WEBVTT - Everything in Life Is a Choice | Sunday Fireside Chat 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.640 Life Audio. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.240 Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.400 of Prager You, and you are about to listen to 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.440 a special edition of Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager. Those 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.760 of us here at Preger You are continuing to do 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.279 the very important work that we've been doing with him 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.800 for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.560 people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.480 into schools, and so much more. You can head over 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.920 to peger you dot com to see the progress that 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.640 we've been making. 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Otto's here, though increasingly he leaves at the 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.440 half hour mark because we only pay him for a 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.399 half hour, and I'm not even annoyed with him but 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:21.479 that's now been his general modus operandi. And I don't 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.600 know if you see, but Snoopy a very rare moment. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.240 Snoopy is right aside my legs here between my legs 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.360 on the ground. So you got two for the price 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.560 of one. Welcome to the fireside chat, where I talk 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.280 completely spontaneously about things on my mind and then take 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:48.920 your questions from literally around the world. A thought first 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.240 about what is happening I have here. The reason I'm 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.240 holding the tablet is I'm looking at the list of 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:03.120 things you can't say with regard to COVID, or medicines, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.920 or a whole host of things that YouTube will remove 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:14.079 you if you do say them. And I just need 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:18.200 you to understand what the word misinformation has come to mean. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:24.399 There is such a thing as misinformation. One cannot deny that. However, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.640 I'll give you an example. It was declared misinformation less 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.760 than a year ago. If you said that COVID nineteen 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:38.240 began at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China, that was 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:44.480 called misinformation. People were removed from Google, or from YouTube, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.679 or from Instagram or from Twitter. Now it's not misinformation, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:57.360 So it's a very difficult thing to deal with when 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:04.360 honest dissent is labeled misinformation, even if it has a 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.320 great deal of information. It says here, if you differ 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.440 with the World Health Organization or health authorities, then it's misinformation. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.679 This is the first time in the history of medicine 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.560 that is the case. You know, people laugh at the 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.440 medieval church for persecuting Galileo. Well, the church said that 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.640 what Galileo said was about the Earth going around the 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:35.040 Sun was misinformation. And now we have a new church. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.800 That's the interesting thing. We have a secular church, which 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.520 is even less tolerant than the medieval church in many ways. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:50.880 Misinformation is anything that the left differs with. That's what 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.040 they do. They just declare it misinformation, like they did 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.080 the claim that the virus began at a laboratory. This 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:05.200 is very dangerous. You have to allow people, especially scientists, 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.360 to dissent without just clearing it, declaring it misinformation. So 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.400 you realize what's happening to free speech in the United States. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:20.560 If you differ with the left on a scientific issue, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.680 it's misinformation. If you differ with the left on an 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.040 issue concerning race, just even declaring that the United States 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:37.120 is not systemically racist, or that color blind is a 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.919 good thing. Then you are shut down because you are 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:46.240 called racist, you're not sufficiently anti racist. The number of 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.760 areas where dissent is no longer allowed, meaning descent from 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.920 the left, or in the case of the United States, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.080 descent from the state because the state is run by 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:03.320 the left. This is very and unprecedented in American history. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.799 So I want you to understand, very serious, very honest, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:13.720 very truth oriented people are dissenting and not misinforming. Necessarily, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.240 misinformation exists, but it exists all over the spectrum. There's 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.240 a tremendous amount of left wing misinformation. For two years, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:29.960 we were misinformed about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.520 There was one hundred percent misinformation, and it took up 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.440 the the It sucked out the oxygen from the national 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:44.160 conversation for two years. Turned out to be a gigantic lie. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.400 So you just need to be aware of that. The 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.800 bombardment of misinformation, misinformation, misinformation charges is just a way 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:59.640 to stifle descent in this country. Okay, I'd like to 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.279 talk to you for a moment about another subject that 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:10.120 is precious to me, dear to me. I am asked 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:17.880 all the time, How does one become courageous? This issue 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.240 is raised because I say that, and I'm not the 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:26.040 only one, obviously, But without courage, evil winds. It's as 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.800 simple as that. Good people need to have courage or 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.320 evil wins. There was no exception to that. And I 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:38.000 have an answer for you, a quick answer that will 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:45.240 sound so simple as to be almost hard to imagine 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.080 that that's the answer. It sounds too simple, but I've 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:55.159 devoted so much time to thinking about it that I 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.840 am convinced it's accurate. It's not the only answer, but 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:05.279 it's the first answer, and that is you're courageous, or 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:12.920 you become courageous if you want to be courageous. That's it, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.360 because and this is huge. This is life changing stuff, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.320 and I try to infuse every fireside chat with life 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:31.240 changing stuff. Basically, we are what we want to be. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.440 It's one of these incredibly simple thoughts that is very 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:46.800 very true and very important. We are what we want 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.920 to be as a general rule, and I will give 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.480 you a few examples. Courage is the first. You become 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.920 courageous if you want to be courageous. Most people don't 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.840 want to be courageous because there's a price. Courage exacts 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.280 a price. You could lose your friends, you could lose relatives, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:11.880 you could lose your job. This is true. So there's 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.520 a reason people don't want to be courageous, because it's tough. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.400 Give you another one that I have mentioned in passing 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.880 on many occasions. It is the basis of my entire 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.400 attitude toward happiness. You choose to be happy, just as 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.280 you choose to be courageous. So here is the other 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:38.160 major thought for the day. Although I can't say that 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.480 there may be more major thoughts. I haven't yet gotten 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:47.199 to the questions. But everything is a choice, and people 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.240 don't realize that you choose to be courageous, you choose 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.200 to be happy. If it were easy to be happy, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.280 everybody would be happy. There are a whole host of 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.160 reasons for everyone looking at me right now, watching me 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.360 right now. There's a whole host of valid reasons for 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.559 you not to be happy. You are mistreated by your parents, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.640 you are mistreated by your spouse, mistreated by your children, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.480 mistreated by your friends, mistreated by your employer, mistreated by 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:24.880 customers at your retail operation. You have lousy health, you 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:32.360 have you are bad financial problems. I mean the number 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.480 of reasons to be unhappy, and they're legit. I'm not 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.920 mocking any one of the things I just said. They're 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:44.880 big deals and yet with obvious certain exceptions that I 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.080 won't I won't deal with. Although it's hard for me 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.839 to come up with an exception. Yes, I can horrible, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:57.000 uncontrollable pain that I would say that's an exception. I 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.200 know a man who killed himself because he it was 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.480 not allowed to have drug drugs that would kill his 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:09.839 pain after a horrific accident falling off a roof onto 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.560 the latter's steps, which went into his stomach, horrible pain 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:19.640 not given the appropriate medications because doctors are afraid to 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:24.040 prescribe painkillers as if it's better. See, in my view, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.160 it is better to be addicted to painkillers than have 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.760 the pain. I'm not speaking from personal experience. I've never 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.559 had such pain, and I've may been taken two painkillers 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.160 in my life, so I'm not speaking from personal experience 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.480 except this experience that I know. I acknowledge there could 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.720 be exceptions to my rule. For ninety nine percent of humanity. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:57.720 Happiness is a choice. Courage is a choice, and the 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:03.199 happiness one was the woman sitting in a chair next 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:10.560 to me in this room, Yon me Park, North Korean, 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:16.160 who escaped the hell of North Korea into China and 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.360 was immediately trafficked as a sex slave at the age 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:25.240 of thirteen. It is not possible for me to imagine 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.920 what that is like. A am not a woman, and 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:34.080 B I just can't imagine such suffering. And she saw 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.160 her mother raped and her father was tortured nearly to 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:42.559 death back in North Korea, and she was happy. You 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:48.640 saw her. If you missed that fireside chat, it's life changing. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.440 And I asked her, how could you be happy? Said, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.720 I chose to be She never heard me speak on happiness, said, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.320 And basically she put it in the way I have 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.240 always put it. What's my choice to be miserable, to 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.480 go through life miserable. If she could choose to be 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:13.480 happy after being trafficked at thirteen, watching her mother raped 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.400 and her father having been tortured, I think most of 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:22.600 you can make that choice. Same with courage. Here's another 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.000 example of a choice. People don't think it's a choice. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:32.280 You choose whether or not to lead a religious life. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:37.160 There are two choices, secular life or religious life. People 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.360 think that to be religious you have to sort of 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.400 just either you believe or you don't believe. Well, since 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.200 we don't have proof that God exists, and we certainly 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.680 don't have proof that God doesn't exist, Basically, you have 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.360 to make a choice. Will you live as if God 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.280 exists or as if God doesn't exist. If you're a nignat, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.440 why would you live as an atheist? Why not live 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:10.679 a religious life? In other words, religious community, regular house 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:17.280 of prayer, church, synagogue, studying the Bible. I know this 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.200 sounds so foreign to so many of you because you 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.760 went through the secular brainwash known as a Western education, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.400 which basically taught you that this is all silly. It's 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.680 the most profound stuff ever written. This stuff, it's not silly. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.720 The deepest people I know are overwhelmingly been religious. Overwhelmingly. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.520 There are a lot of religious dummies, but the most 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:47.320 profound people I've ever met have ninety nine percent been 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:54.000 religious or come from a religious background. That's a choice. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.839 God never appeared to me. I chose at a very 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.000 early age to lead a religious life, a God centered life, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.240 because I knew would be a better life, and I 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.679 was right. It's one of the greatest choices of my life. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.440 You choose. You don't wait for God to appear to you. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.160 He probably won't. That's the way it works. It's all 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.360 a choice. You choose whether to get married, you choose 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.440 whether to have children. I ask young people, so it 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:23.600 would you like to get married? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:24.080 Oh? 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.640 You know, the right person comes along. I'm working on 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.800 my career. You're not going to get married. You got 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.040 to choose to be married. You don't say that about 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.080 a career. Well, if a career comes along, I'll work. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.520 People make a choice for working, right, make a choice 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.160 for career, got to make a choice for marriage, got 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.760 to make a choice for children. Best choices you can make, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.560 even if the marriage ends in the divorce. It's the 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.360 best choice you can make because marriage makes you grow up. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.960 New study from Pew shows that the unmarried makes so 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.240 much less money than that married, which we have a 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.280 whole of video. Want a prager you by the way, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:10.000 just giving the data on that fact. You just mature 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.800 when you get married. And if you don't believe me, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:17.040 ask anyone in your life, anyone divorced or still married, 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.400 did marriage mature? You just ask him that did you 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.120 grow up more after you got married. Every single one 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.480 will say yes, even as I said if it ended 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:35.400 in divorce. Everything in life is a choice. Accept what 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.760 happens to you. You don't choose that. By a drunk driver, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.080 you didn't choose it. Get cancer, you didn't choose it. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:48.840 I acknowledge that. But everything else is a choice. O 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.880 canilk time for your question now. Megan tells me that 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.800 I should. I usually see the question in advance. I 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.400 acknowledge that, but she wants me to see this one 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.040 without having seen it. So this is the first time 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.479 in two hundred and nine episodes of the Fireside Chat 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.080 that I have not seen. She wants me to react spontaneously, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:18.320 so I will either love or hate Megan after watching 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.920 this video. Here we go, Hi Dennis, Hi Auto. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.640 I just wanted to tell a little story. A while back. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.520 I was watching the Fireside Chats, and I was watching 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:36.160 the episode where you, Dennis give the recommendation or say 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.600 that there's not really any downside to using online dating apps. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.840 And I just moved to a new town and so 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.000 I decided to give it a try, and I downloaded 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.680 this online dating app specifically for Mormons, and I. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.920 Started swiping and met a ton of people, and after 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.560 a little bit, I ended up meeting this person and 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.000 we really hit it off and we became super good friends. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.320 We started dating and we really bonded over shared values 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.800 and over religion and things like that, and we fell 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.080 in love, and recently, a couple of days ago, I 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.920 got engaged. So I just want to say thank you, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.080 thank you for your wisdom, and thank you for in 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:19.440 essence changing my life. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:20.240 I appreciate it. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.280 I was expecting her to say the opposite. I was 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.760 respecting you said there's no downside, and that I was expecting. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.479 I met the guy and he turned out to be 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:42.160 a criminal. This really shocked me. I expected a real 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.959 challenge here because she said, you said there's no downside, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:51.720 so I expected a butt right. Oh that's funny. Well 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.520 I am so happy I changed her life. Yes that 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.879 is true. Yes, that's exactly right. Well, that's what I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:04.040 want to do. I am truly thrilled for you. Look 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.040 at that. I have the chills. I'm so happy for her. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.480 So you know, I sit here in my house, people 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.280 around the world are watching. It's not quite real. It's 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.560 a certain surreal thing, right is my house? And then 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.000 I know that she didn't say where she's from, right, 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:32.840 so we don't know originally Arizona. Oh she's in California now, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:38.080 poor thing, but it doesn't matter. Worked out in terms, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:44.639 so she met her husband. I'm thrilled. So I don't 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.680 know how many people take these words seriously. I guess 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.280 a lot, Thank God, otherwise you wouldn't be watching. I mean, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.280 let me say a word about this. I'm very, very rational. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:03.840 I'm in love with reason, okay, and I hate irrationality. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.399 So I don't know of a rational argument against going 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.040 on online dating. I don't know of a rational reason. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:19.840 There are hundreds of thousands of people or millions online? 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.920 How many are there in your life? Five? I mean, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.359 how are you going to meet a husband or wife 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.520 without an online app? Friends will introduce you. How many 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.760 single people do your friends know that would would qualify? 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.560 How many? Seriously? Two? Three? You're a relative, Well you're 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.560 not going to marry a relative, so that ends that 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.080 maybe a relative will know somebody. I mean, even if 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.199 you go to a church and you think, oh, oh 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.359 that's a perfect and it is. It could be a 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.600 wonderful place, but how many people, how many young singles 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.879 are there at church? For you to choose from compared 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.600 to online. She obviously if she's a Mormon and good standing, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:11.080 I mean she attends services church like services regularly. Did 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.480 she meet somebody there? No, she met somebody. She met 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.480 a Mormon online. I don't know what is the argument 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.360 you might meet a jerk. Why you might not meet 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:24.320 a jerk anywhere where you'll meet anybody. Your friends will 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.399 not introduce you to somebody who might turn out to 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.000 be a jerk. Anyway, you can pretty much figure it out. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.160 Do some you could do with a bunch of zoom 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.879 calls with the person before you ever meet for a coffee. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:39.520 Right now, It's true, could somebody act? Somebody could act 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:44.560 in person. Correct, There's no guarantees in life, but there 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.520 is this guarantee. You have a much bigger choice online 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.119 than not online. Okay, there we go. I'm married for 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.840 eighteen years and love my dogs. Also, I want to 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:59.280 be one hundred percent Wait do you want to read 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:00.760 that one? I do very much. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:07.880 I'm just thinking, Oh, when you talked about your zeue's 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:08.480 love for. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:15.320 Auto, Oh, it's commenting on that. That's fair. Yes, you 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.000 love your dogs. No, I'm joking. I have no issue 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.160 with men loving their dogs. However, I think it's fair 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:27.240 to say, as a rule, at least with couples, the 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:32.840 woman might love the dogs a bit more. My wife 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.080 loves them more, I admit it. That doesn't mean I 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.359 don't love them. It just means she loves them more, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.399 that's all. Like I love Beethoven more than my wife 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.160 loves Beethoven, but she loves Beethoven too. Did I get 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.639 out of that one? Okay? Also, I want to be 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:51.600 one hundred percent honest on your question about who would 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:57.760 rescue a persecuted group like the Jews in East in 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.760 Europe during the Nazi regimes. I want to be one 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:02.919 hundred percent honest on your question. When I was a 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.000 young single man, I have no doubt that I would 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.439 have hidden a Jew. As an older man who has 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.199 a wife and three children, I don't know that I 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.640 would put my family at risk to help a stranger. 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.040 I know this makes me a lesser person, and I 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:21.800 am ashamed, but must be honest with myself. Well, you 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:26.960 don't have to be ashamed, Okay. It's impressive that you're ashamed. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.840 It shows what a decent man you are that you 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.119 would even be ashamed. Most people wouldn't be, So what 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.919 are you kidding? I'm going to put my wife or 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.480 my husband and children and children risk their lives to 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:45.160 save a stranger. I totally get that, but that wasn't 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.360 the purpose of my article. My article wasn't a quiz. 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.360 My article was what type of person will risk their 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.719 lives more readily? And that was why I was an 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:03.720 important piece. And it was also about people who follow 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:08.200 orders that are irrational are less likely to risk their 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:13.359 lives under a regime that gives irrational orders to kill people. 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.200 That was one of my major points of that piece. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.760 You should see the article though, upon which it's based. 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.160 It's at Dennis Prager dot comtown All dot com, American 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.760 Greatness dot com, Daily Wired dot com, Jewish World Review 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:30.439 dot com. It's all over the place, and it is 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.040 about who would rescue a Jew? And it's not about 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:40.840 Jews as such. It is about what type of person 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:49.040 does that sort of thing. Tracy fifty six years old, Crownsville, Maryland, Hi, 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:52.000 Dennis Ottomegan and Snoopy Megan. You're really making it. I'm 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.680 telling you it's pretty It's not uncommon. Now used to 0:23:54.720 --> 0:24:01.399 be the arm Now it's your name Yeah, ideologies. By 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.120 the way you see, you are now after Otto, which 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:08.920 is totally understandable, but before Snoopy also completely understandable. Yeah, 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:13.439 the order was important with our ideology so vastly different 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.959 on our country rapidly declining. What are your thoughts about secession? 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:19.440 I don't know of any other time in my life 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:23.000 where things are so radically different, with no end and 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:27.440 coming together the Republicans with power doing nothing to fight 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.720 for us besides praying, how will we survive as one 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:36.960 United States? Sincerely, Tracy, We may not survive. There's no guarantee. 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:42.280 That's I spoke about choice in the beginning. Here we 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:45.000 will choose whether it be the United States of America 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.320 and keep holding the values of the founders or reject them. 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.600 The left rejects them, so we're not The United States 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:55.880 of America is the only country that's an idea. It's 0:24:55.880 --> 0:25:00.159 not an ethnicity. Right. If I said, draw me a 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.800 picture of a Swede, you'd pretty much be able to 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:05.600 draw the picture. Draw me a picture of a Ugandan, 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:08.560 you'd be able to draw me the picture. Draw me 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:10.520 a picture of a Korean, you'd be able to draw 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:14.280 me the picture. Draw a picture of an American. Anything 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.400 you drew would be accurate. If you drew a Ugandan, 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:23.080 a Korean, a Swede, you'd be correct. Right, that's the 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:25.440 whole point. We're not an ethnicity, we're not a race. 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:30.359 We're an idea. No idea, no America. The idea is 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:35.000 liberty in God. We trust liberty e plurbus unem from 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.560 many one. That's the idea. It's on every coin. I 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:40.880 didn't make it up. It's the American trinity as I've 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:45.720 called it for decades. So yes, we're losing that idea. 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:50.119 It's under a sult. That is correct, very very little. 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:53.920 People hate giants. Midgets hate giants. Sorry for using the 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:58.680 term midget, not referring to people physically moral. Midgets hate 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:03.080 moral giants. People who hate the founders are moral midgets. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:09.239 Those were giants. They founded a country. And I'm not 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.880 sure we can keep it. As Benjamin Franklin said, it's 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:14.520 a republic if you can keep it. Not sure we 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.760 can keep it. And yes, so there might be secession. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:24.080 It's very sad if it would happen. But personally, I 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:28.360 would live in a state governed by Judeo Christian values 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:32.119 versus one that governed by left wing values and in 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:40.200 one hundred years, let's see who prosperous will twenty years 0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:43.320 old Saint Louis, Missouri. Hello, Dennis Otto, Snoopy and Megan's 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:50.080 arm Ooh it's Megan now okay, folks, Megan's arm has 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:55.520 had its day. Thanks for all you do, Dennis. You 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:58.200 have greatly impacted me in so many ways. I am 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:01.560 delighted to hear that college student on track to be 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.880 certified as a high school history teacher. I am passionate 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:08.560 about helping American students learn history. However, I am deeply 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:11.720 concerned about the left's control of education and the fake 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:16.200 history they promote through curricula such as the sixteen nineteen project. 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.199 Do you recommend I teach at public school in an 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:21.919 attempt to have an impact on my students or should 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:27.520 I just teach it a classic, classical private school? Thank you, PS. 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:32.639 I will never join a teachers' union. That's good. Well, 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:36.760 I have no answer, because they're all good choices. However, 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.560 I don't live in a fantasy world. I live in 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:45.359 the real world, and the real world in certainly in 0:27:45.600 --> 0:27:49.520 urban centers. A public school in a more rural setting 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:54.879 is different. Probably, although not necessarily, and you will be 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:59.240 so ostracized with your views that and you may not 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.440 even be able to offer them. They may kick you out. 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:04.960 They kick out teachers who have dissenting views from the 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:09.600 left that the left has always done, that they don't 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:14.119 accept the scent. So the answer may become clear to 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:20.240 you as you try to teach truth in any setting. 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:25.720 But I wish you good luck as we obviously need you. Okay, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:30.879