason talked about growing up Jewish, I'm not Jewish, but I said, gee, my mother did things like that.
	My father did that.
	Now, when the black comedian talks about growing up in the black community, you'd say, well, I'm not black, but you know, my mom and dad did things.
	What we find out through humor is how much we have in common.
	Exactly.
	But here is an interesting thing.
	I wonder if you've given this thought.
	I wouldn't ask it if I haven't.
	Humor is very, very much cultural.
	Like, I wonder if it were translated for me, I don't know German, if a German stand-up comic would make me laugh.
	I wonder.
	And I suspect not.
	Well, again, comedy is subjective.
	It's not what the comedian is.
	It's what you are.
	All right, we'll be back in a moment.
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	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, we don't even focus on our own.
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	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	Ultimate Issues Hour is about humor, one of God's gifts to the human race.
	There was a humorous part in the Bible this weekend.
	It's my favorite line if you want to be humorous.
	People could do humorous stuff about the Bible stories.
	They should.
	So, Jews around the world read the exact same portion of the Torah, the first five books.
	In the course of every year.
	This last week's portion, it was the burning bush.
	Moses approaches the bush, and God tells him, I want you to go back to Egypt and take the Israelites out of Egypt.
	And he argues, and then he goes, and I need to know your name.
	And God says, I am who I am.
	And I'm just thinking about Moses going, that is not helpful.
	Right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Imagine if somebody rings your doorbell.
	Who's there?
	I am who I am.
	You still don't know, do you?
	And I'm not going to open the door.
	And you're not going to open the door.
	So do you have a prescription for people on being humorous?
	Yeah, first of all, again, you talked about earlier about someone going to the supermarket and they have a story about it.
	Say you go to the supermarket, you're the wife, and this actually happened to a woman's wife.
	I bring it up.
	She went to reach her like a can of peas and she lost her balance and fell down.
	Now all the cans fell down.
	Her dress went up over her head.
	People were, you know, she was embarrassed.
	She went home and shared that with her family.
	And they loved it.
	They loved her for it.
	They laughed and they laughed.
	It's saying to them, look, if this happens to me, it could happen to anybody, but laugh at yourself first.
	It's a brilliant observation.
	But the other thing I say to you, too.
	Laugh out loud ten times a day.
	When I was in acting class, we had to cry in a scene or laugh in a scene.
	And I can laugh.
	I can look in the mirror.
	I tell everybody, laugh out loud ten times a day, even if you're home alone, in your car.
	And the best way to start is when you get up in the morning, first thing you do is look in the mirror.
	If that doesn't make you laugh, nothing will.
	Well, it makes most people cry.
	No, it makes men laugh and women cry.
	But laugh at yourself.
	Laugh out loud ten times a day.
	Promise yourself every day.
	And I don't want to get into all the seriousness of it, but...
	Norman Cousins wrote a book called Laughter Math, and he wrote another book called The Anatomy of an Illness.
	Didn't he write laughter is the best medicine?
	Well, that was a quotation from him that they put in Reader's Digest.
	But anyhow, he was dying of a terminal illness in the hospital.
	Doctors told him it was a heart condition because of stress.
	He laid in the hospital and thought, if negative input, stress made me ill, then positive input should make me well.
	So he checked out of the hospital.
	He'd only watch I Love Lucy reruns, Candy Camera, Three Stooges, Marx Brothers.
	He wouldn't watch evening news.
	Didn't read the newspapers.
	He lived 27 years after the doctors told him he was going to die.
	Now, we've always known laughter is psychologically a deterrent.
	The brain cannot think of two thoughts at the same time.
	So if you're watching a comedian or if you're laughing at something, the brain cannot function two thoughts at the same time.
	Well, the male brain.
	Well, okay.
	So laughter is psychologically a deterrent.
	But because of Norman Cousins, UCLA did research, what happens to the brain, to the body, when you have a hearty laugh?
	The brain releases an endorphin into the bloodstream.
	Right.
	That's why after a hearty laugh, you go, tears are coming down, you go, oh, and a sense of well-being comes over your body.
	That's right.
	Your body's going through a cycle.
	Not only is laughter psychologically a deterrent, it's physiologically therapeutic.
	So therefore, comedians are physicians of the soul.
	And you can call me Dr. Dreesen if you'd like, is what I'm trying to say.
	Did I do that like Jackie Mason?
	That was, yeah, that was perfect.
	I am curious in light of that.
	So you mentioned things that, of course, I'm familiar with, like the Three Stooges that he would watch.
	I read Norman Cousins all the time because of Saturday Review.
	What he edited no longer exists.
	But anyway, do kids today have anything analogous to what we had as kids?
	Of the Three Stooges and the like?
	Jay Leno had a great line.
	He said, the difference between men and women are, men think that Three Stooges are funny and women think they're stupid.
	Right.
	Correct.
	All right.
	So boys.
	So we'll restrict it to boys.
	What do kids, in other words, what are kids laughing at today?
	I really don't know because the school systems are teaching them what is not funny as opposed to what is funny.
	Let me ask Sean.
	Sean, what do kids laugh at today?
	TikTok videos?
	But they're not laughing.
	They're laughing at some of them, yeah.
	They are?
	So what do people do?
	Like, tricks?
	Do any of the TikTok videos have stand-up routines by people?
	No, they're just short.
	It's usually 15 seconds of somebody making a mistake.
	15 seconds of somebody making a mistake.
	I wonder if there is as much laughter today.
	Well, it's sad because of what's happening to children today because of the lockdowns and everything.
	I go to the Laugh Factory on weekends, and I will this weekend to try out some new material, but I go there purposely because the audience is young black, young white, young Latino, young Asian, you know, and I want to stay current with that audience, see if my material is current with that audience, you know.
	By the way, talking about self-deprecatory humor, that was Rodney Dangerfield's spectacular achievement, right?
	There are no victimless jokes.
	Who is the victim in his jokes?
	He is.
	Yes, I love that.
	And if you are the victim of the joke, it's the funniest.
	No question about it.
	So when you just said...
	New material.
	Do you sit up at night writing material?
	Yes.
	I don't force myself.
	A lot of comedians do that, a lot of writers.
	Something funny happened during the day.
	I take notes all day long, or I'll talk into my cell phone, and then I write that down on a line pad in a long version, and then I try to edit it down to a joke.
	More so in the old days when I had to keep coming up with new material for The Tonight Show.
	Do you hire any screenwriters, comedy writers, scriptwriters?
	For the most part of my life, I've written my own material, but every now and then there's a friend of mine, John Romeo, he wrote real good material.
	Another comedian named Monty Adam, a writer named Monty Adam, I used them sometimes.
	They wrote jokes that fit in my mouth.
	You know, they knew my rhythm.
	They knew you.
	Yeah, they knew my rhythm, yeah.
	But for the most part, I've written my own material.
	Did you ever lose your memory lapse ever in the routine?
	You know what?
	An old vaudevillian told me this years ago, too, in Maury Amsterdam.
	Maury Amsterdam said, if you ever go up on your lines, you're on stage and you go up on your lines, just keep talking and your brain will catch up.
	He said, if you go up on your lines and then you stare at the audience, That's the worst.
	But he said, just keep talking.
	Correct.
	So you might say...
	Because they don't know.
	They don't know.
	They have no idea.
	Exactly.
	He said, just keep talking, your brain won't catch up.
	He said that he was responsible for John Kennedy getting elected president because he taught John Kennedy in those debates against Nixon, which won the election for John Kennedy.
	He said, when they ask you a question, if you go up, he said, just say, that's a very good question, Mr. Chairman.
	And let me say this about that.
	It would give his brain a chance to catch up.
	Right, right.
	Good point.
	Ultimate Issues Hour on humor.
	Tom Dreesen, my guest.
	This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
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	If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people.
	In cut number nine, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet.
	He seemed optimistic that there was still hope.
	That he could bring Joe Manchin around.
	Cut number nine.
	You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times.
	You invited him to your home in Delaware.
	He came to the White House a week ago.
	Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.
	How does that happen?
	How are you not able to close the deal?
	Well, look, let's talk about what we have done.
	We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever.
	I haven't given up on this.
	I haven't given up on it.
	Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit.
	Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
	Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done.
	As much as we can possibly get done.
	I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done.
	Particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
	Well, isn't that part of the problem?
	That the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill?
	Isn't that the problem, Mr. President?
	We do know what's in there.
	That's why we do not support it.
	That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%.
	The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it.
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	Thank you.
	Well, I could continue for a long time with Tom Dreesen.
	Thank you.
	That was Frank Sinatra.
	He opened up for Sinatra for 17 years?
	14 years.
	14 years.
	It was 17, but you forgot the last three.
	I knew him longer than that, yeah.
	Yes, I'll bet you did.
	And then 61 appearances, Johnny Carter.
	And still going strong.
	I mean, he's going around the country with his stand-up comedy.
	I'd like to end with a piece of advice that you have for people, which you've told me off-air, and I think it's profound, and embracing your impediments.
	That's the way I would call it.
	Yes.
	When I first started out, the first fan letter I ever got was from a high school girl in Missouri, and after I did the show, we were doing...
	I was doing a positive talk to the students.
	And she came up to me and she said, I stuttered terribly.
	And she did.
	She was stuttering.
	She said, I don't have any friends and they laugh at me.
	And I said, the first thing you have to do is own up to that impediment.
	Own up to it.
	And do jokes about your own stuttering.
	And people will adore you for that.
	They'll embrace you for that.
	They're embarrassed by your stuttering.
	They're uneasy by your stuttering.
	But you let them know you're okay with your impediment.
	A year later, she wrote to me and said, I now have more friends than I ever dreamed I'd have.
	And years later, her stuttering went away.
	But she owned up to whatever your impediment is.
	And you have an example of that, didn't you, about your working out?
	Oh, yeah.
	So I gave you an example.
	So I will say in a talk, you've got to do stuff you don't want to do.
	It's often a big theme in my life.
	You can't only do what you want to do.
	So I mentioned I work out three days a week.
	I know I don't look like I do, and people crack up.
	And it's a very healthy thing to do.
	I don't look like I work out three days a week.
	I admit it.
	But I do.
	By the way, a roast is all about.
	A lot of people can't be roasted.
	I'm known as a talker.
	The comedians roasted me at the Comedy Store one night.
	David Letterman was the emcee.
	But George Miller got up and he said...
	Tom Dreesen was stopped by the LAPD and they said, do you want to talk here or down at the station?
	And Dreesen said, both and in the car.
	Now, all my friends roared.
	And if the joke was on me, because I like to talk.
	No, that's a perfect answer.
	Well, you're a delight, Tom Dreesen.
	I hope people will go to your books, which I'm sure are on Amazon.
	On Amazon.
	Dreesen is D-R-E-E-S-E-N. Yeah, you can go to TomDreesen.com.
	Oh, easier.
	Well, my friend, God bless you.
	And same to you.
	He has.
	That's my standard answer to God bless you to me.
	Thank you.
	All right, everybody.
	Ultimate Issues Hour.
	I'll see you tomorrow.

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