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	Dennis Prager here.
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	Hey everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Another day, another city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Yesterday, Atlanta, the day before Orlando.
	Tomorrow, Pittsburgh.
	On this battleground tour for Salem.
	And tonight we're expecting 1,200 people here in Philadelphia.
	I don't know if there are any seats left.
	Contact WNTP AM 990. Talking about Philadelphia, I'm sorry to...
	I feel terrible.
	I'm coming to this city.
	A lot of wonderful people here, needless to say.
	And I see this article here on the Daily Wire.
	Catholic priest carjacked in Philadelphia.
	One of over 1,000 carjackings this year alone.
	1,000 carjackings here in Philadelphia.
	What do you say to that?
	How do people vote for the Democratic Party?
	On what moral grounds do they do it?
	On even what grounds of self-interest?
	Forget morality.
	It's one of the truly amazing phenomena.
	Now, all phenomena are amazing by definition of being a phenomenon.
	Nevertheless, some phenomena are more amazing than others.
	A Catholic priest was the latest victim of a carjacking in Philadelphia.
	According to local news outlets, four suspects approached the 64-year-old priest as he was unloading a wheelchair from his trunk.
	On the 2100 block of Somerset Street in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, the priest, a member of the Society of Jesus, was with a passenger when he was attacked.
	The suspects reportedly threw the passenger out, then took off with the car.
	How do you like that?
	These are moral equivalents of Nazis.
	These are people who...
	That's it.
	What can one say?
	Except that they have been emboldened by the left.
	It's usually someone who's black and there's no question that aside from the belief that it's okay now to be a criminal, that's more or less the message of the Democratic Party, You don't have to pay bail.
	You won't be sentenced for long.
	But there is also, as I've written, I wrote 25 years ago, thinking you're a victim very often leads you to be a worse human being.
	If you think you're a victim, you think that normal moral rules don't apply to you.
	Because you have been so victimized, you can lash out.
	So the combination of anger and victimhood produces bad people.
	So you have a disproportionate number of these murders in cities taking place by blacks, males almost all the time, but not all the time, increasingly also females.
	And it is...
	There's the absence of fathers and the absence of religion and the culture saying you're a victim.
	This is a very terrible combination.
	People don't talk about it because most people are cowards.
	That's the reason they don't talk about it.
	Everybody knows what I said is true, but you can't say it because you're afraid to say it because the left will censor you or smear you or both.
	And that's the state of America in 2022. You can't say the truth because the left will smear you.
	Really quite something, isn't it?
	Well, my belief in a good and just God gets me through the day, and they will have to answer for the destruction they have wrought before the King of Kings, the Supreme One.
	The ultimate arbiter of human beings.
	So it's been fascinating to go around the country.
	Well, not really around the east here.
	Florida up to Georgia, up to Pennsylvania, and tomorrow western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.
	And the crowds, of course, being very enthusiastic.
	I'm with my colleagues Mike Gallagher and Sebastian Gorka.
	Be joined in Pittsburgh, I believe, by Hugh Hewitt.
	Sebastian will be leaving from Philadelphia after the event tonight.
	We've had a wonderful time together.
	He announced yesterday on his national radio show that he resented the fact that while he was broadcasting, I was seated in some Atlanta cigar lounge, luxuriating in a cigar.
	He is as big a lover of cigars as I am.
	And it caused him some degree of pain, knowing the pleasure that I was having at a cigar lounge.
	I texted my wife at about the same time, and she said, oh, you're smoking a cigar.
	And I thought, how does she in Los Angeles know that I in Atlanta am smoking a cigar?
	Is she monitoring my Google account?
	Which is fine with me, but I still was curious.
	How did you know that?
	She said, oh, I just heard it on the radio.
	It's a strange world when your wife learns where you are because a national radio show announced it.
	So, people have been wonderful, very warm.
	I post with a lot of selfies for a lot of selfies with people.
	And I've been signing my latest book, Deuteronomy.
	I can't tell you how good I feel that so many people who never in their lives would have thought they'd buy a Deuteronomy commentary have done so.
	I understand so well that the crisis is a religious crisis, the post-Judeo-Christian, if you will, the post-Bible world.
	It's the world of the idiot.
	That's what it is.
	It's the world of the idiot.
	When you reject wisdom, you become an idiot.
	And that's what the secular world has done.
	It has rejected wisdom.
	There are some wise individuals, obviously.
	But the world itself, it has rejected wisdom.
	It has rejected liberty, it has rejected wisdom, it has rejected moral norms.
	If you say men don't give birth, you are now ostracized from any professional group virtually in this country.
	Do you realize how fast this idiocy has taken over people?
	Do you know how many of your kids believe men give birth?
	Do you know that they're the first people in the history of the world to believe that?
	Do you realize, you talk about rejection of wisdom, there's the rejection of reality that is taking place?
	To say that men give birth, do you understand what a gigantic absurdity and lie you have?
	Allowed yourself to believe and say?
	Do you understand that the American Medical Association and almost every children's hospital now says that?
	Do you understand the sickness that pervades the society?
	And it is all because it's post-biblical, my friends.
	That's why I'm so passionate about my latest commentary on Deuteronomy.
	You want to have the only vaccine against the left is the Bible.
	There is no secular vaccine against the left.
	Sorry.
	I wish there were, by the way.
	Anything that would combat that evil would be a good thing.
	But there is no secular vaccine.
	That's why the left hates Christianity, because it's the dominant religion.
	And that is the antidote to what they're doing.
	So it's really a wonderful feeling as I sign all these Deuteronomy commentaries.
	In Atlanta, in Orlando tonight, Philadelphia tomorrow, Pittsburgh.
	I People, at least some people, of course, not all by any means.
	I don't delude myself about that.
	Not all.
	That's why I don't revel in achievements.
	I'm preoccupied with how much I haven't done.
	This is just a personal note, not necessarily of importance, but thought I'd share that with you.
	So, I welcome you to Philadelphia, which just experienced its 1,000th carjacking.
	You realize people talk about trauma?
	That's traumatizing.
	A man dragged to his death recently in a carjacking.
	He was stuck on the door.
	And the beast that kept driving, obviously, killed him, dragging him through the streets.
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	Hey everybody, welcome to the show.
	So, I'd just like to bring to your attention that the President of the United States, who is Daly does something horrible to hurt this country.
	It's a very sick state of affairs, I must say.
	So the latest is, I want to get the release of, I'll just look this up.
	Biden, let's see, Biden release oil reserves.
	So you have to understand, this is the result.
	Of what the environmentalists, this cult, has done by having us go from net exporter to having to import from Venezuela a police state, a communist police state, and...
	Constantly going into the oil reserves of the United States.
	That's for emergency.
	Biden to release 15 million barrels.
	This is just the latest.
	He just did a similar amount the other day.
	15 million barrels of oil from the National Strategic Reserve.
	That is for emergencies.
	So let me ruin this country further.
	That is how the man wakes up every day because he is a nothing who is a tool of the left.
	And it would be no different if Kamala Harris were president or any other Democrat I could think of.
	Maybe Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema being president would be different.
	Maybe.
	99% of the Democrats would do the exact same thing Joe Biden does, which is why I talk about Joe Biden almost never.
	I talk about the left and the Democratic Party.
	Fifteen million more barrels because they don't allow nearly as much extracting oil or fracking in the United States of America.
	So let's rely on tyrants and let us diminish the oil reserves.
	Diminish.
	That is what the D for Democrat stands for.
	Diminish.
	Diminish America.
	I read to you yesterday or the day before about what is happening with our armed forces.
	We can't even get enough recruits as we need.
	And there's a very simple reason.
	Most young people think the country is not worthy of serving.
	Especially from the elite colleges.
	For nearly every graduate of an elite college, an Ivy League college, or Stanford, or Berkeley, or what have you, the thought of serving in the U.S. military is sort of like being a sanitation worker.
	That is how they regard the military at these places.
	Some of them don't even allow ROTC, Reserve Officer Training Corps, on campus.
	Anyway, they don't pay well enough.
	So that's been the case for a very long time.
	The kids at the elite universities would never consider going into the armed forces.
	But now we have an additional, not just from elite universities, because they're taught that America is such an awful place.
	Why would you ever serve it?
	And now it's happening.
	To the kids who usually went into the armed forces, kids who love the country, they understand how the military has been decimated, how it has been ruined by these awful officers and heads of the various military...
	What would the word be?
	Military what?
	The military parts?
	No.
	Anyway, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines.
	By and large, we have people in leading positions in the armed forces who are the worst possible candidates for leading the armed forces.
	The worst.
	They are lovers of their career benefits, of their prestige, not lovers of liberty, lovers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines, or Coast Guard.
	So you don't have the usual number of conservative kids enrolling either.
	They're not anxious to be taught about white supremacy.
	In the armed force that they will be joining.
	I don't blame them.
	All you need to know about the macro is everything the left touches, it destroys.
	I used to say ruins, and I was wrong, it's destroys.
	I wrote a very important column yesterday, I hope you'll read it.
	It's up at DennisPrager.com and many other places.
	It's Explaining Conservatism Part 2, Why the Left...
	Hates conservatism.
	Conservatism renders them meaningless.
	Because conservatives conserve the best.
	But the thing is, they can't match the best.
	That's the point.
	So they're bored.
	Teaching Beethoven again, or playing Beethoven again, teaching Shakespeare again, or acting in Shakespeare again, that's boring.
	We need excitement.
	The human being craves excitement like the human being craves drugs or alcohol.
	There is an innate craving.
	The left lives that craving.
	That's why they always want new and change.
	They don't want better.
	They never ask for better.
	They ask for new because new gives them importance.
	Shakespeare's an old, white, European male.
	Read what I wrote.
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	All right, everybody.
	As you know, if you've listened to me at all, in April of 2020, two months after the world locked down, I said it was the greatest...
	Mistaken world history in terms of the world doing it.
	I made it clear it was not the greatest evil in world history.
	There are many competitors for that title.
	It was the greatest mistake.
	It ended up producing a lot of evil, but it was the greatest mistake ever.
	I was roundly ridiculed.
	Needless to say, when the left ridicules me, I actually feel vindicated.
	There's no question I have told the truth, because truth is not a left-wing value.
	The sickening spectacle of sheep-like behavior of doctors, hospitals, churches, synagogues, schools.
	It was truly, I guess the word sickening is not inappropriate.
	So we have a book now documenting a lot of the...
	It's coming out actually tomorrow, which is a big deal.
	And it is called Gone Viral, How COVID Drove the World Insane by a man who's been monitoring this the entire time, Justin Hart.
	Gone Viral, How COVID Drove the World Insane.
	So, Justin Hart, tell everybody a little about yourself so they'll understand.
	What brings you to this subject?
	Oh my gosh, Dennis, so great to be with you.
	Yeah, your prescient call that this was going to be a massive mistake has turned prophetically true.
	My background, I'm a data analyst by trade.
	I've done everything from work on presidential campaigns to build.
	Large Fortune 500 company websites.
	And I was very happily enjoying my consulting business in San Diego in 2020. My lead client at that time was doing golf excursions for baby boomers.
	So that business was kind of dead by the time the pandemic came around.
	And I said, I got a little time on my hands.
	What do I do here?
	When I looked over the panoply of data that we had, I realized they're making all the wrong calculations.
	Dr. Fauci is getting up in Congress and saying 1 out of 100 people will die from this thing.
	And I said, that's absurd.
	This doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
	And so myself and a ragtag group of analysts, experts, moms and dads and activists said, I think this is wrong.
	Normally, I wouldn't insert myself into someone else's domain.
	I'm not a health care expert.
	But they seem to have no problem inserting themselves into my domain, my kids' education, my health, my gym, my coffee shop.
	And I said, this is just anathema to the basic tenet of our founding documents indicating, you know, the pursuit of happiness.
	And so it was really difficult for me to stomach and say, this is something I'm going to counter in a very strong way.
	I thought I'd get my head chopped off.
	But I think more and more we've been proven right.
	The book basically lays out all of the myths that have been propagated over the last two years, whether it's from masking kids or to plexiglass and the millions we spent there.
	And it just goes to show you the hubris that we have that somehow you could stop a viral respiratory pathogen in a pandemic setting.
	You might as well put forth your hand to stop the Mississippi.
	The best you can do is just protect those who are most vulnerable.
	And we even got those numbers wrong.
	The great John Ioannidis from Stanford came out just the other day and confirmed his numbers.
	The best way we convey it in the books, we like to put this in stories that people can understand.
	If you're under the age of 65, your risk is about the same as your commute to work every day.
	And if you're over the age of 65, it's slightly higher.
	It's the risk that a professional truck driver might face.
	So putting that in context, we completely overkilled on the response to this.
	And we're adults.
	You and I, Dennis, we're going to deal with that.
	It became very political.
	But our kids, they owe some type of recompense.
	We need to have specific hearings on this so we can bring the light of this stuff and do something to help these children who are really suffering.
	I had two young kids in preschool.
	A teacher would come up to us and just apologize profusely.
	She knew these kids weren't where they needed to be in pre-K. She would tell us, try teaching your kid.
	How to pronounce the letter H through a mask.
	Incredibly difficult.
	You had a teacher who apologized for the lockdown?
	It was fortunately a really good preschool.
	On the other side of the equation, I had some teenagers who were in a classical Christian private school, and even they kowtowed to the county demands.
	That's right.
	And she would say, hey, be sure you sit perpendicular to the bench because we don't want you...
	Facing your fellow students because COVID only goes in one direction.
	It drove people crazy.
	All right.
	Let me remind everybody about your important book just out literally tomorrow, folks.
	And it is Gone Viral, How COVID Drove the World Insane.
	It is up at DennisPrager.com.
	And it is Justin Hart, the author.
	We'll be back.
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	Talking about antidotes to the mainstream media, the New York Times, was it today or yesterday's?
	Yeah, yesterday's New York Times had a big piece on Salem.
	I ought to read you the headline.
	I don't want to take time from Justin Hart.
	I'll read you the headline later in the show to give you an idea.
	Of the reliability of the New York Times, which has as its goal to replicate Pravda in the Soviet communist newspaper in terms of reliability.
	Anyway, Justin Hart has written this book.
	I keep saying it's out tomorrow, it's out yesterday.
	When you confuse yesterday and tomorrow, it is a bad sign.
	You're on the road.
	I did that.
	Boy, you have no idea on the road.
	This is my fourth city in four days.
	So I'm definitely on the road.
	And it is really important, viral, how COVID drove the world insane.
	He's been an advisor to Governor DeSantis and to companies.
	He has his own rationalground.com.
	Dealing with this whole issue.
	The reason I asked you did a teacher actually apologize to you is that I was so pleasantly shocked to learn that there are actually teachers who have contempt for what was done by teachers and teachers' unions and schools to children.
	The teaching profession is in the most disrepute in the history of teaching in America for what it did to children over COVID. It should have been in disrepute for other reasons, but this is...
	This is the biggest.
	Do you, in your book, compare Sweden?
	Yeah, we talk about how, when you look at these great examples that we have, which is basically 100 different laboratories here in the States and there abroad, you look at Sweden, who took very, very few measures to quarantine their kids, to vaccinate their kids, to mask their kids.
	And even with adults didn't have very many mandates to shut down schools, their excess death rate, that is the number of deaths that you would expect above what you would have expected last year, is much lower than their neighbors, much lower than any of the blue states here in the United States.
	And in fact, you know, we have our own laboratories here in the United States to look at Governor DeSantis and how...
	Florida was basically open from the end of the spring 2020 onward, and here in California, I just got rid of masks a few months ago, and they'll always be coming back.
	When you look at that age-adjusted mortality rate, it's exactly the same.
	You know, I read, and this is history repeating itself, back in the 1918 pandemic, Des Moines, Iowa chimed in with an editorial, and they said, the American people are perfectly willing to do whatever it takes.
	But they greatly dislike making sacrifices only to learn that it was worth nothing.
	They had the same problems we had today, and we haven't learned from the past.
	And I hope that this could be basically a measure so you can take it so your kids don't have to go through this, because the impact is extraordinary, and we're just feeling it.
	Every financial repercussion we're experiencing right now is because of the terrible decisions that were made early on in the pandemic.
	I just want to clarify.
	When you said about Sweden, I followed this avidly.
	So Sweden has a lower mortality rate from COVID vis-a-vis most European nations, but its direct neighbors did better.
	Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
	But they did better only because Sweden had a unique problem in its nursing homes.
	So if you take away the nursing home issue, Sweden was as low as the lowest countries in Europe and indeed among the lowest in the world.
	So I just wanted to clarify that.
	Sweden kept every school open for kids under 16 the entire time.
	No masks open and nobody died.
	When you raised these issues during COVID to the companies that advise you, did you get anyone saying, good point, we're going to drop our mandates?
	We got a few.
	At least we were able to arm them so they could do that.
	Our group was the primary data support team for Scott Atlas when he was at the White House.
	We did this totally pro bono, but we basically took those three or four months where he was at the White House.
	And we would, you know, ask him, we said, okay, well, is this making any impact with people there?
	Are they responding to this?
	Are they going to change course?
	And he said, no, they're not going to.
	And we would say, well, maybe our kindest interpretation was they're just trying to save face, right?
	And he said, no, Justin, these people are not smart.
	These people are dumb.
	And I'm like, oh, great, our country is...
	Being run by imbeciles who are making terrible decisions, and they're not going to turn back.
	Well, you can see that every weekend when Dr. Fauci takes to the airwaves, and it's really frustrating because I think it takes a lot of courage.
	I can understand a good portion of parents who are like, I really don't want to get in the fight.
	Well, I hope this book gives them the data and the stories that they can convey to that one neighbor you have, Dennis, who's still wearing two masks alone in their car.
	You mentioned a Christian school, do I remember correctly, last segment?
	Yeah, my two older daughters, they went to a classical Christian school here in San Diego, and we thought we were good.
	We thought that's terrific.
	They're going to make different decisions.
	It's built on the pillars of logic and reason and rhetoric.
	But in the end, the county sent them a threatening letter, and the school administration, unfortunately, was more concerned with...
	How they were seen in the eyes of higher education than they were in educating my kids.
	And so my daughter spent 10 days or more each, apart, quarantined for the lightest exposure.
	It was a terrible detriment.
	And so even in a private school setting, we couldn't find the safety that we needed for our kids to get the right education they needed.
	This was the most depressing part of a depressing two years for me.
	The failure of most Jewish and Christian schools and synagogues and churches.
	If we can't rely on them to say no to irrational secular authority, then there's no hope.
	The failure of the religions, and it was across the board, even my beloved Mormons completely failed, or they closed all their churches.
	The obedience to authority on the part of the religious was very depressing.
	We'll return.
	The book is important.
	It is up at DennisPrager.com.
	Justin Hart is my guest.
	Are you listening, Doctor?
	Yes, yes.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Go on, go on.
	Hey, everybody.
	The male-female hour every Wednesday, the second hour of the most honest talk I am aware of in the American media with regard to men and women.
	I've got a philosophical, psychological, moral, emotional, intimate, painful...
	Question for today's male-female hour.
	By the way, I will tell you, among the many joys of my life are the many couples that will come over to me at speeches, like this past week in different cities on the East Coast, and they will say, I just want you to know how much the male-female hour has helped our marriage.
	Brings me great joy.
	I have a, as I said, philosophical, moral, existential, empirical, psychological, anything that ends with AL question.
	I can pose it in many ways, so I will pose it in a few ways.
	If you've been divorced, Did the behavior of the person you divorced surprise you?
	As I said, this is not AL, it's UL. It's a painful question for many.
	I hear many horror stories during divorce times.
	People just acting meanly.
	Just meanly.
	And I wonder how people process this.
	Does it make you think, I really didn't know this person I was with for 17 years?
	By the way, I chose 17 because I have no idea if there is the slightest basis to this, but disproportionately, when I ask people in conversations, how long were you married, people who divorced, I get the number 17. You heard of the seven-year itch?
	Apparently there's a 17-year itch.
	It happened again just this week at a cigar lounge in Atlanta, Georgia, where a man was talking to me about his divorce.
	How long were you married?
	17 years.
	Really, I was blown away.
	Anyway...
	You're married to a person X number of years.
	You love that person.
	Ninety-something percent of people, I assume, getting married in the Western world love that person, love that person when they got married.
	And then comes along the divorce and you see behavior that shocks you.
	Now, obviously, there are people, Who do not experience this.
	So I'm talking to those of you who have.
	What did you do?
	How did you process this?
	I was married.
	I was intimate with.
	I loved a person who turns out to be unethical.
	Mean.
	What do you do with the way...
	In which that person behaved or is behaving in the divorce.
	By the way, I'm not even saying you may not be right.
	Your assessment may not be right.
	That I can't judge because I haven't been privy to any of your divorces.
	But on the assumption that there is some legitimacy or mostly legitimate...
	A mostly legitimate basis to what you are saying.
	How did you process it?
	1-8 Prager 776. Do you say, I guess I really didn't know this person?
	So that leads to a fundamental other question.
	I asked someone I have tremendous respect for, Jordan Peterson, when we were together in Miami this past summer.
	So I asked him, do you think that you know somebody, or even yourself, unless you've been tested?
	And he said no.
	That it's only a test that reveals who a person really is.
	That's extraordinary.
	And divorce is a test for many people, especially divorce with children.
	Anyway, the issues of money and children are the ones that really test both individuals, presumably.
	Of course, both individuals.
	How can you be married to somebody for so long and then...
	Come to the belief that you didn't know them.
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	You are what I call my human laboratory.
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	What do you do?
	How do you process the way in which the person is now acting?
	I'll give an example.
	Of where I can make a moral assessment without knowing a specific case, in the vast majority of cases, maybe in 100% of the cases, wherein a spouse, an ex-spouse, poisons the children against the other spouse, that reveals a truly defective character.
	For that I have no sympathy.
	To use the children as a weapon.
	Not to use the children as I want more time with the children.
	I'm not talking about that.
	I'm saying using them by poisoning their relationship and assessment of the other spouse.
	I know people married to a very unimpressive ex-spouse and never said a bad word about that person.
	That strikes me as the more moral way to behave.
	And I know people married to a perfectly decent human being who out of anger or desire to have the children full-time Would say things to the children about the other spouse, which were terrible.
	I guess those people don't think that there is a just judge in the heavens who will assess their behavior.
	So that's the question.
	How did you process the behavior of your ex-spouse during divorce?
	Given the fact that you have lived with them for so long, and does it really maybe confirm Jordan Peterson's theory?
	You don't know anybody until they've been tested.
	It's a very scary thing.
	All right, we return.
	Turn, male-female hour, 1-8 Prager, 7-7-6.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Six short months we went together, decided it should be forever.
	Two paychecks for better than one, a diamond ring.
	And it was done.
	Bought her a house like I said I would.
	And a sub-dified...
	All right, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here, male-female hour.
	It was over a long time.
	Do we know anybody really, truly, unless there's a test?
	Bigger question, but the specific male-female question is, did divorce reveal to you a different person than you thought you had married?
	Very amazed.
	So let me see.
	By the way, here is the brief vote.
	South Carolina, yes, surprised.
	Wow, South Carolina.
	How come there's so much divorce in South Carolina?
	Three South Carolina lines.
	That's amazing.
	Greenville, Mount Pleasant, and Williamston.
	Not surprised.
	San Diego.
	Oh, it's a divorce attorney.
	I want to take that.
	Michigan, very surprised.
	Minnesota, surprised.
	Wow.
	That's got to be part of the...
	Horror of some divorces.
	I can't believe I didn't know this person.
	It probably has an effect on you as well in the sense that can you trust your own judgment?
	And I say this with complete sympathy.
	There's no judgment of your non-judgmental or non-judgmenting abilities.
	That's why the question is accurate.
	Do you really know someone until a test?
	I feel that there are people in my life that I truly do know.
	But I have great sympathy for the stories that I'm hearing.
	Let's go to the divorce attorney here.
	Who sees a lot of this?
	Thomas in San Diego, thank you for calling.
	Let me try to get...
	There you go.
	Hello, Thomas.
	How are you?
	Okay.
	Yeah, so what I observe is that we do a lot of mediation in our practice, and it seems like most of the people that come through our doors are basically decent people.
	And you get into mediation and you're talking about the case and what's unexplainable is some of the viciousness that comes out in the form of disrespect, I would say.
	It's as though that person has completely lost respect for the other person.
	And can't say even a nice word about them.
	And I have a theory about this, if you want to hear it.
	I love theories about life.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	I think today we're living in a world where people tend to see themselves as victims and see the other person as the cause of their problems.
	And what tends to happen is, you know, we have a saying in our practice that all men are narcissists and all women are borderline personality disorder.
	And what we mean by that...
	One minute.
	I'm reveling in that.
	It is one of the darkest assessments of humanity I have ever heard.
	But I'm laughing because there is a kernel or maybe two and a half kernels of truth.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Particularly the women are fixated on this idea that husband has a personality disorder and so contact with him is bad for the children.
	And the guys...
	I think that she's just gone off the deep end crazy.
	But either way, there's just this lack of respect in otherwise decent people.
	And it seems to me like they've bought into, you know, we spend a lot of time when we do some coaching as well.
	And we spend a lot of time trying to help people to reframe this and to think charitably, because that's what the court wants you to do, certainly.
	Well, this has been a very important call.
	Yes, thank you for that.
	He's right.
	I mean, otherwise decent people.
	But that's, of course, that gives substance to the argument that you don't know people until they're tested.
	Most people are otherwise decent till the test.
	Frankly, I think that the last two and a half years in America were a test.
	In many arenas, I won't develop the idea right now.
	I have certainly developed it on other hours.
	There are a lot of tests.
	That was something.
	Okay, let's see here.
	Well, very, very remarkable.
	Ypsilanti, Michigan.
	Sam, hello.
	Dennis, I am honored to be your lab rat if it helps people.
	That's right.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	If you want to ask me...
	Questions that would be offensive.
	If it helps kids, parents stay together, it's worth it.
	Tell us your story.
	What happened?
	My ex-wife left with my children, which was very surprising until I looked back at the simple little test that I had, which was, I want you to change your name.
	When we get married to my name.
	And then when we were about to get married, she didn't want to change her name.
	And the reason why she said she didn't want to change her name was because she said she already had three children and she said she didn't want to change her name from her children's name because it would alienate them.
	I bought that and I really didn't have any leverage and we were about to get married so we got married.
	Okay, hold on, hold on.
	We shall hear more.
	That's a perfect choice.
	There's a plan.
	I dearly love to be All my exes live in Texas.
	Where the hell did you find that song?
	In Tennessee.
	Is that a famous song, Sean?
	Am I just revealing ignorance of pop music?
	Uh-huh.
	All right.
	I acknowledge it.
	That was great.
	Back to Sam in Michigan.
	So you're a young man.
	You divorced.
	Did your wife leave the marriage?
	She left the house with the two children that we had while we were married for 10 years.
	The only reason I'm not laughing about the Texas song is because it is a famous song.
	She's from Texas, actually.
	Okay, yes.
	No, it isn't.
	So wait, did she take the children away from you, or do you have contact with them now?
	I'm going to pick them up in two hours.
	But the thing is, when we were married, she already had three children, and she would...
	I started to see a pattern that whenever we had a disagreement or a fight or something like that, she would take the older three, is what we called them, who I was taking care of, she would take them to her mom's house and she'd be gone for an hour or a day or something like that.
	So you were not shocked by her behavior?
	After the marriage...
	I was shocked when she took our biological children.
	I see.
	I understand.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't the original one.
	I hear you.
	Well, folks, let me review and then offer a thought.
	So, Jim in Atlanta was surprised.
	Easier to deal with anger than hurt of loss.
	That's another issue, too.
	David in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Yes, surprised.
	Married 15 years.
	Child born, then kicked me out of the house.
	Jonathan, Prescott, Arizona.
	Dad caught cheating on mom after 47 years.
	We were all surprised.
	Well, that's a different issue in some ways.
	So I'll have to deal with that on another.
	On the roots of infidelity.
	Let's mark that down, folks, for a male-female hour.
	Jeremy in Williamston, South Carolina, not surprised at the end.
	John in Fort Worth, the only one to say they're still friends, not surprised.
	That's good.
	Well, everybody...
	How do you know whom to trust?
	I think I need to do that.
	I, in fact, in a forthcoming hour, I will.
	Hey, everybody.
	Dennis Prager in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Yesterday, Atlanta the day before...
	Orlando the day before...
	LA, tomorrow, Pittsburgh.
	I have to tell you, it's a joke, but it's not a joke.
	Get my point?
	I'll tell you what the joke that's not a joke is.
	I have a certain recurring nightmare that I will be in a city giving a talk and say I'm in the wrong city.
	I can't tell you how that hounds me.
	Hi, everybody.
	Great to be here in San Antonio.
	Oh, I mean St. Louis.
	That's really terrible.
	And I don't know how you get out of it.
	You've just insulted 500 or 1,000 people.
	Anyway, here I am in Philly.
	We have 1,200 coming tonight.
	We're on this battleground tour of the country on behalf of the elections.
	So the polls are coming out now saying that it looks good for Republicans.
	So allow the man you're listening to to offer his view.
	It means nothing to me.
	The polls that were bad meant nothing, and the polls that are good mean nothing.
	It is clear that no matter how wrong the pollsters are, people still take them seriously.
	There is no profession of which I am aware.
	Wherein one can be so consistently wrong and people still trust it.
	Although there is a lot of competition now.
	The medical establishment is consistently wrong for the last years and people still trust it.
	NIH, CDC, AMA, all the associations, whether it's Children's Hospital Association.
	The pediatric doctors, pediatricians association, they get everything wrong and people still trust them.
	Although a lot of people are not.
	Not every American is gullible.
	Thank God.
	But I will just tell you, I find it hard to imagine that somebody who is conservative, A term that I more embrace than ever, because I want to conserve all that which is beautiful from the past.
	That's what a conservative is.
	I beg you to read my latest column.
	It's up at my website.
	It's up at Town Hall and many other websites.
	Part two of explaining conservatism.
	I can't imagine that anybody who's conservative will not vote.
	Allow me to tell you among the things that most annoy me are conservatives or people who say they're conservative and then call and say there's no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.
	The ability of people to say things that are just not true and believe them is apparently infinite.
	No differences between the Democrats and the Republicans?
	Wow.
	One of the true revelations of my second half of life, I knew this my first half of life, but you know there's sort of knowing and then really, really knowing, and I really, really know how many people allow emotions to overtake reason.
	That's, of course, the defining characteristic of leftism, but it is not only among leftists.
	Another group that does that are people who vote for the Libertarian Party who are conservative.
	Yep, I'll do whatever I can to make sure that the left wins by depriving the conservative party of my vote.
	It's pure emotion.
	There's not a shred of moral or empirical evidence to support that decision.
	So if I have to ruin it for the Republican Party, A, I'm a purist.
	There are flaws in the Republicans, so I will let the left win.
	It's genius.
	This is just a genius approach to things.
	So yes, you're morally obligated to vote if you're a conservative.
	A lot of these races are apparently tight.
	But as I said, I only comment on polls because it's my job.
	To offer a thought on some contemporary development, but otherwise, I don't read the polls and, well, I do because I do a talk show, but I don't for my own personal understanding of what is going on in life.
	The fact that any of these races are close, every city run by Democrats is being ruined, every institution run by the left is ruined, and people still vote for that.
	I understand leftists.
	I do.
	I understand leftists voting for the Democrats.
	I don't understand liberals.
	I take that back.
	I do understand liberals.
	It's pure emotion.
	They can't vote Republican.
	It does not matter how much harm the Democrats do.
	They will never vote Republican.
	It has been ingrained in them like their DNA. I had it.
	I understand it.
	I was Democrat until Ronald Reagan.
	It's very, very, very hard emotionally the first time I voted Republican.
	I thought I was compromising on all that was noble and fine and kind in life.
	That's what I had been taught, danger on the right that was embedded in me from such, and not even by my parents, just by the society.
	Well, that's the polls issue.
	Here's a great story for you from Just the News, an important website.
	Social media platforms target cardiologists who went from booster to critic of COVID vaccines.
	As the CDC committee votes this week, this is unbelievable.
	The contemptible CDC. Utterly contemptible.
	In a better world, some of these people would be prosecuted for crimes against society.
	The CDC committee voted this week to potentially add COVID-19 vaccines to the routine schedule of immunizations for all ages, making them mandatory for public school students.
	Boy, if that's true, it's another reason to take your kid out of school.
	You will have to give your child, your child?
	Do you know that in Denmark, where I'll be in two weeks, I'll be able to report on this firsthand.
	By sheer coincidence, I'm giving a speech in Denmark.
	And I'm going to ask them about that.
	They apparently have stopped giving the vaccine to people under either 50 or 60. I don't remember which it is.
	A British cardiologist who once promoted COVID vaccination on TV will go before Parliament to argue the opposite.
	Asim Malhotra, who recently wrote an unusual first-person medical paper calling for a pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19, quote-unquote, has become Increasingly vocal in his skepticism of the jabs since his healthy father's inexplicable cardiac death six months after vaccination.
	How many of you know somebody who inexplicably died after vaccination?
	I do.
	I don't know anybody who died of COVID, but I do know somebody who died inexplicably after vaccination.
	In a phone interview with Just the News, he called COVID vaccines, quote, one of the worst pharmaceutical interventions in the history of medicine, whose harm is so thoroughly documented that it shouldn't even be worthy of debate to pause vaccination campaigns.
	The only explanation in his mind is the increasing unchecked power of big pharma over the last two decades and willful blindness of policymakers and regulators.
	That is exactly right!
	The increasing unchecked power of big pharma and the willful blindness, willful blindness, that means the desire to be blind, of policymakers and regulators.
	There's one reason he published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance, it doesn't take money from corporate interests.
	Wow.
	I want a good rebuttal to the paper, but most criticism is considered of character assassinations, Malhotra said.
	Oh, that's a shock.
	Most criticism from the left, which is the pro-vaccine world, has been character assassination?
	That's really surprising.
	More coming up.
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	There's no two ways about that.
	I've been reading to you about this professor in England.
	I'm looking for it again.
	There we go.
	Testifying before Parliament.
	He was a big booster, this cardiologist of the vaccine.
	Then his father died for no...
	Explicable reason, six months after getting the vaccine.
	And he looked into it further.
	This reminds me, and I say this with only respect, please understand, but it reminds me of the woman, it's one of the maybe ten calls I remember in 40 years, that just is engraved, etched, sculpted, burned, tattooed into my memory.
	Women called me and said, Dennis, I want you to know I had always disagreed with you about capital punishment.
	I was always against it, and you're for it.
	Well, my brother was murdered recently, and now I agree with you.
	So, of course, I told her how much I felt for her.
	It's a horror of her brother being murdered.
	It's almost...
	Almost too difficult to go there.
	A loved one being murdered.
	It's bad enough he died, but murdered.
	But then I added, I have to be honest, I said, I gotta say, it's disturbing.
	So when everybody else's brother got murdered, you were okay with keeping murderers alive.
	But now that your brother is murdered, all of a sudden, it's not such a great idea keeping all murderers alive.
	She said, you're right, I agree.
	To her credit, that's right.
	Same thing with this professor.
	To his credit, he now realizes that those of us who have been warning you about the vaccine are not deniers or extremists or anything like that.
	I never gave 10 minutes thought in my whole life to vaccinations.
	Now I know they lied.
	I mean lied.
	I mean lied for money.
	Because of Big Pharma.
	They lied for money in telling you to get vaccinated with a vaccine that isn't even a vaccine.
	They admit, it's now universally admitted, it doesn't protect you against COVID. And telling you to give it to your children, that is criminal.
	Literally, C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L, criminal.
	But the herd, the sheep, A.K.A. the left all believe it.
	And liberals all believe it.
	Many conservatives believe it.
	But there's no reason to believe it.
	So now what happened to this man?
	Like the woman whose brother was murdered, his father died inexplicably, and he's a cardiologist.
	Big booster of this, when all these other people were dying inexplicably of the vaccine.
	But now...
	He has awakened.
	Testifying on COVID vaccine damage before the all-party parliamentary group in the House of Commons.
	What is today?
	Wednesday?
	Yeah.
	Tomorrow.
	Thursday.
	The British government must announce an immediate halt to the UK's COVID-19 vaccine program and launch a public inquiry to fully assess the risks and benefits associated with COVID-19.
	With the new mRNA vaccine technology, Malhotra said.
	And he tweeted out, it's time to put patience before profits, to put truth before money.
	Well, CDC ain't going to do that.
	To put human needs ahead of the needs of an immoral, psychopathic entity.
	All right, he's a young guy, this Asim Malhotra, the cardiologist.
	Says he's a leading cardiologist and public health campaigner.
	Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
	All right!
	Look at that!
	They'll kick him out.
	I wonder if he'll get kicked out.
	I wonder if Twitter will ban his tweets.
	The reason the left doesn't allow you to hear dissent is because they're afraid of dissent.
	That is the reason.
	Oh, talking about that, where is the New York Times?
	Do you see a New York Times here by any chance?
	I brought one around.
	I don't have it.
	I don't have it.
	You do?
	You're getting one?
	Okay, thanks.
	There's a big article in today's show.
	Alan, send me the link.
	Today's New York Times has a big article.
	I've got to get you the headline to give you an idea of how the New York Times reports things.
	The New York Times is a disgrace.
	It is a moral disgrace.
	It's very sad.
	All these institutions have been corrupted.
	Today's paper, here we go.
	Let's see if I can find it.
	They have an article on the Salem Radio Network, on Salem Communications, which I am part of, obviously.
	And it's actually, they did Salem a massive favor.
	I mean, the article is about how powerful Salem media have become, which is fine with me.
	Let's see, Salem, there we go.
	Let's see if I can find it.
	There we go.
	Let's see.
	Now, they don't have the same headline on the Internet that they do in the paper.
	That is so unfortunate.
	Basically, it is about...
	Let's see.
	The Rise of a Conservative Radio Juggernaut.
	And they write about how we are...
	In the headline, that's the thing.
	Yeah, this is not good.
	I've got to get the physical...
	I saw it in the physical paper.
	How Salem Media is going around the country, which is what I'm doing.
	This is about this tour.
	Spreading misinformation.
	They have misinformation in the headline.
	It is not an editorial.
	Not an editorial.
	It is a news item.
	But they gave no example.
	What is the misinformation?
	Misinformation is euphemism for lie.
	So I'd like to know what lie have we been spreading?
	A lot of us are not sure that the last election was honest.
	Why is that misinformation?
	You have to give false information in order to give misinformation.
	Now, as I've said, it has not been proven.
	I acknowledge that.
	Very little has been proven.
	It's been disproven that there was collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
	Has the New York Times ever listed that we at the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN and NBC and ABC and CBS and PBS and NPR have engaged in misinformation for two years?
	The word is selectively used.
	Why do they do this?
	Because they don't have a counter.
	They don't have a counter to Dr. Malhotra.
	That's the point.
	They're debating whether to give vaccines to children to make it mandatory to give the COVID vaccine to children.
	This should scare you.
	We return.
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