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I was wondering if if 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.680 you have any magic answer to where the line lies 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.479 between forgiveness and betrayal. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.000 What is the stupidest thing that you've ever done in 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:17.680 your whole life? 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:22.600 What do you think of adults adopted children trying to 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.000 find their birth parents? 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.480 Hi, I'm getting married tomorrow and congratulations, congratulations. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.400 I was wondering what your single greatest piece of advice 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:32.959 would be. Maybe the least cliche. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:34.119 I'm getting a lot of cliches. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.360 One of the cliches. What cliches are you getting? 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:38.840 Don't go to bed angry? 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:39.520 And you know. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.480 That's a good one. By the way, you should know 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.320 most cliches are true. That's why they became cliches. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.520 I just wonder if you're joking when you always say, oh, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.360 ask me anything you want meeting in life, and I 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.040 was thinking, know what I'm asking him sometime? 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:53.600 What is it? 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:54.919 You're right? I was joking? 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:55.840 Were you really? 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:56.920 Don't tell me that? 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.000 Don't drive me crazy? 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.559 I just want them to hear you reach Oh. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.600 My gosh, driving crazy because I'm hanging on it. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:07.400 That's coming off on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Welcome 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.760 to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of hours 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.120 of Dennis's lectures, courses in classic radio programs, and to 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:22.440 purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennisprager dot com. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.119 Anything that's on your mind, whatever you'd like to ask 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.920 me from the proverbial, what is my favorite tobacco pipe 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.680 or a cigar? That is to the meaning of life? 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.840 Whatever it is on your mind. Did you hear something 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.480 that you would like to comment on. Did you have 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.920 something that you're wondering about in your own life or 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.440 about me, or what have you. This is the time 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.760 to do it. I set the agenda the other fourteen 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.359 hours of the week you do on this one. Welcome, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.560 indeed to the Dennis Prager Show, and let us go 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:58.160 to Westborough, Massachusetts, and we begin with Michael. Hello Michael, Dennis. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.359 Prager, Hello, Dennis, how are you doing. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:00.360 I'm wealth Thank you. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.320 I got a question for you. Yeah, what is and 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.280 you've had a longer life, what is the stupidest thing 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:08.799 that you've ever done in your whole life? 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.919 There are so many contenders for that title that I 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.640 can't really I will isolate some, but I must tell 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:25.320 you that I can give you. It's terrible how many 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.519 things come to mind. It's not like I can't think 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.560 of Eddie. It's I can't know which one to select, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.440 but I'll give you one funny one. This was truly stupid. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.680 I was. I was in my twenties, and it was 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.040 my twenties were a huge traveling time. Every year I 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.840 went to another part of the world. And I remember 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:51.480 my first trip to Hungary. And I went from Vienna 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.480 to Budapest, and I went on a hydrofoil on the 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.720 Danube River. And these are very fast little boats. And 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.360 I got on the boat and I think it's an 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.320 hour and a half. I don't remember how long it is, 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.520 two hours, I don't know, uh, and somebody will know, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.640 and you know, tell me. And I got on needing 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.840 to go to the bathroom, and I figured, no problem, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.719 I'll just go on on board. But for whatever reason 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.080 it was, it was one of these fast and quick trips. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.919 They didn't have any laboratories. Now can you imagine speeding 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.599 along on the water for an hour and a half 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.800 while you already have to go to the bathroom? Deep all, yes, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.960 so you can only imagine. I arrived in Budapest bent 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:40.160 over practically. Now. Unfortunately, it was then a communist country 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.680 and customs took a while. You know, make sure you're 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.120 not bringing in Western and Western propaganda and checking out 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.479 for for everything else, and your visa because you always 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.680 needed a visa for communist countries. So now remember there's 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.159 not an airport. This is a a river port, a 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:04.800 river entrance. Finally I get through communist customs and I 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.159 am really, I am really in pain, needing to get 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.120 to a bathroom. I walk outside. It's a street, a 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:17.320 major thoroughfare, and to my great relief, I see a 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:23.680 sign over a little building says WC. WC is right, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.719 water closet is international, and I think, thank god, you 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.320 don't have to know Hungarian. WC is international. Huh, I'm 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.239 you know, I'm like a man just you know, finding 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.599 water who's been in a desert. Then I see two 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:43.240 doors and one says knock and the other says furfiac. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.640 And I think, I think this is ridiculous. I mean, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.159 they have to have like an international symbol or you know, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.279 an umbrella and a skirt or pants and a skirt something, nothing, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.599 just knock and furfiac. Well, how the hell do I 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.280 know if I'm a knock or a furfiac. And meanwhile 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.159 I'm in real pain. And then I did you now asked, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.560 how does this come to the stupidest thing I ever did. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.200 It would not have been stupid to just flip a 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.560 coin and walk into one, okay, would not have been stupid, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.760 or to watch if anybody walked in, obviously, but nobody did. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.599 I stood in the middle of this thoroughfare and I 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.680 stopped Hungarians walking by, and I looked at them, and 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.000 I looked, and I pointed to myself and the sign, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:39.000 and I said, knock firfiac. So I stood in the 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.080 middle of buddhapest asking passers by if I was a 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:47.840 man or a woman, And of course they all mumbled 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.120 something like, you know, this man has escaped an asylum. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.840 I can you know how? I mean, what would you 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.960 say if somebody stopped you man, woman? You would think 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.960 that they were they were very seriously disturbed. That is 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.159 one of the funny stupider things. On a more serious level, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.760 I would be financially secure if when I moved to California, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:20.520 I had bought anything anything. When I moved to California 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.880 in nineteen seventies, if I'd have bought I moved to 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.960 Simi Valley, California, if I had bought a hut, a 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.760 hut you hear me an outhouse. If I had bought 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.200 a toilet, I would I would have been financially secure today. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.280 Yeah, I wouldn't consider that necessarily stupid. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.920 Oh it was stupid because I was told Dennis, this 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.120 is a great time. You're going to see the city's 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.200 going to develop. When I lived in Simi Valley, it 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:51.400 had one restaurant. One. But as I've often said, when 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.920 God gave out abilities, when he gave out financial ability, 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.920 I was in the men's room. I was in the 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.200 furfiac room. Wait, wait, am I an knocker furfiac? 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.640 I wouldn't be too hard on you get hot tis 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.320 all the time and hot tips. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.560 That was common sense. That wasn't like, oh you got 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.400 to get you know, generic brand a you know multi 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.480 vitamin thing. All right? Anyway, I have many more, unfortunately, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.120 but thank you is a fun question. You too, appreciate 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.000 it very much. Anyway. It turns out, by the way, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.680 that knuck is woman and firfiak is male. And I 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.960 did walk into NUK because I thought furfiac sounded like female. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.880 And then some woman started yelling at me and Hungarian. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.400 That was the That was the end of that story. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.800 Hungarian is is unfortunately has nothing in common with English. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.920 The only language that has anything in common with is Finnish, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:53.400 which I know nothing of either. All alrighty, and let's go. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.160 Oh this is very apropos. I hope my son will 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.280 hear this question. This is very good. Tyler in Pasadena, 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.760 California that it's Praeger High. Hello Tyler. Yes, how are 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:04.680 you eleven years old? 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:05.199 Yes? 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.760 Great to hear from you. Thanks for calling. Well what's 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.440 on your mind? 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.560 Well, I was just wondering because my mom, because we 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:17.360 went out and I wanted some shirts like a scarface 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.440 or tupac and dog tags and saggy pants, right, but 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.320 my mom doesn't want me to dress like that, and 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.760 I wanted to hear your opinion. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.360 Well, I'm glad you wanted to hear my opinion. And 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.920 let me tell you, I would not always agree with 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.720 a parent. Please know that just because I'm a parent 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.680 doesn't mean i'll always agree. But in this case, your 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.360 mom is doing you one of the great favors that 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:47.000 she could ever do for you. Because people judge you 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.960 by the way you dress. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.360 That's what they're trying to tell me that, But. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.360 That's the truth because that's the only thing that we 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.520 know about a person when we meet them. We know 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.640 nothing about a person except their clothing because that's all 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.360 we see. So it's a huge sign. If you wear 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.440 that sort of thing, it's like wearing a big sign. Hi, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:13.280 I'm a jerk. Okay, makes sense? Yes, all right, thank 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.679 you for calling. Thank you, ah, thank you so much. Look, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.920 the very fact that the kid wanted my opinion is read. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.360 It's like mind blowing. But that's the truth. People have 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.560 to know that that your clothing is like wearing a sign. Hello, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.000 I'm a good guy. Hello, I'm a jerk. Hello, I'm 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.680 a dummy. Hello, I'm smart. That it's it's exactly like 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.840 doing that. That is the That is how powerful clothing is. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:48.640 And West Valley City, Utah. And Heather, Hello, Heather, Dennis Prager. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:50.920 I'm well neat. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:51.280 Hey. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.360 I'm just wondering if you're joking when you always say, oh, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.120 ask me anything you want meeting your life, and I 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.480 always think you know what I'm asking him. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.760 Sometime You're right, I was joking. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:02.640 Were you really? 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:03.680 Don't tell me? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:04.800 That drive me crazy? 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.040 I just wanted to hear you reading. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.840 Oh my gosh, it was driving me crazy because I'm 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:08.480 hanging on it. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.200 There is no answer to the question what is the 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.280 meaning of life? Because there are only because there are 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.960 many meanings to life there and you're you, you will 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.760 have a meaning. But in the overall sense there is. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.760 This is what I can say to you in a nutshell. Okay, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.600 there is only meaning to life. I don't mean to 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.400 one individual's existence. One gets meaning from being a parent, 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.440 from being a spouse, from being a friend, from being 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.920 a business person, from reading books. There are thousands of 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:43.040 things that give anybody meaning, but objectively about life in general, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:48.000 not about one's individual own life. And subjectively there is 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.920 only meaning in life if if life has meaning, and 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.440 life only has meaning, if there is a God that 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.600 made life, If life came about only on its own 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.400 and is a fluke, a fluke has no means. Go 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.040 to a micro subject here, Seal Beach, California, Joanne, Hello, Joeanne. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.240 Dennis Prager, Hi. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.160 Dennis, I enjoy your show every day. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.000 Good thank you. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.240 I have become aware that as a single, well as 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.400 a divorced mother of two wonderful children who are adults 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.280 with beautiful children, I miss their company, my adult children, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.520 because whenever we get together. It's always with the grandkids. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.640 Seven two and a half in five months, and we're 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.840 focused on them. They're distracting. And this birthday, which is 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.760 coming up, I would like to go out to a 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.000 nice dinner with them without the children. And I'm feeling 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.120 guilty about bringing this. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.160 No, don't feel it at all. I mean, this is 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.760 not a routine request. It's not a routine birthday. You 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.920 want to enjoy your kid. They could get a babysitter. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.160 We'll be back in a moment. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.240 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:06.480 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.880 All right, everybody, the phone number is one eighth Praguer 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.440 seven seven six, one eighth p R A G e 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.880 R seven seven six. And this is the hour where 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.440 anything is on your mind. And I just want to 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.520 repeat to Joanne who called in she would like to 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.760 celebrate her a big upcoming birthday or sixtieth with her 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.480 kids without the grandkids present. I think it's a fair 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.760 it's a fair request. Absolutely in any event, parents cannot allow. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.120 And I am very, very very preoccupied with my kids 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.679 and always have been. Nevertheless, you have to have a 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.200 life as well. It's good. It's not even good for 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.319 your kids not to have that, and and to honor 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.440 your your mom on her sixtieth with a dinner together 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.240 with her the way that she would like it. My god, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.719 I Joanne, is it clear what side I'm on? All Right, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.960 she's gone, Okay, anyway, I hope you heard that, Joanne. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.319 Let's go to some more of your calls. Here one 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.160 Ad Prager seven seven six, and we go to North 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.960 Hollywood to California and David, Hello, David, Dennis Prager. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.719 Hi, Dennis. First of all, I just want to say 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.240 this isn't a cry for help, but I have a 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.560 conserative Catholic friend and we were talking and he's telling 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.800 me that he believed the Catholic position on suicide is 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.040 that it's a mortal sin, and I'm never quite sure. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.040 I was never quite sure because he asked me what 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 the Jewish position on suicide was. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.040 The well, Judaism regards it as a sin. The concept 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.880 of mortal sin is a Catholic one, but it is 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.360 a big sin. Your life is no more yours to 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.880 take than somebody else's. However, morally speaking, they're not identical acts. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:55.040 Taking the life of another is certainly worse than taking 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.000 your own life, and circumstances will help determine it. Though 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.960 there is a rabbinic phrase that no one takes his 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.200 own life unless the Hebrew is a ruach stutt a, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:11.520 a spirit of craziness, of madness has entered him. That 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:16.880 it's it's nobody normal does it. And so there is 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:22.480 a you know you temper the moral angst about it 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.520 versus the belief that something has happened at that moment 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.680 to pervert the person's mind. But it is. It is 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.120 a sin, that's absolutely you're absolutely right. Well, I don't know, 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.840 I'm right. You didn't you didn't make a statement, you 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.000 asked a question. But yes, there it is a sin. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.000 There used to be a time, in fact, the community 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.760 regarded as so sinful that a Jewish suicide was not 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.720 buried in the same cemetery as other Jews. That has 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.080 that has changed because of this, the general notion that 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.320 something psychological has snapped had snapped in that person. But 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:01.320 the interesting thing is Judaism is so life centered that 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:02.520 it's pretty rare. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.680 Well maybe that's why everybody seems to know what the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.200 Catholic position is. But the Jewish position. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.400 Yeah, it talked about that's right. Yeah, that's a good point. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.800 Thank you for your call you. I appreciate it very much. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.560 Alan and Alan in Dallas, Hello Alan, Dennis Prager. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.840 High Hello Dennis. It's a pleasure to talk to you. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.040 Hi. Thank you. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.200 I just want you to know I value your opinion 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.040 very greatly. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:28.760 Thank you. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.120 The question I had is what do you think of 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:37.680 adult adopted children trying to find their birth parents. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:42.440 Well, if it's just curiosity, I don't have an issue 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:47.800 with it. But I don't know what you gain other 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:54.520 than answering curiosity, because unless you feel alienated from your parents, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.200 do you. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.760 No, I've had a good of course I was adopted, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.040 but I've had a very good life. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.679 I've been so what so what so? What is animating you? 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:07.960 Really? 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.399 I don't know. I think it's more just curiosity than 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.560 anything else. I think it's you know, do I resemble 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.560 my birth my birth parents? 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.520 Because I really did you? Did you? Did you ever 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.160 see a picture of of them? 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:20.679 No? 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.000 Actually, my mother was the nurse, one of the nurses 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.960 that was at the hospital where I was born. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.320 And do you know how many kids who were biological 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:35.439 kids have no? Do not look at all like their parents. No, Oh, okay, 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.399 you see this is the fantasy that a lot of 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.360 people have about about others. It's a very common thing. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.199 It's a very normal thing. Uh. We Alan, and I 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.679 am speaking of the we of Alan. Here we we are. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.879 We know a couple and they have two daughters who 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.639 do not look like they are really in the same race. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.840 Uh and they let alone look like the parents. So 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.280 and I've always found that fascinating. This is only subjective. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.159 And I'm so touched that you call Alan. I have 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:13.080 never found it important or even interesting whether or not 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.200 kids look like a parent or look like a sibling. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.440 I remember as a kid I would always be told, oh, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.119 you look like your mother, And then just as often, 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.399 somebody'd say, you look just like your father. Well, I 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.240 can't look like my mother and my father. They look 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.760 very different. Do you know how psychological it is? Anyway, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.920 when kids see a baby, oh, looks just like mom. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.440 I would bet anything that if there were ten babies 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.920 of the same race lined up, people would would have 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.240 no clue as to whose kid was Who's in the 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.000 vast majority of cases, So, Alan, you know, send me 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.360 an email. I'd be very curious to know about this. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:58.040 I most of the time people might be looking for 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:03.680 something that is not significant. I mean, I'm not discouraging 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.720 you from doing it, but it's it's not important. That's 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.000 the way I guess the best way I could put it. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.159 I thank you for asking, my friend. I appreciate it, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.320 and I would like to hear from you. And we 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.200 go to Mike in La Crasena, California. Dennis Prager Here, Hi, Mike. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.720 I have always loved the show, but I love the 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:28.280 clarity issues. Uh you you you're articulate, but you do 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.080 a thing that annoys me, and I want to know why. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.359 I'm always open to why I annoy people? 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.320 Go ahead, Why do you take so long to start 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.240 talking after the music starts? 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.040 Well, it depends. It's a very good question. Actually, thank you, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:43.680 You're welcome. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.640 I like to make I like to hear you giggle too. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.800 Oh that's nice. I like to hear me giggle too. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.200 I actually think I think that every giggles adds two 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.920 minutes to your life. That's my theory. Good anyway, here 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.240 is the story. First of Well, if you I would 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.440 like you, here's an assignment, and I mean it. If 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.080 you're up to doing it. I'm just do it for 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.840 one week, or even for that matter, do it for 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.400 one show for the three hours. And you see how 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.960 long you hear music before I come in. And I 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.879 think you will find that it differs very much on 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:20.879 any given break. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:22.040 Yes, it does. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:26.560 Exactly now here. So here are the reasons. One, there 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.639 are times when I simply like hearing the music. It 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.119 just it just calms me and I enjoy it all right. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:39.680 That so that will but even more often it will 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.920 be because I am reading something that has just come 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.000 over the over the wire, as they say, and I 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.840 want to bring it to your attention because I'm bringing 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.840 you stuff. Alan is in constantly giving me stuff that 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.240 has just appeared on the internet, and so I am 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.720 trying to bring that to your attention as well as 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.080 stuff that I have ready for the show prior to 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:01.480 the show. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.679 And it's not that I dislike the music either, Yeah. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:05.760 I understand that. 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:07.119 That's why I want to hear the stuff. 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:13.560 I understand. There is one other possibility, and that is 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.520 the least frequent, and that is I am just tuned out. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.760 That is, there's nothing as disarming as hodesty, is there. 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.240 No, that's that's the perfect that one. I believe that. 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.879 One you believe, Yeah, but that that happens to be 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:33.119 the least common. Thank you very much. It really just 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.360 might happen, and I will get a little hidden from Sean. Dennis. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.080 You speak now, or you are doing a radio show. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:47.959 Your livelihood depends upon your speaking at this time. Alrighty, 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:53.520 let's continue here, you folks. Crack me up anything you want, 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:55.720 My friends, it could be as heavy or as non 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.480 heavy as the last one. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.439 Are you enjoying timeless wisdom? 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Maybe the least cliche I'm getting a lot 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:43.280