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Hello everyone, Dennis Prager here with Fireside

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Chat number 327. 327.

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I got

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a call from

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a very dear friend who lives in New York

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City and

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I was a bit surprised because it was

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it was pretty late

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here which meant that

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it was three hours later I live

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in California and it was three

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hours later in New York so he was

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calling at about 1 a.m. his time. I'm

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always up at 1 a.m. my time but

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I'm I love the night and he goes

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to bed at normal times so

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I goes everything okay he goes yeah

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that's why I'm calling like what are

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you talking about is everything

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okay with you Dennis so

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I was thinking is everything okay with me and

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I was thinking what did he possibly hear

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my life is quite blessed he

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goes I'm watching the

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news and I

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see that these horrible storms in

1:04

California how

1:07

is it how are those rains affecting you so

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I thought for a moment and I

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said it's raining

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that's it that's

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all it's doing it's raining

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he goes

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oh I'm watching these things and I'm

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seeing these horrible storms I'm seeing cars

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in water and so

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let me just reflect on that for

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a moment because this is a very

1:35

long standing theme in my life how

1:40

people are affected

1:42

by media in

1:45

in in bad ways I tell

1:48

the story I wrote a book I'm

1:51

jumping here forgive me I wrote a book

1:54

in in in the 1990s

1:57

called think a second time it's

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it contains 44 essays

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that I wrote on 44 subjects.

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It's a really good introduction to my

2:08

thinking about life because it's about

2:10

all different subjects, religion,

2:12

happiness, politics, everything.

2:16

So one of them is about

2:20

the impact of media. This is

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really a while ago. This is,

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we're talking now 25 years

2:28

ago. So

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I tell the story. It made

2:33

such an impact on me. I was in New

2:35

York City and

2:38

I broadcast from my New

2:41

York station and then I headed on that

2:44

day to a speech I was to give

2:49

that evening in Cherry

2:51

Hill, New Jersey, which is right over

2:53

the border from Philadelphia. So

2:57

I woke up, excuse me,

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not went to bed. I don't

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remember if I even was aware of this. I woke

3:03

up in the morning. I

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saw that it was, you know,

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light snow, a couple

3:10

of inches of snow on the ground. I grew up

3:12

in New York. I'm totally used to snow and a

3:14

couple of inches means nothing. I turn

3:17

on the radio and

3:19

station after station is

3:22

warning people don't drive

3:24

unless it's an emergency.

3:28

And it will be a disaster

3:30

on the roads. If

3:33

you must drive, go hours

3:35

early. And

3:37

I remember entering that

3:40

famous state of mind called

3:42

cognitive dissonance. On

3:44

the one hand, there was the radio and on

3:46

the other hand, I looked out my window. Cars

3:50

were driving. Everything

3:53

seemed normal except it

3:55

was it was snowing. Wasn't

3:58

the blizzard snowing just snow? But

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anyway, I was influenced by the

4:04

radio report and

4:06

I left early

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and I thought

4:11

my trip to Cherry Hill,

4:13

basically Philadelphia from Manhattan,

4:16

would take me at least four

4:18

hours. Anyway,

4:21

I got on the New Jersey turd

4:23

pike and there

4:25

were no cars. And

4:29

the road was basically clear. I

4:32

got to Cherry Hill in

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record time because I had gone to

4:36

Philadelphia from New York many times. And

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I remember I thought,

4:42

wow, everybody

4:44

got so influenced by

4:47

the reports. They

4:50

avoided driving and I had the New

4:52

Jersey turd pike to myself. So

4:54

I went to a bookstore. Some of you

4:56

may have never seen a bookstore, but at

4:58

that time there were still many bookstores.

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So I went to a bookstore in Cherry Hill.

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It was empty. I was

5:06

the only customer. And I said

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to the woman who read the bookstore, I

5:10

said, how come it's, is

5:12

this normal for there be no

5:15

customers? And she said, no, no,

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no, not at all. But

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people watch the news or

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listen to the news and

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they, and then I'll never forget she

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opened my eyes. She said, they are

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more influenced by what

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they hear and see in the

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media than they

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are by their own reality. And

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that was a brilliant insight on the part

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of this woman who ran a bookstore in

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Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 25 years ago.

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The media are more powerful

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than your own lived

5:56

experience. The

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media told Americans

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that it was

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best to close schools.

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So they closed schools and

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it was

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terrible damage to a generation

6:19

of children. As

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people like myself warned the entire

6:24

time, their

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reality was my kid is being damaged

6:29

sitting home for two years. This

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is really terrible. Learning

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nothing, just on playing

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video games or on social media

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all day long. No

6:41

interaction with other kids but I'm told this

6:43

is good for my child. But

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that's what they were told so that's

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what most parents believed. Obviously

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I didn't believe it but

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I was in a very small minority. I

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wrote in April, you can see it on

7:01

the internet, April 2020 that

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the lockdowns were the greatest

7:07

mistake, greatest international mistake in

7:09

history. Turns

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out I was right. But

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people were told, the media told them,

7:19

listen media tell kids

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that they could become a boy or a girl

7:25

if they're already a girl or a boy. People

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believe what they're told. The power

7:32

of the media, I'm using

7:34

the example of my friend being

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panicked by what's happening to me

7:38

in California where nothing

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is happening to me but

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it correlates

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to almost anything in life. People

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believe what they're

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told more than their experience reality.

7:55

Nobody really believes a boy could become a girl.

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But if you're told it, you're told it. all

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of a sudden it becomes a possibility. I

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don't know what this is in the human condition

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that enables people to believe

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what runs totally

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counter to their own experience.

8:16

I saw that there was no snow

8:19

to worry about, but

8:21

the media told people there's a lot of snow

8:23

to worry about, and so

8:26

people stayed home. And I had

8:28

a clear drive on a

8:30

Friday afternoon, the

8:32

busiest time on highways down

8:35

to Philadelphia. I

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have thought about this a great deal, the

8:43

power of media on people. Believe me,

8:45

I'm not the only one to think

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about this. But

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it is amazing that people have

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so little trust in

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their own perceptions. I

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think that's a big factor here. As

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the woman said to me in the bookstore, people

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looked out the window, at their own

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window of their own home, saw

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nothing was happening, but they still believe the

9:14

media. And

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that's really what

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it is. If you're told something by

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the government or by the

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media, or in our case

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in America at this time,

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both, because they're basically one and

9:33

the same, the government and the media

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at this moment, I hope it changes,

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but it is what it is. People

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will believe it. I

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don't know why. The

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ease with which people can believe things

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that are

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directly contrary to their own experience

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experience. For here's another one. People

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are told today that to be

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colorblind is to be racist. This

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is commonly told in colleges

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and high schools, maybe even elementary

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schools. Isn't

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it obvious that that's contrary to all

10:19

logic? If I

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don't notice your color, how could I

10:23

be racist? Isn't

10:26

racism dependent upon taking

10:29

color seriously? And

10:32

yet, I

10:35

would say half of young Americans

10:37

believe that the word colorblind is

10:39

racist. The

10:41

coach of the New England Patriots, did I

10:44

review that? You did, yeah. Yeah, I thought

10:46

so. But it

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doesn't matter. I just wanted to

10:50

note you can watch a previous

10:54

addressing this issue at length. The

10:57

coach of a major football

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team, a professional football team

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in the United States said,

11:05

if you don't notice

11:10

race, that's racism. The

11:13

man said something that is completely

11:16

illogical. Forget not truthful,

11:18

just illogical. So

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it's no wonder that my friend

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called me. He

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believed what he saw in the media. And

11:36

I was

11:38

tempted to say to him, I remember

11:41

something, this was fascinating. One

11:43

more example of

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the power of perceptions. So

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in my 20s, I

11:52

would visit Israel quite frequently. I've

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been there over 20 times. And

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I remember

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people would say to me, I was then until

12:02

the age of 25, I was living

12:04

in New York City. And

12:06

I remember people in New York City saying to me,

12:09

wow, you're going to

12:11

Israel, isn't it dangerous? And

12:14

I thought, why do you think it's dangerous? Oh, there are

12:16

these terror attacks that

12:19

take place all the time. And

12:23

I realized that

12:27

because the only time Israel was in the news

12:30

was when there was a terror attack, they

12:32

thought it was happening all the time and all

12:34

over the place. Whereas there's

12:37

no country I have felt safer in. I

12:40

felt equally safe, I don't know, in Norway.

12:43

But no country that I

12:45

have felt safer in than Israel and all my

12:47

trips to Israel. But

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here's the punchline. So

12:53

when I was in Israel that very

12:55

same summer, some

12:57

Israeli said to me, where

12:59

are you from? I

13:02

speak Hebrew, we were talking in Hebrew, but it

13:04

was obvious that I was not Israeli. I don't

13:06

have an Israeli accent. And

13:08

he said, so where are you from? I go, from America.

13:10

Oh, where in America? I go, New York City. New

13:15

York City? Aren't

13:17

people murdered there every day? How

13:20

do you walk the streets? So

13:23

the Israeli couldn't believe I was in New

13:25

York. The New Yorkers couldn't believe I was

13:27

in Israel. Now

13:30

there is a lot of crime and there

13:32

was that in New York City. But it's

13:34

not like everybody's being shot all day. But

13:36

the only time they saw New York in

13:38

the news was when there was a murder

13:41

or multiple murders. So

13:44

this is really good examples

13:46

of the power which

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seems to be unlimited

13:53

of the media to influence people to

13:56

believe anything. colorblind

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is racist or

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yeah it's snowing out and you better not

14:05

drive. You look outside and it looks fine

14:07

and you won't drive. It's

14:11

very important to think for yourself. It's

14:15

really important. Okay

14:19

there you go. I had

14:23

a completely different idea till

14:25

five minutes before the

14:27

broadcast and then Reed

14:30

mentioned it, my stepson, and it

14:33

was a very important point especially

14:35

given my friend's phone call from last

14:38

night. Alright let's take it

14:40

away. Uh-oh. Okay.

14:45

Hi Dennis. My name is Joshua. I'm

14:48

from Wrightwood, California and I was

14:50

wondering if you could have anyone

14:52

in the world on your show. Who would

14:54

it be? That

14:58

is a very interesting

15:00

question. So

15:02

I realized, so one of the

15:05

obvious answers, people would think some

15:09

major political figure, a

15:11

president, prime minister, the

15:14

Pope. Alright those are

15:16

obvious or if they're into pop

15:19

culture, you know, Taylor

15:22

Swift or

15:24

some other giant in

15:26

entertainment, some

15:28

big actor or actress. But

15:32

I have met a lot

15:34

of these people and there's no

15:37

knocking on them but I'm not

15:39

particularly interested in

15:41

interviewing any of them. So

15:44

I really thought what is the most honest

15:46

answer I can give and

15:49

here it is. I would

15:52

like to interview anyone

15:56

who drives slowly

15:58

in the carpool

16:01

lane. I'm

16:05

not kidding. I know

16:07

it sounds bizarre, but

16:09

I'm dead serious. The

16:12

thing I say my wife is a living

16:15

witness to this. When

16:17

I am behind a slow driver in

16:20

what we call the diamond lane, you

16:23

know the lane where if you have

16:25

a passenger, so there are more than

16:27

two of you, you have access

16:29

to that lane. Other

16:33

cars don't.

16:35

When someone is driving slowly in that

16:37

lane and all the regular lanes are

16:39

going faster, I will

16:42

say to my wife, I really

16:44

want to interview this person. What

16:47

is in their mind? That

16:50

makes sense? It is a great question. I

16:53

thought that today.

16:57

Yes. Here's the point. If

16:59

I interviewed the Pope, that would interest

17:01

me. I know

17:03

what he will say to almost any question that

17:05

I'll ask, which is no insult to the Pope.

17:08

I know how he thinks. I read him. The

17:11

same would hold true for the President

17:13

of the United States or

17:16

for any given senator. I would know

17:18

in 99% of

17:20

the cases what they would say. I

17:22

don't know what they would say. When I

17:24

would say you realize there

17:27

is no point in your being

17:29

in that lane if you're going

17:31

slowly. All you are doing is

17:33

holding back a dozen

17:35

drivers behind you. Are

17:37

you not aware of that? I want to

17:39

know, are they aware? Same

17:42

with, by the way, the same with the left lane. The

17:46

passing lane. You're going more

17:48

slowly in the left lane

17:50

than anybody else on the

17:52

road. Are you not aware

17:54

of that? That's who I want to interview.

17:58

You should write into me. me, if

18:01

you drive slowly in

18:03

the high occupancy vehicle lane, as

18:06

some states call it, diamond

18:08

lane as others call it, what

18:12

is the most famous carpool lane,

18:15

whatever it is, I'd

18:17

like to interview you. You

18:22

see, I am stunned, I

18:26

shouldn't be, because I don't

18:28

have a high opinion of human nature,

18:31

but I'm still stunned at the

18:34

utter lack of awareness that

18:38

is taking place there. Are

18:41

you not aware of the fact that everybody

18:45

else is going faster than

18:47

you? Okay, anyway, that's

18:50

my answer, Joshua, and I'm sure

18:52

I disappointed you. You

18:55

expected some really fascinating

18:58

answer. Well, it is a fascinating answer,

19:00

I will admit that. It's

19:03

not dramatic or it's

19:05

not. Okay, all right, here we

19:07

go. Two of your questions. What's

19:09

our time, by the way? Nineteen.

19:13

Okay, we have time. We have

19:15

a lot of time. I

19:18

could have done another subject, but

19:21

I won't because we get subjects from the

19:23

questions. Blake in

19:25

Belmont, Michigan, USA 39. Hi,

19:29

Dennis, I first got introduced to you

19:31

through the Exodus discussion with Jordan Peterson.

19:34

Reminds me to just tell you a few things.

19:37

So I was one of the

19:39

participants with Jordan Peterson on the study of

19:41

the biblical book of Exodus.

19:43

I think there were seven of

19:45

us, and it has

19:48

millions of views. I really enjoyed

19:53

the people I was with. So

19:56

that's at the Daily Wire. It's a free plug

19:58

for Daily Wire. I

20:01

will be returning this year to study

20:03

in this case a New Testament Text

20:07

or New Testament texts namely the

20:09

four Gospels. So that's

20:11

particular. That'll be Fascinating

20:14

for me. I will be one of the few

20:16

Jews on the panel and I'm

20:19

sure it'll be of interest to others too.

20:21

Okay. Anyway It

20:24

was clear from the beginning that you value

20:26

wisdom. That's right Many

20:29

people today value knowledge but not wisdom.

20:31

That's right. I Am

20:33

dumbfounded by the absolute disregard for

20:35

the past Now

20:37

I have a comment on that Don't

20:41

assume By

20:43

your comment, I'm not sure What

20:46

you mean? Do you mean that they were

20:48

wiser in the past or

20:51

by our neglecting the study of the

20:53

past? We don't get wisdom. There

20:56

were two possibilities I

20:58

don't know how much they were wiser in the past

21:00

though. I do believe that there

21:02

was more value placed on wisdom

21:05

certainly in America a

21:08

hundred years ago than today as as

21:11

regards the other read

21:13

of possible read I agree totally

21:18

The disregarding the past means you cannot

21:20

have wisdom that's correct if you don't

21:23

know what happened Then you

21:25

don't understand you can't understand life. Okay.

21:27

Anyway, for some reason we

21:29

think we are so much smarter than everyone

21:32

from the past several thousand years From

21:35

the past several thousand years. I

21:37

find it completely ignorant to think that we

21:39

could be so smart, but our origin so

21:41

stupid Yes,

21:46

people a lot of people think

21:48

they're smarter than everybody who lived

21:50

before them that is correct Yeah,

21:53

I Mean

21:55

people who lived in the past believed

21:58

that the ideal family

22:01

is the nuclear family, a husband,

22:03

a wife, and children. They

22:06

must have been stupid or bigoted to

22:08

believe that. That's what you're taught at

22:11

college. To

22:14

counteract my five-year-old and seven-year-old

22:16

being taught rubbish at school,

22:19

I started watching your fireside chat

22:21

with my kids in the room.

22:23

Isn't that cool? With his five

22:25

and seven-year-olds? They

22:28

do pick up on some of your wisdom. First,

22:30

will you say hi to my five

22:32

and seven-year-olds, Waverly and William? No, I

22:37

won't. That was just a

22:39

joke. I thought I would

22:41

engage in dark humor because Nathan

22:43

has not left once this entire

22:45

bloody fireside chat. I find

22:47

that annoying and so I just

22:50

decided to really be goofy on this one. Hello,

22:53

Waverly and Willem. It's

22:55

W-I-L-L-E-N. That's

22:58

a new one on me. That

23:01

will help them. Hi, guys. That will

23:03

help them be more interested in what

23:06

wisdom you have to share. Also, what

23:08

ways would you suggest that I instill

23:10

wisdom in my children? Thank

23:12

you for your time and care. It's

23:18

not hard. Teach them

23:23

wise sayings

23:25

about life. Teach

23:27

them wise stories. I

23:30

mean, that's what fairy tales were about, for

23:32

example. If you read them Pinocchio, it teaches

23:37

them about lying. There's wisdom in

23:39

that. A lot of these books

23:41

have wisdom. Books are

23:43

the greatest vehicle. They're generally a

23:45

better vehicle than movies,

23:48

though some movies can teach wisdom. Generally

23:54

speaking, certainly in American history, the

23:56

Bible has been the vehicle for

23:59

teaching wisdom. That's largely

24:02

how I learned it. I

24:06

learned one of the most important keys

24:09

to wisdom, people are

24:11

not basically good from the Bible. God

24:15

declares that in the eighth chapter

24:17

of the first book, Genesis. I

24:21

don't see how you can be wise if you

24:23

believe human nature is basically good. You

24:28

can't build a wise

24:30

structure on a faulty foundation. By

24:33

the way, I never said people are basically bad,

24:35

I just said they're not basically good just for

24:37

the record. But that's really

24:39

important. I was going to

24:41

talk about that as

24:44

my way of dealing with

24:47

a lot of bad news, which

24:49

I still will do. I'll

24:54

even tell you now in a

24:56

few sentences, when

24:59

you understand

25:02

that human nature is not basically good,

25:05

instead of being disappointed

25:08

in people constantly, you

25:11

are pleasantly surprised by good

25:13

people constantly for

25:16

another time. But that's a really

25:19

big part of my ability to deal with

25:21

bad news. The

25:27

Bible has generally been the greatest

25:30

vehicle, and it should continue to be, even if

25:32

you're not a believer, just use it. Use

25:40

the fireside chat. There

25:45

are quite a number now of people

25:48

filling the massive

25:51

chasm that

25:53

exists in our educational institutions

25:56

which don't any longer

25:58

teach wisdom. It

26:01

was the goal of education to

26:04

teach truth, beauty, and goodness. And

26:08

neither of those three is

26:11

any longer a big goal. All

26:14

right, Jakub, 23 in the

26:17

Czech Republic. Hello,

26:20

Mr. Prager. I am a big fan and

26:22

you are an intellectual role model of mine.

26:26

My question for you is,

26:28

how can one become a real

26:30

man where

26:32

we are bombarded by loneliness,

26:35

depression, pornography in the world

26:37

of modern feminism and

26:40

red pill movement? All

26:42

right, Jakub. It

26:45

sounds like this is obviously about you and

26:47

I'm sorry, but

26:49

it doesn't matter even if you're just asking

26:52

it in the abstract. How can one become

26:54

a real man when

26:57

we are bombarded by loneliness, depression,

26:59

pornography in the world of modern

27:01

feminism and red pill movement? So

27:04

I asked the definition of the red

27:06

pill movement and Megan

27:08

explained it to me earlier.

27:12

So that's sort of like the male

27:15

version of feminism, right? feminism

27:20

has a big anti-male aspect to it,

27:23

the movement, the theory. And

27:26

likewise, the red pill movement

27:28

has a big anti-female element,

27:30

right? Which

27:33

is a reaction in large measure

27:35

to, oh, the patriarchy, toxic

27:38

masculinity, and all these attacks on

27:40

men. From

27:42

the very beginning, I've said that

27:44

feminism was much more anti-male than

27:46

it's pro-female. And I turned out to be

27:48

right because they don't defend

27:50

women as, for example, with

27:53

regard to female sports when biological

27:56

men compete. The feminist

27:58

movement has been silent. So,

28:02

how do you become a real man in light

28:04

of all of that? It's

28:10

a sad question. I

28:12

was raised to be a man. I mean, that was

28:16

the whole point of being raised. In

28:18

fact, I was actually told, and

28:21

so were many, many boys of

28:23

my generation, be

28:25

a man. That

28:27

stopped saying that, starting with

28:29

the, I don't know, the 70s

28:32

or whatever. Almost

28:34

no parent says that today. Be a

28:36

man. It

28:40

would be obvious to anyone who heard it

28:43

that the person would be deemed a

28:45

conservative and perhaps even

28:47

sexist. Oh, be a

28:49

man. Oh, well. And

28:51

transphobic. All

28:54

the bad terms. How

28:59

do you become a man if you

29:01

weren't raised to be a man? That's

29:03

really the question because I do

29:06

believe if you're raised to be a man, you

29:09

will be one. I

29:12

don't take much credit. I am a

29:14

man. I

29:16

even, I will say, I'm a masculine

29:18

man. But

29:20

I don't take all that much credit for it because

29:23

that's how I was raised. And my

29:26

father was a model of a masculine man. It's

29:29

very hard for boys to

29:31

grow up without a male model to show

29:34

them what it is to be a man.

29:38

This is why we have such a tragedy in

29:42

the, what we call in America, the

29:44

inner city, which is largely blacks

29:46

and Hispanics, but especially blacks who

29:49

in 80% of the cases don't

29:52

come from a married mother and

29:54

father and frequently just don't have a father

29:56

in their life. How

29:59

are you going to become man. So often

30:02

their manliness is expressed

30:05

in gang warfare, in

30:08

violence. When

30:11

being a male is not taught to

30:14

you and you don't have models of

30:17

good men then

30:20

you will have models of bad men. That's

30:24

an issue. And

30:27

even worse, many

30:29

boys grow up now without

30:33

a father on

30:35

earth or a father in

30:37

heaven. They

30:40

don't have either model. So

30:45

I don't believe it's too late for

30:47

a young man and if they want

30:49

to use people like Jordan or myself

30:52

and there are many others without

30:54

question, that's good. To

31:01

be a man, I'll

31:04

take the Jewish formula which

31:07

I think is terrific. When

31:09

a boy or a girl for that matter is

31:12

born in Jewish life, this

31:15

is what is wished. May

31:17

you grow up and every traditional, now

31:19

most Jews are not religious so a

31:22

lot of Jews don't know this, but

31:25

all religious Jews know

31:27

this. There's a wish

31:29

for three things when

31:32

a boy or a girl is born. May

31:34

you grow up for, in

31:38

Hebrew it's Torah, Chupa, Uma

31:40

Asim Tuvim. For

31:43

Torah, that is biblical

31:45

study and observance,

31:48

Chupa, the

31:50

wedding canopy, get married, and

31:53

Maasim Tuvim, good deeds. Frankly,

31:56

I think that's the

31:59

greatest trio. to make

32:01

you a good person, man or woman,

32:04

that I've ever heard. Grow up

32:07

with biblical wisdom and

32:09

observing its moral laws and

32:14

get married and do good

32:16

deeds. Then

32:18

you'll be a man. By

32:21

the way, in general, marriage

32:24

makes men men. It's

32:27

hard to be a man. I mean, you

32:29

can. There were single men who obviously are

32:32

certainly good men. There's

32:34

no question about that, but

32:37

nothing quite does

32:39

it like marriage.

32:41

That is

32:45

so true. The big part of

32:47

our problem, the men you describe

32:49

here, loneliness, depression,

32:51

pornography, those are

32:54

three symbols of single

32:56

men. You

33:01

could be lonely, you could be

33:03

depressed, and you could engage

33:06

in pornography as a married man. I

33:08

totally acknowledge that. But

33:10

overwhelmingly, marriage helps

33:12

in all three categories. The

33:16

effect on

33:19

women, except

33:22

for the pornography part, the loneliness

33:24

and depression is even more obvious.

33:26

We have more depressed young women

33:28

than at any time since recording

33:31

has begun of women's

33:34

depression rates. The

33:37

price paid for this nonsense,

33:40

which the feminists developed, I got to admit,

33:42

then the men went

33:44

along of

33:48

not getting married or

33:50

getting married so much later in life that you

33:52

stay a boy. I remember,

33:56

I've been on radio for 40 years, I remember

33:58

my first years of radio

34:02

The guy calling me remember I was in my 30s.

34:04

So People

34:07

calling me were in their 30s very often

34:11

Guy in his 30s calls me

34:13

Dennis. I want your advice When

34:17

I go out on a date, I Don't

34:19

know whether I should hold the

34:22

door open for the woman. I'm

34:24

having I'm going on a date with

34:28

because There

34:30

was oh there was one date. She said

34:32

to me. What's the matter? You don't

34:34

think I could hold the door for myself And

34:39

I remember I said something to the guy

34:41

listen First of all,

34:43

you should have thanked that woman for saving you

34:45

money on a meal as soon as

34:47

she said that You should have said

34:50

listen Given

34:52

that's how you feel. I think I'm

34:54

wasting your time and you're wasting my

34:56

time I

34:58

it's obvious The

35:01

our relationship isn't gonna go anywhere

35:03

if you think it's objectionable for a

35:06

man to hold the door for a

35:08

woman I'm not your

35:10

guy That would have been

35:12

a masculine thing to do. That's not toxic. That's

35:15

strong. That's good You

35:19

hold the door I told him The

35:22

fact that you're even debating it is

35:24

not masculine You hold the door for

35:26

a woman and if issue if she

35:28

resents it fine, you don't need her

35:30

in your life But

35:32

you do it One

35:35

element I should really cover this I

35:37

really haven't what is masculinity. I don't

35:39

think I've done Really

35:43

take a look. Yeah, but I'll tell

35:45

you one big aspect of masculinity You

35:49

do what is right and you're

35:51

okay with being disliked for it

35:54

Wanting to be loved

35:56

and popular is not masculine

36:01

How's that? Make

36:04

sense? Oh, woman of

36:06

the group? Yeah,

36:11

she is the one woman in the group. How do you think

36:13

of that? Well,

36:16

that was important. I wish you well. I

36:18

hope you get married. Okay.

36:22

Got a lot on my mind, obviously. See

36:24

you next week. I'm Dennis Prager. Thank you

36:26

for watching and listening.