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He was a 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.199 happy person to himself thinking that what he was doing 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:16.240 was the right thing. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:21.319 Question, is the first most important to become a better man? 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.680 Or is it more important to become a better father 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.040 or like a better husband? Is there a priority? 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.280 I wondered what kind of airsoft gun you use? 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.240 Your opinion? How much of a role do you think 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:43.160 God plays and finding by for a husband. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.279 For a person. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.080 My wife and I kind of have a little disagreement, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.320 and it's nothing serious or intense, but I drink a 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.600 bottle of wine a night, which adds up to about 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.640 two and a half to three glasses of wine. I 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.000 think yes, And do he thinks that I'm an alcoholic? 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.440 I have a question. A client of ours ask us 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.000 if we would make a contribution to a charity that 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.280 they were raising money for. When we looked up the 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.800 charity on the website, it stands for everything that we don't. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.640 That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Welcome 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.959 to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of hours 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.320 of Dennis's lectures courses in classic radio programs. Had to 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:33.640 purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennisprager dot com. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.639 I try to have you set the agenda on this hour. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.400 One eight praguer six twenty bucks. That is one eighth 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.400 prager p is a pneumonia r A g e er 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.880 seven seven six or eight seven seven two four three 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.639 triple seven six. Whatever you'd like to ask me anything. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.280 It could be silly, it could be trivial. What is 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.480 my favorite color? That would be actually allowable. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.800 I don't know. If I have one favorite color. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.760 Then that does that tell anything about you? By the way, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.119 I love that stuff. Oh tell me your favorite color 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.440 and I will tell you your entire personality trait system 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:15.560 of personality traits. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.040 I love that stuff, but I ad. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.639 A little a little suspicious, but I don't know, maybe 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.320 maybe that's true. I love it anyway. And we begin 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:31.720 with in the Yakima, Washington and Jeremy Jeremy Dennis Prager height. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:34.080 Very glad to talk to you. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.920 Thank you. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.559 You see but the screener wrote what I wanted. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.240 To Well, yeah, but nobody else saw it, so okay, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:43.960 tell you have to say it right. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:44.280 Yeah. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.360 Well, my wife and I kind of have a little 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.000 disagreement and it's nothing serious or intense, but I drink 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.040 a bottle of wine a night, which adds up to 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 about two and a half to three glasses of wine. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.800 I think yes, and he thinks that I'm an alcoholic, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.160 and I disagree, And you know, it's it's all mostly 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.760 said and fun, you know, but I was just wondering 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:06.440 your opinion. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.840 Well, it's a it's a fascinating question, which shows that 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:17.120 alcoholic doesn't seem to have a very scientific definition, does she? 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.520 Let me ask you the following. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.800 And I don't claim to be an expert in this arena, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.919 but I do have common sense and I have dealt 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.159 with the issue in others. Let me ask you a 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:32.000 few questions. Number one, does it change your behavior? No? 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.200 I never get violent. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.760 I never Well, no, I mean in any in any way? 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.440 I mean how well, how does it change your behavior? 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.680 If you get happier? I mean, it may get better. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.800 Probably smile a little bit more. That there's nothing beyond that. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.599 Does she like when you smile more? 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:47.240 She does? 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.919 Okay, so the effects of it she likes. She's just 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.640 worried that this may be a bad sign. Let me 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.320 ask you question number two. Okay, I assume you do 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.279 not operate a motor vehicle after this. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:00.760 Okay. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.719 Question number three not to that point, either I really 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.160 have no. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.520 Really, you would not measure having no if there were 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.200 a breath test, you would not actually be considered driving 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.040 under the influence. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.320 Oh, probably under a breath test. That's why I don't 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.720 do it. Okay, fight and I don't want to risk Okay. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.000 Next? Next, do you drink at other times during of 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:23.400 the day? 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:24.039 No? 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:25.600 Do you want to? 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.000 No? Not unless we're out to eat for a special occasion. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:35.279 Right, fourth or fifth? Can you go for five days 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:35.760 without it? 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.479 If I want to? But I haven't seen any need to. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.560 If I gave you one thousand dollars, would yes? If 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.040 I gave you five hundred, would you? 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:45.360 Yes? 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:46.919 I gave you one hundred? 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:48.120 Probably? 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:54.280 Yeah, tell your wife all these things. Okay, Really, I 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.960 think that if you would even consider leaving it for 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.719 one hundred dollars for five days, you're either very poor 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.960 or quite in control of your drinking. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.160 Do you ever miss a night? 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:07.160 Uh? 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.240 Yeah, yeah I do? 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.000 And and and what are your what is your behavior? 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.080 Then you get you get down? Or does it Does 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.280 it feel like a withdrawal? 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.560 No, it doesn't feel like a withdrawal. I may get 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.760 a slight headache, but there's really nothing uh huh. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.200 Well, I mean maybe of us will call him and 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.000 tell me why I'm wrong, But it doesn't sound like 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.520 a problem to me. And I don't even drink, so okay, okay, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:35.279 thank you very much. Interesting question, indeed, and uh this 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.680 is powerful. This is powerful. Sherboy again Wisconsin. Rick, Hello, Rick, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:40.840 Dennis Prager. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.919 Mister Prager. It's an honor to talk. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.200 To you, sir. Thank you. I'm well appreciated. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.120 Hey, I just have a question. I'm walking my daughter 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:53.719 tomorrow down the aisle. Congratulations, Well, thank you, And I'm 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.440 just wondering what you would say if you have a daughter, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.520 what you would say as you were or right before 0:06:59.520 --> 0:06:59.840 you walk. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.480 I would tell that is such a great alan. Put 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.080 that down for a subject for an hour. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.320 This is a great question. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.680 And off the top of my head, I would tell 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.640 every woman marrying, and whether my daughter or sister or friend, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.320 I would say, you unless the man is a jerk, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.400 which in which case nothing matters. But if he's not 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.600 a jerk, and most men are not jerks, but if 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.600 unless he is, you will set the happiness of the home. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.640 You will set. You are the minister of the marital. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:42.240 Marital minister of the interior of the marital kingdom, and 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.240 that you must know that that that is just the 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.200 way it is. That is the way it is designed 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.480 by God or nature. You pick, you pick it. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.760 And your. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.960 How you how you bring him and your marriage joy. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.120 He will respond, But you are the one essentially in 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.400 charge of marital happiness. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:07.920 Oh, it's very interesting. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.400 I do believe that, and I don't think that there 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.600 are many in our egalitarian age. Everything is assumed to 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.920 be fifty to fifty, which is a catastrophe. A catastrophe. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.920 There are obligations that fall more on men, and there 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.920 are responsibilities that fall more on women. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.400 Right right, Well, I thank you very much. I really 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:32.240 enjoy your program. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.000 Let me know what happens, and congratulations to you. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.400 Thank you very much. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.640 Well, maybe at some point tomorrow I will be thinking 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.520 of this man of Rick walking his daughter down the 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:48.640 aisle somewhere in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It's very touching, isn't it. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.440 Power of radio You enter people's lives like this. I 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:54.000 love it. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:54.400 I do. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.000 Every day is every day is more exciting than the previous. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:05.920 And we start with Kelly in Pasadena. Hello, Kelly, Dennis Prager. Hello, Kelly, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:11.559 I would like it. Hello, y, I don't hear a thing. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:13.280 I'm here. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.760 It's strange you do, now I do? 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:17.720 Can you hear me? 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:18.720 Now? I do? Yes? 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.720 Hi, Hi, I have a question. A client of ours 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.520 asked us if we would make a contribution to a 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.040 charity that they were raising money for. When we looked 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:33.400 up the charity on the website, it stands for everything 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:34.040 that we don't. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.640 Oh and they don't know that. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.480 Oh they do know that. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:45.040 Well then that that's a really, that's a that's terribly selfish. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:51.080 I would never do that to somebody. No, really, that's why. No, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.600 it's not a matter of pushy. That's just unfair to you. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.080 I don't mind pushy if the charity is, you know, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.280 kids in wheelchairs or something, uh where you know, to 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.080 neutral charity. But I assume that this is a political one. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.199 It's a political Well I went. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.720 To see if I would never do that. I would 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.880 never do that to anybody. I mean, that's so that's 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.520 so wrong. I mean, that's morally wrong what. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.040 This person did. It's not a matter of pushy at all. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.960 If the person's pushy for something that that does not 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.720 affect you ethically. I mean, I have I can you 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.720 is it on the left, this charity. Okay, can you imagine? 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.920 I mean, it would be just as wrong if you 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.840 were liberals and somebody came to you and said, listen, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.600 i'd like you to give I'm a client of yours. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.920 I want you to give to the Republican National Committee. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.640 Well, we were going to ask her to do that 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.400 in in uh as a as a giveback, but we 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:47.280 haven't done that yet. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.200 I God, I'd love to interview this woman. That's my 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.040 way of saying I want to slap them, but I 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.280 I I really would. I'd like to I'd like to 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.200 ask ask that all right away. It's totally wrong. What 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.880 she asked of you is wrong. One should never ask 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.520 anybody to donate to a political charity. It's not right 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.440 unless they know that they're in full agreement, right. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.120 Okay, okay, all right, thank you. Yeah, that's morally wrong. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.520 As I say, pushy's fine for a I mean, pushy 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.520 people get things done. I mean I don't tend to 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:26.400 be a pushy person, but I acknowledge that we need them, alrighty, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.600 And in Los Angeles it's Bruce, Hello, Bruce Dennis Prager. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.200 Yeah, Hi, how are you doing good things? 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:40.640 Good? Capital punishment. You take the view that you're in 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.840 favor of capital punishment. What would you think of this 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.600 idea that anybody who's convicted of a murder be not 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.600 only sentenced to prison, but they'd be put into a 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.840 box where they're literally welded in, never to come out 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:54.800 again until they come. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.280 Out feet first, so the society. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.959 Would never have to worry about that person ever getting 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.120 back into society and doing more harm. And then take 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.240 school kids every second or third year and take them 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:13.200 on trips through prisms where they could see these walls 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.840 where these people are locked in and never never to 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:16.240 come up. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.120 Bruce, Bruce, you're cracking me up. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.959 So basically what you're saying is, let's not kill them, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.280 let's torture them for their entire life. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.360 Well, I don't know if it would they be tortured 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:29.160 or wouldn't. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.520 They welded up in a box? Yep, yeah, I think 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:33.800 that that. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:34.440 You know. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.760 I don't use the word torture loosely like the Abu 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.800 grab folks, but that would constitute torture to me. I 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.960 simply believe that if I take your life, I deserve 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.440 to lose mind. It's very simple, but not simplistic back 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.080 in a moment on The Dennis Prager Show. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.840 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:04.880 No to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.000 All Right, everybody, this is the hour that you set 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.040 the agenda, whatever's on your mind. On the Dennis Prager Show. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.959 I'm in never rethinking my answer to the guy who 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.440 drinks a bottle of wine a night. Everything I said 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.400 I stand by, actually everything I asked you. But I 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.160 understand the wife's concern. I don't think that I in fact, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.000 I'm sure I didn't articulate any sympathy. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.079 For her worry about you. That is a lot. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.680 I mean, I don't wouldn't call you an alcoholic because 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.840 I don't even know what the term is, and I 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:44.720 generally judge things by their effect, and your willingness to 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:50.080 forego it easily was a good sign. But a bottle 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:55.240 of night is a lot. And I think it would 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.960 put me at ease if if my spouse were drinking 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.679 a bottle, if they would make it a half a 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.240 bottle night. But I uh, I don't want to give 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.520 you a hard time. I don't want to give her 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.320 a hard time, but it's it was a very interesting question. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.000 And let us go. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:20.520 To Mike and Van Nuys, California. Hello, Mike Dennis, Hi, Mike, Hi, Hi, 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:21.800 how you doing? 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:28.880 Great question for you your opinion? How much of a 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.600 role do you think God plays and finding by for 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.760 a husband, for a person. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.320 It's a great question. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.440 You will love this answer, or at least it's not 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:41.360 the whole answer, but you. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:41.960 Will love this. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.280 There is a very strong Jewish tradition that asks the question, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.680 what has God been doing since he finished creating, since 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.880 the sixth Day? What's God been doing? And the traditional 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.960 answer that is given is miss a vague zugot, which 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:06.280 means bringing couples together, which I've always laughed at because 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.760 or not at, but left with because it shows how 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.120 complex bringing the right people to the right people is. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.200 That that takes up God's whole time. Now, of course. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.800 It's not meant. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.080 To be literally taken, but it gives an idea of 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.640 how complex it is and that it would take God 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.040 to figure it out. In so many cases, I would 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:35.360 say that they're undoubtedly are people. Undoubtedly there are people 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.040 who have met somebody and it was God who helped 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:44.080 facilitate their meeting. I believe that. I believe it, and 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.800 I wouldn't. I would go so far as to say 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.040 that there may be even people who divorce who God 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:58.920 brought together for whatever reason that they did. So it's 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.880 not even it's not even dependently on the marriage. Last 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.120 that God may have well brought two people together for 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.440 whatever reasons. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.240 So I am. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.960 I am very much a believer, but I don't know. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.000 I don't say that God brought every two people who 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.440 were together together. Certainly I would not say that about 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.960 Hollywood stars, only because of the nature of the and 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.880 the fleetingness of the of the romance. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.680 But yes, I do believe. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.680 If I believe that God is active, I don't know 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.840 exactly when, although in my own life I certainly have 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.720 such beliefs. In Burbank, California, David Hello, David. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.600 Hi, Dennis Hi, I wondered what kind of airsoft gun 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:42.440 you use? 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.160 Oh, you're you're talking to a newly minted mavin on 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.080 this subject, I got to tell you. Playing with my 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.440 son and his friends, shooting them and getting shot at, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.960 it's a right. So I now have I now have 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.360 two spring ones and I have one gas. My son 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.800 has one electric. But we have very strong rules, many 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.320 including that everybody has to use the same type. You 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.600 can't have an electric versus a spring. That's not fair. Also, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.399 you can never use an electric on automatic you know 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.800 the guy machine guns. Of course they'll get you any time. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.439 Do you play around the house or do you go 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.600 to an organized thing? 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:22.919 No? 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.000 No, no, around the house in the yard, and we 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.960 use trees as places to hide. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.640 They don't make a mess those balls they do. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.159 Yeah, that is correct, and I am sure that we 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:39.240 have ruptured a number of the lawnmowers which pick up 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.040 plastic pellets. But no, if you use the plastic ones, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.920 it's not going to rupture anything. There are ones out 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.679 of aluminum that that may be tougher. I happen to like. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.600 Of all of them, spring is the most skill because 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.320 you have to reload every time, not reload but you know, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:53.879 what do you call it? 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.840 Yeah? Recock it. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:01.440 Yeah, but there's a blast intended to the gas, which 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.520 I get a big kick out of that. You can actually, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.840 you know, just every time you pull the trigger. I 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.959 did not think I'd get into this, but it is 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.720 a lot of fun and kids just they love when 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.960 the dad plays with them. It really means a lot 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.720 to them. And I say this to all the fathers 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.359 listening that when you can do what you're if you 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:25.960 can do sometimes what your kid wants go to their level. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.440 It is and it's a really meaningful thing to them. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.600 And so they they he and his friends just love 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.719 when I play. And I'm delighted that they love when 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.040 I play. You and I do, and big target. Not 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.280 only that, listen to this. They all dress. This is hilarious. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.360 They get ready as if they are going to Iraq. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.399 They get into you know, garb. They wear all black, 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.800 not to be seen as easily. Meanwhile, I'm six four 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:58.200 and in shorts, long white legs standing out. I mean, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.840 I get I don't think. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:00.360 I have one. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:01.920 Should came paint your leg? 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.080 Yeah, right, exactly, that's what that's right, green and black 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.320 exactly look like a tree. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:08.560 That is right. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.560 Well, you tell me what you get when you when 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.160 you finally get one. Okay, all right, thanks very much, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.000 all right, Bob, I really do. I get such a 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.440 kick out of it. And uh, you know, I would 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.200 be more than happy to discuss with any parent. Well, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.280 but my kid is playing with guns, I'd be more 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.920 than happy. But since it's not raised, I'm going to 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.439 get to what am I going to do? 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.040 Since it was raised, I will avoid it. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.919 That's it, okay, alrighty to Sandy and Denver Denver, I 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.840 just said, Denver, Hello, Sandy, Dennis Prager, Hi Dennis. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:44.960 Thank you for taking my call. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.359 I admire you so much, thank you so much. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.159 And I'm trying to read the books you recommend, of 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.520 all the people you interview in your books too. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.760 But I'm also wondering if you read fiction. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.000 I made a decision many years ago on two grand 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:05.640 that I unfortunately don't read fiction. It's extremely rare, and yes, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.719 the reasons are not that there is not an immense 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.719 amount to be learned. There is, but I have no choice. 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.680 I have to. I have to know simp. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.640 I simply have to know so much of what has 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:21.080 actually happened and is actually happening that I just can't 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:25.920 afford that time. Secondly, I read slowly. If I read fast, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.400 and I envy fast readers, I've never been and will 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.600 never be, probably although there are speed reading things that help. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.440 But for what I have to read and mark up 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.240 everything I read. I mark up every every book, every article. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.960 I read slowly, Wow, and therefore I would read a 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.919 work of fiction in the time that I you know, 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.159 it would take too long. But there are works of 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.720 fiction that I read earlier in my life that remain 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.600 with me much more than almost any work of nonfiction. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.520 Great fiction is awesome, is awesome. The fact that I 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.919 don't read it is no reflection on it. It is 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.440 just yes, so all right. On the other hand, one 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.120 should not read only fiction. In my opinion, one does 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.480 need to know, One needs to know what has happened 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.359 or what is happening. But for many people fiction is 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:26.840 their TV, and frankly it's fall super infinitely superior to TV. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.359 So you enjoy yourself if you do, Sandy, read fiction. 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.400 But if I could have any book great history. 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.000 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.240 Mister Freger, my name is Gregory. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.360 I'm a direct descentant of the World. 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:44.240