1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 2: Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 2: of Preger You, and you are about to listen to 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 2: a special edition of fireside Chat with Dennis Prager. Those 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 2: of us here at pegger You are continuing to do 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 2: the very important work that we've been doing with him 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 2: for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: into schools, and so much more. You can head over 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: to peger you dot com to see the progress that 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: we've been making. 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Yato? 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: I do this every time before the session. Are you 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: ready yado? Yes, he is so ready. Hi, everybody, let's 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: use that outtake what the hell good to be with you? 25 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to my home, my dog, otto needless to say, 26 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: my fireplace, my books. Do you know this room is 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: surrounded by books. I think I mentioned this once, but 28 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: I have to say that I don't expect you to 29 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: remember everything I say. Is to understate the case. I 30 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: don't remember everything I say either. So there is something 31 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: special for me when I enter a home and I 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: see bookshelves with books in them, even if you don't 33 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: read them. It's a statement that you take ideas seriously, 34 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: that you take wisdom seriously. So it's just something to 35 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: think about. Get some books, get some bookshelves. It's a statement. 36 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: It's a statement to you just as much as it 37 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: is to others. Do you know what people say whenever 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: they come over to the house, they come into this room. Now, 39 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: I have four thousand other books aside from the thousand 40 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: in this room. I just don't have the room, unfortunately, 41 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: in my home to store them. So the store it elsewhere, 42 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: and every one of them was handpicked over the course 43 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: of my lifetime. Buying a book was a thrill in 44 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: my life, and I wish it were a thrill in 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: more people's lives. But anyway, and of course I didn't 46 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: read them all. I fully acknowledge that I basically use 47 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: them for writing my own books and my own articles, 48 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: to do research with them if I had to look 49 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: something up. But of course I read a fair number, 50 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: but nothing close to all of them. But it's a 51 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: beautiful thing to see in a home, and it's a loss. 52 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: That's why. That's why people love this background. Among other things, 53 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: is the books and the animals from all over the world. 54 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: That's that's a. That's a it's a nice collection. Oh Otto, 55 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: he's fun and he's very non neurotic. A lot of 56 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: neurotic dogs. The basset Han we have is somewhat neurotic, 57 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: but he he's placid, all right. So, uh, Megan, the inimitable, 58 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: the one and only, which is the same as inimitable 59 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: Megan McDonald, the producer, director and dictator of this fireside chat. 60 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: You know is that you're a fan. I know that 61 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: that's great. She's offended. So I'm going to have a 62 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: visit with human rights, human relations, I mean human rights. 63 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: It's hilarious with human relations at Praguer. You but I 64 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:29,119 Speaker 1: will defend myself. Oh yeah, I'm praguer. It doesn't matter, 65 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We're all we're all, we all bowed 66 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: to have to hr Anyway, I've never been there, by 67 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: the way, Just for the record, Okay, So she gave 68 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: me a sheet of paper with some one of these tweets. 69 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: Yeah look like tweets. Yeah that some folks in their twenties, 70 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: I presume have tweeted out on the subject of capitalism. 71 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: So I like to read them to you and then 72 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: respond to them, because we're living in a morally backwards 73 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: and ignorant age. So here's one from a guy. Capitalism 74 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: began in England around the sixteenth century. I think it's 75 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: a little early, but it's irrelevant. When it began, they 76 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: immediately went on to colonize half the planet in search 77 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: of new markets, committed multiple genocides, traded slaves, and engaged 78 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: in constant war. In school, we learned about how communism 79 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: is evil because of a famine. So the original reason 80 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: for exploration was not new markets. It was gold. People 81 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: were looking for gold, people were looking for spices. People 82 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: were looking looking for anything that they could they that 83 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: they wanted that they might not have in Europe. The 84 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: Europeans were the best in the world, and they were 85 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: not the only ones. Muslims explored places. I'm well aware 86 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: of that. That's part of the reason Islam extends as 87 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: far as China. There were a lot of There were 88 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: a lot of Muslim sailors, but there was a desire 89 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: to acquire riches, which is universal. There is no culture 90 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: that has ever produced people who did not want to 91 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 1: acquire riches. There might well be primitive cultures, but even 92 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: that I don't believe. I was in Papua New Guinea twice. 93 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: The first time I was in Papua New Guinea, I 94 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: went out into the bush where people walked around literally 95 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: only wearing leaves. It was It was what we would 96 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: call quite primitive. I don't use primitive in a bad sense. 97 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: There could be nice people and bad people in primitive society, 98 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: as nice people and bad people in modern society. But 99 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: it was primitive. And I went to visit a tribe 100 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: on the island of New Guinea, and I noticed that 101 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: some of the men were wearing a necklace of pig tusks. 102 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: When I inquired as to why, through an interpreter, I 103 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: was told that this was the way in which a 104 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: man could show he was wealthy by the number of 105 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: pig tusks on his necklace. So even in primitive society 106 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: there was a desire to acquire wealth that was the 107 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: number of pigs or the number symbolized by pig tusks 108 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,679 Speaker 1: meant you were wealthy. And why did they wear it? 109 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: It attracted women, just as it does in modern society, 110 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: where wealthy men attract more women than poor men do. 111 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: These are such basic ideas about life. I feel silly 112 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: wasting your time telling it to you. But since the 113 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: basic ideas of life are no longer taught, people make 114 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: up things based on what they would like life to 115 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: be like. Oh no, women are not attracted to wealth. 116 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: Oh no, men are not attracted to beauty. That's a 117 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: denial of the realities of life. So this notion capitalism 118 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: sort of created this desire to get wealthy or to 119 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: have markets. Wherever there was an idea of trade, people 120 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 1: had markets. What else does he write, Let's see colonize 121 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: half the planet. I don't know if the Europeans colonized 122 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: half the planet, but they colonized plenty of it, maybe half. 123 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: And while I am no fan of colonialism. You have 124 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: to ask, compared to prior to colonialism, what was the 125 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: society like. I'll give you an example of India. India 126 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: is so big that it's really called a subcontinent. It's 127 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 1: really a continent unto itself. India was consisted and still 128 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: does of a vast number of languages, groups that speak 129 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: completely different languages from another Hindi and Tamil, and a 130 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: whole host of other languages. The British colonized India and 131 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: one of the things that they gave India was a 132 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: common language. That is why you could have India that 133 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: would actually develop. You cannot have a society develop where 134 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: no one can talk to each other, right, that's the 135 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: even if you went to college, that should not be 136 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: an obscure principle. And I say that as a joke, 137 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: but it's not a joke because people are not taught 138 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: to think clearly in college. A very big problem anyway. 139 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: So they gave the Indians a united language. That is 140 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: why Indians at this time can talk to each other 141 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: from North India to South India and east to west. 142 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: What do they talk to each other in? Overwhelmingly English. 143 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,119 Speaker 1: Here's another thing that the British gave them the British. 144 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: This is a famous story of one of the British 145 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: Governors General of India who learned that there was a 146 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: practice called sati. Sati was the practice wherein a widow 147 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: would jump into her husband's funeral pire. When his body 148 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: was cremated, she would jump into the fire and be 149 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: burned to death. This was what widows did quite commonly, 150 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: and it was known, as I said, as sati. So 151 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: he decided to ban it in India. And some Indians 152 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: said to him, well, this is our practice, and he said, okay, 153 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: And it is the English practice to hang people who 154 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: practice sati. That was his response, and that pretty much 155 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: ended sati in India. If you care about truth, if 156 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: you care about morality, then you have to judge things 157 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: based on truth and morality. Were there bad aspects to 158 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: colonialism there certainly were. Were there good aspects to colonialism, Well, 159 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: it depends where some areas. What the Belgians did in 160 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: the Congo was pure evil, but what the English did 161 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: in India was not pure evil. A lot of good 162 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: came of it. The courts of law in India that 163 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: came about because of the English, the common language the 164 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: abolition of sati, the beginning of the abolition of the 165 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: caste system. The cast system preceded Western capitalism and Western 166 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: market searching. This is ancient. This notion, like the world 167 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: was beautiful prior to the West's exploring it and even 168 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: taking over a lot of it, is just a gigantic 169 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: body of ignorance. It's a horrible thing. The caste system 170 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: where people were born and could not change their caste. 171 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: This class is not a as good a term as caste, 172 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: but that's what it implies. If you were born into 173 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: the lowest caste, known as untouchable, you were untouchable. You 174 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: did the dirtiest work in the society, and you could 175 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: not marry up, and you could not earn money to 176 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: go up. You could not leave it. It was fixed, just 177 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: as if you were a Brahmin, the highest cast that 178 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: was fixed. So don't please don't romanticize pre colonization worlds. 179 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: The human species produces crap under all circumstances. The issue 180 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: is what do you do to make people better? How 181 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: do you make a better society given the raw material 182 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: of human nature? That's the single most important question you 183 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: could ever ask. This is the material. How do we 184 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: make something good of it? And in the West, with 185 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: all its flaws, which existed everywhere in the world, slavery 186 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: was universal, The bad stuff of the West was universal. 187 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: The good stuff of the West was unique. That's the 188 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: most important thing for you to remember. The question is 189 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: not why were there wars? You think there weren't wars 190 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: before the West? Or capitalism? Do you think there wasn't 191 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: avarice and greed before capitalism? I'll tell you what there 192 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: wasn't before capitalism. There weren't a lot of people in 193 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: abject There weren't a lot of people who got out 194 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: of object poverty. Capitalism is the only thing that has 195 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: elevated billions of people out of poverty. Why doesn't that matter? 196 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. It doesn't matter to Western leftists 197 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: who are already wealthy. They can't imagine abject poverty. And 198 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: they're ignorant because they went to college, so they were indoctrinated, 199 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: not educated. They have no idea that capitalism elevated billions 200 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: billions of people. Does that matter to you? Does that 201 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: matter to the jerk who wrote this tweet? The ignoramuses 202 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: who write these tweets, who know nothing, just nothing, they emote, 203 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,359 Speaker 1: they're all it's all the all these tweets are emoting, 204 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: and then the worst, the part that drives me crazy. 205 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: In school, we learned about how communism is evil because 206 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: of a famine. If that's what you learned about communism, 207 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: that it was evil because of a famine, that proves 208 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: my point. You learn nothing in most schools, nothing worse 209 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: than nothing. You get a distorted view of the world 210 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: because of a famine. How about because one hundred million people, 211 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: non combatants, civilians were killed by communist regimes Mao's China, 212 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: Stalin's Soviet Union. Just to give the two biggest ones, 213 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: Paul Potts Cambodia, if you want to go, he only 214 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: killed about a quarter of all Cambodians. The Khmaier rouge. 215 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: You know what khmaier rouge means. Probably not. It means 216 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: the red Cambodians Communists. And guess where he learned his 217 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: cap communism at this or bun in France. Yeah, they 218 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: were teaching leftist garbage that long ago, the slaughter of 219 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: human beings, the deprivation of all freedom. Every communist country 220 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: deprived people of freedom. They were prisons. You couldn't leave. 221 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: I was in communist countries. That was my field of study. 222 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: I was in communist countries a lot. Do you know 223 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: that in the Soviet Union, for example, if I would 224 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: visit someone in an apartment, which I only did once 225 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: or twice because they couldn't talk freely, they assumed that 226 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: whatever they would say would be monitored. Every floor in 227 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: the apartment building had usually a woman sitting there writing 228 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: down who visited you, who visited the Soviet Union? And 229 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: if a Western orkane they were in trouble, Why is 230 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: somebody from the West coming to your apartment. So I 231 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: met people in the Soviet Union, not in their apartments. 232 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: I met them in parks. They told me what tree 233 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: to meet them at, and then we would keep on 234 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: walking and they would talk very low. I'm going to 235 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: tell you something very sad, really really sad. Prior to 236 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 1: the lockdown. I never say prior to COVID, because it's 237 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: the lockdown that has shattered society, not COVID. Prior to 238 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: the lockdown, I flew every week for the last thirty years, 239 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: just about every week of the year to some place 240 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: to give a lecture. So I'd be at airport. It's 241 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: a great deal. In the last few years, this was 242 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: very common. People always came over to me, you know, 243 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: for a selfie or just to shake my hand or whatever. 244 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: But something new has taken place in the last couple 245 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: of years. People would come over to me and they 246 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: would whisper. Just want you to know I'm a conservative, 247 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: or even lower than that, I support Trump. Do you 248 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: know the last time people whispered to me when they 249 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: were in public when I visited communist countries. That's very sad. 250 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: It's both scary and sad. People are afraid to say 251 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: out loud what they think if it's against the left. 252 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: We have that in this country. A famine. That's all 253 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: you learned about communism. There was a famine. You didn't 254 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: learn the one hundred million, the spectacular deprivation of human rights, 255 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: the horrible economic and health conditions in communist countries. You 256 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: didn't learn. That isn't a famine. It was a famine 257 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: every communist country. Mao killed forty to sixty million people 258 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: through famine, a deliberate famine because he sold his food, 259 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: his wheat and other food to the Soviet Union to 260 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: get arms, because he wanted to be a world power. 261 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: So if the people starved to death, it didn't matter 262 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: as long as he got advanced armaments. That and the 263 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: collectivisation of the peasantry. You can't have your own little farm, 264 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: your own land, your own cows. The state will own them. 265 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: And they literally took away everything, their pots and pans 266 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: and their animals, until forty to sixty million starved. Read 267 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: about it. Read about the deliberate famine against the Ukrainians 268 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: done by Stalin Five to six million Ukrainians starved to death. 269 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,360 Speaker 1: An anti Trumper historian Ann Applebaum wrote The Red Famine, 270 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about it being written 271 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: by some one who's conservative or who's on the right. 272 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: She was an anti Trumper with passion, but she wrote 273 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: a great book on the it's called the Red Famine, 274 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: on what the what the Soviets did to the Ukrainians. 275 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: That's all you know about communism. You know all the 276 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: bad parts of capitalism because you don't value liberty. You 277 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: know why you don't value liberty, because you take it 278 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: for granted, because you're in a free country. Another tweet here, Yes, 279 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: I'll give you one more. I don't have a as 280 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: a young woman. I don't know if she's a young 281 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: I assume it's a woman. But I don't know, young. 282 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: I don't have a dream job. I have a dream 283 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: community role. I don't want to work for profit in 284 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: a world where that's the priority. I want to work 285 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: because I love the people around me. That's my dream, 286 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: not labor under capitalism. It sure is a dream. You 287 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: want to work because you love the people around you. 288 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: So if you don't love the people around you, you'll 289 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: quit your job. Who loves everybody around them? What kind 290 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: of make believe world do you live in? People love 291 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: a handful of people in their lives. They love their family, 292 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: hopefully not everybody loves their family, and they love their friends. 293 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: You were going to work in a place where you 294 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: love the people around you, Oh, well, that's a dream anyway. 295 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: Let's say you do work with people you love. I 296 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: in some ways do love the people at my radio station, 297 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: A lot of wonderful people there. I do work for 298 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,360 Speaker 1: a profit and they work for a profit. And why 299 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: is it wrong to work for a profit? How are 300 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: you going to feed your family if you don't work 301 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: for a profit. Profit is yourself? So I make a 302 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: living and then I feed a family. Isn't that a 303 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: beautiful ideal. What would you rather have? You do your 304 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: dream work and the government feeds your family. That's what 305 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: communism is. You will write poetry, Marx wrote, under some tree, 306 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: and the government will take care of your family. No, 307 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: I want to take care of my family. That's why 308 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: I've worked for a profit, and because I enjoy buying 309 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: books and I enjoy I enjoy so many things of life, 310 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: and it has spurred me to work hard. That's a 311 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: wonderful thing. Make this is all make believe world. Like 312 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: John Lennon's Imagine the make believe worlds, the world, the 313 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: make believe world of utopia always produces hell. Always, every 314 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: utopian movement has produced hell on Earth. Okay, guys, let's 315 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: see what this week's question is. All Right, here we 316 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: go take it. 317 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 3: Away a nineteenthrom Los Angeles, California. Oftentimes I'm blocked on 318 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 3: social media by people with liberal viewpoints. How can I 319 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 3: have meaningful discussions with people who are liberal instead of 320 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 3: them just being instantly offended by my beliefs and refusing 321 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 3: to interact with me. 322 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: Well, let's see here. Oftentimes I am blocked on social 323 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: media by people with liberal views. Liberals never block people views. 324 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: Leftists do. It's a very important distinction. I share the 325 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: same liberal values I had growing up when I considered 326 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: myself a liberal. I wish we had. I wish people 327 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: with liberal views dominated. People with leftist views dominate. And 328 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: the left has always since its inception one hundred years ago, 329 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: depending on when you call its inception. I use the 330 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: Russian revel wherever it has been in power, the university, 331 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, doesn't matter where Cuba. Always, without exception. 332 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: The left suppresses other views. Liberals do not. The trouble 333 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: with liberals is they vote for leftists. But the fact 334 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: is liberals do welcome other views, leftists suppress them. How 335 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: can I have meaningful discussions with people who are liberal 336 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: you mean left, instead of them just being instantly offended 337 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: by my beliefs infusing to interact with me. There is 338 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: no way they refuse to interact with you, not because 339 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: they're offended, that's the language they use, but because they 340 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: have no answer. I have invited leftists to debate me. 341 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,959 Speaker 1: I have offered ten to twenty thousand dollars to New 342 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: York Times columnists to publicly debate me or any of 343 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: my colleagues that I would pick. Doesn't have to be me. 344 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: Of course, there's no response. They never debate. They smear. 345 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: That's the way it works. That's why there's a whole 346 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: vocabulary of smears. I gave it an acronym years ago, 347 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: six herb, sexist, intolerance, in aphobic, homophobic, islamophobic, races, bigoted, 348 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: and there were more hater. I mean, it's just endless. 349 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: I just read an attack on Peger you in a 350 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: left wing website Salon. All they did is smear right 351 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 1: wing propaganda. Right wing propaganda doesn't tell the truth. They 352 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: didn't give one example. I'll debate a person at Salon 353 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: about Praguer you. How's that and pay you money. I'll 354 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: pay you money to debate me. It's a public, public invitation. Wisely, 355 00:25:53,400 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: they never do, never, because leftism is rooted in hateful emotion, 356 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: in immaturity, in feelings, not in data. Jessica twenty eight Arizona, Hello, 357 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: Dennis Otto and Prager you staff Otto Jessica and Arizona 358 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 1: says hello, I have a quick question regarding relationships, which 359 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: is this, do you believe in love at first sight 360 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: or or that it's more gradual. I would love to 361 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on this. Thank you so much, and 362 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: I love everything you guys do. Thank you. So you 363 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: will find this rather interesting, and I am very open 364 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: about my life. So here goes. I always thought love 365 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: at first sight was only in movies. That was I 366 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: said it publicly. Of course, I've talked a lot about 367 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: male female relations in my lifetime. One of the hours 368 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: of my radio show for about fifteen years is the 369 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: male Female Hour every Wednesday, the second hour of my show. 370 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: So I have a lot of experience in this, and 371 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: I never believed in it. Uh Oh, then life intruded. 372 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: I met my wife and it was love at first sight, 373 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: and I was shocked, just shocked. Being a public figure, 374 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: I've met many many women in my lifetime, more than 375 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: than the average man would meet, as any public figure might. 376 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: And you know, I was found, you know, oodles of 377 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: women attractive. That's that's just the fact of male life. 378 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: But love, I assumed, as you wrote, that's something that 379 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: develops over time. So I know for a fact that 380 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: it exists, but I would not rely on it as 381 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: the deciding factor on whether you will love somebody or 382 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: marry somebody. The vast majority of people develop love, and 383 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: it isn't love at first sight. But I'm answering you literally, 384 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 1: Do I believe it exists? Yes? Do I think you 385 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: should pursue it? No? If it happens, it happens. And 386 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: by the way, you may have loved first sight, and 387 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: it may be deceptive. It might be lust at first site, 388 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: might not be loved first sight. It might be chemistry 389 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: at first site, but not real love. And that's why 390 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: it exists. But I wouldn't rely on it. Stevens fifty eighth, 391 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Park. That I believe is Minnesota. If I'm 392 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: not mistaken. Why are you a fan of Fountain Pens? 393 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: You've asked a great question I heard on your last father. Wait, 394 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: then there's a part two. Why do I love it? 395 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: I am lucky. I love so many things, not to 396 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: mention so many people that it's one of the secrets 397 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: to my happiness. The more things you love, the more 398 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: things you enjoy, the happier you will be. And I 399 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: have a nature. I take no credit for it. My 400 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: nature is I love a lot of things. Classical music, cigars, 401 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: fountain pens, photography, equipment, a music system. It's a pretty 402 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: long list. And yet why do I love Fountain Pens? 403 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: If you write with one, you will fall in love 404 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: with it when you see the ink coming out of 405 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: the top called the nib. It's a matter, mister Roh. 406 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: We didn't pay them enough for today's session. That is 407 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: a rare moment, ladies and gentlemen, for me to be 408 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: doing this without Auto at my side. Auto wants to 409 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: see Mom. Is he going out the door? Missed her? Oh? 410 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: Is that it? I mentioned her and he misses her? 411 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: All right? I hope nobody's tuning in in the middle. 412 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: Otto was here. That's a first, isn't it. He has 413 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: never gotten up and left the room. He has, but 414 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: it's very rare. I don't remember it, but I believe 415 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: you anyway, if you write with a fountain pen and 416 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: the ink comes out, and it's so much smoother writing, 417 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: and so much deeper color, and any color in the 418 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: world as you get any ink colors coming, hundreds of colors. 419 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: It's just fun and they're beautiful, and I love beautiful things. 420 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: So I've loved it since high school when I started. 421 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: He continues, I heard on your last fireside chat that 422 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: you do not like fruitcake. Enjoy a good quality fruitcake. 423 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: If somebody sent me one, I would eat it. Some 424 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: of the cheap ones turn people off because they have 425 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: too many raisins. You can never have too many raisins. 426 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: That's just the rule Ecclesiastes six'. Three you can never 427 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: have too many. RAISINS i made that. Up it is 428 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: not of The. Bible and bitter citrus peel all, Right 429 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: so here's the. TRUTH i was taking a cheap shot 430 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: at fruitcake because my employer has been giving me the 431 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: same fruitcake Every christmas for twenty. YEARS i believe that 432 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: twenty years ago it's the same tin as twenty years. 433 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: AGO i believe they bought thousands twenty years ago for 434 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: a great price and just have stored it in some 435 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: storage unit and give it to we to us who 436 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: work for my radio. Syndicator So i'm really ribbing. Them 437 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: and the truth is it's not one of the world's tastiest. Cakes, 438 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: however all things, CONSIDERED i agree with, you it can be. 439 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: Yummy what is our time? Frame that? Was that was? 440 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: Great oh look at. THIS i got a young kid 441 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: From brisbane Or, australia got somebody From Las. VEGAS i 442 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: love these. Questions, Hamburg, Germany. Bangladesh it's a wonderful. Thought 443 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: that people all over the world are watching. This you 444 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: know why because WHAT i have to say applies to human, 445 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: nature and human nature is the same In bangladesh as 446 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: In New. Orleans so everything you hear is applicable to, 447 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: anybody and that's important to. Me, okay always wonderful to 448 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: be with. You I'm Dennis, prager And i'll see you. 449 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 4: Next week tomorrow On Timeless wisdom With Dennis. 450 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 5: Prager i'm a cultural professor And i'm writing a book 451 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 5: about why we shouldn't get rid Of. Shakespeare And i'll 452 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 5: want to know what you're say Favorite shakespeare play is and. 453 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: WHY I i saw your. Call So i've been thinking 454 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: about it and thinking about. It first of, ALL i 455 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: HOPE i hope you Get do you have a? Publisher? 456 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 5: Uh not, yet just working on. 457 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: THAT i, REALLY i really hope you get. One it's 458 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: a very important book to write because he was a 459 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: giant and his understanding of the human condition is. Astonishing 460 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: it is just, astonishing. 461 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 5: But odd the idea of getting Rid sorry, sorry, no, 462 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 5: NO i. 463 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: Just i'll just answer you all things being. Considered in other, 464 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: words if if somebody were to, say, hey you can 465 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: have tickets to any of his, plays which would it. 466 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: BE i don't think you would expect, this but it would. 467 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 4: Be join us tomorrow to hear more On Timeless wisdom 468 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 4: With Dennis. 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