1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: So we've got a big one, guys, because Dennis Praguer 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: is in the house. He is one of the most 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America. I mean, 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: you know who he is. He's also the host of 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: the nationally syndicated radio show, The Dennis Praguer Show. Look. 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: I've been in this business since you know, maybe two 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen or something. Look, it's a tough business. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: It is remarkable that Dennis Praguer has remained such a 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: prominent voice for so long, and it has such wisdom 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: to give. You know, the motto of his show as 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: I prefer clarity to agreement, I could not agree more. 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more with that that sentiment. He's also 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: the founder of Praguer University Praguer You. It's the most 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: viewed conservative video site in the world, with one billion 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: views a year, where than half of those people are 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: under the age of thirty five. So he's doing a 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: lot of work and trying to reshape the indoctrination that 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: we're seeing in schools across America, trying to change that trajectory, 19 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: changed the way people think. He's also a New Times 20 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: best selling author of nine books on a ton of 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: different subjects, from religious to morality, the left, America, happiness. 22 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: He's also written extensively on religion. His book The Rational 23 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: Bible is the first volume of his five volume commentary 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: on the first five books of the Bible, rooted in 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: his knowledge of Biblical Hebrew. I mean, the guy has 26 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: just done so much, has so much wisdom to give us. 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: So it's truly an honor to have him on the show. 28 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about a whole host of things, 29 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: the decline of society that we're seeing, the decline of religion, 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: the decline of the American family, and we're also going 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: to talk about what can we do about it? How 32 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: can we right the ship, how can we change the 33 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: trajectory that we were on as a nation. So who 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: better to get into some of these really deep questions, 35 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: really deep thinking than Dennis Brager, Right, So it's an honor. 36 00:01:51,200 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: I hope you love this. Here's Dennis Bragger. So, Mr Prager, 37 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: it's such an honor to have you on the show. 38 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: You know, this is a tough industry of the media business. 39 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: You've been such a prominent voice for so long, and 40 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: conservative media, which is really a testament to you. And 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot going on in the 42 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: country right now, so I'm really looking forward to getting 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: your insight on just the current state of affairs for 44 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: the country. So it's an honor of a deep amount 45 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: of respect for you, my pleasure. Thank you for that. 46 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: Thank you so sir. You were born in Brooklyn, New York. 47 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: You've also you know, you've posted your radio show out 48 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles for for quite some time. We've seen 49 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: these cities and cities across America really in a decline 50 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 1: right now. I mean, the country seems to just be 51 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: in a societal decline. Why is that? Why why are 52 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: we in such a decline right now? I actually think 53 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I have an answer, and it's not the one that 54 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: even most conservatives offer. Some do, and it's certainly one 55 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: that the entire left would reject. When your country is 56 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: founded on a couple of principles, or two or three principles, 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: and those principles are then demolished or on the way 58 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: to being demolished, it's not possible for the society to 59 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: maintain itself. We have three principles. I didn't make them 60 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: up there on every coin, So it's a pretty old standing, 61 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: the statement of what America stands for. And on every 62 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: coin and every bank note, you have what I call 63 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: the American trinity, and they are liberty, de pluribus um 64 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: for many one, and in God we trust. And the elites, 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: run by what we now call progressives or the woke 66 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: or the left, have made war on all three. They 67 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: have wants a radically secularized society. They that's so getting 68 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: would have been called we trust. Liberty has never been 69 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: a left wing value. Equality they claim to be a 70 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: much more important value, or now equity, which is very dangerous. 71 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: And they don't believe in eplur brazoonum from many one. 72 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: They believe from many many that the idea that everyone 73 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: should have an American identity strikes them as neo fascistic. So, uh, 74 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: how do you survive when the three primary values of 75 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: your society are being demolished? Well, and we've seen those 76 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: come under attack, you know, particularly when you look at 77 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: liberty during COVID, And I know, you know, look, I've 78 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: always loved this country, I've always valued this country. But 79 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: I don't really think I realize how fleeting freedom truly 80 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: is until COVID and we really saw how susceptible we 81 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: are at to tyranny as a nation, how how many 82 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: people are willing to go along with it as well. 83 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: You know, why do you think we reacted so rationally 84 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: as a country And what did that show you about 85 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: how fleeting freedom is in America? Well, least of the 86 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: experience you have had is one that I have had. 87 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: The last two years have been very sobering for me. 88 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: I've been in love with this country all of my life, 89 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: and frankly, I would not have predicted the amount of 90 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: irrational obedience to irrational law on the part of at 91 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: least half of my fellow countrymen. It has been that 92 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: has been disappointing, the the collapse of virtually every national institution, 93 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: from the American Medical Association to the FBI. Fifty one 94 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: fifty one leaders of FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies 95 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: signed a letter a month before the election saying that 96 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. So you realize the 97 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: other and total corruption of all of our intelligence agencies. Again, 98 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have predicted this. I wouldn't have you named 99 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: the institution. American Medical Association announced a couple of years 100 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: ago that we should not put the sex of a 101 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: child what it is born on its birth certificate, because 102 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: the child will determine one day what sex they are 103 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: or what genders that they now use the term. So 104 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: I share your sadness and what has developed? Why did 105 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: it happen? Well, you said it in your question, and 106 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: Reagan put it beautifully when he was president that liberty 107 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: is a fragile thing and we our own one generation 108 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: in any time away from getting rid of it. I 109 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: would add this, liberty is not the most fundamental human yearning. 110 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: More people want free things than freedom. That's human nature. 111 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: Human nature is to yearn for free things, not freedom. 112 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: And that's that's what the left. That's the reason the 113 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: left isn't it has been in power in so many countries, 114 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 1: most countries at some point in the last hundred years. 115 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: People rather have free things than be free. Well, you know, 116 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: we're talking about liberty being under attack as we as 117 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: we saw throughout COVID. You also talked about the pillars 118 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: of society being knocked down, and I totally agree with you. 119 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: You know, everything that holds up a civilized society is 120 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: being burnt to the ground right now. Why does so 121 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: many people that live in America have such disdain for 122 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: this great country. It's a combination of of two huge things, 123 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: affluence and secularism. They produce board people. The poor people 124 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: are not bored. Their life is filled with meaning, and 125 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: the meaning is get lunch, get dinner, get breakfast, feature family, 126 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: put a roof over your head. So the poor don't 127 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: have a problem, oh with meaning. And the religious poor 128 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: or wealthy don't have a problem with meaning. They get 129 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: it from their religion. When you take away poverty and 130 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: you take away religion, people have to find meaning elsewhere. 131 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: And the left in this country has filled the vacuum 132 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: left by the death of Judeo Christian and patriotic values. 133 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: They used to be a superman. It used to be 134 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: a proud American superman has renounced his American citizenship, being 135 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: now a citizen of the world. And they have dropped 136 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: truth justice and the American way to truth, justice and 137 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: the better way. So there's nothing American about superman anymore. 138 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: So you have this massive whole left by the collapse 139 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: of Strudeo Christian religions and the massive affluence that boredom, 140 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: that yearning for meat meaning has been filled by what 141 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: we call progressivism. Well, that progressive ism seems to always 142 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: lead to division as well, and intentional division. And we 143 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: saw that during COVID. I know you had talked about 144 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: being unvaccinated. I am as well. I chose not to 145 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: because it didn't make sense to me, and I was 146 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: looking at the data. I'm young and healthy, it made 147 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: no sense. I was also looking at the fact that 148 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: wasn't much deadlier than the flu. So why am I 149 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: going to get a vaccine that I don't need for 150 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: a virus that's not a threat to me? Uh? You know, 151 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: but what we saw unvaccinated really being treated as a 152 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: persecuted group, and you know, threats of not wanting people 153 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: like me to be able to go to the grocery store, 154 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: to make our lives as difficult as possible. And I 155 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: think that's sort of like hatred. Really made me concerned 156 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: for the future and what things could be possible and 157 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: the treatment of our own citizens as we continue to 158 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: go down this path as a country. The parallel that 159 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,679 Speaker 1: I drew about half year ago in a column, I 160 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 1: was the pariah status at some point of days with age, 161 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: and I said, this is uh, we have now seen 162 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: this happen to a far larger number of Americans the unvaccinated. 163 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: For the left went ballistic that I would dare compare 164 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: anybody to h to gay victims because Kay's blacks and 165 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: women are supposed to have a monopoly on all victims status. 166 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: There are no other victims. But the fact is the 167 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: hatred of the unvaccinated, the wish the wishes expressed publicly 168 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: publicly that they die of COVID, the talk about banning 169 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: them from all travel, which, by the way, it did 170 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: happen in Canada. In Canada, the unvaccinated could not enter 171 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: an airplane or a train or a bus. What Canada did? 172 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: I wrote a column on that to Canada is the 173 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: new the new North American Cuba. You know, nobody cares 174 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: about it, which is really sad to see. So, uh, 175 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 1: that's right, the unvaccinated. I don't know who the next 176 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: pariah will be, but it may well be again over 177 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: health quick break back with a great Dennis Brigger on 178 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: the other side. So was the hatred towards the unvaccinated? 179 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: Was it about the vaccine or was it about the 180 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: fact that unvaccinated people refused to submit to their will? Both? Yeah, 181 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: it was. They didn't read anything about the science. They 182 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: read nothing. Uh, and and so the obedience, this was 183 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: the frightening part. It was, That's what I said, obedience 184 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: to irrational authority. The fact that parents would give young 185 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: children a vaccine. Uh. Of course they didn't want to 186 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: deliberately hurt their child, but the chance that they would 187 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: hurt their child was much greater than the chance that 188 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: they would help their child. What was done by that 189 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: side of the American public, shutting down schools for two years, 190 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: putting two year olds on masks, on planes and an airport. 191 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: I mean, the the abuse of children, the hurting of 192 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: children deliberately. Now wasn't deliberate in the sense that we 193 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: want to hurt children, but what they did was obviously deliberate. 194 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: They just they just thought they were helping. But the 195 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: irrationality of it more. I mean, this is this is 196 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: from the Washington Post. A few weeks ago, more Americans 197 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: in under the age of six died of suicide than 198 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: of COVID. That's a product of your progressive totalitarians and 199 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: the half of the country that went along with them. 200 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: It's it's actually a very very scary thing that we 201 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: have gone through and will probably do so again. That 202 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: is why it is so important to alarm people at 203 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: their obedience to authority without question. I mean, we we. 204 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: I wrote another column in a year ago, in the 205 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: middle of the worst lockdowns, I wrote, I wrote a 206 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: column a week. One week it was the Good German, 207 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: in the next week the good American. I'm a Jew, 208 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: and I've I've written about a book about anti Semitism, 209 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: and I studied the Holocaust my whole life. There's a 210 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: there's a common reference called the good German, the guy 211 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: who didn't do anything bad to a Jew in Germany, 212 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: but who did nothing. And that good German was a 213 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: sarcastic term held holding the quiet German and contempt. But 214 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: of course I'm not comparing what happened. There's no comparison 215 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: to the Holocaust. But there is a comparison to obedience 216 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: to irrational authority, and and the the hatred of the 217 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: ones that didn't submit to irrational authority. And when I 218 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: see the fear that dominated Americans here without a Gestapo, 219 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: I mean, at least the good German had the had 220 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: the fear, the legitimate fear of being picked up by 221 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: the Gestapo. But there was no Gestapo here, and people 222 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: feared Facebook and the New York Times and what their 223 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: neighbors would say, and they were obedient to authority. And 224 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: again that the squashing of children's lives. This is this 225 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: is a very bad, bad moment in our history, and 226 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: we have not recovered from it. But it seems you know, 227 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: you talked about the treatment of children and how they 228 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: were really punished the most during COVID, but it's not isolated. 229 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: We increasingly, you know, you look at the left, they 230 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: support abortion basically up until you know, the day of birth, 231 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: and maybe even beyond it in some instances. But you 232 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: have a party that believes and that even party that 233 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: wants to indoctrinate young children, tell them that they should 234 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: derive value from the color of their skin, things that 235 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: they were not that they were born with it they 236 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: had no control over. Uh, look at what's happening in 237 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: schools with sort of a lot of this transagenda that's 238 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: being pushed on children as well. I mean, what does 239 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: it say about a society that doesn't protect its most vulnerable? 240 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: That's right? What do you say, that's exactly right? You 241 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: say that the society has become sick. And I'll tell 242 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: you what's even sicker. Another another revelation in my life. 243 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: I thought most of my revelations had already occurred, and 244 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: that is I had always, truly, always taken for granted 245 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: that it is instinctive in women to protect child's children's innocence, 246 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: and that that belief is has been a jettison. The 247 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: women are overwhelmingly disproportionately involved in robbing children of innocence. 248 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: The teachers, the teachers, unions, the principles, the professors of 249 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: gender studies overwhelmingly their female and they are in the 250 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: vanguard of doing something for the first time I don't 251 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: know in Western history, very possibly, but certainly American history 252 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: deliberately robbing children of their sexual innocence. It's there's a 253 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: sickness that pervades our society. And only God knows the future. 254 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 1: I only know. I don't know the future. I'm neither 255 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: optimistic nor pessimistic. I find both of them useless. I 256 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: only know that I have to fight them now. It 257 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: does seem like an evilness has sort of overtaken the 258 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: country and it's just become much more perverse. Uh. You know, 259 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: COVID really seemed to brought out inner demons and a 260 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: lot of people in America. And you know, I know 261 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: you've referenced this, but you've spent a lot of time 262 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: studying religion. You've lectured at the Hebrew or that you've 263 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 1: lectured on the Hebrew Bible at the American Jewish University, 264 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: have written numerous books on religion as well. The American 265 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: Enterprise and She recently published a survey finding that more 266 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: than one third of Generation Z identify as religiously unaffiliated, 267 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: unaffiliated the least religious. Yet, why are we losing religion 268 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: as a society? Like what's behind that? The left understands 269 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: that the only unified opposition to the left is religion. 270 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: The the Soviets understood this. That's why they they squashed 271 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: and murdered so many Orthodox priests, so many rabbis, so 272 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: many Catholic priests. But but especially May don't really May 273 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: have many Catholics in Russia, says, mostly the Orthodox priests. 274 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: They I've understood this. The Chinese understand this with regard 275 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: to Christianity, and the Soviets understood this. Soldier NEETs, in 276 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: the greatest single critic was of course a religious Christian. 277 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: The Jews in the Soviet Union were a big nemesis 278 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: the Muslims and the Soviet Union, who are a big nemesis. 279 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: If it's sort of either either the Judeo Christian religions, Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, 280 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: either they will prevail or the left will prevails. It's 281 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: truly a a death fight of finding to the death 282 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: one of them will prevail. And they have taken over 283 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: the institutions. Not only have they taken over education and 284 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: were there profoundly anti religious, radically secular agenda, they have 285 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: also taken over a good chunk of Judaism and Christianity. 286 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: They look at the Pope and Catholicism, look at the 287 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: mainstream Protestant churches, and look at non orthodox Judaism. They 288 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: have been taken all the can over buy the left. 289 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: They're all failing, they're all alienating people from them. And 290 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: it's no wonder then, Also, I must be honest, it 291 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: is also the failure of religious people who did not 292 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: know how to make the case for a religious life. 293 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: Most religious people, I think are wonderful people, but they 294 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: have no clue how to make the intellectual case against 295 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: the left and against the anti religious forces that are 296 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: part of the Left. So the kids here these arguments 297 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: at school that the God has nonsense and religion is 298 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: actually worse than nonsense, it's dangerous, and the parents had 299 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: no idea how to counter these arguments. That's why I 300 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: do so much work, especially in my Bible commentary, the 301 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: Rational Bible, the third volumes coming out this here, and 302 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: I I'm doing this to give people the intellectual ammunition 303 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: for the greatness of the Bible. Well. And it also 304 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: seems to be an effort by the left to remove 305 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: anything that gives someone value in their life, that roots 306 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: them to something more meaningful. And you know, it's attack 307 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: on religion, it's the attack on the family unit. It's 308 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: taking away from people that bring value to life, that 309 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: that roots you in life. And I believe the reason 310 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: is because people that don't have religion, as you pointed out, 311 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: people that don't have a strong family, you know, they're 312 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,239 Speaker 1: more easily controlled because they're not rooted in anything. They 313 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: don't believe in anything deeper. I was at the Democratic 314 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: National Convention when they made that the famous and fascinating 315 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: claim over the loudspeakers. Government is the only thing that 316 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: all Americans have in common. The this country was found 317 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: to have a small government so that the individual is 318 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: infinitely precious. For the left, it is the us that 319 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: the government is precious, the individual as a cog in 320 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 1: the machinery of the government. I I contended on my 321 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: show after this horrible massacre at the Texas school that 322 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: a big part of the gun issue is exactly about this. 323 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: The left really does believe only the government should have arms, 324 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: and the that that underlying the passions is really the 325 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: the fundamental difference is the individual strong or the state. 326 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: The individual that has arms is strong. The individual with 327 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: no arms and the government has all the armaments that 328 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: then the government is strong. They believe in the state. 329 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: But as I point out, and has never pointed out 330 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,479 Speaker 1: at college or high school or elementary school, never pointed 331 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: out this is revelatory to a typical college student, the 332 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: mother of all genocide is big government. There's no such 333 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: thing as genociah government. With one exception Rwanda, that was 334 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: ethnic genocide done by tribe against tribe. But otherwise the 335 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: hundred million people massacred, I'm not talking about combatants, I'm 336 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: talking about noncombatants. In the twentieth century, everyone was the 337 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: victim of big government and almost in every case left 338 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: wing big government. But this was the exception of Hitler 339 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: and and the Turkish murder of the of the Armenians 340 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: that was religious. So they this is what it is about. 341 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: Brussels should be dominant. That's why they hate Brexit, That's 342 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: why they hate Hungary. Any country that defies Brussels rule, 343 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: defies big government. Ultimately, they would like the big government 344 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: be an international government. That's what Davos is about. It's 345 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: what Brustles is about. So this is the stuff that 346 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: they that they want, and we are stopping them. I mean, look, 347 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: I've never owned a gun in my life, but I 348 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: support the Second Amendment because I understand that it protects 349 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: us from government tyranny. And when you look at communism 350 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: when it takes over, authoritarians when they take over, and 351 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: I know you as someone who understands is a deep 352 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: understanding of history, the first two things to go are 353 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: a freedom of spreech speech and guns, because it makes 354 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: it a lot, a heck of a lot easier to 355 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: control a society when you control the flow of information 356 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: and you disarm a population. It's so irrational. The hatred 357 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: of individuals being armed that I said years ago on 358 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: on Fard Ball, the show that they used to have 359 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: on MSNBC in days when they actually would have a 360 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: conservative on. And I don't know why why it was 361 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: raised with me, but I said, and I was devoted 362 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: much of my life to fighting anti Semitism. I have 363 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: a book on anti Semitism. I was on the Holocaust 364 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: Museum board of directors and I said I wish every 365 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: Jew in Europe had been armed, and the they went ballistic. 366 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: They almost threw me off the show. I mean, it 367 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: was really, it was incredible, the hatred of what I 368 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: had to say, As if it's a bizarre notion. It 369 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been a blessing if every Jew. I don't 370 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: say that they wouldn't have been mass murders of Jews. 371 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: I thought there wouldn't have been six million. And not 372 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: only that, it would have given Jews the dignity of 373 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: dying while fighting instead of the indignity of walking naked 374 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: into a gas chamber or being buried naked in mass shootings. 375 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: I mean to say that it wouldn't have been a 376 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: great thing if every Jew had a gun in Europe. 377 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: You know how sick that person must be to save that. 378 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 1: And there are a lot of Jews who say that 379 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: because leftism has poisoned their minds too. A lot of 380 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: Jews are anti Israel. I mean, leftism is a poison. 381 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: It corrupts the conscience, it corrupts the ability to think clearly, 382 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: men give birth. You've gotta be kidding. I mean, it 383 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: really is just you know, I'm thirty seven and I 384 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: feel like I'm like ninety years old now looking at 385 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: society and just some of the things that we're saying. 386 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: You know, Netflix having a special He's expecting just people 387 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: believing things that defy logic, that defy reason. It's the 388 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: entire reason I name the show you Know the Truth 389 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: with Lisa Booth, and the whole point of the show 390 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: is trying to get to the truth of these critical 391 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: issues that are facing the country. But it's just h 392 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: I mean, there is a there is a Democrat witness. 393 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw, sir h came in front of 394 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: the how a Judiciary committee recently saying that men can 395 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: give birth. It's just it's just what it's called that 396 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: that's right. And and what about the Supreme Court justice 397 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: just put on the Supreme Court who couldn't define woman? 398 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: Let biologists do it, which by by irony, we agree 399 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: let biologists that they're the ones who should define it. 400 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: The left doesn't believe that it's a sociological term, not 401 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: a biological term, male or female. We've got to take 402 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: a quick commercial break and then more with Dennis Prager. 403 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: At least it seems like it has changed in my lifetime, 404 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: and most recently is we are so willing as a 405 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: society to just push things that are demonstrably false, that 406 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: are disprovably false, like men can give birth, and society 407 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: goes along with it, like why and how does that happen? 408 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: It just it just defies all logic, defies all common sense. 409 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: It's insanity, the power of repetition. Another sad revelation of 410 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: the last few years I studied. My field of study 411 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: and graduate school at Columbia was communism. I learned Russian 412 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: and went to communist countries repeatedly, and I all of 413 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: my life I thought that only in a dictatorship, in 414 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: an authoritarian regime can the media brainwash the population. And 415 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: I have had to modify that. We live in a 416 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: relatively free society and the media and schools have effectively 417 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: brainwashed people. I was on Bill Marshaw, your listeners can 418 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: actually watch this on YouTube win viral ironically to two 419 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: and a half years after I was on was on 420 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: too and a half years ago, right before COVID, and 421 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: this has gone viral. People started posting the video. Will 422 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: mar said to me that Donald Trump is a liar 423 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: and so on, and I said, it's not comparable to 424 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: left wing lies. He said, like what he said, like 425 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: American systemically racist, that's a big lie. And like men menstruate, 426 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: the left says men menstruate. And people you aye listening 427 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: to you can watch this Bill Moore and it's all 428 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: his panel and the entire audience laughed at me, I mean, 429 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: just couldn't stop laughing at me for making up such 430 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: an idiocy that the left says men menstruate. And he said, 431 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: where'd you hear that? Dennis, where'd you pick that one up? 432 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: And now you can't even say that men don't menstruate. 433 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: So look at how fast what people laughed at two 434 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: and a half years ago is now widely accepted as 435 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: a truth two and a half years later. That is 436 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,239 Speaker 1: how fast people can be brainwashed by the media and 437 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: by school. How do we save this country? Well, we 438 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: save it by fighting back. First of all, if every 439 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: conservative got out of a closet, most are in the closet. 440 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: And I'm not blaming them. I'm just stating a fact. 441 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: People are afraid of losing their jobs, losing their children, 442 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: losing their their careers, losing their their friends, losing their reputation. 443 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: That the people are afraid because the left does all 444 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: of those things. I mean a lot of kids don't 445 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: speak to parents who are on the right. Give you 446 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: an idea of how scummy left is s are that 447 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: they won't talk to a parent because the parent is conservative. 448 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: We don't have the opposite. How many how many conservative 449 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: adult children don't talk to a left wing parent? It's 450 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: probably most zero. There's the left makes you're scumming your 451 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: human being. People got to get out of the closet 452 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: to answer your question, and it is painful, but you 453 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: get rewarded. Are you sleep better? Be you help your country? 454 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: And see you will make new friends who are are 455 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: much more important to have, mainly kindred spirits. So the 456 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: first thing is to get out of the closet. Second 457 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: is to help the fighters and prayer youth. For example, 458 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: my Prayer University, which has a billion views a year 459 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: and the under the age of thirty. And we're not alone. 460 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: We're fighting TPUSA, fighting daily wires, fighting a lot of 461 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: fantastic websites. Uh, there are a lot of wonderful groups. 462 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: So if you if you're not a fighter by nature, 463 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: help the fighters, because helping fighters is as important as fighting. 464 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: As we see with helping Ukrainians. You've gotta you've gotta 465 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: help the fighters. So that's what everybody has to do. 466 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: Otherwise we will lose the greatest experiment in liberty and 467 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: human history. And there was no guarantee at all it 468 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: will be resurrected. It also has a domino effect as well, 469 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: because I know, you know, I made a big stance 470 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: on not getting the vaccine. I wrote a call him 471 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: a newsweek about it, articulating why, because I felt like 472 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: there's this idea in the media that somehow people who 473 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: are unvaccinated were roubes and having given it thought and 474 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: you know, can't really articulate why, and so I wrote 475 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: my best effort, you know, assisting to piece explaining why 476 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: and pointing to a bunch of data, well research. But 477 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: the reason I did was because I was seeing people, 478 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: even athletes like Jonathan Isaac of Orlando Magic and you 479 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: know Kyrie Irving of the Nets come out and explain 480 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: why they were getting vaccinated. And so I was thinking 481 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: to myself, as someone who works in the media, you know, 482 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: how dare I sit back and not do something about 483 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: this or not speak out when you have so many 484 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: people potentially losing their jobs or losing their job over 485 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: the issue. And so, you know, I do think that 486 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: it has a domino effect when you do speak out, 487 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: other people see that, just as I saw you know, 488 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: people before me speak out. Yeah, that is exactly right. 489 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: There were domino effects in both directions. People who do 490 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: bad or copycat and people who do good or copycaton 491 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: you know, someone who has covered you know, just been 492 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: in the media for for a long time, a lot 493 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: of research, a lot of history. What should people know 494 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,239 Speaker 1: about this point we're in as a country that you 495 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: think maybe is getting missed and all of this. They're 496 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: missing a lot of things that they're missing. That the 497 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: that the basic values of the country are under great attack. 498 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: Liberty and God, we trust the plura the sooner like 499 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: I gave that as the example. They're missing the fact 500 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: that what they take for granted may be lost very rapidly, 501 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: mainly liberty, although clearly half the country doesn't really care 502 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: much about liberty. They prefer things to freedom, So they're 503 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,760 Speaker 1: they're they're missing even on the deepest level. They're missing 504 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: how great this country is and has been, because the 505 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: left has has taught them that the country is a 506 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,760 Speaker 1: scummy place and has always been one. These people are evil. 507 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what else to say. Uh People, 508 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: people who crap on good are bad people. And this 509 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: country has been essentially good only but only if you 510 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,439 Speaker 1: compare it to other countries, if you compare it as 511 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: left wing children. And they're all children, as they children 512 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: compare their parents to perfect people, and then they find 513 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 1: them lacking. Then they grow up and they realize that 514 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: their parents aren't normal or even better than normal. These 515 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 1: are children who who who don't understand how good America 516 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: is because they don't compare it to other countries. As 517 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: I said, they compare it to some imagine of John Lennon. 518 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: They imagine this world. That's the left. The left romanticizes 519 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: the future, and that is that is its source of 520 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: utopian dystopia. Sir, it's been an honor to have you 521 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: on the show. Is there anything else you want to 522 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: leave my audience with before we go? Well, as self 523 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: serving as it sounds, but I have to say, nobody 524 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: writes Bible commentaries to get wealthy. Uh. I would. If 525 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: people do believe that the case has not been effectively 526 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: made for why God and Biblical values today a Christian 527 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: values are the answer, they should read my Rational Bible series. 528 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: It's the best selling Bible commentary and American to aid 529 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,280 Speaker 1: Genesis and Exodus. A ount Deuteronomy is coming out later 530 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: in the year. I always feel self conscious about doing this, 531 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 1: but as I said, you know, Deuteronomy commentaries generally don't 532 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: don't let you buy a second house. But I I 533 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: tell you without without those values. Look, Lincoln didn't go 534 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: to church, but he had a Bible on his nightstand. 535 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: Every founder was Bible centered, even Franklin and Jefferson, who 536 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: were not doctrinal Christians, but they were Bible centered. The 537 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:57,919 Speaker 1: ignorance of that book is a big problem for this society. Sir, 538 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me. It's been an honor. 539 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: I truly appreciate your time. It's been my honor. Thank you, Lisia. 540 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: It was such an honor to have Dennis Kraeger on 541 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: the show and to impart such wisdom on all of us. 542 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: I know I learned a lot from him. I hope 543 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: you did as well. And I want to thank you 544 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 1: for listening to the show. I truly appreciate it greatly 545 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: appreciate any effort to share it with your friends, post 546 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: on social media, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, 547 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 1: give us a rating as well. I want to thank 548 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: my producer, John Cassio for putting the show together. Thanks 549 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: so much, guys, and continue to check the show out 550 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: every Monday and every Thursday. Take care