March 14, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
05:19
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| Hello everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and I wish you a Happy New Year. | |
| Will be a struggle for many because the country is in trouble. | |
| There we go. | |
| I found the right words. | |
| I really was pursuing that. | |
| Sean, did I mention who I was? | |
| No. | |
| All right. | |
| Maybe I'll just keep that a secret. | |
| I'm Dennis Prager. | |
| I can't keep a secret. | |
| I can't keep a secret. | |
| What am I going to tell you? | |
| So, I have a thought. | |
| Sean, we're going to need your help here, Sean. | |
| I sent you those musical things. | |
| I'm going to play one. | |
| And the next to the last on the list, the Dvorak. | |
| So listen, my dear friends, I have a thought, and I'd like to bounce it off you. | |
| The theme of this show, with which I am obviously quite identified, the theme is from Gladiator. | |
| I don't remember which scene it is. | |
| If I looked up the soundtrack, I could tell you which scene. | |
| At any rate, it's been terrific. | |
| Why did I adopt it? | |
| I adopted... | |
| Yes, I know. | |
| That's it. | |
| Barbarian Horde. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| It's in the middle of the movie. | |
| I adopted it on... | |
| Right after 9-11. | |
| Sean, play the original theme of my show, the handle, if you would. | |
| Many of you will remember. | |
| Many of you have never heard it. | |
| I have a piece of music. | |
| This is something I don't think I've ever... | |
| Well, I haven't reported, certainly, since then. | |
| So, 2001 is 21 years ago. | |
| So we've had a 21-year run of the Gladiator theme. | |
| Do you have the handle there, Sean? | |
| Or are you looking it up? | |
| There we go. | |
| Okay, | |
| so that theme, I don't remember how many years that was, but it was many years. | |
| Not 21 years, but it was years. | |
| And it was so popular, I was syndicated in 1998 or 99. I was on radio, however, from 1982 in Los Angeles, so 17 years. | |
| And... | |
| That was so popular, that obscure piece of music by the non-obscure George Friedrich Handel, who wrote Handel's Messiah. | |
| He's the Handel of Handel's Messiah. | |
| But that was not a well-known piece, and it was very popular. | |
| How popular? | |
| Well, you may recall that we used to have such a thing as a bookstore, and we used to have record stores and then CD stores. | |
| Tower Records was the big one in Los Angeles. | |
| And for years, the best-selling classical record was the one that contained that handle theme. | |
| I would go into Tower and I'd say, as featured on Dennis Prager's show, and that would have this obscure... | |
| I wish I had taken a picture of it. | |
| I remember it quite well. | |
| That's a fantastic little piece of music. | |
| Then, with the 9-11 attacks, I said, look, I can't have this charming, catchy piece of music. | |
| I need a battle. | |
| Right. | |
| And this really has served us well. | |
| I mean, it doesn't get much better than that, eh? | |
| It's just perfect as an opener each hour. | |
| But that was 21 years ago. | |
| We are in a different battle today. | |
| The battle is not with Islamic terrorists, although they still exist and they butcher people in places like Africa. | |
| It's horrible. | |
| Nevertheless, our battle is for Western civilization. |
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