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Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of

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Speaker 1: hours of Dennis's lectures, courses in classic radio programs. I

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Speaker 1: had to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennisprager

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 2: But I'm very, very happy to be here, as you

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Speaker 2: would imagine if I could touch your life. That's my

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Speaker 2: dream in life is to touch lives with good things.

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Speaker 2: So it means a lot to me that you're here.

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Speaker 2: Before I actually begin, I wanted to deal with a

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Speaker 2: flyer that I just saw that was given out. I

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Speaker 2: do this in every college that I go to. They

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Speaker 2: publish things in their papers. Everything that's asserted is not true.

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Speaker 2: I have a theory as to why. But before I

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Speaker 2: tell you my theory, just say to those who might

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Speaker 2: be here who have any disagreement with me or complete disagreement,

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Speaker 2: you go first in questions, and I'm known for my

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Speaker 2: very respectful demeanor, even if I don't find the question respectful,

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Speaker 2: So don't worry about it. I won't eat you up.

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Speaker 2: I'll show why you're wrong, but I will Uh no,

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Speaker 2: that was a joke. That was a joke, but no, no, no, no, really,

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Speaker 2: if you differ, you get on first. But I'll just

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Speaker 2: give you an example. This is typical. By the way.

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Speaker 2: My favorite, I have to admit, was the University of

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Speaker 2: don't know if it was a professor or a student

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Speaker 2: who wrote in the in the Wyoming paper that you know,

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Speaker 2: the usual six herb sexist in tolerance in to phobic, homophobic, slomophobic,

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Speaker 2: not only said that, they also said an anti submitic,

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Speaker 2: which which is remarkable given that I'm a religious Jew.

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Speaker 2: But you know, a lot are details on the left.

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Speaker 2: They're annoying. So if you could dismiss a human being

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Speaker 2: with epithets, why argue with them? So I want to

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Speaker 2: give you an example. This is typical. The only reason

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Speaker 2: I am mentioning this is because this is truly typical.

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Speaker 2: I won't read you the whole thing. Purdue against Prager You,

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Speaker 2: by the way, is that remarkable? Are you in Purdue?

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious, all right, Purdue against Prager? You fine?

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Speaker 2: So you know that is a conservative talk show host,

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Speaker 2: which immediately renders me awful. So here is example. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: many of these videos make claims that are false, unfound

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Speaker 2: that it completely misleading. So every time I see that

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Speaker 2: on the internet, I'll praguer you it's misleading, it's propaganda.

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Speaker 2: They never ever give an example. What in four hundred videos,

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Speaker 2: which include, by the way, for the record, professors at Yale, Harvard, Stanford,

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Speaker 2: Pulitzer Prize winners. It also includes liberals like Alan Dershowitz,

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Speaker 2: who has never voted Republican in his life. But all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, all of these people tell lies. Okay,

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Speaker 2: because but they never give an example. So at least

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Speaker 2: to this person's credit, she gives or he gives. I

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Speaker 2: handing out the flyer. Four examples of how we are

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Speaker 2: completely misleading and unfounded. Here are a few. Fossil fuels

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Speaker 2: you know how ignorant this person must be not to

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Speaker 2: know that fossil fuels have been the greatest energy source

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Speaker 2: There would be We would be living in the Middle Ages.

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Speaker 2: us with their fossils. It's mind blowing to deny it. Now.

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Speaker 2: You could say we shouldn't rely on it anymore. That's

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Speaker 2: net neutrality is good for consumers and anti authoritarian Okay,

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Speaker 2: already been free? Number three, FDR's new deal further worse

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Speaker 2: A professor of economics that U see, La. This is

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Speaker 2: the title number four, The minimum wage should be zero dollars?

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Speaker 2: What's the right minimum wage? So here is a very

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Speaker 2: interesting little thing for you on that. In the nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 2: the New York Times, when it was liberal not leftist.

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Speaker 2: check it. You should check it. This was the headline

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Speaker 2: what the person had in mind, you know, by the way,

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Speaker 2: it's The minimum wage issue is a very interesting one

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Speaker 2: minimum wage, That's exactly why. So it hurts everybody. Fewer

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Speaker 2: in part because they liked our values. We didn't change

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Speaker 2: Which is almost wrong for a speaker to say, because

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Speaker 2: I'm setting myself up for failure, because if I didn't

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Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Brager's Timeless Wisdom.

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Speaker 2: Okay, not in order of importance, but just a few items.

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Speaker 2: Number one, Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Wisdom is infinitely more important than knowledge, and we are

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Speaker 2: in the age of anti wisdom. I realized this when

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Speaker 2: Columbia University in New York, where I grew up, and

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Speaker 2: I knew I was being taught a lot of nonsense,

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Speaker 2: which was very troubling. This was in the seventies, with

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Speaker 2: a still of Vietnam era demonstrations takeovers of offices. Nothing

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Speaker 2: Anyway, so I said, that's the only reason you believe it.

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Speaker 2: Do you understand how idiotic it is? As country stinks,

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Speaker 2: Do you know that every place on earth, every society

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Speaker 2: in West Africa. My driver I don't remember if it

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Speaker 2: was Togo or ben In, it doesn't matter, but I'm

425
00:27:48,699 --> 00:27:51,259
Speaker 2: just telling you one of the two countries. So the

426
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Speaker 2: driver said to my wife and me and the couple

427
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Speaker 2: we were with, I said, watch this. So sure enough,

428
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Speaker 2: we were driving and there was a police obstacle in

429
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,899
Speaker 2: the road, a block, a blockade, or whatever you call it.

430
00:28:08,580 --> 00:28:12,459
Speaker 2: And they said, watch it. Now. In America, if the

431
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Speaker 2: police stop your car, it's because there's construction or there

432
00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:19,899
Speaker 2: was an accident. I mean, I'm not talking about if

433
00:28:19,899 --> 00:28:22,059
Speaker 2: you were speeding or you're drunk driving, right, I mean,

434
00:28:22,139 --> 00:28:25,419
Speaker 2: you're driving fine, they will stop because hold it here

435
00:28:25,459 --> 00:28:29,540
Speaker 2: a minute, we're getting traffic this way, right. But he

436
00:28:29,619 --> 00:28:31,699
Speaker 2: knew exactly why he was going to be stopped, and

437
00:28:31,859 --> 00:28:35,379
Speaker 2: he was right. The policeman came over, took money from

438
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Speaker 2: the guy and let him through. That was it. That's

439
00:28:40,380 --> 00:28:44,300
Speaker 2: normal on planet Earth. That is the norm in America.

440
00:28:44,420 --> 00:28:48,620
Speaker 2: It's virtually unheard of in the world. It is the

441
00:28:48,739 --> 00:28:54,140
Speaker 2: norm people to believe people are basically good. After the

442
00:28:54,219 --> 00:29:00,700
Speaker 2: twentieth century, one hundred million people non combatants, one hundred

443
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:05,900
Speaker 2: million non combatants butchered by other human beings, not to

444
00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:10,780
Speaker 2: mention enslaved and raped and tortured people are basically good.

445
00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:15,459
Speaker 2: You're out of your mind. Babies aren't even basically good. Okay,

446
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:19,779
Speaker 2: they're innocent, but they're not good. I want mommy, I

447
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,300
Speaker 2: want nipple, I want to be taken, I want to

448
00:29:23,340 --> 00:29:25,580
Speaker 2: be hell, I want to be comforted. And if you

449
00:29:25,660 --> 00:29:27,740
Speaker 2: do not do all of this immediately, I will ruin

450
00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:34,460
Speaker 2: your day. The idea babies or want to be talking.

451
00:29:34,540 --> 00:29:40,580
Speaker 2: They're good until they're corrupted by patriarchy. That's what you talk.

452
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:43,459
Speaker 2: That's what the left believes in their make believe world.

453
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Speaker 2: Ask parents how often they have to tell their kid

454
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Speaker 2: to say thank you? Maybe you even remember I raised

455
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Speaker 2: two kids. If I didn't say say thank you ten

456
00:29:54,860 --> 00:29:57,700
Speaker 2: thousand times, I didn't say it once. But if kids

457
00:29:57,739 --> 00:29:59,780
Speaker 2: were basically good, I would have had to say it once.

458
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:02,780
Speaker 2: I'd say say thank you, and the kid would say,

459
00:30:02,820 --> 00:30:10,660
Speaker 2: you know, my father's right. If somebody does something nice

460
00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,779
Speaker 2: for me, I should say thank you, of course, and

461
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Speaker 2: that would be it. Why do you have to tell

462
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Speaker 2: a kid to say thank you, which we're basically good,

463
00:30:18,459 --> 00:30:23,019
Speaker 2: they would know it immediately. So how about sharing comes

464
00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:31,380
Speaker 2: very natural to kids to share, doesn't it. That's this

465
00:30:31,780 --> 00:30:35,979
Speaker 2: alone is why I know the Left is foolish, because

466
00:30:36,020 --> 00:30:39,660
Speaker 2: they start with this moronic premise. People don't rape and

467
00:30:39,780 --> 00:30:43,820
Speaker 2: murder in America because human nature is flawed. No, it's

468
00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:48,660
Speaker 2: because of racism and poverty. That's what they believe. I

469
00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:51,940
Speaker 2: remember when I first heard poverty courses crime, and I thought,

470
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I was younger than you, and I

471
00:30:55,500 --> 00:31:01,340
Speaker 2: remember thinking of my grandfather, who was quite poor, as

472
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:03,979
Speaker 2: was his wife, my grandmother. They were very poor, really

473
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Speaker 2: poor if it weren't for my father giving them money periodically,

474
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Speaker 2: and we were en rich, but we were middle class.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they would have done, but I

476
00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:17,300
Speaker 2: remember thinking, how come my grandfather hasn't held up a

477
00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:22,259
Speaker 2: bank or mugged anyone, And to the best of my knowledge,

478
00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,900
Speaker 2: he hasn't raped anybody. Now why is that? And they

479
00:31:25,940 --> 00:31:30,580
Speaker 2: were Jewish, they were impoverished. There was anti Semitism in America.

480
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Speaker 2: But if you would have said to my grandfather, you

481
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Speaker 2: know you're poor and there's anti Semitism, so I really

482
00:31:38,459 --> 00:31:42,460
Speaker 2: think it makes sense if you would rob, he would

483
00:31:42,540 --> 00:31:45,900
Speaker 2: think you had lost your mind. He knew God said

484
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Speaker 2: you don't steal, do not steal ends the issue. It

485
00:31:49,260 --> 00:31:52,540
Speaker 2: doesn't say poor people can steal. It doesn't say victims

486
00:31:52,580 --> 00:31:56,420
Speaker 2: can steal. Do not steal. Yes, if you're starving to

487
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Speaker 2: death and the next guy has more bread, you can

488
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Speaker 2: take the bread. Okay, that is not an issue in America.

489
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:02,780
Speaker 2: No one is starving to death in the United States

490
00:32:02,860 --> 00:32:08,059
Speaker 2: of America. But that's what the left has to believe.

491
00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:12,660
Speaker 2: There are outside forces, not inner forces, that caused people

492
00:32:12,780 --> 00:32:16,620
Speaker 2: to do bad. People do bad. Every religious Jewish Christian

493
00:32:16,739 --> 00:32:20,459
Speaker 2: knows why. Because they didn't get their wisdom from Colombia.

494
00:32:21,060 --> 00:32:24,459
Speaker 2: They got their wisdom from the Bible, which has been

495
00:32:24,540 --> 00:32:27,700
Speaker 2: the source of wisdom. Lincoln, who never went to church,

496
00:32:27,739 --> 00:32:30,420
Speaker 2: said this is God's greatest gift to mankind, the Bible.

497
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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm working on a Bible commentary, Volume

498
00:32:33,979 --> 00:32:37,019
Speaker 2: two is coming out next month called the Rational Bible.

499
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Speaker 2: And I came to realize sort of midway in life,

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Speaker 2: Bible free is wisdom free. And because I realize that's

501
00:32:45,860 --> 00:32:49,420
Speaker 2: where I got my wisdom, I can give you. I listen,

502
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Speaker 2: if I were here a week, I would one of

503
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,340
Speaker 2: my lectures would be wisdom from the Bible. It would

504
00:32:53,340 --> 00:32:56,380
Speaker 2: blow your mind. I'll give you one little example aside

505
00:32:56,420 --> 00:32:57,860
Speaker 2: from it, by the way, it says people are not

506
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Speaker 2: basically good Christians and Jews. Got it, got it from that.

507
00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:05,060
Speaker 2: I knew this when I was a child, you know.

508
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Speaker 2: So I'll give you one example, not just the wisdom

509
00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:11,020
Speaker 2: from the Bible, one example of how this changed my life.

510
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:15,219
Speaker 2: I was taught that the biggest problem in Dennis Prager's

511
00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:20,779
Speaker 2: life is Dennis Prager. That's a very different way of

512
00:33:20,860 --> 00:33:24,499
Speaker 2: growing up. You know how liberals raise their kids. The

513
00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:31,459
Speaker 2: biggest problem in your life is America. That's sick. It

514
00:33:31,620 --> 00:33:36,860
Speaker 2: is morally sick. You are the biggest problem in your life.

515
00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:41,019
Speaker 2: And everyone who knows that is a better person, and

516
00:33:41,140 --> 00:33:44,219
Speaker 2: anyone who denies it is a worse person. If you

517
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,940
Speaker 2: don't fight your nature, there's no chance of your becoming

518
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Speaker 2: a good person, no chance anyway. I give you an example,

519
00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:56,140
Speaker 2: one of hundreds, and I really do hope you'll read. Listen.

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00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,780
Speaker 2: I have no problem. I have a problem. I'm always

521
00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:02,180
Speaker 2: self conscious about pushing something I did. On the other hand,

522
00:34:02,260 --> 00:34:06,100
Speaker 2: nobody writes Bible commentaries to get wealthy. Okay? Is that fair?

523
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:10,820
Speaker 2: Are we on agreement on that? Okay? So I it

524
00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:13,380
Speaker 2: would change you. I'll give you one example, ten commandments,

525
00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:17,620
Speaker 2: honor your father and mother. Very interesting. The same Bible

526
00:34:17,700 --> 00:34:24,180
Speaker 2: says love God, love, love your neighbor, love the stranger.

527
00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:30,140
Speaker 2: In the New Testament, love your enemies, and in uh

528
00:34:30,620 --> 00:34:34,100
Speaker 2: but no, love your parents. Bible never tells you to

529
00:34:34,180 --> 00:34:36,460
Speaker 2: love your parents. You don't have to love your parents,

530
00:34:37,219 --> 00:34:39,579
Speaker 2: you only have to honor them. You know how life

531
00:34:39,660 --> 00:34:42,739
Speaker 2: changing that is for kids who have which most people

532
00:34:42,859 --> 00:34:46,540
Speaker 2: do at some point, emotional ambivalence towards a parent, You

533
00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:51,140
Speaker 2: know how relieving that is. That's that's Bible wisdom for you.

534
00:34:53,380 --> 00:34:56,820
Speaker 2: So this people not basically good. You have to battle yourself.

535
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Speaker 2: Is this? You're not taught at college. You have to

536
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Speaker 2: battle you. And by the way, men have their own

537
00:35:03,739 --> 00:35:06,299
Speaker 2: battles in addition to the human battle, men have men

538
00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:09,820
Speaker 2: battles and women have women battles. Men have two basic

539
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:14,140
Speaker 2: battles with their nature. They're aggressive naturally and their sexual

540
00:35:14,219 --> 00:35:19,140
Speaker 2: predators naturally. Okay, that is that is male nature. And

541
00:35:19,299 --> 00:35:21,019
Speaker 2: by the way, the proof of the second and one

542
00:35:21,299 --> 00:35:24,940
Speaker 2: that it has nothing to do with patriarchy or sexism,

543
00:35:25,420 --> 00:35:29,899
Speaker 2: is gay men are just exactly like straight men. Their

544
00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:33,580
Speaker 2: nature is identical to straight men. The only difference is

545
00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:37,219
Speaker 2: the object of their desire, but their nature is exactly

546
00:35:37,339 --> 00:35:41,259
Speaker 2: the same their sexual predators. Heterosexual men are sexual predators.

547
00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:45,379
Speaker 2: They control themselves. The male you most admire is this

548
00:35:45,540 --> 00:35:49,380
Speaker 2: is true about him too. There is no exception unless

549
00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:52,299
Speaker 2: he has been castrated. I'm not being cute. That's the

550
00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:57,779
Speaker 2: only possible exception. But women have battles too, And because

551
00:35:57,940 --> 00:36:01,700
Speaker 2: we have grown up in this unwise world where we

552
00:36:01,819 --> 00:36:05,540
Speaker 2: have only taught boys to battle their natures, a lot

553
00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:08,859
Speaker 2: of women have suffered. Because if girls aren't taught to

554
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:11,700
Speaker 2: battle their natures, they'll never be happy. You can't be

555
00:36:11,779 --> 00:36:14,939
Speaker 2: happy if you don't fight your nature. So there are

556
00:36:14,980 --> 00:36:19,540
Speaker 2: two things in women. They're related, and that is emotions.

557
00:36:19,859 --> 00:36:22,140
Speaker 2: They have to battle their emotions to not let them

558
00:36:22,219 --> 00:36:25,739
Speaker 2: control them, and they have to battle their malcontentedness. That's

559
00:36:25,819 --> 00:36:30,539
Speaker 2: my column this week. Are women malcontented? That's what bat

560
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:35,459
Speaker 2: Women have to battle. Parents don't do it. Parents think

561
00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:38,459
Speaker 2: girls are terrific, boys are awful, so they tell boys

562
00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:41,180
Speaker 2: to battle themselves. And if girls are not taught to

563
00:36:41,259 --> 00:36:44,060
Speaker 2: battle themselves, they'll never be happy because if you're controlled

564
00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:48,899
Speaker 2: by your emotions, your chances for happiness are zero. So,

565
00:36:49,940 --> 00:36:52,500
Speaker 2: both morally and in terms of happiness. You have to

566
00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:56,939
Speaker 2: battle yourself. That's number two. Human nature is not basically good.

567
00:36:57,060 --> 00:37:04,219
Speaker 2: Number three, Feelings aren't important to anyone except you and

568
00:37:04,380 --> 00:37:09,140
Speaker 2: your shrink. That is it. Maybe your parents too, But

569
00:37:09,259 --> 00:37:12,540
Speaker 2: that's it. There are about, what is it, seven billion

570
00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:17,100
Speaker 2: people in the world. None of the other seven billion

571
00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:22,219
Speaker 2: care how you feel. All seven care how you act.

572
00:37:23,420 --> 00:37:25,620
Speaker 2: And by the way, you're the same about the other

573
00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:28,779
Speaker 2: seven billion. You don't care how they feel. You care

574
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:31,459
Speaker 2: how they act. When I go to Starbucks and they

575
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,700
Speaker 2: treat me really nicely, I don't really think they're treating

576
00:37:34,779 --> 00:37:39,140
Speaker 2: me really nicely because they're really nice or because they

577
00:37:39,219 --> 00:37:42,620
Speaker 2: really like me. They're doing so because Starbucks said be

578
00:37:42,819 --> 00:37:46,739
Speaker 2: nice to all the customers. That's fine with me. I

579
00:37:46,859 --> 00:37:50,419
Speaker 2: have no issue with that. I don't care why you're

580
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:53,580
Speaker 2: nice to me. I only care that you're nice to me,

581
00:37:54,980 --> 00:37:58,020
Speaker 2: that you don't cheat me, that you greet me with

582
00:37:58,140 --> 00:38:01,140
Speaker 2: a smile, that you say thank you. That's all that matters.

583
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:06,060
Speaker 2: Maybe with a spouse, feelings really matter because you love

584
00:38:06,140 --> 00:38:10,900
Speaker 2: your spouse. Fine, I understand that. But even with spouses, still,

585
00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,379
Speaker 2: how you behave towards your spouse is more important than

586
00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:16,140
Speaker 2: how you feel. You know, how many people have abused

587
00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:19,499
Speaker 2: a spouse and thought they loved that spouse. Doesn't really count,

588
00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:24,739
Speaker 2: does it. We live in the age of feelings. Leftism

589
00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:29,780
Speaker 2: is rooted in feelings. I feel X. That's all that matters.

590
00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:34,980
Speaker 2: I feel I I am offended, I am triggered, I

591
00:38:35,219 --> 00:38:40,020
Speaker 2: am you you name it. A conservative speaker comes to campus.

592
00:38:40,219 --> 00:38:43,739
Speaker 2: I need a safe rule. By the way, Adam, Carol

593
00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:45,339
Speaker 2: and I are coming out with a film later this

594
00:38:45,460 --> 00:38:49,180
Speaker 2: year called No Safe Spaces. It's exactly about that. You'll

595
00:38:49,259 --> 00:38:52,140
Speaker 2: you'll love it. It's it's funny and and very and

596
00:38:52,299 --> 00:38:55,580
Speaker 2: and very frightening at the same time. And so this

597
00:38:55,779 --> 00:38:59,020
Speaker 2: is a subject I'm only too well aware of how

598
00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:03,739
Speaker 2: people feel. I'm affronted, I'm offended, I'm i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm,

599
00:39:03,819 --> 00:39:08,259
Speaker 2: i'm it's all, it's all narcissistic. How you feel is

600
00:39:08,380 --> 00:39:13,819
Speaker 2: not important in any arena. I'm sorry, but that's that's good.

601
00:39:13,980 --> 00:39:18,859
Speaker 2: Behavior is everything in morality. Behavior is everything. You meant well,

602
00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:22,140
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You didn't mean well, Also, it doesn't matter.

603
00:39:22,779 --> 00:39:25,940
Speaker 2: Is capitalism based on greed? Maybe it is, but it

604
00:39:26,020 --> 00:39:29,660
Speaker 2: does good. Is socialism based on altruism? Maybe it is,

605
00:39:29,859 --> 00:39:32,859
Speaker 2: but it does bad. So it only matters what it does.

606
00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,419
Speaker 2: I don't care what what the what the things are.

607
00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:37,899
Speaker 2: I remember people who would tell me, oh, the only

608
00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:39,819
Speaker 2: reason this guy gave all that money the u c

609
00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:42,660
Speaker 2: l A. Was to have his name on that on

610
00:39:42,819 --> 00:39:47,379
Speaker 2: that hospital wing, And I thought, why is that bad?

611
00:39:49,739 --> 00:39:51,540
Speaker 2: Isn't it great for all the people who will now

612
00:39:51,580 --> 00:39:55,140
Speaker 2: be treated in that hospital wing? So you're gonna dismiss

613
00:39:55,299 --> 00:39:57,299
Speaker 2: what he did because he wants his name on it?

614
00:39:58,219 --> 00:39:59,979
Speaker 2: Are you out of your mind? Did you ever need

615
00:40:00,060 --> 00:40:05,700
Speaker 2: a hospital? This is this is This is the wisdom

616
00:40:05,859 --> 00:40:09,819
Speaker 2: free thinking of our time. Behavior is every and by

617
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:12,299
Speaker 2: the way, behavior is everything. I wrote a book on happiness,

618
00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:16,020
Speaker 2: and uh I broadcast an hour a week on happiness.

619
00:40:16,140 --> 00:40:20,500
Speaker 2: I've talked my whole life, or most of my life unhappy.

620
00:40:21,259 --> 00:40:23,059
Speaker 2: I know a lot about the subject, and I've helped

621
00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:25,379
Speaker 2: a lot of people. And the first thing I say

622
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,379
Speaker 2: is act happy, then you'll feel happy. Don't wait to

623
00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:32,739
Speaker 2: act happy till you feel it. It's your doomed Act

624
00:40:32,859 --> 00:40:37,700
Speaker 2: happy even if you don't feel it. They did studies

625
00:40:37,819 --> 00:40:43,420
Speaker 2: people who smiled felt happier. Just smile and you'll be happier.

626
00:40:46,779 --> 00:40:48,339
Speaker 2: By the way, a big part of the left right

627
00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:51,379
Speaker 2: battle is the happy versus the unhappy. I've never met

628
00:40:51,420 --> 00:40:54,299
Speaker 2: a happy leftist. I've met happy liberals. I've met some

629
00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:58,980
Speaker 2: unhappy conservatives, but I never met a happy leftist. How

630
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Speaker 2: could they be If you're a black and you're on

631
00:41:01,299 --> 00:41:03,180
Speaker 2: the left, and you believe every white hates you, how

632
00:41:03,180 --> 00:41:06,859
Speaker 2: could you be happy? Think about it. You're taught to

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Speaker 2: be unhappy. News flash, most whites don't dislike blacks. Most

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Speaker 2: whites in America don't give a damn what your color is,

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Speaker 2: which is the way it should be, but that is

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Speaker 2: considered even bad. What I don't respect race, No, that's racist.

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Speaker 2: To respect race. I respect character, personality, temperament, goodness, but

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00:41:31,299 --> 00:41:34,779
Speaker 2: not race. Doesn't mean a damn thing to me. What

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Speaker 2: race was Adam? Okay, I believe in the Bible what

640
00:41:37,859 --> 00:41:43,420
Speaker 2: race was Adam None. So from the very beginning is

641
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Speaker 2: clear the only distinction God gives a hoot about is

642
00:41:46,299 --> 00:41:50,220
Speaker 2: the male female distinction. God created the human being male

643
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Speaker 2: and female. He created them, and it's the only intrinsic

644
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Speaker 2: distinction that matters to the God of the Bible. Now

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Speaker 2: number four, America, and then I'll have all the time

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Speaker 2: you want for Q and a America America has a trinity,

647
00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:14,859
Speaker 2: just like Christianity does. The American trinity is found. I

648
00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:18,100
Speaker 2: didn't make it up. It's on every coin. Have you

649
00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:22,100
Speaker 2: all seen coins? Or you only use credit cards? No? No,

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Speaker 2: I don't even know anymore what to expect? You know?

651
00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:26,979
Speaker 2: The other day I inscribed my book to a high

652
00:42:27,020 --> 00:42:30,259
Speaker 2: school kid. So I wrote it incursive, and I go,

653
00:42:30,460 --> 00:42:35,100
Speaker 2: can you read what I wrote you? He goes, no, Now,

654
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:42,819
Speaker 2: what does the guy learned? Carbon emissions condoms on bananas?

655
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Speaker 2: I mean, what what does he? I don't understand. What

656
00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:49,780
Speaker 2: if you can't readcursive in high school? What are you learning?

657
00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:54,739
Speaker 2: Do you know what a preposition is? Nope? Have you

658
00:42:54,859 --> 00:42:56,819
Speaker 2: ever diagrammed the sentence? I'll but you? None of you

659
00:42:56,980 --> 00:42:58,820
Speaker 2: ever heard of it. Unless you went to some ritzy

660
00:42:58,859 --> 00:43:05,219
Speaker 2: witsy witsy titsy high school. We diagram sentences, you would show.

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00:43:05,299 --> 00:43:07,299
Speaker 2: This is a predicate, This is a subject. This is

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00:43:07,339 --> 00:43:10,180
Speaker 2: an adjective. This is an adverb. It's one of the

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Speaker 2: reasons I speaking right well is because I was taught

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Speaker 2: the English language. Well well, it is a an adverb.

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00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:20,859
Speaker 2: Good is an adjective. Just I just want to throw

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00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:29,899
Speaker 2: it out there, but it gets tricky. Because if you

667
00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:35,219
Speaker 2: say he just recuperated from his surgery and is well,

668
00:43:35,940 --> 00:43:39,660
Speaker 2: then it's an adjective. Have I really thrown you for

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Speaker 2: a loop?

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Speaker 1: Okay, this episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.

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Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Bragor's timeless wisdom.

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Speaker 2: Every coin has three things on it that stand for America. Liberty,

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Speaker 2: e pluribus unim, and in God we trust. That is

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Speaker 2: the American trinity. Christianity has the Father of the Son

675
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Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit. Judaism has God tore in Israel.

676
00:44:14,299 --> 00:44:16,979
Speaker 2: There are trinities all over the place. The left has

677
00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:21,819
Speaker 2: a trinity race, gender, and class. Everybody has trinities. So

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00:44:21,940 --> 00:44:27,620
Speaker 2: the American trinity is liberty and God we trust e pluribustuna.

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Speaker 2: Let me explain them in a nutshell. Then you'll know

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Speaker 2: what this country was founded to stand for and the

681
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:39,099
Speaker 2: war against. All three of these begin with liberty. Number

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Speaker 2: one about liberty. Liberty is a value, not an instinct.

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Speaker 2: Get the difference. This is really important. People do not

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00:44:48,859 --> 00:44:51,979
Speaker 2: yearn to be free. That is a common misconception. If

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Speaker 2: they did, why would we have liberty that the founders

686
00:44:56,219 --> 00:45:01,779
Speaker 2: didn't put breathing? Because breathing comes naturally, Breathing is not

687
00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:08,700
Speaker 2: a value. Breathing is an instinct. Liberty is not an instinct.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I got that from the Bible too.

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Speaker 2: Israelites get have their exodus. God takes them out of

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Speaker 2: slavery in Egypt, and right away they're complaining, we want

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00:45:19,380 --> 00:45:22,540
Speaker 2: to go back. The food was batter reread it. It's

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Speaker 2: in the Book of Exodus and in the Book of Numbers,

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Speaker 2: the fourth book, and that awesome. It's such a great lesson.

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Speaker 2: You know what, We rather be slaves, which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: is what the left view is, they rather enslave and

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Speaker 2: be slaves because that's equality. Do you know how many

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00:45:39,819 --> 00:45:43,580
Speaker 2: people celebrated the Castro Revolution and communism in Cuba and

698
00:45:43,779 --> 00:45:47,540
Speaker 2: do so to this day. Or Chavez in Venezuela. The

699
00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:50,980
Speaker 2: people of Venezuela are unbelievably suffering, but he has a

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Speaker 2: revolution for equality. Slaves are equal. One of the great

701
00:45:56,660 --> 00:46:00,419
Speaker 2: things about slavery is it has equality. The only non

702
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:02,900
Speaker 2: equality or among the slave owners who are the communist

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00:46:02,940 --> 00:46:07,300
Speaker 2: party apparatus or the Socialist party apparatus, But that doesn't

704
00:46:07,339 --> 00:46:10,620
Speaker 2: matter to a lot of people. It's equality. It's like

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00:46:10,739 --> 00:46:14,380
Speaker 2: people tell you don't know how often I find this. Listen,

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Speaker 2: what are you knocking Castro for? Do you know that

707
00:46:18,020 --> 00:46:24,860
Speaker 2: the healthcare in Cuba is egalitarian? That's right, and it stinks?

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Speaker 2: Or even my favorite one, the literacy rate in Cuba

709
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Speaker 2: is ninety nine percent, to which I have always responded,

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00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:39,459
Speaker 2: so what or they can read is Communist party propaganda.

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00:46:40,060 --> 00:46:46,380
Speaker 2: I rather be illiterate and free than literate and enslaved anyway.

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00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:51,339
Speaker 2: Liberty is a value people. You know what people rather

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00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:57,660
Speaker 2: have than liberty. They rather be taken care of. It's

714
00:46:57,660 --> 00:47:01,540
Speaker 2: as old as the Book of Exodus. Take care of us.

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Speaker 2: We don't want liberty. We want to be taken care of.

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Speaker 2: That's the leftist atwork, and it's why it's dangerous. It

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00:47:10,500 --> 00:47:13,060
Speaker 2: doesn't have liberty. Liberty is not a left wing value.

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Speaker 2: Left wing value is being taken care of and equality

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00:47:19,259 --> 00:47:23,219
Speaker 2: those are left wing values, but not but not liberty.

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Speaker 2: The proof is freedom of speech, which is being suppressed

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Speaker 2: in America for the first time in American history. What

722
00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:33,540
Speaker 2: is happening on college campuses? Where the effort it takes.

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Speaker 2: When Ben Shapiro went to Berkeley, they spent six hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars on security. I have a picture of me

725
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was it's Colorado State, I

726
00:47:44,380 --> 00:47:47,420
Speaker 2: don't remember where it was. But very recently I have

727
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Speaker 2: a picture of me with the armed guards who came

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Speaker 2: to bring me in. It looked like I was being

729
00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:59,819
Speaker 2: escorted in Afghanistan. It's a truly funny picture. These policemen

730
00:47:59,980 --> 00:48:06,060
Speaker 2: were in basically war gear. And is there any left

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00:48:06,140 --> 00:48:12,460
Speaker 2: wing speaker who needs security? Well? None, and culture travels

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00:48:12,540 --> 00:48:16,060
Speaker 2: with a bodyguard. Does the left wing equivalent of Van

733
00:48:16,180 --> 00:48:18,940
Speaker 2: Culter travel with a bodyguard? Of course not, because we

734
00:48:19,020 --> 00:48:24,979
Speaker 2: don't threaten them. They threaten us just to be heard.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that we have four hundred videos? Do

736
00:48:27,779 --> 00:48:30,580
Speaker 2: you know that a hundred of our videos are YouTube

737
00:48:30,660 --> 00:48:32,979
Speaker 2: is put on the restricted list, which means if your

738
00:48:33,140 --> 00:48:36,620
Speaker 2: family has filters for pornography and violence, you can't see

739
00:48:36,620 --> 00:48:44,019
Speaker 2: a priger you video. Yep, it's mind boggling. They talked

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00:48:44,020 --> 00:48:47,500
Speaker 2: about it in Congress. We have a lawsuit against Google,

741
00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:51,419
Speaker 2: which owns YouTube. It's really frightening. This stuff is brand new,

742
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:55,219
Speaker 2: and you know what's up there. Victor Davis Hansen one

743
00:48:55,219 --> 00:48:57,340
Speaker 2: of the gentlest human beings in the world. The professor

744
00:48:57,380 --> 00:49:01,500
Speaker 2: of Classics at cal State University. He teaches a course

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00:49:01,660 --> 00:49:06,020
Speaker 2: on the history of the Korean War that's on the

746
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:11,180
Speaker 2: restricted list. Alan Dersher It's lifelong Democrat and liberal, gives

747
00:49:11,660 --> 00:49:15,020
Speaker 2: a history of Israel's founding in five minutes. It's on

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Speaker 2: the list. Anything that defends Israel or America is automatically

749
00:49:19,779 --> 00:49:23,700
Speaker 2: lumped with panagraa on YouTube. Okay, just to give you

750
00:49:23,779 --> 00:49:25,940
Speaker 2: an idea of what the left does when it has power.

751
00:49:27,779 --> 00:49:30,860
Speaker 2: Liberty is not one of their values. They don't like liberty.

752
00:49:32,259 --> 00:49:36,099
Speaker 2: America was founded on limited government. You can't have free

753
00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:39,259
Speaker 2: people with big government. Or as my motto goes, we

754
00:49:39,380 --> 00:49:42,660
Speaker 2: even have bumper stickers available with it. The bigger the government,

755
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:46,899
Speaker 2: the smaller the citizen. That's the way it works. We

756
00:49:47,060 --> 00:49:51,339
Speaker 2: want big citizens, little government. They want big government, little citizens.

757
00:49:51,620 --> 00:49:56,780
Speaker 2: That's how it works. You can't have both limited government.

758
00:49:57,140 --> 00:50:00,419
Speaker 2: Is The only country in the history of the world

759
00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:02,940
Speaker 2: to be founded with the ideal of limited government is

760
00:50:02,980 --> 00:50:06,220
Speaker 2: the United States of America. The left, and the words

761
00:50:06,219 --> 00:50:11,180
Speaker 2: of Barack Obama, wants to fundamentally transform the United States

762
00:50:11,219 --> 00:50:16,259
Speaker 2: of America. Conservatives don't want to fundamentally transform this country.

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00:50:16,779 --> 00:50:21,540
Speaker 2: They want to improve it. Leftists want to fundamentally transform it.

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Speaker 2: It's a very big difference, and you don't love what

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00:50:25,819 --> 00:50:29,020
Speaker 2: you want to fundamentally transform. If somebody said to you,

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00:50:29,180 --> 00:50:31,299
Speaker 2: I really love my wife, but i'd like I'd like

767
00:50:31,420 --> 00:50:37,420
Speaker 2: to see her fundamentally transform it, Okay, that's why you

768
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:39,379
Speaker 2: should laugh the next time you hear a left to

769
00:50:39,460 --> 00:50:42,819
Speaker 2: say I love America, you can't love them whatever you

770
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:46,180
Speaker 2: want fundamentally transformed. It is not possible. It is It

771
00:50:46,299 --> 00:50:52,020
Speaker 2: is laughable. As you just saw number two, epluribus unem,

772
00:50:52,380 --> 00:50:56,660
Speaker 2: which is the Latin for from many one this country.

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00:50:56,859 --> 00:51:00,140
Speaker 2: Everybody comes from different places and we're supposed to become one.

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00:51:00,620 --> 00:51:04,739
Speaker 2: It's this country is not founded on an ethnicity. If

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00:51:04,779 --> 00:51:07,299
Speaker 2: you wanted a picture of a Swede, you you have

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00:51:07,620 --> 00:51:10,620
Speaker 2: a white blonde picture. A picture of a German, a

777
00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:13,140
Speaker 2: picture of a Japanese. You have a specific picture of

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00:51:13,219 --> 00:51:16,100
Speaker 2: a Korean. You have a specific picture. There's no specific

779
00:51:16,180 --> 00:51:20,020
Speaker 2: picture of an American and it doesn't exist. There's every type.

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00:51:23,020 --> 00:51:27,700
Speaker 2: So if we divide America into races and ethnicities, we

781
00:51:27,779 --> 00:51:32,660
Speaker 2: are undoing the American experiment. The whole point was to

782
00:51:32,739 --> 00:51:36,379
Speaker 2: be unim was to be one, irrespective of where you

783
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:38,700
Speaker 2: came from. You want to honor your culture. I went

784
00:51:38,739 --> 00:51:40,819
Speaker 2: to a Jewish school where I studied Hebrew half today

785
00:51:40,859 --> 00:51:43,980
Speaker 2: I speak Hebrew like English because of that. But I'm American.

786
00:51:44,219 --> 00:51:46,859
Speaker 2: I love America. I celebrate America. I have that in

787
00:51:46,940 --> 00:51:49,499
Speaker 2: common with every other American. Whether you ever could read

788
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:52,140
Speaker 2: a Hebrew word or not, it's irrelevant. You want to

789
00:51:52,180 --> 00:51:56,420
Speaker 2: know if your parents came from Korea, comes Ahmeda. I

790
00:51:56,540 --> 00:51:58,980
Speaker 2: want you to. I want you to know Korean. That

791
00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:03,019
Speaker 2: is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Nobody's ever asked people

792
00:52:03,060 --> 00:52:05,339
Speaker 2: to stop studying their culture or their languge. But we

793
00:52:05,460 --> 00:52:11,379
Speaker 2: all united as Americans, and race means nothing nothing. It

794
00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:15,620
Speaker 2: only means something to the left, because every happy black

795
00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:19,940
Speaker 2: is more likely to vote Republican, every happy woman is

796
00:52:20,020 --> 00:52:23,540
Speaker 2: more likely to vote Republican. Telling people they have in

797
00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:29,540
Speaker 2: bad keeps them voting Democrat. It's a disgusting little device,

798
00:52:29,660 --> 00:52:33,900
Speaker 2: but it works. Oh women, Oh you're oppressed. If American

799
00:52:33,940 --> 00:52:37,300
Speaker 2: women are oppressed, then the word oppressed has lost all meaning.

800
00:52:38,420 --> 00:52:41,140
Speaker 2: It is an absurdity to walk around thinking you're oppressed,

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00:52:41,180 --> 00:52:43,739
Speaker 2: either as a black, or as a Hispanic, or as

802
00:52:43,779 --> 00:52:47,140
Speaker 2: an Asian or as a woman. You are not, period

803
00:52:47,259 --> 00:52:49,739
Speaker 2: and of issue, you are not. You're damn lucky to

804
00:52:49,779 --> 00:53:04,700
Speaker 2: be American. And by the way, the amazing thing is

805
00:53:04,779 --> 00:53:07,739
Speaker 2: everything I just said is called racist. The left calls

806
00:53:07,779 --> 00:53:10,739
Speaker 2: all this racist. The university look at the look at

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00:53:10,779 --> 00:53:13,419
Speaker 2: it up, either with my name or on its own.

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00:53:13,660 --> 00:53:18,020
Speaker 2: University of California List of Microaggressions, the official list of

809
00:53:18,180 --> 00:53:21,019
Speaker 2: things you can say that are racist. If you say,

810
00:53:21,540 --> 00:53:26,500
Speaker 2: there's only one race, the human race, that is considered racist,

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00:53:26,819 --> 00:53:32,259
Speaker 2: according to the University of California, I don't what is it?

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00:53:32,420 --> 00:53:37,020
Speaker 2: I trow here's another one. I try to treat everyone

813
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:42,500
Speaker 2: the same. That is racist. You're supposed to treat blacks differently?

814
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:46,259
Speaker 2: Is that bizarre? Is that bizarre? Is that an insult?

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00:53:48,700 --> 00:53:50,700
Speaker 2: This is the battle that we're fighting, and I hope

816
00:53:50,739 --> 00:53:53,660
Speaker 2: you'll fight it. And finally, in God we Trust. My

817
00:53:53,779 --> 00:53:59,540
Speaker 2: final point, you, even if you're a conservative, you have

818
00:53:59,779 --> 00:54:04,939
Speaker 2: undergone most likely a secular brainwash. It's just true. It's

819
00:54:04,980 --> 00:54:07,180
Speaker 2: not an insult to you or even to those who

820
00:54:07,259 --> 00:54:10,739
Speaker 2: taught you. It's just true. You don't realize why in

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00:54:10,859 --> 00:54:14,059
Speaker 2: God we trust is the American mono or an American mono.

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00:54:15,180 --> 00:54:19,300
Speaker 2: But it is because you can't have limited government without

823
00:54:19,339 --> 00:54:24,459
Speaker 2: a big God. People have to feel accountable for their

824
00:54:24,540 --> 00:54:30,140
Speaker 2: behavior to something higher and more powerful than themselves. If

825
00:54:30,180 --> 00:54:33,459
Speaker 2: people are not basically good, they better damn well feel

826
00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:36,859
Speaker 2: accountable for their behavior correct, or we're going to get

827
00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:39,900
Speaker 2: a lot of bad behavior. So you have a choice

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00:54:41,060 --> 00:54:44,980
Speaker 2: the God of Judaism and Christianity or the God of

829
00:54:45,020 --> 00:54:49,620
Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments, if you will, or big government. That's

830
00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:54,180
Speaker 2: why secular Europe has bigger and bigger governments. The European

831
00:54:54,339 --> 00:54:57,580
Speaker 2: Union has taken over for God. We will tell you

832
00:54:57,739 --> 00:54:59,899
Speaker 2: what you can drive, when you can drive it, how

833
00:54:59,980 --> 00:55:01,939
Speaker 2: long you can keep your store open, when you can

834
00:55:02,060 --> 00:55:08,980
Speaker 2: keep it open. It's just endless. They become the moral authority.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I've said very often in the

836
00:55:12,420 --> 00:55:14,859
Speaker 2: United States today there's far more fear of the left

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Speaker 2: and fear of God. It's not even close. One hundred

838
00:55:19,219 --> 00:55:21,019
Speaker 2: years ago there was a lot more fear of God.

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Speaker 2: Does that mean everybody acted good? Of course not. Of

840
00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:29,059
Speaker 2: course not. There's no such thing as everybody acting good.

841
00:55:29,420 --> 00:55:34,060
Speaker 2: It doesn't, it doesn't doesn't happen. But people act better

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Speaker 2: than other people in other places. And we've had that

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Speaker 2: in the United States, and God we trust is central

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Speaker 2: to the American experiment. Secular conservatives don't know this, and

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Speaker 2: the left opposes it. That's why they hate Evangelical Christians

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Speaker 2: because they are the largest single anti left body in

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Speaker 2: the United States. So this Uh the uh, the mayor

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Speaker 2: of South ben Indiana, who is the third most popular

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Speaker 2: Democrat right now, buddhaj Edge Uh has said, Oh, what hypocrites,

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Speaker 2: what phonies these evangelicals are for supporting the president who

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Speaker 2: had an affair with an adult film actress and paid

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Speaker 2: her to keep silent. I know, Evangelical Christians, real, real, well,

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Speaker 2: why are they hypocrites for supporting the president because he

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Speaker 2: did that? This is an amazing thing that this nonsense

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Speaker 2: goes for intelligent talk. They didn't say he didn't sin.

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Speaker 2: They said that there are more important things in choosing

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Speaker 2: a president than whether the person sin. That's called wisdom.

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Speaker 2: That's the way it works. Evangelical Christians think it's more

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Speaker 2: important to protect the United States of America. They think

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Speaker 2: it's more important, for example, to declare infanticide raw forget

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Speaker 2: even abortion in fan deicide as Virginia just said it

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Speaker 2: was okay. They think that's more important than whether the

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Speaker 2: president happened to have slept with the poor an actress

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Speaker 2: or not. And by the way, they have good biblical

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Speaker 2: basi for that, God seems to have had a lob

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Speaker 2: store for King David, who not only slept with a

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Speaker 2: woman he wasn't married to while he was married. Excuse

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Speaker 2: me that she was no while she was married, which

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Speaker 2: is adultery, But had the husband killed? Other than that

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Speaker 2: not so terrible, which, by the way, Trump never did,

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Speaker 2: no contention that the guy had that the porn actress

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Speaker 2: was married, and he had the husband killed. So how

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Speaker 2: come God could could find King David? Who will be?

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Speaker 2: Who's the ancestor of the Messiah for both Judaism and Christianity.

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Speaker 2: How come God chose of all the people in Canaan

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Speaker 2: to let the Israelites into the Promised Land. Guess who

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Speaker 2: he chose? A prostitute. So I guess if God could

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Speaker 2: work with sexual sinners, so could we. Son of my

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Speaker 2: damn business? I said this with regard to Clinton. I

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Speaker 2: didn't give a damn if he had consensual sex. It

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Speaker 2: was none of my business. Listen, I grew up with

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Speaker 2: John F. Kennedy. I was a little child. Guy hat

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Speaker 2: Orgy's in the White House, and the left still thinks

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Speaker 2: he's the greatest president, perhaps since since Lincoln, who, by

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Speaker 2: the way was a Republican. Just throw that out for

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Speaker 2: the ratification. But to Buddha Jedge and to Beato A'rouric

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Speaker 2: and also all the others, Oh, evangelicals, a lot of hypocrites. No,

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Speaker 2: they understand something. When you vote for president, you are

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Speaker 2: not voting for pastor, rabbi or priest. You're voting for president.

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Speaker 2: President of the United States. Affects all seven billion people

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Speaker 2: on earth. Okay, so there are much more important issues

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Speaker 2: than whether he has been sexually saintly or not. That's it.

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Speaker 2: That's the end of the issue. This notion of well, well, kids,

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Speaker 2: you know what kind of model is he for kids?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I was a kid like you. You

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Speaker 2: were a kid, okay't when I was a kid. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember my father saying, Dennis, I want you to

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Speaker 2: look at Lyndon Johnson. Yeah, if you just said to

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Speaker 2: my father, doesn't doesn't Dennis take his moral cues from

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Speaker 2: the president? My father was said, what are your mind

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Speaker 2: if he doesn't take moral cues from his father and

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Speaker 2: his uncles, and and and his older brother, and his

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00:59:52,540 --> 00:59:56,220
Speaker 2: rabbi and his teachers were in trouble. That's where you

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Speaker 2: get moral cues from President. This is make This is

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Speaker 2: a make believe world of the left. They loved Clinton.

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Speaker 2: Did we take moral cues from Clinton? No? No, it's

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Speaker 2: just an absurdity. It's just an absurdity. And and and

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Speaker 2: and if you are faithful, does it make make you

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Speaker 2: a great leader. I think Jimmy Carter was an awful president.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt he was faithful to his wife.

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Speaker 2: So what that's called wisdom? And for that matter, honesty. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: in God we trust, Yes. So that's that's the third

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Speaker 2: part of our of the American Trinity. I have offered

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Speaker 2: you five ideas of what is life shaping about Feelings

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Speaker 2: less important than behavior about you have to battle yourself

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Speaker 2: to have a good world. This is the stuff that matters.

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Speaker 2: And I don't I don't see people getting They're not

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Speaker 2: getting it your generation, my generation didn't get it either.

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Speaker 2: I got it because I went to religious school all

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Speaker 2: day long, nine to nine to one, religious subjects one

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Speaker 2: to six, I mean nine to six. I went all day.

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Speaker 2: But it was a great grounding. I understood what my

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Speaker 2: teacher said. I'll leave you with one final great thing

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Speaker 2: about about feelings. You know what I learned Feelings didn't matter.

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Speaker 2: This is a very major thing. I remember literally one

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Speaker 2: thing from fourth grade, but it changed my life. In

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Speaker 2: fourth grade, so I studied in what many of you

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Speaker 2: never heard of, a yeshiva. Yeshiva was an Orthodox Jewish school.

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Speaker 2: As I said, Hebrew half today, English half today. So

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Speaker 2: one day the rabbi says, okay, boys, it's time for

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Speaker 2: the afternoon prayer. So I walked over to the rabbi

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Speaker 2: because I always had klittzberg. I never was disrespectful, but

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Speaker 2: I always had Klitzbergh. I walked over to the rabbi

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Speaker 2: and I said, Rabbi fust Egg, I'm sorry, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not in the mood for the afternoon prayers. Well, it

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Speaker 2: was clear to me, even in fourth grade. The rabbi

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Speaker 2: had never heard mood and prayer in the same sentence.

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Speaker 2: So he had a beard. He stroked his beard, and

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Speaker 2: he thought for a minute, and he goes Dennis, he

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Speaker 2: is not in the mood to say the afternoon prayers.

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Speaker 2: So what that man changed my life? So what who

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Speaker 2: the hell cares about my mood? I have something I

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Speaker 2: have to do. My mood is irrelevant. And that stayed

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Speaker 2: with me the rest of my life. So what if

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Speaker 2: you could say that it's the beginning of wisdom.

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