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	Music. Music. Music. Music. Music. Music. Music. Hello,
	my friends.
	Hi, everybody.
	Thank you to Bob France.
	Terrific job, as always.
	He's first rate.
	I don't say that all the time.
	When I'm not on, this show is in good hands.
	I'd just like to remind you.
	I was in Phoenix yesterday.
	Back here today.
	Great to be with you, as always.
	So, there were two Supreme Court decisions.
	One is, can OSHA tell employers to fire people who do not follow OSHA rules?
	And 6-3, the vote was that they cannot do so.
	However, given how left-wing Many corporations are, it won't matter.
	They'll still fire people who don't get vaccinated, even though it doesn't appear to make much of a difference over the long run.
	The other decision, 5-4, meaning two conservatives, Kavanaugh and the Chief Justice Roberts, joining the liberals, who are always consistent.
	It's a fascinating thing.
	You can always rely on left-wing judges to vote left, but you can't always rely on right-wing judges to vote right.
	That's been that way all of my life.
	That's why once you have a left-wing justice on the court, you know how they will vote 99% of the time.
	That's not the case for all conservative justices.
	You know how...
	Clarence Thomas will vote, and he is one of the giants of the Supreme Court, not because he's conservative, but because he's honest to the Constitution, which I guess is tantamount to conservative.
	But here is the interesting thing.
	The argument is that if the government funds medical care, as it does, obviously, and funds hospitals, it has the right, then, To tell you to fire people that don't follow a government policy.
	This is why conservatives have fought the completely losing battle of the expansion of government.
	I hope you understand that any time the government gives anybody five dollars, they control that person's life, that institution's life.
	And so the more they fund, the less liberty we have.
	This is so important.
	However, since Calvin Coolidge, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, this has not been understood or appreciated or even cared about by the American people as a rule.
	Please fund me and take away my liberty at the same time.
	That's fine with me because I'm very happy to be funded.
	Now you know why the left is in power almost everywhere in the world.
	Most people will trade in liberty for goodies at any time.
	It's amazing to me when a conservative wins anywhere on earth.
	They promise people less things, fewer things for free.
	South America is moving toward truly radical leftists, even Chile, which experimented with conservative economics and actually thrived.
	But it doesn't matter.
	The inequality argument wins out.
	Better that we all be poorer.
	Than that there be inequity, as the term is now used.
	More and more South American countries, Latin American countries, are moving toward communism.
	Three are already communist.
	Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and Cuba.
	And others are moving, many others are moving in that direction.
	This appeals to Latin Americans.
	It appeals to the Pope.
	The Pope is from Argentina and is a big supporter of left-wing governments.
	It comes with the territory in South America.
	It comes with the territory now in Canada.
	You don't have to go to South America.
	You can stay in North America.
	I want you to understand the importance of what is being said here by the justices, and has been said for decades.
	If the government funds something, it can tell it to do anything.
	Anything.
	Fire people who don't take flu shots?
	Gorsuch and Roberts will join the left-wing justices.
	That's it.
	Government funds you, they can tell you what to do.
	We have a paucity of healthcare workers, so it's okay if we fire a fair number.
	Because they're killing people.
	Did you know that?
	That for the last two years, the unvaccinated working in hospitals have been killing people?
	Yeah, you didn't know that.
	And you know why you didn't know that?
	Because it's not happening.
	This is about fanaticism and control.
	That's what this is all about.
	I continue to be amazed at the fact that I walk through airports with no mask on and nobody has said anything to me for the last half year.
	Sure.
	What is sad to me is I'm the only one.
	The only people who come over to me are people asking to take selfies with me.
	The only time policemen have come over, and they have on the three occasions, was to tell me how much they appreciate my work.
	So I wonder, when I walk through the airport with no mask on, I do walk on a plane with a mask on, I don't want to get thrown off a plane.
	So when I walk through the airport with no mask on anywhere in the country, so what are people thinking to the extent that they give it thought?
	Some people may not give it any thought.
	But you do stick out, I assume.
	So what are they thinking?
	Are they thinking, oh man, I salute this guy.
	He's got guts and he knows truth.
	Or are they thinking, what an SOB, what a selfish, and fill in the name, killing people in this airport like that.
	And I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I don't get dirty looks.
	I don't get admiring looks.
	I don't get any looks.
	Except for the people who want the selfies.
	So, here's an example of government-controlled Canada, which is becoming truly a police state in the name of safety.
	Quebec ban, lose his child.
	This is from the National Post in Canada.
	Quebec man loses child visitation rights for being unvaccinated conspiracy theorist.
	The judge added the situation could also be re-evaluated if the father decides to be vaccinated.
	A Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended the child visitation rights of a Quebec man after the court heard he is unvaccinated and opposes the province's COVID-19 health regulations.
	In a ruling handed down on December 23rd, Judge Jean-Sebastien Vaillancourt wrote, it would be normally in the best interest of the child to have contact with his father, but it is not in his best interest to have contact with him if he is unvaccinated and opposed to health measures in the present epidemiological context.
	Father can't see his child because he's not vaccinated.
	So I'm curious.
	I assume this is a divorced father, a single father.
	So if he can't see his child because he's not vaccinated, why can non-divorced parents in Quebec see their children?
	Why aren't children removed from homes?
	It doesn't make any sense to me.
	A divorced parent has fewer rights than a married parent?
	Now, obviously, you don't have the right to see your child all the time if you're divorced.
	Joint custody, I understand.
	But you have the right to see your child.
	Did any child in Quebec die because a parent was not vaccinated?
	Can they point to one?
	I doubt it.
	So this is what happens in America, the least, but still terribly, and everywhere else horribly.
	The more the government controls, the less freedom you have.
	And for most people, that's fine.
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	Music 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 guardrails.
	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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	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.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
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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.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. 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.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	So I'd like to know, I'd like to ask the judge, if a divorced father cannot see his child, this judge in Quebec, because he's not vaccinated, why can non-divorced parents see their children if they're not vaccinated?
	I wonder if any of the lawyers for this father raised that question.
	It's completely inconsistent.
	You may not see your child.
	The child's deprived of a father because he's not vaccinated.
	Okay, that's your thinking.
	A side note, the vaccine issue and the whole COVID issue has truly brought out evil from otherwise decent people.
	So the question is, were these people...
	Awful before COVID, but there was no reason for them to express it?
	Or did COVID create bad people?
	This judge is an a-hole.
	This judge is despicable.
	He's a child abuser.
	To deprive a kid of its father because the father's not vaccinated?
	And by the way, in Quebec that means The first jab, second jab, and booster.
	But I really want to know, on what grounds can any parent keep their child?
	Why only divorced fathers or mothers?
	And the mother, as many mothers are wont to do, and that is to punish the father in a divorce by using the child as a weapon.
	She's the one who keeps reporting to the judge, look at what he writes on his Facebook page about vaccines.
	Well, let me tell you, she's not listening, I have no doubt about it.
	But it's worth noting, one day your child will deeply dislike you and you will deserve to be disliked.
	Just for the record.
	You didn't let me see my dad?
	Because you told the judge about dad's vaccination status?
	This disgusting province has deprived me of a father because of his vaccination status?
	That's not just Quebec.
	Quebec's probably the worst.
	There's competition for the most awful province in Canada.
	Think of Canada as California writ large.
	And you get an idea.
	I, last night in Phoenix, at this PragerU event that I spoke at, Alain Lambert was there Alain has done a video for PragerU.
	Very serious thinker.
	He's Quebecois.
	He's a Quebec French-Canadian.
	Lives in Vancouver with his wife.
	And he spends half the year in Arizona.
	Imagine the difference.
	Look, if you go to Arizona from California, you have gone to freedom from a tyranny.
	So can you imagine going from Canada to Arizona?
	He lives in two different spheres.
	It is like living behind the Iron Curtain half the year and in Western Europe the rest of the year.
	The other half of the year.
	By the way, I said Kavanaugh the first time and I was right.
	Then I said Gorsuch by accident.
	Someone do want to correct that.
	It was Kavanaugh who voted.
	You give federal money to hospitals, you can have them fire their employees just because you said so.
	Isn't that charming?
	I think it's quite charming.
	Sam in Pittsburgh doesn't think it's charming.
	Hello, Sam.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Yeah, I just want to say that you're 100% wrong.
	When you say that if somebody or a company accepts money from the government, that they are controlled by the government.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	I'm 100% wrong or 80% wrong?
	Is it not true?
	Wait, wait.
	Then the liberal justices were wrong.
	That was their argument about hospitals.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm going to show you where you're wrong.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Please respond to that.
	I'll give you the time, I promise.
	Were the justices wrong in saying that because hospitals get federal funds, they can be told by the government what to do?
	Yes, they were right to do that.
	Wait, I asked you if they were wrong, and then you said yes, and then they were right.
	I'm not following your answer.
	Well, if that were true, then...
	All the funding that the government gives to pharmaceutical companies, then the government would be able to set the prices for those medications, but they don't.
	So that's your argument, that the government doesn't set prices for pharmaceuticals?
	Is why it is 100% wrong to say the government controls you if they fund you?
	Okay.
	Well, you just said you just...
	You're the one who said that the government funds you, controls you if they fund you, right?
	That's correct.
	By the way, I have no doubt that the government could say you can't charge more or you can't charge less if they fund you.
	They probably don't intervene, but they probably...
	And why do you think they don't do that?
	I think that, oh, the thing is, I have no doubt that the Democratic Party would like to do that.
	But why do you think they don't do that?
	Because they probably can't get away with it right now.
	It's a very fair question, but it doesn't deny my comment.
	The government funds you, it controls you.
	That's why Hillsdale College, ironically, having just mentioned them, takes no money from the government.
	Because they know that the moment you do, they tell you what to do, what to teach, who to fire.
	I don't know why this isn't self-evident.
	That was the decision handed down.
	Since the government doesn't fund private corporations, it can't tell them whom to fire.
	But since the government does give money to hospitals, they can tell them whom to fire.
	That was the whole, it's the entirety of the decision.
	But as I said, people don't care.
	They rather get goodies than get free.
	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 expanded 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.
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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.
	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?
	The question is why?
	The question is why?
	The question is why?
	We were talking about their senator, Kirsten Sinema, and I would like to tell all my Arizona listeners, of which I have many, to write to her and thank her.
	She is a profile in courage in this instance, and it is important for her to get that feedback, because she's getting, of course, a great deal of hate from the left.
	She would not support rules to get rid of the Senate 60 vote threshold.
	The founders of this country understood the concept of the tyranny of the majority.
	This country was not set up to be a democracy.
	In a democracy, you have the tyranny of the majority.
	You win the popular vote by one vote, you can do everything you want.
	That was not the way the country was set up.
	It was set up to be a republic, and that's one of the reasons to give states great power.
	Aside from the demagoguery and the hate that comes from Joe Biden, the most hate-filled president in American history, He makes Donald Trump look like one of the sweetest people.
	He makes Donald Trump look like Mother Teresa.
	He's a very vile man.
	uses language in far more insidious and incendiary ways than Donald Trump did.
	And he says that if you oppose this bill, which would have the federal government take over which would have the federal government take over election laws, You realize how that is an invitation to tyranny?
	Is that not obvious?
	States' rights, which of course the very term is maligned by the left, they hate states' rights for the same reason they hate independent countries in Europe.
	The left hates Brexit, the British exit from the EU. The thought that you will not be controlled by Brussels infuriates the left.
	The left is about control.
	For those of us who are not animated by controlling other people, this is sort of, not sort of, it is actually not comprehensible.
	I do not understand, I understand a lot of sins.
	Here's a sin I don't understand, the desire to control other people's lives.
	But if you don't desire to do that, you have left the left.
	You can be a liberal, you can be a conservative, but you can't be a leftist.
	That's what this bill is about, is about the government controlling.
	Election laws and depriving the states of the right to do so.
	America is teetering at the abyss because of the left.
	Nowhere the left is taken over.
	There's dissent, for example, is dissent allowed.
	There is no exception to that.
	From Lenin to the universities.
	Wherever the left takes over, dissent is suppressed.
	But in the name of giving people things for free, that's the tragedy of democracy.
	That's why it wasn't founded to be a democracy.
	Western European countries are democracies.
	The United States is a republic.
	That's why there's more freedom in America than there ever has been in any European country.
	That's why the French gave America the Statue of Liberty.
	It didn't give it to another European country or to itself.
	States' rights is maligned by the left, but states' rights is the mother of liberty.
	Will it be misused?
	Of course it's going to be misused.
	Countries are composed of humans.
	Humans are the owners of flawed natures.
	It takes a lot to be a good person.
	It takes daily fighting of your nature.
	That's why my column this week is...
	An attack on an Orthodox rabbi, whom I never named because I didn't want to attack him personally, who came out and said people are basically good, and that's what Judaism teaches.
	It's the opposite of what Judaism teaches, but it's another example of what's happening in Christianity and Judaism.
	Secular-slash-left-wing thought makes its way into religious life.
	You know why?
	The obvious reason.
	One obvious reason.
	So many go to college.
	And that trumps the Bible.
	That's what shapes their thinking.
	What is that, Sean?
	Hey, everybody.
	I was listening to Sebastian Gorka.
	And his affirmation of relief factor.
	He said he had pain so bad he couldn't kneel in church.
	And I believe him.
	And he took relief factor and apparently he's doing fine in church.
	The thing's a miracle.
	Try for three weeks.
	Their claim is if it doesn't work in three weeks, their claim meaning the makers, it probably won't work.
	So you got a three-week try for $19.95.
	Doesn't work?
	Cancel your order.
	Simple as that.
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	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 U.S. dollar bounty on the heads of any U.S. 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 U.S. 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.
	Everybody out there, we have a fallen angel.
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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.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. 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.
	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.
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	Ishai in Toronto, Canada.
	Said I made a mistake about the vaccination status in Quebec.
	You don't need a booster.
	Thank you for correcting me.
	I mean that totally, sincerely.
	All right, you don't need a booster.
	But it doesn't, obviously, negate the evil of the judge saying the father cannot see his son, single father, because he's not vaccinated.
	I don't know why married parents can see their children if they're not vaccinated.
	If that's not obvious, discrimination, not only discrimination against the father, but evil against the child.
	So what's more important?
	I'd like to ask everybody on the left, what's more important?
	That a child be able to see his dad?
	Ever?
	Or that the dad get vaccinated?
	That's a very good test of whether you're sick or not.
	I mean morally sick.
	You're morally sick if you think it's more important for a parent to be vaccinated than see their child.
	But moral sickness is produced on the left.
	It is one of the exports of the left to society.
	And that's a great example.
	I'll bet...
	I bet half of this country agrees with the judge in Quebec.
	That is how insidious the influence of the left has been on many Americans.
	I bet you.
	That's a good decision.
	Parents shouldn't be allowed to see their child if they're not vaccinated.
	Anyway, thank you, Ishai.
	And Patrick is right.
	In Novi, Michigan, the pharmaceuticals fund the government way more than the government funds the pharmaceutical companies.
	Apropos of the challenge from the listener in Pittsburgh.
	That is correct.
	Denise, Pasadena, California.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Good afternoon to you.
	Right.
	Good morning to you.
	Anyway, I have a...
	A suggestion of perhaps why certain people do wear the mask.
	And the reason I wear it is because I have reactions to disinfectants, fragrances, chemicals that are in abundance of use.
	And I even have to wear it where I am.
	So you wore it before COVID? No, I didn't.
	No, this has come up because...
	I don't want to blame anything on anybody.
	It's obviously my body's reaction to the neighbors.
	I live in an apartment complex, and the neighbors, their disinfectant things come in my apartment, and I can't keep them out.
	Right, in other words, okay, so let me just make clear.
	You're wearing a mask, including in your home, having nothing to do with COVID. Well, it's come up because of COVID. I've lived in the apartments where I usually died.
	So explain to me, why did COVID prompt you to wear a mask if you're wearing a mask having nothing to do with COVID? Because, well, it does indirectly have something to do with COVID because the neighbors are trying to keep the COVID away, whether they're correct or incorrect, and they use an obsessive amount.
	Oh, I see.
	Okay, so they didn't use this prior to COVID. So what about outdoors?
	Do you wear a mask outdoors?
	I have to wear it everywhere, and I wear actually three masks, and two of them have the charcoal carbon filter.
	All right, so all I'm asking you, I'm not challenging in any way, I'm just asking, did you wear this prior to COVID? No, I did not.
	I don't understand why.
	Because the use of these disinfectants...
	No, no, no.
	We're talking about outside.
	You said they're not using disinfectants outside.
	Oh, they are.
	I go to different places where I can still go in the businesses.
	That's in the business.
	I'm talking...
	Wait, so if you walked in a park, you would wear three masks?
	Well, I have to, because the multiple chemicals that I'm reacting to...
	All right, look, my heart goes out to you, what can I say?
	It's a very rare instance, and there's nothing really to be learned from it, except, again, my heart goes out to you.
	I didn't know that they're using disinfectants outdoors.
	Jay, New York City, hello.
	Yeah, since I'm a veteran and I get 100% disability, tell me how exactly I'm in control.
	And, by the way, I agree with the mother because the kids can't get vaccinated and the father could get those kids sick.
	Okay?
	So let's get that out of the way.
	So it's not the judge.
	It's the mother.
	Well, no, it's the judge.
	No, it's the mother.
	The mother brought the case.
	But besides that...
	No, no, but the judge is the one who ruled on the case.
	All right, so you agree with the judge.
	A child should not see a...
	I agree with the mother.
	I agree with the mother because she was the one who brought the argument.
	That was the one who made the argument.
	It's the mother.
	Say it, the mother.
	It's so sad.
	We're not having a conversation.
	The judge decides, not the mother.
	I don't know why that's complex.
	If he had stayed on, if we had actually had a dialogue, I would have asked him if he thought married parents should be allowed to see their children if they're not vaccinated.
	Hmm.
	Should I be allowed to see my children?
	There you go.
	Well, it's not a custody issue because they're considerably older.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Let's go to Marianne in Santa Monica, California.
	The People's Republic, as it is known.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	Dennis, who's the one that goes out for a man on the street for you?
	I would go to college campuses and I would simply pose the question of students passing by.
	Is the United States of America a democracy?
	Are we a democracy or a republic?
	I would put money on the table that the answer is democracy.
	I'd also, frankly, I wonder about people in Washington.
	Because they're throwing around where democracy is.
	Right, that's all they say.
	You're right, you're right.
	That's absolutely right.
	Anyway, they don't know the difference.
	That's even worse.
	Back in a moment.
	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.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	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?
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu New York City and...
	No, no, excuse me.
	Torrance, sorry, forgive me.
	Torrance, California.
	Florio, hello.
	Yes, I heard you do this diatribe about control in one segment, and the straw man left that you cite often as wanting to control people.
	and then the next segment you are haranguing people who decide to wear masks for their own protection and all safety of others if you don't have any desire to control people why don't you just let those people be instead of instead of trying to force them to believe what you believe how am i trying to force them i'm I'm trying to convince them.
	Do you not know the difference between force and convince?
	Well, I hear your diatribes against people who wear masks.
	Why don't you mind your business and let them do what they think is best?
	Oh, so you dropped the charge that I'm trying to control their lives.
	You now acknowledge I'm not controlling their lives.
	I'm trying to convince them.
	I am paid to try to convince people about what I think.
	That is my job.
	Right, and that's evidence of a desire to try to control other people.
	Why don't you just mind your business?
	Let them do what they feel like they need to do for safety.
	Because here's the thing.
	That's fascinating.
	So people should not give their opinions, because that's evidence of their desire to control people.
	No.
	What I'm saying is, you should give your opinion, but understand that other people have other opinions.
	Oh, my God.
	That's what you called to tell me?
	Now I know.
	After 40 years of radio, I know that other people have different opinions.
	This was a revelatory day for me.
	Thank you.
	This is a very common thing that the attack on conservatives, you're trying to control people by offering your ideas.
	The government controls talk hosts, talk show hosts, editorialists, commentators.
	Try to convince.
	It's one of the more noble things in life, is to try to convince without coercion.
	I think the vast majority of people wearing masks are fools, especially if they do it outdoors.
	And I think they're hurting children terribly as children have not seen faces for two years.
	I think you're hurting the society horribly.
	I think you live in irrational fear.
	But I would never force you not to wear a mask.
	But my arguments are pretty powerful.
	So some people, hearing them, think I'm forcing people.
	I guess I am in one sense.
	If you care about society and you care about reason and science, you won't wear a mask outdoors.
	Okay, happiness hour coming up.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher show.
	The whole thing is up in flames.
	I don't even want to spend a lot of waste a lot of time on the degenerate who burned it down.
	It was a guy from Brooklyn, I think 49 years old.
	They miraculously got him.
	And I just cannot shake what a metaphor that is.
	You know, millions and millions of people watch Fox News.
	Fox News celebrates American exceptionalism, greatness.
	Very patriotic channel.
	There's no way around that.
	They love the country.
	They proudly air plenty of conservative views, along with liberal views as well.
	They try to take their fair and balanced mantra pretty seriously.
	And some evil guy decided...
	To burn down the Fox News channel Red, White and Blue Christmas Tree last night.
	And it's gone.
	And I just keep thinking about how much evil there is right now in the country.
	What we're up against as Americans.
	Right is wrong.
	Good is evil.
	Up is down.
	Everything is inside out.
	And I was so anguished this morning in hearing about this and so upset.
	And I know a lot of it is because of my personal relationship over the years with Fox.
	I spent many, many hours walking to and from Fox as a Fox News contributor.
	I guest-hosted Sean Hannity's show a number of times.
	I guest-hosted Fox& Friends back in the day.
	I was on Fox many, many nights.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	I was on Fox many, many nights.
	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.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	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 L.A. County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Fulgent 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.
	You have Attorney Binger.
	Pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	And just decide, you have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey.
	That's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point I said, alright, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So, there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD. You know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level, right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that, but, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment, that this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just, just...
	You know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you that I don't think you show that face to anybody that they would think that this guy, let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	That he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy, air.
	Yes, it is.
	Hello, everybody.
	The Happiness Hour, every Friday, the second hour of the Dennis Prager Show, is about happiness.
	Happiness is a virtue, not just a sentiment.
	And we are morally obligated to act happy so as not to inflict our bad moods on others.
	So join me.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
	Yes, it is.
	Since 1999, I've never missed a Friday on which I broadcast.
	Broadcasted.
	That's right.
	No matter what's happened during that week, the worst of COVID, the worst of, I shouldn't say of COVID, the worst of the lockdown.
	We should refer to all these things as lockdown, not COVID. The crisis has been lockdown-induced.
	More than it has been COVID-induced.
	Anyway, that's another subject.
	We talk about happiness.
	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	I'm reading this enormously long book on the Enlightenment right now.
	And the author's first point is that the Enlightenment, contrary to what people think, was primarily about seeking human happiness.
	It's an incredibly important subject, happiness.
	It is a virtue of the United States, it was anyway, before the woke took over, that the pursuit of happiness is in its Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	Happy people make the world better, I say this every week, and the unhappy make it worse.
	And many of the unhappy are annoyed at the happy.
	Although they do want to marry them.
	It's a conflict, if you will.
	So today's topic on the happiness hour is one that I have discussed on a number of occasions on the ultimate issues hour, and maybe even regular hours.
	But now I want to apply it directly to happiness.
	You can't be happy If you are led by your nature.
	Happy is the person who fights his nature.
	How many of you taught your children that?
	You can neither be good nor happy.
	There's another proof that goodness and happiness are related.
	You can neither be good nor happy if you don't fight your nature.
	What a big deal.
	So I ask again, how many of you were told that by your parents, and how many of you told that to your children?
	Hey, you want to be happy, son?
	You want to be happy, daughter?
	Fight your nature.
	It's unspoken.
	On the contrary, I've been to many, many, many, many homes.
	More homes than anyone but realtors.
	Because I've given so many talks in homes.
	And I'm always taken aback when I'm in a home, and I'm usually in the home of people who would be deemed conservative, and there will be one of those plaques chiseled into which is a statement such as, follow your heart.
	I can't think of worse advice.
	If you either want to be a good person or a happy person, then follow your heart.
	I got that, of course, from the Bible, which warns more than any other warning, I believe, and that is, don't follow your heart.
	Another perfect conflict between Judeo-Christian values and secular values, particularly those...
	of the progressive left, as they are called.
	You want to be happy?
	Fight your heart.
	1-8 Prager 776, were you taught this?
	Did you teach this to your children?
	I mean, what?
	How many examples do you need?
	Let's take the eating one.
	You want to be happy?
	Don't eat everything you want.
	Now, it's an interesting thing.
	You do tell that.
	Most parents do tell that to their children.
	You can't have three desserts, sorry.
	You can't just have candy.
	Or ice cream.
	That's something that many parents tell their children from a very early age.
	However...
	They don't connect it to happiness.
	They connect it to health.
	It's not healthy to have too much candy.
	And they're right.
	That's a given.
	But they don't attach it to happiness.
	Hey, listen.
	If you eat all you want, you won't be a happy person.
	Because you won't like the results of eating whatever you want.
	That's what's missing, is the connection to happiness.
	I assume, well, most kids want to be happy, but they don't think about it much.
	But they should.
	Kids should be talked about these great issues from a very early age.
	You know why?
	They will play these recordings of parents later in life.
	So I have lived long enough to witness my children growing up, and I am taken aback by their recalling things I said to them when they were children.
	I assumed at the time that it completely didn't register, and I was wrong.
	Then they play back that tape as an adult.
	What you tell your children is heard.
	Whether they act upon it or not, certainly at that time, that's a separate question.
	But it is heard.
	So you've got to say these things.
	You have to teach them this stuff.
	Anyway, how many adults know that?
	You want to be happy?
	Self-discipline is the root to happiness.
	The control of one's nature.
	How many adults know that?
	Who is the happy person?
	The one who controls his nature.
	That's not exactly the way it is written, but that is the upshot of every healthy system of thought.
	A man who follows his sexual nature will have fun, but will ultimately be not...
	Not happy.
	A woman who follows her emotions will feel good about herself because she thinks her emotions are pure, but ultimately it will not lead to a happier life.
	So it doesn't matter, male or female.
	We each have different battles.
	And the assumption that you are already inured, To the fact that I, on occasion, cite the Bible because it's the wisest work ever written.
	The Israelites, the Hebrews, the Jews, whatever term you wish to use, were taken out of Egypt.
	And why?
	To take them to Mount Sinai, where they got the Ten Commandments.
	The events are attached.
	You are a free person, but you have to learn how to use your freedom.
	It's, of course, a moral position, but I'm offering this as a happiness position.
	The more you control yourself, the happier you will be.
	Can you go too far?
	Everything can be taken too far.
	But that's the case.
	So I go back to my opening question.
	Were you taught this, and did you teach this, to your children?
	877-243-776-18Prager776 It's a biggie.
	You're doing what you want.
	If you see your child doing something.
	Listen, playing video games for many hours is doing what you want.
	The question is, are you going to be happier?
	It's an interesting question.
	I don't think so.
	I have no problem with kids playing video games as a hobby, but as something that takes up much of their life.
	Nobody claims that any addiction brings you happiness.
	But you are following your nature.
	This is a big one.
	It's another example of the age of non-wisdom in which we live.
	The pursuit of happiness is a noble goal.
	And people don't do it.
	They don't pursue it.
	Back in a moment. Back in a moment.
	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.
	You might have to keep a 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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	We understand that a plane has crashed into...
	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.
	Get somebody out there.
	We have a phone.
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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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	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.
	crying.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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	It's the happiness hour.
	Thinking about my topic, that you can't be happy if you give in to your nature, leads me to an even bigger subject, as I'll take your calls on the subject of controlling your nature, fighting your nature as the route to happiness.
	What I'm about to say will sound almost incredible, but it's true.
	The vast majority of parents do not teach their children how to be happy.
	Isn't that something?
	Think about it.
	I've argued all of my life that they don't teach their children how to be good.
	They teach them how to be good athletes and good students, but not good people.
	Because they've redefined good as taking the proper macro position.
	So if you are against global warming, you're a good person.
	Do people know whether Greta Thunberg is a good person?
	No, they just know that she is passionately Against fossil fuel use, so she must be good.
	That's the way people have defined goodness.
	But let's take the universal agreement, we would like our children happy.
	I can't think of a human being who doesn't want their child to be happy.
	So I would ask every parent, and I would ask you if you are a parent, What do you do to teach your child how to be happy?
	And I believe that in 85% of the cases, I would get crickets.
	Want to play crickets, Sean?
	Crickets is the term for, that's all you hear.
	That was fairly speedy, Sean, so that makes up for the three errors you made this week.
	Which, given that I was gone one day and you were gone one day, you know, it's not so impressive.
	Only three.
	You know, he's laughing.
	That hurts me.
	That you laughed at that.
	Yes, so what do you do to teach your child how to be happy?
	Crickets, that's exactly right.
	Crickets.
	Follow your heart.
	How do you feel about it?
	Oh, I know.
	Maybe they'll say this.
	Oh, we give them a lot of love.
	Oh, that's what, believe me, if getting love was the road to human happiness, Be a lot more happy young people in this country than there are.
	Right?
	Most parents love their children and in some way express it.
	Just the way it is.
	Maybe that's not the vehicle to making a happy child.
	Certainly a happy adult.
	It's an interesting question.
	Does an adult child...
	How much of an adult child's happiness derives from being loved by a parent?
	I don't know the answer.
	I truly don't.
	But it's an interesting question.
	But it all begins with control yourself.
	Say no to yourself as a general rule.
	Know that what you really want is probably not good for you.
	Most kids do not wake up thinking, you know what I want today?
	I want to learn a foreign language.
	I want to learn a musical instrument.
	I want to...
	then fill in whatever it might be that's good for them.
	I want to avoid sugar.
	Okay.
	What's addiction if not giving in to your nature?
	And by the way, I fully acknowledge that some addictions are indeed a disease.
	I have been brought around on this issue.
	Take ten people, as I've been told.
	You take ten people and you give all of them, I don't know, A nice helping of wine.
	Some will yearn for more and it will affect them and they get addicted.
	They're called alcoholics.
	And some, nothing will happen.
	So there is a physiological element to some addiction.
	But in the final analysis, the cure...
	Is not physiological.
	The cure is control of oneself.
	That even the biggest proponent of alcoholism as disease will acknowledge that the solution is not physiological.
	The solution is behavioral.
	All right, everybody.
	Let's see here.
	Dawn in Keller, Texas.
	This is the famous Dawn of Keller.
	Hi, Mr. Prager.
	It's Dawn here.
	I know.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	I'm just so happy to be on your show.
	My husband and I really appreciate your perspective and insights and enjoy listening to you.
	Good.
	So take it away.
	Well, the happiness hour.
	So I don't know if you want my perspective.
	What I had shared was I'm a retired elementary school principal and retired after 30 years in education in 2020, actually.
	I announced my retirement right before COVID hit the world and basically saw so many parents over the years, over 30 years, how things have changed, how things changed.
	Of them trying to make their kids happy and what that looked like and how it looks different today than it did even when I began in education.
	As an elementary principal, the last 14 years of my career, I saw parents bribing kids, parents bringing kids lunch every single day from a different restaurant, delivering it to school.
	That's a great example.
	Thank you.
	Well, and having lunch with them, but then not only that, When they got to the office to say goodbye to their child, this happened more than once.
	So I would overhear, do you want to stay at school the rest of the day or do you want to go home with mom?
	And I was thinking, what in the world?
	Is that even a choice?
	You're kidding me.
	I never heard that.
	I'm not kidding me.
	I would fly out of my office and I would say...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	They're not allowed to take their kid out for no reason.
	Oh, no, they thought that they were giving their child that power.
	And what eight-year-old is going to look at them and say, oh, I think I'll go back to class now?
	Of course.
	Oh, my God.
	It's painful.
	The more I learn, the more despairing it seems one should be.
	Yeah, that'll make your child happy.
	Would you like Thai food today, darling?
	Back in a moment. Back in a moment.
	Back in a moment.
	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 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 All
	I hear is happiness is...
	Wait, what was it?
	What?
	It's different things to different people?
	I don't agree with that.
	Otherwise, the idea of having a happiness hour would be useless.
	If it means different things...
	Well, I'm not sure.
	Yes, different things bring...
	Yes, that's correct.
	I agree.
	That's different.
	But the basic rules are the same.
	You know, it's like different members of an orchestra play different instruments, but there are musical rules that they all have to follow.
	I thought that was a fine analogy.
	On my analogy meter, that rates nine.
	It is?
	Oof.
	Hey, this is a big question.
	It's funny.
	It happens a lot on Happiness Hours that we raise...
	Questions that were not raised with the original topic.
	The original topic is, you can't be happy if you don't control yourself.
	That fighting your nature is a vehicle to both goodness and happiness.
	And then it sort of morphed correctly and properly into the question, how many people raise children to be happy?
	And the answer is almost none.
	The call just now...
	From good old Keller, Texas.
	That was a good one.
	A just recently retired school principal.
	Mothers would come in and bring their kids different types of food or ask them where they'd want to eat.
	I don't think I was asked once in my childhood, what type of food do I want?
	Chinese or Thai or...
	Italian or whatever.
	You know that one vehicle to a child's unhappiness is if they think they run the house.
	One vehicle to a child's happiness is knowing that my parents are in charge.
	Insecurity, not lack of love, is a greater Impediment to their happiness.
	They need guardrails.
	But you see, with the dropping of wisdom teaching at the end of World War II, people made up their own wisdoms.
	And they were all stupid.
	Follow your heart.
	Don't trust anyone over 30. You don't need religion.
	You're wise without a Bible.
	Even an atheist understands the idiocy of that.
	The issue isn't whether you believe in God or not, it's whether you understand that you have to learn wisdom or not.
	Okay, everybody, let's see what else you folks have to say.
	Marty, in Garden City, New York.
	Hi, Marty.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Uh-oh.
	You were breaking up there.
	Try again.
	Just stop drinking.
	You know, if you take a drunken horse thief and you sober him up, you still have a horse thief.
	The solution is spiritual.
	You have to find God, or what we call, or what Bill W. called a higher power, who I choose to call God.
	I know that I want you to know I have learned from callers who are recovering addicts.
	I did not know anything about AA prior to my doing a talk show.
	And I have become one of its greatest enthusiasts.
	There's a good example of wisdom.
	You learn more wisdom from the big book than you do at Yale.
	That's a bad example because you learn nothing at Yale.
	Yale is one of the most woke wastelands of the entire intellectual universe.
	So it's a bad example.
	You learn more in the big book about life than you do at any university.
	Virtually any.
	Some pursue wisdom.
	Obviously.
	99% don't.
	I love when adults go, let's listen to the kids.
	Really?
	You have a lot to learn from a 12-year-old?
	Well, then you're only 13. 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.
	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.
	The war is over.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	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.
	Check everybody out there.
	We have a fallen angel.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Music
	Music
	Music Music Music
	Music back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I wonder how that would go over today if a guy said that to his girlfriend.
	You know, honey, you make my heart go clickety-clack.
	You think she'd have an idea what he's saying?
	You think that would end the relationship?
	Would he do it on TikTok?
	Clickety-clack on TikTok.
	We're going to resume the show, ladies and gentlemen, and forgive us for this bout of idiocy that we've just engaged in.
	All right, we return.
	This is the happiness hour, and there are two themes.
	There was really one, and then it occurred to me to raise the other.
	I should do it again.
	How do you make...
	Not how do you make happy children, how do you make happy adults?
	See, it's a very small period of time that you're a child.
	Well, I take that back.
	That's true chronologically.
	I would say half the population stay children and want to remain children.
	Anyway, my theme is, you can't be happy if you don't control, indeed, fight your nature.
	Life consists of fighting your nature.
	You'll be a happier person.
	How many parents have taught that to their kids?
	And the secondary theme is, how many parents have taught their kids how to be happy in any way?
	All right, everybody.
	And I've got a lot of interesting thoughts here.
	Victoria in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Victoria.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Last night I was reading a book to my grandson, The Life of Ernest Shackleton.
	And it dawned on me that after I taught for elementary school for 40 years, that our first, the first social studies or history book I ever used was a book called Great Heroes.
	And it was heroes over the years, beginning with George Washington and...
	It was lovely pictures and great stories, and that was the basis for our history program.
	And then I realized we have...
	I'm still teaching, subbing, but social studies has now become, as you said, the teaching of big concepts and certain people are thrown in occasionally.
	And I thought, "Why am I reading this story to my grandson?
	Well, to teach him that great people sacrificed.
	And it was hard.
	And I asked him, why do you think I'm reading this book to you?
	And he understood.
	He's five.
	And he said, to show me how to be strong.
	And I thought, that's what's missing right now.
	It's completely missing right now.
	That's right.
	I conduct Jewish High Holy Day services every year.
	I have for 15 years.
	The New Year is Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
	And I think one of the, I don't think, one of the first years, one of my major lectures, I give, I speak the whole service, explaining everything, but I give a sermon, so to speak.
	Not so to speak, I give a sermon.
	So I give four over the course of the holidays.
	One of them in the first years was the lack of heroes in our kids' lives.
	It's a very interesting question.
	I don't have the answer.
	I'll tell Ami Horowitz.
	I'd like him to do that.
	Name two or three heroes.
	Don't name your parents and relatives.
	Outside of your parents and relatives.
	Name two or three heroes, dead or alive.
	I'd be very curious who American young people would name today.
	Or for that matter, American middle-aged people.
	It wouldn't really matter.
	But that's one thing.
	The true hero is one who really did fight their nature.
	That is exactly right.
	That is a Hebrew phrase, by the way.
	Every kid who studies any yeshiva, as I did, which is a serious religious school every day of the week, half the day religious subjects in Hebrew, you learn this phrase.
	Rarely do I cite it in the original, but what the hell?
	Who is the hero, the strong man?
	The one who conquers his urge or his urges.
	Yeah, that's the hero.
	That's the strong man.
	That's what I was taught.
	It was a very good thing to teach.
	Eddie in Philadelphia, hello.
	Yeah, hi Dennis.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Thank you.
	So I heard that there's these Russians...
	Psychologists, to treat very serious clinical depression would dip their patients completely in ice baths, submerge them for a minute or two.
	No, not a minute.
	I guess that's a long time.
	But for a short period and then have them come out and their depression was significantly less because they were experiencing such hell in that ice bath that to come out was...
	Was happiness.
	I never read that, and I find it fascinating.
	That's the theory that, A, parents used to say this, I suspect they don't anymore, when the kid would complain.
	You're complaining?
	I'll give you something to complain about.
	It was a less sympathetic view of children's complaints.
	And even tears than there is today where people just are weakened by the sight of the child complaining.
	So that's the theory, I guess.
	Oh, you think you have it bad?
	Here's an ice bath for you.
	I have no idea if it works.
	Back in a moment.
	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.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	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?
	Public Policy. Public Policy.
	Yep.
	Do that, please.
	Big supporter of the Happiness Hour.
	Can't go swimming in a baseball pool, Sean.
	One of the reasons you hurt yourself the other day.
	You try to do that.
	Alright, Happiness Hour and Bill in Indiana.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Dennis.
	Thank you once again for your daily inspirational words.
	I've kind of usurped a theory from Zig Ziglar, who described habit as either a cable that can tie us down or a rope that we can climb up, depending on whether or not it's a good or a bad habit.
	And that is, if we successfully find our nature, we may have immediate dissatisfaction, but we'll have long-term satisfaction, as opposed to...
	That's right.
	That's exactly right.
	That's why I have a chapter in my book on happiness, the difference between fun and happiness.
	Fun is what you experience during an act.
	Happiness is what you experience after the act.
	I'm very pro-fun.
	I have a lot of fun, as you know, doing this show.
	But...
	The greater pursuit is happiness.
	That's a good one.
	That's exactly right.
	Bill in Atlanta wants to know what's the difference between joy and happiness.
	I use the terms interchangeably.
	People make up their own definitions of joy and happiness.
	I don't.
	So I don't see any great difference.
	I know the difference between joy and happiness on the one hand and fun on the other.
	Fun is different.
	It's good, but it's not the aim.
	That's right.
	Felix in L.A., teaching our kids to be strong regardless of heroes is critical.
	Yeah, but they need models.
	It served me well that I had the founders as models, that I had Moses as a model.
	Christian kids have all of them, plus Jesus is a model.
	These are very important things for people.
	If there are no models, if there are no human models offered of how to leave a life, how will they know?
	All right, I hope this has helped.
	Raise your kids to be happy.
	Fight their nature.
	Call in on any number.
	Excuse me, on any call.
	Not on any number.
	Call it on any subject under the sun now.
	I'd like to remind you I have a major work coming out aside from my Bible.
	The Irrational Passover Haggadah.
	It'll change your life.
	It's available on Amazon for pre-order.
	Thank you.
	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.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	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.
	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.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	You have Attorney Binger.
	Pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	You have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	Oh, wow.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey.
	That's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	Yeah.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point I said, all right, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD. You know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level, right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that, but, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment, that this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just...
	You know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you that I don't think you show that face to anybody that they would think that this guy, let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	that he has anything other than very dangerous, evil intentions.
	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.
	All right, everybody. everybody.
	Clip to the bowler.
	Hit the head with the windmill.
	Great saying in Dutch - Shoot.
	And now, ladies and gentlemen, the hour is on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death.
	And now take it away.
	Yep!
	This is the arrow that's ever on your mind, especially if it is with regard to cigars, photography equipment, audio equipment, fountain pens, and what's the fifth?
	Every week.
	No, some weeks I rattle it off perfectly.
	It's driving me crazy.
	What's the fifth one?
	Audio, photography, Cigars, fountain pens, and...
	Amazing.
	Half of you listening know exactly.
	You're yelling at your radio and I don't hear you.
	What the hell?
	What'd you do the crickets for?
	That is of no help.
	Crickets, that's it.
	I discuss crickets very frequently.
	Welcome to the show.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is the final hour of the broadcast week.
	You know my theory?
	It's the weeks that go by with the greatest speed, and life can be measured that way.
	So, if I don't take your call, don't be insulted.
	I add that every week as well.
	There could be a million reasons why I don't, and none of them reflect upon you.
	Dennis!
	Whoa, another Dennis.
	In Combine, Texas.
	Hello, Dennis of Combine.
	Hello, Dennis.
	I was just wondering if you and Rush were friends.
	We were, as it happens.
	I mean, we didn't see each other often.
	But whenever we did, he embraced me and I him.
	And though we were on at the same time nationally, so we were, so to speak, competitors, I never felt that.
	He obviously had more listeners having more stations than I. I never resented it.
	I use that example periodically, Dennis, to explain how everybody, no matter how successful, can think of somebody who's been even more successful, at least in certain areas of their lives.
	And you make yourself miserable, if that's what you do, go around comparing.
	I was thrilled with what I had.
	I was thrilled that he was there.
	The Wall Street Journal, you may not know this, they asked me to write the article assessing his work.
	And you could find it, obviously.
	And the archives.
	And I wrote, I think, a fair piece about him.
	Whenever we were together, he gave me a very expensive cigar.
	And I appreciated it.
	I have an upper limit.
	I rarely spend more than $15 for a cigar because it would start breaking the budget at a given point.
	But Rush made a lot more than I did.
	I have no complaints about my salary whatsoever.
	I'm just explaining he did.
	So anyway, he would give me...
	That's what the article is called.
	They gave it the title in the Wall Street Journal.
	The left, what was it?
	The left hated Rush Limbaugh because he had their number.
	That was the name of my piece in the Wall Street Journal.
	I looked at it this way.
	The guy was doing good for the country.
	We had a very different show.
	His was almost entirely political.
	He was a genius in that arena, I thought.
	And mine is about everything.
	Some people would listen to both, not simply alternating during commercial breaks, but subscribing to his and listening to mine live, or listening to his live and subscribing to mine.
	Which reminds me, by the way, you can't subscribe to this show and get every hour without commercials for a big whopping $5 a month.
	It's called PragerTopia.com.
	If you think there are important things said here, it's worth getting.
	PragerTopia.com.
	Anyway, that's a very good question, and I thank you for it.
	And let's go to Bob in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
	Hello, Bob.
	Good afternoon, sir.
	You are my hero.
	Good to let you know that.
	That means a lot to me.
	Thank you.
	I just can't wait till your show comes on.
	Thank you.
	You were talking about the principal that I just called a little while ago.
	Made me think about this.
	And you were talking about this several weeks ago about parenting.
	You and I both had parents that were from World War II.
	I did not know my father.
	My father was a war hero until after he died.
	Wow.
	When it was his brother helped write the obituary.
	And because my dad never talked about that.
	All he had to do was look over his glasses at any of his children.
	And we knew it was time to stop.
	Right.
	Because we were doing wrong.
	And I see the difference.
	And even my kids, now I can, the way they're raising their kids compared to the way I raise them, the same thing with me.
	All I had to do was look over my glasses at them because that's what my dad taught me. - Mm-hmm.
	It was, uh-oh, stop.
	So sometimes that makes a conflict between what the grandchildren do and what Grandpa has to say and what they want to do.
	But there's definitely a difference.
	If we had World War II parents...
	Yes, well, let me tell you, very good point.
	So I had, as many of you know, my father was on my show every year on his birthday, July 18th.
	He died in 96, so he was on many years.
	And I would periodically ask him, so Dad, you come from a very different generation, chronologically and philosophically, etc.
	What's the greatest difference today from when you were a kid?
	And every time I asked him, he had the same answer.
	Today, children run the house.
	That was a very astute observation.
	The parents are not in control.
	He was right.
	Kids need parents to be in control more than they need parental love.
	But we, right after World War II, Staggering stupidity became the norm of the intellectual class, with the idiotic ideas of child-rearers like the famous Dr. Spock.
	It was the therapeutic model rather than the disciplinary and standards model.
	Therapeutic model of raising children, best evidenced by something that happened to my older son when he was two.
	A five-year-old in a park in L.A. came over and threw him down just because he did.
	He was just a bad kid.
	And his mother came running over to him and said, Honey, or whatever affectionate term she used, what's troubling you?
	What's troubling you?
	That's the therapeutic model of raising children.
	The educated class is the one that came up with that.
	As I've said all of my life, two terrible developments produced our crisis, or at least two, television and college.
	Horrible combination in enabling the superficial to dominate society.
	The odds are, if you went to college, certainly graduate school, that you are, on most issues, a fool.
	The odds are.
	Not everybody is.
	And if you're a professor, the odds are overwhelmingly that you're a fool.
	You've spent your entire life in school.
	How could you be wise?
	Right?
	Isn't that what...
	You went from kindergarten to elementary school to high school to college to graduate school.
	Postgraduate, got a degree, got a doctorate.
	You never left kindergarten.
	Never.
	The difference between college and kindergarten is the age of the kinder.
	That's it.
	How could you be wise if you've spent your whole life in school?
	Think about it.
	1-8 Prager 776. I'd like to remind you, because this is the great project of my life, my rational Bible, and I took a year off to write the Rational Passover Haggadah.
	You can get it, as my friend Hugh Hewitt called in to say, he's getting it for Lent to do study.
	It's called the Rational Passover Haggadah by me on Amazon.
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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?
	I don't have no respect!
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border.
	You'll like that if you're gone.
	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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	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.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
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	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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	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 desired to have a father who would tell me.
	That what I did was wrong.
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	know, in the first hour of the show today, I mentioned that a Quebec judge has deprived a single father of the right to see his young child because the father's not vaccinated.
	To give you an idea of how much evil has been unleashed, to deprive a child of the right to see a father who is in no way lacking other than, in your view, not being vaccinated, this judge...
	It's truly a despicable human being, rendered despicable by the panic that has been unleashed in Canada and here, but worse in Canada, over COVID. You can't see your child.
	So I asked the question, and I'm really going to pursue this.
	Why can a married parent see their child if they're not vaccinated?
	Why aren't children in Canada being taken away from married parents who are not vaccinated?
	If it's taken away from a single parent, well then, why not from two parents?
	The amount of evil, that's evil, to deprive a child of the right to be in contact with his or her father.
	The amount of evil unleashed, By unquestioning obedience to health authorities who are the fools of our time, often the liars of our time, this has been quite something.
	All right, Louisville, Kentucky, and Michael, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	My question is, what makes a good citizen?
	Well, it depends on what country you're talking about and what regime.
	Let's stick with the United States.
	Okay, that's important, because a good citizen in Stalin's Soviet Union would have been a communist.
	A good citizen in Hitler's Germany would have been a Nazi.
	So a good citizen, like anything else, is generally relative.
	Like almost anything, not everything.
	A good citizen in the United States?
	Off the top of my head, one who promotes the American Trinity.
	E pluribus unum liberty and in God we trust.
	I don't see how you could be a good citizen if you don't affirm the three enduring principles of the United States.
	I appreciate that.
	Thank you.
	I thank you.
	It's a rare caller who actually calls in, gets an answer, and says, thank you.
	I'm always moved by that.
	It's a good question that he asks, as it happens.
	It's the American Trinity.
	I explain that in my book, Still the Best Hope.
	It's the book that turned this young Harvard woman...
	My question, who did a better job at overcoming hearing loss and having success in audio?
	Beethoven or Rush Limbaugh?
	That's a fascinating question.
	Beethoven, because first of all, Rush, with the aid of hearing aids, or I don't know if he had cochlear implants, could hear.
	Obviously, he was able to take calls, so he could hear.
	It was a challenge, and he did an incredible job at overcoming this handicap.
	But Beethoven was completely deaf and composed music.
	He heard the notes in his mind.
	It's an astonishing feat.
	We never had to the best, certainly we never had a well-known, maybe they were lesser-known deaf composers.
	But he not only composed melody, but the harmony and the orchestration.
	I mean, what he did is astonishing.
	So that was an act of pure will and genius combined.
	Thank you for the call.
	Let's go to, didn't Label in New York, didn't we get him last hour?
	Let me ask him because I don't take it.
	Label, did I talk to you last hour?
	No, no you didn't.
	Did you call last hour?
	Yes, I did.
	Did you chop down the cherry tree?
	Not yet, no.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so listen, I made Aliyah in 2019. My family and I. Let me explain what that means.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Let me explain what that means to the audience, 99% of whom don't know what that means.
	You're a Jew who moved to Israel.
	So, are you calling from Israel or New York?
	New York.
	I work in New York.
	So, I live in B7, Be'er Sheva, but I commute to New York for work.
	And so, you know, I've seen all sides of...
	In Israel, we really went through a lot of stuff as far as the lockdowns, where I think my country went a little bit sugar at times.
	And even with the vaccines, you know, I had to educate myself on the vaccines to realize, like, the MRA and...
	MRMA. Basically...
	I'm sorry?
	MRMA. You missed the N. There you go.
	I'm sorry.
	And what I've learned...
	It wasn't exactly new.
	They were using it for cancer research, I believe, or like a vaccine, or no, not vaccine, but as far as like an antibiotic perhaps for cancer.
	I could be incorrect.
	Please don't take what I'm saying as truth.
	Now, what I'll say is this.
	I think the vaccines, we've gone a little crazy as far as you have to do the vaccine.
	There are people that are scared, and the ones who did take it, I mean, like me, Because I live in Israel.
	I mean, my green past.
	Yeah, I am a little worried of what might happen to my health down the road.
	But when it comes to the masks, I'm going to be honest with you.
	I think when I wear my mask, I'm not protecting myself more.
	I'm protecting the people around me.
	Because if I cough or I sneeze and I might be asymptomatic, I'm not spreading.
	Or at least I'm reducing it.
	Have you ever sneezed in public without covering your nose?
	I'm sorry?
	Have you ever sneezed in public without covering your nose?
	Once?
	No.
	Alright.
	Okay.
	I gotta let you go because we gotta take a break.
	So I always find that odd.
	Well, what if I sneeze?
	You cover your sneeze.
	It's probably better to sneeze into your elbow than to sneeze into these masks.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I do.
	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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	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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	We understand that a plane has crashed.
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	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.
	Everybody out there, we have a fallen angel.
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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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	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Last hour of the week, of the broadcast week.
	Medina, Ohio.
	One of the few non-Ohioans to get the pronunciation of this city correct.
	And the reason I do is I spoke there.
	Hello, Angelina.
	Hello, Dennis.
	I don't know how to pronounce it correctly, so kudos to you.
	Great job.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	My question is in regards to something you spoke about on a previous call about the therapeutic model of child rearing versus the more disciplinary model.
	There's been at least a whole generation raised on the therapeutic model, but those of us who were raised on it...
	Don't have any experience with any other method for child rearing.
	How can we, who have been raised on the therapeutic model, regain and unlearn and relearn more effective parenting tools and strategies?
	If we were in person and you allowed it, I'd give you a hug.
	Oh, well, thank you.
	I take that as a huge compliment.
	It is.
	You've asked such an important question.
	So I will answer you very directly and not an answer that I think most people would expect.
	Okay.
	The day you decide that whether your child likes you or not is not important is the day you will raise them properly.
	Well, that's reassuring.
	I'm on the right track then.
	I appreciate that answer very much.
	How did you learn this before you called me?
	Well, I listen to you a lot.
	I'm a big fan.
	And I'm a mother of four.
	We're homeschooling.
	We're trying to raise our kids right.
	And I see some of the errors made by previous generations.
	And I can only learn from the errors of others.
	Try not to make those mistakes myself.
	And I'm just trying to do the best I can.
	But much like you said about other things, about when you choose to be an adult...
	You know, I gotta just say, you bring a big smile to my face, and one is, I admit, it's about me.
	I'm obviously very admiring of you, but if I Or not if, that I have succeeded in touching someone like you makes my work worth it.
	Worth and work are very similar words.
	That's big.
	Desiring to be liked by those...
	In whom you are in charge or to whom you owe a leadership is the end of your ability to lead.
	I have no interest in my pilot wanting to be liked.
	I am interested in my pilot flying well.
	Right?
	Do you care if you like your pilot?
	It's a bonus, but it's not important.
	But there are times where it's actually injurious.
	Teachers should not aim to be liked by their students.
	They should aim to teach them and to keep them in order.
	And the most obvious is, of course, the example of the parent.
	Her kids are lucky.
	More important that they like you when they're 25 than when they're 5. And they're not related.
	That's the point.
	That was good.
	I appreciate that one.
	Okay, let's see here.
	All right, all right.
	All right.
	I'm just trying to pick a good one for you folks.
	Okay, Derek in Cleveland.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	One question for you.
	Before I get to that, I just want to thank you.
	When you have Bob Prance as your guest host, he's our local host here for Salem, and we're glad that he's our local guy.
	You should be.
	All right, hold on.
	I don't want to interrupt your question, but I was okay that you deviated from your question to salute.
	A truly wonderful man and wonderful talk show host.
	They don't always go hand in hand, obviously.
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	Derek Cleveland, back to you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you again, Dennis.
	So my question today for you is, you living in a state like California that has legalized marijuana and it is so obviously rampant and widespread.
	Now I just wanted to ask, how have you seen it affect the youth in California, the culture?
	How have you seen that impact people there?
	Well, I will disappoint you.
	I don't know how I would see it unless I knew people who had not been smoking before, not imbibing might be a better word, and now do.
	Just for the record, and I know many of you don't agree with me, and I respect that, I hate marijuana.
	I don't hate alcohol.
	And I don't even drink alcohol, so I don't have a vested interest here.
	I don't drink it because I don't like it, not because I'm opposed to it.
	I'm well aware about the incredible damage that alcohol does, but I rather a teenager start...
	If I had a 16-year-old who drank wine with dinner, It would bother me less than if my teenager had a joint a day.
	A glass of wine a day, I mean, if it stopped at that, obviously.
	But an alcoholic-prone child would be a different story.
	I have no doubt in my mind that marijuana use, the more there is, the more likely there is to be damage to the brain.
	I will tell you why I didn't take any drugs, including marijuana, when I was in high school, and it was rampant at that time.
	And it had a very simple view.
	I knew that God gave me, or nature gave me, a fine mind.
	I didn't want to screw around with it.
	It would be the ultimate act of ingratitude, as it is for anybody to mess around with their brain.
	Okie doke.
	Let's see.
	Thomas in Moultrie, Georgia.
	Hi.
	Hello, Mr. Dennis.
	Yes.
	I would like to formally invite you to my wedding May 7th.
	Where is it being held?
	It will be held on my family farm that my grandfather purchased and my dad has cultured.
	For 40 years, and it's left up to me to keep it going.
	I'll bet it'll be a special occasion aside from the fact that all weddings are special, but having it on third-generation family farm.
	And so tell me why you're inviting me.
	Well, I respect the vast majority of your opinions on many issues today.
	I listen to you daily, and it's a small wedding, but there's room enough for you.
	You're always welcome.
	What date is it again?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	May 7th.
	That's a Saturday.
	Well, I'm actually quite touched by your invitation.
	Let's see, how old are you?
	31.
	How'd you meet your wife?
	Yes, sir.
	Thank you.
	How did you meet your wife?
	She will be 23 this year.
	But that's not telling me how you met her.
	Oh, I thought you said how old was she.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Right.
	Actually, a mutual friend of ours set us up.
	Was it love at first sight?
	Asked her out on a date?
	Yes, sir.
	On both your parts or your part?
	Both of our parts.
	I actually think that bodes well for you.
	I've come 180 degrees on this.
	I used to poo-poo love at first sight.
	But now I don't.
	I actually think it might be a good thing.
	I'll do a male-female hour on that.
	I'm very touched by your invitation.
	One of the challenges, aside from having to cross the country, is that it's on a Saturday, and that's my Sabbath.
	And I try not to miss my synagogue, where I teach each week, and my Sabbath lunch with friends.
	It's my source of sanity, my Sabbath each week, between Friday night and Saturday night.
	Anyway, I thank you for that.
	All right.
	Len in Modesto, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	California, so we're going through another indoor mask mandate.
	And I'm wondering, I want to get your thoughts on this.
	You know, in so many buildings in this state, there's a warning on the front door that says there are chemicals in this building you'll be exposed to.
	Enter at your own risk.
	Well, why don't they do the same with COVID? And if you don't want to enter with a mask, you're entering at your own risk.
	People who don't live, In our state, do not know how many signs there are.
	Do you know that at every gas pump you're warned that the fumes of the gasoline could kill you?
	Back in a moment. Back in a moment.
	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, 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 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.
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	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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	Robert in Walhalla, South Carolina.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Hi.
	First time caller.
	Listening to your comments earlier about the differences in the marijuana and alcohol.
	As someone who has been in both places, I smoked marijuana from the time I was 13, so I was 27 or so.
	Then I had to get a job that had random testing, and I had to quit that.
	And I started drinking.
	I've always had a beer or two, you know, but about six or seven years ago, I got to where I was drinking, you know, a bottle of whiskey a day on the weekends.
	And I think it's a much steeper slope to fall down with the alcohol than it is with the marijuana.
	I mean, consumption, I'd smoke one in the morning, one in the evening, one in the afternoon, and be fine.
	When you hit that alcoholism, you're drinking all the time.
	I agree.
	I couldn't agree with you more.
	I'd rather have my child smoke weed than be an alcoholic.
	But I'd rather have my child have a glass of wine with dinner than have a joint every day.
	That was the comparison I made.
	So you have to do apples and apples.
	Some marijuana and some wine or whatever alcohol it might be.
	In France, kids drink wine with dinner from a very early age.
	I don't think the alcoholism rates are like they are here.
	I don't know.
	I don't think they are, though.
	I have read about this.
	Again, this is an example of something I even acknowledge.
	It's one of those rare times where I even think my emotions might be as strong as my sober rational thinking.
	I hate marijuana.
	I hate anything that loosens your inhibitions artificially.
	I hate anything that tampers with the brain.
	I find it an act of narcissism.
	And I'm even acknowledging it might be more an emotional reaction.
	I grew up in a generation where I saw kids, you know...
	Losing their ability to function perfectly.
	So I ask everybody this question.
	Would you rather your pilot have a joint or a glass of wine prior to his flying across country?
	I've asked that from the very beginning.
	I'll tell you what I really find amazing.
	Whereas parents would prefer their kids have regular joints to regular cigarettes.
	That was really a bad choice on parents' parts, in my opinion.
	It's one of the oldest arguments I've had on the radio.
	Okay, everybody.
	I want to wish you a wonderful weekend.
	Please look up my newest book coming out in March.
	It's just a couple of weeks, well, six weeks from now.
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	But one that will...

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