Louder with Crowder - February 14, 2018


#282 FEMINISM VS MANHOOD! (Dennis Prager Uncut) | Louder With Crowder


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Dennis Prager, host of the conservative radio show "The Prager Show" joins Jemele to discuss his life as a radio host and how he got started in his career. He also talks about why he thinks he's a little taller than most people and why he doesn't have a shrunken head.

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00:00:04.000 You're a strange animal that's what I know You're a strange animal I got to follow, I'm a disabilitist.
00:00:29.000 Alright, glad to have our next guest.
00:00:36.000 We only have a handful of guests who we can do long-form interviews with.
00:00:40.000 I should say this. We'll have a handful of guests with whom we can do long-form interviews, and it'd still be interesting.
00:00:44.000 Yeah, but we don't hide our lives by hour three.
00:00:47.000 Dr. Peterson.
00:00:48.000 And now you just said hour three.
00:00:50.000 He's panicking. No, we're not going to do three hours.
00:00:51.000 And of course, I think more than anyone, this next gentleman is Dennis Prager.
00:00:55.000 You can follow him on the Twitter, at Dennis Prager, I believe.
00:00:58.000 Yeah, at Dennis Prager. Sometimes there's an underscore in there.
00:01:00.000 And Prager, you guy does unbelievable work.
00:01:03.000 Mr. Prager, thank you for being back, sir.
00:01:06.000 You know what I loved about what you did?
00:01:08.000 It's very impressive.
00:01:11.000 You corrected yourself to be even more precise.
00:01:16.000 There are very few people we could do a long interview with.
00:01:19.000 No, no, that's not true.
00:01:21.000 A long interview with and still be interesting!
00:01:24.000 That was good. I love that.
00:01:27.000 I do the same thing.
00:01:28.000 But it shows you are monitoring yourself Thank you.
00:01:52.000 And I always say, you'll never be thought a fool if you speak simply and effectively.
00:01:57.000 You see so many people misuse words or try to use sort of colloquialisms, they don't even understand.
00:02:04.000 I said, so if you don't, just stay away from it, and no one's going to call you on it.
00:02:08.000 It's like Joey Chiriani with a thesaurus.
00:02:10.000 Yes, exactly. Did you learn that at an early age?
00:02:14.000 I knew at a very early...
00:02:16.000 I started speaking at 21, and oddly enough, a very odd life.
00:02:20.000 I was sent to the Soviet Union to learn things, and I came back to America.
00:02:25.000 And they said, oh, a young man who speaks Russian just got back from the Soviet Union.
00:02:30.000 So I had a lot of speeches at a very, very early age.
00:02:33.000 But I knew immediately...
00:02:36.000 That the more I spoke real, that's my favorite word, by the way, real.
00:02:41.000 The more I spoke real, the more people listened.
00:02:46.000 And when I hear talk show hosts often, who are just starting out or even just mid-career, And they have a different way of speaking on the radio than in real life.
00:02:59.000 And I tune out.
00:03:00.000 It's not interesting to me.
00:03:02.000 Well, I'm there for you now.
00:03:04.000 This is Dennis Prager.
00:03:05.000 It's talking on the radio.
00:03:07.000 But nobody talks like that.
00:03:09.000 That's why people say when they meet me, wow, you're just the same as on the radio.
00:03:14.000 And that's the greatest compliment I can get.
00:03:16.000 They are right. It's the exact same guy.
00:03:19.000 That's true. You're taller than I expected.
00:03:21.000 I remember when I first met you. That's a shock to people.
00:03:24.000 You're right. Yes. You know what I think it is?
00:03:26.000 It's probably a shock to people looking at me now.
00:03:29.000 I'm 6'4", but looking at me now, I could be 4'3".
00:03:33.000 It's true. We have no idea.
00:03:35.000 That's right. You know what it is?
00:03:36.000 I think it's because you're proportional.
00:03:38.000 And a lot of people think, they're going, wow, you're a lot taller than I expected.
00:03:41.000 You know, people like, if you think of Sean Hannity or a lot of these newscasters or Anderson Cooper, they have these big square heads.
00:03:48.000 Josh Brolin. Yeah, they have heads like refrigerators, and then they're tiny guys.
00:03:51.000 They're not big guys, whereas you have a head like a normal person.
00:03:54.000 I'm not saying you have a shrunken head.
00:03:55.000 You have a normal head, and so in comparison to short guys with a big head, the camera, it's a total facade.
00:04:01.000 People don't realize it's not an accurate representation of who you are.
00:04:04.000 That's correct. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:05.000 That's the first thing I get.
00:04:06.000 Yeah. Well, you don't have to worry about it because you do a lot of radio, but still, you know, you got your hair and it's going well for you.
00:04:12.000 Let me ask you this.
00:04:15.000 It's funny. You just said real. I was just watching this film, All Eyes on Me, with Tupac.
00:04:21.000 This is true. And I'm watching it.
00:04:23.000 And they gloss over his 10 arrests.
00:04:25.000 And they gloss over that he just so happened to be in the room where a rape occurred with his manager.
00:04:31.000 And they gloss over that he just so happened to always be wrong place, wrong time when he shot people who happened to be undercover cops.
00:04:35.000 But it was always, you know, keep it real.
00:04:36.000 And he talked about how much he loved his mom and keep it real, respect our women.
00:04:39.000 But all he did was disrespect women.
00:04:42.000 It's become this colloquial keep it real when people couldn't be keeping it more fake.
00:04:47.000 I wonder if that's the appeal with you.
00:04:49.000 I mean, I'm not saying you're an old-timer, but you're older than me.
00:04:52.000 But you have a very young audience.
00:04:53.000 I think it's authenticity.
00:04:56.000 Not all. That's a very interesting subject you raised in general.
00:05:00.000 Because I have this odd life of having done the same thing at 21 that I'm doing today, which is publicly speaking, I can tell you a fascinating thing that I never would have predicted.
00:05:11.000 When I go to colleges, which I do regularly to speak...
00:05:16.000 I obviously know my audience, as you know your audience.
00:05:20.000 A good speaker knows their audience.
00:05:23.000 Young people take me more seriously the older I get.
00:05:28.000 With all of the stuff about society's youth mania and youth worship, the fascinating truth is, Bernie Sanders was an example, the fascinating truth is that A lot of people get more credibility with young people as they get older.
00:05:50.000 I think some of that is because I think we're finding ourselves more and more amidst generations who don't have those father-son, father-daughter talks.
00:05:59.000 I think there's a draw to you because there's a hunger in a market for people who like...
00:06:04.000 There's a Dennis Prager-shaped hole in their hearts.
00:06:06.000 Yeah, exactly. Speak some wisdom into people's lives.
00:06:09.000 You know, seriously, I get a lot of attacks and I get a lot of compliments.
00:06:15.000 And one of the compliments that really does mean a lot to me is especially when a guy calls up and says, you're like a father figure to me.
00:06:25.000 And I always say, I'm happy for you and I'm happy for me.
00:06:30.000 Because every guy needs a father figure, either in his own father or in addition to his own father.
00:06:38.000 Yeah, it's true. And every woman needs a father figure unless you want to install a stripper pole in the trailer park. 1.00
00:06:43.000 That is very, very important.
00:06:45.000 That's right. Sometimes we have great prices.
00:06:46.000 That's exactly right.
00:06:47.000 Well, let me ask you this, because this transitions to what we were about to talk about.
00:06:52.000 Prager University. This teaches a lot of people.
00:06:54.000 And I will say, by the way, the age thing is true.
00:06:55.000 I've always said it's not about age.
00:06:57.000 It's about relevancy. And I don't necessarily even think it's because you're older.
00:07:00.000 I think it's that you maintain relevancy, and I think you've become more and more relevant in this age of identity politics and populism, some form of consistency that people can use as a reference point.
00:07:11.000 When I was on Fox News and I was the youngest contributor, I made sure I said, don't ever use my age, because I never wanted to be the young guy who came out, just either my ideas are good or they're not.
00:07:20.000 And I think yours are good.
00:07:21.000 And it's about relevancy. Do you think that's why?
00:07:23.000 I know you guys have a lawsuit, maybe clarify for people who don't know, from PragerU with YouTube.
00:07:28.000 These videos are so family friendly.
00:07:31.000 They're so benign, I guess, as far as the hate speech guidelines.
00:07:34.000 But almost all of them are restricted.
00:07:37.000 Do you think some of that targeting is because you're relevant, because you reach people?
00:07:43.000 There's no other possible explanation.
00:07:46.000 For those of your viewers who don't know, I'll be very brief.
00:07:50.000 We put out five-minute videos every week.
00:07:52.000 We have about 300 out.
00:07:55.000 The people who present these videos are some of the finest minds in the world, whether MIT, Stanford, Harvard, the usual gang, four Pulitzer Prize winners.
00:08:12.000 You... We'll edit that.
00:08:14.000 No, no, you're a fine mind.
00:08:16.000 I mean, we wouldn't have had you for any other reason.
00:08:19.000 You're a perfect example.
00:08:22.000 You have something relevant to say.
00:08:23.000 Well, I appreciate that.
00:08:25.000 In any event...
00:08:28.000 We put out stuff like, you know, Victor Davis Hanson, who was as mild-mannered a human as I have ever met, five minutes on the Korean War.
00:08:38.000 Why is that on the restricted list?
00:08:40.000 I'll tell you why. Because it paints America positively.
00:08:44.000 Wherever we have a video that paints America or Israel positively, YouTube has put it on the restricted list.
00:08:53.000 Which means that if a family filters out pornography, it can't get that video.
00:08:59.000 Libraries, by definition, can't get it.
00:09:01.000 And schools, by definition, can't get it.
00:09:04.000 Now, you've seen our stuff.
00:09:06.000 It is the antithesis of pornography.
00:09:09.000 I mean, give me a break.
00:09:11.000 It's intellectual pornography.
00:09:12.000 One could make the case. What pornography?
00:09:17.000 It's intellectual pornography.
00:09:18.000 Intellectual pornography, that's right.
00:09:20.000 Yeah, no, no, I agree with you, by the way.
00:09:22.000 I'm getting high on everything, except drugs.
00:09:25.000 I'm not into drugs.
00:09:27.000 But the intellect should get you high.
00:09:29.000 I agree with you on that.
00:09:31.000 In any event, it's purely political.
00:09:34.000 They don't want an effective conservative voice, and we're very effective.
00:09:39.000 We had 600 million views last year, and most of them were under 35 years of age.
00:09:44.000 Yeah. Well, we talked about this, Forward Publishing and PragerU people.
00:09:48.000 We went out with YouTube in New York.
00:09:51.000 I've talked about this on the Joe Rogan Show.
00:09:53.000 And your people and the Forward Publishing, Daily Wire people, were the only other people in that room who stood up.
00:09:59.000 Everyone was sitting there quietly, kind of nodding, and they gave us a nice lunch and the cheese spread and talked about the new guidelines.
00:10:05.000 Fantastic hummus. It was fantastic hummus.
00:10:07.000 It was world-class. World-class. Google spared no expense.
00:10:10.000 But then I remember I stood up and said, hold on a second.
00:10:11.000 We're all here because we're losing our ability to make a living on a platform that you actually advertised to us.
00:10:17.000 You advertised to us your platform for us to use your platform exclusively to make our living.
00:10:23.000 Can we talk about this?
00:10:24.000 And some conservatives think tanks were, oh, hush, don't rock the boat.
00:10:27.000 They wanted to be there and mingle.
00:10:29.000 Play game. The PragerU people, the Daily Wire people, Ford Publishing and us.
00:10:33.000 We were the only ones who seemed to be really trying to laser in on it.
00:10:36.000 I know afterwards, that's when we heard about the lawsuit, and I said it makes sense.
00:10:39.000 We're not playing around.
00:10:41.000 I know you aren't playing around, or you're playing for keeps, rather.
00:10:43.000 What is the status of this?
00:10:45.000 Is it a lawsuit, exactly?
00:10:47.000 Is it a petition for information?
00:10:48.000 I don't want to misspeak.
00:10:50.000 No, no, it is a lawsuit.
00:10:52.000 It's a breach of contract.
00:10:54.000 They claim that they will allow anything that is not pornographic or the like or incites violence on their platform.
00:11:05.000 So they either have to change their platform and say, we are open to all views left of center.
00:11:11.000 Not to views right of center, or they have to, in fact, allow our videos up.
00:11:17.000 I mean, so it's really, it's a lawsuit, not only because it's a lawsuit, but it's an attempt to get them to say the truth.
00:11:27.000 And the truth at this moment, Is that YouTube, owned by Google, is political.
00:11:35.000 How have they acknowledged your complaints?
00:11:38.000 Have they responded at all? What's their justification?
00:11:41.000 They had to respond, and the response is fairly weak cheese.
00:11:46.000 Oh, well, we're a private enterprise.
00:11:47.000 We can do what we want.
00:11:49.000 All of a sudden, they're big on private enterprise.
00:11:53.000 But believe me, if a baker doesn't want to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, They're not for private enterprise.
00:12:17.000 I didn't know this because I assume all of our stuff, it just gets demonetized or restricted because they find it offensive.
00:12:22.000 Fine, you know, painting Muhammad as Bob Ross. 0.94
00:12:24.000 I get it. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.
00:12:27.000 But PragerU videos, like you said, you have some of the best minds.
00:12:30.000 You said anything that's pro-America.
00:12:32.000 I understand Israel. Because of these sort of, I guess you would say, Jewish secularists in Silicon Valley who have some sort of fascination with Palestine.
00:12:43.000 I don't know what it is. Palestinian feminists. 1.00
00:12:44.000 It's a big movement. Palestinian feminists. 0.99
00:12:46.000 They're very anti-Israel. I've known that for a long time.
00:12:49.000 But pro-America videos, you notice, get dinged?
00:12:53.000 Oh, of course.
00:12:54.000 That's why the Korean War one, or one named...
00:12:58.000 This is hilarious.
00:12:59.000 We have one called America Must Lead.
00:13:02.000 Some left-wing site also has a video called America Must Lead.
00:13:08.000 Theirs is on and ours is restricted.
00:13:12.000 And so wherever people should look at the list, they go to PragerU.com, they could read the whole lawsuit, they could see what's on the list of the 40 that are restricted.
00:13:22.000 And again, if it shows America in a favorable light, the chances are it will be restricted.
00:13:29.000 When you say you understand the Israel part, not the American part, they're very related.
00:13:34.000 One of my books is called Why the Jews?
00:13:36.000 It's in third edition with Simon& Schuster, and it's an explanation of anti-Semitism.
00:13:42.000 But the interesting thing is, That in the third edition, I showed that anti-Americanism is a variant of anti-Semitism.
00:13:51.000 For the exact same reason Jews have been hated, America is hated. 0.83
00:13:56.000 And so they do go hand in hand.
00:13:59.000 I don't know anybody, for example, who loves Israel and doesn't love America, or loves America and doesn't love it.
00:14:06.000 It's very rare.
00:14:07.000 They almost always, or hates one, but not the other.
00:14:11.000 That is It's true. They almost go hand in hand.
00:14:13.000 It's kind of, for example, you know, Joe Rogan was accused of being an alt-right Nazi because he had an American flag behind him.
00:14:18.000 Well, to them, that's basically, it might as well be the flag of the Third Reich.
00:14:21.000 They see the American flag. They see you with a flag pin.
00:14:23.000 They see patriotic symbolism.
00:14:25.000 The left assumes you're an enemy.
00:14:26.000 And just as surely, if I see someone who's patriotic, I go, oh, he's probably at the very least moderate or slightly right of center.
00:14:33.000 Yeah. That's right. Well, the giveaway was when Donald Trump gave his speech in Warsaw last year, And said we need to protect Western civilization.
00:14:45.000 The New York Times said it was a white supremacist dog whistle.
00:14:50.000 Right. Yeah. It was a dog whistle.
00:14:52.000 Yeah. Western civilization.
00:14:54.000 Western civilization.
00:14:55.000 Right. Don't tell that to the black and Asian-Americans who've pulled themselves out of poverty in record numbers in comparison to any other civilization in the history of humanity.
00:15:05.000 That is interesting.
00:15:07.000 That is, by the way, Why the Jews from Dennis Prager, not to be confused with Why It's the Jews by Mel Gibson.
00:15:11.000 Totally different book. Different direction.
00:15:14.000 Sorry, Mr. Prager, I know you're...
00:15:16.000 Both critically acclaimed. Both critically acclaimed for different reasons.
00:15:18.000 You know, it's funny that you mention that. The Winter Olympics are underway.
00:15:22.000 And I've noticed this. Certainly a lot of the American athletes and a lot of these competitors worldwide, when they're interviewed, when they win their medals, they talk about their experience or, you know, my journey.
00:15:32.000 And not so much their country, and obviously competing this pride of country,
00:15:38.000 or certainly not as it used to be, that America is the greatest force for good.
00:15:42.000 I mean, if you look back in the 40s and 50s and 60s, there was a lot of pride.
00:15:47.000 You were competing for your country.
00:15:48.000 Have you noticed that stark contrast between, I guess, sort of the post-event interviews today
00:15:54.000 and those of your?
00:15:55.000 I haven't watched them as much as I should to answer you properly,
00:16:01.000 but I've noticed it over the course of time.
00:16:05.000 Look, the left hates nationalism, except for one.
00:16:10.000 There's one nationalism on earth they're in love with, Palestinian.
00:16:14.000 But outside of Palestinian nationalism, since Marx, remember, the Communist Manifesto ends, proletariat of the world unite.
00:16:25.000 You have nothing to lose but your chains.
00:16:27.000 They divided the world between worker and owner.
00:16:32.000 Not between American and German and French and English.
00:16:37.000 They wanted to abolish national identity from Marx to today's Democratic Party.
00:16:44.000 That has been inconsistent.
00:16:46.000 They have no interest, they have contempt for national identity.
00:16:51.000 And that's why they're for open borders.
00:16:55.000 They don't care.
00:16:57.000 Ask a leftist, what if 50 million people came in tomorrow and American identity were thereby simply diluted?
00:17:06.000 They'd go, so what?
00:17:07.000 American identity is fascist anyway.
00:17:11.000 Which is... Couple of ironies there.
00:17:14.000 Palestine, not a nation. 0.92
00:17:16.000 Also, the fact that you, as you mentioned, like, listen, okay, here, all the stuff you wanted, we have gay marriage now, the trans people can, you know, they can hop on up to any urinal they want.
00:17:28.000 Isn't that a national identity you're proud of compared to people who have enforced abortions in North Korean internment camps?
00:17:33.000 You're saying that Kim Jong's sister stole the show at the ceremony.
00:17:36.000 How about just relating to the national identity that you've helped create here, modern progressives?
00:17:42.000 It really is crazy to me.
00:17:45.000 Modern America is something they fought for, too.
00:17:47.000 They should be happy with. Well, liberals forth forth.
00:17:51.000 The left has always been opposed.
00:17:52.000 It's a daily statement of mine on my radio show that liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common.
00:17:59.000 The problem is liberals don't know it.
00:18:03.000 There are a few liberals, like Harvard professor, what's his name?
00:18:09.000 Alan Dershowitz.
00:18:10.000 Yeah. The Harvard Law professor, who is a big liberal, a big supporter of Hillary Clinton.
00:18:16.000 He said to me, and it's on camera, it's coming out in our movie, No Safe Spaces, later this year, the one I'm doing with Adam Carolla.
00:18:24.000 Right. And he said...
00:18:27.000 The left is a much greater threat to liberalism than the right.
00:18:32.000 Yeah. Here's one thing, though.
00:18:35.000 He can say that all he wants, and I agree with him.
00:18:38.000 But at a certain point, people like Dershowitz, they do have to say, hold on a second.
00:18:42.000 There is no official representation whatsoever of my point of view in today's Democratic Party.
00:18:49.000 It doesn't exist. That's correct. It's a left-wing party.
00:18:52.000 It is no longer a liberal party.
00:18:54.000 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the liberal's hero.
00:18:57.000 Franklin D. Roosevelt regularly spoke about the need to defend not only Western civilization, but Christian civilization.
00:19:05.000 If a president said that today, there would be impeachment, a movement for impeachment.
00:19:11.000 Yeah. No, that's an important point to make.
00:19:13.000 By the way, also the guy who did the internment camp.
00:19:15.000 We were just talking about that. Leftist folk hero, FDR. I'm like, do you guys remember this?
00:19:19.000 This wasn't a guy who was necessarily soft on foreign policy.
00:19:22.000 Kind of went a little too far, some people argue, in that direction.
00:19:26.000 Yeah. But, you know, this is one difference I see from the right and the left.
00:19:29.000 They talk about how closed-minded the right is.
00:19:31.000 And I talked about this, I think, with Rubin and Rogan, who's like, they say, man, it's political tribalism.
00:19:35.000 I go, hold on a second. The right, you can have someone like Dennis Prager.
00:19:39.000 You can have Stephen Crowder. You can have Ben Shapiro.
00:19:41.000 You can have Milo Yiannopoulos. You can have Andrew Klavan.
00:19:43.000 You can have libertarians who want to smoke pot and talk about Bitcoin, but they also want a limited government.
00:19:47.000 There are so many different kinds of people who just aren't on the far left.
00:19:52.000 Mm-hmm. Including people who hold office, by the way.
00:19:54.000 But if you look at the DNC, there is no one on the left who strays from it.
00:20:00.000 For example, if Donald Trump comes out and says something that's embarrassing, we have no problem saying, ah, listen, okay, I like his reversal of Mexico City policy, but this was kind of embarrassing.
00:20:08.000 I don't see, you know, for example, Mr.
00:20:10.000 Dershowitz endorsing Hillary Clinton.
00:20:12.000 You don't see them come out and say, well, this is the only option we have.
00:20:15.000 But it really is embarrassing that we are down to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, people who don't support freedom of speech, people who don't support the basic right to self-preservation with the Second Amendment.
00:20:25.000 I really am ashamed that there is no one in the Democratic Party.
00:20:28.000 They should be at this point.
00:20:30.000 They require a third party to be represented, whereas the right doesn't.
00:20:34.000 There's enough of a spectrum.
00:20:36.000 It's a very good point.
00:20:38.000 I have been in three dialogues around the country with Dershowitz, and I've asked them exactly that.
00:20:45.000 For him now to acknowledge the moral failure of liberalism in America, I think it would be too painful.
00:20:54.000 But you know what?
00:20:55.000 But seriously, you know what?
00:20:57.000 He's of much greater value to us continuing to identify as a liberal than if he were to
00:21:05.000 say, you know what, the truth is I'm a conservative.
00:21:08.000 And I don't believe he's a conservative, but it doesn't matter.
00:21:10.000 Right.
00:21:11.000 He's value.
00:21:12.000 He attacking the left from a liberal standpoint is what we need more liberals to do.
00:21:18.000 But liberals have been brainwashed into thinking their enemy is the right.
00:21:22.000 Right.
00:21:23.000 But their enemy is not the right.
00:21:24.000 Their enemy is the left.
00:21:26.000 Yeah, that's a good point.
00:21:27.000 And I guess, you know, we're using this terminology like liberal, left, right, but put it this way, with the Republican Party, the right wing, listen, I get it.
00:21:33.000 The Republican Party, no one in the Republican Party fully represents me, right?
00:21:36.000 People always, but the two-party system, man, here's the deal.
00:21:39.000 I come from Canada where it's a parliamentary system.
00:21:41.000 That really sucks because you can have someone who gets 30-something percent of the vote, doesn't represent even close to a plurality of the nation, and all of a sudden they're running the country.
00:21:50.000 So the two-party system, it's like the 10-point must system in mixed martial arts.
00:21:54.000 It It's about as close to something that works as we've had.
00:21:58.000 That's why you have the primaries. Yeah, that's why you have the primaries.
00:22:00.000 But that's a big difference between the right and the left, right?
00:22:02.000 I would not be able to, let's say we just got down to a candidate who was a Republican or conservative and say, yeah, I endorse this person wholeheartedly if they were against the Second Amendment, if they were against freedom of speech, if they were pro-funding abortions overseas.
00:22:15.000 I would have to part ways.
00:22:17.000 So when you have these people who are classical liberals who disagree with everything the DNC stands for but they get in line, I just can't relate to it because I wouldn't Right.
00:22:27.000 I agree with you. I don't have great respect for liberals, but they're not my ideological enemy.
00:22:36.000 ideological enemy.
00:22:37.000 Yes.
00:22:38.000 That's the difference.
00:22:39.000 They don't understand that I'm their friend.
00:22:42.000 You and I are protecting liberal values infinitely more than the left is.
00:22:42.000 Right.
00:22:47.000 That's true.
00:22:48.000 And I think you're a good example too of a lot of these people, they sort of,
00:22:51.000 it's this false virtue of finding common ground.
00:22:54.000 And I always say, well, hold on a second.
00:22:55.000 You don't necessarily need to find common ground.
00:22:57.000 You can be civil and disagree with someone.
00:22:59.000 You don't have to find common ground.
00:23:00.000 You can disagree in a civil way in not finding common ground.
00:23:04.000 You do that very effectively.
00:23:06.000 Yeah.
00:23:07.000 I, almost every day I make the announcement that the differences between the left and right
00:23:13.000 are unbridgeable.
00:23:14.000 There is no middle ground.
00:23:19.000 You name the subject.
00:23:21.000 What's the middle ground?
00:23:23.000 This is a subject people aren't talking about much today, so I'll use it, because it's not a hot-button issue.
00:23:28.000 What's the middle ground between pro-capital punishment and anti-capital punishment?
00:23:34.000 What's the middle ground?
00:23:36.000 Will execute people slowly?
00:23:40.000 I mean, think about it. 1.00
00:23:42.000 It's such a stupid comment. 1.00
00:23:44.000 A middle ground. 1.00
00:23:45.000 What's the middle ground?
00:23:47.000 I'll flip the switch to neutral.
00:23:49.000 I'll let you handle the rest.
00:23:51.000 I'm just, you know, turn a blind eye. 0.95
00:23:52.000 Liberals don't want to be a middle ground either because they're the first to eviscerate any black guy who steps out of line of their thinking. 0.86
00:23:58.000 Look at the Democratic Party, people running through the primaries.
00:24:01.000 It's like they all were right in step with each other.
00:24:04.000 No, that's a great point.
00:24:06.000 Can you think of other issues? Wait, is that the voice of God?
00:24:09.000 It could be. Let's go with that.
00:24:11.000 That's right. That disembodied voice.
00:24:13.000 Is that God? Can you show him yourself?
00:24:15.000 There you go. No, it's not good. Look, he looks like he has anemia.
00:24:17.000 He's very pale, Mr. Prager.
00:24:20.000 That's why he hides himself from you.
00:24:22.000 He's like in the garden of Eden. Wait, God is not pale?
00:24:25.000 No, no. I don't know.
00:24:27.000 Not that pale. I picture God with a more defined jawline.
00:24:30.000 You know, that's interesting.
00:24:34.000 I wonder if there's another... Well, I talk about this all the time.
00:24:35.000 There are other issues. For example, amnesty.
00:24:38.000 I can understand the idea of dreamers, right?
00:24:40.000 People who are anchor babies. Think about this.
00:24:42.000 It's a horrible act for parents to come here and just have a baby so they can stay here and skirt the law. 0.83
00:24:47.000 But I also understand, of course I'm empathetic to that kid or that young adult who didn't do anything wrong and now they might be facing some form of deportation, something along those lines.
00:24:57.000 But then you go, okay, so maybe here we could find some kind of common ground.
00:25:02.000 But then you realize the left is against deporting felons from San Francisco and sanctuary cities where we're just saying they're overcrowding our prisons.
00:25:08.000 Let's send them back to be tried in their homeland. 1.00
00:25:10.000 They say, no, no, no, that's racist.
00:25:11.000 Well, you don't want to find common ground because we just gave you that one.
00:25:16.000 Right. No, the bridge, it's really...
00:25:21.000 People don't like to face harsh realities.
00:25:25.000 The harsh reality here is that the differences are unbridgeable.
00:25:30.000 If the left wins, America loses.
00:25:33.000 That is my belief. It is one or the other.
00:25:36.000 It's not a matter of compromise.
00:25:38.000 The left needs to be defeated.
00:25:41.000 Almost no liberal other than Dershowitz, maybe one or two others, knows that.
00:25:47.000 And most conservatives don't even want to recognize that.
00:25:50.000 They really don't understand it.
00:25:53.000 I talk to Republican congressmen often, privately, dinners, etc., And I say, please, if you don't make the case that the Left is destroying the West and America, we have no future, we Republicans. They should teach, if you're running for dog catcher in Missouri, you should be telling people how the Left is destroying everything.
00:26:21.000 The Left is telling teachers not to call kids boys and girls.
00:26:26.000 Because they can't impose a gender identity.
00:26:29.000 That is child abuse.
00:26:32.000 Yeah. What's the middle ground?
00:26:33.000 It's funny you mention that dog catcher.
00:26:35.000 My father-in-law won the title of constable in Leelanau County in northern Michigan several decades ago.
00:26:42.000 He was the only one with a ticket.
00:26:43.000 He ran for it. It was in a local parade.
00:26:45.000 He said, oh, I won constable.
00:26:46.000 He said, what is that? You're basically a dog catcher on call.
00:26:49.000 He just never showed up.
00:26:50.000 It was unpaid. I was thinking, constable?
00:26:53.000 That's not a dog catcher, but that was just the title in Leelanau County.
00:26:56.000 So, learn something new every day.
00:26:57.000 That's what I heard COP stands for.
00:27:01.000 Constable on patrol. I think constable was more like...
00:27:05.000 I don't know the exact term.
00:27:06.000 I think when people say, oh, there goes constable so-and-so, they usually mean someone who's kind of a snitch, a narc.
00:27:12.000 So, they think of it as someone who reports...
00:27:13.000 Really? That's how they used to use it in Canada, but they're silly people. 0.99
00:27:16.000 Oh. Well, yes. 0.99
00:27:18.000 Well, you elected you, not you, I take that back.
00:27:21.000 Canadians elected Justin Trudeau.
00:27:24.000 Justin Trudeau, you know, if I didn't care about Western civilization, I would thank the Canadians for electing him.
00:27:34.000 That guy has given me more talk stuff from my talk show than any other current leader outside of Donald Trump for other reasons.
00:27:43.000 I mean, to correct?
00:27:45.000 And then he says it was a joke.
00:27:47.000 I know. That was mind-blowing.
00:27:51.000 Oh, I didn't mean it when I told the woman, we in Canada, we say peoplehood, not people kind. 0.52
00:27:58.000 People kind. Yeah, not mankind.
00:28:00.000 He was joking? I know.
00:28:03.000 We might have bought it if you weren't the person who said in a national address, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, and two-spirited.
00:28:10.000 If you didn't say that with a straight face, maybe we would have believed that this was a joke.
00:28:15.000 Even... I talk about this.
00:28:17.000 You could find the most angry, blue-haired feminist in the United States of America and say, you know, LGBTQAIP. And if you were to go to them and say, what about the number two? 1.00
00:28:26.000 And the feminist would say, what are you talking about? 1.00
00:28:27.000 You'd say, two-spirited. The angry, blue-haired feminist would say, don't be a dick. 1.00
00:28:31.000 Like, it's that silly, and that prime minister used it with a straight face and a national address and tears. 0.99
00:28:36.000 You know, his popularity, according to polls, is well under that of Donald Trump in America. 0.81
00:28:44.000 But nobody tells you that.
00:28:45.000 No, no one in the Canadian media tells you that.
00:28:48.000 That is also fascinating.
00:28:49.000 Interesting. When people talk about government-run media, in Quebec, that's basically all we had.
00:28:54.000 We had CBC and Radio Canada, which was, you know, it'd be like having PBS, but only PBS. There was no privately funded news.
00:29:00.000 When people say, the corporate news, man, I go, hold on a second.
00:29:03.000 I understand there are problems, but I understand news is soundbite city and selling self-subricating pocket catheters, and it's obnoxious, but what's the alternative?
00:29:11.000 Government media? Hey, thank you.
00:29:14.000 That's exactly right.
00:29:15.000 Otherwise, there would be no talk radio.
00:29:18.000 And only America has that.
00:29:20.000 By the way, did you hear the interchange that provoked Trudeau's comment?
00:29:25.000 Did you hear what the woman said?
00:29:27.000 About maternal love will change the world?
00:29:30.000 Yes. I thought that was even stupider than what Trudeau said. 0.99
00:29:36.000 Yeah. That woman, and everybody loved it. 1.00
00:29:41.000 Everybody thought it was a beautiful comment.
00:29:44.000 That woman doesn't understand maternal love is universal. 1.00
00:29:49.000 She doesn't think that mothers in Nazi Germany love their children? 0.99
00:29:53.000 Maternal love is the answer to evil, to the world's problems? 0.99
00:29:58.000 She lives in a make-believe world.
00:30:00.000 She must have gone to graduate school.
00:30:02.000 Yeah. I guess if Hitler's mom had breastfed a little bit longer... 0.79
00:30:06.000 That's it.
00:30:07.000 That would have done it. Yep.
00:30:09.000 Nope. Not to mention...
00:30:11.000 Bottles make Nazis.
00:30:12.000 Yes! He didn't get enough folic acid.
00:30:17.000 He needed the bitty. You know, and not only that, they wouldn't like to hear this.
00:30:21.000 Statistically, actually, it's the father figure that has a bigger impact on young developers.
00:30:26.000 I do, exactly.
00:30:31.000 Father standards does more than maternal love to make a good world.
00:30:36.000 Right. Sorry. That's a good point.
00:30:38.000 Sorry. And you talk about that and the difference in male-female hour.
00:30:42.000 So I know we've talked about the statistics on this quite a bit on this show.
00:30:45.000 Why do you think that is?
00:30:46.000 So now we're getting to the realm of philosophy.
00:30:48.000 Why do you think it's such a stark contrast that if a dad isn't in a household, it affects everything?
00:30:54.000 Everything from graduation rate, likelihood to end up in prison, in a way that is not really comparable to if a mom isn't necessarily around.
00:31:02.000 Right. My theory on that, and it's my theory, I don't have data to prove this, but I've lived a long time and talked to a lot of people.
00:31:12.000 My theory is that boys are lost without a same-sex model.
00:31:22.000 That's what it is.
00:31:24.000 Boys need men to show them how to be men. 1.00
00:31:28.000 Right. If the man isn't there, he doesn't have a clue how to be a man.
00:31:34.000 Girls become women almost automatically. 1.00
00:31:38.000 But boys do not become men automatically.
00:31:41.000 They stay boys.
00:31:43.000 Do you think that girls become women automatically? 0.98
00:31:46.000 That's interesting. Do you think that's maybe more because they're more communicative?
00:31:49.000 So they just communicate with other women, whether it's a mom or a friend?
00:31:52.000 Yeah. Well, partially, they have much more dramatic changes in their body.
00:31:57.000 We grow hair, but that's about it.
00:32:02.000 There are massive signs in their body that tell them, I am now a woman, that we don't have.
00:32:08.000 It just doesn't happen. I don't think that's the whole story.
00:32:11.000 And by the way, girls becoming women doesn't mean that they become mature or become good or decent or smart or wise.
00:32:19.000 They need models too. 0.91
00:32:21.000 But more dramatically, the male figure And that's why, by the way, that is why, and this is so politically incorrect, that is why God is painted as a he and not a she in the Bible.
00:32:39.000 Because if God is compassionate and kind and cares about the orphan and the widow, then a male says, oh, it's masculine to take care of orphans and widows.
00:32:51.000 But if it's a goddess who's doing it, That it's not masculine.
00:32:56.000 Right. Count me out.
00:32:57.000 Yeah, that's a good point. And it's sort of, women tend to, I mean, a mother is naturally compassionate with her children. 0.99
00:33:03.000 It is, I don't want to say a forced behavior.
00:33:06.000 Women are nurturing. Right. 1.00
00:33:07.000 But nurturing alone doesn't make a good world.
00:33:10.000 No. You need standards.
00:33:12.000 And that's, males are for standards.
00:33:15.000 Right. Right. Women are for nurturing. 1.00
00:33:17.000 We need both sexes. 1.00
00:33:19.000 Well, I think God is also nurturing.
00:33:22.000 And so when you look at that, nurturing, if it was just the nature, it wouldn't really be a decision.
00:33:25.000 So it's virtuous because God chooses to as well be nurturing along with setting standards.
00:33:31.000 Right. But again, being masculine and nurturing means nurturing is kosher for men. 0.66
00:33:38.000 Exactly. Yeah. And that's important because it's not natural to a lot of men.
00:33:41.000 It's not something that comes... That's right.
00:33:43.000 Yes. It's natural for me to...
00:33:45.000 To punch the guy.
00:33:48.000 I remember when my kids, I met two boys. 0.93
00:33:52.000 Boys would come to the door and they would immediately tackle each other.
00:33:56.000 Right. It's not a nurturing response.
00:34:00.000 It's how can I beat you up?
00:34:02.000 Yes, exactly. It's like two wolf pups.
00:34:04.000 Oh, no, they're happening again.
00:34:06.000 We're going to have to replace the drywall.
00:34:08.000 Well, you know, it's interesting that you bring that up because I wanted to get to your book Exodus that I know you're working on.
00:34:13.000 It's going to be a multi-part series.
00:34:14.000 But this is something that I talk about a lot with atheists in the show.
00:34:17.000 We have atheists sort of liberals in the show.
00:34:19.000 And this argument is often used, well, if I need a God to tell me not to kill or not to steal, then I'm just a horrible person.
00:34:26.000 I say, well, hold on a second. First off, there are some societies where that's okay, but here's the deal.
00:34:32.000 You may need a God to tell you to be loyal.
00:34:36.000 You may need a God to tell you to be nurturing.
00:34:38.000 You know, we don't necessarily need a God to tell us what we know are the worst parts of us in humanity, but you do need a God to actually bridle some of these instincts because it's not consistent across societies.
00:34:48.000 Right. Well, let me tell you, on April 2nd, the biggest work of my life is coming out.
00:34:55.000 I thank you for mentioning it.
00:34:56.000 It's called The Rational Bible.
00:34:57.000 Yes. 500 pages, and it's very easily readable because it's many, many, many, many, many, many essays and chapters and thoughts on life based on the book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible.
00:35:10.000 And it's meant for atheists and believers.
00:35:13.000 Because it doesn't ask for any leap of faith.
00:35:16.000 But I open up my introduction with exactly your point.
00:35:20.000 And this is my story.
00:35:22.000 When I was in my early 20s, I had problems with my parents, which is not exactly novel.
00:35:28.000 And nevertheless, though I moved from their house when I was 21, there wasn't a week in my life that I did not call my parents wherever I was.
00:35:40.000 The reason I did so was not out of love.
00:35:43.000 I did it because I believed God commanded me to honor my father and my mother in the Ten Commandments.
00:35:51.000 That is the only reason I called them every week when I had problems with them.
00:35:57.000 So the people who say you don't need God or a Bible to tell you not to murder, maybe that's true, although it wasn't true 3,000 years ago.
00:36:05.000 Maybe it's true today.
00:36:06.000 But what about that one?
00:36:08.000 Do you need a God to tell you to honor your parents, even if you're having problems with them?
00:36:13.000 Yes, you do. Exactly.
00:36:15.000 It's a very important point.
00:36:16.000 I was speaking with someone recently who said, I remember he said, man, I didn't go to India.
00:36:19.000 I didn't visit India because I was afraid I would never come back.
00:36:22.000 I said, what do you mean? He said, I'm infatuated.
00:36:24.000 I said, so you haven't been there.
00:36:26.000 You notice there aren't many wealthy people who go to India and never return.
00:36:30.000 They don't set up shop there.
00:36:31.000 And I talked about how...
00:36:32.000 There are more flights coming out of India.
00:36:34.000 Yeah. Yes, more flights coming out of India.
00:36:36.000 How uncharitable, actually, if you look at a lot of people from Eastern religions are. 1.00
00:36:40.000 And he was talking about how all religions were started by war.
00:36:42.000 I said, well, hold on. You look at about 100 million people killed under a distinctly atheist set of ideals, you know, communist regimes.
00:36:49.000 My point there was, I said, we don't need...
00:36:52.000 A religion. We don't need a God to tell us to kill or to be bad to each other.
00:36:55.000 But we do need someone to tell us to be charitable.
00:36:57.000 We do need someone to tell us to be merciful, which, by the way, was not even a virtue.
00:37:02.000 For a very long time, it was considered a weakness.
00:37:05.000 So for the left, I'd love to use the word nuance.
00:37:07.000 These nuances matter.
00:37:09.000 People are naturally bad.
00:37:10.000 We don't need a God to tell us to be bad.
00:37:12.000 That's the great left-right divide.
00:37:15.000 It's the great secular-religious divide.
00:37:17.000 That issue, that was the first thing I realized doing radio.
00:37:22.000 One night on my earliest years of doing radio, I was on at night in the beginning, I had a caller and we were debating about what's the cause of violent crime in America.
00:37:34.000 And he was saying racism and poverty.
00:37:37.000 And I said, no, no, human nature.
00:37:40.000 And then, anyway, we were arguing and arguing, and then I realized, sir, wait, can I just ask you a question?
00:37:46.000 And he said, of course.
00:37:48.000 I said, do you think people are basically good?
00:37:50.000 He said, yes. I said, so, sir, we just wasted 10 minutes.
00:37:56.000 And that was the truth.
00:37:57.000 We wasted 10 minutes.
00:37:59.000 That's... Because he believed people are basically good, he couldn't blame people for rape and murder and burglary.
00:38:07.000 Instead, he blamed outside forces, racism and poverty.
00:38:10.000 I don't blame racism and poverty for crime in America.
00:38:14.000 I blame people who commit the crimes.
00:38:16.000 Because I know that human nature is the issue.
00:38:19.000 And I know it for the same reason you know it.
00:38:22.000 Because we are Judeo-Christian based.
00:38:25.000 Yeah, this is the byproduct of human nature.
00:38:27.000 Speaking of voice of God, yeah.
00:38:29.000 There we go. Did you ever see the article by Ford.com that went viral this weekend, titled, The First Case in the Bible Was the First Case of Hashtag Me Too?
00:38:38.000 Oh yeah, I'm reading that to my audience tomorrow.
00:38:43.000 It is insane. It is clearly the dumbest piece of writing. 1.00
00:38:47.000 I'm not young. 1.00
00:38:49.000 I've read a lot of dumb things. 0.99
00:38:51.000 It's so preposterous that Eve was harassed by God. 0.99
00:39:00.000 It's so beyond belief.
00:39:02.000 I can't even repeat it.
00:39:03.000 I have it in front of me.
00:39:04.000 What's the premise? I haven't read it yet.
00:39:06.000 Oh, you've got to read it.
00:39:08.000 It's in a left-wing Jewish newspaper called The Forward.
00:39:11.000 A female rabbi.
00:39:13.000 Here it is. The first story in the Bible was the first case of Me Too. 0.90
00:39:19.000 It's written by this 47-year-old woman who says she's a rabbi, which is very possible, I'm sorry to say.
00:39:25.000 It's like, look, if the Pope is Pope, then she could be a rabbi. 0.87
00:39:30.000 Here is a young, beautiful, intelligent, naked woman living in a state of grace. 0.98
00:39:37.000 She's hungry, so she does the most natural thing in the world and eats a piece of fruit.
00:39:42.000 Now, first of all, she wasn't hungry. 1.00
00:39:44.000 It's an idiotic point. 1.00
00:39:46.000 She didn't eat from that tree because she was hungry. 1.00
00:39:49.000 She had every tree in the garden to eat from.
00:39:52.000 Right. By the way, for me, I haven't read this yet, but my first reaction is she was harassed?
00:39:58.000 It was his garden! She was on his property!
00:40:00.000 And he gave some rules. Like, listen, you can do anything you want on my property.
00:40:03.000 Whatever you want. Just don't.
00:40:05.000 Just don't. It's like, listen. Just don't turn on the hot tub when I have people who are at my house.
00:40:09.000 Because it doesn't work. It leads into the pool.
00:40:11.000 Just don't do that one thing. And they do it.
00:40:12.000 And I go, why would you do that? So now you're going to harass me?
00:40:14.000 It's my hot tub! But it basically proves the point that liberals think people are basically good.
00:40:18.000 They think Eve was basically good.
00:40:20.000 And maybe she was before the fall, but this really screwed things up.
00:40:23.000 And then she goes on to say, for following her instincts, trusting herself, and nourishing her body, she's punished.
00:40:28.000 Her punishment, she will never again feel safe in her nakedness.
00:40:30.000 She will never again love her body.
00:40:32.000 She will never again know her body is a place of sacred sovereignty.
00:40:36.000 And basically to go on to describe God as an aggressive violator.
00:40:43.000 When I read this stuff, I always have the same reaction.
00:40:47.000 I don't know this woman from Eve.
00:40:50.000 But I am certain, I would bet my house she went to graduate school. 1.00
00:40:56.000 You have to go to graduate school to be that stupid. 1.00
00:41:01.000 It's learned. I mean it. 1.00
00:41:03.000 No, I'm not being cute or facetious. 1.00
00:41:06.000 You learn to be stupid. 1.00
00:41:08.000 Right. Well, what's so funny is now they often use the term reductive as an insult. 1.00
00:41:12.000 Well, hold on a second. What are we really talking about?
00:41:15.000 Reducing, boiling it down to its simplest term here, right?
00:41:19.000 Sometimes it's very useful.
00:41:20.000 Sometimes reductive reasoning can be the only tool that is required when you're at an impasse.
00:41:26.000 So right here, I can tell you if I'm being reductive, I can tell you exactly what the problem is with that rabbi.
00:41:30.000 She sees Eve as God.
00:41:32.000 Eve's body as God.
00:41:33.000 It's just exactly what we talked about after the fall.
00:41:35.000 It's idolatry. Who is God to tell her what she can and can't do with her body? 1.00
00:41:40.000 He is God. He created the body and said, these are the rules.
00:41:44.000 You broke it. Even if you just see this as allegorical, it should be pretty straightforward.
00:41:50.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:41:52.000 They don't... The idea...
00:41:54.000 Well, look. To the left...
00:41:57.000 A big factor on the left is the hatred of moral authority above themselves.
00:42:02.000 It's not just God.
00:42:04.000 It could be the police.
00:42:05.000 They hate the police.
00:42:07.000 They hate parental authority.
00:42:10.000 If you're six years old now, you're a boy and you say you're a girl, You can say you're a girl.
00:42:17.000 The school will call you by a girl's name.
00:42:20.000 If you're six, I'm talking about, not 16.
00:42:22.000 No, exactly. And you don't have to, and the school does not have to tell the parents.
00:42:27.000 Yeah. Where's the common ground there?
00:42:30.000 Yeah, exactly. Where's the middle ground?
00:42:33.000 You know, it's like, okay, hold on a second.
00:42:35.000 How about the common ground?
00:42:37.000 Don't pump kids full of puberty blockers.
00:42:40.000 Hate speech. We're not going to find a middle ground here.
00:42:43.000 Just a little bit of puberty blockers.
00:42:45.000 Well, we did that undercover in...
00:42:48.000 Child abuse. That really is child abuse.
00:42:51.000 Puberty blockers in a child is child abuse. 0.79
00:42:54.000 It would be just like pumping your child full of, I don't know, some other mind-altering drug.
00:42:59.000 These same people are really against the over-prescribing of ADHD drugs in children, which I also fully understand.
00:43:05.000 I fully understand it's over-diagnosed.
00:43:07.000 Kids are over-medicated.
00:43:08.000 They're against that. When it comes to stopping their balls from beginning to function, however, all of a sudden we're a little bit fuzzy on the rulebook.
00:43:17.000 And I think that's why people are leaving the left.
00:43:19.000 We were in Vermont. I don't know if you saw that video.
00:43:21.000 We were undercover. And it was What the Health Care?
00:43:23.000 Transgender Town Hall. And they were just saying, you know, it's just don't believe the propaganda, the hate speech out there.
00:43:28.000 If the child then decides they want to go the other way by meaning the other way, meaning they just want to be their actual biological sex, you stop the puberty blockers and there's no evidence of ill effects.
00:43:39.000 So the propaganda from Johns Hopkins, the propaganda from liberal surgeons out there, there is nothing but evidence that puberty blockers are harmful in the developmental stage.
00:43:51.000 They don't care. How could it not be?
00:43:54.000 I mean, it's absurd.
00:43:55.000 No, no, I mean, just common sense tells that.
00:43:57.000 You mentioned Johns Hopkins.
00:43:59.000 You follow your stuff.
00:44:00.000 Johns Hopkins pioneered transsexual surgery, and the guy who pioneered it no longer does it.
00:44:07.000 Right. No, see, that's an important point, because when I've talked about it, they say, well, they're notable anti-trans, if you look at Johns Hopkins, and you look at what they support.
00:44:14.000 I go, hold on a second. No, actually, there was pioneering going on.
00:44:17.000 They were early on it. There were early adopters, and a lot of these early adopters have abandoned it.
00:44:22.000 Yeah, that's correct.
00:44:23.000 Well, you know, so that comes...
00:44:26.000 That's interesting.
00:44:28.000 There are some issues where I cannot fathom the left's moral reasoning there.
00:44:33.000 What would you say it is in a situation like that, where we're talking about puberty?
00:44:37.000 Okay. All right.
00:44:38.000 So here's my theory on this.
00:44:41.000 Okay. The Judeo-Christian world, rooted in the Bible, the Bible, which I know has...
00:44:52.000 The left has effectively trivialized and even demonized.
00:44:57.000 But it is the most important book in history, whether you love it, hate it, or don't know anything about it.
00:45:01.000 That's just a fact. It's not an opinion.
00:45:03.000 Historically, it's not even close. Right.
00:45:06.000 It is rooted in a concept called distinctiveness.
00:45:11.000 There are five distinctions that are at the core of the biblical worldview.
00:45:17.000 The difference between man and God.
00:45:19.000 The difference between man and animal, the difference between man and woman, the difference between good and evil, the difference between holy and profane.
00:45:28.000 Those are the five, and the left has sought and successfully demolished all five of those distinctions.
00:45:38.000 There's no difference between man and animal.
00:45:40.000 There's no difference between man and God.
00:45:42.000 We are all, as you said it, we are all gods.
00:45:45.000 Now there is no difference between man and woman. 0.95
00:45:47.000 And that is what they are doing.
00:45:50.000 Because distinctions mean there's order.
00:45:54.000 Order means there's an orderer.
00:45:57.000 Yeah, that's important to, that's the same reason a lot of people don't like the term intelligent design, because it means that there's a designer.
00:46:04.000 That's right, a designer.
00:46:05.000 An architect. You know, you were early on this.
00:46:07.000 I know we've talked about this, but I think it's more important probably now than ever to revisit when there was, I think, was it Cary Prejean?
00:46:14.000 It was after the Miss USA or Miss America pageant.
00:46:17.000 You were debating Perez Hilton.
00:46:19.000 And, oh gosh, that guy.
00:46:21.000 Anyway, you talked about back then how the reason same-sex marriage is an issue that at least is worthy of discussion and it's not simply hate speech is because—and you differentiated it.
00:46:31.000 You said, I don't believe it's comparable to an interracial relationship because I believe a black mother can provide everything that a white mother can to a child.
00:46:40.000 Same thing for a black father or white father or Asian father. 0.62
00:46:43.000 You said, I do not believe that two fathers can provide everything to a child that two mothers can. 1.00
00:46:48.000 You said the danger here is declaring that women are fundamentally interchangeable. 0.62
00:46:54.000 Right. That's right.
00:46:57.000 I've been saying that for 25 years.
00:46:59.000 I knew the biggest reason I opposed same-sex marriage was because of their argument that That gender doesn't matter.
00:47:09.000 That's the core of the argument.
00:47:12.000 Love matters, not gender.
00:47:14.000 The moment you say gender doesn't matter, it's over.
00:47:18.000 That means there is no male and there is no female. 0.98
00:47:21.000 And my prediction has taken place, it just went faster than I could have ever imagined.
00:47:26.000 Where you can't call kids who are five years old boys and girls.
00:47:30.000 The New York subway no longer has announcements that begin ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:35.000 The London Tube dropped ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:39.000 We are all undifferentiated creatures.
00:47:42.000 Just like there's no differentiation among nations.
00:47:45.000 The topic I talked to you about earlier.
00:47:47.000 They hate distinctions.
00:47:49.000 There's no American and German and French.
00:47:51.000 We are just all mankind.
00:47:53.000 You know, Superman gave up his American citizenship.
00:47:55.000 You know that. Right, yeah, I know.
00:47:56.000 Well, yeah, very, very silly. 0.95
00:47:59.000 Captain America also became a commie for a portion in those comic books. 0.97
00:48:02.000 It is incredible.
00:48:03.000 You know, that was my next question.
00:48:05.000 I think you answered it. I was going to ask if when you said, I just, I don't believe that men and women are fundamentally interchangeable, that was always your reasoning and your opposition to same-sex marriage.
00:48:13.000 I was going to ask if you saw it coming down the pike that the transgenderism was going to become as catastrophic. 1.00
00:48:19.000 Yes, I wrote it. I... I mean, I'm not bragging, but you asked me, yes.
00:48:24.000 Twenty-five years ago, I wrote.
00:48:27.000 One doesn't have to take my word for it.
00:48:29.000 It's in writing. I wrote about those five distinctions, and I said, the left is obliterating the male-female distinction.
00:48:37.000 And people read it, and I remember it.
00:48:39.000 Nobody took it seriously, and I don't blame them.
00:48:42.000 But I saw it.
00:48:43.000 It was as obvious to me as the sun shining.
00:48:46.000 That's the way it is and that's exactly what's happening.
00:48:50.000 And you know what's sad? Asai, forget God or all of that stuff. 0.99
00:48:53.000 It's just plain sad.
00:48:56.000 It is one of the great joys of life to be distinct from a female as a male. 1.00
00:49:02.000 For a woman to celebrate the feminine and not the masculine in herself.
00:49:08.000 We all have all sides.
00:49:10.000 We're all aware of that, but it doesn't matter.
00:49:12.000 But to deprive a generation of that joy, the tension between the sexes, It's to deprive them of one of the most meaningful things.
00:49:24.000 I read today, I just ended my show.
00:49:28.000 I have my notes in front of me because I'm still in my radio studio.
00:49:32.000 There was an article in the Daily Mail about how British youth think that big business and right-wing pundits are more dangerous to the world than communists.
00:49:44.000 It's mind-blowing. Yeah, the people who murdered 100 million non-combatants in the 20th century.
00:49:51.000 Okay? But Tootsie Roll is more dangerous.
00:49:55.000 Anyway, so listen to this.
00:49:58.000 So they quote a law student in Britain.
00:50:02.000 She's at a very prestigious school, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
00:50:06.000 So she said, listen to this.
00:50:09.000 I may even write my column on it.
00:50:12.000 She said, let's see, yeah.
00:50:14.000 For young people today, we live in a time in which we basically have no future.
00:50:20.000 Why would a young person, privileged enough to be at a prestigious graduate school in London, say, I have no future?
00:50:29.000 The left has deprived them of so much of the joys of life Including meaning, because secularism doesn't provide meaning.
00:50:39.000 I mean, it provides a great, great government.
00:50:42.000 I'm for secular government, but it provides no meaning.
00:50:45.000 If there is no God, and there is no religion, and there is no Bible, and there is no transcendent, and there is no design, and there is no purpose, then there is no meaning.
00:50:55.000 And so, yes, she's right.
00:50:59.000 That's what she believes.
00:51:01.000 They have no future. The left has deprived them of a future.
00:51:05.000 It's deprived them of a present.
00:51:07.000 They don't even have a present.
00:51:09.000 How do you, because I know this book, you're saying the rational Bible, how do atheists respond to that?
00:51:13.000 Because usually they'll just say, well, I find meaning in the simple pleasures of life, in my family, in these issues that matter to me.
00:51:20.000 It's subjective to everyone. That's where they find meaning.
00:51:23.000 Yes, that's right. And I'm glad they do.
00:51:25.000 Otherwise, they kill themselves. 0.99
00:51:26.000 And I don't mean that sarcastically.
00:51:29.000 However, No serious philosopher has denied that if there is no God, there is no ultimate meaning.
00:51:39.000 You can find meaning, you can construct meaning to keep yourself sane, but that's all they're doing.
00:51:46.000 They're constructing temporary meaning For this tiny blip that we are in the universe, for this tiny blip of time that we're here.
00:51:56.000 But the truth is, we don't have any more ultimate meaning than a pebble.
00:52:00.000 It's just we need to delude ourselves into meaning, because we'll go crazy if we don't have it.
00:52:06.000 But there really isn't any.
00:52:08.000 And that lends itself... We are just an accident.
00:52:11.000 Right. And that lends itself so well to pseudo-intellectualism and this existentialism, like Jim Carrey now is saying, my name isn't Jim.
00:52:17.000 This is all a construction, man.
00:52:19.000 This is an illusion. You're in basically a computer program because they feel as though it sounds intelligent, but it's them trying to give themselves meaning.
00:52:25.000 And of course, that leaves you open and vulnerable to charlatans, to intellectual charlatans.
00:52:30.000 And I think that's what we've seen full circle.
00:52:32.000 Oh! Well, that was another thing I covered in the last month, that there is more belief in voodoo and Africans and astrology among young people today than ever in American history.
00:52:50.000 That's a good point.
00:52:51.000 That's okay. The Bible?
00:52:55.000 That's fairy tales.
00:52:57.000 Right. Yeah, exactly. Are you talking about the Bible?
00:53:00.000 Are you talking about some imaginary spaghetti monster?
00:53:02.000 I'm going to go blame all of my problems on gluten.
00:53:04.000 I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty sure that's our downfall.
00:53:07.000 It is absolutely insane. 0.97
00:53:08.000 Whether it's what you're talking about in college, intellectually, whether it's dietary, whether it's fitness, whatever it comes down to, there is more bull crap out there today that people buy. 0.96
00:53:20.000 And smart people. You don't have to be dumb to be vulnerable to this. 0.99
00:53:25.000 And you're seeing smart people now. 0.99
00:53:26.000 Oh, the smart are much more vulnerable.
00:53:29.000 Oh, no. That's why I said this woman would never have written such nonsense if she hadn't gone to graduate school. 1.00
00:53:35.000 Yeah. I meant that literally.
00:53:37.000 I do believe... I now, by the way, I tell parents, and I swear before God that I mean this seriously, unless your child needs to study mathematics or physics, chemistry, etc., they would do better to go to Prager University for free than to go to Princeton.
00:53:56.000 Yep, that's actually, it's very true.
00:53:58.000 And I said that one time to a young boy whose parents wanted him to meet me and said, you know, can you give him some advice?
00:54:04.000 I said, sure, what is it, you know, what is it you want to do?
00:54:07.000 He said, you know, I don't really know.
00:54:08.000 I said, okay, here's one thing.
00:54:09.000 If you don't know what you want to do, take some time, figure it out.
00:54:13.000 Don't go to college.
00:54:15.000 And the parents were horrified.
00:54:17.000 Now, I wouldn't have said that if he said, I want to be an engineer.
00:54:19.000 But he said, I don't know. Telling young people, you don't know?
00:54:22.000 Figure it out in university is the worst advice.
00:54:26.000 Right. That's correct.
00:54:28.000 It's like popping a DVD in to babysit, only it's a feminist women's studies underwater basket-weaving professor. 1.00
00:54:34.000 That one's going to, she's going to turn out to be a gem.
00:54:36.000 Okay, it is at Dennis Prager on Twitter.
00:54:38.000 We have to get going. This always passes by so quickly.
00:54:41.000 The Rational Bible Exodus.
00:54:43.000 When can people look for that?
00:54:45.000 Now, they can get it now at Amazon.
00:54:47.000 The Rational Bible.
00:54:48.000 I promise it will change your life if you read it.
00:54:51.000 I promise. Yes.
00:54:52.000 And by the way, for people who are listening, we have a lot of listeners who are kind of left.
00:54:55.000 We don't really have far leftists, but classical liberals, atheists.
00:54:58.000 It is... I've listened to...
00:55:00.000 Mr. Prager, please come back and keep us updated.
00:55:13.000 Have someone come in and keep us updated on the lawsuit with YouTube.
00:55:17.000 I will. Anyways, it's a joy just for me to come on your show.
00:55:21.000 Oh, well, it's a joy to have you on our show.
00:55:24.000 We must go, though, and then we will not be back because we're gone.
00:55:28.000 We're gone for a little bit.