1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: of preger You, and you are about to listen to 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: a special edition of fireside Chat with Dennis Praguer. Those 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: of us here at preger You are continuing to do 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: the very important work that we've been doing with him 6 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: into schools, and so much more. You can head over 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: to peger you dot com to see the progress that 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: we've been making. Also, i'd love to invite you to 11 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: support our mission by donating to our five ZHO one 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: C three. It is a nonprofit. Your tax deductible donation 13 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: will go to an institution of higher learning that actually 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: shares your values. So enjoy your podcast and thank you 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: so much for all your support. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: Welcome to my home. I'm Dennis Prager. This is my home. 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: This is as informal as well. It's not as informal 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: as you can get. After all, I could be here 19 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: in pajamas, but I don't wear pajamas, so I certainly 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: couldn't be here, so it's really really informal. I love this. 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: A lot of people are watching and that means a 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: great deal to me because I really get a chance 23 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: to talk from my heart and from my mind, because 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: you have to do both in life. So anyway, welcome 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 2: to my home. And maybe you'll get to see the 26 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: bulldog or the Bassett hound at some point, but who knows. 27 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: So listen to this. I just flew in from Australia, 28 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,919 Speaker 2: if case you didn't know, Australia is very far away. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 2: Just I just thought I woult I would share that 30 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: with you. It's it's from LA you can take a NonStop. 31 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 2: I gave a speech in Melbourne just the other day 32 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: and I went I went to I went to Australia 33 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: for three days just to give a speech and I 34 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: want to say something to the Prager Force people in Melbourne, Australia. Anyway, 35 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: the flight is sixteen and a half hours, so you 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: sort of live on an airplane for all that time. 37 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: That doesn't include the time you're on the ground, so 38 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: you're on the plane about eighteen hours. And thank god 39 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 2: I don't go economy class. I have to admit it. 40 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: I at six foot four, that would not be possible, 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 2: at least for me. Anyway, I'm really dedicated to these 42 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 2: fireside chats, so that even flying in from Australia, I 43 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: didn't want to go to bed. I wanted to be 44 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: here to do this with you and Hi everybody by 45 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 2: your way. Before I go on with that, I want 46 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: to thank publicly Steven Crowder of Louder with Crowder. I 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 2: come home and I see a beautiful box of cigars 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: awaiting me. I would love to read you the note, 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 2: but I don't know. It was so warm and so 50 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 2: filled with kind things that if I read it would 51 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 2: sound like I'm boasting. But I would like to read 52 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 2: it to credit him, not me. Anyway, Stephen, you are 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: one good man, and thank you for that. There were 54 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 2: members of Prager Force in Melbourne who wanted to come 55 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: to my speech, but the problem was and I really 56 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: would have loved it. If I could have been decisive, 57 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: of course I would have said yes. But I was 58 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: the keynote speaker. But another speaker on the program was 59 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: the Israeli Ambassador to Australia. It was his speech to 60 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia for their annual Big event, 61 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: and he came from Canberra, the capital of Australia, to 62 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 2: give a speech and tragically. Israeli diplomats need a great 63 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: deal of security for reasons that are obvious to everyone, 64 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: and so if your name wasn't on the list way 65 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: in advance, they didn't allow anybody to come in. So 66 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: those of you Prager Force in Melbourne, thank you. I 67 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: wish I had met you and you could have come 68 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: to the talk. Okay, now that we got some of 69 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 2: the preliminaries talked about, I want I think all the 70 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: time what would I like to open with? And I 71 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: rarely open with things in the news. I sometimes do, 72 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: but I don't feel a compulsion to do that this time. 73 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: What I want to talk to you about, especially to 74 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: those of you who are young. What is young mean? 75 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: I don't know. Oh, under forty, under thirty five, whatever 76 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 2: you want to choose, it doesn't matter. The truth is 77 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: what I'm about to say. If you're under seventy, it 78 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 2: would apply, but it's particularly true for you who were young. 79 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: I know you never thought of what I'm about to shay. 80 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: By the way, was that clear or was my cigar 81 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: eating up by words? Yes? It was? Okay, I'll bet 82 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of you, whatever your religious conviction or 83 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: no religious conviction, I'll bet you never thought of this 84 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 2: growing up in the most secular, the most irreligious, the 85 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: most godless generation in recorded history anywhere on earth. We 86 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 2: do not have records of a society that is as 87 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,679 Speaker 2: irreligious as the modern Western world. No religion, no god, 88 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: they play no role. You go to secular elementary school, 89 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: secular high school, secular college, secular graduate school. Most don't 90 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: go to church or synagogue. It is a new world. Now. 91 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 2: You may say, so what, That's fine, I'll deal with 92 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: that in a moment, but at least be conscious of 93 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: something that this is new in human history. And it's 94 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 2: true for the United States, which is one moment almost 95 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: went out, which is the most religious of the advanced 96 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 2: industrialized democracies. It's even true in the United States, forget 97 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,239 Speaker 2: Sweden and Norway and many other countries, and for that matter, 98 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: in some ways in Asia as well. China, the communist 99 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 2: regime had worked to stamp out religion, though at this time, 100 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: from when I'm told, there were two hundred million Christians 101 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 2: in China, many of them surreptitiously. So anyway, if you're 102 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 2: intellectually curious and you want to know about life and 103 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 2: your wisdom, desiring you have to ask yourself a question. 104 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 2: Is that a good thing? Simple as that? Is it 105 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 2: a good thing to essentially have completely irreligious, secular, and 106 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 2: even godless life? And I don't think it's a good 107 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: thing because I know the role that religion and God 108 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: and the Bible have played in my life. And I actually, oh, 109 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 2: I want to choose my words carefully because I don't 110 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: What I want to say is I'll tell you what 111 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: I want to say, and then I'm not going to 112 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: say it. I want to say I feel sorry for 113 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: people who don't have this, but this is it sounds 114 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: like it's a condescending statement, and it's not condescending at all. Listen, 115 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: I feel sorry for people who don't have music in 116 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 2: their lives. So it's you know, are there wonderful people 117 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 2: who don't have music in their lives? Of course, the 118 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: music wonderful people who don't have any art in their lives. Yes, 119 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: But you have a richer life if you have art 120 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 2: and beauty in it. So it's not it's not a 121 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 2: it's not a statement against the individual. It's a statement 122 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: observing the situation that meet that people find themselves in. 123 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: And so let me give you a few examples why, 124 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 2: and then I'm going to go simply to your questions. 125 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 2: First of all, there is the issue, can I give 126 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 2: your issue? Thank you? First of all, there is the 127 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 2: issue of meaning. See every atheist philosopher that I have 128 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 2: read acknowledges if there is no God. Ultimately there is 129 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: no ultimate meaning to life. That doesn't mean you can't 130 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 2: make up a meaning. People do, and pardon the pun, 131 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: thank God that they do. People make up all sorts 132 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 2: of meanings to do well in their profession, to get 133 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 2: ahead in life, to raise a family. These are all 134 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: wonderful things. But in the final analysis, if we're only 135 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: matter and that's all we are. I was just reading 136 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: you know who was it? The great the British genius, 137 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: the physicists who had als? Yes, Stephen Hawking, thank you, 138 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 2: she's two for two. She gave me the cigar and 139 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 2: took the cigar and came up with Stephen Hawking. So 140 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: he just passed away. May he rest in peace, and 141 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 2: may he realize he was wrong about there not being 142 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: any God anyway, he said in one of his one 143 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: newspaper in Britain had four quotes from him. One is 144 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 2: all we are is matter. We human beings are just matter. 145 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: We're particles. That's particles of matter. He's right. If there's 146 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 2: no God, we're just particles of matter. We are no 147 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 2: different from this cigar, except that we have self consciousness 148 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 2: and the cigar has no self consciousness. That's the only difference. 149 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 2: Now that should matter, That should matter to people. There 150 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 2: are a lot of young people, and for that matter, 151 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: not so young people in the Western world walking around 152 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 2: aimless and pointless. Why do you think, for example, that 153 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: the only law scale programs that have ever gotten people 154 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: sober from drugs from alcohol are twelve step programs, and 155 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 2: they are rooted in faith and quote something higher that 156 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 2: there is a god you want to don't want to 157 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: call it God, call it something higher. We could deal 158 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 2: with that another time, because ultimately that gives your life 159 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 2: in the final analysis. Meaning, so this is a big deal. 160 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 2: So what have we substituted. We substitute other things for meaning. 161 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: For example, I'll give you one that may affect a 162 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 2: lot of you young people, and I felt it when 163 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 2: I was your age. A lot of my peers, a 164 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: lot of my peers lived for basically one big thing, 165 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 2: and that was to get into a good college. This 166 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 2: is what gave their life meaning, Oh, I'll get into Stanford. No, 167 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 2: I'll get into the University of Michigan, and all get 168 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: into Yale, all get into whatever the prestigious university, duke 169 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: you name it, the Ivy League universities. And I always, 170 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 2: even when I was a kid, and I never bought it. 171 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 2: I didn't give a damn about my grades in high school, 172 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 2: and it showed by the way. But even then I 173 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 2: didn't understand so because I remember thinking, Okay, so you'll 174 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 2: get into a prestigious college, and then what what's your 175 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: aim in life? Then for a prestigious graduate school? Okay, 176 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 2: so then you're in a prestigious graduate school. What's your 177 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: aim in life? Then? What are you going to lead 178 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 2: the rest the rest of your maybe seventy more years 179 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 2: of life, probably at least seventy more years, seventy and 180 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: twenty five, well, from colleges seventy and twenty one, from 181 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 2: grad twenty twenty five is in your nineties. Those of 182 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 2: you who are twenty today can easily expect to live 183 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 2: probably in the nineties and one hundreds. What are you 184 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: gonna do in the restion seventy five eighty years? Get 185 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: into a not a graduate school, get another degree, think 186 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: about it. But when I speak to kids who have 187 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 2: a religious essence, they don't. They march to a different drummer. 188 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 2: Some of them get great grades. I don't have anything 189 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: against great grades. I have something against living. For great grades. 190 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 2: We substitute sort of what I call false gods when 191 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 2: we don't have one god anyway. That's one consequence of 192 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: your being raised in the most secular generation in the 193 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 2: history of the world, of any society that we have 194 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: ever known. And then there's the moral issue people ask 195 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 2: people can't stand my video. People love it and can't 196 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 2: stand it. I mean I can't. Obviously, millions love it. 197 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: But if there is no God, is murdered wrong? You 198 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: should all watch it because it's unassailably accurate. It's not 199 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: a matter of opinion. It may be opinion whether there 200 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 2: is a God, but it's not opinion that if God 201 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 2: is not there, to say murder is wrong. It's just 202 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 2: an opinion. I think murder is wrong, you think murder 203 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: is right, or I think murder is right. So people 204 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: knocked me. You could watch this on the internet. So 205 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 2: many comments and so many videos even against my video. 206 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 2: At the Prager you site, and they say, wow, So 207 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: what prager would kill? If Warren for God? What kind 208 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: of guy is he? So they mock it, they think 209 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 2: it's absurd. Well, let me tell you something. I wouldn't 210 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 2: murder if there were no God. I was raised to 211 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 2: believe how terrible murder is. However, I'll tell you. I'll 212 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: tell you a few areas where it does matter. I had, 213 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 2: Like most people, I had a rocky period with my 214 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: parents when I was young. This is very common. But 215 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 2: because I believe that God said honor your father and mother, 216 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 2: that it's in the Ten Commandments, I did, even at 217 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 2: the rockiest times with relations with my parents, where we 218 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 2: might have been emotionally adrift, but I never dishonored them. 219 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 2: I never disrespected them. And the reason was God. Yes, 220 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 2: because it says honor your father and mother, and I 221 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: think God is behind that. That's a big deal. People 222 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 2: could give any number of reasons. I asked the guy 223 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I asked a guy. I got married 224 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 2: first when I was thirty two, So in my twenties 225 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 2: I would ask married people privately so many questions about 226 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 2: marriage because I knew I didn't know anything about marriage 227 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 2: and Anyway, I asked a friend of mine when I 228 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 2: was about I would say. I would say I was 229 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: thirty twenty nine thirty. He was about forty years I 230 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: was about ten years older than I. So I said, 231 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: I said to Bob, we'll call him Bob. He might 232 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 2: be Bob, he might not be Bob. Anyway, said Bob, 233 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: you and I are very open with each other. I 234 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 2: want to ask you something. Did you ever cheat on 235 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: your wife? I'll never forget his answer. This guy was 236 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: a completely irreligious guy, and I was just curious what 237 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 2: he would say, how he would answer my question. He said, 238 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: you know, Dennis, it's interesting you should ask. As you know, 239 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 2: I never pray an agnostic, I have no religious fuffiliation. 240 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: But believe it or not, I have never committed adultery. 241 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 2: And you know why believe it or not? Dennis? And 242 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 2: he was almost embarrassed to say, because I actually think 243 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 2: that God said do not commit adultery. I actually I 244 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 2: think there may be a God who demands that we 245 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 2: not commit adultery. Made perfect sense. Now you'll say, oh, oh, 246 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 2: I don't need a God to tell me not to 247 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: cheat on my wife or my husband. Oh really, when when? 248 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 2: When things are rocky in a marriage and there's somebody 249 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: extremely attractive who who was attracted to you. Let me 250 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 2: tell you something, it's damn helpful to believe that the 251 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: god in the universe told you not to do something. 252 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's real life. Okay, that's not make 253 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 2: believe the notion. Oh you know I could do it without. Yes, 254 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: there are people who do it without. I understand that 255 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 2: they were good atheists. I always acknowledge that there are 256 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 2: bad religious people. They were good atheists. But nevertheless, the 257 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 2: addition of having a God who tells you how to 258 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 2: be a good person is immense in one's life. So 259 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: I think of that. I think about that a lot. 260 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: Give you one more example again from the Ten Commandments, 261 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 2: and you know, can I have my book? I'd just 262 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 2: like to mention it. This is coming out, this is 263 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 2: the I'm going to show it. This is the hardest thing. 264 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 2: The second hardest was writing my book Nothing the second 265 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: time still the best hope about American values, left wing 266 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 2: values and Islamist values. And I hope you read it. 267 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 2: But this is the work of my life teaching the 268 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: first five books of the Bible, known as the Torah. 269 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 2: All of my life from the Hebrew and making sense 270 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 2: of it so that people will understand it'll give them 271 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 2: a better life. So this is coming out in two weeks. 272 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 2: It's gorgeously printed, and is this correct? Is it up nicely? 273 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: And it's called the Rational Bible because I only use reason. 274 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 2: I never ask people to take anything on faith. I 275 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: have never promoted a book like this, and believe me, 276 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 2: nobody writes a commentary on the Bible to get rich. 277 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: I wrote this because I think it's so necessary. The 278 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 2: Bible was the most important book in a American history. 279 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 2: And it's nothing. You can't deny that Lincoln kept it. 280 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 2: Lincoln didn't go to church, but kept it on his nightstand, 281 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 2: read it every day or every night. We've lost that. 282 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 2: Why is it the wisest book on earth? Anyway? The 283 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 2: Rational Bible. I really hope you'll get it. You can 284 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 2: pre order it at Amazon. Cosco is even going to 285 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: make it available. I'm very happy to say so. I'll 286 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 2: give you one more example. One of the commandments is 287 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: keep the Sabbath day, Keep the Sabbath day holy. That's 288 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 2: really dead. The concept of the Sabbath in America and 289 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: the West is totally dead. Sunday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 290 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: the same thing. It's just repeat. However, you do you 291 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: know there's nothing, there's no holy time, so to speak. 292 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 2: So I have had I've had the Sabbath, Friday night 293 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 2: meals and Judaism Sabbath starts at Friday night and ends 294 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 2: at Saturday night. I've had a Friday night meal and 295 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 2: a Saturday meal with people either at my home or 296 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 2: at their home. My whole life. I don't work, I 297 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 2: don't broadcast on the Sabbath. I don't even read a 298 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 2: newspaper because that's my work. I leave the world for 299 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 2: a day, and it has saved my life. It is 300 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 2: a source of incredible pleasure and meaning. Saturday afternoons, I 301 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 2: have had Sabbath lunch, in other words, lunch on the 302 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 2: Sabbath with the same couples for about twenty five years. 303 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 2: We are truly like family. If we didn't think it 304 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 2: was in the Ten Commandments, you think we'd get together 305 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 2: every single week. We'd always find reason to be busy. 306 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: I'm a busy guy. They're busy people too. Believing that 307 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 2: God wants you to do X or Y or Z, 308 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 2: that that's a big deal in your life. So anyway, 309 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 2: I just thought i'd open up today Today's fireside chat 310 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: with that I may be one of the only talk 311 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 2: show hosts people in you know, the secular media who 312 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 2: does push religion like this, because I know the consequences 313 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 2: of the death of God. They ain't good. You know 314 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 2: what happened in Europe when Christianity died, We got Nazism 315 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 2: and communism. God doesn't die easily or peacefully. Okod ouk, 316 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 2: time for your questions on anything, and I should probably 317 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 2: pressure button. Okay, problem is I need the owner, which 318 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: I can light up while we're looking for the owner. 319 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 2: You did it. You're not even the owner? Okay? Heard 320 00:20:53,359 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 2: the book? Okay, so I Huy, how would that be pronounced? Hi? Hugh? No, 321 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 2: isn't it an Asian name? So all right, whatever it is. 322 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 2: Hi Hi seventeen years old, Melbourne, Australia, Prager Force. Hi Dennis, 323 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: I've been struggling. I wish i'd have met you, Hi Dennis. 324 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 2: I've been struggling with a moral dilemma. I'm a Buddhist 325 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 2: and I've recently met some missionaries that are willing to 326 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 2: help me convert. I really want to convert, but The 327 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: problem is my family is also Buddhist and they don't 328 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 2: want me to convert. What do you think I should do? 329 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 2: This is a this is a very heavy duty question, 330 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 2: and it applies to anybody converting from the religion of 331 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 2: their family. And I let me say at the outset, 332 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 2: I completely sympathize with the feelings and emotions of your family. 333 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 2: And there's no easy answer whatever this is. But here 334 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: is a guideline. Since, after all, you're going to be 335 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 2: converting to a religion that holds the Ten Commandments as divine, 336 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 2: you've got to honor your parents. There's no asterisk that 337 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 2: says honor your father and mother only if they're the 338 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 2: same religion as you. You honor your father and mother 339 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 2: if they're Atheist, if they're Buddhist, if they're Shinto, if 340 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 2: they're Muslim, whatever they are. That's just the way it is. 341 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 2: So for example, you partake, I think you should still 342 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 2: partake wherever possible in the rituals with your parents, so 343 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 2: that you show I'm not leaving you. I'm accepting something else, 344 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 2: but I'm not really leaving you. And perhaps that could 345 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 2: be of some help in your conversion experience. I hope 346 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 2: that helps Jackson fourteen, Winchester, Kentucky. Didn't I just ask 347 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 2: you the other day? How come we don't get questions 348 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: from Winchester. I'm really happy to hear from you, Jackson. 349 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 2: What's the most impactful thing young people can do in 350 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: today's society to improve the world? Oh boy, oh, I 351 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 2: have so many answers. The most important thing you can 352 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 2: do is develop yourself into a good person. That's the 353 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 2: most important thing you can do. See, the Left has 354 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 2: taught people that from the earliest age, the most important 355 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 2: is to be out there demonstrating for some great cause. No, 356 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 2: in America, it's a good country, America. We really don't 357 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 2: need massive demonstrations. We need the we and every other 358 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: country in the world needs more than anything else. Are 359 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 2: you ready? Good people that will make a good good 360 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 2: society is composed of good people. So making yourself into 361 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 2: a good person, developing your character and your wisdom, wisdom 362 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 2: is key. You can't be good without wisdom. You can 363 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 2: want to be good, but without wisdom it won't work. 364 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 2: So that's that's what I would say next. Danny twenty five, 365 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 2: Amsterdam is that Amsterdam? Holland right? Prager for us in 366 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 2: Amsterdam love to meet you. What should be perceived as 367 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 2: true beauty in a woman? Okay, well, first of all, 368 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an answer you don't expect, 369 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 2: and it's it's it's a it's an important answer because 370 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 2: I have been talking to young men and young women 371 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 2: in my whole life since I was a young man, 372 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 2: and this issue has come up a lot. So let's 373 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 2: begin with. True beauty is the same in men and women. 374 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 2: True beauty is a beautiful person. If I say someone 375 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: is a beautiful person, you don't think looks, you think character. Correct, 376 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: So that's clear. However, and this is a painful however, 377 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 2: But I would be of no use to you if 378 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 2: I only told you things that aren't painful, since the 379 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: human being is physical, physical matters as well. I remember 380 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: when I spoke. I directed a religious retreat center in 381 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 2: my late twenties and early thirties, so I had kids 382 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 2: college age, kids were a little younger than me actually 383 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 2: come for a month at a time and study, in 384 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 2: this case Judaism. But I spoke about a lot of things, 385 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: happiness meaning sex, a lot of things. So I remember 386 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 2: young women would say to me because they felt totally 387 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 2: free to ask me anything, just as you do. And 388 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 2: I've always welcomed that. So she would say, Well, if 389 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: a man really loves me, he won't care how I look. 390 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: He will only see my heart. He will see what 391 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 2: a beautiful heart I have. And I said, that's only 392 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: true in heaven, where we're spiritual beings, perhaps, But so 393 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: long as we're physical beings, the physical matters. And it's 394 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 2: not fair, but it's It would be doubly unfair if 395 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 2: I deluded you into thinking it doesn't matter. It does matter, 396 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: so it all matters. It's like saying if a man 397 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 2: were to say, it doesn't matter if I have a job, 398 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 2: what matters is she'll see what a good heart I have. 399 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 2: But that's not true. On earth. A woman cares. Most 400 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 2: women do care if at thirty you're living with your 401 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: parents and not working and playing video games, even if 402 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: you have the kindest heart in the world. It's not 403 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 2: a perfect analogy, but it's a valid one. So everything matters. 404 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 2: But true beauty is character. I fully acknowledge that in 405 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 2: either sex. But the physical matters as long as we 406 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: have eyeballs anyway. Morgan, twenty one, Boca Ratone, Florida. Boy, 407 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 2: do I know Boca Ratone, well Praeger Force as well. 408 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 2: What books do you hotly recommend young adults read for pleasure? Listen? 409 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 2: If it's for pleasure, you choose. I can tell you 410 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: the books to read for wisdom, but I can't tell 411 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: you the books to read for pleasure. You know, I'm 412 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 2: the row guy to ask, because I really don't get 413 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: into popular novels. And I'm not saying that's good thing 414 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 2: about me. I just don't. I never did. Right now, 415 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 2: I'm reading a nine hundred page book, actually listening to it, 416 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 2: a nine hundred page book that was just came out 417 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: on ERASMI and Luther. Now I am mesmerized by this book, 418 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 2: and it gives me great pleasure because it deals with 419 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 2: the great issues of life and I love them. But 420 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 2: that's my pleasure. Another person is not going to get 421 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 2: so much pleasure from that book. They may read it, 422 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 2: but they maybe because they feel they need to. So 423 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 2: that's your choice. I think that the pursuit of wisdom 424 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 2: is pleasurable once you start. I know you will agree 425 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: with me. The trick is to start. You start feeding. 426 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 2: It's like a hunger. I think there's a built in 427 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 2: hunger in most people for wisdom, but they don't know it. 428 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: They know they have hunger for pizza, and they know 429 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: they have hunger for sex, and they know they have 430 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: hunger for other pleasures. But I don't know if they 431 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: feel they recognize that there was a hunger for that 432 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 2: as well. Veronica twenty one, Bright the way, if you're 433 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 2: over twenty five, you are allowed to send in a 434 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: question just for just just letting you know. I mean, 435 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 2: I'm thrilled with this, but I just want those of 436 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: you over twenty five to note that. Veronica twenty one, Palmdale, California. 437 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 2: How should a person determine if the choices they are 438 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 2: making are morally right or wrong during times when making 439 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 2: that distinction might be difficult? Here is here is a 440 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 2: guideline that is not religious. Here is a non religious 441 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 2: guideline on determining whether what you're going to do is 442 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 2: right or wrong or doing already? And that is ask 443 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 2: if everybody did it, would the world be better or worse? So, 444 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 2: for example, I'll give you an example of something that 445 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: I find awful. People will go into a store and 446 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 2: they uh. I'll take a female example. A woman wants 447 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 2: a dress for a Saturday night event. Or affair or 448 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: a date or whatever it might be, and she sees 449 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 2: what she really likes, she quote unquote buys it at 450 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: the store, wears it Saturday night, and returns it on 451 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: Monday or even Sunday. Now that's wrong. I think it's 452 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: it's actually stealing. You're stealing from the department store, even 453 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 2: though you say, well, I returned the item, but you 454 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 2: really are stealing. And the best way to realize that 455 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 2: what if everybody did that? What if every woman who 456 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 2: wanted to address for a special event got the dress 457 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 2: for a day or two for the special event, and 458 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 2: then returned it saying, oh, it doesn't fit, I don't 459 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 2: like it, the material isn't coomfortable or whatever. So it's 460 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 2: a good example ask ask that question. What if everybody 461 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 2: did it? See if everybody smoked a cigar, the world 462 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: would be a better place. By the way, part of 463 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: me believes that. I know, I know that sounds bizarre. 464 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: And by the way, for the record, I don't say 465 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 2: that about cigarettes because cigarettes are inhaled and this is not. 466 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: But that's another subject which I think I might even 467 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: talk about one time. But anyway, I'm largely kidding about 468 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 2: the cigar. But not entirely Noah twenty one, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 469 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 2: I was in Tuscaloosa. I'll never forget when the great 470 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 2: legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant was having a football clinic 471 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 2: and I couldn't get into any hotel in Tuscaloosa because 472 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 2: it was I was in my twenties. I was driving 473 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 2: through the South and I couldn't get into any hotel 474 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: in Tuscaloosa because Bear Bryant was having a football clinic. 475 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,239 Speaker 2: And I ended up sleeping in Utah, Alabama, which if 476 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 2: you're in tuscal Lousa you probably know of Eutaw. And 477 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 2: I ended up sleeping in a room above the city jail. 478 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 2: That was the closest room I could find. Dennis, you 479 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: have spoken against contemporary music that is atonal or even experimental. 480 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 2: You say that as a product of the left. Why 481 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 2: do you feel so negatively about music from composer to 482 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 2: Scherenberg and Webern? What makes it so terrible? Wow? Noah 483 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 2: twenty one. Congratulations to you for even knowing Webern and Schurenberg. 484 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 2: Schurenberg wrote and soda Webern. They wrote some accessible, beautiful music. 485 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 2: They're not the best examples I know they did atonality. 486 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 2: I agree with Leonard Bernstein about nothing. He is the greatest. 487 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 2: He was the greatest popularizer of classical music. When I 488 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: was a kid in America. He was the conductor of 489 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 2: the New York Philharmonic, very famous classical musician, and he 490 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: was a man of the left, and I didn't like 491 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 2: a lot of his views. But on this issue, he said, 492 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 2: atonal music is an oxymoron. It's a self contradictory phrase, 493 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 2: and I agree with that. And by the way, the 494 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 2: proof is most, the vast majority of people who love 495 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: classical music don't like this music because it doesn't talk 496 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 2: to their heart. Music can't only talk to your brain. 497 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 2: Music has to talk to your heart, to your emotions. 498 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 2: Does anybody cry at the end of an atonal piece? Well, 499 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 2: sometimes I have cried at the end of a total 500 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 2: pieces to be honest, that somebody would spend their time 501 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 2: playing it. But I mean, seriously, get the chills from, 502 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 2: you know, electronic music. I'm talking about classical electronic or 503 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 2: the atonal music of some of these guys. It's like 504 00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 2: a substitute for passion, you know. I tear up sometimes 505 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 2: at the end of Beethoven's ninth do you teer up 506 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 2: at the end of atonal music? I would love to know. 507 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 2: If there's no capacity to make you tear up or 508 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 2: get chills, then its music is not speaking to your heart, 509 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 2: and it has to speak to your heart. I think 510 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 2: to your mind as well. While I love classical, it 511 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 2: speaks to both, but it has to speak to your heart. 512 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 2: Ten with two ends? Is that correct? Fifty eight? An 513 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 2: elder statesman in Arizona. Lighthouses are special to mem That 514 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: makes one of us. I'm just ribbing you. I used 515 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,760 Speaker 2: to collect lighthouse figurines like the one I've seen behind 516 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 2: you in many firesides? Is that right? Oh? Not lighthouse, 517 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 2: just figurines. Yes, these are animals from all over the world. 518 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 2: We have a lighthouse visitor. It's my own house, and 519 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 2: I don't I have a figurine of a lighthouse. That's pathetic. 520 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 2: Thank God my wife isn't here. She'd be laughing herself. Silly. 521 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 2: Who is there any significance of the one that you 522 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 2: display in your bookcase? I guess I answered that already, 523 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 2: didn't I I feel a little I feel a little silly. 524 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 2: It was the first logo of Prigger. You a lighthouse. 525 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 2: Now I'm kidding When I said it makes one of us, 526 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 2: I was just ribbing you. Lighthouses are a very romantic, 527 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 2: UH type of building. There's no question. Out at the 528 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 2: very edge of the land, a beacon in the darkness. 529 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 2: I get it. So I don't know is that is 530 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 2: that because of preger You's original logo? Is it like it? 531 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 2: I don't know why we have it. Thank you for 532 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 2: telling me about my own study. It's a little sad. 533 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 2: Last question, James in London, what is your opinion on 534 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 2: premarital sex and its impact on this generation? Oh? Boy? 535 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 2: Should have ended with the lighthouse? Well I got a 536 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 2: light up for that one. Okay, i'll tell you. Are 537 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 2: you ready. I don't know if this will I think 538 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 2: that my answer will please no, almost nobody. But this 539 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 2: is what I believe you asked me, so i'll tell you. 540 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 2: I think that having no sexual experience before marriage is 541 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 2: UH is generally unwise, but I believe that saving intercourse 542 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 2: for marriage is a good thing. So I believe. In 543 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 2: other words, too many people who have done nothing sexual 544 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 2: prior to marriage have then found out that they're not 545 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 2: compatible with their spouse sexually, and that's part of marriage. 546 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 2: I'm sorry it is. And if you haven't, you haven't 547 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 2: kissed somebody or or I don't know this is the 548 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 2: word to make out is used anymore. Yeah, if you 549 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 2: have never made out, now, let me say quickly, I 550 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,359 Speaker 2: know religious Christians and Jews who have never done any 551 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,240 Speaker 2: of that, and they and many of them have wonderful 552 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 2: marriages and God blessed them. I use my own parents, 553 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 2: who were Orthodox Jews. They they dated for four years 554 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,400 Speaker 2: until they married, and then they were married for sixty 555 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 2: nine years. My parents were a quintessential love affair and 556 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 2: both religious people. But my father who was extremely open 557 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 2: about sexual matters, which is why I am. I got 558 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 2: that trait from him. May he rest in peace because 559 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 2: he just knew it's part of life. Why shouldn't it 560 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 2: be talked about. It's nothing to hide. God made it. 561 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 2: It's to be talked about. And he told them, my 562 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,479 Speaker 2: brother and me that the two children that he had 563 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 2: that my parents had, He said, your mom and I 564 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,440 Speaker 2: did everything except that. That was the way he put it. 565 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 2: And I bought that. I bought that. And I'm not 566 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,720 Speaker 2: saying everything. You'll you'll decide on religious grounds what you choose. 567 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:16,759 Speaker 2: But they didn't do nothing. That's clear, but I do 568 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 2: believe that intercourse should be regarded as very special, and 569 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 2: it is very special. By the way. You know, what 570 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:29,320 Speaker 2: a special in life? This is really important. What a 571 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,839 Speaker 2: special in life is what you deem special. Nothing is 572 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 2: inherently special. If you make it special, it is special. 573 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 2: If you make it another night, another night to have intercourse, 574 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 2: another hookup, then it becomes less special. I mean, obviously 575 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 2: for men and for women. That's just the nature of anything, 576 00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 2: and any common and special are somewhat mutually exclusive. So 577 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 2: I think that with the right persons or person I 578 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 2: don't mean person's at one time, but persons or person, 579 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,440 Speaker 2: that's something be done. I can't tell people don't do anything. 580 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,799 Speaker 2: I can't I can't do with a straight face. If 581 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 2: your religious scruples say do nothing, I respect that, but 582 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that because I know too many cases 583 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,359 Speaker 2: where the incompatibility in that arena came a people call 584 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 2: my show. I have a male female hour on my 585 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 2: radio show, and you can hear my radio show either 586 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 2: on your AM dial. I'm in most of the cities 587 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 2: of the country, or you can just go to the 588 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,160 Speaker 2: Dennis Prager app or you could get Prager Topia. You 589 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 2: could download my show for five dollars a month. I 590 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,839 Speaker 2: know I sound selling. I don't care, but I got 591 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,719 Speaker 2: to tell you it's not free at praguer Topia, and 592 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 2: you can get all the shows and you get whatever 593 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 2: you want with no commercials, so you could listen very 594 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 2: quickly as it were. Anyway, one of my hours every 595 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,280 Speaker 2: week is the Male Female Hour, and you have no idea. 596 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 2: You don't, especially those of you who are young. I 597 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 2: know because I speak to so many people. How many 598 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 2: people have sexual problems in their marriage. And I asked them, well, 599 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 2: did you know about this beforehand? No, Well, it would 600 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 2: have been better if they did know beforehand. That's that's 601 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 2: one argument in that favor. But again, I do think 602 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 2: intercourse is a special thing. If that's the only way 603 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,600 Speaker 2: you can attain sexual pleasure is to wintercourse, you are 604 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 2: a very unimaginative sexual being. There's great joy to be 605 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,440 Speaker 2: had in many ways. So that's my answer in that regard. 606 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,840 Speaker 2: And as I said, I'm sure that a lot of 607 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,839 Speaker 2: people are not happy with it, and I just ask 608 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,920 Speaker 2: your forgiveness. But I'm never going to say something that 609 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 2: I don't believe. All right, what have I forgotten anything? Okay? 610 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 2: So are we on next week? Am I in town? 611 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,759 Speaker 2: What a rarity? Great? Hey, If I'm this full of 612 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 2: life flying in from Australia, imagine next week when I'll 613 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 2: be rested. Actually, God gave me a lot of stamina 614 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 2: and I'm very grateful for so. Thanks for watching and 615 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,359 Speaker 2: watch our Prager you videos needless to say, and help 616 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 2: fund us because everything is free, and the more funds 617 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,759 Speaker 2: we have, the more we're likely to change lives, because 618 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 2: that's what we're trying to do. Thanks for watching. I'm 619 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 2: Dennis Prager.