Dennis Prager, Gavin McInnes, and the wine of the day: a glass of Chateauneuf to pop. Plus, a California woman sues a lollipop company because she claims she didn t realize there was sugar in lollipops.
00:02:20.000We have Dennis Prager on the show today.
00:02:22.000One of my favorites, his new book, Exodus, The Rational Bible.
00:02:26.000Highly, highly recommended by most people.
00:02:27.000I haven't read it yet. We're going to have him back for a full hour segment on it because his publicist screwed up and only got it to me today.
00:02:34.000Then one of our favorites, Gavin McInnes is on.
00:02:36.000And of course, what's the wine of the day, Mr.
00:03:02.000And then a big topic we're going to get into today.
00:03:05.000This is the question of the day. What's your opinion on the idea of toxic masculinity?
00:03:08.000I actually think it's potentially the most damaging concept being taught by leftists in schools today, and I'll get into that later, but what's your opinion?
00:03:15.000Have you really thought of this sort of colloquialism, now toxic masculinity?
00:04:01.000I don't gate it. Maybe I'll hit by school bus.
00:04:03.000Another story that really caught her eye.
00:04:04.000A California woman just sued a lollipop company because she claimed she didn't realize there was sugar in lollipops.
00:04:13.000She claimed Yum Earth knowingly engaged in deceptive marketing tactics by neglecting to list sugar, instead using the more opaque term, evaporated cane juice.
00:04:22.000Which I just assume, I don't know how you don't make that connection, but she's going after them legally, and the lollipop company in question actually released their official legal response.
00:04:32.000Et cetera, et cetera. Lollipops contain sugar!
00:04:36.000It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!
00:04:39.000You ate the lollipops, the lollipops have sugar, you know they've always contained sugar, therefore you got diabetes, you fat bitch, so you get nothing!
00:05:14.000You know how when you make a mistake, but then every now and then you're like, ooh, hold on a second, I want to blame someone else, but this is also embarrassing for me.
00:05:20.000Yeah. Shouldn't, I didn't know candy had sugar beyond that list.
00:05:24.000It should. It should stop you cold in your tracks.
00:05:27.000You should go, ooh, you know what? I'm going to come out looking worse.
00:05:29.000Yeah. Don't hit send. My hands will get dirty.
00:05:31.000Not to mention Lollipop is 2018. You can't give those things away at the bank.
00:05:34.000You can't give them away. People would rather steal pens.
00:09:34.000It's time for this week's Eye on India!
00:09:44.000So, an Indian minister was ridiculed for saying that ancient India invented the internet.
00:09:49.000It comes from the BBC. Biplab Deb, who is the chief minister of the northeastern state of Tripura, not only claimed that the internet, but satellite technology was created in ancient India.
00:10:00.000He cited an example from the ancient Hindu epic Mabhar Hararat that one of the characters in the epic Sanjaya, that's never a good sign, had been able to give a blow-by-blow account of a battle that was taking...
00:10:11.000Anyway, the point is that he was basically claiming that India invented both the internet and the world.
00:10:15.000Which was met with skepticism, if you can imagine, with historians and scientists using corroborating historical documents, as well as selenium dating, ultimately to come to the conclusion that it's unlikely the invention of the internet predates today's Indian practice of still pooping in the streets.
00:12:16.000You read this story earlier. The German theater is now offering free seats to spectators willing to wear swastikas.
00:12:20.000Let me explain. The theater in Constance is offering free admission to spectators willing to wear an armband with a Nazi swastika.
00:12:28.000Spectators who choose to pay will be asked to wear a Star of David as a sign of solidarity with the victims of the Nationalist Socialist Nazis.
00:12:37.000Which honestly put German Jews at this theater in an awkward position.
00:12:41.000Because obviously the swastika, on the other hand, free!
00:12:43.000Free! By the way, first to take advantage of this promotion, already camped outside this theater like a Star Wars premiere.
00:12:51.000No surprise. I think we have a picture.
00:12:53.000There you go. Well, I expected Count Dankula, Pud, but Sven Computer.
00:13:33.000Okay, I'll bite. So, De Niro said, America was being run by a madman who wouldn't recognize the truth if it came inside a bucket of his beloved Colonel Sanders fried chicken.
00:13:42.000He dubbed Trump our lowlife in chief, quote.
00:13:46.000Okay. I guess it doesn't take much to make this guy laugh anymore.
00:13:56.000Ah! Ah! Ah! Dude, why didn't you just hire writers?
00:14:04.000You know what I mean? When people are this rich, we can't get anyone to write for a show because they're absolutely petrified at the notion of being associated with this show.
00:14:11.000Yeah. But the big thing is, I think Robert De Niro, he thinks he outsmarted Trump on this one.
00:14:15.000He doesn't realize he's just completely playing into the hand.
00:14:18.000He's playing along. Lying Robert De Niro.
00:14:20.000Yeah, well, you are a lowlife in chief.
00:14:23.000Yes, you are. You are the lowlife in chief, my friend.
00:14:25.000I bounced that one off my mom. I know it works.
00:14:28.000Some people should just not have a platform to speak about these things.
00:14:31.000It just makes them look stupid. Well, he has a platform, but, you know, he just acknowledged that he's retarded.
00:14:36.000So, I don't think there's much else to say about that, but, you know, Robert De Niro, it's sad to see how the mighty have fallen.
00:14:42.000It's true. It started with Rocky and Bullwinkle.
00:14:44.000Now, the famous Nashville window washer, we talked about this, for those who aren't Mug Club members on The Daily Show a while back, the famous Nashville window washer who brought joy to many by dressing up as Spider-Man and he would wash windows at a children's hospital.
00:14:55.000Well, it turns out he's a child pornographer.
00:19:25.000The difference is largely biological, and we'll come back to that, along with a symphony of hormones that men have in droves compared to their female counterparts.
00:19:32.000The male hormone, of course, testosterone.
00:19:34.000There's more. There's different variables like luteinizing hormone, growth hormone, which we have in much higher ratios than women.
00:20:42.000This is a fundamental premise for toxic masculinity.
00:20:45.000It doesn't automatically result in violent criminals.
00:20:48.000It's actually associated with a wide range of symptoms, if you want to call them, or traits.
00:20:52.000But they can be positive or negative depending on how they're harnessed.
00:20:55.000So risk-taking aggression, these are good in some circumstances.
00:20:58.000Look at Winston Churchill. Society needs some strong, brave men to protect the weak.
00:21:02.000For example, that woman who went in to say women are better, she went into a building likely guarded by armed men.
00:21:09.000Competitiveness can drive economic growth.
00:21:11.000We see why capitalists hating progressives dislike these traits so much.
00:21:14.000By the way, a recent study found that groups with higher testosterone levels were the most successful at completing collective tasks, so even working with other people.
00:21:21.000This idea that it only helps the individual if they're just aggressive.
00:21:26.000Now here's something else. That I find interesting.
00:21:29.000Not only does testosterone, of course, trigger aggressive competitive behavior in the face of a threat, but in the absence of a threat, it's directly associated with pro-social traits like protectiveness and generosity.
00:23:20.000At the end of this segment, before Dennis Prager.
00:23:23.000It gets worse, just in case you're wondering.
00:23:25.000So here's the problem, though, with the progressive left as it relates to toxic masculinity.
00:23:29.000The very existence of the growing LGBTQAIP acronym, the very protest against racial profiling or the non-existent wage gap, all of this is predicated on the idea that generalizations are bad.
00:23:37.000Yet we see the most corrosive generalizations coming from today's progressive left as with Black Lives Matter.
00:23:43.000They see all black people as a monolith.
00:23:44.000We've talked about this. We've had black guests on who said the white privilege you have is not actually being expected to think one way.
00:23:49.000All black people should share the same social, economic, political, and ethical opinions because...
00:23:53.000Melanin. The same for the Women's March and the Pussyhat Economics, right?
00:24:34.000You might be lucky to find a Greek guy in there somewhere because he ate his Wheaties.
00:24:38.000For example, I would never assume that all women are economically left, nor right, nor that all women are pro-abortion, nor pro-life.
00:24:44.000But biologically, only women can get pregnant.
00:24:47.000Transphobic! What if we talked about toxic femininity?
00:24:51.000Here's the truth. Men act the way they do, and the way that they always have acted because of their biology.
00:24:56.000That's an accurate biological generalization.
00:24:59.000What the left does is try to cloak their disdain for men by saying that it's social, it's a societal construct.
00:25:05.000Because if they don't, they're acting as the worst bigots out of all of us.
00:25:08.000If masculinity really is biological, or at least even a portion of it as we've proven today, think about how terrible the term toxic masculinity is.
00:25:17.000What if we had hashtag Black Lives Toxic?
00:25:20.000You'd be run out on the rail, and rightfully so.
00:25:22.000Now, by the way, I don't bring this up to fist bump the men's rights movement or to try and push some false idea of machismo, but again, to point out that the fake victim and outrage culture creates real victims.
00:25:32.000You know what? Men screw up all the time.
00:25:34.000We understand that. But you take something, a small group of a subset of a group, and you start to label the entire group.
00:25:40.000You know what that does? Everybody who, like me and you, are not these toxic masculinity kind of people, We get pissed off because you're picking on us every single time.
00:25:47.000You're lumping us in with everybody else.
00:25:48.000Well, even worse. I mean, we're grown adults, arguably.
00:25:52.000That's debatable. You sleep in a race car bed.
00:25:54.000But imagine that was the circle of trust.
00:25:58.000No, your race car bed is not a circle of trust.
00:26:02.000I told you, don't invite me for the one nights on your race car bed.
00:26:07.000Gerald Weinstein. But imagine not just us.
00:26:09.000We get pissed off with it. But being a 12-year-old boy today.
00:26:11.000And your entire life you've been burdened with the guilt of toxic masculinity.
00:26:14.000You've been told that everything you're hardwired to do is bad.
00:26:18.000But the good news is you just need to change.
00:26:21.000You just need to become more like a woman.
00:26:22.000Do you think one of the reasons they have such a problem with this is because there are so many parallels between masculinity and conservatism and femininity and liberalism?
00:26:30.000You mean the rugged individualism and the collective and the feelings versus facts?
00:26:34.000Maybe. I don't know. That's a good point.
00:26:35.000Well, can't we just encourage all the wonderful, beautiful Christian women out there to be great Christian women?
00:26:40.000And can't we just have the guys that are doing it the right way and holding open doors and sacrificing their lives to save women and children on boats that are going down?
00:26:45.000Can't we just encourage that? And the video's been demonetized.
00:26:49.000By the way, I don't know what to do with revolving doors.
00:26:50.000Tweet me and let me know. How do you hold that open?
00:26:54.000Because here's the truth. Think about it.
00:26:56.000There are millions, tens of millions of boys who've grown up hearing just that.
00:26:59.000Now, do you think, let me ask you this. Do you think that that boy is more likely to grow up as a strong man, a moral leader, head of household, or less likely?
00:27:06.000Do you think he's more likely to love women and to treat them respectfully, compassionately, or to develop animosity toward them for accusing him of being a toxic cretin?
00:27:13.000Do you think he's more likely to become a compassionate husband and a loving father, or do you think he'll run away from marriage with his hair on fire?
00:27:18.000I bring this up because if we're going to scream, please think of the children, and if your professors and their complicit media brethren are going to spout this nonsense, they need to know the serious generational consequences that this lie can create.
00:27:31.000There's one factor, we've talked about this, that determines the statistical likelihood of a child making it in this world.
00:27:35.000From finishing school, to going to college, to avoiding prison, to domestic abuse, to drug use, to teen pregnancy, to school violence.
00:27:40.000And that stat is singularly, does a child have a daddy?
00:30:37.000Glad to have our next guest. Usually, here's the thing.
00:30:40.000First guest of the night. Usually we have him on for a long-form interview because we can't get it done in the 15 minutes that we would typically do on a Thursday show.
00:30:46.000However, I just got his book, and full disclosure, I just received it this morning, so I was not able to read it, but I'm looking forward to it.
00:30:52.000It's the Rational Bible. It's the Bill O'Reilly thing.
00:30:53.000You say you've read it twice. Yeah, I've read it twice.
00:31:52.000That's why my column on Tuesday, National Review, Town Hall, and other places, Which the New York Times responded to yesterday with a whole series of tweets, which is very uncommon.
00:32:08.000I believe that I opened up a scab because this is the great, unspoken, virtually universally known thing.
00:32:22.000The New York Times bestseller list is not a bestseller list.
00:32:37.000Who do I ask? I think it is easier to find out the ingredients of Coca-Cola than it is to know how the New York Times Derives its bestseller list.
00:32:54.000The book will do great whether or not it's on the Times bestseller list.
00:32:58.000But it's number two on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.
00:33:01.000Number two on Publishers Weekly, which is the bible of the publishing industry, their bestseller list.
00:33:07.000Number one, according to Ingram, which sells the books to 85% of the stores.
00:33:14.000Right. So the people who distribute it say it's number one, and it's not even 15 on the New York Times bestseller list.
00:33:22.000So there has been a long time suspicion that politics, if you're a conservative and especially a religious book, The chances, that doesn't mean there were no conservative books on.
00:33:35.000My last book was on, but it was on for one week, and that was it.
00:33:41.000But there's a general realization it's not for real.
00:33:46.000It's sort of like the hard copy YouTube algorithm.
00:33:48.000No one really knows what it means, no one knows how to work it, no one knows how to play by the rules, and they could be changing without us knowing.
00:33:55.000I've never been, I know Jordan Peterson, Dr.
00:33:56.000Jordan Peterson has been on the Okay, so here's the thing.
00:34:59.000Well, let me ask you this. That's actually, it's completely an offshoot here, but as someone who's obviously a deeply moral man and you talk about right and wrong, and actually I'll talk about at the end of this show that the happiness hour, I've been thinking about that quite a bit lately.
00:35:10.000It's an hour that he does specifically in the show just devoted to happiness and your moral obligation to be happy.
00:35:15.000So as a moral person, as someone who deals with philosophy more, what's your view?
00:35:28.000Treat me like an adult, treat me seriously, and then says I'm a child, don't bully me.
00:35:32.000What do you believe is the morally correct approach?
00:35:35.000The morally correct approach is to respond to how he behaves and how he speaks.
00:35:42.000I don't mock people, whatever their age, so I don't use that sort of thing.
00:35:49.000But you are entirely right, the left sends kids out, then when you attack what they say, you're a bully for attacking a kid.
00:36:00.000I had this, the Democrats had at their convention, when Dick Cheney was still vice president, so we're talking about 12 years ago, or whatever it is, 10 years ago, and they had a girl get up, I think she was like 14, And all she did was mock the vice president, which I would never allow my child to mock a Democrat.
00:36:26.000My father allowed it, and look how it turned out, so you probably made a good decision.
00:36:31.000Well, no, that is a good challenge to what I just said.
00:37:04.000Right. Yeah. Well, I remember I got in trouble because Jonathan Crone was this conservative young guy at CPAC, and I was on a Fox News show, and I made a joke.
00:37:12.000I said something to the effect of, I have skivvies older than this kid, I just don't know that he should be a keynote speaker.
00:37:16.000And I got some flack on some blogs, and conservatives gave me crap, and then I had to introduce him.
00:37:21.000I had to introduce him, followed by Bill Bennett and Senator Rick Santorum.
00:37:25.000He's in the green room. And once he found out I was a Fox News contributor, he's like, oh, so are you on, like, panels?
00:37:31.000And I'm sitting there going, please just don't run a search of what I've said.
00:37:35.000And then I got in trouble because I said, you know what?
00:37:36.000I'm uncomfortable with using children as political pawns because someone like this, this was Jonathan Crone at the time, 14-year-old conservative activist, was really popular.
00:37:45.000I said, I think that there's a strong chance he'll become a pot-smoking hippie at Berkeley.
00:37:50.000And you know what? I was right about everything, except he went to Columbia, and he ended up writing for Salon.
00:37:55.000You can't write that. Excervers are just as guilty of it.
00:37:58.000Yeah. I felt like Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino, just going down like a crucifix riddled with bullets for that kid, because I was like, this kid absolutely has it coming.
00:38:07.000Speaking of bullies, what's going on with your YouTube case, Mr.
00:38:11.000Prager? Prager, you filed suit with YouTube, and I've just heard some bad news, but I want you to explain it.
00:38:18.000Well, right now we're appealing because the judge...
00:38:42.000So she ruled against us, but without prejudice, meaning we can appeal if we present a different argument.
00:38:48.000Okay. But what is interesting, and to me this is a partial victory, She said, and I had said this before she ever rendered her verdict, I said, it will be a victory for Prager University and for the country, more important for the country, if the judge merely announces, the truth is, Google YouTube is not neutral.
00:39:11.000Is in fact politically motivated, ideologically driven.
00:39:16.000Sure enough, she said, the notion that YouTube is neutral and a conduit for all views, these are her words, is mere puffery.
00:39:31.000Wow. Is this legal terminology that I'm not necessarily...
00:39:52.000Well, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but I'm sure you guys have some tricks up your sleeve because I know some PragerU people were there at the YouTube meeting and they went to great lengths to ensure us that that was not the case, that YouTube was a neutral platform.
00:41:25.000And kindly, he came out and said, you guys got to sue.
00:41:29.000This is disgusting. So they have been handling all of this, and they are going to present other arguments and resubmit it to the court.
00:41:40.000Well, good luck with that. You know, it's funny.
00:41:41.000We talked about a turning point for us when I was trying to work within the rules and get videos monetized on YouTube and find out why we were in restricted mode.
00:41:48.000A turning point for us was when they demonetized and manually reviewed it and said this is not advertiser friendly.
00:42:47.000But if we're basically good, all you need is love.
00:42:50.000And you make yourself... You know, people think idolatry is only a golden calf as we're talking about Exodus, but idolatry today is...
00:42:57.000David Hogg. It's making yourself the god of your own universe.
00:43:00.000Seeing yourself as perfect. That's right.
00:43:01.000It's the difference between saying, I'm the greatest hockey player who's ever lived, I don't need to fix it, or waking up every day saying, you know what, there are things to improve.
00:43:10.000If you believe that human beings are naturally...
00:43:12.000I don't want to say evil, but not necessarily intrinsically good.
00:43:15.000Let me ask you this, because I know it's Exodus, God, slavery, and freedom.
00:43:18.000We'll talk about this when you come back, but just to tease it, I would imagine you probably have some answers in here for people who say, well, you're talking about a God who encouraged slavery, if you read back, God who killed tons of people.
00:43:31.000That's why it's called the Rational Bible.
00:43:33.000The best statement about this work, and this is my life's work, that's volume one of my life's work, The best description was, it gives intelligent people permission to believe.
00:43:48.000And, well, Gerald had to go, but he's actually an apologist.
00:43:51.000He does some teaching at churches across this state.
00:43:55.000And yeah, it really is. It's one of those issues that I think for a long time, atheists had the corner on intellectualism, and that slowly breaking down as they've created this unholy alliance with the progressive left, where people are saying, you know what?
00:44:06.000For the first time, I'm willing to listen to someone like Dennis Prager.
00:44:08.000For the first time, I'm willing to listen to someone like Jordan Peterson because these atheists I respected have gone so far around the bend.
00:44:14.000Maybe there is a rational way to approach the Bible.
00:44:16.000And where's the best place for people to find it, Senor?
00:44:19.000Well, Amazon is the easiest, obviously, but their local bookstore, even Costco in most places has it.
00:44:25.000Costco! So I tell you, I am very proud to say, who else has had a Bible commentary at Costco?
00:44:44.000It was, you know, a game of telephone from Jesus, obviously.
00:44:47.000Someone's going to fact-check me on that. I'm really looking forward to reading this, The Rational Bible, from Dennis Prager.
00:44:52.000Of course, PragerU, please support them.
00:44:54.000Dennis Prager, thank you so much for being here, and we will have you back here in the next couple weeks to do a full hour once I've read this.
00:46:28.000People who are watching or listening to this on iTunes, you're missing the daily show.
00:46:33.000We do this show Monday through Thursday and then Nake Jared does Morning Grinders, of course, with our brothers there at CNN. Which is now live streaming.
00:46:38.000Yeah, now they're live streaming. Live streaming it.
00:46:53.000Keeps 15 people on this show alone employed, let alone Mark Levin and Gavin McGinnis, all these other people we've partnered up because we want to make sure we still keep the content free for you on YouTube.
00:47:19.000And if you don't like it, well, then you don't get a mug.
00:47:22.000You can't try it and get a mug and not send it because we just...
00:47:24.000No. I don't know what it is with the shoulder tick with that one.
00:47:38.000That's weird. And right while we were during the break, our producer was, well, not our producer, our next guest producer was yelling at him.
00:47:44.000They were yelling back and forth. Can we get the wide shot or the tight shot?
00:47:48.000I don't know if the wide's going to work.
00:47:50.000So it just set me in a great mood for a calm, collected, conversational interview.
00:47:54.000We'll do a live. Of course you know this guest.
00:47:56.000He's one of our favorite guests. One of our most regular guests.
00:49:45.000I think actors assume they have a lot of influence because they have 17 million followers, but that's just because people like looking at you or they like when you're James Bond or something.
00:49:55.000It doesn't mean we're going to you for our education policy.
00:50:00.000Yeah, well, you know, that's a good point.
00:50:02.000We've talked about this before. If you look at late-night hosts on the main networks and cable television, and if you look at their interactivity online for the size of the audience that you would think they have, it is unbelievably remote.
00:50:15.000As a matter of fact, it continues to surprise me.
00:50:17.000Like, for example, when you look at Comedy Central.
00:50:19.000Comedy Central, the show Jordan Klepper is a new show.
00:50:21.000We were just talking about how terrible it is.
00:50:33.000Take Jon Stewart, have that, cut it in half, and then you have this guy, Jordan Klepper.
00:50:38.000He has 70,000 Twitter followers, but more importantly, no one interacts with him, and with so much money.
00:50:45.000Do you think there's a disconnect where they've been conditioned to think, well, we spent this much money on advertising, so we have this much influence, and it doesn't work anymore?
00:50:52.000Yeah, that's the huge mistake with this entire list.
00:50:55.000And Trevor Noah is on the list, by the way.
00:50:57.000It seems like there's like a third black woman, but they're all entertainers or underachieving writers who have put out a book or a poem or something.
00:51:05.000And then every time they cut to a white guy, which is very rare and begrudgingly, you have someone like Carl June who trained children's T cells to fight cancer.
00:51:17.000Yeah. Or you got this guy, John Wei Pan, who used quantum communication to declare quantum states of...
00:51:27.000I don't understand. Something with photons.
00:51:29.000Right. She's clearly part of the.01 top people in the world.
00:56:12.000It said that there was an article that said, Donald Trump announces he will seek re-election.
00:56:17.000I scrolled through, what, four or five paragraphs?
00:56:20.000Yeah. And this is front-page news, right?
00:56:22.000You would probably think, hey, wow, this is big news.
00:56:24.000We thought this is big. Maybe let's corroborate it.
00:56:26.000Anywhere else? Nowhere. They took a statement from before he'd ever become president that he said he might seek re-election if his first term goes well, and then commentary from Republicans who may or may not back him.
00:57:01.000And this, it's got the newest flash, this list.
00:57:04.000On the website, you can't scroll around.
00:57:06.000It's a nightmare to go back and forth with, but it does look nice, and it is pretty black people and exotic-looking women from all over the world.
00:57:45.000I do recommend people go out and check out this lesson, of course, your show, which is Get Off My Lawn.
00:57:49.000How can people sign up for that wonderful program?
00:57:52.000They go to CRTV.com, and if you sign up, you become a member of a thing I'm doing called the Mug Group, where it's a thing I invented, and you're part of this group, and you all get a mug like this, and you can, you know, it's a fun concept where we all feel like we're part of a community, part of a group, and we all have the same mug.
01:00:14.000Thank you to Dennis Prager and to Gavin McGinnis.
01:00:17.000You know what? Just because I'm still sick.
01:00:20.000I'm really out of breath. I pinched my nose.
01:00:22.000Yeah. And because of this, my nostrils stuck for about 10 seconds.
01:00:27.000So I was breathing like this. Thank God my mic wasn't on.
01:00:33.000Which, by the way, again, formal apology.
01:00:35.000Tuesday was the worst show I've ever done.
01:00:36.000And that's why I want to talk about this last segment as well.
01:00:40.000I just felt bad about it because you deserve better, and I was sick, and we had done the Change My Mind, and if you listen to it, you can hear people like, it hurts my voice to hear.
01:01:42.000He said, no, listen, you really, really helped me get through a hard time.
01:01:45.000And when I was serving, I appreciate it.
01:01:47.000And he gave us this here, a Navy cross.
01:01:48.000And I'm kind of ashamed to say I didn't really know a ton about a Navy cross.
01:01:53.000But I guess it's the second highest sort of medal of honor that you can get for an act of heroism.
01:01:58.000So when I see that, and I go, oh, you know, and I have a sinus infection and I lost my voice, I don't know what this guy did to earn this cross, but I guarantee you it was worse than that.
01:02:08.000I guarantee you it was worse than pulling a few 16-hour shifts in a row with four hours of sleep, because he probably did that while he was being waterboarded and having someone saw off his hands with a machete.
01:02:49.000But... There's no excuse for not being at the top of our game.
01:02:54.000And one thing I kind of want to talk about was we were all in a bad mood because we were sick.
01:03:00.000We've been overworked. I've had a lot of, like, maybe at some point I'll talk about kind of some personal pressures, things going on in the last couple of weeks.
01:03:05.000But something I will say, and I've been thinking about Dennis Prager, his happiness hour a lot.
01:03:10.000And he has this philosophy, it's your moral obligation to be happy.
01:03:13.000And I actually had someone who was a doctor say, well, you know, you're not responsible for each other's happiness talking about spouses.
01:03:20.000I believe you are largely responsible for your spouse's happiness through being happy yourself.
01:03:24.000I mean, no one's going to be happy. Yeah.
01:03:25.000If you're a miserable husband all the time, if you're a miserable wife all the time, it doesn't mean that someone else who's a miserable bastard, you know, you take it on yourself.
01:03:33.000But it is your job to try and set a tone in a house.
01:03:36.000And it is your job to try and set a tone with the people you meet.
01:03:39.000It is our job, even after we've done, you know, a two-hour show, whether it's SMU, whether it's Illinois, whether it's, you know, A&M or what we're going to be doing in the fall, a whole tour, and you've been setting up for nine hours...
01:03:50.000It is your job to set a tone, even when you're doing the after party, the meet and greet, and you have no voice, to make sure that you're happy to be there.
01:03:57.000Because, you know, I thought about it.
01:03:59.000How would you feel, and most of you feel this way, but a lot of your burdens that you think about, for example, that day I did not want to do a show, Tuesday.
01:04:06.000I was like, I just, you know, I was basically hunkered down like Bubble Boy until the show threw off the covers and came in.
01:04:22.000I mean, that's the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, really.
01:04:24.000That's the tale of people, the lost redemption that they never got.
01:04:27.000So think of it that way. Whatever burden it is in your life that you don't want to do, it's probably something pretty consequential.
01:04:33.000And I want you to think for a little, just for a short moment, how would you feel if you didn't have it?
01:04:37.000Often it's a relationship. Well, how would you feel if you didn't have that relationship?
01:04:40.000Sometimes it's a job. Would you rather not have that job?
01:04:43.000Sometimes it's a friend. A lot of the times, there's that old, I don't know what you call it, I don't know if it's a folk tale or whatever it is, it's kind of a fable where people all put their problems into a hat, they mix it up, and they could pick any problem out of that hat, and everyone picked their own problem back.
01:04:58.000My dad told me that when I was a kid, and you had a point, and you were mentioning that...
01:05:01.000I mean, call it, you know, I feel like God's been teaching me this, and you can be triggered if you want, but...
01:05:10.000I know. He lighted him on. So that kind of lesson I've been learning lately that kind of ties into that is this idea that being okay with troubles in life, and we know from John 16 that you will have troubles.
01:05:23.000It's promised. It's a guarantee. And I think we go through this life sometimes with this idea that if you just work hard enough to get to a place where we're going to be caught up with something, we're going to get caught up in everything, and everything's going to be smooth, and every relationship is going to be just harmonious in every facet, I think like...
01:05:38.000Think about it kind of like owning a car.
01:05:40.000I think we think about it when we have a flat tire.
01:05:42.000That's a big failure of car ownership.
01:05:45.000That's not a failure of car ownership.
01:06:27.000But him saying, take this cup from me, right before he knew he was about to be crucified, kind of a rough way to go.
01:06:32.000Mm-hmm. As far as I'm concerned, there's sticking the glass catheter down your pee hole and smashing it, like they do in one of those Asian countries.
01:06:39.000I don't know which one. Jamming wood chips up your thumbs.
01:09:32.000Whether it's lifting the heaviest thing you can, running as fast as you can and measuring it, getting your heart beating as fast as you can, taking the most difficult intellectual test, driving a car as fast as you can, finding something that you're good at and redlining it as hard as you can.
01:09:47.000Everyone needs to do that at some point in their life.
01:09:49.000I think everyone needs to do it actually frequently in their life because you don't know the measure of a man until you do that.
01:09:53.000But find the thing in which you are excellent and choose to be excellent.
01:09:58.000If it's guitar, if it's basketball, if it's science, choose to be excellent.
01:10:01.000Guess what? You're going to have a lot to be grateful for.
01:10:03.000Because if you know that you're living in your purpose and you're using your gifts, and I don't mean in some abstract...
01:10:08.000Yogi kind of way. I mean, find practically what you are good at doing and be excellent at it.
01:10:15.000And while you are doing it, and when you run into those hurdles like we were talking about, Nakajir just made a brilliant point about that.