Louder with Crowder - #317 'TOXIC MASCULINITY' DEBUNKED! Dennis Prager and Gavin McInnes Guest | Louder With Crowder

00:00:00.000 I want to tell you my secret now.

00:00:09.000 Now.

00:00:10.000 Okay. I see not funny people.

00:00:17.000 Like on your Facebook timeline?

00:00:19.000 On your Instagram?

00:00:22.000 Snapchat? You see them in real life?

00:00:27.000 Like on TV? Not funny people.

00:00:32.000 Like Jimmy Kimmel?

00:00:33.000 Samantha Bee? On cable television.

00:00:38.000 Like the real funny people.

00:00:41.000 They don't make me laugh.

00:00:44.000 They only see their point of view.

00:00:47.000 They don't know they're not funny.

00:00:51.000 How often do you see them?

00:00:55.000 Every night.

00:00:57.000 They're everywhere.

00:01:01.000 You won't tell anyone my secret, right?

00:01:04.000 No. Will you stay and tell me some jokes?

00:01:10.000 I can't.

00:01:12.000 We're about to tape.

00:01:15.000 Bob!

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00:01:20.000 Oh, no!

00:01:51.000 I'm a spirit.

00:02:05.000 If anyone can remember that crappy film, send it to me.

00:02:10.000 As Crowder, speaking of which, by the way, producing will be in video studio as always. 0.93

00:02:14.000 This is Jared, who is not gay. Follow him on Twitter, not gay Jared. 0.87

00:02:16.000 Meet us, Crowder, with your comments, your thoughts, your Photoshops. I fulfill my legal obligations.

00:02:18.000 Drawing conclusions, are we good?

00:02:19.000 Are we good?

00:02:20.000 We have Dennis Prager on the show today.

00:02:22.000 One of my favorites, his new book, Exodus, The Rational Bible.

00:02:26.000 Highly, highly recommended by most people.

00:02:27.000 I 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.

00:02:34.000 Then one of our favorites, Gavin McInnes is on.

00:02:36.000 And of course, what's the wine of the day, Mr.

00:02:38.000 Sommelier G. Morgan Jr.?

00:02:40.000 A little Chateauneuf to pop.

00:02:41.000 A little what? Chateauneuf? Shut up.

00:02:43.000 How about that? Hey, who's doing the overlays? 0.99

00:02:45.000 Sven Computer, are you ready? Me, I'm ready.

00:02:47.000 Beep, beep. Simplifiedwine.com.

00:02:48.000 Oh, there you go. Nice plug for our fruit.

00:02:50.000 Fantastic. Damn it! 1.00

00:02:55.000 He's almost getting quick enough. 1.00

00:02:57.000 Dude, he did that? Almost quick enough.

00:02:58.000 So we're going to have Dennis Prager.

00:03:00.000 We're going to have Gavin McInnes.

00:03:02.000 And then a big topic we're going to get into today.

00:03:05.000 This is the question of the day. What's your opinion on the idea of toxic masculinity?

00:03:08.000 I 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?

00:03:15.000 Have you really thought of this sort of colloquialism, now toxic masculinity?

00:03:19.000 I'm interested to hear some opinions.

00:03:20.000 It's all the rage. But before we get into that, we're getting into some news that matters.

00:03:24.000 David Hogg just announced a book deal.

00:03:26.000 Oh, gosh. Time.com says siblings David and Lauren Hogg are working on the name.

00:03:32.000 Hashtag never again. A new generation draws a line.

00:03:34.000 Random House announced the book will come out June 5th.

00:03:37.000 That the Hoggs are donating their proceeds to charity and community organizations.

00:03:41.000 So it's rumored actually to be 150 pages of them demanding that you take them seriously.

00:03:44.000 Followed by 150 pages of them claiming that you can't disagree with them because they're just kids and you can't bully them.

00:03:48.000 With the foreword written by Clock Boy.

00:03:51.000 You know, when I first saw it, never again, I thought it said, I thought it was hashtag because it's all together.

00:03:54.000 Never again. I'm like, oh, that stands to reason.

00:03:57.000 Never again. Never again.

00:03:59.000 Yeah. I concede territory.

00:04:01.000 I don't gate it. Maybe I'll hit by school bus.

00:04:03.000 Another story that really caught her eye.

00:04:04.000 A California woman just sued a lollipop company because she claimed she didn't realize there was sugar in lollipops.

00:04:13.000 She claimed Yum Earth knowingly engaged in deceptive marketing tactics by neglecting to list sugar, instead using the more opaque term, evaporated cane juice.

00:04:22.000 Which 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.

00:04:32.000 Et cetera, et cetera. Lollipops contain sugar!

00:04:36.000 It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! 1.00

00:04:39.000 You 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! 1.00

00:04:50.000 You lose! Good day, c**t! 1.00

00:04:54.000 Now see, Gerald is shocked because he heard the uncensored version right now that you didn't get to hear. 0.98

00:05:02.000 Huh? What? There's no candy associated with this program.

00:05:04.000 The great thing is that they're vitamin C lollipops.

00:05:07.000 Yeah. That poor bitch thought she tricked the system. 1.00

00:05:09.000 She thought she won. Who can think I'm fucking healthy? 1.00

00:05:12.000 It's not possible. And candy. 0.99

00:05:14.000 You 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.

00:05:20.000 Yeah. Shouldn't, I didn't know candy had sugar beyond that list. 0.99

00:05:24.000 It should. It should stop you cold in your tracks.

00:05:27.000 You should go, ooh, you know what? I'm going to come out looking worse.

00:05:29.000 Yeah. Don't hit send. My hands will get dirty.

00:05:31.000 Not to mention Lollipop is 2018. You can't give those things away at the bank.

00:05:34.000 You can't give them away. People would rather steal pens.

00:05:37.000 Give me the smarties. Toby the Cat.

00:05:40.000 This is a story that people won't be happy to hear, but it has a happy ending.

00:05:42.000 Toby the Cat walked 12 miles to get home to its family.

00:05:47.000 And they immediately ask the shelter to euthanize him.

00:05:49.000 Yeah, baby! Yes! 1.00

00:05:50.000 Here we go! Comes from Fox 5 San Diego.

00:05:53.000 He could walk 500 miles, and he's dead.

00:05:58.000 He's dead! This is the best guy story.

00:06:01.000 Yes. No, hold on a second. So Toby's family decided they no longer wanted him, the article goes on to say.

00:06:06.000 So they gave him to another family, but Toby missed them, walked 12 miles back.

00:06:09.000 When he got there, the family wanted him euthanized.

00:06:11.000 Luckily, the shelter contacted the SBCA of Wake.

00:06:13.000 We'd call it a bad ending. Who took him in and helped him find a new family.

00:06:17.000 Now, it would seem like a happy ending if you missed the subtext.

00:06:20.000 The context matters. That this was the infamous rapist cat! 0.97

00:06:28.000 Yeah, see? There's a twist that you... 0.97

00:06:30.000 Context matters.

00:06:33.000 It was actually... And actually, we only found out...

00:06:35.000 He had a good... We actually only found out after the new adoptive children were reportedly tweeting out the Meow2 movement. 0.90

00:06:42.000 Yeah. I just accidentally said meow.

00:06:45.000 Mewvment. Hashtag meow too, but I was in meow puns all day.

00:06:48.000 Meow puns all day. All day. Give that cat nine life sentences. 1.00

00:06:51.000 It's like Mr. Freeze with, there's a storm coming.

00:06:54.000 Everybody chill. Must have been like Heath Ledger's Joker, just living in his own personal hell with that method acting, Mr.

00:06:59.000 Freeze. So it was.

00:07:01.000 They were tweeting out the hashtag meow too, and it was all but confirmed by this recorded, leaked 911 call.

00:07:10.000 Toby won't stop.

00:07:11.000 He's here and I'm locked in the bedroom.

00:07:14.000 Okay, sir, calm down. He won't stop talking about the casting couch.

00:07:17.000 He promised me Lee Rose, a great film.

00:07:20.000 Okay, sir, slow down.

00:07:21.000 He said I had inequality, but he only ended up getting me a walk-on...

00:07:26.000 Okay, sir, calm down.

00:07:29.000 He's really trying to get in.

00:07:30.000 Okay, sir, hold on, hold on. Did you say that Toby the Cat got you a walk-on role on the Big Bang Theory?

00:07:36.000 Yeah, and he promised so much more.

00:07:38.000 Okay, sir. Okay, sir, I need you to listen to me very carefully.

00:07:45.000 Is Kaley Cuoco as cool in real life as she seems on the show? 0.95

00:07:48.000 Because I imagine she'd be really cool.

00:07:52.000 Yeah, she's pretty cool.

00:07:53.000 Oh god, Tommy's coming through the window!

00:07:57.000 The blood is on your hands, SPCA. 0.98

00:08:00.000 You allowed this pervert into a house. 0.90

00:08:04.000 Oh, good lord. Can't keep his paws off him! 0.98

00:08:06.000 Come on! I can go all day with these.

00:08:11.000 I sincerely hope not. 1.00

00:08:13.000 But the main takeaway is just kill all cats. 0.99

00:08:14.000 Yes, thank you. Hashtag cat control now. 0.99

00:08:17.000 Spawn of Satan. Hashtag meow too.

00:08:20.000 I'm sorry that that's how we started this show.

00:08:24.000 And I'm sorry for this next story.

00:08:27.000 Amy Schumer's... I slightly anticipate a new movie here.

00:08:31.000 And the ratings are coming in.

00:08:33.000 Unfortunately for her, she's only received 35 tomatoes on the dollar.

00:08:37.000 So that's been tough for her.

00:08:40.000 And they've reformatted the rating system.

00:08:42.000 What happened? It's now in 94.

00:08:44.000 95, 84. Amy Schumer is the ugly friend of cinema. 1.00

00:08:48.000 They just keep her around so Jennifer Lopez can feel good about her movies. 1.00

00:08:50.000 Yes, exactly. Like now, see?

00:08:52.000 The cell doesn't look so bad, right?

00:08:55.000 No, it's still bad. I take Melissa McCarthy any day.

00:08:58.000 She knows who she is. Melissa McCarthy is funny.

00:09:00.000 And that's the thing that you can tell with Amy Schumer.

00:09:02.000 Amy Schumer, look at Trainwreck.

00:09:03.000 She was believable enough where they played the hot single girl who doesn't want to settle down. 1.00

00:09:07.000 And now she plays the fat chick. 1.00

00:09:09.000 So you know at some point she made the conscious decision, okay, I was the cute young It comic.

00:09:14.000 Now I'm going to try and compete.

00:09:15.000 I'm going to try and go tit for tat with Melissa McCarthy.

00:09:17.000 And the truth is, Melissa McCarthy is a funnier actress. 0.99

00:09:19.000 Her stick is just, I'm fat and ugly and disgusting. 0.99

00:09:24.000 But also kind of hot, right? 0.99

00:09:25.000 Like a 2018 sort of way?

00:09:27.000 I'm also kind of hot, right?

00:09:29.000 I'm not hot anymore? Because it's time?

00:09:31.000 It's time for this to be hot?

00:09:34.000 It's time for this week's Eye on India!

00:09:44.000 So, an Indian minister was ridiculed for saying that ancient India invented the internet.

00:09:49.000 It 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.

00:10:00.000 He 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...

00:10:11.000 Anyway, the point is that he was basically claiming that India invented both the internet and the world.

00:10:15.000 Which 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.

00:10:30.000 They said that's highly...

00:10:31.000 It's a tough sell.

00:10:35.000 It'd be like their man on the moon.

00:10:36.000 We can put a man, we can invent the internet and satellite, but we're still pooping in the streets!

00:10:43.000 We invented the internet!

00:10:46.000 I thought Al Gore invented the internet.

00:10:48.000 Was he Indian? Well, I know. When Al Gore theory is more believable, you know you've jumped a shark to society. 1.00

00:10:53.000 He loved his Molagatani.

00:10:54.000 Of course, it should be noted that Mr.

00:10:56.000 Deb is a member of the Hindu nationalist BJP government. 0.99

00:10:59.000 See, this is what happens when you combine nationalism with a nation that sucks. 0.99

00:11:05.000 Yes. Another news in India, watch, because we can keep these going all day. 1.00

00:11:10.000 From New Delhi, a dying 700-year-old banyan tree has been put on a drip.

00:11:15.000 Yes, it's just what you see for those listening on the audio.

00:11:18.000 According to a news agency, one of the branches was infected by termites, so determined to save the tree, they put up drips.

00:11:25.000 What? To kill off the insects. 0.82

00:11:29.000 In their defense, the tree did have cholera, which explains why it, too, had been pooping in the streets.

00:11:34.000 That's their calling card.

00:11:38.000 My thing is, it's a 700-year-old tree that's been stuck in India for this entire time. 0.99

00:11:43.000 Give it a medal and let it die. 0.99

00:11:45.000 Let it go. Let it go. 1.00

00:11:48.000 Set it free. I wonder what those holes at the bottom of the trees were for.

00:11:51.000 Now I know. Yeah. Well, that's how they check the age in India.

00:11:54.000 They just check how many blown O-rings there are.

00:11:56.000 Oh. Oh.

00:11:58.000 For people who understand the genre of tree dating methods, that's funny.

00:12:03.000 All right. That has been our eye on India.

00:12:06.000 We don't need the outro. We don't need the outro.

00:12:07.000 I don't even want to do it because now we move to it.

00:12:09.000 We're international. Before we get into toxic masculinity, Dennis Prager, if he ever comes back on the show.

00:12:14.000 A German theater. Did you read this?

00:12:16.000 You read this story earlier. The German theater is now offering free seats to spectators willing to wear swastikas.

00:12:20.000 Let me explain. The theater in Constance is offering free admission to spectators willing to wear an armband with a Nazi swastika.

00:12:28.000 Spectators 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.

00:12:37.000 Which honestly put German Jews at this theater in an awkward position.

00:12:41.000 Because obviously the swastika, on the other hand, free! 0.97

00:12:43.000 Free! By the way, first to take advantage of this promotion, already camped outside this theater like a Star Wars premiere.

00:12:51.000 No surprise. I think we have a picture.

00:12:53.000 There you go. Well, I expected Count Dankula, Pud, but Sven Computer.

00:12:59.000 All in the name of a hot beep-beep.

00:13:05.000 I know he said all in the name of art.

00:13:07.000 All in the name of a hot beat.

00:13:12.000 My heart still beats for this swastika. 1.00

00:13:15.000 All right. Did you try to expense that trip, too?

00:13:17.000 Yeah, I did. Exactly.

00:13:19.000 That's not going to be clear in the company card.

00:13:20.000 I'm surprised it went so basic. Everyone knows poop swastikas are all the rage. 0.99

00:13:22.000 Poop swastikas are all the rage. Come on. Do something unique. 0.99

00:13:25.000 Hey, by the way, according to the Huffington Post, Robert De Niro gave Donald Trump another savage nickname.

00:13:30.000 That's the actual headline.

00:13:33.000 Okay, 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. 0.86

00:13:42.000 He dubbed Trump our lowlife in chief, quote. 0.97

00:13:46.000 Okay. I guess it doesn't take much to make this guy laugh anymore.

00:13:50.000 Ah! Ah!

00:13:52.000 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

00:13:56.000 Ah! Ah! Ah! Dude, why didn't you just hire writers?

00:14:04.000 You 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.

00:14:11.000 Yeah. But the big thing is, I think Robert De Niro, he thinks he outsmarted Trump on this one.

00:14:15.000 He doesn't realize he's just completely playing into the hand.

00:14:18.000 He's playing along. Lying Robert De Niro.

00:14:20.000 Yeah, well, you are a lowlife in chief. 0.96

00:14:23.000 Yes, you are. You are the lowlife in chief, my friend. 0.99

00:14:25.000 I bounced that one off my mom. I know it works.

00:14:28.000 Some people should just not have a platform to speak about these things. 1.00

00:14:31.000 It just makes them look stupid. Well, he has a platform, but, you know, he just acknowledged that he's retarded. 1.00

00:14:36.000 So, 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.

00:14:42.000 It's true. It started with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

00:14:44.000 Now, 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.

00:14:55.000 Well, it turns out he's a child pornographer.

00:14:57.000 Oh. So he was sentenced to 105 years.

00:15:01.000 What? Yeah, dressing up as Spider-Man.

00:15:03.000 And really, looking back, considering what he handed in with his resume, we should have

00:15:07.000 seen this coming.

00:15:18.000 Watches kids, takes their hand, upload pictures to Instagram. 0.98

00:15:22.000 Look out, here comes the pedophile! 0.99

00:15:26.000 Look out, here comes the pedophile! 1.00

00:15:32.000 Need some odor? 0.98

00:15:34.000 You don't exactly have Neil Diamond on the payroll, okay?

00:15:39.000 That's some really niche stuff.

00:15:40.000 The costumes with hospital kids.

00:15:42.000 Hey, kid. Yeah.

00:15:48.000 Oh dear lord. By the way, I formally apologize for how bad our show was.

00:15:51.000 I was so sick on Tuesday. 0.98

00:15:53.000 Jared sucked. I sucked. 1.00

00:15:55.000 Oh, it was awful. I left the state not to be on it. 0.99

00:15:58.000 I was hitting the cough button and I still am.

00:15:59.000 I don't know what this is. I picked up SARS at the Toronto airport or something.

00:16:02.000 Cough button. Hold on. Cover for me.

00:16:03.000 That was the best of us. There we go.

00:16:05.000 Let it out. I sound like Robert De Niro laughing at the theater.

00:16:11.000 Counselor. Take an antibiotic, dude.

00:16:15.000 Especially if you don't have a colon.

00:16:16.000 You don't want to take the antibiotics. People just go to it right away.

00:16:20.000 You don't take it unless you need it, and if you do it, you take it with probiotics.

00:16:22.000 I want an antibiotic now. I will say this about the Spider-Man window-washing pedophile.

00:16:29.000 The guy didn't earn it, but the guy put in his work.

00:16:33.000 So it's never earned. But the guy put in work.

00:16:36.000 Come on. Most people just get a paneled van.

00:16:38.000 You're dressing up as Spider-Man at a children's hospital.

00:16:41.000 Outside the windows. 0.99

00:16:43.000 The guy is obviously a pervert. 0.98

00:16:46.000 Just like Toby the Cat. Not good for him. 1.00

00:16:50.000 But... You don't see a work ethic.

00:16:54.000 Hashtag respect. Hashtag blessed.

00:16:56.000 You walked a tightrope there, my friend.

00:16:58.000 No, watch. They're going to try and Milo me.

00:17:00.000 You supported pedophilia.

00:17:01.000 Not at all. I'm just saying there probably are easier ways for somebody to be a pedophile.

00:17:07.000 He didn't take the path of least resistance.

00:17:12.000 Alright, so listen, I want to talk about this.

00:17:14.000 We've been talking about this for a while, but we realized we haven't really done a segment specifically on this.

00:17:17.000 We were planning on doing it in Illinois.

00:17:19.000 Yep. Because on college campus, they teach.

00:17:21.000 So I want to talk about the pervasive myth taught at schools across the country known as toxic masculinity.

00:17:26.000 Big word. This is the term.

00:17:28.000 And why, ironically, the term and the philosophy itself, I think is toxic to both men and women alike.

00:17:34.000 I think it's one of the most damaging things taught in school.

00:17:37.000 So progressives, they use the term toxic masculinity.

00:17:38.000 You guys have heard this.

00:17:39.000 Yeah.

00:17:40.000 To describe what they believe are sort of culturally constructed norms for male behavior

00:17:44.000 that are innately evil.

00:17:45.000 So dominance, aggression, competitiveness, strength, etc.

00:17:49.000 All these things.

00:17:51.000 And the reason that this has been at the forefront, because after school shootings, for example,

00:17:55.000 they always come out in droves and toxic masculinity is a part of the dialogue.

00:18:00.000 Women are better, unfortunately. 1.00

00:18:02.000 We are not the murderers of our society.

00:18:04.000 Toxic masculinity is really crushing men in this country.

00:18:07.000 The right is chiefly responsible for keeping toxic masculinity in our national discourse. 0.99

00:18:12.000 They epitomize that toxic masculinity and they fuel it.

00:18:17.000 Most of the murders. There is a problem with men. 0.95

00:18:19.000 Well, women are doing so well, and that's what's causing the toxic masculinity. 1.00

00:18:24.000 They're not happy about it, and that's why the murders have gone up since 2011.

00:18:29.000 That's true. So actually, men are not as good as women. 0.98

00:18:31.000 We are actually better.

00:18:34.000 Okay. Better. We are better at, like, forming sentences or finishing them?

00:18:39.000 Yeah. Better at what, specifically?

00:18:40.000 Please, give me a list of things that you think you're better at.

00:18:43.000 Giving birth? Don't bring your biology into this. 1.00

00:18:45.000 So, they suggest the solution is to change our culture so that boys are more feminine.

00:18:49.000 This is what you see everywhere right now.

00:18:50.000 Now, it is true, by the way.

00:18:52.000 We have to concede some territory.

00:18:54.000 Men do commit most of the violent crimes.

00:18:55.000 Yeah, that's on us. Yes.

00:18:59.000 Right? Guilty!

00:19:00.000 Sorry about that. Got into my first fistfight as a grown adult man three weeks ago.

00:19:04.000 Guilty. Guilty. We can't talk about it for legal purposes.

00:19:08.000 But the discrepancy in aggression is not created at all by culture, which undercuts the argument to begin with.

00:19:13.000 So as a society, by the way, we condemn criminal activity. 0.99

00:19:16.000 We punish shit. Now here's the thing. 1.00

00:19:25.000 The 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. 0.68

00:19:32.000 The male hormone, of course, testosterone.

00:19:34.000 There's more. There's different variables like luteinizing hormone, growth hormone, which we have in much higher ratios than women. 0.55

00:19:39.000 But let's start with testosterone. 0.99

00:19:40.000 It's linked to higher rates of violence, aggression, risk-taking, and competitiveness.

00:19:43.000 So, First off, let's start with this.

00:19:45.000 They're using a biological argument to condemn men. 0.68

00:19:49.000 All right? Marley was dead to begin with.

00:19:50.000 So how do we know it's biology?

00:19:52.000 Specifically, the hormones that are causing this and not the culture?

00:19:54.000 Well, because we know that testosterone actually has the same effect on women.

00:19:57.000 Women commit more violent crimes who have higher testosterone levels. 1.00

00:20:00.000 And of course listen if you don't believe that chart there's always the eyeball test

00:20:04.000 Last one was a cheat Shouldn't have let Trennies compete in professional sports! 1.00

00:20:30.000 Lesson learned. By the way, I know, we cheated.

00:20:33.000 You weren't guilty. And men cheat more.

00:20:35.000 And by the way, testosterone is also linked to aggressive behavior and increase in animals.

00:20:38.000 So let's be clear. Testosterone is linked to that.

00:20:40.000 But, testosterone isn't just evil.

00:20:42.000 This is a fundamental premise for toxic masculinity. 0.98

00:20:45.000 It doesn't automatically result in violent criminals.

00:20:48.000 It's actually associated with a wide range of symptoms, if you want to call them, or traits.

00:20:52.000 But they can be positive or negative depending on how they're harnessed.

00:20:55.000 So risk-taking aggression, these are good in some circumstances.

00:20:58.000 Look at Winston Churchill. Society needs some strong, brave men to protect the weak.

00:21:02.000 For example, that woman who went in to say women are better, she went into a building likely guarded by armed men.

00:21:09.000 Competitiveness can drive economic growth.

00:21:11.000 We see why capitalists hating progressives dislike these traits so much.

00:21:14.000 By 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.

00:21:21.000 This idea that it only helps the individual if they're just aggressive.

00:21:23.000 No, actually, testosterone helps teamwork. 0.62

00:21:26.000 Now here's something else. That I find interesting.

00:21:29.000 Not 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.

00:21:41.000 You can find this at PubMed.

00:21:43.000 That's surprising. High testosterone generosity.

00:21:45.000 Very surprising, actually. I wonder if they include buying drinks at the bar as generosity.

00:21:50.000 I don't know. It surprised me, too.

00:21:51.000 I am the most generous person you know, then.

00:21:53.000 Yes, this is true.

00:21:54.000 At that point, really, you're just being fleeced.

00:21:56.000 People know they say, he's at the bar, he'll buy you five Appletinis.

00:22:00.000 Testosterone's off the charts. It's true.

00:22:02.000 So, granted, by the way, again, we have to concede some ground here.

00:22:06.000 Of course, sometimes men have gotten it wrong.

00:22:09.000 When you look back, for example, on some Hollywood classics.

00:22:11.000 I mean, like, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

00:22:14.000 I'll give you this one. Tell you about them sobbing women who lived in the Roman days. 1.00

00:22:21.000 It seems that they all went swimming while their men was off to graze.

00:22:25.000 Well, a Roman troop was riding by and saw them in their me-oh-my. 0.98

00:22:30.000 So they took them all back home to dry.

00:22:33.000 At least that's what Plutarch says.

00:22:35.000 I'm here today to get me a wife. 0.92

00:22:37.000 I need to go back home empty-handed.

00:22:40.000 Now, you're all pretty and fresh and young.

00:22:42.000 I'll keep you in mind. Thank you.

00:22:48.000 My women were sobbing, sobbing, sobbing, pockets of tears.

00:22:52.000 Mighty sad. Oh, they acted angry and annoyed.

00:23:01.000 But secretly they was overjoyed.

00:23:03.000 You might recall that when corraling your steer.

00:23:07.000 Ho, ho, ho, ho, that poor little deer.

00:23:10.000 What are you sitting there for? Why don't we go down and get them?

00:23:12.000 Okay, that's one for you, feminists. 1.00

00:23:15.000 By the way, we actually have some archived, never-before-seen footage from the director.

00:23:19.000 Very, very hashtag blessed.

00:23:20.000 At the end of this segment, before Dennis Prager.

00:23:23.000 It gets worse, just in case you're wondering.

00:23:25.000 So here's the problem, though, with the progressive left as it relates to toxic masculinity.

00:23:29.000 The 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.

00:23:37.000 Yet we see the most corrosive generalizations coming from today's progressive left as with Black Lives Matter.

00:23:43.000 They see all black people as a monolith.

00:23:44.000 We'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.

00:23:49.000 All black people should share the same social, economic, political, and ethical opinions because... 1.00

00:23:53.000 Melanin. The same for the Women's March and the Pussyhat Economics, right? 0.99

00:23:57.000 All women support socialism. 1.00

00:23:58.000 They support killing babies because vagina. 1.00

00:24:00.000 Now they want to put the biological genie back in the bottle with toxic masculinity through false social engineering. 1.00

00:24:06.000 It's not culture. It is biology.

00:24:09.000 You're blaming men for their biology.

00:24:11.000 Can you see the problems that might result from this?

00:24:13.000 And by the way, being okay with biological generalizations in the aforementioned hate groups is hate speech.

00:24:20.000 When it's not toxic. For example, I don't think all black people should think the same. 1.00

00:24:23.000 I would never presume that they do.

00:24:25.000 But biologically, there's a reason every single sprinting record is held by a black person. 1.00

00:24:29.000 Racist! How dare you? Look at the top 10. 1.00

00:24:32.000 Look at the top 20.

00:24:34.000 You might be lucky to find a Greek guy in there somewhere because he ate his Wheaties. 1.00

00:24:38.000 For example, I would never assume that all women are economically left, nor right, nor that all women are pro-abortion, nor pro-life.

00:24:44.000 But biologically, only women can get pregnant. 1.00

00:24:47.000 Transphobic! What if we talked about toxic femininity? 1.00

00:24:51.000 Here's the truth. Men act the way they do, and the way that they always have acted because of their biology.

00:24:56.000 That's an accurate biological generalization.

00:24:59.000 What the left does is try to cloak their disdain for men by saying that it's social, it's a societal construct.

00:25:05.000 Because if they don't, they're acting as the worst bigots out of all of us.

00:25:08.000 If 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.

00:25:17.000 What if we had hashtag Black Lives Toxic?

00:25:20.000 You'd be run out on the rail, and rightfully so.

00:25:22.000 Now, 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.

00:25:32.000 You know what? Men screw up all the time.

00:25:34.000 We understand that. But you take something, a small group of a subset of a group, and you start to label the entire group.

00:25:40.000 You 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.

00:25:47.000 You're lumping us in with everybody else.

00:25:48.000 Well, even worse. I mean, we're grown adults, arguably.

00:25:52.000 That's debatable. You sleep in a race car bed.

00:25:54.000 But imagine that was the circle of trust.

00:25:58.000 No, your race car bed is not a circle of trust.

00:26:02.000 I told you, don't invite me for the one nights on your race car bed.

00:26:07.000 Gerald Weinstein. But imagine not just us.

00:26:09.000 We get pissed off with it. But being a 12-year-old boy today.

00:26:11.000 And your entire life you've been burdened with the guilt of toxic masculinity.

00:26:14.000 You've been told that everything you're hardwired to do is bad.

00:26:17.000 It's toxic. It's violent.

00:26:18.000 But the good news is you just need to change.

00:26:21.000 You just need to become more like a woman. 1.00

00:26:22.000 Do 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?

00:26:30.000 You mean the rugged individualism and the collective and the feelings versus facts?

00:26:34.000 Maybe. I don't know. That's a good point.

00:26:35.000 Well, can't we just encourage all the wonderful, beautiful Christian women out there to be great Christian women? 0.98

00:26:40.000 And 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?

00:26:45.000 Can't we just encourage that? And the video's been demonetized.

00:26:49.000 By the way, I don't know what to do with revolving doors.

00:26:50.000 Tweet me and let me know. How do you hold that open?

00:26:54.000 Because here's the truth. Think about it.

00:26:56.000 There are millions, tens of millions of boys who've grown up hearing just that.

00:26:59.000 Now, 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?

00:27:06.000 Do 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?

00:27:13.000 Do 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?

00:27:18.000 I 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.

00:27:31.000 There's one factor, we've talked about this, that determines the statistical likelihood of a child making it in this world.

00:27:35.000 From finishing school, to going to college, to avoiding prison, to domestic abuse, to drug use, to teen pregnancy, to school violence.

00:27:40.000 And that stat is singularly, does a child have a daddy?

00:27:45.000 And is daddy still in the picture?

00:27:47.000 So what do you think is going to create more?

00:27:48.000 And by the way, all of us here are man enough to admit when we're wrong.

00:27:53.000 Back to the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Director's Cut.

00:27:57.000 I'll admit, in retrospect, a little tone deaf.

00:28:00.000 Take a look. Dennis Prager after this.

00:28:03.000 Ah, gee, I don't think I'm ever gonna find a man, I mean woman.

00:28:06.000 Oh, why don't you just do like the Romans did with those Sovin women or Sabine women, whatever they're called. 1.00

00:28:11.000 Now see, those Romans, they weren't the same kind of fixed urine. 0.96

00:28:13.000 They were out there exploring new territories and resources were scarce.

00:28:17.000 But see, they had these Sovin women south of town. 1.00

00:28:19.000 And what did those Romans do? 0.85

00:28:20.000 They went on down there, snatched them up and carried them off.

00:28:23.000 And if you can't do better than a bunch of old Romans, well, you're no brothers of mine. 1.00

00:28:29.000 The Romans? Weren't those the ones I read about who set up north of here?

00:28:32.000 No, I'm talking about the olden times.

00:28:34.000 I read about it in Sven Computer's book.

00:28:36.000 Ah, a book.

00:28:37.000 I'm talking about history.

00:28:39.000 This really happened. Tell you about them sobbing women who lived in the Roman days. 1.00

00:28:46.000 It seems that they all went swimming while their men were off to grave.

00:28:51.000 Well, a Roman troop was riding by and saw them in their me, oh my. 0.99

00:28:56.000 So they took them all back home to dry.

00:28:59.000 At least that's what Plutarch said.

00:29:01.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:29:03.000 This song sounds a little bit rapey.

00:29:06.000 Rapey? No, you just haven't heard the rest of the song.

00:29:10.000 And the women were sobbing, sobbing, sobbing, fit to be tied. 0.99

00:29:15.000 Every muscle was throbbing, throbbing from that riotous ride.

00:29:20.000 Seems they cried and kissed and kissed and cried all over that roaming countryside.

00:29:26.000 So don't forget that when you're taking a pride.

00:29:31.000 Sobbing fit to be tied from that riotous ride.

00:29:36.000 Yeah, no, definitely rapey. 1.00

00:29:38.000 No. No, I'm really uncomfortable with this.

00:29:41.000 I mean, these women, clearly not even willing participants.

00:29:44.000 Yeah, you're servicing the original version.

00:29:46.000 Original version. Oh, them bitches were sobbing, sobbing, sobbing, screaming out loud. 1.00

00:29:54.000 And all peckers were throbbing, throbbing, throbbing, ready to plow. 1.00

00:29:59.000 Oh, they'd rant and scream and scream and rant while I'd service myself in their potted plants.

00:30:05.000 She won't forget that when she talks to the fuzz, she'd better keep quiet because she'd only be making it worse. 1.00

00:30:18.000 Holy sh**. All right. 0.99

00:30:37.000 Glad to have our next guest. Usually, here's the thing.

00:30:40.000 First 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.

00:30:46.000 However, 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.

00:30:52.000 It's the Rational Bible. It's the Bill O'Reilly thing.

00:30:53.000 You say you've read it twice. Yeah, I've read it twice.

00:30:55.000 Just looking out for the folks. No.

00:30:57.000 The Rational Bible.

00:30:58.000 You can purchase it on Amazon.

00:31:00.000 Of course, he is the radio host, author of this book, and creator of Prager University.

00:31:05.000 Dennis Prager, how are you, sir?

00:31:08.000 When I'm with you, well, actually, I'm pretty good all the time, but I'm even better with you, and it's not a joke.

00:31:13.000 I really am a big fan.

00:31:16.000 Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it, and we always love having you on the show.

00:31:18.000 And as promised, we'll have you on for a full-hour show once I've been able to dive into this book.

00:31:23.000 But I want to start with the idea, the concept.

00:31:26.000 By the way, this book is really exciting.

00:31:27.000 Did you see this? It's very nice.

00:31:29.000 It's like crocodiles. I know. Everyone's going soft cover and e-books.

00:31:32.000 He spares no expense. The New York Times bestseller list, what is the deal behind it?

00:31:38.000 I've never really been able to understand it.

00:31:40.000 I know that there have been issues with Jordan Peterson.

00:31:42.000 I see people who are top on Amazon, like yourself right now, with this book, and it never cracks the New York Times.

00:31:48.000 Explain to a simpleton like me, Mr.

00:31:50.000 Pricker. There is no explanation. 0.93

00:31:52.000 That'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.

00:32:08.000 I believe that I opened up a scab because this is the great, unspoken, virtually universally known thing.

00:32:22.000 The New York Times bestseller list is not a bestseller list.

00:32:27.000 What is it? We don't know.

00:32:29.000 We really don't know.

00:32:31.000 I'm not joking. You're the almighty one here.

00:32:35.000 You're smart. You don't know either?

00:32:37.000 Who 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.

00:32:48.000 It's not based on bestseller.

00:32:50.000 I show, and I don't care really.

00:32:54.000 The book will do great whether or not it's on the Times bestseller list.

00:32:58.000 But it's number two on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.

00:33:01.000 Number two on Publishers Weekly, which is the bible of the publishing industry, their bestseller list.

00:33:07.000 Number one, according to Ingram, which sells the books to 85% of the stores.

00:33:14.000 Right. So the people who distribute it say it's number one, and it's not even 15 on the New York Times bestseller list.

00:33:22.000 So 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.

00:33:35.000 My last book was on, but it was on for one week, and that was it.

00:33:41.000 But there's a general realization it's not for real.

00:33:46.000 It's sort of like the hard copy YouTube algorithm.

00:33:48.000 No 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.

00:33:55.000 I've never been, I know Jordan Peterson, Dr.

00:33:56.000 Jordan Peterson has been on the Okay, so here's the thing.

00:33:59.000 Okay, so I mentioned Peterson.

00:34:01.000 I said, Peterson is the number one bestselling book.

00:34:05.000 I'm number two, he's the number one, and he's not even on their list.

00:34:10.000 So they responded, because we only put on books that are printed or published by American publishing houses.

00:34:21.000 What? Well, first of all, which is bizarre, so it's not a bestseller list.

00:34:25.000 Right. Let's be honest.

00:34:27.000 Number two, it's published by Random House Canada, but Random House is an American company.

00:34:33.000 I mean, I'm surprised they would even publish it in Canada, though, with the hate speech laws and all the facets and all the variables.

00:34:40.000 I'm sure David Hogg's new book will be...

00:34:41.000 Yeah, of course. David Hogg just got a book.

00:34:43.000 Also Random House. You can absolutely guarantee that'll be a number one New York Times best show.

00:34:47.000 What? David Hogg got a book?

00:34:48.000 A book? Yeah, Random House.

00:34:50.000 Yeah, with Random House. How much did they pay him?

00:34:54.000 Too much, Dennis.

00:34:55.000 Too much. That's really what it comes down to.

00:34:58.000 Mark them more than Don Lemon.

00:34:59.000 Well, 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.

00:35:10.000 It's an hour that he does specifically in the show just devoted to happiness and your moral obligation to be happy.

00:35:15.000 So as a moral person, as someone who deals with philosophy more, what's your view?

00:35:19.000 On a David Hogg.

00:35:21.000 Is it bullying to absolutely dissect and destroy his ideas because he's underage?

00:35:26.000 Obviously he plays both cards.

00:35:28.000 Treat me like an adult, treat me seriously, and then says I'm a child, don't bully me.

00:35:32.000 What do you believe is the morally correct approach?

00:35:35.000 The morally correct approach is to respond to how he behaves and how he speaks.

00:35:42.000 I don't mock people, whatever their age, so I don't use that sort of thing.

00:35:49.000 But you are entirely right, the left sends kids out, then when you attack what they say, you're a bully for attacking a kid.

00:36:00.000 I 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.

00:36:26.000 My father allowed it, and look how it turned out, so you probably made a good decision.

00:36:31.000 Well, no, that is a good challenge to what I just said.

00:36:35.000 I mock everyone regardless of age.

00:36:37.000 I go the other way. I like the way you turned out.

00:36:40.000 Anyway, so she's just crapping on the vice president of the United States, and I found that offensive.

00:36:46.000 I don't want 14-year-olds crapping on the president or vice president, whatever party.

00:36:53.000 That's not their business.

00:36:55.000 And I, oh, you, deluged with, oh, look, conservatives, they pick on 14-year-old girls. 0.99

00:37:02.000 That's it. That's what they do.

00:37:04.000 Right. 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.

00:37:12.000 I 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.

00:37:16.000 And I got some flack on some blogs, and conservatives gave me crap, and then I had to introduce him.

00:37:21.000 I had to introduce him, followed by Bill Bennett and Senator Rick Santorum.

00:37:25.000 He'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?

00:37:31.000 And I'm sitting there going, please just don't run a search of what I've said.

00:37:33.000 And it was just a harmless joke.

00:37:35.000 And then I got in trouble because I said, you know what?

00:37:36.000 I'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.

00:37:45.000 I said, I think that there's a strong chance he'll become a pot-smoking hippie at Berkeley.

00:37:50.000 And you know what? I was right about everything, except he went to Columbia, and he ended up writing for Salon.

00:37:55.000 You can't write that. Excervers are just as guilty of it. 1.00

00:37:58.000 Yeah. 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.

00:38:07.000 Speaking of bullies, what's going on with your YouTube case, Mr.

00:38:11.000 Prager? Prager, you filed suit with YouTube, and I've just heard some bad news, but I want you to explain it.

00:38:18.000 Well, right now we're appealing because the judge...

00:38:22.000 Remember, this is the Ninth Circuit.

00:38:23.000 I don't know what you know about the Ninth Circuit.

00:38:27.000 Excuse me. But it's a little to the right of Lenin.

00:38:32.000 And I don't mean John Lenin.

00:38:34.000 I mean Vladimir Lenin.

00:38:36.000 And anyway, they ruled...

00:38:40.000 This was the interesting thing.

00:38:42.000 So she ruled against us, but without prejudice, meaning we can appeal if we present a different argument.

00:38:48.000 Okay. 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.

00:39:11.000 Is in fact politically motivated, ideologically driven.

00:39:16.000 Sure enough, she said, the notion that YouTube is neutral and a conduit for all views, these are her words, is mere puffery.

00:39:31.000 Wow. Is this legal terminology that I'm not necessarily...

00:39:34.000 Puffery. No, no.

00:39:35.000 But it means what it is in real language.

00:39:37.000 It is legal terminology.

00:39:39.000 It means it's just hyperbole of an advertiser.

00:39:42.000 Right. Absolutely. Okay. So fine.

00:39:44.000 So I agree. But that's a big deal.

00:39:47.000 That is now officially noted.

00:39:49.000 It isn't true.

00:39:50.000 They are politically driven.

00:39:52.000 Well, 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.

00:40:04.000 So that's the issue.

00:40:05.000 The issue isn't they can ban whoever they want.

00:40:07.000 The issue is if you're being dishonest about selectively banning people.

00:40:11.000 That's correct. That's exactly right.

00:40:13.000 Well, we're doing the same thing, you know, with Twitter right now.

00:40:14.000 We talked about this at the SMU show.

00:40:17.000 Our half Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, has filed a petition for information

00:40:21.000 from Twitter because of the ban and the South by Southwest, you know,

00:40:24.000 these policies we don't understand.

00:40:25.000 We don't know why there was the ban.

00:40:27.000 And we don't know if they have an office still in Texas.

00:40:30.000 So that'll determine how we move forward, because in California,

00:40:33.000 I don't think they're required to actually release those documents.

00:40:36.000 So to me, you know what? It's a victory.

00:40:38.000 If Twitter says all you want is information regarding your account

00:40:41.000 and people call you a neo-Nazi and Photoshop swastikas on you.

00:40:44.000 We're not going to reveal those documents or information.

00:40:47.000 If they refuse to, that's already a victory to me.

00:40:50.000 It's not about monetary damages.

00:40:53.000 It's about information here.

00:40:54.000 It's about getting answers. Well, we don't want monetary.

00:40:58.000 It's of no interest to us to get money from them.

00:41:01.000 We simply want them...

00:41:04.000 To uphold what they stand for.

00:41:07.000 So what's the next step for you with YouTube?

00:41:11.000 Our legal team is Pete Wilson's legal team.

00:41:15.000 They came up with the idea.

00:41:17.000 Pete Wilson's former governor and senator of California.

00:41:20.000 He's a big supporter of PragerU.

00:41:23.000 He's a big fan of my show.

00:41:25.000 And kindly, he came out and said, you guys got to sue.

00:41:29.000 This is disgusting. So they have been handling all of this, and they are going to present other arguments and resubmit it to the court.

00:41:40.000 Well, good luck with that. You know, it's funny.

00:41:41.000 We 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.

00:41:48.000 A turning point for us was when they demonetized and manually reviewed it and said this is not advertiser friendly.

00:41:54.000 It was hour-long form interview.

00:41:57.000 On human nature.

00:41:58.000 If human beings are naturally good or evil.

00:42:00.000 That was the video. No profanity.

00:42:02.000 It wasn't even political. And they said, this is not suitable for advertisers.

00:42:06.000 I said, there's got to be a blacklist.

00:42:07.000 And Prager's on it. That is fascinating that that was the subject.

00:42:13.000 Yeah. That is one of the great dividing lines between the right and the left.

00:42:19.000 I wonder if it's because...

00:42:20.000 That's why, by the way, that's why I love the Bible.

00:42:22.000 People who believe in that Bible...

00:42:27.000 understand that people are not basically good.

00:42:30.000 Right.

00:42:30.000 The left and the secular world have a romantic view of human nature

00:42:36.000 that has caused much more damage.

00:42:38.000 Because when you know we're flawed, you know you have to work on your character every day.

00:42:43.000 You have to work on your children's character every day.

00:42:46.000 Right.

00:42:47.000 But if we're basically good, all you need is love.

00:42:50.000 And you make yourself... You know, people think idolatry is only a golden calf as we're talking about Exodus, but idolatry today is...

00:42:57.000 David Hogg. It's making yourself the god of your own universe.

00:43:00.000 Seeing yourself as perfect. That's right.

00:43:01.000 It'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.

00:43:09.000 That's the belief.

00:43:10.000 If you believe that human beings are naturally...

00:43:12.000 I don't want to say evil, but not necessarily intrinsically good.

00:43:15.000 Let me ask you this, because I know it's Exodus, God, slavery, and freedom.

00:43:18.000 We'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.

00:43:29.000 I imagine you address this.

00:43:31.000 That's why it's called the Rational Bible.

00:43:33.000 The 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.

00:43:46.000 That's a fantastic way to put it.

00:43:48.000 And, well, Gerald had to go, but he's actually an apologist.

00:43:51.000 He does some teaching at churches across this state.

00:43:55.000 And 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? 0.90

00:44:06.000 For the first time, I'm willing to listen to someone like Dennis Prager.

00:44:08.000 For 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.

00:44:14.000 Maybe there is a rational way to approach the Bible.

00:44:16.000 And where's the best place for people to find it, Senor?

00:44:19.000 Well, Amazon is the easiest, obviously, but their local bookstore, even Costco in most places has it.

00:44:25.000 Costco! So I tell you, I am very proud to say, who else has had a Bible commentary at Costco?

00:44:34.000 Jesus. Jesus. Okay.

00:44:37.000 Yeah, the New Testament. That's a long time ago.

00:44:38.000 Yes, exactly. And they did not have 62-inch screens then.

00:44:43.000 Right, and it wasn't really Jesus.

00:44:44.000 It was, you know, a game of telephone from Jesus, obviously.

00:44:47.000 Someone's going to fact-check me on that. I'm really looking forward to reading this, The Rational Bible, from Dennis Prager.

00:44:52.000 Of course, PragerU, please support them.

00:44:54.000 Dennis 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.

00:44:59.000 I haven't read it yet. I apologize.

00:45:00.000 They just sent it to me. No, no, no, no.

00:45:02.000 All right. Thank you very much, sir.

00:45:04.000 We'll be back with Gavin McInnes.

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00:47:38.000 That'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.

00:47:44.000 They were yelling back and forth. Can we get the wide shot or the tight shot?

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00:47:50.000 So it just set me in a great mood for a calm, collected, conversational interview.

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00:48:08.000 Gavin underscore McInnis.

00:48:10.000 Gavin, how are you, sir? I'm wonderful.

00:48:12.000 Yeah, it's funny you mention that. Every time I check Twitter, it's sort of like, uh-oh, here we are.

00:48:16.000 Oh, it still works. Yeah, I know.

00:48:19.000 It's a pleasant surprise at this point.

00:48:21.000 I have no expectations. It's kind of like when I went to go see Ready Player One.

00:48:24.000 I had zero expectations, only it was an unpleasant surprise.

00:48:28.000 It was worse than zero expectations.

00:48:30.000 Yeah. Speaking of low expectations, you have before you, I believe, the Time's most 100 influential people.

00:48:39.000 I bungled that, but I know you've been beside yourself over this.

00:48:42.000 The bigotry of low expectations flourishes on this list.

00:48:48.000 It really is amazing.

00:48:50.000 The categories are artists, entertainers, Icons and leaders.

00:48:57.000 I don't know why artists and entertainers are different.

00:49:00.000 I don't know why icons and leaders are different.

00:49:02.000 And the criteria that they've chosen for this starts with...

00:49:05.000 How is Kamal Kundidjani, the guy from Silicon Valley, how is he on the top 100 most influential list?

00:49:11.000 Well, let me explain the priorities.

00:49:13.000 It goes visible minority, good for diversity, then woman... 1.00

00:49:19.000 And then, are they influential at all?

00:49:22.000 And that's number three.

00:49:24.000 This would also say that there's a bias for trannies who are what they call the barely passables in the community. 1.00

00:49:30.000 Because if it's a passable, they wouldn't be a visible minority.

00:49:32.000 So it's got to be someone who you're like, well, they're sprouting.

00:49:35.000 That's the only way they make a list.

00:49:36.000 What does influential mean?

00:49:38.000 I think it means, say I was to say, everyone, you've got to go vegan.

00:49:42.000 Everyone, vegan, vegan, vegan.

00:49:43.000 How many people would go vegan?

00:49:45.000 I 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.

00:49:55.000 It doesn't mean we're going to you for our education policy.

00:49:59.000 So they're not influential.

00:50:00.000 Yeah, well, you know, that's a good point.

00:50:02.000 We'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.

00:50:15.000 As a matter of fact, it continues to surprise me.

00:50:17.000 Like, for example, when you look at Comedy Central.

00:50:19.000 Comedy Central, the show Jordan Klepper is a new show.

00:50:21.000 We were just talking about how terrible it is.

00:50:23.000 It's after The Daily Show.

00:50:24.000 Yeah. I mean, our numbers would just massacre.

00:50:28.000 You're starting with The Daily Show.

00:50:29.000 Yes, you're starting with The Daily Show.

00:50:31.000 Yeah, so it could only get worse.

00:50:33.000 Take Jon Stewart, have that, cut it in half, and then you have this guy, Jordan Klepper.

00:50:38.000 He has 70,000 Twitter followers, but more importantly, no one interacts with him, and with so much money.

00:50:45.000 Do 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?

00:50:52.000 Yeah, that's the huge mistake with this entire list.

00:50:55.000 And Trevor Noah is on the list, by the way.

00:50:57.000 It 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. 0.99

00:51:05.000 And 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.

00:51:17.000 Yeah. Or you got this guy, John Wei Pan, who used quantum communication to declare quantum states of...

00:51:27.000 I don't understand. Something with photons.

00:51:29.000 Right. She's clearly part of the.01 top people in the world.

00:51:34.000 And then he's with the main chick.

00:51:36.000 The first one you get to is some chick who's... 1.00

00:51:39.000 What's her name here? I think I got her here. 0.54

00:51:41.000 She's in a movie with Kevin Hart.

00:51:44.000 And... Tiffany Haddish.

00:51:46.000 That's it. And Kevin Hart wrote the write-up for her.

00:51:49.000 Yeah, exactly. She's great. 0.97

00:51:51.000 Well, you know, so it's kind of like maybe the person who split the atom wrote her forward.

00:51:55.000 Maybe that's how you make the list.

00:51:58.000 Though I will say, I saw Hugh Jackman on that list. 0.96

00:52:00.000 Is that just because he's gay?

00:52:06.000 Does everyone not know that? 1.00

00:52:07.000 His wife is unattractive. You know what? 1.00

00:52:09.000 That's exactly what we talk about here.

00:52:10.000 First off, when I saw him on the cover of People, I thought, well, the show tunes when he hosted the Oscars.

00:52:15.000 And he wasn't just doing show tunes.

00:52:17.000 It was very Ethel Merman, you know?

00:52:18.000 There's no business like show business.

00:52:20.000 I'm like, that's Hugh Jackman? Wow, he's wearing a lot of mascara.

00:52:22.000 Then I see him on the cover of People magazine, full-on, like, porcelain doll makeup. 0.93

00:52:26.000 And then I'd heard the rumors that, of course, he was blatantly homosexual.

00:52:29.000 And then I did see his wife, who, um, I mean I hate to, but, uh, uh, uh, homely in comparison

00:52:38.000 to, you know, rated sexiest man in America, and I'm going like, ah, come on, all the pieces

00:52:43.000 fit.

00:52:44.000 I don't get these beards, by the way, like Oprah's husband.

00:52:45.000 Is sustenance so rare?

00:52:47.000 What are we, in the Congo?

00:52:49.000 No, he's not her husband. She never married him.

00:52:51.000 Okay, whatever they are.

00:52:52.000 To live a lie like that, for what?

00:52:55.000 A Sub-Zero fridge and free spaghetti? 1.00

00:53:00.000 I don't understand why you want to be a whore to some homosexual and not have your own life. 1.00

00:53:07.000 Well, I'm pretty sure Desmond, he's getting free Oprah's Favorite Things goodie bags. 1.00

00:53:12.000 Awesome. It's hard to fit a minivan in those bags, but somehow she does it. 0.98

00:53:17.000 Okay, so who else do we have on this list?

00:53:19.000 The Times 100 Most Influential.

00:53:20.000 Oh, here's my favorite. So, Prince Harry, thank God for Prince Harry.

00:53:25.000 Hasn't he been amazing this year, doing all that stuff he does?

00:53:28.000 I do feel bad for him, though, going bald in the public eye.

00:53:30.000 Like, that's really tough to do.

00:53:32.000 Actually, no, his brother was the one.

00:53:34.000 Sorry, Prince Harry. But I like Prince Harry.

00:53:35.000 Look, it's Donald Trump, pretty influential guy, right?

00:53:39.000 Could start World War III. That's an influence.

00:53:42.000 And then Prince Harry, I don't know, he went to a ribbon-cutting ceremony and ate some cookies.

00:53:47.000 And then his girlfriend.

00:53:49.000 Well, she's Prince Harry's girlfriend.

00:53:51.000 That matters. She touched some starving little Ethiopian kid, patted him on the head.

00:53:56.000 We need her in the mix. 0.99

00:53:58.000 Sadiq Khan. Sadiq Khan and Justin Trudeau, they are influential in that Sadiq ruined London and Justin Trudeau is ruining Canada.

00:54:08.000 How do they put together this list?

00:54:11.000 How do they not have a footnote?

00:54:13.000 Sadiq Khan, by the way, did become a national embarrassment by proposing knife control.

00:54:18.000 It was rebutted by people simply stating two words, kitchen knives, and now his career is over.

00:54:24.000 How do they not even mention, do they not see the embarrassment from a lot of these people?

00:54:28.000 Look, the elephant in the room is always women, and I'm sure women ran this thing. 1.00

00:54:34.000 I don't think by time it's women. 1.00

00:54:36.000 I think it's gay men in New York. 0.72

00:54:38.000 I think it's gay, LGBTQ, AAIP men in New York who want to make themselves feel good. 0.98

00:54:43.000 Sure, you're neck of the woods. What's going on there?

00:54:45.000 Yeah. What?

00:54:47.000 It's in your neck of the woods over there, Time.

00:54:49.000 What's in the water? You're right.

00:54:50.000 The magazine industry in New York is predominantly gay, but it's also heavily women, and they have the exact same taste.

00:54:56.000 They both love Trevor Noah for no reason, but there are negative write-ups in here.

00:55:01.000 I don't know any women who like Trevor Noah.

00:55:03.000 I don't know one! Well, they have to be over 40.

00:55:06.000 Okay. They have Trump's EPA guy.

00:55:09.000 He's on the list, and it's written by the previous EPA woman who was pushed out.

00:55:15.000 And she hates his guts and thinks he's going to ruin the country, so she gets to do a write-up.

00:55:20.000 I mean, these people are so blindly partisan that it's just weak, flimsy propaganda.

00:55:26.000 Yeah. Millie Bobby Brown was in there, I noticed.

00:55:30.000 Millie Bobby Brown!

00:55:31.000 Stranger Things. She was the least interesting part of all of Stranger Things.

00:55:34.000 Is she number 11? Yeah, 11.

00:55:36.000 The little kid in Stranger Things.

00:55:38.000 I thought Karen Strong was on the list. 0.99

00:55:39.000 I thought one of ours made the cut.

00:55:43.000 No one we remotely like is on this list.

00:55:46.000 They even got the guy who was underneath Mugabe while all the white farmers were being assassinated down there.

00:55:52.000 And then he's there because he said, you know what, let's give the farms back.

00:55:56.000 Yeah, you want to give the farms back now that everyone's starving to death.

00:55:59.000 How influential of you.

00:56:01.000 Honorable mention, Kony.

00:56:03.000 On that list. You know, it's like you talk about flimsy propaganda.

00:56:06.000 We actually had this in the show map and we cut it because we were going, no one will believe us.

00:56:09.000 Front page CNN today.

00:56:11.000 Front page CNN dot com.

00:56:12.000 It said that there was an article that said, Donald Trump announces he will seek re-election.

00:56:17.000 I scrolled through, what, four or five paragraphs?

00:56:20.000 Yeah. And this is front-page news, right?

00:56:22.000 You would probably think, hey, wow, this is big news.

00:56:24.000 We thought this is big. Maybe let's corroborate it.

00:56:26.000 Anywhere 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.

00:56:36.000 This was front-page news.

00:56:38.000 They're not even trying anymore, which to me is hysterical.

00:56:42.000 Okay, can we start to get bigoted here?

00:56:44.000 No. This has got to be gays and women in the media. 0.99

00:56:47.000 There's got to be something going on here.

00:56:50.000 This must be the dads, the patriarchs, abdicating the throne to this new generation of people who don't really care what's in the news.

00:56:59.000 They just like the look of it.

00:57:01.000 And this, it's got the newest flash, this list.

00:57:04.000 On the website, you can't scroll around.

00:57:06.000 It'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. 0.92

00:57:13.000 Nothing to do with substance.

00:57:15.000 Each article is a paragraph long, by the way.

00:57:18.000 Yeah, well, that's how you know they're influential.

00:57:22.000 They were so influential, we could only fit...

00:57:24.000 That being said, with Donald Trump, who should probably be number one, whether you like it or not, you don't need a paragraph.

00:57:30.000 I should just say, President of the United States.

00:57:33.000 Oh wait, Ted Cruz wrote that?

00:57:34.000 Good for him, making amends after he accused his dad of assassinating JFK. They really did fix...

00:57:40.000 And called his wife ugly, don't forget. 0.80

00:57:42.000 I know, I know. 0.88

00:57:44.000 Alright, Gavin, we do have to go.

00:57:45.000 I do recommend people go out and check out this lesson, of course, your show, which is Get Off My Lawn.

00:57:49.000 How can people sign up for that wonderful program?

00:57:52.000 They 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.

00:58:10.000 Exactly. It sounds like a lot of fun.

00:58:12.000 Let's see that mug, Gavin. Let's see that wonderful...

00:58:15.000 Oh, it's got my face on it. There you go.

00:58:17.000 Spare no expense. Went down to Staples with a screen print.

00:58:19.000 But, you know, this one here is hand etched, so I'm pretty proud of it, so you know it's good.

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00:58:31.000 I don't know. I wasn't even prepared for this.

00:58:33.000 This is another show? No, I'm changing the name.

00:58:37.000 Okay, well then we have to go. Much for Audible with McInnes.

00:58:39.000 You're saying words that make no sense.

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01:00:14.000 Thank you to Dennis Prager and to Gavin McGinnis.

01:00:17.000 You know what? Just because I'm still sick.

01:00:20.000 I'm really out of breath. I pinched my nose.

01:00:22.000 Yeah. And because of this, my nostrils stuck for about 10 seconds.

01:00:27.000 So I was breathing like this. Thank God my mic wasn't on.

01:00:33.000 Which, by the way, again, formal apology.

01:00:35.000 Tuesday was the worst show I've ever done.

01:00:36.000 And that's why I want to talk about this last segment as well.

01:00:40.000 I 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.

01:00:47.000 It's on death's door.

01:00:49.000 I had no thoughts, I think, at one point.

01:00:50.000 Yeah, at one point. I have...

01:00:51.000 My brain is not here. You know, we don't really get to take days off with this show in the same way that most people do.

01:00:58.000 I don't really get to take a sick day.

01:00:59.000 But you know what that was right there?

01:01:01.000 That was an excuse. And you shouldn't give it to me.

01:01:03.000 It was a crappy show, and it was my fault, and you deserve better.

01:01:06.000 And I was actually thinking about this.

01:01:08.000 I felt bad. My wife can tell you all night because...

01:01:10.000 This was given to me, not to get sentimental, but this is kind of what this last segment is.

01:01:13.000 This was given to me by a guy at SMU. I'm sorry, man, if I forgot your name, if it's David, if it's Chris.

01:01:18.000 Basic white guy name. It's his Navy Cross.

01:01:22.000 Remember he came up after this? I said, I can't take this.

01:01:25.000 He said, no, no, I really, really want you to have this.

01:01:28.000 And I said, I can't.

01:01:29.000 You know, it was almost like an old Jewish couple.

01:01:32.000 I can't. I can take the cross.

01:01:34.000 And I really felt genuinely bad taking it because I thought, well, you know, two years from now, he's probably going to hate our show.

01:01:40.000 That's the natural arc.

01:01:42.000 He said, no, listen, you really, really helped me get through a hard time.

01:01:45.000 And when I was serving, I appreciate it.

01:01:47.000 And he gave us this here, a Navy cross.

01:01:48.000 And I'm kind of ashamed to say I didn't really know a ton about a Navy cross.

01:01:53.000 But I guess it's the second highest sort of medal of honor that you can get for an act of heroism.

01:01:58.000 So 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.

01:02:08.000 I 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.

01:02:16.000 So thank you, sir.

01:02:17.000 Please send an email through the Lattice Crowder website so I can catch your name.

01:02:20.000 I really would love to talk with you.

01:02:24.000 And we're going to hang it somewhere.

01:02:25.000 Where do you think we should put this? I don't know.

01:02:26.000 That's a good question. I don't know.

01:02:28.000 But I've had it in a little cloth.

01:02:30.000 Put it next to the liquor. That seems superb. Yeah, put it next to the liquor.

01:02:32.000 I've had it next on a cloth, so I don't know.

01:02:35.000 I want to put it on the floor because I don't want to damage this.

01:02:38.000 So, you know, it meant a lot to me.

01:02:40.000 And you guys deserve the best show we can possibly deliver.

01:02:43.000 And I know, we have a fraction of the budget of Seth Meyers' salary.

01:02:47.000 Yeah. And we do the best we can.

01:02:49.000 But... There's no excuse for not being at the top of our game.

01:02:54.000 And one thing I kind of want to talk about was we were all in a bad mood because we were sick.

01:03:00.000 We'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.

01:03:05.000 But something I will say, and I've been thinking about Dennis Prager, his happiness hour a lot.

01:03:10.000 And he has this philosophy, it's your moral obligation to be happy.

01:03:13.000 And I actually had someone who was a doctor say, well, you know, you're not responsible for each other's happiness talking about spouses.

01:03:18.000 And I completely disagree.

01:03:20.000 I believe you are largely responsible for your spouse's happiness through being happy yourself.

01:03:24.000 I mean, no one's going to be happy. Yeah.

01:03:25.000 If 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. 0.99

01:03:33.000 But it is your job to try and set a tone in a house. 0.99

01:03:36.000 And it is your job to try and set a tone with the people you meet.

01:03:39.000 It 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...

01:03:50.000 It 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.

01:03:57.000 Because, you know, I thought about it.

01:03:59.000 How 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.

01:04:06.000 I was like, I just, you know, I was basically hunkered down like Bubble Boy until the show threw off the covers and came in.

01:04:10.000 I was just so, so sick.

01:04:11.000 But then I thought, you know what? What if I didn't have it?

01:04:15.000 How would I feel five years down the line if I squandered this and I just didn't appreciate it?

01:04:20.000 And that's where you can really...

01:04:22.000 I mean, that's the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, really.

01:04:24.000 That's the tale of people, the lost redemption that they never got.

01:04:27.000 So 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.

01:04:33.000 And I want you to think for a little, just for a short moment, how would you feel if you didn't have it?

01:04:37.000 Often it's a relationship. Well, how would you feel if you didn't have that relationship?

01:04:40.000 Sometimes it's a job. Would you rather not have that job?

01:04:43.000 Sometimes 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.

01:04:58.000 My dad told me that when I was a kid, and you had a point, and you were mentioning that...

01:05:01.000 I mean, call it, you know, I feel like God's been teaching me this, and you can be triggered if you want, but...

01:05:07.000 Atheists will be. 1.00

01:05:08.000 Have Sam Harris on!

01:05:10.000 I 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.

01:05:23.000 It'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...

01:05:38.000 Think about it kind of like owning a car.

01:05:40.000 I think we think about it when we have a flat tire.

01:05:42.000 That's a big failure of car ownership.

01:05:45.000 That's not a failure of car ownership.

01:05:46.000 That's just part of owning a car.

01:05:48.000 It's something you deal with. It's a more frequent part of owning a car considering the seedy club parking lots.

01:05:52.000 This is true. But think about it in marriage or anything else.

01:05:55.000 When you have hard times, it's not a failure of marriage to have a hard time.

01:06:00.000 When people say marriage is hard, that's what they're talking about.

01:06:03.000 Embracing the rough patches and being okay with that friction in life is something that's important to do.

01:06:07.000 It's a good point. I think Winston Churchill said success is the ability to move from one failure to another.

01:06:13.000 And we talk about that a lot.

01:06:14.000 And listen, you talk about Jesus.

01:06:15.000 That's one thing I remember I had a pastor or someone saying, you know, the opposite of love is fear.

01:06:20.000 I'm going, hold on a second. You don't think Jesus was afraid when he was literally praying?

01:06:23.000 Again, just take it as a parable if you're going to be triggered.

01:06:25.000 Take it as just a fable.

01:06:27.000 But him saying, take this cup from me, right before he knew he was about to be crucified, kind of a rough way to go.

01:06:32.000 Mm-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. 1.00

01:06:39.000 I don't know which one. Jamming wood chips up your thumbs. 0.84

01:06:42.000 Crucifixion! It's right up there.

01:06:43.000 Pretty rough. And he said, if there's any other way, please show me, and I won't do this.

01:06:47.000 And guess what? There was no other way.

01:06:49.000 That's the story of Christ.

01:06:51.000 There is no other way.

01:06:52.000 And so then he made a decision and said, okay, I'm going to do this.

01:06:55.000 The opposite of love is really more of apathy.

01:06:57.000 Apathy would, I feel like, be a better...

01:07:00.000 I just think it's hate.

01:07:03.000 Maybe hate. I don't know. It's something that people throw around because they want to sound smart.

01:07:08.000 Oh, I took Humanities 101, too.

01:07:10.000 The opposite of love is fear. 0.99

01:07:11.000 Shut up. I'm afraid... 0.99

01:07:12.000 I'm afraid of sharks. I don't hate sharks.

01:07:14.000 I watch Shark Week. I just don't want to be eaten by one.

01:07:35.000 They go, relax your jaw, relax your, you know, and I've done that before actually as an athlete, guided stretching.

01:07:41.000 Okay, flex your hamstrings, release it.

01:07:43.000 So I know there's something to it.

01:07:44.000 But what really bothered me about the guided meditation is that the worst part was this one woman said, you are walking up to a staircase.

01:07:51.000 It's a peaceful staircase.

01:07:52.000 It could be made of wood.

01:07:54.000 Or some other material.

01:07:55.000 I'm like, well, what is it made of? That could be anything at that point.

01:07:59.000 These aren't exactly the dimensions for the synagogue in the Old Testament.

01:08:02.000 Like, come on, you're giving me no specificity.

01:08:04.000 But meditation is important.

01:08:05.000 And meditation is different from prayer. It's about clearing your head or focusing on one thing.

01:08:09.000 And Dennis Prager talks about your moral obligation to be happy.

01:08:11.000 And something that has helped me absolutely, and I think for everyone, if you just take this attitude, listen.

01:08:14.000 First off, choose to be grateful.

01:08:17.000 Now, not just choose gratitude.

01:08:19.000 Choose to be grateful.

01:08:20.000 Gratitude is an emotion.

01:08:21.000 A lot of times people separate and say, well, that's an involuntary emotion, I can't control it.

01:08:24.000 Yeah, you can.

01:08:26.000 You absolutely can control it, just like this guy who was grateful enough for our show

01:08:30.000 to give me his Navy Cross. 0.95

01:08:32.000 Now, to me, that's silly.

01:08:34.000 I should be earning something to the equivalent and giving it to him,

01:08:37.000 but I will cherish it out of respect for him.

01:08:39.000 Thank you, sir.

01:08:40.000 But that is him choosing to be grateful. 0.99

01:08:42.000 Him saying, the crap hit the fan and I was grateful to have your show. 0.99

01:08:47.000 You can choose gratitude at any point in your life. 0.99

01:08:49.000 Choose to be grateful for things that you have.

01:08:50.000 And number two, these are the three things that have been a huge turnaround for me.

01:08:54.000 I used to do it, and I got away from it because some things were bothering me.

01:08:57.000 So listen, just with the change my mind stuff, it doesn't work if you don't follow the book, and I don't follow my own book sometimes.

01:09:03.000 Choose to be grateful, and number two, choose to be happy.

01:09:06.000 And I don't just mean be positive.

01:09:08.000 Again, because that's something people say, well, I can't be positive.

01:09:09.000 No, no. Choose to be happy.

01:09:11.000 That means in the face of negativity, you choose to be happy regardless.

01:09:15.000 Grateful, yeah. Choose to be happy.

01:09:17.000 And then number three, choose to be excellent.

01:09:19.000 I don't mean that in the Bill and Ted sense.

01:09:20.000 Choose to be grateful, choose to be happy, and choose to be excellent.

01:09:24.000 Because you know what? That will actually lead to more of one in two.

01:09:27.000 I've talked about this so many times.

01:09:28.000 So many people here have never redlined it.

01:09:31.000 Their whole life.

01:09:32.000 Whether 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.

01:09:47.000 Everyone needs to do that at some point in their life.

01:09:49.000 I 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.

01:09:53.000 But find the thing in which you are excellent and choose to be excellent.

01:09:58.000 If it's guitar, if it's basketball, if it's science, choose to be excellent.

01:10:01.000 Guess what? You're going to have a lot to be grateful for.

01:10:03.000 Because if you know that you're living in your purpose and you're using your gifts, and I don't mean in some abstract...

01:10:08.000 Yogi kind of way. I mean, find practically what you are good at doing and be excellent at it.

01:10:15.000 And 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.

01:10:20.000 Don't see it as a failure.

01:10:22.000 That is an opportunity for you to be grateful.

01:10:25.000 For the fact that you are even attempting and live in a country where you have the ability to attempt to be excellent and be happy.

01:10:33.000 Choose to be happy that you are pursuing excellence in something.

01:10:36.000 But if you remove that third one, that's where you have a lot of people out there who are purposeless.

01:10:41.000 And that's where people seep in with ideas like toxic masculinity because competitiveness, drive, aggression. 0.87

01:10:47.000 These are not bad things. These are good things when harnessed.

01:10:50.000 So if you are going forward this week and you feel like you've been in a funk, meditate on this.

01:10:53.000 I will tell you, I haven't read it in a book.

01:10:56.000 No one told me, but they said, hey, you know, maybe write down some gratitudes and write it down in your office.

01:11:00.000 This is something that a doctor told me.

01:11:01.000 And I thought, okay, it didn't really help.

01:11:02.000 Write down a Bible verse. But meditating on choose to be grateful.

01:11:07.000 List what you're grateful for. Count your blessings.

01:11:09.000 Choose to be happy. And before you walk out that room in that session, choose to be excellent in the opportunities you've been given.

01:11:18.000 Try that. Let me know how it works out.

01:11:19.000 Could change your life. It's helped mine.

01:11:22.000 Sometimes. Sometimes I'm still a dick. 0.99

Louder with Crowder - April 20, 2018

#317 'TOXIC MASCULINITY' DEBUNKED! Dennis Prager and Gavin McInnes Guest | Louder With Crowder

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