Speaker 1: So we've got a big one, guys, because Dennis Praguer
Speaker 1: is in the house. He is one of the most
Speaker 1: respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know who he is. He's also the host of
Speaker 1: the nationally syndicated radio show, The Dennis Praguer Show. Look.
Speaker 1: I've been in this business since you know, maybe two
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen or something. Look, it's a tough business.
Speaker 1: It is remarkable that Dennis Praguer has remained such a
Speaker 1: prominent voice for so long, and it has such wisdom
Speaker 1: to give. You know, the motto of his show as
Speaker 1: I prefer clarity to agreement, I could not agree more.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more with that that sentiment. He's also
Speaker 1: the founder of Praguer University Praguer You. It's the most
Speaker 1: viewed conservative video site in the world, with one billion
Speaker 1: views a year, where than half of those people are
Speaker 1: under the age of thirty five. So he's doing a
Speaker 1: lot of work and trying to reshape the indoctrination that
Speaker 1: we're seeing in schools across America, trying to change that trajectory,
Speaker 1: changed the way people think. He's also a New Times
Speaker 1: best selling author of nine books on a ton of
Speaker 1: different subjects, from religious to morality, the left, America, happiness.
Speaker 1: He's also written extensively on religion. His book The Rational
Speaker 1: Bible is the first volume of his five volume commentary
Speaker 1: on the first five books of the Bible, rooted in
Speaker 1: his knowledge of Biblical Hebrew. I mean, the guy has
Speaker 1: just done so much, has so much wisdom to give us.
Speaker 1: So it's truly an honor to have him on the show.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about a whole host of things,
Speaker 1: the decline of society that we're seeing, the decline of religion,
Speaker 1: the decline of the American family, and we're also going
Speaker 1: to talk about what can we do about it? How
Speaker 1: can we right the ship, how can we change the
Speaker 1: trajectory that we were on as a nation. So who
Speaker 1: better to get into some of these really deep questions,
Speaker 1: really deep thinking than Dennis Brager, Right, So it's an honor.
Speaker 1: I hope you love this. Here's Dennis Bragger. So, Mr Prager,
Speaker 1: it's such an honor to have you on the show.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a tough industry of the media business.
Speaker 1: You've been such a prominent voice for so long, and
Speaker 1: conservative media, which is really a testament to you. And
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot going on in the
Speaker 1: country right now, so I'm really looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: your insight on just the current state of affairs for
Speaker 1: the country. So it's an honor of a deep amount
Speaker 1: of respect for you, my pleasure. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so sir. You were born in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 1: You've also you know, you've posted your radio show out
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles for for quite some time. We've seen
Speaker 1: these cities and cities across America really in a decline
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, the country seems to just be
Speaker 1: in a societal decline. Why is that? Why why are
Speaker 1: we in such a decline right now? I actually think
Speaker 1: I have an answer, and it's not the one that
Speaker 1: even most conservatives offer. Some do, and it's certainly one
Speaker 1: that the entire left would reject. When your country is
Speaker 1: founded on a couple of principles, or two or three principles,
Speaker 1: and those principles are then demolished or on the way
Speaker 1: to being demolished, it's not possible for the society to
Speaker 1: maintain itself. We have three principles. I didn't make them
Speaker 1: up there on every coin, So it's a pretty old standing,
Speaker 1: the statement of what America stands for. And on every
Speaker 1: coin and every bank note, you have what I call
Speaker 1: the American trinity, and they are liberty, de pluribus um
Speaker 1: for many one, and in God we trust. And the elites,
Speaker 1: run by what we now call progressives or the woke
Speaker 1: or the left, have made war on all three. They
Speaker 1: have wants a radically secularized society. They that's so getting
Speaker 1: would have been called we trust. Liberty has never been
Speaker 1: a left wing value. Equality they claim to be a
Speaker 1: much more important value, or now equity, which is very dangerous.
Speaker 1: And they don't believe in eplur brazoonum from many one.
Speaker 1: They believe from many many that the idea that everyone
Speaker 1: should have an American identity strikes them as neo fascistic. So, uh,
Speaker 1: how do you survive when the three primary values of
Speaker 1: your society are being demolished? Well, and we've seen those
Speaker 1: come under attack, you know, particularly when you look at
Speaker 1: liberty during COVID, And I know, you know, look, I've
Speaker 1: always loved this country, I've always valued this country. But
Speaker 1: I don't really think I realize how fleeting freedom truly
Speaker 1: is until COVID and we really saw how susceptible we
Speaker 1: are at to tyranny as a nation, how how many
Speaker 1: people are willing to go along with it as well.
Speaker 1: You know, why do you think we reacted so rationally
Speaker 1: as a country And what did that show you about
Speaker 1: how fleeting freedom is in America? Well, least of the
Speaker 1: experience you have had is one that I have had.
Speaker 1: The last two years have been very sobering for me.
Speaker 1: I've been in love with this country all of my life,
Speaker 1: and frankly, I would not have predicted the amount of
Speaker 1: irrational obedience to irrational law on the part of at
Speaker 1: least half of my fellow countrymen. It has been that
Speaker 1: has been disappointing, the the collapse of virtually every national institution,
Speaker 1: from the American Medical Association to the FBI. Fifty one
Speaker 1: fifty one leaders of FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies
Speaker 1: signed a letter a month before the election saying that
Speaker 1: the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. So you realize the
Speaker 1: other and total corruption of all of our intelligence agencies. Again,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have predicted this. I wouldn't have you named
Speaker 1: the institution. American Medical Association announced a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago that we should not put the sex of a
Speaker 1: child what it is born on its birth certificate, because
Speaker 1: the child will determine one day what sex they are
Speaker 1: or what genders that they now use the term. So
Speaker 1: I share your sadness and what has developed? Why did
Speaker 1: it happen? Well, you said it in your question, and
Speaker 1: Reagan put it beautifully when he was president that liberty
Speaker 1: is a fragile thing and we our own one generation
Speaker 1: in any time away from getting rid of it. I
Speaker 1: would add this, liberty is not the most fundamental human yearning.
Speaker 1: More people want free things than freedom. That's human nature.
Speaker 1: Human nature is to yearn for free things, not freedom.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what the left. That's the reason the
Speaker 1: left isn't it has been in power in so many countries,
Speaker 1: most countries at some point in the last hundred years.
Speaker 1: People rather have free things than be free. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about liberty being under attack as we as
Speaker 1: we saw throughout COVID. You also talked about the pillars
Speaker 1: of society being knocked down, and I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that holds up a civilized society is
Speaker 1: being burnt to the ground right now. Why does so
Speaker 1: many people that live in America have such disdain for
Speaker 1: this great country. It's a combination of of two huge things,
Speaker 1: affluence and secularism. They produce board people. The poor people
Speaker 1: are not bored. Their life is filled with meaning, and
Speaker 1: the meaning is get lunch, get dinner, get breakfast, feature family,
Speaker 1: put a roof over your head. So the poor don't
Speaker 1: have a problem, oh with meaning. And the religious poor
Speaker 1: or wealthy don't have a problem with meaning. They get
Speaker 1: it from their religion. When you take away poverty and
Speaker 1: you take away religion, people have to find meaning elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And the left in this country has filled the vacuum
Speaker 1: left by the death of Judeo Christian and patriotic values.
Speaker 1: They used to be a superman. It used to be
Speaker 1: a proud American superman has renounced his American citizenship, being
Speaker 1: now a citizen of the world. And they have dropped
Speaker 1: truth justice and the American way to truth, justice and
Speaker 1: the better way. So there's nothing American about superman anymore.
Speaker 1: So you have this massive whole left by the collapse
Speaker 1: of Strudeo Christian religions and the massive affluence that boredom,
Speaker 1: that yearning for meat meaning has been filled by what
Speaker 1: we call progressivism. Well, that progressive ism seems to always
Speaker 1: lead to division as well, and intentional division. And we
Speaker 1: saw that during COVID. I know you had talked about
Speaker 1: being unvaccinated. I am as well. I chose not to
Speaker 1: because it didn't make sense to me, and I was
Speaker 1: looking at the data. I'm young and healthy, it made
Speaker 1: no sense. I was also looking at the fact that
Speaker 1: wasn't much deadlier than the flu. So why am I
Speaker 1: going to get a vaccine that I don't need for
Speaker 1: a virus that's not a threat to me? Uh? You know,
Speaker 1: but what we saw unvaccinated really being treated as a
Speaker 1: persecuted group, and you know, threats of not wanting people
Speaker 1: like me to be able to go to the grocery store,
Speaker 1: to make our lives as difficult as possible. And I
Speaker 1: think that's sort of like hatred. Really made me concerned
Speaker 1: for the future and what things could be possible and
Speaker 1: the treatment of our own citizens as we continue to
Speaker 1: go down this path as a country. The parallel that
Speaker 1: I drew about half year ago in a column, I
Speaker 1: was the pariah status at some point of days with age,
Speaker 1: and I said, this is uh, we have now seen
Speaker 1: this happen to a far larger number of Americans the unvaccinated.
Speaker 1: For the left went ballistic that I would dare compare
Speaker 1: anybody to h to gay victims because Kay's blacks and
Speaker 1: women are supposed to have a monopoly on all victims status.
Speaker 1: There are no other victims. But the fact is the
Speaker 1: hatred of the unvaccinated, the wish the wishes expressed publicly
Speaker 1: publicly that they die of COVID, the talk about banning
Speaker 1: them from all travel, which, by the way, it did
Speaker 1: happen in Canada. In Canada, the unvaccinated could not enter
Speaker 1: an airplane or a train or a bus. What Canada did?
Speaker 1: I wrote a column on that to Canada is the
Speaker 1: new the new North American Cuba. You know, nobody cares
Speaker 1: about it, which is really sad to see. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that's right, the unvaccinated. I don't know who the next
Speaker 1: pariah will be, but it may well be again over
Speaker 1: health quick break back with a great Dennis Brigger on
Speaker 1: the other side. So was the hatred towards the unvaccinated?
Speaker 1: Was it about the vaccine or was it about the
Speaker 1: fact that unvaccinated people refused to submit to their will? Both? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. They didn't read anything about the science. They
Speaker 1: read nothing. Uh, and and so the obedience, this was
Speaker 1: the frightening part. It was, That's what I said, obedience
Speaker 1: to irrational authority. The fact that parents would give young
Speaker 1: children a vaccine. Uh. Of course they didn't want to
Speaker 1: deliberately hurt their child, but the chance that they would
Speaker 1: hurt their child was much greater than the chance that
Speaker 1: they would help their child. What was done by that
Speaker 1: side of the American public, shutting down schools for two years,
Speaker 1: putting two year olds on masks, on planes and an airport.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the abuse of children, the hurting of
Speaker 1: children deliberately. Now wasn't deliberate in the sense that we
Speaker 1: want to hurt children, but what they did was obviously deliberate.
Speaker 1: They just they just thought they were helping. But the
Speaker 1: irrationality of it more. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: from the Washington Post. A few weeks ago, more Americans
Speaker 1: in under the age of six died of suicide than
Speaker 1: of COVID. That's a product of your progressive totalitarians and
Speaker 1: the half of the country that went along with them.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually a very very scary thing that we
Speaker 1: have gone through and will probably do so again. That
Speaker 1: is why it is so important to alarm people at
Speaker 1: their obedience to authority without question. I mean, we we.
Speaker 1: I wrote another column in a year ago, in the
Speaker 1: middle of the worst lockdowns, I wrote, I wrote a
Speaker 1: column a week. One week it was the Good German,
Speaker 1: in the next week the good American. I'm a Jew,
Speaker 1: and I've I've written about a book about anti Semitism,
Speaker 1: and I studied the Holocaust my whole life. There's a
Speaker 1: there's a common reference called the good German, the guy
Speaker 1: who didn't do anything bad to a Jew in Germany,
Speaker 1: but who did nothing. And that good German was a
Speaker 1: sarcastic term held holding the quiet German and contempt. But
Speaker 1: of course I'm not comparing what happened. There's no comparison
Speaker 1: to the Holocaust. But there is a comparison to obedience
Speaker 1: to irrational authority, and and the the hatred of the
Speaker 1: ones that didn't submit to irrational authority. And when I
Speaker 1: see the fear that dominated Americans here without a Gestapo,
Speaker 1: I mean, at least the good German had the had
Speaker 1: the fear, the legitimate fear of being picked up by
Speaker 1: the Gestapo. But there was no Gestapo here, and people
Speaker 1: feared Facebook and the New York Times and what their
Speaker 1: neighbors would say, and they were obedient to authority. And
Speaker 1: again that the squashing of children's lives. This is this
Speaker 1: is a very bad, bad moment in our history, and
Speaker 1: we have not recovered from it. But it seems you know,
Speaker 1: you talked about the treatment of children and how they
Speaker 1: were really punished the most during COVID, but it's not isolated.
Speaker 1: We increasingly, you know, you look at the left, they
Speaker 1: support abortion basically up until you know, the day of birth,
Speaker 1: and maybe even beyond it in some instances. But you
Speaker 1: have a party that believes and that even party that
Speaker 1: wants to indoctrinate young children, tell them that they should
Speaker 1: derive value from the color of their skin, things that
Speaker 1: they were not that they were born with it they
Speaker 1: had no control over. Uh, look at what's happening in
Speaker 1: schools with sort of a lot of this transagenda that's
Speaker 1: being pushed on children as well. I mean, what does
Speaker 1: it say about a society that doesn't protect its most vulnerable?
Speaker 1: That's right? What do you say, that's exactly right? You
Speaker 1: say that the society has become sick. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what's even sicker. Another another revelation in my life.
Speaker 1: I thought most of my revelations had already occurred, and
Speaker 1: that is I had always, truly, always taken for granted
Speaker 1: that it is instinctive in women to protect child's children's innocence,
Speaker 1: and that that belief is has been a jettison. The
Speaker 1: women are overwhelmingly disproportionately involved in robbing children of innocence.
Speaker 1: The teachers, the teachers, unions, the principles, the professors of
Speaker 1: gender studies overwhelmingly their female and they are in the
Speaker 1: vanguard of doing something for the first time I don't
Speaker 1: know in Western history, very possibly, but certainly American history
Speaker 1: deliberately robbing children of their sexual innocence. It's there's a
Speaker 1: sickness that pervades our society. And only God knows the future.
Speaker 1: I only know. I don't know the future. I'm neither
Speaker 1: optimistic nor pessimistic. I find both of them useless. I
Speaker 1: only know that I have to fight them now. It
Speaker 1: does seem like an evilness has sort of overtaken the
Speaker 1: country and it's just become much more perverse. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: COVID really seemed to brought out inner demons and a
Speaker 1: lot of people in America. And you know, I know
Speaker 1: you've referenced this, but you've spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: studying religion. You've lectured at the Hebrew or that you've
Speaker 1: lectured on the Hebrew Bible at the American Jewish University,
Speaker 1: have written numerous books on religion as well. The American
Speaker 1: Enterprise and She recently published a survey finding that more
Speaker 1: than one third of Generation Z identify as religiously unaffiliated,
Speaker 1: unaffiliated the least religious. Yet, why are we losing religion
Speaker 1: as a society? Like what's behind that? The left understands
Speaker 1: that the only unified opposition to the left is religion.
Speaker 1: The the Soviets understood this. That's why they they squashed
Speaker 1: and murdered so many Orthodox priests, so many rabbis, so
Speaker 1: many Catholic priests. But but especially May don't really May
Speaker 1: have many Catholics in Russia, says, mostly the Orthodox priests.
Speaker 1: They I've understood this. The Chinese understand this with regard
Speaker 1: to Christianity, and the Soviets understood this. Soldier NEETs, in
Speaker 1: the greatest single critic was of course a religious Christian.
Speaker 1: The Jews in the Soviet Union were a big nemesis
Speaker 1: the Muslims and the Soviet Union, who are a big nemesis.
Speaker 1: If it's sort of either either the Judeo Christian religions, Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism,
Speaker 1: either they will prevail or the left will prevails. It's
Speaker 1: truly a a death fight of finding to the death
Speaker 1: one of them will prevail. And they have taken over
Speaker 1: the institutions. Not only have they taken over education and
Speaker 1: were there profoundly anti religious, radically secular agenda, they have
Speaker 1: also taken over a good chunk of Judaism and Christianity.
Speaker 1: They look at the Pope and Catholicism, look at the
Speaker 1: mainstream Protestant churches, and look at non orthodox Judaism. They
Speaker 1: have been taken all the can over buy the left.
Speaker 1: They're all failing, they're all alienating people from them. And
Speaker 1: it's no wonder then, Also, I must be honest, it
Speaker 1: is also the failure of religious people who did not
Speaker 1: know how to make the case for a religious life.
Speaker 1: Most religious people, I think are wonderful people, but they
Speaker 1: have no clue how to make the intellectual case against
Speaker 1: the left and against the anti religious forces that are
Speaker 1: part of the Left. So the kids here these arguments
Speaker 1: at school that the God has nonsense and religion is
Speaker 1: actually worse than nonsense, it's dangerous, and the parents had
Speaker 1: no idea how to counter these arguments. That's why I
Speaker 1: do so much work, especially in my Bible commentary, the
Speaker 1: Rational Bible, the third volumes coming out this here, and
Speaker 1: I I'm doing this to give people the intellectual ammunition
Speaker 1: for the greatness of the Bible. Well. And it also
Speaker 1: seems to be an effort by the left to remove
Speaker 1: anything that gives someone value in their life, that roots
Speaker 1: them to something more meaningful. And you know, it's attack
Speaker 1: on religion, it's the attack on the family unit. It's
Speaker 1: taking away from people that bring value to life, that
Speaker 1: that roots you in life. And I believe the reason
Speaker 1: is because people that don't have religion, as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: people that don't have a strong family, you know, they're
Speaker 1: more easily controlled because they're not rooted in anything. They
Speaker 1: don't believe in anything deeper. I was at the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Convention when they made that the famous and fascinating
Speaker 1: claim over the loudspeakers. Government is the only thing that
Speaker 1: all Americans have in common. The this country was found
Speaker 1: to have a small government so that the individual is
Speaker 1: infinitely precious. For the left, it is the us that
Speaker 1: the government is precious, the individual as a cog in
Speaker 1: the machinery of the government. I I contended on my
Speaker 1: show after this horrible massacre at the Texas school that
Speaker 1: a big part of the gun issue is exactly about this.
Speaker 1: The left really does believe only the government should have arms,
Speaker 1: and the that that underlying the passions is really the
Speaker 1: the fundamental difference is the individual strong or the state.
Speaker 1: The individual that has arms is strong. The individual with
Speaker 1: no arms and the government has all the armaments that
Speaker 1: then the government is strong. They believe in the state.
Speaker 1: But as I point out, and has never pointed out
Speaker 1: at college or high school or elementary school, never pointed
Speaker 1: out this is revelatory to a typical college student, the
Speaker 1: mother of all genocide is big government. There's no such
Speaker 1: thing as genociah government. With one exception Rwanda, that was
Speaker 1: ethnic genocide done by tribe against tribe. But otherwise the
Speaker 1: hundred million people massacred, I'm not talking about combatants, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about noncombatants. In the twentieth century, everyone was the
Speaker 1: victim of big government and almost in every case left
Speaker 1: wing big government. But this was the exception of Hitler
Speaker 1: and and the Turkish murder of the of the Armenians
Speaker 1: that was religious. So they this is what it is about.
Speaker 1: Brussels should be dominant. That's why they hate Brexit, That's
Speaker 1: why they hate Hungary. Any country that defies Brussels rule,
Speaker 1: defies big government. Ultimately, they would like the big government
Speaker 1: be an international government. That's what Davos is about. It's
Speaker 1: what Brustles is about. So this is the stuff that
Speaker 1: they that they want, and we are stopping them. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I've never owned a gun in my life, but I
Speaker 1: support the Second Amendment because I understand that it protects
Speaker 1: us from government tyranny. And when you look at communism
Speaker 1: when it takes over, authoritarians when they take over, and
Speaker 1: I know you as someone who understands is a deep
Speaker 1: understanding of history, the first two things to go are
Speaker 1: a freedom of spreech speech and guns, because it makes
Speaker 1: it a lot, a heck of a lot easier to
Speaker 1: control a society when you control the flow of information
Speaker 1: and you disarm a population. It's so irrational. The hatred
Speaker 1: of individuals being armed that I said years ago on
Speaker 1: on Fard Ball, the show that they used to have
Speaker 1: on MSNBC in days when they actually would have a
Speaker 1: conservative on. And I don't know why why it was
Speaker 1: raised with me, but I said, and I was devoted
Speaker 1: much of my life to fighting anti Semitism. I have
Speaker 1: a book on anti Semitism. I was on the Holocaust
Speaker 1: Museum board of directors and I said I wish every
Speaker 1: Jew in Europe had been armed, and the they went ballistic.
Speaker 1: They almost threw me off the show. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was really, it was incredible, the hatred of what I
Speaker 1: had to say, As if it's a bizarre notion. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been a blessing if every Jew. I don't
Speaker 1: say that they wouldn't have been mass murders of Jews.
Speaker 1: I thought there wouldn't have been six million. And not
Speaker 1: only that, it would have given Jews the dignity of
Speaker 1: dying while fighting instead of the indignity of walking naked
Speaker 1: into a gas chamber or being buried naked in mass shootings.
Speaker 1: I mean to say that it wouldn't have been a
Speaker 1: great thing if every Jew had a gun in Europe.
Speaker 1: You know how sick that person must be to save that.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of Jews who say that
Speaker 1: because leftism has poisoned their minds too. A lot of
Speaker 1: Jews are anti Israel. I mean, leftism is a poison.
Speaker 1: It corrupts the conscience, it corrupts the ability to think clearly,
Speaker 1: men give birth. You've gotta be kidding. I mean, it
Speaker 1: really is just you know, I'm thirty seven and I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm like ninety years old now looking at
Speaker 1: society and just some of the things that we're saying.
Speaker 1: You know, Netflix having a special He's expecting just people
Speaker 1: believing things that defy logic, that defy reason. It's the
Speaker 1: entire reason I name the show you Know the Truth
Speaker 1: with Lisa Booth, and the whole point of the show
Speaker 1: is trying to get to the truth of these critical
Speaker 1: issues that are facing the country. But it's just h
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a there is a Democrat witness.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw, sir h came in front of
Speaker 1: the how a Judiciary committee recently saying that men can
Speaker 1: give birth. It's just it's just what it's called that
Speaker 1: that's right. And and what about the Supreme Court justice
Speaker 1: just put on the Supreme Court who couldn't define woman?
Speaker 1: Let biologists do it, which by by irony, we agree
Speaker 1: let biologists that they're the ones who should define it.
Speaker 1: The left doesn't believe that it's a sociological term, not
Speaker 1: a biological term, male or female. We've got to take
Speaker 1: a quick commercial break and then more with Dennis Prager.
Speaker 1: At least it seems like it has changed in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: and most recently is we are so willing as a
Speaker 1: society to just push things that are demonstrably false, that
Speaker 1: are disprovably false, like men can give birth, and society
Speaker 1: goes along with it, like why and how does that happen?
Speaker 1: It just it just defies all logic, defies all common sense.
Speaker 1: It's insanity, the power of repetition. Another sad revelation of
Speaker 1: the last few years I studied. My field of study
Speaker 1: and graduate school at Columbia was communism. I learned Russian
Speaker 1: and went to communist countries repeatedly, and I all of
Speaker 1: my life I thought that only in a dictatorship, in
Speaker 1: an authoritarian regime can the media brainwash the population. And
Speaker 1: I have had to modify that. We live in a
Speaker 1: relatively free society and the media and schools have effectively
Speaker 1: brainwashed people. I was on Bill Marshaw, your listeners can
Speaker 1: actually watch this on YouTube win viral ironically to two
Speaker 1: and a half years after I was on was on
Speaker 1: too and a half years ago, right before COVID, and
Speaker 1: this has gone viral. People started posting the video. Will
Speaker 1: mar said to me that Donald Trump is a liar
Speaker 1: and so on, and I said, it's not comparable to
Speaker 1: left wing lies. He said, like what he said, like
Speaker 1: American systemically racist, that's a big lie. And like men menstruate,
Speaker 1: the left says men menstruate. And people you aye listening
Speaker 1: to you can watch this Bill Moore and it's all
Speaker 1: his panel and the entire audience laughed at me, I mean,
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop laughing at me for making up such
Speaker 1: an idiocy that the left says men menstruate. And he said,
Speaker 1: where'd you hear that? Dennis, where'd you pick that one up?
Speaker 1: And now you can't even say that men don't menstruate.
Speaker 1: So look at how fast what people laughed at two
Speaker 1: and a half years ago is now widely accepted as
Speaker 1: a truth two and a half years later. That is
Speaker 1: how fast people can be brainwashed by the media and
Speaker 1: by school. How do we save this country? Well, we
Speaker 1: save it by fighting back. First of all, if every
Speaker 1: conservative got out of a closet, most are in the closet.
Speaker 1: And I'm not blaming them. I'm just stating a fact.
Speaker 1: People are afraid of losing their jobs, losing their children,
Speaker 1: losing their their careers, losing their their friends, losing their reputation.
Speaker 1: That the people are afraid because the left does all
Speaker 1: of those things. I mean a lot of kids don't
Speaker 1: speak to parents who are on the right. Give you
Speaker 1: an idea of how scummy left is s are that
Speaker 1: they won't talk to a parent because the parent is conservative.
Speaker 1: We don't have the opposite. How many how many conservative
Speaker 1: adult children don't talk to a left wing parent? It's
Speaker 1: probably most zero. There's the left makes you're scumming your
Speaker 1: human being. People got to get out of the closet
Speaker 1: to answer your question, and it is painful, but you
Speaker 1: get rewarded. Are you sleep better? Be you help your country?
Speaker 1: And see you will make new friends who are are
Speaker 1: much more important to have, mainly kindred spirits. So the
Speaker 1: first thing is to get out of the closet. Second
Speaker 1: is to help the fighters and prayer youth. For example,
Speaker 1: my Prayer University, which has a billion views a year
Speaker 1: and the under the age of thirty. And we're not alone.
Speaker 1: We're fighting TPUSA, fighting daily wires, fighting a lot of
Speaker 1: fantastic websites. Uh, there are a lot of wonderful groups.
Speaker 1: So if you if you're not a fighter by nature,
Speaker 1: help the fighters, because helping fighters is as important as fighting.
Speaker 1: As we see with helping Ukrainians. You've gotta you've gotta
Speaker 1: help the fighters. So that's what everybody has to do.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we will lose the greatest experiment in liberty and
Speaker 1: human history. And there was no guarantee at all it
Speaker 1: will be resurrected. It also has a domino effect as well,
Speaker 1: because I know, you know, I made a big stance
Speaker 1: on not getting the vaccine. I wrote a call him
Speaker 1: a newsweek about it, articulating why, because I felt like
Speaker 1: there's this idea in the media that somehow people who
Speaker 1: are unvaccinated were roubes and having given it thought and
Speaker 1: you know, can't really articulate why, and so I wrote
Speaker 1: my best effort, you know, assisting to piece explaining why
Speaker 1: and pointing to a bunch of data, well research. But
Speaker 1: the reason I did was because I was seeing people,
Speaker 1: even athletes like Jonathan Isaac of Orlando Magic and you
Speaker 1: know Kyrie Irving of the Nets come out and explain
Speaker 1: why they were getting vaccinated. And so I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, as someone who works in the media, you know,
Speaker 1: how dare I sit back and not do something about
Speaker 1: this or not speak out when you have so many
Speaker 1: people potentially losing their jobs or losing their job over
Speaker 1: the issue. And so, you know, I do think that
Speaker 1: it has a domino effect when you do speak out,
Speaker 1: other people see that, just as I saw you know,
Speaker 1: people before me speak out. Yeah, that is exactly right.
Speaker 1: There were domino effects in both directions. People who do
Speaker 1: bad or copycat and people who do good or copycaton
Speaker 1: you know, someone who has covered you know, just been
Speaker 1: in the media for for a long time, a lot
Speaker 1: of research, a lot of history. What should people know
Speaker 1: about this point we're in as a country that you
Speaker 1: think maybe is getting missed and all of this. They're
Speaker 1: missing a lot of things that they're missing. That the
Speaker 1: that the basic values of the country are under great attack.
Speaker 1: Liberty and God, we trust the plura the sooner like
Speaker 1: I gave that as the example. They're missing the fact
Speaker 1: that what they take for granted may be lost very rapidly,
Speaker 1: mainly liberty, although clearly half the country doesn't really care
Speaker 1: much about liberty. They prefer things to freedom, So they're
Speaker 1: they're they're missing even on the deepest level. They're missing
Speaker 1: how great this country is and has been, because the
Speaker 1: left has has taught them that the country is a
Speaker 1: scummy place and has always been one. These people are evil.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what else to say. Uh People,
Speaker 1: people who crap on good are bad people. And this
Speaker 1: country has been essentially good only but only if you
Speaker 1: compare it to other countries, if you compare it as
Speaker 1: left wing children. And they're all children, as they children
Speaker 1: compare their parents to perfect people, and then they find
Speaker 1: them lacking. Then they grow up and they realize that
Speaker 1: their parents aren't normal or even better than normal. These
Speaker 1: are children who who who don't understand how good America
Speaker 1: is because they don't compare it to other countries. As
Speaker 1: I said, they compare it to some imagine of John Lennon.
Speaker 1: They imagine this world. That's the left. The left romanticizes
Speaker 1: the future, and that is that is its source of
Speaker 1: utopian dystopia. Sir, it's been an honor to have you
Speaker 1: on the show. Is there anything else you want to
Speaker 1: leave my audience with before we go? Well, as self
Speaker 1: serving as it sounds, but I have to say, nobody
Speaker 1: writes Bible commentaries to get wealthy. Uh. I would. If
Speaker 1: people do believe that the case has not been effectively
Speaker 1: made for why God and Biblical values today a Christian
Speaker 1: values are the answer, they should read my Rational Bible series.
Speaker 1: It's the best selling Bible commentary and American to aid
Speaker 1: Genesis and Exodus. A ount Deuteronomy is coming out later
Speaker 1: in the year. I always feel self conscious about doing this,
Speaker 1: but as I said, you know, Deuteronomy commentaries generally don't
Speaker 1: don't let you buy a second house. But I I
Speaker 1: tell you without without those values. Look, Lincoln didn't go
Speaker 1: to church, but he had a Bible on his nightstand.
Speaker 1: Every founder was Bible centered, even Franklin and Jefferson, who
Speaker 1: were not doctrinal Christians, but they were Bible centered. The
Speaker 1: ignorance of that book is a big problem for this society. Sir,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me. It's been an honor.
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate your time. It's been my honor. Thank you, Lisia.
Speaker 1: It was such an honor to have Dennis Kraeger on
Speaker 1: the show and to impart such wisdom on all of us.
Speaker 1: I know I learned a lot from him. I hope
Speaker 1: you did as well. And I want to thank you
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