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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Dennis Prager Show coming to you today from Minneapolis, Minnesota, every week a different city.
And today it is Minnesota.
It's a very funny thing because it happens so often where I will meet a conservative, and there are plenty of them everywhere, including Minnesota, and the person will say to me, you live in California?
How do you do that?
And I look at the person and I say, wait a minute, you live in Minnesota and you're asking me how I can live in California?
And that answers the question.
Well, welcome to the show.
The big news is that Kevin McCarthy has been deposed.
And I will be talking about this at length in the third hour with Alex Marlowe, the great editor at...
Breitbart and his new book on the Bidens.
So, in the meantime, I have mixed feelings on the issue.
I hate having mixed feelings because I normally don't have mixed feelings.
I normally take a strong position and explain why I've taken it.
I don't know what this will change.
Kevin McCarthy, in some ways, did a good job as explained in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
Don't knock the Wall Street Journal.
There is no institution, there is no publication, and there is no individual with whom you will agree all the time.
Once you make peace with that, you can really have a lot of allies.
The human tendency is to dismiss people when they differ just on one thing.
I've seen this all of my life.
The letters that I would periodically get, I admired you for 30 years, and then you said, and then whatever I said, and now I realize I was wrong.
Or even worse, now I realize you're a fraud.
And when people dismiss the Wall Street Journal, conservatives do.
Because of position A or B, I feel the same.
They're so generally excellent that what more can I ask?
That's what people have to understand.
So they made a very rousing defense of McCarthy.
And I'll tell you this.
Here I do believe, whatever your position on McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and so on, There is something odd in the ability of...
I don't remember the number.
Alan, if you'd get me the number, that would be ideal.
But I was at eight.
Eight people should not be able to depose.
Eight members of the hundreds, 450, whatever it is, 540. I'll get that right now.
Number...
Of members of Congress.
And the answer is 535. Okay.
Eight out of 535 should not be able to do it.
Now, it's not eight, really, because every Democrat voted with you, which is also something people should understand with all their...
Conservative antipathy to Kevin McCarthy was done because the dissenters on the Republican side were able to get every Democratic vote.
That's disturbing too.
Look, we have very real issues in this country.
And overspending is, if not on top of the list, tied with anything that is on top of the list.
I think cultural issues are as high as fiscal issues.
Teaching children all over this country, including Oklahoma, the most conservative state probably, that's why I use Oklahoma, that...
They will decide whether they are a man or a woman or a boy or a girl.
I consider that to be as high as the crushing debt.
Although I will tell you, I fear the crushing debt because if there is an economic collapse, there will be a lot of violence and a lot of evil that will ensue.
Economics, unfortunately, is very, very important.
And the crushing of the economy by the Greens is a very big deal.
So we will talk about Kevin McCarthy at length later.
I don't know who can do a much different job because you have a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate.
And a bare majority in the House of Representatives.
The issue is to win elections.
Then you won't have this problem.
Well, that's not the issue.
It's not the only issue.
The other issue is for Republicans to act like conservatives.
But that also raises its own problem.
Because it's very hard to get elected on a platform of, we'll give you fewer benefits.
Shrink the government is popular among middle class and upper middle class and upper class conservatives.
That's not a large group.
It's not a large enough group.
People don't want to get less, receive fewer benefits from the government.
One party, if it were true to its platform, would say, vote for us, you'll get less.
You'll have more freedom, but you will get less money, less benefits.
Most people will trade in freedom for benefits.
They just did a poll in that regard, and it showed that if you were a Democrat, you were less Inclined to freedom if you had to trade that in for security.
That was the term that was used.
in every sense of the word.
So, here is one defense of the move Down with the Uniparty.
Deposing Speaker McCarthy was the righteous move from the dossier of Jordan Schachtel.
Last night, Representative Matt Gaetz made good on his promise to introduce a motion to vacate the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
Today, McCarthy is Speaker no more.
Representative Gates was not supposed to do that.
Part of the reason why DC World...
D.C. World is so up in arms this evening as that they were genuinely caught way off guard by the Gates motion.
They thought it was a bluff.
But they shouldn't have been.
Gates had been threatening to depose McCarthy for weeks, if not months, citing the empty promises and failure to act as a leader of a true opposition party.
The last straw reportedly involved McCarthy making a secret deal with the Democrats to continue funding the war in Ukraine.
I don't know how you make a secret deal with a public funding bill.
Maybe you can.
I don't know how that happens.
And, by the way, I don't agree with that.
I agree.
I have a middle position.
We should fund Ukraine, and we should be adamant about pursuing peace, whether Zelensky is supportive of our moves or not.
We run our foreign policy, not he.
On the other hand, the extreme position of letting Ukraine get crushed by Russia is not a position that I think the United States of America should take.
Nor does Taiwan think it, nor Sweden, nor Finland, nor Estonia, nor Latvia, nor Lithuania, nor I presume most countries in the world that feel threatened by some larger bully.
And the Republican Party was the party that supported the war in Vietnam.
You could have made every single argument against supporting the war in Vietnam that you would make against supporting Ukraine.
And by the way, there are people who say, that's right.
They should have, and we shouldn't have been there.
But if we shouldn't have been there, why should we have been in Korea?
And if you look at North Korea and South Korea, do you really think?
That, morally speaking, we should not have been in Korea?
That the entire peninsula of Korea, all of what is called South Korea and North Korea today, should have been under the rule of the megalomaniacal sadists, monsters of the Kim family?
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By the way, it's 435 members.
I told you Congress.
I didn't tell you the House when I said 535. It's 435 members of the House.
So that was something I needed to clear up.
And we are, there's something, there's an overriding issue that I need to speak to you about for there's an overriding issue that I need to speak to you about I have...
You know, I do speak about cultural issues a great deal, because the culture makes everything.
You can be affluent, have an affluent society, but if you lose your values...
It's worthless.
It's a statement about how important the values issue is.
I mean, if we have more and more kids raised without a father, that has tremendous consequences for society.
If we have more and more kids...
Thinking that they are the opposite sex because they have other psychological problems, it doesn't matter how affluent the society is.
On the other hand, please understand, as I said to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a week ago when he came to my home and we did a fireside chat, my weekly fireside chat for PragerU, and he, unlike me, does believe In the existential threat of global warming, of climate change.
I was actually surprised, since he's a big believer in science, and he knows how much scientists lie.
He's devoted his life to the lies about vaccines.
But he, for whatever reason, believes that even nuclear power is dangerous.
And he falls into the category of someone I deeply admire, with whom I differ profoundly on an issue.
That's the way life works, and I certainly can live with it.
But as I told him, what the Greens are doing to the economy of the Western world will create much, much, much, much more upheaval and evil and violence than any amount of climate change.
You want an existential threat to a society?
Ruin its economy.
Look at what happened to Germany in the 20s and 30s.
Hitler was elected because of economics, not because of his Jew hatred.
It didn't stop people from voting for him, but it didn't provoke most of his votes.
His votes went according largely to the economy of Germany.
So when I talk about these horrors inflicted on young people regularly, And I talk about how the debt is crushing regularly, but not as regularly.
Maybe I should.
It is astonishing to me that young people, or old people, or middle-aged people, any people, can be scared out of their minds about the existential, quote-unquote, existential threat posed by climate change in some distant future.
Frightened by the existential threat of a collapsed economy, of a worthless dollar.
Isn't that amazing?
That is so immediate and the other is so model-based.
And there is such a solution, it's called nuclear power.
There's no quick solution like that with regard to inflation and deflation.
Amazing.
Thank you.
Let's all watch the existential threat, which I've been told about now for 35 years.
Existential threat.
Every 12 years, we have just 12 years to go, and we seem to be doing pretty well.
It's a gigantic lie that global warming had anything to do with the Hawaii fires, or the Greek fires set by an arsonist or arsonists.
I think part of the reason for the preoccupation of the left with the existential threat of global warming is to get your mind off the existential threat of gigantic government overspending, staggering debt.
Yeah, that's an existential threat.
It threatens the existence of the country as we know it, just as it did, just as it threatened Germany in the 20s and 30s.
Unbelievable the ease with which people spend and print money.
Print money!
I believe the average seven-year-old could understand that if you keep printing money, the money is worth less.
I truly do believe that.
Not only do you not need a college education to understand that, the odds are if you have a college education, you won't care about it.
That is the irony of that situation.
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Did you?
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Did you send me the link first when I'm on the road?
It's a complex operation to take your calls, but I really do want them.
There we go.
Okay, we'll be back in a moment.
The existential threat is moral, and the other existential threat is fiscal.
So that's what prompted the deposing of Kevin McCarthy.
It is a worthy preoccupation.
I don't know if the deposing was...
Will accomplish much.
I hope it does.
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Hello from Minneapolis, everybody.
So, I am very worried.
The people who are worried about the spending are right.
The Republicans need to message this to the country and just say it the way I did.
We don't believe that global warming is an existential threat.
We believe that it is a problem.
We believe that the American debt, the printing of trillions of dollars of money with no backing, just to print it to pay to expand the government as the left does to keep its power and increase its power.
That is an existential threat.
That's the way they should message it.
That would be a good thing.
Let's see here.
We have Don in Louisville, Kentucky.
Hello, Don.
Hi, Dennis.
I agree with your latter analogy, but not your previous one, which you said that you could make the same arguments for Ukraine that we did for Afghanistan, I'm sorry, as Vietnam.
But I would say the big exception is we're $33 trillion in debt.
That existential threat, I believe, was not Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but our economic collapse.
I agree with you.
So where do you differ with me?
I agree.
I don't believe that the invasion of Ukraine is an existential threat.
But you were thinking that it was okay for us to be spending all the money in the Ukraine, though, right?
Only if we pursue peace with the same vigor that we pursue spending money in Ukraine.
The country's economy is being broken by 90% or 95% of our overspending has nothing to do with Ukraine.
We were bankrupting this country before Putin invaded Ukraine.
I'm sure you agree with me on that.
You just think that this is making it worse.
And you're right.
It is.
But if you acknowledge that if we had the same proportion of debt that we did in the 60s and 70s, apparently you would be okay with funding Ukraine?
I probably would.
Okay, well, you're an honest man.
Listen, bless you.
I have deep respect for your argument.
This country is being broken by the expansion of government by the amount it is spending on social welfare programs and has since another corrupt politician named Lyndon Johnson decided to spend our way out of poverty.
So he claimed it with the war on poverty and the great society.
A great society is a society that spends money it doesn't have.
That is the definition on the left of a great society.
A great society is where there is no inequality.
Since such a thing will never exist as long as the human being exists, every attempt at great equality has ended up with torture, massacre, and death camps.
Okay?
Every attempt.
So, I'm a little scared of that.
I'm scared of communism.
If you're not scared of communism, you're an ignoramus.
There's no moral defense for anyone who's not scared of communism.
Many years ago, literally many years ago, I would say 30 years ago at least, maybe 40, I wrote in the newsletter that I... Printed before the internet.
I wrote, what the left is scared of, what the right is scared of.
I've got to dig up that article, see how germane that would be to our time.
But the argument that we can't afford to fund Ukraine.
No, we can't afford to fund the Department of Education.
We can't afford trillions of dollars.
Thrown down the drain, wasted, corrupt money for green projects and for subsidies for electric vehicles.
That's why we can't afford.
We can't afford not to raise the age when you start getting Social Security.
We can't afford to throw people off their private insurance at 65 and have the government fund them with Medicare.
It was a total riddle to me.
Why this healthy man named Dennis Prager, who had perfectly excellent health insurance, had to be thrown off it to gain public funds called Medicare.
The spending issue should be first front and center because Congress The House in particular, but Congress does not have authority in general over whether or not teachers ruin children's lives by having them sexualized at an early age, which is another sick part of the left.
That we fight on a local level and on a national cultural level, but it does have control over spending.
The message has to be, There is an existential threat to the United States, and it isn't coming from heat.
It is coming from debt.
And I like Kevin McCarthy personally.
To the extent that I know him, I don't know him well.
We've been together, and I had a dialogue with him.
And I did not get the sense that he understood the urgency of the economic tragedy.
He did a lot of good.
I don't dislike the man, but I understand the opposition as well, which can easily be portrayed as fanatics.
I don't think a few people should be able to depose the Speaker.
There are many mixed issues here.
But the fundamental issue of, are we Republicans doing whatever we can about the debt?
The existential threat posed by the debt?
That's a very important issue.
That's the issue that they should stand for.
The New York Times is fine with it.
And by the way, both parties have been fine with it.
The Democrats more than the Republicans, but the Republicans as well, they have gone along.
The debt increased under a man I thought was a great president, Donald Trump.
The first thing we have to do is be honest.
Do you consider...
I think this is the question to be posed to every candidate for office.
Do you consider the debt an existential threat to America?
That's it.
Yes or no?
Even if they want to give a long answer, give a long answer.
But that's the question they have to answer.
Since we'd like to throw around the words existential threat, and there is a solution to the existential threat to the extent that it exists, and I don't believe it's existential, but it is a threat of global warming, there's an answer.
It's called nuclear power.
Nuclear power is the answer.
The answer.
And only a handful of so-called environmentalists, these are the extremists of our age, support that.
It's all rooted in, let's help China and make more electric cars, electric vehicles.
That's what it is.
Let's help China.
Let's have more young slave labor.
Let's get rid of more American jobs by having batteries.
What goes into making batteries mined elsewhere and under moral conditions that we would not accept in America.
My God, the human being's ability to ruin everything is, well, it is historic.
What shall we say?
If people just pursue truth, use reason.
Or even on a personal level, just follow the Ten Commandments.
That's it.
The world could be really beautiful.
Then we'd have to fight disease and earthquakes.
But most misery is caused by other human beings.
These are examples.
So the Pope has come out with a new statement that it is an existential threat.
Global warming.
See, and he blames the United States most of all for its profligate ways.
So, this Pope is a leftist, and it is a tragedy that he is a leftist because it's the most...
I don't know what I was going to say.
Are there more Catholics than any other faith?
No, I don't think there are more Catholics than Muslims.
I'll have to look that up.
There are more Christians than Muslims, but I don't know if there are more Catholics than Muslims.
But it is huge.
He's a man who believes that capitalism is a moral evil.
That's how left-wing he is.
Everyone, by the way, to my Catholic listeners, my heart goes out to you.
It does.
It's a very hard thing for a Catholic to believe that their Pope, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, as he is known, is morally confused.
However, please know that all of our religions are suffering.
The Anglican Church, Protestants in general, many Jews.
There are no guarantees of moral acuity.
Nothing guarantees it.
But that he has now gone on the existential threat train was a very sad development.
I'll read that to you upon our return.
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We'll return in a moment.
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Hi everybody, it's an email female hour every Wednesday, second hour of my show.
I'm Dennis Prager.
And as I frequently note, I think it's the most honest talk about men and women in the media.
Because I'm not a man fan or a woman fan, I'm a good person fan.
There are good women, good men, crappy women, and crappy men.
That's the way the world works.
It's always been that way.
I always find it odd when people romanticize either sex.
I'm a big fan of truth and reality.
Also, I don't shy away from any subject, and that is another reason for the openness and honesty of the male-female hour.
A man came over to me on Sunday at the annual town hall meeting of my LA station, KRLA, and there were 800 folks there, and afterwards there was the reception for people Paid more and went to what's called the VIP reception.
There was a long line of people waiting for me to sign one of my books or just sign a picture or get a selfie.
And a man happens to be a black man who is, I would say, 35 years old.
He said to me, I just want you to know, Dennis, you are the reason I married.
And you're the reason I have a child.
And I really, I was really moved.
That comment comes to me very frequently.
Men need a manly man.
That is a man they look up to as a man to tell them in many ways how to lead a good life.
And I tell men to get married and I tell men to have children.
And I've gotten that response often.
And now to the subject.
This subject will be revelatory to many women.
Might even be revelatory in a different way to many men.
Yeah, I think it would be.
It is about women's looks.
The most sensitive subject on earth.
Nobody likes to talk about it because it's so sensitive an issue.
The aspect I want to address is that I think that most women, or many women, I don't know, most, vast numbers of women do not see themselves physically, I'm talking about.
In terms of looks, the way men see them.
And there's one of the reasons that so many attractive women don't think they're attractive, which is extremely common among women.
Attractive women who don't think they're attractive.
And I have some theories as to why that is.
And the biggest theory is this.
Women, many women, most women probably, compare themselves to some Hollywood star or model or some idealized image of a woman.
In that comparison in their mind, they fail.
Men don't do that.
Or again, most men.
I can't speak for every man or every woman on any subject.
So, if we don't generalize, we don't learn from life.
These are generalizations.
Meaning, most of the time, it's true.
Most men are not comparing their wife, their girlfriend, to another woman, physically speaking.
That's not the way the male brain works.
Men are attracted to vast numbers of women.
That is correct.
But they are not spending their time When they're with their woman, presuming that there is some, obviously, level of attraction here, but they're not comparing her to others.
You should see my video.
I've done about 60 videos for PragerU, for Prager University.
There were about 600, so I've only done one out of ten.
Nine out of ten videos are done by other people, as it should be.
But I've done one out of ten, and I am proud of all sixty.
Done on the Ten Commandments and many other issues.
The worthlessness of the conscience for most people.
I mean, heavy-duty, interesting, important stuff.
But the one I'm most proud of, of all my sixty, is the one titled, He Wants You.
He wants you.
I was present.
It was a fascinating experience for me.
Only life could provide such an opportunity.
It sounds so odd that it happened, and yet it did.
I think it was here in Minnesota.
I'm in Minnesota right now.
I think it was here in Minneapolis or St. Paul.
And I wanted to have a cigar after my evening speech, but all the lounges, all the cigar lounges had closed.
But somebody gave me the name of a private lounge that would be open, that is open all night and maybe 24-7, but you have to be a member and presumably need a key to get in.
But I figured, I'll give it a try.
I went to this address.
I knocked on the door.
They opened it up.
I explained my situation.
I'm from California, so obviously I'm not a member here.
Could I come in and smoke a cigar, happily pay whatever you charge me?
Anyway, they were very sweet.
It was a man and a woman.
And they didn't know who I was.
So they asked me who I was, why I was there, if I gave a speech, what do I speak on?
And I explained to them about my radio show and Prager University.
And I said, you know what?
Better than my telling you about PragerU, as we call it, why don't you watch a video?
I said, fine.
There are only five minutes, I said.
Here, just put one on the screen here.
So the woman, I would say she was about 30, and I told her, put on the video, He Wants You.
The subject of the video is that I had read in the Daily Mail, this is years ago, that when couples go on beach vacations, They are more likely to experience tension than if they go on a vacation elsewhere.
Why?
Because the man sees all these women in bikinis and she knows he's looking at them, even if he's not a starer.
And she is troubled by that, thinking that all he's doing is comparing me to them I just don't match a lot of these young bodies out there.
Okay, so I decided to make a video, He Wants You.
And I pointed out, among other things, and I did it, and the illustrations are hilarious, that the guy doesn't remember any of the women he saw on the beach.
She does.
So she thinks he does.
Why?
This applies to my subject.
I will explain.
She was afraid to come out of the locker.
She was as nervous as she could be.
She was afraid to come out of the locker.
She was afraid that somebody would say.
Two, three, four, tell the people what she was.
It was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini that she wore for the first time today.
An itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini.
My friends, Dennis Prager here, Male Female Hour.
So here is the theme of today's hour.
Women don't see themselves physically the way men see them.
They are, in other words, they are harsher on themselves than men are.
It's a generalization.
It's not true for every woman.
It's not true for every man.
There's also, I mean, to be honest, obviously we have to be honest, there are times when the attraction has dissipated or been reduced for whatever reasons, and that's a painful, painful subject.
But generally speaking, vast numbers of attractive women don't think they are attractive.
And the reason?
They do not see themselves the way men see them.
Or I'll put it to you as bluntly as I can.
Men see them as sexier than they do.
And that's it.
That's something women need to understand.
All the efforts that women make to continue to be attractive are tremendously admirable and not unimportant.
As a man wants to be as reliable a man in his way as he can be and not retire from that fact.
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Women and men are very open with me because I am so open publicly.
I mean, if I'm open on the radio, they could certainly be open privately.
And I've talked to many women.
They look in the mirror and all they see are flaws.
But when a man looks at them, that's not what they see.
They don't see the flaws.
The purported flaws, not even sure that in many cases they actually exist.
They may exist in her mind.
Listen, if men didn't find vast numbers of women attractive, the human race would have died out a long time ago.
So that's important.
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If you want to ask me, if you want to disagree, if you want to agree, you're a man or a woman, this is a very important subject.
Rarely addressed.
People are too frightened.
Touching the subject, it's sort of like a third rail women's looks.
It's a third rail.
And it's important.
In the human race, unlike peacocks, let's say, the female attracts the male, the male gets aroused, and they reproduce.
That is the way it works.
I feel stupid.
No, not stupid.
I feel silly.
Saying this to an intelligent audience, but the birds and the bees and many other truths of life are never taught.
Sex education doesn't teach you anything important.
It teaches you the mechanics, and in that way is not helpful at all.
Men see you.
The odds are the man in your life sees you as more attractive than you see you.
The odds are there are cases where that is not the case.
That is true.
It's a painful fact of life, but I'm not talking about the painful facts.
I'm talking about the facts.
Many young women don't know this either.
They think, when they look at another woman, it's so fascinating for me to talk to these women who will tell me about all these attractive women, including my wife, who will mention woman A or woman B as very attractive, and I'll think, yeah, she is attractive, but to be honest, I find you more so.
And not...
And not just because I love her.
This is true for women who open up to me whom I'm not in love with.
I'm in love with one woman, as it happens.
I love any number of women and men, thank God.
I'm rich in good people in my life.
That's a separate issue.
Oh, my, you know, look at my knees.
I always liked that one.
I'm not saying my wife says that.
It's just an example.
Like, the man is thinking, yeah, I'll tell you, my wife or my girlfriend's knees, that's an issue.
It's not the way male sexuality works.
Thank God, I might add. 877-243-7776.
Alright, let me pick up my laptop here.
What's the timing, Sean?
Alright, I'm going to start taking calls when we return.
Yeah.
God, that's right.
That is correct.
Let's see.
Well, this is good.
The calls are going to be very interesting.
This is really important, women.
I don't even know, even if you, I know women pretty well, and I know men pretty well.
Even if you agree, I'm not even sure.
Let's go to your calls if I can finally get this open here.
Yeah, there we go.
Alright, male-female hour.
A lot of women don't know how attractive they are.
Vast numbers of them, in fact, because they don't see themselves the way men see them.
They see themselves the way they see them, with a massive concentration on perceived, alleged, or even real flaws.
If you, if you, women should actually, I guess, very often, I think they could learn a lot if they saw,
Some of the women who pose in bikinis just on websites, and how quote-unquote flawed they would be in the average woman's eyes, but men don't see that.
They see the female body, and very often that's...
A sufficient turn-on.
And that's what women don't understand, because they don't have a male brain.
And by the way, I'm not sure they can ever understand what I'm saying, because they can't have a male brain, even if they become trans.
You can't get the brain of the other sex.
But, and here is the ongoing puzzle of my life.
Can people be governed by reason over feeling?
And the answer is most people cannot, having nothing to do with the male-female issue, just in general.
So at least if you can intellectually understand, I see these flaws, and he is not concentrating on them.
He sees the larger picture.
And can be turned on.
And is turned on.
Anyway, a woman who acts sexy is very sexy.
And that too, a lot of women don't know.
Some women instinctively know it.
And they don't have perfect bodies, perfect faces, whatever that means.
So this is a very important thing for women to know.
It doesn't mean you don't try to look as attractive as possible.
It's a beautiful thing to do for your husband.
Just as he has ways to continue to show his love for you.
But that's a separate issue.
Alright, let's see your calls and see what you have to do.
Okay.
Yeah, Bob, right here in Eagan, Minnesota.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
First-time caller.
I've been a listener since 2005, and I just want to say thank you so much for what you've done.
I have passed on PragerU to I have five children.
I have three stepchildren and two biological.
And my last child just left the house in April, so it's only been me and my wife.
I've been married for the third time, and so has she, since 2011. And she is 54, I'm 61, and my wife is absolutely gorgeous.
She used to be a firefighter for the Egan Department, and then she got out of that in 2016. But she has let her hair go gray.
She gets so many compliments when we go out to restaurants, when we go to Viking games, whatever.
She's absolutely beautiful.
But here's the deal.
She went through menopause, and she gained a little bit of weight, and then she just thought I stopped loving her.
And I told her, I said, beauty is not existential.
It's on the inside.
I said, I love you for the mother that you have been, for the courage that you have had.
I said, I have loved you for your smile.
I said, and life happens.
You're going to gain weight.
Well, now, the doctor ordered her to get a breast reduction, and she got a breast reduction.
She started losing weight, because at that time, I found out I had high cholesterol, and I had to go on a strict diet.
All right, I got the point, and it sounds like a happy ending.
God bless you, sir.
All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here with one of my favorite Americans. - Orange.
And I never say those things lightly.
He is a gift to this country.
How's that?
I don't want to overdo it because I'll...
I don't know...
I don't know how he'll react if I keep praising him.
But Alex Marlowe of Breitbart is...
Is a real asset to this country.
I don't know how these people are invented.
And I'm serious.
I've tried to explore this issue my whole life.
What makes fighters and courageous and insightful people?
Can they be made or are they born?
I still don't have an answer.
I think both are true.
Anyways, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News Network.
Which is an awesome site you should visit regularly.
His book came out yesterday, so I'm really honored to have him on today.
Breaking Biden.
Exposing the hidden forces and secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration.
I already bought it in audio.
I'm buying it in Kindle.
I will now be one of the only Americans other than...
Alex himself, to have the Audible, the Kindle, and the hardcover.
All right, if that is, and by the way, I bought with my own money the Audible and the Kindle.
I just want you folks to know that.
By the way, what is interesting, Alex, I always check on publishers.
So isn't your publisher, or is your publisher an arm of Simon& Schuster?
Yes.
And Dennis, let me just say, that intro means so much to me, and I'm not great at receiving compliments, but I wanted to return the favor.
Wondering how people are made, people like me who are fighters and happy warriors, you had a lot to do with it.
My dad was a listener to you, starting on Religion on the Line.
I was probably one of the first and maybe the longest PragerTopia subscriber.
20 years ago, or almost 20, 18 years ago, I was on the UC Berkeley campus.
I would listen to every minute of your show.
There were years that would go by where I don't think I'd missed a minute.
So you're a big part of it.
And I owe you a lot.
And just for you to say that about me means everything.
Wow.
Well, I am now really happy I complimented you as much as I did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're complimenting yourself in the process.
I got it back.
Yes, exactly.
And my $60 a year definitely could help buy your Kindle edition.
But I will tell you, I don't even have the Kindle version yet.
I've got the audiobook downloaded, and I did decide to buy one of my own books, even though I've got a stack of them in my office.
But I thought that would be fun.
But I don't have the Kindle yet.
I hope it's good.
You will want the Kindle because...
As I have a Kindle of all my books, I often will take parts of them for speeches, so I'll have those notes, or for an article, so you'll want your own Kindle.
Anyway, before, because we'll have time, I want to give you a lot of time.
You're endlessly insightful.
So before that, any thoughts?
And I have no idea what you'll say.
I'm just deeply interested in the Kevin McCarthy being, in his being deposed.
Yeah.
This one is tough because I'm going to tell you what I actually think, even if it hurts maybe some people's opinion of me and then makes them not want to buy the book that I'm here to talk to you about.
But I don't like any of it.
I think it's all sort of grandstanding adjacent.
I understand some of the points.
That some of the people who wanted Kevin McCarthy to pose what their issues are.
I, of course, get a general frustration with congressional Republicans who have rarely missed an opportunity to miss opportunities over my lifetime following politics.
But I do think Kevin McCarthy has done a really decent job at an impossible job, a job that secretly, Dennis, and I was in D.C. for maybe eight or nine years of my life.
I just recently left.
No one wants that job.
It's a thankless job.
job.
It's a painful job.
You're negotiating with some of the most difficult, egomaniacal people on the planet.
And I think Kevin was doing a pretty good job.
And now we have a scenario where you've got eight Republicans joining literally every single Democrat, every single Democrat.
And we're told that, no, trust the process.
This is going to be great for conservatives.
Something that all the Democrats want and only eight Republicans want.
That seems incredibly far-fetched to me.
And then if you add that Matt Gaetz, who's the ringleader, who I have a lot of nice things say about Matt Gaetz, a lot of really nice things.
I I think he's got great energy, great charisma.
But he's a personal beef with Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy has allowed an ethics investigation in the Gaetz to continue.
There's no doubt that this is part of this.
And in the meantime, I'm trying to get the word out about how bad Joe Biden is.
Who I think is the biggest threat to the country at the moment by a mile.
And now we're focused on whether McCarthy, who's good on some stuff but maybe not perfect on others, whether he's the real problem.
So I don't like any of it, to answer your question.
Well, at the same risk you have, I agree with everything you said.
It's not even the only area I disagree.
I don't disagree at all.
My concern is with the Republican Party not answering the existential threat argument about global warming with the existential threat about our national debt.
I don't think that they feel that.
They don't.
But I'll tell you, Dennis, that as someone who is not a particularly old guy, but I've followed this stuff since...
You know, I became obsessed with politics halfway through high school.
The Republicans have always been terrible on the national debt.
It's just the Democrats have been unspeakably terrible at a whole other level.
That's right.
But to act like this week, we've decided this week, when finally we're seeing some progress on getting to the bottom of the Biden's corrupt finances, Joe's on the ropes in the polls and in investigations, Hunter's finally getting hauled in before court.
Now all of a sudden...
Now we're going to decide now the debt's too much and we can't handle it.
I wish it was genuine.
It just doesn't feel like that to me.
Fair enough.
You have an important read on politics.
So what animated you to write your book?
I guess that's the essential question.
And the reason why...
I took on this process, which was over a year of research.
I assembled a team of five researchers, all of whom had worked on number one bestsellers for Peter Schweitzer, who is, I think, the preeminent investigator in conservative media, really all of media, to be honest.
And the reason why I wanted to do it is because I had a hypothesis that people had gotten Joe Biden all wrong.
That people had underestimated him as some sort of a buffoon who was a puppet who was just going to hang out in his basement and didn't have any meaningful skills or really any explanation for how he's achieved such heights in terms of politics and power.
And I was pretty determined to investigate whether or not that was the truth because I had a suspicion it wasn't.
And I found in virtually every area that I investigated, not only is Joe the guy at the top, and he is the one who's truly in charge, but he's always done this crazy stuff.
He's said crazy things since the 1970s, and I cite many of them in the book.
So if you think he's deteriorating mentally, maybe he is, but he's always had these buffoonish moments.
But in the meantime, he's been...
He's accumulating unfathomable levels of power, and he's been using them almost exclusively for ill for this country.
Almost every decision where he has gone big, he has gotten it wrong, foreign and domestic, and there's a chapter on each of the key ones.
And so pursuing that premise, that Joe Biden is not just some nincompoop puppet, but he is actually the guy who is in charge of the whole system and designed it himself, that was the thesis, and I think I back it up.
The book is Breaking Biden.
That's the title.
Exposing the hidden forces and secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration.
I can't give a better recommendation than the fact that I have already purchased the Audible and the Kindle.
I would have purchased the hardcover too, but I got that one free.
From the publisher.
It's a truly significant book.
The perks of the job.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, there are a lot of perks to this job.
I never lose sight of that.
Put you on the spot with a question I don't think any interviewer of you will pose, and I'll have you answer it when we return because we just have a few seconds before the break.
I have come to the conclusion...
That he is a bad human being, and I've never said that of any president in my lifetime, and I'm broadcasting for 40 years.
I'd like to get your assessment of that.
And another question.
Since all he does is harm the country, does he want to harm the country?
I don't even have an answer to that.
We'll be back in a moment.
The book Breaking Biden up at DennisPrager.com.
One of my regrets in life is that my parents are not alive to know that I am a promo code for dog food.
and The heights that I have reached.
I'm just ribbing myself.
I actually am proud of all these sponsors, as you probably know.
I am with one of the most important people in the country, in my opinion, in fighting for the country, Alex Marlow, Senior Editor.
Editor-in-chief of Breitbart.
The book came out yesterday.
You should buy six copies.
I'm really not kidding.
I'm laughing because it's not realistic in most cases, but it's not a bad idea.
Breaking Biden, exposing the hidden forces and secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration.
So I ended with two questions for you, Alex.
I think he's a bad human being.
And as I said, I've never said this.
I didn't say it about Jimmy Carter.
I didn't say it about Bill Clinton.
I didn't say it about Barack Obama, the Democrats who were president during my career.
I say it about very few people.
That is my assessment.
And the other is...
Do you think he wants to hurt the country, or does he believe that everything he is doing is good for the country?
Two different questions.
Dennis, are we blowing through something, though?
Is there breaking news?
Are you updating your answer to would you save your dog or a stranger who is drowning at the same time in proximity if you could only save one?
That's very funny.
If you're calling your dogs your kids now.
If you're calling your dogs your kids.
No, no, no.
You know what?
You know what?
I knew when I said it, Alex is cracking up, and it bugged me.
It did bug me that I came up with that.
Okay.
I do not regard my dogs as my kids.
You're the last person who regards your dogs as kids.
The last person, which is why I was saying that.
That is right.
Okay, so back to your very serious questions.
I don't think this answer will shock you, but like you, I'm wired not to think my political opponents are bad people.
But everything in terms of the evidence that I was able to go through while researching the book does point to Joe Biden being a bad person.
I can say that.
Unequivocally, and I'll cite a couple examples, two that are, I'm sure, somewhat familiar to your audience, but one that they probably don't know, which is the most mind-blowing.
The ones that they do know probably are that during the Afghanistan pullout, when the Biden administration was responsible for droning a car filled with children and showed almost no remorse.
There's almost no remorse, almost nothing done publicly.
Literally, we accidentally droned a bunch of kids dead, and we acted like it was no big deal collectively.
And Joe Biden, of course, did nothing to acknowledge that.
The next one is the treatment of his granddaughter, Navy Joan, who the family ignored for four or five years until it was politically impossible for them to ignore it.
This is a legitimate, biological, flesh-and-blood grandchild of Hunter Biden.
I'm sorry, of Joe Biden.
Hunter's child.
And Joe was aware of this child and continued to brag about what a great-grandfather he was to his other six grandkids and completely ignored this one child who was desperate for some attention from him, who was getting bullied.
His family was getting bullied.
Her life was terrible.
And it was all because of Hunter.
And Joe did nothing to help.
And Jill did nothing to help.
So those are the ones you guys probably know.
But the one that was the most shocking that I came across in the book, you have to read it to believe it.
Joe famously, and this is one of the most tragic and humanizing moments of his life, lost his first wife and daughter in a horrific car crash between when he won his first Senate race and when he was sworn in.
It's devastating.
The entire country wept for Joe.
So decades later, in 1999, Frank Biden, one of Joe's brothers, was driving around with another friend in California.
Frank had had his license suspended.
So Frank, according to the story, and they were witnesses, was operating the stick shift of a vehicle while this other guy, Jason Turton was his name, drove the car.
They were going double the speed limit, and they ran over a pedestrian, and they killed the person.
And Frank was ostensibly operating part of the vehicle that was speeding and ran over someone.
And Frank, according to the witnesses, told Turton to keep driving.
Turton ended up pleading guilty to felony hit-and-run, and Frank got a wrongful death lawsuit in August of 2000. But he refused to even show up in court, wouldn't pay anything.
He owed the surviving children of the guy he killed $275,000.
Now, Frank wouldn't pay it.
And finally, he was on the lam.
They're trying to track him down.
They couldn't track him down.
They looked for him at Joe's house.
They couldn't find him.
Finally, in 2008...
When Joe was about to become vice president, the family found Joe.
They were able to track down Joe, and Joe completely blew them off.
Essentially sent them a form letter and said, we have nothing to do with this.
Frank's not going to pay anything.
The senator who's about to become vice president can't help anything.
Totally impersonal.
He had an opportunity to show empathy.
That to me is the single anecdote that proves all you need to know about Joe Biden's character.
Anything he does to show character publicly is a facade.
That is who he is.
So I did not know that one.
So let me add one and tell me if I have it correctly.
That he lied, and if I'm wrong, please tell me so I never say it, or never say it again, that he lied about the circumstances in which his first wife and child were killed when he said that the man who did it was a drunk driver.
Absolutely.
And this is detailed in the book.
He did this over and over again, where he would repeatedly claim that this driver had drank his lunch instead of eating it, and that he was a drunk and he got run over by it.
No, it was actually Joe's wife had ran through a stop sign or something.
She was operating unsafely, which is she didn't deserve to die, obviously, but she was a big part of it and the guy was not drunk.
And Joe instead smeared this man.
And eventually, I think decades later, there's an investigation and he was kind of cleared of all this stuff.
And then Joe, I think, allegedly apologized decades and decades later.
But he was willing to smear this guy for years to amplify his political narrative.
It was a political narrative that Joe was amplifying.
The book is Breaking Biden.
It is must-reading.
Alex Breitbart, we continue.
I can tell Alex Marlow why I said Alex Breitbart at the end.
I had to get off within four seconds, and I conflated Alex being the senior editor at Breitbart with his name.
So I actually have, there is a reason for that.
There are hard breaks in radio that are the gods of radio.
Breaking Biden is Alex Marlowe's book.
It is really important.
I did not know how Alex would react to my theory that he's a bad human being as president.
I have never said that about a president, and I was no fan of any of the Democrats that were president in my career, but I never said that.
So I have question number two, Alex.
He is doing so much to wreck this country, from open border to shattering the economy.
Does he believe he is doing good?
I mean, nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's another day to do evil.
I know that.
Nevertheless, how does he sleep well with the border and the debt?
How do you answer that?
This is really an interesting question, Dennis.
And first of all, I totally got the Alex Breitbart thing.
I normally get Andrew Marlowe.
That's normally in honor of Andrew Breitbart.
People call me Andrew Marlowe.
Oh, that's funny.
I totally understand.
Yeah, I get that all the time.
All the time.
Which I take as a compliment.
I mean, if you're going to mess up my name and conflate it with Andrew, then I can live with it.
But the...
This is a complex question because I feel like my best answer for this is that doing good for America is not high on his priority list.
I think his priority list is as follows.
Personal and family aggrandizement via power and money.
I think that's number one.
I don't think he's got an agenda.
Other than that, he wants to achieve power and he wants to make money for his...
One thing about him that I think is one of his underrated skills that I think we all kind of get subconsciously but haven't fully processed, his elevation of his family is part of his secret sauce.
It's been like this since before.
He was a household name since before he was even a senator.
His family network is what mattered most to him.
And it was his hope to one day have a family dynasty like the Kennedys.
That was his ultimate goal, was to try to build a family like that.
Obviously, if you meet all the Bidens and you do in the book, that was never going to happen.
But his first priority is not country.
It's definitely family.
That's number one.
But then if you look at what else are above the country for him, erasing Donald Trump is huge.
Think about the border as a perfect example.
Right away, what he did at the border was erase all of those good things that Trump had done in his final year as president.
Now, I think Trump could have gotten focused on the border earlier in his administration, but the last year with the Northern Triangle agreements, Remain in Mexico, using Title 42, all of these things that Trump had put in place along with starting to build the wall were all making a really big difference in the positive for this country.
And Joe, on day one, One, turn them all off for no other reason other than to spite Trump and Trump's movement.
Same thing goes with suspending oil leases, with stopping drilling in places where we've been drilling.
Things like that are all designed to hurt Americans and America, but they satisfy the key constituency in Joe Biden's life, other than family, which is the institutional left.
So long as the left is happy, Joe is in business.
Joe knows that, and he prioritizes that group of people over the country as a collective.
So, family and power.
Is that a fair synopsis?
Yes, and the power is achieved via the institutional left, by the base Democrat voters.
So I'm not saying he hates the country or is ultimately trying to spy it.
He doesn't care.
I would say, yes, that's key.
That's right.
He is not there to hurt the country.
He doesn't care about the country.
He cares about his power and his family.
That's right.
It's a superb read.
I buy it completely.
The book is Breaking Biden, Alex Marlowe, and we continue.
This is, unfortunately, a very important book.
Continue in a moment.
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