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Speaker 2: It's the hep hep Hepy Happy. Yes it is. It's

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Speaker 2: the Happy. Hey, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and my friends.

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Speaker 2: This is the Happy Hour every week on Friday. Since

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. I have never missed. If I've been

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Speaker 2: on on a Friday, and I am about at least

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Speaker 2: I would say forty eight times a year. All right,

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Speaker 2: join me, everybody. Yes it is. And I'm listening to

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Speaker 2: you singing it you, my listeners. That's right. Because the

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Speaker 2: happy make the world better. The unhappy make it worse.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to you today about a biggie. We

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Speaker 2: need a theme for a big theme. Yes, so perhaps

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what would work. The end of Tchaikowsky's

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Speaker 2: fourth Beethoven's third, All these the great ends here some

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Speaker 2: dramatic statement of what I am about to say is big.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say something big. I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: choose a big theme for today's Happiness Hour. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you that's Ssykowsky's fourth. All right, here we go, folks,

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Speaker 2: get ready listen to this. Alright, So I I have

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Speaker 2: a question. I let it go, Sean. You're not a

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Speaker 2: classical music lover? You did you like this? Did this

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Speaker 2: hater of it. I'm just asking you. I know it's

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Speaker 2: not your first not most people's first choice. Did that

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Speaker 2: Why would you be a liar? Why would you even

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Speaker 2: lie about whether? Yes, exactly, but you wouldn't. Not gonna lie?

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Speaker 2: All right? Just curious. All right, folks, here's the question.

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Speaker 2: Here's the topic of today's Happiness Hour. Children. Yep, does

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Speaker 2: having children make you happier? Who ah, that's one of

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Speaker 2: the big questions, mister McConnell. That is correct yesterday. It's

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Speaker 2: ironic that this should happen. So I train three days

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Speaker 2: of my week, generally speaking, are those the reason that

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Speaker 2: I have a professional trainer. So this is a shout

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Speaker 2: out for people having professional trainers. Is that I would

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Speaker 2: simple as that. As as soon as I started feeling pain,

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Speaker 2: I would pretty much move on to something else. If

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Speaker 2: I were in the gym without a trader, I would

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Speaker 2: saunter from one weight machine to another. I would never

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Speaker 2: They changed the goal posts. I realized there are no

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Speaker 2: goal posts in training. You never hit a touchdown in

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Speaker 2: a home run. I know, but I want to get

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Speaker 2: it right. People may think the guy's confusing baseball and football.

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Speaker 2: I'm not well anyway. So my regular trainer just had

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Speaker 2: a child, so she's on maternity leave. And another an

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Speaker 2: another trainer, both wonderful, and she just outright asked, I

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Speaker 2: don't know. We were talking about it and I don't

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Speaker 2: remember how it happened. We said, why have children? It's

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Speaker 2: a very interesting question? Why have children? She does not

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Speaker 2: know me publicly that is correct, which is actually I'm

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Speaker 2: happy about. And why have children? It's a very interesting question, right,

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Speaker 2: Why have children. Now, I'm not asking you to call

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Speaker 2: having children make you happier? That's the question on the

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Speaker 2: table now. The immediate response of mister McConnell was it

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Speaker 2: depends on the child. Correct her, Yes, that's right. I

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Speaker 2: mean there's a great deal of truth to that. It

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Speaker 2: does depend on the child. And some children make you unhappy.

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Speaker 2: But when you think about it, that's true about anything,

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Speaker 2: certainly makes me unhappier if I have a terrible boss

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Speaker 2: So if my answer to the question of the children

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Speaker 2: You make you happy, But the children bring happiness is yes,

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Speaker 2: but I could remember it's not someone you know, obviously,

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Speaker 2: One of my answers to a young person says, why

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Speaker 2: have children is in effect, why have anyone in your life?

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Speaker 2: Why have friends? Friends have the capacity to hurt you.

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Speaker 2: Friends have the capacity to have tragedy happen to them

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Speaker 2: and you suffer. Why increase love bonds when the possibility

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Speaker 2: of hurt is very real? And what about growth? Do

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Speaker 2: you want to grow? Does growth bring happiness?

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Speaker 2: Here's another question? Do you want to die and in

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Speaker 2: effect your epitaph, the description of you will have been

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Speaker 2: he or she avoided pain? Is is that an important thing?

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Speaker 2: I'm not a big pain fan. Nobody's a fan of pain,

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Speaker 2: good for me and I will be happy afterwards. Those

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Speaker 2: who sow in tears reap enjoy. That is. That is

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Speaker 2: certainly some that can be said about many children, not all.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you sow in tears and reap in tears. A

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Speaker 2: lot of people have pained from a child. I'm well

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Speaker 2: aware of that. The stakes are very high in having

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Speaker 2: steaks are very high. You can win big and you

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Speaker 2: can lose big. That's the choice. But avoiding the possibility

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Speaker 2: happy person. All right? Do children bring happiness? Happiness hour

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Speaker 2: Okay, everybody, it's the Happiness hour second hour every Friday.

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Speaker 2: What prompted this subject of do children bring happiness was

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Speaker 2: a discussion with my trainer. She's twenty five at least,

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Speaker 2: is on maternity leave, and she asked me, why have children?

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Speaker 2: So many young people ask that, or many don't even

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Speaker 2: I think the assumption is it's not worth it because

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Speaker 2: I think that that's a factor, even though people don't

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Speaker 2: acknowledge it. When my father was a child in New York,

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Speaker 2: the culture echoed the values of the home. The school

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Speaker 2: see how much energy it takes up. It certainly didn't

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Speaker 2: take your calls. And Susie in Thousand Oaks, California.

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Speaker 4: High an interesting topic for the Happiness Hour. I'm not

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Speaker 4: very happy right now. When I married my husband, he

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Speaker 4: wanted to have children. I was never one of those

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Speaker 4: But turned out I was infertile. So we adopted. In fact,

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Speaker 4: in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, we adopted two children. The first one is

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like it, but there is absolute hope. So

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Speaker 2: many people do this. What happens is they then this

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Speaker 2: is the hope. Anyway, one day they simply hit bottom

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I really want to know what that looks like,

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Speaker 4: because we've come really close. But I thank you for

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Speaker 4: the hope. I try to keep hope in my heart.

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Speaker 2: Well, the hope is based on reality. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: number of people who are sober who were addicted is

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Speaker 2: in the millions. I mean, I don't offer phony hope.

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Speaker 2: I live very real and I just you just need

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Speaker 2: Does he live in the street.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure we all we've been in and out. He's

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Speaker 4: been in rehab. It's probably ten different times. He's in one.

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Speaker 4: I can't have him in my home.

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Speaker 2: I just can't. No, you can't. That's right. He's just

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Speaker 2: or they recavic that. That's exactly right. You cannot have

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Speaker 2: him in your home. You're doing the right thing. I

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Speaker 2: It looks completely hopeless. I have a dear friend whose

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

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Speaker 2: It's a great product. Sleep is important. I'm Dennis Praguer

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Speaker 2: the Happiness Hour. Alex Barlow and his colleagues at Breitbart

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Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Dennis Prager. The Happiness Hour subject is

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Speaker 2: to children bring happiness. Such great calls. I can't tell

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Speaker 2: you how grateful I am to you folks. You pour

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Speaker 2: your hearts out on your minds ah Okay, Maple Valley, Washington, Betsy, Hi.

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Speaker 8: Hi Dennis, thank you so much for taking my call.

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Speaker 8: My mother is a massive fan. I just wanted to

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Speaker 8: call and say, absolutely, children bring happiness. My daughter has

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Speaker 8: a very rare epilepsy disorder and she has seizures every

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Speaker 8: single day. She's only two years old, and every day

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Speaker 8: she brings me happiness. Not one day goes by that

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Speaker 8: I'm not so happy that she's part of my life.

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Speaker 2: Well, well that's very powerful, am I.

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Speaker 8: And we've found out when I was twenty weeks pregnant

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Speaker 8: that's something that's going to be about. Doctors told me

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Speaker 8: to have an abortion. People in my life told me

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Speaker 8: to have an abortion, and my husband and I decided,

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Speaker 8: you know what, that's not our choice. She's going to

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Speaker 8: be part of our life however that happens. And since

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Speaker 8: having heard and hero.

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Speaker 9: Satires every day, I have another little girl who is

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Speaker 9: four months old, and it's challenging, it's difficult, and through

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Speaker 9: all the pains, no matter what, it still is happiness.

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Speaker 8: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: You're a remarkable and wonderful person and I believe you anyway.

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Speaker 2: You know, folks, I have one of my themes is

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Speaker 2: happiness is a choice. Lincoln put it that way. We

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Speaker 2: choose to be happy. I forgot his language. A yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're as happy as you choose to be. And he

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Speaker 2: had a very very difficult life personally and professionally. His

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Speaker 2: country was killing each other, murdering, well, not killing, not murdering,

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Speaker 2: but killing killing each other. Kim Freema, California. You don't

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Speaker 2: have much time, but I want to get your call.

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Speaker 9: Hi, Hi, Hi, my son.

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Speaker 4: It's an alcoholic and I wanted to tell the mother

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Speaker 4: who's going through this, what made my son become sober

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Speaker 4: with me letting him go good.

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Speaker 2: I got to leave it at that. That's going to

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Speaker 2: give her hope. We only have ten seconds. You folks

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Speaker 2: have been remarkable. I should do this very theme again.

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Speaker 2: It's really important. Okay, everybody, it's time for you to

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Speaker 2: call in now on any subject under the sun. One

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Speaker 2: eight Prager seven seven six.

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Speaker 3: Ray, they turn out right. Thank God for kids, Thank

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Speaker 3: God for keys.

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Speaker 2: This has been timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager.

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